001Test [music] test. One, two. Test test. How? Hey. Heat. Heat. President. Innesota. The time is 5:30. >> Uh, good evening everyone and welcome to the regular meeting of the Alanto Elementary School District. I'm calling to order this meeting. The time is 5:30. We're going to go ahead and get started with the roll call and quarum establishment. Miss Leave. >> Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss present. >> Trusty Cairo will be absent tonight. Trusty Le French. >> Le French present. Trusty Stewart >> Stewart pre present. Trusty stood >> stood present. We have a quorum. Moving on to the pledge of allegiance. Um I'll ask um chain of command or madame clerk would you um like to lead us in the pledge of allegiance please. >> Uh please stand and put your right hand on your your heart. Red
002ready be begin. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you, Trusty Stu or Trusty Stewart. Moving on to the adoption of the agenda. Are there any proposed additions, deletions, or adjustments in the order of business? >> Uh, no, we do not have any. Thank you. Moving on to the adoption of the agenda. I move that we approve. Is there a second? >> Krauss. I second. >> Any discussion? Trusty Krauss. >> No. >> Trusty Stewart. >> None. >> Trusty Le French. >> Le French. None. >> And I have none. We'll take the roll call. Miss Le. >> Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss. I. >> Trusty Le French. >> Le French. I.
003>> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I. >> Jesse Sto. >> Sto. Motion passes 41. And moving on to 4 Z. Moving on to staff reports and presentations, educational services recognition for the county science fair and history history day. Dr. Viegas. >> Yes. Thank you so much. And uh good evening to everyone and we welcome you and thank you for being here. And again, as I have said most of the times, this is really our favorite part of the agenda because we get to recognize our students. And so we have some special folks here that are going to be recognized. And I know uh do Dr. Valdez, if you're going to share with us a little bit about the background on this. >> Thank you very much. Um, first of all, I'm so excited because this is
004one of the opportunities we get to really recognize our students hard work and efforts. We had throughout this um um district, we had a science fair at the different school sites and then we had recognitions of what was the district science fair. Same thing with history day, history projects. And then the ones that went for our district went on to the county level. And today we are going to recognize the students who have placed first, second or third at the county level. And now we'll be moving on to the state level for the state level science fair and history day recognition. So if we can give a pre-applause to all of our students, staff and parents that are here for our students. [applause] And what we are going to request if um some of our
005trustees who would like to be out in the front to shake the hands of the students as they receive their certificates and um we will have Dr. uh I'm sorry Miss Carol Coburn our director of educational services calling out the students by name. All right, students. So, as I call your name, if you would come up, I we'll hand you a certificate and then if you would go down and shake everybody's hand and then if you could please remain at the front and we're going to take a picture at the end. All right, I'm very excited to hand out our county science fair award. Um, I will take a minute to read the name, the result for the medal. So, they they either got a gold, silver, or bronze medal. um and then what school
006they're at. The first uh recipient is Alana Alvarez who won the silver medal. She's a fifth grader at Gus Franklin. Next we have Raphael Tjo. He won the bronze medal and he's a fifth grader from Eagle Ranch. [applause] Next we have Adrina Melend Melendres and uh she won the silver medal and she's a fifth grader from Gus Franklin. [applause] All right, the next one is Rajie Sin Sin. Am I saying that correctly? Okay. Um, so this student uh was won the silver medal and is an eighth grader from Melba Davis. So, we'll make sure that this student gets uh their award. >> [applause] >> Next we have Haley Ortega who won the bronze medal and she's a seventh grader from Melva Davis. [applause] Okay. And last in our science fair, uh we have Brian Lee.
007He won the silver medal and he's an eighth grader from Melva Davis. [applause] All right. And if we could just pause for a picture. I think Miss Kim is going to be taking a picture for us. All right, another round of applause for our students. Thank you so much. We're very proud of you. You may have a seat. Thank you. Okay, next we would like to recognize our county history day winners that are going to state uh I think this weekend. Um, so we have uh Jeriah Taylor who's a fifth grader from Victoria McGaffen. [applause] We have Valerie Cervantes, a fifth grader from Victoria [applause] McGathan. And we did ask them to wear their medals today. We have Robert Burton. Robert is a fifth grader from Victoria McGathan. [applause] We have Jasmine Burton who is
008a sixth grader from Melba Davis. [applause] We have Ria Sin [applause] and sixth grader from Melva Davis. Did I say your last name correctly? >> How do you say Sing? Sing. >> Ria Singh. [applause] We have Oilia Scolowski, a six an eighth grader from Melva Davis. [applause] Congratulations. And we have Emma Martinez who is a sixth grader from Mil Davis as well. [applause] All right. So, they're all going to be competing at the state. So, good luck to you all. And if you would scoot over just a little bit, we're going to take a picture to commemorate our moment tonight. All right, let's give them another round of applause. Congratulations [applause] and thank you. All right. Thank you. Can we give them another round of applause, please? >> [applause] >> All right, moving on to
009educational services staff report of Williams Uniform compliant quarterly report. Dr. Viegas, >> actually I'm going to ask pass this over to Dr. Valdez as well. >> Thank you, Dr. Viegas. Um, we are presenting to the board an update on the Williams settlement uniform complaint procedures. This is a quarterly report we have to um submit to the board every year and I'm very pleased to say that we have had zero uniform complaints filed with our district during this past quarter. So that's a great accomplishment and due to the hard work of our staff and our employees in our district that try to do their best to meet the needs of our students. >> Awesome. Excellent. Thank you so much. Moving on to declaration of close session. We'll be taking items 2 through 4 into close session.
