001of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The Santa City Central School District acknowledges the homeland of the Nandanda Watka, the people of the great hill, the Senica people on whose ancestral and modern day land school district now stands and whose water we enjoy. We stand with all indigenous peoples in their resolve to remain connected to their land. While we cannot undo what has been done, it is the goal of the Santa Monica City Central School District to recognize the history and make improvements that will benefit the next seven generations of indigenous students. Thank you everyone. RER is absent tonight. Excuse that. We need a do we have any changes to the agenda? Uh just one. We um
002postpone item 3A which was the uh NISLA recognition of a school board member because school board members excused. Okay. Well, there you go. Then we need a motion to approve the agenda. Motion. Motion by Tad, second by Tracy. Is that right? Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. Motion carried. And we will not move on to 3A. We will move on to our I'm sorry the public communications. Do we have anybody? Quickly. Okay. All righty then. We are just moving right along here everyone. We will move on to uh central office message. So, who wants to start? Karen or Nikki? Well, I don't have anything. So, it's all Nick. All right. Um, just wanted to say welcome everyone and we're in the final stretch. I think there's about four weeks of school left. So, we're just
003encouraging all of our students to put in the work. We have really limited spots for summer school at the high school this year. So, it can help getting your work completed or getting your grades up through the app. Um, our summer summer program registration, I think we're calling it summer spectacular has been pushed out on Facebook with registration codes. Um, so we're really looking forward to fun athletic and camps this summer. Um, and I've just been working with our instructional coaches to plan grade level curriculum work over the summer that we're really excited about. Keep up the good work and we're almost there. Okay, thank you. All right, then we'll move on to the board comments. Tracy, um, welcome everybody. Um, just reinforcing what Nikki said. There's like four weeks left of school. So, if
004you know any assignments, um, ask for help if you need it and be sure to get them in the fifth week. Okay, I'll be uh, welcome. The uh, what seems to be the uh, what's every on everybody's mind, the no matter where I sit, the person before me always says the same thing. But now the the weather should eventually start getting uh drier and nicer, which is the sign of uh the school year wrapping up, but just wanted everybody to focus on the uh you know, the last four weeks, get everything done and start off the summer without any uh things over top of it. Just looking forward to graduation and another year. It's amazing how fast it went by. Yep. Brad, I just want to warmly congratulate on his election difficult. Thank you. Landslide.
005I got I just want to thank everybody for coming out and voting last week uh for our budget and all all of our initiatives and to reelect our board mate here John to the board. That's all I have. Thank you. Okay, Carrie. Uh, yeah, I first want to say thank you to all of our staff and all of my colleagues up here. Um, job well done so far and few short weeks to go. So, let's finish strong. Um, and then I want to thank everybody in the community who showed their support for um our budget vote, our capital project vote, and also for my reelection to the school board. Um, I jokingly last week I told everybody, "Well, now you got to deal with me for five more years again. So um yeah but thank
006you everybody and also for you know all the students uh those students who are here those who may be listening or paying attention buckle down it's it's the end of the year and it's coming quick if you anything get it done if you need help ask um we have tons of staff who are willing to help so looking forward to a strong finish to the year that's it go Warriors go Warriors. Okay. I'd also like to congratulate Carrie for being reelected. Um it's it's uh great that people come out and vote and show their support and not only do they show support for Carrie, but they also showed support for capital projects and for our budget vote. Um overwhelmingly everything passed and so I would like to say thank you to the community. Uh sometimes
007I think people don't come out and vote when they feel like things are a given. Uh but we still need to hear from the community and uh what I always say is, you know, we want to make the district better. Um which we think we're doing a pretty good job now, but there's always room for improvement. We need to hear from people and let us know what we can do uh to become even better than what we already are or if there's something that we're doing wrong we need to fix. We need to know about it. So please um let us know. Reach out to a board member. Reach out to the administrators. Uh if you're a student and you don't feel comfortable doing that, reach out to a teacher and they can pass it
