6/13/2023 - Azusa Unified School District Board Meeting

001okay the live stream has to be gone good evening it is now seven o'clock and we're returning to open session of our Tuesday June 13th 2023 meeting of the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education if you're all sent to join join me for item 4.1 uh join us in the flag salute place your right hand over your heart ready begin always be thank you so much we're now moving to item 5.0 and I am reporting out action taken in closed session by a vote of three yes to two absent the board is the board adopted the hearing officer's findings that pause exists to dismiss employee number b235-1649 and recommendation for dismissal and for the record those board members that voted yes or myself or vice president Rodriguez Pena and board member Benavides moving to

002item 6.1 Mr Chang good evening board president Dr Beau members of the Board of Education superintendent Ortega members of cabinet and our unified community our Career Technical education or CTE program encourages the development of students to be leaders within a career pathway or industry sector one of the ways they can further that development is by participating in competitions held by a Career and Technical student organization or ctso such as skillsusa which partners with students teachers and Industry as they work together to ensure the development of a skilled worker we are fortunate to have Mr Jim Hague teacher at Gladstone High School and previously the skills USA advisor of the year who prepares students as they can compete at the local or state level State winners even go on to compete at the national accomplish at

003this time let me introduce Mr Jim Hague who I believe has brought two students with them this evening all right good evening board members thank you for the invite thank you Mr Jang for recommending me and uh you know supporting me for all that you have over the past few years and yes so a little bit about skills USA skillsusa is a ctso and we have been involved with the skills USA for the past four years Gladstone has been very very successful in the Years prior uh we yes I was voted National advisor of the year we have basically how it works is this by select students my very best students to compete first at the local level the winners of that will go on to the state level and then the winners of that

004go on to the National level I'm proud to say that our students have placed each and every year that we have participated during the year of the pandemic we swept the entire competition which is known as Facilities Management now what is Facilities Management I don't know I have no clue and that's why I was National advisor of the year because even though we didn't know we found out we studied we learned we watched YouTube we took the initiative to learn and that's what the kind of students that I have and so that year we wanted went against um States like Minnesota Alabama New York most of the Eastern Seaboard about 11 states we took bronze silver and gold it was pretty nice and this last year I had the honor of uh bringing in four

005students this time it was live we held it at the Ontario Convention Center I have Mr everardo broke a Taurus over here and another my one of my students Axel Alicia who's not here right now but they Place silver and bronze together uh ever won the the silver and just we had we won the gold we would have been uh in Atlanta so uh we're not giving up uh we are definitely going to keep thriving and I plan on doing this at Azusa High School it has been a an honor and a pleasure to work with these kids to be able to take on situations where we don't know and that's the whole purpose of learning so maybe ever can say a few things hello everyone thank you for having me today um I'm sorry

006I'm a bit underdressed I just got back from orientation so um oh well I'm going to Cal Poly Pomona for and I want to say thank you very much not just through all my teachers especially Mr Hague to supporting us uh all his programs helped a lot helped me through a lot through right now as I'm doing my orientation collecting my classes also Gladstone with um ECP uh as I was filling out my class for this year I realized I lost credits already and also made a bit difficult for the advisors to fill in my classes I didn't know what to do I like to say I'm really happy to have all the features I had and here's for me especially Mr Hague always there at all his bypasses and it was a really fun

007time and learning experience that helped a lot and even I could stay I took some things that that will help me okay so congratulations this is the second time I've seen you get an award right good too so I'd like to present this um on behalf of the zoo Unified School District certification and recognition is probably to present Alvarado Rocha for earning a silver medal in the silver in the skill USA state competition against the facilitators category signed by superintendent Arturo Ortega and board president Dr servino thank you so much Mr Chang board members um would any of you like to give accommodations to our award winners in this category I want to congratulate all the students for the hard work and also Mr Hague for leading new students to receive this award but I

008know it took you a lot of time and concentration and I'm really proud of all you students yeah and same just once again and I know I know there's more but but just an incredible example of just the incredible work that's that's happening and I want to challenge uh the comment that our student made you were addressed perfectly for this evening um yes I'd like to give a shout out to all the students um the the teacher everyone that participated in this effort great job thank you I would like to congratulate the students but Mr Hague if you guys um have not been in his classroom the amount of things that he and the students do um are just amazing they're gonna take now to a Souza High it is going to put our high

009school at a different level when it comes to digital videoing producing um just the sky's the limit and Mr Hague are you here oh okay he's out there um take the time is comfort zone um foreign thank you so much Mr Chang we're moving on to item 6.2 thank you once again as I previously mentioned one of the ways students can further their development As Leaders within a career pathway or industry sector is by participating in competition held by a Career Technical student organization or ctso HOSA future health professionals formerly known as Health occupation students of America Empower students to become leaders in the global Health Community through education collaboration and experience we are fortunate to have Miss Jenny Aguirre as advisor for posa student we're also thankful for Mr Rogers and his wife and

010the Rogers to be able to also support our students Jenny has been a strong advocate for our students in the health Academy recently receiving the recognition as navs Janet Linton leadership Award winner and having also led the health Academy to receive the Catherine blasake distinguished Academy Award let me introduce this Jenny Aguirre who will speak about the successes of our students as they competed in the hosted event Mr Gary good evening everybody thank you for inviting us to you know get this honor I love it um or I've got a lot of my kids here and I'm going to let them introduce themselves and and what they're competing in um but as you know every year we get better and better every year we win more and more medals um we had 27 students go

011to our regionals and uh 27 of them went to state out of the 27 I had 25 of them uh top 10 out of those uh 25 we have uh 14 uh students that are going to be competing at our Internationals where they're going to be competing against Canada Mexico and China and all of the United States we have one there before and we um are working really hard they are working really hard um our teachers are working really hard our advisors to uh get uh the student to that point where they can represent Gladstone they can represent uh Azusa um in in a way that we you know we should be up there we should be up there with all these other schools in other countries and in other states um so I I

012thank you for supporting us for funding us for allowing us to be able to give these kids this this opportunity we went to Sacramento some of our kids have never flown so it was an experience for them to be on a plane and go know what you know TSA and what to leave behind and things like that so that was only a 45 minute flight uh now we're at a three-hour flight to Dallas um so it's you know it's exciting for myself for Mr Rogers Mrs Rogers um to give the kids that experience so they did an amazing job so I'm going to have the kids introduce themselves and let you know what they're going to be competing in uh in June hi my name is Ashley Rodriguez I placed fourth in medical hi everyone

013my name is I had the great honor of being this year's poster president and I got silver and oh okay um hello everyone I'm Hector Hernandez and I got gold in Clinical Laboratory science hi my name is Hannah Jimenez and I Miss and I um hi everyone my name is maisa Galicia I was this year's vice president and I just want to give a big thank you to Gladstone High School but especially Miss Jenny for giving me this amazing opportunity and I placed Bronze in uh hi my name is Melissa gizzard and I place third place in nursing assistant hi my name is Jennifer Vergara and I placed both in nursing assistant I thought I had a couple more but um Jennifer also at the same time she was winning gold for HOSA she also

014for Mr Mrs perdomo's uh you know class also at the same time got the Grace Napolitano Congressional Art competition so she was working on both at the same time so these kids are amazing they have just such you know Thrive and they just they work so hard I'm extremely proud of them Mr Mrs Rogers are extremely proud of them uh we're tough on them um as we should be and they know that Dallas we're we're gonna win we're going to be back here with some International medals for you so I appreciate this thank you at this moment uh before the picture at this moment we're gonna ask the uh board we have some certificates to give out uh Miss agita if you can uh assist in calling out the students names as we go out

015uh to uh provide uh the awards um they are by category um nursing let me help you here the first category is medical assistant I uh Ashley hi Miss Benavides would you read uh just one of the certificates so that we all know what is designated on these great Awards says um first of all I'd like to say congratulations to all the students for all their hard work you're our next Heroes right so um basic it says Azusa Unified School District certificate of recognition is proud proudly to present Mia Miser elika Galicia for earning a bronze medal in the hosts of future health professionals competition and Clinical Laboratory we announced the board and staff to come up to take a picture thank you I'd now like to give the opportunity to board members for any

016comments um I'd like to congratulate all the students and let them know that they look really nice in their I don't want to call it uniform but they look really nice see students and I like to wish them all the luck and um in Dallas and again I mean I realize we're not done like I I realize there's there's more but but just looking at this list uh and looking at the different categories and the gold silver bronze there's a gold silver bronze fourth and fifth like it's just it's incredible and it just speaks to just just our incredible student so thank you for for being you and all the incredible things uh that y'all do again I would like to first of all thank the teachers you guys built Foundation you guys prepare the

