001Reconvene at 6 0 7. We'll start off with brief speak This evening. Board of Education is proud to recognize and honor. Sharon Floors, assistant Superintendent of Business Services, honor upcoming retirement. Since joining the Morgo Unified School District in 2014, Sarah has dedicated 11 years of CO except service leading with integrity, vision, and it fiscal responsibility. Under her leadership, Morgo Unified School District has made significant strides in improving facilities and managing resources life. She played a pivotal role in the successful passage of the bond and helped bring long away upgrades to both the 29 Palm High School and Echo. Echo Valley High School students for careful stewardship help maintain Broco Unified School District as a fiscally responsible district, ensuring that taxpayer dollars are using effectively to support the students. We thank Sheriff for unwavering dedication to
002students, staff, families, probably the right school, and we wish her the very best. Well, Thank you everybody. Please stand. Ready. Can you hear me? Sharon has asked for a copy of that photo. She use it for her business. Outstanding. May I get a motion moved by Pete second by Roberta? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Zero. We also get a motion to adopt the minutes for the June 10th regular board. Second, Moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nay? Four zero. We also get a motion to approve the minutes for the special meeting on June 13th, 2025. I have a question on that. Yes, sir. I was thinking in those minutes we don't have the name of the candidates that we interviewed. Should they not be in those minutes?
003Well, I, I think it's important. I think that's part of the record. I'm okay with that. Can we make an addend addendum to the, the minutes and then we can approve it in the August meeting? We can do it now. Okay. With the addendum. Okay. We're gonna go ahead and just add that per Pete's request. It's a great idea. So I move, we adopt that, uh, those minutes. And with the Amendment? With the amendment. Okay. He moves. Can I get a second? Second. Second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Any nay? Four zero. A few items for the closed session that you be read out. First off, be it resolved at the board of education, appoint Jessica Hall as the assistant principal at elementary school and the unified school district passed and adopted this 24th
004day of June, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California. The vote was four zero, be it resolved at the Board of Education. Appoint Darlene Gonzalez is assistant principal at 29 Palms Elementary and Yucca Elementary in the unified school district. Passing, adopted this 24th day of June, 2025 in county of San Bernardino, California, passed by a four zero vote. Lastly, this is a big one. This is a, a big change for us in the district being resolved that the Board of Education appoint David Daniels as assistant of business services in the unified school district. Passed and adopted this 24th day June, 2025 in the county. Ca also a vote. Four zero. Congratulations. All next will be our legislative report. We, we ahead and our representative rep not in attendance. I should probably look up certificated
005representative. Do I name this? Can you hear me? Hi, I'm Jean Carla, t Vice President standing in for my colleagues who dare to go on summer break. Um, we just wanna congratulate Ms. Bond on her appointment. We look forward to working with you and we look forward to working with the whole board on, of course, making sure that our students get the very best schools that they deserve. Um, so welcome and good things to come. Um, Sharon, also, thank you for everything and I enjoy your retirement and congratulations. Well have a great summer. Thank you. Looks like not so Evening. Thank you President Superintendent for the back. In January, we talked a little bit about the dashboard and we covered all the different indicators that are shown on the dashboard. We spent the majority of
006our time talking about the ones that come from our cast, from our attendance, the ones that the state measures. When I presented in January, I said I'd come back and talk to you about the indicators. These are that we measure ourselves. This is our self reflect on our, the first priority of the state is, um, basic teacher instruction, materials, facilities, and basic conditions. We looked at this, we looked at our teachers to make sure they're qualified, our facilities and the, uh, student access to standards, aligned instructional materials. And we decided through the, the review of data that we have met standards in this area. You'll see a large growth in the teacher, uh, properly credentialed. And, um, that 17, 18 year our campuses had met, uh, good in good repair. And every one of our
