001everybody this is going live here got the thumbs up that we're live so good evening we'll open this Apple Valley Unified School District regular meeting on October 6th 2022 and we'll call it to order at 5. so with that I'll be roll call uh Dennis Bender here foreign if you could lead us in the pledge please over here ready begin congratulations to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you okay finally do we have any public comments uh pertaining to closed sessions we do not oh so what we do is we go in the closed session and [Music] 7pm but prior to going into closed session I'm going to read exp 4 22 23
002and 80 1 22 23. item two conference on litigation government code section 549-56.9 seven cases 202-3366 -2208-019-220-7300 government code section 54954.5 subsection C and subsection d e one anticipated litigation three cases excuse me 20 20 21 05 20 21 22.08 20 21 22-17 item three Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer relief title certificate and classified employee item four Public Employee appointment reservation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees five Conference of Labor negotiator a agency negotiator Justin Conrad B employee organization Apple Valley Unified education conference with labor negotiator excuse me a agency negotiator Justin Conrad the employee organization California Schools Employees Association item seven conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Tremaine Nelson B employee organization unrepresented eight conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator attorney Nelson employee organization unrepresented assistant superintendent of administrative services employment
003contract assistant superintendent of Educational Services employee contracts assistant superintendent of human resources employee contract government code 54957 item nine the conference of Labor negotiators agency negotiator Rick Raleigh B employee organization unrepresentative superintendent employee contract government code 549-57.7 item 10 Conference real property negotiator government code 549-56.8 a negotiation party Matthew Schulenburg Apple Valley High School all right so those 10 items will ask for emotions to go into close I asked for a motion to go into closed section s yeah all in favor any opposed earning none that will be the order so we will be back and open session exactly 7 pm thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you very much thank you very much thank you foreign thank you
004foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you very much foreign thank you period thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you period thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign here okay we're live welcome back it's we'll call this a regular meeting uh public session to order at 702. uh with that um we're gonna have a moment of silence and that is for one of our family members who passed away by Ola Sims and Viola was a principal at um Marianas and from 2006 or 2008 to 2016 and she she passed away so with that we'll have a moment of
005silence thank you we do this almost every meeting we have a moment of silence okay so with that we'll move on to reports student Representatives so first up is Sandia Academy and that will be Jonathan Perez Emilia Hernandez Elian Rodriguez Cuevas so you guys are up at the podium hello good evening board members and guests my name is Jonathan and I am sandia's ASP president with Mir Emilia and Elian the three through fifth grade ASB representatives and Elia and the K through second ASB representative we appreciate the opportunity to present to you tonight and report all of the great things we have accomplished so far and a few things that we have to look forward to the events that kicked off our school year started with back to school night followed by our pause passport
006walk with ASB students with stationed at key points around campus and the K through 5th grade students walked around to each station the ASB students were responsible for sharing the school expectations with the younger students than to keep students motivated to be leaders on campus we have our pause Behavior rewards this is where any adult on campus can acknowledge students each week that are demonstrating accessible exceptional howling Behavior finally to kick off school spirit week to kick off school spirit we had a spirit week to get everyone excited to be back in school in September after school program started in Excel each day the students have a one hour class for literacy and then a one-hour class will do things like art archery theater and cooking and our new Option of Esports all of which
007makes coming to school something to look forward to we also had our av CI night where Mysterio's fourth grade class one we are PR we are also proud to have 9 11 remembered ceremony where our choir students sing the national anthem and we were so and we and we were able to recognize all of the students with family members who served along with the staff members who have served they also had Mark Griffiths visit our campus where we had a blast with his motivational yet hilarious ventriloquist assembly to round out the month of September we shifted from Spirit weeks to spirit days in order to really get into the school spirit on the first day of fall Spirit day I'm gonna read it now on to all the great things that we are looking forward
008to today our engineering encoding students attend step con tomorrow our second graders are going to CSUSB reading rally we are looking forward to all the family nights which include Fall Fest family movie Nights a family Supreme farmer and other holiday festivals finally some school-wide events to look forward to including the spelling bee and steam fail whoa foreign remember that at Sandia this is how we have helped to be safe offer respect work responsibly and lead by example thank you again and have a great night we also want to leave you with this small token of appreciation it should be in front of you on your desk [Applause] thank you so much I think they should come up here and run the meeting yeah good job thank you so much oh man you made it great
