001Excellent. All right, it is 5:30, so we will go ahead and call to order this meeting of the Colton Joint Unified School District Board of Education on what is April 17th. Believe it or not, we are on the down slide uh to April into May. So, uh just a quick note, I am wearing a mask, but a little bit thankfully I'm on the upswing. Uh this is just out of a precaution. Um so, if I keep my distance, it's not because it's anything personal. Just want to make sure I'm um staying safe. Don't want to share any of my my cies with anybody else. But I am on the upswing. Absolutely. Uh we're going to go ahead and start this meeting as we do every meeting with a roll call attendance. So I'm going to
002ask Miss Medina if you'll please take attendance of board members. Mr. Fuentes, Mrs. Flores present. Mr. Ibara present. Mrs. Haro present. Miss Dorinoa present. Mr. Flores present. And then we also uh will start with the pledge of allegiance. I didn't have a chance to ask anybody in advance, so I'm just going to call somebody at random. I apologize. I don't like doing this. Uh I do see our CSEA president has join us today. Uh so I'm going to go and ask him, Mr. Guyama, if you'll please lead us in the pledge of allegiance today. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. That's right. Right. A veteran. And thank you for your service, sir. One of
003the many veterans that we have in our school district. Very proud of that. Um, we do have Spanish language translation services available. She was just about to sit down. I'm gonna ask Miss Weno to please come up and uh provide our announcement for Spanish language translation services. Thank you very much, President Flores. Good evening. Thank you, Mrs. W. Item 1.3 is our adoption of the agenda. We do have some recommended changes to today's agenda. Those changes are as follows. There is a request to withdraw action item 4.43 43 uh which is approval ofou uh between colton unified school district and the association of colton educators uh NCSEA uh chapter 244 and this is regarding the multi multilingual English learner summer institute also a request to withdraw action items 4.44 um it's a related item u
004this time regarding uh high dosage tutoring and then an amendment to close session items 8.4 for this is our personal public employee item. Uh request to add one certificated coach uh head varsity uh volleyball girls. Uh one classified coach spring football assistant boys, four volunteer coaches, three football, and one softball and 16 volunteers. Uh Dr. Miranda, are there any of the recommended additions or amendments to the agenda? Those are all for this uh evening. Okay, great. Um, do we have a motion to approve the amendment to the agenda? Second. We have a motion from board member Haro and a second by board member Fuentes. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is approved unanimously. Okay. We're excited to welcome our school showcase today. I see Principal Abbott is
005here representing Colton High. And I'm going to ask Principal Abbott, would you be coming forward to introduce our student leaders today? All right. So, let's go ahead and give a warm welcome to Principal Abbott. I see Mr. Dolan and of course our student leaders, our yellow jackets. Uh, thank you, uh, board president Flores. Good evening, board members, Dr. Miranda, Superintendent, and Executive Cabinet members, and good evening to our community and families that are here with us this evening. I am proud to present to you all our amazing student speakers and yellow jackets, Mia, Mia, and Aubrey to present Colton High School school showcase. Aubrey, Aubrey, and Mia. Good evening, board president Dan Flores, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, executive cabinet and community members. My name is Aubrey Rodriguez and I am the ASB
006president at Quilton High School. My name is Aubrey Gonzalez and I am ASB vice president at Colton High School. And my name is Mia Perez and I'm sophomore class president at Colton High School. We would like to thank you all for your time and now present the CHS school showcase. First up, our academics. Oh, wait. Let me move that. Academics. Renaissance all school awards winter ceremony was on December 6th. Charlie Brown Christmas themed. Divided by grade level. This ceremony highlighted student achievement in the fields of student of the month where there is 113 recipients. PBIS 101 recipients. Honored four teachers for semester 1. Stacy Baker, Janet Godinez, Calvin Cardinus, and Martin Delgado. The NH field trip was on November 15th where automotive students went to Pomona Speedway and saw drag races. Our eco-friendly cleanups once
007a month, where our eco-friendly club cleans our campus once a month for three hours straight. Our Skills USA California state leadership and skills conference was on April 11th through the 13th. Gael Pesos won a gold medal in the Skills USA. Oh, he won a silver medal in the Skills USA California region 6 competition. The CHS fabrication team competed in the 58th annual Skills USA California state leadership and skills competition in Ranchukamonga. And Quotton High School won a silver medal in the welding sculpture. Read Across America at Grant Elementary School was on March 4th where multiple leaders on campus as well as other community members went to Grant Elementary School to read to all grade levels. Our drama club hosted a haunted maze on October 31st. Drama club decorated our auditorium full of Halloween decor and
008characters dressed to scare. and CHS newcomer class celebrates diia de los muertos with wellness center for November 1st creating of friendlas to represent the Hispanic culture celebration day of the dead. Our Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was on October 15th hosting a game of loia and providing multiple Hispanic culture desserts for our campus and unity week was from October 14th through October 18th. Our homecoming rally was on October 10th. The theme was Homecoming 2024 directed by Tim Burton. Our homecoming parade was on October 10th. Over 15 floats participated and our prom court rode on Corvettes Down Rancho. Our homecoming halftime show was on October 10th, which revealed our homecoming king and queen, Anthony Costanos, and yours truly, Aubrey Rodriguez. Our homecoming dance was on October 12th hosted in our NPR. And now for our academics. Our
009winter awards ceremony. This ceremony was on February 20th and highlighted student achievement in the fields of top 10 students in each grade level. Top 20 juniors who were honored as the class of 2025 honor guard. 490 students were awarded principal honor role for the first semester of the 2024 2025 school year. and 205 students were awarded honor role for the first semester of the 2024 2025 school year. Our MAP testing November and February sessions were at 1,141 students showed growth from fall to winter. Math 21.1% percent projected cast proficient and for our English 54% projected cast proficient. NHS works with Santa Claus Incorporation toy drive was on December 14th and the NJRTC annual inspection was on March 6th. PSAT and SAT day was on October 9th with attendance incentives. On November 8th, 854 students who
010had 95% or above attendance received popsicles for quarter 1 attendance. On February 18th, Colton High School celebrated 95% or above attendance for semester 1 with food, prizes, and fun. 729 students were recognized. On April 15th, 489 students were recognized for having 95% or above attendance for quarter 3 with prizes and root beer floats. NJRTC visited the USMC recognized museum at the Navy's assault craft unit 5 and NJRTC also went to the brain and brawl competition on November 16th at Bloomington High School. and NJRTC went to Cal State Fullerton for a field trip on November 22nd. The Great Shake Out drill took place on October 17th. ASB juniors held a slime a junior fundraiser in October where students could pay to d to dump a bucket of slime on the participating juniors. Also on November 11th,
011cheer, band, and football participated in the Veterans Day parade. I would now like to introduce Mia, our sophomore class president, to continue our presentation. Choir and band performed at their fall concert hosted in the Kenhub's gym on October 23rd, and choir also performed at the Colton Women's Club on February 11th. ASB hosted the winter rally on February 7th themed Fortnite, which is a fun video game. very popular among students. The rally consisted of playing games, performances from cheer and dance, and winning CHS merchandise. On February 14th, during lunch, ASB gave away Valentine's Day sweets and treats and five star points in celebration of Valentine's Day. The annual prom fashion show was held on March 7th. Seniors modeled the expectations of proper attire to be worn at prom, sponsored by Windsor and Frier Tux and Rancho.
