001s 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 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 additional persons speak only if they have
002something 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. Do we have any this time? No this time. And it is 405 and we'll close session. Heat. Yeah. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Oh yeah, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. I can't let you go. There's no way. I'm already so still burning. So holding me
003close now, baby. I do what I'm told. Still learning. To take my chances, to take my time. To keep on dancing. To walk that line. Yeah. You got me shifting the paradise. No longer wishing. You're my lucky ride. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey. freaking heat. I know you. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. N. Hey you. Hey. Hey down. I want you. Heat. Hey, Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. feeling. Give me a Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. It is 507 and we'll call the meeting back to order. Uh in close session, the board action to reject the claim of damages for claim number
004311 0. Uh the vote was unanimous at four eyes and zero nays. And we're moving into presentations. BHF's athletics presentation. Mr. Mr. Williams. Well, good afternoon. I'm Vince Williams. I'm the district athletic director for Barcel Unified. This is my fifth year as a district ad, 17th year as a overall, my 32nd year in education. Um, if you go next, the schools that I oversee are Baro High School. They're part of the Desert Sky League and the CIF section. We have a total of 20 teams that we build. Baro Junior High is part of the High Desert Athletic League Association. They're part of the large schools and they have nine teams that they they build. Bar STEM Academy is part of the high desert athletic league. Um they're just six through eight and they also build
005nine schools. I wanted to present to you how we are funded and some of the expenditures that we have. Um, two of the ways that we are funded are through student funds. Um, those are monies that are typically raised through student le activities like ticket sales for athletic events and managed under the oversight of the school student government. And the other is through general funds. And there are public monies allocated to school districts by the state and used to cover the broad operational expenses of running schools. I'll start with the general funds that we use and the the expenditures for them. Uh most of it is uh goes into coaching siphons. That's uh $186,545. We have a total of 78 uh coaching positions. For Barsa High School, it's $146,571. Bara Junior High, $23,292. STEM is
006$16,682. Um the next one is transportation for athletics. That's travel for student athletes and coaches to and from athletic events and competitions, buses, and district owns. For the first semester of last year, it was $68,069. I don't have the numbers for the second semester, but for the year of 2324, for the total year, it was 133,623 for the year. The next one is uh uniform services and equipment. Um that's $80,61. That's sports equipment and uniforms for the three schools. Um if you look over to the left on general funds, the sample expenses, those are just a few of the sample expenses that we have. football helmet reconditioning that we do every year. We have to recondition uh over a 100 helmets. Um we usually have about 10 helmets that are rejected. So we have to
007have buy new ones every year. So that's a little less than 9,000 or helmets and shoulder pad replacements. Um the home campus program that we use is $1,000. The huddle program is 4,600 and training supplies about 1,500. So those are just some of the the uh expenses that we have under uniform services and expense. Um one more the participation dues I'm sorry that general fund pays for the CIF state dues for the high school that's $1,860. Um for the CIF subsection dues is $1350 of those. So those are the expenses that we take out of the general fund. Next one is student funds. Um I think the biggest chunk out of it is is our officials. If you look over to the right, uh certified referees or hires for athletic events with compensation that includes
008a game predium and mileage reimbursement for travel. We use arbitary pay to pay for those officials. That comes out to about $40,000. and that is for the high school, that's for STEM, and that's varsity junior high for all of our athletic events. Um, there's fees for athletic tournaments that cover the cost of entry optional events such as invitationals or postings and tournaments that fall outside of the regular league schedule. That comes up to about $10,000. Um, some of the additional dues and fees that we pay out of the student funds is the Desert Sky League dues, which are $1,500, the High Desert Athletic League fees, which are $1,165 per school. That's for Barca, Junior High, and STEM, and the CIF Esports is 100. And then there's additional costs of $8,000. That's a annual amount allocated
009or any expenses related to the hosting and playing of any athletic competition at any of the preschools. So these are all the funds that are taken out of the the student funds. Okay. Capital outage projects. So, some of the projects that were funded by the district over the last five years, um, since I've been in this job, we have new scoreboard and on the football field, uh, new scoreboard on the softball field, a new scoreboard on the baseball field, a new scoreboard in the Barsa High School gym, and a new scoreboard in Barca Junior High School gym. Um last year uh we bought new football bleachers for the visiting site and we'll have a chance to to use them for the first time in August. Um we resurfaced the tennis courts. Um we've got the
010Barcel High School gym floor painted and resurfaced along with new wall pads and scores tables. Um we replaced the infield at the Barcel High School baseball field and a new weight room and we resurface it's not on there but we resurface the gym floors at bar 59 and when I say we I was saying the district funded that um next one conclusion student athletics is the most communityf facing activity in public schools bringing together families alumni and local supporters through games and events it builds teamwork discipline and school spirit among students while fostering community pride and sharing identity. Given its positive impact on impact on both student growth and community engagement, continued investment in athletics is a worthwhile and meaningful commitment. Like to thank you for your attention. Do you have any questions? More have
011to ask. Look at me. Turn to look at me like what is your total budget for the whole year? I don't I I could have just added up the numbers. I just did. I don't know why. You mean what did we spend on all of athletics? Yeah. For the year. And I couldn't find it in the budget when I was looking for it. It's a little harder because they come from different right actions. I've never I could figure it all out how much it costs for everything, but right now it comes from different places, different accounts. Um, as far as any accounts that I'm in charge of, I'm not in charge of any of the accounts, right? So, but that's something that I could find for you. I'm sorry. I I I can get that
012information. Okay. Um, you talk about um the new you got a new weight room, a new weight equipment for the high school. A new weight room up in the Well, this was my first year as athletic director. Um, they where the old up in the U shop area. They gutted that room, redid everything in that room. Should have brought a picture. So, if you have to buy new equipment for the weight room, does that come out of your budget? As far as the athletic director, no, but the school pays for it. The district general funds pays for it. Okay. Okay. Um, I'm good. Well, finally something on the agenda that's in my wheelhouse. Hey Vince, this uh dues that we send to CIF, I that's about the only thing I didn't I mean I know
013we have it's we have to pay them. Yeah. No, no, no. I know. I mean that was the only thing I seen on there that was new to me. I mean, you know, as far as we've been paying them forever and every year they go up and it's it's just what the C state says we have to pay them dues. Yeah. $100. we have to pay them dues. Our league, we have to pay dues and that's something that's before we even get started. So all those dues that come out of our accounts and we haven't even started anything. Go ahead. And you know be it was a game where was it at Burroughs and asked one of the referees how much he was getting paid and he thought I was asking him for social security
014number. How much did he get paid for one game of football? man, like a football game was awesome for the one guy probably $135 and the travel pay uh $40 depending on where they come from. So, we're talking about $7 or $800 per game. Yeah. Yeah. And like for track, we we don't run track at the high school, but we go to other schools and have our track meets there. We have to host, so we have to pay. It cost $1,000 to have a timer there. The the officials are killing us. I mean, everything is just going up. It used to be that we could pay for a lot of things just out of the student funds. We could pay for for a few uniforms. We could pay for all the officials. We could pay
