001All right, let's to our the WSD board meeting tonight. Let's go ahead and stand up and do our flag salute. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. At this moment, uh would like for us to take a moment of silence in remembrance of Anu Pornet, a 32 a 32 and a half year employee of the district who passed last Okay, we're now going to reconvene in closed session. Report out in close session. The board voted to uphold the superintendent's recommendation regarding the release of a probationary employee. No further details can be provided due to personnel confidentiality the on a vote of 4 to one. Item 4.3 in close session the board voted
002to approve employee 1964 a leave of absence for the remainder of the school year on a vote of 5 to zero. Okay. Public comment. Members of the public may address the board on non-aggenda items or agenda items pursuant to board bylaw 90 9323. Each individual is limited to three minutes with no more than 15 minutes per single item pursuant to the board to the Brown Act government code 954.254954.3 and education code 35145.5. The board cannot take any action or discuss a topic of concern until the matter appears as an item on a forthcoming agenda. We have anyone that would like to address the board? Uh, good evening. Um, first I want to, uh, point out on consent items, uh, personnel updates. I did send um, Kyle a, uh, there were some errors on that and
003I didn't see the updated personnel list, um, here tonight. So, as you go through the consent items, there were some errors and I don't know if you guys received the I update. Okay. So, I'm just letting you know there are airs on there. So, as you do the consent items, that's item 8.3. Um, so, um, thank you for doing the moment of silence. And so, um, I want to share a few words, um, about Anio, and they're really not my words. Um, they're Raj Mohans. And Raj just wrote an absolutely beautiful tribute. Um, and I want to read it because I just think um, it really solidified all of us and I know the viewings tonight and we're all here and tomorrow's going to be a rough day. Um, I didn't even open Mr. Weber's
004email. Um, I read what he wrote in the subject line and sucked up my tears because I didn't like kids knowing quite yet what was happening as we had say testing going on. So, um, so Mr. Weber, I do appreciate the email. Um, Raj says, "Ania was a truly remarkable friend. Kind, caring, and always ready to lend a helping hand. Her presence brought warmth and light to everyone she met. She often spoke lovely about her family and the deep bond she shared with them. She wasn't just a friend to me. She was also a guide. During some of my toughest moments, Ankio offered me wisdom and comfort, helping me navigate challenges. Her advice was always thoughtful, grounded in empathy, and full of grace. She had a she had a beautiful soul, curious, compassionate, and full
005of dreams. One of her greatest wishes was to visit India, and she talked about it often with such excitement and passion. Her memory will forever live on in the hearts of those who knew her. She will be deeply missed, but her spirit and the love she gave will never be forgotten. And I really appreciate it for Ra sharing this with all of us. And I wanted to share with you tonight because it really spoke to all of us because being here for 21 years, you know, she was our go-to. She was the person that, you know, we had a question and she made sure everybody was on it. So, so God bless her. Thank you very much for sharing that. Very much appreciated. Okay. Special items reports 7.1 Excellence. Oh, I'm sorry. Piaza, fifth grade
006teacher at Pioneer Elementary School. Uh I wanted to come tonight and express um on behalf of the we performing arts and the teachers and staff that are involved in the um production we production. We were informed this week that we are going to be needing to move out of a classroom what we use currently for storage of costumes, props, set pieces and uh practice area, photography area that we use. Um also it's set building area and costume uh putting together tryons all those kinds of things and it is being replaced with a storage container. Okay. Um, so the most disappointing part is that the teachers and many other people worked long and tirelessly on this and we're being asked to move things again without any input from the directors. Neither Jana Day nor Jen Davyy
007was consulted about is this something we want to do. It had been discussed um more than a year ago when you had things over at Cal Stores, the storage company over by the 7-Eleven. And at that time, it was an idea that was floated and then it was set aside. And we were told this week that we're just going to have to move stuff into the storage container. The storage container dimensions are roughly 40 ft by 8. Currently, the classroom we're using is 40T approximately by 24. You cannot put things that fit in 24 by uh 40 into 8 by 40. And not only that, there are pieces that um I do have some photographs I was hoping to share that are 8 ft tall. They exceed the height of the storage unit or the
008storage container. So, this is just really not going to work for us. And no one came to the the directors or anybody else on the staff or the we were uh um boosters to say is this something you want to do? Is this something that's going to work? Um we're also concerned about the heat. Many of the props are put together with glue gun and when the storage container gets really warm, those props are going to fall apart. The costumes that are all stored are also not going to weather well in the extra heat. We also use styrofoam for many props. again, not going to do well for repeated summers in the heat. Um, they're talking about putting in some venting, but we don't feel it will be sufficient to keep everything in good shape
