001Um I call this meeting of the board of trustees to order. Um item the first item is clo um public comment on close session agenda items. >> There are no public comments. >> Okay. Um, seeing none, the board will recess to close session and then to the summer school graduation before coming back to open session at 6 pm. >> Good evening and welcome to this Wednesday, August 20th meeting of the governing board of the Sequoia Union High School District. My name is Sautic. the president of the board. We'll start with item number three, which is the reconvene to public session. Um, just some reminders, members of the public who wish to remotely provide public comment during the meeting can use the raise hand feature during agenda items. Speakers must raise their hand during agenda item
0027.1, the public comment portion of the meeting in order to comment on topics not included on the approved agenda. to speak about an item on the agenda in person. Please fill out a speaker card and indicate the agenda item and hand the card to Laura at the dis. When the requested agenda item comes before the board, the speaker will be called forward. Next was item number four, which is roll call. >> Trusty Cruz. >> Oops. Here. >> Trusty Thompson >> here. >> Trusty Gin here. >> Vice President Coup here. >> President Nori >> here. Aquar is present. Okay. And now to report out of close session. Um we have two agenda items to report. Um one is on a unanimous motion the board approved the settlement agreement in case number 2025-2026-1. And then in the
003other report out in close session, the board voted unanimously in favor of suspending the employee number 1 1917 for five work days without pay from their unemployment with the district based on the charges set forth in the statement of charge and notice of recommendation for five workday suspension without pay. Okay. Next is item number seven which is public comment. Actually skipped one thing. We skipped item number five which is approval of the agenda. So are there any changes or can we approve the agenda? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I that motion passes unanimously. Okay, now we're on item number seven, which is a public comment. >> We can start with the ones in the room and then go online. >> Okay, I have one public comment in person.
004Um, Mr. down. Where we at on minute floor? All right. Uh, good afternoon board. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Ready. All right. Good evening, board. Um, >> okay. All right. Good evening board and new members. Um, my name is Dan Molier. I don't know all of you except the two new board members. Um, Mr. Nory didn't couldn't discuss close session. So the public should know especially the citizens teachers coming into this year the unions and more importantly the children um Chicago matter is going well. What I first started to do was to tell you two board members what you're dealing with with the president over there. So, I brought you guys a gift that I printed out so you could add it to the minutes and share it with this school to see that this is
005the type of stuff that a man like that prints out on a child that was 16 years old and is now growing really well as soon as he left his school. So, I brought that for you, Mr. Nory, to remind you, be careful what you write, especially when you don't know facts. And I understand you believe in this cultlike fat fashion of world with you and Miss Leech, but it doesn't work in the real world. Having said that, you two board members, I hope and pray that you don't get yourself in a mess that been created by those other people to the right. You guys got a big decision to make. Lawyers have no problem milking you guys to death. You're at probably over four to five million from my last count. Melo after now
006police is about to get deposed as another couple million is going to come there. The firms that we have are they're like major league furs sterns and them they don't fear anybody either do I don't win and we don't come in these battles like your lawyers do and bill you hourly. We come in to try to make change. Bonnie Hansen, you became the new Beal. I understand it. You were given a chance by the union, by the administrative lawyer, and by Mr. Sterns to get Mike Moleri back to work right away. He's home for stuff that you actually know and have been aware that Jenna Carson, Scott Kurt, Kimberly Zels, Emmy Leech, and others, I forgot Tara Charles because that's coming up soon, have committed those offenses. I recommend this board since they're so transparent
007and they want to be honest with people and citizens that you please make the records now of Emmy Douly and a witness that really hurt your guys's case and make it public for everybody to read it. Let them decide who's telling the truth, who needs to be here, and who needs to be gone. I want you guys to understand that we're not going away. We don't worry about how long it's going to take us. This little child, luckily, is OA's daughter. She doesn't have to come to this nightmare. Luckily, she was awarded a full scholarship and doesn't have to be. >> Sorry, Miss Mo. Time is up. >> Thank you. >> Do we have any public comments on Zoom? Please raise your hand now. >> I saw one but it went away. >> Okay, there
008I don't see any more. >> Um, moving on. Now we have item number eight, which is board of trustees correspondence. Uh I don't think we have any correspondence. So we can move on to item number nine. Just board of trustees superintendent comments and committee reports. Uh is there any comments from board members? >> Okay. If none I'll I'll just add um it was great to for the board to see all the teachers and staff at convocation this year and celebrate the start of the good year. And on behalf of the board, we'd like to wish everyone happy um first start of school. >> The first day of school uh went off without a hitch, which is always good. The second one, too. What we on day five? >> No, we're down day six. I'm actually
009good at math, but the only reason I know is because I check our enrollment numbers for the first 10 days. So, I've written down what day we're on. Um, but the from what I can from what I can see, you know, that that energy for the start of the new year is still continuing. Kids are happy, teachers are happy, staff is happy. To hear, you know, all of the laughter and just the noise, uh, buzzing in the hallways is very, very refreshing. Um and then um you know again just a a congratulations to our summer school graduates since we just came from Sequoia uh to watch them uh graduate is um was just a really another way to start this new year with a bookend of what we usually finish the prior year at. Right.
