001all right bring the meeting to order roll call Maria Gary president Amanda president Rick here I'm here um Rick can you do this in the pledge sure please join me [Music] congratulations to the flag of the United States one nation under God thank you thank you Kylie do we have any public comments um not pertaining to closed session okay I'm gonna go through what we're gonna do in closed session pupil Personnel expulsion case exp 11 22-23 stip number three 22-23 and annual review AR number 9 22-23 and AR number 10 22-23 conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 current litigation eight cases covid 1907-172 the cibds 201183 civds 20229956 cibds cibsb2113003 cibsb 2209 8019 CIB SB 220 303 cibsb 221-8676 government code section 54 954.5 and 54.956.9 and E one anticipated litigation seven cases 2o20
0022021 2208 2021 2213 -2022 23 through 05 2022 23-06 2022 2307-2022-3208 public employees discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees Public Employee appointment reassignment retirement reduction and certificated and classified employees conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization Apple Valley teachers Union conference with labor negotiator agent negotiator Dustin Conrad employee organization California School Employees and the conference on with real property negotiator government code 549-56.8 negotiating parties Matthew Schulenburg Apple Valley Unified and number eight superintendent evaluation and I have a motion to go into closed session second all in favor all right in closed session thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign foreign foreign foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign foreign thank you foreign thank you very much thank you very much foreign thank you very much
003thank you very much thank you foreign thank you very much thank you foreign thank you very much thank you foreign thank you very much thank you ready to order at this time we'd like to have a the moment of silence to remember Apple Valley students unions School District students jamala Adams and Blaine Bachmann thank you desert Knowles we have Aubry where and Ariane Hagen representing desert Knolls [Applause] it's cool good evening board members cabinet and members of the public I'm Ariane Hagen and this is Aubry Weir we are sixth grade students at Desert Hills Elementary School and we are headed to tell you some of the things that we have been doing our dozen notes this year let me start by saying how exciting it has been to stutter before and after school programs we
004have been having so much fun doing Esports art Spanish gardening and so much more we have built birdhouses and made tasty treats and learned how to work as a team my favorite thing so far has been Esports these classes have a great addition to our school day and they are so much fun over the last few weeks we have been working on these gifts for the board we hope you enjoy them this is my first year in student council and I am so excited to be representing our school student council and booster club have been working hard to keep us excited about coming to school in October we were busy with spirit days for Red Ribbon Week and we ended with our fall festival it was so much fun and there were so many exciting
005things to do in December we had another spirit week and our kindergarten classes had a Christmas concert last week we're participated in kindness week we had a spirit day for each day and every grade level Contin contributed to kindness around our campus in class we have been working hard to build our stamina and use strategies to solve real world problems we are improving our reading skills as we learn about the world around us and investigate the science in the world we live in most importantly we are working on being part of our school Community showing respect and consideration for others thank you for all your time and all you did to help our school have a great night [Applause] High Desert Premier Academy Daniel good evening president Bender board members and cabinet I'm honored to
006stand before you all once again to inform you of the accomplishments and upcoming events of high desert Premiere Academy and honored to bring you all a token of our appreciation we hope you like them on our shirts we have embedded our logo of the three R's respect responsibility and recover we hope you wear them with pride before I start telling you about the wonderful things we have going on this month I wanted to let you know how much we have grown this year we are now a four hour Nation with 210 students on our campus and we have so many new students learning and involving themselves daily this leadership Club is in full effect after the student advisory meeting with superintendent Nelson we were able to create a leadership club that meets to discuss the
007student voice and open conversations about what students meet on campus and we are looking forward to meeting weekly to discuss improvements on campus and how we can bring students together thank you for hearing us out with Nelson this month our Esports team is participating in play verses we have five team members that will be competing with other schools on Wednesday in knockout rounds good luck owls another thing we're excited about sharing are the upcoming field trips we have planned our art classes and some of the independent study students will go to the Cheech Marine Museum and some of the independent studies will be going to the culture of Riverside Art Museum they will also have the opportunity to see an aspect of Chicano art from multiple perspectives our students will will have the opportunity to
008go to the Museum of Tolerance and learn about the history of the Holocaust in effects on many through interactive exhibits and this month is Black History Month you know power to the people I'd like to acknowledge that not even a hundred years ago people of color were going unnoticed for the accomplishments that they had for centuries it wasn't until 1926 when negro history week was established and was later expanded in 1976 as Black History Month I'm so thankful that we are allowed to express ourselves and a lot of the things that we have accomplished are being noticed because it went unnoticed for so long and I'd just like to thank you all for letting me come and talk to you tonight I would also like to take time to recognize some of our own and
009she was raised in San Bernardino County and her name was Dorothy Ingram and she was the first black school teacher in San Bernardino County her brother Howard was also the first black physician and they both paved ways that many young African-American youth would be allowed to follow thank you all for your time and support and I look forward to speaking to you all again next month thank you Granite Hills High School Ashley Guzman good evening board members superintendent Nelson and attendees my name is Ashley Guzman Garnet Hills GC president and student representative and I'm joined by my vice president Itza Favela starting off with kindness week wrap up Administration has encouraged many of our students to participate in kindness challenges throughout the school and said Administration could even nominate students and shown that have shown
010kindness in order to win prizes although it is the shortest month of of the 12th February will be very busy yeah exciting month for us though we still have quite a way to go to the end of the year and graduation planning for next school year has already begun this week Abbott has began hosting Avid Shadow Days where current 8th grade average students will be visiting from our theater schools every Wednesday this month this is a great opportunity to see their future high school campus build connection with Granite Hills High School Avid students and teachers and sit in on classes with upperclassmen counselors have been meeting with students to choose their classes for next year and providing many opportunities for students and families to learn more about our programs available to them such as CCAP
