001We will reconvene to open session. Um, we are a dedicated board. Some of us are completing through this meeting right now, so we'll start with the Allegiance. 29 years of service and education. Randy Ener is a seasoned administrator who held many leadership roles in u in USD before retiring. Most recently, he led Friendly Hills Elementary School to a California Distinguished School designation. Throughout his career, Randy focused on improving student achievement through data-driven decisions and strong community involvement, playing a key role in a school success. His dedication and student-centered leadership have made a lasting impact at Friendly Hills even after his retirement. Thank you, Randy. Thank you. Please stand for the pledge. Right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which stands, one
002nation under God, indivisible, Liberty, justice, all. Hey, so did, okay. Two, three. Okay. Next step will be, be the adoption of the agenda. We will amend this to a date for the seating of September 2nd, 2025. May I get a motion? I move. Second. All in favor? Any nays? Five zero. Next up adoption of the minutes for the June 24, 25 regular meeting. May I get a motion? So moved. Moved by Bianca, second by Pete. All in favor? A Aye. A Aye. Any nay? Five zero. We have two matters resulting from the closed session that resulted in votes. The first one, um, be resolved at the Board of Education, readmit student 24 dash zero one to MUSD pass and adopted the second day of 2025 in the county of San Bernard, Bernard. The vote is
003five zero. Next up was be resolved before of education. Readmit student 24 dash 0 0 8 to MUSD as and adopted the second day of September 25 in the county of San Bernardino. That was also a slide to zero. So this is a very setting day. We, we've been waiting for this for a while, so we're gonna be take away. I guess it's gonna be Gracie, We are very proud to recognize Friendly Hills Elementary School for being named. It's one of the state's most prestigious honors awarded by the California Department of Education. This recognition is reserved for schools to demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and significant progress. In closing the achievement gaps based on performance data from the California School dashboard, which includes English, language, arts, math, performance, suspension, race, chronic absenteeism, while also showing success
004in supporting all student groups. This honor reflects the collective efforts and dedication of the Friendly Hill staff, students, and leadership team. Please join me in welcoming Mr. Randy Ner, former principal of Friendly Hills current principal, Lisa Roach, and all members of the Friendly Hill School community. And So let's hear it one more time for the Hills School community. Congratulations on being made. Okay, we do 3, 2, 1, 2. Perfect. One more. 3, 2, 1, please. Thank you. Thank you. The old passing of the torch. Go Hawks. Um, Been out to that school several times. Uh, really tremendous atmosphere. Uh, blown in away. It's simply just not quite wine there. When you go between lunch, their class, it's a little things. You go in there aren't kids goofing around like, um, except for Jake Ella's class.
005Everybody's very Well, But fantastic job is well, well deserved. And, um, we do look to do, we are gonna do something on site as well. So we're looking forward to that as well. So more that we go. But thank you very much, much like our representative, you're more than welcome to leave you don't to with us. Thank you very much. Thanks For coming. Next up will be our legislative report. You Have nothing to Say. Okay. No reports. That gets us to our classified representative who is not here going to get in habit looking up. Okay. May somebody, our certificated representative. No report. No report. Thank you, Lorraine. Don't let me down. Do we have a report for the Marine Corps? Sorry. No report. Very good. All right, well that leads us to our reports by
006the superintendent staff members. And we will start with Stacy Small this evening. Grace. Good evening. Board President Claire, board members and Dr. Vargas. Thank you for the opportunity to have a few minutes for introductions tonight. First, I would like to introduce Marcel to you. Marcella is joining MUSD from Coachella Unified School District as the Director of professional learning instructional and enrichment supports. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experiences from her previous roles as both elementary and secondary principals and director of early learners. Her experience includes areas such as transitional, kindergarten, multilingual education, and expanded learning programs Ourselves. Good evening Board President, Claire, board members, Dr. Vargas and members of the community. I'm very excited to contribute to the district's vision of student excellence. And thank you for the opportunity. Next we have
007Mike. Next I got Mike Al. Mike has been with MUSD since 2007, supporting the smooth running of the district through several maintenance and operation roles. Since 2022, he has served as the maintenance and ground supervisor, supervising the staff, managing the budget, and the capital improvement projects. We are pleased to have someone with such knowledge and experience of our own district's operations to take the role of director of Facilities, maintenance and operations. Mike, thank You. Thank Good afternoon or good evening everyone. I'd like to thank everyone here, including, uh, president Claire, Dr. Vargas, board members and, uh, sorry, cabinet members. Um, I look forward to looking and working with all of you very much. Um, I've been here for quite some time now and this is all new to me. Um, but I appreciate the opportunity
008very much and I look forward to serving you guys any way I can and giving you all the information that I can possibly give you on all the bond projects coming up. Thank you all very much. Next Up, Dr. Crazy Gutierrez. All right, so today I will be providing you an update on summer school as well as the summer meal program. So this past summer, we hosted a 20 day summer school program that provided both academic and enrichment support for our elementary students. We had nearly 600 students participate at one of the three centrally located sites. We were running our program at Joshua Tree POA and Yaka Valley Elementary students, uh, participated in academic instructional activities, as well as engaged in hands-on enrichment that included art, stem, social emotional learning. A big thank you goes
009out to our community partners, groundwork Arts, for being an incredible partner in providing that dynamic morning and afternoon sessions that enriched the student day for us. Um, a big part of our program included the field trips, which were designed to both enrich learning, but also encourage attendance. So students have the opportunity to attend a water day at ASIS Farms to participate on a historical adventure at Riley's farm, they saw how to train your dragon for, at Fox Theater. They visited the Children's Discovery New Museum of the District, and they were a part of a leadership and team building camp with the MU Academy. A big thank you to every single person that contributed to our program, um, from program development to hands-on involvement. Their efforts definitely ensure that our students had a stay in an
010engaging environment to be a part of this summer. We also want to recognize the teams who made it possible, like individuals providing meals, who were transporting our students, who were ensuring that everyone was safe and, and well taken care of. So thank you to everyone for that. Um, moving on, uh, talking about our summer meal program. And so we just want to highlight the incredible efforts of our MUSD nutritional Services department. We are proud to share that we serve a total of almost 229,000 meals across our summer distribution sites. Program Kicked off with a high energy event at Lucky Park in June, which really helps set the stage for a strong and successful launch. We want to extend our help heartfelt thanks to the City of 29 Palm Park and Recreation Department for their partnership
011and support during this event. Um, a big thank you also goes to Janet Bars and the nutritional services team for their leadership and their commitment to serving our students and the community throughout the whole summer. Thank you. And last but not least, I would like to invite Dr. Milu to come up and share some information about our district's campaign on attendance and recognition of attendance Awareness month, which is coming up in September, and it's now September. When I intended to say this, it was still August, I believe it was, uh, Woody Allen who said, 80% of success is just showing up. Um, and here at Moron Unified School District, we very much value attendance. Um, the focus this year, the focus this year, however, isn't just about the importance of attendance. It is also about,
