Board Meeting April 1, 2026

001Good afternoon. Um, Buenosardes, I'm so sorry we might be running just a couple minutes late. We're waiting. We can't have a meeting if we don't have three board members. One had a family emergency. The other one's on her way and we hope that the third one is two. So, you're on time. So, we appreciate that. Thank you. Is that >> Oh, Mr. Velasquez is here. So, now we're going to be waiting for Miss Perez. She's on her way. Oh, Mr. Okmpo is here, too. We'll just start in a minute or so. Thank you. Gracias. I think she has a family emergency. Thank you. Graciasa directiva districtal. Thank you and welcome to the Alisal Union School District board meeting. We're going to open this board meeting at 5:30 and we're going to ask our superintendent to

002please take roll call and make introductions. President Guadalupe Gilas Vera >> here. >> Vice President Beatatrice Perez, Clerk Leticia Garcia, >> Trustee Robert Okmpo, >> uh, here. >> Trustee Jesus Velasquez. Four present with one absent, Miss Garcia. >> Thank you. So, still under opening items number one, we are going to go to the pledge of allegiance. And we have two students, Jake Jordan and Jacob, who are sixth graders at um Virginia Rocka Barton because they will be doing a presentation the principal and they're going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. So >> please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Right hand over your heart. >> Ready salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the flag for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible,

003liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> I don't know machine or >> Okay, thank you. We also have another announcement by Mrs. Anzo. I'm not sure what that was. I thought it was an ambulance or something. Okay. All righty. We're going to go on to Mrs. Anzo and she has a small uh something to read for us about a former friend who passed away that was a friend of Alys. Mrs. Anzo. Thank you, Miss Gilas. So, before we begin, we'd like to take a moment to honor the life and legacy of Mr. Serio Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez was the pillar of our community, serving on the city, Selena City Council from 2002 to 20ou 2012 and dedicating his career to empowering others through the redistricing process and political advocacy. To Mr. Sanchez, community and

004family were one and the same. He was a proud father and grandfathers whose children and grandchildren attended Cesari Chavez Elementary. He believed in believed in civic engagement should be joyful and inclusive. Whether he was serving as a dis district district director of the 30th assembly district, working for the California Strawberry Commission Commission or mentoring future leaders, Serio's impact was profound. Please join us in a moment of silence as we remember a man who fought tirelessly for the underserved and loved this city deeply. Thank you. He will be greatly missed. Thank you, Mrs. Zanszo. Going on, we're still number one opening items. We're going to go on to spotlight. And this is an opportunity to feature up to a threeminut presentation on the positive things that are taking place throughout the district. Are there any spotlights?

005Yes, Mr. Julio Castro. Good evening board and cabinet members and public. I wanted to take an opportunity to thank you for the support for professional development for our ongoing um and through our ongoing commitment to our classified staff in addition to our certificated staff. In the past couple of weeks, we had three different conferences that we participated in. The first one was the community engagement initiative. Through the community engagement initiative, our team as a whole was able to really think through how are we engaging our families, how are we engaging our community and are we doing it authentically and we're bringing that back and we're making action plans problem of practices so that we can think through the entire next year what can we do better to engage in our community. We also attended the

006Whittier City Elementary School District and it was a site visit. Whittier City Elementary is a year ahead of us in the community schools grants and funding and it gave us an opportunity to look at what do we what can we look forward to right our team confidently came back and said you know what we're doing a lot of those great things already so it's great to have our work that is noticed and our team be proud of what we do we also attended the homeless education conference it's a fairly new conference in the state of California where we really work on supporting and learning about how we communicate with McKinventu students we were able to take 25 staff members all classified management and non non-management. We know that when we're submitting board items and there's

007price tags to the conference on the travel it can look a little bit scary. So I understand why there are questions and we appreciate you. But we know that when we're going on these conferences, there's thoughts, there's intent and again investment in our community so that we can come back and say, you know what, what can we do differently as a district? How are we changing systems? That is community schools, right? That is the strategy. How are we removing the red tape, the barriers to make sure that we're supporting our community? So, I just want to say thank you for accepting these board items and continuing to trust in us to go and learn and change the way that we do things. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. >> Thank you. >> Excuse

008me. Oh, is there anybody And there's one in the back. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number two, public comment concerning items on the Oops. E, excuse me. Action item, adoption of the agenda. I need a motion to approve, please. Motion. Motion from Trusty Perez. I need a second. Second from Trusty Velasquez. Are there any comments, questions, or concerns from the board? Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Motion carries four to zero with one trustee being absent, Miss Garcia. Now, we'll go on to public comment. Item number two, public comment concerning items on the open session agenda and or non-aggenda items. Uh we're going to continue with that. The guidelines are that there will be a twominut limit for

009individuals and a 20 minute limit on total public comments. There is no seating of one's time to other individuals. So before we went on go on to public comment, um I wanted to say that this isn't the only way that the board will hear your comments and concerns. We asked um that our numbers, emails, and the way you can contact us, these sheets are in the back because we're not going to have time. How many speakers do we have? We're not going to have time for we have the 20 minutes and that's by board policy, but that doesn't mean we don't want to hear from you. By the numbers of you, I think we can tell that you have passion for the subject matter that we're that you're here for. So, we want to respect

010that and just let you know. Okay. So, we're going to start off um with individuals to address the board of trustees on open session agenda items and or other items. and you may do th So, at this time, we're going to start at 5:38 and Mrs. Anzo will um read the names up. Britney Felix. I put the green. Press the green. >> No, we have somebody taking care of the >> Okay. Hi, my name Hi, my name is Britney Ernnandez Felix and I have been a part of the Frankpaw community since childhood. Over the years, I have been in multiple I've seen multiple principles come and go and I speak not only as a parent but also as a deeply rooted in the school history. My oldest son is now 18 years old. At that

011time, I was a single mother navigating many challenges. Today I am raising twins and in total have been five children along with myself that have been part of the Frank Paul community. As a child I experienced something traumatic at this school and in the first grade involving a teacher. Because of that I was extremely hesitant to send my own children to Frank Paul especially given the reputation at the time. However, everything changed when Mr. Pores became principal. Mr. Porz has provided unconditional support to me and my family. As a single mother at the time, that's that support meant everything to me. He was always he always took the time to guide me understand that every child is different and deserved individual care and attention. Because of that, all my children are grown into positive contributing

012members to the society. I have deep admiration and gratitude for Mr. Poras. He has played a meaningful role in the lives of all my five children. More importantly, he has created a safe, welcoming, welcoming environment, not just for my family, but for the entire community. As a parent, I want a principal who makes me feel that my children are safe, valued, and supported. Mr. Poras is that person. He is more than a principal. He is a consistent, caring presence. He is there every morning opening the doors and welcoming our children with warmth. That matters to me. As someone who has been in has seen generations of leadership at the school, I strongly believe that losing Mr. Poras for for reasons that do not reflect the needs of this community would be a mistake. Our voices

013as parents and community members should matter in this decision like this. I respectfully ask that you consider keeping Mr. Boras as a principal. >> Thank you. Thank you, Erica. Andrade, >> welcome. condition. Direct. address.chech. for director. Gracias. Gracias. >> Good afternoon, board of trustees. Uh, for starters, I'm momre repping other moms that are heartbroken with the news. My eldest son, who is now 21 years old, uh, started at pre in preschool and my other son in second grade, um, one of my sons had behavior issues since kinder and we received unconditional support um because he was going to the teachers class because of his behavior. Uh, Mr. Porz believed in him and since then he has only been in the office once. um finding out about the news has really affected him and I am

014scared that he will decline in the progress of his behavior and with my whole heart I ask of you to uh reconsider your decision. We are not we as a school Frank Paul we are not going to stand by this uh injust decision. Um and we have noticed that the principal that is that will be placed in this at Frank Paw uh has been removed from her previous school. So what is expected of us at Frankpaw? >> Thank you. >> Fernandos Samaria or Sabala, sorry. It's Fernando Savala Jr. >> Welcome, Mr. Savala. >> Appreciate it. Thank you board members. Uh my name is Mr. Savala. I teach over at Alyssa High School. I'm one of the 10th grade world history teachers. and I wanted to come in and express some of my thoughts right when

015I heard over uh multiple people from my neighborhood that Mr. Pora's job was at stake. Um first time I met Mr. Boras was here Jesse Sanchez when I was a student. um he looked out for me in so many ways and even when I moved neighborhoods over to Ryder on the trailer park on 1280, I attended Frank Paul and that's where I believe he he started his administrative career there. You know, he's been dedicated to our community for over 30 years. I think he deserves that position. Um he helped out not just myself, but my nephews, my nieces that went to Frank Paul. uh my niece that she has uh that she had an IEP. Um and then I have also two daughters that are soon going to be enrolled to Frank Paul. So if

016there's anybody that needs that position and deserves it, it's him. Mr. Poras, I still remember when when it was Mr. Koras, it was Mr. Cabella. Uh they were great administrators when I was a kid and I still have those memories, right? They looked out for us in so many ways beyond the school. They would provide so many resources for those of us, myself included, that needed it. uh when it came down uh to food or issues and and our homes, right? Uh he was there. He he did a lot more than just his job as an administrator. So, I ask you guys to uh please reconsider your decision. Um I tried to search in the board agenda um information about his dismissal, but I couldn't find anything. I know that in my district, I see

017a list of of folks that get or or that resign or uh new hires. I see all of that information, but I not once seen his name on there, you know, and I I I ask for transparency for our community. And that is all. Mr. Poras, he's from He's from here. He deserves it. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Estella Rodriguez. Estella Rodriguez. Welcome, Mr. Rodriguez. >> Thank you. So, good evening to all. I'm Estella Marcado Rodriguez, TK teacher at Frank Paul School. I have had the honor and the joy of serving the LSL school community for 25 years as a teacher. 23 of those years at Frank School. I have been a union leader for 25 years and have had the privilege of representing our members in various capacities. In the 23 years that