011and AP Fair next week and skate a night on February 16th we also had some of our students participate in skills USA and they all did amazing other events happening on campus are the superintendent student advisory council meeting on the 9th black history months we're having a spirit week for Black History Month on from the 14th through the 17th cougars United on the 22nd Black History Month presentation on the 23rd where we will be having a guest speaker and parent Wellness meeting on the 27th staff and students are working hard to promote positive School culture on campus through building relationships and engaging activities campus life has been radiating positivity as the weather begins to warm up and spring sports are starting to begin golf has had informational meetings Boys Tennis is also still recruiting and
012setting up for their first game on the 15th and track is also recruiting for their team as well with the beginning of sports does come in end of winter sports just as the just these past weeks ASB has been busy helping out make posters and banners for all the senior nights we just had our seniors have played their lastly games yet some are now on to cifs which we are very excited for all teams have hosted beautiful nights for their seniors and lots of love as they say goodbye I hope you all have a safe rest of your night and always remember maroon and gray lead the way [Applause] High Cheyenne Valentine good evening to the members of the board and attendees my name is Cheyenne Valentine the Apple Valley High School line president I
013just want to give a shout out to Desert Knowles for doing such an amazing job at speaking now to start off our semester is at such a good start off even though it's only one month in and I'm so excited to tell you about everything that we've done so far last month we started the year off with the bang we had we held our annual green week Greek week sorry with four teams competing in Greek week is where students and staff compete with multiple games throughout the week in a final dodgeball tournament we also held a winter sports pep rally to celebrate all of those words that are currently competing and encourage students to support them in their final weeks skillsusa has begun for CTE classes and they're wrapping up their Regional competitions this week
014we're very proud of every student competing this year in um and we wish them luck this weekend we have also started planning Mr Sun level prom for this year and next year we're in our formal and buff and tough ASB line has held sign ups meetings and we're starting practices this upcoming week for Mr Sun level ASB Junior and senior class have both visited their prom venues last month and speaking of dances our winner formal dance is this Saturday so we're very excited to see students have an amazing time senior class has also started planning buff and tough which is where Junior and senior boys have a chance to play volleyball taking a look into our plans for this month we will continue to work on moon reformal and Beth and tough we also have
015our annual Color Run later this month which always has such an impact on our community and gets everyone involved seniors have an exciting few weeks ahead of them with the senior meeting that discusses events like grad night and graduation and prom which we're so excited for we're also going to be revealing our prom venue and um oh my gosh and theme which has been held a secret for the past two years and we're so excited uh we're also going to continue to plan other events and work towards achieving our goals for the rest of the semester such as every 15 minutes more winter formal from graduation and other senior activities the color on cultural Affair Mr Sandoval Renaissance skills USA and just making sure that every student can stay involved in campus by re-chartering clubs
016and creating new clubs our winter sports pep rallies are coming to an end not pep rallies just winter sports um and we're so proud of all of our student athletes for representing Apple Valley high school so well and having that true Sun Devil pride in them even though the official seasons are coming to an end we hope that some of our teams will continue to compete in CIF we already have had and are still having senior nights for the 12th grade athletes to recognize your dedication to their Sports we're also very excited to see what our spring Season Sports have in season for this year to wrap things up I want to say how grateful AVH is for all of your support throughout the year if your encouragement inspires us students to do our best
017inside and outside of the classroom we're off to a strong sport strong start for the spring semester and we're looking forward to see what else you can accomplish in the next four months and as always Sandoval pride is contagious [Applause] and reports California School Employees Association Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association good evening superintendent Nelson board members assistant superintendents and audience the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is a little extra I would like to congratulate Miss akpara for your dvl honoree award for doing that extra for our community I'm sorry I was not able to attend as Helen Keller stated keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow I may not have adopted a word for the new year but I have chosen to always look at the positive although one of
018the busiest months that I have faced in this position January was filled with many positives I would like to thank Mr Raleigh Miss Buchanan and Mr RC for attending the CTA School Board luncheon with me it was exciting to see all the high desert presidents and school board members enjoying an afternoon of good food and great conversation Leslie and I were able to attend the governor's budget workshop and two follow-up CTA workshops where we learned that they are projecting a cola of over eight percent funding for implementation of universal TK as well as the Arts and the governor is Con is committed to continuing his support of Education even when the state faces a budget a possible budget shortfall the presidents of the high desert region were also able to bring all of the negotiation
019teams together for a day of collaboration and networking at the Hesperia CTA office it was interesting to hear what our neighboring districts are working toward that was the first time ever that we've done that so it was it was really good avuda was also able to participate in our first meeting with Burnham to hear about our health care options we are hopeful to bring more health care options to our members we also have two of our except board members that have um put in their candidacy for a state position to represent not only our local but our state at the national level if elected to those positions um out of the meeting with Burnham as well I was able to have a great a couple of great conversations with Nick the CSEA president abuta hopes
020to continue to build the relationship between us and csca I attended more inspiring meetings with principals and sight reps finally I was able to visit Miss Kurt's dance class Mr Churchill's choir class and attend Granite Hills play Shakespeare's much to do about nothing I was amazed at the great talent at Granite I was beyond impressed with the talent of the actors and actresses in the play I look forward to seeing the sunshine of February even though the groundhog says that's not going to happen but remember I don't see shadows in solidarity Karen now we're going to have some comments from our superintendent afternoon there we go it wasn't going to come on I do want to commend all of the students for their presentations we learn something every time you show up here to tell