009job all right so we're we still have a high desert Premier Academy Angelique Daniel [Applause] hello guest and good evening superintendent Nelson president Raleigh board members and cabinet I am honored to stand before you all once again to inform you of the accomplishments and upcoming events of high desert Premiere Academy this month is National bullying Awareness Month our counselors are meeting with every class to bring awareness to bullying with various social and emotional lessons earlier this month the superintendent and assistant superintendent came to visit our campus to meet with students to discuss teacher and student relationships I thought this meeting was well organized and great and a great outlet for students to be heard students got to express their personal opinions on sticky notes and post them all around the multi-purpose room and in my
010opinion this was way more efficient than having just to do multiple choice surveys and I felt like my peers and my feelings were being taken into consideration so I'd like to thank you guys personally we also had our first School site council meeting and parents and students gave opinions regarding school activities on campus we are excited that hdpa might have the opportunity to engage in comprehensive school activities such as dances spirit week and grad night this month several of our students have had the opportunity to work at the district and experience what student services does in the food pantry roughly 10 to 15 of our students have had been able to work 100 hours completing community service with Miss Aurora and Miss Zyra I personally have been able to work a few hours there and
011it was an eye-opening experience I personally never knew that our district helped that many less fortunate families I helped prepare at least 200 boxes of food for families in need and it is especially rare to find people who are open to do something without something in return so I'd like to personally thank all of the staff that work in the food pantry this work is amazing and so so helpful for all our our communities last month students at High Desert Premiere Academy had a field trip to iFly in Ontario and now we are looking forward to the safari park trip in San Diego next month I went on the field trip to iFly and this was by far one of the most exciting field trips I have ever been on it wasn't often in games
012though students learned about the structure of the building how different weight classes fly and how to calculate how much air pressure an object would need to stay in air me personally I just wanted to fly it was just like it was a fun learning experience all around them and I think everyone who were involved in helping us get this trip go into motion we are also looking forward to the Esports Club participating in their first tournament next month they will be competing in the San Bernardino County Esports League free tournaments for Super Smash Bros are October 26 November 16th and December 14th they will also participate in the rocket league tournament on January 25th February 15th and March 15th and they are extremely excited thank you all for your time and support and I can't
013wait to see all of you at our next meeting everyone have a nice fall break foreign thank you Granite Hills Ashley Guzman [Applause] good evening sorry good evening board members superintendent Nelson and attendees uh for those of you who are new my name is Ashley Guzman Granite Hills 2022-2023 School years governing council president and representative um I have come back to join you this month with my vice president itself Favela to give you an update on how well school life has been going last month I mentioned many of our first school events that were going on so just in order to start off this meeting I would like to mention that we had our first school dance homecoming our school's homecoming was under the sea themed and we had lots of fun and participation at
014the event selling over 420 tickets uh pretty fintastic if you ask me um we started using five-star students which is a simple and effective way of reaching out to our student body in order to give them updates on upcoming events and activities going on and receiving feedback it helps us get data on what the students do and don't like so that we can continue improving we even recently put up a poll on five-star survey to see what theme our student body would like to see for our winner formal prior to the dance we had our homecoming game where we beat Hesperia 56-42 and even got recognized as offensive line of the week by San Bernardino one of our own players Cameron Smith was nominated for the San Bernardino Inland MVP of the week in the
015same game by the entire High Desert during the halftime show we announced our homecoming royalty court and showed her a lot and showed them off in fancy trucks led by her school's band band has also joined Apple Valley high school and playing in the parade that took place on Happy Trails on the topic of football tomorrow night is our last home football game of the season which means it is our football and cheerleaders senior night we have a total of 10 senior football players and 10 senior cheerleaders that will be recognized at the game our volleyball team has also had their senior night last Wednesday where 10 of our volleyball players played at their last home game of the season and it was overall a beautiful event the team decorated the gym and all of
016their friends and family came to cheer them on yesterday they beat Otto Alonso High School which earned them an automatic spot in playoffs but they had well over 500 records which means they still could have qualified regardless our girls tennis team is currently undefeated in league and one of our players Layla de Brito was recognized as player of the week in the Daily Press the boys water polo team has had three very close games and won their first game in over two years now to speed it up with help from our Runners the cross country team the boys are currently in first place for Desert Sky league and our girls come in second with our fourth fall sports teams coming to an end girls and boys soccer tryouts have begun and boys and girls basketball