018I have been at Frank Paul, the school has seen its share of principles, some good, some bad, and some ugly individuals who have either raised morale and supported students, their families, and their staff. Despicable individuals with egos who didn't care one bit about the Frank Paul school community. As a union leader, we were the first to know and hear about hostile work environments, the unfairness, lack of professionalism and misconduct of principles with regards to treatment of staff, students or members of the community. We are the first to raise the red flag with a principal first and then bring up concerns to the district administration. Uh the school board announced two principles would be reassigned. One of those principles being Miguel Pores at Frank Hall School. To say that I am upset is to put it

019mildly. I am beyond disappointed and deeply concerned with this arbitrary decision. Union leadership had no clue we had a single we have not had a single negative concern or history of any problem with regard to his professionalism or commitment in his 11 years of service to the Frankfall school community. Mr. Poras has consistent support over the years has had consistent support over the years from his direct supervisor Mr. Koig who would set foot at on the Frankfold campus two to four times per month. His direct mentor Dr. Ernnandez would visit the site one to two times per week. I know this because they would always stop by my room to see what was happening in TK land. The one thing I admire about Miguel Poras is that he will speak truth to power. He will

020advocate for students, their families and teachers in a respectful manner. >> Abila, >> thank you Mr. Okay. Rodriguez. >> Welcome. Thank you. Good. Good evening. My name is Jennifer Aila and I have been a second and fourth grade teacher at Frankwell Elementary for the past 19 years. Today I stand before you in support of our leader, Mr. Pores. Mr. Pores has been a principal that has been visible and available for his students, his parents, and his staff. He is one of the first people students see on a daily basis and is often in the playground during recess, playing basketball, sharing with sharing childhood stories, or just simply connecting with the students. As a mom of two, I have found it very difficult to balance my work life and home life. For many years, I had

021extra time after school. However, this changed when I had my children. Mr. Poras has been supportive and understanding when family emergencies arise. When I found the need to text Mr. Poras late in the evening because I would not be able to make it to work the following day, his response was, "My estra, take care of yourself. Take care of your family. I will find someone to cover you." Thankfully, I would then proceed to let him know where my emergency lesson plans were at. Thankfully, I would never have to I would never I've never had the need to use them because I need routine. My students need routine and most importantly, we need a leader who is caring and supportive. Mr. Poras is a perfect example of what a family should be in the workplace. Academically,

022we have room for improvement. We have made many changes to our teaching practices. Some I'm on board with, while others I don't quite understand, but I follow. However, a change in administration is not what we need. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, >> Alena Garcia. Good evening. Good evening everyone. My name is Alma Garcia and I am a teacher and parent of Frankle Elementary. Today I'm here to talk to you about Mr. Porz. During the last years, Mr. Pora has has been able to create a very positive school culture at Frankle Elementary where everyone respects and cares for each other. If you ever w wonder where you can find Mr. Poras, you can find him in many places. In the morning, you can find him in the parking lot welcoming students with a

023great smile, greeting parents, helping kids get out of their cars, walking the little ones to the cafeteria, even helping them carry their backpacks. He is always there making sure everyone is safe and happy. After that, you can find him around the school. He will be walking to the different classes, making sure that all of our students are ready to learn. Sometimes you will find Mr. Poras teaching a few science lessons here and a few math lessons there because he has a part of a teacher. During recess and lunch periods, you can find Mr. Poras in the cafeteria reminding kids to eat their fruits and veggies. Other times, you can find him on the playground talking to students about their weekends, about soccer, and other topics that the kids are interested in. After school, when everyone

024goes home, you can find Mr. Porus in his office doing his paperwork, planning PDs and staff meetings, looking at his scores, and always coming up with ideas on how to improve our school and how to better support our students. Even on Saturdays, you will find Mr. Poras at Franko working in gardens, planting seeds, pulling weeds, watering plants, cleaning the halls, making our school beautiful. On some Saturdays, Mr. Poras takes our most as risk students on fishing trips where he teaches them about fishing and appreciation for nature. Mr. Poras is always there for his students and their families, his staff members and frankly community. He's always he always says that we are all in one big family and that is for sure how it feels. Dear board members, we invite you to visit our school anytime

025so you can observe our school environment and culture. We will also like to thank Mr. support for all of his hard work and dedication to our school. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Garcia. >> Mrs. Clemente, >> welcome Miss Clemente. >> Good afternoon. Um, everybody present. My name is Marbel and one of the parents at Faul Schools. We are here seeking for what it is the best interest of the community of Faul Elementary School. And with more than a school, it is a family. It is not easy to form a community that considers itself a family. But with the leadership of Mr. Poras, it has become a reality for us. Children feel safe and welcome and this is because of him. I have a total of four daughters, oldest being oldest almost being in college

026and the last one being in second grade. If you ask any of my daughters who is a leader for you, they will mention Miss Gbor. a positive impact he has provided to my daughters. It is difficult to comprehend why other schools like Cesar Chavez Elementary School where petitions were filed in Janery to remove the principal but yet she is still there. Our principal has done his very best and has been proven with exams like I Ready. We only ask for what is fair. Please take the time to conduct a thorough investigation. Take the time to visit our school and experience the beautiful envir environment he has created. Make the decisions within the best interest of the students, teachers, and parents at friend Paul Elementary School. >> Thank you. >> I have another Mrs. Clemente with

027it was this a different phone number. So there's no other Mrs. Clemente. No. Okay. Lorena Mendulsa. Welcome, Miss Mendoza. >> Yeah. >> Dear board members in Alyssa School District, thank you for your service. Um, President Gilpas, we ask you to please extend the time. So, as you could see, there's a lot of parents that would like to express um their concerns, and it is something that you guys could vote on. Thank you. My name is Lorenna Mendula. I am a mother of a Frank Pole student, and I am here today along with other parents to support Mr. Gores. When we send our children to school, we want the same thing that you do. We want them to feel safe, supported in their needs, to gain the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in

028life. And that is exactly what Mr. Boras provides us. Along with knowledge and skills, he listens to what parents and students and staff need. It is important for us as it is to you. As the school board, it is your job to educate our children in the district. I ask you to focus on what the parents and students and staff at the prank pulse want, and that is to keep Mr. Poras at our school and continue as our principal. you represent us and you are our voices. We want to we want you to hear us. Please respond to our emails. We are currently pending. Um by this time you guys should be having um some of the petitions. Um so hopefully you guys had time to revise that and more are coming up. We are

029asking to please keep Mr. Poras. Let us keep Mr. Poras as our principal in our school. He is the heart of our school and we want him to continue until he's ready to retire. And when he does, we will joyfully celebrate him. But once he's ready to do so, it is an this is unprecedented for us and your decision matters and can make the difference. So, we are here. We're pending for you to please respond to the emails and thank you so much. >> Thank you, Miss Mendoza. Ricky Cabrera Ricky Cabera. >> Welcome Mr. Caba. >> Good afternoon members of the Alawa School Board. Regarding Mr. Boris, I would like to acknowledge the decision that was made following your close session deliberations. It is clear that this decision was based on the facts we presented

030and was reached from a unanimous vote with best interests of the students as a guiding priority. School boards have a responsibility to lack of integrity and independence. decisions of this and Bruce should never be influenced by intimidation or popularity no matter but by what serves the educational environment and well-being of our children. This action taken by this board reflects that responsibility. The more we witnessing today only today only reinforces that decision careful consideration and sound judgment. Thank you for your commitment to placing students at the center of your work. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Cavetta. >> Okay. So, we are at our 20 minute limit, but please hold. I'm going to ask the board members since we only have five more speakers at two minutes each, then everyone who wanted to speak will have

031the opportunity. But I'd like to see what the rest of the board Uhhuh. So, I'm going to take a vote. I say yes, Miss Ped. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we're going to finish off then and go beyond the 20 minutes and let everybody that signed up to speak speak. Okay. Emilio Onate. >> Welcome, Mr. Onate. >> Good evening, board members and superintendent. My name is Alio Onate and I am a student from Frank Paul Elementary School. I and many others am here to speak on behalf of the principal of our school, Mr. Poras. I have been in Frankpaw for 7 years, all with Mr. Poras as principal. And never has he done something to make me believe he is a bad principal. Never has he made me believe he deserves

032to be fired like this. Never has he gave me a reason to dislike him because no one could ever dislike someone as amazing as Mr. Poras. I would like to thank him for helping students out during hard times and always motivating and supporting students. Now take a moment to think where besides Frank Paul have you seen the principal opening the door and greeting his students in the morning takes taking students fishing and growing and cultivating plants in the garden with his students nowhere because Mr. Boras is the best principal. He is irreplaceable. Now, please reconsider your decision because I don't just want my younger siblings to hear how much of a good principal Mr. Boras was. I want them to know and see how good he is. Thank you for your time and consideration. >>

033Thank you, >> Loren Bermudz. Miss Bermudz. >> Welcome, Miss Bernmudes. Good evening, board members, superintendent, and all LSL Union School District members. My name is Lorine Bermudees. I am a parent of a former student, two current students, one being Emilio, the one that just spoke, and a future student. I am here to express deep concern regarding the intent to terminate principal poras of Frank Paul Elementary School. It is troubling to hear that such action may be taken under circumstances that appear unjust and unsupported by fair evaluation. Principal Poras has demonstrated a strong commitment to all Frank Paul students, staff, and families he serves by being present, welcoming, and always available with his open door policy. His leadership has contributed to a positive school environment, fostering both academic growth and community unity. Decisions of this magnitude

034should be based on clear, transparent, and equitable processes. And it is important that all relevant facts and perspectives are carefully considered before any final determination is made. Keep in mind, an unjust termination not only impacts the individual involved, but also disrupts the stability of the students and school community and undermines trust in the decision-making process. Staff, students, and families deserve consistency, fairness, and prompt communication, especially when it comes to leadership that plays such a vital role in the success of our school. I respectfully urge you all to thoroughly review the situation, ensure that due process is followed and consider the broader impact of this of this decision, our children. I want to close it off with the following. Every day we are trying to make our children who are our future leaders do the right

035thing. So let's please set an example and make the right and just decision of keeping principal poras at Frank Paul Elementary. Thank you for your time and consideration. >> Thank you. Sandra, >> welcome Miss Sandra board president, trustees and superintendent. I am a mother of three former Frank Paul students and I stand here today alongside staff, families, and students of Frank Paul in support of our school principal, Mr. for us and speak out against his unjustified termination. During the board meeting held on March 11 at approximately 1 hour 12 minutes and 30 seconds during the second interim budget report, it was clearly stated that no layoffs would happen this year or next year or next two years. So budget constraints are not the reason behind this decision. Academic school performance is not the issue either.

