001over here. This is wrong. Okay. Good evening everybody. I will be calling this meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. Okay. Uh item I'm moving on to item 1B, a roll call. Um, Mrs. Anzo, can you please take role? >> Yes. President Leticia Garcia >> here. >> Vice President Roberto Campo. >> Example, >> clerk. Yes. Clerk Beatatric Perez >> here. >> Trusty Walup Lupe Gilas Bara >> here. >> Trustee Jose Antonio Jimenez >> here. >> Um, Mr. Roberto Campo is absent. >> Thank you. Moving on to item 1 C, the pledge of allegiance. Mrs. O, can you please lead us in the pledge of >> allegiance? Americ 1D. Is there any spotlights? And no. None. >> None. Okay, thank you. We're moving on to item 1E, adoption of the agenda. Can I get a motion to
002adopt the agenda? >> I make a >> Mr. Himemenz, can I get a second? >> Second. >> Miss Perez, comments, questions. Uh, Miss Santo, can you please take the line vote? >> Yes. President Letia Garcia, >> yes. >> Vice President Roberto Campo is absent. Uh, clerk beatatric Perez. Yes. Trusty Guadalupe Gilpas Bara. >> Yes. >> Trustee Jos Antonio Himenez. >> Yes. >> Motion passes 40 with Mr. Okampo absent. >> Moving on to item two, public comments. Close session agenda items only. Guidelines. There will be a two-minute limit for individuals and a 20minut limit on total public comments. There is no seating of one's time to other individuals. Individuals wishing to address the board of trustees on close session agenda items may do so at this time. The starting time 5:32. >> Okay, we have no
003one um no individuals addressing for close session and I'm going to end this at 5:33. We're going to move on to close session. A public employees discipline dismissal release complaint. We're going on to close session. And we're going on to close session at 5:33. See you. Okay. Uh we are coming back from close session at we're reconvening at 6:37. Um and we're item 4B. Um the action during closed session on a vote of 5 to zero, the board voted in favor of upholding the determination and the investigation of not sustained findings following the appeal of an employee complaint investigation position title of teacher. We're moving on to item five, public comment concerning items on the open session agenda and/or non-aggenda items guidelines. There will be a two-minute limit for individuals and a 20-minute limit on
004total public comments. There is no seating of one's time to other individuals. Item 5A, individuals wishing to address the board of trustees. On open session agenda items and or other items may do so at this time, starting time is 6:38. And I have one uh Miss Blanca Manda. [Music] Community Schools. [Music] Backhorn Learning Center. Um, board. It might be used one. Gracias. >> Uh hello. Um so I will be translating uh translating for the parent um that just went up. So, she has been a parent for 15 years and she wants to just respectfully address the board and she says that she appreciates all members uh here present and likes to see new faces. Um she would like to bring up that there um the uh >> the plat the platform >> um I'm so
005sorry. um >> um she wanted to point out that the Buckhorn uh early learning center is uh not um is only open for a few hours when there are parents that are not able to have access to this building um during the the time that is set up and would like to see that it is open full-time for those parents that cannot make it at the designated times that it is um open. Um she also pointed out that there are um students that are uh denied bilingual education um in more than one subject. Um and there there it doesn't make up 100% of the students that um uh that are able to um >> would you want to like elaborate? Sorry. >> I don't have a script. I never have a script because this is
006you guys know me and this is from my heart. So what I um so I'm gonna say that thank you for and and I'm so sorry you know this is my nose and this is always me. So community schools and I wanted to say thank you so much because I seen many um parent education specialists now and adding to the to the uh to the district and I say thank you for that. I also wanted to add that the backhorn early learning early learning center was intent to have full-time classes and that means like six to eight class uh six to eight hours classes so parents can go out to work and leave the children that was the intent when we initiated advocating for that that was the intent and I see that it's been
007um that has not been the case that is open only for three hours which is like a regular what we have in in any other schools um should I ignore because I'm translating or stop >> because you know there was a can you just finish can go ahead take a minute go ahead >> so um and that's what I wanted to say on that the back learning center um so I also added saying that I'm concerned about the internal audits that happen in the district saying or that state that 100% of our children are educated in the language that their parents decide when we have seen parents standing in this same spot stating that their children had been denied bilingual education and more than several parents. So that's not equal really 100% but 99 point
008or less than that and the third request was to initiate this meeting the monthly meeting uh the schoolboard meetings at 6 pm so parents who want to be involved can make it here. I I mean when I'm one of the parents who is always running and you see me Maras be like, "Oh, Miss Miranda, right?" Because I have to go and bring um and bring a last minute note, I would like to see this meeting to be moved to 6 p.m. And this is the tour request that I do. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. >> Thank you so much. Okay. Um I will end public comment um at 6:44. Moving on to item 5A, association comments. The LSL teachers association. Is there anybody from here from ATA? No comments. Okay. Thank you.