017tryouts are coming soon softball's preseason begins once we get back from break on the 17th our medcore students recently had their annual blood drive and got many donors to participate with the first quarter ending this week counselors have been meeting with all of our students to see how they have been keeping up doing great checks and interventions to see if they have support in order to meet their needs they have also been meeting with seniors in particular for grad checks and just the push for college applications that opened over the weekend on October 1st they will continue to meet with us in order to offer help with applications and applying for financial aid there will be a specific workshop for financial aid on the 19th Avid seniors are currently on a field trip to Northern
018California to visit around 11 different colleges and universities over a span of five days this is an exciting opportunity to expose them to college they may want to apply into and roll them into application season we have had many opportunities this past month to create awareness for suicide prevention awareness month we have had many guest speakers come visit our campus and just last week we had some Partners someone from Partners against violence come in to talk about toxic relationships and how to avoid getting into them this month I personally want to emphasize Breast Cancer Awareness Month by encouraging students to wear pink and giving information about it we had our first African-American parent advisory meeting which is a new parent committee on campus to promote involvement and support we're looking forward to having many more
019upcoming events we have in store for this month are our traditional yet voluntary celebration of Halloween by having two separate costume contests one with the students during both lunches and one with the staff and faculty before school we also hope to have our Powder Puff game on the 28th but there may be date changes due to admin available availability that weekend all things considered the student body has been very hyped up showing lots of school spirit and sports teams have continued to give it their awe I want to thank you all for your time this beautiful Thursday evening and always remember maroon and gray lead the way thank you Ashley you guys got a lot going on appreciate it thanks Apple Valley Hi Madison Garcia [Applause] good evening to the members of the board and
020attendees my name is Madison Garcia and I am the senior class president of the Apple Valley High School Associated student body to start off I would like to discuss some of the events that have taken place since the last time we've met for events we had our bow week Powder Puff back to school dance and Hispanic Hispanic Heritage Month our bowl game our Bell week is arguably one of the most important events at abhs because of how much it raises the school spirit and brings the community together we are we have events throughout the week that are not only incredible fundraisers for groups within the school but also allows the students and Community to become actively involved these include spirit days bonfire and of course the game itself we had an amazing involvement every day
021and it was definitely a success we were also able to take home the bell for the 11th year in the row Powderpuff is an event at our school where the girls of the Junior and senior class compete in a game of flag football the football players got a chance to coach and it was a great way to get students connected in a unique and exciting way unfortunately our seniors took another loss but it's okay um um our ASB sophomore class held the annual back to school dance as well which compared to other years had a great turnout for over a hundred students Hispanic Hispanic Heritage Month also just include concluded that it is something that we just added to our campus this year students in ASB worked hard all month to highlight our Hispanic community
022on campus we did we did things throughout the month such as teacher highlights posts on social media and we informed the students on history of the culture and incorporating this into school events like all these events have brought up school spirit and Community involvement drastically we hope that this this excuse me that this momentum continues with the rest of the school year we are also in the process of planning some of the biggest events of the year including every 15 minutes counts every 15 minutes is a project that multiple groups on campus such as ASB camp and HOSA come together to create it demonstrates the impact of driving Under the Influence this project is an eighth eight month process and as of right now we are starting to contact local businesses and emergency services to
023support our production our senior class is also planning their homecoming dance which is on October 22nd this event allows students to feel motivated to get their grades up and demerits done in order to reach their goals it is also it also allows them to have stress-free night which is definitely needed Renaissance isn't yet another event that allows students to get the opportunity to motivate them to get their grades up and to help their attendance ASB puts on crowd inclusive production that lasts for multiple hours of one of the school days and students tend to really enjoy this event it occurs twice a year once during the first semester and one during the second semester the final the final major event that we are planning this month is October this is actually an action right now
