00154.35 can not take any action or discuss the topic concern item on you have anybody that would like to address >> that's short I just wanted the result that for the calendars for two options every voting on the teachers did a vote about 62% or they had an A which match high school >> and that was a question I had tonight. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Actually I'm not in charge [laughter] of fifth grade teacher pioner I want to mention two things. One is gala on Saturday night. Don't forget um we're still looking for some donations. Even if you cannot attend um there are some items that we're looking for donated in particular. I think they're looking for some sodas or some bottled waters and that kind of thing. Um there
002is a list that has gone out. If you need to access that list or need help with that, I can help you with that. Um so don't forget that is happening and uh we appreciate attendance if you can. Um they're also looking for donation of dessert for the dessert dash. So again, if you can't attend but would like to donate a dessert to the for the dessert dash that is always generates a lot of money. Mr. Weber has uh bid into the hundreds of dollars and [laughter] >> you your table has been in the hundreds of dollars. >> We should [laughter] but it does generally our tables that $7 $800. There tables that still are in there for two or three. >> [laughter] >> The first year we were like 80 thinking we got this.
003>> Yeah. And I think we may have been to about 120 last time and still we were way low on the >> Yeah, we ended up with Oreo cookies. >> Sorry to reit that for you. But um I also wanted to mention um the calendar. Um, I'm also want to point out that on calendar A, it has two [clears throat] 4 day work weeks, whereas calendar B has a 3-day work week and a 5day work week. Um, five day work weeks are very nice because you can get a lot done, but our pacing calendars are set up for a oneweek curriculum. Um, and that's the way it goes through. And doing two 4 day weeks allows us to kind of squeeze a five day in before and then a five day before. um teaching in
004a three-day week trying to get five days of curriculum into uh three days is just very difficult. So that's another reason I would suggest you vote for calendar A. Thank you for your time. >> Any other members of the public? >> All right. Thank you guys. Um >> where [laughter] all right? Um thank you guys for this opportunity tonight. I am excited to share our excellence report. Uh we do have one of our families that will be featured in our excellence report tonight. Um and so just jumping right in, these are our initiatives here at Pioneer this year. Um we have our five uh focus for the year. We have our math, PBIS, literacy, attendance and science initiatives. And so I'll be talking a little bit about each. Uh the attendance I just wanted to
005thank our district staff uh and then our community lesson, Miss Brenda, who also be sharing a little bit more later. um they have really taken all of the heavy lifting out of this so that you know as the site it's not as impactful for us to do the kind of setting up all of the the flyers and all the activities and the prizes that's been taken care of by them so that we're able to promote it and so it's been uh something that's been easy to implement for us at the site and so we really do appreciate that but I'm going to be talking a little bit more about science math and PBIS science uh we just finished our science training for the year. Uh this year was kind of an intro year for our
006staff with our science. We hadn't had any training yet on the curriculum and what we had. And so what we learned really quick, our fourth grade group was the first group and it went well uh nowhere as well as it went for the other groups. And we're actually looking to plan another day for fourth grade to come back because what we discovered is to incorporate more science into our elementary, it's got to be quick and easy. uh when we started looking we were looking at some of the lessons that would take 45 minutes of prep time for a 10-minute lesson. So what we found is each of these come with a slide deck that are have a lot of rich um multimedia embedded in it. So what we started doing was modifying the slide deck
007so that then the entire grade level could use it so that let's say we had an extra 10 minutes at the end of the school day, we could pull those slides up and talk some science. Uh so we just did finish like I said our last group this week. Um the work was near and dear to me because when I started my journey as administrator, I started at a traditional independence uh independent studies program. Now we're working to transition to an online program. One of the first things we had to do is we had to modify the curriculum to match what we needed for jumping into this work with our teachers working on the science. I was jumping into slides and getting to do some of that work that I really love. So it was
008a lot of fun doing that with our our teachers. So that's our science initiative for our PBIS. Um we actually as a staff this afternoon we're working on our matrix which is probably the biggest piece of our PBIS model. Uh because once you've established your matrix that's what you build everything off of. That's what you build your interventions off of. That's what you build your teaching off of for behaviors. And so we've gotten to the point where now we're working on this. We've done all of these different activities with MCOE throughout the year to build every uh to build each of these uh systematically. So we started at the beginning of the year with just kind of an overview for our staff. We did an activity where they reflected on somebody that had an impact
009on them as an educator and what were those qualities that then became what we wanted to build into our design and that inclusivity of making sure that we included kind of those traits that we that were impactful for us, right? And so making sure that we built that into our system. Uh [clears throat] and then we came over one of the last activities that we did were our majors and minors developing that common language with one another. We did see that we had to push out our uh we have our consequence and reward system. We're using PBIS rewards which is used at Weaver and Farm already. Uh we did get it in place for our consequence systems. Uh later on will become the reward systems as well. Um, and we do have a large PBS
010team. We sent a team through last year. And so that's kind of our implementation team that's been working on uh they trained themselves last year and then they've been the ones leading most of the activities that we're doing. And then if you see we had our teaching staff go through first, but we have another cohort that's going through that will provide an important lens too as we continue as a team. And you'll see we have our counselor, behavior specialist, and other staff that kind of give us a whole team of everybody on the campus. So then once we start diving into our data, we have everyone's kind of lens on math math at Pioneer um is going really well. And so I wanted to put it here in the middle so that you could see
011us compared to the county and then us compared to the state. And really looking at those two where you're meeting and exceeding those upper two levels, you can see that [clears throat] we're right there with the state. When you combine the two, um, and we are exceeding the county right now. Um, and so we, uh, [clears throat] here at Pioneer, they've been doing work uh, for quite a while with MCE. We had Wayne uh, who has now taken a different position and is kind of leading a different department, but he's kind of built a whole team of coaches. And so now we're working with Keith this year, continuing that work that they're doing. Um, and so this kind of gives us a snapshot of what it looks like third through fifth, but what about K
012through 2nd? And so this is our end of the year data from last year for math. Again, we're trying to grow the green, shrink the red. And so when you see on the top here, this is I'm sorry, the bottom, this is our beginning of the year diagnostic compared to our end of the year diagnostic with kind of the breakdown of percent change or the percent growth or percent decrease. And so you can see that our we had a 200% growth of students on grade level by the end of the year. And again you if you can look at the visual, you can see that we are indeed shrinking those lower levels and we're definitely growing that group. Now to continue that, Mrs. Yordia is going to come up and share a little bit more
013about an opportunity that's going to be coming up next month and that is our math night here at Pioneer. [clears throat] >> Good evening. >> Merry Christmas. So, Dr. Medina is passing out our flyer that we're going to be sharing with parents. So, a couple years ago, I thought about a math night um for one reason or another event. I didn't have time to do it, but now um I sent out a Google survey and I had a lot of teachers show interest. So, that was our first step. How do we get this this math night going? and without the teacher support I couldn't do it. So today we had our first planning meeting and I had 17 teachers committed to coming to this math night. So what it's going to look like is going
014to be the student and the parent are going to go to the classroom and it's just going to be like a conference. It's going to be like breakout sessions. We're going to have three sessions. We're going to start by an introduction. Dwayne will be here and Keith Trump, our math gurus. And then parents are going to go every 30 minutes. We're gonna go to a different session at the end. We're going to wrap off two iPads and we're going to look at the community to donate. So, we're super hyped up, excited. >> Awesome. So, we invite you guys to come on over in January 13th from 4:30 to 7 here at our school. >> January 13. [clears throat] >> All right. >> Wow. >> Amazing. So, we have three of those. We're gonna square it.
