001e e e no well I was I was waiting okay all right good evening we're going to call the meeting to order we just got out of a close session we do have one board member Marlene Smith who is um joining us um via phone and uh she's on the phone right now Marlene can you hear me yes I can all right can you uh can all the other board members here Miss Smith yes yes okay so um if you ever want to uh say something please speak up and uh we will uh let you speak into the microphone here all right so hang on and uh we'll start our meeting okay I'll St on mute until I need you okay great and all all votes tonight will be via roll call so be prepared
002for that all right with that we will um start our uh regular session and we'll start off with the Pledge of Allegiance and uh Mr sby would you lead us in the pledge please I pled alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right I have some corrections to the agenda um first off item number nine D 9d sorry TR to find it 9d is pooled tonight that is the Family Resource Center lease that will be pulled for a future agenda um on item 10 the consent calendar item uh 10 B1 uh there's an up updated list uh board members have it in front of you and it it is posted on the
003district's website so that updated list has been updated on the uh website and we have it in front of us and also um item uh 10 E1 um donation from the estate of uh Joan Mueller June to Los vas High School there is an updated brm in front of you which also has been uh posted on the district website uh it has some updated updated information that uh we got uh late and so we wanted to make sure that we had all the information correct before uh we took action on that item so uh with that Dr uh Marshall do we have any other no further changes further for changes okay so I need a motion to approve the agenda as corrected we got a motion by member cuso seconded by member Castro to to
004approve the agenda as corrected all those in favor I oh excuse me got to do roll call sorry sorry this is a little change for us so go ahead Tina Mr Castro Mrs cuso Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran yes Miss Smith yes Miss valad yes Mr Pera yes thank you thank you Tina we have an agenda so um if there's anybody here tonight that wishes to have anything placed on a future agenda you may do so by uh submitting that information to the superintendent at least two weeks prior to a regularly scheduled meeting if it's within our purview we will um uh check and make sure that we get it placed on our agenda if it's uh something that we need to have uh placed before us uh anybody that is here tonight that wishes
005to address uh the board on any item that is on tonight's agenda may do so when that agenda item comes before us all I have to do is come up to the podium I'll recognize you please give us your name you will have three minutes to speak and um if there are multiple speakers on any uh agenda item uh there will be a limit of 20 minutes for total comments on that agenda item and off to my left your right underneath that monitor is a countdown clock so you will know where you are in your 3 minutes um if there's anybody here tonight that wishes to address the board on anything that is not on tonight's agenda uh you may do so in a second or two and when I say that we're ready for
006you um again you will approach the podium give us your name you'll have three minutes to speak if there are multiple speakers on uh the same non-agenda item there'll be a limit of 20 minutes for that non-agenda item presentation so with that is there anybody here tonight that wishes to address the board on any item that is not on tonight's agenda if so please come forward all right oh here he comes good evening Mr Del Cruz good evening um first of all thank you uh board members um and uh I just want to say thank you once again for having us here um I noticed on the uh on the agenda tonight you're going to be talking about uh the budget which is kind of nice uh because that's something that we're talking about in
007class um and focusing on budgets and kind of every every body has one right so we need to make sure that we're fiscally responsible so that was nice to see you on there I want to give you a little update on um our AVID program at poo High School um last week um Mr I myself Miss belenus and uh Miss Kates were able forc enough to attend go to visit uh Modesto High School Modesto high school has is a national demonstration school and I will tell you it is a phenomenal program uh what they have set up there in the past 22 years is is something that uh is to be admired and we got an opportunity to go visit with uh with their staff and um with their coordinator and uh we got to
008see actual tutorials take place which is you know it's really exciting to see um we are in the process um right now ATO of of uh we sent out applications to uh Junior High School Los Manos junior high school and uh we have received I believe up to right now 44 applicants uh which is kind of nice to see and so we will be interviewing them on April 1st when we come back hopefully by that time we will make our selections uh so that way we can be ready for uh the following school year um and so we will be um and then a a group of us will be attending summer Institute in San Diego uh the beginning of June where we will then work together as a as a site team to uh
009put together a plan for the upcoming school year and hopefully we will start making our way towards that same kind of uh focus of a demonstration school I know right now they have uh Avid at Creekside right now I know this because my son is an avid student and so he's uh he's in the class with Miss dos who's a fantastic teacher and um and I know um Las venos High School also has the program so I know Dr Marshall this is kind of your uh your thing that you wanted to uh get started here um and happy to see that you know once again Avid is a great program I hope that we can make it successful and I just want to give you guys a little update on that so that's it thank
010you thank you for having us thank you all right is there anybody else here that wishes to address the board on any item that is not on tonight's agenda all right seeing no one come forward we will move on to reports starting off with our uh student representative report lulana welcome everyone I'm GNA start off with Los Vanos High School's news senior students at Las Vanos High School turned in their local scholarship applications that were due Friday February 28th there were 77 students who turn in applications this year this is equivalent to hundreds of individual applications donors have until April 11th to choose which students they would like to be the represent of their scholarship lasos High School looks forward to recognizing and celebrating our senior winners on May 4th at our scholarship award ceremony
011from March 4th to March 6th the current seniors had a valuable opportunity to meet with the counselor from Merced College during these sessions they were able to discuss their academic plans for the upcoming fall semester of 2025 this one-on-one time allowed students to ask questions explore potential courses and receive guidance on their educational paths ensuring that they are on track to meet their goals and prepare for their transition to college life the Merced College counselor provided personalized advice on course selection degree requirements and other important aspects of college readiness on Monday March 10th both Juniors and seniors were able to participate in a college tour at CSU monter Bay this exciting event allowed students to explore the campus and get a feel for the University environment the students were also given the chance to attend
012admissions presentation where they learned about the application process scholarships and what to exp expect additionally they had the opportunity to hear directly from two department heads who shared insightful information of the major Majors they oversee this gave students a deeper understanding of the academic programs offered at CSU Monterey Bay we're excited to invite everyone to our annual multi Multicultural night on March 20th from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. this event is open to the entire community and will feature a variety of performances from music and dance to Unique tradition in addition to these Pro performances they will be offering food crafts and goods from all around the world it's a great opportunity to explore new cultures enjoy delicious food and support local clubs we can't wait to see you there and celebrate our Vibrant Community
013together on March 12th at 7:00 p.m. we had held our spring performance featuring our winter percussion Winter Guard jazz band and concert band each group delivered amazing performances showcasing their talent and hard work the winter percussion impressed with their Precision the Winter Guard amazed with their choreography and the jazz bands brought energy within their Lively Tunes the concert band rounded off the evening with beautiful music there's a f fantastic night of music and creativity we're so proud of all the performers last Wednesday we took a moment to come together as a community to celebrate and show our appreciation for our beloved staff member Miss mcbt who is recently diagnosed with breast cancer as she prepares to undergo surgery in the near future we want to express our heartfelt support and well wishes Miss McBride has
014always been a positive and dedicated member of our team and now it's our turn to offer her the same care and encouragement she's given to many of us we are committed to supporting her every step of the way as she navigates this journey we know her strength and resilience will carry her through our thoughts and prayers are with her during this challenging Time Sports News winter sports are officially over and the Tigers had a four out of five six teams make the postseason wrestling had not one but two State medalists at their recently held California state championships Junior Angel angelan sorry finished with a third place medal and Senior brother Rockton B also finished in third place rton B and Cassidy B were selected as the school's top senior male and female scholar athletes both
015will be recognized at a lunch on for the central California conference in May Cassidy will also be selected as the League's top female scholar athlete and will be recognized as at the section level at at a breakfast in April on February 18th the sweetheart banquet was held in the multi-purpose room on campus in total the sweethearts candidates raised 29,000 and JCB was were was crowned as the 2025 sweetheart on February 13th the Los Banos FFA took 50 students to the tiller Farm Show to learn more about agriculture February 17th to 21st was National FFA week where we were able to work with admin ASB and other people around campus to host activities throughout the week for our members and the school congratulations to the big team who placed third and fourth High team at the
016ground field Daye on March 3rd Gian P was third High individual and Drake bfield was fourth High individual in addition the farm power team plays six on March 10th members alongside veterans package and serve in individuals who brought dinners for the Honor Flight drive-thru dinner as for PCO High School our Panthers have been very active in our Sports and creating new memories I can't wait to share some of our experiences and achievements from within our panther community Messa news starting off for a messa team who competed in the Messa day preliminary competitions at Fresno State last Saturday there were over 12 teams that competed and the following teams excelled and earn medals and Advance onto regions first place bio breakthrough hery s toon c g George T second place bi breakthrough Frank L Rayman L
017first place moon base r c am T first place impr impro speech her s to C George T second place AEL J and Jerry C these Panthers will be representing PHS at the regional competition that will be held at Contra Costa College on April 12th Alexandra Loretta is the first three-time state qualifier for Pacho High School for the girls wrestling team some of our following WR wrestlers competed at The Wack League finals and will be moving on to boys Division I championships on Saturday February 15th in Sacramento and girls Southern regionals at Central Valley High in series Friday and Saturday boys whack Champion Dominic H Second Place Alex Alexandro H Xavier F the alternates is Christian B Aaron M Christian and Hugo the girls play sters included our whack Champions Alex Malia third place paa