024and we will continue throughout the entire month of October we are having a fundraiser where students and staff are able to purchase unique socks through an online store along with this it is a soft donation so students can donate new used or unused or sorry not used a new socks to their fifth period classes no one wants that and whoever has the most amount of Stocks by the end of the month will win a class prize such as a pizza party all the donated socks will go directly into the community continuing with the community and student involvement we have our football volleyball tennis and cross-country teams competing right now football is doing amazing this season currently winning five of six games in ranking in the top 20 schools in southern section as well as number
025one in League for volleyball they only have four games left in the season and just have their senior night last week our tennis team is currently placed third in League cross country has completed two League cluster meets and one left until finals on November 2nd we are so proud of all of our student athletes who continue to represent our school as the school year continues we're hopeful that this positive momentum will continue the bond between the students staff and community at abhs is evident in not only every single one of our activities but also on a daily basis on campus thank you for your time I look forward to to the amazing year ahead of us thank you [Applause] thank you Madison I want to come in to all the speakers do good job it's
026not easy getting up in front of a whole building full of people and speaking everybody did a really great job so we look forward to hearing from you next month as well thank you Mr Bender says you can go home and study [Laughter] have a good night thank you [Applause] all right moving along reports um we'll move on to California School Employees Association CSEA are there anybody here to give a report tonight okay uh Buddha uh anybody here from mahuda would give a presentation uh give yes Karen you're up good evening board members superintendent Nelson assistant superintendents and audience members I hope this evening finds everyone doing well and ready for a much needed fall break I'm also hoping well actually I'm pretty sure there will be cause for celebration tonight anyone bring the sparkling
027cider from what I heard and witnessed that our members ratification meeting I'm speaking for all members in saying thank you we are very grateful for the outcome of these negotiations gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow that was the process that happened during negotiations we reviewed past contract language changed and made changed what made sense at the time into what needed updated for today's needs looked at past salary schedule hourly wages raising the cap on insurance as well as stipends and agreed upon the changes to meet the needs of our current members and our future members this is bringing peace to many members now they can focus on creating a vision for tomorrow new teachers can focus on becoming the best teacher they can be for
028our students instead of worrying so much about finances other teachers can create a vision for what their years in um to come in avusd looks like a vision for much needed vacations and eventually a vision for what retirement looks like I personally have gratitude for what I witnessed during negotiations I have the utmost respect for everyone in that room I cannot express charm members enough how everyone a Buddha in the district work together in unity that last day to wrap everything up and bring our credentialing staff the best possible outcome they could everyone in the room had a voice and great discussions honest discussions were had I should clarify it wasn't just that day that everyone worked in unity that was just the day that everyone was looking forward to finishing so our members could
029ratify the contract and the district could get money in their pockets to help them we look forward to the next round of negotiations in the spring again thank you for all you do and have a wonderful fall break and solidarity Karen foreign thank you Karen okay closed session reports Mr Bender you will read any action taken and during closed session okay the closed session the Board of Trustees took action and supported the following recommendation from the superintendent on a motion by Wilson a second by Maria they proved there's a random agreement with the Apple Valley Unified School District Association of Buddha created September 27 2022 regarding Article 19 initial salary placement the vote was 5-0 in closed session the board took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent on a motion by
030Wilson seconded by Maria the board approved the following approved the memorandum of under agreement with the Apple Valley Unified School District of Buddha it is September 8 2022 regarding the 2022 through 2025 successor contract the vote was 5-0 your closed session the board took action with the labor negotiator on a motion by Chris seconded by Wilson approved the memorandum of understanding with the Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association it is September 21 2022 regarding Cassandra Hall and Sabrina Fuentes receiving 17 percent of their base salary pay for prep period assignments during the 2021-22 school year the boat was 5-0 in favor in closed session the board took action in support of the following memorandum on a motion by Maria a seconded by Wilson approved the memorandum of understanding when the California School Employees Association CSEA Chapter
031828 dated September 15 2022 regarding an increase in hours effective October 1 2022. in closed session an emotion by Wilson seconded by Maria the Board of Trustees approved the following approved the tentative agreement with a California School Employees Association csch after 8 28 day dated August 30th 20 022 regarding a 6.5 percent increase in total compensation for the 2023-24 school year the vote was 5-0 in favor finally the board took the action on a motion by Chris seconded by Maria the Board of Trustees approve the following directions superintendent to agendize the contracts for the assistant superintendents and the superintendent at the November 3rd 2022 board meeting which shall include a 10 salary increase effective July 1 2022 a 3 34.49 per diem increase effective July January 1st 2023 a 10.86 per diem increase effective July