009How about California School Employees Association, the CSEA? Good evening uh board president um superintendent ano cabinet members and um Solen Kinoi chapter 577 president and on behalf of CSA chapter 577. I would like to extend our heart heartfelt congratulation to Miss Anzo as a new superintendent and uh we also uh warm welcome the new cabinet members to Alisowl Union School District. Uh CSA chapter 577 looks forwards to build a strong uh collaborative relationship with the new leadership. Um together we are committed to supporting the success of our students, the staff and community and I want to make uh make public that uh miss thank you for uh try to uh always uh communicate with uh CSA with me and try to uh resolve some issues that we have. So thank you so much. >> Thank
010you. Is there anybody here from the uh United Substitute Teachers Union? Nope. Thank you. We're moving on to item 6A, presentations. Department presentation. Julio Castro, director of family and community engagement. Good afternoon, board of trustees, superintendent, cabinet members and members of the community. My name is Jul Castro and I serve as a director of family and community engagement and today I will present on the Alysaw family resource centers and the community schools both of which are under the face department. Today I will highlight the continuous efforts to expand the support for our families and our community. With a growing team there have been many changes we hope are seen as improvements for our school strategy. I would like to mention that the entire phase team is composed of classified staff both management and non-management and
011we are very proud of the work we do as classified stab in collaboration with certificated staff across our district. In my most recent board presentation in April, a big part of my team were present. Um, when they learned I would be presenting tonight, they were eager to attend until some of them realized that tonight is actually professional bull riding at the Slim Rodeo. So, we have a bit of a smaller team, but nonetheless, I would like to acknowledge my team members from the face department who are here today. They were wooing me as I was walking in. And I always like to say I'm presenting on behalf of them because this is the work that we always do together. And for the folks that are out there um watching us virtually, um thank you for
012the hard work and I hope you're enjoying your time off. So today we will do an overview. I know in my last presentation I talked a little bit about how our our programs um looked. Today I'm going to go a little bit deeper into the staffing and what are the different roles and what are the services that we provide both at the resource center and in the community school spaces and talk about some of the immigration supports that we have been providing. Um, and given the recent happenings in in our country and in our community, next one, please. So, just as a a note, we do have three family resource centers. We're very happy that we have them. not um there are some districts near in in our in Selenus and even in Monterey County
013that don't have resource centers or have one or two. So, we're very happy that we have three. And um the three the three locations are situated next to school sites and they operate similar in the way that they offer supports to the families but differently in the fact that they meet the needs of each specific community. And as you know, each of our schools are a little bit different. Next. So, this is what our family resource center team looks like. I created this visual to help you get an understanding of what our our team structure looks like. As you can see, we're quite a strong team. We have had several changes in the past few years. We had a couple years back, we had a model where there was one director that was overseeing all
014three resource centers. Then we tried the model where we had one manager at each of the family resource center. Now, we're trying this hybrid model where we have one director and two managers that are overseeing the family resource centers. Uh given the high need, we always have families that need support at any given time or date. And our schools really look to us for support, right, in things that they don't have the capacity to do. Uh we currently have two vacancies that we are working on filling. Both of these vacancies came about because our staff members transitioned to additional roles which we are very happy about uh because we support our team in advancing their career and their professional aspirations. If you look at the tree, you see that we have a secretary at each
015of the three centers. We have family service specialists. We have educators in the form of par educators and adult basic basic educators, child care providers and we have uh clerks who support The Alisaw Family Resource Center does have the most staff out of the three. It does include a clerk. The clerk is our McKin Vento clerk who um supports uh our homeless and foster youth. And by providing uniforms, school supplies, hygiene kits, and external referrals. Um the director does oversee the team. They oversee uh the the strategy, the the lead contact to community partnerships and agencies. They support all staff and uh and AFRC and face budgets. The manager oversees the staff specifically. They uh make sure that they are keeping the programming for the center running, operating their each individual budgets, community partnerships, and
016support to their four assigned four school sites. Our secretaries support with budget, operations, purchases, and they process paperwork to maintain the center running. We have a family service specialist. The family service specialist directly supports families with applications, documents, forms, translations, and external referrals. This is probably the person that gets the most appointments, the most visits in our center because as you know, and I've mentioned this before, our some of the services that we provide, other agencies are charging $50 to $60 per transaction and our district provides that at no cost. So, the family service specialist really supports with this. Our adult basic educator teaches parent adult literacy in English and our parent educator teaches parent and adult literacy in Spanish. And for a childare provider, we have one at each of the centers. But I
017will say it is a high need. Whenever we're offering classes, for example, the Selenus adult school at night, parents come when there's child care available. So we often have to have additional staffing to support the need. We also have a custodian at each of our sites. Although they don't report to our managers or directors directly, they help keep our safe and um our center safe and clean. They're part of the Mottz team. This is what the community school team looks like. So the community schools implementation grant is used almost entirely to fund the staffing for the community schools team. There are many different community school models. Our district is one of the districts that chose to follow the community schools model as recommended by the four proven practices under the guidance from the California Department
