001All right, it is 7 o'clock. We're going to call the meeting to order. And if we can get people to come in, they're coming in. Not really. So, we have lots of guests entering the uh council chambers. So, we're going to wait till they come in. We have lots of empty chairs. There you go. There's a future trustee right there. And I know that's that's Emerson. I know who that is. Hi, Emerson. You're going to have to all scrunch. So, it's okay. You fill in the empty spots. You can come in. We have a lot of people to bring in. So, scrunch in. Come on down. Come on. Fill in the fill in this empty spot. There's a big empty spot over here and over there. You can fill it in. I know everybody wants
002to stand against the wall, but we have some people outside that probably want to come in. Let's all scrunch in. Come on. Bring them in. We'll wait. I said there's a spot over here. Come on in. High school. Good job. Got some places to sit down in front. They are sitting down. That's great. They'll be gone as soon as it'll be mass exodus. We still have They're still coming in. And we do have seats. Plenty of seats. So, I mean to get the we're going to have to close the doors because of the noise in the hall. So, if you want to be part of it, please please come in. Otherwise, we're going to have to shut the door so we get the meeting started. So, if you want to come in, please come in.
003We have lots of room to sit down on the floor over here. And actually we can even fill up on each side of the podium up here in the front sitting down on the ground. So if the students want to come down to the front here and sit down. Grassland students come on down. Sit down in the front. Right there. Right. Seating. Come on in. Yeah, we got room. We got room for everybody right there. Sit on the floor over here. They're still coming in. All right. on here. Almost look like it. All right, we got the doors closed, so I think we can get started. All right, we are back out of close session and we're ready to begin our regular meeting. a couple of I'll start with one announcement and that is um
004on the board agenda. It states that trustee Smith will be participating remotely. Um and uh she is not going to be able to join us. So we are uh not going to have trustee Smith join us. So she will not be in attendance tonight. So, um, that part of the, uh, opening part of the agenda needs to be corrected. And with that, we're going to go on to the pledge of allegiance. Where is uh, principal Ardunis? Right here. Right there. Would you lead us in the pledge, please? Ready? Salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. That was good. Man, we we've never had such we've never had such a great uh pledge of allegiance.
005That was great. Thank you. Every meeting. Yeah. So, all right. With that, we are going to go to the next item, which is the approval of the agenda. I do have some changes and the board has it in front of them. Uh first item uh that we will notice that has changed um is that item 1 C that's opening business close session item C2 litigation settlement um item two has been pulled from the agenda. So we did not take action on that because uh we did not discuss it. It was pulled from tonight's agenda. So that that item has been pulled from the agenda. Um in item X, uh new business, item E, course revisions. Um there are Let me find it here. May find it here. Course revision first reading. Um item E in
006uh new business. that item um has been uh updated. Uh we have the correct um uh changes with us and all of those changes have been posted to the district website with our meeting agenda. So that uh those have been changed. Um and item K in under new business deferred maintenance plan. There's additional uh page that was added to the end of the of the backup material that also has been updated to uh the district web page under our board agenda and the board does have that in front of them. And an item um 11, the consent calendar, item D, permanent employee status. The there is a corrected list uh that is submitted to the board for tonight. And again, that um corrected list is uh on the district website. Um under board agenda also
007under item uh 11H contracts agreement item number 12 updated contract with CPM Incorporated construction management services on for the Laspanis High School project. That item um has been updated and we have a the correct information in front of us and that information has been posted on the district website under our agenda for tonight. Dr. Dr. Marshall, is there any other changes to tonight's agenda? Uh, no further changes. All right, with that, um, I need a motion to accept or excuse me, approve the agenda as amended. A motion we approve the agenda as amended. Second. We got a motion by member Katuso, seconded by Mr. Castro to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor? I post. It's carried unanimously. Thank you very much. And now the moment we all been waiting for. Yes, we
008have a great recognition tonight and um Dr. Marshall is going to be coming. Are you going to come up or are you going to do it from there? Um and we want to thank you all for being here. This is a we haven't had a crowd like this in a long time. So, thank you for being here. This is a it's a great great honor and a great uh moment for our our schools. So, uh Dr. Marshall, take it away. Yeah, I want to just say something briefly. When um we found out about Grasslands, I was uh at a training and I got an email or text from uh our social media person saying congratulations. So I'm like congratulations for what? So uh she had like the link just to like the California Department of
009Education. So I clicked on I clicked it and uh it was like they named the 2025 California distinguished schools. So there was a list so you had to scroll down. So you like the different like all different schools throughout the state. We finally get to Merced County and there were two schools and there was one school in the lost Spanish unified school district grasslands. Yes. Now, something I want to add is that this was Grass Lance was the second school in this district's history to receive that distinction. The last time we had a California distinguished school was 1995. That was uh you know roughly 30 years ago. So, look at where we've come. And to all and it's just so nice to see how many staff members that are here. You should be proud. you
010worked hard and look look what we've accomplished. So at no this time what we've done now you're going to get a better award from the state than mine but um but we put this together. This is we have like the distinguished school emblem and we'll just have a little ceremony here but your real ceremony will be at in Anaheim I think in May. So let's bring the principal up. Please come up please. and she has her assistant Kevin Coleman. This is our Dunis and Kevin Coleman. Would you like to address? And you have a great community here. I'll let you say a few words. Well, good evening. Should I face this way? Good evening board members and LBUSD community and thank you very much for the special recognition. It's an incredible honor to represent Grasslands
011Elementary as a 2025 California Distinguished School. At Grasslands, our entire community, as you can see, works diligently to create a learning environment where our students are valued, supported, and excited to come to school each day. This recognition reflects the hard work and collaboration and the unwavering commitment of our of our exceptional staff. And I also want to thank our amazing parents whose partnership plays a vital role in creating a positive and exclusive school environment. I'd like to invite all of our Grasslands Elementary parents, if we fit up here, and staff and our students, our Mighty Ducks. Come on up, please. We have some junior high students that are former grassland students. So, I want them to come up because they deser deserve the recognition as well. [Applause] It was Emerson. Yes, Emerson's there. Emerson up
012here, Emerson. Hey, Emerson. Hi, Emerson. He's got his ball. And a truck. Oh, yeah. the truck that I got. Uhhuh. When he comes to our house, he always does that ball in a truck. And then he wants to play with my old tonka trucks. The old stand up. Are they taking pictures yet? [Laughter] All right. Well, we'll squeeze in here like one big happy family. Okay. Thank you again for this honor and for your continued support of Grasslands Elementary. And as always, dos. [Applause] Bye, Emma. See you later. See you next time. Come over soon. going to come over visit us. Come over see us. Come over and see us. Let's go. [Music] Yeah. [Applause] All right. As soon as we get uh Everybody quiet. We'll continue on and I think we're good to go.
013All right. Well, that was fun. We like we like having celebrations. The rest of the board meeting we don't like, but we like the celebration part. Then we have to now we have to work. So, um, if there's, uh, anybody that would like to, h have an item placed on our future agenda, you may do so by notifying the superintendent at least two weeks prior to a regularly scheduled board meeting. If that item is something within our purview, we will consider it for a future agenda. If there's anybody here tonight that would like to address the board on any item that is on tonight's agenda, you may do so when that agenda comes up before us. Come up to the podium. you'll be recognized. We ask that you uh state your name and uh give
014us your uh comments about that agenda item. You'll have three minutes to speak. If there are multiple speakers on that agenda item, you'll have a maximum of 20 minutes for that agenda item for comments. If there's anybody here tonight that wishes to address the board on any item that is not on tonight's agenda, uh you may do so by approaching the podium and uh I'll ask that you state your name and uh give us your comments. You'll have three minutes. Uh as with the other part, you'll have three minutes. If there are multiple speakers on a non-aggenda item, again, that is limited to 20 minutes. There is a timer underneath that monitor over there that'll give you an idea. It's not working now, but it'll start 3 minutes and it'll countd down, let you know
015when you get close to uh ending your three minutes. So, if with that, is there anybody here tonight that wishes to address the board on any item that is not on tonight's agenda? Please come forward. All right. Seeing no one come forward, we will move on to uh reports. First one up is our student. And which mic you going to use? That that one. Okay. And uh Julianne, it's all yours. Good evening everyone. Um my name is Julian Gurgen. I'm your Law Spanos schoolboard reporter. And I'm going to start with Pico High School. Pico Panthers have been very active in sports creating new memories and here are some of the experiences and achievements from the Panther community. Counselor news. The Pikico Panthers counseling department hosted the annual college and career fair on March 12th and
016it was very successful. Students got to explore 60 representatives from college, universities, trade schools, and businesses. Esports news. Pacho is proud to share that the Pacheco esports program has reached an exciting milestone in its first official season. The esports program competed in the NSAXcif spring league. Both varsity and JB teams demonstrated outstanding teamwork, dedication, and competitive spirit all the way through their season. The varsity team finished with a strong 5-4 record while the JV team achieved an impressive 7-2 finish. Thanks to their hard work and consistent performance, both teams qualified for the playoffs. This was a remarkable accomplishment for their first season. The success reflected on not only the students commitment, but their courage in the opportunity to foster communication, strategic thinking, and collaboration. We look forward to building on this momentum in future seasons.
017ASB news. Since the last report, PHSA ASB has completed a few of their large events for this year. On March 14th, we hosted the Marine sponsored ASA entertainment event known as a no hate tour. A BMX assembly to promote anti-bullying in school settings. This assembly was met by an amazing energy and an atmosph atmosphere filled with excitement and positive energy. The following Monday, we held our annual spring blood drive in partnership with the California Blood Center. It was open to all students 16 years or older. We were able to provide 31 units of blood saving 93 lives. Soon we hope to host another blood drive in the fall. So be on the lookout for this information. Pico's prom is in full swing and is being held at Wolf Lakes in Sangler, California. This theme is
018meet me at midnight and we have over 350 students participating in this event. Soon our Pico ASB will be host hosting Mother's Day cakes fundraiser with this nothing but bunt cakes. For $8 you can order your loving mother a sweet cake. This helps our PHS ASB raise some funds for this school year and next year to do an amazing things for our students and campus. For more information, contact Miss Shyrock at Pacheo High School or follow Pacheo Panthers on our Facebook or Instagram account. Senior parent club. Our senior parent club hosted the annual seniors versus staff basketball game. And in another amazing turnout in a nail-biting overtime finish in a nailbiting overtime, Poach staff pulled out another win which was 46 to 45 making them undefeated for three years running. Congratulations. Pachka FFA had a
019super busy spring and would like to recognize the outstanding achievements and dedication of students on campus. We have completed six a days at elementary schools around the districts. Roughly 60 students help facilitate and present a based topics to students K through six. We enjoy the opportunity to be able to share agriculture for young kids. Poach had two students move on to the regional speech contest which was Ruben C competing in the exemplator speaking and Monserat competing in on impromptu. Monzerat moved on to the state level and Ruben Canola was elected to the central region president and will be leading FFA students from over 60 programs in the region. Over 100 students competed in the Panther Showdown, our prefair to livestock shows that award banners, buckles to our top showmen. This event helps our students prepare
020for upcoming fair. Our judging teams have been traveling to the state competing in contests such as vet science, best informed greenhand, and veggie judging as well as our a fabrication. Teams are representing well within multiple top five placing all year. Pacheo is hosting our tier 2 state floral CTE certification. This is bringing in schools from all around the state to test their floral skills with industry professionals. We are all looking forward to the rest of the year and seeing our particular students finish out the year with a bang. Now for Las Vegas High School News. The third annual multicultural night will be held March 20th. It was a wonderful celebration of diversity and community. We had a great turnout with a wide variety of vendors and clubs showcasing different cultures through food performances and activities.