021us about your schools and so much appreciated and um Angelique we always wait for the lesson of what it's going to be about this month so um I appreciate that too Monday several of us attended the San Bernardino County School Board Association meeting where they were honoring Mr so for his achievement and support and service in the association and scsva delegate um 29 years in our system and I loved watching Mrs Buchanan and Mr para flank him for a photo with arms um around each other which absolutely shows the the value of dignity and community and so I think you know as you go for election as an elected official and you can see these people stand next to each other after competing for a position and still care about each other and celebrate each
022other that's huge and so I just um it was one of those powerful moments when I looked at it and thought look at this that wouldn't happen a lot of places but that happens in Apple Valley um we had a wonderful presentation at the greater High Desert chamber yesterday that involved many staff members within the district that present under CTE so our Career Technical education it was all wrapped around our jpa called The Mountain Desert or Mountain Desert career Pathways so they presented to the business Community about how kids come out of our education system prepared for work and all the things the pathways that kids have access to um along with the collaboration with BBC and all of the students that are gaining college credit as they are going through High School likewise dreamers
023Visionaries and leaders presentation to Ms okparo was wonderful even after quite a delay because of rain we were there at Victor Valley College to a packed house watching um three incredible people be recognized and although Maria had a wonderful recognition I think we were all paused by a 100 year old woman who was receiving an award for the Arts in our community and she walked up on stage up a set of stairs and we all thought that's where we want to be when we're 100 years old um mock trial has concluded our students went down the hill to Ontario those that could make it I will tell you that Mr Goodrow went over Crestline Miss Burke took her team over the crest over Crestline in a van I got turned around after an hour and
02445 minutes trying to get there through a different pathway and and they got Awards and we were thrilled that they made it down I don't think that Granite was quite so lucky with all the students but we had our students recognize and that's always wonderful Apple Valley High School placed in the mountain desert region and we know that it's always a building process but when if you've never seen mock trial in action you ought to take it in because it's pretty cool to watch these kids defend and look at the law and give all of the reasons why they believe their case should be heard the way it is last week we held the state of the district and we were appreciative of the ability to share the goals and happenings within the district with
025our community likewise the district advisory parents committee was here earlier this week and we did the beginning of the cycle of data and goal review with the stakeholders every school was represented every school has a parent group along with our District English learner Advisory Group next week we have the student advisories as was mentioned and we're looking forward to that it's always eye opening we're excited about what was the outcome at both Apple Valley high school and at High Desert Premiere both had plans and took leadership roles and presented those to their administrative teams on how to improve things going on on their campuses and so your voice does matter and sometimes asking just one question changes the dynamic of what you're doing on your campus so thank you for your involvement and then um
026apparently Angelique didn't School me up on the fact that last month with School Board member appreciation month and since we're super close to that date um I'm going to tell you that we will do better but we will appreciate you along with all staff in may as well next week is national school counselor appreciation week and as you know there's probably some national appreciation going on in in our system that we could recognize pretty much every week but we do like to recognize those things so if you see a school counselor next week tell them thank you thank you Mr Bender okay board comments Rick sure thank you a couple shout outs tonight I want to thank uh desert Knowles High Desert Premiere granite and Apple Valley you guys really do a good job of
027speaking and uh Angelique Daniel you keep stepping it up every time you're going to be a very good public speaker so you should maybe look into a future in maybe politics it's a really good job I really appreciate the things that you say and you say it with such passion thank you and then I want to shout out to to Maria for her award um you know I follow you on Facebook and you were kind of getting after me in closed session though I look at Facebook too much but I I see what you're up to all the time you are everywhere so keep it up you did a good job so that's all I have tonight Amanda okay thank you um yeah I wanted to reiterate to Maria your award um just thank you
028so much for you know allowing me to come and cheer you on um they did this wonderful video uh presentation on her and it was just it was very powerful so I'm really glad I could be there um and it was it was so packed like you could not walk through the lobby because it was just shoulder to shoulder and but everybody was having a great time so while we waited because there was some rain delays um I had the opportunity to go to one of uh granite's soccer games and those girls man are out there in shorts and it was I screenshotted it it was like 43 degrees when I left and I don't know how they do it but they did it and smile on their face and it was it was great
029and you guys ended up was it League Champs but yes okay let's say I think I saw that so congratulations um and then I also had the opportunity of going to the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing and yeah Shakespeare's hard um anybody who's ever read Shakespeare knows Shakespeare's heart and just to watch these kids get on stage and really take on the role um they had the audience we were we were rolling a few times it was great um and then the Sia or the l c uh s b c [Music] BSA yes San Bernardino County School Board Association meeting um on Monday night uh yeah Mr so came in and he sat right next to me in between Marie and I and it was a very nice evening and I was really glad
030I could be there to watch um I mean he's a legend everybody in that room walked around they knew who he was they wanted to take pictures and shake his hand and um I was very blessed to be able to sit next to him and have him tell me lots of stories um from his tenure sitting up here and then finally uh yesterday evening I got to go to the district's spelling bee which was so awesome um so the kids were grades one through eight and there were some words that I could not have spelled and I'm an English teacher but they just every kid should be so proud of themselves and it was so fantastic to see the teachers and the principals cheering them on and talking beforehand and um I don't know who
031it was somebody made him spell the word awesome in the audience and I was like that's fantastic for right before they start so I just I I'm excited to see everything else that's going on um in the district but I would say that the staff and the students keep it up you guys are really rocking it out there that was it sorry I'm done that's good okay Gary I would just Echo kind of those same sentiments especially with regard to the to the Shakespeare play here and here at Granite it really was impressive just just first of all for the kids to to memorize so many so many lines but so many lines of Shakespeare it was it was quite impressive so so really congratulations to the to the students to the to the teachers
