001[Music] Heat. Heat. Testing. One, two. [Music] This month we started [Music] Check. [Music] down. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Maybe it's just Good. How are you? [Music] Hey, [Music] heat. [Music] We got 2 minutes before we start. [Music] We're going to start at exactly 5:30. Okay. [Music] I choose it. You ready for the meeting? How are you doing? >> Good. That's the point. [Music] >> All right, the time is 5:30. We ready, >> Trusties? >> Uh, Trusty Stewart. We're going to get I'm going to call the call to order the regular meeting of the Alanto Elementary School District. The time is 5:30. It is August September 7th, 2025. We're going to get started with the uh roll call and quorum establishment. Miss Lelay, >> did I say October 7th? >> Yes. I'm sorry. I'm October 7th
002is the date today. Miss Leave the roll call. >> President Sto, I do want to announce that Trusty Krauss will not be with us tonight. I'll take roll call. Trusty Kyer >> Kyer present. >> Trusty Leaf French >> Lrench present. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart pre present. >> Trusty Sodto >> Sodto present. We have a quorum. Moving on to the pledge of allegiance. Madam clerk, would you mind leading us in the flag? >> Absolutely. Thank you, President. If everyone could please stand uh place your hand over your heart. >> I pledge allegiance 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, Madam Clerk. We're going to move on to the adoption of the
003agenda. Are there any proposed additions, deletions, or revisions, Miss Lee? >> President Sodto, we do not have any tonight. >> Okay, moving on to the adoption of the agenda. At this time, I'll entertain a motion. Trustees >> Ker motion to adopt the agenda. >> Is there a second? >> Trusty La French. I second. >> A second by Trusty Leaf French. Any discussion? Seeing hearing none, Miss Lev the vote, please. >> Trusty Ker >> Ker I. >> Trusty Leaf French. >> Le French I. Trusty Stewart Stewart I. Trusty Stoodto. >> Sodto I. We've just adopted the agenda. Moving on to number three, staff presentations. Uh Dr. Walker, we're going to take items one through three for the staff presentations. Dr. Walker. >> Thank you, President Sodto. At this time, I'm going to turn it over to
004um Dr. Valdez. >> Thank you, and good evening, everyone. We are excited for our next two school presentations. Our first presentation will be by our Mesa Linda Middle School, our our principal, Genevie Johnston. Oh, and she brought her assistant principal. So, let me um also joining her is Kelly Boeing, her assistant principal of curriculum and instruction, and Katrina Palmer, assistant principal of operations. Is that Oh, there we go. Okay. Hi everyone. Um, and I think our next presenter is also joining me as well. So, thank you so much to the board and to our district cabinet. We are going to present our SPA for this year. Um, and kind of give you a brief overview of what we're doing. So, the whole point is to provide an overview and to give you a little bit
005of a brief overview of like our demographics and things like that for the year, to review last year's data, and to really kind of look at our goals for next year. Um, so Mesa Linda is really kind of reimaging oursel this year. Here are some fun activities from this year. We've already brought a lot of fun back to Mesa Linda. Um, different activities and events, parent events and things like that. So, total enrollment for us, this is hot off the press as of today. Um, our student demographic numbers are changing daily. So, uh, we currently sit at 726 students. This is our data from last year. So um I think the important thing to note from this particular uh slide is that our ELA data data has significantly grown in the last couple of years.
006So the thing with me Linda is we've had a lot of challenges recently. Um and we have still managed to grow by over 3% in our ELA. We have grown by almost 4% in math as a school. That's a huge growth in four years even with everything that they have been through and that's prelim data. So even with our subgroups um the hardest part is we're noticing with our with our English learners that's going to be one of our big target groups for the next for this following year is to really focus in on our ELA uh I'm sorry on our English learners for this coming up year as well as our African-American population. We did see a little bit of a decrease there. um and our McKenna Vento students as well as our foster
007youth. Um so our data conclusions when we really looked at it this year and started to dig in, our test scores are improving overall. Um but there has been a slight decline with our EL population, our Hispan Hispanic youth and our foster youth subgroup test scores. And according according to I Ready, we really see a big drop off after summer. And so we're trying to really look and see how we can foster that retention for summer uh retention for our academics. So, our top three areas of focus for 2526 are EL ELA and math scores for all of our subgroups, our special ed compliance because that was also a big area. We were not in compliance with our special education uh department and campus culture and students and family and staff uh involvement. Um, so
008these are our goals and our strategies for metrics. I'm not going to read all of these to you, okay? I'm going to spare you all of that. You guys can read through them all. But here's what I wanted to kind of share with you guys. Um just some highlights that I wanted to give you for this year. Last year I did a sideby-side comparison and some of this is going to be a little shocking. Last year um 96% of our students were suspended at some point in time for the school year. I know. Think about that for a minute. Um it's really shocking. It's hard to have positive test scores. It's hard to have any kind of positive anything. This year only 3% of our students have been suspended. Last year we had a total
009of like 1,800 suspensions. We're only at 42 for the year. And I will say there was no other means of correction. We have used I think Rebecca told us like 10 or 15 different other means of correction. Our average daily attendance was somewhere around 82% daily average attendance. Guys, we're at 92 and that's with all of our ads and drops for the year. like we are making huge strides and improvement and it's because of what's in our SIP set and it's because what you guys are allowing us to do as a school site. So, we have tons of things that we have set as goals. We have tons of things that we're working on as a school site. Um, and we're getting there and it's all because of you guys having support and having faith
010in us. So, that's kind of us in a nutshell. Our big focus this year is our parent and family engagement. We've welcomed parents back into our school and you can see it. Our parents are coming to our school site. They're participating with their kids and so that's our really big thing in enhancing our culture as a whole on our campus celebrating our kids and celebrating what they bring to the table. We've added tons of electives. We're adding a CTE pathway program for our kids and really celebrating their growth. Um I would just like to thank everyone sitting up there because you guys took a big chance on us this year and we are enjoying it. Thank you so much to our staff, our students, our teachers for always having faith and being allin this year.
011And that's us in a nutshell. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Miss Johnston. Our next presentation will be by >> We're going to open up for uh trustees for questions or comments first. >> Um Trustee Leaf French Any questions? >> I don't have any questions at this time, but I do want to say that, you know, when children enjoy coming to school, they go to school. >> They do. And um usually we wait until after both of you have finished. So that caught me a little bit off guard. Um but I also want to say that um while visiting um Mesa, it is an um enjoyment, you know, to see um everyone in class and to hear um the suspension rate, right? Uh that's pretty high there, right? So sometimes, you know, you ask
012yourself when you have a suspension rate that high, >> uh as a parent myself, I would have to say that means that if you cough, you suspend it, right? That's pretty high there, right? >> Yeah, it was pretty terrifying. >> Yeah, that's scared. Don't sneeze, right? I don't know. >> That's something to think about. >> All right. Thank you. Appreciate your uh presentation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Stewart. >> Well, I I am am impressed with the the ADA, you know, the fact that that it's jumped from 82 to 90 92. And there's no nothing harder than trying to get a middle schooler to get them to school. >> I strugg struggled with my my son. >> So for that to improve, it just shows a the kids are re receptive and I'm so
013thank thankful for for that. And you must be do doing well to turn turn it around. And when when we went to your to to the school, your excite excitement was infectious and your staff's excite excitement was infectious. >> So, and the kid kids know >> they know >> when the teach teachers and the staff care that you you can't fake fake it. No. >> So, I uh app appreciate you and and and and your your staff. Thank Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Stewart. Clerk Kire, >> let me start off by saying thank you so much for your presentation this evening. Um I applaud you for bringing that 1,800 down to 42. My main question is what other forms of uh disciplinary action are we taking to kind of keep that school >> grounded?
014That's a great question. So, one of the things that we really started looking at was when we started dissecting like the behaviors that our students were having, we brought in more like restorative circles. Um we've done more reflection sheets. We've done more just having conversations with the kids about like why are you doing this? And what we found was a lot of it is just they start horse playing with each other and then it just kind of grows into something bigger, right? Like they're messing around and then the girl they like is standing right there and then they get their feelings hurt or they're trying to show up for, you know, their friends and it grows into something bigger. And so just really having that conversation about, oh my gosh, like okay, so why did
015this grow? And most of it they don't need to be suspended for. They just need to have a conflict mediation conversation. They shake hands and they're good. like they really just need that time to self-reflect and to rebuild that relationship and they're absolutely fine and they can go on about their day. Um, so really just getting to know our kids was most of it. Um, but really bringing in those restorative circles and restorative practices was really big for our kids and they have just grown so much from it. And then that you see them like stop and reflect like should I really do this or should I not? And then also having them think about what is that perception to other people. So if I start playing around, all the kids run over because they
016think we're fighting and then now you have that pressure to actually kind of perform, if you will, right? So we've started doing a lot of that. Um, and just being more involved and more visible with our kids, too, because sometimes they just don't even realize that there's no adults around and things just sometimes get out of hand, right? Um, and so we've done a lot of that. We've done a lot more, we've offered a lot more electives and given them given them alternative things to do. We opened up our whole field. So, uh, we're working with AYA because our kids love football. Um, so they're actually going to start right after fall break. They're going to start running their, uh, flag football practices during our lunchtime as well because our boys love to play football.
