001All right. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, everyone. We're going to have to That didn't wake him up. Uh, we're going to have to close the doors cuz they're not If they're going to talk out there, we're going to have to close the doors. I have good ideas. The TV monitors should be on. All right. Good evening. Um, it's 7 o'clock. We're going to call the meeting to back into a regular session and we're going to start with the pledge of allegiance. So, Um, we're laughing. Um, so we start with the pledge of allegiance. So, uh, Dr. Marshall, would you lead us in the pledge, please? All right, begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
002and justice for all. All right. Uh next item is the approval of the agenda and I have u a number of changes and corrections to our agenda. So starting off um uh item one opening business item C4 that item was pulled in closed session. So it took no action and we didn't discuss it. It was pulled. Um on to item V2 five number two. Um, it should read instead of pentathlon winners, it should be pent pentathlon and decathlon winners will be recognized. So, we're adding and decathlon to that. Um, under new business item H. So, there's going to be a couple of changes to that. Um, you may want to look at your agenda board on page 25 of item H. Page 25 is pulled. Just page 25. So 25 is pulled. 26 stays asis
003and 27 is going to be reumbered to resolution number. If you look at the top, resolution number 21-25. So there is a change to page 27 with a resolution number. Everybody writing? Everybody got that done? Okay. And then moving on to item V, the um resolution number is 19-25 and also in the first line is a recommended that the board uh adopt resolution should be 19-25. the BRM um is correct, which is the board reference material that's in the packet. That is numbered correctly. It was numbered incorrectly here on the agenda. And going down to item W, instead of 19-25, that should be 18-25 uh resolution number for both um of those uh quotes here in uh resolution, excuse me, in item W. All right. All right. That's it. So, Dr. Marshall, are there any
004other uh no further changes? No further changes. All right. Thank you. So, with that, I need a motion to approve the agenda as it's amended and corrected. So, we're going to do amended. So, a amended and correct. Let's do both. Motion to approve the agenda as amended and corrected. Got a motion by member uh Gatuso, seconded by member Smith to approve the agenda as corrected and amended. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried. All right. We always love this part of our agendas because we get to honor a bunch of people. And so we're starting off with our adult education graduating class of June 2024. Should that be 2025? That's another correction to the agenda. I didn't know we were doing. Um, so and on the agenda it says June of 2024.
005It should be June of 2025. Okay. So it's okay. We're here every year. So I know. I know. So um, Mr. Mus welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Uh, good evening board members and family and friends. Wow, amazing. My name is Chan Mas and I have the privilege of serving as the principal of St. Louis High School and Laspanis Adult School. I'm also excited to share that starting next school year, I will be taking on an additional role as principal of Crossroads and while continuing my leadership at St. Louis and Adult Ed. I'm truly honored uh to support all three programs and the amazing students and staff who make each school special. So very proud of that. Since launching our adult education program back in 2017, we've proudly celebrated the accomplishments of 65 graduates. And uh tonight,
006that number grows. This evening, we're thrilled to recognize 10 new graduates, eight of whom are here with us tonight to celebrate this important milestone. While Miss Castellanos, their teacher, cannot be here in person tonight, she does send her warmest regards. And literally, I mean warmest regards. She's in Thailand right now. So, yes, you can imagine she is having a great time and she already planned it, but she apologizes and she's here. She said I could say that, so that's okay. Uh, with me tonight, we have Mrs. Maria Lagona who will be speaking on behalf of Miss Castalanos and uh she'll be speaking about each graduate in Spanish while I share it in English. So let's begin this celebration of resilience, dedication and new beginnings. Good afternoon. Crossroads. Library. proved to be a person with goals
007and dedication working independently. ly on her multiple plans simultaneously. She managed to move forward with such determination and participation in class, creating a healthy classroom environment, earning her affection and recognition of everyone in the classroom. We share with great pride the effort and dedication of Livier. Please do us the honor. And we'll say our applause after we announce everybody. Claudia, it's an example of how life can try to limit us from achieving our dreams in different ways. But it was her perseverance and dedication to her studies that helped her get here today. She is a great source of pride for her family and we all enjoy her presence and I know great things are coming to her. Claudia. Aransa has demonstrated initiative, skills and above all how to balance her priorities. The result is that
008she is here where the beginning of everything lies ahead of her in her educational preparation and it starts today. Ialia. Prospero. Alia has been very intelligent student. She was determined to finish the course and succeed even when she had to take a break in December. She is another student who has also shown great dedication and without doubt she will have a prosperous future. Italia. Italia. Cindy. Cindy. Cindy has demonstrated complete independence and eventually integrated into the class, always paying close attention, demonstrating that earning her GED was her priority. I know she has a lot ahead of her and it has been a pleasure to be part of her journey. Cindy Ivan like the rest of her of his classmate had this great achievement and his goal recognizing the opportunity. He also shared information who those
009and for were around him and brought those who could take advantage of the opportunity and achieve his goal. Ivan Jasmine It just means Jasmine is one of the most curious. students in class. She always has a question to uncover what she wants to know and prove to everyone who needs it. Every question leads ahead of knowledge and Jasmine has the power to achieve the goal that she sets for herself by following her desire to learn. It was a pleasure to be part of this and learn from her as well as every student in the class. Jasmine One more student. We have one more student. We almost uh lost one of the students. Lorena is a very independent student. It was a real pleasure helping her achieve the milestone. She became the first student to pass
010the first exam. And even though her work is demanding, she doesn't give up and will continue to achieve any goal she sets for herself. Lorena. Okay, now we're ready to applause. almost done. So to our GED Spanish graduates, we are incredibly proud of each and every one of you for reaching this major milestone. Earning your GED is a remarkable achievement and doing so in your native language speaks volumes about your determination, your cultural pride and commitment to personal growth. Your success shows others in our community that language is not a barrier. It is a strength. You've proven that with hard work and perseverance, anything is possible. You are opening doors not only for yourselves but for future generations who will look up to you and your example. On behalf of the entire Laspanis Adult School
011team, we applaud your accomplishment and wish you continued success in all your future goals. May your path forward be filled with opportunity, confidence, and fulfillment. Thank you. Now in Spanish. for diploma. for celebr Now, it's my honor to invite our superintendent, Dr. Mark Marshall, for his proclamation. Dr. commercial. All right. Okay. We're ready. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of California and the governing board of Los Brandis Unified School District, I certify that the students receiving a diploma have met both local and state graduation requirements. I hereby confer upon each of you the diploma for which you have qualified with all rights, privileges, and responsibilities attached there too. So, it's done. And now, may I invite the board to stand and we're going to shake their hand and come back
012for a group photo. So, before they uh start that, I just want to say on behalf of the board, we are so proud of you. Great work. It's a lot of work. It was hard. You put a lot of time in. Congratulations on behalf of all of us. Great work. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Oh yeah. I'll be doing the pictures now. Okay, thank you. Congratulations. Keep up the great work. You bet. So, we're waiting waiting for them to uh leave the room. I just want to say um if you're here for the Bentlon or Decathlon uh students, there's about eight seats in the front row for great pictures. So come and fill them up if you want parents or anybody that wants a wants a great picture. Got some empty seats in
013the front row. All right. As soon as we get the door closed, we will continue on. All right, Mr. Morz. Mr. Morz, could you or Mr. Mia, someone can shut that door. There we go. All right. So, uh, next up, we're going to recognize another group of outstanding students, and that's our pentathlon and decathlon winners. So, but before we start that, I want to tell everyone that's standing over there, all of our winners, I've been watching you and you've been holding your medals as you walk around. But I don't want you to do that because you earned the clanks. So let them clank all they want. All right. So here we go. So who is doing the presentation? Bring them on in. You have more out. You have more outside. We got all the what?
014All the schools. almost all the schools. Okay, stand up front. Oh, we're bringing them in. All right. You want to make you want to make make room for them to walk in here. Come on down. Come on. Is that LF over there? LF, come on down. Amanda, do we have more? Uh, no one told me. I have no idea. However you guys want to do it. It's your show. You want to do a school by school? That's fine. Okay. I All right. We'll make it work. Well, we're we're flexible. I just want to announce my amazing from Westside Elementary. I'm teacher Christina took this project on because she wanted to instill that passion that she had when she was a student going through through pentathlon. So, I'm gonna call her up for her amazing dedication
015and the students dedication, and she's gonna announce all of our amazing winners and participants. Good evening. Thank you for having us. I am very proud of these 14 amazing kids who dedicate time before school, during school, after school, during sports practice, during band. Don't let teachers know, but they put in the effort and the work. weekends as well. I'm very proud of each of them. Sebastian, wait. Paula, Jessica, Kimberly, Kaylee, Daisy, Melissa, Agata, Bella, Amy, and Milani. They took fourth place in super quiz amongst all sixth grade in Merced County and took third overall sixth grade school in Merced County. Kudos to you guys. Give it up. Congratulations, Westside. My name is Gregory Hicks. I'm the principal Lorenna Fasco, the home of the stars. Yeah. All right. And um I'd like to shout out uh
016Mr. Eric Ka, my fifth grade teacher, who always does a great job with our LF stars when you go to the Pathlon. Um, you see the medals on our students neck. Uh, we took home the team medal for overall Merced County academic pathlon championship as well as the overall super quiz team award. So, we took on two team awards. They also took home individual awards. Um, I'm not going to go through each one, but we placed from first through um from first through fourth places in all the academic categories. I'd like to shout out my students. We have some aren't here, some are already on vacation. All right. So, I'm short about four, but we have uh Arana Del Toro, Chlory Weaver, Michael Diaz, Alejandro Casillas, Jayen Lopez, Gracie Esparanza, Jessica Lopez, Emily Villa Noeva,
017Vanessa River, Paola Veligano, Angelica Ariyaga, Emma Emma Garcia, and Harlo Kathers. Thank you everybody. Thank you for your support. Great job stars. All right. Congratulations. Good job. All right, I'll wait till the show. All right. Good evening. Uh, I have the pleasure of introducing our Grasslands Elementary Penathlon team and our wonderful coach, Mrs. Schultz. Uh, this team was fantastic this year. Uh, they actually won the Merced County competition. They got first place in the super quiz. They finished first in California and got third nationally at the competition in San Antonio. So they Yeah, we give him a hand for that. And it's a testament to their coach, Mrs. Schultz. She does amazing job. She is there all the time. Um, and these students are there all the time. They put in the work. Um, and
018it really capped off an amazing year that we had at Grasslands. I can't thank enough for Mrs. Schultz. What she's able to do with these kids is special and what they were able to do this year was special. So, I'll hand it off to her so she could talk about her team. Thank you so much. So, the first thing I'd like to say is just thank you to all of you because without your support behind us, a lot of what we did in the competitions wouldn't have been possible. Um, to our parents, our board members, our district staff, Dr. Marshall, we just say thank you as well. Um it has been an amazing year and these students have done amazing things from studying the highest of mathematics to um environmental sciences things that you wouldn't
019think that they would be able to do at their age. But they persevere. They fight hard. They come to all the meetings. They put in the extra work. And I'm just very proud of them. And I'd like to introduce them to you. We have Justin Benuelos, Valencia, Michael Reese, Hazel Vilobos, Jasmine Hernandez, Elelliana Calderon, Nicole Nevas, Christian Agiri, and Nancy Sandival Ruiz. So like so like uh Mr. Coleman said in April these students competed at the Merced County. They got 80 individual medals. Nancy Sandival Ruiz uh took third place in the overall going against the seventh and the eighth graders. Um, we were first place out of the 14 teams, first place in California, and then we represented California by going to San Antonio and competing in the national competition there where there's two divisions.