010But before we do that, we're going to open it up for public testimony. I'm going to read the public speaker card for those that will come up and speak. This this period, this public comment period is administered by state law and is the point in the meeting set aside or members of the public to share their opinions with the board. Open meeting laws do not permit the board to engage in dialogue or answer questions. Any person who wishes to address the governing board on closed session items only must complete and submit an ASESD speaker request form from form um 5 minutes before the meeting is called to order. Um public comments will only be taken on agenda items during the discussion of those items. The board values public comments. We want to hear from you
011and although we cannot take action or discuss these items not on or discuss items not on the agenda, we listen carefully and we appreciate input from the public. Additionally, a public speaker can be cut off for exceeding the allotted time or for will fully causing an actual disruption to the meeting. Before cutting a person off or removing someone, the the board or myself will give you a warning. If you were cut off or warned last time, please consider that your warning. Individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each close session agenda item. The board limits the total of public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, I may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to
012be heard. I as the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional items, additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. This is not the time for personal attacks. Um we do value criticism. So uh just please address your comments to the board as a whole. With that being said, uh Miss Le, do we have any speakers? We'll start off with ADTA and Brian Han will be representing tonight. >> Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Viegas board president stood board trustees love French Stuart and Krauss our district cabinet members fellow colleagues CSCA brothers and sisters and community members here in our audience as well as those on uh YouTube. First I would like to uh congratulate all of our student winners. This is really
013quite an accomplishment and it's an honor for you uh to have reached this this uh place and moving on to state. Um earlier in my career, I uh when I was at Shepard Middle School, I coached uh uh for the history day and we had a couple of uh students who actually moved forward to uh state competition. So, it's quite uh quite wonderful to see that we've increased the numbers of students advancing um to uh state competition in our district. So, let's everyone give our students another big round of applause. [snorts] On a sad note, um as uh most of you know, Saturday evening, uh one of our colleagues um passed and um so what I what I would like to uh share is that um ADTA has taken the charge of uh of sponsoring
014a uh a celebration of life for uh Mr. Mark Forbes, which will be conducted this coming Friday evening from 5 until 8:00 p.m. at the Columbia Middle School MPR. Um, a uh use permit was uh completed um for the use of the facilities and um um and I actually met today with uh Mrs. Kart um and followed up with her because she was in full support of uh you know having something uh for Mr. Forbes um and uh and then also uh making sure we were honoring the wishes of Mr. Forb's wife as well. Um so uh they are grateful um to uh Mrs. Forbes is quite grateful that uh you know uh this is going [clears throat] to uh be done for uh for Mark. Uh the theme of the uh uh for the
015celebration of life um is country and Cowboys uh because Mr. Forbes was a huge Dallas Cowboys fan and uh he was never a he was never a uh a business casual person or a very business dresser. Um he uh he was more of a country uh dresser and uh so the theme uh will be countries and cowboy or cowboys in country uh with country music uh playing uh in the background and um and people can come uh in uh casual wear um because that's that's what uh his wife feels would uh he would most want. So, uh, once again, that will be this Friday evening from 5 until 8 um at the Columbia Middle School. NPR and, um, light refreshments will be served. The next item I'd like to bring uh, uh, to the attention
016of the board is summer school. Uh the teachers are excited about summer school and the only thing we're we're concerned is we don't think we're public publicizing it enough. We would like to see more publicity going out uh for summer school. And then the other issue that a number of teachers have brought up is that in years past when teachers were notified um uh and Carol Coburn actually took the charge on that for many years and teachers were notified and once teachers were notified that they had a position they were then also recruiting students from their school sites to attend and it looks like teachers won't be notified until almost the 20th of May. Um, and that's a I think that's a disservice to the district in terms of not being able to reach as
017many students as possible. So, I really think that we need to bolster the um the campaign of publicizing our summer school because it's a great benefit to our students and our teachers really want to be involved with helping helping our students uh during the month of June. The last thing I uh will bring up this evening is the Beyond the Bell and I know that uh the advisory committee for Beyond the Bell has been meeting with Dr. Lee and that's been going very well and I know that uh proposals from from potential vendors uh have uh have been reviewed and um the interview process will begin and we are looking forward to uh having the presentations from these vendors um who will provide uh sunrise service for our students uh afterchool service uh intercession service
018and uh summer school service. Um so uh it's an exciting time and um we do have uh we do have a lot of uh uh competitive uh vendors that are looking to uh to join us here in the Adalanto Elementary School District. So and we only want the very best for our for our children here. So, uh, we really want to work hard and make sure that, uh, we have, um, all the vendors in place who will do the very best job to continue what we do during the daytime hours with our students in the classrooms. Thank you so very much. Have a great evening. >> Thank you. Any representative from CSEA? >> Diane Lynn, if she's in the audience. She's not. So, we'll move on to public speakers. Um, Kim Smith, please. >> Can
019we um can we identify Miss Le? Do we have a a close session item that the speaker will be Miss Kimmel will be speaking on? >> She actually has 4.1 4.2 4.4 students. I don't know if that's going to I don't know if that's in close session or not. >> Um, >> as board members, do you go back in close session and speak about students and their successes? >> We do, but I mean we >> there's ADTA litigation that's on there. I mean, the negotiations which teachers are with the students, so it has to deal with students as well. So, you're speaking about students? >> Yes, that's what it said on the paper. Yes. >> Would you be open to moving it to open? That's typically when we talk about open session items. >> I'd
020rather do it now. Just I mean, we have families here. They probably like to hear what I have to say. And I have some of my students here as well. >> Okay. So, I'll allow it this time, Miss Kim, but moving forward, you know, if it's not explicitly on the agenda in close session, I do have to we have to move. >> Okay. I will I will look it up. I just want to say I want to argue back and forth. Thank you for allowing me to do that. However, I do believe the Brown Act does state that I can speak regarding this. So, we'll get into it later on, but for now, I'd like to speak just so that you can hear what I have to say. >> Sure, I'll allow it. >> First
021of all, but I guess before I speak, congratulations again to the students as well as um just thank you for speaking um Mr. Han just regarding Mark Forbes because I was going to say something regarding that as well. just the celebration of life. So glad that we are looking towards teachers and celebrating them. Um hopefully we can start celebrating them here while they're here with us and not just once they've passed away. So like it's been said, we've had a little discussion. My name is Kimberly Smith. I have been teaching for 29 years and for the past 21 years I have proudly taught fifth grade at Victoria McGathan Elementary School. So like every educator in the state, I was fingerprinted and vetted as an upstanding student citizen, no student, [snorts] and I have maintained that