036Under Mr. supporters of leadership. Frank Paul has fostered a positive school culture where students, staff, and families feel welcomed, heard, and valued. So why is he no longer a fit for our school? This raises concerns. Could this decision be influenced by personal motives? Additionally, why is this termination not listed on today's agenda under employment report? If this were truly an urgent or serious matter, immediate action would have taken, but that was not the case. While we understand that certain details may be confidential, our community deserves transparency, we have a right to understand decisions that directly impact our school and our students. Most importantly, we strongly believe that Mr. Pora should continue serving as a principal of Frank Paw School. And to Mr. Poras, thank you for the countless students whose lives you have positively impacted

037simply by being who you are, a leader who genuinely cares. Thank you. >> Thank you, Abelino. Welcome Abelino. >> Thank you. Uh uh good evening uh Alisa school staff board and community. My name is Alino again and uh we are here because we are we want justice and um and we are unhappy with the termination of Mr. Poras. So we I'm going to talk about the agenda. The agenda is incomplete, has no transparency and it mis misleading to the community because has no information about Mr. Poras on it. I I want to demand to the board to reconsider this decision on the termination of Mr. for us and based on the agenda's missing information we assume that Alisun school district is secret secretly terminating Mr. support us and I want to let you know that

038we do we are tired or favoritism and we are not going to tolerate retaliation against Alisa Jun staff and to Mr. Poras we have we have been very blessed because he opened his heart And he has a high standards. He has high high standards and open doors and equal to all of all policy. So thank you Mr. Por for everything everything that you have been doing for doing for our families at Franco Paulo. >> Thank you. Maria Lopez. >> Welcome, Miss Lopez. >> Thank you. >> Good afternoon. My name is Maria Lopez and um Aliso school boards, whatever here or anywhere, should never make decisions based on intimidation or popularity. They should make decisions based on what is best for the students. The decision may reflect that responsibility and commitment. What we are seeing only

039what we are seeing today only confirms that the board made the right choices. ALSO the ALSO school union district board made the decision based on facts. It was discussed in close session and passed with unanimous vote with one priority in mind, our children's. I want to thank the board for keeping our children's and the top priority. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. So, we're going to close uh public comment at 6:08. And I did want to commend uh everybody so professional. You expressed yourself and we listened. Thank you for being professional and respectful and it I appreciate that very much. So we're going to continue now with our meeting. You are welcome to stay. Um but maybe we if you're not staying for the whole meeting, we need to maybe recess for five minutes.

040Um or do you if most people staying for the meeting? Okay, we we'll just continue on and thank you again for your respect and professionalism. We're going to move on to association comments now. Um LSL Teachers Association, please. Okay. Good evening, board of trustees, cabinet, and the AUSD community. Tonight, I would like to read to you a recent posting from an author I follow online. It resonates with teaching. Teachers are being asked to close gaps, raise scores, differentiate for every learner, manage behavior, support mental health, build relationships, handle attendance issues, and smile while doing it. This is the job right now. And let's be honest, the pressure is intense. Teachers want students to grow. Of course, they do. They are working hard every single day to make it happen. But growth does not happen in

041a vacuum. It happens with consistency, with support, with resources, with attendance, with strong systems, with time, with relationships, with students who are regulated enough to learn. So we put the full weight of achievement on teachers without addressing everything else impacting that growth. We are setting people up to feel they that they are constantly failing no matter how hard they work. And that is unreasonable. High expectations matter. Results matter. Growth matters. But if we want better outcomes, we need to support the people doing the actual work, not just keep turning up the pressure and acting like pressure alone produces excellence. In fact, it instead creates burnout. At this time, school site principles are figuring out their staffing for next school year and teachers are being notified about classroom displacements. For example, at one school site, they

042would like to collapse a third grade class. So then there would be three third grade classes with 38 students in each class. Let that sink in for a minute. I can tell you that this current cohort has many behavior challenges and putting all behavior challenges challenging students in one classroom together will be absolute chaos. This is the same school site that had two teachers quit at the beginning of the school year due to behavior and lack of support from their site. So, let me loop back to how are you supporting the teachers in our district if you are going well beyond the class size caps. I can honest honestly say that as someone who has taught third grade for 10 years, having a large class size the first year that those students are taking the

043ESPback will not have a good outcome on the state test. You want results. Smaller class sizes are important. And since we talk a lot a lot about data in AUSD, let's think, are we going to get our our higher test scores with larger class sizes followed by the daily behaviors and challenges that teachers are facing? The answer is no. I encourage all board members and cabinet members to go to classes in AUSD that have large class sizes, whether it's in GenEd class or an SDC class, and teach for a day. Spend a day in the life of a teacher and maybe you'll understand. On a more personal note, I have a perfect example of the importance of stability in a school is that I have had the privilege of having Miguel Porz as my vice

044principal and principal for the 11 years that I have been in the school district. On March 11th, the board made the decision to reassign him and not be the principal at Frank Paul anymore. This has hurt the Frank Paul community tremendously. I know that there haven't been any issues with him as an administrator with the staff, families, and students. Often in the morning, you can find Mr. Porz out in the school parking lot greeting students and walking them safely to the cafeteria. What other principal does this for students? None. This seems to be a personal decision instead of a professional one. If you say it's due to data, what data was given to you? Because Frank Paul is in the middle amongst the 12 schools in our district. As a reminder, we are here for

045the students. If the students social emotional well-being, we should be looking >> Please excuse the interruption. So, >> I'm almost done. I have >> So, it has to be related to the union business, please. Thank you. >> I would like to finish my comment. I'm I'm I'm almost done. >> Okay. >> Um if we're looking out for for our students um emotional well-being, we should be looking out for it. And as Mr. Porz is the compass at Frank Paul, I think it's important that you are reminded what that community voice matters as each one of you was elected to represent the members of this community. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Edwards. California School Employees Association, Chapter 577. I thought I saw Miss Kel. No, no comment. Okay. Do we have any here representing the

046United Substitute Teachers Union? No. Okay. We'll go on then to presentations. Our presentation is our school site presentation. Virginia Rocka Barton Elementary School. We have principal Luis Gomero that will present for us. And Mr. Rome, you have 15 minutes. Okay. No, we can't hear you. Is it Greek? >> Oh, there we go. Okay. Hey, >> you know what? We're going to recess for about two minutes so that uh the parents, you know, can can clear if they're going to, they're welcome to stay for couple of minutes. Thank you all for being here. That's the thing. So, I'll read for you. Can we test your mic, Mr. Romero? >> All right. >> Okay. So, we'll just wait for Mrs. Anzo to get back and we'll get started. I know you can't wait. Those smiling faces. Well,

047almost forces you to smile, huh? Okay, we can start now. Thank you. >> All right. Well, thank you guys. So, greeting board members, President Miss Gas Bara, and cabinet members. So, I'm Romero, the school principal at Virginia Waka Bart Elementary School. Um with me is Miss uh Selenino. She is my assistant uh principal and Miss Rey is our community school coordinator. Uh so it will be a collaborative uh presentation and we're honored to be here to kind of spotlight some of the great work that we're doing at Virginia Elementary School. So every presentation I'd like to just uh begin to u recogn um just to kind of honor women's uh history with us this past month in in March and for a new board members or community that u was the first superintendent here with

048Alisa served as a principal and um she started teaching at she would come and visit and read to the kids and read to and just uh hang out with our teachers. So we have great memories of her. So I just want to take a moment to kind of honor her and this is just a privilege to be a principal at VRB. So just a quick quick overview our school say. So we do offer bilingual um cohorts at VRB um like most of our schools most of our students are are e to highlight some of the programs that we currently host at at VRB. have um two newcomer classes in which we um we host a third and fourth grade classroom newcomers and fifth and sixth grade as well. So that's two classes about 40 students

049and we also have uh two uh special day classes fifth and sixth uh graders and now um our attendance lectures but we're in the 500 student population. I'm going jump in right into the data reading and math and the dashboard. But um I wanted to start with the data just to kind of um just to kind of highlight that everything that we've done this school year has really been focus on our data. Everything we have completed this year has been data driven. So here's our reading data for uh and I ready uh for the most part all of the student are progressing or seeing that one of the areas high um we noticed that a lot of work that the area that we highlight is that our students are struggling with vocabulary and comprehension. So,

050um, this school year that that's been one of our main focuses. Um, and our teachers, our leadership team develop how to, um, support the area and vocabulary and comprehension. And through the presentation, I'll I'll show a little bit more how they in those specific areas. And in math, again, benchmark one versus our most uh, current benchmark, our students are are growing. um they're increasing from u 1% to 7% out of above and less students out of the the red area and our assessment. This is our student report card with our um at VRB our dashboard. So we do have some indicators in orange and um there are some good indicators in chronic absenteeism and science and I want to share that because as well throughout the presentation we're going to share how we're targeting those