015for equipment. Now, we can barely even cover the officials and and turn. So, it's just getting harder and harder to do it out of the funds that we get. It's kind of tough to uh give like for baseball and softball, you know, they're not bringing in any revenue, you know what I mean? They're all piggy pecking on football, you know? So, football is is basically our money maker. We make up we make the money through the year and it has to last the whole year for all the sports that don't make any money like basketball, wrestling, and volleyball. We'll make enough hopefully to pay for their their officials. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But uh and it's getting more and more expensive even for the junior highs. Used to be $35 a game. Now
016it's $50 a game and they want to race. So the junior highs have to pay for that. So we have to raise money for for those um those games also. Yeah. Because a lot of people start saying, "Well, baseball don't get this. They don't get that, you know, but they, you know, they they're not really pitching in that much, you know." Well, I I I hardest it's hard to say. You know what I mean? Because I'm a sports guy. You know, we do our best to get every sport the love that they need. You know, sometimes we we fall short, but we try as much as possible to support every What's your dues with all the dues CIF and all them others. What do we get out? I know we have to pay. That's Yeah,
017I understand that. Um I guess they sponsor like CIF CIF game will get here and they they have state tournaments and they have all these they play for all these things but you know if we don't go to the state tournament they don't I mean we I don't want to say anything bad we don't get a lot out of it. I mean, will they sponsor a lot of things? It's it's like it's like paying car insurance. You never have an accident, you just pay car insurance forever. Um because I you know I that is interesting. We pay them enough. But and I think every school pays that or every school district pays that or even more depending on the size. What do they get back in return? That' be interesting. Well, it's hard to I
018would say they give us certificates. Uh they they sponsor programs. Um to be honest, I don't want to say anything bad. You get a lot out of it. Yeah. But you know, we have to pay to be part of their organization. Sure. Yeah. Vince, you're probably paying for the commissioner and the staff if you add up everything. Yeah. Except for the southern section maybe because there's there's a separate section for CIF, right? I'm sure it's probably you're paying for the commissioner and all his staff. Exact like the the logistics behind it, right? If somebody's got to tally all these scores on an official side that's not us or the opponents, it's probably website that kind of and when you host a say a CIF football game, do they help you up like for the staff
019to pay some of the staff? Like if you're hosting um you they everything goes by PayPal now or not PayPal Goofund or I don't know you have to pay electronically. Yeah. They get all the money and then we we put in for like expenses it cost this much for ticket takers this for security. Yeah. They'll deduct that and whatever the uh balance is it'll be 6040. They get 60 and then the two teams split the 40. really it doesn't really pay to have a home game and let you know we get the sessions out of it, right? So, so that's just a CI. Yeah, I remember that part of it, you know. Yeah. Work the CIF game. Heck yeah. Yeah. You know, I I I asked for this because, you know, I being out there
020in the nonprofit world, you get a lot of people coming to you asking for donations for I used to never support the school district teams. I used to never I never did because they have their own funding. But then you learn that well, it's not exactly what you think, you know. Um, and you know, right now I'm looking at the junior high school with their um, weight room equipment. It's all ruined. So, we have to buy new ones. Um, and that's the bill. I saw $42,000. For what, for the weight equipment? For the weights. For the uh, junior high school cuz they they lost it all when they redid the junior high school. They had to lose it. it got destroyed cuz they set it outside. Um so um and cross country team, you know,
021I I I see them every year. I see them every year. Um and I warn them. I'm like, okay, we can't exclude them. At least I can, you know, but um you know, some of the team they'll they'll go out and raise their own money. If they want extras, they'll go out and raise money. Yeah. That's so when they're going out and asking for funds, that's what they're asking for extra. Well, we just we just god god knows I don't know how much money we spent, but we the cross country team. We got them training equipment and popup tents and I did jerseys last year um for their away games, you know. Um, and I listened to them. You know, when I came on the board, I asked the question. Yeah, I agree. Now, my
022thing is and maybe directed to you guys. How do we increase their how can we increase their money? you certainly will take a look at that. I just think it's something I mean I trust me I have no problems with being a booster for all of them. You know I know look um football team has their own boosters. Um but you know baseball doesn't have boosters and nor does basketball or softball or like you said they just go out parents go out and raise money for them and try kids and the money that they raise that money goes to our ASB accounts. Yeah. So if they don't have their own booster, whatever the money they raise, it goes into ASV accounts and then they spend it. Yeah, exactly. Well, thank you. Appreciate you're welcome. Um,
023just to to kind of go back then talk about like the Desert Sky dudes. Um, we buy they buy plaques for all the the coaches of the year, the players of the year, you know, first place team. So there there's there's cost involved that you know it's hard for me to come up with credit but there's cost involved for each league and what they do. I know in the Desert Sky League all that money is spent uh for finals they pay for the officials. Um so for the Desert Sky League I know all where that goes to and I'm assuming that CIF does the same. Vince I've got a question uh concerning our track program. uh we can't use our our facility. We What's the reason with Okay. Three out of the five uh teams
024in our league have artificial tracks. So when we are assigned a meet, but you know thinking of the kids where we have them run on artificial track or on our you know to be on this hard surface that's needs improvement. Uh, so we we decide us and Grant Hills both have dirt tracks that aren't very usable. So we go to the other schools and have our track and we just advantage to have Yeah, it's an advantage to our our kids and that's why we mostly do that. There's really nothing wrong with our track. is just that uh if we go run on a all all purpose well track our track since we haven't used it in a long time it it does need some work it's pretty hard the dirt is hard if if we
025put some money into it we could um it's just you know it's not it's better for our kids to get better times when we go to other schools yeah and that's that's what we focus on when we we schedule them there but then that was cut down on travel costs, transportation costs if we have some. Yes, I would love to check. It would be really nice if we check, but there's a lot of things that needs to be recently. Sound like a good capital project. Yeah. A question that maybe I'm not sure all of you may know. I don't know exactly the best place to ask it directly, but with some of the costs and particularly say like the medical expenses with the ambulance and with the officials one historically I'm I'm assuming that we
026this is how it's always been done meaning that the that's coming from the student side of funds and also with that is is that just the general how everyone is doing business meaning like say like all the rest of the schools and the other districts having the students funding through ticket sales and that side paying for the officials andor the ambulances. Is that like common practice everywhere? I don't I don't really know. So I don't know who I thought this under CIF you have to you have to have an ambulance there, right? Yes. Yeah. It is a requirement. Well, I don't mean whether we have it or not. I'm saying is where the funds are coming coming from. How it's funded. Yeah. So like I see that we're doing it through the student side through
027the tickets, but is that a been common practice for Barstow and B is that just common practice kind of like the proverbial everywhere meaning Victorville, you know, etc., etc. Is that kind of how everybody does it or I don't like I said I don't really know. I don't know if you guys know or I know um been around a long time. So when I first started ASB used to make enough money to pay for everything for the all the fees for CIF for state for for league duties we were able to pay for it and then slowly you know we can't coordinate anymore so that uh lot the school would pay for it out of general funds same and but we're getting to a point where the officials are so expensive now we could I
028I think we need some kind of help in that situation. I I don't know. I know for sure like the victim schools uh they'll pay for like the helmet reertification, any kind of safety equipment and things like that. So that would be something to look into if if we wanted to to um change some of the funds that that comes out of. I I think it puts a a big u disadvantage to some of our principles who have to you know have to decide they have to do we buy this for athletics because we have to pay all these dudes or do we use it somewhere at the school. But there there are a lot of projects that a lot of like to do the capital overlay like for baseball. We need a a new