012Staff modeled the improper attire and demonstrated what should not be worn at prom. And for the finale, the winners of prom court were announced and they received their crowns, sash, and a rose. Student forums, elac, and school site council meetings were all held throughout the year, and the district band festival was on March 4th. The heel blood drive was on March 13th where donors got the incentive of In-N-Out gift cards. The military ball was held on March 14th. It was a night of events for cadetses in any ROC program. They honored our fallen soldiers, celebrated with a formal dinner, and crowned the king, queen, and their court. Also on March 14th, the wellness fair was hosted at CHS with over 40 vendors in attendance and students were connected with many different resources around Coloulton. The
013AVID college fair was held on April 3rd and students learn more about numerous colleges directly from AVID students. AB hosted the spring rally on April 11th, the theme being Rio, where students had lots of fun and played lots of games. and prom court walked the blue carpet. Prom was hosted on April 12th. The theme being meet me at midnight and prom queen and king Jada Porter and Nam Huang was announced. National Pi Day was celebrated at CHS on January 23rd with a pie eating contest during lunch. The winner won a $20 Starbucks gift card. Speaking of pi, ASB freshmen held their pie a freshman fundraiser from March 4th to 7th where students could purchase pies and pie the selected freshman in the face. Career and technical education month took place in February and all Cryrop
014pathways got to showcase all of the amazing opportunities they have for students. The BMX No Hate Tour visited CHS on February 28th and demonstrated their skills while promoting anti-bullying. Heel students who attended pharmacy technician day at Valley College enjoyed a valuable and enriching experience as Mr. Fuentes inspired the students to accomplish all their dreams. They heard directly from a panel of professional pharmacists who gave them firsthand insights into various career paths within pharmacy. On February 21st and 22nd, Heel Pathway students got the opportunity to go on an overnight camping trip to Skyland Ranch where they did activities such as hiking, archery, and a ropes course. AVID and art students went on a field trip to Cal Poly Pomona and learned more about what is offered there. Avid uh Colton Middle School students visited CHS and
015taught A throughG requirements to the incoming freshmen. The college and career fair took place on November 5th during lunch and over 30 career representatives were in attendance. Students learned opportunities that colleges offer and various careers while playing games, earning prizes, participating in activities, and much more. And now I would like to introduce Aubrey Gonzalez, our ASB vice president, to finish off our presentation. To continue, our CHS Renaissance team has been working hard hosting activities of all kinds such as National Sports Day, National Special Education Day, National Security Day, National Hot Chocolate Day. And for these national events, Renaissance makes posters and sets up activities or gifts for those involved. In February, some of our talented Yellow Jackets competed in two different speech competitions. One being the Lions Club speech competition on February 13th with Genesis
016Rodella taking first place and the other being the Rotary Club speech competition on February 7th with Diana Ruvala taking third place, Allison Mia Perez taking second, and yours truly Aubrey Gonzalez taking first place. It was a wonderful experience. Also, we celebrated Chinese New Year with a celebration on January 28th and 29th. Then we had National Counselors Week from February 3rd through the 7th. And now on to CHS Key Club. It was recently enacted by Allison Makia Perez and on WIN. The club has been working hard and had an event with Feeding America on February 8th. Link Crew continues to host freshman follow-ups every first and third Wednesday of the month. Also, Link Crew does freshman student of the month every month and hosted an all school synergy on October 30th and March 12th. To celebrate
017Black History Month in February, CHS held a door decorating contest for all third period classes on campus to participate in. Our winners were Mr. Anderson's class in third place winning candy, Miss Lacy's class in second place winning donuts, and Dr. Kennedy's class in first place winning a pizza party. Along with our many other accomplishments at CHS, we have had many great athletic successes this year, such as COA Regalado, varsity football quarterback, winning athlete of the week, our football team winning the title of Skyline League champions, as well as making the CIF playoff appearance, and our marching band having a competition on October 12th. Then our competition cheer team competed at the 2025 CIF Southern Section Traditional Competitive Cheer Competition on January 24th and placed second out of 17 teams in their division 3 co-ed, making
018school history as this is the first comp cheer team at CHS to do so. They also came in fourth place at nationals out of 16 teams. Now for our winter sports. Boys varsity basketball team won co-league champions of the Skyline League with consecutive CIF playoff appearances. Our girls basketball team placed second in the San Andreas League also with consecutive CIF playoff appearances. And boys and girls wrestling came in second place in league for boys and girls and sent the most individual wrestlers to CIF playoffs with Nurell Queller qualifying for the Masters tournament. For some more athletics with spring sports, softball currently has a three to a 12 to3 record and began their league games on April 9th and April 11th. They are on track for the most wins in over a decade. Also, baseball is
019first in league and won over Eisenhower at the 66ers Stadium on Saturday, April 5th with a score of 3 to2. Track and field boys and girls defeated Bloomington in their first league meet of the season. And the girls also defeated Eisenhower, making them two to zero in league. And then our esports Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team were 8 to1 in season games and made it to quarterfinals for CIF playoffs later on this month. We continue to have our PBIS lessons on extended days during second period where teachers hand out fivestar points to those students who are being responsible, respectful, and acting with integrity. Speaking of fivestar points, Renaissance has a reward store where students can redeem prizes with their points. Renaissance hosts reward redemption days every other month. Renaissance has also been giving out Starbucks
020gift cards to students for correct answers to monthly Q&A and they have been distributing birthday cards with candy to all students and staff from November through April. Now for our attendance, we had a 92.89% attendance rate in December and a 91.41% attendance rate in January along with a 91.15 rate in February. Also, Colton High School continues hosting step stepup Saturday school days for students to make up attendance at and study and study at as well. Our next step of session will be on Saturday, May 3rd. And currently, we are hosting our CASP Chella kickoff. In September, students were exposed to the dates of CASP through a student poster contest during advisory classes. Celebrations and incentives for CASP were also shared with students at the college and career kickoff. And students were introduced to CASP ambassadors
021at a January CASP kickoff assembly for juniors. Students who score proficient in one or more exams will be invited to a catered lunchon and students who score proficient in two or three exams will be invited to a movie screening during fifth and sixth period. Also, honor chords will be given to students who show proficiency in CASP. And finally, regarding CASP, spirit week started this week with a junior assembly to go over final testing expectations and activities throughout the week. And students will earn prizes and points for participating in the Caspella events. And now here are some of our upcoming events and activities which we look forward to hosting. Finally, we would like to thank you for your time. It is greatly appreciated. And now we open ourselves up to any questions or comments you may
