001I can have the site tech Reconvene at 6 0 5. We'll start off with the post section items. Okay. Stop. All Right. Excuse me. We're gonna go ahead and do the touch. First, We're proud to recognize Laura Beal, our dedicated cafeteria lead at Joshua Tree Elementary School for her outstanding service leadership. Laura is a veteran in the kitchen who brings a wealth of knowledges in state and federal regulations, ensuring everything runs smoothly. And by Cook, known for her sweet, major, and pine Deir. She is beloved by students and staff alike. Laura consistently puts the needs of others first, maintaining a clean, well organized kitchen while fostering a positive and respectful work environment. Her strong rapport with her team and her unwavering commitment to excellence make your value respect about. I'd like to ask everyone's strength.
002Uh, Please raise your, your right hand over your heart. Ready. Understand Allegiance To the flag of the United States of America and distributed for hands LA Nation under God. Liberty, justice. Please get speak to someone You could just please charge you to thank your left. You awful, but You Sure. Sadly, we will take a moment of silence to honor the lives of our value, members of our school district community, who we've recently lost, and Greg Barber and Ross Alexander. Thank you. Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda for this evening's meeting? I so do thank Moved by Pete, second by Bianca. All in favor. Aye. Four zero. I also get an a motion to accept that the minutes for the May 13th, 2025 regular board Katie A Moved by Roberta. Second Bianca. All
003in favor? A aye. Four zero. Lastly, can I get a motion for the approval, the special board meeting on May 22nd, 2025. Ye Second Move by Bianca. Second by Bianca. Excuse me, Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. The actions and results from the closed session be resolved That the Board of Education accept the panel of recommendation from the June 10th, 2025 hearing for student. 24 dash 0 1 0 passed and adopted on this 10th day of June, 2025 in the county of San Bernard, California. With the vote of four zero be resolved at the board of vacation, I set the panel's recommendation for the June 10th, 2025 hearing for student. 24 dash 0 1 1 has and adopted on this 10th day of June, 2025, the county of San Bernardino, California four zero be
004resolved at the Board of Education. Accept the panel's recommendation for the June 10th, 2025 hearing for student 24 dash passed and adopted this 10th day of June, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California. Vote of four zero. It resolved that the Board of Education accept the panel's recommendation from the June 10th, 2025 hearing for student. 24 dash zero 15 passed and adopted this 10th day of June, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California. Vote of four zero. Lastly, resolved the Board of the Board of Education accept the stipulation agreement for expulsion of suspension of expulsion for student. 24 dash 0 1 16 passed and adopted this 10th day of June, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California with a vote four zero. Uh, we have a new legislative report, which would be
005Bianca, what do you have for us? Do court? Huh? Nothing. I was so excited actually to get some new blood in that position. Um, anyhow, reports from the classified representative, which have nobody in attendance. We'll move to certificated represent them. Please do. I can record No record. Thank youre court. Well, I can't move forward. Read matter. Reach report. Is this on? Yes, we Oh, you can hear me? All right. I agree to extended invitation to forward it to our back school, um, resource fair, which is on July 23rd this year, um, from four to 6:00 PM in the West gym. If you gave, you get access to basic question. I'm sorry. Where where on these is this West gym? It's called the West Gym. Yes. If I ask him where it is, they Oh yes,
