001Mhm. >> Yeah. >> Everybody ready? We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. We have with us today Stephanie Johnson from Centennial Elementary School. Stephanie, can you lead us in the flag salute this morning? 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 We need an adoption of the agenda, but we've got a We're going to change We're going to add 4.2.14 the approval of the employment of Ruth Rebecca Ruiz. Um that's got to be its own line. So, Gary moved and a second? Thank you. All in favor? Meeting is underway. Do we have any public comments today? Thank you. So, you warmed up with the pledge of allegiance, you're up.
002Thank you, board members, Miss Lemon, district administrators, and guests for having me here tonight. My name is Stephanie Johnson and I'm the president of Centennial Student Council. I'm 11 years old and in sixth grade in Miss Dane's class. I'm a lifelong cub. A lifelong cub is someone who has been at Centennial since kindergarten. I really like being at Centennial because of the people, all my friends, and exciting events we have here. The reason I'm here to today is to share with you some of the things that makes Centennial a special place. Next slide, please. Let me about our student council. Our student council is me as the president, Candy King as the vice president, Kiera McCambridge as the activities commissioner, Shane Stanley as the historian, Garrett Granucci as secretary, Alyssa Mahonjo as the commissioner of
003buildings and grounds, Mia Becker as treasurer, and Miss Dane and Mr. Aranda are our advisors. Our representatives are Chase Olahan, Catherine Colvin, Chloe De Los Reyes, Patrick Dillon, Emma Doctor, Oliver Garza, Navreet Kaur, Deonna Rose Olegario, Nathaniel Fong, Brixton Saeteurn, Charlotte Sievers, and Samantha Witten. Next slide, please. Being on student council is really fun. I love being part of student council because I get to support our school. Student council meets once a month. At our meetings, we discuss and plan upcoming events to make Centennial fun. Some of the things that student council plans are dress-up days, cub days, Red Ribbon Red Ribbon Week, and community service projects. All of these things are what make being a cub great. Next slide, please. Buddy classes for first, second, fifth, and sixth grade. We do recess activities gaga
004ball and sharks and minnows. We have pop room where you can either cool down from the heat or warm up from the cold. And you can enjoy fun games while you're escaping from the horn core. In that same room, we have PAW store where you can spend your tickets that you earn on fun items. We also do art with Miss Keg and music with Miss Napier. Music with Miss Napier is for fifth and sixth only. Fifth, you play the recorder and you have to. And in sixth, you can either play clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, or percussion. And you have a choice too. I play the trumpet. Next slide, please. We have an after school enrichment program, too, also known known as EOP. For this, we have many ways you can participate in it. We
005have diamond art, gardening, yoga, beginning coding, games and puzzles, food cooking, and STEM activities. These are such fun ways to learn. Next slide, please. We also give to the community a lot. And what we do is food drive, and this year we made enough to give for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We also do Christmas toy drive. We got to go to KGET News. We did that on a jet and ended up raising $3,000, which is enough to send two veterans. We also did Great Kindness Week. Next slide, please. Of course, can't forget about our talented cubs who are willing to go places and represent our school. They do spelling bee, science fair, oral language festival, Battle of the Books, band, Skyhawks, which are volleyball, basketball, soccer, and flag football, track and town show. These are such
006fun ways to represent our school. Next slide, please. We have all sorts of events that go on as well. We do ice cream social, family picnic, trunk or treat, family Christmas, family paint night, jog-a-thon, celebrity reader day, father-daughter dance, and we will have a mother-son breakfast. These events are so fun and I love having them. Next slide, please. We also have assemblies and fun things that allow us to recognize how far we've come. We have AR parties, cub days, honor roll lunches, and quarterly recognition assemblies. These events are also so much fun to do. Next slide, please. We also do a field trip for every grade level preschool and up. Kindergarten goes to the pumpkin patch. First grade goes to Calm. Second grade goes to Windwolves. Third grade goes to Bakersfield College Planetarium. Fourth grade
007goes to the Nutcracker Ballet. Fifth grade does the Walk Through the American Revolution. And sixth grade does Camp Keep. Next slide, please. It was so much fun to go and I loved all the hikes there. The hikes were Morro Rock, creek, sand dunes, mountain, tide pools, and the mud pots. I highly recommend Camp Keep for anyone because even the food was pretty good and you get to be with your friends for an entire week. Next slide, please. Here's a little bit more about me. I love sports and do gymnastics. I'm a lifelong cub and did oral language, science fair, Bob, and band. I love all the people at Centennial and all my friends there, too. At school, my favorite subject is math because I like multiplying and dividing. Thank you for having me come speak.