012um, focusing on what did, what did our students learn every day? There are amazing things happening in our district, and I think you all would agree with that. And so what we're trying to do with this attendance campaign is highlight the amazing things that are happening. So this, um, September awareness month highlights all the amazing things that are happening. So let me give you just very briefly a couple of things. We have a parent campaign. Uh, this is a joint effort between the district and the school sites. We're going to have, uh, some quick videos where we're interviewing students and staff about the amazing things that are happening. This is going to be shown in different classrooms. Uh, we also have a parent newsletter going out, full video, uh, to school sites as well. Uh,
013we have banners that are encouraging, uh, attendance. The parents can see as they're driving up to our school sites. We have positive reinforcement. Uh, we're sharing best practices between sites. Uh, there's some amazing things happening, uh, and I just want to encourage you to, uh, keep attention to what's going on because again, there are amazing things happening. Thank you so much. Next up, Amy Woods. Good evening Board of Education. Uh, president Claire, I just wanted to give you an update. We did get, uh, our AP scores back a few weeks ago, and in front of you is the packet that breaks down the scores a little bit more specificity, uh, ya high and 29 high, and the three year, uh, culmination of passage rates. However, again, for the audience and for you, uh, for, for
014just a precursory analysis I have for you, uh, the MUSD total passage rates for 20 2023 and 24 and 25. And as you can see, the MUSC passage rate total, that's all the exams taken in 2023. We had about a 39% passage rate. Last year, we had about a 52% passage rate, and this year we had, uh, a 54% passage rate. So we are looking in the, um, uh, again, a note would be, um, our biology scores, um, that were, uh, the test that were passed at 86%. Um, the chemistry, uh, tests that were passed at 41%. Um, we do have, we did have a, a big bump in our passage rate for the English Lang, um, and comp, which is the, um, we call it English 11. It's the 11th grade, but we do
015tend to flip flop from Yucca high to 29 high. Regardless, you can see that, uh, 29 high had a passing grade of 84%, uh, this year for that test, which was a huge jump. So this is a comparison of, of, um, Yucca High and 29 high, not with each other, but with themselves in 20 23, 20 24, and 2025. And this particular chart will show you how many students actually attempted the test and then how many passed. So again, you can take a look at, uh, test like, um, um, the, the, the English landing comp where, you know, we used to have, you know, you know, I don't know, 15 kids taking it, uh, four or five kids taking it. We had 27 kids take it this year. Like I said, at 29 high with
016a passage, we had 86%. Um, statistics are all of what you make them, but what you want to look at are how many, uh, students are, are taking or attempting the test. And then how many are passing. Now, our numbers will continue. I do continue to kind of fluctuate depending upon what we're offering in the realm of dual enrollment, because you're kind of pulling from the same, um, group, right? Some, some students will take dual enrollment, which offers guaranteed college credit and some will opt for an AP uh, test or an AP course, which of course, you have to earn at least a three or better. The courses that you see up here are courses that largely we do not offer in the dual enrollment realm. So when you're looking at physics or Spanish or
017um, uh, chemistry, we do not offer those in dual enrollment. So you will see more of our students taking the AP exams for there. So again, in your package, um, those you would like to look at it a little bit. Um, like I said, with more specificity, you can take a look at the three year running average school by school and course by course. Also, um, to piggyback off of Dr. Gutierrez, uh, summer school for the secondary students or the high school students, resulted in 515 credits being earned in our, uh, apex or our credit recovery program. We did offer this year an NC program, which is something that we haven't done in quite a few years, only in the areas of English and math and only in the area for ninth graders. So you
018will see that we did have 14 students at 29 high in an in seat. That means with an actual English teacher earn English credit and 21 for Inea Math. And those were ninth graders. Um, I would again piggyback this statement off of the, uh, the trend of not needing so much of the English nine or the integrated math one for summer school because of the great success for the high school success program that, um, raise the, the, uh, passing of the see or better of the a g rate for our ninth graders and decreased the failure rate quite significantly. I will have more specific data for you most probably in November on the high school success rate. Um, so that was for 29 high. So Yaka Valley High School, um, had a total of 940
019credits that were earned for the, uh, uh, apex Credit Recovery. Credit recovery is when you've taken a course and failed it, or you've earned a D and you want to recoup that D into the C better for A through g, uh, requirements. So our Apex does our, our computer based program does our credit recovery. 940 credits were recovered over the 20 days of summer school. Yaba High School also ran an inea English and math program for their ninth graders. And 62 students did earn their ninth grade English credit and recouped that credit in seat and 38 for math. And for Morongo Unified overall, uh, we saw 1,455 credits that were earned or recouped, um, in our credit recovery program, putting students more, uh, on track to graduate. Um, again, to break the numbers down, 76
020were in Inea English and 59 in seat math. And one of the best statistics that's up there is that because of the credit recovery, we did have an additional 10 students who graduated from Unified School district over the summer by recouping those credits. Dr. SI also have, um, a report on the honor bags in the move to sixth grade, if you would like that now. Okay, well, question. Sorry. I'm sorry. I do I have a question. When you say in Seat, uh, I didn't know that we had summer school that wasn't In CI understand when I say in C, that means that you're in front of an actual English or math teacher giving, giving credit for English or math. Mm-hmm. The, um, for quite some time we have done all credit recovery on the computer
021through Apex, which is a completely computerized program. This year we decided to put an English teacher for English nine and an integrated one math teacher in front of the ninth graders to help them recoup that credit in an attempt to, um, recoup some learning loss and to accelerate some learning as opposed to just recouping your credit. Okay. So normally when, uh, teachers sign up to do summer school, are they just sitting in the class with kids on laptops? In the last couple years? Yes. In the last couple years. Prior to COVID, the answer would've been no. We did all, um, nc all of them were nc but it would, it was direct instruction uhhuh. Um, but post COVID, we had so many students that needed to recover credit that we were doing full classes of
022just Apex Credit Recovery. This year we decided to take a look at yeah, to change it up a little bit to see, um, because there is more learning that will occur when they're in front of an actual teacher. Thank you. Yeah, Thank you. Um, so it's all recruitment. It's not like, uh, they're eighth grade, they're trying to take care of the ninth grade, which is Not like that. No. Okay. It's ninth through 12th grade. Okay. And then the second piece is if they had a D and then they take summer, get it. C is their permanent record change through C? Yes. Okay. Trying to figure, yes, Will we be adding more in C as time goes on? Is that A in C With the Instructors? Will we doing that again or are we just gonna
023stick with Apex? And It's something to think about. Ms. Bond, when you're looking at cost benefit analysis, we would need to take a look at, you know, how many students earn because it's all credit recovery. Right? Right, right. And so how many students, you know, it was just important for me with our, our big push, with our high school success and our ninth grade success and all the things that we're trying to do with the ninth graders to see if we couldn't do a little bit more with them with the 20 days of Inea instruction. Although it's credit recovery with an actual math or English teacher. Because when a teacher is doing credit recovery through Apex, doesn't necessarily have to be an English or math teacher. It could be any credential teacher. Okay. Now I
024have another question. Um, do, it's only for credit recovery. So it's not for students to take like health or other, I think when I was in school there was like driver's ed and help you can take over the summer to get those out Of the way. That was the case before. Health is no longer a credit requirement for graduation. They do have to have their health unit inside of biology or pe. So we do not any longer offer that during the summer because it is not a graduation requirement for a class and driver's education. We don't have, uh, very few people in the state of California have anyone left with driver's education. Um, But Thank you. Thank you very much to I Health driver's Ed and Titan Aid in high school. Anyway. Very good. Thank