018Jana Dakota and Athena the next following girls will be competing at the sjs Southern Regional Championship held at Central Valley High in series The Top four placers for the boys and eight girls will move on to the compete at the sanen sections Master championship in Stockton good luck Panthers the Pacho boy soccer team Advanced the section semi-finals this season while they did not get the win we are proud of them and their hard work congratulations Pacho Sports boo boosters is bringing WWE style wrestling to Peko high on March 24th 2025 the tickets are $20 and if interested reach out to Mr Del Cruz or Mr Pik is PCO High EO March Madness our English learner students will with support from bilingual staff and seniors EOS are hosting a March Madness event featuring volleyball basketball Zumba
019and an obstacle course this student LED Fosters Community Fitness and engagement PHS continues to strengthen family connections through monthly Community workshops December's winter mug painting saw 160 plus participants while January's painting and Mariachi event welcomes 65 attendees April Workshop April 18th 6: to 8:00 p.m. will focus on home gardening with take-home kids provided for All Families Student Activities PCO ASB is always working to better our culture and right now we are super busy readying for Community give back in the form of our annual blood drive with Central California blood center on Monday March 17th P will hold a blood drive that is open to the community and those students 16 or older order with parent permission if you have time stop by and give the gift of life this Friday we will also be holding
020our no hate BMX tour which we are really excited to bring back to campus at the end of February Miss jerok and Mr pus attended the California activities director Association state conference where Mr pus earned the Bob Burton Spirit award for his time spent as activities director they also brought home some new insightful positive inclusive environment for students staff and Community we hope everyone had a safe and relaxing spring break our teachers staff and students deserve it thank you so much a great job thank you all right on to uh California School Employees Association report do we have anybody tonight all right you know and come forward how about Las vas Teachers Association and report tonight uh okay next up is our facility report M Monday good evening good evening everybody get situated okay my
021name is Sher mday I'm the manager of facilities and special projects and I am here to do the March 2025 facilities update um good evening board members Marshall executive cabinet um our first picture here is um our our my presentation today is really focused on the TK Center that's kind of the one project that's really under construction right now everything else is I don't have pictures of so so we're going to focus on this today um we'll come back to this picture in just a little bit um but this is an overview of the site right now um we've moved a little further past this um but we're going to come back to the Lost Banis Junior High in just a second um so here on the left um you can see our building pads
022are ready um they're ready to bring the buildings in um they're working on all the electrical and we've had to build um and the bottom the bottom long picture is an access road that they had to build um due to the build the the trailer that they bring the buildings on is a low bed trailer and so they were not able to get into the site without ruining their trailer ruining our building so we've had to um to build that access road so they have access to the site um obviously we have some weather delays from the rain we've just received which was disappointing but um we're going to keep on moving forward um so where we are with the site contractor and their work um sewers 100% complete storm is 100% complete off-site storm
023drain 80% complete um the low voltage is actually at 60% when I did this we were only at 45% or building pads building pad B is 100% building pad C is 100% um building pad D they do I have a picture of it I do so the one over on the right hand corner you can see that's building D there they were starting to um work on that we were going to be able to form that up this week but the rain come they came they weren't able to work today or tomorrow so um we're a little behind on that building um and then building a building pad a we've completed the compaction testing so once weather permits they'll be able to start um working on that and getting that ready building a is our
024office building so it's really important they bring that as soon as possible um so if we go over to the right hand side here building manufacturer so Building B they will be shipping it out on 317 and then they're craning it onto the site on 326 and 327 these come in individual floors it's not a whole building put together so um let's go back to our first picture so here you can see Las Banis Junior highs black top is just adjacent to our site um big big huge thank you to principal Doo Brazil she gave us permission to be able to Stage the buildings on her blacktop um so they will be bringing them in next week the following week we'll be craning them onto the site so that's spring break week and even um
025I had concern like what if we go over that time frame and and she was very Cooperative um very accepting of us if we had to go over that time frame they would be okay with that they were going to talk to their PE teachers make sure to keep the kids away the building manufacturer is going to put a fence around there so Nobody messes with the building so it'll be safe and secure um so that is going to help us because we have nowhere to Stage these buildings and if we wait to be able to bring them weather permitting um it's just going to delay everything so with us being able to Stage there on that black top as soon as there's a great day they can go get that building and put it
026on the the site whereas if we're having to wait from them to bring it all the way um from the manufacturer that's different and especially like building a it has to be CHP CHP actually comes with them so um that's a lot of coordination with that so um let's go back here and then some of the um oh one more thing on this slide um we are still waiting for the uh traffic signal to approved from the city um we're hoping within a week or so we get that approved um but that still is really impacting our schedule for our site contractor we need to order that signal it's a six-month lead time for that um so we're really hoping we get that approved soon um some of the other projects that are going on
027um as spanis high school modernization we're expecting approval hopefully by the end of the month um we have construction management firm interviews on Monday so we're have a great um panel and we have a great we have four um firms we're going to be interviewing and hopefully we can get a great partner to help us get through this project successfully um the the PHS C classroom in Greenhouse project finally was DSA approved this week so I have a meeting um set up tomorrow so we'll start the bidding process and get that one going um the LED lighting project um originally we were going to start on April 1st I got a phone call today that all of the um they've procured all their materials and they're ready to actually start on the 24th which is
028spring break week which works great they're going to start at Los Banis Junior High School um the Los Banis Junior High School kitchen Hood fire suppression system um also was DSA approved we're starting that Spring Break um that should only take a week long so we should be in and out um and the staff should have their kitchen back so when school returns um they'll be very very happy and that is it any questions comments questions comments okay we have a question from Miss Smith go ahead Marley I I would like to know if if Sher could tell us um she may have before but I just I had some questions about the work that was just finished at poo High School can you explain to us what was just done high school and completed
029I I can you give me some more information I I didn't I haven't done anything recently besides Ewing at picho high school maybe that was a construction it was a comment that came up in the city not in the city council but in the City Communication groups that there was some work doing at PCO and nobody knew on this communication site what that work was and a teacher actually comment and said you should ask the district office what's going on over there so I just want to see if you can clarify if there was some work done ATO and if it was some work ATO in the month of February what was it I am not aware of any work I could check with our maintenance department and see if they did some work over
030there do do you know Cypher what but they're not actually doing any work yet no so so I'm sorry um Miss Smith I'm not sure but I could definitely find out if we we did any maintenance work over there um we are we are talking um doing some planning for the baseball field there and um so I don't know if that is what is being talked about we are in the very early stages of planning that project okay um um but other than that I can't think of anything I've done over there okay but I will check with our maintenance department for you okay thank you you're welcome all right any other questions comments all right Miss Monday thank you very [Music] much onto our community schools report Dr Wheeler welcome thank you so tonight
031I'll be um just giving an oral presentation again hopefully soon I'll have some uh pictures to be able to bring to do a uh you know to be as as fancy as Sherry is so um so here's uh March's update for Community Schools and so what has happened since the last time I gave an update we did have a site visit so um a handful of us about nine um people from the steering committee that was created last year um and then several of us Dr Marshall and uh Dr Richie and I went down to Lancaster and the reason why we went down there is because they have similar demographics and they have a commuter population similar to our own and uh it allowed us to be able to you know ask questions and talk
032to um people with experience um not only creating Community Schools through the Community Schools Grant um which is what Lancaster School uh district has done they have 23 schools and they have a model that is similar to ours um not exactly the same but similar in that they have a central um Center and then each of their schools has Liaisons as well um and I've am working with them because they already have a social worker um on their team and um talking with them about some of the resources that they're bringing in so um it allowed us to form relationships with um you know schools that have done uh the work on already uh Eastside Union um School District uh also has a community school model but they are they kind of came at it
033from the opposite way that we are they started with their lcap money and began their Community Center um and they're much smaller District uh I believe what there's six six yeah about five schools um but they are now getting they applied for the community school Grant and will be in cohort 4 should they get it they'll find out in um May whether they have been awarded the grant or not um and what was really interesting about that is to see how they embedded it in the the work that they were already doing in the district which is what we're working towards so it showed us a way that um we can start building that uh sustainability and um and how to make sure that it is incorporated um both of the school districts were um
034inspiring in the way that they've come together um and how they've uh focused on supporting families and the services that they've provided um and you know we all had a lot to talk about um as we went through each of the sites and I know that Dr Marshall is planning on giving um more of his Insight during his report um also we had our first Community Schools advisory committee meeting um on Wednesday March 6th and actually we had quite a few people who were able to attend I we did hold it on Zoom because it is often difficult to get so many different people in the same place at the same time and some of the people were one person was on their phone and you know other people are in you know office or
