001Yep. Thank you. Are we good? Okay. All right. It's a 402. We'll call the meeting to order. Um I'll go ahead and lead everybody for the flex of the day. All right. Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Let it be known all five trustees are present. Miss Given, Mr. Williams, Mr. Useless, Mr. Preya, and myself, Mr. Held. Uh, 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 the time for citizens to present problems or
002questions they feel the board should 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. Requests 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 busdk12.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 or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that adult additional persons speak only if they have something
003new 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. Do you have any? >> Not at this moment. >> Okay. And it is 4:05 and we'll turn to close session. [Music] With Wells Fargo Premiere, a team can help you plan for your dreams. So your dream car and vacation Computers now have primary control of critical vehicle functions. [Music] That's one step. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, Heat. Hey, [Music]
004lift off of mission 41. [Music] off. The first flight of the Discovery and the shuttle has cleared the power. [Music] Computers now have primary control of critical vehicle functions. [Music] That's one [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I believe [Music] hey. [Music] All right, it is 501 and we'll call the meeting back to order. Uh in close session, the board voted unanimously to approve the stipulated expulsion recommendation of student number 25261 6-9 89 341511. The vote was five eyes, two zero nazs. Uh the board also voted unanimously to approve the readmission of student number 2425 98 298 8617. The vote was five eyes to zero naz. Uh next we have presentations. Uh title n UCP. >>
005Yes. >> Dr. Rebecca Michaelelsson is going to present um most recent data for Title 9 UCP. >> Yes, absolutely. Good evening everyone. My name is Rebecca Michaelelsson. I work here in the district office. Um my title is UCP or Title 9 UCP compliance officer and um I'm happy to share that I've been in the position now for a year and I'm going to be starting to take regular kind of tech talks. We'll just call them Beck talks. They're they're Beck talks. And uh that'll happen at the second board meeting of the month except on those months where we only have one. And then I'll I'll do a little Beck talk for you guys. But mainly this is just informative, give you a little bit of background. I had the opportunity to speak with uh Mr.
006Williams in a in a separate situation and and he was just asking some questions. So So we had thought that it would be an excellent idea to just share a little bit of information and um let's go ahead and get started. since my clicker is back there. So, I just want to start by introducing myself. Um, some of you know me. I've been in Barca since I was 5 years old. My dad moved to Salier to be a an army guy at Fortin. And I've always lived in Barstow. Really strong ties to the community. And um, every time I go away to school, I go to an ocean, but then I always wind up coming back to the desert. Um, I went to UCSD for undergrad and then went to University of San Francisco School
007of Law and got my jurist doctor there. And uh, so education law has always been two areas that I'm really interested in that I've tried to just kind of keep in my life in many different ways. And then also just having a family full of teachers helps keep that education goal prominent all through uh, all my activities. So, um, as I said, my position is a Title 9 UCP compliance officer. We didn't know what that meant really when I was hired. So, this year has been really exciting to build what that position means. So, so, so what does it mean? It means that I get complaints from the community, from employees, from students, from parents, and then um my main duty in that capacity is to evaluate them to see where they go. And we'll
008talk in a minute about how those pathways work, where I send complaints when they're not mine. But if they're Title 9 or UCP, they are mine. Um, specific kinds of UCP because UCP is broader. And we'll actually do a different Beck talk on um UCP specifically. So what is Title N? And I'm not going to read the slides for everything, but for the specific language of the federal regulation, I'm actually going to read this. Um, so title nine is no person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. So that's the language, right? Every every training I've gone to, they say it's so simple, it's so short, and
009yet it encompasses so much. So um if you go to the next slide, we're going to talk about what exactly is behavior that is uh that is encompassed by Title N. So most of you guys when you hear Title N, you probably think about like sports teams, right? You think about um access to uh equipment or to opportunities for the girls team versus the boys team. And that is Title N. But it also includes sexbased harassment and discrimination which can be um it's it's broken down on the slide but uh you know it's it's about money but it's also about everybody being treated equally and also being free from harassment. So there are a couple different like subcategories of sexual harassment under Title 9. One of them is hostile environment and for most school districts
010I would guess that that is that is something that rears its head more often than not. Um there's also sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, domestic violence, quid proquo. And quidd proquo of course meaning trading favors. Somebody says I'll I'll do this for you if you did do this for me. And usually that's a situation of course where someone has much more authority than the other party involved. So, Title N is all about keeping that from happening. And if in fact something like that does happen, then it's all about documenting what we as a district are doing to make sure that we're preventing that, that we're training people, that we're holding people accountable if in fact a violation is found. So, what we're doing in our district right now as far as how these complaints get
011sent out. So, I I receive a lot of the complaints. I think that people thought when I first was hired that I wasn't the compliance officer. I was actually the complaint officer because I got absolutely everything under the sun which was quite exciting for a while. Um and then as we all grew it and learned uh what really is more beneficial for us uh we developed some some procedures and protocols. And so anything that deals with Title 9 will come to me. anything that deals with um UCP as far as discrimination against protected classes, that'll come to me initially as well for evaluation. Um we're going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute. But um if it is a sped issue or a 504 issue, then that will go through services
012to Dr. Reid. If it is a student safety issue or an attendance issue or a transportation issue, then that goes to uh Miss Norman. And if it's in fact a complaint against an employee, that goes to Mr. Gutierrez, the assistant superintendent of personnel. So, so we have a lot of people quite capable, knowledgeable people who are all dealing with these issues, and I'm always trying to catch up on the knowledgeable part. So, um, as far as what I'm doing on a day-to-day basis, so I receive complaints, we evaluate the complaints. If I send them out, I send them out. there's something for me then uh as as you all know we contract with a company called uh TNG consulting and they represent our neutral investigators right now uh I believe eventually the goal is to
