001We will re reconvene to open session. I appreciate everybody in this out there being nice and quiet. It was a little awkward for us up here, but that's alright. Alright, so we're gonna start with the Pledge of Allegiance. We are proud to recognize the exceptional academic achievements of our class of 2025 scholars. Please join us in congratulating Emil Esco, valedictorian of Pons High School, Vanessa Tran Salutatorian as well as Jayden, oh boy, I better get this right. Valedictorian of high school and zin Iain. Fewer uh, salutatorian. These students have demonstrated remarkable dedication, perseverance, and excellence through their high school careers. Their accomplishments reflect years of hard work commitment to learning and a passion for success. All four have been invited to join us this evening to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. We are honored to
002celebrate their achievements and bright futures and we look forward to seeing what they do Next, please place your right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for, Hi. How are I? Haven't A, but he has run, so he two. Um, okay. Everyone. 3, 2, 1. I. Okay. Okay. I am looking for a motion to adopt the agenda for the ma for today's meeting with the amendment of BB 29 60, which says a first rating slash review. Can I get a motion? Hold on. To adopt the agenda. You? Yes. So what happened when you wanna explain it? Sure. So by 19 To do it as an amend. Oh, I got
003you. Okay. Second. Second. Move by Roberta. Second. Aye. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Looking for a motion to adopt the minutes from the April 8th, 2025 WR board meeting. So Moved by Bianca, second by Pete. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Need a motion for the April 22nd, 2025 board study. I'll give the motion to Roberta and second to Pete. All in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero. April 22nd, 2020. You know what, that's actually, so it should be April 22nd, 2025 Because I don't remember the meeting three Years ago. One vote individually Because you're technically supposed to go through all. Yeah, yeah. Um, joint meeting with CMCs. Uh, can I get motion? Move by Carrie, second by Pete. All in favor? A. Any nays? Five zero. A
004motion for the April 25th, 2025 Special meeting district property review. We'll go with Carol Lee and then Pete as a second. All in favor? Bianca? Always. Bianca? Yeah. Okay. Sorry about that. Uh, all in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero. May 2nd, 2025. Special meeting superintendents Yearend performance review Moved by Pete. Second. Second by Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. May 8th, 2025. Board study Still moved. Second, We'll go with Pete and then Roberta. All in favor? A. Aye. I. Okay. Any nays? So we're gonna be 4 0 1, I guess. Okay. Actions from our closed session. We have two items. The result of the board of education accept the stipulation agreement of immediate expulsion of student 24 14 Passing adopted this 13th day of May, 2025 and the county of
005San Bernardino. The action was a five zero vote. Vote be resolved at the board of education. Accept the stipulation. Agreement of immediate expulsion of student 24 dash three. Adopted this 13th day of May, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino. Also a five oh vote. All right, we're going off to the best part of the whole meeting. The recognitions. Well, here's some good news as well. So we are recognizing or resolving, uh, new positions within the district. So be resolved at the Board of Education. Appoint m VR as the principal at Oasis Elementary in Morgue Unified School District. This is passed and adopted this 13th day of May, 2025. In the county of San Bernardino. We had a five oh vote. Next up, it resolved at the Board of Education. Appoint Catherine Nik as principal
006at Yuca Elementary School. In nor Unified School District passed and adopted this 13th day of May, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California five oh votes. Another public employment appointment be it resolved at the Board of Education. Appoint Paul Mains as an assistant principal at Lockton Middle School and Unified School District. Passed and adopted this 13th day of May, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California five oh vote. Last but not least, the resolved that the ification appoint Sally Stevens as the Gilo program specialist in MUSD passed and adopted this 13th day of May, 2025 in the county of San Bernardino, California. We had a four oh vote in, um, we only had, we only had four members at that time in the meeting. Okay, now we're gonna do the fun part, the
007recognitions. We're gonna start with 29 Palms and Y Valley High School valedictorians. The, oh, we're not. Okay. Okay. So we're All right. Board President Claire Board members Dr. Vargas, thank you so much for allowing us some time to recognize some very special employees who have gone through our Aspiring Administrator course. So, as you well know, our district has a long history of provide providing future leaders with aspiring administrative courses. About three years ago, we did change some of the direction of those courses, adding classified, um, leadership, aspiring leaders to the, the, the courses, and then also having a leadership focus. This year in particular, I was very thrilled to have Dr. Gutierrez lead a lot of the coursework and, um, really develop a really exciting program for aspiring administrators. And I'm gonna ask her to
008talk a little bit about that and recognize our completers. Good evening board members, Dr. Vargas cabinet and audience members. It has been a true honor to contribute to the Morongo Unified School District Aspiring Administrators course at the presenter. My focus on leadership development guided by CUS and ners, the five practices of exemplary leadership provided a valuable framework to help participants reflect on and strengthen their own leadership journeys. Working alongside our aspiring administrators has been a highlight of my time here at Morocco Unified School District. Thus far, it has been both exciting and rewarding to witness their growth and to play a small part in shaping the next generation of leaders for our district. I would like to ask the participants that are present here today to please come up and join me. A, a total