018of Education, which is to hire a community school coordinator to lead the work at each school. We were awarded all 12 sites, something only a few districts in California received. Locally, we are one of two districts that was awarded all schools. As part of the grant award, each district has to match the funds with a total of 33% of the award to support the community school work. Part of the match in our district is the parent education specialists, which we have six that have been funded by ALCUP and have been housed at the family resource center. They are now at six of the school sites. and the additional six parent education specialists that we are that we are hiring are funded through the community schools grant. There are two vacancies that need to be filled
019uh both for sister Chavez and Jesse G. Sanchez and we are working with with HR to schedule interviews screening. We hope to fill them as soon as possible so that we can get that support to our schools. Next slide please. So um the director is overseeing the the phase team uh the strategy the budgets and the the director for community school coordinators acts as a direct report when school site principles are not here for example this summer our team has been classified in 12 months we were here all year so I'm here to support the community school coordinators and we're also here in the winter we're also here in the spring we're also here in the fall so um we I get to support the coordinators Our coordinators oversee our parent education specialists. So they
020are the persons that they report directly to before the cost. The coordination of services team services that were being received from the family resource centers were coordinated by the resource center managers. Now that we have 12 coordinators, each of the coordinators is responsible to ensure that the families that are referred receive those services, right? and that they're followed through and making sure that no referral falls behind. They also are focusing on their community schools goals. Um I know one of the um agenda items today was the um implementation plans for all 12 schools and three of the common goals for all of our schools are school climate and family community engagement, literacy, and chronic absenteeism. In addition to supporting those three goals, our coordinators are heavily working on grant writing to ensure that we acquire
021additional funding to meet the programming needs. Our parent education specialists are 100% family and community engagement. They provide direct supports to the parents. They plan and organize activities for students and families. And they support on various school events. Next slide, please. So, what does our community school space look like, right? So, we actually visited the Selenas Community School, which is part of MCOE, and we were inspired by their model. Not only did they have a community school coordinator at each of their sites that was awarded the grant, but they also had a physical space. We could have gone in any direction with our funding from the implementation grant, but our funds going to support our community is something that we are very proud of as that is what the needs and assets assessment asked for.
022Our families should be part of the conversation and having a physical space for them where they can come learn receive basic needs supports will facilitate that. We have to build the capacity of our community and there's a lot of important work that will need continue that will continue to be needed even in four years after our grant expires. Next slide please. So immigration supports right something that we're all attentive to our community. In January, there um the social work team from the PPS department was temporarily placed in each of the resource centers to support families and they were supporting with the caregiver affidavit and family safety plans. And so our our PPS social work team has trained all of our face staff. These pictures are actually from my training today. Um, and so our team
023uh was walked through the process and they um they can now support our families with completing this paperwork. There's a little bit of intimidation, right, when with helping with these documents because they have the word legal in it. And so us not being legal experts, we know that we don't have the answers to all, but there are a few documents that it's important for us as a team to become familiar with. Even though they're they are legal documents, they they don't require us to be experts. Our centers do support but we know that we don't have the answer to everything and we have to refer to our additional community partners. We have a lot of um we have an organic uh rel relationship that with all of our districts so we're neighboring districts so we're
024constantly communicating with them. Um today we had a conversation of you know I think we reached a point where we have too many resources so in case of something happens we need more clarity and so that's a conversation that the PPS and face department are going to be having let's create something easy um if for example if there's with all the the immigration rates that are happening if something happens who's going to do exactly what just clarifying that to make sure that we don't get confused right because we do have a lot of resources but who do we go to and who's the right individual group to go to these documents that we the caregiver affidavit and family safety plans. We want really want to stress this are important documents to have always right not
025just right now with immigration supports and it's important to ask ourselves if we are parents and we have children in case of an emergency and we don't return home what are we what who's taking care of our children right so this is important to do always not just around these times right next slide please I want to thank you for the time to present and if you have any questions I will be happy to answer Um, you want to start over here, Mr. Himemenz, do you have any questions? Nope. Mr. Okumble, uh, two, I think two questions. I'm wondering um I noticed that um uh two of the sites uh referring to adult education two sites each adult education uh which is literacy in English and one site uh uh has a par educator that
026teaches lit literacy in Spanish. What's the history behind two doing English and one doing Spanish? Yeah. So, I will start with the Spanish. Um, Miss Oral Van Nova is our Plac Monaria pared educator and they are they've already they're going on 20 years of supporting and teaching and Miss Oella has been there 17 years parents on how to read and write in Spanish. So, this is actually a program that is um that is sponsored by the um the Mexican consulate. So any person whether they're Mexican, non-Mexican, Hispanic, non-Hispanic that wants to learn how to read or write in Spanish can come and they can come with zero knowledge. We have families that are used to only signing an X in their signature who within a couple of months or years have already learned their alphabet,
027have learned to read, have learned to write. And then those parents once they've already felt comfortable with Spanish, they then transition on to our other centers to learn how to read and write in English. And we have different classes at different levels so that they can continue. And then for the parents who really are uh motivated, they can continue for our Selenus adult school to continue their education. So they really can start from zero and um finish with um an equivalent to a high school education. I just add I just want to add to make sure that we understand also that the parents have the opportunity to uh gain their what we call in Mexico primaria and searia certificate. So then that way that be equivalent to now I can finish high school here. Yeah.