008It was an amazing opportunity. Thank you. Very nice job. Thank you. You I had a question for you. I was going to ask you what type of extracurricular activities you um do, but you added that right into your report, so thank you very much for answering my question. Um And I'd just like to personally say thank you so much for representing your school down at the TV station for a couple of the toys every year. That is really something else. I I love seeing our students be out there with the community. Thank you very much. Any Any questions? I have one. I think one of your pictures was me in the old folks home sitting in a rocking chair. I guess I have to think of my background a little more next time. Um the
009events that you do, the special events, do you have a couple that have been your favorite over the years? I like doing oral language. Have you done that multiple years? Um I did it fourth, fifth, and sixth, yeah. And do you like the serious, the funny, or I like the humorous the best. Any other questions? Would you like to introduce anyone you brought with you this evening? Um I have my mom and dad, and for my school, Mia, Mr. and Mrs. Dains, and Mr. Tindall. Thank you for introducing them. Great job. Your parents can be very proud of you. Moving on, we will have Kern County Science Fair participant. Oh, we'll go ahead and let the principal talk to Dr. Small first. I saw school presentation there, and I just skipped right over it. 3.2
010Well, good evening. Thank you for having me. I agree Stephanie not only did an outstanding presentation tonight, but she has been an outstanding student council president. Mrs. Dains um just whispered to me before she started. She goes, "Stephanie is by far the best president that we have had at Centennial. So, you should be really proud of yourself, Stephanie. So, good job." Um it definitely carries over beyond just a presentation. So, good job. Um tonight I'm ex- or today, it's not tonight anymore. It's still the afternoon, yes. This afternoon, um I'm really excited to uh tell you a little bit about some of the great things going on at Centennial. Um it we continued Centennial continues to shine as a powerful example of what's possible when a school community works together with a shared purpose and
011belief in student success grounded in collective efficacy. That's been kind of our theme for this year. Our staff is united in the belief that through collaboration, we want to positively impact outcomes for every student. Um really working Our staff has done a tremendous job of highly um having highly engaging lessons in classrooms, inclusive playground experiences, and a variety of school-wide events all having a positive effect. If you don't know where the Cubs is, everything's paws. Yeah, got it. Yeah. Um having a positive impact um which um our goal create a culture where students feel connected, supported, and inspired to learn. This year, I have to Well, before I get into my little thing, I have a little few notes. Um I just want to say thank you to um Sue Lemon, the Chiefs, and the
012board for bringing a vice principal to Centennial this year. It has been um having that position has been a game changer for us. It has really um now it's like we have an admin team, and we couldn't have done any better than with Mrs. Stern, who's here tonight. Yeah. She is um been phenomenal and been an amazing addition to not only Centennial, but um Rosedale. I'm sure you're going to see her continue to shine cuz she's a rock star. Um so, together Mrs. Stern and I and our whole um staff have worked together um through um efforts to examine our collective efficacy and ultimately how that impacts students. From even before school began with our pre-service professional development, our planning through right when she was moving and all the things we got together a little
013bit. Um ongoing staff development and staff meetings, additional development throughout the year, and lots of coaching conversations with our staff, uh individual staff members throughout the year we're strengthening our teams to work collectively, so we have that positive impact on students. One of our exercises that we did um in the winter was um we examined our um core values. So, you may have done this before, and it's really good, but it's really hard because you start with picking out of a giant list what are your 10 10 like values that really stick with you. And then you have to narrow it down to five, and then you have to narrow it down to three, and that's really hard. And then what we did is we had all the staff input their answers so we could
014develop a word cloud. And it's the bigger the word that means the more people that um responded in that way. So, and yes, 6 7 cuz that should be a theme this year, too. Now, if you look carefully in the pictures between my pictures and Stephanie's, you might see some 6 7 representations cuz the teachers like embraced it. They're like, I walked in a first grade class. They're like, "Wait, how do you make seven?" And the kids are doing a poster. And first graders, how do you make seven? How do you make six? And you got to embrace it. Okay. Um please. Thank you. I'll just go with that. It's way less stressful Okay. Um Okay, this year instructional staff strengthened our systems with intentional team collaboration. Um like I mentioned, this year started even
015before the school year began with advanced planning and our pre-service PD days, which I have to tell you, this year our entire um all the way from preschool on up to sixth grade um with the exception of one certificated staff who had a very important family thing going on, we had a 100% So, we had all but her, we had 100% attendance, and that is phenomenal, which means our staff are really from the get-go really really dedicated to trying to um plan and and have a great year together. So, as we started this year, we really and app- throughout the year, we have a guiding question anytime we do a staff meeting or anything, which is how do we affect change and growth in student skills and abilities because that's what we want to do