009of 18 certificated and classified staff members participated in our Aspiring Administrators course. In addition to leadership development sessions, participants also engaged in interactive sessions presented by our business and Human Resources Department depart The 15 honorees being recognized today, attended all sessions, all participants demonstrated consistent growth, commitment, and enthusiasm throughout the experience. At this time, I would like to invite Ms. Carrie Cole, teacher at 29 Palms Junior High School, who will share a few of words about her experience and which captures the essence of their collective experience. Let's welcome her And I promise she told me a few words before I got here. Thank you for having us. We all know that the landscape of education has been and continues to be changing. As such, leaders are emerging and looking for ways to step forward, to
010collaborate with one another and to find their positions. Aspiring administrators gain leaders in this district a chance to do just that. We studied proven leadership strategies. Networked shared our own expertise, learn about interview techniques and even the ever terrifying financing. Most importantly, we began to consider our own paths forward. What kind of leaders do we wanna be and what roles will we fill? For some of us, we question whether those roles exist already or if we'll have to find them and make them along the way. For most of us, I am certain that it won't be long before we are introducing ourselves to you, not as maintenance and operations, as office Techs, counselors, nutritional services, warehouse staff and teachers. Instead, we will be here with a new title, a wide variety of new titles that
011are befitting the leadership roles that many of us are already fulfilling in our places. We thank you all so much for your time and for the support that everyone has shown us through these endeavors. And so now it is my honor to recognize the participants individually. Not everyone is here joining us today, but nonetheless, we will call their name. Um, they truly contributed and we wanna make sure that we recognize them. So we begin with Megan Bankston, Carrie Cole, Scott Foreman. Janelle free. Darlene Gonzalez. Happy can Tired, long. Michelle Mitcham, Thomas Pickett, Bonnie Wallin, Rudy and Andrew Spear. Brianna Sullivan, Anna Stove, and Thomas Current. Let's give them Molly The administrators course. Congratulations Everyone. Ready? 3, 2, 1. Next up will be our reports from student representatives that will lead off with BlackRock High School.
012Hello again everyone and good at you. My name is Joy and I'm a senior at BlackRock High School. I would like to thank the board Mr. Claire, our superintendent, Dr. Vargas, the board and the cabinet for allowing BlackRock to share all the great things we are doing with everyone. As of today, we have 35 students have graduated already. We had our Project Anew Leadership Academy coming on Wednesdays, working with staff and students for team building activities. Ms. Antoinette comes once a week for our self-esteem therapy group. Unity Home also comes and visits once a week to teach students about toxic relationships and what to do and what to do when they're in one. There have also been a good number of visits from CMC to help students out with their FAFSA for college. We had
013Chrisy Bon who came to the school yesterday to present to the students about the CTE dental classes they offer. I'm happy to say that testing is done for the year. Just recently, we have also had the blood drive come once again along with the hearing bus for this credit check. There have been lots of amazing events at BRHS this year. Groundworks and Mr. Kmos Sound Lab have been very successful with 19 students participating. We had our awards assembly on May 2nd, along with our PBIS party was on May 2nd as well. We will also have a marine recruiter visit the school for a presentation on this credit check UTI came to visit the school to talk about their trade school and the technical classes that they offered. We had a very special teacher from the
014pop, pop pop you learn movie Freedom writers. They visited last Friday to talk to us about life and how you can turn your life around by hard work and determination, along with lots of other great advice. On May 10th, we had prom, which was an absolute success being our largest prom. Along with our theme being Casino Night, being able to match the colors red and black with our school colors very nicely. I would like to thank you all for making everything that we do at Black Hawk High School possible. It is with great privilege that we get the opportunity to try out new things and learn new things. Graduation is on June 3rd. I hope to see you get there this year. It was spectacular. Let's hope next year can be just as great or
015even better. Now. If there are any questions you have for me, I would be more than happy to take them now. Just a just a point of clarification. How many Graduates already look back at that? 35. 35 students. 35. And this was our largest pro at BlackRock. It was amazing. You should have seen it. Get the chance. Ask him to for some videos. Beautiful. Thank you. Besides the point, but the gate function you guys have here. Amazing. My brothers in gate. I loved it. Good evening. Palms. Palms High School Junior. William Sum, the student representative of the Board of Education. There is a lot of exciting news to share about our well community this month. Academic news, all Wildcat State testing. Uh, testers did a great job, uh, participating in English, math, science, and ELD.