017They can sometimes get a little out of hand, right? Because they all think that they're playing the in the NFL like right now at lunch. So, they're going to start actually running their NFL practices during lunch. But, we have like soccer games and volleyball games and basketball games going on. So, just giving kids the opportunity to be kids gave them that outlet that they needed. Um, and I think also just kind of changing our staff's perspective. Just because kids are running doesn't mean that they're running to fight and they're up to no good. They're kids. They're going to run. It's okay. Like, it's fine. So, we've given them that opportunity and that outlet to just get that energy out. Um, and the other thing is we went to one lunch. Um, a lot of people
018thought we were crazy, but they were all skipping class and up to no good uh, three times a day because they had three lunches. So, we gave them one lunch and gave them that opportunity to hang out with their friends. And so, that changed the culture a lot and the behaviors a lot on our campus. And so, we've just listened to what they wanted really and given it to them. >> I appreciate that. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Clare CLA. Um, I just want to acknowledge the work that's being put into messa. We all know it's been a very challenging middle school >> and so we appreciate you willing to take that and and and do some positive change. The fact that you reduce suspensions from what 90% 95% >> all the way
019down to 3% that speaks volumes. So I want to thank you for the work that you're providing there at Metro Linda. >> Thank you. Next speaker please. >> Thank you. Um, President Sodto, our next presentation will be for Theodore Vic Elementary School by Dr. Janlin Milana, principal. And here to support is also Mr. Matthew Ltome, the assistant principal. >> Right. Good evening, board president Sodto, trustees, Dr. Walker, executive cabinet, and the AESD community. I am Dr. Janeline Milana. I'm the proud principal of Theodoric Elementary and it is my honor to share with you our school plan for student achievement this school year. Here is a quick overview of what I'll be sharing today from our demographics and achievement data to goals and strategies in our school plan. We currently serve 481 students. The majority identify
020as Hispanic and a large portion of our students face economic challenges. We also support a significant number of English learners. At the we live by Edward Deming's words, without data, all we have is an opinion. We celebrate our successes, but we also use data to identify and address areas for growth. In ELA, CASP results have shown slight fluctuation overall. Notably, fourth grade had a strong rebound this year or this past year, improving by over 10 percentage points. Our math scores have re steadily improved with an overall gain of eight percentage points since 202122 school year. Third grade improved by nearly nearly nine points and fourth and fifth grades saw gains of almost 10 points each. English learners made strong gains in both ELA and math. However, we did see a decline in scores among African-American
021students which we consider as an opportunity for growth. In science, mostly students group improved significantly in 23 24 school year with foster youth showing the greatest gains in 2024 2025. Over the last four years, CASPY scores have improved especially in math with gains of eight to 10 points across all grades. English learners continue to show consistent growth, but we still have opportunities to improve in several areas. This year, our top focus areas are ELA, literacy and writing, math, and attendance. To address these goals, our SPSA outlines targeted strategies and initiatives aimed at improving student outcomes. The first three of our six goals focus on academic uh performance in ELA, math, and ALPAC for English learners. Our key strategies include after school tutoring, which is based on data, MTSS with a small group instruction utilizing our
022uh intervention teachers, our resident uh substitute teachers. We also have one school, one book to promote reading, avid strategies that focus on writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading. And of course, ongoing professional development for staff. Our other goals center on special education, student engagement, and family community involvement. and our strategies for these areas include specialized intervention materials. Student assemblies that focus on SEAL and college and careergoing culture clubs and field trips and hands-on learning are also included in the strategies and of course parent engagement through different uh opportunities and workshops such as coffee with admin which is uh monthly el uh ELAC SSE and volunteer events. We track progress using CASP, the California school dashboard and engagement metrics like parent square and event attendance. Looking ahead, our focus is on deepening our avy strategies to boost
023the student engagement, strengthening PBIS to support a positive school culture, and continuing professional learning and collaboration. At this juncture, I want to thank our incredible assistant principal, Mr. Tong who is right behind me, our dedicated teachers and staff, our parents and guardians, district staff, and of course the board and cabinet for your continuous support. Thank you and have a wonderful evening. [Applause] >> Thank you. Uh Trustee Stewart, any comments or questions? Uh first thing congrat congratulations to to the kids on their their growth because that that is huge you know to to to go go up that much and I'm pretty sure they're they're going to get a little celebration for for that cuz I think that that's great and just you know I think it's great that your staff is work working so hard
024to get throw those scores score up though the test is it's hard. It is a hot mess. I I had had to give an IAB and it's like so so for your student students to to improve just shows how great their achieve achievement is. It's more than just just a test. It's a brain fry. So thank thank you. Thank you, Trust French. >> Thank you for that presentation. >> My voice is very raspy, so I was going to try to talk without it. Thank you for this presentation and thank you for all that you're doing over there. And uh same thing um for you to for your students and for your teachers, for your um test scores. That is um a wonderful achievement. So I know they'll have ice cream. >> Trust the French. I
025don't mean to interrupt. They can't hear you in the mic. Can you just speak a little bit more closer? >> All righty. Thank you for everything that you're doing over there and we greatly appreciate everything that you're doing and please, you know, thank you to your students as well as those teachers that are supporting them as well as their parents for um encouraging them and bringing them every day. I appreciate you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty the French Clerk Kire. >> Good evening. Thank you so much for being with us this evening. I will keep mine short. Um, in the years that I've been here, we've seen Ted Vic grow so beautifully. Um, I want to shout out to you, your assistant principal, your teachers and staff, but most importantly, your kids. Seeing their
026growth, seeing how far they've come is just a magical thing to be a part of. And I cannot appreciate you all. Thank you. Or enough. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. Thank you, Clerk. Yeah, I just want to echo the sentiments. I you guys are excellent, really receptive when it comes to asking how we can be supportive. So, I I really do appreciate both the work that you you do you do at TEDvvic. So, thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> All right, moving on to number two, staff report of William Settlement, fourth quarterly report. Dr. Walker, >> thank you, President Stole. Um, I'll turn it over to Dr. Valdez. Good evening. Um, presented for you is an information piece. It's the district's fourth quarterly report for the 2425 school
027year. The San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools sends a representative to our school sites that are considered William Schools to verify that we have all the sufficient instructional materials, that the school accountability report cards have been completed and are conducted, that the facilities inspections are cleared, and that the teacher assignments assignment monitoring is also being reported. Um the findings from the superintendent county of San Bernardino is that we have no findings. So we received a perfect score for all four areas. >> Excellent. Thank you. Moving on to number three, the staff reports. Did you guys want to make a comment? >> Okay. Moving on to number three. Um the staff report of Williams uniform complaint quarterly report summary for quarter 4 2024 2025 school year. >> Dr. Valdez. >> Oh yes, thank you. Um this
028is also another information piece to our board. It is the fourth um quarter report summary for the 2425 school year. It is we are to report to you how many uniform complaint procedures were filed and um our report that you have next to you is that there was zero uh number of complaints received for instructional materials for facilities for teacher vacancy and miss assignments. So it's a perfect score again. >> Excellent. We're moving in the right direction. Excellent. Thank you for that. Moving on to number four, close session declaration. We'll be taking items two through six into close session. Before we do that, we're going to open it up to public comment. Miss Levy, do we have any speakers? >> President Sodto, we do. >> U Madame Clerk. >> Yes, sir. The public comment period
029is administered by state law and is the point in the meeting set aside for 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 agenda items only must complete and submit an AASD speaker request form 5 minutes before the meeting is called to order. Public comments will only be taken on agenda items during the discussion of those items. The board values public comments and although the board of trustees cannot take action or discuss items not on the agenda, the board of trustees listens carefully and appreciates input from the public. Additionally, a public speaker can be cut off for ex exceeding the allotted time or for willfully causing
030an actual disruption to the meeting. Before cutting a person off or removing someone, the board will give at least one clear 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 closed session agenda item. The board limits the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. The board with board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation. Depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard, the president may take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. >> Excellent. Thank you, Clerk Kai. Moving on to uh public speakers, Miss