051specific areas. So I want to start with our smart group of this school year um and this is our first year with vital which stands for visibility improving teaching and learning collaboration and as a team uh we develop a a smart goal. Okay, like I mentioned the the smart goal is aligned to our I already data. So we at the beginning school year we sat together with the consultants we looked at our data and developed a smart goal. So we develop a smart goal as a school sign and as well every grade level create a specific smart goal aligned to our schoolwide smart goal. So our smart go our smart goal this year for is 80% of our students in English where we exceed a typical growth in our average case to third grade uh

05267% of our students in Spanish will be at or at or above grade level and then 50% of our students will increase on the on their alpac so at least one up advancement and we will do this by the following um teaching so our teacher will be working on teacher clarity uh close reading explicit vocabulary instruction and language development. Okay. And like I mentioned this all ties into uh we data to uh really uh create these uh smart goals. So with smart we kind of align everything in the sense of professional development and focusing at times when staff needed. So at the beginning of school we we started strong with teacher clarity and instructional compass by um that was by Miss Sanso and and really um to our teachers how to learn intentions success criteria

053so our students know what they're learning how they're going to be successful you know at the end of the lesson uh with the collaboration that's the middle picture with MCE writer professional development on that it's a an area where our teams still need kind of a refresher uh for our students to uh for teachers to kind of uh give that opportunity for for our students encourage they think and have this course and really have a deep understanding when they're reading complex text and then uh vocabulary um as you saw in the IE data our vocabulary was one of the lowest performing areas and through conversation with our teams um our grade levels did not have a set vocabulary routine. So this year we put a lot of work on setting a school vocabulary team. We're

054using a strategy to uh storm just to give you an idea. It's very structured every student to acquire a vocabulary word. Um there's images involved sentence form. There's a lot of word repetition. There's a total physical response. So there's always practice so students can acquire the vocabulary. So like I mentioned yesterday, it was the first year of vital. A lot of this work has been in collaboration with less said with tools and protocols. Um there are hold sorry I wonder if you guys hear me. >> But you're yelling But you're yelling at us. >> Just kidding. Got it. Okay. Just kidding. Relax. Relax. >> All right. So, um, Vital, so this is our first year with Vital, which, uh, once again, it's it's a consultant through Wes said that's working with our grade level teams,

055with our leadership teams, and, um, it's provided us with, uh, protocols and how to, uh, work better when we get together as grade level teams. So there's different protocols on how to look at standards, uh how to create lessons and it's really based on uh giving focus on instruction. So how can we improve our instruction to better serve our students. So some of the images top left u there's an example where teacher's doing the lesson tuning lesson and where teacher demonstrates the lesson and her their uh peer grade level colleagues provide feedback and it's a set of protocol right so I'm focusing on the instruction um the bottom left you can't see of the picture but there's about 15 adults in the classroom and we're all obser our leadership team is observing Miss Kintro on

056a lesson it's a pure observation protocol and we observe for about 10 15 minutes and then the team provides feedback on instruction, right? So, this year that's been kind of like the focus kind of there's been challenges, but it's trying to open up our our doors and uh to our peers so uh we can observe one another and better instruction to better serve our our students. So, something new that we started this year, we've always offered um intervention, but something we we we started with a different structure this this school year and um it didn't just happen. has been a kind of couple years of of learning. We've had um at VRB several years of working with a different consultant solution tree which they were really big on professional learning communities. Uh with some of

057the work with solution tree and now west ed um we developed this this block which is it's a response to intervention and we call it a VRB what I need and all it really is is just a a schedule part of the day and where students receive a reading intervention. Once again going back to the I already did in reading a lot of the students if you see that red gap there's a lot of students in the upper grades that are struggling with reading. So with this approach every single student high low medium they're getting those they have 30 minutes every single day and where they get support in their specific area of need. So for example in third grade their their block might be from 11 to 11:30 students are broken up into small

058groups with the support of teacher and intervention teachers and every single group has a different target of support based on the students need. So that's something that um we're trying out this year and um it's just I think it's been a beneficial because every single student it's getting um it's skill so that that they need uh um based on their their results and you know what they need to to read and to perform. So, also I want to highlight at VRB this this school year. Um, and it's it's an idea we've been kind of playing around the last couple of years and how can we provide and be creative to provide our teachers um team time, right? Right now with the current structure that that we have as a district is teachers meet every six

059weeks or so depending on how they fall in the cycle and and that's a long time for teachers to kind of create analyze common for assessment. So from last year to this year now we have something more structured and we're with the support with ED services. Uh we were able to um consult with uh sweat 3 which is a P company they provide P services. So every Friday they come to VRB they provide every single grade level 45 minutes of physical education. During those 45 minutes, uh teachers get to uh connect with the grade level colleagues and collaborate, work on protocols, uh create common for assessments or analyze data and provide next steps for for our students. So that's that's something that's been working well for our teachers and also for our students. We look

060forward uh to uh to our coaches every single Friday um so they can have access to those uh physical education activities. So now I'm going to transition over to Miss uh Miss Selenas. >> Good evening. As mentioned before, my name is Selia Selenas Garcia. Miss Selenas to most. Um thank you for having us to um board presidents, superintendent, board members, community members. Um it's an honor to be here to spotlight our school. Um, so I know that we all know this, but I'm gonna start off by saying, you know, Mr. Rometo covered a lot of the academics and that's not always the full picture, right? And so a lot of my responsibilities falls under student services. And so one of the areas that we we've really been focusing on this year is attendance as for

061most of our schools. And so um the summary here as illustrated by the graphics is that we are very much seeing improvement at our school. Um so we always incentivize attendance monthly trimesterally at the end of the year. Um the bottom left picture um shows a collective effort at our school where we're essentially taking on the students who were previously chronically absent and we've kind of taken them on as a case load and so we are meeting with parents um it was a collective effort social worker counselor both of us misses to sit down with families and find out what those barriers are because 95% of the time it's not clearcut. cut. Uh there are a lot of factors as to why students are showing up, barriers for the family, for the students. Um and

062so as again just as a summary, it attendance in general has been improved uh at VRB compared to last year. Um the year to date attendance is almost the same. It's 1/100th slightly lower, more or less the same. Um and our chronic absenteeism rate has um declined from last year. So you can clearly see right that our efforts so far have been working um in terms of attendance related to that again because a lot of times when we do sit down with families I'll have families come in talk to me at these attendance meetings different situations a lot of these stories come up and a lot of the needs um that families have or students have also come up and that is where we at VRB We take on a very interdisciplinary app approach. We're

063collaborating with everybody on site. This is our coordination of services team. I'm extremely proud to have these people on board because again like the there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes aside from the academics. So we have our school counselor, a district social worker, psychologist, we have an ESS clinician, community schools coordinator who's joining us here who's amazing by the way. um our parent edges ed specialist. We have an ESS wellness coach as well. We have a sticks and stones counselor. Right? So in different ways they're able to support when these things come up. When somebody needs transportation, we can reach out to our F FRC. when the barrier is there's a medical emergency that we provide either internal resources, external resources, whatever that may come up that we're able to support our

064families in whatever way that we can. Um, and just as a summary for our data, so when um someone in the community, staff member, students, parents have that need, they would fill out a referral. And this is just a summary of those referrals. We've had 101 total so far this year. 21 of them have been SSTs which I manage. Um 32 have been FRC referrals. So they would go to Mr. Regus or Mr. Dansia. Uh 46CL referrals. So it could be counseling, it could be therapy, it could be county program. So it depends. Um and two for attendance. So we partner with all of these organizations and um to provide those services for our students. Um and lastly, I know a lot of our schools also um take this approach, right, to incentivizing providing positive

065school culture. And so this is just a few of examples of some of our PBIS events that we've had at BRB. Um some some of you may know that we have uh our VAS at BRB right in the middle. Um we have movie nights. Um students are awarded with either um participating in events. On the lefth hand side are some examples of those events. We've had movie nights. We had uh pumpkin decorating for Halloween. Uh we've had dances. And on the right, they could also choose to go to uh PBIS store. So they can exchange their Eagle dollars for some prizes as well. >> Okay. >> So, who gets to wrap it up? >> Is this it? This is the last one. Okay. >> Yes. Good evening everyone. My name is Gel Rees. I'm the

066community school coordinator at VRB and today I just want to give you a really quick um update on our community school center. So um the community schools we take a whole child approach to supporting students educational and life success. So, at our community school center this school year, we have serviced 317 families and 163 students. And our focus this school year was college, career and life readiness, support with access to basic needs, health and well-being, which is super important, and bringing community into the classroom. So, I've been super fortunate to work with such amazing administrators. um they are very um accepting of um helping support bringing community schools into the classrooms. I think that is a super important factor in helping our kids grow um and preparing them for college career and life readiness. So

067we have um catered we've built a few pilot projects this school year um starting with parent support literacy workshops. We partnered with Schoolastic who has done an amazing job in providing our parents with small tips and tools that they could utilize at home to better support their kids with reading, vocabulary, and speaking. And he does it in such a fabulous way. And then we also started um and partnered with um the we we started a reader leader program and actually today was the first day we hosted it at VRB. We have 25 students participating in the afterchool program and it's with the read tome project and it's catered to help build student voice but also giving them that love for reading so they could build on their skills. We also >> I'm I'm really sorry

068but we do have your presentation and I just have to be fair and square because I don't want another school to say well you let them go. >> No worries. >> But it was so much information that you have to share with us and we love it. >> So thank you so much. Uh, but I do want to give the board members an opportunity to ask questions. Are you open to that? >> Yes. >> Thank you so much. Uh, Miss Perez, do you have any questions, Trusty Pettis, or comments? >> No questions, but I'm jealous of the Vakas costumes. I've seen them a lot and I want one. Um, but it shows that you guys are proud of what you guys do and I like that. And thank you for being transparent with your data