009and usable. So, um, we'd like the district to consider another option, possibly a classroom, um, on another site if the classrooms here are not available. We're being told that it is going to be used as office space. And so if that's the case, um maybe we can find another classroom at another campus where we can move and store things in proper conditions and also use for um all the the set building, the costumeuming and uh photography and other production aspects that take place prior to um the actual show. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Elizabeth Harmon. Um I am set to be the band booster president for next year and my daughter's in the band program and I would like to speak to the same issue um that I was informed this week that
010um the band storage room is also being uh commandeered to for office space and although I understand that you know growing district and there's need for space for everybody to be um I just want to echo the same concerns in that the instruments that are currently stored in there are very heat sensitive. Um there are there's equipment in there as well that will be heat sensitive, electrical equipment, speakers and keyboards and other things like that. Um there's color guard equipment that's heat sensitive and uh same issue with space. You know, we it's currently a classroom size and trying to fit everything that's in there into a storage container is going to be very very challenging to do. Um, and it would just hurt a lot of the the things that are in there currently. Um,
011and so same same sentiment wondering if there are any other possible solutions instead of a storage container. Um, in doing some research today, it said, you know, those storage containers can get up to 140 degrees inside. Um, and I know that like you like Mr. Diaz mentioned there there's the possibility of some vent ventilation. Um, but even with that being on a asphalt surface, black being full sun exposure, my concern is that that's going to do a referable damage, probably thousand dollars of damage to equipment that the band currently has. Um, thought, you know, there's a stage in the auditorium that I don't know if it's being currently used for anything, but if it needs to be cleaned up or something, I know that there are parent volunteers who'd be willing uh, you know, but
012a more uh temperature controlled area would be far better suited for all of the equipment and things that are part of this essential program here at the school. Um and same with the arts. I've been involved in the arts program as well. I've music director the past three productions and I've been involved in many of the prop making and set making and all of that. And so yeah, a lot of the same sentiments, just hoping that there might be a different solution that we can find um so that these things that are so essential for these programs um will be safe and usable in the future as well. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to address the board? that you have a voice study in front of you for the K3 reading
013screener and I just want to honor our the collaboration between Farel and Pioneer and developing this page screener and I wanted to honor our employees Mandy Y who's our coach and Channy Garc and our teachers Maya Lisa Weber Gloria Theresa Sanchez Myra Garcia I get the wrong name Treber and then also Melba Weber and it really was a collaboration between our two sites sites to look at what was developmentally appropriate and what already fits. But we already have it to have a very good robust page reading program. And so you're going to have that in front of your study. So it doesn't give me a chance to say, "Hey, thank you to these wonderful teams that got together and gave of their time and effort to really diligently come up with a plan not only
014not only suited our students but our teachers as well. Thank you. Anyone else? All right, there being none, we're going to move on to 7.1 Excellence Report. Weaver Middle School. Mr. Bennett, I'll make this brief and bring up this this crew. Um, we have a lot of activities that happen. A lot of after school, you know, as you've seen the band, the color guard, we have a we have assets. There's a lot going on. There's one thing that you don't really see a lot of and we have and we're fortunate to have. We have the hiking club here that takes place on. It's a great program, but you don't hear much about. But Mr. Mazone is going to talk to you about it and he got some of the students here and they're going to
015show you a couple uh I think they have a a presentation they're going to show you. So, come on up. What you're talking about and you guys I think you're coming up too. All right. Um, so I'm teach history here at Weaver. And um if you want to raise All right. I didn't mean to mess you up. No, no. I didn't want you guys to hear me. So, all that stuff. Um, yeah. So, I started hiking club. Um, I have a couple things up here on the slide and I'll kind of go through. We started it back here at Weaver in 2022. So, it's been around for this is the third year. Um, right now it's open to all seventh and eighth graders. Um, and I do kind of just check the requirements as far
016as normal sports requirements 2.0 and no major referrals within two weeks of a hike. Just keep kids accountable as far as behavior. And um the picture up there, that's the first group at Weaver that we had a couple years ago. Um they're now sophomores. So they uh some of them have come back and let me know that the Golden Valley does have a hiking club as well. So some of them have gone and continued doing that and getting out. So um some of the places we go and I'll introduce my students here in just a moment. Some of the places we go throughout the year, uh our first one typically is over in near Monterey in Point Lobos. Let's go to San Francisco and we just went to Yusede this past weekend and then next