031Le. >> President Stoodto, the board calls on Jennifer Rider. [Music] that one. Okay. Good evening, President Stoodto, Dr. Superintendent Walker, uh members of the board and community. As we head into fall break, our educators have just completed the first quarter of the year. 10 weeks of getting to know our students, building relationships, and setting the foundation for learning. Teachers have been busy assessing student progress and preparing for parent teacher conferences, those important moments when we connect with families and work together to support each child's growth. It's a busy season, but also an encouraging one. Teachers are seeing their students blossom academically, socially, and emotionally, and we're proud of the strong start we've made. On the labor front, I'm pleased to share that we have a tenative agreement in place and it is now in the
032process of being ratified by our members. We're hopeful that this represents a step toward continued collaboration and stability for everyone in our district. One area we'd like to bring forward for clarification is the Beyond the Bell program. This before and after school initiative has been such a valued resource, providing tutoring, clubs, and enrichment opportunities that extend learning and offer important support to families. Staff and families alike have been asking when Beyond the Bell will resume this year as its late start has created some uncertainty. We know this program takes coordination and planning and we appreciate the district's efforts to make it successful. We would simply welcome an update on the timeline and next steps so that teachers and site leaders can plan accordingly and be ready to participate when it launches. As we all take
033a muchneeded pause for fall break, I want to express appreciation to our board, our administration, and our entire staff for your shared commitment to students. Together, we are creating a strong start to the school year. And with continued collaboration, we can make it an outstanding one. Thank you and I wish everyone a restful and rejuvenating fall break. >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. >> President Sto Diane Lynn from CSTA will not be commenting tonight. Our next speaker is Miss Lisa Martinelli. >> Okay. So, next speaker, our next speaker is Tina Smith. Hello. So, I'm here tonight because of what's happening right now threatens the credibility credibility of this board and the trust in our community. Christina Turner lost her seat in a fair, lawful election. The voters made their choice. Instead of accepting that, she
034led a recall against the person who lawfully replaced her. California election code 11020 says, "Recalls are meant for misconduct, not because you don't like the result of an election. Using a recall in this way is an abuse of power, and it's unfair to the Adilanto people." Since this recall started, we've seen false accusations, anonymous complaints, and what looks like coordinated attacks on a sitting board member. If any of these claims are knowingly false, that's deflamation under civil code 44-46. And if district and if district resources are being used for political purposes, that's against government code 1222 and education code 7054. Even as a former trustee, Miss Turner is bound by ethical standards and the political in the by the political reform act government code 871000, including Miss Lauren being Benson, a teacher at Edento School
035District who seems to be covering for someone and has lashed out on sitting board members who has been unprofessional in her speeches and somehow connected to false accusations. Lauren Benton also made a spectacular of herself at the last board meeting by yelling out recall on three sitting board members. The recall process was created to hold officials accountable, not to be used as a weapon for revenge. When this happens, it weakens democracy and takes away focus of our real jobs, serving the students and the families. Let me be clear, spreading lies or intimidation, it's not just unethical, it could be illegal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. >> President Sodto, the board calls on Kimberly Smith. Good evening, President Sodto, board members, Superintendent Dr. Walker and cabinet. Here we are again. Item six, close session.
036Seriously, we're here again. At least y'all are consistent. And I guess I will be, too. I'm tired after a full day of teaching. And yet, here I stand because I can only imagine how tired Dr. Walker must be dealing with this constant cycle of evaluations. We don't assess our students this often. Teachers don't get evaluated this often. So, please correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems excessive. Another evaluation, another close session discussion. For what reason? Call it what you want, badgering, bullying, but whatever label you choose, it's not what this district, my district, should stand for. Running every well-qualified, genuine superintendent out of here has somehow become our district's greatest accomplishment. And it really needs to stop. Please figure out what truly serves the best interests of all stakeholders, our students, our staff, our
037community, and run with that. And if you can't run with that, then pass the baton and let someone else run with it. Oh, wait. Dr. Walker is already doing just that, putting all stakeholders needs at the forefront of her mind. Maybe the baton needs to stay in her hands so she can continue doing what she needs to do without the nuance of people in the stands jumping onto the track and getting in her lane. I feel like the Lorax and she is my tree. As Dr. Seuss wrote in the Lorax, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Thank you. >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. The board calls on Angelique Jolly. Hello, welcome. And I do want to thank Genevie Johnston being an amazing principal
038at Mesa Linda. I've had the opportunity to work with her closely for the last well kind of since I'm the grievance chair and I'm always over there but not because of her. I have to say that I've been quite a pain in the rear for the past principles at Mesa Linda. I just want to thank Mrs. Johnson for all the collaborative efforts that we have had between us and being part of the safety committee there working closely with admin and cabinet. Um it started with Dr. wise on and I look forward to having a successful school year. I hear positive things about from the teachers of the changes that have been made there. Um so I just I just want to thank her um because I've always had that um thorn in my side I
039guess since some of the things were happening with my own family there. But anyways, with that said, thank you. And then Mr. Johnston last year also had to deal with me on several occasions. So, I do want to say thank you to him. I do see him sitting in the off a audience. I'm not sure exactly what that's for, but thank you again for your um expertise as well. So, anyways, with that said, thank you. Good evening, everybody. I'll make it short. I'm speaking on um the target solutions training and the communication that teachers could be placed on unpaid leave for non-comp completion. Um we have had quite a bit of discussions back and forth and I'm hoping that we do come to a resolution. The directive caused real concerns among our educators because it
040conflicted with both collective bargaining agreement and established labor laws. Under article 12.12, professional learning days are compensated at PDM. Under article 18.2, three teacher duty days are scheduled each year, one and a half for professional development, including the four CDE mandated trainings and one and a half for teacher preparation. These are these are only contractual training days tied to the start of the school year. First, let's be clear. Our teachers have completed them to the best of my knowledge. They were asked to by me personally um by the site reps to complete these trainings. So hopefully they did so in good faith and often on their own time because they put students first. But they also completed under pressure and without clear information about pay or process when required to required work exceeds the contractual
041four hours or the four CDE trainings. Those are extra hours are to be compensated under both CBA and California labor law. Teachers will be submitting time sheets um hopefully for those additional hours and should be compensated at their pdium rate. To do otherwise to require work but withhold pay would be inconsistent with contract and state government laws, wage laws. ADTA fully supports professional learning and compliance with state mandates. We always have. But moving forward, training requirements must be clearly communicated, collaboratively planned, and fairly compensated. I hope to see you guys not I hope we can settle this before it goes to the board um next week or the 28th because I was under the impression it was going to start today and I'm totally prepared for that. I had all my folders. I was going
042to hand them out because in an email I was told that I had three days prior. So since I'm already ready, I'm going to give that to them. But anyways, I just wanted to say thank you. our teachers are um complied. So, let this be a moment to rebuild trust and reaffirm the respect for the educators that begins with honoring the contract and laws that protect. Thank you so much. >> Next speaker, please. >> That concludes the speakers for close session. >> Okay, moving on to recess to close session. At this time, trustees, I'll entertain a motion. >> Trusty Ker, I motion to uh recess to close session. Is >> there a second? >> Steuart, I sec second. took the vote. Miss Leave >> Trusty Ker >> Ker I. >> Trusty Love French >> Love
043French I. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart I. >> Trusty Stoodto >> Sto I. The time is 607. We're in close session. [Music] Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. And then I Yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. [Music] Okay. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey. Hello. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat [Music] up. [Music] Burning. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Okay. [Music] Okay. [Music] I [Music] don't want [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Okay. Okay. [Music] We are recommitting to open session. The time is 8:23. We're going to um call we're going to do a roll call and quum establishment. Miss Le >> Trusty Ker >> Ker present. Trusty Le present.