022standard throughout my career. My family is also connected to the district. My husband just retired from this district last year and now serves as a guest teacher and our children were also educated in the Otalanto schools before continuing on to college. So we're very proud about the Ottoal Elementary School District. Um just wanted to share that with you so that you know who I am. As the end of the school year approaches, I'm always amazed at the growth my students make. Some swore academically, some are still working to understand the basics. But I remain proud of every one of them for finishing the year and doing their best. Every day I tell my students to stay in their lane and to handle your business because they are the ones who will determine their futures. But
023tonight, I just want to ask a different question and this goes towards us just speaking about Mark Forbes. What is your dash? If you look at a headstone, you will see two dates. a birth date and a passing date. And in between those two dates is a small dash. That dash represents everything a person did with their life, their character, their work, their impact on others. Over the last few years in the district, we have sadly lost several educators. And I think we can all agree on something. We are very clear about what their dashes represented. Their dash represented service. It still represents. Their dash represents dedication to students. Their dash represents showing up every single day to make a difference in children's lives. And the truth is, every one of us in this room
024right now is writing our dash. In the classroom, my dash is simple. Teaching children, creating a safe learning environment, helping students believe they can build a future. Because the truth is, classrooms don't run on politics. They run on preparation, patience, and people doing their jobs. Every position in this district has its own lane. And when people stay in those lanes, trust grows. When they don't, people notice. So, as a school board and as a unit, as President Sodto often reminds us that you are all a unit, I would just like to ask the same question of all of you, especially as you go back into close close session. What is your dash going to represent? >> Is it serving the district? Is it serving the employees who do the work every day like our bus
025drivers? Happy bus driver day today. Yay. We love you. or most importantly, is it serving the students who are the reason we are all here? Because tomorrow morning when the bell rings, the only thing that will matter is what reaches the students sitting in our classrooms. And the best way to serve this district well is to make sure every adult in it is doing the job they were entrusted to do. Because when people remember our time here, they will not remember agendas, motions, or meetings. They will remember the difference we made for our children. And that is what our dash should represent >> for the sake of our most precious clientele, our students. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Our next speaker is uh Lauren Benson under item 4.2, negotiations. Good evening board members, cabinet,
026those in attendance, and those watching on YouTube. My name is Lauren Benson, and I have been teaching in this district for 20 years. I've been coming to speak at board me meetings regularly because I believe it's important for the public to hear perspectives that may not always be apparent during these meetings. I want to begin by addressing a concern. I am troubled by what I believe are violations of the Brown Act, specifically attempts by President Sodto to limit or redirect my public comments. You do not have the right to control the content of my speech or prevent me from addressing specific board members. >> Miss Benson, >> not only is that >> order, you're out of decorum. I'm giving you a warning to stop. I'm the chair of the meeting and I'm ruling that you
027are out of decorum. I'm giving you I'm giving you Okay, miss. You're done. You can do what you need. You're done. You can take a seat. Thank you. point of order. >> One second. One second. >> No, I'm sorry. It is my right to speak at a meeting. >> That's what I'm [clears throat] here to do. >> I am the chair of this meeting. Okay. I'm ruling you out of order. You keep interrupting. You keep going back and forth. You You've been here before. You know the rules. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> This is your final final warning. Please take a seat. Okay, we're going to have security. >> I'm confused. >> One second, please. Security, can we please have a remote >> vote together, though? I'm confused. >> We're going to take a
028fiveminut recess. >> Let's take a a recess. >> We're going to take a fiveminut recess. We'll be back at 7:01. Hello. Hello. Heat. Heat. All right, the time is 6:09. We're reconvening. We're going to continue the public comments. Um, Miss Benson, you can come up, please. I will allow it um you to finish your comments. I would ask that you please stick to close session items only, but at the next one, well, we will be sticking to um close session items only. >> You do understand though, the Brown Act says it can be any agenda item. I I'm just I'll bring it back. I'll bring you a copy if you guys need it, but it does say any agenda item, but this is for close session. So, uh, now back to tonight. We are in
029full swing for state testing and my students are doing their best to show what they know. Shout out to our tech team for always making sure we're up and running and everything is going smoothly. Uh, my primary responsibility is to teach my students and to do so to the best of my ability. Part of that responsibility includes teaching them to be informed and engaged citizens, encouraging them that that if they see something wrong, they should speak up. We are wrapping up another successful year at Gus Franklin and I'm proud of the work happening in my classroom. But I do have to ask, when will we be able to say the same for the district as a whole? We continue to face ongoing budget challenges and staffing shortages that have yet to be adequately addressed. When
030will this district return its focus to what truly matters, doing what is best for students and for the employees who serve them? After all, that is your responsibility. This board has spent a significant significant amount of money on a firm to help improve internal collaboration. Yet, it still appears that a small group is making decisions and overriding others. That is concerning. I have also previously mentioned about the exceeded conference budgets by more than double along with additional spending on other travel by board members. These expenses are funded by the district and I believe it is reasonable to ask what measurable outcomes have resulted from this investment. I sincerely hope we do not enter another school year facing the same unresolved issues. Progress will only come when this board begins to actively listen to its teachers,
031those of us who work directly with students and understand their needs. Gus Franklin was recently recognized by the state as a blue ribbon school and was featured in the daily press yesterday. The celebration was last Friday. This is a significant achievement. Yet, no one from the district has come to speak with our staff about what we are doing right, how those pract and how those practices might be shared across the district. Teachers need time to collaborate, to share strategies, to support one another. We are the ones who understand what works best for our students and our voices should be part of the solution. With all of the changes and discourse, I sincerely hope that your mission is to get us back on track. Uh last week we celebrated administrative professionals day. So I would like
032to thank all of the administrative professionals out there, especially our wonderful Vanessa at best Franklin. >> And I would also like to say uh happy bus driver day. Thank you bus drivers for always getting our kids to school safely. I know many of them would not be able to attend school without you. So thank you. [applause] >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. That concludes the speakers for tonight. >> All right, moving on to close session. I move that we go to close session. Is there a second >> Stewart? I sec second. >> We'll take the roll call. Miss L. >> Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss. I >> trusty Le French. >> Love French. I trusty Stewart. >> Stewart I. >> Trusty Stoodto I. 40. The time is 6:13. We're in close session. >> Thank you. Hey.
033Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Oops. Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Do Heat. Heat. Good evening. Time is 7:46. Reconvening from open session. We'll take the roll call and quum establishment. Uh, Miss Le >> Trissy Krauss. >> Krauss present. >> Trissy La French >> La French present. >> Trissy Stewart Stewart pre present. Tissy Sto >> Sto present. We have a quorum. Moving to close session reports. No close session items. No reportable actions from close session. Moving on to public testimony. Do we have any public comment speakers? Miss Le >> don't have audience, but let me look on Zoom. I do have a couple on Zoom. Several. Uh Karen. Oh, no. Michelle Walden, please. Michelle Walden. She's on Zoom. >> Yes, we're asking them to unmute now. >> Hello. >> Good evening.