020There is the champions division, which is the first place in every state, and then there's the invited division. And we were in that champions division. We were able to take bronze, the third place, and we were super excited about that. Um, just an amazing year. So proud of you. so proud of how you represented not only our school but our district and so thank you and congratulations very much. Thank you. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. I know I look super familiar. I'm Miss Schultz. Um I also coach the Los Spanish Junior High Tigers pentaflon team as well. So these are our seventh and eighth graders that competed this year. Um and we had actually two different types of divisions going on. We had three seventh graders that just con uh competed individually
021and then we had a seventh eighth combo team which meant that those seventh graders had to compete at the eighth grade level. So whenever you compete in a combo you have to compete with the higher level. Um this team here they took um the three individuals took 19 individual medals and they actually took fifth place in super quiz with three people. And so that was pretty amazing. We were very shocked by that. Our eighth grade team at county won 60 individual medals, placed first place out of the 13 eighth grade teams, first place in super quiz. And then five of those members also went to nationals and they competed in the individual category bringing home six individual medals. And I'd like to introduce those to you. And then one little special uh thank you. So
022we have Haley Navaro, Isaias Carbajal, Rios, Zoe Kuchalikica, Reese Betchart, Rachel Betchart, Rosio Sandival, Ruiz, Alandre Ramirez, Guzman, Yansi, Quintana, Batista, Jose Velasquez and Kimberly Gonzalez. And I would like these students to step forward. Alandre, Yawansi, Reese, and Rachel. These four have been with me since sixth grade. So they competed pentathlon sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. And now I have to say goodbye. They are heading to Decathlon at the high school now. so amazing their dedication, their commitment to three years of this. Um the amount of growth and successes and achievements and struggles, it's all been very amazing. So I wish you for the best of luck in Decathlon and we expect to see the same things from you. Greatness as always and thank you very much. They did a wonderful job. Good
023job. Good work. Thank you. Good evening board members, Dr. Marshall and district cabinet as well as our Creekide community. I'm the principal of Creekide Junior High School, Taiwan Lawrence, and I'm standing in the steed of Miss Kathy Bartlett, our coach. Unfortunately, she was not able to be here tonight due to health challenges, but that that's what I'm here for, to acknowledge these students tonight. They have worked hard. We've had some challenges this year. Our coach was sidelineed for two months, but we had a history teacher that actually stepped up to teach math. So that's just a testament of how our community is at Creekide. Once one falls, the other one gets up and helps. So I appreciate that. These students are outstanding, have outstanding talents. Uh I'm three of them are seventh graders, one eighth
024grade. So I'm excited about the future. And um so now I want to acknowledge these folks from seventh grade honors. Ry Kim, she took fifth place in ELA. Callie, Callie Roloff, she took fifth place in history and third place in math. And also a seventh grade scholastic Mr. Hector Gonzalez. He took third place in fine arts. And one thing about Hector was he took third place with limited training. So, he this was his first year and that just lets me know he got a lot of neurons neurons going on in his head. So, he's going to be just fine. Um, our eighth grade team, a few of them are not here, but I do want to give them honor. DK McCord, Siana Hollerin, Nath Nathaniel P, and Mr. Max Miny. Um, Max is no stranger
025to the Pentatlon. He's, I would probably say, a marvel hero in Pentatlon. Um, Max placed in all subjects and was a first place individual for eighth grade and first place overall individual for county. I believe this is your third year in a row for that. See, he's shaking his head. Max went on to compete at the national competition in Texas. He represented Creekide all the way in Texas where he did very well in the individual categories. He placed first in science, literature, and social science. He placed second. Yes. Let's give him a hand clap. Mhm. He placed second in fine arts and he placed second overall in individual awards. Um, you know, going to miss old Max here because Max is an anchor in our program and I asked him, Miss Meny, can he come
026back and help mentor our students cuz we would definitely like him to come. I'm serious. I want him to come back and um, but these folks, you a testament to perseverance and resilience and um, you guys are going to do great. Thank you. All right, we were so very proud of all of our pentathlon and decathlon winners. Do we have any more tonight? Yeah, we do. All right. His name fell off. Good evening. I'm representing Pacheco High School. Um my principal is not here and our amazing um teacher Miss Lewis and Missai who oversees and supports our teams are not here. So I will do the presentation for them. We have Dominic Mendoza Joshua Mendoza and Daisy Daisy Avara. So, congratulations and thank you for your guys' support. Wow. Glad to say that's the future
027of Lost Banas. They're coming in. They're so proud of those those students are doing a great job. We have more. All right. They keep coming. learning director at Las Vanis High School. And this is I'd like to introduce our teacher coach, Mr. Felix Sanchez. And what I love about the way he coaches is he makes learning fun and engaging. And what we want what we'd like to see is teachers who love academic challenges and get their kids excited about academics. and that's really what we want from this and he's definitely accomplished that just in the two years he's he's taken this on. So, Mr. Sanchez, uh my name is Felix Sanchez, Losan High School's new academic catalon coach. This is actually just finishing my first year with it and um Miss Nively gives me too
028much credit. All the credit really just goes to the kids. It really was just a leap of faith putting me in charge of the program. Honestly, um yeah, I'm a newer teacher and that's I did I always thought about doing this growing up, but being able to enable them to do it, I think it's much more rewarding. Um right here today, I have two members of my honors team. Unfortunately, my one uh student from my varsity team could not make it, but these two students meddled um in the decathlon/ heptathlon this year, and I'm very very proud of them. First, we have Vivian Le. She got the gold medal in the speech category and you could applaud that with the gold medal in the speech category. When I first heard her speech, I had no
029doubt in my mind she was going to get first. I've never met someone so passionate, so proud, and also equally humble. Uh, and in my short time being a teacher, so I'm hoping she sets the bar for the amazing kids that I'm to come. For our next young gentleman right here, I have Freddy Arctiga Hernandez. He got the highest scoring student on the team. the highest $500 scholarship on the team. And for the heptathlon, he pay placed second place in the science category. For Freddy, I am immensely proud of him because he honestly very modest, very quiet, very I would say almost shy, but once you start talking to him, he's very charismatic, um, confident, and really composed for a freshman. So, I'm really proud. I'm very excited to see what he's got for me
030for the rest of the year. Um, for the student that was not able to make it today, his name was Marcus Homer. He was a senior. He was a very late addition to the team. He joined about a halfway 3/4 into the year and when I was losing a lot of kids just cuz they couldn't keep up with the workload. Um, but I got him for my first period. He was one of my lowest grade average students, but he pulled up just because he liked, you know, learning with me. And he got the third place medal in literature, third place medal in social science, I believe, and a $200 scholarship or $250 scholarship. All with the being a late addition on the team. Honestly, if he had the full year, I think he could have
031scored higher. Um, but either way, I'm very proud of him and I'm glad I got to be in charge of him for just a year. So I would like to applause for him too. Thank you. Congratulations. Is that it? They keep coming all of a sudden. They were done. All right, we're done. We're done. That's all right. Okay. On to um item three, which is seniors who met the reclassification criteria. They're all gone. Good evening, Karolina Moreno, director of EL services and migrand. And this is Miss Vuming um from PCO High School, the new VP. Um, even though our students are not here, we had a few and I think they just walked out with everybody else. Um, but I do want to acknowledge I do want to acknowledge our seniors who have met the
032reclassification criteria because not only have they been working hard on the academics, they had to be working hard on learning and mastering English as well. So even though it took them a few years um they will no longer be ELTELS even in our in our dashboard because they reclassified and we received the scores miday. So we had our learning directors working really hard to make sure that we reclassified our students. This is the first year we reclassify the seniors because we didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to them because they were leaving us. So realizing that the numbers count as well on the California dashboard and the students deserve the honor of being reclassified even though it was at the end of their senior year. So I'm going to me I'm going to
033say their names even though they're not here. Um Kenya Abigail Duran Andre Fernandez Ortega we had six from Los Banos High School and four from Pacheco High School. Eduardo Enrique Fraoso Lopez, Jasmine Pacheco, Gabrielle, and Jose Miliano Garcia, Miranda Reesendes Martinez from Los Banos High School and from Pacheco. I also want to add that for us, our students set smart goals. So we said it doesn't matter even if you go up in your reading level just you need to be a 2.0 student be a 2.0 better student and so these students uh they did amazing just to be able to get a four and meet all the requirements. So we have Julian Centennotes he's on vacation already. Lucila Hakovo Cortez we fought for that four for her. Ricardo Purco Borquez and Nia Solano. We met
034with all their parents and they're super proud of them. We met this week, but they're not here today. Congratulations to them. All right. Um, we there was three recognitions uh on our agenda, but we have a fourth one. So, the board would join me down front. Come on. Let them come in here. So, eight years ago, um, we hired a superintendent and, uh, the only one left of the board is Marlene and myself. Um, so we were the ones who hired you. We did a good job. Um, we were very fortunate um, to have Dr. Marshall here with us for the last eight years. Um, he's done a phenomenal job. Um he came in um in 2017 and he hit the the road running because soon thereafter we were working on measure X to bring
035money into our schools pass a bond and uh that bond passed I think 71 or 72% which is very high. Um and he was right there working on it. So, he hit the he hit the the road running when he got here and um and it's been uphill with him creating um a great workplace and um meeting the goals that we need to meet to to improve. He's done a phenomenal job. He's going to be missed. And um when I got u you know, we knew he he let us know that he um had accepted a new position. um on a late one Friday afternoon. And then um that kind of all of us kind of went and then you know then you know he last Tuesday he the board in Central Unified ratified his
036contract and approved him unanimously. And so then it was another and then yesterday I got his letter letter of resignation and that was another moment. Um cuz it keeps hitting us every time that this is it's a reality and we're we're we're going to have uh we're going to have to look for a new person and uh your heart you're it's going to be hard shoes to fill. I mean, you have done some great work in our district and we are so happy and proud that you have been here for eight years and we wish you the best of luck and to and we know that you're going to do a phenomenal job at Central Unified. So, we have just a short little plaque for you in recognition of Dr. Mark E. Marshall, district superintendent