016is we want to affect change and growth. And as we went through the year, our instructional team had intentional collaboration working through ongoing ongoing cycles of inquiry looking at data to identify student strengths and needs. They then uh came up with um specific targeted items that they wanted to work on, and it's been a fantastic um thing that we've done differently this year, and we're going to just continue that through next year. We're getting great um conversations with our um instructional teams on how they're seeing change. And some of them say things like, "Wow, my kids are like they're more confident. The kid who didn't normally raise their hand is now raising their hand. They are not afraid to speak up." So, I think that's really really powerful. This focused team-driven approach um is is
017meant to help every child receive the support they need to grow. So, we've seen that increased in the engagement, and we're seeing increased in academic abilities. Next slide, please. So, I always like to highlight what's a little bit different about Centennial than most of our schools. So, um if you aren't aware, we have students on our campus who are as young as three because we have preschool speech programs where kids come for a couple days a week, and uh they come and they do uh speech articulation skills starting at the age of three. And then we also have some special day classes for um preschool kids, and um all the and we have a K1. So, altogether, I think they're serving about 50-ish students um in in those things combined. The SDC classes that are
018on our campus are very much part of our campus. It's not a separate thing. So, here's just some fun things. We also have our learning centers that serves kid uh serves kids TK through sixth. And then also we have amazing speech services. So, um just really really great um teamwork with all of that. Um students One of the other things too is that sometimes when you have an IEP with a specially if it's somebody whose child is new to being identified as needing some extra support, that's a hard thing as a parent to hear that your kid needs extra help. And one of the things that sometimes comes out is they're a little bit nervous about, "So, my kid's going to go where?" and that what's that stigma is basically what they're trying to get
019at. And I will say one of the things I'm proud of most proud of at Centennial is the total inclusive nature of Centennial. I call it the Centennial way. Kids are coming and going all day long in different places for different reasons that it's normalized that some kids go to this other classroom for a little while then they come back and some kids go and do a social skills group and then they come back. So, it's never been a stigma and it's really really lovely at how inclusive our campus is and and our kids, too. Our students like they're so amazing with the brand new students. So, usually as long as the teacher has a heads up that we're getting a new student tomorrow, they kind of let the kids know. So, when I walk
020in with them after you know, after the announcements, the kids all go, "Hey, we're so glad to see you. We're glad you're here." So, it's a really wonderful culture at Centennial. Also, in some of our special education classes, we have students who take it upon themselves who go out during recess to go to those preschool classrooms and they volunteer their time just to hang out. We've also done some things with partnering some of our older kids who love to play football and they're going and they're teaching our kindergarteners how to play flag football. And that's been it's just really fun to see all that cross collaboration between students. Another commitment to student success as is strengthening our positive behavior supports. I didn't have a slide on that, but the we have a bunch of systems
021and we keep strengthening that with our positive expectations. We have they're supported by staff at all all areas, not just teachers, it's aides, it's everybody and we give out little paws tickets as well as you know, high fives and compliments. Kids can earn fun and creative rewards. So, sometimes it's the little trinkets and things like that. The Neatos are a big hit, you know, if you can find a Neato, that's that's a big thing. We got some new Legos I think in. That's was probably a big hit today, too. But also experiences. Our our staff are stepping up and they're doing things like the librarian will have Today the library was closed at lunch cuz they had a special movie and lunch together with the librarian. Sometimes the kids will have a special buy to
022have a special lunch with Mrs. Sterner myself and I appreciate that cuz then I get to eat lunch that day, too. So, it's kind of fun. We just sit and have lunch together and talk and you learn really fun things about the kids. It's really great. Or DJ for the day out at the out recess. So, there's just a lot of fun things. In regards to our multiple tiers of support systems, MTSS, they have also strengthened this year reaching more and more students. Lots of powerful interventions, not just on academics, but attendance and social emotional needs. We have an incredible staff as we do in all schools in Rosedale, but I think Centennial has the best. >> [clears throat] >> The The result is we just have a very great environment that's supportive where all
023students are thriving. And I'm just going to put another little plug in for our social worker who was new to us this year. So, on the MTSS team, we have a social worker, we have our school psychologist, myself, Mrs. Sterner and our social worker, Juan Figueroa, has gone way above and beyond this year reaching families. We are seeing students who've had super duper chronic absenteeism improve that. He has gone way above and beyond to families who are in crisis helping them. I can't speak more highly for him and this social work team. So, again, thank you for supporting having the social workers more and more. They're super important. Our support staff. So, they are a critical part to our overall success, too. So, everything from the bus driver to the custodians, the aides, our librarian,
024the food service. I mean, they just make great connections with all of the kids and it's just a really fun thing to see how they interact with all of the kids. And we've been working really hard on again that collective efficacy working with our aides especially like our yard aides and our instructional aides to There's always stuff that needs us, right? Things happen. But they're really good at helping kids learn how to problem solve and being able to work through situations and we're really really super proud of that because they have that positive of influence with the kids and it and it makes a big big difference. They're not just going to the adult to have us solve their problem. We're trying to teach We're using them to help teach kids how to solve problems