032uh to the parents too because I know the parents spent a lot of time building the sets and that type of thing and it's just uh what we said the Excellence that we saw in in that play is really just a microcosm of what happens throughout the entire District in terms of extracurricular activities in terms of band in terms of Athletics and then of course in terms of academics so and and again another congratulations to you student Representatives that's that's kind of the highlight of our board meeting we always enjoy you know hearing uh you guys come up and and just just share with us the Fantastic things which is going on on your campuses which is really a testament to you and to your parents and and to your teacher so just like Amanda
033said that thank you for all the hard work that you're doing it really shows and let's keep on going thank you Maria um uh it's so hard to take all of this in um especially when um I do things not because I want somebody to acknowledge but I do things because it is the right thing to do um I'm going to start by thanking all of the parents who have had a hand in all of these young people that came and spoke to us today uh sometimes we tend to forget that they they do things but they're the ones that stay up at night they're the ones that make sure that the homework is and they're the ones that make sure their kids go to school with a full belly and they go to bed
034with their full bedding um I thank you so much uh for what you do as parents and I am so proud of you the students for doing the great things that you do to Showcase your different schools um you know we could have come to see you in other places but you come to see us and we make sure that we give you our time uh secondly I would like to thank the teachers um for encouraging these students to be the best they could be um and I've always maintained that you should never be satisfied to be on the ground the ground is not your final destination you should always looked up and see how far you can go once your feet hits the ground and to start the trajectory yes I got the recognition
035by dvl it took me forever to figure out what D was I knew every other word the the other part of the acronym but the D was a hard one for me to remember and I was very reluctant to participate because it is hard to talk about yourself I I prefer to talk about everything else but myself but I was forced to talk about myself so I was forced to tell my story and everybody here has a story and I hope you never forget that story because it is that story that makes you who you are down the road when you go back and look at where you came from so I am so proud to say it's the month of Black History Month and and I always say I am black 365 days in
036a year and so I'm now black just in February so I have the 365 days in a year that I celebrate who I am and I'm proud to say who I am and I hope each and every one of you is proud of who you are and never have somebody have to change it for you uh over the weekend I had an opportunity to go to a presentation that was called the black empowerment committee committee or committee and and I have to use this opportunity to thank one of Apple Valley High School students who came out and did not have to be there but she came so she can take pictures and her name is Samantha pulido I had never met her but she came up to me to introduce herself to me and I
037thought how proud could I possibly be that I'm sitting in this large crowd I'm one person from Apple Valley is here showcasing the best that we have and I have to say thank you to Samantha uh she did not know I was going to recognize her today but she managed to give me her name so I took it down I figured I'll share it yes we went down into San Bernardino to celebrate Mr so I've always been proud of Mr so because he is all about the children it's all about what is best for our kids so and he's taught me quite a bit so to go and hear from everybody else in the in the county celebrating this one man that sat next to me for four years was the best gift he could
038have left me so I have that I carry that in my heart uh so I thank you all um for recognizing uh Who We Are what we stand for and um and just remember that if you are walking into a place and and you are going to a river and there is no water in it then you have missed the boat you need a river with that somebody is in and the only way you can look at it is how do you pay attention to your elders so listen to your elders and make sure you learn as much as you can because you don't want that River to be empty when the when the elders are gone thank you very much for your time thank you I just like to ditto everything they said but
039but especially I'd like to congratulate you young people I mean what you're doing believe me you ask an adult the biggest phobia they have is speaking in front of other people you're starting out at a young age and you got a million dollar smile so you can buy your way through it but I'm serious it's something that you carry with you and you might have to just talk on your feet with no prep and that's the way it is so we'll call it a that end right here you guys can all go home and have a snack enjoy your evening thank you [Applause] yeah all right the clerk will read out any action taken in closed session in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent
040Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer on a motion by Mr RC seconded by Mr Raleigh the Board of Trustees approved the following approve the compromise and release agreement between the Apple Valley Unified School District and employee number 0550 on a vote of five zero in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent on a motion by Mr Raleigh seconded by Mr Bender a vote of 5-0 the Board of Trustees approved the following appoints Kimberly Calvin as Transportation supervisor ranked 48 column 1 on the non-exempt classified supervisory and confidential salary schedule 256 paid days effective February 6 2023. Mr para she's at the back of the room congratulations sorry foreign thank you um in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the
041following recommendation from the superintendent on an emotion by Mr RC seconded by Mr Raleigh the Board of Trustees approved the following they approved the memorandum of under understanding with the California School Employees Association chapter number 828 dated January 31st 2023 regarding an increase of hours effective February 1 2023 pending ratification by CSEA on a vote of five zero that's it [Music] adoption of the agenda may I have a motion second all right all in favor all right all right there's no recognition presentation tonight information on the governor's budget proposal Mr Schulenburg yes thank you Mr Bender um the Morton you do have a paper copy of the presentation at your seats and if I can figure out this new operating system to get my presentation up on thank you on the screens and put my
042glasses on so I can see it all right thank you so I had the opportunity to attend the school Services budget workshop with the with Karen and her crew and I'm I'm going to summarize what was about a three hour Workshop down to hopefully about just a few minutes um I I the first disclaimer you will notice the school Services logo on this particular slide these are all slides produced by school Services um with a couple slightly modified to reflect the impact to Apple Valley Unified but they produce this and this is an excerpt of their larger presentation so first off the themes for the budget as Karen said the governor has really dedicated a lot of resources to education to keep education whole or as whole as he possibly could through this budget cycle
043um California of course is a little bit better prepared but on this this slide I'd just like to point out that last bullet um as Bare Bones as it is the governor did balance his budget using some one-time funding for ongoing expenditures and in the School District budget world that's a No-No um one-time money only it comes to you once and if that expenditure is ongoing the next year that expenditure is going to be there and that revenue is not going to be there to support it so um he's got some things going on in the budget of course this was just his initial proposal so things will certainly change of the state budget of course um they're they are projecting a fairly I think the governor used the term modest 22 and a half