028>> I guess the other question was do do you and I don't recall the exact name. I think it's is it the Monterey College of Law? Is that I think that's what they're called. Do do we does the U resource centers do do they at all work with the with the Monterey College of Law? >> That's a good question. So, we've had a longstanding history with Monterey College of Law. Prior to the pandemic, they were actually taking appointments at our centers and they were even during the pandemic, they were uh helping us with parents who needed support and were expediting us and moving us to the top of the list. After the pandemic, they're overwhelmed. So they no longer provide those services. What they're really working with is they're actually working with the community school
029folks all across the county to offer a series of legal clinic and workshops to educate our families in our community. Their students um do an amazing job. They give us a menu of topics and if there's any topics that is not is is not on there that they would like that we would like for them to present on they get the topic go back do the research become legal experts in that area and they come in the present. Some of the workshops that we've had have been the immigration here in our district immigration know your rights. They've done the um um students with disability. They've done tenants rights. They haven't done domestic violence but they can do that. So they have really just they've given us the carta cart blanch to whatever we need they
030can support. And when we have those workshops we open them up to anyone in the community. And when other districts hold host them, they invite us to go to to their workshops. >> So So when other districts have these legal workshops, our parents are notified. >> Yes. >> I know Alyssa High School had immigration workshop some time ago and I I heard a number like 500 parents attended or something. It's huge. >> Yes. Um Miss Superintendent Misanso and I were there with I know a lot of other folks and it was an amazing event. It was just Yeah. I think it was the best of its kind and I know we were one of the districts that were recognized for really putting out a statement to make sure that our families knew this was a
031safe place for them to be. >> Yeah. >> And I I just want to add that we had one in January and then we were in collaboration with the high school. So the high school it was hosted by the high school but our district was also in collaboration. >> Okay. >> Hopefully we'll have a few of those every year. I mean given you know the current situation you know we haven't seen it improve you know and if as long as it doesn't improve I think we need to keep notifying our parents of their their legal rights you know so as much as we can so >> we agree and having them in a hybrid modality for the parents that don't feel comfortable coming in person but coming in virtually we've seen even up to there
032was 20 parents that were there virtually at the last workshop that we had virtually and personally we had 30. So, we know that there's a need for the online because of safety. >> Okay. Well, thank you. It looks like looks like the Monterey College of Law really does a lot of I guess it's free work and they seem to have a social conscience which is great, you know, and yeah, >> they do. And um even for the work that does come at a cost, um the community schools team at MCOE cover the cost this year for us. So, we were very happy about that. >> Okay. Thank you, Miss Pettis. >> I just have a comment. Awesome. Awesome job to you and your team. And thank you for having the energy and patience to help
033our community and every sense aspect and reaching out. If you guys don't have the answer, you guys reach out because I hear a lot of good compliments about your team. So nice. thoughts from you guys. >> Thank you, Miss Far. >> Yes, thank you. Ditto. I agree with Trusty Perez. I wanted to say, yeah, also thank you and I did want to comment if we really want to know what the coordinators do and what the program does is to read the imple in implementation plans that are going to be up for approval on our consent agenda today. I browsed through them. I did not read every single word because there's 12 of them and they're long. And I did notice though that uh that home visits will be made for attendance. Attendance has was talked
034about in all three of the glo goals that'll be implemented. So that's awesome. Now what I did want to share though is you know it's a new job for a coordinator and they call them PEZ the parent uh educator or what do they call the >> parent education specialist. how they're classified positions and um they're new positions both of them in our district now other districts have both of those position positions so I think uh sometime I think communication is very important with our principles with you and I understand you're a great coordinator so that we don't get off the track of what the position is because if you read the implementation plans I mean these people are busy they're very busy and I they probably work after hours going to meetings. So they not
035that any of us cannot leave our comfort zone with our job and help if there's an emergency but I've seen that sometimes we will use new positions to help out with no mal intent but it's not the job of the coordinator who who gets a pretty good uh salary I believe you know so we don't want to use them constantly if it's not on an emergency basis to do clerical work or to do work but again not saying that we're all going to get out of that and do something. We're going to mop the floor if we have to. We're going to make the phone calls, but not consistently. And I think it's easy for principles to because they want the work. We need more work to put it on them, but that's not their