017road and students um you guys run with it so I love it I love that you guys are gonna go to Dallas and represent a Souza Unified School District represent as well you guys with your Awards when you come back congratulations uh I'd like to take this opportunity I was just sharing with staff and Mr Ortega how I feel that all of these achievements that we've seen throughout the year and I'm a school new school board member but I really feel that the students work hard the teachers put in a lot of effort to really have them excel at whatever they want to do so I want to thank you for that but most of all I want to congratulate the students because I feel that students performance is what's going to put a zoosa

018on the map so we we plan to grow further and thank you for all your hard work congratulations to all students staff teachers parents family members caregivers it was a tremendous effort and we recognize each and every one of you so congratulations and now moving to item 6.3 Ms Perdomo thank you and uh good evening board members the pleasure to be here to um to recognize my uh recognize and brag about my fantastic art students and uh present to you um the winners some of the winners of this year's Congressional Art competition if I could tell you a little bit quickly about the competition uh each during the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide High School visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district since the artistic

019Discovery competition began in 1982 more than 650 000 high school students have participated uh students submit entries to their representative's office and panels of District artists selective winning entries I am proud to say that this year the Azusa Unified School District uh participated and out of 11 winning prizes plays four out of the 11. very exciting uh in our uh 31st congressional district this year we had um 105 entries from 14 different high schools um of which like I said of the 11 winning uh prizes azuz unified place for so I would like to now recognize those those fantastic artists and present them to you uh first um honorable mention uh is um Addie Gonzalez Eddie are you here Eddie and I'm going to have them right next to their um artworks Addie did a

020graphite drawing uh it is a self-portrait I would like to um also recognize um Addie Gonzalez who is not here this evening unfortunately uh but she also plays honorable mention with a photograph uh we're at the end there a title uh Pier 39 at Monterey Bay um very exciting uh second year in a row um um this artist who is a veteran of um many competitions is placing in this this art contest and I am proud to recognize her uh Miss Abigail Sanchez who plays who plays second in the competition with her charcoal drawing titled have the Lambs stop screaming if you don't recognize who it is and very proudly um I would like to introduce you to um Jennifer Gonzalez who was just up here a second ago Mr Geary um was uh explaining

021how in the middle of everything AP exams and competitions and uh many other things um Jennifer Gara um please I am very proud to say first place uh with her photograph with her her very beautiful photograph titled neighborhood Bodega um Jennifer is going to be very very busy because sometimes she is competing um in Dallas uh with HOSA he also has to be as part of her prize um she also has to be in Washington DC uh where they are going to have a very big exception for all of the first place winners Across the Nation we were able to wing it and she is going to be at both places somehow at the same time and we'll bring you pictures to prove it please join me in congratulating all of them too I want

022you to see all their beautiful thank you so much Miss Perdomo I'm just going to read the first certificate um and congratulations ladies this is amazing accomplishment and so on behalf of the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education and our entire District we present you this certificate of recognition uh for placing Jennifer vergar for placing first in the 2023 Congressional Art competition congratulations foreign it's the best way to get your steps in presenting Awards to deserving students I'd like to allow a few minutes for our board members to provide any comment congratulating our students on their achievement yes I'd like to congratulate the students um every year usually with the greater politano um Congressional words they always come in first or second it's not the first time right and um I know Abigail I

023remember her from last year but you know you students beautiful beautiful job I hope you continue your education in art or Graphics or you know whichever because this I'll even buy one of those pictures they're so beautiful I want to congratulate the students and all the students for their technical abilities their artistic abilities and um and the health care field um it takes really creativity compassion and have a big heart to do what you do so thank you for all your hard work and contributions where did Miss perdominal go I think they're taking pictures right okay although they can just hear it later I I've known Miss Perdomo for a really long time um and how she she conducts her classroom in in with her students and the relationship that she develops with every single

024student and is just amazing and we see it when they try their hardest kind of what my colleague said here that our students enter the contest at uh congresswoman apolitano's office and they always come back first or second and we hope to keep that tradition going when you go to a Souza Mr doble keep it up because you know what you rock and I want to say something you guys all of um all of the presentations today one thing I forgot to mention that all of these students that were here today are from Gladstone and I I just want to congratulate you and and how you have put us on the map um and put a Souza on the map because now we're unified now we're all Azusa Aztecs Jaguars so now we'll make that

025transition you guys go out with the bang and we'll see you at a Souza High can't wait thank you once again um phenomenal work over the course of four years and Beyond as a district I'm really proud that we put Arts education at the Forefront of what we do arts is not supplemental or extra but Arts is core and you've proven that um time and time again so congratulations and I just want to add also I also wanted to add one thing Mr perdom will be making me laugh um the Mrs Perdomo you know she was also my grandchildren's art teacher and she actually brings art out of them you know their talent all our children have talents in different ways but it's for us to give the opportunity to to realize what they really

026can do I know Mr Domo has did that for many years at Glaston High School thank you so much again moving to item 6.4 okay I want to congratulate the parents you know you parents ustedes Los Padres so all you parents out there that bring your students to our district thank you this is your work as well so gracias tambien thank you parents thank you so much we're now moving to item 6.4 Mr runkio wow that's a very difficult act to follow with all those amazing recognition of students so fantastic fantastic for um Dr Beau Board of Education cabinet staff and guests I have the honor of starting um the formal recognition of our managers of the Year our managers include site and District administrators and coordinators directors assistant directors psychologists and confidential employees and

027their work spends the entire District but the one unifying quality is leadership leadership involves Vision courage and most of all a deep compassion for the people that one serves and the leaders have Vision that includes imagination foresight knowledge of people knowledge of themselves policies and the law courage is also equality that leaders must possess it's that internal fortitude that is required to keep moving forward when it's difficult or unpopular courage is also displayed when engaging in difficult conversations but most of all leadership requires a deep and unshakable passion for people it is it is not just about the relationship it is about taking a sincere interest in the people once they're Board of Education and guests I am happy to report that we have an outstanding outstanding team of leaders that make up our management

028team picking just one person to that to serve as a manager of the year is an impossible task in a moment you will hear about the finalists for the managers of the year they all possess the qualities that I just uh discussed in their responses to our questions they spoke about our students their work with staff and teachers our parents and our community and a genuine genuine interest for our district these finalists also spoke about the challenges they faced and have overcome and each of them spoke with such great and gratitude for the work that they do day in and day out for our for our students and for our staff before I turn it over to our cabinet members I want you to know that this type of leadership just doesn't happen by itself

029this type of leadership is modeled over time it is cultivated and cared for and ultimately becomes a part of our culture these values are certainly demonstrated in the managers of the Year finalists our finalists are certainly um our I'm sorry our finalists are representatives of our principals administrators in the educational services department and administrators in and managers in human resources and business services department for now I like to turn it over to our superintendent Mr Ortega who will introduce our first manager of the Year from our principals group thank you Mr rokio at this moment I'd like to call up Mr oracio Trejo I am honored to be able to celebrate the achievements of our Elementary School principal Horacio Trejo Mr Trejo is the principal at Valleydale Elementary School and previous to that he was

030the resource teacher at Valleydale and previous to that he was a teacher at Lee Elementary School along his journey there are three specific touch points that have given have given me a full insight into Mr Trejo and his leadership capabilities and I want to share those with you the first one came when the former principal Miss Adriana Garcia Medina was named as a director here at the district office I reached out to her and asked her if she thought oracio could finish the school year as interim principal Miss Garcia not only said yes she gave her unwavering support for oracio and his abilities and his growth once he became the interim touch Point number two came into play it was not long before he took over Valleydale where I began to directly hear from staff

031and from parents about horacio's positive presence and their explicit desire asking me to please consider leaving him as principal at Valleydale Elementary School and the last touch point because we know the story he was named the principal um I was at Azusa High School graduation last week and at the end uh I was uh walking out after the graduation and a parent came out of their way uh to me and said Mr Ortega Mr Taylor I just want to I want to share with you how happy I am and how happy my child is at Valleydale Elementary School how happy we are in the Dual language immersion program and how happy we are with Mr Trejo as a new principal have been able to see how dedicated and hard-working Mr Trejo is uh he demonstrates

