001Good evening everybody. I'd like to call this meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. I'm going on to item 1A. Roll call. Mr. Con, can you please take role? Board President Garcia here. Vice President Okmpo. Uh here. Clerk Perez. Trustee Gilpas Bara. Trusty Jimenez. Thank you. Yes. Two two board members. Two board members are currently absent. Oh, we're going to go on to item 1B, pledge of allegiance. And the pledge of allegiance this evening will be um recited by Camila Davila and Miguel Anel Vargas from sixth graders from Virginia Rockcoon. Can you please come to the front and lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Please rise. Right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
002indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, moving on. to item 1 C spotlight. This is an opportunity to feature up to three minute presentation the positive things that are taking place throughout the district. Mr. Koig, are there any spotlights? Yes, we have uh three spotlights that I know of. The first two are going to be delivered by Anelica Pulledo. And uh the first one has to do with an award that we received during the Hartnell College Foundation's Steam Family Science Day on Delica. Good afternoon board. Thank you for having us. Um, I'd like to bring up some of our students that were involved in the tech challenge. So, and their families can come up as well. Come up. Well, we do have one of our students here today. We did invite them all. Um,
003not all of them could make it, but um, so the expanded learning program has sever several programs that fall under the expanded learning umbrella. Um, one of our parallel programs this year and last year, uh, was the tech challenge. Um, it's kind of sponsored through our Hartnell College Foundation partnership. So, um I wanted to um highlight that at the March 15th event at Hartnell College Family Day, um some of our students were recognized as was the Alsa Union School District by the Selena City Council um for their excellence in expanding steam education through highquality educational experiences and partnerships. So, this is a plaque presented to the ALS school district um for sponsoring and encouraging the growth of our students and recognizing them for their excellence. So, a big round of applause to our student that's
004present here and to you as well for making it happen. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um I would like to invite you guys to take a picture with our wonderful student if we can. The board if the board can take a picture. Thank you. One more round of applause for our students. Yes, we want this. Thank you very much. Do you have the names of the students who were recognized on Saturday? I don't have them on me, but um I do have a list of each. What the a second spotlight you mentioned? Uh were the names of the students? Oh, the names of the students. Yes. Okay. Sorry. We'll move on to the next one. Thank you very much. And I'm also told that uh director Al Alicia Fletcher is going to give us
005some information on the migrant competition. Oh, she's not here. This will wait until the next one. So, that is all the spotlights that I'm aware of. All right. Thank you so much. Uh we're going to move on to item 1D, adoption of agenda. Can I take get a motion to adopt the agenda? Uh, so move. Second. Okay, Mr. Okampo and Miss Gila seconded. Uh, comments or questions? Um, Mr. Ko, can you please take the line vote? Board President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, uh, yes. Trusty Gilpas Barrera. Item passes 300 with two of our board members being absent. We're moving on to item two, public comment concerning items on the open session agenda and andor non-aggenda items guidelines. There will be a two-minute limit for individuals and a 20-minut limit on total public comments. There
006is no seating of one's time to other individuals. Uh item 2A, individuals wishing to address the board of trustes on open session agenda items and or other items may do so at this time starting time 536. Okay. And I am going to butcher this name and I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Um, Atama Castla, is that you? Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Can you say your name for me once you get there? Otma. Ottoma. Otma calls. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Um, so what I'm the reason I'm here is on the March 12th item 8, consent agenda 8. So, um, I'm here to talk about my concerns. is a plan to convert a room at Barton into an office for sped staff. The room is current I currently use and has been in use by the speech pathologist
007at Barton since it was built is perfect for what I do. It's about a quarter of the size of a regular classroom which works great. It has a large window that allows for transparency that I always keep open work with students and is well located. The psychologists and counselor also are very happy with their locations at the school and there's no problem or there's no problem or has been with lacking an appropriate space to work in. The counselor now has a whole classroom and that works great for her. Working with the kids, the school psychologist really likes her office as well. Talking with my principal, Mrs. Peio, it could work out very well if that space is used for sticks and stones and other things like that. Uh other ancillary staff if she has the
008discretion to use that. Um there are two classrooms that are not currently used for the whole class. So no one is currently lacking space. Um a concern also is where the offices will be. I see room one that that is uh currently has a special needs uh room one in the main campus is a section has two special day classes a TK and three kinder classes with a gate to help with ingress and egress of students and adults. It has a small playground some small some play structures. So it's set up great for those particular students. to replace one of the classrooms with offices means that one of the classes would have to move and that's really not a good idea for those TK kinder special day class students. There's also concern about the cost
009of $35,000 for something that's not necessary. Can't really speak for Monabella. Um but from what I could see there wasn't a need at Monabella. The school psychologist office was fine and also where the speech therapists are there is fine. I'm not sure if it's room one or room P1 because there is a space in P1 but that's very far. It's across a parking lot and it's there's a locked gate. So, it would be really hard for me to have to guide the kids back and forth from there through the lock gate. So, that's my concern. I just don't think it's a good idea or necessary and it's a waste of money. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Do we have anybody else? Okay, we're going to close [Music] um our open session agenda items at 5:39.