035at home or or whatnot so it made it possible for us to all come together um our next meeting will be in April we're still um finalizing what everybody's schedule is uh but we had a um an opportunity to kind of clarify more people were able to ask questions so that we can start defining what we're going to be doing together as a council um also since last time uh since the last board meeting we interviewed and hired 14 Community School liaison and a Family Resource Center supervisor that uh is before you today in the consent calendar uh to be approved so pending approval I'm excited for them to come on board um looking forward to the um onboarding and also working with the principles to um help place them so definitely getting the input
036of the principles as to how they you know whether or not each of the Liaisons will be a good fit or not for their School site um since we know each School site has its own personality and we want to make sure that that we have the best fit possible then we have quite a few upcoming events um so while we don't have a commun uh the Family Resource Center just yet and I'm still getting to on board the Liaisons um we're still able to start bringing in um events and activities so we are going to have science family classes um at two School sites at the end of April uh the class is titled the family science lab all about chemical reactions or otherwise known as the class where you get to make a
037volcano and so um this is an all ages um all whole family event where dinner will be provided and the families will get to make the volcano together and then they'll get materials that they'll be able to take home and build their own at home and we're going to have it at grasslands and at Henry Miller as a kind of pilot for next year so next year the um goal is that we will bring those science um and interactive classes to each of the school sites as well as a um book club literacy U building um activities that uh will also be T brought to each of the school sites and we'll be working with the the at that point I'll have the Community Schools Liaisons who will be able to uh work with each
038of their sites to tailor what events uh you know and what classes they would like to have and that's through an organization called success together um and um I'm really excited about that preview and to see how the families respond and and what they're um you know what their excitement level is like so we'll be getting feedback on that on April 15th EECU will be coming and providing a family financial Workshop called MoneyWise um and that is completely free of charge um it'll be at Pacho High School um they've been so kind to uh provide us with the multi-purpose room and uh daycare will Child Care will be provided as well along with dinner and that one is is also um kind of a preview we'll be working with EECU as well as Merced County
039uh the Merced School Employees Credit Union um on multiple projects so this is just again the getting the ball rolling um and offering these activities and events for uh the community we are going planning a dine and learn event which is something we learned about in Lancaster and thought that's a great idea where we're going to combine elcap and Community Schools and the community school Liaisons will be part of the conversations and at the table uh with the families as we discuss elcap and what it means for the families um and involving them in that process um as we do with elcap um when you know whenever it's written but now folding in the community school liaison to make get an even more meaningful event that has the date exact date has not been decided
040yet part of that is because it's about getting the you know liaison onboarded and we want to make sure that that will work um so that'll be probably towards the end of April beginning of May uh so when we do have that information of course we'll be sharing that um a couple of the um really great things that have evolved recently is we um are going to be offering a mobile mental health um Clinic uh that I've been working with principles um to identify schools that are interested in having that that's through La Familia and they will this is uh again free of charge for families and we'll be working with each of the school sites um to make that available to families um we will also be providing mobile vaccine clinics uh beginning in
041um April into May June and even into the summer and obviously at the beginning of the school year but right now we're going to focus on getting them out there in the spring um and those mobile um vaccine clinics will be in uh partnership with Camarena which as you're aware they're offering they're opening their new uh clinic on the corner of Ward and Pacho um and I had a wonderful tour of the location and um working with the manager there uh and the the the regional director um and we are have several irons in the fire in terms of in addition to the mobile uh vaccine clinics um that again I'm working with the principles that are interested and C Camarena is says whatever vaccines you want you let us know we will make them
042available so we will be providing yes the sixth grade Tdap obviously at the end of sixth grade going into seventh grade but we're also looking the potential of the flu V you know vaccines and and different vaccines so we're going to be arranging that with camarina very soon to get those um at the different schools that have asked for them so I'm working with principls right now to get that done um one of one event that we are going to be um you're going to be hearing a lot more about is what we're calling out before I called it the the spring Extravaganza but it's actually more accurately now we're calling it The Summer kickoff because it will be Saturday May 31st location is still to be decided um I'm working on a couple of
043locations but I don't want to say until we have it uh settled and this is going to be a health wellness and summer learning fair so looking at you know um providing resources for parents to help them make sure that their students keep reading and keep working um you know on their academics and as well as um having Camarena and other um UC see Merced uh UCSF um medical groups come out as well as multiple other we're going to have about 30 vendors that will be coming out um and we'll have fun events um you may have gone to the um uh backpack giveaway that was at Westside Union last summer so the organization that ran that b National of of central California I'm partnering with them and they run a fun tight ship so
044they have quite they'll have a a DJ they're going to have giveaways um I heard a rumor that there might actually be a TV giveaway you know so like some really uh great things for a giveaway so you know this is really to benefit the uh community and to kick off the summer and provide resources for families uh in in a multiple you know multiple ways as well as signing up for the the backpack giveaway that we will be having again in August um they'll be letting parents know about that so that we can get even more people out to that event um in addition um I'm in the process of uh working with secondary education and extended education to provide um summer enrichment opportunities especially for our Junior High and high school students um
045not that I'm going to completely forget about elementary of course um we'll offer some of those but we have quite a few more options families have more options for the younger children than they do the older and we want to um step in with things like a CSI Camp uh a Music Creation Camp content creation Arts uh robotics cooking Etc so um I'm working with several different organizations to bring in weeklong camps maybe single day camps maybe a series of single day camps that they can sign up for if they don't want to commit to one just one topic for a whole week um and we're looking to do that not only during the time that summer school is already happening but also closer to when school starts because just because it's the end of
046July beginning of August we haven't opened you know the schools haven't opened yet and families still could use things for their children to do um but a lot of times those kind of camps dry up so we're looking to have um have them offered during times that uh families could really benefit from that um so I am work like I said uh I am working with the director um Mr Cruz and and Dr Sutton on making sure that we have um that we're including all the sites including St Louis and uh the junior highs and high schools and looking at how we can um coordinate with leap and make sure that we're not um you know doing any damage in that regard either you know we want to make sure we're supporting um each other
047in um that regard and then lastly I wanted to give you um uh some insight into the conferences and professional development that um the Community Schools team which will include the community school liaison liaison and the uh Family Resource Center supervisor and myself um we're going to be going to several um conferences and um learning opportunities one of them is the school health conference that will be in Southern California um at the end of April that one is a great connection especially uh with the um you know one of the roles that the community liaison will have will overlap a lot with a community health worker and so those skills are things that we want to make sure that the Liaisons have in their tool belt um as they talk to families and they're able
048to um then provide references to supports and services for them so we're working on making sure we're incorporating um resources there um I'll be going to the Boost conference which is the best of out of school time so that'll help extend um unfortunately Mr Cruz isn't able to go with me that would have been a great thing for he and I to go to together but he's been before so he highly recommended it um so I'll be going to that um and I'm excited about the opportunities that then I can get ideas on how else we can um really support that fourth P pillar of Community Schools which is the Extended Learning opportunities for students and families um um the national Community Schools and family engagement was approved um by you last meeting and that's
049in minap Minneapolis say that three times fast um and we'll be taking a a my goal is when the ones that I take the team to will have um uh I'll have a rotating team of about seven people um that way different Liaisons can go and then come back and teach their um their the rest of the team um so we'll have different Liaisons going to the different events so that everybody gets an opportunity to um explore and and learn you know about many of these topics the national Community Schools and family engagement event is a really exciting one because um the Community Schools initiative is actually a nationwide um initiative and so this would we get to we have the opportunity to go to site visits to Community Schools in other states and see
050how they're envisioning um this initiative which will be really interesting to see um then we have the family lead Leadership Summit which is put on by the family leadership Incorporated um they currently work with uh Westside Union uh Elementary and and in the past they've worked with other schools in uh Los Banos so we are um going to their Summit and that'll be I'm going to have a quick turnaround on that one I'll be taking a team down to that then coming back really quickly because then the next day will be the California Community Schools EMP power Summit which is put on by CDE um and this year that'll be in Fresno so at least it's right here in our own backyard and that one is um exciting too because again that'll be an opportunity