015[laughter] >> Thank you. [applause] >> And so, that's something we have coming up. Um, and it is the holiday season and um, Miss Brenda is gonna come up. She does an amazing job of kind of rallying the the staff to provide for a lot of our families and so she's going to share a little bit more about the Christmas tree. [clears throat] >> Thank you. [cheering] >> I'm Brenda Ramirez at Po Elementary School and I'll be going over the Christmas tree project. So the Christmas tree project is a schoolwide effort to support our students and families here at Pine Elementary and it is to provide them with a holiday gift during during the season during the season. So how it works, I send a Google form to all of our staff where they u nominate
016students that they feel could benefit from a holiday gift. Um once I get the nomination list, I do call the parent and ask for their permission to uh put the students information on a tag. I don't put the student's name. I only do their interest or clothing sizes, but I do put numbers and I have the list of students that match the number of the tag. Um, so I'll create the tag with their interest, shoe size, clothing size. I'll put a um I then place the tags on the Christmas tree and I'll put the Christmas tree on the lounge. And this is where staff are able to pick one, two, three, or multiple tags and they're allowed to adopt a family. So, what's really neat is that we don't only uh add the students name
017that was nominated, but we also include the whole family. So, if they have students at Weaver or if they have babies at home, they're also in the tree as well. So, we we also include our McKini vendor foster youth, they're also part of the Christmas tree. Uh once the staff member or um whoever was participating dropped off the gift, it can be wrapped or unwrapped. Um, I then call the families to come and pick up or also pay Santa. I'll go out and deliver as well. This [clears throat] year we did have 62 tags that were placed on the tree and that tree I placed it I think at 11:00 in the morning and I went back at 3. They were all gone. >> So, it was really it was really neat. [applause] I do
018want to thank [cheering] everyone who's participating. I know the business office, the district office, they all call me to ask me for tax. I know Weaver is also participating as well. I want to thank all the staff that are helping me by racking the gifts and have donated gift cards and also contributed with funds. So, thank you. And this is just I think it's my favorite time of the year. This project is amazing. So, thank you for everyone and for always supporting our school community. >> Thank you. [applause] While you're here, you want to tell them about Thanksgiving? >> Oh, yes. So during Thanksgiving, we also um provided 22 families with Thanksgiving meals from Wheelies and this included um either a turkey or a ham and the we did follow up with the families. They
019loved it. They told us that it was more than enough. So it was for a f probably for like a meal for like a family of 12. >> So they were able to enjoy this meal Thursday and we still have leftovers for Friday and Saturday. So, uh, thank you to the district for always supporting our vulnerable population. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] >> And so, that's just a real quick snapshot of just kind of some of the things going on right now. But when uh Mr. Weber at the beginning of the year shared his uh message with us about Nico, Nico's one of our students. And so we went through a typical day of Nico uh with Nico waking up. One of the first person that would greet him during his
020day was his bus driver, Miss Jackie. And then, you know, you saw the progression throughout the day of all of the different adults that had that had a an opportunity to make an impact. Um and so, you know, kind of thinking about that, um Mr. Ricky, I went to Mr. Ricky with an idea. Uh, Mr. Ricky is amazingly talented. Uh, we've [applause] hopefully you've seen some of his work with the different videos that we've shared. Um, we've shared them with our families. I took an idea and I said, you know, we want to bring what Mr. Weber's message was to life. And Ricky goes, "Oh." You know, we we started brainstorming and then we started talking about, well, you know, who would we want to feature? And so I have a family here in the
021back. Miss Roxanne >> right there. Let's give Miss Roxan a big round of [applause] applause. She's got James and Laya back there. Let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] And then we've got the star of our show that we're about to watch. We've got William. And so what [applause] we're gonna give him a big round of applause after you watch William throughout his day. So what Ricky did was bring to life Williams day and we get to see how many different adults have an opportunity to make an impact on Williams day. My name is >> Sorry guys. >> [laughter] >> We do a lot of fun stuff. During the day, I did a lot of fun. One of the first people I she's super nice. He makes sure we have all of our
022best chocolate. This is a lot of This is Mr. John. He's the nicest principle I ever seen. Every time I see him, he'll give me a kiss and a or a hug. >> This is Miss Smith. She um she has books for me and she Let me take them home for [clears throat] [laughter] >> that loser. >> This is Dr. Medina. We don't perform all of our problems before first, second, third, fourth, fifth. This is my [laughter] >> This is Mr. Every time um I do my number after I do that when I before I try to go get my milk I He gives me a hug. At the end of the day, I am glad because I saw all my friends and teachers and it makes me [music] >> That's me. I was in
023there. ALL >> [applause] >> RIGHT. SO, IF WE give William and Mr. Ricky a big round of applause. [applause] >> Why do you keep the book? Except for me. >> That's not I didn't keep that book. >> That you did. You have one in your house. >> Yeah, because I bought it from >> No, no, you didn't. You got it from >> like >> So, going back to Mr. Weber's message and you saw on the video just how many different opportunities we each have during the day. And it's that reminder that yeah, it's not easy. Uh what we do each and every day is not easy. Um, but when you see the impact that we can have on the lives of children and really change their world, uh, we're remembered that we are their heroes.