021It was an engaging and memorable evening for everyone who attended. Prom is around the corner and we're excited to announce this year's prom court candidates. We have Emmy and Yayier and Udier and Omar. These amazing students have been nominated by their peers and are in the running for prom royalty. Be sure to stay tuned and check back in to find out who will be crowned at the big event this Saturday. Tomorrow, our ASB students will be participating in a special BLT building leadership teamwork event in collaboration with the Hollister High School ASB. This exciting opportunity will bring both student leadership teams together to engage in activities designed to strengthen teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. We are looking forward to a great day of collaboration, learning, and fun as we build connections with fellow student leaders
022from Hollister. Yesterday, the creative writing club attended Fresno State's Young Writers Conference. There were over 300 students in attendance from schools all over the Central Valley. Students submitted original works of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction in hopes of being selected to be published in the Fresno State literary journal, The Spectrum. Out of hundreds of submissions, only 25 students are selected to have their work published. We're excited to announce that Terresa Martinez received an honorable mention for her short story, After Child, and her story was published in the Fresno State Spectrum. All of the students worked very hard on the submissions, and we are very proud of each one of them. They finished off the days writer workshop in a college classroom, honing their creative writing skills. For many, this was their first time on a college
023campus. They had a great time and are very excited to participate next year. On March 18th, the LBUSD choirs went to the Central East High School to compete in the California Music Educators Association Choir Festival. Los Banos High School scored an excellent rating, which is the equivalent of a silver medal in other sporting events. The students have been working very hard to achieve this goal. The choir is going to be competing in another competition April 11th as well. We hope that they will excel. On Monday, May 14th, Los High School, and the RO Medical have partnered with Rigs Ambulance Service to host our first annual handsonly CPR event. This event is also supported by Merced College Emergency Medical Services, Los Police Department, Los Fire Department, and Memorial Hospital. The Los Banos Endeavor strives to train
024all juniors and seniors in handsonly CPR. The training will be led by Ray's ambulance service education manager Greg Peterson. We would like to extend an invitation to Dr. Marshall and all of our board members to this event which is happening all day in the NPB. Again, that is coming May 14th. The LBHS art department spring art show will be Tuesday, April 15th, located in the NPB and it will be open from 10:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. This year, we have partnered with ASB to create a visual arts best of show. Look for the QR codes posted on the NPB to participate in voting for your favorite top five categories of art. During pride time and lunchtime, the LBHS art club will be hosting free pipe cleaner flower crown makings for the students. The Kona ice
025cream truck will also be in the student parking lot from 4 to 4:45 and it will be selling five classic cups. Proceeds go to the LBHS art club and we thank you for your support. Samantha Pintoa, a junior swimmer at the Los Meadows High School, placed fourth in the 100 butterfly thermosed county championships. This added a sixth place finish later that day in the 100 backstroke. Samantha has qualified for swimming sections in Sacramento on May 7th, 2025 in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. This is very close to in three other events. Samantha is dedicated, committed, hardworking, and a positive influence both inside and outside of the pool. Way to continue to show your Tiger pride, Sam. On April 16th, the LBUSD winter showcase will be taking place at the Lost Banos Junior High at
0267 p.m. This concert showcases winter guard and winter percussion groups from all four secondary schools in the district. On Saturday, April 26th, the LBUSD music showcase will be taking place at the Los Vanos High School. This concert showcases choir, band, jazz, and elementary music from the entire district. The choir performances will take place at 10:00 a.m. All schools that feed Pachego High School will be performing at 2 p.m. and all schools that feed Las High School will be performing at 4 p.m. The third annual LBHS senior art showcase will be Wednesday, May 7th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Los Arts Council. LBAC is graciously partnering with the LBHS again to open the venue free of charge. We'll be be providing cookies and refreshments. Come support our class of 2025 senior artists with
027one last art show. LBHS art club happenings in March 30. In March 33rd, club members will be going to the San Jose Museum of Art for a workshop and a museum tour. The club was also asked to participate in two mural paintings this spring/s summer 2025. The LB logo painting for the LBHS baseball and softball field dugouts in a mural for the Los Arts Council. Sports news. We are proud to announce that our 170 winner athletes carried a combined 3.25 GPA. Girls basketball had the highest varsity team GPA with a 3.87. Girls JB soccer had the highest lower level team GPA with a 3.52. Spring sports are slowly coming to a close. We'll be recognizing our various seniors with senior days or nights starting on April 9th and finishing on May 2nd. We will be
028hosting our spring awards nights on May 15th for varsity and May 19th for our lower level spring athletes. Both events start at 6 p.m. and will be held in the MPB. LBHS will also be hosting their annual incoming freshman sports orientation on May 20th at the six at 6 p.m. in the MPB. Both sports programs will be represented and summer information as well as other permanent sports information will be discussed. FFA news, Sebastian Palini and Diego represented Los at the regional speech competition on May 7th and did an amazing job. Congratulations to Diego for placing fifth overall. The BIG team had an amazing day on March 8th as all students came home with ribbons. The Las FA was first place in team at the Merced Field Day and sectional contest took the top nine out
029of 10 individuals. Thank you so much for the students who put on the second annual farm power contest on March 15th. Everyone did a great job working with the judges and students from other schools and running an efficient and effective contest. Congratulations to Lincoln Gold for placing third high individual. Congratulations to the BIG team for placing first and third and high individual Drake Field and fourth high Miranda out of 179 students. Also, the dairy judging team competed and was sixth overall on March 15th. Congratulations to the soil judging team for placing third high team on March 29th and the fifth highest individual is Angel Leva. Los FFA took 27 students to Sacramento from April 3rd to 6th. Thank you for the students who took time of their busy schedule to represent Losers FFA at the
030state FFA convention. They attended sessions, workshops, and many more. Congratulations to Owen Buffuno for receiving a scholarship and recognized as the state proficiency in the winter diversified crop production field. I hope you guys all have a wonderful Easter and thank you so much for your time. Thank you guys. Julian, don't leave. Oh, don't leave. So, um, our student representatives, uh, we have two of them and they trade off each month. And so, this is going to be, uh, or this was Julian's last report to the board. Um, you've done a fantastic job this year. We really appreciate um, the great reporting and all the great information. We all we've all been taking notes about stuff we got to do um, and places we got to go to. So, thank you very much. Um, good job.
031We have a little thank you gift. So, thank you very much and uh enjoy your soon to be coming summer vacation. Thank you guys. [Applause] We have two amazing uh student reps this year. So, Julian's one of them. Thank you, Julianne, again. All right. Uh next up is California School Employees Association report. Do we have any report tonight? All right, seeing no one come forward. How about the Lost Spanish teachers association? Any report tonight? Here comes Jen. Hello. Hello. Good evening, everyone. Um, as we all know, school funding is a nightmare right now. Um, you heard it last month from Mel. you're going to hear it continually over the next 4 to 10 years. Um, so it's we know it's a constant concern for our community and our members and I want to invite you
032all to attend CTA's fight for schools uh community events that are coming up on May 17th. There will be events held in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. And as of today, we just added one in Hanford. So, there will be some demonstrations and some community events to try and help our government understand how important funding public school truly is. Also, many of you probably know about Proposition 55 that is being proposed for the 2026 ballot. We are currently looking to extend Prop 30 and 55 beyond the 2030 uh date when it sunshines. If this sunshines, this will cost our district at least $16 million a year. That's a huge chunk of our budget. So, I am committing and Los Teachers Association is committing to be part of this action and the fight
033to make sure that Prop 55 or whatever it's called once it qualifies for the ballot is on the ballot and it wins. and we would really appreciate the the support of our school district and our school board in making sure that this is a successful fight to make sure our students get everything that they deserve. And tonight also I would like to on behalf of Laspanis Teachers Association share our first school board trustee spotlight. We know your job is a challenging one and on behalf of our students and teachers, we would like to humbly express our appreciation for your service to the Laspanis Unified School District. Tonight's spotlight is on a trustee who attended school in Lasis and graduated from Lasanis High School not that long ago. Mr. Castro, we cannot tell you enough how
034grateful we are for your willingness to return to the school board and continue to serve our children and our community. Please accept the certificate on behalf of our members as an expression of our appreciation. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Jennifer. On to item D, which is our facilities report. Miss Monday. Oh, thank you. All right. Good evening, board members. Dr. Marshall, executive cabinet. I'm here to do my April 2025 facilities update. As you can see here on this first page, our early education center, part of our administration building is there being craned onto the site. Um here's some other aerial views. I've been having um a drone person come out and take pictures. It's really hard down on the ground to get the full full view. Um, so it's been great to be able to
035see this come to life through these pictures. So, let's talk about some of the work we've been doing. So, most of the underground site utilities are complete. Um, we have a little bit of power and low voltage work to do. Um G and I met with the AT&T people yesterday getting that all set up ready for their service for their site. Um as you can see here they've been pouring curbs and gutters drive approaches. They're about 60% done with that. Um they've been working on the drainage ditch and head wall work on B Street. So that is 100% complete at this point. They've been starting to backfill around buildings B and C. and the site contractor starting to do the site grading and concrete work. So for our buildings, um all of our buildings are
036scheduled to be delivered and set on their foundations by the end of April. Um each of the buildings you see here has a schedule. I I'm not going to read each one of these to you, but um basically we'll be all ready set. They'll be welded up. They'll be um starting to do the right now they're starting to do the L on the buildings B and C and they're just going to keep going. So we're moving very fast at this point. So um building wise we are right on schedule. The site um we're we're still a little bit behind but they're they're gaining ground every day. So that's positive. Um previously I know Mr. Lee you had asked me about solar on these buildings. Um so after some discussion with the building manufacturer um they
037are not providing solar for our for our buildings and the reason they were able to not do that is they were still able to meet the title 24 requirements by upgrading the insulation in the HVAC unit. So they're just as efficient as if we had solar on there. So, um, one of the other projects that we actually started and completed during spring break, um, was the the junior high fire suppression system project. So, they are, um, completely up and running now. I just have work to do with the closeout, getting that certified. Um, but it's back fully functional. Um, we have started working on the district-wide LED lighting upgrade project. Um we started that during spring break, spring break week and um at our current site that will continue through the end of April. We're
038working at Lost Spanish Junior High right now. Um they had non-working lights, no exterior lights in some places, no office lights. So that was our first place we went to. The next place will be uh Creekide Junior High. And the reason we need to go there next um is because of the solar array we just installed. We need to get the lighting project done before we can turn the solar on. Um because we have to have 12 months of electricity use um records for the LED lighting project. And so um that's why that one's next on the list. And they're working nights. Um so nobody knows it's happening. They come back, their classrooms have these beautiful lights in there. It's like little magic fairies come. So hopefully they don't leave a mess. Um we are
039starting our Volta modernization project. Um we had our pre construction meeting yesterday with the contractor. Um the principal was there and our architect and so that will be starting um I should have the schedule tomorrow. Um but they are they are tentatively going to start within the next 10 days and we are going to be complete with that project by 8:10. Um, we did the AT&T temporary fiber work so their network won't go down when we're doing this office work. Um, is department helped with that. So, thank you to them. And then this is obviously going to be in two phases. We're going to start um the admin building right away and then as soon as school gets out, we're going to be working on the parking lot and the other site work we need
040to do. The Lasanis High School modernization project. Those plans were approved by DSA uh division of state architect on March 26. Um our interim housing project was submitted to them and those plans are expected to be they actually went to DSA today and got them approved. So they're approved already. Um and on the agenda tonight, there's a permission to seek bids for that. Um we're having our construction management firm kickoff meeting on Monday um to get that going and um we've purchased some of the items, the gym floor, the bleachers, the tile mosaic for the new admin building. So it's it's coming along that one. Some of the other projects that are going on in the district, um the Laspanis Junior High School fire alarm project, um those plans are approved now. We're going to
041open bids um 51 and construction of that will be summertime, start in the summer and go through January 2026. Um when they can, they'll work during the day. When they can't, they'll be working at night. Um the the Pacheo CIG classroom, um we're in the bidding process with that. Bids open 51 also. Um we're going to get started with that right away as soon as we can because it's down there away from the school site. um the main campus and that will be May basically through August. They will have that classroom usable by August. Um our PVE infrastructure at FOT um finally P Gen is going to show up on Monday and to work on the EV they're the EV fleet um crew and so they're working just on getting the chargers up and running.