044>> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart pre present. >> Trusty stood >> present. We have a quorum. Moving on to number eight. Close session report. Announcements are reportable actions taken during close session. I have a few. It was moved by Trusty Kaire and seconded by Trusty French to approve the recommendation of the administrative panel. I'm sorry. I actually have to read that number and it's not worded right here. So, uh, this is case number ID number 339551. The board has taken actual action to approve the hearing panel recommendation suspending the expulsion provided the student meets the following probate probationary conditions. The student will be allowed to return to school on a probationary status. The student must attend anger management counseling. The student must attend a decision making program. The student must maintain satisfactory grades and attendance in
045the alternative educational setting. And it was added to make sure that the student has a behavior support plan. And the votes were trusty Stewart I, Trusty the French I, Trustee Ky I, myself I. So we approve that administrative hearing. Moving on to the next student ID number 350860. The board took action to approve the panel's recommendation. It was moved by Trusty Ker and seconded by Trusty Stewart to approve the recommendation of the administrative panel which includes to expel the to expel a suspension of enforcement for the remainder of the first semester of 2025 through 2026 school year and the second semester of the 2025 2026 school year with the contingency of attending Hope Scholars being enrolled by 10:28 25 and a completion of the rehabilit rehabilitation ation plan. Um during the period of expulsion, the
046student shall maintain satisfactory grades and attendance, attend an anger management classes, attend individual counseling center should provide evidence of significant change in his attitude and behavior as verified by evidentiary facts or by some rehabilitation authority. Also, finally, meet with a director of student services after June 2nd, 2025 to show proof of completion of the above conditions and to and to determine the most appropriate education placement. going to need a better call out for this. It's a bit confusing. Moving on to the third one. ID number 351090. The board has taken >> President So, I'm sorry to interrupt. What was the vote on that one, please? >> Thank you. Trusty Stewart, Trusty French, Trusty Ker, and myself all voted yes. It was unanimous. Okay. Moving on to ID number student 351090. The board has taken action
047to approve the administrative hearing panel recommendation which is to expel for the remainder of the first semester of the 2025 2026 school year and the second semester of the 2025 2020 2026 school year. Not going to read the plan. I don't know if I have to read the plan. Um during the period of expulsion the students shall maintain satisfactory grades and attendance, attend an anger management classes, attend individual counseling session, provide evidence of significant change in the in his attitude and behavior as verified by evidentary facts and by some rehabilitation authority. The votes were trust friend Trusty Stewart clerk kire and myself all voted yes unanimously to approve the panel's recommendation. The board also took action in close session to approve the superintendent goals for the year of 2025 and 2026 school year. And that's
048all that's all we did. So moving on to number 10, adoption of the minutes. At this time, trustees, I invite a motion. >> Steward I mo motion to uh approve. I'm going to go. I apologize trustees. I'm moving too fast. I'm trying to hit my goal here. We skipped the public testimony. >> Yeah. >> So, let's go ahead and move go back to number nine >> and Miss Lavey. Do we have any speakers? >> President. So, what do we do? We have Miss Janette Leam. It's my first time. So, um, can I start right now or >> Yes. Do you have the mic on? >> Yeah. >> Okay, that's good. >> Okay. I'm nervous. >> So, um, good evening. Thank you for, um, coming back for me. I appreciate it. My name is Miss Leam.
049I am the ELA history and also avid teacher at Mesa Linda Middle School. I have been there for um this is my third year there. Very successful in um collaborating with the with the parents and the students and growing our system there. Um I do want to first say that I am a parent. So I do want to speak as a parent at first. Um my daughter Jana Olivia Green has been with AESD since kindergarten with Miss G. She is currently in 8th grade. So, I do want you the board to see that this is a product of your education system and she is a high academic student. Um, I do want to make sure that I say thank you to those teachers that supported me as a parent when I worked with the health
050department and part-time in and out of the prisons um doing other jobs where I was working 12 to 14 hours a day and her father working and she is supported by both parents. So, I want to thank Miss G, Miss Jackson, Miss Hux, Miss Ready, Miss Bing, Miss DLT, Miss Tony, Miss Hernandez, Miss uh Miss V, her Spanish teacher, um Mr. Daffron, um Miss Hernandez, uh Miss Gomez, Miss Lopez, Miss Aga, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Daffron again, um excuse me if it's double because she went by grade. Um Miss Pierce, Mr. Mr. Nicholson, Miss Tony, um if I forgotten anyone, I apologize. I love you all and I'm very grateful as a parent that I had that support system because while I was a parent in this district and I reached out to the board, you
051even the board that were um when I had concerns as a parent and I did email um someone always reached back out to me as a parent. Um, when COVID hit is when I changed my career, I had the support not only from Miss Kimberly, um, I can never say her last name right, praise God, breast, I'm sorry. U, Miss Dana, um, and Miss Ready is the one that said, "Miss Leam, you should be an educator." And I took their advice. Um, I went into education, got my masters in education, um, because my bachelor's is in criminal justice and my associates is in business. So I've led businesses and developed people for years. Um and saying so that is why part of me is so successful in our school system is because I'm about development.
052I'm about that education structure and foundation and I share that with the students that I still don't know what I want to do but I know I want to be with the kids and I know I love this AVID program. Um I've come to you today as a teacher um about something more personal. I'm in the induction program. It's my first year in our induction program. Um I I'm sorry. >> Oh, my second's up. >> Oh, and so, um I'm sorry. In the induction program, um I went to my first orientation when Mr. William Brown, thank you. And I do thank you folks for paying for it because I definitely can't afford it. Um and he let us know about this called the ECI, the early um completion. Um so I was so excited. I
053actually he told me I needed to make sure I communicated with my admin to get their support and I spoke with them and they do support me. They support me with AVID. They support me. That's why I'm successful with their children because I have support and I go for the support. I know that they would um my coach as well supported me, Miss Cinnamon and um for the early completion. But when I called Miss Dana, Miss Dana um did break my heart and I still love her. She did break my heart and let me know that you, the board, do not allow early completion um of the induction program. I don't know why. >> Thank you. >> And so I just wanted to come and speak about that. >> Awesome. Thank you. Your time is
054>> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Next speaker, please. >> President Sodto, that concludes tonight's speakers. >> All right. Now, we're moving to the adoption of the minutes. At this time, trustees, I'll entertain a motion. Steward I motion to to accept. >> Is there a second? >> Ker I second. >> Um okay. We'll take take the vote. >> Trustee Kyer >> Ker I. >> Trusty Lef French >> Le I. Trusty Stewart >> Stewart I. >> Trusty Sodto >> Sodto I. Motion pass. Moving on to the consent agenda. We are taking items two through 24. Does any trustee want to pull an item? >> Yes. Trustee Ker, I'd like to pull 10 and 17. Take >> 10 17. >> All right. Any other trustees want to point any items? >> No. Hold on. >> Guys,
055what are we doing? >> We are securing the agenda. >> Okay. Uh, Trustler French, did you want to pull? >> Sorry. >> Did you want to pull in the items >> on the consent? No. >> All right. Entertain a motion to approve the rest with the exceptions of 10 and 17. >> Kyer, I motion to accept >> or approve the remaining agenda. >> Sorry. >> Is there a second? >> Stewart. I sec second. I'll call for the vote. Miss Le >> Trusty Ker I. Trusty Le French >> Le I. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart. I subtle I motion pass 40 zero items removed from the consent agenda number 12 we're going to start with number 10 um at this time I'll entertain the motion trustees >> I mo motion to to approve >> is there
056a second >> I don't Is there a French. I second. >> All right, we're opening it up for discussion. Clerk, since you pulled it, >> no comment. >> Trusty Stewart. >> No, I have that. >> Trusty Le French. >> I was dismbulated for a minute, but I found my notes. >> I have none. >> Thank you. >> All right, Miss Le. I have none. We'll take the vote. Trusty Ker. >> Nay. >> Trusty Le French. >> Lef French. I >> trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I >> Trusty Sto. >> I'm going to abstain. I don't have enough information to make a vote. So, >> we're on the uh wars. >> Okay. Let's not talk at a term, please. We are number 10, business services, approval of purchase order listing and warrant report listing. >> When I
057open it up for discussion, there was no discussion. >> Okay. Well, can we have discuss discussion now? >> No. The vote was just taken. We had the discussion already. We have to move forward. >> So now we're not going to pay bill bills again. Is that what it passed? Two approving, one saying nay and one abstension. >> Dang. Thank you. Sorry, I confused. My my bad. >> I don't believe that's correct. We may have to I believe that an abstension is a no vote basically and so it's it dies. We have two no votes. One abstension there's no vote. Can we get some do we have some clarity? Is is clerk higher correct? Um maybe. Perfect. So we have two yeses, one no, one abstension, meaning the majority approves because there's two yeses. >> Yes.
058>> Thank you for that. Moving on to number 17, certificate of personnel administrative new hire. I'll entertain a motion. Trustees a motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Steward. I sec second. >> We'll open it up for discussion. Uh since it was pulled by uh clerk hire, I'll start with you. >> Respectfully, can we make comments after the vote? Absolutely. Trusty Lef French >> Le French I >> that's his comments and at this time >> but you so you're saying you agree correct with uh trust clerk >> yes >> okay trusty lef or trusty Stewart >> I I'm there's no motion we're just discussing but clerk hire is requesting that we we discuss after I'm just making sure you guys are okay with that >> it's administrative new hire We >> that's fine.