006they will know exactly Yeah, from four to 6:00 PM And I don't have a table there for you, so if you like to spend a couple of time, you are welcome. Thank you. Thank you Lori. Appreciate it. Alright. We would like to recognize One of our past and former board members a recognition, uh, the outstanding dedication service to MUSD. Um, got to know her. Everybody know she's a spark plug and was a great asset for the few months that we, she was on this particular board. I think everybody knows who it is already. Um, I actually enjoyed the dialogue. You know, it was, um, it was an interesting time having her on the board. Um, but one thing about this individual is she was always honest and gave her opinion on everything. She didn't sit
007back and just go with, uh, what everybody else wanted to do. So I, I appreciate that. And so with that in mind, we want to recognize Carol Hargrove would like a picture with the entire Audience. Tell them no photos. That cute. I want to turn this next. Three 10. One three. Okay. Thank let go. Next up, Amy Woods to present the graduation of Summer Bridge program. Thank you President Claire, this will be very brief. I have three, um, updates for the board. First of all, uh, we had three wonderful graduations last week and we had eight 80 graduates from BlackRock High School. 117 graduates from 29 Palms High School and 254 graduate. Sharon, I'm gonna do this math in my head. 451 graduates from the Woo. Secondarily, we will be starting our summer programs, uh,
008Thursday. So we, I just wanted to let you know, let the board know, uh, that we have two separate programs. There's the secondary program program. So I'm gonna tell you just a brief bit about the secondary program. You have a yellow folder in front of you. Um, we are doing inea, um, uh, English and math construction this year, and we are doing our online apex for credit recovery only, um, for the 20 days of our program that lasts from June 12th to July 11th. Students will be in, um, session one and session two, and we have them in class for a total of five hours per day with a half an hour lunch. Now we're also running for the very first time the Summer bridge program. Well, first time for me and the Summer Bridge
009program will be for rising ninth graders, or in other words, our newly, um, promoted eighth graders. We'll be running it on both sides of the district. And I just wanted to give you a couple highlights. I gave you the whole brochure in here, but a couple highlights because we still have seats open for, uh, eighth grade rising ninth graders who might be interested in coming and spending the summer with us, um, and having a lot of fun. Um, we are at the 29 end or the east end of the district that will be run at a 29 high. The goal is to get the students to be more activated to the high schools and to be less afraid and anxious of going to meet friends and to meet some of the teachers and also just
010have a good time, uh, with some accelerated learning, uh, in EL and NAP in the morning. And then in the afternoon, things like theater and art. Uh, Joshua Tree National Park is, uh, going to be coming into do some presentations. Uh, chess, we have our high school pastors that are going to be talking about high school success and about college and about career. Uh, we have some, um, uh, workshops on growth mindset, digital toolbox. We have Polynesian dancing and weightlifting. Uh, we have eSports and sports exploration. Uh, we have leadership academies and we have an a SB club rush where we, the kids can rush a club, uh, like they do in college. We have CNC coming for CNC 1 0 1 to talk about, uh, going to college. And we have, uh, music intro
011to music programs. We have some social emotional learning through drama. And the A SB is going to be there again so that our rising eighth graders, our ninth graders will have, um, built in buddies that are going to be there for the East End y valley. Again, I'm not going to go over the same type of things, but there's a little bit of difference in both of the programs depending on who we could get for each end. So again, everything I said about the 29 end, uh, we are holding, um, uh, the Summer Bridge program and we will be taking the kiddos over in the afternoon on a couple days a week to acclimate that together on the high school campus. And there they will have things like robotics and team building, uh, criminal justice.