032uh that he's not afraid to ask questions receive feedback and learn as much as he can all in the name of improving his school his compassionate and caring he is compassionate and caring and is always there for his students and staff I am proud to have odacio as part of our Dynamic principal team he is a true asset to our community and I am confident that he will continue to lead Valleydale to even greater Heights congratulations sir the Azusa unified school district manager of the Year award is proudly presented to Horacio Trejo for his contributions and dedications to all of the students that he's worked with here in Azusa Unified School District thank you for being such a great role model we appreciate you thank you now I like to invite Miss Camacho uh our

033assistant principal of Educational Service to introduce our Educational Service our assistant superintendent oh my gosh we rebind the tape on that take two Miss Camacho our assistant superintendent of educational services to introduce our educational service manager of the Year Christoph Farley good evening Dr Beau Board of Education superintendent Ortega and cabinet I am honored to present Dr Krista Fairley as educational services manager of the year she is joined this evening by her lovely family husband and children Dr Fairley has dedicated herself to education for the last 24 years as a teacher Elementary School principal Middle School principal and now District administrator director of multilingual services and categorical programs in Azusa Unified Dr Fairley joined Azusa unified just last year she has shown herself to be a dedicated and tireless team member in ed services and

034in Azusa unified in her short time here she has consistently gone above and beyond and her contributions to our accomplishments have been immeasurable she has overseen a successful Federal program monitoring review and if you know what that is you know that that's a big deal um she has also overseen a successful adoption of World Language materials she has um supported the district in transitioning our successful dual language immersion program into the middle school and she has also launched our first annual bilingual by literacy pathway Awards she dreams big and has the ability to develop plans that are effective and efficient and she has the persistence and patience to see things through Dr fairley's vision and determination have been the driving force behind many of the successes that we have seen in ed services Dr Fairley

035is a gifted leader who is always grounded in gratitude her genuine care for people shines through all that she does her ability to focus on gratitude when confronting challenges and to genuinely take the time to say thank you or show gratitude or at the heart of her leadership and it is this quality that she is it is with this quality that she is able to motivate and Inspire her team to achieve great things Dr Fairley is a true role model and I am proud to call her our colleague she is it is a great pleasure to recognize Dr Krista Fairley as manager of the year she is truly deserving of this recognition recognition and I know that she will continue to be a valuable asset to the ed services team and to Azusa unified in

036the years to come I'm honored um to uh give her the certificate this is the unified school district manager of the Year award is probably presented to Christy Farley for the contribution and dedication to the students of the xenophite school district June 13 2023 signed by superintendent Ortega and board president Dr Serena Bowl I also want to say that I observed her in her workplace we had I was here at the last the last meeting and the parents are so impressed with her and she communicate for her being here for such a short time they communicated with her very well not only that I would impressed we should start talking Spanish beautiful beautiful because the parents are seeking Spanish does she understand them right and she starts talking Spanish Chicago I guess she does so

037congratulations and now it's in my uh distinct honor to recognize our district manager of the Year our director of nutrition services Stella nahura now I'd like to invite Mr Ms Natasha Jamal our assistant superintendent of Business Services up here to say a few words okay so we're gonna do something a little different so this is my message to you please all right so you survived to the young lady who came to the country on her own you never are complacent you continue to fight for a better way daily you understand the vision and the goal of this district and of your department you are not entitled because we both know we are not afforded that ability I remember when I arrived at ausd one of the main things that was served to run a meal

038line was tortillas and peanut butter many could not understand how this was unacceptable for me because it checked all the boxes but you were the one that understood that even though the items were allowed that does not mean it's acceptable for the students that we serve we have had many conversations dreaming of what it would be like if the playing field is Playing Fields were level though we may never experience this daily you continue you understand the importance of starting small and focusing on what you can control as my girl Michelle Obama told me she told me to tell you girl Michelle said um she said it is hard for us to find our light when we're dealing and we're feeling defeated and unsupported I'm grateful that you have found your life which gives you

039the drive to continue to push forward I cannot and I cannot claim the credit for this I'm grateful that you have had the chance to collaborate with someone that is truly exceptional just like you the light that we carry is in all of us and it is our responsibility to share our life Stella you have an outstanding ability this recognition is just the beginning your kind-heartedness characterize your leadership style your drive empathy determination perseverance is unparalleled and just two weeks ago before we had this interview when she came to work all dressed up student debuted she shared with me that she didn't feel that she was deserving on this world of the support because she has not been with the district currently for more than a year but honey let me tell you about the

040receipts so in spite of you have increased the breakfast participation in spite of your obstacles you have brought back scratch cooking and spite of all that we go through you continue to provide our students with meals that they can enjoy and in spite of you have successfully obtained grants that offer training and purchase new equipment for our students and in spite of through the month April you and your fabulous team have served over 7 000 meals and a thousand suffers 180 000 Peppers this year this I share to remind all of us that it's not the duration of time that should matter but it's the results that we produce this year all the nominees that were recognized um for in their current roles despite have not been here a long time they are being honored

041today I know that this year was a year of compromise you have said many tall goals that you may have feel that you have not achieved I know the pressure that you put on yourself because you have high expectations but just remember if you are compromising today on your journey that does not mean we need to give up because that's simply a compromise for the states so in 2024 that's gonna be your next day and when I tell you I have my popcorn I'm ready to watch the Stella show congratulations good evening and congratulations Miss Stella my distinct honor to present to you on behalf of these uses of Unified School District the Board of Education and all seven thousand of our students this manager of the Year award proudly presented to you still in

042Adora for for your contributions and dedications to the students of Azusa unified congratulations and because we like to give you something a little more substantial just like you feed our kids more substantial things to sustain them that was my last minute fun we proudly present you with this plaque for you to display in your home or office as a reminder of all that you've done for us and all that we want to experience with you in the years to come congratulations we have four special guests that want to come forward and celebrate on on being our district manager of the year uh first Is Ours from Senator Susan Rubio's office please welcome Alfia Ito good evening everyone my name is Alfie Ito and I am a staffer for the office of Senator Susan Rubio and

043a recent Gladstone high school graduate and a forevermore and always proud product of the Azusa Unified School District thank you um before I begin I would like to say that the first board meeting I came to was with my teachers and my administrators coming here in support and advocating for me when implementing ethnic studies when implementing bypoc literature within our English curriculum and now I can say it is the utmost honor to be honoring and commemorating the shoulders who've I've had the chance to stand on and be here for the phenomenal administrators the phenomenal superintendents are phenomenal board members who have made me into the person I am today so if you do not know I get it imposter syndrome strikes the heavy the best of us but if you do not believe yourselves know

044that I am here because of you I am a byproduct of you um with that said I on behalf of the California state senate it is my honor to recognize your exceptional leadership dedication and outstanding contributions in the 2022-2023 academic school year I applaud your Innovative strategies effective decision making and collaborative efforts that have played a pivotal role in reaching new heights of his success your Visionary leadership has been instrumental in creating a shared sense of purpose building consensus and inspiring a culture where I have personally been gone through of continuous Improvement in overall education so thank you now from the office of assemblywoman blanca Rubio's office we have tonight Alexa Sanchez hello everyone my name is Alexa Sanchez and I am a District representative for assembly woman Blanca Rubio and I am honored to

045celebrate Stella nadara okay um so on behalf of the California state legislator and residents of the 48th Assembly District I commend you for your dedication to providing quality resources to the students faculty and staff your commitment to increasing the Effectiveness and efficiency of Azusa Unified School District is admired by many thank you for supporting our future generation of leaders and best wishes for future success and now I'd like to now like to welcome Nayeli Macias from School's First Credit Union to present Miss nahura with an award hi everyone my name is Nayeli Macias on behalf of schools go ahead and provide you with a small token of our patient with a hundred dollar gift card to Target because we all love Target and there's more and now I'd like to welcome Miss Melissa attantar from

046Foothill Credit Federal Credit Union to also present Mr Estella with an award good evening I'm so happy to be here um to award a very deserving staff member um I'm proud to have a hundred dollar check so more shopping for you um awarded to azusa's manager of the Year Stella nahura in recognition of your enduring Devotion to the school district and its students thank you and now I like to turn it over to miss nahura to say a couple words herself ah good evening Dr ball scoreboard return Undertaker happiness deceptive evening I'm humbled to receive this respondition once again Kristen and Horatio congratulations to both you are as deserving as I am and I know that and uh the sca and Aaron had a very tough decision to make you've been both a Leader's dedicated

047leaders have communicated with both of you and I have seen the passion and the dedication you have for the students and the drive you have to improve what offerings we offer students in Azusa Horacio had a few moments with you a couple of weeks ago where we had to handle a situation that wasn't so pleasant the school and I saw your drive for your passion and I really thought that I wanted to learn something from you because for me life is always a lesson you were so calm during the conversation and I get hyped up sometimes but just listening to you talk to the employee showed me that being calm and listening to the employee can change your pathway so I saw that in you um so one of my role models is indranoi former