042So, um, we'll have after they're done with their work, supposed to be 1 to two weeks, um, then we'll have another P Genie crew that comes in for the solar portion. So, um, we're waiting for them. Um, the solar array at Grasslands, we received permission to operate on 48, so that's currently making energy for us. Um, I can't wait to bring back some actual data. I mean, we have to have some time go by, but can't wait to bring back to show you what that's actually uh what energy that's creating for us and the savings it's it's creating. Um the the Creekide Solar Array, uh that one we're not doing the power shutdown until 4:18 and then at that time after it's tied in to the school site, then we'll have to schedule um PG
043to come out and do the permission to operate. Mo restroom. We're in the design phase. We've started working on that. We've gone out um we had a topographic survey completed. Um what we have found out since we've started working on this project, diving deep into it is there are uncertified and unclosed projects on this site. And actually the two portables right next door to where we want to put the restroom are non-certified. So additional time, additional money, but we're going to try to push through those, get those things certified, and get the bathroom built. And then final project here, uh, Loftton Stadium phase three. We're in the design phase. Um, we're doing we're having to update the soils report and so we're going to get that testing done and then the architect should be able
044to start getting going on that. And then facilities 101, we're going to talk about Department of Industrial Relations and what they have to do with facilities. Um, so districts, uh, myself, the facilities, and our maintenance department have to register any projects with DIIR costing over $25,000 and maintenance projects over $15,000. All of our contractors must annually register with the DIIR and they must pay prevailing wage for any job that's over $1,000. and contractors have to provide certifi certified payroll records to the district. So when we get public records requests, we have those to provide. And if we had enough staff, we would actually be checking those to make sure they're paying correctly, but we kind of rely that they're doing that. We rely on DIR that they're overseeing that for us. Um and then frequently
045we receive um public records requests from DIIR and notices of penalties assessed. So sometimes I think you guys have seen some of those come through and and wondered what they were and that's that's basically what they are. We just have to provide either the certified payroll records or the agreement or whatever it is they're asking for um so they can do their investigation. And that is it. Any comments or questions? Question. Excellent. Thank you very much. [Applause] Next up is our community schools update. Dr. Wheeler. Good evening. So, we'll go ahead and get started. First of all, I'd like to introduce I've had the pleasure for the last two weeks of working with our community school liaison. So, if I could have you all rise. This is the new community school leaison team and our
046uh family resource center team. Um so, welcome. So, they'll be starting at school sites on Monday and we're still uh finalizing where uh what those sites are exactly. So, um, thank you very much for coming this evening. Welcome. Thank you guys. We're glad you're here. Um, and so here are some pictures of the, uh, training that we've been in, uh, engaged in in the last two weeks. We were at the district office for one day. We went to, um, Camarena for another day of training, and then we've been at um, Henry Miller uh, for the other days. So there are now um 14 liaison and one family uh resource center supervisor. So uh we have a quite a large team and every school site including TK and uh crossroads and uh St. Louis will have
047a liaison. Um and I just briefly to remind people about some upcoming events on Tuesday. I know that there are other um events going on but we will have EECU coming to Pacheco High School. will be in the cafeteria. I know that there's something else going on in the small gym. So, we will be in the cafeteria where dinner and child care will be provided. Um, we will also be at the spring fair. Um, our uh monthly um community schools advisory board, thank goodness that they are there to let me know um about where people in the community are going to be. So, they made sure to let me know definitely want to have a table out at the spring fair. So, we will be there. Um and then um we are also doing our
048summer kickoff for um the entire community. It will be at the community center on May 31st and we will be getting flyers out for that very soon. And that is all. Thank you very much. Do you have any questions of [Applause] me comments? Okay. Thank you very much. Any questions, comments? Anyone? All right. Good job. Thank you. All right. Um, Dr. Marshall, your report, please. Okay. Okay. I'm next. Uh, I want to, uh, first again congratulate Grasslands. I mean, that is a very big honor. I mean, you have only x amount of schools in the state get selected for that award every other year. It's like ele it's elementary one year, then it's the high schools the next the next year. So, so it's a big deal. I wanted to kind of share this is
049something personal. Uh last weekend I had the chance to go back to Auburn University and was recognized as one of their um 2025 alumni award recipients. And what's interesting is the fact that my time here in Los Banners I mean in terms I mean so many people asked me while I was there where is lost banners? you know, because you know, they were like stories that went out about the awards ceremony and and and I thought about it in terms of what helped me get to this point was the time that the work that we had together here. So, it was just so nice to see that come together cuz I like I have different chapters in my life. And I mean I think that the chapter in Los Banners has been was the I
050think instrumental in helping me get to that point on on those pictures as far as there's one getting the award. There's one with all the recip the class of 2025 and then the gentleman that's um Jason Campbell he was during Auburn's uh undefeated season then he had a big NFL career very nice gentleman. So, um, it was nice to go back and just like I said the whole time, where's Lost Banners? But we got to talk about that. All right. Some milestones this month that I want to talk I want to highlight as far as we know Grasslands is a California distinguished school. I also learned that Law Spanish Junior High, they had exemplary results in the A science contest at the FFA convention. Uh, we've been working with LBTA on an other means of
051correction task force and that that work is set for May 21st. And like we did previously, we're going to have a webinar. The attorney is going to do a webinar and then we'll have that available to staff members. It was nice to go to the Merced College luncheon uh this week. Uh and when u the president talked about the um partnerships, normally they highlight the Merced Union High School District, but it was nice that he was able to say the partnerships that we're doing in Los Banner. So that was great. And the big thing is, and I keep saying this every board meeting, please keep monitoring the changes at the federal level as far as for school districts. I gave a snapshot last month. I'll give it again because I was asked to give it
052again. And it just shows you how many areas that that are touched by the federal pro uh federal government as far as the funding uh that comes to the states. Uh the message has changed a bit. uh there was a concern that the money would wouldn't be assigned. Now the latest is there are conditions that we have to meet to get the money. So this is going to be a constantly changing situation. I mean myself and Miss Wilin were talking about it earlier this week about what does that mean for Los Banners. So I just want you to kind of continue to kind of keep this at the forefront. Here are some pictures uh you see from the um Los Bennis High School international. Was it the uh multicultural night? Perfect. Uh the a dead
053ba some of our allstars again of the grasslands community. Uh we have uh Laura Butcher from Pacheco High School. I was there. She got a $2,000 mini grant from the Merced County School Boards Association. Uh Los Junior High FFA students. I mean, there were so many students on that list that you sent me. I couldn't even read all the names tonight. It was that many. And then I got uh a text earlier, but I don't like to use my phone, but I am going to share this uh from um actually was an email from Mrs. Moreno. Uh two of our migrant stu students have gone on to win the regional speech and debate competition and they moving to the state level. So, I thought I would have to share that. [Applause] As I was sharing
054with Carolina that we've come a long way with that program. I remember my first year here, first few years, all you'd hear about is the summer school at U Myano and that was it. Now they're doing field trips, getting awards. I mean, it's a it's a complete change. So, congratulations again. Uh we have uh Santa Flores from Los Spanish Union High. She was an FFA star counselor. Uh like when I found out about Grasslands, Dr. Richie and I were presenting at a conference last week, a state conference. Mrs. Baker, uh I talked about this previously. She was the uh AXA region co-administrative of the year. So, she's gone on to that regional competition. And it was nice at Volta that they celebrated her this week. Some photos you can see um that's Miss Bger from
055uh PCO High School. You see Mr. Thomas and u Mrs. Francine Baker. That's Dr. Richie on our picture for my presentation. I wasn't in the picture, but he he took he got his picture. All right. You can see the uh Sorry. Go ahead. Yeah. In my defense, Dr. Marshall has spent so much time talking, I couldn't get him to take a picture. That was me waiting 10 minutes. I just took my own selfie. All right. Then you can see, as Miss Monday talked about previously, the early ed center progress. And um we're going to get to this uh I guess we get to that item on the agenda. That was an item that was added a slide that was added to the um deferred maintenance presentation. So I'll come back to that. So that's my
056report. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. On to [Applause] uh next item is board member reports. Um I will start with Miss Moran tonight. you uh changed it up on us. I always do. I definitely major kudos out to Grasslands. I just learned that it had been 30 years. So that's amazing work and the fact that so many people were here. Um I wanted to publicly thank uh my fellow board uh members for attending our Merced College state of the college on Monday. It was really really nice and a true testament to the collaborative work between um our high school partners and the college itself. So seeing all the growth and the possibilities. So thank you. Thank you to Dr. Marshall uh for being there and uh cabinet members as well. So thank you.