025you very much. Next up will be Dave Daniel, Stacy Moore. Oh, wait a minute, Carrie, carry on. I do have an update on, uh, the Yonder Pouch Deployment initiative and the move of the sixth grade to junior high. Very briefly. Um, we did, uh, deploy the yonder pouch initiative at the four secondary schools. Um, ya High 29, high 29 Junior and LA Contenta. And the feedback from those four schools is thus, uh, we have heard positive feedback from the staff at La Contenta regarding the deployment of the yonder pouch initiative. There have, uh, only been four violations of the policy so far that have resulted in a campus supervisor bringing a student's phone to the office for the remainder of the day. They have found approximately 10 pouches that were legitimately defective and yonder was
026notified and replace them. Some staff report that there are fear of requests to use the bathroom because students cannot use the phone in the bathroom. An 29th Palms High School reports that the drastic reduction in classroom distractions and disruption has been notable. At lunch, students are socializing and conversing rather than scrolling or gaming. Several students have remarks that, that they are enjoying the reduction of screen time and teachers have positives to say about the effects so far yet, the value high school reports that they have not seen phones in class. If they do see a wave phone, it is usually outside of class. Teachers have seen more student engagement and productivity. They had a very small number of student and parent complaints. And most students are compliant when, um, they are found violating the cell
027phone policy. And they only need the first warning. Uh, they have 12 students that are on their second defense and assigned contracts when parents have had to come pick up the phone. 29 Palms Junior High deployed their yonder pouches during orientation to each student that had a phone pouches. Uh, were checked out during the first period to make sure students, uh, are utilizing the pouch, their check, I'm sorry, the check first period to make sure the students are utilizing the pouch. There have been, uh, some surprise inspections and there have been a few students who have needed several reminders of the new policy, but overall they report the initiative is currently going well and there is support from the parents. So that is my update for you on the yonder yonder pouches and very, very
028brief. Oh, Well, One little thing. Um, for the update of move of the sixth grade to 29 junior high, we now have 196 sixth grade students that are attending 29 Junior. We have six operational classrooms. So that's three teams, uh, of sixth grade. And during the first week of school, the school went over the student handbook with the sixth graders. They have had to counsel some students on behavior expectations. Overall, there have been positive feedback from parents and 29 junior reports having more parents wanting to be involved with activities inside the school. So that's very positive. I was, I was just wondering, um, how you gathered the feedback for the information you gave us on the cell phone Beyond I, I did ask for the, uh, four principals to give me a report from them
029and their staff. Any other questions? Um, I was able to go a few of the schools and it was night and day compared to last year. Last year I done see the kids underneath the desk, that sort of thing, trying to hide it. And this is the engagement. Everything seemed much, much better. Um, a lot of my, a lot of my friends are teachers. They feel like it's been very positive. Some are very apprehensive in the beginning. I get it. That maybe potential conflict, but I think it's one of the best decisions that we've made as a board, honestly, future kids. So good job. Perfect. Thank You. And thank you to all of all, all the teams and all of the schools and all of the sites that were all part of making this happen
030for the, for the good part. Well, I too had the opportunity to go to HY and 29 Ha and to, uh, Locka Lata and, uh, 29 Junior. And it is Amazing to see the kids talking and laughing and actually having a good time even though they don't have those phones. I am totally impressed with what is going on. I think it is phenomenal and I think it's the best thing that we've done in a long time as far as that goes for the, for the teachers and for the staffs of the school. So thank you. It was awesome. I did have one additional question. Have we noticed now, have we seen fewer fights and disputes? Or is that too early to kind of page back or is that even a question you asked? I didn't
031ask that question specifically. I can tell you however, that we do monitor through our CWA office, the things like the fights with the violent altercations, and while we have had fights at the schools, um, there has not been this, um, filming. Yeah, the, the social media filming and the, the explosion of the, the negative from that. So that would be my response is I don't know if it's cut down on the actual fights, but the repercussions, uh, long lasting for the students of that definitely has, has gone down. Thank you, Amy. Appreciate that. So this time we have, and I go first with the enrollment numbers. So the handout that you have there are of you. Um, yeah, better. All right. Fantastic. Okay, so the numbers that I have here for you in your handout
032is, uh, pretty impressive. And today, continue on with the good news. That's, uh, seems to be the pattern for tonight. So our enrollment projections that we had, that we, you know, based our budgeting on in January was, uh, 7,142 at the end of the year coming into 2025, wrapping up, uh, we had, uh, 68 40 actually enrolled at that time. Had a little bit of an explosion of enrollment over the summer. As you can see here, bumping up 496 to 7,336 from that June number, when you compare it to the January number, we're up overall 194, uh, from the projection that we based our budgeting on for this year. Now, uh, as you can see, very good results with the attendance that we have. When you look at our 10 day count, final number, 7,332.
033So we were only four kids. Uh, so we came out very, very strong here at MSD on our attendance. Uh, very, very good in that regard. I don't know how you could really ask for much better than that other than a high percent, which would be nearly impossible. Uh, so we hope that trend will continue. Um, so looking at these numbers here, this takes into consideration any, uh, pending enrollments that we have. They're extracted from, uh, the overall, uh, numbers. So this is a true, real number. These are our apples to apples on here. Um, Friday, we'll give you a more of a breakdown for the numbers by school site for you so you can kind of see where the increases are at certain school sites and which school sites have kind of remained the
034same. But overall we had, uh, general increases that, uh, lots of sites Enrollment questions first. Yeah. Uh, yeah, that attendance is really encouraging. Um, so we went into the year we thought we were gonna have, was it 68 40 or the 71 42? This, The 71 42 is what we expected going into what, where the dust would settle. Um, the 68 40 is kind of a pulse check at the end of the school year and how our enrollment is coming along as it compares to that 71 42. And then the 73 36 of, of course is our actual, um, after the dust really settled. And then of course, the snapshot that we have for our attendance on the 10th day there. So you seeing this across the Board or is it TK students? A lot
035of tk. A lot of tk. Um, so, uh, Stacy would be able to, uh, Ms. SW be able to expound on this a little bit more, uh, regarding staffing, but we worked a lot over the summer to right size based off of this 71 42 member initially, and then, uh, made some fine tuned adjustments to the 73 36 number as the days got closer. Yeah, I'll definitely agree with, uh, David on that. It was, um, definitely felt in the TK arena. We, uh, did add, uh, in lane three five additional classrooms in the elementary schools, um, in order to accommodate the increase in in TKs that we, um, hadn't anticipated for. Um, but um, also just to piggyback off that and to let the board know where we are in regards to after our summer
036hiring, um, and our, our staffing for the school year. Um, and to give you some of those updates and, you know, the celebrations is along with the few challenges that we are still having. But, um, for the most part I just wanted to say that we definitely saw a notable decline in some of the CH staffing challenges that we've seen in MUSG for the last few years. And, um, we believe it's due to several factors. One of them would be increases in, um, innovative advertising. So I'd like to thank Scott for her assistance with that. Um, we also think that one of the factors was our local recruitment fairs. Both certificated and classified were a huge success. And we hired about 15 people from each of the fairs. And I, I see her in the
037audience. So Carol Lee, thank you for the suggestion way back in the day. Um, also the, the other thing that I would say that it's been really due to, um, is just also our district's fiscal solvency and our ability to continue to hire, especially earlier on in the spring, um, when a lot of districts out there were either doing layoff resolutions or were in hiring freezes, we were able to go out and recruit and, and hire and get people commit to contracts before other districts could get them. So we were very excited about all of those things and it definitely helped with our recruiting this year. Um, I also would like to just give a shout out and I think you did a human resources department. They did a lot of reflection and revision of