048CEO of Pepsi instead in a talk that she recently gave she openly shared her struggles about balancing professional life and her personal life she tells a funny story about raising two young girls and at one of her daughter's schools they had coffee with Mom every Wednesday at 9 00 am and she missed several of those important engagements initially she felt guilt that every mother feels when they miss an important school activity but she learned to develop coping mechanisms I'm not a CEO of a Fortune 500 company I'm a lunch lady who has the responsibility of ensuring over 700 students enrolled in our school district received the best meals we can provide with a budget of five dollars a day for lunch and three dollars a day for breakfast but like Mrs Noy this year has

049been one of the most challenging for us as a team and my team and I have learned to develop copy maker see them nodding their heads because they know developing coping mechanisms means building strong networks with colleagues and family to help you manage your day and your career and personal life this recognition is a dedication and my way of showing gratitude to my network first and foremost I'd like to thank God my mom is here with me today and she taught me the value of Prayer there are many days I woke up at five in the morning and I felt I couldn't do it I was tired the phone calls start coming in at point for nutrition services my managers are here and they can tell you that my mom sees me struggling every day

050to get ready attend to phone calls for work read my emails and also get myself out of that door on time um I would also like to thank a school board for always voting yes on anything nutrition services it really made my work easier I know that you are here to review policy but I do appreciate a support um superintendent Ortega in my career as a food service director you are the first superintendent who came to my office to check on me when I returned to Azusa make sure I was okay that meant a lot to me not so many superintendents do that thank you Norma okay thank you for always supporting my auto books ideas my boss this is Jamal my boss has very very high expectations but she's the most supportive person I've

051gone to her with several ideas how to improve our meals how to change setting lines how to build things I've gone to her asking for money and she always tells me I'll see how I can make that happen you inspire me to be better every day thank you for responding to my texts at 9 00 pm even on weekends my colleagues in all the Departments the School site principles or site staff School nurses csca Laurie Diana aea thank you for always putting up with me please never a dull moment my team my team has been through a lot this year every day was a struggle there was a Friday we worked with 22 employees are and my team told me Ella don't worry we'll make it happen I didn't know how we were going to

052make it through that day but my managers were in the back of the house my secretary my assistant director we had to put Shannon from the accounting department Latasha Brian everybody put on their tennis shoes and they helped us get out there and serve those meals that day and that was a reminder to me that despite of what happened I have the most fantastic team in the world I would like to thank my family my mom who's here tonight and my husband and my sister was watching she got up at 5am this morning she's in Uganda and she said I wouldn't miss this football and happy birthday to her she's watching via Zoom last time I got this award I forgot to say thank you to her and I heard about it for the rest

053of the year um Mommy last time I got this award you are coming to America for your first time you were on the plane and I wish you were here to see that when you let me leave home at 30 years old and you were so worried about me you didn't want to let me go but I told you Mom let me go I'll be okay I didn't know anybody in California I had cousins around the states but I came to California on my own I had to teach myself so many things and I remember telling you man the roots are so big the buildings are huge I don't know if I'll ever learn to drive on the other side of the road and you always told me I'm praying for you thank you for

054praying Mommy every morning you pray for me before I come to work when I share my challenges at work you tell me to pray you teach me how to forgive and not take things personally you have taught me the value of hard work money when you walk my sister and I up every morning at 6am while we were little girls and we complained I remember you always told us I need to teach you how to work hard because I never want you to be a problem to other people thank you for teaching me how to be humble because you have taught me the value of being humble I know how to respect people and treat people well despite who they are and that's a quality in a leader that help you Excel thank you for

055teaching me leadership skills at such a very young age thank you for praying for me I love you last not least I want to thank my husband my husband understands how passionate and I am about work he normally jokes that my priority list is Azusa Azusa Azusa our pet Coco my mom and he's at the bottom of the list our spouses frequently suffer through our challenges but you're not at the bottom of the list you are on the list you are at the top of the list thank you for making me a priority in your life thank you for letting me put my career above our marriage because you knew how it was important for me to Excel and be the best I can be at what I do thank you so much for providing

056a comfortable home that I can come to and relax at the end of a very challenging day at work thank you for reminding me to go for my doctor's appointments when I stay in the office and forget that I have a doctor's appointment thank you for making me meals when I come so I'm so tired and I forget to even eat dinner sometimes I tell you what what under slice of bread will do but you put some broccoli on the stove and make sure I eat something healthy yes I'm a nutrition services director I want to thank several of my relatives that are watching on Zoom and at the beginning of this I spoke about coping mechanisms and how it's important for one's survival at work to everyone who has been there this year and

057all the years thank you there's so much we want to do for our students because they deserve good this includes offering nutritious tasty and healthy meals daily you have seen a team and a department working towards that goal and vision and will continue to improve and ensure that the students are well nourished and ready to learn we have plans to do better next year you're going to see some organic products on the menu we just tested organic chicken at the high school and the students loved it and that's part of our goal and vision to continuously provide the best for our students in our community because they truly deserve it thank you so much now I'd like to turn it over to Dr Beau our board president and invite the Board of Education to speak

058okay yeah I like to congratulate you all I want to congratulate um Mr Trejo I was so impressed with Lindsay Trail he's such a great principal uh what his secretary received the um unsung hero award for CSEA and I was really surprised to see him it was always in Santa Fe Spring and he went over there and he supported his secretary and I was very impressed by that because that was really beautiful for you to do that and um also for uh Chrissy Fairley I I'm I'm really impressed with her because she is new and well a little bit of new but anyway she she just jumped right in and she just started doing her thing meeting people talking to people and and I'm so glad that you are the person we selected to be

059at the um Educational Services and for Stella my dear saw Stella soft spoken Stella um she is always sure that our students get fed well and that they get fed properly and healthy with fresh fruits and vegetables and are you know she used the students um to be sure that they have wheat bread wheat pizza they don't even know it's wheat but they're eating it you know and but she wants to be sure that our students eat well I was very sad when she left and I was very happy when she came back because the most important I love the lemon bars and I miss them and and also our dinner before the board meetings you know keeps us going just like the way feeding students healthy help them read and write and listen better

060when you have a full stomach and that's the same also for us adults I I would think thank you what an emotional time um it's so beautiful to to see Administration just love our district love what they do with passion and that carries over on to your employees leadership is everything and what we see here tonight Mr Trejo to hear parents baby love going to your school means so much to us to me as a school board member because I hear also the other side when parents call me and they're very frustrated so to see that and for you to pour out your heart and soul into Valleydale means so much to those parents and students and those students and families are going to remember you forever thank you Christy right when we hired you

061in I asked to meet with you and you're just open what would you want to know about me and I said I meet with everybody you know every new hire I meet with you get to know you who you are and I liked from the beginning so thank you for everything and have you jumped in and our dual immersion kids and how you start you know the dual immersion transition to Middle School we've been asking for that for so long as parents as a dollar immersion parent but it was not ready because now with all the transitions now we're ready and you're here to support our assistant superintendent Norma that had the vision of that thank you for making it happen family you're here with you thank you for all the support you give her

062you know when when someone said um our children as as mothers sometimes we can't I think it was Stella who said this and you know as mothers sometimes we can't be there for our children because we have our careers and children and husbands thank you thank you for the support that you give Christy thank you guys so much Stella Got a Groove Back you're back and I was I've missed you so much Stella started in our district and she came to our district with passion and vision all of a sudden we had tasting like lunches and we had so many things come in our way that we never had before and I saw her at every event right before her school district I wasn't even a school board member and she treated me as a

063parent with kindness and I remember that I remember like my colleague said right here um her soft boys her warm Spirit her light that light that you carry mama thank you for living Souza because we love her here and for praying for her because it is a challenging I I mean she was like telling me about the 20 people right now when she was sharing I was kind of stressed out like how did what happened did the kids get fed right and then how she just shared you know that Tasha jumped in and uh who else Brian you guys all jumped in like that's teamwork her husband thank you for cooking for her well she's cooking for 700 students it takes a strong Village and again like I say for a woman to have a

064career it's really hard it's really hard and to have a home so thank you for supporting our beloved Stella and letting her come to work every day and to all of you guys thank you thank you administrators for everything that you do I just continue to be amazed by uh by who we are in the ways that you represent who we are Horacio thank you for the impact that you make thank you for being a reason why students are excited to go to school want to go to school want to learn want to be surrounded and and know that they can be in an environment where they are loved or they're cared for and where they get to learn on top of all just thank you so much for for your impact Krista I've as