013to cut back a little bit on on TNG and allow me and and a potential department in the future to do the investigations in house. So what they provide though is right now a really neutral knowledgeable entity. So, so a complaint comes to me, there's a potential for a problem, I bring it to TNG, they I request their services and they provide a neutral investigation, which with Title 9, as I'm sure you know, can be quite complicated because the process is very structured and um eventually an investigative report is written and given back to the district and then a neutral decision maker, sometimes contracted through TNG and sometimes someone in our district will make a decision based on on that investigation. So, so it they the whole process is all about being as fair as
014possible, right? Everyone is innocent until an actual violation is found. So, the the process is complicated, the process is structured, but we are doing our job as a district maintaining all that documentation and uh working to just improve our process as well. Uh so on the next on this slide that you're looking at right now is uh just the definition of UCP which is the uniform complaint procedure. It is California specific and in a nutshell it is about protected classes right so in order for something to be UCP it's got to be discrimination against someone who is part of a protected class and that can be uh someone who has uh different abilities you know uh sped or it can be someone who's from particular nation or has a particular national origin those are the
015things that will stay with me as far as UCP and other things will go on to uh usually Mr. Putier. So again, brief Beck talk. Uh I did put a slide up here for questions, but don't go crazy. Okay, do you have any questions that I can answer at this juncture? And again, more specific district information will come to you in a different way. >> Great presentation. Thank you. >> Hey, thank you. Thank you very much, guys. >> Thank you. leg claps better done. >> Appreciate it. Always. >> Uh, next we'll go to business from the floor. Uh, 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
016to present problems or questions they feel the board should 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 card 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 or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if
017they have something new 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. >> All right. Uh, next we have uh reports, staff reports. Williams, fourth quarter 24-25. >> Mr. Godfrey. >> Yes. Uh, Superintendent Ted Alejandre with Sanino County Superintendent of Schools does a quarter quarterly review of all Williams school districts. Uh, this is the July edition of that report. I'm happy to report that there were no findings as it
018relates to instructional materials, school accountability report cards, school facilities, and teacher assignments. Thank you. >> Anybody have any question here today? >> Uh, next we have monthly cash report August 25. >> Mr. Beaton, >> thank you. As of the 18th of August, the district has 75,888,6640 and one cent as noted in the San Bernardino County Superintendent Schools Treasury. Thank you. >> Uh next we have 2025 2026 uh 10day enrollment report and annual student count. >> This also goes to Mr. Been. >> Yes. So I'll wait for the receipt to come up. Not. >> There's a glitch on the system. >> You might have to uh It's not us. It's >> I can continue. So, if in the yellow box on that spreadsheet, if you're able to see it on your devices, uh looking at the
01910-day average, our enrollment is 6,347 as a average for the 10th day. Our actual inerson count is for that same period is 5,400, which calculates to 85.07%. Um, also in comparison to last year's enrollment from this year to last year at this time, the difference is 23.7. So we're right about where we were a year ago. >> Thank you. Does anyone have any questions? Uh, next we'll go to reports. Uh, superintendent report. >> Thank you. Good afternoon, board members, staff, and guests. It is hard to believe we are nearly three weeks into the 2025 2026 school year. I have visited all schools, and I'm happy to see the smiling faces, classroom expectations, and strong instructional practices evident in our certificated staff. Our teachers have put in time, energy, and effort into making their classrooms amazing
020learning spaces for our students. I'd like to thank city manager Rochelle Clayton for making time to meet with me regarding the field and bathrooms at Stringham Park. Bars Unified School District has leased the park to the city of Barstow for nearly 20 years. In that time, the premises and improvements at the park have deteriorated and are in need of sprucing up. Mrs. Clayton assures me the city of Barstow has plans to do necessary work at Stringham Park in the near future. Mrs. Clayton and I also spoke about Barstow Police Department continuing to provide safety at the Avenue H community walking track and the city's continued support for the school resource officer program. On Wednesday, August 13, we held our first parent guardian student community alliance meeting at Barstow Fine Arts Academy. The meeting was attended
021by several parents of students who attend Barto Fine Arts Academy. Dr. Vinnie Williams reviewed the extension to the stipulated judgment recently signed into effect by the Superior Court of the State of California in the county of Los Angeles. Parents in attendance indicated their satisfaction with the many changes they have experienced across the district. Their greatest topic of discussion was increased field trips which we will discuss with school site principles. Our next PGC PGSCA meeting is scheduled for October 8, 2025 starting at 4:30 p.m. and will be held at Barca Fine Arts Academy. We encourage all BUSD parents, guardians, students, and community members to attend. The superintendent's executive cabinet held quarterly meetings with CSEA's and BEA's executive boards. Executive Cabinet was able to provide information to our association partners regarding district plans for 2025 2026. CSEA
022and BEA brought their questions, comments, and insights with a focus on collaboration and inspiration. I'd like to give a huge shout out to Holly Bowser, CTE coordinator for BUSD. She and I attended the annual Mountain Desert Career Pathways governing board meeting and stu study session with coordinators on Friday, August 22nd. We discussed what is work-based learning and MDCP's work-based learning report. We talked about future plans for MDCP and brainstormed ways brainstormed ways we could celebrate MDCP's 10th anniversary. I truly appreciated the collaboration and support for our CTE programs as we work together to be a part of our students light bulb moments during their academic journey this year with BUSD. >> Thank you. >> Uh next we have board reports. Miss Given. >> Hi. I don't really have a report. Um, I do want to
023say, um, I was able to meet with PBIS yesterday and it was an amazing meeting and so I'm looking forward to working and um, seeing a PTO come to fruition and other things we can do with the community. It was suggested by another colleague that we uh, work on as a community agency um, conflict resolution for parents. So, just hoping to be more supportive and that's all I have today. >> Thank you, Mr. Williams. Well, um, yes. Was it yesterday? Saturday. What day was it? Um, where were we? >> One of these past few days. I, um, we had, it was Saturday. We had a basketball clinic at the Barstow >> High School. >> Bar Barstow High School. Um, I was in attendance. I was also a sponsor of the clinic itself. Um, thank you