069and not only being transparent but looking for solutions. And I think that the when WIN/RTI right um is awesome because if it's 30 minutes of blocks that also prepares them to going to seventh grade. So I think that's pretty cool. Keep up the good work. >> Thank you. Um Trusty Velasquez, do you have any comments, questions? >> Yes. Um Sorry. Um I was wondering why did you said last year you guys had win and this year you guys have idol. What was the reason for the change? >> So what was the reason for >> the change in the intervention company that helped you guys out? >> So uh vital it's uh it's a consultant that's working with the grade level teams and then when is just um it's just a structure at at the site

070level. So it's not we're not working directly. So we got like let me we got knowledge from the consultant from solution tree kind of learning from them got to back off uh learning from them kind of the structure of of why to do wins. So let me give us some background. So before um we will provide intervention students were getting pulled out during the main instruction right so it was by class. So students will get pulled out for a reading intervention but they if they're doing math they're missing the math portion right. So with this concept that uh we kind of learned from it's been around but we learned it from VRB learning specifically from the PDF from solution tree uh we're trying this approach and we're um the read the reading intervention it's uh

071it's every grade level has a designated time so it's two different um components. Not sure if I answer the the question >> and then I can help with the vital piece. The vital piece is coaching the teachers directly. So the win is for students and the vital is coaching the teachers directly when they're planning um their lessons. >> Okay. >> And their collaboration. >> Final question. Um I know you said you had issue with chronic absences. Are you doing the uh the truency following up with truency and doing the letters to the DA and all of that? still not working. >> Yeah. >> Yes, we are. Um I think it's again it's one of those things where we can think of chronic absenteeism and we can think of truency and both of those are really

072about attendance, right? So there are different strategies depending on those cases. Uh I would say there are very few that we've gotten to while I do issue truency letters. I've only had one mediation meeting this year uh where we really we we tried everything and it still wasn't working. Um but as mentioned right we have that cost teams because we have a we have a lot of resources right so when those barriers or issues are addressable we start there right and then if it continues then we can take that added approach with truency >> is there anybody actually going out to the homes to pick up the kids >> yep that's one of the things we've done all three of us actually have been on home visits um if needed we will be out there

073and have been Thank you. Um, Trusty Okmple, >> thank you for your presentation. It was u clear and uh understandable. Um, I had a a question about one of your programs. Uh, I'm um, you know, I was a high school counselor in my prior life. Um, so have I continue to have a real interest in college career and life ri life readiness uh kind of you know program. So I'm curious what what your college career and life readiness program uh what it entails what if you can talk a little bit about what you do with the students in in that area. >> Quick segue. Do you want to go first? Do you want me to answer or go for it? So, um, with community schools, that is a a major focus. So, we're looking at

074helping our students, um, and preparing them for what's next. And we know that for most students, maybe college is not the pathway that they choose. Maybe it's a career or, um, you know, technical support. So, we really want to build those partnerships with the high school districts because they also are community schools in our community. So, we're trying to bridge those um pathways so that we could work together to help support our students in helping them grow and getting them life ready. >> I just want to add to that that uh next next week on Thursday, we'll be having our career day and it's something I think it's a I want to say it's the first time we haven't had it in a while ever since that in a long time. So, that's another segue

075to kind of career career career ready pathways, right? And we provided uh we invited different folks from different careers, different backgrounds to kind of parents as well to come and present to our our students. So all of you are invited next next Thursday at VRB. >> Yeah, I think I think that's fabulous. Yeah, Alisa High School had their career day just a few weeks ago. It was a great success. Uh it was uh former graduates come back and they speak to the students about about what they're doing. I I graduated from Alisal, so I was there at 7:30 in the morning, which is really early, but uh but it it was a wonderful day. I I really I really enjoyed doing that. Uh sort of uh another another point like the state of California just

076recently passed a new law where high school students now will have to uh as part of the graduation requirements, they will have to learn finances. you know, they're going to have to they're going to have to take a course on everything that has to do with finances, how to open up credit, how to get a mortgage, how to prepare for for for uh you know, retirement, uh which is kind of life life readiness, you know, because we we spend a lot of time in talking to kids about careers, which is important, right? But you know at some point everybody has to retire has to retire but no one talks about okay well will you be prepared for retirement or you be able to retire comfortably and that's kind of part of the life readiness. I

077mean that's a long long ways away for our students but uh you know everyone gets there gets there eventually. So I'm really glad to hear that you're working with the high school and coordinating with them. That's that's fantastic as as you know they do a lot of work on uh pathways and such whether it's careers and such but yeah your career day sounds fantastic. Uh you know I'm sure it'll be it'll be exciting and and informative. So thank you. >> Thank you. I have a a quick question. Uh thank you for asking the hard questions my fellow board members. Mine's kind of easy. I think is there you are the Eagles the mascot eagles right? >> That does. Yeah. Is there another school that has >> Who's the other school that has it? >> How

078did that happen? >> Are you Blue Eagles or >> We might change the cows. The VRB cows. I don't know >> who who was an eagle. Who were Eagles first? Do we know VRB? >> Wow. So, yeah, that is interesting. I just I kind of thought so. But are the colors of the school the same? >> Yeah, >> green. Yeah, kind of. I won't ask any more questions about that. Thank you so much for your presentation. Awesome information. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Romero. Sorry to cut you off there, but sounds you you were able to answer the board's questions. Have a wonderful day now. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Bye. Okay, moving on to our next presentation. Um, student achievement director of leadership development and accountability, Mary Beal. It's great. Thank you. All of

079us. I think at least they look great. >> Preserve the community. >> That was loud. Uh first I want to say thank you for having me present tonight on our third trimester benchmark data. It has been a while. Um, we've had a lot of upcoming things happening, a lot of data to present, but this is a culminating one. Second, I want to apologize for not having the presentation hard copy. I grabbed the site level data as I have provided you in the past and I left the hard copy data on the copier. Um, but I do know that there's a digital copy available to you. I believe Dr. Fernandez has shared that. Um, or Miss Anzo and I'll be sure that copies are available for the public as soon as we leave. Um I can

080work with Mr. Romero to make sure that we're we have that publicly posted. All right. So I ready English, Spanish and math growth analysis. So we are looking benchmark one through benchmark 3. You have to make it complicated. All right. So this evening um just what we're going to take a look at. We're going to look at and analyze our performance. We're going to analyze or we are going to examine student growth. look at strengths and gaps by student groups and then look at what our action and next steps are not only in 2526 but into 2627. So I wanted to remind you of the data that we are looking at um in I ready they give us five different placement levels. They can be deep red which is three or more grade levels below.

081Red two grade levels below. Yellow one grade level below. Light green which is early on grade level. And then dark green is that mid or above grade level mark. We don't only look at achievement, we also look at growth and that is where we want to focus today. And if you remember from last year, that was where we focused too on where do we see us growing in and where do we need to be intentional about improving. So we measure it in two ways. We have typical growth. If we think about a school year, our 180 days, we would expect our students to make 100% of typical growth. Stretch growth is when we make additional growth. That stretch growth is pushing beyond 100% growth in the year and closing achievement gaps. So for example, maybe

082I made 130%. So I'm getting closer to on grade level um than I was when I started the year or where I would have expected to be. So we'll look at both of them today through the lens of all of our assessments uh with the exception of Spanish our Spanish I reading I ready reading and I'll talk a little bit about that when we get to that slide so the first one is reading in English um this is a graph that you have seen before naturally as I explained the colors we want the reds to go down and the greens to go up and with that work being done the yellow intensifies as well right we move from deep red to red, red to yellow, and yellow to the shades of green. Takeaways here is

083from trimester 1 to trimester 3, we had a 14% gain in our overall reading in our English scores. And those students that are two or more grade levels below decreased by 16%. This is a new graph for you. This is our Spanish benchmark performance. So our Spanish data, it's the first year that I Ready put it out. We do not have the same graphs that our other diagnostics have. So we don't get growth data yet. We have to be in year two for I Ready to develop what growth data would look like. That typical and stretch. And so we look at it just by how we are achieving from trimester 1 to trimester 2. So you'll see overall there was a strong shift upward with many more students moving into above mid or above or

084early on grade level with fewer and fewer students remain remaining two or more grade levels below. In math, we also see a very positive trend and one of our strongest. Students at or above grade level grew from 6% to 21%. And the far below band decreased by 21 points, moving 52% to 31%. This is definitely a bright spot, especially as we know we've looked at our math data over the years and an area of focus. Something I know that we're going to continue studying. So how much are students growing? So that was the achievement part. This is our growth part. We notice that in math already 46% of our students have made a year's worth of growth and 32 in reading and 32% of our students have made that growth in math. And if you

085move to that next column with stretch growth, 17% of our students have already started to close their academic achievement gaps by meeting their stretch growth for the year. And this was taken in March. So we still have two months of learning. And 10% of students met their stretch growth in um math. Our strongest areas continue to be phonics and phmic awareness in reading and numbers and operations as well as algebraic thinking in math. Areas of focus. You heard Mr. Romero talk about it a little bit. Vocabulary. What are we doing to address vocabulary? And in service to comprehension. And then in math, it's geometry. So, oh, typo. My apologies. English reading growth, 88% of students have met expected gains. That means that's where they were expected to be by this p point of the year.