044billion dollar deficit I don't consider that too modest myself but uh he did find a way to uh to cut some programs and and save education um and the bullet point there through some funding delays reductions and pullbacks and fund shifts and that's what uh happens a lot at the state level they move some things around they get fancy with our prop 98 funding um so what the governor did do in his um in his proposal he's kind of a accounting for an economic slowdown not calling anything a recession even though there are some economists talking about a recession maybe end of 23 into 24 but the governor and the legislative analyst office in the Department of Finance up in Sacramento none of them are considering a recession in any of the short-term multi-year budget
045forecasts so prop 98 just some points that prop 98 is a portion of the state budget that flows to education um and like uh like Miss Sabers said he did maintain the purchasing power of the local control funding formula our largest funding source pledging to fully fund the cost of living adjustment the the cola it's currently projected to be a little over eight percent um there are still a couple data points that need to come in to refine that and we'll probably get the uh a closer number at the May Revision in the next budget cycle he did remain very committed to Universal transitional kindergarten and also um I'll talk about it a little bit later he introduced the concept of what's called an equity multiplier within the lcff um to address some learning and
046achievement gaps for our most needy students but the one thing that he did he did propose that's kind of controversial is in in our current budget year we received the Arts education and music block grant funding it's a pool of one-time money that flowed to school districts across the state we have several years to spend it and he has proposed pulling some of that funding back that school districts have already budgeted either this or in the out years in their budget Cycles so he proposed to pull some of that back and is using that to fund the lcff that's that one-time money that he shifted over to lcff so again this is all subject to negotiation and much of it will change or or uh kind of evolve as we get into the May revise
047and the approved budget one great thing he didn't come up with a lot of new categorical programs this year because he doesn't have a lot of extra money anytime the state has a lot of extra money they create some programs for us with strings attached foreign just a quick Slide the blue there is the legislative legislative analysts office they're a non-partisan kind of a budget Advisory Group up in Sacramento that's their fiscal Outlook compared to the governor's budget Outlook you see the governor's budget Outlook is a little more optimistic than the Lao and typically what happens is it ends up being somewhere in between those two as we move forward so that's just a quick little picture he's a little more optimistic than um than the Lao with the lcff again he did propose to
048fully fund the statutory Cola I mentioned that the equity multiplier no categorical programs no new categorical programs but he is proposing the cost of living adjustment on some of our existing categorical programs which has not been um consistent throughout the year sometimes they get the cola sometimes they don't the equity multiplier the equity multiplier is in response to a bill that was introduced within the last couple years to really Target some of our lowest performing student groups on our lowest performing schools in the state to get a little more funding into those schools that particular Bill did not come through in its true form but the governor did propose this he dedicated about 300 million dollars that's 300 million dollars across the entire state to the lowest performing schools and in order to qualify for
049this money at an elementary school you have to have 90 of your students qualify for free lunch not free and reduced but free lunch and at your high schools you have to have 85 percent of your students qualify for free lunch well last Friday I got to attend a little workshop with school services and they've been running some numbers throughout the state and within Apple Valley Unified we would not currently have any schools that would qualify for any of this funding under the equity multiplier we do not have we don't have students Meeting those thresholds that qualify for free meals free and reduced we would have a couple sites but you'd have to take out those reduced the kids that only qualify for the reduced meals so and this is another thing that will probably
050change greatly between now and budget adoption quick snapshot of the lcff funding Factor so you can see it's different for each grade span TK is kind of the same as K3 but there's an additional add-on for the additional Staffing requirements under transitional kindergarten and that's just a snapshot but what that all boils down to is really important on this slide this slide really is our projected lcff Revenue now that's not all the revenue we get we have some other categorical programs we have Federal revenues but that's our largest revenue from the state and currently with our projected Ada next year and the projected the proposed lcff funding at this point we would get about 179 million dollars that's an increase over the current year of course um some of the pressures to our budget retirement
051contributions for our employee groups that's something that you've seen you see in the last 10 years it's increased from 8.25 percent up to 19.1 percent so that's uh more than doubled over the last 10 years on the calstrs side calstrs doesn't have the same power as Calpers does to make adjustments to that rate they're a little more legislated and right now it's frozen at 19.1 but School services does believe that there will be some legislation introduced in the near future to give calstrs a little more flexibility as Calpers does so Calpers the current rate this year is 25.37 and you'll see on the right hand side it's projected to continue to rise over the next few years and that's really due to some investment losses that they've experienced over the last couple of years in
052their investment portfolios this is just a little slide to remind us all that the governor is taking some of this money back this is that art music and our art music and instructional material block grant that was proposed funding reduction um you'll see it was it was proportioned out half the money has been to portioned to schools already and the other half is scheduled to be apportioned in May of 2023 now that apportionment is going to occur before the state adopts their final budget so if this occurs if this is a part of the adopted budget we're already going to have all that money so they're going to reduce other apportionments in kind to make up for the money that they gave us under this particular block program so it's going to be a little
053cash shell game at the state level ultimately we would probably lose about 1.2 million dollars out of this block grant if this if this does go through and Universal transitional kindergarten he is very very dedicated to the utk and early childhood education this is just a slide to remind us that we are in year two of a four-year implementation process or actually you're maybe we're in year three of a five year I can't remember it's been a couple years already but uh um in 2526 you'll see that we will be offering we will be required to offer transitional kindergarten to all four-year-olds whose fourth birthday occurs by September 1st so when we start school in August we will have some three-year-olds joining us in our transitional kindergarten classrooms just before their fourth birthday thank you