016State testing efforts were as high as juniors attempted to earn their senior incentives and we're proud to report that the school has met all the participation rate benchmarks for all estate testing. Last month, I told you about the several of the four college commitments we celebrated on the Oath. Places to Go All. I'm out to your report that we've added even more seniors on the way to Bright Futures and specifically two Wildcats who were recently sworn into the United States Army. Jeremiah Burke and Daven June. And we are also in CIF playoff mode for the remainder of the spring sports season, I have some huge headlines to report the close of the league play in track and Field eight Wildcats were named League Champion in their event. And the Wildcat girls were DVL Team champions.
017Uh, freshman Eva Eva Till League was named Girls Desert Valley League MVP. Also two long standing school records were recently broken when Freshman Tail and Trimble jumped five feet two inches, breaking a 44-year-old record. Then at CIF prelims Ania Haynes broke the 22-year-old school record in the 400 meter dash by breaking the one minute mark at 58.72 seconds. Boys Tennis made CIF and won of their first play match four, falling the second round to Dominguez High School from Compton, sorry, Wildcat Sophomore golfer. Elliot Gure made first team All League and competed yesterday in the first round of CIF individuals, but sadly did not make the cut to move on Softball. Had a great season finishing the 13 eight overall record, but did not receive a c playoff baseball win nine eight and did receive an
018at-large CCF bid and will host Beacon Hill at this home, uh, this home this Thursday at three 15. Finally, to wrap up sports, our unified, uh, champions PE students have had a huge month participating, competing in the Special Olympics Unified track and field meet on April 18th, uh, and the unified, uh, champions kickball game last Friday, May 9th. Both events were hosted at Yucca Valley High School. So shout out to our Trojan friends for welcoming such events. Um, and while at, uh, cultural Community Promise Health in April 19th, it was a smashing success, a great time has had by all Ms. Shea and as field. We host the TPHS Hall of Fame class of 2025 Introduction Ceremony on this, uh, hell on this Friday, May 16th at 9:00 PM the T-P-H-S-N-P-R all School awards and
019scholarship Night is next Tuesday, May 20th at 6:00 PM in the Casey gym. Grad night for Senior, senior Rosa Studios is May 29th, and we hope to see you all at the commencement of the T-P-H-T-P-H-S class of 2025 on Friday, June 6th in the walk at stadium. That's all have for day. Thank you for letting give update. We made great things having TP Hs. Do you guys have any questions? Oh, yes. Um, 9:00 AM 9:00 AM Thank you. Thank you guys. Have a good evening. Next up Younger Valley High School. Hello and good evening everyone. I'm Ju Snar, a SB president and I'm here to speak on behalf of a SP who the Student Body. I'd like to start off with our leadership, our unified leadership team. They hosted their uniform kickball team versus 29
020Palms and Loca, uh, on May 9th from eight to 10 on our field. We'd like to say thank you to all of you guys who came out and helped supported our unified team and helps plan with them in supporting them. Our unified prom is also, there is gonna be the theme Candyland theme on May 30th during school. They were also recently asked by Adjuster Elementary School to help visit their unified leaderships to help train them with their athletes and also their buddies. Um, we had our last Saturday School of the Year on May 10th, and this was a great opportunity for students to make up absences or tour in order to go to all fun activities at the end of the year. Our spring sports are coming to an end for most teams. However, we
021have a couple outstanding teams who have made it far this year. We have track, swim, and golf who all made it to CIF Swim. Our Trojan Boys and Girls team won home meet against Coachella Valley Tuesday, April 15th, going on their fourth consecutive league title for Yucca Valley High School. The boys won 108 to 23 while the girls won one 13th to 39. We have outstanding swimmers, Christian Altman, Ted William, Alex Comper, and Seth Dale, who also broke school records in the Boys 200 Mid League Relay. They set a new record of one minute and 50 seconds in their last beat. Our Trojan girls also took third three wins in their relay races. The Trojan Boys won every event in their meet against Coachella and took top three spots in most races. They also followed
022up with having a few qualified for CIF. We have golf. Our Trojan golf team has earned their full fourth consecutive Desert League champion at our home course as well. We have Ben Car Carlton, who had the lowest score shooting of 39, followed by Blake Morrison with the 41 Marcus Cox and Adrian de Mayo with their shots of 43. Gavin Whitfield and Chris Ironman with 40 fives. The League finals were all are where all golf golfers compete for individual titles. For CIF, Yucca Valley has already qualified for CIF. However, the, uh, we have three players, Ben Carlton, lake Morrison and Adrian Teo, who all made it for individual CI Fs, who played yesterday and Chino Hos for a SV. We have a packed month with it being the last one month of school for all, for
023all students, but especially seniors. There were plenty of activities to happen and keep the school spirit up for seniors. We had Trojan Loud, which was an event held during lunch, and it was to have all the seniors in the student quad. We had nutritional service provide a specific lunch. We had music, we had lunch activities, and we had great feedback come from it. We have Brad Knight that comes on May 30th. This event is for all seniors together at Six Flags. The tickets are due April 30th and the, it's a lasting zone. We, for all seniors to be together. We have a spirit week next week from May 19th to May 22nd for all seniors. And it's a spirit week. And here are the days we have Monday dress as your younger self. We have