017weekend we're going to Santa Cruz up in the Redwood Forest. So, um I went ahead and put just a few pictures kind of in order. This is from our Monterey trip. Um I didn't know this was going to be here. This gentleman had some animal skins and stuffed birds and so it gave the kids a good uh opportunity kind of see those up close. Um, and you know, obviously a little beach time for them as well is our San Francisco trip. A lot of kids surprisingly haven't been to San Francisco, only being a couple hours away. Uh, kind of just walked through. We went on the bridge, went about halfway, and it was a lot of kids first time doing that as well. So, it was cool to see that, how excited they are. Uh
018this is from our past trip last weekend up in Santa Cruz. I'm sorry, Yusede. Um I see the waterfall was flowing pretty well. So kids enjoyed that. Enjoy the mist because they're they're pretty warm. And then uh yeah, next week we'll be going to Santa Cruz. So um we do ask for some money throughout the year. Uh our trips are after bus drivers lunches, they come out to around 700 or 750 per trip. So we we do our best to fund raise um and then we'll ask for um enough money for maybe one trip to kind of fill us in fill in the gap per year. So so we appreciate the the help through through the school through the SSC money. Um so with me I have Michael Bavino. He's been in the club all
019year long. We have Trinity Stern. This is her second year in the club. She was in last year and then Nathan Gutierrez is also in the club last year. So I put some questions up here just for them to kind of talk about their experience in the club really quickly. And then um and then if you guys have any questions or anything about the club, we feel we ask some questions as well. So Michael, so what made you want to join? Um I just thought it was really interesting how a lot of people got to go out and enjoy nature because usually that's not something we think about it. Um it's good to get out at some point, enjoy peacefulness of nature. Enjoy. [Music] Um, I think what really made me want to join was
020my friends. They were telling me about it um for about a month and at some point I just decided to check out what it was and it is really interesting. Um, your favorite part about being in the club? Um, my favorite part about being in hiking club is exploring new places, going to places I've never been, such as, uh, Blancastia, San Francisco. I think it's really interesting because usually we don't, my family doesn't go out a lot. So, it's a good experience. Out of the four trip, do you have a favorite? My favorite was definitely Monterey come on. Same question. What made you um um what made me really join the club was um I knew Mr. McNone like my seventh grade year and he was really funny and so I wanted to spend more
021time with him and Mino and so that's what made me really like want to join. The best part about being in the club is like, you know, the friends you get to make and like all the fun experiences, I have to say my favorite part of like my favorite trip had to be San Francisco since I have never went to San Francisco and I got to see go build a great bridge and that was a really fun experience for me and I am thankful for Miss Mrs. Gadino, Mr. Mazone for letting me have that opportunity. So don't worry, same question. me joint. It's kind of relatable with Michael. I had a friend who kind of wanted me to join. I joined and I had a good I've had really good time and the best part
022was actually about the best I'm the best part of me and the club was done meeting some new people and then going with who we had gone to for example San Francisco. And my favorite hiking trip was actually going to Santa Cruz mystery spot in the We throw in a little extra things in there. So, we'll put a mystery spot. Um, come back home. Yeah. Thank you guys for your support through the say one other thing too. You know a lot of the time on the weekend also go on the trip to help support and again we have to help out. So again any questions from the board? And just the exercise, you know, it keeps it keeps our kids moving and away from techology for I do want to tell you guys I was
023in last weekend on Sunday for Mother's Day. That's where my wife wanted to go. Excuse me. And I had a hard time keeping up with my 16-year-old daughter. She was cruising. I was falling behind, but I think you guys had a better day than I did. It was a little bit chilly over there, but yeah. Just How many members are in the club? Viking club. We have uh anywhere beginning of the year we start with 45. They they start dropping off. Right now we're down to like maybe five kids consistently because they found out they had to actually go. Uh but a lot of towards the end of the year I start having just like just picking good kids throughout the year. Um see if they're interested and some kids will just kind of ask
024their friends. Um because like I said the numbers kind of dwindle off as we go along the year for whatever reason. So yeah I see right now we'll see yeah closer to probably 10. We'll take anywhere from uh 15 to 20 on each trip depending on which places are good for which bus size. With San Francisco, we can't take a big bus, so we take less kids. But for next week, we're probably taking about 20 to 25ish. Great. Do you guys meet regularly like uh each week? Typically, uh every Wednesday just to go over fundraising um and upcoming plans, things we need to approve and stuff. So, uh, if there's nothing planned in the upcoming future, like for example, October, November, we don't do anything during those winter months, during that time, we won't meet.