054prop 28 the voters in California approved proposition 28 in the last general election which sets aside about a billion dollars Statewide non-prof 98 money to support Arts Music Arts music in schools so I haven't seen a lot of details on how much this means to us yet but again this is that voter proposition which will provide some more specific funding for arts and music education to further supplement the programs we already have in place and just a couple slides here on some federal funding they did approve the Consolidated Appropriations act which does uh Supply Federal funding through September of 2023 so just some summary slides you have those copies I don't think I'm going to read the details on there but it's it's good news for education in terms of title one and special education
055support from the federal level and that concludes I hope that wasn't more than a few minutes well done thank you a boot does reopen your articles for negotiation Dustin Conrad so who knows I'm sorry thank you [Music] okay good evening members of the board superintendent Nelson and the rest of the cabinet up there my name is Leslie mcninley and I'm currently serving as the bargaining chair for abuta as you'll recall we settled our three-year contract last fall and it's now time to reopen some of our articles for year two of the contract we surveyed our members about what their concerns were and the vast majority of our the input related to being able to serve our students better in the folders you've received as excuse me are our initial proposals to reopen articles 13 which
056pertains to hours in adjunct duties and 17 which pertains to class size as background for our request with Article 13 at the beginning of each year we have two work days before the first student day but one of those days is reserved for our administrators meetings or trainings the district provides one paid day for teachers to work in their classrooms to prepare for the new year many of our teachers invest a week or even more of their summer to prepare for their classes and at some sites some teachers have not been allowed to enter their classrooms prior to the weekend before students start which is increa which increases their stress level in a big way regarding article 17 I'm sure it comes as no surprise that we're still recovering from the impact that the pandemic
057has had on our schools we're dealing with learning loss and to complicate matters we have higher than normal attendance issues as well as increased socio-emotional and behavioral issues our current large class sizes make it more difficult to reach our academic goals we're looking for some help in that area we appreciate the willingness of the school board to work with us as you did last fall and are hopeful that we can work together again to overcome some of these obstacles thank you for your time thank you very much [Applause] Dustin you have the Bluetooth reopener I have I have abusds the um I apologize for the the name there that I put there to mix up earlier I didn't want to speak on Leslie's behalf that's too intimidating and and you can tell with the prep
058work that you know they've demonstrated so I appreciate that Leslie thank you um one quick note I I know the negotiation season is upon us with a Buddha and you know Leslie and I have discussed some things and we've we've really got and Karen as well um we've established some um I think some relationships that will allow us to move forward this season with a little bit more on the interest-based side of of collaboration throughout the processes but uh all that to say you know we we have also opened to articles article 13. um 13 for us is the uh consideration of just uh cleaning up some language we have mous out there that haven't been totally married into the contract we look to do that and offer some clarity on language as well uh
059we also opened Article 15 which is our leaves article and really what we are looking for there is something that we believe currently in our system barriers exist for some of our you know our best employees out there those that um a crew time have time and yet contract doesn't quite let them reach out and grab some of that time uh so we're looking to you know have honest and open conversation with the Buddha and perhaps come to some agreement that allows our teachers uh and well all of our certificated staff to have access to time they've earned that currently is Out Of Reach for them and we again could bring details to the table and kind of discuss what that looks like um how that's handled and bring it forward to them so those
060are the two areas that we're looking to open and negotiate and I think we'll have a great time all right thank you Kylie do we have any public comments we have four cards this evening foreign our public comment card speakers are required to limit the comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a Max of 20 minutes per item first is Kathy the Baron all right thank you good evening good evening board members and Sabrina Nelson I'm not as prepared as everybody else is so um thank you for your time um I'm a parent of a first grader over at Rio Vista and um Rick I guess I'm
061I'm gonna have to ask for some time with you at some point I hear that that you're the one that's in charge over there um so um what's happened is in about two weeks ago they sent out a uh correspondence to the parents there and said for those of us that lived on the north side of the school area we are to no longer park over in the main area and come and pick up our children from the cafeteria and instead they are going to move all of our children that would normally come out of the cafeteria all of our young children to the bike gate the bike gate empties out onto yakaloma yakaloma as everybody probably knows is almost like a highway and I walked over there and I looked at it and I
062watched all of the kids walk out of there and there's no Proctors there's one Proctor that stands down at where the the crosswalk is and all of the kids come running out and they all run across the street and I'm going okay the the road is going to be opening up here pretty soon and this is asking for these children to get hit there's there's no safety there and I'm not willing to have my first grader do that so I went into the office and I talked to them I said I am absolutely not going to have you do that I'm not going to allow my child to come out of the the bike gate and they said well then you have to go into the line and I said I don't have time I
063am in a I'm an executive I don't have time to go into this line I need to walk up and pick up my son well you can't do that either okay let me talk to somebody the administrator will not doesn't want to talk to me either I've talked to her it we're I'm not getting anywhere so I'm here now to please talk to you guys about we need to have some safety here in our schools there are these children need to not be coming out onto a very busy and I I'll I'll just put this in quotations Highway because it is going to become a highway it is not there yet it's going to be opening and and that road is very dangerous I cross that road with my car all the time where you
064know the the light will change and people go through it just because we're in the high desert and a stoplight I'm sorry is just a suggestion I'm I'm sure you've all gone through a light and had somebody Zing right through that light just because you know they don't care they don't care around here because there's not a lot of cops God love them um so please I implore your please help us with the safety of our children all right thanks for your input Mr schulenburger look into this yeah man we'll have somebody from the superintendent's office contact you yeah and I'd be willing to meet with you as well Jackie Maryland more Jackie Moore I was here before regarding Vanguard school and it's not gotten any better now there's legal things going on there's lawyers