010Public comment. We're moving on to item 2B, association comments. ALS teachers association. Thank you. How about the California School Employees Association? Chapter 577. Good evening, board president, board members, superintendent, cabinet members and colleagues. Tonight, I would like to talk about cabab salary schedule for classified job posting and negotiations. First, I would like to say thank you for allowing some classified staff members to attend the cab conference this past week. I do a question why there is no equity equality on how the classified staff are asked to share a hotel room with parents or other classified staff. I believe uh there should should be no distinction between board members, management, certificate, classified staff or parents. Only classified was uh need to share the runes. Our actions affect each other and our behavior are reflection of the
011respect we have for each other. That is from Kakuras class that we do with parents. I don't recall exactly when but I believe between 2018 2020 the district changed the director's salary schedule to be more attractive and retaining classified staff salary schedule first step is under the minimum wage California state the district always assure us that no one is placed on the first step, but is that truly fair for the staff that are here for years? CSEA and its chapter 577 would like to know why the district post the higher position administration right away in classified jobs are not. On January 8th, the board approved the position of information specialist three and it's now April and there is no job posting yet. The same thing happened with the district translator inter interpretive position. We brought
012many times to the board. The board approved a no job posting and we did ratify again to meet the district require requirement and on March 12 uh the board approve it and but don't job posting yet to close we would like to know why the district is bringing Manuel Martinez the district general counsel to the negotiations table. That has never happened before. If the district has money to pay the district gen general counsel, that means the district has money to h offer better compensation to the classified staff. Most of the classified staff live within the district boundaries and it's very difficult to survive on salaries that we receive. And please don't tell us that if we were not satisfied, we can go and apply for a different job or to another district. If that is
013not okay for the administrator, then why is not and why is is okay for classified? We are just asking for what is just no more. No, no less. We are asking for what is just. Thank you. Thank you. Is anybody here from the United Substitute Teachers Union? Okay. President uh Garcia, may I Sure. So, in these cases, I know we do not respond uh at this time. they're sharing the bargaining unit. But I would like to ask the list of questions that CSCA has, who and when will and in what setting will those be answered? And can we have a copy of the questions? Uh, if CSA will send me the questions, I'll get them answered. Can we tell them maybe by when, Mr. Cone? U I'll take a look at them. Most of them
014I think we can answer before the end of the week. Thank you. Okay, we're going to go on to item um three presentations. A school site presentation. Principal Luis Romero, Virginia Rockbarton Elementary School. My apologies. Oh, there we go. I'll start all over. So, good evening everybody. Um, Mr. Koig, President, Miss Garcia, board members and cabinet members. Uh, my name is Luis Romero and I'm the school principal at Virginia Rockabard Elementary School. Next to me is Miss Selenas, my assistant principal. And I just wanted to begin by um honoring Miss Regina Rockabarden. Just for those that are new to our district or new board members or um anybody that does not know who Miss VRB was. So uh Miss Virginia Rockco Barton um was the first first uh superintendent of the Alisa Union uh school
015district. She also served as a school uh principal and after her um retirement um the district was going to open up the sixth elementary school for the district and which was named after Miss Regina Rockabarden and I got to work at VRB as a teacher and she was still alive then and she would come to school and read aloud to the kids and just hang out in the staff lounge and have conversations with the staff. So, um, it was we still have those memories from Miss VRB. And I just want to give kudos to Miss Melendez. She brought a lot of memoria to VRB that is displayed in our office. So, you guys are welcome to stop by our office and check out all Miss VRB's accomplishments. Next, just our school overview. So, just like
016all the schools in the district, we are a TK through sixth grade school. Uh, we do offer our bilingual programs at VRB. Um, we do have two newcomer classes at VRB. We have a third and fourth grade cohort and a fifth and sixth grade cohort. We also have two special day classrooms, uh, general academics, and we serve students third through sixth grade. Uh, we have about 522 students. Uh, close to 70% of our students are English learners. Most of our students are so economically disadvantaged. We have a team of 22 teachers and we have a full team of counselors, school psychologists and then just recently we hire our community school coordinator. This would like to begin with our professional learning team ideal that we developed this past summer at Virginia. We will provide a high
017quality comprehensive meaningful instruction for all students. We will work collaboratively to improve school systems and structure so all students succeed. So throughout the presentation, a lot of the work that we've been doing is going to be related to our ideal and working collaborative collaboratively to improve our current systems and structures and to improve our instruction. I also want to take this opportunity just to give a kudos and a shout out to our instructional leadership team. um as a principal um without the support of your team leaders um we won't accomplish those uh common goals that that we have as a school. So uh our instruction leadership team I know they spend a lot of time in professional development a lot of time out of the classroom to build their capacity to build our capacity to
018give them those tools to go back to the grade level teams and and and lead those grade level discussions and promote some adult learning so our students can benefit from it. So, I just want to go over our kind our PLC journey and I wanted to start kind of from starting from last school year. And uh for us at VRB, a big aha or something that kind of light up the spark regarding professional learning communities was when we attended the uh PLC institution in Pasadena and uh Mr. K drove a team of principles out there safely and I was very fortunate to take a couple of my teachers out there and we were really inspired of the conference of what a professional learning community should look like sound like at the school site and after
019the conference we really wanted to bring back some of the learning back to the school site. So we did contracted solution tree to offer professional development to our grade level teams and where they worked in different areas to refine our PLC process. Um this current school year we are working with solution tree. They're providing professional development to our instructional leadership team on continuing to refine our PLC processes. And then a big plan for next school year is working on RTI just um thinking create creativity so we can provide interventions for our students allocating some time in our schedule to intervene and also uh we're looking into um providing team time to our teachers uh weekly team time because our teachers need a lot of they need time to really get together and meet and collaborate
020to really dig deep and support those kids standing next to for a big change we did this school year at VRB from the learning from solution uh tree and some of our um learning throughout the PD is um we created a master schedule. So prior to this um every teacher would turn in about 22 I will get about 22 daily schedules. Okay. And every teacher was teaching math or ELA at a different times. And this school year we did this shift and and created a master schedule and where uh now teachers grade level teens were asked to turn in a common daily schedule. So I'm a fifth grade teacher. I work with my fifth grade team to turn in a common schedule. where we're going to be. We we're committing to teach the same subject
021at the same time. And this really supports in coordinating services for our students and um also everybody has access to this schedule. So our our you know RSP, speech, counselors um we're trying to avoid and pulling kids out of the main tier one instruction. Something we're experimenting with at VRB this school. is just a response to an intervention. Um, we're really trying to change our mindset that it's our students and we're all responsible for the learning of our students. So, when a student is not understanding and we need to intervene, it's really it's going to take all of us to get in there and support the teachers and our students. And that's kind of the concept where we're kind of learning through some of professional development that it's not just up to our teachers to
022intervene that it really is going to take our administrators or support staff to get in there and support a group of teachers. So in this picture um it's our second grade team um that we're working on common for assessment on um regrouping uh subtraction and addition. After we did the data analysis, the um the the groups, we separated the students in different groups. The students that were ready to extend the lesson and two groups that needed extra support. So, as you see in the picture, we have Miss on the left, our instructional coach, working with the group of kids, and then Miss Alina's working with the group of kids and just doing working with them on different learning modalities. We we're doing this for we did they did this for three days for 30 minutes