010So so cheers to the cheers to a new year. >> Great. Um now we'll move on to item number 10 which is the comments from the SDTA and ASME. Uh we can start with SDTA if there are any comments. Good evening and happy new year. Um, it was wonderful to have a a positive, energetic uh, convocation, but mostly I really wish I had taped Trusty Nor's address because I really wanted to send it to our former trustees uh, who will be left unnamed to point out that you can get your message across and not talk for 15 or 20 minutes. It was really inspiring. I was like, "Yeah, I got to cut things out of what I'm saying because traffic didn't go long." Um, and it's been really fun being back in my classroom getting
011ready. My my personal children started high school this week and uh first day of school. I found out that my daughter who's been looking forward to Spanish for a year and a half now, her Spanish teacher will be there next week. she's still getting processed and and hired. And I thought, "Oh, now I'm on the other side of that." Um, and and maybe uh away from the microphone, I'll tell you what some of their syllabuses said and were really interesting. Um but unfortunately I am at the mic today to um make some comments about areas where where I believe our district has um come up a bit short. Um you heard earlier today in public comment about this issue. We have a member who was placed on leave. He was notified on August 5th of
0122024 that he would be placed on leave as of the first day of school, which was August 12th. That was 374 days ago. At the time he was notified he was being placed on leave, he was given vague notions of the reason for that. With no more information forthcoming, I had to in September pressure the district to give reasons. What were the allegations against this member? And again, we got vague and amorphous information which prompted us to have to file a charge against the district with the public employee relations board because that takes its sweet time and the district did not provide any further information. In April, we met in mediation with the district's attorneys and PERB to settle on a list of questions or allegations that would provide enough information to follow through prepare
013for an interview. That was in April. Our member wasn't interviewed for the first time until June 4th. He had made himself available at every possible moment. The interview is scheduled on June 4th. A followup on June 24th. The beginning of this school year has come and gone. He is not back at work. The investigation has not been finalized. We don't know what the timeline is for additional witnesses, if there are any to be interviewed, for any of the witnesses that he has asked to have interviewed to be interviewed. feels like the district can put you on leave because they don't like you and then they can make up their mind of what the allegation is later. That's what it feels like to our members. Being placed on paid admin leave is not a victimless situation,
014right? Just because somebody maintains their paycheck doesn't mean they maintain their professional reputation. doesn't mean there's no emotional damage to being kept from your livelihood, being kept from your calling, being kept from the work that you do and the students that you serve. And it's damaging when this happens to one of our members because all of our members now fear that they could be placed in the same limbo, not know why, and be at the burden of the the district's timeline. Teachers rely on their reputations to be able to do their jobs. We rely on the trust that students and families and the district and our colleagues place in us. And when there's an allegation against a teacher, it should be investigated. And then there should be a determination and if nothing is found, a
015teacher should be returned to work. That hasn't happened. The investigation hasn't happened. As far as we know, the district engaged an outside investigator for nine months to send some emails back and forth and delay and cancel interviews because that's all we've seen. So, I would encourage you to put pressure on the investigators to finish their jobs and get our member back to work. Thank you. Um, next we have ASME. [Music] Hello everybody. Uh, my name is Chris Shaister. Um, I just recently met some board members and others um are familiar faces. I'll just introduce myself as a carpenter for the district. I've been with the district for 10 years now and have worked my way up from negotiating team stewardship local level all the way up to the president where I sit now. Um just
016to give you guys a little bit of a heads up about where we've been. Um we did not have a group of officers for quite some time. Um we have recently I have uh asked some people to join up and I got a a group of people that have joined and so we will now have some vice presidents. We have a lead steward um and we have a communications officer. Um along with that, we now have been given a new business agent that is much more um integral to our growth as a chapter and will be uh present more often. So um I hope that ASME's present here at board meetings will become more regular. Um they haven't been because I've kind of been doing it by myself for a while. So I apologize for
017that. Um and also want to remind the board that we um don't want to dilute our presence by showing up every meeting if we don't have things to talk about. Um we tend to go through the channels of HR and deal with things through committees to try to handle things before they get to a point where we need to come to the board to really hammer home an idea. So when you don't see me, it's not a bad thing and when you do see me, it may be a bad thing. Um, so that's all I have for now. I have an agenda item, um, and I'll speak to that during my agenda item, but I think that's probably a good update just for ask me in general that, um, you'll be seeing more of us.