051for us to network with um all of the different regions of California around Community Schools and what all of us are doing so that's the wrap for now and then next month I'll have uh some new things because things are rapidly changing I have new things happening every day and um I'll be excited to let you know you know uh once the uh Liaisons are approved you know where where we're at with that so any any questions or comments I just want to know in the last 30 days have you found any time to [Laughter] sleep well you know you pull over take a cat nap that's quite a list of uh of things so thank you for doing all that great work um Dana were you I have your name up oh didn't happen
052Okay Miss cuso um a great list list of activities um kudos to you for getting that all organized what's the plan to to get the word out on on which any of them so so far I've been using uh so for example I didn't mention it here but the last time uh we do have and I should have put that down I I spaced it for a second we have the um Merced County uh parent leadership training institute is holding their dream big conference and the way I've been um letting the the families know is through parents square and then also through um social media and then we have a uh we have our own Community Schools has our own web page um through uh on the district website and then once I have my
053community school Liaisons we'll we'll be able to do good oldfashioned phone calls um and so you know with a a bigger team I'll be able to get the word out there more so I'll be using those um I one of the great things that came out of our advis committee is they recommended we go to the fair and table at the fair and so we're going to I'm I haven't arranged it yet I'm going to be calling to arrange to have a table at the fair and um you know because everybody will be there so we'll make sure to be out there any events that we're able to go to you know our liaison will be able to go to those events and um I'm hoping that we will have you know maybe we'll just
054create our homemade signs for right and then eventually get fancy ones but you know maybe we'll have the sign so we're brainstorming uh along we're taking new ideas and that's where it's really wonderful to have the um the advisory Council because they can definitely give us insight into well you should try this and you should call them and um I think maybe a good idea even would be to go to a city council meeting and in their public comment time when you have an event fantastic uh I know that you commute so maybe since you're going to have the layons maybe they can rotate going and maybe announce and absolutely and and once I have a team that I'll be able to delegate to then my brain can actually you know think about going to
055the to uh other meetings and and that's you know that'll free up my brain space to actually make it out there because that is my goal that even though I commute you know I still I I know that this is not a nine-to-five job um it you know it never was you know when I took it took it on as a community school coordinator you know this is about being present for the community um so that's a great idea and uh I'll definitely take you up on it and and um you know once I have the community school liaison like they're going to come up with ideas of where they'll be able to go and and um you know talk about Community Schools thank you absolutely thank you Dr Mor just a quick one I
056know we still have to connect on collaborations with like mered college but one of the things I just came to mind we do have a Child Development Center as well so that would be a good way to get the word out for those community at large programs so not not only are we just secondary but you know that could be another good venue I know our parents so on the child care side they always love and Thrive and want to hear more and so a little bit more restrictive so anything that I could do to support okay yeah I'd love to talk with you and connect with you about how we can make a partnership happen that'd be awesome thank you I'll reach out all right I don't have anybody else on the board here
057anybody else have anything okay thank you thank you thank you good report next up is Dr Marshall's report okay I'm up and before I start I want to acknowledge um we have um someone tonight uh Diana Maria castal she's here with us uh she's filling in as our director special education while miss Tony my Miss Henry is out so thank you for being here all right uh you can see there my report that's a picture of uh Kaepernick and myself we met at uh the uh Assa conference in New Orleans and what's interesting I was just talking to him and I didn't realize that he had a Central Valley connection from Turlock and uh we were talking and when I said lost bis he just lit up I mean it just I mean to just
058see his face just light up like he knew exactly where it is and he has like a little history here I guess you know playing against us and stuff back in the day so that was um cool to meet him all right a few mileston um that I wanted to share this month um uh like as Dr Wheeler talked about our community schools team did visit the anope valley on February 28th and we got to see some Community Schools in action um Francine Baker uh she was the uh Merced chapter co- co- administrator um of the year so she's moved on to that um the next phase which is a regional competition and it was I went to the awards banquet and I'm a very competitive person so it was nice to see that she
059had a lot of Merced people to move on this year and so it's nice to have a laspas person in the mix as well so that's so good um job Mrs Baker uh we had um a very successful our fpm review that that's our federal money that we get from each year and when they give you money that you have to spend it properly and they do come out and they audit and uh going back Dr Richie shared that years ago like 200 19 when they came the last time we had about 50 findings and what happens is if they find issues with how you know you're using the money what happens you have to either fix it or they simply take it back because it's their money so this time we had like nine
060less than 10 and there was a lot of work I think there's some a Services people that are here that can attest to the work that they did to make sure that when they came that this was the that we had our issues um addressed so we so it was a lot better this time so I wanted to highlight that uh the uh merad Symphony they've been great they've entertained our fourth graders this week uh P Co High School had held its uh career fair it was nice to visit that and then we also had if you notice after each of my um points I talk about core values we had a good launch meeting for our strategic plan and uh we came up with some tips on how to get the word out one
061thing that suggested was as far as aligning what we do you know kind of align that to the the the plan itself and we so I've did that this month so I want to highlight that so so after each one you'll see the different core value that corresponds to that so I did that uh it was a nice visit I want to go back to our community schools team visit to an Valley they are commun Community like us and it was nice to see it from both both ends because one concern that was raised from the beginning is you got this grant for $21 million what happens after it's over East Side Union they basically have a model for how to sustain after because their model they're doing it they don't have the grant they
062took local funds and they're leveraging it and they're they're moving along so they're going to get the grant they're going to be more powerful Landcaster was more akin to what we're doing as far as having a lot of the stuff kind of more parallel to what we're doing so that was good to um to see that it was it was I hadn't been there in eight years so they they really rolled out the red carpet for us and that that that was that was nice of them uh finally uh at last month's meeting move forward you asked us to kind of um next one well let's first do this I want to recognize like I talked about um the um Mrs Baker being the uh co-administrator of the year for our uh our County and
063she's moving on the regional competition uh one group I didn't recognize last month and I said I'm going to bring it back because uh Miss Lewis did send it the email to me it's a Pacho High School pentathlon team they won a lot of medals and awards at this last competition so I really wanted to highlight that so I said I would bring that back and then this year a lot of our athletes basketball our soccer teams our track teams wrestling teams they all enjoyed postseason play okay right and then the last thing I'll fix it can you open that link I'll share this I didn't catch that can it just open oh cool let it open okay it's interesting it's open something all right are here okay this is weird this is a story
064behind this okay can we scroll down all right so when I saw this they sent me this link and you can see you can see go we'll just scroll down a little bit this is like the awards the thing so you get to see people from all over the country that they get in Virginia Virginia go ahead Georgia uh Pennsylvania uh that's like near Atlanta keep going Alabama SC down and you see uh you see somebody you know from uh Town Los vanas California now what's cool about this is that you know you look at the uh the year that I was there I was there in 1999 so Mr um delar Cruz you talk about 99 I mean that kind of that year kind of rank that resonated with me for a little bit
065too but uh uh that's been a long time ago and um you look at one one thing they had I'm glad they fixed it they had put initially when I saw it they put Long Beach there so I'm like please fix that I know the guy in Long Beach I'm not I'm not Long Beach so uh they did fix it so thank you so that's so I just wanted to share that now I have some photos next one you can see as talk here Mrs Baker and um Mr Thomas that's our poo High School pentathlon team I mean they did very well so I said I was going to highlight what they did okay next so now I'm going to turn over if we can turn Dr Lee's mic on there was a request made
066last month and we Sherry Monday Dr Lee and myself we worked on that and he'll present what we did so in 2018 uh the board approved the major uh you know put forward major acts and our local um you know uh Community approved that Bond that's $65 million so far we reive 43.5 million so far uh we still um you know will be receiving anticipa receiving 21.5 million coming forward um so here's are some initiative that measure act supposed to do uh such as improve safety uh repair or replace and to modernize uh to upgrade the lton stadium and to relieve severe overcrowding and you can see that we did a um you know few projects um here's just some example here uh we use measure X1 and we also provided District contribution from other
067funding sources that's towards facility and maintenance um so we have as yesterday we actually committed all the money we received the 43.5 million doll towards those facility um you know initiatives and we also contribute almost matching that amount um you know to so almost doubling that amount um to do our needs so we have fire alarms such as a Westside and the high school fire alarm uh that's coming out our other uh funding sources we did re Roofing uh the high school h&j wi and tiger gym and we did the modernization so the major Act is going to contribute uh 6.5 million to that and we are putting our state funding 2208 million towards that project also we did the vot out and San Louis portable classrooms uh we renovate the Lofton stadium so major
068X is going to contribute to that 10.81 million we're allocating uh also say we are going to contribute 9.14 million um also we use measor xon to construct the grassland for overcrowding so you know 23 .96 million towards that project uh District contributing additional 7.63 and also for the Early Education complex uh you we're allocating 23.73 million towards that from major x uh 9.21 million fund our district contributions so um that's the project we're working on and just want to really thank you our community for supporting the measor X bond that allow us to improve our school facilities and provide a Better Learning environment for our students um here are some pictures of the Poo the Los V uh lton stadium and also the ear education center okay and the last thing that I have