065as we have mutual acquaintances I I heard about you before you even came to the district that there I I was reached out to and said hey you got to look at she's great um and that's what I've seen and observed in and uh this evening is just a testament to that so thank you for not only the the impact that you have made here but just the legacy of impact that you make everywhere you go um and Stella you are to to say that you are an inspiration would be an understatement but I just want to thank you for the inspiration that you are thank you for the person that you are and it's it's just beyond exciting um for me to know that our students here in this District can look to you

066as an example and as a model for for leadership um well thank you for your impact but I still Crista and Stella it's it's really nice to sit here and listen to all these wonderful you know just compassionate words that we hear from staff from the community and I just want to say thank you for everything you do for our students because that's that's who we serve right we're here to serve our students but you know it's it gives me just I feel so proud to hear not just from the community but from our staff here because they see the hard work you do we're not here eight hours a day with you they are and for me when I hear everybody Express themselves whether it's the community about Mr odacio or Stella and her

067pozole because I remember that and Krista with your dual emerging program it you know it just makes me feel proud that I'm part of a team that really works for the students and the community so I want to say thank you for all that thank you so much and to all of our distinguished managers of the Year Mr Trejo Dr fairly Ms Stella I salute you um and I Echo each of my colleagues you really represent the best that was as unified and we're so grateful to have you congratulations and thank you and now if I could invite the Board of Education to the oh our student border up yes of course I wanted to say that I'm like very proud of all three of you there's some very proud to hear about everything that

068you've accomplished and everything that you've done for us and I'm glad to hear that you connect with everyone here at easily and Stella I'm so glad that I was able to hear about everything that you've came to the board meetings to talk about everything that you have discussed I always felt that you spoke with confidence and that you were really passionate about everything that you and okay Mr Trejo I've known you since fifth grade and I'm glad to hear that you're still an inspiration because even though I only had you one year when I was 10 years old I took everything that you taught me throughout my whole life and now that I graduated I still carry everything that you taught and I'm very grateful for it and you were my teacher at Lee and

069my brother went to Lee also and he was like oh my sister Trejo's not there what what and then my mom found out that you were a principal my my parents loved you you're like their favorite teacher that I've ever had and you're my favorite teacher I've ever had and then I was like where and then my mom doesn't even know the school is here so she was like uh Murray Molly view I was like what and then um I was told at um one of the meetings that you were the principal at Valleydale and um I was happy to hear that and I was happy to know where you were because I had not talked to you or thanked you for everything that I brought with me and I am glad to hear that

070you're still an inspiration that people are still happy to have you and I'm glad you never changed and all you ever did was go and I'm happy that I was able to see that and I'm happy that you saw me grow awesome this is a lot thanks to you thank you thank you that was very very nice for president board members would you come up to the front of the dice for a picture and also our student student board member come up as well for a picture honorees if you could join as well we'll take a first picture with our our Board of Education and the um and our student board members and then afterwards we'll have pictures with the families and then pictures with our representatives from from our elected officials offices family can

071you please join before the board uh with the Board of Education if we could have the families join as well and we have one more and if we could have our partners before the Board of Education leaves we give our partners from our elected officials offices and our credit union school for and join us for a picture as well you don't have to you don't have to they have a good job thank you very much thank you thank you thank you Mr superintendent we're going to take a five minute recess and we'll return at 8 35. okay bye [Music] foreign Tega can we um start rolling again let us know when we're ready to begin again yes we are ready to begin now okay thank you good evening and thank you very much Azusa Community

072we are now returning from our five-minute recess and proceeding with our board meeting with item 7.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items hope are there any blue cards in the audience and seeing none and Lika are there any members of the public on Zoom we have no hands raised on Zoom thank you very much moving on to item 8.1 comments reports and requests by the Board of Education we'll start to my right with board member Greer just very briefly want to say congratulations to all of our those who graduated promoted uh moved into to Summer those who are just planning for what is next and also um hope it was a great start to summer school for those that had summer school board vice president Rodriguez Pena good evening everyone I again I want

073to congratulate uh the managers of the year and also all the students that received an award today I'm so proud that we you put this is the unified on the map including the students and the staff and it's really good to hear that we have a combination of students and staff Administration um so first of all I went to Slauson and Center Middle School their spring um concert and I was so impressed I didn't realize that we had a band that they played guitars girls and boys right I I didn't know that and they played so beautiful at Center Middle School at Slauson Middle School they were singing songs that brought back memories they were singing songs in the Beatles like Penny Lane and then they sing um It's a small world I'm busy but

074I want to thank the all the music directors so it's just a great job in the remain in the year each Middle School had a little concert I wasn't able to make it to all of them but I didn't make it to um Center and Slauson uh also I went to Gladstone High School their drama performance it was um Cafe murder that was the title of it students did a fantastic job it was kind of like a who did it performance we had to we participated and also questioned at the end um each of the performers to see who did it right and then we had to vote on it and it was just kind of a bittersweet because it was a final um curtain clothes for Gladstone High School in the drama and I

075want to thank Miss Elliott for doing such a fine job with that and I went to Azusa Gladstone and Sierra High School the awards scholarships and I want to congratulate all the students that receive academic Awards and their scholarships I'm so proud of all of them I would like to thank all the donors that continue to contribute to our students to continue their education with the scholarships that they give I'm not sure how much money they um received but I know I believe it Sierra High School just Sierra High School they had almost 1700 or 1900 I want to say right or a thousand fourteen thousand yeah I know you mentioned that and that's really great now that was at Sierra High School so part of those students so we had another successful um this

076is a Leadership Learning Educational Foundation our spring fundraiser so I want to thank members from csca for volunteering their time and also board member Benavides were donating your time your volunteer and for your contribution also Latasha normal Camacho for your support and thank the community brother donations and the restaurants and the businesses throughout Azusa all the proceeds go to the students and staff and program to a Brazilian Unified School District uh csca went to the appreciation luncheon I wanted to thank the caca chapter 299 the food in the company were great um the I went to the award the teachers honoring excellence this is such a great event they had the Red Apple award is given to administrators school counselors career Technologies a career checks and um classified and certificated employees from their school sites

077so I want to congratulate all the recipients I went to Sierra High School the ladies senior brunch it was so great motivation speakers the food was delicious uh cater It Again by ausd food service and beautiful decorations and I want to thank Cornelius on Liz signs and parent loose fields for working together to make in this event possible wasn't that beautiful yeah it was really nice and um last I want to talk about the high school graduations and the Middle School promotions I want to congratulate all the graduates and all the students They promoted and I had some great reviews regarding how great it was and how organized and how everything turned out really well so I like to congratulate the students and also part of them all at the students that are going to

078their next journey in life and everyone have a great summer thank you yes I'd like to congratulate all the students that graduated and promoted for middle school and I'd like to wish everyone a great summer and continue to work hard so that um you make better strides ahead and you accomplish your goals thank you good evening everyone um actually it's almost night time um what an amazing present I I don't think we've had one like this ever so this was just great to congratulate the administrators and have this uh award and the students um I attended I don't know how many graduations last week um at cabinet thank you for being there thank you for being and dividing and conquering just making sure that you guys were seen at at every graduation that really means

079a lot to our community to see you guys active present and she's shaking her head over there yes our student word right when you saw them you're like I know them I work with them on the board yeah so thank you for that though give pat on the back for you guys and big hug for for doing that I know you guys are extremely tired if I'm tired I know you guys are tired um and to all of the graduates congratulations I was in tears and every graduation um it was emotional it was eventful there was a lot of laughs and a lot of love shared and this is not the end for you this is only the beginning and we can't wait for you guys to come back and share or even come back

080and work in our off you know in our district come back and be a board member hey why not you know you guys have a lot of potential all of you guys and I'm very very proud of all of the Azusa Unified School District graduates to my gladiators Gladstone High School today I saw that we um our district has actually officially changed the name the Gladstone Middle School and when I received that text I'll be honest with you I took a breath and I let it out and it kind of had a little tear but it's still a little emotional for me but I said to myself you know moving on to the next chapter so we're strong we're Souza we're strong so to all of you out there watching remember where you come from

081a Souza Unified School District always in our hearts thank you guys good evening everyone and my heartfelt congratulations goes out to our students our parents our caregivers our support system our teachers administrators everyone here at the district although the last day of instruction has come and gone June is certainly a busy month wrapping up with budget and planning and that first day of school is just around the corner so I'm especially grateful for taking this time tonight to really unplug and celebrate everything that we've done this year the past two years has been tremendously challenging and rewarding and so I I was just transfixed by all of the sentiments chair tonight and I celebrate each and every one of you and um let's let's push to June 30th so that we can close out this