034>> Can you hear me? Yes, we can. >> Okay. So, um, President Sodto, I would like to talk on, um, two agenda items and one other thing, and I just want to make sure I'm reading this correct. I I'm not going to need the full like nine minutes, but I get three minutes for each item, right? Just three minutes in total. Uh, Miss Alden, um, did you I can give you an extra 30 seconds if that's helpful or another minute. >> Yeah. Yeah, that'd be helpful. >> Okay. Um, let's give her three minutes and 30 seconds, please. >> Thank you so much. All right. Good evening, everybody, board, trustees, cabinet. Um, concerns. How do we get our spending and budget back in balance? First thing we've got to do you guys is we stop approving
035any spending without checking to see if we're using it. Is it worth the money and are the people actually you got to talk to the people who are using it that you're purchasing it for. We can't just push these items through because we did it last year. We can't re keep repeating the same pattern and expect things to change. Um, did anyone ask the principles at Mesa Linda or Colombia about the services they've received from the Blue Night security? If you'd asked Colombia, you would have heard that it does nothing to make any of us feel safer. You would have heard that in the two years that they've been on our campus, we've called on them once and they were of no help. One other time, our admin had to walk out to his car,
036which is in the farthest spot away from our front door, knock on his window, and asked him to move his vehicle to a different location, so that he could ensure safety. He said she'd have to call Jerry, and Jerry would have to call him to tell him to do it. What's the point? Um, she doesn't even have the number to the person in the car. Um, she has to call again, has to call Jerry and he sends somebody or send somebody running to the car. How is that effective? We have caught these people sleeping. They're supposed to be monitoring monitoring the campus trespassers. They they do not catch trespassers. This is $288,000 that we are just pushing through because we had it last year. We can't do this anymore. This is why we're in trouble
037with our budget. District blue night security. I understand that we need security, but why do we need two armed security guards? One should be sufficient. Okay. Um, vehicles are not marked when they're on campuses. They are in unmarked cars. Um, sorry, a colleague called me and I got off track here. Okay. Then we have another issue with our SIPs. Our principles are spending all this time writing out beautiful SIPs. They go through many hands at the district office only to have them denied. Denied. Denied. Do you know that our school district has more stringent rules about how we can spend the money than the county does? the county will allow us to do something, but the district says no. How is that spending our money effectively? These school sites have over a million dollars. You
038should see how many of them have actually been able to spend any of the money. They can't spend the money because it's denial. Denial. All that beautiful work that you see in that boardroom, all that art from Colombia, our principal paid for themselves. everything you see at Colombia, they are paying for themselves. They can't keep doing this. We need to support our principles. They can't be the ones being in charge of everything. You need to help them and you need to help our district. Please watch the budget. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. >> Next speaker is Karen Hopper. We are asking them to unmute now. >> Hello. >> Good evening. Tonight I want to speak about accountability, ethical leadership, and responsible use of taxpayer funded resources. Public trust in the school district
039depends on one simple principle. The rules should apply equally to everyone. Whether you are classified employee, a teacher and administrator, or a sitting board member, public resources must be used for public purposes, not personal convenience. There are serious community concerns regarding the person possible use of district vehicles and district personals personnels for what appears to have been personal transportation unrelated to official district business. Specifically, questions have been raised about whether district transportation resources and employee times were used to transport a family member of a sitting board member for personal reasons due to a knee surgery without proper authorization or within establishment policy. If true, this would represent more than poor judgment. It would represent a misuse of taxpayer funded resources and an abuse of public trust. District vehicles are not personal taxis. Employees are not
040personal assistance for elected officials and taxpayer dollars are not meant to subsidize private family needs. Every parent in this district is in this district make sacrifices. Every employee follows products producers. Every taxpayer expects public funds are not spent responsibly and every transparently. No one should receive special treatment because of their title or position if there was legitimate medical need. The proper procures approve approvals and documentation should exist. Policies are not there for a reason are there for a reason to ensure fairness, accountability and protection for everyone involved. But when questions arise, there is no transparency. The public is left wondering whether one set of rules exists for leadership and another for everyone else that damage trust. This is not about personal hardship. People face difficulty difficult situations every day. This is about whether public office
041is being used properly and whether district resources are being protected as they should be. Leadership requires higher standards, not special privileges. I'm calling for district to view their this matter thoroughly, ensure all policies regarding district vehicles used. The employee assignments were followed and provide transparency to the public regarding how taxpayers taxpayers resources are being managed. Silence only creates more distrust. Accounting accountability resource confidence. Our schools cannot ask for community for trust, support, and funding while while ignoring legitimate concerns about how resources are being used. The public deserves answers. Taxpayers accountability and our students deserve leadership. >> Thank you. >> Next speaker, please. >> Next speaker is Daryl Whitaker. >> We are asking them to unmute now. We are asking them again to unmute. >> Hey, can you hear me now? >> Yes, we can hear
042you. >> Okay, sorry about that. Good evening. I want to speak tonight about professionalism, accountability, and the example we set for our students. As educators and district employees, we are entrusted with more than than lesson [clears throat] plans and job titles. We are expected to model respect, integrity, and inappropriate conduct. Our students watch how adults behave, how we handle disagreements, and how we treat others, especially when tensions are high. This [clears throat] is what deeply cons this is what is deeply concerning our teachers appears to engage in ongoing personal attacks, hostility and behavior that [clears throat] creates division rather than professionalism. When that behavior continues over a long period of time and is directed towards trustees or district leadership, it raises serious concerns about workplace culture and leadership accountability. Disagreement is normal. Questions are healthy.