037from 2017 to 2025. Thank you for eight years of dedicated service to the students and staff of Las Spanish Unified School District from the Las Spanish Unified School District Board of Trustees. Congratulations. Nice. Thank you, Dr. Marshall. Do we got pictures or are we done? You got them. You guys I didn't know if you wanted to do pictures. All right. Now, we're going to get down to business, even though that was more fun than the business. Um, we love when we do recognitions for our students and staff, and wish everybody well, and congratulations to our adult ed uh graduating class, our pathlon and decathlon winners, our reclassified um seniors, and of course, Dr. Marshall. So, uh, members of the public who would like to have an item placed on the agenda may do so by
038submitting a, uh, request to the superintendent at least two weeks prior to a regularly scheduled board meeting. Um, if it's within our purview, that'll be considered to be added to a future agenda. If there's anybody here tonight that would like to make a comment on any item that's on the agenda tonight, you may do so. When that agenda item comes before you, step up to the uh, podium. We ask that you give your name and uh you'll have three minutes to um make your comments about an agenda item. If there are multiple speakers on an uh an agenda item, uh you'll be limited 20 minutes for uh comments on a single agenda item. And if we have members of the public here tonight that would like to address the board on any item that is
039not on tonight's agenda, you may do so by coming up to the podium. Please state your name and you will again have three minutes to uh share your thoughts. If there are multiple speakers on the same uh non-aggenda item, it is limited to 20 minutes. So with that, is there anybody here that wishes to address the board and any item that is not on tonight's agenda? Please come up. All right, seeing no one come up. All right, we're going to continue on with the agenda then starting with reports. California school employees. Anybody here tonight? All right. How about Lasp Spanish Teachers Association? Anyone here tonight? Everybody is on summer vacation. Don't blame him. All right. On to facilities and maintenance. Uh Miss Monday, welcome. Hi. I'm not on vacation. You're not away. We're not on
040vacation. You're not on vacation. You just wish you were. Okay. summertime, we get to get things done. So, all right. So, I don't have a formal presentation. I'm going to try to make this just a kind of short and sweet little update here. Um, so we summer's here. So, we started some projects this week. We started Losis Junior High School fire alarm. We started the PHS new classroom cig project which is a new classroom restroom and greenhouse. Um then we also started our Laspanis High School modernization. The first two categories which were finishes and abatement packages. Um the gym floor is gone. The bleachers are gone in the gym. Um so they're working on that. They're working on the abatement. And then um another project that will be coming up um we're going to be
041doing that on the week of June 23rd is Creekide um Junior High School's elevator shafts leak when it rains. So we're going to be waterproofing them um during this time. And then some of the continuing projects are LED lighting. Um we're at the high at Lasis High School now. Um we've completed 100% of uh Charleston Elementary St. Lewis High School, the DO, um the DO still has three exterior lights we're going to do. Um Lost Spanish Junior High School is 100%. And then Creekide Junior High, they have some lights that are backorded, but um they're about 90% done. Um Voltton Modernization, they started the parking lot demolition today. Um they're continuing with the administration building work. um early education center. Um AMS, who's the building manufacturer, they're working on the case work and getting the
042interiors of the classrooms all put together. Um TBS, the site contractor is working on the site work. Um getting the parking lot, all the concrete flat work done, the fencing. Um we're we're working on our facilities master plan. We're going to be starting our site visits, which are the site assessments on 625. And then some other things that we're working on, um, bond oversight committee. Thank you, Mr. Lee, for recruiting. I received three applications. We need a few more. Um, I will be bringing any applications we did receive to the board for approval in July. And then, as I mentioned last time, we'll be having our first meeting in September. And um at the end of the summer, I would like to schedule a facilities projects tour, which we can look at some of our
043maintenance and facilities projects that we've done over the summer, as well as the ongoing things that we're doing. So, we'll um I'll get with Tina for a date for that. Okay, and that's it. Thank you. Any questions? All right. Thank you. I know it's going to be a busy summer because a lot could be done when when there's no students there. So that's that's a good thing. All right, community schools. Welcome Dr. Wheeler. Good evening everyone. So while I do have a formal presentation, I'm actually not going to really follow it. You have it to look at. It's really a recap of everything that we've already talked about this year. But I do want to bring up that um we had an amazing event on May 31st. um if you were able to attend at
044the community center um we had almost a thousand people come through um and some of the board members were able to come and and many community members as well. We will have another event uh similar on August 2nd that will be our backpack giveaway event. There will be quite a bit of advertising so don't worry I will remind you before we get there. That feels like a long way away but it's not. Um so we will be having an event similar. Um, and we're really looking forward to that cuz we had a lot of fun. Um, but we're going to start a little earlier because of the heat. So, it will start around 10:00 a.m. and and go till 4:00 instead of being later in that we we managed to get the first three a
045triple digit day. It was great. Well, lots of water play. So, that was good. The kids had a lot of fun with the water. Um, so just as a reminder, um, we do have this is the what of our work. So, community schools has is built on four pillars. So just as a reminder that we are working on those four pillars as we um bring programs in as we build uh capacity of people to support the community and we will be continuing to work on that. Um those were our accomplishments that we talked about this year and then these capacity building strategies are also going to be what we will be focusing on as we move into the next year. So, the focus as we move into the next year is really um continuing to
046um launch the family resource center and um and obviously we won't be able to be full capacity until we are at our site. But in the meantime, we are already we already have a clothing closet. We already have a food pantry. We're already um supporting the community and we just started passing out all of our kinder lit summer literacy kits. And so um we're starting them young. we're getting them uh and and with their parents. So, those are the things that are wrapping up the school year with the liaison and with our community schools program. And I will be back um in the summer, July and August to let you know about some of the other things we're doing. Any questions? I just Where's the backpack giveaway going to be held? At the community center
047also. Yes. So, it will be there as well because we just um we just found that it was such a perfect but now we're actually we were only in the oak room. Um, next time we'll be in more of the whole uh we'll take over the whole place. That's because that's a lot of people that place. Yeah, it is. Um, and it's a wonderful wonderful relationship. Uh, you know, the community center staff and the city of um, Laspanos is excited. They're excited to have us there. That's great. It is. It's wonderful. Miss Katusa. So, thank you. the the resource day was really a great day and very very just just nice to see all the people, all the vendors and everything. And do you have a place for August 2nd? Is it going to be
048back at the same place? Same place. Yeah, it's going to be Yeah, it's I thought you asked another one about the community about the backpack giveaway. Yeah. So, the backpack giveaway August 2nd will be held at the community center. August, but the backpack is August 2nd. Same thing. Oh, cuz I've seen a list on on um social media where they've got different some of your um community lays on have different dates. That's for the kinder kids. Okay. So, kinder kids backpacks are different, right? So, the backpack will be like the the start of the school year kickoff. We're going to be doing the start of the school year kickoff. That'll be at the community center. the kinder kits. We've been doing them at the school sites. Yes. Where the kinder where the families will uh
049be going in the fall so that that way they could, you know, make that connection because I thought they were back backpacks as well. Well, they are sort of um there are some. Yeah, there are some f there are some um school supplies and things in it. And it's the um box where they can put their backpack uh once they get it, but they'll get their backpack in August. Got it. Yeah. Sorry for the confusion on my part. That's good. I'm good to I'm glad to clarify. I want vacation, too. Lot going on. Yes. Thank you for all your work. Well, thank you. Happy. Have a good evening. Thank you. All right. All right. Thank you. All right. Dr. Marshall, you're on. Okay. All right. Uh, this is going to probably be my last meeting
050because I know they they planned a meeting on the uh 18th, but uh like everyone else, I'll be going on vacation, my last vacation before I transition to to uh Fresno area. So, I wanted to start uh with um just something we've been working on and uh it kind of highlights a lot of the good the work we've been doing. So, I'll let Dr. Lee start the video. Heat. Heat. Good morning. I'm here at the Alberto Elementary School and I'm here with Mr. Thomas, the principal. And when I drove up, I saw all this construction. Mr. Thomas, what's going on? Well, we've got a lot of construction happening right now. The original part of the school, which was an admin office, and then three classrooms. Um, we're taking those three classrooms and we're turning it
051into one big admin office, which is going to house our nurse. It's going to have our wellness counselor, our community school leaison, and then it's also going to house our independent studies program. for the last few years, whenever parents, um, community members come on campus and need to meet with someone, they've had to go kind of all over the place. So now we're going to have everyone in the same location. Um, and it'll be one point of entry for a school. So we'll be much safer. Um, and we'll be able to kind of control who's coming in and out. And then this summer, one thing I think we are all excited about more so than the new office building is that we're going to be getting a brand new parking lot. School ends June 6th
052and they start the next day. Um tearing up the parking lot and getting it ready for the first day of school. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot. Um, I have to give a huge shout out to Sherry Monday um from our district and the architects at Peter and all the guys from um group who've been doing all this work. We've had school while it's been going on um and you know now we have raining so it's been awesome. Thank you. I'm now going to work for Miss Sher Monday. She's our manager of facilities and special projects. Dr. Marshall. Yes. Very exciting here at BA Elementary School. We're doing a modernization of the administration building and we're going to do some site improvement work um which will include the administration office, independent study office and classroom. The
053work will consist of providing the school secure entry and visitors lobby and the reception area. The health office will be built and will provide direct access to the restroom for students. The network equipment will be moved from the classroom into the administration office. The administrator's offices will be reconfigured for efficiency, privacy, and the ability to access the campus quickly. A secure record room and workstation will be created for staff. The HVAC equipment will be replaced along with new walls and window panels and interior finishes. In addition to the administration building improvements, there will be a new bell housing that will hold the original school bell and the included time capsule. There will be new landscaping and landscaping modifications. The new parking lot will be created to increase parking spaces and will contain EV charging stations.