057And shifting gears over to uh visiting schools. Thank you to uh Miss Torres and Miss Roachcha for having me at Mercy Springs Elementary and uh going to the preschool. It's so awesome that you're trying to read a book and you know they're just kind of letting you know that they also have a watch and uh and just it's it's the light of my day. And so thank you so much for those opportunities for uh week of the young child. Um we also went I know a few of us actually it was uh Dana and Lori. We all showed up with our board trustee t-shirt so we look like the three musketeers um doing meditations over at Lost Spanish Junior High. So we wrapped that last session and uh it's really nice to then go to
058their promotion ceremony and see them kind of cross the finish line to transition over to high school. So look forward to that. Um and of course the reclassification on Saturday. So thank you Miss Moreno for uh extending that invitation. I'll keep it short and simple. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Miss Valado. Um, I just wanted to mention that the mission of Laspanis Unified School District is to provide all students with an unparallel education in a safe learning environment. And we saw Grasslands come in. They were such a prime example of that. I see a presentation we're going to have today that's also going to show the unparalleled education we're giving our students. So, it's so exciting to see wonderful things happening, all our new liaison that are going to go out to our community school.
059I'm excited and proud to be part of Lost Spanish Unified School District. And thank you so much. That's my report. [Applause] All right, Miss Katuso. Good evening, everybody. Um, it was a busy month and it makes me so happy to be able to go to all the schools. There's a a lot of reading that I was able to do, attend um diversity day, St. Louis, goodness gracious, watch practice showing at at Pacheo. Um and I guess the one thing though that I really do enjoy, Dr. Dr. Moran mentioned it, is the book study that we get to do with the junior high kids at Los Junior High, the meditations book. If any of you have ever read it, it it is a very very deep, heavy thinking book. And the kids did a wonderful job.
060I mean, so much so that I turned to one girl, her name is Genesis, and I just looked at her and said, "You are so much smarter than I am." I mean, it it's just unbelievable what they can decipher from a book that has been written hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago. So, I I'm so proud of them when I get the chance to sit with them and talk about this book. Um, and when you hear of all the great things our students are doing, I it it just makes us so proud. They do hard work just like the staff does, the teachers, every aspect of our district to achieve those wonderful awards and things that they do. And it just takes a village. We all know that, right? It takes a village.
061And so, I am so proud to be a board member and I'm so proud of all of our students. And I just have to add one thing. Tonight, I had tears. When we did when we did the pledge of allegiance, it was magical. to hear all of the kids all at one time saying the pledge of allegiance. It just it just was. So, I hope you had that same feeling with all the kids here. Um, one other thing that I'm so proud of that on Saturday. Don't miss it if you're part of it. We're having uh it is the uh seal of bi literacy and reclassification ceremony on Saturday morning. 350 kids. Awesome. Gotta go if you're part of that because we'll all be there and we'll all be cheering you on. So, thank you
062so much and thank you for allowing me to be a board member and we will see you next month. [Applause] All right. Thank you. On to uh Mr. Lee. So, a few things. Um I'll start off with a serious note. So, yesterday I was um driving on uh B Street near at the corner of B and place by the junior high and um there's a signal light there. Uh it was red. So obviously I've stopped and there was um lots of cars stopped and I noticed a student was walking across the in the crosswalk um and and they had the the green light to walk. Um there's a right turn lane um to to the right of me and I was watching my rearview mirror and I saw this car coming very quickly from behind
063and I looked at the student who was walking across the crosswalk and you know you get that moment of panic. It's like oh my gosh, what do I do? And um and the the car on the right just blew the red light and just made a right turn and the student was right there. The student would have taken three or four more steps. It would have been tragic. So, I just at that moment I just said, you know, tonight I just want to tell everyone that, you know, there's a lot of pow softball, a lot of little league, there's lots of people, uh, time of the year where people are are driving around to to go to different events. Um, we all need to just take a chill pill and slow down and realize that,
064um, there's a lot of people walking and driving and and the people that are walking need to be cognizant of the drivers as well. So, it works both ways. So, I just want everyone to know that um it's a busy time right now. It's 85 degrees outside during the day and there's a lot of people moving around. So, um that was just one serious note I wanted to um share with everyone. Um I I did attend many of the a days. It seems like we have more a days now at the school sites than we've ever had before and I can't get to all of them, but I've been to a few of them. Um the the Chico High and Los Benos High A students are incredible showing up with all their animals and showing
065off the animals and engaging with the students. Um they're they are they the students, high school students truly try to uh interact with these little kids and I and I do they do a wonderful job. So I'm really appreciative of of that. Um, I did attend the uh went to Winton to the uh Frank Sparks Elementary School for the uh schoolboard association uh dinner. Um enjoyed the meal, listen to what they do uh their huge music program they have there. Um uh thank you Principal Waltman Waltman for the uh Los High School multicultural night. U enjoyed the Aztec dancers. Uh they were incredible as well. um diversity day uh at um St. Louis. But what really uh was a highlight um so Creekide Junior High and Pacheo High um invited me to attend their uh
066staff versus students basketball games. Um, I won't I'm not gonna, you know, point anyone out or or uh uh call anyone here out uh verbally, but we have some staff members at both of these schools that are super competitive and and um if you get to see some of the photos or look on on Facebook, um you'll see who I'm talking about. So, um, uh, shout out to the students who held their own, but, um, these these, uh, future NBA stars that are teachers here, um, are are just over the top. So, um, that's my report. Thank you. Hey, thank you, [Applause] Mr. Castro. Save the best for last. No, I'm last. He last. He's last. Oh, you don't normally get a report, but yes, you saved the best for last. You're right. Second to
067last. Second to last. I wish the kids were still here. Um, you know, from Grasslands because I, you know, I had a little information here, you know, the significance of, uh, you know, being a distinguished school. Um there's a lot going on in the district as all of my uh fellow board members have talked about. Um I met with Mrs. Gatuso over at uh um Volulta uh for a day. So that was really nice. You remember what the pig was? Um I forgot. It was a dur. There you go. I learned a lot about pigs. That's for sure. Yeah. Um I had the opportunity to visit Bolta uh on a day a couple days ago with Mrs. Gatuso. It was great to see the Pacheco students um you know there helping and and having exhibits
068um and the kids being engaged. Um it was really nice to see and I had the opportunity to learn a few things myself. Um so it was kind of eye openening actually for a few of the things that they were uh exhibiting over there. Um I also attended the state of the college address um for Merced College at the Losanis campus. It was nice to hear that our district is taking advantage of the partnership with the college. Um I do have a son that uh is currently attending the Merced College and taking advantage um of the opportunities that are offered there. So it's really nice. Um, I was I'm actually really excited to just give a little information um in regard to what it means to be a distinguished school uh for you know people
069who don't know and that's why I wish the kids were still here uh so that they can um hear this information. Uh being a California distinguished school means a public school within California has been recognized by the California Department of Education for having exemplary and quality educational programs focusing on either closing the achievement gap or achieving exceptional student performance. Uh for 2025, California Distinguished Schools program, State Super, excuse me, state superintendent Tony Thurman announced a total of 336 uh elementary schools across California uh as being recognized, of course, with Grasslands uh being one of them. Um the California distinguish distinguished schools program was established in 1985. I didn't know that. uh and honors public schools that demonstrate excellent, excuse me, excellence and growth in academic achievement and a positive school climate and participation in statewide
070assessments. Um uh data from the schools is used to identify eligible schools focusing on indicators like English language arts and math performance. So, it's noteworthy to notate that schools are recognized based on their performance data and not on an application process. And uh I was uh actually delighted to hear that uh it I believe it makes the grasslands uh recognition that much more meaningful. Um, the award is a way for the state to celebrate and recognize the hard work of schools, districts, teachers and staff supporting students. Congratulations to dedicated teachers, the supportive families, and the wonderful students which I wish were still here. Thank you. That's my report for today. [Applause] I get to go last. Um, so I'm not going to repeat everything they just said because it's like ditto basically except don't say
071ditto. Yeah, I don't know what else to say. But I have two two comments. One wanted to piggyback on Mr. Lee's here. Um, I we have a lot of drivers in Las Vegas that think stop signs and stop lights are a suggestion. Um, they're not a suggestion. You got to stop. Actually, stop. So, I know there's a lot of future drivers in here, current drivers in here. Um, we don't want any we don't want any accidents for our students. And, uh, so please stop at a stop sign. And the only other thing that I want to add and I think I was probably the only one there um was the first grade dual language emer dual language immersion national symbols parade at LBE. Um these kids went all out with the national symbols with with
072the uh with the costumes. Um they all all of the students did their presentations in Spanish. Uh, it was phenomenal. It was it was so I mean these kids they were so cute. I mean it was too bad you guys didn't get an opportunity to go. Um, actually you did. You did? Well, I I already addressed that that issue. We'll talk about later. Um uh so uh congratulations to that that that program over there. Uh the dual language immersion program is really uh going gang busters and it's a great program and uh like I said these kids were so cute. So hopefully if they do it again next year, we'll all get the correct invitation and uh we all get to go because it was it was phenomenal. So that's the only thing that no
073one else mentioned, so I was going to mention that tonight. All right. Um on to new business and we're going to start with the report for uh the res uh res restorative justice. Mr. Morz. Uh good evening, President Pereira, board members, Dr. Marshall, cabinet members, parents, students. Uh today we'll be hearing from Andrew Griggs. He is the CEO and founder of Restorative Justice League. uh he will be sharing with us some of the work that's been taking place at both junior high schools and both high schools. Mr. Griggs, welcome Mr. Griggs. Hello. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate this opportunity to uh the distinguished school board superintendent and district staff. want to thank you for this opportunity of being here today. Again, my name is Andre Griggs and I'm the founder CEO of Restorative Justice
074League. Uh we are a uh LLC and also a nonprofit organization. Um we've been doing this work uh I've been doing this work since 2009 and we've been an organization since 2018. Uh we are in three districts. Mercedes City School District, Merced High School District and also Los Banos Unified School District. And so Miss Gat Gatusa Gatusa said it takes a village. And so we are that village. Everyone here, every student here has the opportunity to be a part of this village. We are social emotional organization uh that supports students um uh their social emotional connection and communication amongst their peers um in classroom outside of classroom um and also building equitable opportunities uh for those relationship to be built uh through community and restorative practices. um supporting the classroom, supporting student learning, supporting uh
075teacher engagement uh with students and uh really impacting the school culture. Um we do uh conferences uh we've done this year we've done uh four conferences, one at uh Laspanos High School, one at um Losanos Junior High School, and two at Creekide uh Junior High. Um, and that's for the seventh graders and the eighth graders. Uh, first I want to give a shout out to uh Mr. Waltman, Miss Brazil, Miss Selenus, and Miss Mr. Lawrence. They've been um a supporters of this program. Uh they they've taken lead to make sure uh the restorative justice practices are within uh their school districts, their I mean their school sites. Um, they've been very supportive as you see they're here today. Um, I'll be honest with you, I was outside and I saw all of them show up