0321 2023 the language in each contract shall include an alignment with a longevity language provided within the certificated management guidelines further the contract of the superintendent shall be extended to June the 30th 2026. the vote was 5-0 thank you thank you Dennis okay item five adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent for discussion and or action do I have a motion to approve so move second okay so we have a motion Nunez second uh vendor um all in favor all right any opposed earning then that'll be the order okay we'll move on to public comments Kylie do we have any uh public uh requests to speak cards we do have two okay thank you first up Leslie McNeely and after Leslie will
033be Ken can be hi there good evening school board members Janae Nelson and District staff most of you already know me but for those of you who don't I'm Leslie McNally the new bargaining chair for abuta for the past several months we've been in negotiations with the district for our 2021 through 2024 um contract we reached a tentative agreement September 21st and on September 27th we held a ratification meeting turnout was very large and I'm happy to report that the tenant of agreement between the district and our unit members was overwhelmingly approved we appreciate your willingness to listen to our concerns we're hoping that to continue negotiations over the course of this three-year contract cycle with a focus on problem solving and working together it's not always easy in negotiations but I think we generate
034the best results when we work toward common goals so I just want to thank you for your support thank you [Applause] thank you for your comments Leslie Ken is it beam good evening everyone first off do you know anybody know what the acronym red means red means remember every deployment there's 80 percent of veterans up here in the high desert alone saying every student wearing red on Friday not only encourages the veterans but it also shows support to the veterans I have already talked to Mr Clark of yokoloma Elementary and he has agreed to incorporate red on Friday with the spirit week for Friday I'm asking that all schools proceed with having read for Friday as in a second last month I have brought to you guys the issue with the bathrooms facing the street
035to yokoloma I have suggested options and to see them be denied and ignored but to see the bathrooms be locked it does upset me a little bit because I have a little girl who has a little bladder running across campus to go to use the restroom pets are at risk of going and wet in her pants as I stated either allow Apple High both welding and which classes to build a barrier or I'm proposing this as well if you get the products the resources I wouldn't have no problem going and putting it up myself I will volunteer my time to at least put a privacy barrier you guys have uh walls that support the beams out there why can't you guys go and do that as well for the for those little kids that's all
036I have to say [Applause] okay thank you we'll respond to your comments about returning anything else as well okay um moving right along uh Kylie that was the only two speakers then okay um item two superintendent comments our first true round of student advisories working have concluded and you heard Angelique our representative from High Desert Premiere and speak about it it's a day that Mr slosser and I um meet with the students as cross-sections of student representatives from each of our schools and we do the high schools independently um so that we get the feedback directly about those those schools in particular and then we do an entire District or through eighth grade group here at the district office about 100 kids in the multi-purpose room and they allow us to hear directly from them
037about their needs the relationships that are built on campus and their perspective and challenges they face as students um for us the fact that we walk in the door and they just know us as the superintendent and the assistant superintendent and then they start giving us information is pretty amazing um we have a second round ready to go in January and at that time we'll use our youth truth data to compare where we're at from previous data to now the students know that that's coming and I just wanted to publicly say that I really appreciate the each of the schools giving us a location that we could meet with students privately we kept their anonymity to some extent so that they felt safe sharing the information and then here at this district office Whitney Hansen
038one of our teachers on assignment Lorena Mesa and Deborah sarkazian always start the elementary kids off because 100 elementary kids from 11 Elementary sites is a lot to get to like mix and so they start them off with a mixer some icebreakers and the kids immediately just respond and then it's a little bit like okay we've had fun now we're going to get to work and they always do so I'm pretty impressive that these kids come together and are able to give us major feedback we've extended we've started our Extended Learning opportunities program funded by the state and these are intended to extend the day for students in elementary TK through sixth grade they can be held before and or after school so we do have some schools that are doing some before school activities