059>> Okay, that's what I'm going around for. All righty. So, there's a consensus to discuss after Miss Le. The vote, please. >> Trusty Ker >> I. >> Trusty Lefred >> I. >> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I >> Trusty Stoodto. >> Sodto I. Um, congratulations. We're opening up for discussion. Clerk. >> Yes. I just wanted to make a brief uh comment in regards to our new Elmarrage principal. If you would please stand. Um and welcome to AESD. It's my understanding you've been pitching in our district as a subadmin. Um and your work has reflected very highly within our district. So I'm very excited to see the opportunities and the advancements El Mirage faces in this upcoming year. Thank you so much. Welcome, >> Trista French. >> Well, I had this whole speech planned out for you,
060but then I lost my notes, right? And so then I was running all around trying to find them just now. So then I just said, "Forget it." Right? I'm not even going to read them. I just want to say that, you know, I appreciate, you know, everything that you've been doing way way way way out there, right? And I appreciate, you know, you um getting up, you know, taking the drive, you know, supporting the parents, supporting the children. I appreciate, you know, you can um um teach me some of that Spanish, you know, teach me some of that stuff out there that, you know, um I will be willing to learn. I am bilingual, but you know, I just, you know, don't know as much as I would like. How about that? Um I want
061to thank you for all you do out there. I I truly, you know, um know that the parents out there and the children, small little community, um but you are out there making a great difference and we appreciate you. We do. Trusty Stewart. >> Um, I just want want to say though, El L Elmer Mirage is not not in my area. I adore the school. The kids are are are might mighty and they deserve the best that we've we've got and I will be expecting that from from you to lead that that adorable school. I just it's the great greatest. So, thank thank you. >> Thank you for willing to come and work with our district. And I just want to echo all the comments that were made by my colleagues. Congratulations. >> Did you
062want to come up and Did you want to come up and say a few words? Um, I sincerely want to thank um the president um the cabinet, all of the board members and uh the superintendent for this opportunity to lead um our district, our students, our parents, and uh just as I've done with the last uh two to three years working in this district. Uh I plan to continue listening to what parents want, look looking and listening to the data and making the adjustments where needed and also most importantly uh utilizing the framework that has been given to us by our superintendent. So that is my goal and uh I will continue to improve El Mirage and I appreciate uh this opportunity. One more UCLA bua. [Applause] Moian. >> Excellent. All righty, trustees. Moving on
063to new business. Consideration of governance resolution to strengthen border independence and transparency or entertain a motion. Ker I motion uh for consideration >> to approve >> approve or cannot approve >> or table >> not table >> that's your your motion >> I a motion to table >> is there a second I don't hear a second so motion dies is there another motion I'll entertain another motion. >> Kyrie, I motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Sodto, I'll second. We're going to open up for discussion. >> President Zoto, could we have a reading of it? >> Yes, absolutely. I will read the resolution so the public knows what we are voting on and so that the public knows um okay this is um thank you trustee clerk hire resolution number 2526.03 03 reaffirming the
064governing authority and unity and protection of the board of trustees against institutional interference, hate and political retaliation. Whereas the Alanto Elementary School District Board of Trustees is the democratically elected and legally empowered governing body of the district, entrusted by the voters to provide independent oversight of the superintendent, the district's educational priorities, and the well-being of students and families. And whereas the integrity of this board's governance is foundational to maintaining public trust, protecting students, and ensuring that decisions are made without co coercion, manipulation, or undue influence from internal or external actors. hand. Whereas recent incidents have raised grave concerns regarding the misuse of inst in institutional channels, backdoor coordination, and third party agencies and what appears to be targeted efforts to intimidate, discredit or retaliate against individual trustees and or their families. hand. Whereas these patterns,
065if allowed to continue, erode the democratic will of the electorate, undermine lawful oversight, and foster a climate of fear, division, and dysfunction within the district. And whereas the board recognizes the growing threat of hate speech, harassment, and politically motivated violence that can incite division and harm towards elected officials or their families for their beliefs, decisions, or roles in public service. Now therefore be it resolved by the board of trustees of the Alanto Elementary School District that section one affirmation of democratic authority. The board reaffirms that it is a sole governing body of the Alanto Elementary School District. The board is accountable to the public not to outside operatives, internal factions or formal officials. Any attempt to bypass or co cor coers, excuse me, that's a tricky word for me, coerc this board undermines the democratic
066process and the foundational principles of public education. Section two, protection against systemic retaliation, hate, and political interference. The board condemns all forms of political warfare, systemic pursuit, institutional retaliation, hate speech, harassment, or acts of violence that target trustees, their families, district district staff, or any public servant for their beliefs, votes, or independent judgment. This includes but is not limited to the use of district resources, back channel communication, manipulation or relationships with third party agencies to initiate retaliatory actions, investigations, intimidation campaigns, or public narratives under the guise of policy or concern. Any hate speech or behavior that incites, encourages, or perpetuates violence, hostility, or harassment toward trustees or their families will be treated as a direct threat to the safety and integrity of this district. Such actions are not neutral. They are political in nature, corro
067corrosive in effect and incap incompatible with the ethical obligations of public service. Section three, unified commitment to ethical and transparent governance. The board stands as one body. An attack on one trustee, whether through hate, harassment, political targeting, or procedurally improper actions, will be considered an attack on the integrity of the entire board and the district itself. The board calls for an immediate end to all back channel coordination, unauthorized lobbying, hated driven intimidation, and hidden manipulation. All official business must be conducted openly, transparently, and in accordance with district policy and state law. At this time, trustees, I'll open it up for discussion. Trusty Stewart, >> I heard a bunch of censorship hoopla and this will o open us up I feel to discriminate Nate nation. You know being on the board now for close to eight
068eight years I heard stories from Egus. you know, she she had said things. I think that she had been followed one time. You know, we we heard things, but I've never experienced anything. I've experienced in insults from the podium. That's normal. Okay. Uh my kids have never never been threat threatened. They've never been talked talked about, you know. Um, we've always been here for the dis district district and that was it, you know. If anything, I mean, I don't understand. This seems to just come from one source because I I just don't you cannot you cannot send centure free speech. If some somebody were to come here and threat threaten an act then yes. But to insult a an un an elected p public uh official. That's not threat threatening. That's just part of the
069thing. That's why a a lot a lot of pe people don't do this. So I think that I mean this is a binge of words. I I don't even think we we could act on this, but I do not agree with this myself. Um, so that's what I got to say. >> Thank you, Trusty La French. I would hope that and pray that people would not be retaliating against people's children. We come here and we are elected public officials. Um, we probably um get paid 50 cents to sit up here and we spend lots of time. We put our hearts into giving our services for this district. And I would pray that our children would not be subjected to harm, physically, mentally, anything that has to do with our children. When it comes to adults,
070if we ourselves choose to sit here in this seat, that is up to us. Our children have nothing to do with anything. So, everyone has children. Everyone know how they feel about their children. So, just make sure that you know your children are your children, right? Okay, that's about all I have to say about this freedom of speech. You know, it's freedom of speech. Thank you. >> Thank you, trustees, fellow French clerk. >> I will make my comments short. Um, this board room has heard and seen my children personally go under scrutiny more than once. Recently, we've had to maneuver through um extremely unprecedented, unneeded situations. Um, and so despite the confidentiality of the situation that uh doesn't permit me to speak about it, I would fully support this resolution as anyone sitting up here
071who has had to go through the retaliation against my children. Thank you. Thank you, Clerk Ker. I I would be I want the public to really see what's going on here. This resolution is very clear. The intent behind this resolution is simple. Transparency, independence, and unity. I would be very concerned if any trustee were not to support this resolution. If anyone is trying to influence or divide this board, stop it. The public deserves honesty and stability. You're going to lobby. You're going to influence decisions of this district that it needs to be disclosed to the public. This resolution says that every trustes voice matters and no one, not a politician, not an employee, not anyone should interfere with the will of this board. I ask the community to continue to read the resolutions for yourself
072and see what it truly stands for. Fairness, ethics, and accountability. And I mean I mean here we go. Miss Lave will take the vote please. >> Um before we take that vote um >> trust in the French. >> Yeah. Before we take this vote I just want to be able to say whether or not if someone votes yes or no towards this resolution um that the last you know everybody is entitled to vote yes or no. The transparency I think that is like lead. It's like a a lead right there. Right. I I have to, you know, I don't know. I have I just have to disagree with the fact that just because, you know, somebody votes a different kind of way doesn't mean that there has some hidden agenda because we hear transparency all
073day long. And I I'm telling you as a board member, as I sit here, is a lot of times that I ask questions and I can't get no answer to it right here as a board member. I say, "Hey, why you can't get no answer to it? You just can't get it." So people choose to answer things the way they want to answer them right here on this on this on this board. So I wouldn't I wouldn't lead lead with something. We're all entitled to to vote the way we choose to. >> Think you trust the French and you're right. >> Yeah, we don't want to do that. >> Um you know um some of us may or may not know some things other than you know so absolutely you're absolutely right. Um um and
074maybe context may be helpful but uh I guess my my comment was that this resolution you know it is very clear like it's there's no I don't know I don't know how anyone can assume assume things when it's in writing but I understand that not all trustees may be privy to some information that some of us may have like trustee clerk I mentioned some might be confidential so um whether however trustee votes is how they vote So, you know, it's not up to me. Um, but I just want to make it clear that this resolution is pretty clear, but um, I'll leave it at that. Any other trustees want to make a comment? >> Cler Ker. >> Oh, no. I was waiting for the vote. >> U, all right. We'll take the vote, Mr. Lee.