076and I did get emotional because I know their hearts are for these students. Um, and so we are here to talk about the program and talk about what we are doing within uh the school uh sites and hopefully I will give them an opportunity to come up to cheer. I know they're back there like oh no. So, so uh we envision um our vision is to implement a multi-ter system of uh framework within the schools to build relations uh with students um studentto student uh student body staff and also support social emotional um the culture and behavior norms uh within the schools. Uh our aim is to create a safe environment, an environment to foster effective learning for all students. And we know all students uh learn, but they uh also need support on how
077they interact and how they manage uh their own personal behaviors. Uh a behavior is a language. They don't have to speak, but they act out. And finding out how to support and how to know what's really going on and getting to the root of of it. Uh that's the purpose of us being a part of that support through our circle dialogues and the work that we do. Um we focus on three tiers. Uh that's building community within the classroom within the school uh across the board uh with the uh student body. Um we uh also do work with tier twos which is which is repairing harm and uh restoring the harm that's done getting students to be able to um come to an agreement on conflicts. And our tier three is to re reintegrate students
078within uh the classroom. And so um I have a video that is uh will show some of our work that we've done as far as our conferences and some of the interviews of um staff in administrations. [Music] is Jason Walsh. I'm a teacher here at High School and I've been a teacher here for 19 years. I just want to share with you that today was an amazing day and we had an opportunity to hear from our students, go back to our circles, really build community with our students and I think it's going to have a lasting impact on our school culture and our learning for the rest of the year. So, thank you so much [Music] name is Jason. I'm principal Bennis High School. They brought restorative justice uh to us last year. We got
079involved with a with a grant with the uh two uh middle schools and this year it's really started taking hold on campus which has really reduced our discipline here here at school. I'm excited to have a conference and um hopefully to see a change in my freshman class. Hopefully to see a change in culture um and then we get to know each other a lot better and be able to get along a lot. [Music] Good day. My name is Tom Lawrence. I'm the principal at Creekide Junior High School. uh seventh and eighth grade. We got about 800 students here. This is my third year at Creekide. Restorative Justice has been on campus for two years here. Two years, two strong years, I might say. Our school makes it a point to have two conferences. We
080have a seventh grade conference and the eighth grade conference. We think it's vitally important for all of our students to experience the uh restorative justice conference. So, we're really excited here at Creekide about putting on these conferences for our students. Restorative Justice, Miss Kim, who as our went from 3 days a week to now full time made it's made a huge impact. We're seeing more um preventive stuff happen going on versus reactive. We in the beginning we reacting to situations, but now she's in place. were able to to use her to to do restorative circles. Our teachers have started to buy in as well. Our teachers are starting to use the circles and see the benefit of the circles in the classroom. Um it's and with our students, the communication, the socialization throughout the school
081has really picked up and it's moved in a positive direction. So, our students are getting along better and behaving better. Today's conference was about choices and I think that really hit home for the students and again they these were our seventh graders last year. So as I told you we have we do seventh grade conference and eighth grade conference. Um so they came in with an expectation. So you know again it's really about connecting with the kids. The RJ staff is great. They always show love. Um and it's just just a great time. just a really big big family atmosphere with every all adults in the building want to see kids grow and learn socially and emotionally. I think if we start RJL at the elementary level by the time the kids get to high
082school I think they'll be well around the citizens cuz you know if we can get some continuity from elementary to middle to high school that that'll be golden. I mean, I think that that will be, you know, I'm hoping I'm hoping you guys will expand it because it's, you know, priceless. I mean, the kids learn social skills. They learn how to um, you know, admit when they did something wrong and then the fact of the matter is on the back end, if a kid can do something wrong and know they got a a way to correct it, then that's a win for them. Because a lot of times kids do things and they don't care about it because they know they don't feel like there's any way to really make a correction or close close
083the issue. So I I feel that it needs to be expanded so that we can you know we can meet the needs of the whole child and that's what it does. It meets the needs of the whole child socially, emotionally. Um so [Music] yeah, some of the work we've done with our conferences um at sites, but there's no one like telling a story than the students the themselves. And so we have students here from each of the sites um as they come up uh they're going to share uh their stories. They're here with their uh their site leader specialists, our restorative specialists that work with the students. They're there 5 days a week uh for the full school day. Um and they've been working with uh these students and also with the school staff. Uh
084so at Los Banos uh Junior High, Creekide um and Losanos uh high school, it's our second year and with Pico, it's our first year um at the sites. And so first and foremost, I want to bring up um Atronisa Vanikolo and Lasano's uh junior high squad. And also Miss Brazil is here. So I'd like to invite her to give her a [Applause] hand. Yeah. All right. Good evening. My name is Atuna Savani Colo. I am the restorative justice specialist at uh Laspanz Junior High. I have with me three of my restorative justice ohana members. Um before I before they uh share share what they have to share, um I just want to, you know, give respect when it's due to our leader on campus, Mrs. Brazil. Uh also to our two seventh grade uh vice
085principles, Mrs. Martinez and Mrs. Monttoro and also the wellness counselors, Mrs. Frostto and Mrs. Marcato and also our student advocate um Lucar Lucarito um Gomez. Um you said you said exactly what I was going to say. It takes a village. Also to our security staff, our admin, everybody's on board with restorative justice at our school. And you could it it's it's clear as day the change in the culture and um I'm just I'm truly blessed to be in the position and proudly represent Losanes Junior High. So first we have Faith Salgado. She's one of our restorative justice squad members. Go ahead. Good evening everyone. My name is Faith Salgado. I'm an eighth grade at Laspanos Junior High School. I wanted to talk about how restorative justice has changed our school for the better. They've really
086allowed us to come together as a community and taught us to be the best versions of ourel that we could be. They've taught us to be selfless and not selfish, which means we put others needs before our own and we care about others. Um, as a student, they've really helped me a lot with my mental health. Um, last year I was one of the students who would not come to school. I wouldn't care about my grades. I was always in a lot of drama. But they've really helped me improve myself. And I know if they did that for me, then they definitely done that for a lot of other students. Thank [Applause] [Music] you. Uh hello everybody. My name is Desire Toto and I am a seventh grader attending Los Bonus Junior High. Um, restorative
087justice to me is basically just like a group that like makes me think positive about myself and just put people before me and just sets my standards high as to be a good person and to spread positivity and just to remind me to be the peacemaker in the conflict. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Destiny Togo Togo and I am an eighth grade student at Los Junior High. Restorative Justice has not only helped me but also helped other people. It's changed the it's changed who I am and it's changed who other people are too. It's changed how I talk to people and how I walk and it and it has also taught me respect, loyalty and respect, loyalty and honesty. Restoative justice changed our school c culture because we we used to be
088a school that had some we used to be a school that had some minor problems but restoative justice has brought everyone together as a community and now we are all together as one. Thank you. [Applause] In order to really experience what restorative justice has done on our campus, you have to be on our site every day to just really really see the positive effects. These young ladies did a fabulous job. Um, but if you just walk on our campus, the vibe is completely different. And I am very grateful for the team that I have because I could not do it alone. I definitely am grateful to Mr. V and all of the effort that he puts into working with our students. Couldn't do it without our counselors. Couldn't do it without my VPs. It really
089has united us and we have um focused on restorative justice practices. It takes a lot of time and it takes the right people to be invested in making the right choices and for our students the same. They really are invested in making better choices and is very reflective in just our school climate. So, I'm really proud and I'm the proud mom. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Brazil. And thank you, uh, Creek uh, our Laser Junior High Squad. All right. So, the practices for the school, the work that we do, because we have to show the work. What's the What's the work? What's the the the the numbers? what does it look like? So, at Los Banos Junior High, um we work with students through circle practices. And so, with circle of practices,
090we've done 364 circles up to this third the end of this third quarter, which is March. Uh we reached over 800 individual students being a part of these circles. And um as far as our circle groups, so that's classroom circles, lens circles, um squat circles, also uh individuals, we also do um u mentoring with student uh student uh excuse me, students with our uh our staff. And so individually, they reach 64 students that Mr. V has been working with individually on a consistent basis as far as building mentorship and support. um our different circles at Los Benos uh junior high school uh they've have do total of 161 circles so that's mediation 69 mediations four harm circles community buildings 27 community building circles classroom circles 15 classroom circles re-entry circles uh zero and RG squad
091circles 28 and L circles 25 and so the numbers are different uh these are some of the numbers that's that's been working with the counselors as well this um and also the RJ specialists. So they work together as a team. They have a very strong team at that site. Um as far as ethnicity for the uh individual um mentoring for that site is uh five black African-American students that they've worked with. 49 Hispanic uh two white uh seven Native American Hawaiian Pacific Islander and one Middle Eastern. And so these are the one ons that Mr. be been working with. So, it's been 48.5% female and 51.5 uh% male. And so, their suspension rate uh before we got on campus in 2023, their suspension uh rates was at 16.4% in 2023. We came on campus last
092year 2024 dropped from 14.1 to 14.1% from 16.4 in 2025. This year it's dropped now to 2.9%. Their suspension rate. So we want to thank Losabanos Junior High. Again, it takes a it takes a village. Um we're restorative of Justice League does not take any or all the the credit because it takes everyone to be involved to be a part of this process. And so we just thank that school site uh to uh to be a part of this process. Uh the next school that we want to showcase is Creekide Junior High uh with Mr. Lawrence. Uh he's not here today. Uh I want to uh point out a picture though um of the bag that he's passing over um this uh person is uh her name is Dr. Retivi. She's a doctor from uh
093of psychologist uh doctor of psych psychiatry psychologist excuse me. And uh she's from Nairobi, Kenya. So she traveled all the way from Nairobi, Kenya to see what we were doing um at these school sites and she was able to visit some of the schools and see the circles because uh she wants to take this back to the schools in Nairobi. Um and so and also in uh Zimbabwe and so she has schools in those areas and so she uh Mr. Lawrence had the privilege to spend some time and and uh present to her the work that they've been doing at that school. So, uh, at this point in time, I want to invite Creekide squad, Miss Kim and her students to come and share. Hello. U, my name is Miss Kim. I, um, this is
094my second year at Creekide. Um, so working with Mr. Lawrence has been great. From the first year that I've been there, he's been very helpful, very open, and very much wanting restorative to be placed there at school. Um there hasn't been any uh kind of difficulty with getting restorative uh the process um included with other admins and with the staff. Um everyone has been very welcoming and very helpful when I need something or when situations happen with students. Um we're you know we have very great great communication and kind of following up with the students as well with the counselors. I work very closely with the counselors and they're great. um you know, we switch off. We kind of see meet the uh the same students around um with situations, but we're always kind of,