039our high school students will be the student workers in these programs which gives them pay paid work opportunities within the district and some work experience we're loving that part of Extended Learning opportunity our police department has received a few more of the replacement Vehicles you'll see them around town and currently this month as you heard the Granite Hills speaker talk about breast cancer awareness our officers are wearing pink patches to show support for breast cancer awareness month I did tell them that I was with the Chaffee college group yesterday and ours look much better no competition um and then next week is fall break I'm just really hopeful that everybody's able to enjoy their time with their families and that if they um aren't going to be with family but they do something that just
040rejuvenates our soul this this break comes at just the perfect time in a school systems um calendar so thank you thank you tonight uh board member comments uh Mr so Wilson yeah and uh you know this past year I have mentioned that uh my baby daughter a dentist in in the end passed a surgeon discovered a injury up occur from 60 years ago when I just got stuck under the high school yeah and uh she is they did surgery and the surgery has been successful very painful you know I put anybody I've been getting no one can shoot into your your job homes but the surgery has completed and I'm living in a few days to have my bridge unit reattached brand new one yeah so but then there's a joke or rumor saying oh
041Wilson's not going to come back he's going to stay in the efforts and there's no such truth Apple Valley is my permanent home and I designed the house and we built it you know it's a very nice style yeah and so I just want to talk but although also another very happy new couple happy news today we at lunchtime we met at the airport Rotary Club and for about more than a year couple years the club was shut down because of the covet 19. but we the reason for I'm excited is our meeting was focused on fundraising to provide money to the students we buy uh books for the kindergarten students and we buy dictionary the third grade and we have done that yeah I show up Summer Schools distribute those books in the same
042time the the money we raise to provide scholarships to our high school graduates I just want to announce that that we we have me again in fact this Saturday we're doing a fundraising at the airport wanted to kind of come out and watch the air show we're there that's all I have thank you Wilson Maria akbara thank you so much Mr President um I'm going to start by congratulating Apple Valley High School for bringing home the Bell uh because I'm a Sun Devil by heart um and then I will go on to um express to you the excitement that I have visiting the different schools this last month I was able to visit Pancho Verde and those fourth graders put me to task um I've never had young people ask me such incredible questions about
043why I chose to be a board member um I wasn't expecting it I thought I was just gonna write through but they kept me um on and noticed that they are watching me so it was really good uh to be there and to really see their faces it was one a very warm welcome and one of the things I noticed when I went through the different schools so far I have been able to see 10 schools but as I go through the different schools the elementary principals have a tendency to find things on the ground they pick up um so no matter where we're going they'll always just find this thing pick the thing in the trash and then go to fix the thing and go to the trash and we're still talking um and
044I really appreciate that I admire you guys uh for what you do and you go around your campuses finding things and and keeping the kids in check the kids know you uh when I was an assistant principal and even when I was principal uh the kids knew their assistant principal before they knew me so this is a really good experience um Granite Hills High School they gave me the warmest welcome um the band actually perform or the music class actually performed for me and and I really realized what I had missed when I was in school I wish I had taken some piano lessons uh because those uh beginning uh piano teachers piano students were excellent they walked me through the Christmas songs and they actually let us sing along which was really incredible when
045I went to Sycamore Rocks the office staff was so welcoming and the principal actually took me through every single class in that one hour I was there and the kids were so engaged I've never seen a Kindergarten class even a TK where the kids did not notice that there was a guest in the room they just continued on as if I wasn't even there I was impressive um and then I of course I went to uh Granite Hills Rancho Verde yakaloma Sycamore Rocks um I can tell you I can go on and on but the one thing I walked away with was the excitement in the faces of those children and their willingness to want to come to us and learn and actually watching that little child read with such Carefree um uh feeling this
046is something you'll never find me do to get up and upload a kid but this one was just too overwhelming for me to just let it go you know so I hope you forgive me for getting up to applaud this little kid and and I also need to um appreciate and say thank you to those people who have donated things to the school district um when you look in our border agenda there are just a few donations that have come it was a huge donations and they are actually donating to a food pantry if you've never been to a food pantry I encourage you to go and see the great things that they are doing over there and also to appreciate the adult education program I saw their curriculum and and I'm so ecstatic about
047the kinds of things that they're offering to adult Learners who want to learn um I can't say enough but I need to leave space for somebody else to talk but uh I have to say thank you so much for allowing me to sit here and to represent you and their willingness to tell me when I am making a mistake so that I can correct it Sandia school was amazing in the assembly when I went through there it reminded me of the years my children went through that school I had to say thank you to all the principals and the administrators that welcome our kids every day thanks again thank you Maria Christopher Nunez thank you okay gosh there's a lot a lot been going on first let me start off of course by congratulating congratulating