054Other site work includes expanding the ponding basin to divert the water from the parking lot, a new trash enclosure, new gates, and then the whole entire school will get a paint job which will give a whole new fresh look. So, as you can tell, a lot of exciting things are happening at BZA. Let us know what you think. Let's uh give uh Mr. Taylor Roloffs. He's the did the video from he's in the west side. Did a great job. So, let's get into the report. Uh we we're going to start off with the vote modernization project. You saw that. So, we going to move. All right. So, since the last board meet, I want to kind of talk about a few highlights. Um, we had our promotion ceremonies, a lot of scholarship recognitions. I like
055how uh Creek Side and Lost Spanish Junior High, they have end of year celebrations. I know Creek Side the uh the dinner and then there's the honor society uh ceremony at Los Junior High. So, it's interesting. They do two different things, but it really recognizes some of their top students. uh the success tonight from Catathalan team the Catholon team uh that's all the kids getting awards I mean very powerful uh on another note our bonds were refinanced recently uh Mr. Ber came last month and talked about that process so that's been done save our taxpayers money uh a joint project with LBTA means of correction task force miss he led that work for the on the district side went very well lots of good feedback we had a presentation Dr. Lee and uh Miss Monday
056and I we went to a lot of board members were there at uh Poacho. We talked about gave an overview all the projects that we've done in this district over the last few years and uh it was very well received. So um thank you for all involved in that. Miss Money talked about our master facilities plan, our ED specs meetings that's going on right now. Uh you may have seen the pictures for the St. Lewis um high school mural project and then we attended a dual immersion uh language academy parent meeting that was very powerful to do that and I want you to all keep to remember the impact of federal funding in law Spanish unified. I just want you to uh keep that in mind. If you go to the next slide you can
057see our district receives about $16 million in federal funds. Those are very critical services that our kids receive from those monies. if it if those monies go away, the budget has to be adjusted to make sure our kids get served. I just want you to put that out there. Look back, Mr. uh our board president talked about as far as like since I've been here uh for eight years, but there's been a lot and I just went and I think that there were some things that I didn't focus on, but if you look at from the academic standpoint, our academic metrics, they're trending in the right direction. And I think we've gotten back to where we were when uh before the pandemic hit. So we're getting we're moving in the right direction there. We have
058a de a dual immersion language academy that's done. Uh our AVID program is on track to be certified. I was talking to Dr. Sutton. That's in the works. Uh Creek Side I think is like the uh the model. They're going to be an AVID showcase school that that's right in concert with that. So they've been doing real well with the AVID program. And then to kind of culminate that you saw Grasslands was named the California Distinguished School. That's our first school to have that honor since 1995, 30 years ago. Facilities, I'm very proud of that. You know, Measure X, as we talked about, passed in 2018, and it stands as the bond with the highest passage rate in LBUSD history at about 70, I think it's 71%. We constructed grasslands. We added a science wing
059at PCO High School, Loftton Stadium, uh, a complete renovation that's going through right now. We added classrooms at Vulta and St. Lewis High School and then Los Banners High School and Voltera undergoing uh modifications as we speak. Finances, one thing I'm very proud of, there was one year I think that we did have to certify qualified, but I think right before they made some adjustments in the budget, so it was positive certification every year since I, you know, since uh during my 8-year tenure, and I'm proud of that because we're never one of those districts that had financial problems. uh my the ed services team, different teams in the district, over $60 million in in external resources were secured. And then you look at a $21 million community schools grant that was awarded. Very proud
060of the fact that we expanded our partnerships with parents and the community. You look at all the things happening as far as like the parents going to Cababe, what we've seen, all the the presentations that we've done just to see how we've connected the school community with the community at large. very proud of that. So, what's left to do? We have to continue our academic trends. I mean, as far as the metrics going in the right direction, I talked to Dr. Richie. Uh, the results for 2025 look like they're going in the right increases in both areas. Again, uh we did a strategic plan that needs to continue. That's very big because a lot of districts don't have that. And it's nice to say when I talk to people, uh, we don't have a strategic
061plan. We have one in Los Banner. So, it's nice to say we that we've done that process. Land for a new elementary school needs to be purchased and uh stay tuned on that. There are some things that I can't speak of right now, but there's some things in the works that hopefully will come to fruition uh in the very near future. A facilities bond for 2026 should be considered. Dr. Wheeler pointed this out. Our community schools initiative must be successful. If that first event is any indication of what's going to happen, we're in good shape. I mean that I mean I think we're well ahead of if you look at a 5-year plan. I think we've kind of we're well aware we well ahead of where we should be in this process. So I want
062to thank her for that. Very close. Our AVID program needs to be certified in terms of um it's good to have programs that everybody talks about but until you get that certification, you know, it's just you, you know, it's not you're not certified yet. So Dr. Sutton has said with all the we're going in the right direction there. And then there's one thing I couldn't get to, but I think that at least we had that discussion because once we started the process, people had an opinion. So just basically we've gotten it to where we have some different options. That's one thing that's outstanding that I couldn't get to. Lastly, being here, moving here 8 years ago, it was nice to because my philosophy is always you move in the town, you make yourself a part
063of the community. And it's been nice over the last eight years to make this this call the city home. So, you know, basically to all of the uh businesses that I that I frequented, all the partnerships that I made, all the community organizations, I want to say and to the parents and to the students, especially my staff members, I want to say thank you to the Lost Banners Collective. So, thank you. That's my report. And you know, actually, Dr. Marshall, that's uh one thing that I didn't mention when we were up at the mic there was uh your involvement in the community. And that's one of the things that this board really noticed and that we really want to see in a future superintendent is someone who comes in and immediately immerses themselves into um
064the community of Lasanis. Um, you know, we have uh, of course, our all our all our district uh, personnel know who you are. Students know who you are because they see you in the schools. Um, the community sees you out. I know you're at the gym and and you're you run into people there and students there and the community there. Uh, you're in the community. You're involved. And uh that was one of the great things that happened when you got here is that um you you not only were involved in those be you be you become the face of the of the district uh right off the bat. So thank you for that because that's really that's really a very important uh quality and a superintendent is that the the community and the businesses and
065the whole um school community knows who you are. So, I didn't mention that, but it's it's really important um that you did such a great job of doing that. So, thank you very much. All right, on to board member reports. Um Miss Katuso, um I have attended a bunch of stuff this month, but I'm going to make it short because it's already 8:20. We haven't even gotten to the meat of things. So, congratulations to the graduates and have a great and safe summer. Thank you, Mr. Jib, I'm going to follow in the same footsteps. I have a list of like 10 items I could list right now. U May was extremely busy, but I won't go into them. I will just say that uh truly truly um enjoyed the graduation ceremonies. It is by far
066uh the most the best time uh as a board. And um as a longtime member of the Los Rotary Club, I want to say publicly that the Rotary Club is going to miss Dr. Marshall. He's been a faithful member of our club. uh giving back to the community for eight years that he's been there. U Trustee Marg Marg Benton was um instrumental in bringing him into the club. So um you're going to be missed at our club. Um and thank you for eight fabulous years. That's it. Right, Mr. Castro? Um I had the opportunity to also uh attend graduation ceremonies and it was really nice. Um I I do want to congratulate Dr. Marshall um for his uh uh new endeavor that he'll be taking on. Um it was a pleasure um you know having
067him as our superintendent here in Las Unified School District. um he did great work and uh I believe that he's um really valued um in this community and um I've spoken to a lot of people um in regard to Dr. Marshall and um nothing but kind words about Dr. Marshall and uh I am personally going to really miss Dr. Marshall because uh we had a um a special um um relationship. Uh wasn't just all about, you know, uh school and and and the community, but uh we had some uh interesting conversations, uh political interesting conversations, and um I'm going to miss that. and uh I hope that he I know that he's going to do well uh in Fresno uh unified. So um again, congratulations Dr. Marshall and I'm sure we'll be still running into
068each other somewhere. Thank you very much. That's it. Miss Smith, I like to say um for the school year from beginning to end, there has been an extreme amount of success in this district. From every school in this city, we have had extreme extreme success in this district with the students, with the staff, with the projects we've done here. It's been absolutely outstanding. Um and I just hope and continue that will continue for the next school year and and definitely until we get to the city where we wanted to be. Dr. Marshall, I will not say goodbye. I will say see you later. All right, that's it. Thank you. And basically the same thing. Um just one quick thing. Uh I want to commend all of the schools um all the secondary schools especially that
069did uh graduation promotion ceremonies. They were awesome. um they were on point and I parents were happy and students were happy and staff was happy. They just you guys pulled it off and it went really well. So to all of the staff who uh put together all the uh the graduation promotion ceremonies, congratulations. Great work. And uh without saying Dr. Marshall will miss you. Thank you very much. With that um we are on to new business. Item A, Mr. Morz, good evening. Um, we're actually have a representative from A2A. A2A is a company that we actually work with to help us keep track of our attendance. And, uh, Mr. Nick, uh, Gilstro, he's a representative from A2A. He'll be providing an overview of our attendance for this school year. And we're also going to be
070recognizing three schools. Welcome. Uh good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. Uh members of the community. Um tonight it's kind of a special occasion for us. Um this is my third time addressing your board. Uh and every time it's been memorable. Um but tonight is our chance to both reflect on on attendance but also to celebrate the outstanding efforts that have been made by uh your students, your families, teachers, and your staff in improving uh you know student success. Um so we do work with the district. We automate many of your attendance processes. We take care of things like letter generation. Uh we assist with conference management and also provide uh many different data tools to help people make target interventions and get kids back into class. Um everything we do is really designed
071to enable staff to have more time to work directly with families and with students and and really uh find the issues that keep might keep someone out of school and work to correct overcome those obstacles. Um tonight we're going to start with uh we have a few slides on data. So, we're going to do a quick review of really what your tendencies look like for this first year. And uh as I said, I am with uh with A2A. Um we recently changed our name. We became school status. Uh A2A has actually been renamed to school status attend. Um but we partner with hundreds of districts across the the country to to work on a variety of solutions for uh for educators. So, this has been an interesting year for attendance. Um, in fact, this is
072actually one of the first years where we're seeing attendance get worse uh since 2020. Um, statewide, we're actually seeing an increase for chronic absenteeism for many of the districts we partner with. Uh, attendance rates have started to decline and and a lot of this is for reasons that are are outside of the control of school districts. Um, we've had a particularly bad flu in uh cold season. There's been a lot of turmoil um especially when it comes to politics and safety concerns. Uh and also many districts have been affected by natural disasters. Um but what we can control is making sure that we message to to families that we really do care about. Um schools are safe, every student is valued, uh and that the best thing that a parent can do for the child
073is to make sure that they have the routine of coming to class every day. So to start, this is looking at your uh day-by-day breakout of attendance for the district. On average, there were 823 students out on any particular day this year. Uh days that are 10% or more better than that average, those are going to appear in green and 10% or more worse. Those show up in red. And what we can see is that at the beginning of the year, fairly fairly good start for the first three months. Um we do start seeing issues on Fridays and sometimes on Mondays. Uh December, you know, that that week before the holiday break was also particularly rough. Um but by far the worst day this year was February 3rd. Um where you know that was the
074day without an immigrant. Um like many districts across this country uh attendance was impacted and in fact over 4,000 students were out that day. Um from there the district still faced a few challenges but ended the the year on a fairly strong note. Overall 43% of your students are doing a terrific job of coming to class. um you have 800 students who have excellent attendance where they miss less than 1% of the school year. Uh and then another 3,700 or so students are in what we call satisfactory where they're missing less than 5% of learning time. Um we also have a fairly large category where they're they're not chronically absent, but they are at risk. Uh that's our manageable students. There's uh about 32% of your population. And then your chronic absenteeism was right about