043Constructive criticism is part of any functioning organization. But there's a difference between professionalism, disagreement, and repeat conduct that crosses the line into personal targeting, hostility, and disruption. When this teacher continues this pattern without consequence, it sends the wrong message not only to staff, but to students and the community. We're teaching our students [clears throat] that if the adults in charge tolerate behavior that would never be accepted in the classroom. What standard are we setting when professionalism is optional for some but expected from everyone else? Students are taught about respect, boundaries, and accountability every day. They are told their actions have qu consequences. The same standard should apply to adults in the district. No employee should be above accountability simply because addressing the issue is uncomfortable. The district has a responsibility to ensure that all employees
044uphold professionalism standards, maintain respectful conduct, and contribute to safe and productive environment. Ignoring repeated inappropriate behavior only allows it to continue and damages trust and leadership. This is not about personal conflict. It's about expectations. It is about protecting the integrity of our schools and ensuring that those who who represent the district reflect and values we claim to stand for. I am calling on our district leadership to address this issue seriously, fairly, and consistently. Accountability should not depend on position, popularity, or politics. >> 30 seconds. If if we expect our students to act with respect and responsibility, we must demand the same from every adult in the district, including the teacher. Leadership requires action, not silence. Thank you, guys. >> Thank you. Next speaker, [clears throat] please. >> Sarah Sherman. She's on Zoom. >> We are
045asking them to unmute now. >> Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. >> Good evening board. Good evening attendees. And good evening Zoom. I find it deeply concerning that during this board meeting, a teacher who was speaking had her microphone silenced and was threatened with removal simply because she mentioned a board member by name. Public comment exists so that concerns can be shared openly. And from what I've observed, she was not inciting disruption. She was trying to inform the community about what is happening within the district. Silencing voices in this way undermines transparency and trust. I would like to ask our intern superintendent this question. How is it that a board member who reportedly has a restraining orders filed against him by three district employees is still permitted to be present at district
046board meetings knowing knowing there is a strong likelihood of encountering those individuals at their workplace. From what I understand at least one such encounter has already occurred. Additionally, concerns have been raised publicly at multiple board meetings dated July 29th and August 12th by a young woman who stated that she was groomed by this same individual as a child. These are serious allegations that cannot simply be ignored. We are a district responsible for the safety and well-being of children. That responsibility must come first. I am asking that these matters be thoroughly and transparently reviewed to ensure that our students, staff, and community are safe. Whether these concerns are sub substantiated or not, they deserve careful and impartial investigation. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. >> We have one more speaker, Roxy Cough. >> Asking
047them to unmute now. Good evening. Can you hear me? >> Uh, yes, we can. >> Okay. Um, litigation is avoidable. When someone sees potential wrongdoing and chooses to speak up, that person should be protected, respected, and heard. Instead, too often the exact opposite happens. The whistleblower becomes a target. As in this case of the former SEP, the now trustee. They stepped forward to expose actions they believed were improper, unethical, and potentially illegal. They did not do so for personal gain. They did not do so to create conflict. They did so to They did so because they believe that doing the right thing mattered more than staying silent. Whistleblowers are not troublemakers. They are often the only line of defense against misconduct that harms employees, students, families, and the public trust. Speaking up takes courage, especially
048when the people being questioned hold power and influence. But rather than investigating the concerns honestly and transparently, the focus shifted. Instead of addressing the allegations, the district forced out the very person who raised them. The message became clear. Silence is safer than truth. Now that individual is being portrayed as a problem, as if integrity is the offense. Their reputation has been challenged, their character questioned, and their motives attacked. This is one of the oldest tactics in the books. Discredit the messenger so no one has to confront the message. But the real issue remains unanswered. Were the allegations invested thoroughly? Were policies followed? Were public resources protected? Was the law upheld? These are the questions that community deserves answers to. Not distractions, not retaliation, and not silence. When institutions ignore whistleblower allegations, they do more than
049fail one employee. They fail the public they are supposed to serve. They create a culture where fear replaces accountability and where wrongdoing is protected instead of exposed. That is dangerous. Leadership is not about protecting positions. It is about protecting principles. Transparency, transparency, ethics, and accountability should never be optional. We should be asking why someone was forced out for doing what many of us hope we would have the courage to do ourselves. We should be asking why the district continues to ignore serious concerns rather than confront them directly. Because when the truth is punished and silence is rewarded, everyone loses. Doing what is right should never cost someone their career. But when it does, it reveals far more about the institution and those in power than it does about the whistleblower. The community is watching. The
050truth matters. And accountability cannot be ignored forever. This matter should be litigated and could cost the district millions. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. >> That concluded tonight's speakers. >> All right. Moving on to the adoption of the minutes. I move that we approve. Is there a second? >> Krauss. I second. >> We'll take the roll call. Miss Leave. >> Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss. I. >> Trusty Lef French. >> I. >> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I >> trusty stood. >> Sto. Motion passes 40. Moving on to the consent agenda. We'll taking items 2 through 25. Does anyone any trustee want to pull an item? Trusty Krauss >> just 11.11 business services uh purchase order warn listing. That's it. Thank you. >> Trusty Stewart, >> I have none. >> Trusty Leaf French >> I
051have none. Thank you. >> And I have none. Um I move that we approve the consent agenda with the exception of 11.11. Is there a second? >> Le French. I second. >> We'll take the vote. Miss Leane. Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss I. >> Trustee Lef French. >> Lef French. I Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I >> Trusty Stoodto. >> Stood I. Motion passes for 4 Z. Moving to the items removed from consent 11.1. I move that we approve. Is there a second? >> Krauss. I second. >> Um. All right. We'll open it up for discussion if there's any. Trusty Krauss. >> No discussion. Just pulled the vote. Thank you. >> Trusty Stewart. I have no discuss discussion. >> Trusty Le French. >> None. >> And I have none. We'll take the vote. Miss Levy. >> Trusty
052Krauss. >> Krauss. Nay. >> Trusty um Le French. >> Le French. I >> trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I >> Trusty Sto. >> Sto. Motion passes. 41 or 31 with trusty crossing. No. Moving on to new business selection of the superintendent search firm. I move that we approve the Aosta group. Is there a second? Krauss. I second it. We'll open it up for discussion. Trusty Krauss. >> No discussion. Thank you. President >> Trusty Stewart. >> None. >> Trusty Lef French. >> None. La French. >> All right. Well, I actually wanted us to talk about actually the timeline of this. Um obviously, um it seems like we're going to be moving forward. It sounds like the board picked the Aosta group. Um [sighs] my I wanted us to talk about, you know, what are the next steps?