025as much as possible. So, that's been amazing. Um >> [clears throat] >> So, the team effectiveness has been this. So, we are seeing that active engagement of students and and staff, too. We're seeing a great boost in student confidence. I gave that example a little bit earlier. That those targeted instructions, whether it's in the regular classroom or with our teacher tutor or in special education are making a big difference. So, I'm a data person, so I'm going to show you some data. So, the results are that we're seeing academic growth. We are definitely seeing increased attendance. Yay. >> [clears throat] >> And I was looking at We definitely I was looking at the trend lines of discipline we've seen for this same time compared to last year at this same time. We have a 13%
026decrease from last year. And I would say if anything with Mrs. Sterner, we probably enter more things than you know, sometimes I don't get to all of that, but we're it's phenomenal. So, we're going to go see some data next. So, this is our CASP ELA data. And so, what you'll see on the left, the little wheels, the pies are where from last year's CASP Rosedale as a district compared to Centennial. So, you can see that we're you know, doing great with that and then us compared to the state. So, Rosedale as a district is doing great compared to the state and Centennial. But I love the growth data. I think that's more important. Oh, the on the right hand side, overall, we had 73% of our kids who are making growth. So, yes, we
027want them proficient. Yes, we want them exceeding standards, but I think we should look at how are they improving from year to year and that is phenomenal growth. And then it breaks it down into a few different categories there. And if you'll one of the ones, too, that is amazing. If you notice that bottom right hand one, students with disabilities, there was I I can't read it from here. I think it's like 90% growth, which is phenomenal. And that's not just our special education teachers. That takes everybody. And in math, they're going to see a lot of the same things, how Centennial rates in math compared to the district and the state. We did drop a few points in math, so we're hoping that goes up even more and we've been work a lot every
028in the cycles of inquiry, I think it's four out of the six grade levels chose to do math as their targeted cycles of inquiry. So, some really great things. And again, if you look at the students with disabilities, there it was exceptional growth. The last three to four years, every year in students with disabilities grouping, we've had double digits improvements in our actual proficiency rate. So, kudos to our teachers and our entire staff for that. And in science, fifth grade is the only grade in K through six that takes science and they actually were in the blue, which made us super happy and and they had increased by 5.7 points. And when you think about it, that's only a very small group of students. So, it's I think it's like 70 students or something. And
029there's here's my This is where I geek out all the time. Every morning I go on to current kids and I look at what's their attendance. So, this is this is as of I think the end of last week. If you notice, it's by the month, so you can look at the last two categories. So, overall for the school year, it has been phenomenal. There were months where we had 98%. I think sixth grade, rock on. In December, December when a lot of people like, you know, they leave early and stuff, we had 98% attendance in sixth grade for December. Norm is over there nodding. He likes it. But you know, data is data. So, I got curious to get ready for this. I'm like, well, you know, sometimes you're like, "Oh, this one like
030they're they're kind of sitting in this color and they're not in the green." Ah. But then I looked If you look in that last column, that's what really made me go, "Wow." And it shows the efforts of Mrs. Sterner, Juan Figueroa, our clerk. If you look by the grade level, even though that we have some grade levels that have a little bit lower than 95%, they are up three almost 4% for the year compared to last year. That's that's really great. Now, do we still have room to grow? Absolutely. Cuz at the bottom, I'm competitive. Centennial isn't quite at the district number, but guess what? We're We're going to We're going to overtake it before the end of the school year. I'm just saying it Norm cuz it keeps the gap keeps getting smaller between
031the district average and Centennial. But for the year, we're up almost a whole percent as a school. So, that's amazing. This is our discipline data. >> [clears throat] >> The bars are for the pink bar is last year for the whole year. So, we had 120 disciplinary incidents that we took care of. And then as of when I did this, we had 79. If I mentioned to you before, we're down 13% compared to last year at this time of the year. And on the trend lines, you'll see the peaches this year. So, we've been consistently under last year. Which I mean, I think that speaks to all of those things that we've been working on. And then the culture and climate. Yes, you know, we've got to have fun. We've got to make not only
032the kids want to be at school, but we also want to make sure that, you know, if we're investing in our staff, then that carries over to the kids. So, there's just a lot of great positive relationships among the staff. There's um our social committee has been super creative this year. We've done some underground dress-up days. That's what all of us in our little inflatables was that we didn't tell the kids. We just uh those who wanted to, we showed up in inflatables the day before Thanksgiving and had our own little parade and it was really, really fun. Um they've done things like staff have to have a They have like a little thing in their pocket, pumpkin in their pocket, and you go go around and ask them, "Do you have a pumpkin in