022have. Well, thank you for all that. That was an a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time. It's incredible how many activities and I have a feeling this really isn't everything that's going on on campus. So, uh, incredible job, ladies. You did a great job. Let me let me open it up to my colleagues questions, comments for our student leaders. Sure, please. Uh, board member Fuentes. Thank you, board president Flores. Ladies, you guys did an awesome awesome job. Congratulations. There's a lot of great things going on on campus. Wow. Uh, today, actually, I was there today doing mock interviews uh uh with uh the uh students. So, I know you guys are doing great things at Colton. You guys are keeping the spirit up. Everybody was cheery and everything. They were
023giving me donuts and giving me muffins and all this stuff. So, I was happy too with all that good stuff. No, but you know, it's all about you guys. It's about what you guys are doing and you guys are doing a great job. And remember, uh, to keep doing what you're doing. And, uh, are you guys all seniors this year? No, you're the only senior. Okay. Yours truly, right? Okay. Great. All right. So, have fun. Enjoy. Remember that it's about education, yes, but it's also about having some fun. Thank you again. God bless you guys. Thank you, board member Fuentes. Board member Ibara, please. Thank you, Dan. Just want a quick comment. Um, this time of the year, uh, you take a look back at all the activities and events that you hosted and, uh,
024ASB is kind of the the catalyst there on campus that gets everything started. And uh I just want to say thank you to each one of you and all those others that aren't here today and your advisor so that you know that you're truly appreciated and just taking a look like my colleague uh Israel said all the different activities and I'm sure there's a whole lot more out there that are not mentioned but you know that's what makes the the true uh high school experience go. you know, you're going to graduate this year. You're going to take a lot of wonderful memories in the couple years or the years to come. The you other two will be graduating. And this is going to be memories. And I always say that what develops a individual student
025is the experiences that you participate in, the experiences that you learn from, and everything else that goes about around that area. So, just want to say thank you. You know, we're toward the end of the year. I know that you look forward to uh all the final events and I know that eventually you'll be saying, you know, right? Yeah. Been there, done that. I know how that is. Uh so, just want to say thank you. Just a simple thank you to all three of you ladies and a wonderful job in your presentation. Board member Harlo. Yes. I want to just as my colleagues have said, thank you for your presentation. Um, I also want to thank you for all you do as well as Miss Busker to keep the students of Colton High School invigorated
026and energized and just all of the different things that you do uh to make school I know fun because I know it's to learn, but you make it so that students want to come to school because they look forward to the different events you're doing. So, I just want to thank you and um and Miss Buzzkerk as well. She your your advisor is amazing and as well as all of you and your colleagues that work on ASB. So, thank you board member Flores. Okay. Okay. Thank you, girls. It was an amazing uh glimpse that you gave us of at your school of your school and your activities. So, thank you for that. Now, uh, one of you won the Rotary speech competition. Oh, congratulations on that. That's wonderful. And, um, also, um, I know you
027brought your parents. I would like to acknowledge the your your parents. If you can just wave or or stand up or something. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for bringing the girls. Thank you. Okay. Cool. Yes. Anyone else comments? All right. Well, first of all, as far as the presentation goes, great job. That's a lot to cover again in a short amount of time. Very well spoken. I don't know it probably the second time I think that you've probably spoken before us this year. Usually our schools get two time um very polished for only being the second time. Very polished. Well done. Get in front of a group of folks. Uh love the fact that there's so much going on. And I think what I appreciate nowadays is when I think back to when I was in
028high school, Colton High School, uh to me it feels not that long ago, but my kids remind me how long ago it was. Um I can't imagine having we didn't have nearly the activities. And what's so amazing about it is there is act there is something for everybody. And I love the fact that the student leadership uh has continued to grow and that you continue to find new activities so that we can be inclusive, that everybody has a group, everybody has a community, everybody has some way to participate in that yellow jacket culture. So I greatly appreciate that. Uh esports, we were just chatting esports is is a thing. We didn't know much about that. I didn't know anything about it um until my son captained the Colton Middle School esports team, which apparently is
029a thing. and they competed against the other middle schools and they won and they loved it and they had a great time and I thought okay maybe sitting on the couch all those hours actually did some good for him but uh watching him with his friends and just really lighting up and that's true with whatever that activity is. Uh so I'm so grateful that that the leadership that you are a part of contribute to that. And the last thing I want to say and I was reminded of this the other day having a conversation with a dear friend of mine um about Colton High who was asking me well he wanted to know a little bit more about Colton High and I said all of our high schools are amazing. They're all unique. They have
030something different and distinct about them. What I will share about Colton High I said is Colton High has the distinction of being so rooted in its community right 100 plus years. And when you think of the city of Colton, to be honest, as somebody who grew up there, and many of us did, you think of Colton High, I mean, yellow jackets are the city and the city are our yellow jacket. So, everything that you're doing makes all of us very proud. Um, your parents, absolutely. But I'm going tell you, everyone in the community because if it's Friday night, we're showing up to the game. If it's a Wednesday award ceremony, we're there. You name it, we show up and support uh our high school because so many of us are connected to it generationally. And
031I just want to tell you, we're so proud of you and of course, Principal Abbott and your team. Um, it is a it is a duty that you've been handed and you are stewarding that and shephering it in a wonderful way and seeing it grow. So, thank you for that legacy. We appreciate it, Miss Buzzkerk and Mr. Dins. You guys are all over the place and I love it. So, thank you. Thank you for that. And if no other questions, we'd love to shake your hand and welcome [Applause] All right, great job, ladies. Again. All right, next uh item on the agenda is public comment. Um, and so I'll go ahead and open the public comment. And a reminder to our speakers that each speaker will have three minutes to address the board on any