024Tuesdays as senior citizens, Wednesday as a walking yearbook, Thursdays as dress in your college gear. And then Friday we have no school, so there will be no during day. We have our juniors who are finalizing prom as E 15. And as it's coming up this week, we have a prom being held at the West end in Rachel Mirage from seven to 11. And the theme is going to be Garden of Glamour. And prior to that we had E 15 being held on the 15th and 16th and it leads up to prevent students from drinking and driving during pro. At the end of the month, our junior class is hosting a car wash on May 30th at Sherry Miller's and they'll be selling tickets for $10. Our software class had a stand at our culture class
025that was hosted on May 3rd and had a diversity of food performances and highlighted cultures within our school. Lastly, our sophomore class also hosted a fundraiser partnering with the local Juice It Up and every purchase made that day. 30% of the profit went to our junior class or sophomore class. That wraps up everything. Thank you for giving me the time. It's important to make everything possible and we can't wait to continue for getting our students and community more involved with your help. Thank you guys. Is there any questions? Thank you. Awesome. Thank you guys. The student representatives seem to get better every meeting. Almost. It's like you guys, you guys really very well spoken and very thorough. I really, so I, I know what's happening in our three high schools, so you're more than welcome
026to continue watching my mess ups or you can continue evening. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Next up legislative report. No report. Okay, we'll have the report from the classified representative. Good evening board members, Dr. Bergs, captain members. I'm Mike Johnson, chapter president of Local chapter for CSEA. Um, not much report right now. We're getting ready to, um, go into negotiations at some point this year. Um, I would like to take a moment and applaud all the classified employees for a wonderful great year and all their dedication and support that they have got us through. And the other team that we back up, which is certified, I would like to give them a round of applause for recognizing us and hanging in there with us, fighting for us and, um, that they, um, have really
027collaborated well this year together with, um, all team members and realizing the importance of, um, everyone working together certified. That's all we got. Thank you. Okay. Good evening. Well, the news, I've never met a mike that I didn't love, so I'm gonna be up here for a while 'cause it's traditionally the month where we recognize everybody. And I brought a list and you can't see it. It's inside nine o'clock to get it to fit on one page, but we're going to make sure we recognize the members who do the work here, um, tonight. But first, um, I wanted to welcome CSEA to the bargaining table. Go CSEA Go, MTA. We support you. We, and we thank you for the recognition and we recognize all the work you do. Um, we will be MTA, uh, is
028purchasing snacks for all classified and certificated staff next week to be delivered to their sites on different days of the week. Um, so it's a lot to coordinate that. It takes me a long time, but I got it done. So that's happening. Everybody watched for your snacks? They're going be great. Um, thank you to district catering. They do a really good job in take off the getting it there piece for me, which is great. Um, so a few updates, bargaining for between MTA and MUSD continues May 15th and May 22nd. Lunch is Mexican food tomorrow. Um, and I wanted to take a minute to acknowledge, um, a lot of the work that MTA has done this year. So we were crucial in getting, uh, measure C Pass. Um, thought I was gonna die at the
029start of the year. So many of our members, uh, we put a lot of time in door knocking, went up on the weekends, on the nights. We did the postcard writing. We had members take postcards home and write them. We put our husbands and our wives and our kids into the work and that was crucial for our students. That was really good work that we did this year. Um, also, so we have an opportunity to honor some of our members who do union work at a larger region event called We Honor Ours, the WHO Awards. And to this year we're sending Kristen Goldsboro, Jean Carella, and Bridget Sears to be recognized at that event. If, if you know either of those three ladies, they, um, give ma major gifts of their time and they are
030quiet, but they are examples of quiet leadership and the power of that. And, um, it's been instrumental in the success of, um, members being able to feel empowered so that they can take action to make sure that our students receive the best. Uh, this year we're also having our MTA banquet where we pick the service member of the year for each site. And these members are recognized by their site as being outstanding service members. They, um, embody the core values of the teaching profession. They extend their own time, talent, and treasure for the good of their students. They are effective in their duties as an educator and display passion for the profession and their students. Um, they'll be honored this year with the retirees. So from Ace, we have Julie Alexander from Yucca Mesa. We
031have Cindy Harmon from, uh, Landers. We have Lynn Thilan from Morongo Valley. And we have Christina Brook from Yucca Valley. We have Elise Kelly from Mongo, we have Suzanne Claire from Yucca Valley High School. We have Jamie Wright from LA Middle School. We have Jorge Fuentes from Finley Hills Elementary. Jake Passel from 29 Palm T School. Amber Erra from 29 Palms Junior High School. Sophia Menza from the district office. Catherine Pal. Catherine Nik from 29 Palms Elementary. Mandy Schneider from Palm Vista Elementary. Jennifer from Condor Elementary School. Kristen Goldsboro from Joshua Tree Elementary School. Um, Rudy Swame from BlackRock High School. James Dean and from Oasis Elementary School, Elena Craven. So you probably will see them, some of these teachers again at your event on the 22nd 'cause they're awesome. Um, so, but don't worry