029like batting cage turtle. I mean because we can't practice baseball and have batting practice while we're having a soccer game because balls are we're right next to each other and that broke last year and that's like $10,000. So there's a lot of things that would like steel if you have some responsibility. Vince, I was going to ask you if uh you ever find yourself short where you don't you don't have the funding so you you can't do the you just mentioned the batting case. Uh and imagine there's I have a whole list. Yeah. Cheerleading mats. We've had him uh I don't know how many years, but I know Claire Claire Ellis a lot of sports. My first long time a long time. Yeah. You know, you know, as an old athletic director, I know exactly
030what you're going through. You know, you make a list of all the things your wish list and uh and you some someday you're going to get funding. uh bar so stand they play their games in the old uh girls gym and I'd like to fix that for them like we did for Barca junior high so they have the same type of opportunity you know there's a lot of things that I'd like to do but I understand I mean it's tight I but uh the still has a wish list that like to take care of you said the girls do the girls do yeah Yeah, that'd be nice. You know, we have a heater in there now. They have a new boil. So, there's a lot of good things happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember sweeping
031water out of there every year, cussing everybody out in the world. You know, what I I understand that we we allocated some funds for the the locker room in the boys. Is that the football? Um they did uh there was some bad leaks in there. I know they redid the roof there, right? And they're they're trying to get had a big uh skylight, remember skylight in there where you can look up. They got rid of that and just closed it in so it doesn't leak anymore. But I mean it's nice to have that locker room. It's it's not brand new, but it's it's a night, you know, it's I like it. It's old school. Yeah. Have you seen the locker room at the junior high school? Oh yeah. That place doesn't make any sense to
032me. It just where the showers were. There's nothing there. And these lockers. Well, I think I used them when I was in Well, when those little small ones were there when I was there, you know. Yeah. Long time ago. And that's back when we had to take showers. So, that shower area was wasn't usable. But I It looks nice in there because there's nice lockers there now. I don't know when the last time you did there. uh about two months ago. Two months ago. Yeah. So, those lockers that are there now are a lot nicer than what we had before. And the floors look nice and it has brand new uh scoreboards. Yeah. Yeah. It's really I like it. It's small, but that's good for Exactly. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? I just wish we
033could give you more money. Yeah. Don't got a magic wand here. Yeah. And it's mostly just I'm here to to tell you, you know, how our funds are spent. Um what we use it for and who pays and that we're trying our best to to satisfy your Thank you very much. We'll work real hard. Thank you. Appreciate you. Hang in there. All right. Uh next we have the approval of the minutes from the regular board meeting May 27th, 2025. believe that is the one. I know that's not everybody was saying. Okay. Just making sure that wasn't the one I was asking. Can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? I uh next is business from the floor. The board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum
034to comply with the brown. 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 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 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
035or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they 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 in 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. None this evening. Thank you. And next we have staff reports monthly cash report uh June 30th 2025. Thank you. Uh the monthly cash report at the June 3025 indicates a positive cash flow. Uh the district has 80,932,278.31
036as noted in the San Berno County Superintendent of Schools Treasury report and presented to the board as an information item. Um, thank you. I did want to put just a reminder, I know this isn't directly for you, so this will be over to Mr. Beaten, but from the last um board meeting as far as with the um the funds, you know, reducing with the ESRE dollars and what that will look like moving forward with that. Just I know that's not a right now question, but just a reminder for him on that. I will I will relay the reminder and the message. Thank you. Did anybody else have any other? All right. Uh, next we have the superintendent report. Yes. Thank you. So, I do have a um a message from the superintendent. Good afternoon, board
037members, staff, and guests. Please allow me to begin by thanking assistant superintendent Hoy Gutierrez for stepping in for me at tonight's board meeting while I'm in Tennessee visiting with my daughters and grandchildren. Our our 2025 summer school program was a great success with approximately 304 students participating at Barcel High School. 143 students at Barcel Junior High School junior high and 343 elementary students engaging in programs at Crestline Monter and Henderson. Both staff and students enjoyed a positive and re and enriching experience throughout the summer. On Thursday, July 17th, 2025, the board of trustees and the superintendent will be holding a special board meeting. The meeting will be board governance workshop discussing board and superintendent roles and responsibilities. The workshop will be conducted by members of the San Bernino County Superintendent of Schools Board Governance Support.
038On Friday, July 25th, 2025, the board of trustees and the superintendent will be attending board retreat. We we will meet in the morning at Los Domingos for breakfast and get to know you activities. Then we will make our way to flying colors in Apple Valley to put our artistic style to work. I look forward to our time together as we work to ensure every every student in Barc 5 school district is provided a safe environment conducive to learning. And that is the message from our superintendent, Miss Diana. weird to talk about yourself in the third person. I almost stopped when it says the third person like what it was very weird. I almost stopped. You did that. Oh, yeah. I was like, "All right. Uh, board reports." M Williams, I see we put the um
039we're working on Cameron putting the PCs in on top of the roof or that was a good thing. Um glad to see that. Um glad summer school went went well. Um, just so you know, um, Mr. uh, the pio. Okay, there you go. Or Mr. Chavez. Um, he posted on the school website that I won an award down in for Molina Health. I normally don't put that stuff out, but anyway. But um we were I was granted it was a Molina um community champion for the Inland Empire and I was one of three who got the award and it's a $5,000 um award to a nonprofit that you could donate to a nonprofit. Of course, I donated it to my nonprofit, which in turn I will donate it to the school district for um as
040part of the don donation, but um to help support the um Barcel junior high school getting their way way back. So um I'm looking forward to that. I'm working hard on that. Getting more people to cough up money, you know, which I like to see people cough up money. It's always good. Um, but it's for a good cause because we want to get those kids um the weight equipment back to help them out. Um, start them young. That's what we say. And um, other than that, that's it. Thank you, Mr. Jesus. Congratulations, Mr. Williams. Well deserved. Well deserved. Well deserved. And of course, all our hearts go out to the poor kids in Texas. devastating blood deaths, you know, just seems like it's one bad news after another, you know, and only thing I hate
041about the news is only bad news sells. You never hear about the guy that saved the kid's life and drowned, you know what I mean? You only hear about the guy that drowned the kid, you know? So, that's just the way that goes, you know. And I've uh excuse me a minute, you know. I've also shared when I was on the campaign trail, I said that uh no man, woman, or child group was going to use prayer pressure or intimidation to sway me the way I vote on a Tuesday afternoon. And that's just the way it's going to be. What I say on Thursday is probably the way I'm going to vote on Tuesday, you know. And you guys probably know me by now and that's the way I am. And we're talking about safe
042environment for kids. And that's what I'm all about. I'm not here to protect people, employees. Sure, I'll do it. But I'm here for the kids first. And people can't accept that. They can run against me in three years. Area three, they can go knock at all my relatives doors. That's where I was raised. And uh my uncles lived there, my cousins lived there. And uh good luck. But I'm here to protect kids. That's it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, I would also like to uh offer my congratulations. Appreciate the fact that that money is going to go right back into the district. Good for you. That's all I have. Thank you. Um just also second what everyone else has already said, but congratulations. I know it's a a small thing, but I know
043it's good to hear and be appreciated for all your hard work. I know you do a lot for the kids. Um, also for all the families in Texas. I I couldn't even imagine how terrible that their situation is they're going through. Um, and the only other thing I would just add is uh just a thank you for all the different district employees. Uh, Mr. Williams, just everybody um that comes in to answer all of our questions. Um just thank you to everybody for having patience. Um and all of your knowledge and all the years of information that you have to give us. Um we only get small windows, you know, of information from all of you. So I appreciate everything you guys give to us. So then hopefully we can make uh you know the