032item that is either on the agenda or not on the agenda but within the purview of the board. Uh, should any one single subject exceed the 15minute rule, um, we will have to confer to the board whether we'll continue with that particular subject. And so at this time, we'll begin with our first speaker for this evening, which is Mr. Bob Schumacher. Wonderful. Anyways, my name is Bob Schumacher and I'm a teacher over at Lewis Elementary. I've been in the district for 25 years. I've been teaching for 32 and I love doing what I do. I love teaching. It's a good job and I'll keep doing it until I'm done. Anyways, um I was going to talk about this. Any of you know what this is? Okay, some of you recognize this. Um, if you want
033to know more about it, I can bring it up at the end. But, um, last night I was reading something at home and it made me say, I don't want to talk about this. I want to talk about do the unexpected. Um, over at Lewis, we do a lot over there, but we have a lot of concerns. And so, I want to bring those up to you guys. And I don't like to do it after what these awesome ladies did before this, but I feel like you guys need to know this. What they do makes me proud as a teacher. So, anyways, I don't know if you have my notes, but I gave them earlier. Um, these are just some concerns at our school, and they've been around for quite a while. I've only been
034there four, but there's been a lot of people over there that have been there longer. Um, our black top has not been done in years. Um, someone told me they think it's been over 12 years. When I was at Kulie Ranch, they had theirs done twice. I was there for 21 years. Uh, we get a lot of ants on our fields. had a lot of ants. And I know they've tried to deal with this problem, but it hasn't been fixed. We get kids getting bitten daily. Teacher, our teacher workroom is old and broken down. It was an attachment at one time. I know there's some asbestos in there under the carpet. Kind of made me wonder. We have two bathrooms in the office area. one in the staff workroom and two portables. The two portables
035get very, very hot and they get very, very cold. I'm a standup guy and I'm one of the only guys that work at that school. U I feel bad for the ladies when they have to sit down because it's not pleasant. Now, our staff bathrooms, that's not the only problem. Our student restrooms are constantly under repair. the upper girls restroom. There is absolutely no privacy in that room. And if I was a parent, I would be embarrassed. No hot water in our staff rooms. Main office has not been remodeled for at least 12 years at Kulie Ranch. It was remodeled while I was there. There are hardly any trees on our campus. They took some down and didn't put anything back up. There were two twigs that were put up. One's already dead. One is
036gone. Uh, no trees. We think we should have had some shaded structures put in and nothing has been done. had a shaded structure put up and they have a ton of trees. We paid for a new electronic marquee years ago and those funds were given to the district. We don't have a marquee and that money disappeared. Cafeteria, our sound system is terrible. The tables and benches are broken and in need of repair. Bathroom needs to be redone. Water leaks in the classroom. It's a very long list, I'm sure. Um, we do have, do we have a copy of that, Miss Badina, in writing? Thank you. That is your time, Mr. Shark. But I'd like to do is we will follow up with you. I know that Owen Chang is here, obviously, our superintendent. Um, and
037we will follow up. We're familiar with the site. We actually just toured it recently and there there are a lot of things that need to be addressed. Absolutely. So, a lot. I'd appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. We will very much. And if you have any questions, just send them to me because I came on my own recourse. No one sent me. Okay. Thank you. Right. Our next speaker is Miss Lisa Via. We got to push. Oh, it's on. Good evening. My name is Lisa Via and I reside in Colton. A lot going on in my Colton community these days. I had a whole speech prepared and as I sat here I thought twice and I'm going to refrain from saying it because it's too soon and I do not want to risk you messing with my
038family during graduation time and risk you allowing my graduation privileges viewing privileges to be messed with like you have done before because I do know what you are capable of and how you do use your power to you do use your power to come after those that speak up. I am a perfect example of your abuse of power. Have a good night. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Via. Those are the only speaker cards that I have for this evening. So, we'll go ahead and close public comment. And that'll take us to our action items for this evening. So, we have items 4.1 through items 4.47. And at this time, I will ask if there are any items that anybody would like to pull for separate consideration or discussion or questions for staff. Going once, going twice.
039None. Okay. All right. Then I'll ask for a motion to approve items 4.1 through 4.47. I have a motion by board member Flores. Is there a second? Second by board member Haro. All right. There's a motion and second to approve our action items 4.4, four, excuse me, 4.1 through 4.47. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none. It is so ordered. They are approved. Yes, please. Just want to make note that uh on uh on this action session items, we do have Calvaria Day of the Teacher. We also have the classified school employee week and national school nurse day. So, uh we have some wonderful resolutions um regularly uh including Asian-American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month because um of course we value uh recognizing the diversity uh and equity
040and inclusion in our district. So, thank you for that board memory bar. Uh, administrative reports. Are there any questions uh regarding uh our our approved dispersements or items 5.1 through 5 uh two? 5.1 or 5.2 approved dispersements or change orders. Hearing none, I believe we do not have a facilities update uh this evening. I think director chain back there and um of course we'll be following up with some of the requests and concerns that were raised regarding Lewis Elementary. Correct. All right. Excellent. That moves us to our ACE update on the agenda. No ACE update today. All right. CSEA. All right. Chapter President Guadama. Good evening board president Flores, board members, superintendent Dr. Miranda and members of the audience. Anthony Guarmama, CSA chapter president, Colton 244. I would like to start by thanking you for
041approving action item 4.42, the classified school employees association annual conference is a powerful event. As I mentioned before, CSA represents over 250,000 classified employees in the state of California, making us the largest classified union in the country. And I say that because sometimes, even though it seems we're at odds, at the end of the day, we're all here for the same purposes and goal. to see our students walk across the stage ready to reach their own goals. Our CGSD board of education, Superintendent Dr. Miranda, and our executive cabinet understand the importance and value of our classified employees. And I truly truly believe that. I'd also like to report that we concluded negotiations for the 24-25 school year. As anyone that is involved in negotiations, there's always a little bit of tension in the air, but
042thanks to the leadership of Dr. Miranda, district lead negotiator Dr. Jade and CSA elite negotiator David Espinosa. We were able to work through the tension smoothly and successfully. I would like to thank my own CSA negotiations committee Nicole Figueroa, Connie Burella, Manny Manny Marquez, Aelyn Davis, Ambia Aguilera, Aelia Tarquez, Hector Torres, Ruby Moreno, Sandra Davalos, our labor representative, Maisha Kennedy, and of course, David Espinosa. CSA and the district came together. We were locked in and we accomplished the goal of making the Colton Joint Unified School District stronger than when we started. And we will continue to work together to support the goal of 95. Thank you and have a good evening. Thank you for that, Anthony. Appreciate it. Uh Mac update. No update. All right. RO update. There was a meeting. All right. Here. Okay.