023and it was just a beautiful thing where kids understood they mastered the concept got an extension and students that needed extra support got the extra support for those three days and we reassessed and the students you know they they grew okay um so we're trying to figure out how we can do this for next year how we can make this a consistent practice at at VRB just want to over just a a template that we use to kind of dive deep into our data analysis when when our grade level team meets uh when they have their grade level team meetings. Um they they they answer those six questions, but not not only is this process important for them to understand what students are not understanding or which student needs to support, but also teachers get
024to learn from one another. Um what instructional practices work best? If a teacher got a, you know, better results, what did that teacher do? So it's just the the process that we go through when we're looking through those common for assessments and we have this conversation how to uh intervene. So I already data kind of still old data now since we're doing our last benchmark assessment. Um so here uh I'm displaying we're showing the uh diagnostic one and diagnostic two. And as you can see, overall our students are are growing, right? We have students getting out of the red, uh some students getting out of the yellow, and our our green is getting a little little bigger for math and reading. So, we're kind of anxious and waiting to complete our benchmark number three and
025just to see how our students are continuing to progress. So, chronic absenteeism. I just want to thank the district office just for the support with the incentives. It's really our kids really look forward and getting those attendance incentives. Um, yes, that VRB. We also have a partnership with the Alyssa Rotary. Uh, they've been supporting us for this is our second school year. So, um, last school year, um, all of our students that have perfect attendance for the entire school year that were here 180 days got a bicycle at the end of the year and that was all sponsored by the Alisol Rotary. So, every student got a bicycle for perfect attendance and we're doing that this school year as well. Also, um, every trimester, um, students that have perfect attendance for the trimester, they enter
026a raffle and the Alysa Road donated, uh, two Nintendo Switches. So that's real motivator to get students here to to have the students be at school. So um it's a it's a good motivating factor. They want to be part of the raffle and they look forward to the bicycles at the end of the school year. And here's some of the data how um our our rates they're kind of our chronic absetism rates are looking kind of like pre- pandemic. So those incentives are are working for our kids. So, BRB speech services um we have a partnership with CSUMB and we love this partnership just to the fact that we have in-person services for our student receiving speech. Okay. And we have student clinicians from CS CSU. They're students. So, they come with a lot of
027energy and they want to work with our with our students. And we have three student uh clinician supervisors that oversee the students and also kind of manage all the IEP documentation. So um we have uh three clinics at VRB. We have a preschool clinic for the inperson speech services. Uh we have a clinic for students for general education and then we have a clinic for our students that are part of our special day classrooms community engagement. um as we have our cafesitos and our schoolside council meetings. But something new that we did this year, we we have a partnership with um writer bites. So uh twice a month they come to Virginia Rocka Garden and they um they provide uh fresh produce and vegetables to all of our families. So this not and this is
028at dismissal. So parents pick up their students and they pick a bag of produce that parents can take home. Also all of our staff members participate as well. All our staff members can take a bag of fresh produce home. And along from the produce, um, Brighter Bites has a digital platform where teachers can log in and provide um, lessons to our students on healthy eating habits. And this is our cost team. So, um, our team of counselors that provide, you know, extra support to our students. So, the year to date we have a total of 152 referrals. 42 of those are SSTs for those students that need additional either academic or behavioral support. We have 50 refers to the F FRC and uh 60 referrals that you know were sent to our different counselors and
029then our PBS event. So every month at VRB we have our events where those students that were respectful, responsible and safe get to participate. We have lotia, falls and crafts, cozy cinema and glow-in-the-dark dance and slime fun. And then the big one at the end of the year, we take our uh we do a raffle. We take 40 of our students to s to the Santa Cruz uh beach boardwalk and our little ones we take them to Buffonte Gardens. And just want to give kudos to our committee that it's uh led by Miss uh Miss Alenas and our school counselor as well. And then uh facilities. So at Virginia Rocka Barden um restrooms has been an issue for quite some time and you know throughout the day we got about 70 staff members and there's
030only two restrooms at VRB. So usually during recess time lunchtime you'll find staff members lining up to use the restroom. So now is um we've got new facilities. We have new restroom facilities are being they're they're uh they're getting finished. So we look forward to use those facilities. Now our staff members are going to have access to more restrooms. And I just want to, you know, thank you guys for maintaining our facilities and and I'm sure our staff members will be happy to access those restrooms as soon as they're completed. And also the uh the marquee just recently this school year. I know this has been idea. It has been ideas since I was a teacher at BRB. That's that's 10 plus years that the marquee was an idea and it's finally it's it's done.
031is completed and um again I think it looks our school make it looks modern up to date and so far has been a lot of positive comments about the marquee. So I just want to thank you guys again for maintaining our schools and that's it. You guys have any any questions? Um Mr. Himemenz or did you have any questions? No. Okay, Mr. Ko. Um well I just had a question and and just a small comment with the what does cost uh stand for also it's a correlation of services team coordination of services team yes I get that right yeah coordination yes counseling services right yeah so just a it's just it's it's a team that gets together usually consists of our school psychologist our uh our counselors our effective school solution counselor our social worker
032and they go through the referrals and they you know through conversation they'll figure out who who can best serve the the student or the family. So so it's coordination of service team I'm ass okay yeah and thank you yeah my the only comment I had was and is no reflection on on you Mr. you know, no reflection on you, but because this is sort of a common practice in in our district, and it has to do with with some of the vocabulary that that we use in in our reports. The reason I bring it up because is because I think language well in my opinion I think language you know matters and and we we and I've seen it in other reports where we commonly use the word uh so socially economically uh disadvantaged which
033which in my opinion I think is a negative. is for example like like I wear glasses, right? So you could say, "Oh, Mr. Rompo is is is visually phys physically uh disadvantaged," which is kind of a negative. It's like poor guy, he's got a tough he's got this disadvantage. And and I think it's necessary to use different vocabulary instead of disadvantaged. I think it it's better to use the word challenged to say to say our students are socially econom economically challenged. You know, Mr. compo is visually challenged you know cuz that's that's more of a positive you know it's like I have a challenge I can overcome it so it's just a suggestion that that and we do that a lot in our reports you know we use language which in my opinion is negative
034and we can use other language which is which is more positive u and you know hopefully at some point we can start looking more closely at a language and and maybe tweak you know, change it change it changes change it a little bit. As I said, no reference. You're doing a great job. It's just something that I've noticed over and over, you know, and it's always been in the back of my mind and so I thought, oh, I think I'm going to bring it up today. So, but thank you. Thank you for your report. You're welcome, Miss Keas. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. I wanted to thank you too for accepting a visit, an unannounced visit from me. You know, we should make an appointment and I didn't. And the reason and I
035wanted to commend Mr. Koig for for this because we were at another school. I drove by Lascas and I saw some really bad graffiti right there on the the bridge. It had cuss words and that was of concern to me. And so Mr. Con got on the phone I guess called the maintenance department like in five or 10 minutes it was maybe half an hour it was already painted because I came back the same way. So uh kudos to Mr. Koig and the maintenance department because we don't want the kids to see that, you know, especially if it's puss words. That's negative. So, we talked about maybe painting some murals or something there because the graffiti people kind of respect artwork and I won't, you know, something maybe as a as a light suggestion. But