012Uh, Janae is doing some photography and Canva with our kids. We have, um, some escape rooms. We have EC and it's not the cooking ec, it's the snowing ec. And we have, uh, critical thinking games, uh, critical thinking for tabletop games, just all kinds of fun things for our students to be able to do over the summer while accelerating their ELA and math, uh, skills. And like I said, making new friends, acclimating themselves to the high school campuses and hopefully, um, meeting some of the new teachers that they're gonna encounter on the campuses. Any questions you can, not right now, but any questions that you have, I've given you kind of a schedule, which is always subject to a little change in case someone gets sick. But, uh, again, we have still some road at
013each end proceeds for eighth grade rising. Eighth grade. Thank you. Thank You, Amy. I'm glad we have this. I honestly wish we had this way back when, when I was in school. I would've been made that transition a lot easier, so Great job. Thank you. I have a question. Um, are these, is this program similar to Elop in which you have to Commit to the entire program? No. Or a certain No. Thank you. Thank you. You know, next up we'll have Dr. Gutierrez and she'll go over the review the summer programs. Of course. Yes. So for the elementary level, everyone, can you hear me okay. For elementary level, we do have the summer program that will start also on Thursday and we'll go all the way till July 11th. We are having centralized locations. The
014three schools that are going to be offering our Yaka Valley Elementary, Joshua Tree and Palm Vista Yako Valley will be hosting Morongo Valley and Onaga, and the lead will be Catherine Poll. Thank you Catherine. Uh, Joshua Tree, uh, they will be hosting Lands Yaga Mesa and Friendly Hills and Lead teacher is Megan Bankston and at Palm Vista we have Mrs. Jessica Hall and Palm Vista is hosting Condo Oasis and 29 Palms Elementary. We are running a full day, uh, five days out of the week with the exception of course holidays. We do have the 19th of June and 4th of July off. Uh, students are going to be participating in some academics, but there's also enrichment for the, um, enrichment. We do have STEAM labs that are going to be active. We have some legal
015spike essential programming. We do have our, our ELOP staff that have been working really hard in ensuring that the staff is trained for all of the teachers that are participating and staff that is participating in the summer program. And so there's been training taking place today, today was day one of that training and then it continues into tomorrow we have a partnership with Ground Girls Arts for Arts and Music. Um, we have the Toolbox project for some social emotional learning lessons and then of course some English language arts and some math pre-identified standards where we're gonna be able to collect some data on the very specific and targeted um, areas. Um, so we are, we still do have some space available at some of our sites. It really just depends on the grade level. So
016we encourage families, anyone that is interested to reach out to one of the host sites, they can do so as early as they want to find out how they can join. Um, we have some that are scheduled, um, for Fridays and it is a way to incentivize students to stay committed to the program. Uh, so we have students that are going to farms for like a water day type of an event. Riley's farm, the movie theater, the Children's Discovery Museum. Uh, so those are just some of the enrichment type of filters that they will be participating in. We have close to 500 students that have registered between those three sites. And again, we invite anyone that has an interest to go ahead and inquire about it. And so big shout going out to Mrs. Celeste
017Ber for her leadership and guidance in supporting the planning efforts of our Eloc, uh, summer program. Thank you. Next will be, uh, Stacy, small new staff introductions. Thank board president CLA board members by Gloria. I'm coming back here because I need to invite a few people of with things on stage. Um, if I can please have Sally Stevens and Catherine Nik and she, can you join me here at the fund? Any order respond. Okay. Um, so thank you so much. I'd just like to give you just that better. I'd just like to give you some, um, an opportunity to introduce our new, um, management that you appointed in our last work, uh, meeting we have with us Sally Stevens. She's been with a SD since 2018 and the principal of the FFA Visa Elementary School
018since 2021. Prior to your time here, Sally has taught in a variety of roles, K 12 in Arizona and abroad for wealth of experience. Um, we are excited to help Sally continue to support NBC in a new leadership role as the program facilitator working NBC. Well, Thank you. I'm Really excited. Um, and then to my right we, Catherine, she served, um, MPSC as a teacher, MGSS coordinator, ed osa. Um, so she began with the district in 2008. Pat has taken on a variety leadership roles during that time, such as administrative designee coach and acceleration learning coordinator. Um, she's a dedicated leader and will serve at F eighth Elementary School as the new captain we're gonna do. Great. Thank you. Left again. Came to MUSD last year as an assistant principal of Oasis with a strong
019background in education and leadership. Dr. Reer has served as an elementary and secretary, music teacher, assistant Pensacola and Summer are academic principal while also supporting gait and programs in his previous districts. In his short time at Oasis, he has shown his leadership and dedication to the school setting. We are confident he that he need to provide a consistent support for Oasis as he university principal. Thank You very much. I look forward to working with all of you on a real collaborative way At Oasis. And last but definitely not least, um, tomorrow. Right. Again, we have been names. He's coming to MUSD from Palm Springs Unified School District with experience in general education, special education and counseling that brings a variety of skills that will benefit our students having served as administrative designee for the alternative
020high school and most recently coordinated of students or services for Palm Springs Unified School District that has prepares for students, family and staff. As the new assistant principal at school Mitchell, I'm very honored to be joining my unified as the new assistant principal at Wata and I look forward to supporting students, staff, and families of this community. My husband and I lived just a few miles up the street from Lockes, so we're both very excited to be part of this district and community and thank you. Very honored and grateful. Thank Keith. Thank you Stacy. We're looking forward to all four of your impact on this district. Thank you. Okay. The board of Educational Conduct a public hearing on the 25 26 local control and accountability plan. We do have one comment card from Kaylee Newman.