036job. So, I think we have to communicate that because I I think I've heard a little bit that they are being used for for that a little bit. So, we want to clarify that a little bit, but it's because of lack of not knowing. But once you read those uh implementation plans, there's no question that these coordinators are very very busy in doing, you know, big tasks as far as getting resources, offering them to the parents and so forth, especially everything that has to do with student achievement. Now, I just did have one question because I see Mr. Valenuela here from Steinbeck, correct? Yeah. Welcome. And I wanted to ask so with the implementation plans because they do follow a template, right? Is it a state template or something for community schools, how much of
037it is they have things in common or how different are they? How different is Steinbeck to All Community or Bon or because I know the template it didn't say the same thing for every school. So there's a lot of differences. What would you say are the major ones? Yeah. So, the template was provided by the CDE and we had the option to follow or not follow the template. We decided as a team that we were going to be following the template and it's just a guide. The template we can decide doesn't fit our needs. Let's change it completely or we can go outside of it. Um but yeah, it has those three common themes, the school climate and family and community engagement, the chronic absenteeism and um the literacy supports. And it looks a little
038bit different. some of the schools have lower chronic absenteeism rates. So, um their percentages that they're they want to increase are a little bit differently. Um but within two months, if we decide or if one school in three months, right, when we're back to school, if one school says, "Hey, all of our students are coming in 100% of the day, we no longer need to focus on that chronic absenteeism goal at this site." We can change it. the state allows it and encourages us to really be to stay actualized with what the school needs are. Um but uh we als I will also say that we um had an um an activity or a planning day with other school districts and those three goals are pretty similar across our county. So it's just we're seeing
039that those themes of those of those three topics all over. I haven't looked at other other counties, but I would be curious to see where they are and to see how how different they are from ours. That's great. It's great to know because there are differences in the school. And my last question is who is the team that decides what goes in the plan? Do you meet with all the coordinators or is the principal involved being that he or she is probably the most knowledgeable as what the school needs are? Who's the team that comes up with the information on the imple implementation plans? >> Great question. So the implementation plan should be a collaboration of everybody. Yes, it's facilitated by the community school coordinator, but it should include the principal andor assistant principal. It
040should include the parent education specialist. It should include a site team. And so some of our coordinators started um in January, February, some of them started about a month ago. So all of them have the expectation that this year they will be creating a community schools advisory team or council that is inclusive of everybody. so that that implementation plan is um representative of all the voices and a response to the community needs. I think we are going to be seeing maybe a little bit of different changes in the coming year because there are going to be more voices that are going to be there but this year looked similar in the sense that we were looking at dashboard data and what was the dashboard telling us that we need to work on and it was
041those points. >> Thank you. Thank you Christy Garcia presenter. >> Thank you. Um yeah, thank you so much for all the work that you're doing uh from your department. I especially like the fact that, you know, you you did um you're working on those family safety plans because I don't know about anybody else, but I I am Hispanic and I, you know, I feel even though I don't I'm not illegal or and um what I still feel like an an easiness to this whole thing and I I can't imagine what it feels like for someone that is undocumented in this time and I'm hoping that they still send their kids to school starting in August. and thank you for all that work that you're doing. And uh you're um the parent um these corners they
042are falling under the principal, right? The principal is the one that is overseeing their them because I remember seeing that some in another report that was done. >> Yes, they will be conducting their annual evaluation. So they're they're direct reports. >> Right. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your help and for yours' presentation. All righty. So, we're moving on to item seven. Um board members, superintendent reports. Uh Mrs. Anzo, do you have anything to report? >> Yes. First, I'd like to welcome um our interim assistant superintendent of HR, human resources, Dr. Rosa Coronado, and she'll be here supporting us with everything and anything that we tell her to support us with. So, thank you and welcome uh Dr. Coronado. And um the other part is that we are in full swing. The beginning of
043the year is just around the corner. I will be sending the board uh dates, important dates. But I do want to mention some that are actually happening tomorrow and um and Friday if in case you want to see our community school team in action in collaboration with our our um coordinators, our special our pets, our parent specialists, you can stop by the Barton PDC and oh and it is a big uh piece of that collaboration and we are uh going full force with supporting our parents with enrollment. the Barton PDC tomorrow um from 10 to 7 and then at the district office on Friday from 8 to 5. So you come out hang out for a little bit and you see our parents there and all the support that they've been given. So they they
044are a awesome team. They have a whole if you have not they was happening here last week. If you haven't seen the the operation in progress, it's something we're seeing and then you you get those plans that you have right now come to life in that room and I get I will be sending an update with all the important dates. Thank you. >> How about on this side? Mrs. Gilas Vera, anything to report? >> Thank you. Yes. I the only thing I wanted to do was welcome Dr. Fernandez to our team. Superintendent um Dr. Coronado. All these doctors here pretty good. Um but I I did want to say something about Dr. Coronado and she probably won't remember but we well she'll remember we work together in the high school district and you know sometimes