036I did have one question and then a couple more comments. So, you reported here on the absenteeism and so I know it went from 17.4 4 to 9% in one year, but you don't have like currently, do you know what it's like currently? No. So, I think it's a year behind, so we'll know next school year, correct? Yeah. You can kind of get a feel for your attendance going pretty good. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's probably the same. Yeah. I don't want to put you on the spot there because we want you to come back again. Want to ask hard questions here. And um so what I was going to comment to I know and I talked about my visit before in our district we used to have or we would go by I don't
037even know if anybody told us to but assigned schools like Jesse Sanchez MLK and um and Fremont are Gilpas schools um I don't know Steinbeck Creekide and whatever are the district that Miss Garcia um represents but that's that's not how it works. works. We are all board members of all the schools. So you might and the reason I'm saying that you may get a visit from anybody or any school may get a visit from any one of the board members. So we don't have to worry and say I wonder why we're not assigned and and I like it like that because before honestly I used to think a little you know some board members and not ours but from other districts are territorial and we don't want to get into that. So the way this
038is with this which is with almost all other districts except Alisoft for a while it it just gives the feeling that we have we represent all schools. So thank you for accepting me on that invite. And then my other um Did you have a tostada that day in the school? I did. I had two I had two tostadas and I was thinking you know it'd be nice to go visit the schools maybe during lunch take my own lunch. So, and and uh and talk to the teachers because that's where they hang out is in the lunchroom. So, I got to talk to a really enthusiastic sub that we had and it it that we have and it was really nice. It was and like a couple of the classified staff. So, I really enjoyed the
039visit and and thank you. That was a great presentation and to your um assistant principal who smiles and by that she means she's supporting you. Thank you so much. Thank you, President Garcia. Yes. Thank you. and thank both of you. I know Miss Garcia you're sitting there but I know you're very supportive of your principal. I do have maybe just two questions and maybe can and if you don't know the answer that's fine. Um like what is your average class size? So lower grades K3 I'll say about 26 25 26 and then fourth fifth and six we're I think every class is about 32 31 32. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And um the other question I have for you is um I do know that the cost teams uh you had 152 referrals and were you
040there last year? I don't can you refresh my memory? My third year. Yes. Okay. Thank you. So have they gone down or are they going up? What do you see as the trend? That's up we have to come back to you Miss Garcia. Okay. Yeah. We'll probably have a better idea towards the end of the year because I mean referrals are still kind of coming in. Coming in. Yeah. Yeah. But we hope that with all these services that you're that you have that maybe those referrals will now start coming down. Right. Yeah. Right. I mean that's usually the hope for all administrators. But anyway, thank you for the your time. Thank you for putting this together. I think it's well put together and and I don't have any other questions. But thank you very much
041to both of you. You're welcome. We're moving on now to item 1B, facilities update. Associate Superintendent of Business Services, Mr. Dis Abasi. Good afternoon board president Garcia trustees superintendent Konik cabinet and colleagues. So we are going to make this beautiful transition from last presentation to this presentation and that's about facilities. So we are going to cover four areas in facilities. It's a big huge area and when we say facilities it means construction, maintenance and renovation of facilities. We are going to look at all the recently completed project in the last three years. Then we are going to review all the current projects which are going on projects in the pipeline which are in the planning stage and some future projects to begin with completed projects in the last three years. We did complete Ellis's twotory
042building community schools two-story building. That was phase phase one of the construction. It was a large project. It had some challenges and difficulties, but we did manage to finish that. Next, we did finish Bakhorn Early Learning Center. That project was in the pipeline since 2015. It took about 9 years to complete, but it's a beautiful building and is going to serve the community very well. We also finished completion of Loya PK kinder classrooms. It's a building with three classrooms and it looks beautiful. For that project, we received some state funding and rest of the money came from our own uh pockets. Moving on, during our summer projects, we did some exterior paintings of multi-purpose rooms and that's across the board. We have done that at multiple school sites. We also did some renovation of uh
043multi-purpose uh multi-purpose rooms that included removing uh table pockets within multi-purpose rooms and that created additional space for other things. We did interior paintings. We did some flooring repairs at the same time. Another major uh project or projects that was Blackhop and Courtychard repaving and we did that at Frank Hall, MLK, Jesse Sanchez, Steinbeck, Creekide and VRB. That was a major project and that had so much coordination between different agencies and different departments but we did manage that. We also did sidings, trims, and rain gutter repairs at many school sites. We built a new shade structure or canopy outside MPR at Alisel Community School. We built relocatable but temporary classrooms at three school sites. Tran Paul, LSL Community School and Fremont. And the thing about these temporary relocatable classrooms is that they're temporary temporary by
044definition. But after building them, now we're thinking about keeping them because we spend so much money uh during construction, during site preparation, during installation of everything. I think it's worth keeping those buildings intact and not remove them. We also provided a new restroom or modernized the school buildings at Frank Hall Elementary School and that project has many difficulties, but we did manage to finish that. We did another major project and that was HVAC systems installation or air conditioning cooling systems at all of the school sites. That project was about $10 million projects. One-time money that we received from COVID sources. That was the money that we used for HVAC systems. We also have new PA systems at all school sites and that includes new clocks. Another major project was to provide VSIC or interactive TVs
045at every classroom at every school site that brings technology really good technology into our classrooms. We installed surveillance cameras at school six school sites making use of the community school program. We have provided a room or a space for community schools for every school site. We renovated old VRB library into a training room/ community room. We had some issues with some old uh mold and some other issues at VRB. We refurbished two classrooms to make them safe and risk-free for our classroom for teachers and uh students elementary school we installed artificial grass and that has become a beautiful use of that facility. We installed six foot fans around baseball field at uh Frank Paul Elementary School. We have done kindergarten prepaving project at Creekide Elementary School. We did a road repairs outside MLK student dropoff
046area. We installed speed control bumps at Montabella and Ellis Community Schools. And as Mr. Romero was showing us. We have a new marquee at VRB. We provided carpet flooring at Steinbeck Library and that was a request that came from a student. We refurbished two classrooms, relocatable buildings, actually I should not say classrooms at child nutrition services. And this project includes converting one of the old classroom buildings or reloings into storage and the second one into a training for staff room. At the district office, we created a new meeting room is called room B. We split deputy superintendent's office into two offices thanks to Miss Anzo. We also created another office outside uh Miss Anso's room into a brand new office. Now moving on to current projects. The projects which are going on as we speak.
047Two of the major projects that we are we are working on right now are Lisel Community School Phase 2 and Fremont Elementary School Phase 3. And this includes demolishing old buildings and constructing new buildings. We are also currently actively working on Chavez Elementary kinder classrooms and this includes uh construction of three classrooms. We are installing 18 brand new relocatable classrooms for ELOP or ACS programs across the board across uh the school district. We are creating classroom partitions for service providers at multiple school locations. We are currently working on installing surveillance cameras at six remaining school sites plus plus special education building plus Bhorn Early Learning Center. We're installing EV charging stations for our new electric buses. Currently we have only four electric charging stations but we have 12 buses. We need additional EV chargers. We