032because we're not gonna stop working. We have plans for next year. Thank goodness this year's almost over, but we have plans for next year. Um, so next week, Jean Carella, our vice president and I are traveling to Sacramento to lobby the legislator to prioritize school funding in the budget and to pass AB 65, which creates pregnancy leave for California educators. Uh, because women in the education field, which is dominated by women, um, suffer economically when they have a child. So we are working to past that. We're bringing stories from our members forward to the legislator. We will be back next year to do work also around, um, prop 55, which expires In 2030. And it's projected that if another school funding, um, proposition is not passed, um, that our district would lose 11.3 million. So
033we are going to do work around that next year also. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Next up our Marine Corps representative. Oh, good evening. Superintendent Vargas and members of the board. Tonight I would like to tell you about the MOS Expo held on the Combat Center on May 1st. I think I just touched something. I wasn't supposed to. Not. Okay. Um, MOS stands for Military Occupational Specialty. Now, do I have the right saying here I do. The expo was designed to introduce high high school students to the wide variety of career opportunities available in the military. 52 students attended the event and we're supported by over 30 combat center personnel Here. Next one. Okay, got it this time. All right. So, Okay. The event was held on onward, the combat center at Field,
034situated next to the obstacle course, which was a lot of fun. Students had a great time going through the obstacle course, and they went through as young Marines being yelled at by a staff sergeant. Now, some of them were a little bit freaked out by those staff sergeants, big voices, but they had a good, good time. Um, it sort of gave them an authentic and immersive military environment experience. Um, we featured six different stations, each showcasing multiple MOS roles and a total of 10 specialties were highlighted. The event, of course, concluded with a meal at the mess home, which I think also was enjoyed by the kids. Uh, okay. The MOS showcased, um, military police, canine unit infantry and snipers radio operators, combat medics, artillery units, and EOD explosive ordinance disposal. And students were given
035the opportunity for hands-on interaction with military equipment and vehicles, um, demonstrations of job specific tasks and gear. And we think that these immersive experience helped bridge the gap between military theory and real world application. And we have been doing this, I, I think now for three or four years. And of course we'll be doing it again next year and we look forward to it because it's a fun thing. Any questions? Thank you. Yes. Uh, How, how many, uh, students, do you have any idea how many students like the different military specialties, was there one that they liked the best, is what I'm trying to say. Good question. I have no idea. I think they all enjoyed everything that went on though, especially lunch. Well, I, I know they like the lunch up in the chow
036hall, that's for sure. Well, you were actually there, weren't you? Not this time. Not this time. Okay. But you will be invited next year. We hope you'll come. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Next up will be the reports by superintendent and staff members. We'll start with, Thank you so much, board President Claire, board members Dr. Vargus. And thank you, um, Mr. Johnson for joining me up here. So I'm gonna stand here by myself. Um, we're gonna just quickly, um, present to you the sunshine that you see on the agenda later during our consent agenda, um, with CSCA this year. MUSD is opening the following articles. We're interested in opening article, um, L Compensation and Benefits. We are also looking at Article N hours and overtime to do some clarification and clinical language, language
037Article O to, um, make sure that our new, that our, uh, article complies with the new leave laws Article P vacancies to look at cleaning up and clarifying some intary transfer language, article Q for extra hours and assignments. Um, also clarifying language regarding timelines and Article Z, um, in regards to the duration of the agreement in order to make sure that we update the term of the contract. And Mr. Johnson, do you want to go over your articles For here? CSCA is opening Article L along with the district. Uh, we are also opening up n uh, hours in overtime. Um, for clarification, we're opening up Article O for holidays, vacation paid sick time, and leaves to make sure we're, um, the language is clear with the laws. Um, article Q, extra hours of assignment and
038Article R, probationary periods and Article Z, duration of agreement also. That's what we'll be with. Do you have any questions for us about The subject? All right, thank you. Thank you. Next up, Sharon Flores. Good evening. I'd like to thank the board and the superintendent for allowing me to give an update on our bond measure C. The $88 million in voter approved bonds will be sold in the bond market in three issuances over the next 10 years. The bond rating assigned to the district by Moody's came in with a great a double AA three rating. The first bond issuance of $32 million was sold in the bond market on April 3rd. The projected true interest cost was estimated to be 4.364%. The actual true interest cost at the time of the sale was 4.311, which