025But for the most part, uh, typically everyone, you've planted a seed. I think I'm starting a Viking club myself. Thank you for that. Okay, moving on to consent action items 8.1 April 9, 2025 regular board meeting. I'm sorry. Yes. I wonder, do we have some things we want to clean up? We're on the personal updates. Yeah, because if so, we can pull that and bring it back next. I know Tong had it updated so I don't know. She never gave it to you. The updated version. Yeah, let's pull it. Bring it back next time. Make sure it's clean. We'll put Oh, she asked if we could ask, but I can't pick it up. Right. Okay. So, would that be 8.3? Yeah. Uh-huh. I make a motion to approve the consent action items with the exception
026of item 8.3. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor? I. Okay. Motion passes. 85 zero. Board action items 9.1 student expulsion. Okay. So, the board of trustees um make a motion spell student tracking number 11 24 for the remainder of the school year and the first two uh through the second trimester of the 2025 school. We have a motion. Second that motion. Second. I do. All those in favor? I I motion passes 5. Okay. N item 9.2 approval of the annual declaration of the need for fully qualified educators. Second. All those in favor? I. I. Item 9.3. Motion passes 50. Item 9.3, approval of the agreement between Merced County, the Merced County Superintendent of Schools, and all the Merced County school districts in support of the Here to Learn program starting
027July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2027. The administration recommends the board approve the contract with MCOE. Do I have a motion? I move. Okay. Second question. Sure. This is this something retarding new or the uh the joints been going on. Yeah. Yeah. So, so basically this is we pay $2 a student into this program. We share a VA investigator and she comes to all of our SAR meetings. So, it's something that we've been doing for years. Okay. But but in this case, there's more than one. I can't see where the person how many time the cases the whole county Does she have a second person now or was that only for a while? She had something temporary when she was out, but I think she does have some sort of backup. It's a big case
028load, but we get through it. All right. Uh, all those in We have a first and a second. Do we All those in favor? I motion passes 5-0. Item 9.4, Four, approval of the class management the classified management contracts for 2025 2026. The administration recommends that the board approved the classified management contracts. Okay, I have a second. First and second. All those in favor? I. Motion passes 5-0. Item 9.5, adoption of resolution 332425, delegation of the district representative to the governing board of Merced County Schools Insurance Group. The administration recommends that the board adopt resolution 332425. I have a motion. Okay, I have first. Do I have a second? Question. So Kyle and the higher volume technician that way to do a new resolution if you have okay all those in favor I passes 50
029and item 9.6 Six, approval of out ofstate travel for Danielle Johnson, director of nutrition services to San Antonio, Texas for the school nutrition association conference. The administration recommends with the exception of Mr. Ho attending the conference with the administration approval of this out of state travel. Do I have a second? I will read what she said not here tonight. She said, "It is my annual conference I regularly attend. I've also been asked to speak this time as well. This conference allows me to get new ideas for many network and learn what other districts are doing to enhance their operations and then they take their idea. Lol." Um, I'm not I I'm not a reinvent the wheel kind of gal. And she gets $200 off. Oh, really? Nice. Did Did we vote? No. Okay. All [Laughter]
030right. Okay. All those in favor? I action items. Board study. Someone remind me on this one. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Reports. Uh 10.6. Weaver Teachers Association. Uh Teresa Scoop, president. Oh, I'm sorry. You're okay. Thank you. That's what I Sorry. Sorry to be so sorry people conversation. So about that. You're like I know she's there but I just can't see the hat. Um okay. So today is California Day of the Teacher. Um a day dedicated to honoring the instructional excellence of teachers in California's public schools, community colleges, and universities. I would like to recognize our Weaver certificated staff for the outstanding job that they do for our Weaver students and the Weaver community. Being part of public education is a commitment to students well-being and their educational journey. Without teachers, there wouldn't be