048are creating a new permanent restroom at VRB and that is something Mr. Romano just mentioned. We are currently working on Steinbeck kinder area repaving. That project is almost complete. We are also creating Fremont kinder repaving and repurposing area and that is going to create new parking space and for storage containers uh purpose. Currently we have some projects in the pipeline. These are in final stages of planning. One of them is Creekide Elementary School. We are going to build three classrooms for that project. We have some state funding and we are going to provide matching funds from our own school district for the district office expansion. We are going to build a new warehouse as well as annex building. We are currently working on nutrition services warehouse installation project. We have installation in the warehouse which
049is very old and it's developing cracks. We need to rebuild. Currently we are working on performing our center. It's also called blackbox center. And for future projects and these are the projects that can take place between 5 to 10 years from now. School 13 construction and maybe we need one more school in the cast area. School 14 that is going to be in the east specific area plan and that is going to be one school or two schools as we have a new needs uh in that area. We are currently evaluating the need or feasibility to buy additional piece of land so we can have a new mods yard and transportation yard plus a permanent board room. The picture in this slide that's a schematic design for school 13. This is going to be across
050from uh Alvarez High School. Currently we are planning or assuming that this area is going to create about 500 students. So we need a facility for at least 500 students at this point from kinder through sixth grade. That's a very initial planning phase because there's nothing there. If you go there, these are all fields, no streets, no utilities, nothing. But we do need to start planning because we need to have SQA study done. We need to have environmental impact study done. For that purpose, we are already working on that. All these projects have huge amount of coordination between inside and outside agencies. We are constantly working with California Department of State Architects. We are working with OPSC, California Department of Education, CTF Selenas and all the outside agencies at the same time from our own
051within district. We have very large amount of coordination between technology services, Mars department, my friends Clemente Varial and George Enzo. They are a constant source of support and guidance for all of these projects because they have institutional and u historical knowledge of the district. They know facilities. They know everything about the district. So they are really helpful in this process and really appreciate their support uh with all these projects. So this was my brief update. Uh I would love to answer any questions that you may have. I'm going start up over here. Missed bus. Do you have any questions or comments? Thank you. How about on this side, Mr. Okmpo or Mr. No. No. Okay. Mr. Okmpo, I just want to say that the looking forward to that uh new uh theatrical building that we're
052going to build at uh Montevea and also looking forward to moving uh MZ out to uh what is that? uh Williams out out there which will create more space because I know Mottz is is somewhat somewhat crowded and I was always really happy and continue to be happy about the fact that we put these modern televisions with computer capabilities and all the classrooms touch touchscreen that you know bring the world into the classroom. So I think we've done some great things and I think we're probably going to continue to do some great things. So and I've enjoyed all of it. Yeah. Any anybody else? No. Okay. Um, thank you. I'm glad to hear that we do have HVAC systems and you say in all schools, do we have them in all the classrooms? Is that
053what that refers to? HVAC is uh air conditioning, right? Air conditioning system. Yes. Every classroom at every school site has air condition. Thank you. Because I was going, okay, you have them in the schools. Are you sure? You have them in all the classrooms. Is that so important? I mean, I'm a current teacher and boy, Selenas has gotten hotter and usually gets hot right around September, October and I am so happy to hear that we have HVAC in all the classrooms. That's very important to me. Thank you for that. Um, also I noticed that you put PA systems. Um, is that PA systems in all the sites? Is that what you said? Yes, every school site. And so my follow-up question to that is, do those PA systems work with the emergency uh communication systems
054or are they one in the same? Yes, they do. They do because I've been in sites where, you know, you change something and then it doesn't work with what you got and then you can have to deal with all that. So our a uh RPA systems work in conjunction with our emergency bells and all that. We have state-of-the-art system. Very nice. Okay. Well, thank you and I look forward to all these new projects because there's so many and they're all needed. They're very much needed. So, thank you for that. Oh, I did have one more question. I know I' I've said this before about the EV charging stations. Is there any plans maybe in the future to have one at every school site? And and I'm throwing that out there. I know we need them
055for the buses. I don't know if we need them at a site. And the reason I saying that is like I think a lot of our staff might have uh electrical cars and you know, it'd be so convenient to have one on there. I know that there's a charge to that. I don't know if there's any kind of grants that people can look for to see if we could sustain a charging station at at the sites for our staff members, but maybe you can come back and just see if you can I think I've said that before like I asked about charging stations before. Okay, we can definitely look into that but currently we do not have anything in the pipeline for that and the reason is uh the currently the project that we are
056currently working on that's a grant that we received from PG&E. So we are making use of that funding that we received uh uh from uh PG&D just to install those charging stations but on our own we have not analyze that and it's a very complicated project because our current structure does not support installing installing any charging stations the electrical systems we have between us and PD& they are not the best so that requires actually changing the electric electrical system that we have and that can be extremely expensive project. But definitely we can analyze that and come back to you. Maybe there's a grant out there but thank you. Um thank you for that. Of course. Okay. We are now moving on to item four, board member and superintendent reports. Mr. Con, do you want to
057start or Sure. Yeah, I just want to uh say that last week we had our spring inter session at VRB Loya and Bon and uh we had almost 600 students every day, 200 at each one of those sites. That's not quite but almost 10% of our district enrollment. And uh as you walk through those school sites, you saw kids learning and really having fun learning. They were flying drones. They were programming drones. They were building ro robots, performing tasks with their robots. There was a lot of physical activity. There was a lot of academics. It was it was a great program. And I just want to give a shout out first of all to the three lead teachers that we had. Irma Marin was at Loya, Wanita Pereia was at Ban and Tara Crarampton was
058at VRB and they did an absolutely sensational job. And finally, I just want to give a shout out to Jose Fausto and the hardworking expanded learning opportunities department for putting together this wonderful program for the kids. It was great. Thank you, Mr. Koig. Um, Mrs. Thank you, uh, President Garcia. Um what I wanted to talk about wasab was an amazing amazing conference that a lot of us went to. I think four of us board members were able to go. Um I think the theme was the EAL framework and roadmap that gave us a lot of information on that and then you know they talked about the e plan which one does our district have and I don't think I could have answered any of those questions if wasn't for some how these workshops were. So,
059I was able to and I'm not going to list them, but I was able to attend um about 10 11 workshops because there's like two in the morning and then two in the afternoon and then one after 5. So, uh it was so enlightening and they gave us a lot of questions that we can ask as board members. Um and so that was very very helpful. Also, I wanted to thank Dr. Alvarez because um I have the out of district business request here and I think uh it's it's an estimate but like 33 people uh signed up for Kab I don't know how many went I don't know if it was that many but that's a lot of people for one person to kind of look over and she really did her best trying to
060help the parents even the board members and poor thing I don't even know if she showed up for work this week because she helped us with everything so I really uh want to say thank Thank you to to Dr. Alvarez and also I really made it a point with the board got to do some um partnership um I would call it building relations with our parents you know so we had talked to our DAC um president Miss Mendoza to see if we could either go with her to a workshop or we could have a meal and then thanks to Miss Blanca Miranda uh they were able to organize a dinner. So, the four all four of our board members, we went together to Outback and we had a I thought it was great. One parent