024to Barstow um B USD for um the help with the with the gym and the custodian was a fantastic. He was fantastic. Great guy. He made me do the mopping, but that was okay. I did ask him for the mop. But the clinic was amazing. If you would have been there, these kids had a blast. Um we gave out gift cards, raffle prizes. We had plenty of snacks for them to eat to get the energies. Um the clinic wasn't easy. It was kids from six to 17 and uh the coaches did a really good job. I want to thank Nike. Um go go Bartow for being there. Barcel Sports Coalition had a great time. Um, I think the kids got a lot out of it and and we really want to thank u B USD
025for uh letting us use the the gym. So, that was great. Um, I'm doing something tomorrow and I can't remember what it is. I must be tired or something. I'll tell you next week. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Eis. >> Yes, I do. Um I it was the first uh it was the first Monday after school the school started. Um a parent asked me to give her and her son a ride to uh Cameron school. He uh didn't get his shots his immunity his shots in time and stuff. So he started school that Monday. And uh we went to Cameron school and we went into the principal's office. were greeted with smiles from the secretary. That little kid had the biggest smile you ever seen in your life. Uh they escorted us
026to the his kindergarten class and the teacher met us with a smile and the kid was all happy and it was awesome and she asked me to you know they the bus barn and the school district has got the turnover to get a ride. It takes about a day before you know that he can get on the bus. So uh we went to pick him up after school. We got in the He got in the car and and first we did this and first and then we went and played and then we had then we had the lunch and stuff. The lunch was really good. I mean it was so awesome, you know. You know, I that's why I got in this position to see things like that, you know. It's just it was just
027it was just great, you know. And uh and the secretaries for the school district, I mean, they're they're the backbone, man. I mean, you know, they they do they do it all, you know, every every employee does. Um, went to potluck Friday, Scott, thank you. And, you know, it was it was awesome. You know, I I was eating some chili there and I told somebody it was the first time I ever ate beans. And they said, "Oh, really?" You know, and and then I said, "Who made the chili?" And so said, "Carl." And I was, "Oh, I was disappointed, man. My grandma would be mad at me for eating canned beans, you know. And uh and now uh when I played high school, I played my first uh varsity uh experience was I was a
028sophomore. Uh I played for Coach Davis. He never cussed. He never grabbed nobody. He didn't raise his voice. He was just awesome coach. He was the only coach to go undefeated and win the CIF title for us. He uh led by example. Uh there was this kid, he was a a freshman practicing with him uh ready to make the varsity football team and they uh at that time they had to practice six o'clock after baseball and track was over in spring and right before spring training and they ran plays in the gym. They have 11 defensive guys against seven offensive guys and they went at it and after practice everybody was so tired you get in front of the steps the east east northeast side of the boys gym and this kid had uh plyers
029I don't know you guys from thrifties a dollar 29 tenny shoes had electrical tape and a little bit of duct tape and some electric keeping them together and the juniors uh incoming seniors and juniors the following year would make fun of this kid you know more or less bullying them. And uh it happened for about two weeks. And uh at the last Friday, the Thursday before when we ended it, we were going to go to spring practice May 15th, uh Coach R. Davis was an avid uh tennis player and he had these kangaroo skin tennis shoes. Awesome. He asked that young man, he says, "Uh, what size of shoe do you wear?" Kid said 12. took him off his feet, gave it to him, and walked to him in his socks. That young man was
030me. >> And uh that's the kind of leadership we need. Somebody with morals, you know, you know, somebody that uh leads by example, you know, somebody has little intestinal fortitude, you know. Uh and then we got on to the employee. You know, all us, you know, everybody, no one's perfect in this school district. We need to treat everybody the way you want to treat your own son or your own daughter, your grandkid, you know, nobody's perfect, you know. You don't come to work to exercise your ego on another employee, you know. And then uh we need to place principles before personalities, you know. And uh when I coached, you know, uh I would tell the kids that uh when it gets tough, you know, two things are going to happen. You're either going to roll
031up your sleeves and get the job done or you're going to crumble like a old stale cookie, you know. And uh when I was um running for office, I didn't really promise anything. I went to a few uh forums. I talked to the two unions and but I did say that uh no man, woman or child or group was going to intimidate me or sway me to vote a different way. If I told you the way I was going to vote on Thursday, my god, Tuesday afternoon, that's way I was going to vote and thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Mr. Pere. >> There's no way I can follow that up. I I don't have anything to report. >> All righty. Um I just wanted to I guess two thing. One comment on
032I'd say o the overall positivity that I felt about this school year. I mean normally there's always you know the same traditions that we have and but I really feel like this year is a little bit different. I feel like just overall I'm seeing a lot more smiles. I'm hearing a lot more laughing. um not everything's perfect, but um I I do think that we are going on a positive note and I do think that that's a credit to the work that everyone here is doing. Uh everybody at the district office, all the administrators, all the teachers, all the classified. I don't think this happens out of nowhere or for no reason. So I I do think that it's everybody's putting in the work and I think that we're getting on that track to start
033enjoying the fruits of what everybody has been working towards. So, just wanted to say thank you to everyone for that. Um, and also, uh, to just touch a little bit that we just got done doing a governance training, um, ourselves, um, as the board. So, what we're trying to work on is getting all of our new, um, policies, procedures, mission, vision, getting all these goals, getting everything aligned um, all the way around. And I think we're all doing good strides and getting everybody on the same page. So, I I like the good things. So, thank you to everybody. >> Uh, next we have the student representatives report. >> Hi everybody. Um, my name is Serena. I'm the ASB senior class vice president. Um, and ASB just has to report that right now we're working on
034all our ho homecoming events. So, like the game, the football game, the assembly, the dance, just getting everything organized for that. And also um great news to report is that we have 62 members in ASB this year and that's like the most we've had in I think like a decade or so. So >> yeah. >> Um also we were asking if any if anyone could donate like boxes like cardboard and stuff. So we because we're bringing back floats this year for homecoming like the royalty. >> Come see us. >> That's about it. Thank you. Thank you. >> All all size boxes or preferably large or >> any boxes. We'll take anything. >> Yeah. Just like if you have something laying at home like an Amazon package, just throw it over our way. >> Mrs. Doesn't