07524 and a.5%. year-over-year, you're still seeing gains. Um, compared and compared to where you were two years ago, you're seeing significant improvements both for chronic absenteeism and also the number of students with excellent attendance and satisfactory attendance has also increased by grade level. The younger grades have been improving. The one exception to this would be our third grade students where chronic absenteeism did uh jump up a little bit this year. And then for our secondary students, um like many districts in the state, secondary is where we actually see the most challenges for attendance. Um and chronic absenteeism did increase for for 9th, 10th, and 12th grade. Um 11th graders doing better than last year. Uh but again, this is an area where um where more work is needed. Can we can we go back slide
076just a second? Why is there any reason that 2223 had significant um shows significantly more students in attendance than than say this year? Oh, for chronic absentes. Yeah. So coming out of COVID or out of the pandemic, many students were were significantly impacted in their patterns of attendance. Um, for many students, school is a scary place. They weren't accustomed to coming in every day. Um, we're still seeing long-term ramifications as we see students move throughout each cohort. Um, we can start to see improvements, but um, you know, precoid in 2015 statewide, chronic absenteeism was about 11%. Um at the height of COVID uh in 2122 uh when schools started coming back chronic absentism was about 33%. Um so it really it doubled during that time period. Uh every year since then uh we've been making
077gains attendance has been improving. Uh the last two years in particular we saw gains for across the state but for this year you know we really did start seeing um attendance start to get worse. uh and a lot of it really didn't start showing up until December, but for the last there was about three months there where we saw consistently statewide uh an increase in absentism. Thank you. By site, um almost every site in the district was showing improvement this year and again almost every site is showing significant improvement compared to two years ago when when it comes to chronic absentes. And as I said earlier, um, one of the what we do for the district is we automate your attendance not uh, notifications. So this year, uh, we sent out 18,715 intervention notices to
078your families. Uh, these include notices for both, uh, unexcused absences and also excessive excused absences. Um, something that I'll point out is that you have a 50 what we call uh you have a 51% save rate. And what that refers to, uh, that's the percentage of students who after they receive their initial notification, have a change in their behavior, and they stop acrewing absences, they no longer require any further intervention on the part of the sites. Um, so for over half your families, the first time they receive a letter, that's all it takes to push them back on track. In addition to direct notifications that that go out in response to attendance, we also send out positive messaging. Uh and there's actually almost 58,000 uh positive mailers that that went out to your families this
079year. Um, this includes back to school messaging, uh, postcards around the holidays, attendance messaging for for parents, uh, as well as celebratory messaging for for students who are doing a great job to come to class and encouraging postcards for those students who who need a little extra uh extra boost. This year, 3,600 students qualified for a truency conference. Um, that's a lot of students. your staff took that took that on uh and they actually scheduled over they addressed over almost 2600 of the of these conferences. So that actually represents an enormous workload for for your staff. Um tremendous number of hours that they've dedicated to this and working with your families and they actually closed out 95% of them. So they they really a lot of hard work there. And after they conducted those meetings,
080we looked at the the conferences that um that were conducted and we looked at the six weeks before and after a conference. And for those students who came in for a meeting with their with uh with staff members, they actually had a a 39% improvement in their attendance. So conversations, they really do make a big difference. When fam when uh staff members do do talk to parents and students directly, it really does have a big impact on them. Now, the last part of this is actually my favorite part. Um, because we're here to do more than just honor the numbers. Um, every year there's a handful of districts that we work with that that we recognize for going above and beyond when it comes to building a culture of success and a culture of showing
081up. Uh, we really know that improved attendance, it means more learning, more growth, and more opportunity for every child. Uh we want to recognize the staff and the attendance teams of of three sites that you know they really were champions who work behind the scenes making phone calls encouraging students and celebrating every improvement they they have. Uh their dedication it truly does make a difference. So this year um three sites in the district uh again they really did go above and beyond both improvement for chronic absenteeism, improved attendance rates and also for how they manage their conferences and their conference effectiveness. Um so those three sites uh yes um our first winner tonight or our first uh celebrant is going to be Los Bonner High School. Uh so we we do have a plaque for
082each site um in recognition of their attendance achievements. Uh, Creekide Junior High and finally Grasslands Elementary. Thank you. So again, we just want to close out with the simple truth. Um, every day counts and because every everyone here, your staff, students, and your families, you really are building more successful and more connected school community. So again, thank you for your time tonight. Um, and everyone, fantastic job. It's been a pleasure to be your partner. I just have a quick question. So on your the trinity letters that you send out, how how do they differ from the ones like Aries produces, are they more personalized? Are they, you know, I mean, I would like to see those actually just to kind of see the difference in in them because I know Aries spits out the form
083one. Um, but yeah, I'm just curious. So we do have our own proprietary letters, but um we we always customize them with the district. So, they're always meant to be encouraging, positive. They're not, you can't punish the student back into the class is what it really comes down to. So, letters aren't intended to be punitive. They're intended to engage with families. Um, this year, something you might not be aware of, truency letters are actually changing. Uh, there's actually a new law called SB691 that is modifying the language on truency letters. So, we do have new letters. They're all coming out. Um, so those are being replaced this summer. Uh, we'll be sending those over for for approval. Great. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Hi. Thank you very much. Great. And congratulations to uh the
084Los Las Manis High and Creekide and Grasslands. Good job. Thank you. Proud of you. All right. Next item tonight is our DAC presentation. Miss Moreno. Good evening again. Um, I would like to uh introduce our DAC board president, Sophia, and our DACA secretary, Vicenta. And they're going to be presenting and going over the what they've done this school year. Oh, they will also have an interpreter. So they will say it in Spanish and then Miss Cindy will will be translating. Oh, Julia. classification. All right. D like meetings. We did brainstorming. Parents gave their opinions on topics of interest for this school year. We did healthy eating and nutrition. We talked about attendance, the importance of test percentages, ELPAC and reclassification, math, how can we support our children academically, bullying, how to help our children. We
085had firefighters, how to prevent accidents at home and how to put out a fire, LCAP with Dr. Richie. We did social emotional health and then we also ended it with a celebration with Dr. Marshall. Mexico. Distribution of backpacks. At the beginning of the school year, we received 600 backpacks which parents helped unload, organize, and then distribute to the community. It was a magical moment as the children were thrilled to have received a backpack full of school supplies. High school classes robotica, school visits, social emotional strategies and activities. For example, relaxation music and various seating arrangements. The use of native language to support students. High schools, the elective classes, welding, band, ceramics, flower design, robotics. Students supporting other students, group work and use of technology during lessons. And Losanos junior high space for counselors and student
086support. participation in the contribution to the ELP pack. Thank you to Dr. Richie for the opportunity to learn about the services our children receive at school and for the opportunity to provide input on how funding is used to provide services to our children. We did the reclassification ceremony where we recognized our students who met the reclassification criteria 331 students. Then senior students who earned the seal of bi literacy they were 125 students. Garcia school. Gracias. Thank you. Cave. Thanks to Seenora Karolina Moreno, thanks to Dr. Richie, thanks to Dr. Marshall, and for the tremendous support of Miss Garcia. This year was exceptional. We filled the bus, not only with parents, but also with high school students who returned fully motivated and with a new vision that will help them grow academically and successfully advance to
087a university. On behalf of all the parents, thank you so much because without your support, this learning experience would not be possible. And thanks to that learning experience, those banels earned us a Cave 50th anniversary medal. Thank you so so much. particip. Richie classific. saltas this year. Learning an enriching year for all of us. Learning in the school setting, how to help our children be their greatest support, the importance of mental health, Dr. Richie's involvement in the LCAP, the importance of going to schools, how to make healthy comparisons between schools to improve our children's school, the school process and how to advocate for our children and their needs, the importance of reclassification, how to interpret the ELPAC and state test, and how to support our children and have high expectations. Thank you for supporting our
088families. We will be showing a video of what we did this year. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I do want to thank these two ladies who worked on the PowerPoint and the video. They did all the work. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was great. All right. Goodbye. On to uh item D. Dr. Richie, our local controlled accountability plan. Oops, I just turned off. There you go. All right. Good evening, board. I know this is the part everyone's been waiting for. So I'm excited to share the LCAP there. There's a few things that excite educators as much as talking about a plan that we give to the state. So this evening we're going to go over just for the sake of time we'll brief some
089of these parts there state priorities that we have to account for in the LCAP and they are there in front of you. Um, for those who are watching or anyone who watches this later, the draft of the LCAP is available on the district website. So, you can look at it. It's 140 pages of glory and go through and see all the things that we've done up to this point and things we're planning to do. The LCAP is set up as follows where it gives a budget overview for uh our parents that is easy to understand a plan summary how we engage our educational partners the goals and actions how we increase or improve services for um unduplicated youth which are consists of foster youth English learners and low-inccome students and I neglected to put one
090there there's a new category this year for long-term English learners as well there's action tables so for everyone who really loves accounting you can see where all the money is going and Then the instructions at the end how it's supposed to be set up. The budget overview we are spending um in LCFF supplemental concentration grants. It's the the basic idea here is that we receive what's called local control funding formula where receive money from the state. There's a base amount you receive for the number of students that you have. Then there's something called supplemental concentration grants where you should receive extra um money for students of those students we were talking about earlier for foster youth, English learners, long-term English learners, and um low socioeconomically dispatch students. We receive about 41 million almost $42 million
091for those students. In the LCAP itself, um we are we have a it's $48 million that we spent on it because we have included other funds um for some of the plans that we are we are implementing. The way that we engage our educational partners and their impact on the LCAP is we use we provide lots of surveys. We hold um uh meetings. Uh we go out as you you heard just now from the DAC go out and share and solicit information from them. We consult with our local SULPA and we try to really um make sure that our LCAP reflects the desires of our community. So our LCAP has nine goals. The reason for that is because the state and all of its wisdom has decided to add certain requirements to us. So we
092went from a four goal LC cap last year to an eight goal LCAP and this year now it's a nine goal LCAP because of certain requirements I'll get into. So the first goal is is a goal that focuses on our English learners. Our English learners have been making tremendous progress um up to this point. And so we're continuing trying to increase that. The way you define making progress is that the students have moved up a level on or they've scored a four or higher on the LPAC. And so right now we are sitting about 45%. Um you see the actions there that we uh have put in place to help support that. New this year to the LCAP is more support for our dual language immersion um program and that came out of community meetings
093that we held. There was a there's a deep um interest in continuing to improve um our DLI services. Our second goal is what's called a broad goal. This is focused on social emotional behavioral supports. Um some of the actions in there include providing um counselors um professional development for counselors and mental health services. um just saw the report from from um our student attendance program um that LCAP helped support that and also student services. Third goal is an as academic broad goal and this is we've as you heard Dr. Marshall say we've been trending upward in our academic performance over the last several years. Right now, we just we don't have official results yet from the uh the state test, but we right now we're expecting to have a moderate improvement in ELA and mathematics.