043We did have a meeting and had some really great things happening. Excuse me. I know the young ladies from Colton High School already spoke about um our welding our they went to Skills USA and they did the welding technology and um they had a first place winner with a sculpture of a bouquet of flowers and then then they had their fabrication team place fourth in advancing to the state competition. uh and they built basically like a dog house and they only had two hours to build it and weld it. And then we had another uh student who won for a welding sculpture. And then we had also um our BHS criminal justice students visited the LAPD museum where they participating in uh participated in exhibits and learned about historical artifacts from uh the C uh
044LAPD Museum. our C uh Grand Terrace High School, they're going to be having their their graphic design class is going to have their elective carnival on April 23rd. This is the first time they've done it. And if you've seen the flyer for it, it's quite a beautiful flyer and they are going to be showcasing all the wonderful CTA programs that we offer at Grand Terrace High School. And then our our Slover Mountain High School students, they had an Alice in Wonderland tea party for the students of San Salvador Preschool. And the decorations for that party that they made, they decorated the um cla the sta the child development classroom and it was absolutely beautiful. Um and then we had the RO ambassadors uh from Colton Joint Unified visited the campuses of Ruth O'Haris, Terrace Hills,
045Coloulton Middle School, and Zimmerman Elementary and demonstrated and talked to them about the different CTE programs that are available in our district. And lastly, uh, we have our Wasque visit. They had a previsit on March the 3 and on, um, Monday, April 21st, the visit will be at Grand Terrace High School. On Tuesday, April 22nd, they will be at Colton High School and at Bloomington High School. And then uh and also at Sllover High School. And then um we have they will be doing the Colton High School CNA and adult vehicle maintenance class also on the 22nd. And uh we will be some of us will be participating uh in the online uh meeting to be uh I know Tina was going to be there and I know I signed up to be there and
046I think Mr. Bar also did as well and uh we're looking forward to talking to them all about the wonderful things that Cryrop does for us. So, and that's all I have. You have anything mystery bar for Israel? But um yes, yes, it's that time of the year. And I'll do the segue to uh to Israel. Um, at the end of the year, uh, Kryro, uh, just like all our high schools, we celebrate successes, graduation, awards, and in May, we're going to be having our uh, evening of excellence and go for there. You go. So May 14th at five o'clock at uh, San Marino Valley College, we will have our evening of excellence. It's actually the Kryoprop foundation. Uh we are going to celebrate students. We will be giving away mucho Diierro uh to our
047our students. A lot of scholarships will be given away. We'll be recognizing these students. Uh before the event at 5:00 in the courtyard area right outside the auditorium, we will have a student showcase. We'll have culinary out there. We'll have the kids uh Colton High School. I'll be out there doing the mechanics and Bloomington High. So, we'll have a variety of students, a variety of CTE programs or pathways, uh, that will be out there showcasing their talents. One of the ones I like is the culinary, of course. Uh, you know, they got cookies and all that great stuff there that they're going to be giving away. So, but please, please put it on your calendar. May 14th at 5:00. We start we open the doors at 5:00 or the courtyard and then we'll have the
048celebration inside where we'll be honoring these students with scholarships, giving them those additional monies so that they can continue in their studies, continue in their education and it's going to be a beautiful, beautiful evening. Trust me, last year we had uh I think $22,000 were given away and I think we're going to double that a little bit. maybe I think it's about if I'm correct about 35 I think 35 or so uh thousand because we added a couple more dollars to every scholarship this year. So we and when I say a couple of dollars probably $100 $50 you know so we want to celebrate these students. We want to tell them that we're here to support them and that's the evening of excellence Wednesday May 14th 5:00 pm and it will end at 8 o'clock.
049You're all welcome to come out. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. That's at San Bernardino Valley College. Valley College. All right. We'll make sure we get that on calendar. Okay. That takes us to our superintendent communique case. So, Dr. Miranda, thank you. Uh, board president. Uh, good evening everybody out there and everybody in virtual land. Uh, I'm very excited about announcing our, uh, community cabinet here. actually not only thrilled uh to announce that we're going to be hosting our final community cabinet event of the school year. Um you do not want to miss this. Uh it's going to be an awesome event and it promises actually to be not only memorable for all of us. Uh it's going to be uh just valuable for uh all of you that attend because we're
050going to be celebrating our student achievements, showcasing valuable resources here at the event and also it's going to be very interactive, engaging uh and offering a lot of activities. So join us on Wednesday, April 30th, as you see the date up there at 10:00. Uh please uh we appreciate if you RSVP. Uh we look forward to seeing everybody there. I want to thank Eric Perez, our communication specialist, uh, and I should say communication excellence. Uh, he's just amazing with Katie Orlof, our director of communication, who have been working with a committee putting this event together. Uh, we're going to go out with uh with a bang. We're going to go uh big uh and uh host the event here, like I said. So, we'll be in this uh building here on this uh right here
051in the PLC for an hour and then outside will be the resource fair and we're going to have a taco truck out there. So, I know all of you love tacos. So, it's going to be awesome and uh I don't know about casadas board member Fuentes, but we we might may be able to make that happen. So, uh anyway, so we just encourage everybody to sign up. It's going to be our last one for the year and uh it's going to be awesome. All right, next slide, please. So, also just uh with great excitement, I'm thrilled to announce the upcoming ribbon cutting ceremony for the Colton High School Culinary Building. So, that's happening Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:00 PM. I'll tell you, we're going to kick off this uh evening uh with entertainment from our
052talented uh Colon High School band and cheer students, as well as an impressive display by our NJOTC. Refreshments will be provided by our CT students, giving you a taste of the wonderful things happening in the new facility. Following the ribbon cutting, students will guide uh pro do some guided tours of the building, showcasing the state-of-the-art culinary space to parents and community members. A spe special thank you uh to our incredible facility staff for turning the this vision the board's vision into reality for our students. Uh this is honestly event you don't want to miss either. I hope to see everybody there. Uh I'll just tell you was just out there with ACE president uh Parach uh touring uh yesterday in fact uh and it's just come just a beautiful building. compliments our uh NPR there
053at Colton High School and it just looks incredible. You see the pictures there and I'll tell you I probably can make a minkadilla there uh uh Mr. Fuentes if you want. Uh so uh but it's just a beautiful building and we're just so proud and excited uh for our students, the champ students that will benefit from that. I believe we already have over 140 or something students enrolled in the uh champs pathway, the culinary pathway at Golden High. So, it's just awesome even been there. Just an incredible building. And you can kind of see the stadium seating, which I love. Uh and uh Mr. uh Abbott will be able to host uh staff meetings there with state-of-the-art equipment. So, very excited uh for uh the ribbon cutting at Colton High School. All right, last but
054definitely not least, we are in uh testing season. In fact, we that started last uh well a couple of months ago, right? Uh with the LPAC or the LP I and uh CAST this month is is really happening at our sites and uh we're very excited uh and encouraging all our students to give their absolute best uh during the test and especially during this important time. Uh this is a team effort. I I've said this to our leadership team, our executive team, everybody I speak to, our classified team, certificate, it doesn't matter you work for the district. This is a team effort effort. Uh and so I want to remind uh not just our students but our teachers, get plenty of rest, eat healthy uh healthy breakfast and arrive to school on time and and
055a little bit early. Uh you know, one of the things is important is to take your time during the test. read the instructions carefully and don't hesitate to ask questions if you need some clarification. We you know uh we've uh implemented our goals of 10 1095 10% increase in ELA 10% uh increase in math and we I have full confidence because our teachers are doing an amazing job uh and in full confidence in our students abilities uh to do well. So we're all cheering them on uh and the best of luck to everyone. Uh you got this and uh I'll copy what uh President Gordama said. Lock in. All right. With with that uh that is uh my uh superintendent communicate this evening. Great. Thank you, Dr. Miranda. And we are looking forward to the
056opening of that culinary arts building and uh you're going to want to be there, folks. We had a chance to see it. It is gorgeous. I mean, it's something that would make Gordon Ramsay jealous. It is beautiful. No joke. It is state-of-the-art. So stay tuned. It's going to be a lot of fun. All right. Takes us to our board member comments for this evening and we will begin with board member Ibara. Well, thank you Dan. Only 6:22. Boy, not too bad. We're cooking. Yeah, I'll get home in have dinner in a decent hour. Okay. Um, just want to make sure that uh we get a followup on on Lewis and uh on the gentleman's uh uh concerns and issues uh and uh and I like to take a look at the whole list and see,
057you know, what direction the district's going to do and go in as far as trying to rectify some of those issues because it's it's important that we, you know, we talk about equity. We want to make sure that all our sites are and I know that that's our our goal. So, I have no problem with that. Um, one of the things that he did mention and I'm curious is the marquee. you know, what's with that marquee, you know, you mentioned and and I know that, you know, I want to hear the district's uh view of that and uh so if there's money for the marquee and it was been allocated for the marquee, you know, we need to get that marquee up there. So, okay. Uh also with the community cabinet, look forward to that.