044the best educated decisions that we can make based on the information that you guys provide to us. So thank you for that. Um, no student representatives from not this evening. All right. Uh, next we have representatives report. No messages and no one here. No cssea. Everybody's on summer. Okie dokie. Uh, personal commission. Sorry. Good evening. uh uh board members, staff and guests. Uh this is the report from the personnel commission. We currently have two interviews in process. Uh two recruitments are in the testing stage and we have zero recruitments that are open. Our statistics are we currently have 374 classified employees, 176 8our full-time, 123 benefited part-time, 75 non-benefited part-time. And all of these include 15 classified management influence. On the classifications on the security side, we have no vacancies. On the campus safety, we
045do have three vacancies that we're interviewing next week. So, we have scheduled interviews already. Custodial, we have no vacancies at this time. And the the rest that we have to report is that we're scheduling interviews for the TK PAR educator positions already for next week, July 16th, possibly the 17th. There's a lot of openings we're trying to fill. Uh we're currently testing for nutrition services one uh today and tomorrow. For today, we had 28 scheduled to come in and unfortunately we got six individuals to actually show up. So, they told us they were going to come in and test. There was six that actually came in. We're going to try again tomorrow. We have again another 28 candidates scheduled and see how many we actually get. and we'll keep pushing to try to get more
046individuals to actually come to our through to our process. Um, we're scheduling tech testing for the HR technician position already for uh our target date is next Monday, July 14th. So, that is our next uh next classification. Um, the next one after that is we're going to score the translator interpreter position and then move to testing. So, that's the next one in line. Uh, for the campus safety and security trainings, uh, I know I've reported that we're going to be training July 28th, 29th, and 30th at the junior high school NPR room starting at 8:30 a.m. So, I've sent that information to the to the staff and uh, we'll follow up and make sure everybody gets the information before we start. Uh, let's see. for the nutrition services one and two interviews. We're going to
047fill those vacancies as soon as we get a ranked list. Uh following testing, uh we're updating our uh proctor testing instructions and procedures and also the protocols for how we test individuals. So, we're going to be doing a lot of changes on that. We're completing the beginning of the year letters, so those should all be uh sent out already. And then uh on the summer school custodian and the help that I know we talked about over the last couple sessions, we completed summer school the we we finished the u the additional custodial help. However, we asked the sites that if they needed additional help still to let us know and we'll prep, you know, the AWT form and give them the help they need. So there's only one uh school site that replied to us.
048So we'll work with them. They got to give us tell us how many hours they need, how many days, and we'll work to get that figured out. Uh, that concludes my report. Yes, I do have a question and and I've heard you say it many of times, but someone asked me I, you know, they asked the question, you know, cuz you always say testing whether and it doesn't matter what position it is you have testing for. Is that is it a a requirement to test each? Is that a requirement within the school system? No, it is a requirement within the merit system. Okay. The merit system requires testing and that could be an actual test or it could be us scoring like an essay and assigning a test score like a percentage and that'll give
049us rank one, two, three, four, five, right? Or ties. So, we need a form to differentiate the the group, the candidates so that we get a ranked list, right? So that is the easiest way to do it and the best way so that there isn't a lot of objectivity right I mean it's just people taking a test you're getting a score like we all did in a school right for a job and you get a percentage and that puts you on a list of rank you know one to 10 or whatever it is. So that is our requirement. Um we have been investigating with some of our entry- level positions whether um we can do something about particular testing and maybe just do a paper screen because that would that would um uh shorten some
050of that time that to turn that around. So we're we're kind of investigating that to see if I can if if that's allowed through the rules and and I know some of the other merit districts do something similar. So we have to have some more conversation. That's that that was a question that was brought up. Um schoolish takes such a long time that yes, you know, you go through all this process. It takes a long time for them to get say yay or nay. You got job or you don't got job. Yes. Um so and that was a question I was like okay yeah we got a process but I was just I understand the merit system. I got it. Yeah. The merit system has several steps. There are some things that we're looking at
051to utilize technology to try to uh speed up some of the processes. Some of that is the onboarding. Some of our onboarding uh it takes it's a face-to-face uh kind of an interview where individuals have to turn in paperwork. They sign paperwork. There's a checklist. There's a whole process. Sometimes that can take us an hour plus. If we were to digitize that and cut that down to about 15 minutes. So, we're looking into that, right? And some some other ways that we can kind of shorten up that process. uh with the rest of the testing stuff. I I think the the scoring of individuals to qualify to test, but we're also looking at ways that we can improve or streamline that process, particularly with the entry- level positions where there might not be as essential
052to test. Uh the test could be scored us scoring the application and maybe ask the questions directly on the application and score that. So what is the actual length of time from the time you fill out the application and they go through the whole process? So it could that varies with um where they are in the priority list. Some of these classifications like safety and security and pull them to the top so they they go first. Uh so we can fill those in two months now probably. Uh some of the other ones they have to wait in line. So first come first serve. So that may be six months, but no. Okay. But I'm talking about that number one candidate from the time they fill out that application, turn it in, all their testing and
053all this other stuff. How long does in general how long does it take? Yes. So that could be uh two months, four months, and some of the depending if we have a lot of classifications that we're filling, different classifications, whether it's one candidate that's being hired or 20. it sometimes it takes the same length of time to process that particular test rank and get the rank list and move to a beginner. So I mean have you ever heard that that they I I it was surpris so much time that's very common with merit systems that it's a very common comment that we get from people in the public because they're seeing it from the outside. if we didn't have that. Uh, yes. I mean, sometimes people go, they don't even interview, right? They just do
054a paper screen and they're handing out jobs to people. But that's not what's ideal and that's not what uh, you know, the community would like because they want competition and they want to make sure that the system is fair and that there is no net limits there. Have you looked at trying to streamline that? It doesn't take four months, six months. Right. Yes. And so that's where our use of technology is coming in. um we try to um find other um candidate tracking systems. So we use Ed join generally to post our positions and get our applications. So, we're looking at other uh platforms that we can use or maybe we can just use Edjoin as a job posting site and we post a job there, but redirect them somewhere else where as soon as
055somebody fills out a profile, all that information would be prefilled throughout the process all the way into hiring straight to the path even there. So, all that information would be prefilled. So, that would cut down on a lot of the process. A lot of the stuff that we have to do is data entry multiple times, right? So multiple steps because we're paper driven. So if we digitize that, that would that would probably be a big You got a lot of room in the cloud. Yes. That is that is uh our boxes from the spy room are There you go. 750 boxes went. I think you got to hire somebody to watch the boxes, right? Yes. But um also um I want to thank you because I'm sure you guys had part of it. The post
056I seen um about the jobs that were that was available. Um the superintendent had her little speech, but that was a great idea. I think because it gets out to a lot more people than the smaller groups that you have. Um I think gets out to a lot more people. Um I I think that was good. But I just do I do worry about the length of time it takes cuz I I I've always heard you say that but then actually someone spoke to me and said it just takes so long to apply for a job at school district. If you apply in the federal government it's similar if you're hiring an agent over there for customs or whatever. It's about a year from turning in application. I work for the federal government. I applied.