039reduced the cost of the bond repayment for the taxpayers by $436,837. The bond sale closed on April 17th, and the funds were deposited in the county Treasury. So we do have the first round in the county treasury. I would like to report out on the cost of issuing the bonds. The estimated cost was $360,000. The actual cost of issuance ended up being 300,600. Um, so that was about a $60,000 savings over what was estimated. You can see the breakdown of the cost of issuance under the information items, um, in your board agenda and board agenda. Item D. Um, thank you. Is there any questions? Right. Thank you. Thank you, Sharon. We do have an ad. We're gonna have Amy Wood also give an update. Thank you. As you are aware, the district did apply for
040the Community schools grant for several of our schools in the district. And we just recently received the results of those applications. We were awarded for Oasis Elementary School in the amount of $1.4 million, uh, over the course of the next five years. So the work will begin, um, immediately but into next year, uh, Dr. Nick will be leading that charge and we will be working with Oasis Elementary to begin the advent Of our community schools opening. Great work for everybody involved in that. It's that outstanding. Next up public comment, individuals may address the board on issues within the jurisdiction of NUSD Board of Education that are not on this agenda. There's a time limitation of three minutes per person and 20 minutes per topic during public comment. Please refrain from applause or side commentary to
041ensure the board members can properly hear all public speakers. Members of the public are expected to maintain a professional courteous decorum during their comments. Inappropriate behaviors, which disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impeded. 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 until consideration of an item on the agenda. Read just okay. Looks like we have one, which will be Adam Wright. Good evening board members, district representatives, members of the public. My name is Adam Wright. I am the Social Science Department chair at Y Valley High School. Uh, I'm joined by members of my department as well. Uh, things are going great at
042Y Valley High School. It's been an amazing year. Uh, we look forward to continuing those things. Uh, a department does have one major area of concern, however, uh, and that is regarding the decision to remove one of the teaching positions, uh, from our department. Uh, we believe that that decision in the name of efficiency ultimately fails to prioritize student educational outcomes and does not set us up well for success in the future. And I want to go over a couple reasons why very briefly. Uh, the first one is that that will necessitate a bare bone schedule. Uh, one that is, uh, really has a lack of electives. Some of the reasons that students really wanna come to school as much as I wanna say, is my econ class is the ones that they choose, that
043they want to decide where they go. Um, it'll also push class sizes to contractual maximum, not their optimum, but their maximum. And there is no situation where increase in class sizes helps our students. And so we want to see that go the other way. Um, additionally, it's gonna remove a great teacher. Uh, the teacher that we have in our department, uh, is young, energetic, married to a teacher from a family here, uh, in, in the area, an alum of Yucca Valley High School. Um, one of the things that's the most difficult to do is to attract and retain quality personnel. That's, that's one of our goals. And we have one. and we want to keep him in a place where he's thriving. Um, most of the most transformational classrooms I've ever been a part of
044have been in those classrooms where teachers have, uh, it, it, it's a great fit. They know where they are, they know where they belong, and students are, uh, beneficiaries of that. And we wanna, we wanna cultivate that. We don't want to throw that away. Um, thirdly, uh, it might seem like, Hey, yeah, those are good ideas. Great, but nothing's gonna get past this logic. If we have less enrollment, we need less sections. So we need less teachers. It's just the way it's interestingly, social science, the department we're gonna try and remove one of those teachers from is one of the few that's gonna see an increase in sections. All their things being equal. This state has mandated a course, ethnic studies, which I hope write it's a great course. I'm excited to do it. We're
045excited to offer it. But that will be a graduation requirement for all students at the high school level. So we will necessitate in two short years filling what's basically a full teacher's, uh, amount of sections, uh, coming up just to make that happen. And so what we would want rather is instead of increase class sizes, we want smaller class sizes. We want an expanded, more diverse course schedule. We're looking for the ability to keep and nurture the quality of talent that we have. And then finally, we want to be proactive in the way that we address future needs rather than reactive. Whenever we know that we're gonna have to meet those needs. And so it's our recommendation as a department that we would retain the FTE necessary to keep that teacher at De Valley High
046School. Thank you. Adam May get a motion to adopt the consent agenda. So moved. Second. I was a little worried. Nobody heard me. All in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Thank you. Next up are our action items. May I get a motion to adopt resolution 25 dash 23 adopting the conflict of interest code. So moved. Second. Moved by Carol Lee. We'll second by Bianca. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Unfortunately this was in the past, but we still really appreciate you. So we're gonna adopt the resolution. 25 24 Floyd proclaiming that May 1st, 2025 as school Principal's day. And I'm wrong with Unified School District and I see many of you out there and I know all the hard work you guys put into it, so thank you very much.