024Um, and so we had that opportunity. So, uh, thank you tonight. And William, another big round of applause for William. [applause] >> Thank you guys. [applause] M >> item 7.2 by the way. Thank you. Thank you guys and thank you Mr. Ricky for being a positive role model for all of our students and all of the viewers all the we pioneer con of course the topic with pioneer [clears throat] today but thank you Mr. Bong for being an example leadership I up next is 7.2 housing growth impact and mitigation planning update and I'm actually gonna have Mr. Whoever [clears throat] read the rest of it is too long. [laughter] talk about growth. So, basically what happened was the story about the development at Mission and Tyler [clears throat] and it's supposed to have up to,300
025residents coming in when it's built out. And I just kind of thought about that and put it together with the fact that we have other big ones and I'll go through it, but all the other ones I know about and have heard about, I thought we've got a lot of growth and we've got no money. We are trying to build our next elementary school. We're, you know, really hoping to really put it together, put together a nice school. Um, we're hoping to have our half of the money and that the state will have money to um, support us with the other half, which they usually do. Um, and then I thought, how does any district ever manage this kind of growth? Where do you get the money? There's our bond money. We're now at the
026max of our bond money. There's a state money pays for 50%, but we still have to come up with the first 50%. Not only that, but they reimburse you. So, you have to front the cost to begin with. Um, and so I started looking into that and looking into all the developments and wondering how do schools do this. And, um, during my research, there are different ways to fund it. And it's not just based on the state funding, not just on our bonds. Um, so I wanted to go give you an overview kind of what is coming in our district. Um, and some options that we have that are worth exploring. Um, so keep in mind that developments in our district are as planned. So we all know there are developments that we hear about
027and 15 years later not, right? Um, and we also know that there are plans that are going to be one-bedroom apartments that turn into two and three um along the way. So, nothing's ever as planned. It can either get better, it can get worse. Um, so this is just a snapshot of what is kind of in the pipeline right now. Now, some of it may be uh materialized over 10 to 20 years. the UC Merrced community. I don't really seeing that just blowing up for at least 10 years. They keep talking about in a couple years. In a couple years. Um but I'll I'll believe it when I see it when when they're starting to turn ground. Um so anyways, keep that in mind. You're going to see a lot here, but that doesn't mean
028it's here tomorrow. Um it does not include developments not yet planned. So these are just the big ones that are on the book. And we see all the time a small one come up over here with 15 houses and and here and and they come out of nowhere and they're built quickly because they're small projects. Um so this doesn't even look at those other ones that aren't on the radar right now. Also, um and Glenn Apartments and those are the ones right over there by Joe her park that they're putting in. Um, and Gong scared me the other night because what he had heard from somebody at the city is they're going to be 500 units. I'm like, "Oh my god, we're going to die." Um, and so because you get a lot of kids
029out of apartments, right? And so then I looked it up and it looked like 108, but now I'm seeing something where it says 208. So, >> well, and it might be because it's supposed to be a fivetory building. >> Yeah, >> it might be 100 per level. >> Yeah. Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> Yeah. >> No, I'm sorry. >> Parson. >> It does include the mission 2082 which is new. um which is also the Fagundus property, the Fagundus buildout. Tyler and Mission East Tyler mission mission uh Tyler concept plan and then uh University Community Gerard and Campus Parkway. So this is the university community and one thing to know about this is this is Mercedes half and that's our half. So this goes this line is Kibby. It doesn't go all the way out, but
030if you follow Kibby and go straight up, that's the dividing line for us. So in the end, they plan to have 3,900 residential units. >> And everything I did for the calculation is at 0.42 students per residence. And that's kind of what they use in our area for planning. So our half will be 1,600 students or of the 1,600 students that will come out of it, our half will be 800. And that's even if in evenly split is when you look in here, it doesn't look so evenly split. But um supposedly it is. So we'll see. And whether or not it'll build out exactly like this, we don't know. And then the one I was just talking about, Fagundas, it's right off of mission. Um, and that is supposed to be 1,57 units. Um, it's
031in pre- annexation right now. Tyler and Mission, this is a big one also. Um, [clears throat] and it's going to have,300 dwellings. So, we're talking about development with a lot u a lot of units and with that we get a lot of kids. Then the crossings at River Park, it's not even in the numbers that I'll show you later. That's the one right across the street from Weaver >> and that they're building out now and that's 277 lots. Now, the other thing uh that >> right here That's our new school. So, um, and Weaver is the the >> it's right up there. So, in talking to, um, Scott McBride at the city, uh, he was saying one thing to remember is is lots don't always mean a house. It, you know, it's possible that it
032could be apartments on combination lots. Um, you know, any number of things could happen. Plans could change. This is the development master plan, but as they go forward. This one, I think, is pretty solid because you see the houses going up and they look to follow this pattern. Um, but in any development, things can change. And then, um, this shows you the proximity kind of. [clears throat] So, that's the,300 units. Well, first let's start. You got Pioneer, you got Weaver and then our new school. So that's the 1300 units there and then the,50 I was just talking about. There is the 570 home community campus in Gerard. Um and that's next to the the storage unit that they've put up here and the apartments that are coming in here that we don't have counted. Then
033the crossings. Um, and then if you look at this, you've got the the university community up there and you see our half on there. So, this is kind of how they lay out, but everybody knows we've seen houses coming in here, houses coming in there. We we have a lot of infill that's already happening and has happened. So, those are the big ones that are on the map right now that we're seeing. So if you look at that, this kind of shows your um how many units, how many kids we could expect to get out of K5 um for K5 schools, the 68 schools, and the total. Again, it' be 20 years before we see this happen. But if all goes as planned, this will be happening. And again, this doesn't include all the other
034things that aren't even on the radar. So if you look at this, if this built out as planned, in the end, it would require [clears throat] two new TK5 schools opening at 76 or 750 each. And I checked the county average and the county average is I think about 550 565. um one middle or one new middle school with 700 students opening its doors and [clears throat] then land banking for the a future third elementary to add to that. Right. So, um that'd be our those would be our fourth and fifth elementary and then your land banking for the sixth. And so the other thing I wanted to just point out is one thing we do always have to remember is we're that cheap a land that's surrounds the city. So what are we? We're
035we're the growth plan. Um there's land there's you know in the city anymore there's really not land. They keep moving the boundaries out and annexing places in and you can just imagine that over time a lot of this blue because we have the big area but this is kind of where I would say what's logical for growth um just wrapping right around the area you'll probably see some smaller subdivisions um infill and stuff like that in those areas. [clears throat] So funding options, you know, I was wondering how do you do it? And so there's developer fees and that's what we typically rely on. And we're at level one right now. We're looking at the study to go to level two hopefully early in the year. Um, and then there is level three. But to
036put it into perspective, I think we make $33040 u a square foot on level one. Level two, you jump up to um all of $523. And the what developers don't like and it freaks them out is if you start talking about level three because level three doubles level two. So, um, and when we say we're making 523, that what they pay actually is seven and change because one-third of all developer fees go to the high school district. We get two/3. So, they pay us and we split off the high school district. So, that three and change and the five and change is what our take is. They're currently paying five and change. When we go to two, it would be seven plus. So at three, they'd go up to $14 and something estimate. And they
037don't like that because [clears throat] it they have to pay all that up front when they pull permits to build and it all comes out of their pocket, right? So that's their profit. [clears throat] Um, and even with the level two fees, the other thing I'll say about level three fees, [clears throat] you'll rarely ever see it. And the the state has to claim that they are out of funds for schools. And in talking to Kush, who's with CFW, because I've been talking to him about this, he said it never happens because the state may have, you know, several billion dollars in bond money for school construction, but when it starts getting down to a couple hundred million, they slow it down. They try to stretch it to the new election to see if another
038bond measure will pass. That way, they never have to declare they're out of money. Um, so level three is really not something we can count on. Um, when I was doing my research, I think the last time that um, you know, big one came up, it was in, I guess, Fremont. They did level three um because the state had money, but they didn't have access to the money. So, they went to level three, ended up in court. um it came out in their favor, but that was a big hassle, right? And probably a lot of money just to win that battle. So, it's not an easy road, I guess, is what I'm saying. And it's not a guaranteed road. Then you've got state bonds. [clears throat] Um, and it's state matching for new construction. And