075>> So, just for clarification, I have it was moved by Trusty Ker, seconded by Trustee Sodto, and that is to approve the consideration of governance resolution to strengthen board independence and transparency. I will take the vote. Trusty Ky, >> uh, quickly, can you, uh, is it consideration and approval of the governance resolution or just consideration on that motion? >> So, we have a motion to approve the consideration of the governance resolution, my understanding. >> Is that correct? >> Uh, that is the way it was written. So, that's what I'm understanding that it's a consideration. Um, President Sodto, >> so we just made a motion to approve the consideration is my understanding. Or what was a motion if it wasn't to approve it? >> I heard approve. >> Yes, me too. >> I heard approve as
076well. So >> So we have a motion to we considered it by discussing. Now the motion was to approve. So we're going to vote on that. Do we Okay. Is that is that clear or no? >> We'll take the vote. >> Okay. Trusty Ker Ker I. Trusty Le French. Left French. Nay. >> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. Nay. >> Trusty Stoodto. >> Stood. I. Motion fails. >> Two to two. Now moving on to number two. Discussion and possible direction regarding the addition of a student board member. At this time, trustees, I entertain a motion. >> Kyer. I motion for discussion and possible direction regarding the addition of a student board member. >> Is there a second? I'll second it. We'll open it up for discussion. Um, trusty the French. >> I think this is a great
077idea. >> Sorry, the mic. I can hear you. I think this is a great idea. Have some discussion on how the student is chosen. Absolutely. Yes. So, um we can definitely discuss that. Um that's part of the discussion. Did you want to keep discussing that? Did you want me to ask other thoughts? Trustees, you want to add anything else? >> Yeah, it's still her turn unless she's ready. >> No. >> Trustee Stewart. Um In theor theory it can be but we are not a you know up to to 12 disc district you know I could see see that with the high school student um you know because it's not only only the astute it we we only have eighth graders you know and and as as a singing single mom I'd have to see okay
078now now I have to get my child to the board meet meeting every you know twice twice a month you know it's a com commit commitment for for for us and now we're going to ask that of an an eighth grader and they they're what four 14 and then we we're here for four five hours some some sometimes long longer and will will they they join join us in close sess session there there's a lot lot of aspects here that I think really need to be thought thought through um when deal when give giving this to an eighth grader you know that's that's the thing if if it were a a a seen senior who who is about about to turn 18 or has turned you know, and they want that that response responsibilility. It's
079great, you know, sure, but an eighth grade grader is a whole diff different species. So, that's that's my concern with it. >> Thank you, Cler. >> All right. So, I was really excited to see this. I started thinking about the possibilities of how this would look. Um, and I did want to interject this as I do know that that would be a massive commitment for a single student, but associating our board to student life I think is an exceptional idea. um instead of looking at it as a single student board member, instead maybe redesigning that idea where students from, you know, a specific school per board meeting is invited to be our guest student board member for the, you know, the day. um due to confidentiality reasons and sensitive information, I would be in support
080of excluding them from close session. But inviting them over, having them set up here is not only an experience, but it, you know, to me would be a very big um eye openener for students and a very big um privilege. I think it would really, you know, show kids that there's more to school than just teachers and staff and um and really welcome them into our world as well. So, I would like to kind of put that out on the table instead of it being just one steady student that comes and joins us every board me meeting. Maybe we use it as a incentive. um contact our our schools individually and then when it's that school's uh turn, they can send their star pupil over to join and meet with the board for that day.
081That's all I have to say. >> Thank you, Clerk. Yes. So, we always say that we're here for students. We always say that, you know, this this proposal puts action behind that statement. Having a student voice behind this dis keeps us grounded. It reminds us why we're here. And I think the biggest I think there's a there's a support consensus of doing this. And the real challenge is what I'm hearing is the logistical um conversation. How are we going to do it? What's the process like? Um and that's kind of what this discussion is supposed to be about. Find if we want to move forward, how is it that we want to move forward so that we can give direction to Dr. Walker to come back and give us, you know, whatever information we need
082to confirm um the process. So, what I'm hearing and I would agree that we rotate uh student board members. Maybe they'll be there for two two meetings and then we rotate. I think we can figure it out. Um but I think what would be helpful so that we save time here is if one second Dr. Walker Dr. Walker wants to make a statement. I think what would be helpful here is if we um if there's a consensus, which I'm I'm hearing, that we approve moving forward with the procedures of uh giving Dr. Walker direction on how it could look like to add a student board member with rotations. Um I think that would be the best way. That way she can come back with that information. Then we can discuss and see if we like
083it, we don't like it, what we want to add, what we want to do. Dr. Walker, what would you like to add? I would just like to um give my thoughts and opinion on on having a student participate as a student board member. I deeply value student voice and engagement at this at the same time. I believe that having a student serve on the board in this season would not be appropriate. Student board members are typically high school seniors and given the current dynamics of the board, the environment may not allow for safe or meaningful participation. We are fortunate to have strong channels for students input through our superintendent student advisory council and through the guiding coalition which ensures students perspective inform our work and in structured and supportive ways. I hope that you take
084this into consideration and understanding and for prioritizing both student well-being and effective governance. So I would just say that if the concern that our boardroom is too messy for a student then that's even more a reason to fix the mess not hide it. We as a board, we're putting action behind our statement when we say we're putting students first. That's why we're here. There are many districts that have we can model many districts that have middle school student board members and we can work through the issues. Having a student board member on here reminds us and grounds us as to why we're here. And that's why I'm pushing for this because I knew that even though our dynamic is not the best, there are many boards that already have established a student board member and
085still go through much more controversial things that I've witnessed. So if we want to do it, we can do it. If we just want to say, "Oh, it's not," then we won't do it. But I brought this forward because we're here to take action. We're here to make change, positive change. We're here to refocus from adult problems to students. Having a student board member is the best way to ground us as to why we're here and also allows students the ability to participate in board governance. It gives a student a voice. Did anyone want to add anything? >> Um, so how many of those school dis districts are K through through eight? Again, I'm look looking at at the age and the logistics of the the age, you know, um the au student adise advisory
086comm is great where where you bring the kids in and they they all came as as when we were at the LLC and they came and you know at first they were were shy. They didn't know what to do with all the adults, but then as they grew more com comfortable, they were e eager to to do the the input. I just the the the student I just think having a student on the board there's a lot of loistics in the way like so when we are in close sess session they're out here as they they wait for two three four hours I mean I'm I'm being pra p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p practical because me being be being a
087a a a sing single mom that that's a commit mit not just from the the student student but from the parent parent because we then to have to get the apparent to bring them and as it's just me you know it's just me so and and now we're going to ask more and not that it's I just want to make sure when we go if we go into this we go into it you know um clear, you know, I'm not trying to dim deinish our our kids. I just want to make make sure we do what's best for them. >> To the French. So, I think that um even though we bring things out here, right, um I think that we should um table this and I think that we should have another discussion because
088sometimes when we're thinking about things and we could have more of a planning around it, right? It could be something that it's around certain like a holiday or something like that. It it doesn't have to be something that is an every every board meeting. I am a little, you know, we had an outburst last time, right? I am a little concerned with, you know, um what could be a child could be exposed to during um open session comments, right? We don't know what someone's going to say. We don't want to be exposing our children to um things or having a child having to get up and and and take them someplace else for fear of what someone might say right now. All those things are true, right? So it might be something that you know
089that we have to kind of like go back and and think about right um they were a part of an advisory committee right so it's something that you know we don't just completely um put away but that's why I asked it is a discussion right now right but it's not we're not going to come up with all of the answers right now it's something that we would have to you know sit down think about and u regroup and and try to see you know what's best for the children because um for our children, we definitely would not want open discussion and someone standing at the podium and explaining something and the child is exposed to it. But just as well, they could be exposed to something on Zoom because they are at home, they're on
090Zoom. So, I mean, it can go both ways, right? So, I don't know if we're going to make a decision on that tonight. I would say that we would come back and once we've had some information on it. I don't know. That's just my thoughts. >> Thank you, Clerk. Kay, >> I'm in full support for tableabling it for further discussion um and ideas. I just want to add though it it's not a new concept. We we had a young man from West Creek join us um like a year and a half, two years ago um and he was in elementary school and he fully understood the concept of this board. He watches every board meeting. I know numerous students within our district that do watch our board meetings. So I mean if if they can
091watch us on YouTube, act like it. I I don't know what the difference sitting up here with us. Um, so anyway, I will second the motion to table. >> So there's a motion to table. There's a second by Trustee Ker. Um, I would add a substitute I would add an amendment to that motion to table it to bring it back at the November meeting. So, we'll skip the October meeting that we have time to come up with ideas or how we want to envision this and then we'll bring it back on the November um meeting that we'll have. That would be my um amendment to that. So, we would still table it, but we'd bring it back in November. Is there a second for that? Ky, I'll second that. Okay. And then um we'll open