048Apple Valley High School on their 11th Bell game Victory uh that was a lot of fun um thank you so much to Granite Hills homecoming for giving us the victory when we got out there for the game was a great game I walked out I got a brand new t-shirt for granted which I was happy to get some new swag and as I was walking back to the car to put something in in the car I hear the most beautiful music it's amazing what is going on so I walk over to the other side of of Apple Valley's campus and the vocal music department is having their their fall recital to everybody here to everybody in the community if you've never been if you've never sat on the lawn and listened to these kids perform
049holy smokes you guys you're missing out so be sure to get out there check out uh uh Sensations vocal motion and then of course chamber choir over at Granite Hills we've got some tremendously talented students uh good luck to hdpa and all of our schools will be supporting uh or participating in their first Esports contest um thank you to all of uh all of the faculty and staff members and and administration who sat on our negotiations team this is a really important process that is not easy on anyone but the fact is as you all we're really dedicated to making sure you stayed focused on what really mattered and which is taking care of of our students and our schools and making sure that all of our staff is well cared for so thank you
050all so much for keeping that in mind and accomplishing this big task um I also I want to thank a lot of our staff and faculty and and now student employees who are coming and helping to support our elop programs um one of the big drives for this year was to make sure that everybody was really engaged and if you've heard you've heard through the presentations from our schools this month and last month there's a lot of activity happening and that takes a lot of effort a lot of work but it yields gigantic benefits for our students so thank you so much for keeping that engagement piece so high on your priority list because everything else is going to follow that um lastly I can't believe it's already October right it comes with a lot
051a lot of momentum like we heard tonight and we're going to keep that going um I hope you all enjoy your fall break and we will see you mid-october to keep the fun going thank you thank you Chris Dennis wow [Laughter] this first nine weeks flew by our kids our four teams are doing good I coached in a lot of bail games and I'll tell you what a victory in the bell game something about 11 in a row man and they under call their coach Owen Owen you know I mean it's a and um also it's great to um drive by our schools and go to our schools and the kids aren't wearing masks that's all I have to say thank you Dennis I was going to bring up and Maria had uh touched on
052it the the food bank a little bit and that I believe uh Walmart donates the majority of the the food and um there's another food bank that you may see uh in town too which is over at the Apple Valley Inn on Saturday mornings and uh the line is quite long of the vehicles waiting to get in so there is a need in our community for these food banks unfortunately that's the times we live in and with inflation and different problems that Society is facing there's a lot of hungry people so it's I want to thank the staff that puts together that food bank because we can't it's it's really is amazing and thank you for touching on it Maria the second topic I want to talk about it's not very pleasant either in that
053it's the fentanyl crisis that's affecting our children not just in Apple Valley but throughout the country and um most of us here at the table here received an email quite detailed from trinae last week about the fentanyl crisis and the issues that our children are facing the the fentanyl is being pushed uh on our kids um as young young kids as candy and other things and Fentanyl is a is a drug that is actually legal it's prescribed by a doctor it's it's not a homemade uh drug by any means it is legal for cancer victims and things like that but what I'd like to see is an Outreach maybe through our our Police Department on the dangers of this and the kids that um are facing and um it is a crisis and I I
054know that we were going to have that the Narcan on the campuses which is an anti it brings people back that ingest it um sometimes you can ingest it just by touching it um it's not something that you have to actually take to be infected so I just wanted to I guess what I'm getting is thank trene for reaching out early on with this without any push from the board on this she took the bull by the horns and and is is doing something about it but it's very important that we we stay on top of that that issue still uh with that move on to discussion items and uh the first discussion item is approve the successor contract between Apple Valley Unified School District and Alpha Valley Unified Teachers Association period of agreement July
0551st 2022 through June 30th 2025. Is there any discussion on that no okay with that we need a motion to some approve motion vendor second so all in favor hi can you post hearing none that will be the order item two for discussion would be approved as certificated and classified personal actions as listed any discussion hearing then I'll need a motion the move to approve motion Nunez second vendor all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that will be the order approve the recommendation for requested leave as notice which is item three any discussion need a motion to approve motion so a second second Nunez all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order item four approved recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson affected immediately on expulsion case exp120223 [Music] moved by