094Um I won't say the total because it seems every day I look at it changes slightly, but it's it's definitely we're trending in the right direction. Some of the actions there um is support for continue support for professional learning communities um professional uh development um summer programs, elementary music teachers, visual and performing arts and um tutoring services for students. The fourth goal is what's called a maintenance goal. Um literally it's it's about just maintaining facilities, staff, that kind of thing. I I call this the keeping the lights on goal. This is you have to have some some actions like this. And so this is where we provide um health services, school security, the evolve um systems that we put in place at every secondary school comes out of here. Additional support for transportation, STEM programs,
095teacher induction, STEM labs, speech and language services is another item that was added to the ELCAP this year. Um is that's that's an area that our parents expressed a desire to have more support in. Fifth goal is a focus goal. Um this is one that came out of our um LCAP last year. Um the development where we saw that there was a definite need to decrease the suspension rate for all students. We were about two times a little over two times the state average for suspension rates. And um preliminarily when we look at this year we dropped from about seven last year was 7.2% suspension rate. So it means that for ev every school every student in the school of 11,000 um students that 7.2% of them were suspended one day. State average Californians 3.4
096um as last year. This year we're sitting depends on which which report you run. We're sitting between 3.9 and 4.1%. still not where we want to be, but that's if you look in terms of drops, that's a dramatic decrease. And uh our schools have really taken a heart looking for different ways to address uh behavior and looking to address um suspensions because I've said this many times as I've come done this report, you can't suspend your way out of uh behavior issues. um we tried and we failed and so now we're doing something different and we're seeing massive results and especially we have a couple schools that are really leading the way in that and you'll see that the restorative practices positive behavioral supports and additional um uh certified behavior analysts um to help with
097teachers um are all throughout and I neglected to say earlier you can feel free to interrupt me anytime I'm just talking so if you have a question feel free just ask I'm checking Lori I saw your face So maybe when you're done, can you just explain again what I know what the summer melt counselors are, but what the idea behind the summer counselor that actually came out of um of that was about three years ago. Um that actually came out of a parent community meeting where several our parents were expressing concern about the fact that their kids are graduating. We have a high graduation percentage here in Los Balance Unified, but we had a lot of kids that got accepted to college and then never never enrolled. And so the idea behind the summer melt
098counselor is we we provide counselors to to work in summer school, but they are open to all students in the district and all former graduates in the district to come in and to get help. And our counselors will assist them in making that phone call, of navigating websites, of connecting with college academic adisement and just helping them with that transition because when you go from high school and you move into college or to a trade school and you're having to adult for the first time, it's really tough and especially if you don't have individuals in your life who have navigated this before. When we talked to students, we found was a lot of our students were the ones who were successful. We went and we kind of pulled them and what they told us that
099the over the overarching theme that kept coming back from them was that the ones who were successful had someone who had already navigated that in their life. So either a family member, an uncle, an aunt, older brother, cousin, someone who did it, who had already done it and could go ahead and articulate how to trans to transfer through that system. the students who didn't kind of fell by the wayside. And so this is our attempt to provide some support for those students that they could be able to go in and be able to go with someone that they already know and trust being it's our counselors to be able to navigate that system. We've seen an increase of students who are who are accepted and then also continue on. And so we're we're working to
100support that and improve that every year. And how many do we have that work in the summer on counselors? We have two counselors that work in the summer. Okay. Is that Are they both at the high schools or They're at the high schools. They the the because the the the junior high and the um elementary programs are have a different focus. These counselors focus is primarily on that transition and on supporting students because I thought one was located at Los Banis Junior High during the summer. So that's I mean that was her job duty was a a male counselor. I'll have to go look at that one because I don't I don't know where everyone's at. That's a that'd be more of a Zach question for the junior high because they Well, it's just that,
101you know, I think you they should be at the high school, right? So, but thank you. Uhhuh. So, goal six, this is this is our literacy goal. Um, our goal is to have students that can read by grade level by third grade. And so this is this is a big one because we've seen over the past several years our ELA scores have kind of been stagnant. This is the this is the first year we've kind of had a bit of a jump. And I think it's no small part in the fact that this is um we invested in providing um high quality intensive um professional learning for our teachers on how to basically teach early literacy. That's that letters program we had and you know Mr. Sersby has been leading that work. We recruited 120
102teachers um to participate this year in year one. And just so everyone's aware, this is not like, hey, you we'll take you out for a day or two and do some training. This is they're doing work in the evenings. This is the equivalent of taking 12 um 12 units from a master's level course. And so they work in the evenings, they've come on Saturdays. Our teachers have gone above and beyond. And so we had 120 teachers participate this year. They're going to it's a two-year program. when they finish next year, they will have been in intensely um trained in how to teach literacy to students at all grade levels. We have another right now the number is 39 teachers who have signed up to start a cohort next year. So to put this in perspective,
103we have about 220ish um elementary teachers and we're going to have 160 of them trained in three years. So, we're we're excited about that because of all the things that we're doing in terms of support, um I I've said this before, I'll say it again. Um train teachers um if you want to you want if you want to improve things that happen in the classroom, you have to help the teachers. And so, working with our staff, we know we're going to see some big dividends out of this in the future. Goals seven through eight, seven, eight, nine, these are the the ones that California added on to uh requirements for LCAP last year. is called equity multiplier fund goals. These are schools where they have a transient population that's defined as any school that has
104more than 55% of their students that basically either enroll late or leave throughout a school year. So last year it was Crossroads and St. Louis that received these funds. this year at the TK center. Um, and part and that's partially due to the fact that as students aged into qualifying for TK according to state law, they could then go enroll. And so once they came in, decided to enroll, that now counts as, hey, these students came in after the school year started. So that counts toward those funds. So that comes out to and Crossroads is about $259,000. Um, and both St. Louis and the TK center about $160,000. And this the reason it's on the LCAP is because these are state funds but they're for specific schools. So it actually goes through they have to
105go through their site council and do all that work but they can't put it on the single plan at the site council level because that's a federal document. And so California says cool well we have a state document so you have to shove it on the LCAP. So that's essentially this is almost like a a SIPA goal that's has been put on the LCAP. Um and so they've all chosen kind of the same thing with where the the reasons why they um you know they did a needs assessment that focused on certain elements. Crossroads is to improve college career readiness rate that was providing counselors dual enrollment. St. Louis was decreasing suspension rate which is part of our suspension rate. I just talked about the decrease. St. Louis is a big part of that and
106that's also adding a counselor to help support those students. and then transitional kindergarten center. Um their their counselors be a little bit different because they're going to focus mostly on really helping the parents as opposed to the students. And then also they doing a uh a new behavior curriculum to help students feel more comfortable when they come to school. So I already kind of went through the highlights. They're all there. All right. Any questions? Questions? last slide you showed about the TK center and we're going to be helping the parents. That's where the community schools program comes into play. Absolutely. So it kind of partners with each other. Yep. And that's that's one of the things I probably should have addressed that that that a little more carefully with the LCAP. This is one set
107of funds. Community school is another set of funds. But the way we do business here is that we mirror we mirror everything and we support everything. So community schools the leazison are working hand inand with the schools and we're looking at how we can use the support from community schools as well as the support there at the school sites to be able to help our children and help their families. Any other questions? Right. Thank you. Appreciate that. Good job. All right. So before you move on though, we do need a public hearing. We need to do a public hearing. Read the read the agenda. We have a public hearing. So, we do have anybody uh here tonight that would like to address uh the board on our LCAP. We'll open that up at uh 9:02.
108All right. Seeing no one come forward, we'll close it at 9:02. All right. Thank you very much. On to item E, which is our 2526 budget report and adoption. Hello, Mel. Good evening. I'm gonna be up here a while. So, okay. Tonight, I present to you the 2526 budget development. First, I want to acknowledge Genesis Hamilton, an eighth grader at Los Vanis Junior Height, who designed the cover for us. Most of you know this is like my favorite part of the book. I love getting all these from the students. It's just so fun to go through them. Okay, what are our formative budget process? You usually see me about four times a year for the unodited actuals, the first interim report, the second interim report, and then budget development. As Dr. Marshall had expressed we
109have always been able to um certify as positive which shows that we can meet our financial obligations for the current year and the two subsequent years. If we were to qualify certif qualify qualified cert sorry qualify that means we can meet our financial obligation one year but we may not be able to meet one of the other two years. A negative certification means that you are not able to meet your obligation for the current year or the next year. We are very fortunate that we've been good with our finances and we are able to qualify this budget as a positive certification. So we were on pins and needles waiting for the May revise to hit to see what was going to happen with the budget. So how did we end up after the May revise?