038the processes, um, from one summary hiring season to the next one. And that really helped us to onboard all of the new staff really quickly. Um, I'd also like to just take an opportunity really quickly to welcome all of our new staff to NUSD and wish them an amazing, so in regards to certificated staff and some of the data that I've given you for the last few years, if you recall last year we hired over 70 new certificated teachers and we started the year with 12 classroom vacancy. And in the prior two years we had a hundred plus, uh, teachers that we had to hire. So it just shows the difference in the shortage. This year we did hire 51 new teachers, so you can see that that, um, number had defined and our average
039as a district historically has always been 30 or 40. So we're getting closer to that number. Um, and instead of starting with 12 classroom vacancies, we have one vacant non-classroom position right now that we're in the hiring process for. We started a year even with, um, adding five additional staff. We started the year fully staffed in certificated positions. So we're excited about that. Um, on the classified side, we're, um, we're still also closing the gap of vacancies. We currently have, or I'm sorry, when I say currently, staffing is classified as always a moving target. And this was for last week's board meeting. So as of last Tuesday, we had, uh, 69 vacancies and we were in the process of onboarding 13 of those. Um, last year, just as a comparison, we started 88 vacancies and
040the years prior we started closer to 150 vacancies. Um, notable areas in the classified size. Um, we do still have special ed instructional IAS as a, as a larger group of vacancies, but it's definitely a significant reduction in the numbers of those from the last two years this year. Another group that's um, kind of a large number is our TKIA vacancies, and that's due to some of what David and I shared as far as some, uh, increase in enrollment in TK towards the end of the summer. Um, and in late July. So where we were able to onboard those teachers, um, because we already had them kind of in the ranks from our recruitment fairs and other things and get them in the classrooms quickly, we weren't able to get all of the, um, classroom
041ias in prior the start of the school year. Um, but the school sites are currently subbing those. Um, and we are currently in the process of interviewing and hiring for those positions. Um, we're also opening, and you'll see this at the next board meeting, but we're opening, um, five addition full day itinerant positions to adequately staff schools where there are some potential TK overages that are, um, maybe they have two or three additional T cares that wanna come in that we don't wanna leave on a wait list. Um, so we're gonna have some itinerary positions for that. And um, just another support for tk and I see that our CSEA representative isn't here, but I would like to thank CSEA for their collaboration to reach an agreement, to update a job, to job description for
042the TK so that we can, that'll include an increase in pay for them, but also some additional training and some additional job duties that will provide better support for the TK students. So we're really, really working on reacting to that. Um, additional en uh, enrollment of T cares where there, there are larger presence on the school campus this year. Um, so again, that's, uh, that's pretty much, that's t hiring season as we started this year. Um, we're looking forward to once again reflecting on the summer and hire process, continue to look for areas of improvement. But overall we're really happy with this year's outcome. We received positive comments about the process by many of our new staff and we're excited to have them on board this year. Any questions? I don't have a question. I
043have a comment about, um, I've noticed on the agenda that we are moving some three hour positions to six hours and just want to make, Want to improve Each, I guess to make that a priority too, because we have so many vacant IA positions right now that possibly moving into six hours might help. So always on that. So Thank you Roberta. And sorry, I'll just comment on that. We are continuously, um, pretty much monthly reviewing that type of, um, staffing those kind of staffing decisions. So that's why you're continuing to see those. Yes, Missy, I have to agree with Roberta. I think that, that we might be able to fill them if we did do that as well. That was my main concern too, especially with the two case situations. I know that it's possible
044that if we could get those six hours, they could stay the full day. And I know having that same person in there is definitely a plus for those little kids. Definitely. For sure. I agree completely. Especially, I mean that's going through the trouble of going on the base to teach at Condor. I mean that's, to expect me to do a three hour position drive all the way out there seems really unreasonable personally. Um, the 21 ratio. So what's sort of, I mean, how many is TKI vacancies do we have right now? Um, we added an additional five either TK or TKK combos, but I cannot guarantee that they're all vacant because we did have interviews and start onboarding some of them. So I would have to go get you that number of the exact number.
045Um, but again, so when you, that's the, the itinerant full-time positions that we're opening and those five, we're gonna look at hiring those first. Um, and those are gonna help with some of those overages where we might have maybe 23 coming into a school and instead of moving them, we can put an additional staff member in there. 23 to 24 we can have, so the, it is a 20, sorry, it's a 10 to one ratio with a maximum of 24 plus. So if you have three adults, it's an eight to one ratio. Um, and so those are the, that's the first placement of those five itinerant will be in those, uh, schools that already have on the wait list ready to go kinder over their or TKs over their 20, but under 20, Does anybody
046in this room know how many are on the wait list? How many kids are not opportunity? Do the staff ballpark down? Stacy? I know the number relatively low. No, this, sorry, this is not, Don't, don't quote me, but I want to say that we're under five or very close to that number. We've, um, asked our our parents to, if they don't want to wish until we bring in a person, like we've given them options of schools where we do have space available. Um, and so we have identified a want to say two to three schools that have space available. So we really reduce the number, but at this time we have some families that are a little, you know, set on, I want this particular school and we know, and you know, we're looking at
047those schools to bring in the extra ivy. Okay, last question would be, so I'm at a school, we have three TKs, we are short, three ias. What does that look like for the staff? How, how do we make out that ratio? I know you said subs, but that doesn't always work. We know That. Well, most of the, yeah, they must, they have to have that ratio. So the principals are very diligent on that. So they're subbing in. So for example, if they do have one three hour, they are subbing the full day. Um, so they all work in the full day and or they have other, like their lll, LRE classroom IA may go into that or they may have another person like a, who's allowed to sub an IA position. They they have to
048have that, that's a mandatory requirement so far as we would put another certificate of staff member in that if we had, Yeah, I guess look, want us to get the place where MTSS isn't covered because they're covered in TK class. That's, that's my concern. Um, probably district why people are concerned about that. Well, and that's my concern too. I, I hate to see another instructional assistant being pulled from another program to place into a different program. 'cause I've seen it happen and, and it is really hard for the other, like you say, MTSS program to function correctly if we're pulling their IAS out and sticking in in tk. The other thing I have with TK K combos, that's a rough on guys 'cause we're talking about, um, play based learning and we are talking about
049academic learning and kinder academic is extremely different than the play-based learning. Um, I just know 'cause I've been there and I've done it and I've seen it and that's a rough one. So that combo is really, really hard for me to swallow because it is completely different. And when you've got little kids watching other little kids play and they don't know why they can't go over to those toys, but they've gotta learn. That's a rough one. So that combo's a hard one for Me. Um, I just, that's just My opinion, but it is a really difficult situation. The teachers are put in with that One. There's a big difference between a 3-year-old. Exactly. Um, how many TTKK uh, combos do we have right now and how many combos do we have total for the district?
