001Welcome to the August 11th regular meeting for New Croanding School District. Uh roll call is Mr. Walk >> here. >> Mr. Rivas >> here. >> Miss Gonzalez >> here. >> Mrs. Serudi >> here. >> Mr. Ball is here. Item number two, public communication close session items. Member of the public may address the board on items not on the agenda. Speakers will be allowed three minutes unless the time limit is waved by a majority of the board. The board will allow comments by members of the public on an agenda item during consideration of the item. The board may limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation. Depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing
002to be heard, the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. Complaints against specific district employees should be resolved through the district's personnel complaint procedure. The right to address the board does not exempt the speaker from any potential liability for defamation. The proceedings of the board are recorded and are part of the public record. At this time, does anybody like to address the board before we head to close session? Seeing none, we'll go to close session at 50 >> 2 p.m. Welcome. Call the meeting uh back to order. Regular session. Uh item A, flag salute, uh be led by our FFA department uh tonight. So, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Push the
003button. >> It's already >> All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, independent, liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Mr. Grant. >> Item B, report out of action taken in close session. There was nothing tonight. Um item number five, public communication agenda and non-aggenda items. Members of the public may address the board on items not on the agenda. Speakers will be allowed three minutes unless the time limit is weighed by majority of the board. The board will allow uh comments by members of the public on an agenda item during consideration of the item. The board may limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may
004increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. The president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons uh speak only if they have something new to add. Complaints against specific district employees should be resolved through the district's personnel complaint procedure. The right to address the board does not exempt the speaker for any potential liability of defamation. The proceedings of the board are recorded and are part of the public record. At this time, does anybody want to address the board on any agenda or non-aggenda items? All right, seeing none, item number six, approval of the agenda. Uh, can I get a motion for approval of tonight's agenda? >> I make a motion,
005>> Mrs. Sherudi. Thank you. Can I get a second on tonight's agenda? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Mr. Rivish. >> Mr. Walk. >> Hi, >> Mr. Rivas. >> Hi, >> Miss Gonzalez. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Shy. >> Hi, >> and Miss Coros. Yes. 50. Uh, item number seven, information discussion items. Uh, item number A. Uh our presentation tonight is the FFA department. So you guys are up. >> Hello. Good evening everyone. I would first like to start off by saying thank you. We truly appreciate this opportunity here tonight being in front of you all and presenting a little bit about Newman FFA and what we have planned this incoming school year. So every year the officer team comes up with a theme for the school year for the Newman FFA chapter and for its
006members. This year our amazing officer team came up with the theme bright futures beyond the blue. This theme is more of a message for our members to show them that FFA is more than just this blue jacket. It's about growing into strong leaders, finding their potential and creating a bright future for themselves with the opportunities FFA has to offer. Now, I'd like to introduce this year's chapter officer team. >> Good a clicker. >> Good afternoon, y'all. My name is Bryce Graham. I will be your chapter sentinel this year. I'm going into my senior year and my SAE project this year is raising swine. Hi everyone, my name is Melanie Rios. I'm currently a senior at Orus Stimma and this year I am serving as your chapter reporter. Um I a little bit um for my
007SA project I will be showing um a pig at the Stannis County Fair and I will be caring for the Orus Simba High School greenhouse. Thank you. >> Hello, my name is Kimberly Orthaloo. I'm currently a junior or STEMA and I'm currently serving as our chapter treasure for my SAPE project. This year I'll be taking care of horses and helping out at our OS um chicken coupe. Hello everybody. My name is Kylie Brace and I'm a senior here at Orisimbo High School. My SA project is showing pigs. I've shown pigs for the past three years and will do so for my last and I've been in FFA for four years. Thank you. Hi everyone, my name is Rosario Mendulsa. I'm currently serving as our chapter vice president and I'm currently a junior at Orisa High
008School. For my SE project this year, I'll be focusing on the OHS greenhouse and taking care of the chicken coupe as well. >> Hello everyone, my name is Jessica Ra and this year I am serving as the chapter president. Um, for my SAE project, I will be caring for my horses as well as showing and raising a market lamb. So, for our pathways, we have intro to florals or intro to floral design. Um, so basically that's just the um intro to floral. um you learn about a lot about the textures and just the basics on what floral is. Now for advanced floral, you're more focused on the history and we also take in community service or community orders and it's more a hands-on project. For our veterinarian pathway, we have animal science. I took that