095you know, making sure checking on students and preventing students. That's one of the big things there at Creekide is prevention. Something that you saw on the video um that Mr. Lawrence kind of mentioned. Um so I work very closely with them and it's been just a really great experience. I have noticed um a change in students, you know, coming to me um letting me know of situations, wanting to do circles, wanting to do a mediation, wanting to kind of uh talk it out with the other student or at least figure out what's going on and kind of what the issue is. Um which has been great. It has definitely kept me busy, but you know, it's a good kind of busy and it's something that I think students need to kind of practice on doing
096and really asking that help and um looking to someone to go for and kind of be able to resolve any issues that are going on on school. So, um I have my student u one of my student squad members here and her name is Lyanna uh Delgado and she's going to kind of give her um input. Hello, I am Lyanna Delgado. I'm an eighth grade student at Creekide Junior High. I am a part of the restorative justice squad on campus. Since R.J. started last year on campus, I felt like it gave me a better understanding on how others have a hard time, even those who you wouldn't expect. Last year's conference really opened my eyes. A lot of people shared their stories and it showed it showed me everyone has something different going on in
097life. I feel like being on the squad brings me a lot of joy when we are in our circles talking to each other. I believe R.J. is making a difference in our school. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Kim. So, at their school site, uh again, Kim being there as the site specialist, uh she's worked with a total of 460 uh students in her group circles. Um a total of 251 circles that she has done up to this third quarter. And individually, she as you can tell, uh numbers are different for each site. She has worked with 322 students individually mentoring and working with them throughout the year. Uh for her individual or the types of circles that she has been doing uh she's has done 251 total circles up to this third quarter. So 78
098mediations. So mediations are um mediation based off of agreement agreements of altercations that students have that they have resolved. um 25 harm circles, uh 16 community building circles, 70 classroom circles, uh zero re-entry circles, 55 squad circles, and 13 lunch circles. And as far as their excuse me, for their individual students that they've she's worked with. Oh, that's not right. What happened here? There we go. Uh she's worked with seven black African-American, 209 uh Hispanic Latinos, and eight white and again individual students served in 64% female and 35.6% uh male. As far as their suspension rate in 20 uh 23, before we got there, the suspension was at 14%. Um and then at 2024, it did spike at 19%. uh but at 2025 now uh it's dropped to 9.8%. And that's their uh the difference
099of their suspension rate for this year. So we want to thank CEside for their their hard work. Uh the next school I want to bring up to present is Los Banos High School Squad. Los Banos. Uh good good evening everyone. Uh my name is Moana Vanicolo. Um I'm the specialist at Los Banana High School and um I just want to say uh special shout out to Mr. Waltman as well as well as Mr. Mr. McGra and Mrs. Punt. Um Mr. Wman is a a huge supporter of um RJL. Every time I see him out there and during lunch, he'd always he would always hit me with, "I'm glad you're out here." And then there'll be a little pause and he'll be like, "I mean it." So I'm like, "Okay, okay. He's on he's on board
100for sure." Yeah. Oh, also if Yeah, he's he's up here now. So, um I think uh with RJL, um you definitely see the cry for help a little more clear um through a restorative justice lens. And um I'm beyond blessed to be in a position to help these kids see the potential um within themselves and with um within other students. Um also I think I'm the fourth person to piggy back on Mrs. Datuso on um it takes a village um within our RJL squad. It's a village to these students. Um, and I think our goal on campus is to um have these have the whole school. If they can view the school as a village, that's that'll, you know, that's that's the ultimate right there. So, um, just going to introduce the four. We have
101Catherine, we have Diego, um, Crystal, and D. Uh, I'm sorry, guys. And I'm so sorry. I'm kind of freezing right now. I'm not really uh in a position. I'm kind of um not really good at this, but uh yeah, Daniela, so you'll take the board. Thank you. Oh. Um hi, my name is Catherine and I served the Los Angeles High restorative justice as the secretary. Um throughout my life, it has been a roller coaster. During my time as a little kid, I was a really positive person who had high hopes for my pathway to high school. But that changed when I went to middle school. I was awfully naive and found myself believing everyone was my friend. When you be so you would know my surprise when I began to get bullied. I became a
102pushover who allowed others to take advantage of me. Whether it's from intimidating me into getting answers or get making me do homeworks for others. I fell really deep into depression, believing that everyone was out there to take advantage of me. Things got worse when I began to hang out with friends who didn't make me feel valued nor cared for. Every day, it felt like it wouldn't matter if I exist since it felt like everybody only saw me as an object to exploit. During my days in middle school, I I changed completely. I began to become hateful of the world, hating myself and wanting to hurt others for making me feel this way. However, when restorative justice came to my school, it made me open my eyes and realize not everything is just black and white.
103Restorative justice made a safe space for everyone to talk. And by those circles, it made me realize I wasn't the only one. Others felt pain like me and needed help like me. It began to make me want to get better for myself and others, which I am forever grateful for. I am still in my journey for of healing and redeeming myself to others I hurt. But I want to personally thank R.J. for opening my eyes and making me get back on track for my continuous growth. I hope we are able to help others from different schools who feel the same as me and give them the opportunity to speak and be true to themselves. [Applause] Good evening everyone. My name is Daniela Gamboa. I have the honor tonight of representing Laspananiels High School as a
104member of the Restorative of Justice League. I am grateful to stand here not just to speak but to share my heart, my journey, and my story. For a long time, I've tried to fit in, thinking that I would bring that it would bring me happiness. But deep down, I felt like I didn't belong. I gave my heart to the world, and it hurt it. I struggled. I failed. I got stuck. But giving up was never an option for me. At my lowest, I felt hopeless and questioned my purpose. But in the middle of that pain, I found Christ. That night, I poured out my heart to him. I didn't have to be perfect. I came as I was. He healed me and showed me he is the way, the truth, and the life. I am
105forever grateful to my Lord. This isn't the end of my journey. There's still a long way to go, but my faith remains in God every step of the way. Resortive of Justice has helped me grow into someone I never thought I could be. It pushed me out of my comfort zone, taught me how to listen with understanding, and helped me see the value in my voice. It didn't just change on how I handled conflict. It changed how I carried myself. We do recover. We do heal. Don't strive for perfection. Strive to grow one step at a time. Like Robert Kolier said, success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. I want to give a big thank you to my restorative justice squad. We aren't only a squad but a family
106overall. And I just want to thank you guys for being more than a team. We are changing lives. Thank you all for listening and God [Applause] bless. Good evening. My name is Miranda Navarete. I am honored to say that I am a proud member of the Los Branis High School restorative justice team. I am also very grateful to say that I am the social media coordinator of restorative justice. As a first year member, I found this organization to be a valuable necessity needed throughout everyday lives. The organization itself helps students feel more open about how they feel and helps everybody connect and unite as one. Whether we're doing circle groups, group activities, our amazing chance, or even our serious talks, at the end of the day, we are all united as a whole through this
107extraordinary event. Throughout everything that has happened to me this year, restorative justice has been a tremendous help to me. I have learned to speak about how I feel through hard struggles and how to overcome the challenges. I learned that the best way to cope with these feelings is to talk to others and know that they'll be there to help me throughout everything. I've also learned that I can also help others throughout the same feelings that they might feel. And I know that this can be very beneficial to every school if they were given the opportunity to have this extraordinary club presented at their school. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening. Thank you for having me today. My name is Diego Baragan. I am a ninth grade student at Los Banos High School. This year, I am
108serving as a president of Restorative Justice League, also known as RJL. I would like to talk about how influential R.J. has been in the lives of many people here in Los Badness and across Merced County. In areas where schools have are unable to provide support, R.J. has stepped in to help fill those gaps, which often involves students who haven't had the opportunity to receive assistance. With a ratio of 250 students per counselor, it can be difficult to connect with every student, especially if they don't proactively seek it. To help with this issue, R.J. has empowered students to be more engaged with their peers in ways that adults may struggle to do so. R.J. has had a significant impact not only through the resources it provides, but also by positively influencing the lives of many students
109and staff members. RJ's mission extends beyond just supporting students. It aims to benefit the entire community. For these reasons, I believe that more programs like R.J. should be implemented not just in school districts, but counties and nationwide because not only does R.J. help your yourself and other students around you, but it creates a better community for everybody to enjoy and live in. RJ helps not only with your feelings that you feel or how you might react in certain situations, it helps you grow as a person and an individual and as a whole, as a family. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Good evening board. Jay Hton, principal of Spanish High School. You can see with the students the kind of difference it's making. Um, a lot of times I've been in the district for 24 25
110years now. And um, as an administrator, you get these kids come to you and you don't have this the resources to reach these kids. And you can see we finally have a resource that's truly reaching these these students. Not only that, you know, we're working hard on other means of corrections, putting a multi-ter systems of supports together. This fits very well and it really works. And I would like to thank Mr. and the restorative justice team that he's put together. Thank you. [Applause] Mr. Wman has been a champion in this. He's a He loves this program. He loves the kids that are in this program. And so um for their numbers, let me go ahead and show you uh for their uh circles, their group circles, the total uh numbers, students per group, it's been
111a total of 355 uh circle groups. Uh 68 individual students been have been mentored uh directly uh with the program and uh they have a total of 75 circles uh up to this third quarter. Uh with those circles uh they have uh mediation 19 uh mediations that they have done. Seven harm circles uh seven community building circles, 18 classroom circles, zero re-entry, 13 restorative squad circles and four lunch uh circles. As far as their suspension rate uh 2023 before we came here, it was two uh 10.9% in their suspension rate. Uh it has dropped in 2024 when we first started to 7.7 and now in 2025 it's at four 4.3%. So we want to thank Los Benos High School for their hard work. [Applause] Yes. As far as their u ethnicity, sorry. uh the black
112African-American actually five and 56 is the Hispanic Latino and six white and one uh um uh Native American 57% female and 40 43% male individual students served. The last is PCO. We started with PCO this year, Pacheco High School. And so, uh, we want to invite, uh, Poacheo High School here, uh, Miss Jessica and also Miss Selenas. It's her first year and she's also her first year principal ship there. So, we want to thank Mrs. Selenas for the work that she's been doing. Good evening everyone. My name is Mrs. Jessica Lopez. I am the first year RJ specialist with Pacheo High School. These are just a few of my squad members that were able to join us today. I have Mr. Isaac. I have Miss Kimberly. I have Miss Jasmine, Mr. Rodrigo, Mr. Pedro, and
113Mr. Adrien. I call them Mr. and Mrs. because I'm not only raising leaders, but I'm raising young men and women as well. With restorative justice on campus, there has been a significant a significant difference that I have noticed. I am so grateful for my principal, Miss Selenus, who has allowed me and has put trust in me with these students. I am grateful for the staff member that we have, the staff members that we have on campus, Mrs. Reed, who is our student advocate that I work very well close that I work very closely with, and Mrs. Lopez, who is our wellness counselor. I will now open the floor up for you guys to be able to speak. Restorative justice has impacted my life in so many ways. It's helped me to meet amazing new friends.