050I'll give you those numbers. So again, over ions but, uh, 23 overall pago classes only had noted, give or take maybe one of these then getting ready to rattle off. But, um, that's five TK K combo classes, uh, 4K one combo classes and 5 1 2 combo classes. 4, 2, 3 combo classes and five, four or five combo classes could be one or two of those readjusted that could 10 day count. I think. I feel like we're follow that same track like we did with the five six combos where we all agreed that the curriculum is completely different from sixth grade now. That's why we're making the move to 29 junior and now I feel like we're making the same mistake with kindergarten tk based on what you're saying, play base and then three year
051olds versus Bible. So I would like to see us make a huge effort to really trim down the TK Ks as much as possible. I just think you're putting such a burden on our staff and our students, uh, like everybody is is um, paying the price for that. I think. I dunno, it's, I agree. All right, thank you. Okay. I I guess I do have a question, might as well ask it because they have to have a different kind of credential for tk. Do we have people eligible to take these out of, I mean, who's teaching the TK combo? 'cause those are two different credentials, aren't they? Well, so it's not necessarily a different credential. The CTC considers the multi subject credential, A TKK credential. The what, uh, the misnomer with that is is that
052the TK t or an orange T tk, whether it's TK or A TKK combo, um, the c the cd, California Department of Education is requiring 24 additional units of early childhood development or, uh, a child preschool site permit or a couple of other, um, boxes that you can tick. Um, and it doesn't, it's not necessarily the CTC that's requiring it. So there's never a mis assignment, but the CDE will require it, um, or we will not get a T funding. So it's just as important. Um, and so all of the teachers who are either teaching TK or TKK either already meets the requirements or has agreed to begin that coursework to ensure that any Requirements we're looking at, if we're looking at adding more teachers to get rid of some of these combos, which is
053what you're asking right? Then what I'm asking is do we have that kind of personality that happens 24, They, well we, If they don't have it, they have a pathway to get it. They would have to agree to immediately enroll and do that this week. Yeah. And if Anything that I have trouble with this and this is just my own experiences having packed and I think this is what a lot of teachers are kind of feeling, um, you have to get that, that extra additional time. I don't believe that any of us that started elementary education planned on teaching. Um, we didn't plan on teaching preschool otherwise we would've gone into preschool. And, and I know that I personally wouldn't wanna be teaching tk. I love the little kids. I love 'em all, but it's
054rough. It's, it is not the same. So I feel like some of the teachers are also feeling that pressure of having to get This credit or this, this Certificate. And I know a lot of them really don't care to do that. I know we've got some that love it. I know that they truly love it, but I think some teachers are struggling with having to do that anyways. Um, I don't know. I just know that it, it is difficult because I don't think we would've taught preschool having gone into elementary ed. It's a different, it's a whole different thing. So that's just a concern that I have and I think we're Gonna have trouble getting people to teach specifically tk. So to help a little bit with that, one of the things that we worked
055on last year, we established a partnership with Copper Mountain College. Okay. Yeah. And we began to see some interest from teachers that were not already in a TK classroom or a kinder. And um, so we began to have some information sessions throughout the year. Um, they opened up where they were offering eight week courses. We offered tuition reimbursement, textbook reimbursement. And so we did have some staff that chose that route. And so we were trying to just delineate that path as clearly as possible for those that were expressing an interest just to facilitate the process for them. Okay. And we'll continue To do that. Thank you. So which campuses have TK at them? Are they all, all all of the campus have a TK program? Because you had mentioned that some of the openings and
056some of the, okay, One last question, sorry. I know we're beating this a little bit, uh, a little bit, but, um, I'm a fourth grade teacher. My admin says you're gonna teach tk and I don't have have that certificate and I don't want to get that certificate. What does that scenario look like? Because I'm sure that that may have happened or may has happened So contractually, if, and based on the CDE requirements and based on our contracts, uh, we would potentially have to move the least senior teacher at the site to another open position and bring in someone who is interested in teaching TK to that, something like that. I mean that, there's a lot of scenarios, but I think what you're asking is, is can I force a teacher? Right. And I think, and
057we would not do that. We would ask for a volunteer around the district and we would more likely do an involuntary transfer. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Anything else? No. Okay. That brings us to the public hearing on textbook compliance for 25 26. We'll now open the hearing and adopt the resolution 25 dash zero three certifying that all pupils at MUSC have provided with standard aligned textbooks. Do we have any public comments for that? No. No. May I get a motion to open the hearing? Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Based on having no public comment, we will go ahead and move to close that and make, get a motion. So Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Next up public comment and I'm going to do
058my abstract quick summary. Individuals may address the board on issues within the jurisdiction of the MUSD Board of Education that are not on this agenda. There is a time limitation of three minutes per person and 20 minutes per topic during public comment. Please refrain from applause or slight commentary to ensure that the board members can properly hear All speakers. Members of the public are expected to maintain a professional courteous decorum during these comments. Inappropriate behavior which disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes. The orderly conduct of the meeting will result in forfeiture of your public comment privileges. The board is prohibited by state law from taking action or discussing items not included on the printed agenda. Public comments on specific agenda items will be deferred to consideration of the item on the agenda. So do we just
059have the two? Looks like we have two this evening. We'll start with Patrick Francis. All right. Well, um, I just wanted to come and address, um, for the cross country runners at Yucca Valley High School. Um, they, um, at the beginning of the school work school year, they told me that they were choosing not to run the program. And as a previous coach of the program, earners came to me in petition to try to make sure that we had the opportunity for them to run. Um, some of the information that I've gathered, um, is that the DDLE that most of our schools plays in, uh, is not running across country program at this time. As there was conflicts last year with Indio, if you're not, um, typically champion club because there was not enough schools
060that had a full team, they were not allowed to go to CIF. Um, so all the DVL schools have moved into the Sun Valley League, um, to run. And I know that we have to have permission from you guys to run our cross country program. Um, I know with Ms. Quinto, one of the concerns was the finances. And so I have opted to not take a stipend if that would help ensure that the kids have an opportunity to compete, um, in league and CIF And, um, in talking to some of my friends in the Sun Valley League, they'd be willing to vote our school in so that we may be able to be part of a league. If you don't know, um, you have to be attached to a league in order to compete in
061CIF. And so that's, I'm just here to try to support those kids as an advocate for them because they, that's the way they want to run. I know one of the concerns about AD is there has been not a whole lot of athletic clearances for the kids. Um, some of the students' concerns and the parents' concerns is that there is no listing of a coach. Um, so it would take time to fill out the athletic parents. Um, for many of the parents is, unless there's a cross country programs, not something they're, they're going to do. Um, I think that's about all the information I have this time. Thank you. Next, I can't read this name. Is it uh, car Gro Hargrove? Yeah. I left you a little note on there too. I come with enthusiasm