056Maria second Bender all in favor all right any opposed hearing then that'll be the order expulsion case exp number two two zero two two three twenty three moved by Maria second second Nunez all in favor aye aye any opposed during them they'll be the order explosion case exp number three 2022-23 moved by Maria second second Nunez all in favor all right any opposed hearing them that'll be the order the expulsion case exp number four 2022-23 moved by Maria second so all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order admission case A.D number one 2022 23. moved by Maria the second new news all in favor any opposed during then that'll be the order item five approved the contract amended addendum with California professional management for the Apple Valley Unified School District fire
057alarm upgrades at Sycamore Rocks in yakaloma elementary any discussion hearing that I'll need a motion motion vendor second Maria all in favor aye any opposed occurring then that'll be the order item six authorized the award of the district needs assessment facilities master plan project to Eric Hall and Associates e h and a a division of MGT this authorite this thus authorizing the assistant superintendent of administrative services to commence contract negotiations with selected consultant any discussion moved by Maria give a second so all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order okay moving on to consent agenda approve is recommended the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of the agenda items as the consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this
058procedure conserves meeting time for full discussion of significant issues consent items are approved in one motion so we have items 1 through 37. does anybody need to pull any of those items for discussion okay motion so second Nunez all in favor all right any opposed hearing then that'll be the order okay so we don't have any uh need for to go back into closed session and um item 25. we do have it Miss apara for a signature that's the um counseling application for the American Association of school counselors and I believe Miss okara was the one that brought it to our attention because it was emailed to her for a signature so it's it's you've approved it but I think if it's okay she would like to sign it on behalf of the board because
059they had reached out to her is that correct is that correct Miss opara is that what we're asking okay I might have known that I apologize so that's item 25 on consent is what she said yes ratify the agreement with safe and civil schools for professional development Champs no it's actually the it was the wrong number but um I'm which one is she which one is she help me out people item 13. there we go okay you're way ahead of us there um okay except Granite Hills High School application through American school counselors item 13. yeah okay so that's been approved Maria yeah all right okay close session let's see here and get myself back in order here your motion to adjourned not yet [Laughter] oh okay um nothing to report from closed session a
060superintendent has another comment she'd like to make sure um in reference to fentanyl you've approved tonight a board item that and an administrative regulation that allows us to move forward with that and we are in the queue with the with the state in ordering um waiting for this approval that that was all um but we are going to go into contract to purchase fentanyl um because we can purchase it I'm sorry Narcan look I get a compliment for being on it and then I call the wrong thing thanks thank you I've got fentanyl in the brain um but we are going to go forward with the Narcan um order um and we are going to do a PO for that tomorrow our nurses are already in process but they knew that they couldn't push the
061button until we had an approval tonight from the board then they'll start moving forward with training and hopefully when we return and I'll notify the community when it is actually in schools and um so that everybody knows likewise yesterday we received from the California Department of Public Health I'm a toolkit regarding fentanyl Zoe you saw Zoe here earlier as our public information officer she's going to work towards um either weekly notifications through our social media posts and and push notifications so that our families have the latest information in kind of doses of information because it's overwhelming when you read it all but we do want them to to be like public service um moments and and we know other districts are going to be following the suit because it is something that's already been supplied
062to us okay um and then as far as the bathrooms at Granite Hills High School um I know Mr schulenberg um will look at um I'm sorry yakaloma just send me home what school did I say you said they're giving fentanyl away I did don't make up rumors here because this is being recorded and Adam's in the in the audience sorry Adam we're not trying to cause more problems on your campus okay Mr schulenberg bathrooms at yakaloma yeah yeah and as a matter of fact uh Jim Hopper our director of Maintenance and operations has been working with Mr Clark the principal at yakaloma to design an appropriate uh barrier structure which is going to be installed over fall break so Ken your didn't fall on deaf ears all right um okay is that all you
063have today okay thanks is there any other board comments okay I'm sorry wizard no you know what there's one thing I'm sorry I just want to say thank you very much for the town of Apple Valley for the great support that they've shown to our high schools lighting up town hall uh uh for the bell game and then for the Granite Hills home game and then htpa is coming so look for it to be yellow soon okay so with that uh we need to sign documents so don't leave in our next board meeting will be November 3rd 2022 so a motion to adjourn motion so all in favor all right all right that'll be the order we're out of here I'm sorry I can't hear you okay