035Nutrition Services have lots of boxes. >> Said that we'll take them. We'll take them. >> I'll hook you up with Christina Williams, the lead at the high school. And >> you can um contact Mr. Briani, you know, >> he'll tell you where. I'm pretty sure you could just drop them off at high school, but we can use them. We'll definitely >> get a lot of water. >> You're about to be inundated. [Laughter] >> He told He told me to ask for it. >> Beginning of the year is the perfect time because that's when everybody's getting all the new supplies and everything like that. So, preparing our classrooms, things like that. So, the beginning of the year is perfect. >> We'll definitely put them to use. >> Well, thank you. You're definitely more than welcome to
036stay for the rest of the meeting if you would like to hear. Um or if you'd like to leave, you're more than welcome to do so. >> Thank you. >> Right. Uh next we have representatives reports BEA. >> We had a slight internet problem. We had we had no uh >> power out. All right. So, um good evening everybody. On behalf of BEA, I want to begin by um sharing that we recently held our first quarterly meeting with a facilitator. We found this to be uh extremely positive and productive and we appreciate the district's support in making this happen. Um moving forward, we respectfully request that these quarterly meetings not be scheduled on nonwork days for executive board members so that everyone can fully participate without conflict. Um, I also want to bring your attention
037an important matter concerning this our sixth grade math materials. We've been informed that the new math books will not arrive until September 22nd, which would affect BIS and STEM. Okay? And uh, while we understand the delays can happen, we ask the district to take some proactive steps to support our teachers and students in the meantime. Specifically, we're asking that the district check in with the sixth grade teachers to ensure they have been trained and feel comfortable using Think Central. That's the online component of our Go Math program. But we have a lot of new teachers that probably had zero training yet because they're new. Um, and if teachers are not re have not received training yet or do not feel ready to rely solely on online systems, we request that photocopies of the necessary chapters
038um are prepared and provided for them. This is a practical request. teachers are limited access to copy paper and our prep time is already stretched with numerous responsibilities and as Shannon brought up, I didn't think about it, but there's also not going to be enough space or enough photocopy machines for all the teachers to be in the same room at the same time trying to make photocopies. Um, because there's that many sixth grade at BIS. STEM might be different, not as many. Um, so it's not reasonable to expect teachers, it's not reasonable to expect teachers to spend their valuable preparation time photocopying textbooks that should have already been available to the students. In short, we want to ensure our students are not losing learning time due to logistical challenges and that our teachers are supported
039rather than burned out by them. Uh, thank you for your time and ongoing commitment to working with us and and our students. Thanks. >> Thank you. CSEA, >> I speak from here. Do I need to go over there? >> It's up to you. >> Um, so for CSEA, we have just returned from our, it's been about a month since we've returned from our annual conference, um, which was in Reno this year. Um, bringing back all that knowledge and information to our membership. We have our first meeting of the new 2526 school year. T uh, sorry, today's Tuesday. Thursday again. What day is it? Um, everyone's been like, um, president said, you know, excited to get back to school, meeting all the new students, new staff members, um, getting into our, uh, practices with the students
040and such, teaching them the rules and things like that. So, everybody's been excited for that. We're excited. New positions are coming, as you see later on in the agenda. We have new positions that are getting getting created. So, that's nice to get new um new people in, more people to help with the workload, more students, more workload. So, more staff is nice. We do have someus we're already working on for this year. Also opening up negotiations for the 2526 school year. Um our whole contract is open this year for the whole three-year term. So, just a lot of things already in the works and moving forward. So looking forward to just continuing with that and getting things rolling for the school year. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh personnel commission. >> Yes. Thank you.
041Good evening uh staff and distinguished guests. This is the report from the personnel commission. We currently have zero uh interviews in progress. We have four recruitments that are in the testing stage and zero recruitments that are open. We just closed the recruitments. We currently have 380 classified employees, 178 full-time uh employees, 122 uh benefited part-time and 80 non-benefited part-time employees. As always, we have 15 classified management. Uh on the vacancies and some of the uh uh classifications on the campus safety, we have two vacancies, one at Henderson and one at the high school. Um, plus there's a newly created uh position at STEM. So, that would be make it three. Uh, we're currently in testing stage for that uh recruitment. And as soon as we finish the the testing, we can rank, create our list,
042and move forward to uh hiring and interviews. Uh, as far as uh some of the other classifications that we're testing, we're testing for, by the way, we're testing for the next three weeks. So, we're just testing wall to- wall here because there's so many people we need to test. Uh translator interpreter uh for the pair uh parn camp safety. I believe we still have some nutrition services ones that may be out there testing. So, it's you know amm testing for like 21 days practically. Uh what else do we have for you? Uh we're doing a lot of onboardings. uh primarily some of the substitutes for office assistant uh parah also a lot of nonund duties are being on boarded and some of the newly hired NSW1s I hear thunder out there um we're also wanted
043to uh report that uh we're looking into that uh posting our positions uh broader in out there in the community and uh I've been in contact with uh Zip Crruder which is one of the top online generator uh they reach out to about 100 uh websites that are out there for for job postings and uh I believe that's the direction we're going to go. I got one more meeting with them tomorrow. Uh we'll make that decision so we can post our positions there as well. Um our next meeting for the uh personnel commission is September 11th at 4:30 p.m. in this room. And that is the report for this uh this week. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anybody have any questions? um on your custodian sublist. Do you do you have you know do
044you have one or do >> Yes, we have uh custodians that are available and the sub caller should have those names. Uh we have >> how many is on that list? >> Uh number-wise, I know we had about nine of them at the last time I checked. Could be more or less. Uh some individuals may not be interested. Maybe others have been added since. >> Right on. Thank you. >> One quick I had asked you about this M before because I mentioned timewise because it takes so much time to hire someone through the whole process. Have we even thought about looking at or have we you guys discussed ways of speeding up that process? >> Uh we've been looking at different uh options. uh one is to digitize our our onboard paperwork. So that's something