007adopted curriculums is stable lot. Our second priority implementation back standards. This covers a wide range of things to ensure that our students are receiving the best instruction. And on this, we also met standards Priority three, parent engagement. This is a self-reflection done by the district as we looked at the different opportunities we have for parental input and stakeholder input. And on this we met standards as well. Priority six school climate. Looking at our panorama data as well as our LCAP survey, it was determined not this, we met standards showing growth over here for school safety and, uh, respect amongst peers and respect between adults and students. Priority seven, broad course access to studies for our students met, done a self reflect to celebrate all our successes that we did this year. We also need to
008look at our next step for continuous improvement. So we're gonna continue to monitor our data, provide professional development, and make sure that we're focused in our strategies to ensure that every day is a great day for our students. Thank you. Can I answer any questions? Is there a way? Sorry? Is there a way that, that, uh, this can be out on our website Absolutely. When we, uh, approve the tonight and the budget for the districts, if that gets approved, this will be, uh, put with it as well as the federal addendum. It's also uploaded to, uh, c and it's put on our dashboard for next year. Uh, properly credentialed teachers. Uh, yes. So we met, that's what is the expectation? Is there a percentage? I, and then why would 7.9% not have full Direction? The
009expectation is to, uh, meet the average of the state and in our county, which is, uh, about 8%, little bit like 80.4, the state, I wanna say 83% is the county. Um, so we are far above that. Above the reason we are not at a hundred percent that at 7.6% I think it's that we're missing is our, our teachers that are with us on pets and steps as well as a vacancy had in October that was yet field being held by sub. Gotcha. Okay. That makes sense. Um, facilities in good repair. Dave, you left with the right. 17, 18. So what was the one, what It was Friendly Hills and I, it was Friendly Hills and I looked at it, um, to get some real good details, but I figured that would be a question
010you would asked. Um, board? No, just The board. Um, because it, it's a concern why have, when I looked at that report, what it came out to is interior ssis. So there a crack in the drywall, some, some doors that need to be painted. So it was very minor things, but that minor takes it from good to fair. So it doesn't mean that the schools are not fit for students don't look appealing to, to our community. It's just that some repairs need to be taken place. Also, this report was done in July, 2024. So workers have been done and been That's interesting. That's okay. That particular, I'm sorry. No, go ahead sir. That particular I was interested in that too. Um, was that identified by students, parents, teachers, all the Above the facilities? Yes. No,
011that was, uh, our district people actually go through and inspect, uh, our school sites every July to ensure that all the maintenance is done at every single school site and everything is account for, to ensure that we do maintain the buildings to last 50, a hundred years so that we are using taxpayers money correctly. Okay. So David did do, He did. Okay. I have a quick one. Just curiosity. We skipped from priority three to priority six. Yes. Five. Those are county priorities. And so we don't measure them as a district. Those are measured by the county. What, what the, any idea off the top of your head that this would entail? Uh, different county. They're similar to ours, but they're county ran programs. Oh, county. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. And then one last question would be
012standard line with court curriculum to soft reflections. What like gear or what did that, what does that look like? So you're talking about Priority seven? Priority seven. Yeah. Get there real quick. Okay. So when we did the self-reflection, we looked at our core curriculum and we looked at the adoption cycles and determin and saw whether or not that we chose state approved adoption. All our adoptions, our first state approved, we'll be doing a MAP one this year. And so the state has approved 12 vendors and in August the team will be going to county to look at those 12 vendors that state approved. And therefore we will then choose those to come forward to, uh, our district for our teachers to be able to look at our administrators to be able to look at and
013to make a decision. So since that is the process we use, we know that that process ensures that every piece of our core curriculum is state is to state standards. Yeah. Purview. And I know you guys stand up. Did you have a comment done? Just stretching. Sure. So absolutely. So the reason why we are in compliance with standard for life long is we look at the list that the put out and we choose which means that that has been Ted have their own team go through ask kind questions, ensure that they looked at rigorously before they stay to school district. These are the one you choose From. Gotcha. They pick from these. Excellent. Thank you guys. Thank you Danielle. Anybody else missing anything? No, no. Thank you Danielle. Appreciate It. Thank you very much. Next