039I'm not going to go all all the pros and cons. I can send this to you so you can kind of look at it more. And then there's this other concept and it's a CFD community funding or community uh facilities district basically a mellow roose and this isn't used in our area really anywhere um but it's heavily used in um Elk Grove. They did all their expansion based on these um they do it in Ripen. Ripon saw a lot of growth recently. They did it there. Clovis has used them. Bakersfield has used them. Just some of the ones. Yeah. >> Aren't they using them in that development off of uh what's it called? Moraga. [clears throat] >> Don't know. So there's also >> Yeah, they collected money off that. That was what the deal was
040about. The lawsuit was about developer said, "Oh, I paid you too much already. I'm not giving you anymore." He said they said, "No, you still owe us more." Yeah, because it went through that system that one, two, three. >> Well, and so the way that and that system works too to keep in mind. So they have one of those out there on the university community right now. It's built into um the whole plan, but they're used by different um agencies. So the city does that and they say that's going to pay for sewers and roads and fire, those type of things. um but they don't always include schools. So yes, the city will use them, but school districts in this area have it. So school districts can um form a CFD community um [clears throat]
041zone and it it's kind of like a bond committee. It it's actually big. It's very legalistic. It's it's not easy to do. who is highly regulated, but for schools, they do their own so that they're not negotiating with the other entities. They're not um having to work through with the city. Um if you do it with the high school, then you're kind of you're not the master of your own ship, basically. And so um it's not uncommon for a development to have several that are stacked together. So, um, and the interesting thing about that is that, you know, there's obstacles to doing it. You can't force it. You have to get the developers approval. Um, and but there are, and I'll show you later, there's some leverage points where you have more leverage than other
042times. Then there's negotiated mitigation and that's where you actually go to the developer. Um and I think an example might be that um you're at level two, you're you're saying you're going to go to level three. Why don't we meet in the middle? And so you negotiate with them and and come up with a deal. There's also uh cash, land. Um, you know, I' I've seen a lot in my research about land donations, but so we're going to build a school that might be 60 million by the time we do it. And we bought the land for two. Two doesn't get us very far. That a piece of land isn't going to it's going to help, but it's not going to build a school. Um, and then the university community, I talked to Steve Teen
043and they do have it set up to where uh the property that would be set aside for us um in the end could be ours for free. We financed up front, the community um what facilities district would pay half and then we'd get the state matching back because you can get state matching on land as well. So, so it's baked into that deal, which is great, but it still doesn't build a school. Um, and then there's, you know, the land dedication and then the geo bonds, which is what we've done. And, you know, that's at one that right now we're at our limit. We couldn't go out and get more. Thing about bonds is when all these developments are built, we would have a whole lot more bonding capacity, right? Um, and we could go
044out for a bond, but that's when the bodies are already there. That's where when the kids are already in houses and you don't have a school and you're in a situation like us where best case scenario, we'll have school built in three and a half years. I don't see that. I'm thinking four years probably out. It's a long time with kids coming to school and no school to put them in. So, you know, there's the [clears throat] funding recommendation and that, you know, you maintain regularly um updated developer fees, pursue the community facilities district, secure school size through land, use negotiated mitigation strategies, and position uh the district for safe matching and the the GEO bonds. Um, but the guiding principle is really to have new residents pay for the new classrooms and facilities because
045if you think about it, the families already in the district, the land owners already in the district have given up the maximum amount. They've they have uh approved several bonds for us for our facilities and now we're going to get a lot of new families with a lot of new kids and they've already given all they can and why do we need more facilities? It is the new group of people coming in. So, you try to put a package together where they've already paid for facilities or are because they're on the hook for bonds that they passed for 30 years and you try to put a package together to where it doesn't impact them. You try to, you know, get those funds and and leverage things for the new people coming in to help them,
046you know, build your new facilities you're going to need because of them. And so this just kind of talks about the development stages and the mitigation leverage because again um if you're looking at the CFD a mealoo type of thing you know in any of your negotiated extra money from the developer you have more influence at stage one two annex or the annexation pre-anexation because a city cannot force them to do something. Um, they can't force them to enter in an agreement with us. From what I understand, the state says that they have mitigated for schools by paying developer fees. So, the state requires that they mitigate for schools. There are developer fees and that kind of in the state's mind makes it free and clear they're done. Um, but the city when they they're
047working with you and they're in support. Um, and I will say it was really neat. I um emailed Darren Dupont who's our representative city council. Emmailed him yesterday, invited him here tonight. He called me within about 10 minutes, I think it was, and said, "Hey, I'm really sorry I can't make it. I've got a prior engagement." Which I'm sure he did. I'm calling I'm I'm getting a hold of him, you know, 24 hours in advance. Um, but he set up a meeting to come see me next week to go over all this. And then within about two hours, uh, Scott McBride, the our city manager, had emailed me and said, "Hey, love to talk to you." >> Yeah. >> Come on in. >> Um, well, and he has some wisdom, you know. He he said,
048"We know really the cycle of how these things go out. We can tell you the phasing timelines for these so that when you could really expect to see things um and you know he is going to be helpful and he was he he reached right out um which made me happy. Um, so I'll be able to sit down with him and his team, get more in-depth information about all the developments coming in, what do they expect, are there 100 or 500 units going in at the apartments, those kind of things. Um, >> yeah, but you know, like when when they were first planning the development where the apartments are just my direction's weird right there. >> Yes. >> Uh, family Um, and they were presenting at the city council meeting, >> right? >> And I
049went and some other people went too and spoke about it. And the attitude that everybody that was there had was our city council and our planning department really doesn't care about where these kids are going to school. It's almost like it's a feather in their cap to get as many permits pulled for housing because housing is more politically correct in their eyes than where these kids are going to go to school. They don't care. >> Yeah. >> Now maybe they've changed, but Scott McBride was one of them. He was like, "Well, you know, you get developer fees. You can just build some new schools." No, that doesn't even pay the architect. >> Yeah. [clears throat] don't care and that's what bothers me unless their attitude has changed since that happened. That was a few years
050ago. >> Well, and if that's the attitude, [clears throat] I'm hoping I can change the attitude. >> I hope so. >> Because one of the perceptions is by cities, by developers, especially developers. Um, and the general public, they think it pay developer fees that pays for schools. >> I'm done. >> And yeah, they think it pays. They don't realize the reality that it might pay for 25% of your project. >> The other thing that they never realize is that >> what do you think we did with all that money when we didn't have a school? >> We house them in portables >> and that those portables are not cheap. And guess what? We spent your money to house those kids until we found a way to pay for the school that the developer fee didn't
051cover. Right. Right. So, >> right. >> Um anyway, so at the annexation, pre-anexation [clears throat] stages, if the city will work with you, um that's your best opportunity because they can they can grant or deny annexation. That's why I was also going to say, if anybody knows, does the city have the right to say no or slow down? >> These school districts catch up to you. >> They they do. Um they have a way to do that um at the annex agent stage. >> If they say it's not going to work, um we're not going to approve it because we don't have the facilities. they um there's the different um stages where plans are going in for approval. there's SQA and SQA is talking about the impact and so um you know legally I don't
052think technically once it's annexed it can be stopped as long as they meet the requirements of SQL it can be slowed down while they look at different type of mitigation um for whatever issues come up um but your most leverage is there but you always have leverage at every level um so Even at the bottom where you know Gerard and Campus Parkway is, it says it's at stage eight and nine. Um I'm going to find out if that's actually true. Um but you can still uh work with them and you know there's still a political pressure and there's still other types of pressure. There's level three pressure. Um you know if we got in a tight spot we might explore level three. we might >> do our research and say what's it going to take