086We took the test at about 70% of the year. We would want to see our students be 70% of towards typical growth or above. 88% of our students have met that growth. The same for math is 68% of that growth. So teetering right around that line of where we wanted them to be. So who is and who isn't growing? So the district-wide average will often mask any gaps. And what we have really brought our leaders into understanding this year is how to manage and and um monitor smaller report groups and then work specifically with district leadership support um director of special education, director of migrant or director of teaching and learning to really address those populations and move students forward. So we are making a difference but we still have a lot of a lot

087of room to grow. So looking at reading in English, you can see remember we were aiming for that 70% mark. Our English learners, homeless students, socioeconomically disadvantaged students with disabilities and migrant students are falling below that average. That is an area that we need to to address. in math these populations achieved even a little bit lower. So this growth this what we are seeing meeting growth and hitting stretch growth shows that we're making work. This is an increase from last year but we still have a lot of work to do and we plan to address that when we are talking about interventions. You heard our site talk about PLC's, talk about wind time, talk about um vital work. How are we diving into professional development not only for our leaders but for our teachers because

088you also heard um with our ATA president talk it's a whole system our whole system is responsible for this movement. So there are celebrations. We have strong math growth across most of our sites. We are reducing in the percentage of students two or more grade levels below in both English reading and math. And several sites significantly exceeded stretch growth targets. Trends reading shows steady and consistent progress. Grade level variability is significant and there are a few grade levels that are driving our most growth both in reading and in math. So how do we analyze them, study them and spread that those efforts in that work out and concerns? There's inconsistent progress at sites. Some sites have grade levels that have improved their overall site, but not all sites are showing the equal amount of progress.

089and student with disabilities continue to have the widest gap. Next steps. This is for leaders. Effective leadership responds to benchmark data by looking not only at instruction but data use intervention and PLC's. So we need to strengthen vocabulary routines in service to comprehension. We need to increase structured language practice for students in reading and Spanish. And in math, we need to continue and deepen math discourse and conceptual understanding of routines. This year, we have focused as leaders reading on reading and tracking data to understand student growth, microanalyze groups for impact, and communicating feedback and wonderings around this instructional impact. into 2627. We'll continue to use this data to move from managers to evaluators to instructional coaches leading through data to drive instructional change. We need to identify what to continue, what to drop, and what

090to adjust. Adjust. So, I talked about that site planning. It starts today. We still have two months of school left. We are responsible for continuing all instructional efforts and it's okay to identify at this point in time what's not working in pivot. And so as a leadership team, we'll continue that learning Thursday in our ILT, Friday in our APM principal PLC to shift our work, monitor progress, and adjust for what's best for students. Finally, the work ahead of us is not just about the data. It's really about what happens in the classrooms, in coaching conversations, and in leadership decisions that every single day impact the experience of our students. And that's it. Questions? Board members? I'm going to start on my left with Mr. Velasquez this time, please. Yes. >> You said that not all

091schools are showing uh the same growth. is what is being done to help those schools that are not showing growth? >> That's a great question. So, we have our our the data is in front of you now. So, you have specific site data so you can dive into it for more information. But what's being done is we have cohorted our principles into different instructional teams. We do instructional learning walks as an ed services team. We have director supports moving into classrooms to identify how do we support leadership. We've also reached into different programs. You heard a little bit about vital. How are we providing professional leadership to our leaders so they in turn can go back to their sites and support their sites? So that has looked um a little bit scripted in some ways

092and in others some flexibility. So you heard work with teacher clarity, we work with our superintendent compass guiding us in what students are learning and um making sure that through the work of directors that we are there to support daily on making those changes on their sites. So people are there at that additional people are there to help them in the classroom. >> Yes. >> Thank you Mr. Okmpo. >> Uh yeah I I know both you and also Reese Romero spoke about uh vocabulary uh routine and I think I think that's an important thing but can you elaborate more on that? Can you talk about more what that actually entails? What it looks like? So we don't have a standard vocabulary routine across all of our district. There's not one like this is what we

093do. But we do analyze what the standards say for our students to learn and we break that down to understand what specific vocabulary students will need and that becomes part of the teaching and learning that happens in the classroom. So when we look at the work through vital we look at the work in PLC's we are identifying those key vocabularies that are or vocabularies vocabulary words that are essential for student learning and then as a grade level team they're approaching how are they going to introduce it how are they going to teach it how do they make it visible because we do know that a majority of our population are English learners and what we are missing in some of our instruction not to any fault of anybody is how do we increase language using

094vocabulary using what we have in front of us to support but in service to something. So we can't just teach vocabulary to teach vocabulary. We need to teach vocabulary to be in service to math in service to reading comprehension in service to the learning that's taking place in the classroom. >> How how do teachers make it uh fun? You know the the teaching >> teaching is not fun. >> Well the teaching how do they make it fun for the students? So I >> You're welcome. >> Um no, so that's a great question, right? >> Thank you. >> Uh no it so I have had the fortune of going on so many learning walks and I have seen we are getting manipulatives out there are visuals out students are painting words they're drawing words they are

095engaging physically they're talking with their student or with their peers. Um, so they are finding ways. It's not like when I went to school and it was see the picture, write the definition, use it in a sentence, write it three times, tell your right that that practice isn't there. U, so they really are thinking out loud because we know student engagement is number one. >> If students are engaged in the learning, which is hard when everything is so technologically like I have it right here. Why why do I need to learn it? I can Google it. And we have second graders like that. So that's how they're engaging. >> I I think I think the student engagement is is really super important. And I'm thinking about u there's an author by the name of Francisco

096Francisco Himemenz who wrote a book called circuit. I don't know if you're familiar with it or not but he's um he was as a child he was a migrant uh in s Santa Maria uh and they spent you know their time moving from one town to another town. that he had a teacher. So he writes in his autobiography. He had a teacher uh that gave them I think a new vocabulary word uh every day. And it was kind of a deal where if you if you got um you know enough words, if you learned enough words, you get like a golden star. Well, he writes that he never got a golden star, you know, probably because you know he started school uh kind of old, not speaking English, so he had he was at a

097real disadvantage disadvantage. But at some point he developed a real a real love um uh for language and and he would make vocabulary lists and in fact he would even make uh rules of uh grammar, rules of math and when he was out picking cotton uh he would actually take time to actually memorize and learn learn these rules and and and you know and so he was really engaged. He was really, you know, very intentional and now he's a he's a professor of English at at Santa Clara University. It's a nice little book only about 100 100 pages. I think the reading is not very difficult. It could probably be read by sixth graders who have good vocabulary. I would recommend it. It's called Circuit by Francisco Himenez. It's a very very nice book just

098about his life and how he moved from being undocumented to to being a migrant student to then being being a professor. But he's written written many other books and sometimes he's come out and spoke he's spoken out of Hartnell and he's autographed his books but uh just thought you know but but yeah I mean so it's got to be made fun but the students also have to obviously buy into it but hopefully the making it fun makes them buy into it you know >> well finding purpose by finding the purpose. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway that's my little story but thank you. >> Of course thank you Mr. Trusty Perez, please. You have a comment or question? >> No questions. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I I I just I just I had one brief

099question. I I got so excited when you said something about 21% of our students did better in math somehow, >> but then it's we're still in trouble in math. >> Yeah. So, I I'm sorry. >> No, don't don't be sorry at all. We are growing in math. We are um we are seeing the growth. There are some very intentional efforts being led by our director of teaching and learning and in collaboration with some of the other peers that are sitting behind me back here um in work on understanding math and how to drive that forward in our teaching and learning and a student experience. It is still a work in progress. So we want to celebrate that our students did grow. We've we've moved to an achievement of 21%. Is that where we want to

100be? No. We still have areas to improve. We want to see all of those students move over. Um but it what is really important um we went to a training and something that was highlighted for us are what are the small wins because if we don't start celebrating our small wins we get exhausted um trying to achieve the big ones and we all know those small wins those little ones where we're able to say wow look at us what we're doing here we can keep doing that and then we can expand on it that helps get us to that big win. Well, thank you because I think for a long time we or the board would have conversations with our former superintendent about math and you know math math math now with our new superintendent

101math. And so it looks like all of us together focusing on how the students need yes reading vocabulary all of that but help with with the math. It's good to know that the leadership is recognizing that and and working on it for students. So, thank you for a very good presentation. A lot of information. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> We're going to move on now to item number four, board member superintendent reports. I'm going to start with uh Trusty Perez this time on my right here. >> Nothing to report. Uh Mr. campo. >> I'll try to make it short, please. I know that sometimes I go on and on and on, but anyway. So, anyway, on March the 27th, I attended the Monterey County School Boards Association annual dinner and organizational meeting. Uh two

102of the organizations that were highlighted were the uh dream dream big Monterey Science of Reading Academy and I know that uh we we have used that reading academy if I'm not mistaken I think to to inservice our teachers on on reading and also the Selenas Valley Health mobile clinic. So in um in 2025 the the the u the dream reading academy was awarded the prestigious CSBA golden bell award which is really a high honor and the primary function of the reading academy is to provide professional development to teachers on on evidence-based strategies to to teach reading. Uh seems to really work and I'm glad to see that we're using it. Um now the uh the excellence of education award u which is kind of what the dinner was all about. You know we picked we

103we say well who's who receives the excellence of education award and this year it went to the Selenas Valley uh health mobile uh clinic. They were the recipients of the excellence in education award. Um and present to receive the award uh were Dr. Orlando Rodriguez uh who's a medical director and also Lynette Fitzgerald who's a mobile clinic program manager. So the mobile clinic itself I'll I'll put I'll just mention a few things how it is that it helps our students. First, it does provide free free medical services to our community, to our parents, and to and to our students, which is important especially in the in this present economy that where we're seeing everything rise from food to gas and everything. You know, free medical uh service I think helps uh our parents deal deal

104with their financings finances. Now, all people who are who are served, the clinic serves all people, including the undocumented. You know, the mobile clinic is like our schools, right? We don't ask young people for their papers. You know, we say come on in. You know, we don't go that route. Thank God for that. Uh now, 91% of the people visiting the mobile clinic do not have medical insurance. So, it is it is a needed service that's provided. Uh the mobile unit also provides ongoing medical care to the community including vaccinations and also functions as an urgent care facility. you know, if someone has an emergency, right? You know, you don't have insurance, uh, you don't have a doctor, you you go to the mobile clinic and they'll they'll take care of you. Uh, now, some