014up will be Clay Director, mission Technology. Good evening, Mr. Board President Claire, uh, board Dr. Var and Cabinet. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. Um, pretty excited about this year. Um, back in, well first of all I'd like to start by saying that the device have buy for the kids and for, for staff. We usually keep for about five years and there's a replacement cycle and that way we can avoid having serious downtime and problems with the devices. Uh, back in 2020, we had a little thing called COVID hit us and at that point they had COVID funding and we were able to bring devices in well over one to one for our students. Now in 2025, we're actually looking at the obsolete of these devices, about a third of the devices that have
015made it and survive through the past five years. And so right now what we're doing is an IT team as we're taking the devices, cannibalizing the older systems, trying to build up the new systems, cleaning them off. This is an example of one of them right here. Um, it's an 55 and we're going through cleaning them all up and getting them prepared. And what we'd like to do is be able to give these to the students and families for secondary, at least start based on the numbers that we have. Um, so as a IT team basic, we're going through cannibalizing building devices, windows 11, office 2019 plus come with Excel, PowerPoint, word and so forth on it. And hopefully we'll be able to get these to the, um, to the community and the, and the
016students. So that's the plan. This is an example of the device and I was actually surprised to see that even the still see the letters on the, on the keyboard. So, um, you know, a lot of 'em are destroyed, but um, but we're able to salvage a lot of them. So, um, I'm hoping that, uh, we'll have the opportunity to not get the public. Um, this you have any questions? Any questions? The board, Um, yeah, I question obviously there certain, I guess you can't them anyway. So what do We do with that? Typically we have district, well, I'm glad you asked. Typically we put them on the pallet and about 10 cents on the, or 6 cents on the recycling. So in this situation, we had something s really in our best interest, try to
017get 'em operational and give 'em to the public so that they, hopefully they can use them to apply for jobs, do homework, whatever it is the families need, maybe continue education. Um, but I was having a conversation earlier with Sean and um, there was a period of time where I ran my own company and I would go see my accountant and she would always be like, where's your own head? And I go, you know, all I need is this in my brains. And she would be like, well, you need some more write offs. Um, and so I think this provides an amazing opportunity for people. That's why I'm so excited about it. And when I graduated, got high in 1990, I was taking on a typewriter. So, and these things were unaffordable. I mean, even
018when I was in college, I finally got a computer, um, on my last degree because I needed to. And I paid $2,500 for it. It was very, very difficult as a college student to even buy. So I think being able to offer these to the students and families is be a huge thing for, So you said there were, there were about a third of that Survived. Yeah, about a third of them numbers. How many do have originally? I think there approximately about 9,000 of 'em, maybe about 10,000 of those, I think about 2,700 survived. So, um, it does give us an opportunity to take the ones that have been a little bit abused, take some parts outta em, and build up the ones that are still in good condition so they're better performing. And um,
019again, we're putting Windows 11, which is the current operating system, uh, with the office, which offers, um, would be amazing if they did. But, uh, anyways, I'm real excited about it and hopefully things work out for the community. I, I love, I love the program. This might be the only computer families have at in their homes. I mean, just think about that. The computer Was the first computer our family ever had and so I, I, you know, that's why I'm so excited about this is I know you community, we know how it's many parents and students can't afford those type of things, but we give it to them. They'll offer a lot of opportunities even for possibly the parents for applying for jobs. I see. This is not just the students, this is something for
020the, The one ask had the district, I dunno, this is probably lean. Um, I, I hope the public knows about this. I think it's really important that it's, it's a really positive thing and I think that should be, should know that I think that we'll probably start talking about it more after we start completing everything that needs to be done for our students and staff for this year. This is an additional workload on top of the IT department beyond above and beyond what we typically do. And I don't wanna make promises and timeframes that I, that we can't keep. Um, but I have a feeling that probably within the next month we'll have a good idea. We'll actually start working on these. This one was, uh, a beta that that one of my staff created