069this evening is like I talked about last month um the big topic that we should all be paying attention to is as far as like the change at the federal level relates to of the funding that we get and what I did is we provided thank you um Miss um Melanie Marcel she got this for me but we I got a lot of questions about okay how how do federal funds impact our budget what you see here is a snapshot of all the different areas that touch that federal education touches you can look at it's list is extensive as far as Title One your title program every student succeeds a lot of your special education funding workability Department of rehab a lot of your title programs your student support and academic enrichment you see the
070the money there title three homeless youth uh Child Nutrition um and the total you have there is uh like almost $16 million Additionally the eate program that we participate in that's about a half million dollar a year that we get to to do a Refresh on our uh technology at the schools that's F funded too so I me that needs to be known and so I wanted to just share that because as we move forward that that is is about a good percentage of our budget not small percent but it's not small change you know you look at Child Nutrition that's about 80% of his budget is federal um Dr Lee he likes to apply for uh safety grants and such and it was one you were working on and what happened right in the
071process right working on that grant for a work violence prevention and all of a sudden I can see the notice saying that Grant has been pulled or cancelled so I reach out say what happened and there's there some change over there in the federal level so they're sending the funding so um there's a lot of changes like Dr Mar mentioned so moving forward this spring that's something that we all need to be cognizant of and really pay attention to that so I wanted to just end by by stating that so that's my report all right thank you Dr Marshall Dr Lee um moving on to board member reports I usually go last and all I say is ditto so you guys can say ditto and then I'm going to go first this time um just
072a few things uh want to thank the Las vas High School FFA for inviting us to their sweetheart banquet food's always great and uh it's always a a unique opportunity to see uh the kids act like really good kids um they the FFA really does a good job of of strengthening their character so that's that's that's a great thing and of course get to hear who gets the award for being the uh sweetheart of the year so that's that's always good of the four four candidates I think they raised I I remember right it was $20,000 I think on their balloon sale for this thing so 29 I can't remember exactly 29,000 thank you I couldn't remember so thank you uho high school excuse me Los Manus high school for inviting us and uh I
073know you're going to use the money well um this past week or last week I guess was uh no this week last week I'm sorry was read Across America and most of us uh read in classes I got to read at Henry Miller and grassland and so I read a total of 10 classes in one day so it was quite quite the quite the day but it was fun the kids were absolutely great um and they had a number of of uh readers all day long and so U when I got to Grasslands I was after lunch at the end of the day in four sixth grade classes but they were focused they were they were great so um all the kids were great for for all the classes I read to so thanks for
074the invite to have us there that's probably what I always tell them this is the best part of being a board member is not sitting at meetings it's going to the schools and seeing what's happening there so thanks for the invite to that um I also went to uh poo High School's College and Career Fair um and one of the things I always uh notice going to those um College and Career Fairs is they have used to be it was a college fair and everything else now they have really expanded um to the career side I mean they've had they had beauticians they had um uh metal workers they had H Patrol and Sheriff um and so there was a lot of other things besides just there was a lot of colleges there but there
075were a lot of other opportunities for for our students uh who may not be College focused and so I want to thank both I know Las vas High School does the same thing with theirs um really introducing the kids to other opportunities for those that aren't focused on just Navy College some of them like maybe they start out doing something and then we'll eventually go to college but at least they know that there's a lot of other things out there for them so um thank you the high schools uh for making it uh uh making our students more aware of what's out there for them after they leave high school and last but not least um it was uh Arbor Day last Friday and the Las VES Parks and Recreation always has an art contest
076uh for for our students and uh it was uh really cool watching them um all going up to get their Awards uh we had a number of students who participated from all of our schools and uh uh we have such great artists that every single kid got first place so it was it was uh it just tells you how how good great artists they are um so they got that and they got a certificate and they got a uh sapling they can go home and plant in their yard and have a tree so uh thank you to Parks and Rec and the City of laspas for sponsoring that Arbor Day uh uh opportunity for our students to participate in Arbor Day so that's my report and so with that we'll start with Mr Lee so
077I can ditto most of what uh Mr Pereira said um in addition um I attended the Los Vos High School drama club production of not another bedtime story wasn't really sure what I was going to see it was um very funny and um it was uh announced at the beginning that many of the um students in the production this would be their first time on stage and they did an excellent job so um I enjoy that um I attended the um AG day at Miano uh every year they have one uh thanks to PCO high for providing um all the animals and and basically Morning Star and beekeepers and just about everyone you could think of uh brought something related to a um tomorrow morning is fosco Elementary School a day so looking forward to
078to seeing that hopefully it happens without Henry Miller Oh Henry Miller I'm sorry without the rain yes that's sorry um I did the read Across America I read four classes at grasslands and then I shadowed Dr Richie as he read for classes uh he did a much better job than I did he has a lot of more experience in reading the classes um I uh did attend the Merced Symphony Orchestra they brought a small group of uh string instruments uh and professionals to introduce um the idea of an orchestra with string instruments to all fourth graders um kudos to Eric sby for making sure that happens every year and I know that there's a lot of other funding mechanis ISM that goes into that to help pay for that um the person that leads it
079is Don harms from San Francisco she is um I don't know what her profession is but she's really an Entertainer she engages with the kids and they really respond well um lastly it is true that um all school districts have teachers and administrators that go way above and beyond the Call of Duty and and the Los V UniFi school district is uh one of those districts for sure um I was um invited to go to Charleston Elementary um because it's reading time of the year um the principal there L Rees um challenged the students to read 500 books and he told them that if they read 500 books he would kiss a goat um so um the the students actually read over a thousand books and so he uh brought all the students outside and
080he um brought out a goat it was a stuffed animal and and um he kissed he kissed it and you can imagine what the response was from the students um but then quickly um um Mrs Stringer from Pooh High who's an act teacher over there she they made arrangements for her to bring one of the students real goats and um because because they read um a thousand books um uh yeah Lou Reese told all the students that he would kiss the goat twice so um in fact um Mr ree um kissed the goat twice um and he really kissed the goat um and and uh yeah the students just went they went ballistic so um this is a sign of going above and beyond because I don't know many of you Educators out there would
081actually do this but um but he did so um kudos to L Reese and that's my report thank you of course of course Mr Reese was an egg teacher yes uh before so you probably kissed a lot of pigs too so anyway all right thank you Mr Castro no report this time no report uh so next up is Miss Smith Miss Smith do you have a report I do not all right on to miss Val you bet thank you Miss all I want to add is you know one of our core values is community and you've heard all along Dr Wheeler thank you you are a big part of building community and bringing the community together to work with LA Spanish Unified School District because we believe this is part of our statement we believe
082that Community is fundamental in shaping our shared identity and you are a big part of what's going to make that happen even though you heard PCO High school had career night um there's lots of activities that are going on that brings the community together with Los banana School District so sometimes I like to show and point out that one of our big core values is community and we're really striving to make that work and that's my report thank you thank you Dr Moran thank you I do have a handful of uh thank yous thank you to Cecilia Roo at Mercy Springs Elementary Laura Razzy at uh lbe so I those were the two schools that I went for read Across America it was amazing I would Echo and say ditto on the fact that that
083is the best part of being a board member is being able to go into the class and be with the little ones because I don't get to be around little ones and they're phenomenal so they were um the prek were going to be going to the zoo the next day so I read a book about teeth and so remember I was going to lbe to read Spanish so I went to the DLI classes and and um the book was amazing and it was talking about like proper hygiene of your teeth and so then it became a conversation about what they were going to see at the zoo and I said well maybe you can see which animals you will see at the zoo and maybe you can start counting at the zoo their teeth so
084hopefully just Public Announcement it wasn't a hard time for the teachers as they're running around maybe counting the teeth on uh these animals that they were seeing but it was such a pleasure to be out there and just thank you for for having me out there um and we another big takeaway is in just conversation it was brief conversation sometimes with the teachers is just what amazing talent we do have that are homegrown so one of the things on my daytime job that we were doing is highlighting Merced College alumni and so I got to run across so many of the teachers that have actually graduated from mered college and so I just wanted to say what a great talent what a great um connection that we do have between both districts uh one of
085them we uh featured in one of our this month's newsletter Angelina Torres over at Mercy Springs Elementary Again by visiting over at Mercy Springs and lbe I got two more that we're going to be featuring again because the community needs to see that so going back to those values the community needs to see that you can be born and raised me being one of them you can be born and raised in the city and do great things so um that was a main takeaway and lastly it's going to be a busy weekend for me so I think I'm going to hunker down this weekend review scholarships so uh you heard from our student uh report that 77 appli just for one school so um I'm going to be coing up and uh reading through a
086lot of scholarships this weekend so uh that'll be it for me right all right thank you Miss cuso well I also got to read at quite a few different schools I got to read at Bolam meano and Henry Miller and and it is the highlight of of being a board member I'm sure most most of the board well all of us I guess would agree go being able to go into the classrooms read to the kids and just see how excited they are to see somebody in their class and and reading to them and I'm getting better because you know I'm a high school teacher so um Littles is never has not been you know something I'm used to doing so I am getting better so if any of the teachers you know has have