047May I get a motion? So second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero day of the teacher adoption resolution. 25. 25. Also entered a little bit in proclaiming May 6th, 2025 as teacher day of the teacher in Morongo Unified School District. May I get a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by Bianca. Second by Carol Lee. All in favor? Aye. Any nays? Five zero resolution 25 26. California School employees week. Um, it's resolution 25 26. Declaring the week of May 28th through 24th. 2025 as classified school, employee week and MUSD. May I get a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by car Second Roberta. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. Lastly will be our contract addendum for Sharon Flores, the Board of Education has requested to approve addendum number three to the
048contract for Assistant Superintendent of business services. Sharon Flores, may I get a motion? Ye. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any nays? Five zero. We have our items for review. First read and second read. Informational items, accounts receivable, cash receipts, budget transfer, transaction report, Morongo Unified School District, go Bonds, and the Williams quarterly visitation report. Future agenda items? We have a lot to end the year, as you all know. Public hearings for the LCAP budget overview for parents. That'll be on June 10th, 2025. We'll have a public hearing and adoption of the ilpa local local plan, annual budget and service plan on June 10th, 2025. We we'll also have an adoption of the LCAP budget Overview for parents budget on June 24th, 2025. Lastly, we have a presentation on the local indicators on June 24th, 2025.
049And as mentioned, our district calendar. And our board calendar is really busy in May and June. So here we have 29 Palms High School Scholarship Night, May 20th, 2025. Another really outstanding evening for the students. Yucca Valley High School scholarship night, May 21st, 2025, employee and retired recognitions. Uh, May 22nd, 2025 at 4:00 PM in the Yucca Valley High School gym. BlackRock High School graduation. June 3rd, 2025. Yucca Valley High School graduation. June 5th, 2020 5, 29. Palms High School graduation June 6th, 2025. And what everybody's cheering for, I'm sure is the last day of school. June 6th, 2025. Our next regular board meeting will be June 10th, 2025. Alright, since I'm out of breath, I'm gonna have start the board comments with Bianca. Is this where I get to put ask for future agenda
050items or is this Jill? You can. I can, yes. Fantastic. Um, couple things that, um, we've been talking about as a board. Uh, one thing that, uh, I've been hearing a lot from the schools, our secondary schools is, is, um, about lunch, having our split lunch. Um, that's something I'd like to the board to visit again. So on a future agenda item, considering moving back to the single lunch at our, um, secondary schools, um, and just to let everyone know that we're thankful for having you here. Um, it's so good to see so many faces out in the audience. Makes us feel like we're not just preaching to an empty room and doing like ho ploy over here. Just, uh, approving things. Um, I'd also like to add to future agenda item. We've been talking
051a lot about, um, expanding our offerings as a district to include more hybrid, um, school and, um, options for our students. Um, we know that with, uh, since Covid going to the internet has been a big thing. So, um, just I wanna revisit that at a next board meeting. Um, that's it. Thank you. Let's go with Pete. Really enjoyed watching those aspiring, um, administrators up here. I'm sure glad we're doing that. That's a great, great step forward for our, um, MUSD school district. Outstanding. Um, got to see three schools yesterday. They were outstanding. Enjoyed the teachers, students as well as the administrators. It was a nice day. Thank you Pete. Roberta, I don't have a lot to say, but I just wanted to mention the disability track meet that I attended that. Um, I smiled
052all the way through that my, so much that my cheeks were hurting. It was a really, um, beautiful event. Um, one of her student, um, leaders talked about the gate celebration, which was very well done. It was amazing, um, what a lot of them did throughout the school year. And, and it was a joy to watch that. Um, I was able to go through a few school visits as well. Um, so Onaga and Ace, I appreciated them showing us around and really got to know those schools a little bit better. Um, thank you for the MOS Expo update. That was, I didn't know anything about it, but that's really pretty amazing that they, the military does that for students. Um, thank you all for being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. You, Roberta Carollee. Hey