045we think of human resources but all the complaints go there. You know all the complaints and human resources the place where if you're going to get a letter of discipline or whatever that's where you end up. Well, I was present when, you know, an employee, I was their union rep, got in a little bit of trouble, but Dr. Coronado allowed her to leave with her dignity, and it was a very embarrassing situation, but she did not use her position to talk down to that person. I was very impressed. And she allowed that person to leave. Yes. With the letter of discipline time ago, it's been years. That's probably why she maybe she may not remember, but I was very impressed with that and I know she has that human in the human resources. I think
046she's the right person. Thank you for picking her or I think you invited her to help us out here in this district because we will have that with Dr. Coronado. I'm very confident. And also you have that I'm talking to the Alys community in your board in our in our school board. We may not agree on everything, but we deliberate, we talk, and we respect our employees, and we want the best for our employees. That's why we believe that we're offering you the best with Mrs. Anzo, Dr. Fernandez, and Dr. Coronado and a board that is very employee friendly. So, let's continue working together. a lot of exciting things um are happening in the future and it's good to see instead of frowns smiles in the audience. So, thank you for that and thank you
047for being with us. >> Okay, thank you. Um Miss Pettis, anything to report? Okay, how about Mr. Okmple? I'm gonna keep it short. Okay, I promise you this will be short. Uh I just wanted to do a uh an update on the calcitz uh program. As you know I really hot on calcitz. So back on on um July the 16th 2024 we were at 9% in terms of our students who were enrolled in calcitz that's about 700 plus students. Uh now as of July 29th we are at 21% enrollment and that's about 1,895 students. So so it looks like we're really doing a good job at least in my opinion of enrolling kids in the cow kids and and it's growing really well. So uh the reason why to me and why I think it
048should be important to all of us is because research research has shown that students with college savings accounts are more likely to go on to college or to vocational education. So, as we enroll our young people in these in the cow kits, I think that we're giving them a better shot of or the greater probability of them going on to college or to a vocational program, which is ultimately, I think, one of the main goals that we're here that we're about here at at uh at our our district. So, in in my opinion, the the next logical step would be to help our parents set up a a scholarshare 529 college savings account. Uh and I have two two suggestions for for doing this. Uh two recommendations. One is that as we enroll parents in
049Cal kids, we should recommend to them that they open up a 529 college savings account. Now the reason for this is that you cannot add money to the cow kids savings account. Um in calcit you basically accumulate interest and that's how you make money. that you really our students really do need a 529 college account so they can actually start putting putting money in the accounts which are uh not taxable. So it's a great deal because our parents don't get taxed any they don't have to pay taxes on the money they put in the accounts and even when they take the money out and they use it to pay for a college they still do not have to pay any taxes on on on the money so it's a great deal. Um, I believe the
050second recommendation is that hopefully, you know, it's a recommendation that sometime in the future, we should reach out to a local bank or credit union uh to assist us in enrolling our parents in a 529 account. So, in closing, I think we we are making um good progress, but in my opinion, there's still there's still work to be done and and hopefully hopefully the district will well, it's my hope that the district will move in that direction. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Jimenez. Anything to report? Thank you. Um, so I was able to visit Monte School before the summer program was over. I was able to visit uh classrooms and do their rotations. Uh walked in with um they're doing water science this year. I think this is the first year they do it
051because before it used to be more NASA inspired, but it was nice to see that. I went at 4:00. So it was nice to see that even at 4:00 the program I think was over at 5 there. You still seen plenty of students in the classrooms and they were still so happy. And I I do appreciate the patience because kids don't get bored and teachers don't get bored either, even though you're teaching one subject over and over and over and over and over again. But I think um by the time the day is over, you're the expert, right? Like anyway, I did appreciate going to I was only able to see Montea this time in the summer because I too am working and I'm still working summer school because I am a teacher. But uh
052yeah, that's all I had to report. Um well actually I'm going to say one more thing and I didn't want to say it but I'm going to say it to all of you guys because um it just it ties in a little bit right and I said earlier when we were having that report um with Mr. Costro about you know um the Hispanic families and how you know it doesn't it it it feels terrible right now at least I do u I'm not going to speak for anybody up here but I feel like very targeted even though I am not an immigrant. I was born and raised in the United States. My parents came here legally. They got in in line, but the line was a lot shorter when they came. So, I understand all