087listened to me reading class I promise I'll I'll I'll try harder if I didn't do very well um huh and I did go to a lot lot of the things everybody else did but one thing was um that I'm excited about that they're still doing is portfolio day at the high school so the RO teachers basically teach their students how to have an employability portfolio which includes a resume cover letter work samples um references letters of recommendation and I was able to be one of the interviewers for this for students and it is just amazing to see what they've learned in class how they present them themselves at an interview and you know I don't know I I well I was an Roop teacher that was my thing and I I actually started portfolio day
088over 25 years ago and to see that they're still doing it I'm just very thankful because I had a a you know a high school student that my own that came to me his senior year and said what's a resume because he was applying for scholarships and I was a teacher who taught resumés and employability and I never even taught my own child so it's just a great skill for them to have this happened to be the the nurse the medical classes and I'm very happy to see the Medical classes at Las vanis high as well doing this and and they're all all um the students are actually going to New Bethany as one of their sites so that's a great thing for them to do getting that handson so I just kind of wanted
089to highlight that as one of our core values I think the teacher is striving for excellence in her class um so kudos to Kayla Jimenez the the teacher there so thank you and that's all I have oh have a great spring break it's coming soon yay all right so that's all the board member reports on to new business uh first item is the presentation of uh for Bond information so I know Dr Lee uh drug Adam up here and we want to welcome him Dr Lee thank you um we have a presentation on the bounce update so um M Mr Adam Bowers is the our C the CEO and president uh so he will be presenting the update of Finance plan and the potential 2026 bound measures great thank you and we serve as the
090district's Municipal advisor and have done so for a long time it's been a real privilege and you made my night with kissing a goat and I know he might say he's an a teacher but that means he knows what goats eat and that makes it more challenging to kiss a goat than than people who don't just just for a person that had a goat I know that um so um I admire your teacher and that commitment that he had uh this one all these slides the board is seen really just bringing an update and then I'm focusing on a few issues that I want your attention on and staff and I have been working on but this hisorical assess value one you've seen this your assess values increased in a very positive way which has
091allowed you to be able to continue issuing geoms and you allowed us to use very conservative assumptions and so whenever I come back to you I get to have a little bit better news than I told you we would because you allowed me to maintain those conservative assumptions and your assess value has continued to grow in a great fashion as a reminder this is all taxable property within a District's boundary so this building has a zero assess value but all the commercial and res residential you multiply the percentage that you have a tax rate and after Revenue to repay the bonds on the next slide we show your 2008 measure and you can see how that's going to the far left there we just show you how it's been issued what's taken place how it
092got passed to the far right there I want to show you something really positive once again those assumptions were conservative and you can see that red line there's a gap between the red line and those blue bar blue and orange bars what that shows is that we're having a lower tax rate than what you originally projected for taxpayers a real positive then you have your 2018 measure which we've been talking about a bit and you can see there um we still have a lot of a g a big gap and that's because we have this un unissued and authorized amount that 21.5 the other thing that's neat about the 2018 measure was we did a wraparound another measure we said between the two we won't go over this 50 and you can see that with
093these blue hash marks at the between 2024 and 26 and so once again that's a real positive that you really soften the impact or or the um the the burden for the homeowners but you still have 21.5 that you can issue there o excuse me so this next side we show all your debt outstanding and there's one I really want to point your attention to or there's two I should say there is the um 2015 or 2008 2015 and then the refunding series some say are refundable at any date and the other one says 81225 what that means is we can refinance these just like we do a home mortgage all the rest of us um but for the taxpayers within your community you can refinance these bonds and lower the interest the district gets
094no benefit of this it's just lowering the tax um rates for the homeowners and lowering what they pay in a tax bill but that's what those first two those first two are available for uh refinancing at this point in time and our next slide we're showing there is uh to the far left we show total 35.3 million that means we can um get 6.51% savings there at the bottom generally anytime you're over three it's worth looking at worth go over over 5% it's worth serious consideration so you're at 6.51% so this is something we should all give strong consideration to and we've been talking with District staff about getting this process started here and so this what you see in dark blue so right now if you look at the dark blue and the light
095blue that's what your taxpayers are repaying if we can refinance this with the rate that we last ran this at they would just have the dark blue we'd basically shave off that light blue and that's really what we're looking to do and then what we did here is if your District was ready to issue its next series we can combine those and there's some efficiencies to that or if they're not ready we could do refinancing and come back later and do the geobond next next issuance but we're looking at here is this is this we layered in our next series Ser of bonds and once again we use that blue hash line um you can see there even if we issued all the bonds with the current interest rates you'd be slightly below the interest
096rate that we promis voters so once again another very positive thing so we do here is just kind of show some steps is today we're introducing it we could be back as early as April 10th and uh get a rating on May 5th and basically be ready to sell the bonds and and close on March 20th one of the things about these bonds is they're St not aren't done done that frequently now and you have not done them in recent times and because they're a little bit more expensive and that's capital appreciation bonds these are bonds that pay zero interest until they're um until they maturity so they have more expensive cost this one to to kind of restructure it you would need just a few of those you need two board meetings but even
097with doing that you're lowering the tax rate for homeowners so that's what that that two-step process that you're not familiar with is so that is kind of what you have in front of you today with no new voter authorization or anything like that and then coming up we have an opportunity to look at 2026 measure and all these look the same but the numbers are different the red line represents the the maximum um amount that we're targeting in this case it's 30 and those different color bars represent a series of bonds for a total of 60 million at $30 tax rate so you saw this in July I I showed this to you the next one uh is 40 like I said it just looks EX exact same just different numbers that one is $40
098gets you to 81 million then next one 50 I'm just going to skip now because we get to this final page which gives you a summary of things and that is uh at 30 40 50 and 60 the district could generate somewhere between 60 and 122 million you might ask how do you decide number one is your need and so evaluating what the district needs are that that that's a driving Factor usually districts are not able to fund their full need and so then it' be doing surveys or things like that to figure out how much would the community support of that total need but that's really what would drive which decision but we have those options to take a look at so I have some new information you you have seen everything up to
099that really large Spike at the end and that was November of 2024 the largest election cycle we've seen not the most successful only 77% past um which has been a it's an improvement in recent times but the most Geo bonds that were passed and really what happened here is you can see in 202022 um there's barely any Geo Bonds on a ballot I mean it's hard to get ask people to vote for things when their kids are at home right that was that was a really hard time and um and voters didn't support it in the same way we had our lowest one in March of 2020 so this your next opportunity coming up our um is 2026 and we have seen some recent success 2026 is is going to be robust I have had
100more activity this early in the process I've ever had for a non-presidential cycle so you if you were to choose to do this you would not be the only one I think there's be a lot out there looking to do it and a lot of is to take advantage of that state money so in order for districts to get that prop two money or the next one you have to provide your local source of funding that's your ticket to get the Statewide money if you don't have your local funds you send money to the state and you never get it back and that's really one key advantage to General obligation bonds is to get you in line for those things you've seen this this is just the steps just wanted to remind you these are
101other team members that we'd have to get involved survey communication consultant here's the schedule we showed June of 2026 and you can see here we would start uh pretty quickly as in the summer also looking at November of 2026 we just have a little bit more time could do start a little bit later in the summer generally um November could be a really good time because turnout is likely to be very high for the first time in a long time we are going to have a new governor we don't know you know who Who's Who or she's going to be but I think that's going to have a lot of turnout turnouts good for school districts when you have more people voting you get more say and you have positive results let me just prove
102that to you look at this chart if you see a Green Dot that's a presidential election a Green Dot sign um has more success than all the yellow dots 26 is not a presidential election my point to you is turn out improves results so those are the those are the slides that we have prepared really that first part would be the part that we would work with District staff to initiate and that's getting started on that refinancing and if it made sense to bring in that new money now we can combine the two if not we could just buy for do the refunding come back and get the new money so it's good to see everyone thank you any questions for Adam all right I guess we'll see see you back sometime soon sometime soon
103look forward to it all righty thank you Adam all right on to Item B which is our second interim budget report Miss Marcel welcome good evening see if I can remember to advance it okay tonight I bring to you the 2425 second inum budget report for your approval let me do brief summary first I want to acknowledge Adana Escobar fourth grader at Charleston Elementary for her artwork I thought that was perfect for the weather this is like the highlight of me doing these books as the covers I really enjoy seeing how they get them from elementary then Junior High and high school how they change and it's it's just fun to see them okay what is the second inner budget report it is a report that tells us where we are financially between July and