045that would would gain us some time. Um uh some of the other things that we can do are in our testing. So we we have been telling people and we've announced it at our meetings that sometimes individuals apply and they're not they don't qualify. They don't meet the they don't have a certificate and so on and so forth. That cost causes us a lot of work if we have to test those individuals. So we told them we're we're going to try to screen those out. We give them information ahead of time making those announcements so that we shrink uh some of those lists and we're only focusing on those individuals we know we can actually get will produce something. Now something like the Paris which we need so many of them we we do all
046sorts of bending to try to uh broad broaden that net right to capture as many as we can and we'll work with people give them you know send them emails reminders right to make sure they submit completed applications but generally we won't do that because that causes a lot of work it's a lot of uh repetitive work that we don't need um and the other things are the posting or the transfer the mo um um timeline those 21 days those we can't really go work work around that. Um I believe with at least with this uh pair recruitment we should be ready to go in a couple of weeks. Once we have that list um one of the other things we did here is we did a a group interviews. So we set up several
047stations here and we we were uh interviewing four at a time so we could try to process them faster. Uh some individuals went to several other tables to interview with different sites. So we we're trying to get creative with that. We're also uh making conditional offers on the spot so so that we can kind of move them through the process and we send them straight to try to start their own boarding if if they're qualified. So >> we've been tweaking around with different ways. Uh I believe you know there's still a technology thing that we could we could use and I'm investigating that and also some of the onboarding that we can kind of uh speed up a little bit. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have the adoption of
048the agenda with a directed copy K6A4 extra duty employment certificated contract academic leads and or coordinators. Um, can I get a motion to approve with the corrected copy? >> So, move second. >> All in favor? >> I. Uh next we'll go to the consent agenda. Um I have three items uh myself for polling is a are we ready? >> Uh K11, K21 and K32. And we have >> Yes. Uh, I would like to pull uh K23 and K31. Are we okay? >> Okay. >> And first we will go to uh Oh, yep. Sorry. Um, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda with items? >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi. >> And first we'll go to K11 consultant agreement strategic solutions for school safety. >> Yes. Uh so if
049as you uh look at some of the attachments for this uh consultant agreement, this is our current consultant that we use to train our campus safety and security. They al uh he also trained our SAMs and I believe there was one of our uh uh school administrators as well that that was trained. Uh he has been training our campus safety and security um for the past year. Uh we've had about uh five sessions or so maybe four four or five and uh all aspects uh some of them uh uh proper use of the radio um proper techniques for communicating. Uh there was some team building. Uh the he also worked uh our last training was the active shooter training. So we per we he brought up uh one of his colleagues to help him with
050his training. It was very wellreceived. And u uh finally he's also been doing some security assessments at the sites with uh different campus safety and security staff and also the administrative staff there. do some of the safety assessments. Uh he has issued recommendations from um all aspects of safety things that he touches either uh radio use the reach information uh the cameras the uh the raptor system all these things that we use of technology. And um for this particular item that you see here uh his his contract or what we had approved was for the previous fiscal year. And so we need to approve this to um uh ensure that we can use it for the current fiscal year. And also the trainings he performed and at the end of July that's already in this
051fiscal year. So we kind of need that to to clean up some of that uh that payment that we need to do for for the current trainings. Uh, and this is submitted to you for your approval. Uh, and we recommend approval for the item. >> You guys have any questions? >> I'm just I'm happy to see this going. Um, this this will go a long way. >> Um, I had a couple questions with the recommendations that he has whenever he's going through all of this. Is there any way that we can see that as the board after he gets done with going through with the administrators just so then we can kind of take a look at it and see where that rolls into the overarching school safety plan? >> Yes, I can share that
052with you on the credit report. Um, the other one was as far as the training if any of it the actual because I know there's kind of like a distinction between um, and I'm sure I'm butchering the terminology here, but with the school safety officers or the campus safety and as far as like the who is trained to be able to physically either restrain or diffuse a mental alteration is that part of this training. There is uh there was a separate training that we had which is the CPI the crisis intervention training that was a two-day training. So the SAMs and all the all the campus safety and security were trained on that particular training. So that's more for the hands-on is a two-person approach and they kind of go over all the the proper
053ways to put contact if they have to do contact with an individual >> and also deescalation techniques. So there's a lot of there's different levels, right, that you you eventually reach, but there's deescalation that you start at. >> Got it. Okay. But so all the SAMs and everyone that we have employed now, they all and are at the schools currently all have that training. >> Yes. >> Okay. [Music] That's all I have. Thank you. >> Everybody else is good. Uh can I get a motion to approve? So all in favor? Hi. >> Okay. Uh, next is K21, uh, inservice education. >> Yes, Mr. God brief. >> Yes, this is a virtual training by CASBO and by the fiscal services department, uh, legal aspects and hands-on accounting for student body organizations. We have representatives from Barcel
054Junior High School, Lenwood Elementary, Barcel STEM Academy, and the fiscal department. Uh essentially what they'll be doing is uh working towards maintaining an effective ASB program for gates grades K through 12 with a special emphasis on how to maintain fiscal accountability, legal compliance and accuracy within ASB accounts and student activity fund focusing on legal compliance, effective fiscal accountability, identifying and avoiding unallowable fees and expenses and master accounting and financial management techniques. Thank you. Uh I I had pulled out I was just a little bit curious on the the last part um with the student body organization part of it, but good to hear everybody's getting the training. Um good to keep all the dollars in house as much as possible and also following all the rules and laws and all that. So good to hear
055and hopefully we can expand out PTO's uh everywhere around the district. So good stuff. >> Thank you. Does anyone else have any other questions or comments? >> Not at this time. >> All right. Uh, I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Uh, next we have K23, Memorandum of Understanding, PK. >> Uh, Mr. Godfrey. >> Yes, Miss Fischer will uh, present this. Uh Central High School is seeking approval for their PK parent institute for quality education contract. Um similarly we've seen before um Central will be working with PK to offer parenting classes um that regard in regards to um the central high school students. So central high school students will attend these as well. Um and PK uh will