053Um, if we're looking at the timeline, um, what do we want to do? I mean, we haven't even signed up. So, we still the contract still needs to come back for board approval and we're already going to be um, in the month of May. The and I believe I've shared um, very briefly the timeline that it would overlap, right? So, if we're just to summarize, we'd be getting a superintendent around September or October. Um, so I just I just I'm just curious if there's any thoughts if any thought was put into the timeline because I still am sharing my concerns about it. Um, you know, there's been narratives out there about the timing when we, you know, make make certain decisions and I would want us to kind of move away from that. Um, so
054I'm kind of curious if there's any thoughts about what we want to do with the firm. Obviously, we'll pick the firm, but I mean, do we want to have this discussion at the next one? Um, yeah, that's kind of what I wanted us to talk about with the next steps. What do we want to do next? >> Trust Krauss. >> Yes. Thank you, President Soda, for opening up the floor on that. I appreciate uh you uh your comments on there. Uh we do know it's my understanding and Dr. Vieas I appreciate all the information you've given the board over the last several months regarding a superintendent search and uh how that would work. Um with the group that we have uh one of the concerns is that not with the group itself but the timing
055as you stated President Sto um I want to make sure that they have enough time to thoroughly do their job and not be rushed to uh do whatever it is that they do. They this is what they do. they're experts at this, right? And so, um, I would want to hear, we did see at a prior board meeting kind of the timeline of what they were presenting and what they were, uh, uh, you know, putting out there. Uh, and and if I recall correctly, I think it was looking at July. We're going into May right now. May, June, July. That would be a three-month process. Um, again, I'm not sure that that is uh a long enough process, but at the same token, we're in prime superintendent season right now. And what I mean by
056that is is that any superintendent or potential superintendent is out there applying, is out there looking uh because they generally start July 1st. So, we on one hand don't want to rush it. We want to take our time, but on the other hand, we may shoot ourselves in the foot with some good candidates as well if we take a longer process. So, I don't know what the happy medium is there in the middle, but I hope that that kind of makes sense what I'm saying that we do want to take our time. We want to do it right, but at the same time, we also want to figure out maybe a way to maybe capture some people that are interested in our in our district and coming to our district um without someone else picking
057them up by July 1st. Yeah, I mean um we want we need to get this right. We have one shot. We have one opportunity. We have a reputation that we are aware of when it comes to superintendence. And um I we need to get it right this time. We need to I know there are districts um for example Alan Muserino um was at Yorinda placenta and I think he was there he just stepped down once they actually found the the permanent superintendent. So I know I'm very much aware of districts that will wait until it's the right time to actually initiate the search firm. I don't want to rush this. I mean, speaking for myself, you know, I I want to get this right. We we have one shot at this. Um, so I I
058wanted to open up that discussion for us to, you know, what do we want to do? You know, how does how does that look like? So, that's where I'm at. You know, >> I would agree that I wouldn't want to I don't want to rush this either. And um I am aware of our history. I have no com comment. Okay. All right. Well, you know, I I could what I'm hearing is yeah, we want to get this right. So, perhaps we bring it back and uh as an action item so that we can officially give some sort of direction or do we want to do that now up to the board? But it sounds like let's select the firm is what I'm hearing. Well, depending on the vote and then um we'll put a pin
059on it and then if you know what that's what I'm hearing we'll put a pin on actually starting the search but we will actually pick the firm you know we follow the process we did the independent uh committee we had no influence over that the district gave them gave us the top to top scoring firms you know and we had three And I mean, we did it as transparent as we can. I don't know what we could have done more, but um yeah, that's what I'm hearing. Let's just pick the firm, but maybe we slow down a bit. Maybe we put a pin on this, unless there's an objection. I appreciate the time that was put in in order to uh pick the firm. Um, and I appreciate them going through the selection committee and
060coming up with the ones that they came up with. I want to say thank you for the time that they put in for doing that. We appreciate it. >> Thank you, Chancellor Frer. Absolutely. >> Yeah. And anything else? Colleagues? >> No. >> Colleagues? No. All right, we'll take the vote for we'll take the vote for a costa group and then um we'll put a pin on the firm for um uh Miss Le vote please. >> Trusty Krauss >> Krauss I >> trusty le French left French nay. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart nay. >> Trusty stood I motion pass fails two to two. Okay, interesting. Moving on to educational services. Approve and adopt the second read of board policy district. So, if the motion fails, I'm going to um >> Never mind. Um >> is is
061there a question? >> Uh no, just wanted to have clarification. And if motion fails, then um is there intention for it to come back uh in the future time? >> Um I I want to follow up on what the uh Rosenberg rules of order is. Um but yes, I believe this can come back. >> It's allowable, but um >> Okay. So, I just wanted to get some direction on that. >> Yeah, that it'll it have to come back. So, I don't know why. Anyways. All right. All right. Moving on to approve and adopt the second read of board policy 5113.12. Is there I motion that we approve? Is there a second? >> Love French. I second. >> All right, we will take the vote. Miss Levan, >> trusty Krauss. >> Krauss I. >> Trusty Le
062French. >> Le French I. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart I. >> Trusty Sodto. >> Sodto I. Motion passes 40. Moving on to governing board board member reports and announcements. We'll start down the line. Trust Krauss. >> Thank you, President Stoodto. Uh, good evening everyone. First off, I wanted to thank our bus drivers. It's school bus driver appreciation day on the day that we have a board meeting. So, that's really exciting. And I know they're out there working every day to transport our students from home to school and back. So, we do appreciate all the hard work uh that they do as well as our mechanics that help keep our buses operational and our transportation office that also helps keep a welloiled machine running. I want to congratulate all of the students that uh hopefully did
063really well on state testing. I know that they were prepared. Dr. Vieas had sent out some videos prepping the families. So, thank you again, Dr. Vegas, for that. That's a great idea to encourage them on that. Uh we recently had the budget committee meet and so as we uh move through the budget process, we're getting into the adopted budget coming up. Well, the May revise comes out in May. We'll hear what the governor has to say and then the district will continue to uh look at the revenues and expenditures and and hopefully the budget committee will come up with some great ideas on how we can uh maintain a balanced budget uh not just this year but all three years for our multi-year projection. As we've heard this evening from uh Mr. Han. Uh my
064sympathy goes out to the Forbes family. You are in my prayers and I look forward to the celebration of life and I appreciate ADTA uh hosting that at Columbia Middle School. Uh we're looking forward to hopefully opening our pool for our families again this summer. Um it's always exciting time. It's one of the best pools I think in the high desert and uh hopefully that our families will get to enjoy uh the pool over the hot season. hasn't been too hot yet, but hopefully uh when that does happen, uh we'll be able to open that up to our families and community. Um just Franklin, I want to thank you. I mean, congratulate everybody and thank you for all the hard work you did to uh receive the blue ribbon recognition. It's exciting when uh we
065see that uh whenever any of our schools get recognized and we're always proud of all of the work that goes into ensuring that uh our students are a success not only from the sta the uh teaching staff, the classified staff, the families, uh everybody that's involved in the process of ensuring student success. So, it's a team effort and so thank you for uh all you do at Gus Franklin. Uh very exciting that they uh receive that recognition uh this year. Um earlier this evening there was a vote for the superintendent search process and I'm not quite sure why it failed. I I can't speak for anyone else. I do know that uh the firms that the committee selected were well vetted and I I will say again transparently I have no interest in any of
066these firms. No financial interests, no familial interest uh related to anybody or ever worked with anybody on these firms. Um, we do need a superintendent and I I don't believe that uh I'm trying to rush the process but one of the things about these superintendent firms is they have a lot of work going on in other districts. There are over,200 districts in the state. Unfortunately, we're one of those 1,200 and if we don't get into their queue at some point they're going to say we're sorry we gave you a chance now twice to hire us and you chose not to. And this is again my opinion of one trustee. The absence of a third trustee this evening that potentially would sway the vote one way or the other. Not sure how they would vote, but