057Takes about two months. One, two years a process. But yeah, so the longest time it takes is getting your start date. That takes forever to see. But no, I I I I understand. I I I didn't I didn't I I just I heard that and it was surprised to me when they said it because I've always heard you say it, you know, the testing and all this other stuff and they said it just takes too long. So maybe something to look at you guys can do to kind of speed up that process. Maybe I'm out of line. I don't know. But no, it's just a a concern that was brought to me. And yeah, also when we get the additional help with the new HR tech position that we're going to get some additional hours
058there, that should that should help. We have a lot of fun to do, so we're going to start. All right. Christine ain't gonna Thank you, Mr. Did you mentioned uh request for extra custodians in the summer and stuff? Which school requested the Henderson requested Henderson. Yeah. So, they're gonna submit a proposal to us and specifically how many hours they need per day and you know the projects that they're going to have work on and then we'll clear that. Yeah, that's right. That sounds right. And then these other schools where the principal is not there, who's going to request it? Uh the SAM couldn't. So, somebody the Sam or Mr. Hooker from the director of maintenance, somebody else can kind of tell us. But we I checked with all the Sams, all the school, all the
059principles before and they replied, right? So, if a custodian shows up and asks Mr. Hooker, "Hey, man, I need some help." Is that going to be labeled as a a troublemaker? And should not it just uh we have to ensure that there's there's work to be done, right? That it's a a good request they need and it's a reasonable request. Yeah. You didn't have to do that to hire a principal, you know what I mean? Some schools, you know? you know, I mean, it's only logical. I mean, it's they need help, you know. I mean, and then superintendent, she said, you know, we're a safe environment. You know, everybody's talking about safe, you know, clean safe environment, you know, we got to go through the Williams Acts and all that kind of stuff. you know,
060I mean, it's it's only, you know, so what what we can do and commit to it for for the next cycle, you know, uh the group that needs to plan for summer school already knows this has to be taken into consideration, which is what I said and it has to be part of the planning and we got to get proposals from the schools to tell us how many hours they're going to need and then fall short this year. That's not like that. You have a I was curious on the on the paras um and I guess partially with with the conversation from the last time with the possibility of splitting the the um the special needs. If if let's just say hypothetically it's something that we would do if we've wanted to. Is that something
061that we meaning our side like the district side would create the position? Again, if like I said, if we were to move forward with an idea like that and then the personnel commission side would hire the position for that or where where like if we wanted to do it, where would the first ball? Well, the first step would be for us to create a job description and then negotiate that. That's the fastest way to do that. And that would that's on yeah our side our side making a proposal with okay CSCA and then from there then create an actual job description based on the description and then it would get over to your guys side. Yes. So new jobs are created have to be initiated here just with the duties right? What is it that
062you want them to do? Yeah. And then once that ball gets rolling if it's in the bargaining unit has to go to bargaining. So what they kind of bargain out there at some point, you know, that might go through their process of approval and 610 and then it comes back to the personnel commission and we we put together the minimum qualifications, everything else that the person would need in order to com you know do make you know get the duties done right, get the job done and then it would be approved on that side on the personnel commission side and then we fill. Okay. And do you know where we are? Because I know at the end of the year we kept trying to have all of the big pair of Palooa and getting everybody
063in where everything shook out as far as how many vacancies that we have how many like where we are as far as getting filled with that. So uh we have paralooa next week next week. So, okay. Uh, July 16th, we have so many candidates that we have to screen that we're going to screen them three or four at a time in different stations because 20 minute interviews because we have to process so many people at the same time. Uh, numbers. Uh you'll see in one of your uh items here that we're we're requesting 20 additional ARTK positions and that's to meet the state mandated requirements of a 10 to1 ratio of adult to student in the classroom. So that just boosted our our universe, right? We're probably looking at about 40 total parents that we
064need to hire. So we're going to process a lot of them next week. Uh and then or we we reserve the following day um the room to do onboarding and which is what I'm telling you on boarding could take us sometimes it takes an hour. We're going to try to do group on boarding, right? So, put everybody in the same room and okay, take out this page, fill it out, right? And we just go one by one. At least do as much of that as we can. And then the individual thing would be the fingerprinting, right? That has to be individual. Some of the other paperwork that is individual, we'll have to do that. Go table to table to try to process those as as quickly as it can. Do we know like a ballpark
065of numbers or are we allowed to know that as far as the total amount of applicants that we got from this round? We have in the we we merged the list. So the last number we had is 62 and but when we merge the list we may get a couple of other ones maybe another 20 out of that. So we might have as many as 80. Now how many of those those actually trickle down to actual people showing up and interviewing going through the process that's that's always a wild card. But this particular position is not as bad as the parend pair of sand. We have a lot of drop offs, right? So we start with 50 and we end up with seven at the end at the end of the process we end up
066with seven because people drop off on us. Okay? And so most likely by the next meeting, which we have a while, we should have a pretty good picture as far as where we're sitting on all of it. By the next meeting, you'll get a board agenda item with actual names of people that are gonna probably be already working because we're going to move on that fast. Yeah. So, you're going to get a big list over there of actual names. Cool. You know, number of hours, etc. So, that's that's going to be a big one next next. Thank you. All right. Bravo. Anybody else? Thank you. All right. Uh next we have the adoption of the agenda with two corrected copies. Uh first is K6A3 extra duty employment certificated contract and the second is A33 the
067wellness together contract. Can I get a motion to approve with two corrected copies? So second. All in favor? I I uh so we have no communications tonight for the consent agenda. Um I do know there's a lot of them. Um did you want to start? I guess we'll start with Mr. Williams. Yes, I would like K25. Okay. K25. Okay, that was it. Did you also want to pull the Oh, the K4 K4 K 4 through six. I'm sorry. Okay. And let's see. Uh the other discussed was L, but that's discussion will already be already be open. Yeah. Okay. Um and so we also had um the three that we had discussed earlier was uh all under pupil services uh K31, K32 and K34. Yes sir. Um I had uh under ed services K21 uh K26
068and K29. Long list. So um did you have any Mr. Pra you'd like? No, I did not. Okay. Did I miss everybody? So we're all good. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda with items pulled? So, move. Second. All in favor? I. Um, are you guys all good as far as tracking with the numbers? One second. Okay. You want to go in order or Yeah, we're going to go. Yep. Just let me know. I know that was a lot. We'll start with K21. Mhm. Okay. uh KG1 inservice education and I'll turn that over to uh my order. All righty, Jaden. Okay, so for our inservice for this board meeting, we have um most of our school psychologists attending on July 25th at our um DM SULPA um in Apple Valley
069a conference or training rather um called understanding dyslexia. So it'll be an all day training and they will be re receiving specific information about um how to help our students in diagnosing well to a certain extent diagnosing dyslexia and the supports that students with dyslexia need and this is submitted to the board for I was just curious as far as what where the students get the help or like say like some of it's self-explanatory as far as meaning like this type of services and a teacher. Um, with the psychologist being involved in like in the process, is it something like the teacher would notice that a student needs assistance somewhere? How does that chain get connected? So, um, and we actually have an item coming up in just a little bit, K25. Yeah. So, um