058I'm giving my RSVP here and now. I will be there. And um I look and uh I just want to say and that uh Frank, you've done an excellent job with the community cabinet carrying it over and the work that you've done and uh just listening to quite a few individuals in the community and other places that have have been very impressed. even uh in my job, I've been asked how we run our community cabinet. So, and and how it's done. So, it's getting some notoriety out there in the communities and uh then just just says, you know what, uh uh that's great when there people are asking and and looking to kind of imitate what we do here. So, that that's really good. Um as uh the next month slides through uh all of
059us are going to be really really busy, no doubt. And we look forward to uh uh May. We have graduations, we have promotions. Uh I know it goes into June a little bit. And uh it looks like we're all going to be very very busy. And the last thing I want to just say is that I just want to say thank you to the to the superintendent and to uh his administration, the cabinet uh for making the culinary arts uh building at Konh High reality. You know, uh originally we were just looking to possibly knock that building down and look at what happens when, you know, we talk about it and and make something happen. So, it's just going to be a benefit to our students, the community opportunities. Uh, I've even spoken to a
060lot of a couple of uh there's a restaurant right across from Cone High School and the owner there is really interested in taking interns from uh from our uh our our program there. So, you know, I just told him, "Hey, follow up with with uh Mr. rabbit and we could probably make that happen. So, you know, some so some so good things happen here in Colton and you know that it's it's true. So, just want to mention that. So, thank you very much, Dan. Thank you, Board Member Ibara. Uh, board member Haro. Uh, thank you everyone for being here. Um, I want to thank my colleague for bringing up Mr. Schumager's um comments and and concerns and um thank you for coming and telling us about a lot of the issues that are there. Um
061a lot of people think that the board we know everything that's going on in the district and that's not true. We don't always know everything. We know when people tell us. So um thank you for your comments and I would like to also add to Mr. Ibara's comments. I know that um the last election we passed the bond and I think when we have the meeting uh well actually before we have the meeting for when we decide you know the order of how we're going to do or how we're going to spend the first part of the bond or how however we're going to do it this time um I think we need to include uh when we do a meeting you know we're going to have our meeting but then have it open also
062to maybe uh administrator and a teacher or something from each of the sites to tell us what they need. It's not just what we want to see done. It's what they need. So, you know, if we could take a look at something like that to include them because they know best what's happening at their site and what the needs are. So, it's just an opinion. Uh but I think it would be a good way to uh you know also for us to make a decision on what we decide we're going to do with that money by knowing what our schools need. Um so that is u my comment on that. Um I also want to just talk about um last night's uh pencil pen and brush. Our 37th annual pencil pen and brush. Wow. It
063was great. And um it was wonderful to see all of the students artwork. My heart was happy and the essays and everything that the kids done. Board member Flores, your daughter got two awards. Um it was just wonderful to see so many parents there. And um this year they didn't leave early when their kids got the award. uh Miss Peterson made a was asking them to please stay and see the other kids and and give you know because they do they leave after their kid gets the award and then by the time the last of the kids get their awards like nobody's there to cheer for them and so it was really great to see so many parents stay and listen and see what was going on and it was extra special for me as
064a mom of a daughter to see all these little little ones coming up wearing their little bows and dresses and being all fancy to get their awards. They were so happy. It was just a really beautiful night and everybody was uh and I wanted to thank and she's not here today. At least I don't see her or I don't hear her. Uh uh Miss Murphy and her team uh for everything that uh Yeah. Well, you know, come on. And you know, and her team for all they do to put that together because it it was great. It was great. So, I just wanted to make sure I spoke about that. And then the other thing I wanted to do was I want to I don't I know she's got to be here somewhere. Uh congratulate
065Casey um for Is she here? Oh, she's hiding over there. Uh congratulate Casey. Uh Casey has uh gotten involved uh let me see let me where I had it. the Southern California School Nutrition Association, Chapter One, and um she's been meeting with she met with uh various assembly uh people, senators, and next year she is going to be the co-chair for the Southern California School Nutrition Associate Chapter 1. So, congratulations, Casey. That's awesome. and thank you for everything you do for our students. I think I honestly think you know um you know we hear a lot and I know Dan you probably hear from your kids you know oh god the or h have heard you know we've all heard it from our kids who've had go kids going through the district or grandkids that
066oh god the food that cafeteria food is nasty we don't hear that as much now and I think that is is owed a lot to you and your you know farm to table and the and and the uh I I can't remember the ones in Redlands where we get our fruits and vegetables, everything is fresher and um we're not hearing it as much as we used to. So, I think that is you and your team. So, thank you so much for that. And the last thing I want to say is um it is as Mr. Ubar said, this is the the the slide going. We know we're racing to the finish. It's testing time. I know you're tired, but we're going to get there and we're all going to get it there together. and you're
067just keep that eye on the prize that that time off. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming really quick. And so I just want to thank you for all you do. And um I wanted to uh read a quote as I always do. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Thank you for instilling the love of learning to all the students you teach and touch on a daily basis. And that's my Thank you, board member Haro. Uh board member Fuentes. Thank you, board president. So, it was a busy day for me today. So, today I started off at Valley College. Uh I was with the pharmaceutical tech program out there. They had a session today and we had some students from uh Colton High School out there. Uh
068she was talking about her career, what she wants to do and it looks like she wants to go into the pharmacy uh program also. She says she wants to do everything. So everything in the medical field. So very very very smart young lady. Uh her name was Ashley if I'm correct. Her mother was there with her and it was great to be there. And then as soon as that was over, I walked over to the auditorium where uh supervisor Joe Baka had a career day and we had students from Bloomington High School there and they got to walk around the campus, got to see the new technology uh building that uh they have at uh San Marino Valley College, excuse me. And our superintendent, Dr. Miranda, had the opportunity to speak to the students there
069this morning also. And so, thank you, Dr. Miranda for that, you know, and uh he got to sit in the front row. Lucky. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. So, but we had a lot of fun from there. I ended up at I end up going to uh Colton High School for mock interviews. We have some really smart students at at Colton High as you can see today when the girls were presenting. I was able to interview I think eight or nine students uh today and give them some advice. Uh some of them were right on spot, some of them were a little nervous. Uh some of them, you know, uh had questions about what to do be better. So, it's always good. I I I I told them, you guys do amazing things. You can be