104January and a snapshot compared to what we were at budget development it um also helps us project our financial status throughout the remaining of the year we will be submitting a positive certification for the second entrum um budget report I was hoping your students stayed so that they would know what that meant um it means that we can meet our financial obligations for the current year and the next two subsequent years our district enrollment is currently at 11,38 we had 11 student up increase that gave us about $29,000 more so that was nice our average daily attendance is 10,231 we will have a more updated number once we do um P2 enrollment we don't do that till April so I should be able to give you a better number at that time we had a
1051.07% cost of living in Cola and 2% cost of living adjustment to the salary schedule from January through June we also received one more um Golden State Pathways Grant award for 189,190 increase was for that increase in that up count our unrestricted um expenditures ranged around 153 million with salary and benefits being 76% of our Sal our um budget our restricted expenditures were 131 you'll notice most of it is in books and supplies because it's those large grants that we have that we budget in books and supplies after what's left after the salaries and benefits for those program s so how did we end up our beginning budget from January July 1st was $75 million our revenue is 227 million and our expenditures are 277 yes we are deficit spending keep in mind we gave
106a 2% raise on our Cola was only 1.07 so what what picks that up ending fund balance picks that up so when we end in June we're looking ending about 20 million and I know what everyone thinks $20 million that's a lot of money out there for grabs but let's break down what that $20 million is $29,000 of it is our revolving fund account 5.9 million is restricted funding our payroll reserves are 638,000 keep in mind our payroll is about 8.5 million per month at this time lcap um committed funds for lcap is 5.1 million our EPA funds 200 148 and our 3% required reserves is 8.4 million keep in mind a lot of our money is restricted but general fund takes the hit for that 3% that we're required to have this slide is
107actually a new slide I purposely put this in because I keep hearing the question where's our class- siiz reduction money class size reduction also known as grade span adjustment is part of our lcff calculator it is part of cola and I put you could see in class size reduction we get $4.2 million we don't get a separate part it's part of our calculator it's part of our apportionment and so I just want everyone to know it is part of it we don't receive a second pot of money because I know a lot of people ask what happened to the class size reduction Mone money it's the same as grade span adjustment it's just called different so how do we get grade span adjustment other known as class reduction there are two options to get these
108funds first the district can maintain a class size enrollment of 24 to1 on K through 12 classes or they can collectively bargain for an agreement allowing increased class size reduction those are the only two options to get this These funds types of funding we also get a lot of questions like when I put the carryover slide and you see the 53 million and everyone thinks oo 53 million let's go after it that is restricted funds there's a difference between unrestricted and restricted unrestricted are funds that are not subject to external or legal constraint as long as they do not prohib are not prohibited by law restricted funds are those resources subject to constraints imposed by external resources provided or bylaw through constitutional Provisions or enabling legislation when we receive restricted funds we receive them with
109a certain use that they have to be followed misuse of those funds can be um fines and also imprisonment keep in mind These funds are audited annually we just went through that fpm audit that was federal funds they turned over everything they could turn over and look at so restricted funds I always give a shot of this so when people see that beginning balance carryover that starting they could see that out of that 75 million 53 million of that was restricted funds that we carried over final snapshot we can meet our financial obligations for the current year and the two subsequent years the district is continuing to monitor Ada and enrollment and we're really watching the federal funding because we're really concerned like Dr Marshall said that's about 16 million that you know we have
110to be concerned about that that especially with not knowing Cola and where that's going to land that keeps fluctuating up and down so it's kind of hard to build a budget for next year when there's so many uncertainties that I hope we get answers to very soon um pension contributions continue to increase special ed and transportation also continue to increase annually but we are monitoring it on a daily basis and as soon as we know we usually make sure that you guys know any questions I just excuse me I just have a couple things sure I want to point out to my fellow board members um I'm sure you all look through the uh the budget book um which is this really big heavy thing um I forgot to run it back to back that's
111why it's so big but I wasn't gonna waste that the tree so I just put it like that but looking at it and you know and you guys know that I always spend a lot of time in the budget um the difference between the first interim and the second interim uh we had an increase in revenue of 1.1 million but if you go down a couple of lines um our expenditures between those two um first interim and now the second interim um was an additional or we our total expenditures were increased by 2.8 million because the raise didn't take in account till January so the raise didn't hit per Centum right what I'm saying though is we got $1.1 million in money but we spent $2.8 million that's the ramifications of giving more than Cola
112I know and so I mean we you know you point it out and it's like wow and our you know ending balance went down by $1.7 million so we need be aware of of what's going on um and also when you look at the multi-year uh projection um for the next three years out or this year in the next two years out um we still have that same problem in the fact that uh our ending balance keeps going down um each one of those three years I'm concern cost of everything I know I'm concerned and um I think we need to be well aware of the fact that you know we can't continue on this road of and that multiyear is based off the cola that I know at this time if it goes down
113that also does not look as great years out right so it's it's all it's all the guess but you know we've been very fortunate that we've been very careful with our spinning when you're hearing all these districts that gave these crazy amounts and now they're all in trouble and they're laying people off we're fortunate we haven't had to do that because we've been careful I know and I think it's us constantly monitoring everything but we need to be aware of the fact as a board that these numbers keep going down every month then it's a little scary and if we don't have that funding balance we're in trouble I know that's when we can't certify as positive and then that that's not a good situation so I just want to make sure everybody is well
114aware of that U Miss Bel have a plan in place to stop doing a deficit spending because to me if we keep spending more than we have by year three or whatever year that is we're going to be in trouble so are we going to put a p plan in place to I don't know cut something so we don't keep deficit spending the um answer to that is simple I mean you have to have that but if you look at the budget 80% of our budget is people and I think she explained you know we know she kind of explained how we why we in this predicament and that's something that um we definitely have to look at I mean I think I've been pretty since I've been here I've been pretty strict about that
115the whole time so it's just coming home so yes we will have to put something together to uh make sure you know our goal is to make sure that student student programming and stuff is not impacted I want I don't want it to be in a situation where we have to reduce supports for kids but it's something to be conscious of It's a larger conversation I think we all know the bigger conversation and you can't take from restricted to cover over spending and general funding that's something people have to understand yes that 53 million carryover is there we're not going to have that amount every year because we're spending those grants down but you can't say well general fund over spent so let's pull it from restricted unless we all want to go to jel
116and I'm sure we don't I'm not going I mean that just doesn't make us look financially responsible to anybody especially the other problem with that too is though our special ed is encroaching on our general fund so we're putting general fund money into special ed and in transportation ex so as those costs increase it more comes out of a general out out of unrestricted that gets put into restricted yes and it goes back to the whole my conversation at the beginning I mean as far as the federal uh the whole Federal part conversation I mean it all comes full a circle if we lose that special ed funding there you go where does that get picked up so that's a part that's I mean goes back to the beginning what I said at the onset
117I look at the big picture always do so hopefully the federal funding ends up okay but even if the federal funding stays the same we're right now we're still def defit spending so to me when I'm deficit spending at home I've got to cut something so I'm just wondering I mean I know we have and I know you're thinking about it I'm just know that you know it's reality right it is and it's not a good thing that we have to do it's not fun but something's going to have to be and the price is going up for everything I heard you know I mean we see what we pay at the gas pump what are we paying to fill up our buses right you know it that's all general fund stuff thank you very
118much any questions sure so on my line of work I work on deadlines very important and so to address Dana's point and Dr Marshall what's the deadline so if we know we have an issue and we know that there's a lot of unknown with with the state and with the federal funding um do we need to set a deadline that says here is the plan by this date so that we can at least know what our plan a is going to be or Plan B uh you can't I mean until we know and get concrete numbers and stuff like that you you you're basically you know you can't make a plan unless you have the data points to make that plan so again what has to happen I mean you look at there are certain
119benchmarks okay there's the May Reis then the governor has you know he has a certain deadline to kind of finalize the budget that's when you know exactly how much money you're dealing with at the first part when we start school in the fall there's there's a document the UN audited actuals where they look at what we said we were going to spend versus what we're going to spend which we actually did spend so you have to look at the budget that's why we do these reports you know regularly because it's the budget is a living document and things you know thing you know circumstances change sometimes you may think that you do a budget based on Ada of a certaint like 90% And you find out at the end of the year you've actually increased
120to like 92 point you know I'm making this up like so you get more money you have to have in order to have a plan is actually functionable you have to have actual real data because without real without real data you're just putting stuff there that's not that when when you you know you you can put stuff down what's what if you put 80% down and then you come up with 65 your whole plan is worthless so you have to have concrete data you know the most accurate data possible then after you look that you actually see your actual spending pattern then you can move forward with some type of a Reconciliation plan but right now until we figure out what's going to happen with the federal government That's goes back to my initial in
121the fact I said it last month you know the kind of I'm I'm more proactive I said this last one this is big I mean you have to look and turn to see how how is it all going to play out that's $16 million you saw that at the onset that we have to contend with you can't make any kind of plan until you figure out what is going to happen with that that's a that's a significant you how much our budget is that about we did a percentage about what I've seen so many numbers this week I could tell you if $200 million budget about 8% 8% yeah that's the that's the number you gave me this morning so I I I understand what you're saying I hear the words I do I understand