053and there's already case law to follow and there there's a case out there that Fremont schools they won so you say well what did you do and what made it so you can legally do this and you say I'm going to do it like that so I'm legally compliant with what the court has found so anyways to be continued Right. So, you know, I I just kind of this blew up my mind about two and a half weeks ago. And so, you know, I just jumped into this head first to find out what I don't know. There's a lot I don't know. I know a lot more now than I did two and a half weeks ago, but there's still a lot to to find out. I've got Kush um with CFW. He is going
054to We've had one conference call with them. We're going to zoom [clears throat] on the 17th and he'll be at the January board meeting to go over with you um different financing strategies including CFDs. And out of all of this, Jackie wants a gym. >> Her husband wants a band. >> I I had a couple questions if you don't mind answering. Um, one was a while back the Virginia Smith Trust and MCO were trying to push a boundary change up in the near campus, the UC campus. Has anything transpired with that since then or they have both parties dropped that? >> So, what happened was they came to um some public town hall meetings pushing that agenda forward. Um, where city wasn't interested. Um it was the type of thing that if there [clears throat]
055if if we're interested um and they really wanted to push for the the BST um it could have because that takes a twothirds [clears throat] vote of the voters in um that area right within the boundaries that they're speaking of and with that there's one or two owners there's VST and and um I don't know if it there's another owner of land in that project, but it's two people and if that's what they want, they vote and it it's a pretty seamless um [clears throat] effort, right? And so with us, we're saying we don't know if we can handle half of that. >> Why would we do all of that? Right? My other biggest problem was that it was also at the same time we were out for our bond and we were trying to
056get our bond passed and I I said it at the meeting um that well I think I said it at the second meeting but [clears throat] I made it known to the VST trust that we can't have our bond fail because our community gets this impression that we're taking their money to build a school on that side of town. And somebody would have said that and a lot of people would have believed that even though it wasn't the truth. Um, perception is a lot stronger than the truth, right? So, um, we just said, "No, not interested." >> So, you feel like it's not going anywhere at this point. >> No, it died. It >> just died. It's not gonna >> those town hall meetings >> Mike attended. I attended a couple of them. I think
057Lewis was at one or [clears throat] two of them and and these things came up, you know. I think Virginia Smith just thought we'd all go that's a great idea. And Merced City said no, we don't want to give up our part. [cough] We said no, we don't want all that. And I think that surprised Virginia Smith Trust um because it was shortly after I think the second town hall meeting Mike got a letter that basically in a lot of legal jargon but basically said never mind we've never heard another thing about it. >> Yeah. >> I think they thought we would just go yay. >> And the other part about it was that they just really wanted to straighten the lines. >> Yeah. So that was a little bit to do with it. They
058had two reasons. They stated um and that is that our district is so well respected in the community. We're the district that um you know everybody knows, everybody likes, everybody would like to have other kids in supporting them being recorded. I'm not saying that I'm saying that's what was told to me. Um and I believe we're a great district and I do believe we have a lot to offer. Um, but we can't offer it to people when we don't have room, right? And so at that point, I didn't know about CFS. I didn't know that there might be other things that we could negotiate um that, you know, we could do. But anyways, it would have messed with the bond and um so the school district has loved. The other thing that BST is they're
059selling is that community schools. Kids will go to school within the development and um kids won't be bust out to go to school. Merced already has several chunks of land and everybody kind of knows their next school will be in North Mered, not there. So when it builds out, they're half the kids. um it's believed would then be bust over to the new the next new school they build and BST didn't want that. They want community schools. They wanted one person to take on the whole project and provide that which I don't think is a bad idea. Um, you know, I think there's a lot of value to it and I think we're a great district that handles [clears throat] kids well and does a great job, but yeah, >> it's just a bad idea
060that two different districts are together. It >> that's the bad idea that their concept would be perfect if one district >> if that was their >> Yeah. Or if or if they said, "Hey, we we'll have the financing for you." Right. >> So, building. >> So I didn't point this out earlier. The thing about CFDs and where and the Melus the developers do like about that they don't pay it. It is a basically a bond and so there's a tax levied against the houses and then bonds are sold over 20 or 30 years and as a district you get that money up front so you can build facilities. The homeowners then pay it over 30 years not the developer on the other options developers pay. So while they're resistant a lot of times they'll allow
061it to go because it is more beneficial to them. >> And then I have one other question if you don't mind. The have we already collected development fees on the cement pads that have across from Pioneer or is that not >> I wouldn't know unless I looked. Yeah, >> probably because don't they have to pay those fees as soon as they pull the permit? Maybe >> usually. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's at the same time. I don't know what phase it's at, but yeah, I believe so. But I don't do so unless I >> Yeah. You know, and that's a good point because um they haven't pulled any. Well, they probably pulled some for the development over across from Right. >> I'm sure they have. I'm sorry. Michelle does it now and so I just
062haven't reviewed it. >> They try to pull them when building, you know, because they they didn't pull them when they're putting in roads and infrastructure. >> Yeah. is you start pulling like 10 because I'm gonna build these 10 houses then 10, >> right? You don't you try to hold on to cash as long as you can while you're earning interest as opposed to giving away too early. >> I also heard a lot of them are build starting to build until they're sold >> at one point they were selling before they were building >> is a storage developer fees. >> He get it does get commercial developers >> which are a lot less or 32 cents. >> Okay. Thank you. [snorts] >> All right. Thank you for that presentation. Let's move on to consent action items.
063A motion to approve. >> I make a motion to approve action. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? More action items 9.1 approval of the contract with connect advisors LLC for project management services related to the PI elementary school kitchen remodeling the approximate amount of $73,26. The administration recommends approval of a contract with Advisor LLC. That's >> right. >> Yeah. >> So, [clears throat] this company will sort of handle the contract between the renovators and and the district. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, there are are our, you know, kind of our boots on the street. They [snorts] uh Tom has done projects with us in the past. He did the remodel for Weaver and he has the construction background. So, he is the one that works on them um on a daily basis, making
064sure everything is done correctly, that we're following all the rules, that we get what we're paying for because I'm not a contractor. I don't know, you know, the contractor business, but he sure does. And so, he makes sure everything is as time. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, it's got a [clears throat] motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I [clears throat] public car first budget report. >> Do you guys mind if I bring a chair up? I have it out. No, you have to do. >> Okay. So, tonight we'll be reviewing the 2526 um first budget update um from the the adopted budget. Okay, so this is a look at our general fund. Not a lot of changes um in the expenses, just moving things around mostly. So um between our unrestricted and
065unrestricted we are bringing in 58,658,247. In expenses we have 61,42436. Uh we are asking to move the $700,000 of interest received in 2425 over 540. This shows a budget moving it so we can it will actually actual happen at the end of the year if you guys are good with that. >> Exact 40 is building. and and the board can actually make a board action to move that money back if needed. >> So, we showed 700,000 being moved over to fund 40 um with our final account balance of 15,663,000. I I went back and looked 10 years ago, our um general fund expenditures were 21 million in 10 years. Isn't that crazy? So, we still do have 110 funds in there as well. And as those onetime funds go out and our expenses come down,
066our reserves go up. So that's nice. Okay, this is a look at our um LCFF uh funding formula. Uh everything is exactly the same from budget adop adoption when it comes to our projections. The only thing that's changed is we received a little bit more for TK funding for ADA. So we received another 190,000 on that. Everything else is the same. Okay, this is a look at our reserve on our um unrestricted. So, at budget adoption, we were at 8.51. We had some money fall to the bottom line when we closed the books and we are back up to 9.5. Um we've spent most of the money that was um held aside for our seven concentration that was carryover. We've now assigned that money. We only have 397 unassigned. Okay, we meet our carryover percentage,
067but sometimes we have extra funds. So, with the L cap, it's it's kind of interesting. Okay, so now we're going to take a look at the general fund um budget adoption versus first. So, if you look on one, and this is on the unrestricted, uh we brought in $1.5 million at additional once we closed the books. that was in between what was sitting um held aside as well as what held to the bottom line. Uh you see the 190,000 that we increased um our LCF funding um all other funding stayed the same. So we just received $190,000 revenue. So a lot of the changes that you're seeing between budget adoption and first interim where you see we were spending more that has to do with the unassigned money for a lot of it for LCAP.