021Thank You. Sorry, I just looked through this together. Very spur in the stop me. Good evening School board members. My name is Kaylee Neman. I'm a student psych counselor at Fresno Hills Elementary and I'm co VP of our parenting booth, FHEA. My daughter's going into her fifth year at the school and my son's going into his third. I've met some of you through my husband Keith, who is VP at N-U-I-S-A at Friendly Hills. Palm Vista Land are being considered foreclosure in the next five years as the shock wastes through our community and is deeply disturbing news to many parents, teachers, and students that FHGA has spoken into. There are parents of many these schools Present met. We also feel the need to set the record straight and it is viewed or inaccurate. Statistics provided by
022an alleged third party consultant to gather data on our stool. As this third party consultant look at data regarding expected population growth in Penley Hills School District. Over the next decade, local realtors are expecting to continue surge and available single family homes as the market pools according to data from our main student high council meeting that are principal of Ms. Roche, who is also here tonight, has provided to us at HTS enrollment rights consistently every year with a 20 24 25 school year attendance rate of 95% contradictory to what we believe this third party consultant has shown just as your County Hills was named one of California's distinguished schools by the California Department of Education. Additionally, out of all 18 schools, we are the highest rated N School on grade schools.org with a score of
023seven out of 10. FKGS also has the highest transfer rate at any other elementary school in the district in often has to turn transfer students away. The third party consultant also claims that not every single classroom is being used when the opposite is true. To be clear, every single classroom at our school is used, especially with the passing of Measure C that will inject 88.3 million into our schools is bewilder to imagine why NUSD would be considering shuttering this most successful school, which also outperforms most other elementary schools to standardized testing. We all know these accomplishments of high test scores contribute to more state federal funding for NUSD. Our classroom sizes are already large and married between 26 to 30 kids per classroom, which is a challenging size for any one teacher. By having these
024students absorbed by other elementary schools, the class average would further increase and overall standardized test scores would decrease leading to less funding. The increased class sizes could cause attendance rates to decline, which also results in less funding. It may seem at first that MSD is saving money by closing all four of these schools, but in the long run it will lead to an overall decrease in state, federal and LCFF funding at the cost of taking a currently high quality education in friendly hills and devolving it into a low quality education at a nearby school. Students on this path will be less successful in junior high and high school and this will ultimately end with students attending college less, along with declining in high school graduation rates. Friendly hills. Parents will be attending board meetings more
025frequently with the goal of working together with NUSC and the school board to continue to stress the course of protecting these schools. Thank you for listening. There are no further comments so I can get a motion to close that LCAP hearing Sunday Is that fair Vote by Roberta. Seconded by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next up we'll open a public hearing for the 25 26 proposed budget and fund balance. We also have no comments, so I'll take a motion to close today's hearing. So Move by Bianca second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Four zero. Next step Public hearing for the 25 26 SEPA local plan, annual budget and service plan should include SUPA annual budget and service plan. We have no comments. May I get a motion to close the hearing?