065there's investigations there's no transparency example all the parents wanted to work on the turtle sanctuary and fix it it's vanguards Turtle sanctuary and we keep asking and asking and asking and the principal will never answer the question she will never tell us anything about it what she's doing oh I'm looking into it now I find out the students from the high school are coming to change and fix that Sanctuary why it's not theirs it's ours that's just one little way she does things now I'm really here because I signed a paper for my daughter to go and I can't get anywhere until Jeremiah talked to me today I found out today on the 17th my daughter I signed a paper for her to go on a field trip and I let her go much as
066I didn't want to down the hill and in the fog and in the weather but she went and then I couldn't find her and then I find out at the beginning of the year I had a meeting with all the teachers my daughter's teachers principal and set the rules down and said she must my daughter must abide by with you do what you is expected of you learn from them because they went to school respect them and I put it down hard and I said but here's one thing I'm telling you I don't do computers I barely do cell phones I have a landline you may use my landline and you may use my cell phone at any time well when I couldn't find my daughter didn't know what was going on I found out
067they didn't go to Banning to a camp they went someplace else and Jeremiah told me today that they went to Yucaipa to uh Augusta a Girl Scout camp but who gave them permission to take my daughter someplace else without my consent and the principal over and over and over on a phone conversation to me told me seven times to nine times well you were given notice on Airy portal or Parent Portal I said I don't do it and you know it your secretaries know it your office knows it and the teachers know it I didn't know where the heck my daughter was and if there'd have been an accident in Yucaipa where she was I wouldn't have worried because my daughter was in Banning but she wasn't and I didn't give anybody permission to take
068my child there and I didn't get a phone call can you imagine my fear I shook for hours trying to figure out what was going on I don't like it there is no transparency and again I'm telling you I'm warning you there's a lot of trouble coming at Vanguard you need to find out that it doesn't fit now the one thing I can say is we have a principle here I saw Miss Benavides she's awesome she was my daughter's principal at the other school but I told you the other principle Vanguard doesn't do anything Miss Benavides is out there every day every day I admire her with the kids rain wind snow anything she's out there every day letting the kids out of the cars and putting them in every day I admired it at
069our school we have nothing we have nothing no these kids at all talked about what was going on their school we have nothing there's nothing positive teachers are going out on on stress they want transfers and it's a mess and I'm really upset about what happened with my daughter and I want someone to look into it and tell me why and don't tell me that you got notified on Erie portal because I had two phones so I filed a formal complaint because I'm very upset about it and I imagine you would too with your children thank you thank you for your time appreciate it Leah Dan hunsel thank you Liam my name is Leah tenholz and I have two children that attend Vanguard Preparatory I'm not very well spoken I'm slightly so thank you so
070as I said my name is Leah tinholz and I have two children at Vanguard Preparatory on January 24th there was an incident regarding my youngest daughter who is five years old and in kindergarten it had to do with a proctor and it is currently under investigation this what I'm bringing right now doesn't necessarily have to do with that but with the dealings of the principle there and her lack of ability and so I did prepare a statement I am calling for the immediate resignation and removal of principal Jeanette Martinez throughout the time I've been at Vanguard I've witnessed and been told of Miss Martinez lack of Competency and dereliction of Duties as a principal of this school she is unable to resolve conflict which is evident through her lack of effort and ability to proper
071properly handle situations as we just previously heard and what I spoke about with my daughter she denies the content of verbal conversations claims that she does not receive emails and if she does that they are blank she is spoken disparagingly about the parents and School Employees who have brought up issues stating that there were that the issues brought up were rumors even to the point to where when you are trying to tell her about an eyewitness account that you yourself saw she tells you to your face that it's rumors that for instance the women at the front desk have big mouths and that they don't like her which is not the case it so parents who are trying to report concerns whether abuse or safety issues that they were eyewitness to on more than one
072occasion she has pulled parents into her office and told them not to report or speak about things that they have seen on campus upon my reply to her to an email that conversation back and forth concerning the investigation that is ongoing at this point um she responded with responded in a way that was misleading by in in the fact that she made it seem as if she had no recollection of what she was talking to although at the time we had already had I had sent her an in-depth email had spoken to her face to face and she had called me so she was privy to the issues and concerns that I had Miss Miss Martinez actions have been misleading and deceitful she will skirt her responsibilities including student safety and throw anyone under the
073bus to remain secure in her current position since this is not an isolated event and she has repeatedly taken measures to deceive students parent staff and this board it's obvious that her conduct and actions cannot be corrected with training this is an issue of Integrity Ms Martinez has lost the trust and confidence of the parents and students a long time ago and now is the time to give our children a safe environment to soar and the issue that is being investigated at this time it does have to do with a proctor being physical with my daughter however her lack of handling of this situation is leading to a bigger issue the fact that she is incapable of resolving something in the correct way I need to know that my children can go to that school
074and be safe that I'm not having to worry about someone outside but someone within that I'm not that my kids aren't safe and that I can't trust her judgment or lack thereof thank you [Applause] the last one is Leslie McNeely excuse me all right we're all done we appreciate your comments any other comments um superintendent just that I see Ella Houseman out in the audience and we realize that you have moved on to bigger and better things but I can't sit here and see you out there and not rec let the board know that you're sitting there must be doing a college class is that correct Nathan you too yeah good good to see you again all right thank you any other comments from the board Rick no did this gentleman there did you have
075a comment card do you put in you came in at five and you're filling a card up so yeah I did some research okay I just I just saw you there and I I knew you were talking to Kylie earlier I'm gonna miss you Amanda any other comments no I'm good Gary uh just a comment on a later item on the consent agenda uh item number 10 on the consent agenda deals with the adoption of the the math foundation for Granite Hills High School and I just want to congratulate and commend the staff and the administration of uh to put put together that document we hear a lot about the deficiencies that our students have because of learning loss and that type of thing and I just want to say that I was I was