031a school district. So today, I want to acknowledge each and every one of our dedicated certificated staff members who bring their knowledge, their passion, and most importantly, their hearts to our campuses every day for our Weaver students. I say thank you. I appreciate you and I've got you. Um last Wednesday we celebrated our three who honores. Um they enjoyed a wonderful dinner provided by the elks and received their honorary owl which stands for we honor ours. Um I do have a recommendation to the board tonight regarding the 25 26 contracts for certificated. Um these contracts are typically presented at the May board meeting. However, this year the district office has experienced some challenges and they won't be ready until the June board meeting. This meeting is scheduled for June 11th, which is 5 days after
032the contractual periods of the 2425 has ended. Uh we recommends that we finalize the contracts um as soon as possible, hold a special board meeting to approve them. That way, certificated staff can receive their contracts before the end of the 2425 contractual days and return them signed as soon as possible. If the contracts are approved on June 11th and sent out after the meeting via work email, there's a significant risk that they will not return in a timely manner due to vacations, summer break, and people not reading their work email because they're not at work. Um the next board meeting June 11th we are going to honor our retirees Sophie Carell, Brenda Hassan, Lorie Haggererman, Mary Gomez, Ava Contrarus and Shelley Carrera. I have had the pleasure of working along the side of these prairie
033dogs, wild cats and foxes. So here is to 15 more getups. Thank you. Okay. Item 10.7, Weaver Federation of Educational Employees. Mr. Lissy, board members, I just I didn't have anything to say as far as Meepi, but I did want to give my say my condolences for Anio. And um also I believe next week is classified appreciation week and I want to let you know that um we enjoy working with Weaver and we're all one family whether we're teachers or um staff. I mean everybody's staff but we just want to like we we enjoy working with everybody. We are Weaver. Thank you. Weaver Middle School, Mr. Alexander Bennett, principal. All right. So, I'll just highlight a few things that are happening on this. Um, upcoming, we have our uh we have lots of field trips
034coming up. We have on Wednesday the 21st, we have our college and career readiness day. So, um, like last year, we're going to have special lessons within the classroom. And then we'll have our eighth graders doing interviews, um, in here and then in some of our classrooms, um, to practice their interviewing skills. Um, let's see. Then Tuesday the 27th, our eighth grade takes their annual trip to Six Flags to celebrate their graduation. The seventh grade is going to go to the Exploratorium. On Thursday the 29th, IYT is having their eighth grade graduation here in the gym. And I think it's going to be a special event. Um, and then Friday the 30th, we have our eighth grade dance at Rellos for our graduates. Um, there are so many activities going on, so I'm just going
035to keep going. On Monday, June 2nd, we have our field day and then we have our annual staff versus um eighth grade uh softball game. Then we start our graduation practice and the sixth grade's going to be participating in Greek Olympics. And then we'll continue with our graduation practice. But then on Wednesday the 4th, we'll have our eighth grade awards night um for all our um eighth graders receiving awards and we'll continue with the eighth grade um graduation practice. The sixth grade's going to take a trip to the water park and Friday the 6th will be our last day and our big graduation. So looking forward to that. [Music] Yes. Armdale, Miss Jackie Spielman. Oh, yes. Pioneering. Hi. Good evening. So, we are currently serving 1,68 prairie dogs, one less than last month, but we
036have a new one starting tomorrow. So, we're gaining new friends and saying goodbye to others daily. Uh, two more days of testing. Teachers are super excited about that. Students have been working hard to show off all that they have learned. Great su success by our track team this season. Thank you to coach Jang and coach G. Three students qualified for Valley Championships. Congratulations to Eric Hiro Salvadoya and Cash Chavis which placed first in the 1500 meter. We have a special multicultural week flag celebration this Friday, May 16th. Okay. And although that is not saying it, she worked really hard to put that multicultural week together. She got us dancers. Uh she's got food. She's got a bunch of stuff going on. So you're all invited to come on that down for that for me. It'll