105neat things that I I I heard that night was that the mobile clinic has pardon partnered with a local lab to provide free blood work. And uh I I had written the name of that local lab, but as we were leaving um I left my notes on the table and somebody got my notes and they threw my notes in the garbage. So So I don't remember the name, but but I know that that they do provide, you know, free free service and the mobile unit has also partnered with the Monterey County Food Bank to provide food to to to our community. So u I just, you know, want to take a moment to to thank the the clinic. I think it does a very a very important job, you know, because it takes care of

106the social and emotional needs of our students, their medical needs and and apart from just in order for our students to learn, they have to be in a good place socially, mentally and and and medically uh too. So, I just want to thank the clinic and I'm sure that everyone uh on this board appreciates uh the work that the mobile clinic uh is doing. So, it was a fun night. The food was good uh and um it was great. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Trustee Okmpo. So, everybody had an opportunity, right? Mes, Mr. Velasquez, not yet. Okay, you're next. >> I I just have a question. I just wondered why it is that we need the school attorney at every meeting. >> It would be at the request of the board president or the

107superintendent. Are you asking about tonight specifically? See, back at every meeting I've been here, I we've had we've had uh the attorney present at every meeting for the entire time. It's not cheap. I'm just wondering why we need >> I agree with that. This time, um I requested it and there's other times that we're doing litigation in close session that we we need that. But >> couldn't we >> maybe it's been >> pardon me. >> Couldn't do we make a phone call. >> Yeah. Sometimes by Zoom. Uhhuh. But but actually I and I don't mean to correct you correct you but they're not here every time. >> I mean every meeting I've been to they've been here. >> How many meetings have you been here? >> Third one. >> Well okay so three. >> I'm

108saying that >> it's I just see that wonder why why we need them. >> Well today I I felt the need and you know I'm glad she was here to to support me on that. But yeah, I do agree, you know. So maybe that's something we can discuss in close session, agendaize it maybe and and ask, you know, we can't do it here, but maybe ask that more appropriately in in close session. >> Good question. So I'm next, right? So I I just did anybody notice we have a new look in the boardroom? >> Yeah. You know, I'm glad that there was a budget that we were able to um you know, spice it up. Not spice it up a little bit, but you know, the curtains, those curtains used to they remind me like

109in Mexico when you cover your pans with the curtains and they really I don't know. It just nothing's wrong with it. But, you know, this isn't even a boardroom. So, we discussed, you know, with Mr. Anzo, can we make it look a little bit better, you know, and I think it looks great. And thank you, Mr. Abosi. The funds were there to be able to do that. And and so I just think it looks really nice. Thanks to the maintenance guys who I don't know if it creates more work for you or not, but you know, uh thank you for doing that because I believe how many years had it been since we did an uplift since the old old boardroom. Correct. >> Yeah. So I think getting new furniture >> 13 14 years. >>

110Yeah. 13 or 14 years is is you know take instead of getting a new boardroom which I would love but I'm sure I'll be gone by then but um uh thank you for that in the Mox uh people your crew not people okay so we're going to go on to consent agenda >> oh I forgot the superintendent that's right that would be Mrs. Lanzo >> de real quick. I just want to um publicly share that we will be I will be bringing seeking direction from the rest of the um board. I know what we've been talking to the board president and our council about the renaming of Cesar Chavez Elementary and um we know it's it's coming. It's it's a subsequent neighbors districts in throughout California already have started that process. So, um I will

111be bringing in the board item for our next board meeting following one of board policy uh 7310. So, that'll be on on the April 22nd meeting. So, we can follow the policy and come up with the committee if that's the what the board desires. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, superintendent. Sorry about overlooking um you there. So, we'll go on now to consent agenda. approve, ratify contracts, agreements, grants, proposals, conferences, workshops, and field trips. So, it's an action item to approve the consent agenda. May I please get a motion? >> So, move. >> Mr. Okmpo second. >> Second by Trustee Perez. Any uh comments, questions, concerns from board members? Mr. >> I did did have a question on item five uh OP. Now, this is a motion to to install a synthetic turf at Buckhorn

112Elementary and also Oscar F. Loya Elementary. I think it has a combined cost of uh almost 500,000. You know, it's not quite there, but it's close. So, I'm just curious uh to know what the rationale is for this item. I mean, why not just uh plant grass? I mean, what are the benefits of synthetic turf? Is it somehow more cost effective in in the long run? Is that is that what's happening here? So I'm just curious, you know, I'd like to to understand uh the thinking behind behind this particular uh proposal. >> So we have two different reasons for two different items. The first one is a Buckhorn uh early learning center. So during construction in the back of the center, we had a play area for kids and it has pebbles and sand in

113those sand boxes. And the issue is children sometimes do not know how to use that. They start eating pebbles of sand. So it became an issue. Same thing with the with sand. So we want to make it more useful for kids and staff. With that in mind and after discussing with the staff and with our own maintenance department, we chose to go with this route. So that's the case with Buckhorn Early Learning Center. In case of Lya, the back field of Loya elementary school after a rainy day, it becomes unusable. It's uneven. Uh it has mud. So it becomes really unus uh not very productive for kids any kind of activities. We think if we do the same thing that we did with Frank Paul Elementary School, we covered that with artificial turf, it has

114become very useful all year round. around. It's expensive, but in the long term, in the long run, it's going to be very useful for kids and staff. >> Okay. I suppose where there's sand, it would be difficult to plant grass, I suppose. Is that is that the deal or >> So that's the in case of buckorn. Yes. The sand and pebbles are going to going to be replaced with artificial grass. >> Right. Right. >> Synthe synthetic turf. So with water running down even with artificial turf you'll have some water probably coming down where you have some kind of system to >> we have a system we have a slope and it's not that big in case of bhon it's not very big area it's a pretty small area so that's not an issue >> okay

115>> in case of loya yes we are going to have plan to have some kind of slope so when there's a rain it just goes down and goes in the rain >> okay thank thank you for that >> if you have an opportunity to go to Frank Hall. That'll give you a very good visual of how good it's going to be after it's done. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Just a little followup question with a per couple. Um, have you looked at that rubber turf instead instead of uh the artificial turf, the rubber floors that they put in many of uh playgrounds? I'm just wondering if that would be cheaper and a little bit safer. So in case of Loya it's pretty large area so rubber is not an option. We did see some

116other options. We had some consultants to look at that including some architects and they think that the artificial turf is the best solution for that large area. In smaller areas like buckhorn or if you have a small play structure yes rubberized surface is an option but in the larger areas that's not an option. Also maintenance can be an issue when you have a large area it's not easy to maintain. In case of artificial turf it's easier to maintain on annual basis and that we actually do we have done that in case of Frank Frankol uh uh uh elementary school as well. So yeah every ground has a different need and situation. >> Thank you. So okay Mr. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So, I do have a a motion from Mr. Okmpo to approve the

117consent agenda and a second from Miss Pettis. If there are no more questions or concerns, we'll go ahead and call for the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed? >> Four to zero with one being absent. The motion carries. Okay. So, we'll move on to business services. We have an action item resolution 2526-15 issuance of sale of general obligation bonds. May I please get a motion? >> Motion. Motion made by Trusty Perez. >> Uh second >> second by Mr. Okampo, comments, questions, concerns >> from any of the board members? Mr. Velasquez. >> Yes. I'm just wondering uh with the all the bonds that we have on the local properties um how how much more is this going to contribute to the addition to the you know local

118residents in the area. >> Could you turn is your mic on? >> Yes, it is. >> Oh, it is. >> So that's not a new bond. That's the first part of the answer. when you issue it, it becomes an additional money that goes to the that the residents have to pay. >> Yes. So what happened is that when the actual bond was issued in 2006, at that time we had a built-in per parcel rate and that still maintains that still goes on. We just issue that bond in increments. So we issued series A, B and C already. This is series D $7.7 million. So that the easy answer is that yes that's already built in in 2006 go bond that was issued long time ago and after this issue we are done we're not going

119to issue anymore residents of this LSL East Selenas community already approved that in 2006 so that's not additional burden on taxpayers it's going to be a new burden if we issue a new geo bond and that is going to happen after election process and that is something we're not planning on doing unless and until we build a new elementary school and that can happen in the 10 to 15 to 20 years when we build school 13 and 14 and 15 sometime in the future but until that time there is no additional burden because the board uh residents of this community already approved that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any more questions, comments? Okay, we'll go ahead and I do have a motion by Trusty Perez, a second by Mr. Okmpo. I'll call for

120the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed? No. Motion carries on a vote of four to zero with one being absent, one trustee being absent. Moving on to business services B. So information quarterly investment report as of December 31, 2025. Were you going to comment on that or >> definitely yes. So we bring this uh item to board of trustees every 3 months and that just reflects how much money we have actual cash we have in the bank and how much interest we earn on that. So we reflect or we show the rate of interest. Currently we are earning at the at the rate of 4.23% two 3% that's our rate of return that money is reflected in our books as local income that's interest income but

121that's our local income and that can be used for any any purpose that board of education decides a good example is that the money we receive in LCFF most of that money goes to classroom for instruction direct instruction income that we get that can be used for other things that board of education things that should be made for example new furniture for board of education we don't show that in the actual LCF of money so we use this money for other authorized purposes uh that that we think that are needed so we do not impact the classroom instruction classroom instruction money is not impacted at all >> okay then we'll go to business services B information quarterly investment report as of December 31st 2025. Did I mess up? Oh, we just did that one. Excuse

122me. C. Thank you. Information measure A and M financial and performance audits fiscal year June 30th 2025. So anytime we issue a bond a go bond it can be A or M and then we issue that bond in different installments they're called series A B C or D after we raise those funds we must have an audit done to reflect the expenditure of those expenditures. We want transparency. The auditors look at the expenditures we make and they say yes the money spent based on the language of the of the measure. In this case the auditors because we are money spending money on A and M. M is used for the construction of or reconstruction of LSL community school and Fremont elementary school. A is used for maintenance projects. Roofing projects is one example. flooring. It

123can have different maintenance projects. We show all those expenditures to our auditors and they give us an opinion. In this case, it's a clean opinion that all the money we spent is based on the language of the original purpose of the bond. Clean audit and we passed. Okay. Thank you so much. We're going to move on now to item number seven, human resources. We have several action items here. The first one A is declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 202627 school year. Can I get a motion, please? >> Motion. >> Trusty Perez makes the motion. Trusty Velasquez the second. Do any of the board members have any questions or concerns about this item? No. Okay, we'll go ahead and go to the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I.

