001509 and we'll call the meeting back to order. Uh the board did not take any action during close session and next we'll move into presentations and recognitions. First is Skyline North Elementary. Yes, Mr. Banks. Uh good evening, president, board members, esteemed uh colleagues. Uh this is Selene, Melody, Dylan, Natalyia, and Aubrey. And they're going to kind of let you guys know what's been going on at Skyane and things that we have planned for the the this coming school year. So, it go. Good evening, school board members at Skyline North. We've already have an exciting start of the year. Our kindergarteners celebrate celebrated grandparents day and we had our first lunch on the lawn with families. During the first week of school, students learned our expectations and we had an awards assembly to celebrate good citizenship.
002Skylight earned PBS school recognition this year which we are very very proud of. Students who followed expectations but got to enjoy a no referral party where we play f fun lawn games. [Music] There are lots of exciting events happening soon at Skyline. We are starting our new school garden and we will also have a we will also have a float in the salute to heroes parade. We will visit the veterans home to share kindness. And on October 15th from 5 to 7:00 p.m., we'll have our big bowl festival. On the morning of October 31st, we will have the feed the bear parade where students bring goods to help families in need. October is also bully prevention and red ribbon week. We will have a magician assembly, a BMX show, special lessons with our counselor, and
003fun dress up days. Each class will compete in a door decorating contest, and we would love for our school board members to help judge. At school, we are working hard in our classmates, too. Students are improving in reading and writing with the help of our coaches and tutoring programs. In math, a retired teacher comes to help students who need extra practice. We are also taking ready assessments to track our progress progress. And soon we will start after school touring to give us even more support. At Skyline North, we are learning every day while also having fun and showing good citizenship. [Music] Thank you, Mr. Banks. Awesome job, everybody. Thank you. Uh, next we have the district office employees of the month, August 2025. over there. I don't know. Well, let me take this on the
004side. All right. All right. Our first employee of the month for August of 2025 is David Schneider. [Music] My boss waits. I can take pictures of him. Oh, nurse ladies. I'm gonna put you right here. I'm going to read this to you. So, this is in recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Bars Unified School District. We are proud to honor you as the district elementary classified staff member employee of the month, August 2025. We have your certificate, your binder, your $25 Starbucks gift card, and your desk plate. My god. This is all for you. And we're going to get a little bit better on that camera. How far? Uh about right there. All right. Ready? Here we go. One, two, three. Got it. Thank you very much. Congratulations.
005Thank you. Congratulations. Oh. Y that way we don't have to keep keep moving. Are we good right here? Perfect. Uh next employee to be recognized is Ruby Casuela. Thank you. Congratulations. We're gonna put you right there. Thank you, sir. And this is in recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Barci School District. We are proud to honor you as the district elementary certificated staff member employee of the month for the month of August 2025. We have your certificate. You you have Subway $25 gift card finder and your desk as well. So, we're going to get this. Thank you so much. And then we're going to get All right. [Music] Okay. Our next employee of the month is Guadalupe Cece Nunees. Congratulations. Thank you right there and read this to
006you. In recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Bars Unified School District, we are proud to honor you as the district secondary classified staff member employee of the month for August 2025. Your certificate chilies binder and your desk pl. Oh, thank you. There you go. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. Our next employee is Dr. Lricisha Brown. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Put you right here. Slide you down a little bit. Otherwise, the cameraman will tell us when you're down. In recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Bars Unified School District, we are proud to honor you as the district secondary staff member employee of the month the month of August 2025 Starbucks $25 gift card from first from first um first schools first and
007your desk. Thank you. All right, congratulations. Thank you. She's not here today. This employee is not here today, but we will recognize Ashley Garcia. She's being recognized for her extraordinary dedication, service to the staff, and students of our certified school district as the district classified staff member of the month for August 2025. She has an IHOP $25 gift certificate. And is her principal here? She works at this. Oh, okay. So, we will make sure that Ashley gets this. Thank you. And our next employee of the month is Angelica Mora. And Angelica is being recognized for her outstand extra extraordinary dedication and service to Bar Unified School District as the district classified substitute staff member employee of the month for August 2025. She receives a $25 Subway gift card and her uh plaque. We're going to
008put you right over here since you're gonna I'm so sorry. This one finished. So welld deserved. So we're going to do this one. All right. I tomorrow. It's okay. Thank you. All right. Our next employee of the month is Veronica Teal. Congratulations. We're going to put you right here because you are the star. And we are going to read in recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Barci School District. We are proud to honor you as the district certificated substitute staff member employee of the month for the month of August. You also get your certificate, your binder, chili is $25 and a desk pl. So this is all I'm gonna give that to you. Got it. All right. Congratulations. All right. Our next employee of the month is Sarah