037take you to market and we're donating market. Yes. Okay. Along with that, uh we also have we're finishing up our tier three interventions this week. Uh thank you to all of our academic coaches uh Miss Ya, Miss Diaz and all the support uh that for students grow and for their achievement. They've been amazing. Uh enjoy celebrating all the of our marvelous pioneer staff. This week we had our um teacher appreciation lunchon for our teachers. Uh we had 10 bastroph. The uh staff versus students battle of the books that's going to be on the 20th at 8:30. So you're all invited for those. Those were pretty fun. We're also going to be doing our kickball uh on the 21st and that's at 8:45. Uh the kickball game with Farmell versus Pioneer, that's going to be coming
038up on the 29th at 8:30 at Farmdale. And then we will be honoring our retirey staff on the 21st of May uh in the library at 1 theme. And then we are going to be doing a whole school uh celebration flag pole on the 4th of June uh in the morning. That'll be um yeah, that'll be up in the front stage in the morning. Uh we do have a concert tomorrow coming up um at it will be located at Farmdale. That'll be at 6:30. And then choir will be on the 22nd at 9:00 a.m. as well at Farmville right there. The one the choir at Farmville as well. Okay, that one's pioneer. Okay. Yeah, let's make sure on that one. Okay. So, uh, marvelous, uh, marvelous, uh, field day will be, um, we're having a
039carnival. Uh, that will be on the 28th, May 28th, Wednesday. Uh, superpower of the month is acceptance and with our story being sticks. Uh, student of the month flag pole celebration will be this Friday, the next Friday, the 23rd. And we will be celebrating our staff and students distinguish with a barbecue which we'll be having in the daytime which we're celebrating end of testing distinguish school. We'll be doing that at school and then Mr. Weber's coming and on Friday the 23rd. He's going to barbecue for us. So thank you Mr. Weber. We're looking forward to that. Yes. Um and that's for our distinguished school for all of our teachers. Uh the team will be going to Anaheim to accept our award on Friday, May 30th, and we're excited about that. And we also have end
040of year celebration assemblies on Tuesday, June 3rd. Fifth grade promotion tunnel flagpole is Wednesday, June 4th in the morning. You're all welcome to come. Uh fifth grade promotion ceremony is going to be Thursday, June 5th at 9:00 a.m. So this is our second year doing that. And then kindergarten TK celebrations Friday, June 6. Group one, Mjang Castillo, Tao Nango at 8:15. Group two, Mua Swagger Day Gomez at 9. TK celebration in the Kinder Quad at 10:45. Summer begins June 7th. Have a great summer. Go Dodgers. Okay. Now, Miss We are busy. Very busy. Uh we're currently at 941, which is up one from last month. Um all right. Students are doing really well with Cass and I ready. It's been wonderful. Uh students are excited. We have daily raffles if they're working hard. Um thanks
041to Mrs. B for getting that set up. Uh we're seeing great I Ready results. Uh we're seeing kids that are on grade level um at the end of the year, which is what we want to see. And we're excited to see our state testing scores. Uh we are currently celebrating multicultural week. We have a flagpole Friday morning with some student presentations and our cute preschool is going to come all dressed up for us. Uh we finished up our soccer tournaments for fourth and fifth grade. They were tough competitions but so much fun. They had a blast and there was like two classes in fourth and fifth that just were really good. I mean it was very serious business out there. Uh we're now in our kickball tournament in fifth grade and we also have named
042our all-star kickball team and they're gearing up for the big game against Pioneer on May 29th. Uh riding festival awards are in the outdoor theater tomorrow at 1:30. uh band concert uh like they a pioneer set is for fourth and fifth grade tomorrow at 6:30 that will be at uh talent show triyouts for today. We had over 50 students and or groups try out today and Miss Carlos said a lot of them liked the same song. So we'll see. Uh gold rush day is Friday the 23rd. We're ready to wear our western gear. Uh we are hosting our staff versus students kickball game on May 27th. We're ending the year with their fifth grade trip to John's Incredible Pizza and third grade to Belleview Bowl. Um we have 293 Top Fox students in the third