068It also so it didn't really affect our ending fund balance or end of reserves because it was money that was set aside that needed to be budgeted. Also just moving budgets around. There wasn't any huge increases so far. Next slide is a look at the restricted. Um again we're always trying to deficit spend right now and restricted because we have those onetime funds that are becoming due at some point. And so, um, you'll see that we definitely deficit spent. We, um, were projecting more ending fund balance than we ended up with because we assigned more of those budgets towards the end of the year. Um, we did receive two new resources. Uh, one is about an $800,000 resource for some type of PD. I mean, brand new, just got put into the account. Need to
069look at it. Not sure we have plenty of time to use it. Um, and ELO. Um, oh, excuse me. The other new resource was a really small one. had with the reading um like what is it the rereading screening? >> Yeah. >> Um then down below we received additional a little bit additional more money um in other states um due to the EVO our early after school program. So that gave us an additional $1.8 million in revenue. Um and then if you come down you see we've assigned a lot of that. We spent a lot of it. A lot of that had to do with our ELO for after school program. Um just things that hadn't been budgeted for, but we were using them. So like the big increase, the one 1.9, that's a lot
070to do with the after school program. Um we also had some projects that were deferred maintenance projects that were putting to to our deferred maintenance. So that increased the contribution. If you look down on line 19, we had to increase our contribution to deferred maintenance for 117,000. Next slide. Okay. So, now we're looking at the multi-year projections. Um, this is on the unrestricted side. Not a lot of um big changes here. The the we're still um moving those positions. We have that one time money for music and we just we're using it by moving positions over to unrestricted and back to unrestricted. just really tracking those funds so we know it's like 110 coming down. Um we did um yeah on that slide. So so you can see in our out years our are our
071we're not dropping much are unrestricted. We're we're showing up four 4,479,000 and that's third out which is always just a big big guess. One of the really nice things we're going to see, I was just noticing are we have a certificate of participation that we took out seven uh 20 years ago in oh not quite 20 years ago but um 07 and we pay about 500 450,000 a year on that and that will be dropping off. So my multi-year next year will not have that in there. So that'll be really nice. >> When is that dropping off? >> It's going to drop off August 1st 2027 is our very last payment. So next year when you see the multi-way last year we'll have that which will be really nice. It'll help our so on the
072restricted plan the next page again we're um needing to deficit spend. So that's all good. Um you see that I I took that I reduced so if you look if you look at line six you'll see we were at 3.4 million. I reduced it down to 3 million44 because I'm moving those those positions back over to the unrestricted. So, um I also um this all got increased by CBI. Um, everything pretty much is just the same. Like I said, we're just really trying to project deficit spending for those out years because I'm showing a $2.9 million um fund [clears throat] balance and and I'm guessing that would be like our learn what's left in learning recovery block by that time. It's just kind of a big guess how much we're going to spend down. Okay,
073the next slide I've kept in here just so it reminds me, it reminds everybody else these positions, this will be the last year 2526 that will be utilizing this money. It will be all gone by the end of this year. That's not prop 28. That was the one time grant they gave us. Okay, I threw I just did the assumptions based on um school services and the governor's um approved budget. Um, our ADA, we are keeping it flat for the out years. We are not projecting any growth at this time. However, instead of doing a cold harmless year, the state came out with a three-year rolling average. So, you can see how it goes across and it changes over the three years. Um, that's about it. Um, I I base everything on this um, our
074cola 2.3 for this year and now ears have based on that. Everything else is pretty much the same. The only thing we've heard um is that lottery state lottery is dropping about 18% this year. Less people are paying the lottery at But [laughter] the next the next slide shows the employee benefits. The person stores are finally starting. I mean, they're high, but they're starting to they're not going up anymore. Actually, we had a small drop somewhere. Oh, maybe not there. Okay. Um, and then our California price or California consumer price index. That's what I base all of the um increases on in the for >> just to be on the safe side. Ouija board. >> Oh, right. I know. I need a crystal ball. [clears throat] >> Okay. On this side, it shows where our
075projections look like for our years out. So, again, I said we have the 9.5% this year, which is just based on the budget. 7.81 next year and 7.4 a year after that. At budget, we were 815, 817, 733, and 549. So, those have gone up. Any questions on that one? Okay, now we're looking at other funds. So, our child development fund, which is preschool, they're holding 159,9948. The reason that's higher than normal because it really should just be a reserve showing they have a reserve account is they still have some onetime funds in there that they're spending. cafeteria. I don't know what I'm going to do with them because just you know you you hear all these districts and their cafeteria accounts are really hurting for our funds and ours just does amazing. So we
076are carrying a little bit too high of a balance right now based on I think they changed it. We can carry up to five months reserves and we're a little bit over. >> Is is any of that money appropriate to use for the Pioneer Kitchen remodel? Yes. So we are we she has some other funding too that's not even showing here that's in the general fund and they called it kit funding um and it was for infrastructure for for for the actual um cactias. >> Okay. >> Um so that is definitely all earmarked for that. Now it's really because of this fund 13 they're very picky about what you can do with that. So, we're looking at things like equipment, different things that we can get pre-approved or it might be on their approval pre
077pre-approval list that we can start spending some of this down. This account also has some still leftover co that we >> Okay, the next slide. These are all of our building funds that we have right now. Um, so we have the um 14,699,000 that was the recent bond money. We have our capital facility. So, I think about our developer fee um account. We have four million in there right now, which is really high. We don't use that for for very much. I know we did use it for maybe a few projects in the past, but right now it's just paying our leases, our portables. Um then we have our fund 40, which you can see I've moved the 700,000 in there. So, now we have 1.5. We do use tend to use fun for projects
078quite a bit. different things we're working on right now. So I think we told I think in the scheme big scheme of things for the school we were supposed to have at least I think three million in there when we were putting on so we could build that as well. And then all other funds we have our fund 15. That's our transportation fund that we were saving for buses. Um and we do need to buy a small bus right now. Um that's something that she's needing. I think we spoke about that at the last meeting and I think we just need so we can move forward on that. Um and she she we're carrying a $1.1 million um but or fund balance in there which is good. Um fund 17 that's part of our reserve.