053of that. Um, I've been, you know, I've traveled the world and I always have my passport with me. And so, in this climate, I was um carry I've been carrying my passport now. And guess what I did? I lost my passport. Yes. Exactly. Right. You know, passports, you know, looks like a book. And um I I've traveled the world and I've always taken my passport with me and unfortunately I've been uh during the Fourth of July uh celebration I lost it somewhere. I had to report it stolen. I had to do I you have to go through all these hoops. But I mean it's the time of it's this time right? It's it's uh it doesn't feel good. And I feel like um if I'm feeling that way I think that our immigrant families are
054feeling even worse. That's all I have to say. Anyway, I'm going on to item eight, consent agenda. Uh, approval ratified contracts, agreements, grants, proposals, conferences, workshops, and field trips. Can I get a approval of consent agenda? Can I get a motion? >> U, Mrs. Gilbasa, can I get a second? Mr. Jimenez, comments or questions? Miss Santo, can you please take the line vote? >> Oh, there is a com. Sorry, I didn't see that. >> Thank No, thank you. Thank you so much. I know a lot of information here. Um I on item 8 C uh it meant under the warrants um it talks about the $1,900 that we owed some classified staff and that money that we owed them was 10 years and I know some of them recently um got their money but not
055all of them. I'd like to know where we stand on that and also I don't know if the if it's part of negotiations what we're going to pay them above that because we owe them money. So I guess my first question would be where do we stand on that? One person was told the board hadn't um approved it but the board did approve it. >> Yes, the board approved the original amount without interest on that. So we have done the recalculation and we are in the process of we have already paid all the active employees and now we are in the process of paying the inactive employees employees who are not actively employed at this time and we are hoping that we can make a payment by the end of this week we can >>
056how do we explain and I don't want to put you on the spot Mr. But how do we explain a situation where it's a married couple and both of them were on the list and yet he got his payment but the wife didn't? So how could the board have approved him and not her? Is there a discrepancy there or what's going on? >> So we have two different lists. One was active employees and we were not going by the married couples or uh single status. >> We were looking at two different lists. One was active employees currently employed uh with our district and the other list is inactive employees >> and actually we had a third list that is those employees who have passed. So we are trying to figure out how to make that
057payment. The active employees have been paid. So we are current with that. Inactive we are processing right now as we speak. Payments are going to be in the mail by the end of this week and then we are still trying to figure out how to make payments for those employees who have passed. >> The families or no >> that's a complication that should we pay to their sisters, brothers, sons, daughters who is eligible to receive that payment because they did not designate any person to receive the payment if they pass. >> Yeah. And in terms of, you know, we're talking about human, you know, having that human feeling towards people. Some of those people really need the money, you know, so when can we they needed it 10 years ago, >> but we didn't pay
058them, right? So when can when do you think we'll be finished in in paying them off the the original 1900? I guess the rest will be negotiated, but when do you think that might happen? Because I mean I'm hoping it's just going to be more for the district if it goes another 10 years, but I know it won't. But it makes us look like maybe we don't want to pay. So when are we going to be able to pay our bill? This is money we owe people. >> How much effort is being put forward? I I can share. >> So a lot now is um just like Mr. Bossi said we were getting the emails. We spoke and said, "Okay, no, we need to pay all all the people that were approved." So, we went
059back to the board item that was brought before the board. I think it was January 8th. We looked at the list. Both inactive and active employees were approved to receive the check. So, now we make we just needed direction. And so, the direction has been given. The checks are in process of being printed in the mail on Friday for the inactive. Where we have to make sure is how are we going to pay the employees that have passed and then bring back that board item to be amended so that we can include the interest that was um at that board meeting was part of the discussion that we needed to pay. So we are hoping by next week for sure all the inactive are also play receive a check and we will be checking with
060employees to see if they received it and maybe by the end of August at the latest. >> It's unfair for me to ask for a date. But I'm glad you're working. >> But no, we we we know we know and we've heard that I think all of us agree in cabinet that >> it's something that they need to get. >> Thank you very very much. That's a great answer. And also, um, again, I mean, I don't micromanage the warrants, but again, what the district is spending on food for meetings is a lot. Two meetings, one was $1,200, the other one was $1,500. That's almost $3,000 for two meetings. That's a lot of money. I'm want to ask, and I'm not saying that we shouldn't, the staff doesn't deserve a good lunch. I'm just hoping, you
061know, then you look where parents get just donuts. But I don't know. It just I think we need to look at that. And I also have a question. Does our own kitchen have the capacity to provide lunch or maybe to sell lunch to to employees? I'm not sure. It's just that right now we might not have an issue with that. But as money gets tighter, with all these programs getting tighter, I mean, we're gonna have to do that somehow, you know. So, again, I think I mean I I don't even I thought about asking in one month, how much do we spend on catering, you know, but I know it's in the thousands and thousands, you know, and it's not millions, but it could turn into that start, you know. Um, it's just something I