062and excitement. Uh, first I wanna thank everybody Up here for voting me, um, through to be a teacher. I mean, how lucky, what an incredible job. It, it truly is amazing. Um, I found my home at LA with the help of Mrs. Gordon. During week two. I thought, oh my gosh, I can't do this. She brought me back and now I'm even pumped more than ever. So here's some cool things we're doing. First of all, the yonder pouch has been really, really great. Uh, I help open in the morning. I help open in the afternoon. And a couple occasions I've seen Ms. Gordon running with that cart to make sure the kids can get to it. No issues. It's, it's been really, really fantastic. We've got some cool clubs going on. Somehow I became the
063cheer coach 'cause I was stopped by students at my door every day. So that's interesting. We have a newspaper club and we have a special guest that gets interviewed tomorrow. We're very excited. Young ladies, really ready. Um, we're doing positivity videos every Friday. Led by Katie O'Grady. She was a PE coach. Now she's our MTSS coordinator. I'm hoping maybe we can talk to Ms. Gordon about getting you guys those videos. 'cause they're super fun. It's got stupid interviews. Me and a traffic cone or some weird lying masks. We do all sorts of things. Uh, another thing, could we get a board rep to come from LA maybe once every two months, three months? Just something to give them that experience before they go on to the high school. I know we have the high school
064ones, uh, but it would be cool to get the students to see, hey, this is really what happens. I kind of explained the board to 'em. I said, guys, I used to be on the board, but now I'm at the bottom of the totem pole. And so I think it'd be cool for them to see this last thing. Every day we stand outside and we play music. We hold signs. Uh, gosh, we're doing all sorts of fun things from Mrs. Gordon to Mr. Manus, our new assistant vp, who's also really great. And a couple of us teachers are out every morning. But I encourage all of you to maybe look at a calendar, join us on a Friday. It is super fun. The parents are coming through smiling, their honking horns like it is, you
065know, something. And I'm telling you, it's making a real big difference with the parents and, and students smiling. Even Mrs. Gordon was giving out donuts the other day. Uh, so please join us anytime. I don't have to work it out with Ms. Gordon, but that's okay. I just avoided everybody. Um, but come join us for fun just so you can see the difference we're trying to make at log 10. 'cause that's my home now, right? So I've gotta build on my home, add the addition to my home, improve my home, and, and we're just really doing great things. So I hope all of you come. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you Carolyn. We'll now have the adoption of consent agenda. Are there any items for discussion? Yes, I have some items. Um, So
066I moved to adopt consent and agenda with the items pulled, then I list the pulled items. Is that how You Yes. Yeah. Okay. Um, nine C, two one and 2 9 96. 99 and 90 12 90. I add 98. Okay. Anything? I did have one which was D 12 and um, actually C two item I, which I guess you already said that. You already said that. So can I get a motion excluding the items for, for the discussion, which are item uh, nine CI and C 2D Six D eight D 90 D 12. Motion. So moved Second. Move second. Aye. All in favor? A. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five. Okay. So we will take it to you Bianca, with uh, item CI. Yes. Okay. Cam, my, um, I am super excited to see that. Um,
067what is it? JTES is doing their science camp in October, which I think is awesome. Um, beat the rush. Um, I would like to know more about, it says the cost of the trip is being covered by a donation, which is fantastic. But when I saw the estimated cost of the, uh, science campus, 15,000 and the donation is only 10,000. So is there additional 5,000 being donated by a separate? Has it just not been added to the donations or where's that coming? So we have our principal who will answer some questions. I thank you for asking that question. Uh, we have leftover donated funds from last year. The cost of camp was below the estimate. So we have those funds left over to cover the discrepancy you see between the two. Awesome. That's so cool.
068What a, what a gift to have that all donated. That is just amazing. Thank you. The Elop Science Camp looks like it's going to be during spring break, is that correct? Um, my only question about this was that the form seemed very incomplete. And while I do wanna approve the Eloc Science camp, I don't feel comfortable approving it in its current state. Is there any more information available as to, like, for example, you have 258 students listed in two adults. Thanks Natalie. Come on up. Hey everybody. Um, besides camp provides all of the staffing that we need. We are more than welcome to bring as many adults as one to 10 we like. So we're gonna, we're gonna check and see how many wanna go to add more staff, but the science camp itself does
069provide the staffing and a principal and certificate staff and a counselor. That's awesome. Yeah. Um, what about transportation? There's just a lot that's just Not transportation. Uh, we would, we just hired approved, and so the district will be covering the transportation. We'll pick up at every site that has kids. Wow. Okay. Awesome. Okay. Um, is it possible to get this updated with some of that information just so that we're not approving something that looks incomplete? Yeah, I can. Okay. Is that, Yeah, I think we'll pull that for the next meeting because we have Have, And then I had one other quick question. 258, is that just an estimate based on previous? So that was, so we, what we were doing was we, what we had to put in a, if we book for 600 kids,
070we will lose the deposit on those 600 kids. We are testing the water. So if we are full, we will go ahead and book another one. Um, we don't know how many kids will come. Right? So it's open to everybody fifth and six. And if 268 or 58 come, great. Wonderful. If we've got kids who didn't get to come, we'll open up another, um, weekend or time, it just, it's the first time we've done it and we're kind of just testing the orders. Sure. So, um, how soon is that opened up for parents To sign up? Well, we have to send a deposit, which can't get sent until you guys approve it. So, um, so, um, so we will set the deposit and then we will open up for that weekend and they'll sign first
071come first search. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. I noticed everybody in the crowd's nervous because you never know who having to come Up. Alright, so that brings us Back to you belief. Oh Yes. Six. I think that was just, um, more of a comment that we're approving the attendance calendar after the school year's already started. Is that just something that got forgotten at the end of last school year to be added to the agenda? Yeah, I mean, I was on the calendar committee Review About a year ago, but um, um, I'm at a loss, so I'm gonna Participation. Um, so happy to participate. That is just our attendance reporting calendar. It goes to the first meeting of every year. Historically, it just goes to the first meeting. That's only for attendance reporting. Yeah, It's
072not the academic calendar. It's not the academic calendar, it's not the full calendar. There's gonna be one person at every site who really loves that calendar and that is the person in charge of attendance. Good To know. I'm glad I asked. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, next Step is D eights. Yes, yes, Yes, that was mine. And uh, this is about non-employee expense authorization for fiscal year 20 25 6. Uh, I just have a question. Is this fund funding, uh, something that we should have prior to knowledge of covered by the schools for their budget? Where does that, how does that figure I am participating again. Um, the county is actually ed the regulations and so we have work policy that covers payments for staff and for students, but no specific policy that
073covers like other expenses. We may reimburse, for example, wasc, um, and people who come to visit for wasc. Um, occasionally we may have a consultant it is for was though. Um, and so every year from this year take a board item called exactly that to say, Hey, the board authorizes uh, us to reimburse expenses for people who don't call into the category of employee or student. So the funding doesn't happen unless We need it, unless we need it. Um, if we have the funding in a specific grant, if it's something we're already doing, this just authorizes us to Make the payment for whatever funding sources deemed most relevant. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Adam D nine. I believe that was Yes, I turn on my mic. I'm very excited about this because I