079It's $1,700. We have our postemployment um fund 690,000. We haven't touched that. And then we have our bond interest fund that we do not do anything with. It just goes in and out. It's 1.4. That is it. You got the the capital city. So the 14 million there is is that what the bond is born in in or is that the amount that you're targeting? >> No, that's what they brought in. We we we took out the max that we possibly take out at this point and then until the assess value goes up or bonds fall off, we can take that. >> Okay. But right now, >> right now, that's >> that's what it's been. >> And and the only thing that's come out of that so far is the fees to do the the
080bond. >> We might have a question that committed this for every six months. They're supposed to report to us the bond committee. >> Let me check on how often they if and when they report to you. I'll check on that. >> I know. Didn't we have one? Yeah, we have a bond committee and we've got a consultant that runs that. Um, and so I will check with him on reporting requirements. I don't know if it's once a year, twice a year, >> but I'll let you know. >> Okay, this should be coming up soon. Thank you for your report. >> Approval of the Union School District first interim budget report and positive certification of the business financial obligations necessary budget revisions to the 2026 budget. Administration recommends board approval of budget report and positively certify
081the district's ability to meet it financial obligations to make necessary budget to the 2025 District first and second. All those in favor adoption of the 2026 2027 through 2027 calendar draft A and draft B. The administration first and the second. All those in favor to approve version of the step for [clears throat] item approval of nutrition services department's annual membership review purchasing co-op. recommend action items. Sport study policy administrative regulations update for teachers association. >> Hello everyone. Welcome. I do so I do so love this part of the year with the students. Uh it's kind of a special time. If you guys ever visit classrooms, you'll see this everywhere. And it's uh it's really a lot of work and say something about to our our staff who does that [clears throat] but and the performing
082but I'll let them get into that. Uh we did want to recognize the staff uh all the staff during this busy time. They're uh making sure to keep uh things educational, maybe some holiday fun, maybe a lot of sugar next week, you know. Um I just wanted to give a big huge Christmas thanks to Christina and Julia. Julie, last week they did this. They did a really fun uh thing over at Farmdale where they had the Grinch coming. So, so I don't know if you guys saw that video or not. I don't know how much it was shared, but it was a really cute video and I'm make sure I post it. So, I'm also Susie put on that around. So, make sure we get that [clears throat] yesterday. Super cute. The Grinch is all
083over the place. It's crazy. So, uh thanks guys. I know you guys Downey Donnie did it, but he was talking about how much you guys did for organizing it, getting it all set up. Yeah, >> he loves they wanted me to make sure that I said thanks to those two because they did they did a lot of work for it. So, it shows how much a culture it is. Really cool. Uh so, the last part is uh want to appreciate um and continue our collaboration with the district leadership and it's been going well. Looking forward to doing more positive things together for our district. It's lots of growth. So, you know, it's a lot to look at for that. So, so merry Christmas. Happy holidays, guys. Take care. Thanks. >> Merry Christmas. [applause] What time
084is it? July >> we are at our largest numbers of the year. We increased by another two students. the right gra [laughter] >> that the grades that we do have some space still. Um first I want to thank our staff and students. Uh we had a Ruby Bridges day which kind of got altered uh because of the weather that day. And so um in your packets if you flip to the second page you'll see that's April one of our fifth grade students in Mr. D's class. And it's unfortunate that we weren't able to do it in front of the whole school. What we did is we did it over at the announcements. A huge thank you to Miss Angela. Uh I didn't know how big of a ask I was asking her, but um we
085were able to create a whole video with all the classes [cough] pictured with our Ruby Bridges uh banner that the school would have been walking with. And so we were able to still kind of uh create a moment for all of our students. Uh, April was amazing uh, in her recitement of change scenes and so that was also featured in that video, but I was really excited for her to perform that in front of the whole school, but she still got to just in a different way. Um, our superpower of the month brought to us by our pause room in Miss Winningham is responsibility. Um, I realize I've been sharing with you our readalouds, but there's no way for you to access them. So, right there I included a shortened URL. So, if you'd like
086to check out those videos that we're featuring each month, our Central Valley Championships I had mentioned were uh going to be right when uh we met last time because of the weather. Cross country very seldomly gets cancelled. It got cancelled and moved to November 30th, which was the Sunday right before we came back. Uh there's a picture of two of our student two of our fifth grade students, Cash and Jayla. I mentioned Cash has been going all over the country running. He got second in the entire valley. uh for his age group and then Jayla got seven. Uh those are two students that have been training uh with uh Mr. Deos Reyes at the middle school uh because of just how advanced they are already. Uh this week is spirit week and so uh my
087shirt today is spirit of the season. Nothing says Christmas more than a fire breathing T-Rex with Santa with flame. So that was uh today. Tomorrow is Disney Day with Friday being our special visit from the Grinch and Santa and it will be our Grinch day. That day um our staff will be part or will have the opportunity to participate in Grinching uh which was a funny thing that we did on our last day last year where you have to approach uh any adult could have a Grinch and so you have to go up and say do you have a Grinch? And so it kind of keeps everyone uh engaged with each other and at the end of the day at three o'clock exactly they can start turning in their Grinch for their prize. Um last
088year it turned into some strategy. I hope this year no one lies because it's just supposed to be fun. Uh our Christmas shows start next week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Big thank you to Miss Castillo. Uh she's already started some of the prep work. our stage gets delivered tomorrow. And then Saturday morning, if you guys want to be out here super early, we'll be setting that up, getting it ready for our production that'll start Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So, it does take a whole team that she kind of helps coordinate. So, big thank you to them. Uh, a special shout out though for one of our families that every year just kind of goes above and beyond in our program. And so, if you do get to see it, you'll see his work every year. He's
089done it. That's the Azabito family. Uh, Mr. Azabito does all the woodworking for it. And so if you have seen the backdrops and the sets, it's a lot of additional work as well as coming out and then helping on that Saturday. So I want to give them a shout out and thank you. Uh make sure to come in your pajamas next Thursday uh for our minimum day. That'll be our big flag poll of the month for December. Merry Christmas. Happy holiday. [applause] >> [laughter] >> I'm just saying bring your entire bed. [laughter] >> Wait, you guys want to take a >> So, um, at Farmdale, our word of the month is compassion. And uh so some of the activities that we're going through that happened already literally within last week and this week. So a
090lot's going on. So our first we started back from our Thanksgiving break and we started off with Santa visit but not just any Santa visit. It was Santa on a in a helicopter. So we had a helicopter land uh on campus which I know Farmville has been doing for a few years uh already. So, it's almost a it's a tradition that they've been doing for a while. So, it was so cool. Um I was just as amazed as the kids. So, I was really happy to see that. So, the the uh Santa visited our foxes and he was visiting class. He'll be visiting classes um actually tomorrow. So, come back. Uh also, Monday was our Grinch day. So, we did have our Grinch day that day and the students and staff were doing kindness to