124Any opposed? No. Vote will be recorded as motion carrying 4 to zero. Thank you. B. Action item. All Union School District Sunshine proposal for the 2526 school year. I need a motion, please. Motion. >> Trusty Perez makes the motion. May I get a second? >> Mr. Velasquez, Trusty Velasquez second. >> Comments, questions, concerns. Any other board members? No. Okay. Thank you. I'll go ahead and call for the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed? >> No. So motion carries and vote will be recorded as four to zero with one being absent. Thank you. C action item request for three um.75 full-time employees per educator 4. Um I need a motion please. >> Uh some move. >> Okmpo. Mr. Trusty Okmpo. >> Second. Trusty Perez. Comments questions board

125members. Okay, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? No. Vote will be recorded as 420. Motion carrying with one being absent. Item number D. Action item request for two additional full-time equivalent position speech therapist. May I get a motion, please? >> Move. >> Oko. He was louder. Second, Trusty Perez. >> Well, let me get my mic. >> Thank you. >> Excuse me. >> Get ready there. Okay. So, any comments, questions, concerns by any of the >> Just had a question. Will these therapists be like they'll actually be in person, right? It's not going to be through the u what do you call Zoom? That kind of stuff. >> No, this is for two additional LSL staff. So, we'll be hiring live >> live bodies. Yes.

126All right. Cool. Okay. >> Mr. Veloster. In the past, I know that we had sent some teachers out to um get um trained to become speech therapists. Whatever happened with that? We sent like about 10 of them. Did um that was long before you, but I mean I know we sent them to whatever happened. I think the requirement was that they had to stay at least three years and we paid for the education to to get them uh trained. Anybody know what happened with that? >> No. We could do some research and find out. I think currently what we have is a partnership with CSUMB. So, um that partnership will help us get those the therapists, but I can do some research. I >> think this was uh through San Jose State if I remember

127correct. I might be wrong, but I thought it was through San Jose State, but it was like about 10 of them >> and I remember one of them dropped out and uh we had concerns that I mean were they going to pay the money back because you know they took the money and for the classes and they just end up dropping out but um I just never know what happened with them. I just wanted to first are they are still around or did they already leave? >> Well, we we'll do some research and then when we meet with uh you on the 14th, >> we'll have some question. >> Yes, Mr. >> I I was curious. I know that there's a shortage of speech therapists. Do we do we have actual actual people applying for

128this? I mean, are there people out there that actually that we know of who are applying? So, as soon if this is approved tonight, then we can start advertising and then we'll we can keep I can send on the weekly um update, superintendent update if we have candidates applying. >> Maybe our our relationship with a local college will help possibly. >> CSMB actually they this is like their fourth year with their program. They didn't have one before and adding that program has actually allowed us to one work with them as their training and then hiring them as well. Oh, wonderful. Okay. So, it's like a pipeline. >> Yes. >> Oh, okay. >> Thank you. Um, so if there are no more comments, questions from the board, we're going to go ahead and call for the

129vote. I have a motion by Mr. Okmpo, second by Trusty Pittis. All those who are in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed? None opposed. Motion carries and it will vote will be recorded as passing four to zero with one being absent. Moving on to administrative services. A action item. National Association of Latino Elected Officials 43rd annual conference July 14th through 20 excuse me 14th through the 16th 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Attendees board of trustees. May I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Trusty Perez. Second by uh Trusty Okmpo. Does anybody have a I have a question if no. Does anybody else have a question or a comment? >> No. >> Mr. Velasquez. >> When at this NAO conference, uh do we only go to the ones here

130in California or do does this allow for board members to go to the ones that are out of state? >> We went to New Orleans, I think, one time. So because it's a national conference, this year it's actually in California. Last year I believe it was in Georgia. So they the board has traveled out of state. >> Um is there really a need to travel out of state for this conference? I mean is I just see this as a as a perk that we really don't need, especially uh with as expensive as it is. I just think that as long as they're I would say even if it's just the bordering states, I'd be fine. But going out to New Orleans, some of these have been in Miami. Some of them have been all over

131the place. I mean, they're expensive. I just think it's a a perk that's a little too expensive to keep attending when they're that far away. I I personally agree with that, but I'm the only one that that feels that way. And and it is one conference was 20 over $20,000 for only four board members. And and I thought that was a lot especially because NALO didn't have at that time I don't know about now an educational strand or anything that we could follow and um just for education or for board members. I don't know if they have that now or not, but um since it's Los Angeles um you know I think it's it's better than spend it's I'm sure the cost isn't going to be what's the total cost there for Los Angeles and

132my question was going to be why isn't the superintendent included usually you are included in the not this one not this one okay >> this superintendent has been included in um >> CSBA CLSBA. >> Yeah. See, it's $13,864. That's still a lot. It's still a lot. So, um I just believe that that's one conference that we really don't need to attend. Uh it's not it's we get nothing out of it. The district gets nothing out of it as far as what is learned there. Um I think that's just an expensive conference that personally I think we just get rid of. Thank you. Any more comments? I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote then. Um I have a motion from Miss Trusty Perez and then uh second by Mr. Okmpo. All those in

133favor please say I >> I nay. >> Okay. So all those uh naysayers say nay. Nay two. So and it's also you. So, it's too it's tied. So, I guess we're going to have to put it back on the agenda for next time when we have the Miss Garcia here. >> Okay. All righty. And now I better not go. Huh? We'll go ahead and go to action item B. Revise school calendar 2526. May I please get a motion? Move. Uh, >> second. I'm going to make my motion that on this one since it's already passed, we just leave it alone. If you guys want to do the next one, remove the name, that's fine. But I believe this one's already passed. So removing the name does nothing at at this point. It's already passed. >>

134My move is going to just leave it as it is. >> The calendar? >> Yes. >> What's the difference? >> They're just changing day to farm day. >> Okay. >> So it's actually doing two things for this year's school calendar. One of them is changing the name to farm workers day. Hold. Yes. Uh, farm workers movement day. And then the other part of that is actually making the last well the Monday Tuesday of the last week minimum days as well. >> But those were already passed. It wasn't it for just last month. >> No, our current calendar um doesn't have farm workers day and our current calendar doesn't have those two minimum days at the end. >> I know. But I'm saying uh because you you're just changing but didn't that day already pass? >>

135You mean the day itself already passed? Uh, yes. >> Yeah. So, that's what I'm saying. There's no I mean already passed. I mean, I'm saying it's leave it alone. It's already passed. If you want to change it for the next one, that's fine. But this one's already passed. It doesn't What's we're changing something that's already gone by. >> I think just with also just updating it when we actually print them out and post it on the public websites and everything else. We would just like to move that to change the name. >> That's what I'm saying. It's already passed. My motion is that it stay this calendar stay as it is. >> Okay. So that's like a substitute motion that we have to address first. Is there anyone going to second Mr. uh Velasquez substitute

136motion to leave it as is? We would need a motion and a second or he made the motion. Is there support with the second? >> Mr. Ompo. >> Uh no. >> Miss Pettis >> no myself. No. So, uh, the vote then there is >> a new motion. >> Pardon? Pardon me. >> Then you call for a new motion. >> Well, yours was a new motion. >> Yours was the new >> Mine was a motion to >> and we took That's right. That's right. So, we go back to the original uh revise the calendar. Okay. So do we have we have did so you you made the motion to revise the fir to revite the motion to leave it as is to revise it. So >> all right so I need a motion to revise it.

137>> Uh I'll make that motion. >> Is there a second? Okay. Um so I'll call for the vote. All those in favor please say I. I. All those opposed. What was it? Mr. Alasquez. Thank you. Okay. Going on to item number C, action item revised 2026 school 2627 school calendar. May I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Trusty Perez. Second uh by Mr. Trusty Okmpo. Questions, comments, vote, concern. No. Okay. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Are there any opposed? All righty. Thank you. Item number D, information. Williams Uniform Complaints Quarterly Report January 1st to March 31st, 2026. Due April 2026. Any information or anything on that? No. Okay. No, this one's just it we didn't receive any complaints, so we have to bring

138it to the board to showing if we received complaints or not, but this one we did not. >> Awesome. Thank you. So, uh, future agenda items, we have school site presentation from Jesse Sanchez Elementary School. We have a department presentation, human resources, and then we'll have another Montea presenting. Is there anything that uh board members would like to add? Now, it's not the only opportunity to add an agenda item, but are there any agenda items any of the board members would like to add now? No. Okay. Thank you. We'll go on to number 10. Future meeting dates. April 22nd, 13th, and June April 22nd, May 13th, and June 3rd. Public comments. A. Individuals wishing to address the board of trustees in close session on close session agenda items may do so at this time. Starting

139time is 7:35. Do we have anybody want to say? Okay. So, we'll end also at 7:35. So, we'll meet in um close session board members in 10 minutes. 7:46. We'll take a 10-minute break. Thank you very much. And Thank you. Okay, we're reconvening into um open session at 8:24 p.m. and there is nothing to report from close session. So, we'll adjourn at 8:24. Good night and thank you for being with us. Bye-bye.