061said she'd even show us how to make tamales from where the green Yeah, it was from Wajaka. So, it was really nice because a lot of times we don't get that. Um but but the board did that with the parents. Like I said, I I got to uh go with our DAC president, Miss Mendoza, on one um one presentation. and I don't remember which one it was, but it was real nice just to kind of like you said, build relationships. Then I got to a highlight too was sitting with CSEA um during the the awards dinner which was nice. Got to talk to to CSA. It was it was really good. There there were some glitches there and I think that happens all the time. I I totally agree with um CSEA President um KO
062that you know what are we doing when we say board members don't have to share rooms and of course I'm not going to share with the male but I mean we you know we do have females and males we don't have to share rooms uh nobody else shares rooms I think except classified and parents and yet in one case one of our classified had to share a room with a parent. It was even a non-alysis parent, but that must have been very uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable. So, either we don't have 33 people attending or we get money as a suggestion so that parents can go too and parents could partake of the lunchons too. I talked to Miss Miranda that went in not knowing that it was you had to have a ticket and I think
063they escorted her and another parent out and that's embarrassing or they told him they couldn't partake in the meal and I just felt so bad about that. So I'm sure we're going to be able to discuss this how and when I don't know just to and and I commend all of the parents that went because they want to go. they're willing to share a room with someone they don't know just to go to the conference because it's a great conference. It was Kab's 50th year anniversary. So, it was very enlightening and I just had a great time in the building relationships spending time with the board. Also, we went to a session together, had a meal together and were able to network there and it was an awesome conference. So thank you for to the
064community because we go because of the taxpayers's dime. We don't pay really for anything. We get reimbursed for most everything. So a lot of funds are involved there where um we appreciate the opportunity to attend and thank you to the board for making it a a nice um conference too and the networking together. That's it. Thank you. U Mr. or oko. Uh yes. Uh well, at first I'd like to say that I I actually agree that this idea of of parents having to share rooms uh um not a good idea. Um at the very least, I think give parents the option, you know, if they want their own room, give them their own room. But if they're with someone they know and they feel comfortable with and they want to share, then I suppose that
065that's okay because I don't know as as adults I think I think it's good many times to have your space, you know, kind of your your your privacy. I I can remember going to conferences where I had to share rooms and sometimes staying with people that snored all night snored snorted all night and not getting a wink of sleep in the entire night. I mean, it can be it can be traumatic. So I I would support you know laser gipas. I think that that we should rethink that. We should uh you know rethink that that particular practice. U this morning I I spent at Monterey Peninsula College uh David Senna who teaches CHO history um was celebrating Cesar Chavez's day today. Although his birthday was Monday they had it today and they invited a lot
066of students from from Monterey Peninsula College. uh and I went he had asked me to speak on the renaming of Santa Lucia College to Cesar Chavez College because I I had been on the city council at that time. So I went and participated and uh sort of told them told them my story. Um, it was a great morning. You know, I also told them who I was, that I was a trustee with the Yalis U. School District and encouraged them that if they had any family who had children that went to our schools to to give me a call and to or to send me an email and uh to reach out and to see if I could I could help in in any way. And I did um, you know, wish them good luck
067in their studies on behalf of of the entire board. So I I guess I went there sort of as a representative of this board unofficially but I was there and it was a it was a good morning. Uh we had a few other other speakers um uh and uh we all spoke about Chavis and Cesar Chavez and all the great contributions that he gave to this community. Obviously, I also spoke a little bit about, you know, the fact that we have a Cesar Chavez Elementary School, uh, which kind of adds to, you know, the library, Chavez, the Chavez Park, and Cesar Chavez Elementary School. I think those are the three, uh, kind of memorials we have to Chavez in Selenas. I'm I'm not aware aware of of anymore. So, so thank you. And that that's
068my report. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Himemenz. I'd like to take this opportunity to thanks Dr. Maria Alvarez for guidance and helping us during the CAV the conference association of bilingual education conference in Long Beach California. Thank you Dr. Alvarez. We have a great experience in the conference. I'm happy to have met with the company's representative in charge of the pilot education Bon program the district have implement in four schools so far one of these school is bing elementary we have a representation that they have they gave an excellent explanation of how the viral program is working so far they spoke spoke highlights of the fifth grade teacher Mr. Fernandez using him and his student as an example. The collaborative working among teacher in the same grade level will result in the excellent student education in
069our district. Thank you to viral program and to the teachers who will be out next educational leaders. Thank you and thank you Mr. Jimenez. Um and so I too wanted to say a couple of things. Uh last board meeting I was unable to attend because I was ill. So some of these things that I'm going to say were part of March, the beginning of March. Um I was able to take part in the national school breakfast week um that celebrates the importance of nutritional uh school breakfast and Julian students for success. I went over to the Steinbeck s school and I served um breakfast to our morning students. It was wonderful. They let me wear a chef's hat. I felt so important. Um and I want to shout out to all the classified employees that
070work in this food service because it's a lot of work. And um that that one day I was there, we had one employee there. She says she does get help during the second chance breakfast. So I'm I'm glad to hear that that that is happening. And I want to shout out to Irene Vargases and her team for the food service team. I also understand that they were going about to launch a new breakfast item, the parfait. And I I'm going coming back for the parfait. I'm going to taste that. It sounds like the students have a lot of choices during their meals, which is wonderful because that way they don't, you know, um and they're able to take it home, too, which is something different for me and my side. I've been in education for
071a long time and the school district where I work in, we weren't able ever to let the kids take food home and I'm I'm glad to see there's a shift there that that if they don't want to eat it right then and there, they could actually take it home with them. That's nice. Um I had the pleasure of being a judge at the Hartnell Steam family showcase on Saturday, March 15th. Um and I did I was a judge for the tech challenge and so I'm not going to be biased there. For the tech challenge there was only Alyssell students, okay? So, it was there was other schools there, but for the tech challenge portion, there was only I think three teams of LSL. And so, they uh and I'm still trying to figure out the
072list of winners. And we'll get those to you guys so uh you guys could we could acknowledge them properly because we we did have a winner out of those three. And um so yeah, it was wonderful. I saw a lot of engagement. Uh it was a lots of people there. It was wonderful a wonderful time at at Hartnell College. On March 24th, I was able to visit VRB for the spring intercession. Mr. Falsto took me around and he walked me to the different sessions. I got to see sweat, the sweat three classes. It was a really hot day that day though. It was a worse It was day to be outside that day. So, a lot of our kids were huddling under whatever type of um shade they could find because it was super hot
073on that Monday. But, they made it work. I got to see the Forks in action, the SA classes. That was wonderful. and and some academics. Um, and I do want to shout out to Tara Crarampton because I did see her I think she was the lead that day for uh Virginia Rock Barton and it was wonderful to see her um in action. She was really um engaged in what she was doing and all the teachers and staff that was there. Um and I too attended the COVID conference in Long Beach and I was proud to see so many of our parents there. Um, and I know I we learned a lot about the road map and ELD framework and we still have lots of questions, right? Because yes, we come we go to sessions and