018Um, and that part is will be good. Thank you. >> Thank you for the comment. Um, next we're moving on to item number 11, which is approval of the consent agenda. Board action to approve the following items is taken simultaneously with one motion which is not debatable and requires a unanimous roll call vote for passage. The actions indicated on each item is deemed to have been considered in full and action taken is worded therein. Only members of the board and the superintendent may remove items from the consent agenda. Members of the public may provide comment at the start of a consent agenda item which may convince a board member or the superintendent to remove an item for further discussion. Um, and the motion is to wave the reading of the consent agenda, accept the reports,
019adopt the resolutions, and approve other items. So, are there any items that board members or superintendent wish to pull from the consent agenda? Okay. If not, could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Jesse Cruz. >> Yes. >> Jesse Thompson. >> Yes. >> Jesse Gen. >> Yes. Vice President Coup. >> Yes. >> President Nory, >> yes. >> Motion carried 50. >> Now we'll move on to item number 12, which are information items. First up is 12.1 the presentation of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 829 Office um bargaining unit and or technical and prior professional bargaining unit and maintenance and operations bargaining unit 2025-2026 initial bargaining proposal to the Sequoia Union High School District. That's a whole lot of
020words just to say ask me. So, we'll try to shorten that for you if we can. Um, when you look at our I So, originally I sent out um one of my officers to come Sunshine during the last board meeting. My understanding was that that was sufficient. Um, I have since been taught that that is not sufficient. So, we're here now to try to follow the rules. Um, and we appreciate the board's grace and the timing and how this has all come together. Um, when you look at our proposal, it looks daunting showing off um, each article in the contract. This is simply a way for us to show that it is an open contract year, meaning that we are allowed to negotiate for um, any article in the contract. It's not a guarantee that
021we are going to um, make any proposals for every single one of those. it's more of a blanket um idea and that's what we've done throughout the past. Um so we're just kind of recycling that idea as our opening statement to say that we would like to bargain in good faith um and that we are um open to any article in the contract being negotiated. Um I'll just read off the part that's here. Um, the ASME Sequoia Union High School District chapter negotiations team in coordination with our ASME business agent submits the following sunshine proposal to negotiate a successor collective bargaining agreement with the Sequoia Union High School District for the 2025 2026 school year. We look forward to engaging in a collaborative and solutions focused bargaining process with the Sequoia Union High School District
022negotiations team. Our priority is to ensure the ASME represented classified staff are supported, respected, and fairly compensated for the vital work they perform across our district. We remain committed to advocating for their best possible work conditions, stability, and economic security for our members and their families. Together, we can continue to build a strong, empowered workforce that reflects the essential role classified employees play in the success of our schools. with a new bargaining team on ASME side and a new bargaining team on the district side. This gives us a very fresh perspective when we move to the bargaining table and we're excited about where we're going to move this year with negotiations. So, thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you. Um, is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> I have
023none. >> Okay. Um if not we can move on to item 12.2 which is review of summit preparatory charter school 2025-26 LCAP and adopted budget financial report. Good evening Laura. Can we pull up the slides? Good evening everyone. Uh, Summit Prep Charter School submitted their 2526 LCAP and adopted budget to Sequoia Union High School District and San Mato County Office of Education by the due date of July 1st, 2025. The adopted budget complies with all the fiscal requirement and multi-year projection shows that the charter school will be able to meet its fiscal requirement for the budget in two subsequent fiscal years. Students from Everest charter schools are projected to transfer to summit prep and the enrollment is projected to increase to 394 students in the budget year. It's approximately 108 students transferring from Everest to
024summit prep and then they are projecting enrollment to be at 356 students and 373 students in the two subsequent year. The increase in enrollment will result in increase in revenue by about 1.3 million and expenditures are expected to increase by $625,000. Unassigned ending fund balance for summit prep is approximately 73% of the budgeted expenditure and then it remains at 81 and 75% for the two out years. Summit prep submitted two years worth of cash flow projection showing positive ending balance in both year each year and each month. Okay. >> Um any questions from the board? >> If not is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. >> I see none online. >> If not, um let's move on to item