082fiscal year and start next year off even bigger and better than ever before so congratulations to everyone Mr Ortega 9.1 thank you more president I'd like to call uh Carolina Dominguez student board member uh Gladstone High School good evening everybody Mr padomo would like to thank the boarding cabinet for being part of the last and memorable graduation ceremony at Gladstone High School ghs is grateful for all of the support given in making the graduation ceremony special in addition to the wonderful students being recognized tonight Mr padomo would like to add that ghs varsity baseball player Ernesto duenos was named to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune all Arena baseball team congratulations Ernesto and that is all I have today thank you thank you Carolina I'd like to turn over to Mr Data a Sierra High School

083student good evening everyone this school year came to a very positive and as Sierra the seniors enjoyed many of the end of the year activities including senior Sunset which we had at Seal Beach one of the biggest highlights was our senior Awards and scholarships evening the seniors received Awards and would like to thank all the organizations that gave money students were awarded in total 19 000 this year the graduating seniors are proud of their accomplishments and this year are proud of their accomplishments this year and the juniors are looking forward to being seniors next year thank you for allowing me to be a school board member and this was a very fun experience thank you Daphne I just want to uh congratulate all of the Gladstone High School students tonight their teachers and their families

084for their accomplishments what a true Testament uh to what's happening in our district also uh to oracio Krista and Stella congratulations super well deserved and I think uh a board member said it tonight you represent uh the best of what's what's good about Azusa um speaking of Gladstone High School I was able to attend their farewell event I want to congratulate glassland High School staff the principal San Perdomo uh for putting on such a honoring event for folks to come together um break bread and share stories uh and give Gladstone High School a proper farewell and then um as others have stated tonight the award ceremonies the promotions the graduations uh congratulations to all the students again uh for uh for their accomplishments and graduation and uh big thanks to all of the staff and

085services mot a big big group of people come together to pull off those uh those events and so you just want to show my gratitude for that thank you you would like to Echo just the recognition of all of the accomplishments of our students um at Gladstone High School that we acknowledge this evening as well as all of the managers of the Year Dr Fairley oracio and of course Miss Bella um congratulations to you all um also acknowledging all of our graduates and students who are promoting from preschool to elementary school elementary school to middle school middle school to high school and to our graduates who will be going on to take their next steps looking forward to see what all of our students accomplish in the coming years thank you and I would like

086to also Echo and congratulate our three managers of the year um well deserving and job well done and I appreciate to be um I'm honored to be able to work in ul's presence and work in collaboration with you all um when I announced that we are still pushing forward with our Elementary playground equipment um exciting um if you went to Valleydale they do have a just a pirate ship a bite I'm so get it together Latasha I put a Jorge today a pirate ship biking ship there we go they are the Vikings there we go I know the Vikings ship so excited about that we still have a couple more schools to finish out um also we have we almost completed our path to travel um between Azusa East and Azusa West um and right

087now our custodial team has been working tirelessly I'm removing all the old classroom furniture out you'll see it all in the quads of our campuses to get ready to have our campuses deep clean and welcome the new furniture for the 23-24 school year and lastly I just also want to Echo the um parade of congratulations to all of our students um and um again congratulations to our managers of the year I also wanted just to recognize um the HR team um to help who help this event together um it really is a team that is behind me that is really supporting and doing a lot of the intricate detail work that makes an event like tonight possible so thank you to Yvonne Marilla who is really the engine behind tonight's event thank you well 10.1

088approval of the consent agenda may I have a motion to approve second moved and seconded well go for a vote um I I like to post some items please I like to call Item um 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 and 10.7 so with that motion okay ten three four five six and seven yes is there any further discussion do you have did you have any uh comment or discussion for the consent agenda before we vote hope are we ready to vote online moved seconded and discussed well now vote on the amended consent agenda and the motion passes unanimously now moving to item 11.1 they have a motion I have a motion to approve 89.1 back in and discussion yes I do have a discussion and actually you have the same discussion and all four of them

089uh well 10.456 and seven my question is I would like to see a report every year I do vote on these um items you know have in in my concern or question I would say is even on the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona drug dependency you know I would like to know like how many students are we serving and there's also the one with the um the mou with the five acres you know we've we've been with them for seven years and how how many people are we serving my question is are we using our money wisely because I've always vote for him but I've never seen a report which we've been with them for seven years and and also I mean do we have more have we served more people since the pandemic to

090have things change you know do we need a more do we need them less um and then also that I'm just I'm sorry I'm just going through all of the the ten point the canine dogs we had them for nine years again how um how many stones have they caught or have they caught any students or what categories do they find on them you know I never had a report concrete to tell me if we're using our money wisely and that that's what I want to see at this time so I I that's what all the ones that I pulled I don't know we have to go through them one by one I'm not sure what you like me to do Dr bull but um it's kind of the same question I just like to

091see a report uh we do see it comes to us and we do see a test on what you pay to them but it's not telling me what I'm voting for and it was being effective in our district thank you for vice president Mr Ortega are we able because I think now that uh board member Rodriguez Pena has oyster concerns over these items as a group are we able to vote on them as a block or do we need to go one by one in our because of the way our portal is set up correct one by one okay all right so we've had a motion moved second in and discussed item 11.1 call for the vote make a motion second one second yeah I think we we did that part so now we're ready

092and we had the discussion so now we're ready for a vote 11.2 may have a motion I'm sorry oh wait request the pocket and the motion passes unanimous item passage unanimously 11.2 may have a motion motion to approve second any discussion uh discussion is we have been with them for 16 years and I have never seen a report on them any further discussion no being done we'll call for a vote the item passes unanimously 11.3 may have a motion pleasure to approve second we'll give the the motion made by a board member board Ariana's with a second by board member of Greer any discussion yeah and this this question is you know are we serving more families are we do we have more families in need since the pandemic any further discussion no move second

093and disgust or 11 point am I in three yes 11.3 we'll call for a vote and the item passes unanimously moving to item 11.4 may have a motion question two approved and discussion we we were with them for seven years and I have not seen everyone report on um how we're serving how we're being served by by um the five acres I keep calling the Green Acres but it's five acres any further discussion vote and the item passes unanimously and finally 11.5 may have a motion motion to approve okay discussion we've been with this K-9 company for nine years and um again I'd like to know are we um and the report or are they catching more kids or you know they come twice a month right and we just we I know we don't

094know where they go but um is it being effective I mean are we using them wisely and are we spending our money wisely any further discussion thing nine will call for a vote and the item passes unanimously thank you and now we will move to item 12.1 this opens the public hearing for the proposed lcap uh for the district this is an actin item may I have a motion make a public hearing group second okay and um is there discussion before we open the public hearing being none the public hearing is now open or at this time are there any members of the public in person or online who would like to make public comment on this item the proposed lcap the public hearing I'm sorry we have no hands raised on June thank you

095seeing no members of the public in person or online you participate in the public hearing the public hearing opened at 8 58 pm and is now closed at 9 00 pm moving to item 12.2 Dr Bo oh all right it's either or um it could be a motion and a first to open the public meeting and then there's a vote or it could be you can just open it and then a motion first in a second uh and a vote to close it I will have one more opportunity to do this in tonight's meeting so now if we could uh go back in time 30 seconds and vote on our item for 12.1 please thank you colleagues and the item passes unanimously and now moving to 12.2 presentation of the lcap Miss Garcia Medina good

096evening uh Dr president Beau board members cabinet and audience I'm very pleased to be here uh this evening with you to review our proposed 2023-2024 local control and accountability plan which we often hear referred to as the lcat plan our lcat plan is a three-year plan that outlines how our district will spend uh supplemental and concentration funds for our school year this plan outlines for us our district goals it also shows how we're measuring progress towards our goals how much funding we have allocated to each of the actions that are within the goals and what services we're providing for our students today it will receive an overview of the proposed out plan that's open for public hearing today as we heard earlier through this presentation we're going to go through the different components within the

097plan and the document you have a copy of will go through the process of developing this lcat plan as well as the next steps we have in implementing the plan this coming school year so these are the first three sections within the document itself the first section is the budget overview for parents um and this outlines the state funding for our district for 23.24 and it's based on the state's lcf funding formula and it outlines both base funding as well as supplemental and concentration funding that is earmarked for our subgroups are English language Learners are low-income students as well as our foster Youth and our supplemental and concentration funds for the 23-24 school year is 29 million one hundred and twenty one hundred five hundred and forty dollars and that's what we've allocated in expenditures