056be offering the courses with um a little bit of SEAL, digital citizenship, um just overall information about how to help their students be successful in school. >> Any questions, comments? >> Yes, I have a question. Um is this the this not the first year for this program, is it? >> Or central? No. And and for the program, no, it's not the first year. What are the numbers that we have >> as far as attendance? >> Yeah. >> Um it does vary by school site. For Central High School, um I know that the contract says up to 50. I believe that they had around 10 the last time that they um offered this class. What um Central is looking at this year, if you might have noticed in the contract, is um they are offering AM
057and PM classes. And this time as well um since it is virtual they're going to um the AM sessions will be virtual but they'll also open up the um school in case parents don't have um technology to be able to access the zoom the parents can come into the school and the zoom session will be um broadcast for them so that they have the opportunity to be able to participate in that manner. Okay. >> So they're hoping to have more in attendance in that manner. So, at what number will we not have this? At what number of participation will we not have it? >> Um, >> I think for the most part PK will hold the sessions >> um regardless. Uh, I know that it mentions in there, um, you know, like maximums and that
058type of thing, but uh, but they've been working with us, especially knowing that Central High School is a continuation high school with a low population, right? Um, I don't foresee that they would not hold the courses the course for the parents. >> No, I I'm sure of that. But at what point based off the numbers you got in who want to do this, >> are we going to say, "Well, it's not really worth it because you only got two two parents want to do it." >> I see you don't think >> I I do, but I think that even if we had one parent, we'll still hold the classes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. Because even one parent is one parent who we can reach. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Anybody else? >>
059Um, I I'll just say a comment. I I think the classes are great. I think anything that we can do as far as building those bridges, connecting those dots, I I think any any amount is is a good amount. So, uh, I I'm a strong advocate for that. So, I think it's all good stuff. Um, with that, can I get a motion to approve? >> So, move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Uh, next we have K25 consultant agreement, Missoula Children's Theater. >> Yeah. Mr. God, >> yes. Uh Barca Fine Arts Academy is requesting approve a proposal for hosting a week-long drama camp at Barca Fine Arts Academy to be held during the parent teacher conference week. Um basically what they're looking to do is um work in partnership with the Missoula
060Children's Theater. Uh the program will offer a new unique opportunity for students to engage in a comprehensive theatrical experience culminating in a live performance. It happens after school. Grades one through four are invited to come participate and to um it's not try out. What is it called Rebecca? >> Audition. That's the word. I am not a performer. So u they all get a chance to audition. Um students are selected to hold roles. Uh generally they're able to offer roles to every student who wants to uh engage. Last year in 2023 24 there were 62 63 students that were able to participate and it covers all of the FAPA standards that Barcel Fine Arts Academy um was uh developed as a school for and this is another effort to move in that direction and I think
061you'll see later on in our agenda if it's not this one it might be the one coming. We're um requesting that more staff be um hired for that school to really ensure the vapid experience across all four genres. And this is presented to you for your approval. >> It it it he answered all my questions. >> He answered all my questions. So, thank you. You're welcome. >> No one else has any questions. Can I get a motion to approve? Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Uh, next we have K31 SBCSS agreement number 2526 0355 Sanino County Superintendent Schools. >> Yes. Uh, Dr. Reid. >> Yes. Hi. Good evening. Uh, this is being brought to you for approval. It is a contract agreement with Sanino County Superintendent of Schools and Desert Mountain SULPA. We contract
062with them for occupational therapy and physical therapy for students who are on section 504 plans. Um they those are students who don't qualify for an IEP. So they have a 504 plan due to um a disability and the 504 plan supports them and many times they have occupational therapy or physical therapy. So we have to contract out for those services. Uh so this contract is brought to you for approval. Anyone have any questions on these comments? >> So, it's it's 7,800 per student up to 10. How many do we normally have in in any given year? >> Last year, two, it's usually around two, one to two per year. >> So, what I was concerned about, so if say we have three, the total contract is 93,000. If it goes over that that way you're
063concerned. >> What I'm concerned is if we only use three, do we still pay the 93? >> No, we contract with them and they bill us for the services rendered. >> Got it. >> So as Yeah, >> that's what I want to know. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else have any questions or comments? >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Some move. >> Second. All in favor? I >> and K22 Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Breathe Mobile Program School Site Agreement uh 2025 to 2030. >> It's actually K32 and it's going to go to Dr. Reed as well. >> This is for the Sanino County. We um it doesn't cost us anything. It's a free service. is very much like the vaccination clinics that we have for the immunizations. They come and the
064breath mobile will service students who have asthma. They'll do um screenings for them. It's like a checkup for those students. The parents can sign up for an appointment. We can refer them. They build through medical insurance. So, there's no cost to the district. We are allowing Arrowhead Regional Medical Center to utilize our facilities to bring the breath mobile to drive it and park it and have the students come and be seen. >> Nice. Um do they if say if if you like a student has asthma, they either get identified or they already know whenever they go there. How does do they just talk to the say their insurance carrier or like say a student needs an inhaler or something because they have asthma. Does that do they connect those dots or do they just let
065the parents know or how does from that point does that >> they they will inform the parents of what is needed. Um they help with if it's medication they they help with those treatments. We have our school nurse who is available to also facilitate that information from the Arrowhead Regional to the school site if medication if parents need to get approval for medication to be taken at the school site. So they help facilitate that. Um I also they provide the medications they help support that >> type of therapy. >> Thank you. Anyone else have any other questions comments? Uh, I'll make the motion to approve. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I believe that's everything. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Now we can go into discussion discussion items.