074then we're we have all these questions because we're not sure what the answers are and maybe we'll get some presentation. I do also want to shout out to Maria Alvarez because she did a fabulous job um guiding our parents and and officially helping us too and and it was wonderful to have her along for the ride. And lastly, and because I wasn't here, I want to congratulate Mrs. Monik Anzo on her new position as new superintendent. And I wish her all the best in this new chapter of her career. And I also want to wish Mr. Conig the best in his upcoming retirement. So, thank you. And that's all I have to say about yeah, under board um reports. Okay, moving on to item five. Consent agenda approval ratify contracts agreements, grants, proposals, conferences, workshops,
075and field trips. Approval of a consent agenda. Again, a motion to approve the consent agenda. Uh second. Okay, Mr. Okampo, comments or questions? Oh, I just had a a comment on on five 5V if if I could. So 5V is a a proposal for the purchase of a van for new for nutrition services from uh Selenas Valley Valley Valley Ford uh for a cost of $56,000. My comment basically is that I'm glad to see that we are purchasing the van from from a local from a local dealer, you know, as opposed to purchasing from from outside of our local community. uh and I believe that we should always attempt to buy locally when whenever possible because by buying locally we are supporting our local businesses and we are stimulating our our our local economy. So
076I think it's a good practice that that whenever possible I think we should indulge in you know I know it's not always possible but when it's possible I think we should we should look at buying locally and supporting our local businesses. Also, you know, $56,000 uh the city sales tax 9.5% is about 5,000 plus dollars. So, I'm sure the city of Selen is happy to be getting the $5,000 revenue, you know, going in into into your taxes. And I know that we have we have other local b businesses in Selenas that we purchase from on a regular basis and there's a few of them. So, it's a good practice. I think we should continue doing that again, you know, as as much as possible. And I know that on these uh lowcost budgets, we we
077don't have to go through a through a total what do they call it? The process what I'm sorry, bidding. Yeah. If if if the cost is not too much, we don't have to go through the entire bidding process, which I think gives us more discretion uh in terms of uh of who who we're going to hire. I think we we we tend, I guess, to go with the lowest bidder anyway. I guess right, you know, it I guess it's not as complicated as the more formal bidding process. I believe I think that's how it works. Yeah. Uh we participate in something called CUPKA which allows us to in many cases just negotiate a contract with a primarily a builder. So anyway, that that was my comment and uh let's buy locally support our economy. Thank
078you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from the board? Okay, Mr. Ko, would you please take a line vote? Board pres Board President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, yes. Trusty Gilpus Pereira. Trusty Jimenez, yes. Motion passes 4 Z. Miss Pettis being absent. Okay, we're moving on to item six, business services. Uh 6A action item resolution number 2425-18 designation of district representative on Monterey Zambonito Joint Powers Authority Governing Board. I need a motion. Let me make a motion. Mr. Mr. Jimenez second. Uh second comments or questions? Mr. Con, can you take the line vote? Board President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, yes. Trustee Gilpas Pereira. Trustee Jimenez, yes. A motion passes 40 with Miss Bettis being absent. Moving on to item 6B, action item resolution number 2425-9, declaring the futility of public bidding for additional
079work at Cesar. Chavez Elementary School. Mr. Arvasi. Uh, can I get a motion? Uh, so move. Mr. Rompo. Mrs. Gilpas Vera. Second. Comments or questions? Okay. Mrs. um Gilpas. Thank you. I think my main concern with this item is that it's a change of orders, but it's like for 389,000 I think almost 400,000. But I did have uh a conversation with Mr. Koig about it. So sometimes the other construction companies because we don't open it up for a bit get a little bit bothered but this is being done just because of the time and that things get more expensive and it'll be a bigger cost for us and um could you elaborate a little bit more Mr. Abasi? Definitely yes. So if you go through the bidding process, it's going to be more expensive and
080more time consuming and we are already in deep in the planning and construction phase. I mean we have done the ground work. We have done much of the site preparation. So at this point to stop the project and go through the building process that can take months. So I think it's going to serve best in our best interest is to just keep the project going and just continue with the project as we are because we have all the information we have the side preparation we have all the contractors and subcontractors working on that to stop all of that is going to be a big huge waste of time and money and so what what happened the change or was it the foundation or something what happened I mean because that's a lot of money 400
081000 because usually change orders don't go up to that much and that's why we open the they do not go up to that much but it's a big huge site I mean the area that we're trying to uh treat is pretty large and that's a common condition in selenas anytime we start working we we realize that the soil is pumping there's too much moisture in soil and it's not possible to create a foundation for any building or It's extremely risky to create a foundation on that moist soil until we treat that and the treatments are expensive and they are getting expensive by the day actually. Uh we had similar condition at Frankfall when we were doing the uh repaving of the black top that was also expensive uh treatment but this is something that is
082going to happen anytime we are working on any of the projects. Thank you Mr. Abasi. So, we are on item B, right? Yes. Okay. Um, so we're taking Did we take a line vote? President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, yes. Trusty Gilpas Bara. Trusty Jimenez. Yes. Okay. Item passes 40 Z with Miss Pettis being absent. Moving on to item 6 C action item change order request Chavez Elementary School TK building project Mr. Obasi once again um yeah calling for the motion make a motion Mr. Jimenez Vera comments or questions. This two is one of those change orders. Is that what this is? Yes. Like the other one that went over, right? Yes. Uh 6B and C are together. Okay. Got it. Uh Mr. Con, can you please take the line vote? President Garcia, yes. Vice
083President Okmpo, yes. Trusty Gilpas Pereira. Trusty Jimenez. Yes. Item passes 40. Miss Bettis being absent. Moving on to item seven, educational services. 7A, information, quarterly, Williams uniform complaint report summary, April 2025, the months of J uh January, February, and March. And we already got that information, right? Thank you. Moving on to item eight, human resources 8A. Action item request for a new position district translator interpreter one full-time position. May I get a motion to approve this? I make a motion. Mr. Himenez second. Which one of you? Miss Mampo. Okay. Comments or questions? comments or questions board. I have a question. Is this the same um job description that we keep talking about that has been open and and we don't have anybody in it? Can you answer that? The revised job description was approved at
084the last board meeting. So, when will this job get posted or is it already posted? Tomorrow. Okay, that gives us some hope. There you go. Um, Mr. Ko, can you please take the line vote? President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, yes. Trusty Gilpas Pereira. Trusty Jimenez, yes. Item passes 40 with Miss Bettis being absent. Moving on to item 8B, action item, request for new position account technician 2. This is a 625 position. May I get a motion to approve this position? Second. Gilbas Verera followed by a second by Mr. Jimenez. Comments or questions. Mr. Con, can you please take a line vote? President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, uh, yes. Trusty Gilpus Betta. Trusty Jimenez. Yes. Motion passes 40 Z with Miss Pettis being absent. Item nine, administrative services. 9A, action item, revised board policies,
085administrative regulations, series 3000, business and non-instructional operations included. May I get a motion? So move. Mr. Okampo. Second. Uh seconded by Mr. Himenez. Comments or questions? None. U Mr. um Con, can you please take a line vote? President Garcia. Yes. Vice President Okmpo. Yes. Trustee Gilpus Pereira. Trustee Jimenez. Yes. Item passes 40 with Miss Bettis being absent. Number 9B. Action item. Obsolete board policies administrative regulations exhibit series 4,000 personnel included. May I get a motion? Second. Miss Gilas Barera. Seconded by Mr. Okampo. Comments or questions? Mr. Aon, can you please take a line vote? President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, yes. Trusty Gilpus Pera. Trusty Jimenez, yes. Motion passes 40 Z. Miss Pettis being absent. Number 9 C, First Street, information only. Adopt new board policies, administrative regulations, exhibit series 4,000, personnel included. Moving on
086to uh action item 9D. Um National Association of Latino Elected Officials, the NLEO 42nd annual conference July 22nd to the 24th, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Attendees are the board members. May I get a motion? So move. Mr. Okampo. Second. Seconded by Mr. Himenez. Any comments or questions? Vera. Yes. And I may not be very popular for this, but I have to share a few thoughts and and that's how I feel. I I know that NALO the the national conference. Unfortunately, it's not a K through six educational conference. There's a lot of other uh they're good sessions, but it's my thought and I went to Cav I mean to Nalo last year when it was in Las Vegas and and I still feel the same way that it it's not focused on K through6. They do