098in our 23-24 proposed l-cap plan this document shows the total revenues that Azusa Unified district is received leaving and it's an attachment to today's board agenda item so the public can have access to the actual alcat plan to review we also have a copy of this out plan available in our district office for the public and review if they'd like to take a look at specific actions and services within the plan um the next section is the annual updates which is based on the 22-23 school year we give an annual update uh Midway through the year in January where we report the district's progress of all the metrics that are aligned uh to the lcat bowls and we also report on the expenditures that are aligned to each of those goals and that happens Midway

099through the year we also sure share this update with our different uh groups like our student advisory Council group with our Pac plus committee with our d-lac committee within the district and then site principles take this meteor update and they share it with their school sites at both a certificated staff meeting a classified staff meeting and at a parent meeting to not only build understanding around the lcap but to also give opportunity to receive input as we draft the coming years out that plan the next section that is highlighted here is the plan summary within the summary you're going to find a description of our district it talks about our schools our demographics it also gives you the successes that we've had for the year and also identify needs within the plan that we've outlined

100for you for 23.24 of some of our successes include increased academic achievement for our students increase College and Career Readiness which you were able to see some of that highlighted today this evening and also increase language acquisition for our multi-lingual learners some of the needs that we've identified are gaps for our English language Learners in academic achievement and in College and Career Readiness and also in the perception of safety and student engagement so those are areas that the 23 24 proposed lcat plan will support um the next section uh within the lcat plan is the comprehensive support and Improvement section which is based on the every student succeeds act which is also referred to as Essa and you'll notice within the plan that this year it's not applicable for our district previously we did have

101two School sites that were identified as CSI schools but they have since exited that criteria so they're no longer eligible so that is something to be very happy about that entire section is not applicable for our district the next section outlines engaging educational Partners so what we do as a district to gather input to give parents that opportunity to engage with the lcap and learn about the outcome we do that again through some of our different meetings most specifically our parent advisory Council us meetings that we've held this school year we've had four full day meetings where we interact and engage with the current health app and we give input and take input for the proposed lcat plan for the following year we follow that same process with our student advisory Council Group which there

102are two members here with us tonight that are part of that group and the collaboration and the input that they give is very valuable and we appreciate that we also share this information again with the mid-year presentations at the school sites and at the public meeting here with the board as well as we shared the presentations with our delac committee the next section within the lcap document is the actual 2324 proposed out plan um and in this section you're going to see a review of each of the alcat bowls which uh are five uh the current goals that we have now uh we're continuing for the coming school year as well as the associated actions that are tied to those goals um and within that you're going to see a section called measuring and Reporting

103results which gives you our Baseline data and it also gives you year one and year two outcomes as well as our desired outcomes for each of those goals and finally in that section of the lcap we have a goal analysis so we take a look at the 22-23 goal and we analyze four successes and challenges as well as material differences and possible changes to the goal itself um again there are five goals that we're continuing with next school year with a total of 51 actions um or uh looking at all of the goals together okay then the next section uh within the actual outpap document is the increased and improved Services section um in this section um outlines the ltap goals and actions that are specifically tied uh to our foster youth our English Learners

104and our low-income students and in this section we have to discuss and and analyze how we looked at the needs of our students of these specific subgroups as well as how effective our actions were in the 2223 um plan um you will take a look at this section and it outlines the goals as contributing action goals the final section of the lcap document is the action tables so the action tables takes all of the expenditures and all of the budget that we have outlined for each of the goals and it puts it into action into tables for the public to be able to see uh the funds that are tied to each action and equal when we look um at our app plan we like to think of it as a cycle of continuous Improvement

105as we are implementing the plan itself we want to continue to measure progress um so you'll see that mid-year update where we look at each of the metrics as well as the end of the year proposed plan that has this the following the end of the year metric outcomes through this process we also want to engage our educational Partners which I've talked about a little bit earlier making sure that we are giving them opportunities to understand the lcap and to give input in terms of budgets actions and services these drafts are shared with the different groups and then we bring it to the Board of Education as the proposed lcap plan for 23 24 school year um this year we're entering the third year of our Alpha plan uh so next year will be a

106year of implementation and it will also be a year of developing a new three-year lcap plan so we look forward to partnering with our community with our staff and our students to make sure that we're addressing uh the needs of them and also uh to continue to elevate some of the programs that were highlighted this evening our Arts our music our nutrition services that are also supported through our cap plan to through the alcat plan and the lcff funds uh finally uh just highlighting our lcap we do have the five goals that we previously had in 23 and 2022-23 uh the first goal is focused on providing uh engaging learning environments for our students the second is uh ensuring that we're engaging and growing leadership of parents and students the third goal is making sure

107that we are offering programs and course offerings that promote College and Career Readiness our fourth goal ensures academic achievement for all students and that we're addressing those achievement gaps for our subgroup as well as the needs of our English language Learners making sure that we are increasing our reclassification rate which we've done an amazing job of doing this year um and just improving language acquisition for our students and overall academic achievement and our fifth goal which we are very proud of addresses diversity equity and inclusion and making sure that we continue to support the efforts at our school sites to make sure that we are providing these inclusive environments our metrics are aligned to improve Equity so we uh within our each of our metrics we have to take a look at all the different

108subgroups just to make sure that the services we're providing are providing are Equitable um we want to build um on our successes so we want to continue to offer these uh College and Career Readiness opportunities we want to make sure that we are providing social emotional Wellness for our students and that we are providing opportunities for student leadership as well as parent leadership and engagement um and finally for diversity equity and inclusion we want to make sure that we are offering uh further training and restorative and in trauma-informed practices to make sure that our staff are well equipped to provide diversity equity and inclusion topics and lessons in their classrooms to support some of the input that we've received from both parents and students this final slide just goes over our next steps uh in

109the out process itself um today uh in accordance with state law and the directives of the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools we have must have a public hearing on the 2023-2024 lcap prior to approval uh on June 20th um the lcap will be up for adoption for the Board of Education um on on the board meeting and then finally on or before June 30th we submit this to L.A County Office of Education for approval it was a lot but I thank you for your attention I'm very proud of the work that we've done as a district in implementing the goals um as we're going through we see and recognize that there are needs and that's what we're continuing next year to support the goals and to make sure that we're doing the best for

110our students to ensure that they're achieving academically but also that they're well-rounded and supported emotionally at this time if there's any questions or comments I'd be happy to answer I'm gonna be this yes I have a question with regard to the ltap that's being proposed I I know this is our third phase I think it is so um I wanted to ask a question on Dei with respect to the materials and the um the are introduced at the library and maybe what you've incorporated into the classrooms can you just give us an example of that if that's okay yeah of course um it's each School site um recommends for example lists of books that are diversity equity and inclusion titles um and they purchase these books for their classroom libraries they've also purchased them for

111their school libraries um and that this is a way to just build um reading material that is aligned to these topics um we use recommended lists and award-winning authors as we select these um reading materials for our school sites but each School site has um a say in what types of library books they're adding to their classroom libraries and school libraries and are those available to the parents and to the public if they want to see what what they're providing yes absolutely I know as we purchase library books they're added to our library system so School sites can run reports in terms of books that they have within the different topics and those can be available to parents um you know you can always reach out to school site principles too to get tours of

112the classrooms towards of the library so you can see the reading material tent and then with the proposed alcat for I guess the following year would you up to buy different books or is that is that every you know every time there's a new proposed out how does that work there's funding tied to that specific action which the action itself is to increase uh Library materials um that are tied to diversity equity and inclusion topics um so sometimes schools might want to increase the number of books uh to have more titles available um they might want to purchase new titles so it's a side-by-side decision absolutely the question I have is um on the community fundings the community Grant can we purchase books with that fund or disrupt only through the lcap funding because I

113know that the community the fundiness were of each district right I mean excuse me each School will be different requests on the funding and I mean what if they say we want to buy more books or is can they use that one can't wait until I get to come in front of you and talk about Community Schools that's coming um so so I don't I one thing I can say is that the framework for Community Schools is going to happen through these advisory committees at the school site which will be made up of hopefully representative of every stakeholder in that community and so the needs that they bring forth as they do needs and assets assessment of their School site what they feel is a need in their Community I but imagine that books could