070we have um the board had previously approved our reading difficulty screener which is mandated now by the state. So, that's our first level. Okay. So, our students will in kindergarten through 2 grade um mandatory unless a parent opts out, but we have chosen to um provide the screening for our students in kindergarten through sixth grade. um we will screen our students and see um what areas um depending on the the screeners that are offered through Dipple. So there'll be different portions of it um that'll come up with a basically you know a level whereas um you know the there's no reading difficulties indicated there's certain indic um reading difficulties indicated and then um through that screener it'll determine whether there is a um potential um for dyslexic tendencies. So at that point the teacher will
071be given um options of interventions that need to be provided for the student in those particular areas that the student is experiencing difficulties and um the student will go into the process of a success a student success team, a student study team and be monitored for progress. um after a certain number of sessions, you could say after a certain number of weeks with intervention, if a student still isn't um it still isn't showing growth in those areas, then that's where our school psychologists would come in. There would be a potential referral for special education testing and our um school psychologists are receiving additional information about how they can support in that process. Okay. I I guess is for the psychologist specifically are they in this capacity with this training is it helping with like say
072like the social emotional side of dealing with having dyslexia or the actual part of the does that you know what I mean the actual educational side or the side or a little bit? It's really a more for this particular training, it's more about understanding um the the neurological conditions of dyslexia and um the testing that's associated with it um the indicators for it. Our school psychologists obviously are not providing the interventions themselves. So what they'll be learning is the additional information because they as school psychologists they have been trained in um portions of this. So they're being this is basically a booster for them. Um and they'll be receiving the information about when they come into the process. um their level of testing, the information they can provide to the school site in terms of
073uh you know parents, the teachers, you know, the students, maybe even themselves about um what interventions and supports they need in the future that are more intensive than what potentially the teacher has provided through our implants and dibbles assessments. Thank you. Anybody else have anything? I take a brief recess. Um, I'll go ahead if we're okay to to do a motion and a vote for this and then take a quick recess. Um, can I get a motion? Second. Okay. All in favor? I. Okay. Um, and it is uh 610. We'll take a five minute recess. Everybody. Okay, it is 6:17 and we'll reconvene from our short recess. And next we'll move to uh K25 amplify McLass dibbles lectura. Yes. Oh, thank you. You literally just reminded me of that. And also we now have all
074five trustees present. Miss Gibbons is now with joining us. And so thank you for that. And yes, now we will go to K2 by amplify and that item is uh hand it over to Miss Fischer. So for this um the board Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Before you start, I just wanted I pulled this because This is a and and this is important. I think all the parents out there and grandparents and guardians need to know that this is happening and and kind of understand because you you answered a lot of the questions the last one. So yeah. Okay. Thank um yeah. So for this one, we had already approved, the board had already approved for us to be able to provide um not only the subscription for the reading screener itself, but also for um
075professional development. So in scheduling all of the professional development over the course of the year, um we noted that there was probably one more that we needed to be able to have. So that's what this is for. It's in addition to the professional development um so that all of our um sites can be um trained in administering the uh the reading screener. As I mentioned previously, this will be for kindergarten mandatorily for kindergarten through 2 grade, but additionally for our school district for students in grades 3 through six because we do know that we have a lot of struggling readers in those grade levels. Um and then um so not only the administration in um in the dibbles assessments but also for um a halfday follow-up training on site for um excuse me um virtually.
076The initial one will be on site. The second one will be virtually to um really dig in and understand the um the information that was received from the screeners and then how the teachers can provide interventions at that point. And this is being provided to the board for approval. Okay. Questions? No, I I I just you know the K through to second grade. I mean, I think it's just very important that, you know, we can get that data now and catch it early. Exactly. So, we don't be finding out in junior high school or high school um that there's a problem. And I just think it's a great idea. And all this stuff is preparing us for that because it starts in next school year. Yeah. Soon. Starts next school year. So, and and I
077thought it was a great idea when I first heard it. just want everybody to know that, you know, we're looking at things a lot better today than we've ever have been um in education, you know, and this is just part of this one of the things that your district is out there doing. So, so thank you. All right. Uh, can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor? I. Uh, next we have K26 consultant agreement. Lexia Voyager. I always say I know it or step up to train. Um, step up to writing training. So, um this is I should say step up to writing training is or I should say materials um program is a supplemental writing program that um we brought back to our district last year. We um had
078many teachers trained in it back years ago when I was in the classroom. Um it is um part of the science of reading uh I guess you could say like ideals or information um because it's very uh it's very I don't want to say scripted but it's very programmatic in teaching writing um it has a it's very structured and so we brought it back last year and this is um to provide additional training over the course of the year with um two trainings for uh initial trainings for our teachers in K8 and then specific genre training throughout the course of the year so that our teachers are learning how to um teach our students how to write a narrative and information or explanatory essay and then also an opinion um essay and then it's also
079for um our teacher licenses so that they can access the um teacher information online and um the um little they call them student handy pages so they're the consumables that go along with it and we are asking for the approval of the board for um continuing step up writing questions at this time. Um I'm guessing by having student handouts I think that's kind of answering my question if it's digital or actually like when we say writing. Yes. Right. Those are two different two different forms. Is that both? Is it specifically one? Okay. Yeah, it'll be both. The handy pages are um it's not a large consumable book. Um they're actually what it kind of is is called the handy pages. So what it is is there's a lot of um graphic organizers and um like
080memory type of um posters and that type of thing that go along with each of the writing genres or just writing in general with step up to writing which is what helps the students understand the structure of writing. So the handy pages um are part of the student um like portion of it. They um there's certain things that they can write in, but for the most part it's more of like a little consumable that they keep throughout the year so that they can refer back to it. Um in addition to say postal post poster support, there's not a student um actual like portal that they would go into or anything like that. they do have to either write or um you know or write um all of the um all of the genres that they
081learn. Okay. I don't know if I was the only but I'm physically handwriting something the way at least for me I know everybody learns in their own modalities but physically writing it out definitely helped me. I know, you know, hey, it's 21st century. We're moving on to technology, but I I do still think there's a large value in the difference between physically putting pen to paper. So, digital has its place, you know, but I do like that are having programs with at least some form of integrated handwriting. I I think that's a great thing. If I may add, I did use it in the classroom as well. uh and it is a comprehensive framework to uh teach students how to write cohesively, how how to write paragraph, topic sentences, supporting details, yeah, examples including sentences