053everyone. Um, first of all, I love having a good time. I was trying to wave to Devin 'cause I haven't seen you in a couple years, so, hey Devin. Um, so first I wanna congratulate my daughter because she started the first ever use council in 29 Palms. Uh, today is her last night doing news council. And she said, mom, I wanted to see it come to light. And she's actually receiving a certificate from the senator now. And here I sit, right? Uh, over the many years of doing school board and advocating for everything I miss so much from her first steps to her first words because I'm too busy in Sacramento working on behalf of the district. Well, I just went to junior high, the junior high the other day, uh, for their walkthrough. They
054were inviting all the parents here that are coming fifth and sixth grade. And I saw all my kids, right? I call 'em my kids. And I even told the principal, if you ever tell me they're bad, those hard group kids, they're perfect. They never do any wrong. Anyways. They're all running up to me. All the parents are running up to me. Oh my gosh, miss Hard group, come teach us again. They had to also say, well, are you still cleaning houses after working? Yes I am. Oh, that's how you bought us our stuff. Anyways, they remember everything. All right. That leads me to tonight for personal reasons. This is my last night as a board member. So I'll be resigning following the meeting. Uh, I hope to be, you know, um, working with MTA, uh,
055next year as I will be accepting a position, um, at Lock Middle School. And so thank you for the fun. It was always a good time, thank you to the voters who supported me, but for personal reasons, I need to be with students. That's where I make my impact up here. I'm not making an impact like I did on those 21 kids from 2021 and 22. Uh, so thank you. Thank you Dr. Vargas for dealing with me. You got a pretty rough Sharon. We had a good time. Ms. Woods, Amy, that was good. Uh, Jack and all my complaints. I mean, you know, really, but just always, if I can leave anything that I always tell my, my, my own kids is surround yourself with people who make you better and live your life to
056the fullest. Do what makes you happy. And so for that reason, uh, have fun. Picking a replacement. Gonna be hard. Um, but yeah, so thank you for everything and uh, we'll see what the future holds, but you'll probably still see me in the audience. Top that, Chris, I'm staying on the board. Sorry about that for some of you. Uh, no. First off, I wanna start off thanking Carol. You know, I'd heard stuff about Carol. I didn't know her that well. Um, the one thing I'll say, and everybody in this room, whether, whether other side of the fence, you're with Carol Lee. She's very passionate about the students. She's very passionate about the teachers and the staff. Um, she has a desire to see success without our, throughout our district. That's, that's very apparent to me.
057So it's gonna be wonderful to see you at luck and tendency the impact you have on the children there. So thank you very much. Um, so thank you on that. Um, next up Unified kickball at Y Valley High School was amazing. Uh, a few of us were able to attend. Um, it was great to see Pete, he was dressed up like he was a football coach. It was amazing. He had the hat, everything. Um, he just needed a clipboard. I like to respond to that. Um, One of our board members said that to me and I looked down at my belly and I said, uhoh, I got work to do. Uh, Troy, while I've got the mic, thanks a lot for the computer. Really like it. Um, I have to say that during the, um,
058track meeting, he did have Flipboard. Um, all kidding aside, the unified kickball, what Angela Gay and Jamie Bright and many other, I mean ias, it's such a big event and there's so much joy in watching those. I've done it all three years that have been on the board. And it's, it's really one of the highlights for me as a, as a board member. I really, really enjoy it. Um, and you see parents, you know, they bring kids in from their PEs so you have people cheering for them or children, uh, students cheering for other students. Uh, it's fantastic. Um, I was lucky enough to go with, uh, Bianca Stoker. We visited 29 high school, 29 Junior High and Po Vista. So we thank the admins and the staff for Litmus Interrupt and visiting your sites
059was, we were really impressed with all three. So thank you for that. Um, always impressed with what Mrs. Seacat and staff do each and every year. Already. Having 35 graduates is really amazing. These are kids that supposedly fell through the cracks and they find a way to get them to graduate. So they always do an outstanding job. Um, sports wise, looks like Yucca and 29 are dominated. There's too many to name Yucca and 29, the softball playoffs, 29 track. Really incredible Yucca Swim. Incredible. Um, and yeah, maybe my son was the MVP of the golf, but that's all right. I won't mention that. So, congratulations Benjamin Carlton. Um, overall, um, I'm very excited about the board and I, um, little, little leery about who's gonna replace Carol. 'cause I, like I said, I think her
060heart's in the right place, so we have a tough decision to make going forward. So thank you everybody for your attendance and have a good evening.