009Abos. Congratulations. Put you right there. Also, in recognition of your extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and students of Bars Unified School District, we are proud to honor you as the district management team staff member employee of the month for the month of August 2025. Certificate, $25 Subway from first from schools first. and your desk plaque. This is all for you. Thank you. Congratulations. And our last employee to be recognized is not here. who still didn't listen to. Um, should we have Alex come up and receive it for her in front of her? So, our last employee of the month to be recognized is actually Tammy Harper, who works in it. So, we're gonna have Alex come over here. And Tammy is being recognized for her extraordinary dedication and service to the staff and
010students of Barcelona Unified School District. And we're honoring her as the superintendent's choice staff member employee of the month for the month of August 2025. She gets an IHOP $25 gift card. Make sure she gets that. All right, I'll tell she gets that today or tomorrow. Tomorrow. Thank you. All right, that's a good one. Thank you. Good night. Thank you. All right. Uh, next is So there's no um approval of the minutes. We don't have any for this meeting. No minutes, please. Okay. Uh, next is business from the floor. The board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. It is not a town hall meeting with the board. This is a time for citizens to present problems or questions they feel the board
011should discuss. Individuals are encouraged to address the full board, not individual board members. The law prohibits the board from taking action on items not on the agenda. Request to speak cards should be filled out in advance and presented to the superintendent's executive assistant. Instructions for submitting remote public comments can be found on our website busd12.com under the tab board of trustees. The board has a policy limiting any speaker to not more than three minutes. The board limits the total time for public input on each item or topic to 15 minutes or five individual requests to speak. The president may review the submitted request to speak to take a uh to speak or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something
012new to add. Citizens who have comments on or against a particular issue may be asked to provide a written statement for the record or to sign an agreement with the written comments of another citizen. All names will be memorialized in minutes with board consent. The president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. For the record, please state your name. You have any this time? We do. We have one and this is in reference to Picture Park update and request. Timothy Justice Ladies and gentlemen, um I one I've already came up and uh requested about the bathrooms at Picture Park. Um it has been uh started. I wanted to let you guys know that, you know, I'm grateful for you guys
013stepping up and finding the lease to the city. And um I have a request if you guys could post that on your website so that way us as parents can hold the the people responsible for the park uh uh responsible for that hold them uh accountable. Um right now we're having issues with uh some of the lighting. We have uh broken conduits on the poles, lights that are loose as well as the uh announcers booth up on up on the hill. It's just a platform. Um they have ordered $36,000 worth of stuff for the restrooms, but it needs a little bit more work than that. And uh if we can just get the uh get the lease so that way we could see exactly because it was a little punting back and forth that they
014were responsible. You guys were responsible. Um I don't care who's responsible. I just think that we need to get this done for the kids because as as we're all here is for the kids. You know, I'm a proud Aztec myself. My three boys are well two boys are uh Aztec youth. Um the third one's going to be coming up and uh I just would really uh be grateful if we could get uh something looked into that if we can get that uh posted to the website so that way the parents could see exactly who is responsible for these upkeeps uh management and maintenance. So uh with that, thank you guys very much for your time. It's all I got and I just once again want to say thank you guys for looking into it and
015and starting the process. So thank you guys. once again. Have a good day. Thank you. I did want to let you know if you did want to leave your contact information uh with Miss Crane, then we can contact you. Okay. If you would like that. Yes. Yes. No problem. No problem. And write it on the back then. That's all we have. Okay. Uh then next we'll move into reports. Uh first is staff reports. Summer maintenance. This I'll go ahead and stand for this one. All right. [Music] Thank you. We got some pictures for you, too, so you can see exactly what we've been uh doing this summer. Um, so for 2025 summer maintenance, we repainted the junior high school gym. Uh, we painted the fire lanes and parking lots at several sites, painted over graffiti
016at several sites, and we painted over 50 rooms at various sites. I believe that's a picture of the gym there. Our welder repaired damaged fences and gates districtwide, checked and validated all fire extinguishers and districtwide, assisted the plumber in cleaning and flushing the sewer lines at several sites. And we assisted with gas line repairs at the high school and stem in conjunction with the Southwest gas. I'm gonna C O I L program because I can't pronounce that. Sorry. Our plumber uh replaced gas lines at Barsto High School in STEM during the CO L project. Cleaned and flushed through sewer lines at several sites. Uh we replaced and rebuilt several fixtures districtwide. It's a very busy summer this time. uh our electrician ran new electrical for the welding shop, replaced fluorescent bulbs for for LED bulbs