092up for discussion. Um any trustees want to say anything with that amendment? Okay. The reason why I added the amendment is so that this doesn't die, right? So that we're we're we have some expectation that we we do want this. My what I'm hearing is that the logistical parts we need time. We can't make a decision today. Okay. fine. Let's just make sure that we have a date in mind in terms of when we plan to bring it back. Now, if someone has another suggestion on another date, I'm open to that, too. But I want to make sure that we are um sticking to what's being said, which is the concern. We need some time to think about this and think about the logistics. Um so, we'll take the vote. Miss Leave. >> President Sodto,
093I just want to make sure. So, uh, first it was moved by Trusty Kyer and then seconded by yourself to discuss and then Trusty Stewart uh did a substitute motion and Trustee Ker uh approved to uh table but then you did an amendment and then it was seconded by Trustee Ker and that was to table the item but bring it back at the November board meeting. Is that correct? >> You got it. That was perfect. >> Board of order. No. Um, it was moved by me, seconded by you, and then it was motioned to be tabled by Love French, seconded by me, and then Sodto made the amendment, and I seconded his amendment. Okay, so it was Love French then, not Steuart. That was it. All right, sounds good. Thank you. >> Thank you, Madam
094Cler. I know >> trusty Ker >> I >> trusty Lef French >> Le French I trusty Stewart >> Stewart nay >> trusty stood >> stood I motion pass 30 with trustee Stewart voting no discuss number three discussion and possible direction regarding term limits for board members for board of trustees members I'll entertain a motion >> trustee Ker I motion to table. >> There's a motion to table. Is there a second? >> Steuart. I sec second. >> Okay, we're going to open up for discussion. Trustees, any discussion? >> I thought we weren't allowed to discuss when an IDM is tape tabled. That was >> Didn't I hear that once? >> That's not my understanding. I thought whenever there's a first a second the board is taking an action um and we can discuss after the board
095um first and it's my understanding and that's how it's been and I haven't so um is it did any trustee want to object to that I just want to make a quick comment in terms of this >> okay okay um so I support term limits um I for two terms, only eight years is enough to make change. Um, I'm making it very clear as to where I stand. Um, I also want to make it clear that I ran in 2022 for city council. I ran on the anti-corruption bill being my number one priority. You know what was in that bill? Term limits. So, I'm being consistent with my values. And um term limits are very popular and based on my research they pass 60 to 80%. Voters approve well beyond the 50% that's required. And
096districts that try to overturn term limits the voters do not pass it. They push they don't pass the measure to turn over. So it's a very popular um ballot measure. I I I'm pushing for this because I know voters um are uh in approval of this. Uh again, I support two terms. Eight years is enough to make change. I will commit now that I will only serve two terms because of this belief. Um in addition, um I really do believe that we should let the voters decide. So this my proposal why I brought it forward was to put this in the November ballot so that voters can decide themselves whether they want term limits. In addition with the concerns that I have may have heard, I know that we have some board members that may
097or may not want to run a third term. I just want to make it very clear that we if we approve um moving forward with term limits, you guys will not be affected. So you guys can serve three terms, four terms, however you want if the voters do approve it in November 5th ballot. So I just want to make it clear to address some of the concerns about being anti-incumbent and all of this. So I just want to make clear to my colleagues that you will not be affected. So let's just Yeah, >> you're talking about transparency. This is on here in case somebody wants to worry about the third. >> Okay, let me let you finish talking. >> Um, so yeah, so I don't, like I said, um, I don't know for sure. I
098know that um I just I know that that that um I've heard it before from a trustee, right? So, I'm not here to out them out or anything, but my colleagues, you know, I just want to be mindful as well. So, um, yeah, you guys will not be affected. Um, this is for future boards. Let the voters decide is my view. Um, and that's all I have to say. Anything want to address the French? >> President Sto. Yes, >> I am looking up Rosenberg's rules of conduct and it does state that as soon as a uh a motion is to table. That means that discussion should end immediately and the board members need to bring that item back. I just wanted to let you know. >> Okay, I appreciate you doing that for me. I
099will also confirm. So, what we'll do is if trustees object, if you guys want to say something since I've spoken already, this is your time. If not, we'll just do the vote. Okay. Miss Le, there's a motion to table. Take the vote, please. >> Trusty Ker >> I. >> Trusty Le French. >> Le I. >> Trusty Stewart >> Ste. >> Trusty Sodto. >> Sto. >> Wait a minute. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. >> Okay, we have a confusion. Trust the French. >> What is the confusion? >> Let's say that again. We're going to vote to t >> We're going to vote to table this. Oh, and I >> Okay. And so did you get that, Miss Lee? >> So I have uh trusty ker I love
100French nay Stewart nay and then trusty stood >> nay. >> So the motion. Did you want to cler? >> All right. I >> want to make a comment. >> Yeah. I motion to approve. >> So, the motion failed to table. >> Okay. Take the vote. Oh, I'm sorry. >> So, okay. So, >> second. >> All right. Yeah. So, there's a motion to approve. Is there a second? >> I So, so the motion died. Clerk. >> Okay. Wait, let me just make sure and I apologize. So, the motion was to table this item. And it was moved by trustee Kyer, second in by trustee Stewart. And then I got a um an A by um a yes by Ker. Leaf French said no. Steuart said no. And Trusty Sodto, you said no. >> So that means
101that >> it's not table. Go back to the regular one. >> Yeah, it's not table. So then there's we have the motion another motion on the table. >> Okay. So and then so cler ker just motion to We'll move to approve. Is there a second? So I'll second. Open up for discussion. Tesla French. >> I have none. >> Trusty Stewart. >> I do have some. you know, um, you ran uncontest tested. Uh, Trusty Web Webster ran uncontest tested. Uh, Charila French ran uncontest tested the the last last time. Um my thing is what happens if you put a term limit and then a a tr trustee can't run in their air area and no no one runs in their air area then the board has to appoint and to me that's worse than a trusty
102sign signing on for another term. You know, I have a big I don't like to appoint, I I think it should be left up to the vote voters. If they really want a tr trustee out, they will some someone will will run and run a campaign there. There's no guar guar guarantee that a tr trustee will will run and then win in incumbency. I don't know if I said that right, but you know, um, a a lot of parents don't know what the board do. They send their kids to to school. They go go to work. They raise their b babies. I did not know what what a church what a board was until I move moved up a pier and then I found found out. You know, that's that's me with kids in in
103the school system. system for se 17 years, you know, little less. Um, I think what the board should be do do is f focusing on trying to get more par parents involved with with the board. have having meet meet and greets let letting them them know why we we're here and encourage encouraging them to watch the meet meetings this this way they have the choice to to run or not or vote vote against or or not you know um being on the board is your most base basic love love love love level love level love level love level love level love level love of ci civil dude duty I I feel yeah that you know long-term senate senators who have been on the you know the asen senate for a hundred years yeah you're about
104to die you should be off of there you know um uh cong congressmen who have been on the house of you know rep represent representatives for 60 years. Yeah. You know, but for a board me member to just be on the board for a we're still learn learning this and then in for the future once you learn learn it well it's time for you you to go you know I just think that the choice of um board members should be up to the p public because they may like some someone that that's been been been on the board who has the time to make the comm commit commitment, you know, because this is a commitment and to and if some someone is will willing they to make it they they should not be thrown thrown
105off because of a tech technicality. ality that's just you know and then that that may then lead to now the board has to appoint some someone and I have a big bigger issue with that than with some someone run running a third or fourth fourth term >> presidentto the time is 9:27 would you like to extend the meeting Yes. Um interested clerk >> a motion to extend the meeting till 10. >> Is there a second? >> Le I second. >> Miss the vote please. >> Trusty Ker. >> Ker I. >> Trusty Lef French. >> Le French I. >> Trusty Stewart >> Stewart I. Trusty Sto. >> So do I. Motion passes 40 or extend to 10 p.m. Any other last comments? Trustees suggestions? >> Yes. >> I appreciate President Sto's um initiative to bring it
106to the board for consideration. Um I I would like to point out that there is a petition process. Um doesn't require our board and it can be submitted straight to the board of supervisors with the appropriate signatures. Um I'm in full support of this. I I agree with you. If you need more than eight years to make some kind of change, then maybe you're not as effective um as you would like to believe. And so that's where I will leave my comments. >> Thank you. Um, okay. And we'll take the vote on the motion. Miss Levy. >> Trusty Ker. >> Ker I. >> Trusty Le French. >> Le French. Nay. >> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. Nay. >> Trusty stood. >> So I motion fails. Two to two. We'll move on. Number 14, policy introductions, updates,
107and readings. Approve and adopt the first read revision of board policy 5116.2, involuntary student transfer. I'll entertain a motion. >> Do for timing. Uh, Kyler, I motion to table. >> There's a motion to table. Is there a second? I'll second. Let's We can't discuss. We won't discuss. Um I will confirm by the next meeting about the Rosenberg rules of orders. Miss Leave the vote please. >> Trusty Ker >> I. >> Trusty Le French >> I. >> Trusty Stewart >> I. >> Trusty >> Sto I. Motion pass 4 zero. Moving on to number 15. Governing board members reports and announcements. Trusty Leaf French. >> Save my comments till next time. Trustes Trusty Stewart. >> Um I just want to really quick quickly wish um ev everyone a restful fall break. Um I wish I had had
108one but that's all right. Please en enjoy your your time with your fam families and stu students, you know, en enjoy your time off. Um, and that that's all I have. Thank Thank you. >> Thank you, Clerk Ker. >> All righty. Good evening, AESD friends and family. As we kick off October, we have a lot of things happening. I am excited to be so close to fall break. I know this is a time where we all cherish a repry from the early mornings and long days. So I encourage all to take that time to replenish and rejuvenate. I know in the last two months we have seen great change, new ideas, new processes, and a different governing style. I know many are a bit shocked with the changes to our board, but I wanted to
109take a moment to highlight for the first time since I've been on the board, each board member is on a committee which brings every voice, every opinion to a table and allows us to work collectively. We were able to secure new legal counsel, which was something that hadn't been changed or even considered since 2009. We brought in a fractional chief of staff to help our board and lying a foundation to strong governance and real time understanding of our district and the issues it is facing. President Sodto is enforcing our Rosenberg's rule of order to seek more efficient board meetings and facilitating those difficult conversations that otherwise have been ignored. I would like to publicly appreciate President Sodto in such an uncertain time as he stepped up and taken on a role with quite the mess.