114become a could be a need that gets brought forth but it'll be what comes from that Community advisory committee right that was my question regarding if a parent was it or the committee will say you know we need more books I don't know you know maybe we have three books for classroom I'm not sure but maybe we want 10 books per class maybe we want 50 books in the library and we use that one I think we could and I think another thing we could look at is do we have more books what kind of Partnerships we have um that we could bring in that could help us with that process yeah okay thank you any further comments by the board thank you so much Miss Garcia Medina moving to item 13.1 update of surplus

115property Mr Ortega uh thank you Dr Beau I just want to give a quick um uh update on our last uh Surplus property committee uh meeting uh committee chairperson Vanessa Jones did a great job again of overseeing and running and facilitating our meeting uh the committee had requested for a plotted uh site map that delineated uh clearly uh which sites were going to remain open and which sites we're going to close and so we provided for that for them and we also included it uh as an attachment uh tonight as noticed by the Board of Education um the facility Improvement cost chart had some costs associated with sites and some work that had already been completed so we took a little bit of a deeper dive um uh Latasha and her team so we shared

116a revised chart with the committee and we have included that revised chart here as well the committee was also provided with initial feedback from the Board of Education uh in terms of some potential ideas and you know things that came up at the board meeting and the committee had a great conversation and had great questions around uh around that piece and then lastly uh we ended with the first look at a draft committee report um again a lot of great conversation amongst the committee members uh ultimately the committee decided that um they were going to dedicate their next meeting which is on 621 that's next Wednesday at 5 pm uh with the goal to continue and finalize the report uh at that meeting and so we're looking forward to providing an update for you all

117uh with that as well so is the um the chair going to come and do a report like they did in the past so that's a great question that'll be up to the committee one of the uh tasks that they will have at their very last meeting is to decide how who will be at the board to present the report to the board of education so it could be the chairperson but the group could decide a different a different manner okay comment questions on this item thank you Mr Ortega moving to item 14.1 and it's my last chance to get this right uh public hearing for the 2324 proposed adopted budget it is an action item may have a motion to open the public hearing motion to open the public hearing on 14.1 thank you

118moved and seconded any discussion okay uh Miss Pineda you're a student preferential vote yes thank you and board members we will vote and the item passes unanimously this public hearing or the budget is opened at 9 24. are there any members of the public in person or online that wish to make comment for this item no one in person and Lika is there anyone online we have no hands raised on June thank you do I need to we need to vote to close the public hearing or just open it that's a preference if you'd like to but you don't have to you can just close it yourself all right uh seeing no members of the public participating in this item the public hearing is now closed at 9 24 pm moving to item 14.2 an

119info item uh Mr Mall ory to share my screen oh so good evening went to Dr Bowen on Board of Education members of cabinet tonight I would present to you the proposed 2324 adopt a budget a budget for Azusa Unified School District now before I begin I would like to thank um the director of fiscal Services Michelle Norris and her team for collaboration in their hard work and their efforts to bring this together as well as the supporting departments and services nutrition services at MLT um to get all our budgets in on time so um presenting the um budget is a responsibility assigned to us through Ed code for 2127 as well as at code 52062 where we present the um uh proposed adopt the Budget prior to adopting it on the next subsequent meeting

120which will be on June 20th here are budget assumptions we received all our information from school Services California as well as Governor Newson um the lcff proposed Cola increase is 8.22 we also have a flat rate of calstrs that will not increase for the upcoming fiscal year but calstrs is projected to increase to 26.28 our unrestricted Ada and proposed Ada for lottery will remain flat and we will have a slight increase for a mandated block um contribution that we received for the mandates on us from the state here the slide shows our projected enrollment as well as our Ada we continue to show a decline in our project and enrollment but I like to emphasize that our decline is not because we have students exiting our district but is that our graduating class is greater

121than our incoming TK and Kinder classroom we also are projecting in our adopted budget to have the Ada of 90 percent our goal is to have that increase but because we realize that 90 Ada Factor this year we wanted to be conservative for our budgeting factors for this upcoming year now we're going to discuss our revenues so here this is our how we get our per Ada allocation which is our lcff dollars um it comes in three different buckets we have our base grant our grade span and we have our supplement on concentration our projected lcff dollars from the state of California is a hundred and five million dollars and this slide gives us a more of a depiction of how it comes into our buckets so we have our base Grant which is based

122on our average 88 then we also have our supplement on concentration which is funded off of our actual Ada and then we have our add-ons which is our transportation add-on as well as our TK add-on here's our unrestricted Revenue so 97 of our unrestricted dollars come from the state in California through our lcff dollars then we have 1.2 million that comes from the state of California for other sources as well as 1.5 million in local sources and this is our total um projected Revenue including unrestricted and restricted comparing to what we received predicted to receive and close out this year so we have a projected increase our revenue of 4.1 million and that's attributed to our Cola as well as some one-time funds that were projected to spend for this upcoming fiscal year now moving

123to our expenditures so here's to give us a pie graph of our unrestricted expenditures 83 of our dollars are spent on our people to our employees with 32 percent coming up with our certificated staff 22 I'm going towards employee benefits as well as 15 is going towards our classified staff now put in that pie chart into Dollars looking at both unrestricted and restricted our expenditures are projected to be 167 million dollars that is a projected increase of 18.6 million of the current year um but that is because we're we always for adopt the budget have to project all of our one-time dollars but then when we present our first interim and second interim those will be modified based on our actual planned expenditures for the year that will materialize before June 30th of 2024. and

124here is our nyp we continue to have a strong any fund balance and continue to show that we'll meet our three percent Reserve in the current year and the two subsequent years we do show a projection of deficit spending in our current year but this is a structural deficit um and that means that we have carryover dollars from a prior year and every time we spend those dollars that would automatically equate to a deficit spending and here is a breakdown of our components of any fund balance for unrestricted so we have our three percent Reserve as well as our concentration add-on our TK add-on and some of our prepaid and our supplemental concentration carryover dollars and here's a breakdown of our restricted ending fund balance with the largest being most of our one-time funds which

125is our expanded learning opportunities Grant as well as the program which is 11.3 million we also have for our community schools we've received 2.2 million dollars of our allocation as well as we have one-time funds for Arts and Music special education and other unrestricted unrestricted dollars and what that is recommended that the Board of Education received the district's 22 23 24 proposed adopt the budget Report with that will be presented again next Tuesday for adoption I would like to say thank you and receive any questions if we can go to slide 13 13. right here yes thank you so I just have I just have one question thing there are a number of things that I like well this uh this table so ending seeing the amounts that are in the end of fun ending

126fund balance and also seeing what our three percent Reserve we're certainly well well above that but then looking at restricted and assigned and so if I'm adding up those dollars it it doesn't actually it doesn't actually appear that I mean because those Because unless I'm misunderstanding something because those those dollars are restricted and or assigned um it could it could make our ending fund balance appear to be much higher than it is if those are already allocated am I reading that correctly correct correct so your any fund balance accounts for both your unrestricted and restricted um but what we have to do is we have to assign the restricted so that we can only spend it for the dollars for the purpose that it came but it automatically equates so it shows that our 80

127funding balance is 43 million but that does not mean we have 43 million just to do right anything and so does that mean that a sign is in essence the unrestricted because we have chosen to assign that and so it still counts under the unrestricted category yes and so that's where we have our supplemental concentration carryover funds as well as our TK add-on and concentration data thank you you're welcome any other comments by the board questions about the budget uh Ms Jamal I just like to make one request as a board follow-up item if you could provide us with a list of all of our state and federal grants that we received in 2223 as a running list as well as uh what we are what we've applied for and are projected to or anticipated

128to receive in 2324. yes ma'am thank you so much and with that we'll move to item 14.3 this is an action item is there a motion make a motion to approve 14.3 second moved and seconded is there any discussion I just had one question Mr mall for this um bid did this um in terms of our RFP process we have a provision in our RFP that provides preference to women minority owned or veteran-owned businesses yes ma'am so on all of our rfps we actually have a line which is number 32 where we identify that our desire is to award Biz to small minority and our firms that are owned by women or operated and controlled by persons with disabilities are disabled veterans thank you so much for that you're welcome the item has been moved

129and seconded we've had discussion uh Miss Pinay that your student professional vote yes thank you so much and board members will move to our vote and the item passes unanimously moving to item 14.4 action item may have a motion okay moved and seconded any discussion being none Miss Pineda your student preferential vote yes thank you and board members will vote and the item passes unanimously moving to item 15.1 may have a motion move to approve second moved and seconded any discussion being non-mispinata yes thank you board members and the item passes unanimously moving to item 16.1 adjournment may have a motion motion to approve Beckett any discussion not at this hour Miss Pineda yes thank you board members and the motion passes unanimously the meeting is adjourned at 9 35 PM good night