082which translates as early as first grade. Uh and students will write cohesive paragraphs if you if you use that framework to essays in fourth and fifth grade, starting in third grade. And it's color coordinated. The topic sentence are green, the supporting details are yellow, and and the concluding sentence are green. dependent examples already. There's a whole framework that goes along with it and structure. And the benefit with that is that we do have a high mobility rate in our in our school district with students going from school to school. And if we're all speaking the same language and we're using the same structures to close the the the literacy circle, right? Because reading is important, but also writing closes that that literacy circle. And it helps students with it translates into the reading part as
083well because as they're reading they're able to identify topic sentences and concluding sentences and main ideas of paragraphs. So I it'll it'll increase their comprehension as well. So I'm glad that we're bringing this back and it presented to the board for approval tonight. Any other um then can I get a motion to approve? So move second. All in favor? Hi. Uh, next we have is K29, the Barstow Area Consortium Adult Education. Um, I can just go ahead and start with this one. This was just something it's it's anou um that I had just seen a few things and I had a couple questions um just historical information on as and how that translates to what's in theou um that I had spoken uh with the superintendent about. Um, I would like to suggest to table
084the item u just to allow uh her the time to get that information and then bring it back to us if everyone is okay with tableling the item and we don't need to take a photo right for that. Uh next we have pupil services K31 consultant agreement back and I'll turn that one over to Dr. Williams. Sure. So, I'd like to give some information around one, two, and four kind of globally. And I talked about the two, pardon me, the three different uh vendors that we're asking the board to approve tonight. So, in April, as part of the uh consolidated app, one of the things that we have is how we're going to plan on spending our categorical funds. And one of the funds, title 4, talks about providing students with a with access to
085a well-rounded education. And one of the ways that we said that we would provide that as a district is through um expanding our social emotional learning curriculum that's available. At the last meeting, the board approved um our core curriculum, navigate 360. That'll be our kind of every classroom, every student core curriculum for um social emotional learning. Tonight we have three supplemental either curriculums or items that we have been used uh using in the past and are already familiar with our district um that we're asking the board to approve the contracts for them for the upcoming school year. So the first one in K31 is a vendor PAC which we'll use u mostly in TK through 5 though it is available uh for training purposes in TK through 8. Um, the program itself does go up
086to high school, but we have not identified that as use within our district. It's going to be available for teachers and it's designed to do whole group lessons as well as some guidance lessons or counselors pushing into classrooms and doing lessons. So, in addition to the um the core curriculum, this is an additional curriculum through Pikapac that has been identified by our committee uh for use within the district and we're bringing it to the board five for your group. Yeah, you know, I have a couple questions. You know, when I was a custodian, you know, they go around and they get us these equipments for the gym floor and stuff, you know, and actually was really nice for them to give it to us, but, you know, there's actually other ones that if they had
087come and consulted with us, you know, district would have saved some money and everything would have been fine and dandy. I guess what I'm getting at that the the foot soldiers are going to be doing this to implement this. Were they consulted or were they asked or Yes, I don't have the makeup of the committee but people services did u have multiple meetings with um teachers and administrators who um have been implementing these programs. A lot of times we went through the process similar to what you said where we would get a trial or we would purchase it for a year to ask teachers to implement it. I know that there was a lot of programs available and were given to teachers to use and we did get feedback on. And so specifically with the
088supplementals is the reason why we're bringing a variet or the reason we're asking the board to approve a variety of um I'll call them smaller programs because like I said the three uh sweet 360 was the large comprehensive one. Um but based on the feedback from our teachers, our administrators and our teachers on assignment, there was like, hey, this this part isn't present in this one big package. And so we want to have this for, in this case, our teachers to do whole group lessons. Uh some of the ones that I'm going to be talking about are specific to counselors. Some of the ones that I I'll talk about a little bit later specific to a grade level or maybe to administrators in a tier 2 or tier three setting. And so, um, these are
089being brought based on that feedback and based on a kind of a, uh, framework of where they fit in. And so, how those, uh, the scope and sequence of those is going to continue to be worked on by that group of teachers and administrators. So, you're telling me here tonight that the foot soldiers were Yes. This came from involved with this decision here. Yes. It came from the committee that is involved with our teachers and administrators who use these programs at the sites. Okay. I'll make a note of that. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor? I Okay. Uh, next we have K32 consulting. That was a nay on that. Oh, you didn't ask. Excuse me. Sorry. I I thought everybody said yes.
090Okay. So, all opposed? Yes. I uh the vote is 4 to one. Okay. Uh next is K32 consultant agreement committee for children. And I'll turn that on over to Dr. Williams as well. fit uh under the same kind of description as before. Uh this contract is with uh a group called committee for children but it's more commonly referred to as secondstep seal program. This contract for um 27780 is mostly used by our counselors and so this is a program that they're able to use either again in one-on-one sessions and small group sessions or if they push into a classroom. It also will provide an account to our peer support counselor who can assist with directing counselors in the use of this particular program. So, this one's more counselor specific within the district. Again, um just
091as an example, SecondStep has programs for both counselors, for administrators, and for the teachers in the classroom. Um the committee did not elect to use this program for its uh wall-to-wall SEO, but did ask that um this product be available, this portion of the product be available for its counselors to use. So in response to that, we're bringing it to the board for uh their approval. Anybody have any questions, comments? Um can I get a motion to approve? So move second. All in favor? I I Okay, sorry. No, no, you're good. Um, next we have K34 uh toolbox project again. I was ready for um toolbox project. Again, a supplemental uh program for the district. This is focused on well, it's available for all staff focused on our younger grades at TK through four. This
092is specifically for um consumables for the project. So specific handon um um manipulatives for lack of a better term that the kids will use as part of participating in a Toolbox project. Uh specifically focuses on students building resilience. And so, uh, while some of the other programs might be in response to, um, an action or a tier two or tier three or even just be a core, um, informational curriculum, this one, uh, was targeted by the committee for its focus on building resilience. So, we're asking, uh, the board to approve that tonight for that use. Any questions or comments? Uh, can I get a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? I uh next we're going into uh business services uh K44 ratify change order number 21 C001 uh HVAC for Cameron Elementary. Okay. So,
093um this this item right here, uh in the original contract that was submitted to the to the board for approval, the sculping sequence did not include um uh the the ducking the professional cleaning for the ducking. Um in in in order for us to extend the life of the the product that is being installed, um this this needs to be completed and it's presented to the board for approval. And if we can look at four, five, and six all the same way cuz they all talk about the same thing. So we can just kind of I'll just put it all in the package. But the with me when I read especially four and five, we're replacing the AC units, you would assume that would be in the contract automatically. cuz you replacing the whole thing,
094so you clean out everything. So, it surprised me when like, oh, we have a chain, but we have to add this to it. I don't understand why it wasn't added at the beginning. And when when they first sit up there, it's the same company. Uh why didn't they should have been to me, you know, if you get your AC changed on your house, you going to change it. You going to have your ducks cleaned anyway. So for me, I just like that doesn't make it, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. We could you wouldn't had me talking. We would have just done this in the at the beginning if someone I mean be honest with you. If someone hadn't looked and said, "Okay, it doesn't it doesn't include cleaning the air ducts.