009last year and it was more so learning about the animal digestive system and just how the animal body works. Um, I strongly recommend students take that class. I fell in love with it. Dissecting animals is my favorite thing. Um, and for veterinarian science, um, I'm taking it this year and that's more so on like just what like veterinarians have to do every day. You learn stitching and wrapping and just all that. So thank you. >> So with our aggrocience pathway it starts with agriculture science and that is basically covering bunch of plant molecules and everything in there. Moving to a biology it covers animals and human life then how they all work and everything. With a chemistry it focuses more on elements and different like calculations that they have within it. I'm going into a
010honors this year and that's showing how all of it applies to the real world and what jobs and opportunities it can bring to us. With our a mechanics pathway, it starts off with intro to shop, showing kids that the many opportunities they have with the trades. There's various things that we do such as PVC like working on plumbing and electrical wiring and woodworking. Your next year in Ameck 2, we start welding. That's basically teaching kids the fundamentals of how it works with uh stick welding and MIG welding and TIG welding. So after that we get jump into a welding. They're basically polishing up their skills, making it as good as they can for their final year in a fabrication to complete the pathway by making projects that they can enter into the county fair at
011any time throughout their years in our chapter. Thank you. A lot of our classes at Orist High are A throughG approved. For our D category, which is our lab science classes like a science, a biology, a chemistry, um oriculture, veterary science, all fall into that category. For our F category, which is fine arts, we have classes like introduction to floral design, art history of floral design and many more. Now, we'd like to share what we've been up to this past year on our projects and what we have planned for this upcoming semester. This year we greatly had the opportunity to invest in 10 feeder pigs to give back to the school as they purchased them here at the Stanley Slo um group. Um we were able to raise these 10 bigs. They were bought off
012state genetics and we were able to raise them and they were sold to feed pork and just be nutritious goods for students at WER Bington. I was luckily able to be one of those students who got to raise them. I enjoyed it. Um, their pigs were crazy, but I loved it. And yes, our eye department now has a chicken coupe where we'll be raising chickens and selling these eggs to the community and staff members. And we'll also be providing uh half dozen eggs to the to you guys at the end of our presentation. Now, um, a lot of our students were able to go to the Santaas County Fair. Um, we showed pigs, lambs, and goats. Um, we do really appreciate you guys purchasing all of our pigs. Um, we didn't weren't able to show
013poultry due to the bird flu, but we hope that we can show next year. Um, I've shown pigs, and all of this has taught me responsibility, time management, and yeah, thank you, Over the summer, a couple of students were able to help Miss Ritz make beautiful arrangements and a stunning arbor for the altar where they were able to get hands-on experience and truly be able to see how it is to be hands-on and see how it is to be at a wedding and plan out. So, we hope that our students are able to have more experiences like these throughout the years. To tie in with our theme this year, we designed a blue shirt with a bright horizon over to represent the bright futures. If any of you are interested, we are selling them for
014$18 per shirt. Cash or check are made out to OHS if you are interested. And make sure to keep keep an eye out for our hoodies, which will be coming out soon. Next up are some things that you guys should keep an eye out for with this upcoming year. This year we will be taking 11 students and three a advisors to national convention where they will attend conferences and workshops in Indianapolis and later take on a quick trip to New York City. A part of FFA, there is currently career development events. I am a part of a cotton speaking judging team where we go to competitions and we take a 100 question quizzes and speak to judges one-on-one where they ask you questions. And I believe it's a great way to interact. It's a great
015way to build your confidence and just speak to others. Other than cotton judging, we have job interview, vet science, and prepared speak public speaking. This year in October 4th on a Saturday, we are working on having our annual car show downtown at the plaza. We still have to go to the city of Newman and get it approved. But it is a you're able to enter any classic vehicle or any vehicle into any class along with bikes, trucks, off-road vehicles, and it's $20 just to enter. There will be soon an email sent out to you guys if you guys are interested in purchasing a Newman floral floral subscription where you guys will get six unique floral um designs. And that is it. Thank you once again for your time and we shortly will be passing out