122what you're saying but I still with your words are saying that it's constantly changing right all the time um everything's changing all the time May Revis the federal government spending I hear all that but reality is we have to make sure that we have enough money to run our school district so if we're deficit spending don't we have to eventually come up with a plan so that we're not deficit spending there yeah there ways to do that but it's a larger compensation I mean I don't want to you know it's a lot bigger and it's lot but we have to plan for I get that but there are a lot of variables in that right and a lot of those things you know you going to have to you as a board are going have
123to deal with some of those variables that impact thing it's a larger conversation right you can make all the plans you want but in terms of there's like the you know different you know we not negotiations but there all kind of things variables that play into that yeah it's not something I could I could put down whatever and give you I can give you a plan tomorrow but um you know but in terms we have to look in terms of there are certain things that have to be done you know and and you guys are aware of that so and keep in mind that whatever Cola is one .5% is step and colum that's already bargained so if you get a 3% Co up you really only got 1.5 because 1.5 is to step and
124calm so you always have to keep that in your mind you know people think oh we got 3% we really didn't get 3% because 1.5 is already expension budgeted somewhere so it's just we have to be mindful of that yeah the other 1.5 just got to do right everything else else cost of gas all the increased cost of stuff but people I mean we all want I mean that's human nature but we also want to make sure that people aren't going to lose their jobs and stuff because of not good spending any other questions thank you m thank you thank you good conversation yeah all right on to item C initial bargaining Proposal with the what oh I'm sorry no roll call oh how long have I been doing this all right got a motion
125by it's I'm a little tired here tonight um a motion by uh member Moran seconded by member ATO to um approve the second interim budget report roll call please Tina Mr Castro yes Mrs cuso yes Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran yes Miss Smith yes Miss valad Mr pra yes thank you all right thank you Tina all right now on to item c um the uh initial bargaining Proposal with lbta Dr kadas it's recommended that the board accept the initial bargaining proposal submitted by the Las panas Teachers Association this is for the 2526 bargaining cycle board acceptance of The Proposal will follow a public hearing all right all right with that uh we will open the public hearing at 8:41 is there anybody that wishes to come forward and give us their thoughts on the initial
126bargaining propos from lbta all right seeing no one come forward we will close the public hearing at 8:41 uh comments or questions from the board with that uh seeing none I need a motion please we got a motion by member uh cuso seconded by member Castro to approve the initial bargaining Proposal with LBT lbta roll call vote please Tina Mr Castro M cuso Mr Lee Dr Moran Miss Smith yes Miss valad Mr per yes thank you thank you all right next item item D has been pulled from tonight's agenda we'll be seeing that at a future agenda on to item e board policy and bylaw changes who's doing that tonight Dr Marshall Dr Richie is the lead on that but who's doing that okay I'll do it uh it's recommended the board declares in intent
127to adopt the following uh mandated updates uh board policy uh 0460 local control accountability plan uh AR 0460 local control accountability plan uh board policy uh 1250 visitors Outsiders administrative regulation 1250 visitors and Outsiders all right so you have that before you any comments or questions all right need a motion to uh declare our intent to adopt these um by changes got a motion by member El seconded by member valo um to declare our intent to adopt these he will come back again next month um for final approval but right now we're just declaring our intent to adopt Tina r call please Mr Castro Mrs guso yes or Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran M Smith yes Miss valad Mr pra yes thank you all right on to item F and that is our employee and
128volunteer appreciation resolutions Dr Marshall all right it's recommend that the board adopt a resolution um number 0525 National volunteer week uh number six 25 the have the teacher and number seven 25 classified employees week all right and with that I always like to read these um each year rather than we just pass them and nobody knows what they said so I will read the three resolutions resolution 0525 volunteer uh recognition shining a light on the people and causes that Inspire us to serve whereas April 20th through April 26 2025 is the celebration of n National volunteer week and whereas volunteers are eager to help out in every way and take the time to make the world a better place whereas volunteerism is recognized as a central partner to education where young people have the advantage
129of seeing adults show respect responsibility fairness trustworthiness caring and citizenship now therefore be it resolved that the Las vas Unified School District Board of Trustees publicly thanks and honors the many dedicated individuals who give so freely of their time energy and abilities to the student of this school district not only during this special week but during uh throughout the whole year um and with that on to the second resolution uh resolution 0625 day of the teacher teachers today touch tomorrow whereas May 7th 2025 is designated as day of the teacher in celebration of the teaching profession and whereas the board recognizes that a strong public education system for all youth is essential to our democratic system and whereas the board acknowledges the true heroes of our society our teachers for the lasting contributions they make
130to our most valuable resource our children now therefore be it resolved that the Los spanis Unified School District Board of Trustees publicly thanks and honors the many dedicated individuals who give so freely of their time energy and ability to the students of this school district not only on the special day but throughout the year and urge the citizens of Las Banis to pay tribute to them as well on to uh resolution 07- 25 classified School Employees week together everyone achieves more whereas May 18th through 24 2025 is designated as classified School Employees week in celebration of support staff and whereas the board recognizes that a strong successful public education system requires a team effort and the classified employees are valued members of the district team and whereas the board acknowledges the true heroes of society
131are classified employees who take care of the district support functions so teachers can concentrate on teaching and students can focus on learning now therefore be it resolved that the Los Vish Unified School District Board of Trustees publicly thanks and honors honors the many dedicated individuals who give so freely of their time energy and abilities not only during this special week but throughout the year and urge the citizens of Los Banis to pay tribute to them as well those are our three resolutions U recognizing our employees and volunteers for all they do for our district and our students with that I need a motion or any other any comments I need a motion please we got a motion by member cew seconded by member Moran to adopt resolution 0525 0625 and 0725 Tina roll call please
132Mr Castro Mrs cuso yes Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran yes Miss Smith yes miss valad Mr PR yes thank you all right on to the consent calendar and um with that I would like to remind everybody that we did have um item uh B1 on the uh consent calendar has been updated it's on the district website and you have it in front of you um and I would like to pull item e um from tonight's uh calendar to discuss after we vote on the rest of the items and are there any other pools tonight all right seeing none then I need a motion to approve the consent calendar as updated and uh with the pull of item e motion please we got a motion by member Lea seconded by member guso I'll uh roll call
133vote Tina Mr Castro Mrs guso yes Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran Miss Smith yes Miss valad Mr PR yes thank you so um item e which is uh donations to the school district and I just want to call everybody's attention to um the great donations that we've received um in the past month um we received a donation from Peninsula clean energy for for the Poco High School annual wax museum which is something really cool if you ever get a chance to see that the kids do a great job also to um Morning Star packing company uh who made a donation to Creekside junior high for their Marquee um and they have been most generous for many of our schools it seems like once a year they uh they give a electronic Marquee to one of
134our our schools and so I think they're they're almost got them all done but uh there's there may probably a couple more to go but we want to thank them for always stepping forward and also um uh we had and you have the updated brm in front of you oh a donation from the estate of Joanne Mueller um to Los bis High School in the amount of 50,2 and we do have a member uh of her family um Beth Mueller kpatrick is here tonight uh we can't thank you enough for this this is absolutely phenomenal and I know it's going to be put to Great use and the students at Las vas High School are really going to benefit from this donation so thank you very much for that [Applause] donation I miss your mom
135I used to see her every month at the golden agers dinners um she was there every month and uh enjoyed going and I always got to say hi and and talk to her a little bit so uh um we'll all miss her because like I said I saw her every month and uh we'll miss her greatly so thank you very much for that donation I really truly appreciate that thank you all right so I do need a motion to U approve item e on the consent calendar we got a motion um from Member valido seconded by member cuso to approve item e it is roll call please Tina Mr Castro M guso Mr Lee Yes Dr Moran Miss Smith yes Miss fadale Mr PR yes thank you again thank you to everybody for that um
136next item is we reporting out of closed session um and we did have one action item in close session tonight and that was a request of for a waiver from physical education graduation requirements for a student of Los Banas High School um that student number is 55309 70 um the board approved that waiver the motion by Lee seconded by uh member too uh there were six yeses no NOS one absent which was Mr Castro who uh came a few minutes late after we voted on this so that's why he was absent but here tonight um and so that was the action in close session um next we have uh discussion and information in future agenda items does anybody have anything I have one one Dr Marsh all it's nothing for the future just a couple
137of Corrections I did not um everybody talked about read across America I mean I visited some sites as well grasslands they always invite me uh Miss lindst class at meano so I went and read to those classes and I wanted to make sure I pointed that out the other thing uh I received a note from um the at Services team because they want me to be very clear that when I said about the fpm findings I said it was less than 10 the exact number is seven they wanted me to uh they were like looking at be like no it was it was it was seven so the number is seven so I want to make sure I point that out cuz worked hard on that great super thank you anybody else has anything uh
138future agenda discussion or anything you want to put in talk about well with that it's uh 8:52 and we're going to adjourn the meeting thank you all for being here and drive home safely and we'll see you next month good night everybody night