114It helped me get better grades and helping me make making me a better person. Me and so many other kids from my school have been impacted by restorative justice by the most like grateful ways in the most positive way. And it's all thanks to one person, Miss Jessica, who pushes us to strive and to be better every day. Restorative Justice has influenced my school in the best way. I've seen firsthand improve that. I've seen people improve their grades firsthand and staying out of trouble to be better for this club and to improve and I could say that confidently because restorative justice has made me become a better student and a better person overall. I wouldn't know if I would have changed for the better if it wasn't for restorative justice for the restorative justice program
115and the person who was always in my corner giving me motivation and pushing me to be a better student. Miss Jessica [Applause] Hello, my name is Kim Sio and I'm a freshman at Pacheco High School. I want to share how the principles of restorative justice have impacted my high school experience. Starting from my introduction to it in 8th grade, even before entering high school, I saw how restorative justice could quickly change a student's experience based on the atmosphere they helped create. Now, as a ninth grader navigating through a new environment, the self-confidence I have gained through restorative justice has been priceless. It's given me the courage to step outside of my comfort zone. The key communication skills I've learned have also helped me in forming new connections at PCO. Restorative justice has helped me build
116strong bonds and create new friendships with what is known as our squad. Knowing I have a supportive mentor through this program makes me feel so much more welcome and secure on campus. Being part of restorative justice has also encouraged me to get involved in more school activities as a freshman. Recently, we organized a Valentine's Day photo booth on campus and seeing the joy it brought to everyone from upperassmen to my ninth to my fellow ninth graders. It really showed the impact we have on campus. Attending what is known as a conference and communicating with students who are younger than me that struggle with similar day-to-day problems that I go through makes me feel less alone in the world we live in. As a nth grader, restorative justice has already made a significant positive difference in
117my high school experience. Fostering a more connecting connected and supportive community. Thank you for your time and attention. [Applause] Hi everyone, my name is Jasmine. I'm a freshman at Pico High School. I want to thank you for taking the time out of your day for being here. I just want to explain what restorative justice has done for me and how it has impacted my life. Since joining restorative justice has given me a sense of community and taught me so much about responsibilities, relationships, and how to handle and express my emotions. In restorative in restorative justice, we come together to support and build trust within each other. We're a family and we overcome what we struggle with together. And during our conferences, I'm proud to say that there is so much feedback from the students and
118that we get the opportunity to even go and support them and their emotions. And I hope to continue helping other students the way restorative justice helps me. And I want to give a big shout out to Miss Jessica for always doing the most for all of her students and just being there for us 100%. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening. Uh Becky Selenus, principal at Pico High School. Um yes, my first year. Um I think it's evident that Miss Jessica works closely with Miss Reed and they do an amazing job um with the students. I'm very proud of all students that are here today. Um it has definitely made a difference with our discipline. Classroom referrals um and our suspension rates have um dropped. So I'm just happy that Mr. Griggs was able to um and
119actually um the district office to bring um restorative justice to PCO. It's really made a difference. [Applause] Uh she you see uh Miss Jessica's big bodyguards over there and so they're just there more more just protecting her than anything. So part we want to thank you Miss Lenus and uh so PCO's uh numbers are there at their site for their first year. She's had 122 um total students in her circle groups, 149 individual uh uh men mentoring uh students individually and a total of 127 uh circles. Uh she's had uh seven mediation, one harm circle, comm 55 community building circles, two classroom circles, uh 14 RJ squad circles, and 48 L circles total. uh for total uh ethnicity of students uh six black African-American uh 136 Hispanic Latino 7 white uh 53% female and 47
120uh% male. As far as their suspension rate before we were at Pertico at 2023 they were at 9.9%. In 2024, before we got there, they were at 8.9%. And at this year, in 2025, they're now at 5.3%. And so, you can see the impact of just the students in the work that we've been doing. So, I first I want to thank the the uh the board for their patience to hear out every student and their story and uh having the opportunity uh to be here. And so, if you have any questions, um I get it if you don't. But I want to thank you again for the opportunity to be able to present and have our program here supporting uh your school district. We want to we want to thank you. We want to thank
121you uh for being here tonight and uh kudos to the whole staff that you have put together that makes this work and students. You guys are phenomenal tonight. So, thank you for sharing your stories with us. Um they meant a lot. And uh for those of us that haven't lived through the experience like Biscatuso has um with the restorative justice uh program um you kind of open our eyes a little bit and and we could see where it's going and what it's doing. So we really appreciate that and uh glad you're here. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. [Applause] No, no, I'm not going to let you talk. Yes, Miss Kaduso, I've known you for years. I know you probably don't know me now, but through MCE, right? Yes, I remember. Okay. And
122I I'm just so happy. Restorative justice is so important at schools, having everybody involved, every employee, every student. And again, back to it takes a village, but the but the benefits are just priceless. And so, I'm so glad that you're doing this. I'm so glad that we're going to start at the elementary level because high school principles, by the time the kids get to you, oh my gosh, the way your schools will run, it's just going to be amazing for you. And it, you know, I've been a high school principal, so my day was, how can I get keep everybody safe? It, you know, weighs on you. And sorry, junior high, too, of course. You know, you worry about that. I lose sleep over it. I lost sleep over it. But when you're running a
123good restorative justice school, the the that just kind of calms everything for you. So, thank you so much for the work you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. And I I was trying to act like I I didn't know you directly. I was like, "No, it's okay." And and I would love to be able to come. So, invite me, please. I I want to I want to go when you have your your And I also want to thank my staff who are here. I have my administration. If you guys can stand up because they've worked hard in uh making sure stand up that they uh that uh because we are housing for our city. We do have we are local organization. So you don't have to call us uh from uh Timbuktu and we we send
124you a flyer and say this is how to do it and leave. Uh we're here. We're in the backyard. So if you call us, we're here. But I want to thank um our admin team because they're working hard tirelessly to support all the sites that that um uh we're working at and making sure our students are successful. And just on the on that note, they've we've they've worked hard and we've worked together. They put together um a field trip that we are going tomorrow to the Museum of Tolerance in Torrance, LA, and we're taking our high school squads to the Museum of Tolerance. Kind of like the Freedom Writers. Yeah, they're going to be Freedom Writers. So, does anybody else have any comments? I will tell you that um on the board you don't have
125a bigger cheerleader than you have with this one right here. We hear about it often. So you guys have you guys have a cheerleader for yourselves. So awesome. Great news. Thank you again for being here. You guys were all wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good job, you guys. And one question only. Restorative justice. How do you feel? We feel good. Oh, we feel so good. Oh, we feel Oh, we feel so good. Good job. Good job. Thanks for being here. Good job. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Good job. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Good job. Thank you. Hey, thank you much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda is a report on transportation. Try to follow
126up on that one, you know. Yeah. That's gonna be that's gonna be hard act to follow. David, come on. Oh, good evening board members. My name is David Taylor, transportation supervisor, following up that one. Um, so I'm here to introduce to you guys SB88. I don't know how much you guys know about it, but we're just going to take a quick quick dive into it. For years, there has been regulations on school bus drivers. For years, for years, transportation district, school districts, transportation departments have been transporting alternatively um with white fleet vehicles. One thing in the last couple years that they've jumped into is using third party vendors. Well, the state decided that this transportation transportation of this kind needed to be regulated. It was completely unregulated. So, California General Assembly passed legislation in 2023
127which created vetting requirements for drivers and vehicles of alternative student transportation. So, this went into effect January 1 of 2004, but the scope of it was so deep the state gave us until July 1 of 25 to make this operational. So, we've been planning and planning and planning on how the what this is going to look like for us as a district and what is all going to have to go into this. Um, California California created a common sense safety standard for drivers who provide transportation services to pupils and vehicles with a maximum capacity of 10 or fewer. So, this is anything that is not a school bus. Why is SB88 important? Bottom line, student safety. We're our current regulations for our white fleet. You have to be 21 and you have to be part
128of our pool notice program which tells us that if something comes up on your license, um that's gives you a point or two points or three points. We're notified and then we have board policy that stipulates when a driver can no longer drive our students. That That's as far as it went. That's not state law. The state stepped in and now said, "Okay, this is what we're going to do." Uh, there's three components of SB88. There are vehicle requirements, driver requirements, and company/ vendor requirements. Vehicle requirements are pretty straightforward. We have to inspect all of our white fleet vehicles annually or every 50,000 miles. Um, currently we inspect our white fleet vehicles every 120 days. So, we're doing way above and beyond that. Um, also now all of our white fleet vehicles, which we installed
129back in December and January, are required to carry fire extinguishers and first aid kits. Driver requirements. This is where it gets interesting. We're just going to dive into it really quick. So obviously you have to have a California driver's license. You have to be at least 18 years old. You have to pass a background check which all of our employees pass. They go through fingerprinting. Uh satisfactory driving record, TV clearance. The same restrictions on driving hours as school bus drivers are going to be imposed on the white fleet drivers. So, our drivers of our school buses are only allowed to drive 10 hours a day. That's 10 hours of seat time. That same requirement is going to go to the to the white fleet drivers. The same requirement where our bus drivers can't drive after
13016 hours, same requirement is going to go to the white fleet drivers. DOT physical is going to be required of our white fleet drivers. And random drug testing is going to be required of our white fleet drivers. In addition to that, there's going to be training requirements that our white fleet drivers will have to go through on an initial basis and an ongoing basis. Those trainings will include a pre vehicle pre-trip inspection, safe loading and unloading of students, proper use of seat belts, child safety restraints, handling of accidents, incidents and emergency situations, providing proper accommodations for pupils with disabilities, defensive driving operations in inclement weather, and operating at night or in under impaired visibility conditions, fog or or rain. Uh these drivers are going to be required to maintain daily log sheets of the vehicles