016the eggs for you all. Thank you. [Applause] Who's in charge of the uh shirt shirt order? >> I'll get with uh I'll get with Nancy and then uh um we'll send our sizes over for the board and uh we'll send over our request for that. Okay. >> I'll take I'll take Frank's six. You're expensive. Oh. Thank you guys. Good presentation. >> I didn't get one. So, >> look, you got you got a bag, bro. >> Thank you. >> Who made the labels? Those are pretty cool. Look at old Gretchen on the label. Gretchen the head. >> Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you guys. >> Item number eight, consent calendar. The consent calendar items are routine in nature and usually do not require board discussion. Individual items may be removed by board members and presented for
017discussion and separate action. The consent calendar will be adopted by a roll call vote. Could I get a first motion for the consent calendar as listed, please? >> I make the motion. >> Could I get a second? >> I second. >> Uh, Mr. Walk. >> Hi. >> Mr. Reis. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Gonzalez. Hi >> Mrs. Shudy. >> Hi >> Mr. Coral. I 50 Z. Item number nine action items. A action item number a approval of principal contract for Kavita Dewali. This contract provides for certificated employment of Kavita as New Crosan Unified School District Herd Bington Elementary principal. Um with the approval of this contract for Herd Bington Elementary. uh commencing July 1st, 2025, uh Kavita will be placed on step two of the salary schedule at $124,791. All other terms and conditions of the
018employee contract will remain in full force in effect. Can I get a motion for action item A? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Ris. Can I get a second? >> I second. >> Uh Mr. Walk. Hi, >> Mr. Rivas. I >> Miss Gonzalez. >> I >> Miss Rudy. >> Hi. >> I miss Corvos. I as well. 5-0. Kavita. Welcome to the team. [Applause] Action item number B. Approve resolution 2526-02 authorizing end ofear transfer. Could I get a motion for action item B? >> I make a motion. Second, Mr. Shy. Uh, can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Mr. Walk. >> Hi. >> Uh, Mr. Rivas. >> I miss Gonzalez. >> Hi, >> M. Strudy. >> Hi. >> And myself, Miss Coros. I 50. Action item number C, approval of a
019provisional internship permit for Jalissa Garcia. Can I get a motion for action item C? >> I make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Miss Gonzalez. Thank you, Mr. Rubish. >> Mr. Walk. >> Hi, >> Mr. Rivas. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Gonzalez. >> I >> Miss Rudy. >> I >> Mr. Coros. I 50 Z. Action item D. Approval of 2526 consolidated application for categorial funding. Can I get a motion for action item D? >> I'll make that motion. >> Can I get a second? Thank you, Mr. Ris. >> Uh, Mr. Walk. >> Hi, >> Mr. Ris. Hi, >> M. Gonzalez. I >> miss Rudy. >> I 50. Action item E, approval of agricultural career technical education incentive grant at Orville High School. Can I get a motion for action item E, please? >> I'll
020make that motion. Thank you, Mr. Rivas. >> What was that? >> Thank you, Miss Gonzalez. >> May Walk. >> Uh, Mr. Rivas. >> I, >> Miss Gonzalez. >> Hi, >> Miss Rudy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Gles. I 50. Action item F, approval of uh agricultural career technical education incentive grant at Yolo Middle School. Can I get a motion for action item F? >> I make a motion. >> Thank you, Mrs. Siri. >> I'll second it. >> Mr. Walk on the second. Thank you, Mr. Walk. >> I, >> Mr. Rivas, >> I, >> Miss Gonzalez, >> I, >> Mr. Rudy, >> I, >> Mr. Coros, I 50. Action item G, approve leave of absence request from Dariel Ball for the 2526 school year. Can I get a motion for action item G? I'll make that motion.
021>> Thank you, Mr. Rivas. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Miss Rudy. >> Uh, Mr. Walk. >> Hi, >> Mr. Rivas. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Gonzalez. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Rudy. >> Hi, >> Mr. Cro. I 50. >> Uh, action or I'm sorry, we're done with that actually. Um, item number 10, future agenda items. Um, do we have anything not to listen right now, right? >> Possibly bring back the agreed upon contract. >> All right, sounds good. Uh, item number 11, superintendent report. >> So, I have a few things to report. It's been a a busy summer. one with a building burning down and a call in the middle of the night from uh your other job uh as as working the fires and then uh Matt Vargas showing up in the middle of the
022night and um but right now where we're at right now it looks like we will be able to just have to get city permits to rebuild the building and that will actually speed up the time. We don't have to go through the state to get permits for that building. So at this time it looks like it'll be sped up a little bit. We're counting worst case scenario that it takes a year to get the building back up and going, but I really believe it'll be sooner than that. And I just want to say thank you to Heather Beyond the Bell program and Rosie Bionis for being so um uh willing to adjust and and have to find a new home in a in a day's notice. So, um so thank you to them. I also
023want to congratulate Beyond the Bell. Um you may or may not know this but they have been designated as the best afterchool program in all of the 20 thou 209 area code. So they are the number one in all of 2020. Um another good thing last year we started the the hunt bathrooms. They are complete and and uh they're now they're just kind of sealing the black top getting that done but they'll be uh up in full use soon. So that's another project completed. Um, now I can kind of talk about this year and first of all, welcome back. We uh had our first day with students today and uh everybody from cabinet uh was kind of assigned to a school to go to and it couldn't have ran any smoother at all the sites.