026Yes. So moved. Second. Moved by Bianca, second by Pete. All in favor I. Aye. Pete Aye. Four zero. Thanks Pete. Okay, thank you very much. That'll move us on to our general public comments. Here comes my little readout. Individuals may address the board on issues within the jurisdiction of NMSC 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 side commentary to ensure the board members can properly hear all public speakers. Members of the public are expected to maintain a professional courteous decorum during comments and appropriate behavior which disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes. The orderly conduct of the meeting will resort result in forfeiture of your public comment privileges. The board is prohibited
027by state law for taking action or discussing included on the printed agenda. Public comments on specific agenda items will be deferred until consideration of the item on the agenda. Thank you. We'll start off with Celeste Walworth. Thank you. Good evening. President Clare and trustees Dr. Vargas cabinet, members and members of the Morgo Unified community. It was amazing to see you all at graduations this past week and it was a special time for me. It was my first year of fifth and sixth grade students as a teacher and my first sixth grade group from Yucca Valley Elementary School, graduating as seniors from BlackRock and from Yucca Valley High School. And it was my first group of TK students graduating or promoting from Yucca Valley Elementary schools. It was an honor to witness the attack that we've
028had. Um, at Yucca Valley Elementary School. One of our students gave this speech and I wanted to share it with you. In the seven years I have spent at this school, I can say this from the bottom of my heart that I have never felt this welcome and this cared for and probably never will in any other school I attend in the future. It's hard to find the words to describe the way I feel towards this school, but the teachers, students, my friends, and anyone at this school have made me feel not important or special, but more like I can ask any of them for help if needed. Not only that, but the people at this school have been great to me my whole life. They showed me kindness and appreciation when I was at
029my lowest helped me when things happened in my life that were tough to go through. So that's why if I had the chance to relive a thousand lifetimes, I would pick this town, these people and make the same decisions in every single one over and over again. This school will always affect me in a positive way and I thank them for that. That was such a testimony and, uh, blessing to hear from our students in regards to how invested our staff and community are with our students. It was a difficult to decision to make, um, but I have made the decision to step away from my current position and I wanted to publicly thank you. I wanna express my deep gratitude for the opportunity to serve Morgue Unified. Over the past eight years, this district
030has made more, has been more than a place of work. It has been a community of calling and a space where I've grown alongside passionate educators, dedicated leaders, and extraordinary students. Throughout my time here as a teacher, a site leader, and as a district administrator, I've been entrusted with opport needs to lead, to innovate and to serve. I've witnessed firsthand the resilience of our staff, the heart of our community, and the incredible potential of our students. I'm so proud of what we've built together from unified and unstoppable teams to outdoor classrooms, to steam initiatives and expanded learning opportunities. And I carry those experiences forward with immense respect. I remain deeply invested in the success of this district. I will be a continued cheerleader for the important work that continues here. Thank you for the trust,
031the collaboration, and the many moments of shared purpose to our classified staff, certificated teams and site leaders. You inspire me, your work matters and your impact is lasting. As I transition into a new chapter, I do so the great hope, hope for the future of MUSD, hope for continued unity and innovation and hope that every student continues to be seen, supported, and getting the tools to thrive. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of something so meaningful. It has truly been an honor. Thank you. Thank next step will be Kelly Oakley. Lin. Did I get that right? Uh, no. It's Kaylee Poland. That was a second. It's a really easy to put. Thank you. Um, good evening to the board, to the superintendent and all the staff up there. First off, I
032wanna say thank you for all the work you do. Um, it's very appreciated. My name is Kaylee Poland. I'm a parent of student to be fourth grader and a future TK at Ley Hills Elementary. I am here to speak tonight regarding information shared with me by teacher union representatives that MUSD is considering closing four elementary schools in the Morongo Basin, including Friendly Hills, which my 9-year-old whose birthday party I love to attend. This tonight has been attending since kindergarten. If it is correct, it is disheartening and concerning and leaves many questions to be answered. What factors have brought the situation into consideration is the district in financial distress. What metrics they're being utilized to determine how the district decides school should close. What other possible solutions is the district considering so that our schools can