067I think that it's a shame that this knowingly would fail on a 2 to2 vote because any two to2 vote dies. We do need a superintendent. We appreciate the work Dr. Viegas is doing, but we as a community, not just as a trustee, I live here and work here and reside here, been here for 25 years. We need a solid superintendent and we're not going to be able to do that alone. We're not going to be able to do that on Edjoin. We're not going to be able to do it hoping somebody comes from down the street and knocks on our door. We need a well-vetted company like the Costco Group or a group like them. In this in this case, the Costco Group was recommended to us by the district committee. I do not
068want to discount our committee that selected these groups to come to us uh for consideration. Um, all we're doing is kicking the can down the road by not approving this uh organization this evening to do the superintendent search. And one of the things that I will not stand for is political gamemanship. And there's this is an election year. And I hope that people remember come November, the two trustees that voted no twice now on this cost group to uh recommend for a superintendent search come November. And uh last thing I'd like to say, we are here for our students. We're not here for ourselves. We're not here for anyone else. At least I can speak for me. I'm here for our students and I will always be here for our students and every decision that
069I make is based on that fact. And so I hope that uh we all remember why we are truly here at the end of the day. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Krauss. Uh Trusty Stewart. >> Um let's see here. Well, first I had a qu question which it doesn't have to be a answered right now, but I did send Dr. V vas a email mail [clears throat] about how the R RFP pro processes for vend vendors um that work with our student students. For example, the board vote vote voted on a vend vendor to work with with our kids during summer school. And I just was cur curious about how that process works. Um because I don't think think about about it because I don't work for the disc district. I see what the
070this district brings and I read through through it and then then I vote. So a c couple of weeks ago I was informed that millionaire minds will not be re returning to a AESD which you know sad saddens me because I always felt that they had a great pause positive impact on our kids. Um the the afterchool pro programs are winter wonderland for the fost foster kids. Um when when I have been to schools you know after the school hours and I've seen the um the staff interact with the student students. It's always been positive, but um I guess now they will not be return turning and I guess that that's why I had had a question about the the RFP process. Um so you know hopefully I get the email so I can get
071more information on that. Um on April se 17th there was a fourth grade grader at Gus Franklin that was choking and the te teacher found it ne necessary to per perform the himhe himck maneuver maneuver to save this ch child's life and she you know had stayed stated she she was worried that she might break break a rib but the stuff wasn't come coming out. She did one good good squeeze and that the food shot out of the mouth. The um stu stu who student was sent to the nurse and then he was parents were were called and he was um seen by a med medical professional and um he turned out to be okay. So I want want to thank Lauren Ben Benson at Gus Frank Franklin for save saving that that child child's
072life and I suggest that all te teachers please may make sure your c CPR is up to date because you never never know when you will be need needed. Hope hopefully it doesn't hap happen but if it does you'll know what to do. Lastly, I do not regret my vote at all. Okay. Um, I believe we had a good s superintendent attendant. The board disagreed and the board and the maj major majority board got got their their way. How I vote is how how I vote and I always vote what's best for the dis district. So I don't regret it one bit. I don't care what year it is. If it's a if if it's an an election year or not, I will all always do what's best for the kids and for the staff
073because we need a well-run running dis district to work well for our kids because the kids deserve deserve it. Okay, please have have a good good night. Thank you, uh, Trust French. >> Thank you. I'd like to start off by congratulating Gus Franklin Elementary School on receiving the California School recognition um for uh the Blue Ribbon Award. Um, I want you to know that this is an incredible achievement and a reflection of the hard work of the entire school community over there. So, once again, congratulations. I also want to say thank you to our superintendent and I want to say um thank you um Dr. Veos for all that you're doing over here. I want to thank you for Saturday school being brought back. I want to thank you for those conversations that we have
074that to me has brought our board closer than we've been in quite a long time. Thank you very much. Um I also want you to know that um I fully support our students receiving that additional instructional time and appreciate the focus of our student success on Saturdays. that's going to be able to help our our children out with being able to get the extra instructional time that they need. So, bringing Saturday school back was uh something that I greatly appreciate. Um I would also like to thank the families and staff here at um AESD for their continued support and their partnership while they go through us during the transitional time that we're going through. It's not our first time going through this time and we've had quite a few superintendent. Um, but your dedication to
075your students um, as well as this district um, truly makes a difference here. I appreciate that. Um, I'm going to ignore some other things, but I also would like some um clarification because I noticed that um regarding the direction given um during our public comment um that a speaker cannot reference a trustee by name. I am referenced by name um throughout the years that I've been here. Um my understanding of the uh Brown Act is that while we can maintain our order and be respectful in our conduct, we must be respectful. We must uh um we must have board meetings that are maintained in order. Um we cannot impose contentbased restrictions though on public comment. I also want to center this conversation on the um public that we serve. Members of the public come here
076to be heard, including the ability to speak directly to us. Um when we impose limits on our public, such limits could make our public not want to come out and express themselves. And this is a welcoming environment and we want the public to come out so we know what the community is thinking um the questions that they have of us and to be transparent. They should be allowed to come and to speak. Um to avoid any uh confusion moving forward, um I respectfully ask that us as a board go over the rules for the Brown Act and make sure that we are clear on what we say out here and with regards to the public speaking. That's all that I have to say. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. What a night. Almost
0778:30. [sighs and gasps] Let's go. On uh April the 7th, we held a governance board governance retreat. We had been working on establishing a board governance retreat since we contracted with HYA. I just want to be very clear to to the public. The board contracted with HYA for fractional chief of staff services for specialized governance services and for our governance. And it's it is um it's more than us being able to just get along, right? This is it is about this the the stability of this district. It is about the really the kids of this district. So I just share that with the public and with everyone listening that this board is committed to working as a team of five and we have been putting in the effort. We have been putting in the homework
078to start becoming a unified team. And it's not just about a unified team. It is about also becoming a unified community. What is going on? What the the type of politics, the type of um adult kind of games that are being in my view are prevalent. It's very divisive. It is very almost a shame. You know, as the younger person on this board, I look up to the adults, but how can you look up to the adults when, you know, these sorts of um politics, these sorts of targeting of trustees and um things that are happening that really should not be happening at a school board. This is this the challenges that we're facing are truly unique and that goes back to what just happened, right? Well, let me slow down a bit. That retreat
079was supposed to be a a sign um a signal that we'd be moving together forward as a unit that we would try to work as a team of five because at the end of the day it does not have to be three to two. It doesn't have to be that way. And as a matter of fact, people in the community benefit from this board being divided. So the retreat that we had on April 7th, uh we agreed that we would be turning the page so much so that we have our norms now printed out in front of us. These are norms that have been set by the board and approved in 2023. So, I want to talk about two norms that are important for us as a community to start focusing on. the one norm.