074know that everyone's been so angry with Verizon over the past few weeks. Um, so what can, can you give us, Well, for this opportunity, I appreciate it. Um, or superintendent cabinet. Um, now, you know, we've got a lot of trouble. This is a hosted system that we have on Verizon. We don't control. There are network connections. Uh, we're constantly having issues with them. It seems to be worse probably the last three years. This works this year has been very, very bad. So what we've done is we've designed a new RFP for a new wipe system. This system that we're looking at will have like a backup LTE connection. So even if our internet does go down, we'll have a backup option for for million dials. It'll also come a free back service, which we got
075quote on that with about 30 grand a year. So it'll actually have that, the cost of the project is probably gonna be about a hundred thousand dollars, but we're gonna save about 50 to 60 a year once we've deployed it based on Verizon's current costs of their service. Um, we'll have a lot more capabilities with this phone system because it'll be a converged system. It's a system that runs on our network and we'll be able to mix the computers and telephone and everything like that. So it'll give us a lot more opportunity to use the phone system for additional purposes. Um, like dial the PA system and stuff like that, that should all easily integrate, whether Verizon being the separate system is very, very difficult and our supports terrible. Um, it takes us like three
076months to order a phone. This, this system will be phone agnostic so we can buy different phones and still bring up in and utilize them. It doesn't have to be a specific vendor of a phone or a manufacturer of a phone. So I'm pretty excited about it, uh, not just from the potential of saving a lot of money for the district. Um, uh, ROI ON is probably two years and they'll pay for itself after that. Um, we able to be saving 60 plus a year, uh, per year, uh, for attorney. Um, but also it give us a lot more functionality and a lot more capabilities. So we no longer have a post, like a separate credit posting. We are doing, you're Texting, we will be taking care of that IT department, be running it. It'll
077be be running phone systems taking care of it. We kind of do our, we never have a Verizon rate that shows up even if they call 'em. Um, so it's kind of, um, and they wait overcharge us and they don't even bring texts out. So we're doing that technically that'll also remain the same. Um, it will require some probably additional training on my staff. Um, it is another function that will be taking with the current resources. We're not gonna hire anybody new. Um, but I think we're gonna have a lot more capability and, and the funds are probably gonna be much better. And, and we'll have a, uh, it's called remote survivability. When you, you have that backup LTE connection and that way if your site gets disconnected from the network, you'll still have to
078be able to call over a LT card, um, Verizon or T-Mobile or something. Probably not Verizon, but uh, but something like that. Right. And this is different than from when the power goes out and nothing works. This is just when Can't control the power. However, we did just do a project last year where we brought in all new uss. Those uss are running power supplies. We connected all the network to 'em. We're prioritizing. You gotta be careful about how I say this because it's a funded, uh, for that stuff and it's only supposed to be for certain banks, but, but the goal is to keep the network up and running for a few hours even after the power outage goes out. Um, but there's only so much battery power we can, we can store. Um,
079but we did put new up in every single idea, everything. So everywhere there's network components, so there is a new power supply and then we put expansion packs on those students to increase the runtime. And then the new ones that we got are actually more technical where we can prioritize each plug on the system to run longer or when the battery gets to a certain percent cut things off. So we're trying to get to the point where we can continue running things as power goes out. Um, but that's always gonna be a problem with s Unfortunately. Thank you so much. Um, for one 50,000, you hear that it's another teacher, Stacy, great job. I guess it's in three years. Um, number two, um, you rely, so say we had a situation you had at aga,
080the phone's kind of got, is the reliability better to take on more phone calls or what does that look like? And then number two, um, can your staff take on this additional responsibility that We will eat it and we'll be fine Mr. Bryan? Uh, and it is an additional responsibility. Um, like I said, it's gonna be additional training, but I think it's that we can handle. Um, and I think it's in the best interest of the district as far as, um, like phones and how many concurrent calls you can have. It's gonna be the, we're not gonna have a problem with concurrent call pass. In other words, we're not gonna hit 10 calls and then all of sudden nobody can make a phone call. It's gonna go well beyond that. Um, and the potential for
081like saving voicemails text base and sending them to your cell phone, we'll be able to do that kind of stuff. I don't want to talk too much about that until we get it in to get it functioning just as our current phone system does. But then we'll start to expand the features and bring those type of opportunities. Um, also there's cell phones, so I can actually have my phone written on my cell phone rather than my, my office phone. So we'll have a lot more, you know, flexibility with how we use the phone system. And will that, if somebody calls up Vargas's office, will it go to his cell phone is a joke. That's fantastic. No, I But when you call phone, he'll pick it up. Yeah. I also like, you got flexibility of equip
082because I know like you get in the contract with Verizon by their phones and they're out stop. It's in a nightmare. It is on consumer side. So that's a great, and And unfortunately at one point in time, Verizon is great, their network was great, their cell phones were great. The last few years it's been totally the opposite. And I have a Verizon cell phone, so I'm frustrated too. Um, but that's the way it goes in this industry. Sometimes you just can't count on people. Great. Sounds a great job about you and your staff. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate It. Thank you. Um, and I have one quick one, which was B12. My only concern wasn't, um, necessarily proving this, but I want to make sure because we did agree to a certain time
083frame to do the different projects. I know you guys all can't see this, but, um, and looks like we approved a lot. I just wanna make sure that wasn't in delay. Some of the current projects that we're talking about, the shade structures, stadium improvements of those schools. Um, is this just getting the ball rolling on what we wanna Do? Yeah, uh, so the goal there with D 12 is to get a project shovel ready, ideally for series B. As you can see in that list projects I gave you, it exceeds our bond authority for series A. But just like we had the kitchen project ready to kick off for series A, we don't want to have a long delay with either series B. So this will put us in a good position. Uh, we have
084some additional engineering that will add to this, uh, cost of uh, getting a project shovel ready. But that's the idea behind it least. I mean, if we have a project on the list that falls out for one reason or another, or if we get additional funding from another source. So for one reason or another, we can always move this into queue a little bit. But because of the planning time that this administration building's gonna take, uh, potentially get a shovel ready at least two years, um, it's, it's most likely gonna line up with sleeves. Makes sense. We have three years spend. Absolutely. Very good. Thank you Daniel. So I, I have kind of a question kind of ancillary to, to the, uh, services again developing this. Where's the, the new building? We're working it out,
085the architects, but we, we've scoped out a place on the north side of campus, just, uh, east of the threes that are there. 45, 6 47 I think two. 4 3 4 4. It's the, it's the three quarters that are there on the north side of campus. Very good, thanks. So We're moving portables? No, the portable classrooms stated just The you got outside? Yeah, I mean it could be, It depends on what the footprint, I mean I know what the footprint looks like. Square foot. Thank You very much. You're very welcome. Alright, so go back and approve the individual items. Now we'll go back to item C. I may get a motion. I move Second. Moved by Pete second. Aye Bianca, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nay? Five zero. We are gonna go ahead
086and pull item C two for the next meeting. So that brings us to item D six, the school attendance counter. I get a motion. Okay. That was moved by Missy, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero item D eight non-employee expense opposition. Pete, may I get a motion? So moved. Move AB Bianca, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero Item D nine. The VOIP upgrade. May I get a motion? Is that Missy? Yes. Who By Missy. Second by P. All in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Last but not least. Item D 12. Authorization for architectural services for voting at TPJS. Pete, Pete wants to go home. Let's move by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. All right. Next up we will,