062think that we need to look at and just keep an eye on. Not micromanage, but um, I don't know of any other job where they feed you if you go to a meeting. I don't know if all anybody else does that, but this district is feeding. Um, and that's great, but it's it's a lot of money. I just had to say that. Sorry. And then >> can I just add something? >> Sure. Maybe what will help is if we bring a presentation on what we do for professional development because if it's an all day professional development for our staff and they um let's talk about our teachers because some of our teachers are there all day when we have meetings. How many people are participating in the meeting? Are we staying within the lines of
063um the board policy for the breakfast and for the lunch? Right? Because that's what we provide. Our teachers have a 50inute duty-free lunch. So, we want to make sure that when we break for lunch that they have something too because if not they go they go and get something and then they come back. We don't start on time. So maybe that will give you an idea of like why we're spending that that money and why um what's a meeting what's a professional development and even with the justification when we when we talk to our directors who are putting in the canary request is what's your justification. So when it appears on the warrant it doesn't say meeting but it's a professional eight hour professional development six hour professional development. So maybe something in the near
064future if it if the board wants is a a presentation or a workshop on what are we doing in with our professional developments within what can our food services provide and the catering requests that we do through food services and then our vendors. >> I think that's a great idea and there's no urgency on that one but it's something keep it in the back burner there. And then uh my last thought here is again in referring to the items of the oh no I already covered that one. Oh to commend the coordinators who got donations for Frank Paul and uh there was another school I can't remember for like $1,000. Uh so they got these the coordinate which that's their cup of tea. That's what they do. So it was good to see that they
065got it from the heritage something and another one. So that was for Frank Paul and I can't remember the other. Oh, I think both of them were from Frank Paul actually. So that's congratulations on that and that's a great So thank you so much and that's it. Thank you. And I think just going along with those with the food. My question my bigger question would be like what budgets are you using to pay the food? Is it unrestricted? Is it restricted? Because that that just kind of falls in line. Um, I couldn't see both ways though because when you do offer food, they don't leave, they actually stay. But anyway, um, okay, any more questions or comments? Okay, doc. Uh, Miss Sanszo, can you please take the line vote? >> Yes. Okay. Uh, President Letisa
066Garcia, >> yes. >> Vice President Roberto Campo, >> uh, yes. >> Clerk Beatatrice Perez, >> yes. >> Pressy Gualupe Gil Pasera, >> yes. >> President Jose Antonio Himenez, >> Motion passes 5-0. Item nine, human resources. 9A, action item, revised job description from coordinator of human resources to program manager of human resources. May I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Okay. Mrs. Pettis and seconded by Miss Gazera. Comments or questions? Miss Anzel, can you please take the line vote? >> Yes. President Atisa Garcia. >> Yes. Vice President Roberto Campor. >> Uh, yes. >> Clerk Yatrice Perez. >> Yes. >> Trustee Guadalupe Gil Paser. >> Trustee Jose Antonio Himenez. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. 50-0. Item 10, administrative services action item A, resolution number 25266-01, increase by 5% in compensation of board members in accordance with education
067code 5 35120 and board bylaw 9250 effective 717 2025. May I get a motion? Make a motion. >> Mr. Jimenez and I get a second. Miss Kintas Pera, comments or questions? Mrs. Gilas, I mean, sorry. Mrs. Ano, can you please take the line vote? >> Yes. President Garcia, >> yes. >> Vice President Roberto Campo, >> uh, yes. >> Clerk Beatatrice Perez, >> yes. >> Trusty Guadalupe Gil Paser, >> Trusty Jos Himenez, >> yes. >> Motion passes 50. Item 10B, first street read information, revised board policies, administrative regulations, and exhibit series 5000. Student included. Item 10 C information, Williams Uniform complaint quarterly report July 2025. That includes April through June 2025. Item 11, future agenda items. A department presentation early learning universal pre kindergarten UPK director Ellia Garcia August 6 2025 11B school site presentation LSL
068community schools principal Maria Lepe August 27th 2025 uh 11 C presentation state of federal funding August 27 2025 is there any other future agenda items board members would like to include No, thank you. Uh item uh 12, future meeting dates. You see that it's August 6th, August 27th, and September 17th. Item 13, public comments. 13A. Individuals wishing to address the board of trustees on close session agenda items may do so at this time. Starting time is 7:34. >> We don't have any. Since we don't have any, we will be um ending the time at 7:35. We will be adjourning um to close session and we will be taking a 10-minute break during close session. Um but during this time, we would like to invite you to share in our celebration of welcoming Mrs. Anzo in
069her first official board meeting as our new superintendent. Can we get a round of applause? >> Y. >> So, you're welcome to come and get a a little slice of cake and I will be adjourning to close session at 7. Call it 7:36. So, we should be in there at 7:46. Thank you. Oh yeah. Um, we are going to reconvene. And now at 8:30 p.m. During close session, I have one item to report. Item 15B. On a vote of 50-0, the board approved uh a settlement agreement with a former vendor which terminates one case of existing litigation. Um now going on to item 16, adjournment. Meeting will be adjourned at 8:31 p.m. Thank you all and have a wonderful evening.