043trimester. Um so we had this is the most we've had in a long time. Typically we take them to Nickel Arcade, but we have 300 can't really fit there. So what we're doing instead is we're going to have a top box fun day for students that have had it all year. And we're going to have a DJ, Kona Ice, and games. So it's going to be really fun. Uh fifth grade promotion June 5th at 9:00. kindergarten celebration June 6th at 9:00. I did want to share, I forgot to put on here, we have parents day this Friday. It's Friday afternoon. Uh we have times for kinder first, second, third, fourth, fifth. Parents can come have some ice cream with their kids and come on campus. So, it'll be really fun. Um and then I also
044want to say that we have also been doing staff appreciation this week and uh Mrs. B has a knack for uh making flyers. So, we uh we went for the '9s theme this week. So, on Monday, we were saved by the bell and we brought uh she brought her waffle maker that makes little mini uh Mickey waffles. So, we uh did little waffles for staff. Yesterday, we had a nacho bar. Today, we had five 10 Beastro cater. Um and then we have some other stuff coming. Tomorrow is uh Vice Girls Ramen Day. Uh, so yes, today was Fresh Prince of Belair, wasn't it? You did a whole song with the with the 510. It was pretty. Um, but I just want to say I truly appreciate all of our teachers and our and our classified
045staff. All of our staff make what happens happen. And um, I truly am appreciative of everybody. Uh, we're planning hard for next year. We have lots of grade levels doing planning, looking forward to new school year, and ending the year on a high note. Uh, our creativity student of the month and flag pole will be on May 29th. I will tell you creativity is one of my favorite months because these are your students who might not be your highest academically. They may not be they may not do everything that we expect but they they have a love of art and they and that actually helps connect them to some things and so it's really a really cool month. Um so our character word is creativity and our strategy is to make someone smile and so
046our book of the month is the most magnificent thing by Ashley Spires. Mr. Weber. Okay. So, yeah, as you can hear, we're at the end of the year. And man, we've got a lot of stuff going on. Do you guys have information in front of you, make some of the events, see what you can make. We got during the day, we got during the night. If you have a minute to do something, take a look at your calendar because there's something going on right now. Yes. I'm stoked. Um, one of the things that's really exciting here for Weaver is right there behind you and above us, the projectors. We can now see things. We used to just have the TV over there trying to set things up. These were done over spring break. So, now
047we can see presentations. Amen. We want to set them up. So, this is this TV that was there or is this a bigger? Yes, sir. It looks bigger here. Yes, it does. Yeah. And it's centered on on your table right here. And Tesa and I tried to get it going the other day and practice with it and help the old school way. Yeah. Still didn't work. It didn't work. But we got it. We were showed afterward. Yes. Um so yes, the elementary concert is tomorrow night. Um games open at 6. I did email all of you about SRO and just kind of getting some feedback. I've gotten some feedback. What I'll do is um you had asked a question. I've asked that. I haven't gotten an answer. Um I'll let you know. And what I'll
048do is bring back a proposal at the June meeting. Um doesn't mean you need to do it. It'll be the proposal and then you can decide is this a direction we want to go? Do we need more information? Um if we're going to do it, we need to indicate know by then because they need to get someone or not. So, um but it'll be up to you the next time around. So, um see that's the concert we talked about. Cultural night is this Friday and I have flyers sent me and I have enough if anybody wants out there your way. Anybody want? This is our trip around the world. It's the fifth annual prek and event. It's a huge event. It goes from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. It's packed. It has samples. Um, whole community
049comes if they have the little kits. We don't invite everybody because we have too many people to feed, but we pack the house with just the TK families and the kindergarten, their preschool family. So, it's a great event. So, hopefully we'll see you there. Um, see, still trying to move forward with the property next door. Um, we'll see what happens. When we reached out last time, their realtor said that the owners are getting an appraisal. So that means they're at least still considering selling. So we'll take a look. Um, one thing I did do, we've done a an appraisal in the past. I'm just asking for it to be updated. So if they come back and if they want to do something, we can Who asked for the appraisal? The owners. Well, kind of. They've