033continue to serve their neighborhood communities? How can we as parents help ensure the successful futures of our current schools? How would closing these schools benefit the district and families within them? I just can't see any benefit for the Ronco Basin at all in an outcome like this. It is a great disservice to our already under-resourced community where 76% of students are considered high needs and 67% of families are considered low income. Thank you Alcap for that information. Well, I understand talks are very preliminary stages. I believe that it is very important moving forward that the district is keeping parents apprised with the conversation. Because this impact would be felt most by the families of these schools. A little transparency would go a long way with establishing community connection and trust. It was also shared that
034the district will possibly behold LCAP funds from these four schools until it is known whether or not they will remain open. Apparently the district has three years to make this decision, which is the same timeframe as that these LCAP funds must also be used. Hopefully this is indeed just a rumor as I would find this would be unacceptable. It would be extremely helpful for the district to share some of these answers and provide clarification sooner rather than later. I look forward to working together to best outcome before our children. Thanks. Thank you. And sub Carrie Cole, stop. Good evening. I know I've met most of you before, but you will meet a lot of people in your day to day. So I'm Carrie Cole and I teach at 29 Palms Junior High. To be transparent,
035I wear a lot of patents. I'm here tonight to speak specifically about one of them. Last year I came to the board to seek support for our staff and students, bringing to you the realities and depths of trauma that we are experiencing and witnessing in our district every single day. I wanna thank MUSD for listening with the help of Amy Woods, Heidi Garett, and Jackson spanning multiple departments in the district as well as other teachers, classified staff counselors and more, we started a wonderful trauma task task force. In the course of this last year. We have successfully brought Rachel's challenge a program board from the tragedy of Columbine to many schools in our district. We are purchasing workbooks for our counselors to support students with self-regulation. And last summer we taught a full day of
036trauma-informed educational practices at our summer institute. And the room was packed the entire day, standing room only. We also took a team of six of us to the Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference in Atlanta where we never for some of the biggest names in this growing and necessary field, we brought back strategies such as restorative justice, adapted wellness spaces, community building, collaborative tools, and new perspectives. We continue to make a difference in our respective spaces and roles, but our job is not done and we need your help. As a planning and preparation for next year are well underway. I ask you to remember us and to include us. We all know funding is being cut when it comes to education, but this is an area we cannot afford to forget to prioritize. In fact, research
037continues to show that trauma-informed schools academically outperform those who are not by an average of 11 percentile points in all grade levels. The flip side of that is that the biggest predictor of school shootings and youth suicides are the same factors. A lack of connectedness and a lack of believing people will care according to a panorama. Our own SEL data collection and states work to do in both those areas. Our community's deserve support. We need real drug education that works. Mental health counselors at every single site. Ongoing PD for teachers. Trauma informed practices Were left out of this year Summer institute though I was told to schedule match our district priorities. And we also need funding to continue to send teachers and staff to conferences as empowering as the Creating Sensitive Trauma Sensitive Schools conference
038that we attended this past year. Please keep us as a priority. Keep students and staff's mental health a priority, keep their wellbeing a priority. As we move into the next school year, let's continue to make choices that prioritize our students because here at MUSC students do come first. Thank you. Next up Nelson Day. So, Uh, and just, um, as a single dad of a 6-year-old sometimes have trouble with helping my daughter socialize effectively. My daughter attended the Friendly Hills TK and kindergarten program with Friendly Hills Teacher Ms. The sports side's influence was key in my child's social development. From offered to friendly with others in observing my daughter's academic progress under the Fair Lake, influence her progress in basic reading, math and behavior skills. That's exceptional. I'm here to advocate on behalf of the school