033your pocket?" And if you do, you have to give it up. And then whoever has it at the end of the day gets a prize. They did find a shamrock. We're doing bingo right now. So, um just a lot of fun. The kids get excited, too, cuz I think when we call the bingo numbers, they're like, "Hey, do you have that number? Do you have that number?" Not that they're going to get the prize, but they're into it. >> [clears throat] >> I think one of the biggest things that tells you about the culture of Centennial is many of these pictures are there's a lot of them up there of staff with their own kids. We have so many staff who choose to bring their kids to Centennial or to Rosedale in general. Um I
034personally did that, best decision I ever made. Um even though my my son was a sixth grader when I was a first-time principal and the joke we have is that um from from now on he can tell people sixth grade was rough cuz he was in the principal's office every single day. Um but um it really was the best decision I could make. Um and it really speaks a lot to the culture and the climate. Um I also want to say that um I didn't put it in here, but the IT department, I have to sing their praises because we were the beta school for the new Raptor Safe um where parents can download the app and we we just said, "We're going to do it the week after spring break and with our assemblies
035for for um uh recognition assemblies. And actually, it went really smoothly. And it's a fantastic way for people now to not come in. If they don't want to get the app, that's okay, they can still bring their ID and do it the other way. Sped it up so much faster. And then you could see people who are like, "Oh, this is a lot faster than they're off to the side downloading the app to scan their license." So, that has I think that's going to be a game changer for our big events. So, a lot less frustration on the families trying to get into school. Um a lot less frustration on the office staff who were overwhelmed when they're still trying to answer the phone calls and you know, get a band-aid or enroll a student,
036whatever all the things they're doing. So, thank you for doing that as well. Um ultimately, I'm just really proud of our entire team at Centennial for their um commitment and their diligence and their love for what they do. So, thank you for letting me be a small part of that and represent our amazing team. Next, I'll just thank you. Thank you very much for sharing so much about your school today. Um we have a questions for our principal that are here in front of us. Of course. I want you to just think back for a second and come up with a big win when it comes to without naming any student's name, but with a student that you just has touched you this year that that was a win. Um one thing in particular I
037can think of is uh being in the preschool classrooms and there are some of the kids are working on like they don't have good communication skills. So, you might have seen an iPad there. That wasn't for gaming, that was for communication. And just seeing when the speech therapist and the teacher are working with a kid and they are now able to have a voice. And um it is magical to watch um to see a kid have their whole world unlocked. Um I would say that's probably definitely one of the most amazing things to see. Anybody else? Thank you so much for being here this evening. Now we'll move on to the exciting part. 3.3 is the 38th annual Kern County Science Fair participant presentations. Both of these we're going to see got first place. So,
038that's quite an accomplishment. So, we have Felicity and Graham. Are they both here? Come on forward. We've got a table set up for you up here and you can tell us about your projects. Graham's up close. Um during my project, um I dropped all four parachutes and um So, um the shapes we have are the circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. And um we dropped them all in the middle of my house and then I used the stopwatch once it hit the ground, I I clicked the button to see when like what the time was for the height. Most of the time when I dropped them five times and then I dropped them again, dropped them. The most consistent was that my fastest was the free fall and the circle parachute. So, then um and then
039the most consistent is for the more aerodynamic or aerodynamic shape. Um I dropped them from the kitchen. Um like like the the circle was around 2.7 seconds. The square around 2.6. Triangle around 2.3 and the rectangle 2.1. It's pretty fun and this is my project. The name of my project is Let It Grow, Let It Grow, Explain Plant Growth. Plants are amazing because they can grow from very tiny pieces. Scientists usually like to call it tissue culture because they have their nutrients. This helps gardeners and farmers. My research shows how scientists can use MS media to help grow new plant plants. And this shows how plants can be done in different ways using tissue culture. Orchids never grow in the wild because they're so small that they have no storage for food and water. So,
040using the MS media, you can grow 90 95 to 80 80%. This That means that this method works. This is very important. My hypothesis is if plants are grown using tissue culture in MS growing media, they will grow healthier and disease-free. Here is what African violet plant seed pod, orbital shaker, stainless steel food, stainless water, soap and water solution, orbital shaker, Erlenmeyer flask, and 10% solution, 70% alcohol in spray bottle, and that was my material. My My procedure was I got two to four leaves off of the African violet plant. And I washed them with soap and water solution, and I put them on the orbital shaker for 13 to 15 minutes. After that, I washed them with water and with And then I where I was getting set, I put 10% solution. And I
041put it that on the orbital shaker for 15 minutes. And I had to get ready my my mirror flow hood, so I got 10% alcohol, and I sprayed it down. And you can see that I'm cleaning it right there. It was really fun. And I had to cut all the sides off of the leaves. And I had to cut two two two plants. I had two samples. That this is a callus, which is soft clump of new cells that can grow into a new root and shoot. And the results supporting my hypothesis is that plants are cloned using tissue culture in a clean growing media, they grow healthier and disease-free. And I that was right. My further research is some of the like harder words like decant, to carefully pour out a liquid into another.