110We ended up with a cola of 2.3% and we were at 2.7. So we did see a little drop from that. We would have liked it at 2.7, but we'll settle for 2.3 at this point. How will Governor Newsome fund um the cola? It will be through reductions, borrowing, fundships, deferrals, and just so you know, we do expect deferrals in June of our portionment. Um, Governor Newsome will use $481 million of the RA NDA fund to support this colum. May re um May revisions reduce onetime block grant of $und00 million. Continues to provide ongoing funding for the full implementation of the universal transitional kindergarten. It maintains res It maintains the restoration of the learning recovery block grant. If you remember when we got that grant, they reduced it and we lost I think it was
11120% of it. So, we're hoping that this means that we're going to get that 20% reduction back. The May resision May revision fully funds the universal meal programs while adding an additional funding of Sunbucks program and the kitchen infrastructure grant. it. He modified the investments in supporting teacher and educational pipeline by repurposing 150 million in one-time funds for the teacher recruitment incentive grant and instead repurposed 100 million in the one-time funds for student teacher stipen program. He did propose K through 12 will get deferrals in June and we hope to get those funds back in July. We will monitor cash flow very carefully to make sure that we're going to be okay when that comes. Okay. So, how did we end up? Keep in mind this is based on estimates. I don't the beginning balance
112that you see 11.2 million that is prior to closing the book. So, that could be more, it could be less. The revenues that we hope to get in 2526 are $170 million, expenditures of $152 million, contribution to restricted funds of 2020 20 million with an ending fund balance of 8.9 million. One thing I do want you to notice on this slide is up until this point, you've always seen a very large amount under the committed funds, and you will not see that on this because I will not know those until I close the books. So you'll see the committed funds section will pop up in first interim once I close the book and I see how much we have carryover but you do see that 8.9 million consists of 29,479 in our revolving fund payroll
113reserves of 1.3 million lottery funds of a million and the state um 3% reserves requirement of 6.5 million which leaves our overall district reserves at 5%. the general fund. So, with this budget, we had in your packets that you see, you'll see the new hiring that was listed for this year in your big beautiful books that you got. So, you'll see why these salaries are a little bit different. So, for the unrestricted, we ended up with 60.2 million in certificated salaries, which includes teachers and admin, classified salaries of 17.8, 8 benefits of 39.9% books and supplies of 7.3 million services of 18.7 capital outlay of 3.9 with inner in indirect cost of 1.7 million for a total of 149.7 million. Keep in mind salary and benefits are 79% of our unrestricted funds. Did I change
114that? Okay, the restricted funds, you're going to notice a big difference here, too. And I'll explain why when I get there. So, for our restricted funds, we ended up with 13.5 in certificated salaries, 11.1 in classified, 19.4 in benefits, books and supplies of 10.4. 4 services of 10.2 2 and capital outlay of 350,000. In first second in the restricted fours, fives and sixes were about 83 million and on this you're seeing 20 million because that 59 million that we had as carryover. I don't know those amounts till I close the books. So you'll see when you get first entered that those fours, fives, and sixes are going to be way higher because I've closed the books and now I know what the carryover for those accounts are. And I know I had several questions last
115time about, well, why do we have to put it in the fours and fives? And so I reached out to the county and the state and because these are restricted funds and we have to post him as unearned revenue, I have to recognize the revenue and the expense. I cannot let restricted fall into fund balance. So even though we may not spend all that money in fours and fives, I have to budget it there. I can't let it fall on fund bounds. I have to recognize it and I don't put it in the ones, twos, or three because I'm overstating our salaries. So, you'll kind of see we have to budget there. We may not spin that, but I have to recognize it for the state. So, for clarification that people that are that are
116watching, um, let's go back that one slide. Your fours and fives are the fourth and fifth category here on this list. So certificated is one, benefits is three, books and supplies is four. So the fours and fives are Yeah. Yeah. So it's books and supplies and services. It's books and supplies and services. Correct. So this is the proposed budget that's in front of you versus second interim. I wanted to let you guys see what the different revenue that would be for next year with the 2.3 cola, which as you could see, we ended up with $6.3 million in more revenue due to that cola. The LCFF summary, I put this in here because this is what I see. Like if you look in the books that I I provide for you, you'll see the calculating
117form in the back where you could see where I get this. But I wanted to point out like Dr. Richie had me mentioned you see the um grades span adjustment which is the 4.3 which is the class size reduction that we get and then you see the supplemental and concentration grant that is the LCAP. So it's part of that LCAP and that amount is based on those alternative income forms that we have the parents fill out. So the more of those we get the higher that number goes up. But when you look at it and you think 64 million 41 million of that is LCAP that's restricted for that program. So I just kind of wanted to show how it is part of it but that's kind of separate. It's not part of the the
118unrestricted multi-year projections. So how did we look going out um throughout the current next year and to the current year's out? You do notice that next year we are estimating a 3.02 cola and um so you see our revenue is is going up a little bit. So next year it looks like 177. The following year 183 if those colas stay true. But as you could see our district overall reserves are well below the 10% cap that we're we're at. I would love those reserves to be higher but unfortunately at this time they are not there. financial obligations. These are the benefits that we have to pay on every single solitary person that's paid on our payroll. These amounts fluctuate. I did notice, which was nice, was coal for PERS. We had a little bit of
119a deduction of.24, which was nice, but you did see our workers comp went up. 23. And you do notice that that you don't see an increase in health and welfare once we negotiated that $24,000 cap. So it does make it easier to budget because we know that that cap's in place. But I think it's important to notice that um uh the go back one slide please. The second line the calers and contribution rate went down but the ne they've already given the numbers for the next two or three years and it goes and they go back up goes back up significantly. So this is a short time that we I think they were trying to help with that little bit of cola reduction. So it's still but it's going to go up again. Yes. And
120that's our that's what we pay um for that. Y employees pay a little bit too but that's what we pay. So it's going to go okay. So multi-year projection assumptions we are we have always budgeted very conservatively. So, we always budget for a flat enrollment ADA and if it goes up, that's great, but I don't want to budget for something and then have it not materialize and we've spent those funds. So, we're always very conservative when we build this budget. Um, this budget does include the cost of living adjustment and we do currently have an our up count is at 82%. multi-year projections does include the step and column increases along with any pension increases. The multi-year projection also does include our COP payment for the next three years. And as you see, our reserves
121are well below the state limit of 10%. So final synopsis, we are currently able to meet our financial obligation with the support of one-time federal funds, state funds, and the COLA. Enrollment continues to remain flat. ADA continues to be volatile. I will be able to provide you updated P2 numbers once we complete um P2 or revised P2 and the annual ADA. Pension contributions continue to increase. Special ed and transportation costs increase every year. However, the D the sites are helping to collect as many alternative income forms as we can from parents throughout the year. Any questions? questions. Everyone's like, "It's late. We want to go home." Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But again, um if you go through the board, if you go through anybody that looks at the budget, um even though we're
122projecting out three years and and we are positive, it's the numbers are going down. It's scary um as far as ending reserves. So, it's we need we need a higher we need more cola money from the state is what we need. We do. And and I I don't think that 3% will stay next year, but I'm hoping it does. Any little bit helps. Yeah, for sure. All right. With that, we need to uh open a public hearing at uh 9:15 for anybody that wants to comment on the uh budget. All right. Seeing no one come forward, we will close the uh budget hearing at 9:15. And with that, uh we need to adopt the budget. So, I need a motion, please. Got a motion by Miss Katuso, seconded by Miss Smith to adopt the uh
1232526 budget. All those in favor? I opposed. All right. Carried unanimously. Thank you. I'm still here, Miss Marcella. I know you're still here. Um, now I just want to make one comment before we go on. Sure. Um, we had 20 We have 26 new business items. We gone through four. So, we have 22 new business items. I'm trying to talk. No, it's not your No, I'm not trying to cut you off. I'm just saying we have 22 more to go. So, those of you looking at your clock, take some coffee. All right. On to item number F, excess of minimum reserve requirements. It is recommended that the board approve the balances in excess of minimum reserves requirement form. This is a form that MCO requires us to complete just showing what is left after um
124any fund balance and the 3% reserves. It's just operational. All right. Comments or questions? Motion, please. So move. We got a motion by member Lee, seconded by member uh Katuso to approve the excess of minimum reserve requirements. All those in favor? I posted. It is carried unanimously. On to uh item G, education protection account resol. It is recommended that that Oh, I was going to say resolution 17-25. Oh, okay. I was going to read that. your question. It is recommended that the board adopt a resolution 1725 regarding the education protection account. Um this is money that we get. It's part of um general fund as well, but 14 it's resource 1400. We can only spend that on certificated salaries. So this is just showing the county that we're going to spend the whole amount on
125certificated salaries. All right. Comments or questions? All right, seeing none, need a motion, please. We got a motion by Miss Katuso, seconded by Mr. Castro to adopt resolution 17-25 is a roll call. Tina, please. Mr. Castro, yes. Mrs. Katuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, Miss Smith, yes. Miss Validale, Mr. Per, yes. Thank you. All right. Passes unanimously. Um on to item H. Uh just a couple of things to uh draw the attention to the board. You pulled one off. Uh we pulled I the page 25 off. Um and we are going to go to page 26 which is resolution 13-25. It is recommended that the board approve resolution 13-25 authorizing to sign on the behalf of the governing board. All right. So, just in case someone doesn't know what this is, this is um
126allowing Dr. Lee and myself to sign off on payroll, accounts payable, any kind of financial stuff that on behalf of the board. Actually, it's not both of those. We're only we're these are these are actually two separate U Okay, we're going to bring the other one back. Yeah. Okay. No. Well, no, wait a minute. The um uh page 26, which is resolution 13-25, which is the one uh with your signature, is one resolution. And then the second resolution is on page 27. And that number is going to be changed to number uh resolution number 21-25. Um because these are actually two separate resolutions. They should not have been numbered consecutive uh with the same number. So, we're going to do uh resolution 13-25, which is on page 26, authorizing Melody Marcella to sign. Motion, please.