087I will take a motion for to approve the county. Form six is recommended the board of education approve form, sex address and the delegation removal of authority updating the official custodial of the revolving cash fund from Sheriff Flo to Gabe Daniels and get a motion. Second Move by Roberta, second by Bianca. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Next up we have an item to update the classified substitute rate for the license called technician substitutes. Um, this will update the district hourly rate for the, for that those positions. This change enhances the district's ability to offer competitively aligning with our local market standards and get a move on motion. I Second move by Missy, second by Roberta. All in favor? A. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Item C. It's recommended that
088the board of education is professor authorize submission of the application for the PIP in the area education specialist ESN to the California Commission on Teaching Credentialing on behalf of Michael. Go. And you get a motion. I move. Second. Move by P second by Bianca. All in favor a. Aye. Any nay? Five zero. Next up will be the, to approve the confidential settlement between MUST and the parent of student 5 2 7 1 4 0 6 8 2 8. And that's case oh eight H 2 0 2 5 0 5 0 1 9 7. Signed on August 18th, 2025. May I get a motion? So I second move by Roberta? Second by Missy. All in favor? A. Aye. Aye. Any nayes? Five zero. Another motion for the authorized financial reimbursement for medical expenses incurred by parents
089slash guardian and order to maintain their check, their chosen IEP services or placement pursuant to the individual agreeance between MUSD district, supa and regarding parent. May I get a motion? So Second. Moved by Bianca, second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Any nay? Pete, you're tripping me up. Do not read ahead. Okay. As for review, first review, uh, different board policies. You do not have any, um, looks like you don't have any second read for this meeting. Next have information. I, I have A question. Yes, sir. Uh, this individual high education program. Okay. Uh, 15. 15. Yes, sir. In the, in the first paragraph, we're changing things around here from disabled students to students with exceptional needs. And later on in the program or in the paragraph, we prepare students with exceptional needs, non-disabled. I'm
090just saying we not just change the NONDISABLED students to, uh, students without exceptional needs. Sounds there. I mean, we're trying to change things around, but I think why are we comparing, uh, non-disabled students with students without exceptional needs? I mean, we need to fix that. And I show that somebody, I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure that Heidi's not gonna attend this tonight is working on that one. So if you wanna show it to me afterwards, I'll make sure that I Get together with her And, and work with her. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Stacy. Anything else? Speed on that note. Thank you, sir. Informational items, accounts receivable, cash receipts, budget transfer, transaction report, quarterly investment report, Williams quarterly visitation report, and the Williams UPC reports. First quarter. Next up, future agenda items. Uh, does anybody
091on the board have anything they wanna recommend? Uh, for next week or in the future? Not for next week, but I know we've talked about this quite a bit in the past few months. Um, we need to eventually get on the agenda so that it could be ready for next school year, Hopefully if we make a change To going down to one school lunch in the secondary schools. Yeah. Uh, Dr. Vargas, did you say we're gonna have that December meeting or December. Okay. So it's gonna be under December agenda. Okay. Awesome. Um, I also had, um, I'm searching for my words. Um, we had talked about creating a committee to, for the music and arts educators. And, um, I wanted to make sure that we got that going pretty quickly so that they can form
092and start discussing goals and things for the district plan, essentially. That's all I have. Thank you, Roberta. Anything else? Um, next board meeting is next week, September 9th, 2025. We, um, have actually exchanged item 14 B to a board, um, study session instead of a retreat, which will be on the 23rd at the old elementary school. Um, it'll involve budget and priorities, um, along with what was our second item? Next? Yes. And then, um, actually on the budget, we were gonna review that as well at 1:00 PM at, like I said, the old Josh Trail Elementary school. All right. Board comments. Let's start with, uh, Roberta this evening. Well, I'm happy to be back. I had a very nice, relatively calm July, but it's nice to see everybody, um, coming back. Um, I wanted to
093say how incredibly proud I am of this district and talking about from the very bottom up. And Caroline, I have to, um, disagree with you. You are not at the bottom. You wanna put it that way. You're the foundation. You're the ones that work with our students every day. That is the greatest honor of, of anybody in this district to be able to do so. I'm proud of our classified, our parents, our students, our administrators, my fellow board members. It's just, we have a really, really good district. I'm proud to be a part of that. Um, and it behooves us to work together in the spirit of cooperation and to hold each other up and to hold each other accountable. So thank you for all what we see we saw through this evening, and, um,
094just wanted to express my appreciation. Thank you, Roberta. Let's go up. Miss, I just wanna say thank you again for having me and allowing me to learn what I'm learning. This is amazing. I love working with all these wonderful people. All of you. You guys are fabulous. You're fabulous. And I enjoy and appreciate you 110%, and I look forward to a wonderful year. Thank you, Missy. Uh, let's go with p Well, I think I'm just gonna underscore what the previous two speakers said. Yeah. Yeah. I like really what happened over summer school. A lot of work went into that. I like how the grades are turning out. Scores, I should say. I like, uh, just a lot of things that are happening, getting the, the people here that have to be here, the, the classified
095and certificate staff. Just a lot of work's going on. Uh, and it's, it's nice working with, with you folks up here on the board. So of course, out there, you're always great. That's all. I Thank you Pete. Bianca. Um, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone, um, cabinet especially, um, for implementing a lot of the ideas. I've only been on the board since December and already I've seen the, um, hiring fairs happen, the program this summer, transitioning kids who are going into ninth grade. Um, I've just seen a lot of really great things happening. So thank you guys so much. You guys are all doing a lot of hard work and, um, the pride that you have in our district really shows. So thank You. Thank you bka. Um, I'd like to welcome,
096uh, Mariella Zio and then congratulate Mike. I'm assuming that's probably a pretty good promotion for him. Is he still out there? There? He's, Hi Mike, Welcome and continue on. Thank you very much for what you do. Um, summer school, 600 students, that's really impressive. Um, but nutrition, Janet, how do you sleep? 229,000 meals. That's sleep, that's really remarkable by you and your staff. I mean, a lot of, um, hungry children and families, um, got through the summer because of your program. So thank you very much. Um, thank you for every that was put on the spot and had to participate this evening. Was a little disappointed, Jean didn't stand up, but that's okay. And then, um, one last thing. Hopefully you all get a chance. Probably a lot of, you can't, unfortunately, kids go to
097lock 10 because I had one of the highlights of my year, which was Carol, and she was dressed up as a cone and she was dancing and directing the kids across the crosswalk. I was like, I couldn't, please see, it was amazing. And next time I'm gonna get some videos, but, uh, I love the spirit that you're bringing to that school because I know that school hasn't always had the greatest reputation. And, um, obviously from the admins down the, I see the assistant, uh, principal and the principal out there every single day because they drop off my son. So I'm seeing that campus really turn around and it's, it's driven by you guys, it's driven by the staff, it's driven by the admins, and then obviously the support that Gracie and her team brings. So
098great job out there. Um, but thank you for participating this evening. And with that, oh, Gracie and Amy, that's why the performance has gone up. Ajour.