066Uh, first general uh L11 information on revisions to board policies and administrative regulations in the 6000s. And this is uh information item for this reading to allow the board to review board policy 6141.2 recognition of religious beliefs and customs 6 uh 6 point 4.1.2 2 sorry.1 sexual health and HIV AIDS prevention instruction and 6142.1 same sexual health and HIV AIDS prevention instruction and 6142.8 comprehensive health education policy and these are the draft review for the board and they will be brought back at the September 9 board meeting for approval. September the second one in September. >> September >> 23rd. >> Yes. >> Board vating for approval. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Uh next we have educational services L21 Barstow area consortium for adult education 2526 consort consortium designate
067appointment. >> Yes. Uh Mr. Godfrey. >> Yes. Uh we have been part of the BACAE group uh for at least 10 years now. I've been involved of it for all 10 years. Thank goodness. Um our state changed the way the way that they uh funded adult debt and moved away from a direct funding model to a consortium model. Um and about two or three years in they moved back to a direct funding model where we are funded by the number of students that we enroll. um not only do we uh have to enroll them but they have to metriculate uh similar to what we do with TK TK through 12. It's not just enrollment, it's also it's also attendance. Um at the adult ed level, there's a requirement for an assessment pre and post. There's
068also a requirement to um report how many credits if it's a high school graduation program, how many credits are being earned. If it's GED test prep, there's a requirement to uh report how many uh students completed the program and also passed the test. With that, um we're required as members of the consortium to have two designates that represent Barcai School District on your behalf. Um and in this item, we're requesting that uh my colleague here, our CBO, as well as myself, assistant superintendent of educational services, be identified as the two representatives to this consortium. And dur if with that we do uh vote on your behalf for items that come up. >> Thank you for the information. Um I wasn't an initial question that I had but as you were talking I developed one. Um,
069so if with switching back as far as the the funding model going back on ADA, does it work the same like how on our end on K12 as far as our staffing has to be on total numbers and then we only get paid on ADA? Is it the same in the adult ed where like your total enrollment is how the staff based? >> Um, that's a local decision. It depends on your uh teaching model. If you have an independent studies program, uh you can probably have more students per staff, for example. Um in our case, we mirror a lot of what is happening at Silver Valley Unified School District where it's mostly an independent studies model. Um the other component that's important to remember is the GED test prep, which I would say about 25%
070of our enroles take advantage of that. So yes, in some cases, but they are kind of two separate decisions. >> Yes, makes sense. Thank you. Does anyone else have any other questions, comments? I just hear a lot of good things about it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I don't ed a lot of good things about our adult. >> Yeah. And if you attend our graduation, it's one of the best in town. We'll >> make sure I do that. >> All right. Uh, can I get a motion to approve? Don't move. >> Second. All in favor? I I >> All right. Uh, next we have pupil services L41 purchase order August 5th, 2025 to August 18th, 2025. >> It's actually business services. That will be handed over to Mr. Beaton. >> And I'm >> It's okay. All
071over the place on this one. >> No worries. Uh the district is recommending the board approve 111 purchase orders listed in the attached purchase order board report totaling 6 million $157,191.33 big numbers u I was curious on the full mines with the two different uh amounts and purchase orders. What the reason for the differentiation? >> So for the top line there you see that that'll be the teachers that we're uh employing and then on the second line the 6500 resource that's for our case managers and so that's the reason we diff. >> Okay. Um, one thing to point out too, we have that uh we contracted for that amount, but we're only going to be invoiced for um services that we're using. So, we have that flexibility to go up if we need to, but
072uh George has done a great job hiring teachers. So, >> thank you. Does anyone else have any questions, comments? Can I get a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> All right. uh personnel services certificated L6A1 public hearing of provisional intern pit permits or PIPS or educators for the 2526 school year recommending the board of trustees adjourn to a public hearing to provide an opportunity for the board to receive input concerning the proposed provisional intern permits. goes the tongue twister. 603. We'll reconvene uh following a public hearing. recommend that the board of trustees approve the submission to the state of said permits pertaining to specific California teaching credential requirements. >> I get a motion to approve. >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Next
073is L6A2 employment of certificated contract personnel for the 526 school year. >> Mr. Gutierrez. >> Yes. Thank you. So, uh, we have in front right here is, uh, we recommend the approval of Nicole Mccclure. She's going to help us at Skyland Elementary fill a vacancy in third grade classroom. And the hearing that we just had was for her PIP. And the superintendent recommends approval. >> Any questions, comments? >> Sounds good to me. >> All right. Yeah, good to see. Can I get a motion to approve? I approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I. >> And next we have L6A3, establishment of one certificated teaching art position. >> Mr. Gutier. >> Yes. Thank you. So, we're we're uh recommending to the board to approve a certificated art position. We've been trying for many
074years to create a true VAPA pathway at Barter Junior High School, and I think this one closes the loop. We have a we have music, we have dance, we have dram drama and now the art. So I am very pleased to uh bring this to the board for approval. >> Nice. >> Is this um just just in general? Are we hoping perspective for this school year or just in general for the position? >> We have the person >> already. So >> I didn't want to I didn't want to say it, but >> this is a ratification. So she's already started. Cool. >> Yeah. >> Only one? >> No. >> Any other uh questions, comments? >> Uh I'll make the motion to approve. Can I get a second? >> All in favor? >> I uh next
075we have classified L6B1 supplemental assignment translator interpreter Spanish English limited turn substitute. >> Mr. >> Thank you. Uh Dr. Heather Reid, director of people services, identified a need uh to uh provide services for translation interpretation of IEPs and uh we're recommending the board approve the supplemental uh substitute assignment. Are these also related as far as because I know uh Mr. He said we were just doing translator either testing or something in the process. >> So we currently have a limited term person in there supporting the department. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Any other you want to add Dr. Reed? I'm sorry. >> Oh no. Yes. We the additional support translating the IEPs and right now we do have someone working out of class in that position as we're testing and going through the hiring process.