127Got a motion by member Lee, seconded by Miss Smith uh to adopt resolution uh 13-25. All those in favor? No. Roll call. I'm sorry. Roll call vote. I know resolutions. It's real. I want to go home. Tina, please. Mr. Castro. Yes, Mr. Kuso. Yes, Mr. Lee. Yes, Dr. Moran. Miss Smith. Yes, Miss Valale. Mr. Pra. Yes, that passes unanimously. Now, same um item, item H, but uh resolution number 21-25 on page 27 authorizing Dr. Cipher Lee to be a signatory. Um and with that, need a motion, please. I'll move. We got a motion by member Lee, seconded by member Smith to adopt resolution 21-25. Roll call, please. Tina. Mr. Castro. Matuso. Yes. Mr. Lee. Yes. Dr. Moran. Miss Smith. Yes. Missado. Mr. Per. Yes. Hi. Passes unanimously. Okay. On to item I, designating certain general
128funds for 2526, which is resolution 14-25. It is recommended that the board approve resolution 1425 designating certain general funds as committed fund balances. Comments, questions, motion. We got a motion by member uh Smith, second by member Castro to adopt resolution 14-25 designating certain funds for 2526. Dina, roll call, please. Mr. Castro, yes. Matuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, Miss Smith, yes, Mr. Per. Yes. Item passes unanimously. On item J, enter fund transfers resolution 12-25. It is recommended that the board approve the attached resolution 12-25 for the 2526 school year, allowing me to do interfund transfers. Comments, questions, motion. So move. Got a motion and a second. A motion by uh Mr. Lee, second by M. Guso to um adopt resolution uh 12-25. Tina, please. Mr. Castro, Mr. Guso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran,
129Miss Smith, Miss Valado, Mr. Fur. Yes. All right. Motion passes unanimously. On item K 24 uh 2024 Gazsby 75 actuarial valuation. It is recommended that the board review and accept the Gazsby actuarial full valuation study. Um this is an operational thing that we have to do every year and usually the our consultant comes down but I couldn't see him flying from Florida just to do this and getting charged for that. though I just presented it and the you should have received the full backup report. All right, comments, questions, motion. Got a got a motion by member uh Gatuso, seconded by member Smith to approve the 2024 Gazsby 75 actuarial valuation. All those in favor? I opposed and it carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good job. On to item L, approval of the
130D to the comprehensive safety plan to include the instructional continuity plan. Mr. Morz, welcome. Thank you. Uh, it is recommended for the board to approve the 2025 instructional continuity plan as an addendum to the 2025 comprehensive safety plans for each school. So basically this is uh this is a new a new mandate and uh this came out of the fires from Southern California that we need to have an emergency plan in place. So uh we actually put one together and the schools had the opportunity between August and the end of September to actually tailor the plan to their specific needs. So u but we have to meet a deadline that we need to have this in place by July uh 1st 2025. comments or questions from the board? Yes. So, we have that in place,
131but the schools will still have time to actually this is an addendum to the safety plans. Uh, so it's actually the plan is the same for every single school at this point. It's just a general plan. Um, this is something relatively new. We really didn't get a lot of guidance, so we were expected to put it together. um and in a short amount of time. Um the plans aren't all the same. You mean the addendum the addendum is the same for all of them right now? Correct. The addendum is the same. So um and it's it's we we follow a guideline that was provided to us through document tracking to ensure that we're actually covering everything that needs to be covered. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? All right. Hearing none. I need
132a motion, please. We got a motion by member Caster, seconded by member Leeb to approve the addendum to the comprehensive safety plan to include the instructional continuity plan. All those in favor? Opposed? And it carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. On to the elementary curriculum adoption item M, universal uh reader screener, reading screener. Mr. Sersby, welcome. Uh good evening board members and trustees. Uh so um it is recommended the board declare its intent to adopt a new universal reader screener the MClass with Dibbles edition 8 and MClass lecturera published by Amplify Education serving students in grades K2 offered in English and Spanish. And this is u required by the state of California to be in place by the beginning of next school year. All right, comments or questions? We're going to uh declare our intent
133to adopt with a motion. It'll come back to us for approval. So, um with that, I need a motion, please. We got a motion by member Smith, seconded by member Castro to declare our intent to adopt the elementary curriculum adoption universal reading screener. All those in favor? Post and it is carried. Thank you. On to item N, school plans for student achievement. Staff recommend the Laspanos USD board of trustees approve the revised 2526 school plans for student achievement also known as the SIPA for Laspanos High School, Pacheco High School, St. Louis High School, Crossroads, Creekide Junior High School, Laspanos Junior High School, Charleston Elementary, Grasslands Elementary, Henry Miller Elementary, Lospanos Elementary, Loreno Felasco Elementary, Mercy Springs Elementary, Mo Elementary, Transit Transitional Kindergarten Center, Westside Union Elementary, and Volulta Elementary. All right, Godman's questions. Yes, I
134hope you enjoyed reading all of them. I know I did. It's wonderful ways of putting you to sleep because we all kind of look at those and the paper hits us in the head there. All right. Motion, please. Motion by member Castro, seconded by member Katuso to approve the school plans for student achievement. All those in favor? I opposed. Carried unanimously. On to item O, job description for band and or drama assistant. Mr. Sal, it is recommended the board approve the band and or drama assistant position, job description, and company salary schedule. Again, comments or questions? Motion? We got a motion by Mr. Castro, seconded by Mr. Leeb. Um, all those in favor? I opposed and it's carried unanimously. On item P, job description of the visual arts assistant, Mr. Sersby, it is recommended the
135board approve the visual arts assistant position/job description and accompany salary schedule. And as always, comments or questions? Seeing none, motion, please. Second. Motion by member Smith, seconded by member Katuso to approve the job description for the visual arts assistant. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried unanimously. Item Q, purchase of vehicles for the high school band programs. Mr. Sersby, it is recommended that the board approve the district's purchase of two new F250 Supercap vehicles for Laspanos High School and Pacheo High School from Sanosport, Losanos, California. Comments or questions? Only comment I have. There you go. Is to say thank you for buying from Santos. Appreciate that. They provided us the it was clearly the lowest bid offered and it's great that we can uh keep business here locally. Absolutely. Thank you. All
136right. Need a motion, please. There's any more no more comments? We got a motion by Mr. Lee, seconded by member Smith to approve the purchase of vehicles for the high school band programs. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried. Thank you, Mr. hoursby. All right, on to item R, position title change. And is that Mr. Richie? Dr. Richie. Yep, that is Dr. Richie. All right, go ahead. Is recommended the board approve the change in title from director of English learner and migrant education programs to the director of multilingual services and migrant education. This move reflects a more assetbased approach to overseeing um services for students and better aligns with division that represents work being done on behalf of our students in our district. All right. Comments or questions? Motion. Member uh motion
137by member Katuso, seconded by member Castro to approve the position title change. All those in favor? I I opposed. It is carried unanimously. On to item S, initial bargaining proposal, the Las Unified School District and the Laspan Teachers Association. Dr. Richie, it's recommended the board accept the initial bargaining proposal submitted by the Losanas Unified School District for the 2025 2026 bargaining cycle. Board acceptance of the proposal will follow a public hearing. All right, with that, we're going to open a public hearing on the initial bargaining proposal between the district and the Laspan Teachers Association at uh 9:31. Seeing no one come forward, we will close the public hearing at 9:31. Comments from the board. Questions? Motion, please. Got a motion by me uh member Smith, seconded by member uh Castro uh to approve the initial
138bargaining proposal between the Las Vegas Unified School District and the Las Vegas Teachers Association. All those in favor? I opposed. And is carried unanimously. Be on to item T. New position expanded learning program coordinator which is a LEAP classified management position. Dr. Richie is recommended the board approve the ex the expanded learning program coordinator LEAP classified management position job description and accompany salary schedule. Comments questions for the board motion. So move I'll second it. I I I didn't even hear Did he say so? Oh, okay. Uh motion by member Castro, seconded by member Leeb to approve the new position of the expanded learning co program coordinator for lead classified management. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried. On to item U which is a resolution 16-25 for the acknowledging school facilities master
139plan requirements. Dr. It is recommended that the board adopt resolution number 16-25 acknowledging the requirement to submit a school facility master plan for participation in the school facility program. All right, comments or questions? Seeing none, motion, please. We got a motion by member Smith, seconded by member Gatuso. Here's a roll call vote. Tina, please. Miss Katuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, Miss Smith, yes. Miss Valado, Mr. Pereira, yes. Motion passes. Um, unanimously. On to item V. Uh this is one of the items uh that had a correction in the numbers on the printed agenda but not on the BRM which is the backup material and that is resolution 19-25 which is the Volulta Elementary modernization squad notice of exemption. Miss Monday, it is recommended that the board adopt resolution number 1925 approving the Bolta
140Elementary School modernization project as categorically exempt from SQA. All right, comments, questions, motion, please. So move. Got a m motion by member Smith, seconded by member Katuso to adopt the resolution 19. Yeah. 19-25 for the elementary modernization squa notice of exemption. Roll call vote. Tina. Mr. Castro. Miss Katuso. Yes. Mr. Lee. Yes. Dr. Moran. Miss Smith. Yes. Miss Valado. Mr. Pur. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Dina. On to item W. This is another one that had a change in the numbers. Resolution 18-25, Lasanis High Modernization, SQUA notice of exemption. Miss Monday, it is recommended that the board adopt resolution 18-25 approving the Lasanis High School modernization project as categor categorically exempt from SQA. All right, any questions? Motion, please. Got a motion by member Smith, seconded by member Leeb to adopt resolution 18-25, Lasan's high
141modernization sequel notice of exemption. Roll call of Tina, please. Mr. Castro, yes. Miss Katuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, Miss Smith, yes. Missado, Mr. Pur, yes. All right. On to item X, capital projects notice of completion. Laspanis Junior High School new walk-in freezer project. This Monday, it is recommended that the board accept as complete the Laspanis Junior High School new walk-in freezer project and authorize the filing of the notice of completion. Comments, questions. Motion, please. Got a motion by member Castro, seconded by member Gatuso um to approve the capital projects notice of completion for the Las Spanish Junior High new walk-in freezer project. All those in favor? I opposed and it is carried. It is carried. All right. Um item Y, policy updates for first reading. Dr. Richie, it's recommended the board declare its
142intent to adopt the following mandated updates. Board policy 1312.2, complaints concerning instructional materials. Um, exhibit 1312.2, exhibit one, complaints concerning instructional materials. Board policy 1340, access to district records. Administrative regulation 1340, access to district records. Board policy 6158, independent study. Administrative regulation 6158, independent study. All right. Um, this is the first time we'll see these or we're seeing these. So we are declaring our intent to adopt. They will come back to us next month. But I do any have any questions. I need a motion please. Got a motion by member Smith, seconded by a member Katuso to declare our intent to adopt for first reading the policies listed under item Y. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried item Z number 26 out of 26. I know, but we got through this
143part. Okay, we got through the new business. All right. Item item uh Z, select superintendent search firm. Is it recommended the board approve the selection of an executive search firm that will lead the search for a new superintendent? comments, questions. We take that one off the agenda. H Well, we could, but then we would have to not approve his resignation letter. So, that's probably not going to work. All right. And if there's no other comments, I need a motion. Got a motion by member Smith, seconded by member Castro to approve this the selection of a superintendent search firm. All those in favor? I opposed. It is carried unanimously. On item 11, the consent calendar down to the end here. Consent calendar. Um, any pools tonight on any item on the consent calendar. All right. Seeing
144no pools, I need a motion, please. move. Got a mot a motion by member Leeb, seconded by member Gatuso to approve the consent calendar as listed. It is a roll call vote. Tina, please. Mr. Castro, yes. Mrs. Katuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, Miss Smith, yes. Miss Valado, and Mr. P. Yes. Item approved unanimously. So, now we go to reporting out of close session action. We had one item for action. We did pull the other item which was number four, leave extension request. That item was pulled. That was an action item. So, we didn't have any action because it was pulled. Item five was parental request for early graduation for a PCO high school student. The um vote uh the motion was by member Lee, seconded by member Smith to approve. The vote was
145four yeses, no nos, and two absences. which was Valido and Moran. That's all the reporting out of close session. Board, do you have any uh items for discussion information and future agenda items? Doesn't look like there's anything there. We finished. Next item on the agenda is uh continuation of close session. We finished in close session tonight, so there's nothing to report out from that. And with that, it is 9:40 and we are adjourned. Thank you all for joining us and uh safe travels home. Good night everybody.