039and the staff. The school is well attended with between 94 to 96% attendance, which is almost crowded for a lot of classes and it is a cornerstone of our Friendly Hills family community in Joshua. Academic testing and reputation has proven us to be a single deaf school in our district for kindergarten through sixth grade, receiving seven out of 10 for school, for a, uh, for four grade schools that org compared to other schools in our district, which ranks out of 10 on average. The recently receipt of the California Distinguished School Award this year, which we're all very, very proud of, but you can't tell we need to hold more fundraisers or raise awareness of our school's budget Opportunity is willing to assist in any way possible to ensure this gym of the school remain open
040in our community. Please keep the school open. Thank you. Next up Ashley Decker Whitley. Yay. I would like to thank everyone for the time for allowing me to speak tonight. I was ing you this evening as a concerned parent, but as a mother of a daughter that was sexually assaulted, what happened to my daughter has showered our family's sense of safety and trust in the system that we will leave a protector. No parent should have to receive the call that I did. No child should have to walk into school fearing harm. No survivor should be met with silent skepticism or inadequate support in the act of not child. Since this assault, we've been let to navigate the reason of policies and procedures. It seemed far more focused on protecting the institution or even the person
041who harmed her. Rather than helping my daughter feel safe and supported. The emotional toll it has taken on my daughter is devastating and the lack of real meaningful action from the district and school leadership has only made things worse with this. In her class, her options were independent. Study as a student with an IEP and me that she support, she would lose partial, if not all support services, stay in the same class, give the person who assaulted her every day, be moved away from the teacher who has helped and helped her thrive and be successful. I was told removing the other student that we consider punitive but than avoiding the appearance of punishment. Even said punched the victim. As a survivor myself, I know what this is. Victim blaming me. You are teaching my daughter
042and every student watching that there are no real consequences for harm. That protecting a offender through inaction is either within defending a survivor with integrity. This district is not neutral. Silence is a stance and action is a choice. A victim should not have to fight to be accommodated or kept saved from further harm. And yet this is happening at our schools under our watch. For her point of view, she has asked, why can't he move? I want to stay. If I moved, did I do something wrong? Am I in trouble? Can you answer that because that is the message you are sending and it will stay that way far longer than this school year. Let me be very clear. A victim should never be treated like an inconvenience. A survivor should never be retraumatized by
043having to advocate for their own safety. And parents should not have to beg for support and accountability from the people entrusted with their children's wellbeing. I urge the school board to take immediate and concrete actions so that no other child or family has to experience what we have specifically, but not limited to reviewing and revising current policies or prioritize the rights of victims over the convenience of those who cause harm. Implementing clear survivor-centered policies that ensure victims are heard, respected, and supported. From the moment a report is made or you are notified a report has been made, provide appropriate accommodations in the court. Services for survivors, including but not limited to counseling safe spaces without penalizing or isolating the victim. Actual options that make the victim know that their voice matters. What happened to my
044daughter can never be on time. But what happens next? What you choose to do when I'll send a powerful message to every student, Karen and educator in the district. Will you protect our children? Will you stand up for what is right? You have the power to make a change. I ask that you use it. That concludes our public comments. We now have the adoption of the consent agenda. Do we have any items for discussion? May I get a motion to adopt the consent agenda? Second. Move by Bianca. Second by P. All in favor? Aye. Four zero. Next up are our action items. The 20 25 26 SEPA local plan to include self biannual budget and service plan is presented for adoption, which we did earlier this evening. I would like a motion to adopt the