021for me because I wanted to test it, test the licensing, make sure everything worked. Um, but we still haven't hit everything because we're still trying to go through probably about 7,500 devices before school starts just to kids preparing for next year. Troy, do you have an idea how you're gonna put those individual hands? Um, there'll be a checkout process. Um, we'll develop that a little further, but there'll be a checkout process per student so we can make sure that same student, same not for multiple devices. And those that we make sure that we flag, I'm gonna make sure that we know the best. If they're, they have multiple kids and they're all in secondary, then all the kids will have the ability, even if they're from a single family. So we'll, we'll track them as
022we check them out to make sure that nobody's abusing. And then if somebody comes in late, we still have a device, give it to them, they gotten anything. Okay, nice. So this is a part kind, if it's successful, keep the future Hospital. Yes, I definitely would like to. However, the funding for, you know, back in 2020 when COVID hit, we bought all new devices at once. Typically the best scenario would be to buy 'em manually and that way every year we'll have devices that are moving outta that five year cycle. And we bought 'em all at once. The five year cycle is now. And so, and, and what we have salvaged with the 9,000 over there, I think about 2,700 of them. So if we had more, I would definitely love to see that. And
023hopefully in, in, in, in 2025. We use the last of the US funding to buy all new laptops again, once again. Um, but hopefully in we can, can get on a consistent annual basis. Um, but with the COVID starting and the way that things worked out, it didn't really give us the chance to do that on an annual basis. So we this all at once, we're gonna get rid of all at once. Hopefully at some point in time we can establish that funding and that flow we can do. Okay. Sorry, I have a comment. So there's gonna be a hearing after Troy's explanation and then there's also a board agenda item for approval so that there will be, this will be approved from now on. So when we do have the technology, we you'll be
024able to continue to fall to this annually as it comes. So this is a, a change in our policy, um, that we're asking for working through. Fantastic. The other thing is, is um, we're really looking at, you know, the secondary students, but if we have enough devices after we serve secondary students, I wanna bring it down to the other grade levels as well. Um, but we have to focus and work with the numbers that we have now, but I definitely wanna see come down to the elementaries and stuff, but, um, we'll know better once we've handed them out. All interested in how many we have left and who we can serve. Okay. Like I said, only closer to that, that we do have technology really up. Appreciate. Thank you very much. All that us to
025the public hearing on the distribution of surplus technology based instructional materials. May I get a motion to open the hearing? So By Roberta Missy. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any public comments? No. May I now get a motion to close the public hearing for distribution of surplus technology based instructional materials moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All in favor? A Aye. Aye. Four zero. Thank you. Okay, next is public comment, but we have no public comment, so we'll move forward to the adoption of the consent agenda. Are there any discussion or anything at this time? May I get a motion to Aye, Move. Second. Moved by Second by all in favor. Okay, that takes us to action. First up is the county request to approve the county forms for the, the amendment to the
026name Dave Daniels as the new CEO for Morongo, Mexico District. May I get a motion? I move. Second. Moved by Pete, seconded by Roberta. All in favor. A, a aye. Four zero. Next up the 25 26 LCAP overview, the board of education request, LCAP and budget overview for parents OP for the 25 26 school. Second, Moved by Missy, second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next up is the board of education requested to adopt the 25 26 budget to review that. Thank you for by the way, who's gonna that to our house. David. I dunno if you know the public sheet, you come out and look and there's a yellow envelope like, oh, Sharon. Excellent. May I get a motion to adopt the budget for 26? I So I second Moved by
027p second by Roberta. All in favor? A. Aye. Five four. The board of education is requested to adopt resolution 25 30 authorizing the disposition of obsolete surplus instructional materials. A thes a motion. Second By Roberta, second by Missy. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four. Next resolution 25 30 authorizing district to self-certify an increase in the federal MICROPURCHASE threshold for the 2026 fiscal year. Um, Sharon, I ask a quick question on, can you give a real brief, I know I read it, but a real quick explanation as what that Means. So what this means is that the federal threshold has been increased and you're following through, um, uh, amending our policies to with the federal changes. Okay. Any Questions? Yes. Has the resolution ever been used before? Is this the first time? Are you using this?