042Callus is a soft clump of new cells that later grows into a new root and shoot. Totipotency, which one plant cell can later grow into an entire new plant. That's my science. >> [laughter] >> I had no idea. >> [laughter] >> A friend A friend of ours came over last week, and she was a scout leader with when I I don't know if it's when I left the scout pack or when I wasn't the leader anymore, she presented us with a rose bush. And it was back in my backyard, and I transplanted it when I built my mom's house. She came by the other day. She thinks it's on the wrong pulled up a rock, and I said, "Is it in your hand right in there?" And he says, "Yeah." I said, "That's the rose
043bush still growing in my backyard. Pretty neat. Probably 25 years going on. Well, that's the end of the meeting. We're going to stop with all the >> [laughter] >> good stuff. I'm joking. Um It's just so wonderful to hear all the good things going on in our schools. And then seeing the results we get um with these kids excelling at science and getting a first place ribbon at the county science fair. That's just fantastic. Uh but we've got to move on to new business. We have uh staff reports. You know what? Stephanie, if you'd like to take the family home and do your homework and have some dinner, now would be a good time because the rest of the meeting is boring and businesslike. Absolutely. Thank you so much for being here and telling us
044about your school. Now we'll go to 3.4 with their staff reports. So there are no staff reports tonight, but I do have a superintendent report. We could do the slideshow. It's something. Okay, a couple of things to um go over. So enrollment right now, um we picked up eight students, and it sounds like we're going to get a couple of more. Every time a student enrolls, the principals call me, "I got >> [laughter] >> It's good to hear that again. And uh five more students in in preschool. So still lagging behind of where we were, you know, this time last year, but you know, we've we've talked about that extensively. There's a lot of reasons why um that's happening. Um our attendance percentage is still right there. Last month it was at exactly 96%, so
045we are still there. And then not only are our students great academically, we also have athletes. We had 59 students that qualified for um the the area tournament. Um some not so great news is our um health benefits will be increasing 13%. So we are working with our unions to um see what we can do with that. And then projections, so just looking at um over the past four years what our projections were at this time in April. So we're a little bit behind um where we're where we were, but hoping to you know, pick up some soon. Um some upcoming dates, we have a vice principal opening at Roosevelt Middle School. We'll be doing some interviews for that. Um task testing uh starts next week. Um we have our administrative assistant day on April
04622nd, where we will be celebrating all of our administrative assistants, but I will definitely be celebrating Veronica. Um Can you believe it? The end of the third I'm sorry. That's not the We've already had the end of the third quarter. Um we that is the uh progress reports are due for the Um can't believe it. Staff appreciation week is May 4th through May 8th. Um the end of end of year activities will get to you uh by the end of this month, and if you could just let us know which ones that you will be coming to. And then um our board meeting May 11th, and we'll be talking about um all of our celebrations. We'll have our uh golden apple and all our retirees um at that time. And then we're also going to
047um be talking about our LCAP that just kind of um giving you a little bit of forward information. We're not receiving that much money, so it's looking like our LCAP's going to be status quo for the remainder of the three years, but we'll talk more about that in May. Well, I've wrote down a question. Um What's a Raptor say? Yeah, so Raptor is a system that we use to check people from the public into our schools or when they come to the office to pick a a student up, it allows us to check to verify that they are who they are. We scan their ID, um and then it also checks does a very quick background check to make sure that they're allowed to be around students or on campus. Yeah. Yeah. So, we have
048those at every every one of our elementary school or sorry, every one of our school sites. Um we actually check in when we go to school sites as well. So, even when we go out, we we give our IDs or they check us in to make sure that we're all allowed to be there, too. And so, the what the new system is is it's now taking that from an individual one single point of contact and bringing it out to the front of the school when we have events where we're going to bring your grandparents day, let's say, and we have an extra 200 people coming through rather than having them all go through the office or sign in like we used to do before, it gives them an opportunity to come through and sign in
049at one of the kiosks by um they can either do the um they can either scan uh the QR code um and and log in and have that all ready to go before they get there, and they come in and say, "Hey, this is who I am." We give them a ticket, and they go through. Or, they can go through the process live as they as they show up. And so, um we the we got about five iPads so far. We're getting a little kiosk set up so that it should make it as efficient as possible getting people onto campus safely and making sure they are who they are. And they're allowed to be there. So, we've added that um notice anytime we have something, you know, everybody bring an ID. Yep. Yep. So, yep,
050send it out a couple weeks in advance letting them know that this is coming. Um and so, this was our first um our first um kind of waded into the the a small event. I was like, we didn't want to choose one where we had grandparents day and had an extra 500 people on campus. We wanted to start small, and that's that's where we we started there. Um and we learned a lot in our first go-round. So, um we were able to um now we're going to have kind of a a traveling setup where we have the iPads and the and the the tables and some pop-up tents, and then that'll get distributed from site to site on when we need them. We'll have two different setups that we'll roll out every time. Thank you