04520 25 20 26 SELPA local plan to include selpa annual budget. I So no second. Moved by P second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero Prop 28. Arts and Music and School funding annual reports. It is recommended that the Board of Education approve the 20 24, 25 Prop 28 Arts and Music and Festival funding annual report as presented. Move by Bianca, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Four zero. The board verification education is requested to authorize a resolution to contract with or employ Christine Clayton to provide speech language pathology services for 25 26 school year. We will be approving resolution 25 28 language. Excuse me. Speech language pathology contract for the 25 26 school year. May I get a motion? So second. Moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All
046in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next up MOU layoff effects. We are requi or requesting an approval for the MOU for the layoff effects between MUSD and the California School Employees Association in its chapter 29. May I get a motion? Second. Move by Bianca. Second by Roberta. All in favor a aye. Four zero resolution 25 20 dash 27 education protection accounts we are making. I'd like a motion to adopt the resolution. 25 27 to establish the protection account. Aye. So A moved by Pete, second by Bianca. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Four zero. Next accept option of the 25 dash 29 authorization of committed fund balance. May I get a motion? So second. Moved by Roberta, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. 4 0 25 26 Student plans for student achievements. We are requested
047to adopt the 25 25 school plans for the student achievement for BlackRock High School Act. Instead of reading all the way through, I was gonna approve the ask for a motion to approve the 25 26 school plans for student achievement for 16 of the Mongo Unified School District Schools. May I get a motion? So Moved. Second. Moved by Bianca, second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Four zero items for review. Informational items, accounts receivable, cash receipts, budget transfer report, future agenda items, adoption of the LCAP budget overview for parents and budget on June 24th, which will be our next meeting. Presentation of the local indicators. Also at the next meeting on June 24th, 2025. And then we will have a discussion. Okay. We also have a discussion about going to whether two or
048one lunches at the secondary. Lunch is, uh, most appropriate for our district at 29 and Yuka high school board district calendar. Special board meeting. We will have a board trustee appointment so we're replacing, which will be tough to do. Replacing Carol Lee at 1:00 PM June 13th, 2025 at Josh Tree Professional Development Center. We also, our next meeting will be June 24th, 2025. Next up our board comments. Let's go ahead and start with Pete Wood. Well, I think I went to uh, three, uh, uh, graduations and four school promotions and I enjoyed it very much. Very much excitement. I definitely got excited. It was great. What a, what a week. Thank you, Pete. Start with Roberta. Well, I was gonna say the exact same thing. I didn't attend the promotions, but the re graduations were
049very exciting. I enjoyed the very much, um, very heartfelt student. Um, comments and speeches. They were just great. Um, but my back didn't enjoy that much to say. Took me in a couple of days to recover from standing and shaking the hands that it was all worth it. So, and I'm very excited about the summer bridge programs and the summer schools. So that's all. Thank you Bianca. Um, Felix, so far away. Um, I wanted to think, uh, Heidi and Wayne for working on the, uh, the life policy. It seems like you really took into consideration our comments and so I just really appreciate you guys going back after that first read review and, um, and working on that. I really appreciate it. Um, thank you so much to the BlackRock staff and district office for
050great graduation, uh, ceremony. That was my first time going to a BlackRock graduation and it was very impactful. So it was a wonderful evening. Um, thank you to Faith and Dr. Gutierrez for your presentations today. And thank you to all the speakers. We're brave enough to come out and get up here in front of us and share. I really appreciate it. So thank you. Please come back. We'd love to hear from you and thank you to our newly appointed principals and staff. Thank you guys for coming out that Thank you. Um, it was fantastic to attend all three graduations. I try to do that every year and one bridging at Onega Elementary for my son. So that was exciting. Um, this reinforces everything that everybody in this room is here for. We're here to prepare
051our students for success in their careers, military, whatever future endeavor that's every one of us in our this room has a responsibility to do so. Um, and I'm very sad because Measure C, it looks like our dollars gonna start going being put to work this Friday at 29 Palms Junior High School. We will be having a round breaking and encourage anybody that would like to attend it, see where some of your tax dollars are going 'cause it's sorely needed at that location. So thank you for everybody in attendance and thank you for the public comments. Um, we always encourage the public to, to voice their opinion and, and let us know how you feel. So thank you very much and have a good evening. We'll adjourn adjo to closed session.