017at four sites. We can no longer use the bulbs that we are currently using. So that's that's a big project we're phasing them out as we go along. We also installed new parking lot lights at Henderson and Cameron. HVAC, we replaced compressors at several sites. perform preventative maintenance on all units and exhaust fans districtwide. Replaced 70 G 70 gas valves at Lenwood and Cameron during the HVAC replacement. Our maintenance staff assembled over 200 pieces of furniture. Assisted with the rewiring of the welding shop, assisted with the gas line replacement at the high school. Ground staff replaced damaged sprinklers and irrigation valves at several sites. Replaced irrigation lines at also at several sites. maintained sites, maintained and repaired grounds equipment, framed the numerous trees, removed seven dead trees along with the stones. That was it. Major
018summer projects, uh, Southwest gas customer owned yard line, excuse me, program for the Barstow High School and STEM. All underground gas lines have been replaced at both sites and new meters installed. Southwest Gas has ownership of the underground lines from the main to the meter and BUD is solely responsible for all lines from the meter into the buildings. All house lines were tested for leaks and were replaced or repaired as necessary. The main hall and the majority of special ed were repiped over the summer by M. We should have no more gap did a real good job. uh Cameron Elementary, all you all C all AC units were replaced and fire alarm system was replaced. Same at Lynwood. We also did some woof roof repairs there. Uh the marquee project was started at fine arts
019junior high school, Central High School, Barsto High School, and Barst Intermediate School. Um I'll have new and operational marquee signs. The other sites will be completed soon. We we've had to um test the poles that are currently there. That's put us behind a little bit. Uh asphalt work at Lynwood, Cavern, and Monter. Some of the pictures that we had at the high school uh for that uh gas pump. Those those are the new me. That's what the new meters look like. You can see they uh asphalted it when they had to dig it up and then put the asphalt back down. There's a picture of the lid roof. Uh been reported we had a couple leaks, but it wasn't because of the roofing. It was because of work that was already it was prior and
020so we we're fixing that um going forward. Um new unit being dropped in And I think that's it. Give a shout out to our maintenance uh staff who really uh got it done this summer. Definitely. Does anybody you guys have any questions or comments? I do. Um on the new marquees and it's part of this but because we we finally got them installed. They're working. Um, some of them that are sitting out by the sidewalk. Do we ever think about keeping the fence keeping a fencing around them to protect them? Yeah. No, we can consider that. I just I you know because I look at the one at the Barcel Junior High School and it's it's nice. I I like to see it when I every day, but it's just sitting out there, you know,
021and I can just see somebody coming on cuz there's nothing protecting. It's just out there. And vandalism, you know, we got to think about that. And that was one I was like, I want to think I'll keep the fencing around until they didn't. But it wasn't in the scope. Keep the the fencing around those boards that are out on the side. uh skyline is in the same situation bar. Have we thought about that or we had not thought about that but it's something we certainly can discuss. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Definitely. What were you saying about the fire extinguishers? I Oh, all of them get checked every summer so that they're they get checked monthly, too, don't they? I'd have to check with my staff, but I know they have to be certified. Well,
022I I know it was I was a student and I had to do it every month, but I mean, we weren't certified anyway to uh be signing off on it. You know what I mean? And I was wondering if they probably walked the um the fire chief around and had them certify if that's because it's an they have to have an annual certification done every Yeah, I know that. But I mean the monthly one I mean I'm saying that you know you it's kind of like pinged off on the custodians and I I you know they're not certified. They're not they haven't been in any any service or anything. I mean you know no one's you know half the time you know every seven years to kind of show them how to use it and
023stuff. You know what I mean? I'll look into that. Okay. Uh again with fire alarms. Do all our schools have fire alarms? Are they adequately uh equipped? We have every school has a fire alarm. If if we don't have a fire alarm, then we have to do a fire watch, which is very costly and expensive. Um right now there are a couple schools that are in need of getting repaired, but we've been um putting band-aids on them as it were, you know, to keep them in in compliance. But yeah, that that is also part of the project that we're doing with the HVAC with the other other three schools. So, Lenwood and Cameron, we also did the fire alarms. We're doing the fire alarms at Cameron. Let me get this right. Cameron, oh, not Cameron,
024Crestline, Montana, and Henderson. So, that'll be part of those projects as we're upgrading. Okay. So if if a school doesn't have a fire alarm, you said you're we have to do a fire watch, but it means posting somebody out at out at the school, making sure that if a fire does happen, they're watching to call someone call the fire department. Do we have a school like that now? No. No, we're all we're up and going. We're all good. Okay. are what you're saying as far as the additional schools, is all of that already in our project and inside of our scope right now? Yes. Okay. Because all they all they all need to be upgraded to make sure that we're uh keep on going. Anybody else? Any other do you have annual fire with where
025they go in and check the fire alarm systems, make sure they actually do work? Yes, we have to do that every summer. Um, thank you uh for the presentation and uh just pass on uh great job to everybody. I know that's a ton of work. So, thank you. I'm actually meeting with all of them individually through the next three weeks so that we can Yep. I will I will let them know Superintendent. Yes. Thank you. Good afternoon, board members, staff, and guests. I hope everyone enjoyed the first holiday of the 202526 school year on Monday, September 1st. Labor Day is our nation's official