024It went very well. Came back and um some of the district office staff are like, "Are you sure it's the first day?" Because usually we're getting lots of calls and we're not getting any calls. The sites were taking care of all the business that they needed to take care of for our family. So that was a a good thing to hear and see and and and feel. So um during the welcome back we had uh Scott Kaenol come and talk about the anxious generation and the damage that social media is doing to our students and um and part of that is is once you hear that if you don't decide to do something about it then you're part of the problem as well. So that is something that our sites are all going to look
025at and uh and evaluate what we need to do about that. So, uh some some more and he also offered to come and do some parent uh town town hall meetings with parents as well and come back and speak to our families. So, we we can work on that as well. Um FFA, thank you. Um I what I have to say about them is they're always improving, always looking forward and and doing a better job every year. So, pretty impressive with with how far they've come as well. I also want to say thank you to Maria and Elsa, our and and the rest of our NCLA team and Dr. Sea and his team and we have a uh a tenative agreement that um we'll like I said we will be bringing back to you guys
026soon to get that approved and then then we can start working on this next year. So um so again that was a great accomplishment to start the year. I believe it was approved before we even started the year this year. So that was that was good to have taken care of. So again, great year. looking forward to some great things this year. And thank you to all of our sites. You did a great job today. [Applause] >> Uh board reporter, Mrs. Serudi, you get to go first. >> Well, everybody, welcome back. It's nice to see all lovely faces. Um I hope everybody had a good first day of school. Mrs. Dolly, congratulations. Um just want to wish you all good luck this year and hopefully um we get some good things um out of every
027site. Um congratulations to the Beyond the Bell. I know we were fortunate enough to see what you do and we're just not surprised. Um but uh no just wanted to say that um at the back to school event um we got to hear a lot of positive things coming from parents and students which nice to hear some positivity after so much negativity after a while. So you guys are doing wonderful. um just you know hopefully everybody's blessed with good students and good outcomes and you know may you guys be successful and again the FFA it was very nice to see everything they're doing everything that they're going to do um as a a business owner I know the hard work that it entails and to see these young kids be pushed and um their faces
028out there it's it's Um, it's rewarding for me to know that there's not a lot of people that want to go in that business anymore. And to see the hard work and the teachers going above and beyond for these kids, it's um it's very nice. So, congratulations to them and I'm looking forward to seeing everything that they have to do this year. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez. >> Welcome back, everyone. Excited to see everyone here tonight. Um, I also got to go to the back to school event and the back to school breakfast. Got to hear Scott Kaikand Doll. I agree with Justin. I feel we need to do something with the information. Funny story, I actually I won that book from Scott last year in Anaheim. Um, but I felt honestly
029that I kind of cheated. Uh, it was a whole room and I of people right from all across California. And um in order to win the book, you had to answer his trivia question. And it was uh what um what city is Turlock in? And nobody knew where he was coming from, right? He was just a speaker. And I was like, Stannis Sloth. Yeah. And everybody looked at me like, how did you know where Turlock is? What is Turlock? You know. Anyways, um so I got I got to read it then and uh definitely carries a lot of momentum. There's a lot of scary facts, right, that you hear as you're going into that research, but so important, especially for the population of people and students that we work with. Um but yes, looking very
030forward to the year. It was very nice to hear positive feedback from uh parents like Marbel shared. There was one mom that even got emotional just sharing like how happy she's been. She actually um made a comment about Yolo um our wonderful principal there and and just how wonderful she was and handling an issue regarding to bullying of her daughter. So that was really sweet to hear. She was so so thankful. Um again, you know, usually when people have feedback, it's because they want to share something negative or something difficult that they went through. So when someone actually goes out of their way to share something positive, you know that it truly meant a lot to them. Um, with all that being said, I feel like the the first day of school is kind of
031like when you open a notebook and it's like that crisp sheet of paper and it's brand new and you know there's a lot of energy and a lot of emotions that go into all of that, but you get to really fill it with whatever you want, right? Some of that might be hard to get through and um a lot of it will be fun and complicated and challenging maybe, but um always at the end of it, it always feels good to get through it too. So looking forward to what the year has to bring and what the pages will be filled with. I'm always here and looking forward to continuing to work with you all. Good luck. >> Thank you, M. Revas. Uh welcome back. Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to the festival. I