008on. Um, you know, we always want to try to do the right thing and make the right decisions the best for the community. I actually happened to be walking into Worth Smith and I saw somebody and they said, "Hey, I just want to say, um, the facilities look great and you guys are doing a really great job." And it was nice to hear because, you know, sometimes we don't always hear positive feedback. Um, and we didn't get a huge turnout for the vote, which tells me that a lot of people are happy with what we're doing. Um, because believe me, I've been on the other side where they're not happy and they show up in droves. So, um, it's it's good. It's a good feeling. And, um, I do want to thank everybody that did
009take the time to come and vote. And again to Carrie for being here for another five years because it's not the pay or the reason that we're here. It's because we really do care about the district and the community and the students and the staff. And we always want to make our district the best it can be. And this is going on what 15 years? Been on for 10 for 10 years. So, it's a lot of time and dedication that Carrie's put into it, but Dale, Brad, Ted, and Tracy. And again, we're we're here to to help serve you guys because we care. Um, so again, if there's anything we can do to help, let us know. And with that, thank you. Um, just a couple thank yous. Um, I just want to acknowledge the
010uh hard work that Karen put into the budget which was successfully passed um last week. So Carrie, personally, I'm looking forward to working with you over the next several years. Thank you. Um, we've been I've had the opportunity to um provide some of the warrior coins um to several students thanks to Mr. Long, which have been great. Uh it's wonderful to be able to recognize students who do remarkable things or step up when they needed to and are brave enough to take actions that you know years ago somebody else might have just stood by and watched happen. So um I thank you for that opportunity. Uh last week I had a chance to go to Prospect and recognize Jenna Emily who uh stepped in for a choking student, performed the Himlick maneuver and essentially saved
011that particular student's life. Uh so we recognized her as well as Britney Gmerson who's our librarian who has been I want to say hounding because that doesn't sound right. um uh aggressively pursuing the um bandits to have some uh lacrosse books. These are pretty close to no books. Um actually it's a focus on lacrosse and uh the bandits sent 1,000 magazines with a uh NLL cover on it. Um this one happened to have bandits on it. So she'll be getting those to the students and those were provided free of charge. So, a shout out to going a little bit above and beyond. I also want to thank those individuals who have helped with the strategic plan. It isn't done just yet, but last week we had two full days where people devoted time to take
012a look at the data that we have, the feedback from focus groups, survey results, um evaluate everything essentially that we have to provide as far as data goes, and then make some changes. And I think in the next few weeks uh we're going to see some updates to things like the mission and vision uh as a result of the work that they've done. I also wanted to say I had the opportunity to perform some senior interviews which is something new this year where the senior class was uh given the opportunity to come down and we were different adults were scheduled to interview students. I learned a lot and it was great to meet some uh remarkable people and it it was actually kind of profound for me and the one thing that I was disappointed
013about is that I was getting to meet these students at that particular level with only six weeks left. Um, and I think we're going to take a look at how we can have those types of interviews and get to know students a little bit better and hear what they have to say more frequently um before they're about to leave us. U so I also wanted to say I don't good luck isn't really the right thing because it's not going to take luck because they've worked hard all season. But uh I am sure that our lady warriors on Thursday will work hard for our sectional uh competition. So best wishes to them and uh go Warriors. All right. Thank you. Let's move on to our consent agenda. So we need a motion to approve the consent
014agenda. Motion motion by Dale. Second. Second by Carrie. Are there any questions? Yeah, just one on the travel. Um, it doesn't say near. What grade are the students? Oh, let's see. Mr. Long, this is the JCC trip to JCC. Yeah, I believe it's a mixture of kids that are working with Miss Greenstein to expose them to uh college. All right. So, it's from four students and I believe they're going to be 10th 10th 11th graders. It's a combination. Okay. Any other questions? We have a motion by Dale, second by Carrie. All in favor? I opposed abstain. Motion carried. There is no old business under new business. We have some items to declare surplus. A bunch of my eyes. So, we need a motion to um declare those items surplus. Motion. Motion by Brad. Second. Second
015by Carrie. Are there any questions? All in favor I opposed abstain. Motion carried. And item 7B is our CSU MLAs. Uh so we need a motion to approve uh the four MOAS. Motion. Motion by Dale. Second. Are there any questions on any of them? All in favor? Opposed? Abstain. Motion carried. Item C is our donation from NAVCO Quickstop and that is a $1,000 donation for the Cindy Moore 5K uh supplies and scholarship fund. So, we need a motion to accept that donation. Motion. Motion by Carrie. Second. Second by Tracy. Are there any questions? Uh no questions. Just just more of a comment. um fifth year of doing the city more 5K. Uh my wife and I are heavily involved in planning that and getting it off the ground. But one of the things that does