110It has been a short time, but we have seen many advances in bringing this district together. We are aware that there is a mass amount of work to be done and a lot of collaboration that will have to take place to successfully lay that functional foundation for our future students and following board members. We have recently been made aware we have students going to city council meetings along with multiple fundraisers to to secure the funding for trips this year. And I want to ensure our district that I and others amongst me acknowledge the ongoing issue and will continue to seek answers and try to resolve this ongoing conundrum. Our students deserve to have a successful year. Which leads me to seek this board's consensus or at least consideration that we prioritize those experiences supplies that
111may be needed along with the support our sites are desperately in need of this year. As I would like to propose to our board the idea that we secure funding for Saturday school and summer school, but the remainder of the ELOP funding be distributed to our schools for individual site use. I know our principles are more than capable of ensuring new studentdriven ideas for each campus and I believe that is essential in closing that gap that we have been experiencing. I would like to request from the district the remaining balance with those two exceptions of Saturday school and summer school ensuring our students opportunities and adventures they deserve. clubs, sports, beyond the bell, or whatever other ideas our creative leaders can come up with within the grant rules. I expect that our district staff is
112more than capable of guiding our sites with those guidelines. As we are facing three more board meetings till the end of the year, I know we have our work cut out for us. But as always, I am dedicated now more than ever to shifting the status quo. our district has known and began building the foundation to a strong, respectful, and healthy future for our staff, students, and family. On my last note, I want to appreciate the idea proposed tonight of a student board member. Tying in the idea of students taking a more direct role with our board is the beginning of refocusing our district back to the students. I look forward to hopefully seeing students participating back in our boardroom soon as well as I believe that starting our meetings with highlighting our students and
113their achievements is much is such a tone setting step for this board. I will close with this quote from Jesse Jackson. At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backwards with fear and division. our district can do so and I hope we all can see that. Thank you all and I wish everyone a good night and an amazing fall break. Thank you. >> Um I did >> uh Tresa French >> she would like to make a comment. >> I forgot I did have something I wanted to say about attendance. So, I wanted to say that I wanted to congratulate and celebrate that um Westside Park Elementary's um had over 98 students that was recognized um with an ice cream party for perfect attendance. So, I wanted to give kudos
114to Westside Park. And then I wanted to also recognize Elm Mrage Elementary this month for the strive for the 95% winner. um reaching an incredible 95.7% daily average this week. Um I also wanted to so I got this from uh Dr. Walker. I sound like I got these percentages myself right. So I just wanted to make sure that I concentrated on the children. So for districtwide, our September attendance superstars included, of course, George. I don't want to say of course, but of course, George. Gus Frank. George had 96.67%. Gus Franklin had 96.62. Melvin Davis Academy of Excellence had 96.38. Um, Victoria McGathlin along with Morgan Concaid, Elmarrage, Westside Park, and West Creek also had the power of 95%. Okay. Then I also wanted to say uh or thank Mrs. Perez and Dr. are best for
115connecting with staff visiting classrooms um and offering ongoing support across the district. Your engagement is greatly appreciated. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Thank you, Trust French. Um and thank you colleagues and uh Madame Clerk for that comment. I want to thank everyone who joined us tonight. I just want to take a moment to reflect how far we've come as a board and as a district. Um over the past several months, we've taken real steps towards rebuilding trust, improving governance, and rebuild and building and bringing stability back to this district. That's not something one person can do alone. It takes a united board, people who are willing to listen, to disagree respectfully, and to still show up for the same goal, our students. I know this work isn't easy and never will be, but I'm proud
116that we're beginning to shift the conversation from conflict to collaboration. When I look at the progress that we have made, approving key items, pushing forward with accountability measures, and setting clear goals, I see a team that's learning how to lead together. My hope moving forward is that we keep our focus on where we do agree, not just on where we don't. Because when we operate as one body, we send a clear message to our staff, to our families, and most importantly to our students that adults can lead with integrity, respect, and purpose. We cannot control every challenge that comes our way, but we can't control how we show up for each other. Let's keep building on this momentum. Let's keep choosing unity over division and substance over noise. I'm grateful for each of my colleagues,
117for our staff, and for this community that continues to believe in the promise of our schools. So, thank you everyone. Have a have a great night. And moving on to superintendent reports and announcements. Dr. Walker. >> Thank you, President Stoodto. Um, good evening uh, board of trustees, executive cabinet, AESD staff, students, and our community. Over the past few weeks, our district has made strong progress in building the foundation for this school year. Through our guiding coalition sessions, staff, community members, managers, site leaders, and most importantly, our students came together to shape our schools for the future. their voices remind us that when we listen deeply, we lead wisely. I'm also um I've also had the opportunity to visit several sites over the past few weeks and it's been inspiring to see the great work happening
118in classrooms across our campuses from the innovative lessons to student engagement and collaboration. Our schools are alive with energy and purpose. We're keeping a sharp focus on our attendance through our strive for 95 campaign. And I'm proud to share that Victoria McGathan Elementary achieved 95% attendance percentage during the week of September 29th through October the 3. This demonstrates what's possible when schools, families, and students commit together. I deeply appreciate the dedication of our employees who continue to show up every day for our students. Their commitment keeps students at the heart of all we do. All of this connects to our Thrive 2030 vision and framework for the future. We're moving forward with clarity, purpose, and determination. always keeping our students, our true VIPs, at the center of everything that we do. Together, we're moving big,
119bold, and brave towards a future full of promise. As Helen Keller reminds us, optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Let us continue to lead with hope and confidence for every student that we serve here in Adalanto Elementary School District. And I close with this short video. We started with our first learner centered collaborative meeting and it was so wonderful to see both familiar and new faces. students, parents, teachers, administrators, community members, and cabinet members came together for meaningful conversations about how we can continue delivering the plans set under our Thrive 2030 campaign. Visiting schools is one of the best ways to see learning in action and understand how we can support both staff and students. It's exciting to witness the growth and improvements happening across
120our schools every day. Attendance remains a top priority across our district and it's inspiring to see the results. George Magnus School led the way for the week of September 8th to 12, followed by Gus Franklin for September 15th to 19 and El Mirage for September 22nd, 26. Congratulations also to Victoria Magathan Elementary School, which we proudly recognized today as our overall winner for the month of September. Families played a key role in our first district English learner council meeting of the year. With a hybrid format, more parents were able to participate and it was wonderful to hear so many voices contributing to the conversation and shaping the learning experience for their children. We also hosted an AVID family night which brought together students and families to learn more about college and career readiness. Events like
121this strengthen the homeschool connection and empower families to support their students academic goals, helping every learner see the possibilities ahead. Career Week across the district was another highlight, offering students the chance to explore different professions, connect with local experts, and envision their future paths. We're grateful to our community partners and volunteers for inspiring students and showing that their dreams are within reach. May we all keep the momentum moving forward by being big, bold, and brave together. Thank you, Dr. Walker. We're moving on to adjournment. At this time, I'll entertain a motion. >> Kyer, I motion to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> Stewart, I sec second. >> Mr. vote, please. >> Trusty Ker >> I. >> Trusty Le French. >> Le French I. >> Trusty Stewart. >> Stewart. I. >> Trusty Stoodto. >> Sto.
122The time is 9:45. We are adjourned. Thank you everyone.