076Any questions, comments? >> All right. Uh, can I get a motion to approve? So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> uh next L6B2, establishment of classified positions. Uh, two custodians. >> There you go. >> Thank you. So what we have before you here is uh present to the board approve of two positions 3.5 hour positions. Uh Mr. Scott Godfrey assistant superintendent of ed services uh is looking to increase services at Barceline Arts Academy and Henderson Elementary to uh support after school programs with the champions program and um it's when we do add more work we need to add more people to the board for approval. >> Makes sense to me. Any other questions, comments? Anyways, >> can no subs move into that position? >> Potentially. Yes. >> Ranked. >> Yes. >> Can
077I get a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> and L6P3 approval uh approve the duties of the nutrition services operation manager. >> Mr. >> Yeah, thank you. And we actually have a guest speaker for this item uh >> um good evening board, executive board, and the rest of the board. Um, I'm Veronica Calderon. I'm director of nutrition services. Um, I have been here I'm going on my third year in January and um, I I do have to say it's been an absolute uh, pleasure and I do have to echo on the positivity. Um, definitely have been welcomed. Felt like a superstar at Cameron. I was like, "Oh, wow. Secretaries made me feel great." So, um I definitely appreciate the positivity and I am pushing that and encouraging
078our staff as well. Um our staff has had a very positive start of the year as well. Um so to give a little bit of history on where this position um came about, probably within my first year, I realized um we have a big department. Our department services um the entire vars unified school district. In 2018 2019 there were 10 school sites, one central kitchen. Um now in 24 in this 2425 school year we went up to 13 school sites with one central kitchen. Um the schools that were added were Barstow Fine Arts Academy, Barstow Intermediate and Engles. Um in addition we um used to serve save the children that has been replaced by champions um and we are servicing more schools and students. The services I can attest have doubled in size since save
079the children. Um school meals more than more often than not we have children that these are the only meals that they're receiving for the day. And so I feel strongly that our department is vital to the success of our students academic su success. Um in 2223 there were 65 positions in nutrition services. Um when I came in there were 22 vacancies. So about a third of the workforce was not filled. In 2324, we made a great uh positive um forward motion within our department and went from 65 positions and only six vacancies. Fast forward to this school year, um we started with having 65 positions available and we we had 10 vacancies. Um we have since worked on adding positions so that we can directly provide services to champions um and ensure that we have
080the accountability, transparency and are doing um the services that are required for our students. Um with the added positions we are at 18 vacancies. I did not realize that we had fine arts also joining champions. So hopefully soon we'll be adding one more position which takes us to a total of 72 positions, 13 sites and one central kitchen that I manage with I do have to introduce Tammy Trillo is here along my side as one of my right-hand persons um and Stanley um >> Stanley T. um between the three of us um we we handle everything um when it comes to nutrition services. Um additionally we have three active substitutes that support our entire department. With that um I am excited to share that some of the positive things that we have done is we've
081revamped our high school services. We continue to refine and revamp our junior high services. Um, we are bringing in equipment to support our growth and the change in the elementary and the secondary levels of service. Um, and our goals and priorities are to continue bringing in fresher options, including increased scratch cooking, which we currently do fully from scratch once a week, as well as semi-cratch cooking, which we currently do at least another two times a week. Um, we have started implementing fresher produce options as well as working on quality versus quantity. Um, we've redeveloped SOPs and we've established our procedures throughout our nutrition department as well as rolled out additional professional development to all of our nutrition service staff and revamping this year's annual training. Um, sorry, I got a little flustered, nervous. Um the
082focus for our manager that is needed for our department um is to provide support to all of our staff. Um I am one person and I strongly feel that my role is for the development of our menu providing services to our staff program management but um I am looking for additional staff to provide the much neededed service that our staff needs. Um the goals and focus for our manager is going to be an emphasis on monitoring food safety and maintaining all of the health standards, continuing to refine and enhance our nutrition service department. Continue to elevate and provide support to increase the quality of our food. Increase on-site monitoring and support and supporting with the evaluation of our employees. Um, the growth throughout our program includes over 19,000 breakfastes served more this last year in
083comparison to the 2324 school year. Over 11,000 more lunch meals than in the prior school year. Over 21,000 suppers have been served more than the prior school year and 9,000 more summer school meals prior than the 23 24 school year. In total, that is over 61,000 meals, approximately almost 2,000 uh 62,000 more than in the last school year. I have to applaud and thank my team um for all that they have done, but with this position, I feel that we will be able to better serve our staff so that they in turn can better serve our students. >> Thank you, Miss CO. And this item is presented to the board for approval. We have any questions, comments? >> Yes, I got your right-hand man there. I uh worked with her at the high school and
084she was a cafeteria worker and I was a custodian and I can remember her helping the my football players and stuff. One of guy was was acting up in the classroom and I walked up to I'm going to tell Tammy on you go, "Oh, please don't tell Tammy." And I think she remembers the guy's name, but we won't say it here. He's a big guy. looked like he just beat him up. >> You want to see him in the dark alley? >> Thanks for your service, Stanny. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else have any other questions, comments? All right. Can I get a motion to approve? >> I move we approve. >> I second. All >> in favor? I >> Does anybody have any items from future board meetings they'd like to bring up?
085Yeah. All right. And can I get a or do we need to go to another close session? >> No. >> Okay. Uh can I get a motion to adjurnn? Move. >> All in favor? >> I 617.