091make his heart grow. Um Mr. down has somebody who you know he was our Grinch and uh I had asked uh classes uh you know Santa's coming by if anybody doesn't want Santa to come by let us know and so he emails me and says like oh I don't want Santa in my class and then I call him and I'm like are you Grinch and he's like I don't want any competition [laughter] but um fifth grade is actually going to be practicing when Santa's there so Santa will be just all of our fifth graders together on the stage Uh we also have Santa Felix pictures going on this week. Miss Cecil is doing amazing job. Uh she gets everybody in the morning. A lot of the kids are coming through and then classes start coming
092through throughout the day. Uh for the student of the month that will be this Friday. Uh you're invited to that if you like to come and freeze with us because it is freezing in the morning. Um we had some field trips already. Uh fourth grade went to the Nutcracker. I still never been to a Nutcracker. I got to do that someday. But they went to the Nutcracker. The kids loved it. Uh it was at Back High School that they did that. And first grade will be going ice skating in Atwater. So we'll be taking the kids for that. Uh our coaches, they did a curriculum fair and this is we're going to be adopting a new um our new um adoption program that we're going to be having. So we have our coaches, some of
093our teachers do that visit uh this uh this week. And uh we do we are still continuing with our attendance challenge. Uh that's uh where we're having our kids. Um uh we send out certain days that they need to be at school. If kids are at school, they enter a raffle and this Glenda runs all of that and kids are at school because they want the prices and because they like. So those are some of the great things. Uh Fox is on time. Um the the staff does a really wonderful uh celebration for them. They bring hot cocoa. They have some snacks for the kids. And this our students again that they are at school on time every day. Uh Christmas shows, those are coming up already next week. Yes. And we do have a
094little flyer. Uh Miss Bowman has worked on this flyer. We send it off to the printer and it came out so cute. So I have to share that with you guys. But it has all the songs that the kids will be singing. Uh so that's all in there that we'll be handing out to the parents so they know what their kids will be singing today. Next week we'll have our holiday spirit days. We're going to start off with sock day hat. holiday pad, ugly sweater, and and our leaf with pajama day. That's always a favorite one. Um, in the back you'll see our numbers. We are at 947 students right now and uh our calendar and then also I added in there um Girl Scouts is starting to team up uh with uh starting with
095assets. U so uh Girl Scouts will be having a quick meeting trying to recruit some of the kids uh from acids. We also had a meeting uh with the principles with uh it's called elivo e l e p o and uh it's also going to be through assets where they're going to be coming after school with two coaches and they're going to be working with the kids for PE and they're actually going to be rotating uh working with 40 kids at a time because it'll be two coaches and then they'll do another 40 kids uh and then they'll they'll just be rotating the grades but they still be every way that they'll be doing PE with a coach and they're bringing their material But anyway, those are some of the things going on. >> Yes.
096I have a question. Um, what time do the Christmas programs? >> They start at 9 in the morning and I don't >> And then it's like every half hour. >> Yes. >> They'll be like back to back and we're doing kinder first. Uh, Kinder, TK. We originally had TK first, but TK now has breakfast in the classroom. So, we have to give them their time to have their breakfast. So we'll have kinder then we'll go ahead and move on to TK first and second and then the next day Tuesday we'll have third fourth and fifth Wednesday we'll be banned so it's nine o'clock each day all of them at this >> yeah number six adoption program >> there they and I don't know the whole history of how adoptions and how many years we go
097with every year that we adopt but the new year to adopt a new math curriculum and Kura is coming up. So they had a fair where they went and looked at all the different companies that that we have, but then narrow it down and then we know an animal. >> Okay. [laughter] Well, merry Christmas everyone. Merry Christmas. [applause] >> I forgot my lights. So good. [laughter] >> All right. You're getting our Christmas card, which is top secret because the staff is not getting it till next week, >> but we're seeing you tonight. So, >> well, good evening everybody. Uh we are currently at 141 Wildcats. Uh here's our breakdown as of yesterday afternoon. Sixth grade 3:30. We actually lost three students. Seventh and eighth grade are the same as they were last month. There was
098no uh birdown. Uh sixth grade classes have been traveling to Monterey Bay Aquarium. They have found that going in December has very small crowds. Uh they earned a grant from the fire department to give students this great opportunity. So the fire department paid for all the via buses. So we have three trips going. We did two uh two weeks ago, last night and next Tuesday. Um and no one goes on, no class schools go on field trips in December. So they've been pretty much had the aquariums in themselves. So it's been very nice. And the weather's been sunny and like 16. Um basketball's in full swing. Our varsity boys won the tournament um over the Thanksgiving break at Golden Valley. I went to watch it. It was uh we played Krookshank. Uh Kirkshank came out
099really strong at first, but we we came back. Right, Mr. Smith? We did. >> Maros next tomorrow. Yeah. >> Uh we had our power words assembly with students last week. It was a great message about the history of words and the importance of using kind language with each [clears throat] other. Uh this week our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders participated in the county spelling be. Um, our lit literacy college program is going strong with visits to Pioneer and Farmdale. This year, our reading support and leadership classes are participating with reading at the elementary schools. Um, our band is hosting their winter concert on Friday in the gym. They've had a great fall season and are looking forward to their winter programs and concert season. Uh, Mrs. Nefracy has a tree at the Merced County Courthouse
100that displays student artwork. Uh, the museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 4 with free admission. And I do have a picture of her tree. It's not a color. So, um, on Friday, we have our winter wonderland event. Uh, thank you to Mrs. Burch for putting it all together. She loves science, so we have a lot of science experiments. What What do we have going on for? Well, we have a science corner and a craft corner all within the cafeteria. So, we've got um shrimp eating cup ornaments. Uh we've got snowman's wine and uh Christmas calming bottles and all sorts of little activities. Cafeteria is also helping us out so that we'll have hot chocolate and cookies for students and there will be food trucks as well. But we will make sure everybody
101gets something. Uh students are excited. Mrs. Burch sent out an email to students like with a flyer and we just kept getting responses because they can respond well just to [clears throat] admin. So thank you so much for this. This is so we're so excited. So, it's been really it's been really cool. [cough] Um we are we'll be having a holiday spirit week next week. Uh there's also a door decorating contest for our pause classes and sixth grade camp. Uh Miss Smith and I met today. We have what 220 students going. Um so we only have a little like hund say most are going. So we're very excited for that. Um so they're getting all of that ready. Um, and thank you to Mrs. Smith for helping organize all that campaign. Um, and we wish
102everyone a happy holiday season. [applause] >> Let me just say also that the band was excellent down at the Christmas parade. >> Luckily, they were number 15. I was like, Laredo, what's your number? Because Golden Valley was eight. He said, I'm 15. I'm like yes I can leave after [laughter] >> you know [clears throat] >> I don't have a lot one thing I did forget to tell you earlier was I am going to the pre-anexation meeting tomorrow um for mission Tyler and then I will go to city council on Monday meeting public comment just to say, "Hey, >> you need help." So, [clears throat] but other than that, merry Christmas [applause] and location January 14, 20,6 elementary school at 5:30 open session. There being no further business. >> You're out.