028No, I mean, it happens occasionally. The federal government doesn't, um, change their thresholds as much as the state does. So you'll see state one, um, every year. Okay. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. May I get a motion to adopt resolution? 25, 31. I so move. Moved by Pete. I second. Second by Missy. All in favor? Aye. Pete, you good? Aye. That's okay. 0 25 26 Oasis, uh, plan for student achieve school, which is oasis we 5 26 for Motion. Moved by Roberta. Second. Second by Pete. All in favor? A Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next step is approving the 25 26 L cap Federal addendum. May I? So we're approving the, may I get a motion? I not, I So move. Move by Pete second. By Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Four zero. Now we're looking
029to accrue their, the revision to the resolution 25 14 with the amendments. Did everybody get a chance to read those and changes? Yeah. Okay. May I get a motion? I second Move by Missy. Second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. There you go. Sorry. Thank you. Okay, next up. Employment agreements for Dr. Vargas, the board of education requested to approve addendum number five oh This To the contract for superintendent Dr. Tric Vargas. May I get a motion? Second. Moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Pete, I Or don't be shy folks. Okay, next up is the employment agreement for Amy Woods, board of Educational request of addendum. One. Contract for assistant of second Secondary education for Amy Woods. A motion. So second, Move by Pete, second by Roberta. All
030in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next appointment review for Dr. Gutierrez, the Board of education request improvement of addendum number one for contract for assistant superintendent of elementary education. Celia Gutierrez. May I get a motion moved by Roberta, second by Missy. All in favor? Aye. Given First motion, Small board of education, request to approve number three to the contract for assistant superintendent human resources small motion. I so moved. I second. Thank you. Moved by P second by Missy. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Accept the board of education request to approve the employment agreement between MUSD and David Daniels for the position of assistant superintendent of business services. May I get a motion? So good. Second. Moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Lastly, confidential parental settlement, quick
031summary and abstract. The board of education is requested to approve the confidential parent settlement agreement for student 1 1 8 6 9 5 3 3. Case number 2 5 5 0 3 4. Sign on June 18th, 2025. A motion I that one Missy. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero would be our second review the board policies, information on items, account, receiv receipts, future agenda items or do we have anything? Well, I just wanna make sure that, um, one of our future agenda items for looking at the lunch periods. Yes. So I just don't want that to begotten At the secondary, Secondary Science. Okay. Do you miss anything at this point? You know, I'm, I'm just thinking, uh, probably not agenda. Uh, I, I'll I'll use the board conference. Okay, that's fine. Next step
032is our board and district calendar. We're gonna have a welcome back leadership team meeting, July 31st and August 1st, 2025. Uh, Mr. President, just to remind the board that is invited to attend August 1st, 2025, welcome back. July 31st, pick one day. Welcome back kickoff for the all staff is August 7th, 2025. Is that gonna be at CNC again? Yes. And that one. Great. That's a great first day of, should I whisper this August 20, 25? Next board meeting is August 26th. 20. Next up comments. You know, I'm just excited to be, I'm, I'm thrilled. I'm ready to learn. I'm eager to jump in at Thank you so much for having me. Outstanding Roberta. I'm just, I well the song's been going through my head all the time. I've been up school. The not for
033jam. He's not. There you go. I think that's the first time hes out has been our comment. That's awesome. And well I Just wanna a nice July guess. Um, and I'm gonna be back in August. So anyway, um, one thing I I would like to maybe comment on that we've got the cell phone deal coming up and I know I'm thinking maybe old due diligence, maybe the board members being at least, uh, secondary schools for start at least anybody, uh, ready to do that? We're the one, see How it's going to support schools, that kind of thing. Are you, are you talking first school First day? Yeah. Or you know, whenever, at least the first week. Some, somewhere in there I think I think we, we should be doing stuff Like that. I, I, I
034personally be okay with that's something work out. Okay. But I have to say visits we had the secondary schools are a remarkable, um, lowering of use of the, the schools that I used do in classrooms that I have not seen cell hands out since the, so I, I anticipated it's going Well. I agree. I agree. Um, I went out early to 29 high, early last year. There kids like this on the class, not naming the teacher or the class, but, um, and now like there's more, I don't know, it's just a totally different environment. I probably speak to that separately, but, um, I'm really excited that I think that for all the worry that already had that it's actually gonna be a very, very positive thing for our community, for our kids education. Um, even
035for the parents. The parents gonna start it and they already, um, so yeah, I agree. You have anything else, Pete? No, I don't. Thank you Pete. Um, first off, thank you to everybody in this room. It's, um, a lot of work to teach all these children and to work with the parents and the staff and everything that we deal with, um, every single day. Everything that Maria does for us, keeping our board together and running through the agenda with me every time. That's fantastic. Um, is this my, to get to get I one of, so I'm losing my mic, but everybody in this room, congratulations Dave Daniels a very good guy that I gotta know a little bit in the last couple years. Um, exciting to have you come aboard. You have big shoes to
036fill. Thank you Sharon, for all your service to our district. And I know that you got a lot of heat because that position does obviously. So, um, thank for everything. Lastly, I just wanna, um, recognize, uh, Darlene Gonzalez and Jessica with for new promotions really to see how you guys being 46.