016like goes a little bit unnoticed. We've seen it for a number of board meetings here and these donations coming in. Um our community is awesome and we know that, but a lot of these businesses are stepping up and supporting this cause, you know, supporting the donations to the scholarship fund and the class. So, I just wanted to say, you know, right now that I want to thank all of these donors. um today's NAF goal. We've had some from Ethereum Nation, we've had some from numerous businesses and individuals who support this. So, you know, just in case nobody ever hears that, I just wanted to say thank you to all of these people who are supporting this. And also, the 5K is coming up um Saturday, June 14. Yeah, wanted to get the date right. Saturday,
017June 14th, uh Cindy Moore 5K. If you feel like coming and running three miles or even walking three miles or running and walking three miles, come and join us all that Saturday morning. So, hope to see everyone there. Thanks, Carrie. So, we got a motion by Carrie, second by Tracy. All in favor? I opposed, abstained. Motion carries. Item D is to abolish and create some positions. So, we are abolishing a records inventory clerk and a virtual teacher. And we are creating a special ed teacher, two of them, and an alternative high school equivalent equivalency preparation program teacher. So, we need a motion to abolish and create both positions. Motion. Motion by second. Second by Dale. Are there any questions? All in favor? Opposed? Abstain motion carried. Next we have personnel consent agenda action number one,
018action number two. Action number three, action number four and action number five and action number six. So, we need a motion to approve sections eight. Section eight, items A, B, C, D, E, and F. Motion. Motion by tag. Second. Second by Dale. Are there any questions on any of the consent agenda items? All in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Motion carried. we have anybody we'd like to introduce? Let's see. I'm just working my way through the list here. We had three people who were tenured or um for tenure that will be effective in September and October, but I don't see that. I see Mr. Offer who has been filling the role of our technology teacher at the bottom. Sure. Certainly. Oh, all right. Uh we we had a environmental science living environment position open that Mr.
019Schneler threw his hat at in the ring. It's kind of his forte in the background. He's been working on some academy classes that align nicely with that content. Um, so he jumped on an opportunity, did outstanding during the interview process and um, one of the things that really stuck out to the committee was the rigor he brought to his 42minute on the spot lesson with our students. Um, it goes a long way in setting the expectations of meeting those standards so that students can be successful. So, um, he's been a member of the faculty and done an outstanding job, but it's nice to welcome him to his new position and congratulate him. So, big thank you to Mr. Schne. Very good. [Music] approved about 40 summer employees. So that just speaks to the volume of
020work that get done over the summer. So I just want to acknowledge that. Um and uh one other item which we see on here somewhat regularly is the um recruitment of bus monitors and then through our essentially our own school. Uh they are trained on site here with our trainers and they become bus drivers. So we are appointing two bus drivers tonight. I wanted to acknowledge Roger Ball, our head bus driver here, who really does a great job of uh identifying the individuals, getting them on as monitors, working them through the process for the training. And while we're still a little bit short on bus drivers, we're still a little bit short on bus drivers, but nowhere near the crisis mode that we had been in a little while back. And that's in large part
021due to Mr. Paul's work. So, thank you. You should have said, "Where's your coin?" Okay. All right. We'll move on to our board information reports. So, our upcoming events uh the 29th, Thursday, we have the uh intermediate full bands concert at 6:30. The girls lacrosse plays where period in Kenmore. In Kenmore. So, please if you can go out and show support. Uh what time's game start? 5 pm. 5:00 pm. Hey, you hear it early here. Uh we'll throw that plug out there. Uh June 5th, we have our high school chorus uh band chorus concert. Uh June 9th is our warrior award dinner at the casino. And then June 10th, we'll be right back here for our next board of education meeting. So, uh again, uh a shout out to for the Cindy Moore run. If
022you haven't signed up, you can sign up the day of the event. Uh there are going to be few extra t-shirts, but come early if you want to get one. Uh if not, just come and support because we really do love to see a big turnout for that event. And with that, all you kids that got here, you're kind of lucky because we're going to take a motion toward executive session because we don't have any business coming out. So you made the right call coming to this board meeting. So we need a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of personnel. Motion second. Motion by Carrie, second by Dale. All in favor? I abained. Thank you everyone for coming. Good luck to all the students. You need the farms.