032was camping. Sorry. But I did get to go to the breakfast and how you guys were all excited. I was like that this morning because all the kids were were gone in school, but I know we say, you know, let's get the year over, but it's kind of a slow down this year. My son's a senior, so to kind of want to go slow this year. And uh like Mr. Shuty and Miss Gala said the positive stuff I hear about not just you know the community but you guys and Mr. Pruy is it's great and being from this community born and raised like we're we're we're in really good hands. Um one thing about Mr. Kendall about the whole cell phone thing I know there's different towns that are taking away the phones. I kind
033of like that idea. I really do and it's something we really should look at and you know, if I have to go to work and can't have my phone for eight hours, I think the kids can do it for five to six. That's just my opinion. But overall, welcome back. Good luck and have a good year. >> Thank you, sir. Mr. Walk. >> Yeah, welcome back everyone. I wasn't able to attend any of the back to school events, but I do look to attend some of the back to school nights. uh get out get into um some sites and see how you know students are doing in their first times uh back to the schools and then also going on uh some site walkthroughs as well. Uh visit classrooms and see the great work that
034students and teachers are doing. >> Thanks sir. Um I guess I'll go last. Um welcome back. First day of school. Um we got a lot of new faces and positions throughout the district. Um, change is a good thing. Um, we're going to go forward. It's going to be a challenging year. There's going to be a lot of things that we're going to have to u make sure that we are addressing and for the betterment of all of our students, all of our staff and community. Uh, but like I said, we'll go we'll go through it. It's going to be challenging uh financially um you know uh student size classes, stuff like that. Um, but we just have to be really the number one focus is is be frugal with our dollars, right? Our money, right?
035Or it only goes so far. So, what we pay for is something that we need to make sure we're getting. So, um, if we're paying for a service, um, uh, you know, in the classroom, outside of the classroom, we're going to be very, very, uh, checkbook savvy when it comes to, you know, spending dollars because, um, you know, we We owe it to the taxpayers and we owe it to our students, right? So, um I did go to the back to school event at YOLO this year. Um when I got there, it was not really that many kids, but as it kind of progressed later on, u when they woke up, it was it was pretty packed in there. So, um you know, uh it's good to see the kids back getting in the classroom.
036Numbers are looking good. We had a little meeting about that, too. Uh we're still down about 50 to 60 kids um districtwide. So uh some areas came up, some went down. Um so if you know of any of your friends, family members, or you know, relatives in town that didn't go to school today cuz they just couldn't get out of bed one more time, um you know, tell them to get to school tomorrow. Um thank you to Matt and uh Chris. Um yeah, like Mr. Puit said, I am one of the chiefs here in the fire department. Um you I I'm still shocked. I mean, you know, it's one of the things where you live in a small town and community, like one of the last things I want to do is go to an
037emergency of somebody that I know, you know, and and over my career of 31 years, it's happened way too much, you know. Um, including my own kids, you know, close people that I know here in town. Um, it's tough. It's tough, you know. So, um, you know, thank you for coming, uh, Matt and and, you know, we were able to save Heather's office, you know. So, um, uh, that was, you know, I said, "Don't let Heather's office burn. Like, get in there, you know. Um, you know, but we're going to rebuild it. You know, it's rebuildable. You know, it it's you're not going to hold Nim Crosan Unifi down." So, um, it's going to get built better. And, um, you know, thank you to his team coming out at 5 in the morning. And, you
038know, I just hope next time he brings coffee because I was pretty tired, you know. Um, and then the, uh, one last thing before we go. um the um the events that are coming up for FFA. Uh we'll try to get those out on the website. Uh I know they have their own uh Twitter page, social media page, stuff like that or X rather, I'm sorry. Uh but we'll get that out and then we'll also send all the info for the events throughout like Parent Square and student email. Um that's pretty much all I had. If anybody has anything over the next, you know, comes to mind in the future, um, everyone has my email. Feel free to call the district office. You can get messaged, uh, to me. Um, and we'll we'll work on
039the items. You know, we can't work on items and address problems that we don't know that are out there. So, u, we do live in a small net community and information travels fast. So, if something's bothering anyone at any of the sites or, you know, um, feel free to let us know at some point, right? use your training command and let's get the information. Let's, you know, take care of the problem before it gets too big. Um, and then one last thing, I just want to say, um, you know, uh, Miss Nancy is not here tonight. Um, you know, her mother passed away over the last few days and just keep her in your thoughts and prayers as she gets, you know, through this and goes through the grieving process. Okay. Um, with that, uh,
040we'll call the, uh, meeting adjourned at, uh, 6:30 p.m. >> Oh, 6:32, sorry, Frank. And I don't I don't have uh the next board meeting on here, but it's uh >> 11th >> September is it September 11th? >> We will see you guys next month. September 8th.