02512.3, review of Kip Esparonza Charter School 2025-26 LCAP and adopted budget financial reports. Um are there any public comments on this agenda item? >> I have none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. >> There are none online. Okay. If not, I think that's the third slide. Yeah, [Music] Kip Esparanza submitted their uh 2526 LCAP and adopted budget again by the due date of July 1st to the district and to San Mato County Office. and it shows that the adopted budget will meet the fiscal requirement and multi-year projection shows that they have uh they will meet their financial obligation. Kip Esparanza is also projecting growth in enrollment and they are uh doing outreach and engagement with students and families at two peninsula middle school. They expect about uh 10 students increase of
02610 students each year with an enrollment of 192 in the budget year 202 and 239 in the out years. >> Sorry, can we pause just for one minute? Can is it possible to get the other slide up? just to appease our visual and audio learners. >> Good. You're welcome. An assigned ending B balance fund balance is at 28% of budgeted expenditure for KIP Asparanza and they have positive cash flow statement for two years with ending cash balance of 2 million each year questions. >> Yeah, I did have a question. Um how realistic is it for kip to be projecting such large enrollment growth each year because uh summit is declining or flat. >> Kipasparanza is projecting about 10 students each year. Current year 2425 they have about 194 students enrolled and it's increasing by about
02710 each year. I I guess the question is that realistic? So if they're going to do marketing to target two middle schools, um just I I don't know what gives them such confidence that all of a sudden they'll attract more students. They said that they were doing the outreach and uh you know trying to connect with the families and students at these two schools and they said that they were on track. They have already like they have 30 new students ninth graders starting this fiscal year. Okay. >> Any other board members or superintendent comments or >> so what what does the process look like with their estimates for enrollment and we hear about their activities around recruitment and then um at year end um or potentially even through you know first and second interim is
028there any communication if they fall short to their enrollment estimates? We we do at each reporting cycle we if we see any changes or if it in the past if if it is not as they have been projecting we reach out to them and you know kind of try to figure out why their their projections were not have not materialized. >> So just a a reminder for the board um Kip is in their own building. They are not Prop 39. they do not have an enrollment requirement uh for the district and um we like the transfer in LU process to give them we're only paying for their actual enrollment at the end of the year so we don't pay on estimates so just >> okay yes >> just a request when when it does come
029back around and you're mentioning future ones if you could remind us at that time of what the projections were cuz we may not remember the numbers that you presented today several months from now. So if the as the numbers come back you may say this is the same or different from what they projected just so we can because I think enrollments an area of interest for many of us. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um so one additional question when I was looking at the LCAP it seemed like kip's local funding percentage is a lot higher than summit. So where is that local funding coming from versus LCAP funding? >> The local they say that it is from philanthropic donations to support this particular charter school. >> Okay. Thank you so much for the presentation.
030Um now we'll move on to action items. Item number 13 on the agenda. 13.1 is adoption of resolution number 001 establishment of fund 73 foundation trust fund for fiscal year 2025-26. >> Um before we start though are there any public comments on this agenda item in person or online? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. We're asking the board to approve this resolution to there's not so we're asking the board to approve the resolution to establish a fund 73 which is a scholarship fund um because currently at the sites they're keeping multi-year um scholarships in their ASB and per ASB um guideline you can only include um the current year students, not the multi-year. So that's why we have to establish the fund 73. The sites would have
031to transfer the multi-year um scholarships into this fund and um issue the or ask us for vouchers as they release the funds to the students. >> Any questions from the board? >> So a question maybe more for superintendent. Um, just having the word foundation kind of ma at least made me initially think before I read the spine print that had to do with the school foundations which it doesn't necessarily. So is this name required to be this name or do you think like it sounds like it's a scholarship fund? It's not really >> I think the name is fixed. >> We have to use that name. >> Yeah. California accounting standard. >> Okay. That my question. Yeah. Okay. I have a I have a question. I am totally breaking a rule right now because I'm
032asking a question. You may not have an answer for it. Is there any estimate on how much money you think is going to be passed through this? >> No. >> Okay. >> No worries. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve this agenda item? >> So moved. >> Seconded. >> Roll call. >> Jesse Cruz. >> Yes. >> Jesse Thompson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Gen. >> Yes. >> Vice President Coup. Yes. >> President Nory. >> Yes. >> Motion carried 50. >> Okay. Thank you. Um now we'll move on to item number 14 which is future agenda items. Is there anything from the board here? >> If not um we'll move on to item number 15 adjournment. The board will actually recess to close session for and continue for continuing our discussion but there should not
033be anything to report out.