131and also their and the the pre-trip inspections. They're also going to be required to have first aid CPR training as well. Do we have any questions? So I just um I know 100 years ago we had like two Suburbans which we call the White Fleet besides a few other cars. Um but I know passing the you know as you drive down the Jacob Boulevard you see we have a whole bunch of white fleet bands. How many do we have now? We when I got here we had five. We added 16 to our we had six to our fleet and then Leap purchased 10 of their own vehicles. So they have one vehicle for each site. Wow. So that's a lot of people to train. Do you have any idea how many people you're going to
132have to train for this? I'm ballparking it at about 100 people. We have looked out and identified a training program uh with Smith systems and this is something that can drop into our training program that we're already using districtwide for mandated training. Um it's just something that with a couple clicks of a button, the training gets added to their profile. They complete it, I get a certificate, it gets checked off on their list. So you're also looking like at coaches and I mean any staff member, coaches, administrators to they're have to go through that that training to drive the students. What happens if they don't have it? Are we going to have supply a driver or is that if they don't have it? They're not going to be allowed to drive per state. I'm just
133saying but how are we going to transport the students? We have that figured out. If we if if nobody gets on board with this, it's going to create an tremendous strain on our yellow fleet, our school buses, and we're going to revert back to having charter a lot of a lot of trips. A lot of our coaches stepped up this year and decided to drive um basketball in general. Um the varsity teams went by white fleet. This year we transported the the freshman in the JV by school bus. Varsity went by White Fleet. That allowed our school bus drivers to get back early enough to where they didn't have to miss an AM route in the morning or an AM route in the PM. So it allowed us to keep a lot of this work
134in house. A lot to do. Very lot. I' I've been bleeding SB88 for the last six months. I bet. I bet. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Katusa. Um, might be a silly qu I can't remember. It's 10 or less is just a regular California driver's license, right? Yeah. 10 or fewer. Yeah. Cost. Okay. Regular class. I couldn't Yeah, I couldn't remember what the cutoff was, but I thought it was any anything more than 10 and you're you're required for commercial, right? Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? This is a non-aggenda, I mean a non- action item, but we appreciate the report because this is uh really important and uh good luck. Thank you. Getting it all together. I know it's a lot of work and we appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. All [Applause]
135right, here we go on to the uh marathon through the rest of the agenda. Miss Roachcha, welcome. Evening board. And I just want to start off by saying thank you to those of you board members and staff that have come and read to the preschool. It's been wonderful. It's so much fun to have people come because they kind of get tired of looking at our faces. So, it's nice having other people. But I had a little bird tell me that some people might be a little bit intimidated by the littles. So, if you are intimidated by the littles, you can always just come visit. You don't have to read. We always enjoy visitors as well. Um, so it is recommended that the board approve the one-time retention stipen to the unrepresented preschool program staff. So
136if anybody has any questions, that's why I'm here this evening. Questions, comments? I need a motion, please. Second. Got a motion by U member Moran, seconded by member Leeb to approve the one-time retention stipens for the unrepresentative preschool program staff. All those in favor? I opposed. And it's carried unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Roachcha. Appreciate that. Dr. Sutton, go on down. Good evening board. Dan Sutton, director of secondary education. Got a couple of uh courses to bring to you. Uh this is a first read. Um we it is recommended the board declare its intent to adopt the following courses. Beginning band 78 and virtual enterprise. All right. Questions, comments? It is the first reading. So, um we will have come back to us next month. So, you'll have time to look at
137it more. Um, if there are no questions or comments, I need a motion to uh declare our attempt to adopt these course new courses. Seconded by uh excuse me, memberay, we have a motion by member Valado, seconded by member Katuso to declare our intent to adopt the new course adoptions for beginning ban 78 and virtual enterprise. All those in favor? I post and it's carried unanimously. On to item E. Dr. Sutton, course revisions, first reading. Yes, this is a recommendation from the FPM review that came down regarding our physical education courses. So, it's recommended the board declare its intent to adopt the following course revisions as required by the FPM review for physical education 1A1B, which is 9th grade, and physical education 2A2B, which is 10th grade. All right. comments, questions? Seeing none, I need
138a motion to uh declare our intent to adopt the course uh revisions. Got a motion by member Katuso, seconded by member Leeb to uh declare our intent to adopt the course provisions first reading for the physical education 1A1B and physical education 2A2B. All those in favor? I opposed. Carried unanimously. Thank you very much. Miss Monday, you're back. Item F is uh EV bus charging infrastructure construction amendment. It is recommended that the board approve construction amendment number three to the agreement between Schneider Electric Buildings Americas Incorporated and Los Spanish Unified School District and authorize the superintendent or designate to sign contract documents and issue a notice to proceed pursuant to provisions of California Government's Code sections 4217.10 through 427.18. Okay. And I just noticed I missed something when I approve for the agenda. Um, uh, the
139title says construction amendment number two and then the Oh, and then that says number three. Number three. So, which is it? Number three. Hang on. I guess we could look at the BRM, too, huh? Page 48. It is number two. Okay. So, we are looking at number two. All those excuse me, getting ahead of myself here. Any comments or questions? Seeing none, need a motion, please. Second. Got a motion by member Castro, seconded by member Moran um to approve the EV bus charging infrastructure construction amendment number two. All those in favor? I opposed. It's carried unanimously. Thank you. On to uh item G, authorization to seek bids for the Los Manage Junior High School fire alarm replacement project. It is recommend is there's also another error right here. Oh my goodness. Okay. It is recommended
140the board approve authorization to seek bids for the Losanis Junior High School fire replacement project. Oh, that isn't that says junior high. Yep. Sorry. It was right. Right. All right. Comments, questions? Motion, please. We got a motion by member Lee, seconded by member Katuso to approve the authorization to seek bids for the Los Junior High School fire replace fire alarm replacement project. All those in favor? I opposed. Carried unanimously. On to item H. Miss Monday. It is the authorization to seek bids for the Las High School interim housing site work project. It is recommended the board approve authorization to seek bids for the Laspanis High School interim housing site work project. Again, comments or questions? Motion, please. We got a motion by uh member Valadeo, seconded by member Kuso to approve the authorization to seek
141bids for the Laspanis High School interim housing site work project. All those in favor? I opposed. Carried unanimously. On to item I, early education center project change order request number one. It is recommended that the board of trustees approve change order number one with TBS Contractors Incorporated for the construction of the early education center project. Comments, questions, motion. We got a motion by member Moran, seconded by member Gatuso to approve the early education center project change order request number one. All those in favor? I post and it's carried unanimously. Thank you. On to item J. Oh, bid award for the Los Spanish Junior High re- roofing is that Mr. Lee is going to do that. Dr. Lee. Yeah, sure. I'll do it. Uh this recommend the board approved bid award to advance roofing for the
142Los Balance Junior High re-roofing project building B and F and authorize the superintendent or destiny to sign contract document and a notice to proceed. Comments, questions, motion. Motion by member Katuso, seconded by member Leeb to approve the bid award for the Laspan Junior High School re-roofing project for buildings B and F. All those in favor? Opposed? And it's carried unanimously. Dr. Lee, item K, deferred maintenance plan. Please recommend the board approve the deferred maintenance plan as recommended by the facility subcommittee. All right. Comments, questions? Motion. You got a motion by member Castro, second by member Leeb to approve the deferred maintenance plan. All those in favor? I post and it's carried. All right. On to item L, board policy bylaw changes updates. First uh reading. Dr. Richie is recommended the board declares intent to adopt
143the following mandated updates. Board policy 5125, student records, administrative regulation 5125, student records. Board policy 5131, conduct policy 5145.13, response to immigration enforcement. Administrative regulation 5145.13, response to immigration enforcement. All right. comments or questions. This is our intent to adopt. It will come back to us next month. But before that, we have to have a motion. We got a motion by member Valadeo, seconded by member uh Katuso to declare our intent to adopt the board policy bylaw changes, updates, new and first readings as listed here. All those in favor? I opposed. And it is carried unanimously. All right, on to item 11, our consent calendar. Are there any polls tonight? All right, seeing none, need a motion, please. Second. We got a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar as previously amended in
144our opening statements tonight. Um, and I'm sorry, the motion was by Mr. Lee, seconded by Miss Moran, Dr. Moran. Um, any further comments? Okay. Um, seeing none, uh, Tina, it's a roll call vote, please. Mr. Castro, yes. Mrs. Kuso, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Moran, yes. Miss Smith. Miss Valido, yes. Mr. Pur, yes. Thank you. Item passes. Um on to reporting out a close session to my notes here. Um uh item number one in close session was student discipline cases and um expuls expulsion case numbers 551832 is expelled for the remainder of the school year. 5536462 is expelled into December of 2025. 5517-469 is expelled into December of 2025. 5531227 is expelled until December of 2025. 5531120 is expelled until December of 2025. Students are to contact educational services for readmission readmission following the period
145of expulsion for a review of attendance credits and or grades behavior and recommended counseling. All students are referred to Valley Community School. The motion by was was by member Valadeo, seconded by member Castro. There were six eyes, no nos, one abstension, and one absent. Miss Smith. Um the other action item was item number three because item number two was uh pulled from the agenda and that was the conference with legal counsel on anticipated litigation. Uh the action was to approve motion by Moran seconded by Katuso. There were six yeses one uh excuse me no no nos one absent which was Smith and no abstensions. And that is all we have for close session action. Next item is discussion information and future agenda items. Anybody have anything? All right. Seeing none, I have two things. And
146that is um either tomorrow or sometime next week, I'm going to be sending out um information to the board uh requesting your um preferences for graduations. Um so we'll need we'll need to be working on that list uh for all of the graduations. And as soon as I have the information compiled that I can send it out, um we'll be sending that out and uh we'll be assigning our our graduations and volunteering uh for where we want to be for that. And then the other thing is I mentioned it earlier when I was talking about um the uh DLI invitation. Um what happened was the uh email was sent um out to our.net net accounts which none of us check um because we that was used at a time when we were doing um was
147what co we were using the net um and so I do check mine occasionally like you know once a week or so and I it just happened that I read it like you know hours before the uh DLI parade so I was I I got to go and I was unfortunately the rest of you guys didn't go because we never check it. So I I did talk to Dr. Marshall to make sure that that uh that person who sends out um emails who who use only uses umnet uh if he's going to send stuff to the board to ask him to make sure that it he sends it to our um it'll be USD um e um email k12.ca us uh email not.net net. So hopefully we'll all get the next invitation because you really
148missed a cute thing. So yeah, it was it was really fun. Um with that we had the next item is a finish off a close session. We finished everything in close session. So we have nothing to report out. Everybody drive home safely. Enjoy uh your weekend coming up and we'll see you next month. Thank you very much. Huh? And stop at the stop signs. Yes. They are not they are not suggestions. They are requirements.