050asked for it. All right. Which indicated to me that they're wanting to maybe to move and do something and hoping that that's the case. We had done an appraisal in the past. So, I've asked for ours to be updated so that if and when they get their appraisal, they want to start talking. We don't have to wait another month or so to get an appraisal. I want to have the information and I want to have honest conversations. I don't know if they'll show us their appraisal and I don't know who their appraiser will be. So, I want to have our numbers so that we can have some talks that hopefully get us somewhere. So, um, and then graduation's in a couple weeks. We'll get information out to you as it gets closer. We had a
051meeting yesterday about parking, all the other things, and uh, they'll get information to us and we'll get it out to you so you know where to go, what time. Should be pretty simple. That's all I have. Point of order. Um, I was wondering, could you update anything on the last board meeting they told us about the bond? They were going to hold off on selling because they weren't sure about how the market was going to go. Do you have any updates on that? I'd like to update you also on the bond while we're here. So, um, yes, we did go ahead and we sold our bonds. Um, when we were going to sell, the market had spiked and we were wanting to get in at about 4.35% to 4.5%. When we were originally going to
052go sell, it was 5.25%. And it looked really it it didn't look good. And so we backed off because we're not in a situation where we have a school sitting there waiting to be built. This wasn't a fire set. So, we don't want to chase money when we don't really need it at this this moment. We have the luxury of time. So, um the market got better. Um couple weeks later, I think it was about three weeks later and we went in the market. We were able to sell. We sold at 4.76%. As opposed to 5.2. It wasn't the 4.3 or 4.5 we wanted, but it it was less than It got ugly there for a little bit. The problem is is that everything's uncertain right now. So, we could have waited hoping it comes
053down, but you never know. So, we One thing I learned years ago, I tried to price everything just right on buying a house and I was trying to be an expert on locking in my interest rate. I realized I don't know anything, right? So, markets change whether you you think there or not. So, it was good price. to win. Sold the bonds and the processes there. Six million. Yep. 66 million. All right. Thank you. Next. Uh other business. So should be in the in the board packet there. I think is a court study. There is something that talked about the pricing of the law and so it'll give you some more information. Yeah. Sorry. No problem. Okay. Item next item 11.1. Establish the next board meeting date and location. Date June 11, 2025. Time 5:30
054for close session. 6:30 for open session at Farmdale Elementary School Library as well as a special meeting. Oh, just a regular meeting. Regular meeting on 5:30 on June 20th at 5:30. Oh, I'm sorry. It says 2 p.m. 2 PM at Weaver Middle Office. Regular. Yes. Okay. But before we do, I wanted to say one little small thing about mom was couple years ago, maybe not even that long ago, we were honoring her at a board meeting for her retirement and she came beautifully dressed in her cultural dress and her family and they have flowers. But this explains what she is. we were honoring her and she brought us gifts and that gift that she gave um the women of the board with beautiful basket and um it's still sitting on my chin cabinet and I
055see it every day and so I think of her but that speaks to what Anio was. We were honoring her yet she brought us gifts. So, I'm getting As I do, I retain the blue and white. Uh, sorry. Yes. As a moment to her. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to everyone tonight and for bearing with me. I'm having a lot of trouble just seeing things. You've noticed I've taken off my glasses a lot. So, thank you. My focus isn't there tonight, but it hopefully I can improve that next week. So, thank you all for your patience. Without further ado, do I have a motion to adjurnn? All right. Do I have a second? Second. Second and third. All those in favor? I. Thank you. We will see you at the next
056board meeting. Thank you very That's