087kind of scatter education here and then but it's education in general. It's not they don't have any sessions just for board members. I looked at I don't think they have any sessions for K through six. Um, I think that we have the resources with MCOE and the California School Boards Association that need we need for our our tools to be able to have um success for our students. We didn't talk there was a lot of glitches in the last conference in GAV that maybe we're not aware of. I think we have to have a discussion on the logistics of conferences as a board or maybe a committee, I don't know, but there's a lot of things that happen that it's my thought that our investment right now should be in um we're doing negotiations. We
088just got back from a conference. What are we offering our negotiating team? And yet we're just got back from one conference and we're going all the way to Atlanta, Georgia where I don't know or see as a board what it could possibly offer our K through6 board members, our K through6 teachers that masters in governance cannot provide for us. Um that's my thought. So I won't be well when the vote I won't be supporting this. It's a lot of money. And uh when we're talking about parents sharing rooms and we and and it's true. I mean, maybe some people will call it like the perks, but they're the fanciest motel ever. I'm sure more pe we can spend money on more people going to a conference and maybe we could stay at a I say
089we if I'm invited, but uh say a lesser fancy conference and and maybe I mean we're having money issues. we're going to continue having many issues. So, some of these far away Atlanta, Georgia conferences that are not for K6 education. I'm so sorry. And um that I'm I'm just very very concerned with that. There'll be one later. Maybe we can discuss it and and and find out what or how do we report back? How do we report? We go to Atlanta, Georgia, and and do we go to the sessions or don't? Who do we report to? There's no one to report to and I have never had and I'm not putting any board members down because you know I love you all. I don't even know if you've gone to Nalo. I have but in
090the past board members would go and nobody ever I don't know of a policy or even a conversation that we had at the board brought back from this conference. So I'm sure it's a great conference for elected officials uh but not for K6. it's not focused on Kasich's education. And so that's my thought and I hope you all still like me afterwards. Uh thank you Miss Baseda. Uh how about over here comments? Uh yeah I' I've been to NO and I've you know they do have an educational fund that focuses on on uh educational issues. Um and um I went to a lot of uh workshops that I thought were relevant like workshops on artificial intelligence in in education, workshops on career paths uh in education, uh housing uh in in education. Uh because the
091issues that kind of are out on the outer outside communities seem to also be coming into into districts like the issue of affordable housing. you know, we we have like the Selenas Union High School District that build affordable housing for for their teachers. So, some of those issues are coming back to us. They have also workshops on uh on medical insurance and medical insurance is always a big issue in in all districts. You know, how do you how do you ensure your staff with with good with with good insurance? Um, in fact, the last time I went to NLEO, my wife went with me and I I wrote about a seven-page report uh that I gave to our staff that has all kinds of uh uh contact information, people with different uh programs that uh
092help schools and the staff was giving was given contact information. I don't know if there was any followup on that or not, but but I did forward that that to to the staff. Uh and uh I I think I think NLEO is is a is a good group. I think we need to be part of NLEO. Um it is nonpartisan, you know, so so everybody is is invited to come. There's no political divisions there. uh but they do some fabulous work with uh voter voter registration uh which I think is very important and and it hits home uh to all of us and to and to our parents uh also especially given you know the present federal administration and and their attacks on on our community which are very real attacks. You know, we need
093to unite as Latino- elected officials to support such things as voter registration because that's going to be the future of our country. Whether we can get our people registered to vote and whether we can get our people to actually go out and vote and start voting for for presidential administrations or start voting for for elected people or policies that will benefit our our community. So in my mind, you know, NLEO is is is very is very important. I mean, I I do I do respect, you know, uh Kilpa's opinion, which is fine. I mean, we we all I think we all work together well. We some we, you know, if you want us to agree on 100% of the time, you're living in the fantasy life, but I think we agree on over 90% of
094the time. So, I I will be supporting uh NLEO. I think I think it's important. The other thing also is that if we look around at the other districts, you know, like the Selenas Union High School District, uh, and most of the districts, the the the Selena City School District, they all send people to NLEO and they've been sending people to NELO for for many years. So, so I think that that they see the value of it in terms in terms of their of their trustees. You know, I I do agree that that in the foreseeable fe future, we more than likely are going to have to make some tough economic decisions and and uh yeah, Georgia's expensive. You bet. Uh NLEO may or may not survive that economic scrutiny that we're going to go
095through. I don't know. But for the time being, I think we're in a good economic position. So, I'm I'm going to So, today I'm I'm going to vote vote for the uh for the conference. Okay. Mr. Himenez, any comments or questions? No. Well, I want to say that I'm um thank you for your opinion, Mrs. Ulas. But this time, I'm agree with Mr. uh Oko's uh opinion. come up for uh um I want to vote yes on this time. Okay, thank you. Oh, any others? Okay. Okay. So, my comment might might be um it's more like so yeah, we probably as a board should come up with a budget, right? So, in the future, we probably need to figure out a budget for conferences and or workshops that we could uh adhere to like every
096other um school uh site. Okay. So, moving on to the vote. Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't you did ask there's um would I be out of line if I asked the board to come back for those who do go and tell us what workshops they attended? Would I be out of line as a taxpayer? Can I ask for that? Well, you know what? Why don't I just make that a rhetorical question and then we can move on? You don't have to answer. Thank you. Um yeah, I don't know how to answer that one, Miss Gilpas. I know that a lot as a teacher uh when I as I've gone to many conferences and my role as a teacher and my role as a vice principal and a principal and um everything I learned I come I
097brought back physically to the site but I don't know if board members have ever been asked to come back and do like a presentation which is an easy thing to do. We if we wanted to we could probably could depending on how many of us show up and we could work together with that. Okay, we're going to move on to um line vote. Mr. Ko, can you please take a line vote? Board President Garcia, yes. Vice President Okmpo, uh yes. Trustee Gilpas Pereira. Trustee Jimenez, yes. Okay. So, um item passes three um sorry, three to one and with Miss Perez being absent. Okay. We're moving on to item 10, future agenda items. Um, a board study session, district policy on mobile communications devices, including cell phones, April 23rd. Um, and the 10 10B department presentation
098by director Julio Castro. Also, uh, April 23rd, a future item, uh, 10 C, school site presentations by Mr. uh, principal Jose Joseo. um that'll be taking place on ma May 14th and presentation by deputy superintendent Monica Anzo on school safety and the site safety plan implementation dealing with bullying that'll be taking place on May 14th. And on number 11, you see all our future meeting dates for this school year. Um and then I'm moving on to item 12, public comments, closed session agenda items only guidelines. There will be a 2-minute limit for individuals and a 20-minute limit on total public comments. There is no seating of one's time to other individuals. Item 12A, individuals wishing to address the board of trustees on close session agenda items may do so at this time and the starting
099time is 7:02. Do we have anybody? Okay. Uh doesn't look like we have anybody. So I am going to close this item at 7:02 as well. And we are going to adjourn to close session at and I'm going to call it 7:03. We will be taking a 10-minut break. So close session will begin promptly at 7:13. Thank you. You guys can go. again. Oh yeah. What has been Hey mate. What's going on? Okay. Um, we're returning back from close session at 8:15 and I got two items to report from close session. By a vote of 4 to zero with Miss Pettis absent, the board appointed Margarita Kamacho as a community school coordinator. Congratulations, Margarita Kamacho. By a vote of 4 to zero with Miss Pettis absent, the board appointed Alexis Diaz Infante as a community
100school coordinator. Congratulations, Mrs. Diaz Infante. And with that, we will end our meeting at 8:16. Thank you all. Thank you. Good night. Good evening.