080[clears throat] We devote our time and energy to important business issues, not to politics, pettiness or ungra ungraciousness. Excuse me. The other one, we do not withhold or obstruct the flow of important information that belongs with the governance team. you know, we you know, the effort that's being made, we actually had to table this at the last meeting. Well, I should say we we didn't have to, but out of out of our effort to try and work as a team, we tabled it. [clears throat] We tabled this item because one of our colleagues had a concern and we wanted to hear from her, right? What what do you need? right? What can we do to make this right? That's why it I agreed that we should hear out and all in the effort of wanting
081to work together. So, I thought we were and I'm I still have faith that we will get there, but I think there needs to be that other context provided, you know. Um, so I'm just kind of I'm also curious like what's going on and and I guess I'm I kind of hurt a little bit. You know, I was listening carefully and I get that we still have, you know, um, some high feelings, some high high emotions about, you know, how the district move forward is moving forward and maybe And I would just, you know, so I hear that. Um, and I get that, you know, it's tough. Uh, it's tough, especially if there's a strong, uh, relationship there, right? It's it's hard to It takes time. It takes time. And I just want to say,
082um, wrapping up here is that, um, we also need a superintendent. we and you know we need to move forward I guess is what I need to say like I know it's I know that what I'm hearing is tough but what is the endgame here no sup you know like what are we what I'm curious genuinely curious but let me just wrap this up saying that we have a great interim superintendent he's doing some I mean the fact that he's tackling this budget issue perhaps one of the most challenging crisis a school district can go through he's navigating this and he's doing a great job I haven't heard anything positive uh reviews uh feedback I should say from uh to to our our superintendent. So, I just want to hopefully that sits. You know, I'm
083willing to move forward. You know, I don't know what's going on, but we know um the challenges that have been going on. We know uh the high emotions that are involved, but it's time to move forward. It's time to turn that fresh page. It may take some time, but you know, when are we going to say enough is enough? Let's start focusing on kids now. I mean, that's why we're here. Um, I want to now, okay, I'm done. So, we'll move forward to Thank you for being patient, Dr. Viegas. Moving on to superintendent reports and announcements. >> Well, thank you very much to to all to those in in Zoom and our board and cabinet and everyone else who who is still here and and you know, I do appreciate um all all the comments
084that were said and I think that's part of it. and you we are we're a family and every everyone's voice matters and that's really important for for everyone to know and um I want you to know this as well is you know I I'm I'm I am hopeful that we do find the best possible superintendent for Atlanta and I think that will happen and uh while that happens you know I've I've committed to you that I'll be here uh to support the community uh for the good of the kids and and with the best of my ability So, I I do want you to know that. I want the our our staff to know that that, you know, we we we you will not you're not alone. We will be together. There are so many
085great things happening in our district and I think some of it has been said already um Gus Franklin. I was uh had the privilege of being able to go and celebrate with Gus Franklin in Anaheim uh this Friday when they were officially recognized by the California Department of Education. And I'm also hopeful that as a board we can uh bring them here to the board and and have an official congratulations on behalf of the board so that uh they know how special they are because they they really did work really hard to make that happen. And it's not just a one-year event. It's something that took a long long time to accomplish. So we're very proud of of that work that they're doing. Um but you know looking also where we are I I understand
086there's 24 more instructional days before the end of the year. That means the end of the year is coming fast. And so we I know that there's so many things happening. End the year is an exciting time because it's culminating of grades, culminating of sometimes transition into other schools, transition into high school for our eighth graders. And so it's an exciting time and and I just anyone who's out there watching, if you have children in our school district, enjoy this time. You know, testing is over or almost over. So hopefully the the stress will be a little bit less for our students when they can enjoy these last 24 days and and build some memories because that's what at the end of the day that's part of what happens as well as the memories that
087that they have. Uh I love the month of May also because we get to recognize staff and so we we have the opportunity to recognize classified staff, certificated staff. So I know in the in the next meetings there'll be some resolutions and some opportunities to celebrate our staff, the the staff that really makes things work. And I think we've heard it from a lot of different folks that, you know, the work happens in the school sites. Uh that's where their kids are in school and that's where the the the biggest impact happens. And so we're really excited about that. And what was said about the budget, yeah, you know, the there are some concerns as they are in a lot of schools in the state of California. you know, the budget condition is is a
088complex uh decline in enrollment uh affects us all and and so as we go through this, you know, like I've guaranteed that I made to all is that we're doing this together. You know, we've assembled a a a very good uh budget committee that's looking at at various things and I think we've already made some adjustments along the way that are going to help us in the long path. So, u much more to come. Uh in response to the question about uh the RFP process related to um the after school programs uh there has been a public RFP that went out and that's being u still looked at. There's a couple of committees that have looked at that and and there'll be a recommendation from the committees to to provide to um the leadership and
089then to the board. But then there's going to be a different uh one as well, a supplemental afterchool program which I think the millionaire minds one fits into that one because it's not a comprehensive after school program. It's it's a a supplemental at least the way we currently have it. They work in conjunction with another uh group. So they should have the opportunity that has not flown yet. That should fly in the next two weeks. So we should be able to they should be able to uh submit for that one as a supplemental. And so um much more to come with that. And you know, our commitment to the community, our commitment to each other is that we will continue to work hard for the the good of the kids. So, thank you and have
090a fantastic night. >> Awesome. Thank you. Before we adjourn, well, wanted to adjourn in memory of Mr. Mark Forbes from Colombia and Meinda. So, we'll adjourn in his honor, and his memory. I motion that we adjourn in the memory of Mark Forbes. Is there a second? >> Steuart. I sec second. We'll take the vote. Miss Leane. >> Trusty Krauss. >> Krauss. I >> Trusty Lef French. >> Le French. I >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart I. >> Trusty Stoodto. >> So do I. Motion passes 40. Time is 8:39. Have a good evening everyone. Thank you.