051very much. So, is that um is that a something that you would encourage families, grandparents, and parents to do in advance at the beginning of the year, maybe? Yeah, that would be the short line. So, like when you when you walk up and you're already checked in, all they have to do is check your ID against the name and give you the badge. Um and so, that takes a couple of seconds, whereas signing in and putting all your information in and doing that takes a little bit more time. Not as like like it's not preventative, but it does it does it's a slightly slower. You probably already thought about this, but you may be able to do some kind of an incentive program for the kids. If your parents or your grandparents do it, you
052get your name in this thing, you do a drawing, and you win a new car or something. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, new car. Yeah. Yes. Great. I'm it's nice to hear that we're always thinking building on our safety. Thank you. 3.6 resignations and retirements. Thank you for all those people that had a career here and and did such a great job with all of our students. Action items. I'm going to pull one of those action items out. Um 4.2.14 is the approval of the employment of Rebecca Ruiz as our special education director. Is Rebecca here today? Please stand. Welcome to the leadership team. Thank you. Thank you. Well, maybe I'm 1 minute early. I've got a I've got a get a motion to make sure that we want to do that. Can I have
053a motion to approve that? And a second? Thank you. All in favor? Now, welcome to leadership team. Thank you very much. I just wanted to add that, you know, as sad as we are to see, you know, Cindy go, and you know, she's got a great opportunity to stay home with her kids, but to get Rebecca, who has a wealth of knowledge and experience, we're we're just as thrilled um to have her. So, welcome to the team. 4.1 is the consent agenda. Can I have a motion for that? Second? Second? Thank you, Gary. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? We move to the approval of the declaration of a need for fully qualified educators. Thank you, Gary. And a second? I have a question. Um I read in the newspaper there was uh ruling out
054using uh qualified teachers, and the um courts found that school districts haven't been putting enough effort and just using like the interns kind of thing. And I didn't know if you'd heard about that. You might want to look into it. Um the court determined that in this particular school district that they had not to put enough good faith effort in trying to seek qualified teachers. So. So, we um we attend job fairs, we put in, you know, our own advertisements. So, we always when we get applications, we always pull our credential applications first, and then most of those hires, you know, happen over the summer um in general education and special education, it's really fast because there is a high need for them. I just had a question. 4.2.2 is the approval of and candidate
055selection for the 2026. I'll We had a motion, we had a second, am I correct? I want to We're going back to 4.2.1. Did we Did we vote on that? Okay. All in favor? I. Thank you. I apologize for getting ahead of myself. Now, we'll [clears throat] go to 4.2.2. Um Approval of candidate selection, we had a tie. Um so, we need to run off ballot for the CSBA delegate assembly. We need a motion on who we want to vote for. Do we have those names? So, we had a tie with Maria Luis Ramos from Arvin and Chris Cruz from Bakersfield, and I will um ask Leanne if for some advice on that. Maria. I will go with uh um Would you like to uh make a motion to that? I will. I'll second. Thank
056you. All in favor of Maria? I. Thank you. 4.2.3 is the first read of the following board policy of sexual harassment. Um and 4.2.4 is the first read of the following administrative regulation for sexual harassment. Does anyone have any questions going through that? No, I just wanted to remind you that um now with our um ad hoc committee, uh Gary and Patty go through these um board policies before we bring them to you. So, just you know. That's been a It's been a great thing. That reminds me. Now that we're supposed to have a training reporters, mandated reporters. I forgot. More than just the board. Reporters. >> [laughter] >> But I don't I'm not forgetting any. Thank you. 4.2.5 is a public hearing for approval of resolution 2526-08 of the Board of Trustees of the
057Arvin District regarding school facilities needs analysis. Adopting alternative school facilities fees in compliance with government code sections and making related findings and determinations. 4.2.6 is a motion to open open a public hearing. Do I have a motion? Thank you. And a second? Thank you. All in favor? So, our public hearing is open. Um what can you tell us about that? So, what what this is is basically it's um it's a justification study to determine what our developer fees should be. Um and so, what developer fees are is a one-time charge on new construction or any addition over 500 square feet. Um and what that does is it allows um basically school districts and other um other local entities to mitigate the impact that that additional space will have on a school site. Um and so,
058um right now that's just a justification report to make sure that our our fees are what they should be. And so, level one fees um are just residential and commercial. Um and then um so, yeah, that that's basically it's just a justification study to make sure that um that we are charging um what we need to be able to do that. So, right now is it $3.50 per square foot? So, right now current that's what our our new residential rate is is $3.50 per It was $3.36. So, that's the new the new justification brings that level up to that. And this public hearing um we just put it out there if somebody wants to talk about it. >> Yep. So, it's open to the public for anybody to comment. So, with all this all this
059wording um is $3.50 per square foot enough in your mind to keep us rolling? Um and no, I would say that um I think in our justification study when you get down to the the last handful of pages, um I think they say something in the ballpark of about 8 and 1/2 dollars a square foot would be what it would need to actually cover the cost of the additional space that we would um that we would then garner from the you know um as as students come into our system based on that space. Um and so, it's not it's not going to cover what we needed to cover, but it helps. Um and so, in the last handful of years our developer fees like the money that we're generating from developer fees hasn't been fantastic.