070whatever you want. And there was one student uh I remember I was sharing this with them. I said, two years ago when I did mock interviews there at Colton High School, I remember there was a student that came up and said, "Are you done?" Okay. Hello. And then started shaking my hand. You know, I guess I was on my phone or something. And I forgot what it was, but are you done sir? And as soon as I said yes, hello, my name is so and so. And I was like very impressed with this student. Very impressed. And we did the interview and I technically gave this student, we had to uh rate them from one to five on on a sheet of paper. I gave this student fives all the way through. This student did
071such a phenomenal job in the interview. I told them, "Man, you can interview anytime, anywhere, man." They were ready to go. suit and tie, ready to answer the questions. I mean, they were on. Today was the same thing. We had I had a couple students that were a little nervous, you know, they came in and I purposely sometimes don't shake their hands because I want to see how they confront me, how they come up. And some of them did forget to shake my hand or introduce themselves and stuff. But that's part of being the mock interview is to help them understand. First thing you do, you shake their hand, introduce yourselves, and then wait for them to, you know, acknowledge you. And but it was such fun to be able to do that. And I
072got the opportunity to talk to a few during lunch. And uh and I think the mo most of the students I interviewed today were uh seniors, seniors uh this year. And a lot of them had jobs, some of them didn't have jobs, some of them had gone through interviews, uh, you know, smaller interviews. Uh, I think there was a young lady that works at Dill Taco and she said that this young lady was phenomenal. I mean, she she did just a such a great job also. So, uh, we have amazing students in our district and I just want to acknowledge that in all of our schools from elementary, kindergarten, and when I say kindergarten, last night a pencil, pen, and brush. Did I say that right? Because usually I'll say pen, pencil, brush, but it's
073pencil, pen, and brush. Right. So, last night we had these young young kindergarters that were coming through. So cute, man. As soon as they got their name called, they were ready. They were they were ready to come up to the front, shake our hands, give us high fives. And uh we had the executive cabinet there. We had uh Mr. From, we have BR, we had Dr. Dade, Dr. Pearson. I mean, and then we had the team. It It was phenomenal. And the work that these kids did, it it was just it it was like an art gallery as you walked into the NPR at Jobaka Middle School. It was so beautiful to see all the artwork. I remember my daughter uh Sharon when she was I think second grade got second place for writing on
074Cesar Chavez. And uh what I did purposely is I actually keep it with me and I and I show it to her. I said, "Mika, this is what you wrote when you were in second grade." And she'll read it and I can see her tearing up because I tell her, "Mika, you're smart and you will always be smart." These students did amazing, amazing work. We had a student that got six awards, correct? Six awards. They went through every single category, even the new category, which is social justice. Correct. Amazing. Amazing. I had never heard that we had gotten six. I think I think the most was maybe three or four, but six. And I think they were mostly all first place, weren't they? I think they were. So, we have amazing students in our district
075from kindergarten. And even when I go to the preschool, those kids are so cute. you sit down with them and and and you go into the classroom and you sit down on the little chairs. You got this huge 180 pound dude sitting on this little chair, but it's so fun because you sit with these kids and they and they and they talk to you. They they acknowledge you and that's what we do here at at at Colton uh Colton Joint Unified School District. These kids learn from preschool all the way to the day they graduate and you're shaking their hands and you're giving them that diploma. It just touches me. It touches me because I know that these students will be amazing students. They'll do amazing things in our communities and like like earlier uh
076board president uh Flores and I forget I was going to call you Fuentes. Uh board president Flores said that Colton there the roots are here. they'll come back because I go to Colton and it's yeah my cousin's a teacher at this my cousin oh yeah my mom teaches with me and it it's like the familia continues continues and continues so there's amazing things here at Colton Joint Unified School District I don't want to keep you more but thank you for being here a lot of our teachers staff I love you thank you for what you do with our students because you are the ones that make a difference in their lives you are the mentors you are the people that see that you see them every day for 200 and so many days throughout the
077year. I want to thank you for what you do because I know it's not easy. Sometimes it's not easy. But I can see the love. I can see the passion and I know that next weekend we're heading out to San Diego, right, Slover? Because you can't spell Slover without mountain because Slover Mountain is getting the recognition next weekend. Have a great evening and a great weekend. God bless you. Thank you, board member Fuentes. Uh, board member Bertha Flores. Yeah. I want to touch on on what research tells us is one of the best indicators of student success in the classroom, academic success, and that is the um the the delivery, the daily delivery that teachers bring to their students. Um I'm very proud of uh to say that that uh here at Colton Joint Unified
078School District, we train and we give pro provide professional development to our teachers as well as our staff on how to improve their instructional um programs in their classrooms, their strategies. um there is um an indicator that I don't know some of you may be familiar with it where it's called student shadowing and what that is is um you just randomly you know um a teacher can follow a student or a principal or anybody can follow a student from the moment that student gets to school to the end of uh of the day and what you do is you just follow that student you know I mean Don't freak them out or anything, but you are um you are to you know just you know watch them. It surprisingly many of our students go throughout
079the day for days and weeks without speaking or without interacting. And um I'm sorry, but that's not going to get our kids to succeed in the classroom. So what I'm getting at is that uh we provided um staff development uh to our teachers and our in our uh classified on two very important strategies. Uh that's QTEL and GLA glad strategies. Um I I'm familiar with both and those I can tell you are very very uh powerful to develop their our students academic language which is what they need the and the glad strategies it's a perfect way to deliver instruction on uh when you're doing science or social studies and um it's fun the kids are are interacting they're engaging and uh so right now I believe we had just recently ly during spring break. And
080by the way, thank you teachers, thank you administrators for taking time from your from your um vacation to to um to participate. We had 137 teachers complete the QTEL training. 137. We also had 79 teachers complete the GLAD training. So I am excited to see what's going to happen because I you know there will be some changes in the classroom once these strategies are being implemented and uh you know Dr. Fiser who was my very first superintendent um he always would say Bertha you need to ex inspect what you expect. So uh with that I am um I would love to continue Dr. Peterson's walkthroughs so that we can see these activities in actions. um I would love to shadow a student uh or or I invite you as a administrators hey you know get
081a teacher and say hey why don't you shadow the student you'd be surprised you'd be surprised it's an eye openener um how little are some of our students speak um so um just thank you thank you for um coming to this training and now let's let's put them in action um I would like to you um have walkthroughs with Dr. Moore, Dr. Haidider, and Dr. Mooney also because they're the ones that have provided the uh you know, they provided this training for our teachers. So, we want to see it in action. So, with that, happy day of the teacher, happy classified uh uh we have a resolution for classified who are the backbone of our district and um in our and our day of the teacher. So with that, thank you board member Bertha Flores.