076very impressed in reading through that document because that proposed course for Granite Hills is exactly what our students need in terms of increasing their math scores if we were to take a survey here in this room I know there that every hand would go up that math was your favorite class uh in in school when you were in school but uh that's that's not necessarily the case now and and I I was just like to say I was very impressed and very pleased to see that teachers and administrators uh in in conjunction with uh with uh Pat put together this course because I think it's exactly what our what uh Granite needs I think it's exactly what what the rest of our district needs is very proactive Forward Thinking planning to actually address learning deficiencies
077so I just just like to congratulate Mr slosher uh the students and staff at Granite Hills I think that's a fantastic idea and hopefully we'll be seeing more of that in the future thank you all right Maria um I have I'm going to start by thanking High Desert Premier Academy and Vanguard for finally sending me an invitation to come um finally um and and secondly it would be really good for the schools too I don't have any more kids in the schools so I don't know when you have your events until after you announce it at a board meeting uh but if you can put out a calendar of your events so that we can at least show up for those of us who don't have kids anymore in the district but would like to
078come in and support your students and support your programs that's thank you all right good to extract the meeting I'm not going to say anything conduct a public hearing on a Brutus reopener articles for negotiation with avusd is there a time we're going to open up at uh 58 808 . we have to have this open for one minute that's the law is there anyone president wishes to provide uh comments on the boot to reopeners that looks like a minute if there are no oral comments I will knowledge yeah at 809. all right we need to conduct a public hearing on a Buddha's reopener articles for negotiation with avouta okay we're going to open the meeting the time is going to be 110. 8 10. I think it's still eight hours all right does anyone
079have any comments on this because we have to be open for us I'll admit it foreign well if there are no oral comments I will now declare the public hearing closed and the time will be 8 11. all right so we'll move on here approve the certificated and classified Personnel articles as listed do I have a motion any discussion I'll second the motion okay all in favor all right approve the recommendations for requested leaves as noted to have a motion [Music] all right all in favor aye 5-0 approve the district contract for reopeners for a negotiation between the Apple Valley Unified School District and Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association all right all in favor aye approved the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective on expulsion case number 11 2022-23 I'll second it all in
080favor aye expulsion case stipulated number three 2023-23 second second all in favor aye aye annual review AR number 9 2022-23 second a second okay all in favor aye aye aye and the review AR number 10 2022-23 emotion second I'll second all right all in favor aye acknowledge receipt and review of the 2021-22 audit report as prepared by Nigro and I grow PC motion second oh I have some discussion if that's okay Mr Bender before you take a vote on this just in case I'll take a quick minute first off I want to acknowledge there was an error on page 60 in the audit it incorrectly Illustrated the ends of the terms for you Mr bender and Mr Raleigh it will be corrected in that particular error error is not material to the content of the
081audit report but my apologies so this audit is basically it's an independent auditor they give our they give their independent opinion of our financial statements and determine compliance with state and federal programs um the copy of the audit was attached to the board packet I apologize I do not have the bound copies from the auditor um to hand out tonight but I will have those in the near future um some page numbers are referenced here if you if you look through those the they're a summary of the report is on pages one through three and they gave us an unmodified opinion which is a good thing uh it's a clean audit a clean opinion as to our financial statements and our compliance with federal and state standards there's a management discussion and analysis on the
082next seven pages four through ten and it's really kind of a it's a readable summary of kind of our financial statements and uh I would if you have the opportunity to look at the budget I would point you to table A3 on page seven that's a comparison of current year and previous year fund balances and you'll see the difference year over year and they have a little discussion on the 2223 budget cycle in there as from the auditor's perspective our government-wide financial statements cover pages 11 through 50. that's the meat of the audit report but most of that is really notes to explain what all the charts um what the few pages of charts and tables mean related to our financials um and again I'm just taking a quick minute here there's some Supple supplementary
083information on pages 51 through 67 you'll see a list of things there that we have to report in our financials but aren't necessarily a fiscal impact in our normal operating procedures like our opeb liability like our net pension liability those are things we have to book as liabilities but it's not necessarily an expense for us in operating um the meat of the audit is really findings of questions question costs and I'm happy to report in our financial statements and our federal Awards we had none we were clean in those programs for our independent auditor unfortunately we did have a couple State award findings the first one it was very it was kind of interesting we overstated our Ada at uh P2 by 1.19 and typically previously the state would allow us to make adjustments to
084our P2 and annual Ada if they were not certified yet but the state switched over the standard account code structure software the sax software from uh from the previous module to a new online version and what they did is they decided to lock districts out of making those changes after a certain date so even though these were discovered during the audit we attempted to correct them prior to the completion of the audit but the state would not allow us hence it becomes a finding with the fiscal impact of about fifteen thousand dollars of apportionment um in past years that wouldn't even have appeared we would have corrected it it would have been taken care of and our second finding was merely our e-log our expanded learning Opportunity Grant monies that we received um we were
085required to submit the plan within five days of board approval we submitted it on the eighth day so they have to give us a finding even though there is absolutely no Financial impact any questions good job thank you Matt I know you have a motion second all in favor all right delegate authority to the assistant superintendent administrative services to execute the agreement of all necessary amendments with the California professional management for construction management services for the Granite Hills High School Athletic Facility second all in favor aye Grant authorization to the assistant superintendent administrating services to issue the notice of intent to award the exact execute contract documents and issue notice of to proceed where the fire alarm upgrades project at Sycamore Rocks in yakaloma second I'll second all in favor aye aye next is a
086consent agenda it is recommended that the board approved all the items in one vote it'll be 1 through 21. do I have a motion a second one second all in favor all right we don't need a second closed session so it looks like the only thing we have left is um I need a motion to adjourn come on second yeah all right all in favor all right all right all right I was just curious how long we could go well you won't be long with me thank you for coming this is a fine display of democracy it really is what this country is all about thank you