060There's not as much building in our area as there has been in the past. So, we really we utilize all those funds to purchase or to pay on portable leases um for the most part. All right, thank you. Any other comments? So, who determines that number then? So, there's a state regulation for that and then there's um and then is the justification report in that the big report that kind of blows out each um each of the indicators that you would need and then there's a a a bunch of formulas that they use to justify each of those each of those areas and where our sweet spot is for that for that rate. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Right. Based on the study that they do and based on the numbers that they they fill into all
061their calculations, this is the rate that they can justify. And and so, I I really do lean toward them. I'm not an expert in this in in in this study if that makes sense. So, I really do lean on the experts to give me their best indication of what it is. And it's in line with other Kern County you know other Kern County districts and other other places that would be taking those those developer fees. Um and so, I don't you know we don't want to be the tall nail when it comes to that kind of stuff and and in cost problem. Well, I'm not a I'm not a math teacher, but quick in my head 350 a square foot 3,000 square foot house $10,000 on the on the permit um $8 is 2 and
0621/2 times um $25,000 on the permit. Um yeah, people people are going to push back. Right. All right. [clears throat] Can I have a motion to close the public hearing? 5:02 All in favor? Thank you. So, 4.2.8 is the approval of the resolution 2526-08 of the Board of Trustees of the Rosedale Union District regarding school facilities needs analysis adopting alternative school facility fees in compliance with the government code sections and making related findings and determinations. Is that what you you just went through? We found that we need more money. Can I have a motion? Thank you on the second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? No. Thank you. Motion carries. 4.2.9 is a public hearing for consideration of adoption of a resolution which would approve a school facilities fee justification report with the adoption of
063a new updated set of fees for new residential and commercial industrial construction pursuant to the education code section 17620 and government code section 65995 prepared for the school district by K Analytics Can I have a motion to open that public hearing? Thank you on the second. All in favor? I. So, we have a public hearing for this consideration. Thank you 5:03. Any comments about the about that um report? Um yeah, that this is this is the one that also justifies the level two fees which are just a little bit different than the level one fees um at $5.46 um per square foot. Um and so, that's that's just the additional the additional fee for So, we need to push for more development in our neighbors I Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. So, level two is residential
064only that that um applies. Um so, okay. Once you once you adopt a level one fee, that fee stays the fee consistent. And then every year you need a justification study to justify any fee above the $3.50. So, now that we have the level one fee at $3.50, that will be the base. And so, if we decide not to do a justification study a year from the adoption of this, it'll drop back down to $3.50 per and then that'll be the baseline. Um the other is the the the level two fee is what then kicks in for the year. So, we are getting eight bucks a square foot. No, no, no, no. $4 and or sorry, $5.46 per square foot. But it's it's not plus 350. No, no, no. Not in addition to. It bumps
065it up to $2. That's where the And then that's why we need to do the justification study every year and bring it to the board so that we get the difference between. Any other comments? All right, I need a motion to close this public hearing. 5:05 Thank you on the second. All in favor? I. Thank you for uh motion to receive that to receive that. After that we have 4.2.12 approval of the resolution 2526-09 to adopt statutory fees imposed on new residential commercial industrial construction as authorized. If it's an approval, right? We're voting on it. Okay. So, I need a motion. Thank you Gary and a second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Wonderful. That brings us Mr. Sand Gen, thank you very much. Um with that the uh motion carries. 4.2.13 is the quarterly
066report on William Penn complaints and there are none. That's always wonderful to hear and that brings us to 5.0 board items. What's been going on, folks? So, I was very sad to read the article, but also recognize that um we acted appropriately when we decided to ban the I know parents were unhappy because they probably had just purchased Stanley cups for their kids for the holidays, but um and I appreciate you Sue for uh acting on that because it's hard when you're making decisions and you get strong pushback from from people that you think should be supporting the idea. So, thank you because your proactiveness there has really prevented for us the worry that somebody's going to get hit in the head with a metal bottle. So, you know, thank you. So, I I lemon
067cupcakes in honor of Miss Lemon. So, thank you. Any board member items? Uh I'm going to popped into my head here. We have a new chief of police who I watched as a kid grow up and he's a really good guy and when I ran and when I read at Centennial a couple weeks ago, he was actually there reading. So, that was awesome to And so, at the week before when I was at one of the schools, I was talking to somebody who had years ago, I was in charge of school safety and I had a thing called Chief of Police for a Day. And it was an English assignment that students could like sixth graders could write um if I were Chief of Police for a Day, this is what I would do. And
068then somebody at the school would go through those and each school get a winner and that winner would meet me at the police department and I would give them a tour and it was just a super fun time for them and a chance for kids to see and I'm just wondering if maybe we could suggest that to our school resource officer and see if he would like to run with that because I think he would have and he was also at that reading thing at Centennial, too. So, um yeah. Maybe somebody could talk to you and they could work through that through the summer maybe and Okay. Cool. Great idea, Gary. Thank you. All right, with that, um we need to move into closed session. Um thank you all for being here this evening. We
069always appreciate as many people as we can get in here to listen to what we talk about. And 6.1 is approval to enter into closed session. I'll move. Thank you. Second. All in favor? I. I vote I.