082Uh board member Joan Thorino. Thank you. There we go. Um actually I was not going to have any comments tonight. Um but after hearing a few things I would like to add my opinion of them. First of all, I think I was really glad that we had a teacher come tonight and talk to us about equity in schools. um having served for many years at a school that was older than me, a lot older. Um those things happen and sometimes they when people don't speak out then we don't know that. So I'm really glad to see hear that. And u Mrs. Haro said that she thought it would be a good idea when we go to make our decisions on how we're going to budget the funds that we received that we should have um
083each school and a representative come up with concerns that they have and things that they need because then to make us aware because we don't know everything. Um so I do support that and I hope we can do that. The other thing that I wanted to comment on was GLAD strategies. When I was a teacher, I took glad strategies and they really do have a huge impact on working with your children and um so I'm I was happy last you said last meeting we had 79 kids and um we need to find all the ways we can to work with our kids and to to make it make sense to them. So, I'm I'm I'm excited that you were able to go to all these um walkthroughs. Um you haven't seen a whole lot of
084me this year. Um we've had some very serious issues um health-wise. Hopefully, we're over it. I got over mine and now my husband's had his. So, um I'm kind of I'm tired, folks. Um and hopefully that will change, but I appreciate all the support I've gotten from Dr. Miranda on that. Um, and Tina, we're going to have one visit this year at least before the end of the year. Um, but I just am grateful for this board and I'm grateful for all the work, hard work you do at schools because I know it. I don't see it. Um, because I'm not out there, but I hear it and I'm really grateful that we have the people that we do in this district that care so much for our kids. Um, that's it. Thank you very
085much. Thank you, Joanne. And we certainly appreciate you. We're glad that you're here. And um as one of the retirees, you could be at home, you could be doing lots of other things. You've done your time to support kids, but you're here and that means a lot. Of course, both of you as well, and we we appreciate that certainly. Um just have a couple of couple of items of business. We've talked a little bit about Lewis. Uh touch bases on that and then some background. Uh since the passing of Measure BB, the Measure BB committee that helped that bond get passed has actually done a series of tours of the school sites. Um I've had the opportunity to join them on that. We did a cohort in of schools in Coloulton. We did do Bloomington.
086Lewis was one of those sites. We have yet to do Grand Terrace. I think that's what we need to reschedule. And if we could let other board members know, there can't be more than three of us at any given time. But um we are touring uh essentially the older schools in the district that really we need to see firsthand. Absolutely. I think it's important that we see firsthand so we can understand ourselves. Um that will be compiled into uh some kind of a report uh and trust me I know that Owen and his team are working uh Dave Bell. There will be a long list for every school site. Um, we were blessed to be able to get a bond passed something in the neighborhood of plus 200 200 million 225 million. It will not
087be enough. Tell you that right now will not be enough, but it'll be an opportunity to get a really good start on tackling a lot of things that need to be uh need be done. Just with respect to Lewis, um obviously one of our older sites uh in in the district did have a specific question that came up and I apologize. I should have sent this sentent this earlier, but there's actually a building on that campus, Dr. Miranda, that was at one point being used by the county and I want to say preschool services department. So I'm assuming it may have been under the Head Start program, but that building is no longer being used and I was told it hadn't been used since the pandemic. So, for four or five years, this perfectly good
088building that was actually in very good condition uh is is sitting there and it's kind of in limbo. So, if we could figure out what that agreement was, that lease, what the program was um and you could share us in board correspondence because I think uh if it's ours, we should be able to use it. And if it's not going to be used by the county, it absolutely shouldn't just sit there. We've got a we've got plenty of need. There's no question. So, those are the kinds of things where things can fall to the wayside, I understand. Um, if we have a perfectly good building and we're in need of staff space or some other things, uh, our our priority is the district first. Um, and if the county, what I was told was when
089we called the county, they didn't even realize they had the building under lease or agreement. So, they didn't, it wasn't anywhere in their system. So, they hadn't had a program there in four or five years. So, anyway, that's one example. I think maybe we can do something in the immediate future to help alleviate some of the space needs at Lewis. Um, second thing I wanted to mention, and this is just thank you board member uh, Bertha Flores for mentioning Dr. Fischer. This is a fun fact. Uh, doctors her Cheryl and Herb Fischer donated their 1923 Model T to the San Marino County Museum last week. And if you have ever seen if you ever saw Dr. Fisher in the parades when he was running for a county superintendent or just having fun. Uh he was
090in his Model T and he fully restored it. There's a beautiful story and history to it. It actually has been in his family uh for uh many many years. Uh and he got to a point where he was looking to donate it. Fortunately, we were able to connect them with the county museum and they had a wonderful event last week and you can go today and see the beautiful 1923 Model T in a wonderful display in the county museum telling the history of the of the Model T pickup itself, but also its role um in what it played in the Fischer family and the history of the region. And as Dr. uh Cheryl Fischer said, the beautiful thing is it's come home. It was originally bought uh as an orange grove pickup there in Redlands
091and Dr. Fischer's father bought it from the orange grower and they used it for their floral shop and it's come home to rest back in the orange groves of Redlands there in the county museum. So, it's a beautiful full circle story. So, I encourage you to see it and it's just a very cool uh very cool car to check out. And then the last thing I want to say uh to our special guest in the back making the absolute best baby happy baby noises ever. You are welcome anytime. We all love hearing baby noises. Please do not be embarrassed. I I'm I'm serious. I think everybody up here and everybody in the room loves hearing it. We love happy baby noises. We love happy babies. Wherever you hear babies, you're usually in a good place.
092Um that includes church, right? So, uh, thank you for that. Uh, please, we love it. We really do. So, uh, other than that, I think we're good. He's running with it. I love it. I think we're good. So, at this point, we'll go ahead and adjourn our open session, Dr. Miranda, and go into close session. Okay, we will officially reconvene uh our meeting in open session. And we only have two items to report out here from close session. The first one is an action item for us to take uh here in open session is item 9.1. Uh, in closed session, there were three student readmissions presented in accordance with California Ed Code 48916. An expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board, in a manner described in this article, orders the readmission of
093the pupil. Three students had been expelled from Colton Joint Unified School District for a violation of California Ed Code 48900 or 48915. The student cases were reviewed by an administrator in the department of student services and upon review has completed the plan of rehabilit re rehabilitation and is eligible for readmission. Is there a motion to approve the readmission of the students the three students as presented? I will move. Okay, we have a motion by board member Fuentes. Is there a second? Second. Second by board member Thorino. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Hearing none, uh, the board approves the readmission of the three students that have met their plan of rehabilitation. Student numbers are 1053787, 1062482, and 106772. Right. Thank you for that. And then item 9.2 two on a motion
094by board member Fuentes and seconded by board member Ibara and carried on a 6 vote with uh board member Sandaval being absent. The board approved the personnel public employee items listed under item 9.2. That is all we have. So we are ajourned. Get home safe.