095You know, we need to include that in there." And I just think we just got to be more cognizant when we look at stuff like that and we and these are big contracts. you know, music what 1.5 1.6 um that everything is concluded, you know, cuz I to bring it back to just to me it's it's it's a waste. I think it's important we had we had but we should have done it from the beginning. That's my thing about it. And even with I can do I can say it now with six I it's a plus. It's a minus because we get money back, but it's a I would have never thought you'd have to clean your ducks if you're gonna replace a roof. That wouldn't even came up on my on my radar. Yeah,
096you replace my roof. I don't need my I don't need you to mess with my my my ducks. So, it's like, okay, why was that added into my roofing contract? Well, let's but I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Let's stay with because I do have comments to make if we are going onto the roofing one, but let's stay at least within. We did pull all three of them just to stay, you know, under the right agenda item. Yes. Um but in the same lane for this um and we can add it for a potential item. But um may since it is open, I think that it's in the lane. Would it be out of line or like a big cost if we say have a resident expert? I know that people this is their job as far
097as putting together different POS, but specifically say a construction person that we have that basically vets the contracts and or like is that kind of what Liddesma Meyer is is and should be doing now or like where does that fall? Because I feel like if we have say a professional that is reviewing it under the contract side, you know, for that lane, would we have less change orders? I don't. Oh, sorry. does like is is that part of Leedesma Meyer's responsibility at all or is that fall just on us or where does that Well, I think I think or I guess maybe only for like whichever contract their jobs they're overseeing that we're doing than they would. I'm not quite sure Myers was involved in this one. Uh Dr. Will in terms of of the
098specific company. I can't speak to it on on this one just because um the contract in front of me. I can give you a little bit of feedback my experience um at previous district in in a facilities project and what I've seen here in a case like this. So, um, in this particular order, you know, we've we've seen the actual HVAC units on Cameron, I think, um, you know, physically you drive by and they're there. And so, when this project or any project goes out to bid, um, someone does come out and says, "Okay, what is it you want done school district?" And then they get up on the roof and they look around and say, "Here are all the things that would need to be done to complete that project." And that list of
099things goes out to any potential vendor who would want to um bid on it and then they make their bid based on all of the things that are listed. So it's not just we want a job done, we want a job done and here are all the things that will need to be done. And so they give us a full comprehensive bid gives prices on all of those things. And so the change order in this case is for something that was not listed on the original bid but found um that needed to be done in the process of the actual implementation. And so um it you know change orders are in part expected and that's why the 10% um does exist. So if there is a change um either way whether it costs more or
100costs less um the the board is authorized an agent the co in this case to sign off on that order in order for it to be completed and then that change itself gets brought to um the board for that ratification. And so, um, you know, there are times where it either either didn't make it on there or it was an unexpected, uh, extra item. You know, we have to do this one more thing in order to complete it that was not part of the original bid. Um, but people do come out and uh, experts do come out and say, "Here are the things that need to be in a bid in order to execute the task that you're asking of us." And so, is there ever a time that there's ever a conflict in saying
101that whoever it was that did that precursory and said the things that needed to be done and what should have been foreseen and what wasn't supposed to be foreseen is what occurred because I'm not an HVAC specialist but I've worked on enough houses to know if you're going to replace an AC unit the any HVAC contractor the first thing they're going to say is how old is your ducting in your house exactly and So just by basic logic you would say hey these have been here for how many decades I think that would be a pretty like you know let's say you're doing the the ducting cleaning that you accounted for then as doing the cleaning you know they're putting the pipes you know they're putting the snake through and they tear the ducting right
102and they're like oh well now we've got to replace this section right I could see that as being an unforeseen situation right you that you were doing. But I I do see what Mr. just saying as far as knowing if you're doing an HVAC full system upgrade knowing the age of the system to begin with that I don't that's a big thing to be an unforeseen and in terms of of trying to provide the board information of you know is this where does this fit in the change order in terms of standard business or was uh something on that I think we would have to bring back more information if if you wanted in terms of where where does this one fall you know because again it falls under I can speak to what's in
103front it falls under the uh percentage of potential that that any project kind of is based and and when it's larger projects there's a uh that 10% is significant. It is a lot but it is it is part of it. But just in terms of trying to find out more information for the board in terms of how this change order came about we can we can bring that around or entertaining questions that are that are around understanding the kind of um the thoughts that came to the board when they read this like hey was this considered was this not considered how did this change order come about? Yeah. And and I I agree with um that's what I'm thinking. The president if Yeah. You would think it would be and someone to look over it
104and go, "Hey, they they they forgot to throw in throw in the cleaning of the air." The one the one part I'll say is I I think that the board fully understands that it's falling well within the 10% of the allowable limit. But I think what and I don't want to totally speak for everybody, but what I think that where we're all coming from is I guess just the accountability of meaning that yes, there's 10% in there and yes, we understand that change orders do happen, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they should just be a cherry thrown on top or just an automatic or you know what I mean? And and is there a way that we can basically either limit the amount of change orders and or just make sure that when they
105do happen that it truly is something that has been and should have been un unforeseen. We if we're okay with it, would you guys like to table it and ask the questions? No. No. I I it it it's just when I've read it and then I look at the other one and I look at the other one I'm like same thing you know the first two are the last one is just opposite but you know it's just like why don't somebody think about that you might need to do that as big as that system is and just to give additional information to the board it was overseen by Leslie were the ones who did the initial contract as far as the write up of what needed the services that needed to be done in order
106to complete the work. And then we got somebody on full server. No, I was going to say my question is has this already been done. Yes, they've already done the cleaning. So true. That's the point of you know what I'm saying. I Yeah, I beating a dead horse. True. I we're doing that, but also someone dropped the ball. We should have somebody on staff that should have caught that. And I agree with I mean I I drove by. It was a great job. And just like said, you know, it's, you know, when doing anything with air conditioning, you know, the duck is, you know, most with environmental things and your allergies and, you know, it's denied that. But it looks like someone dropped the ball in our end. That's the only thing I would say
107and just just don't you know be more careful I guess you know. Yeah. Everybody's human. I mean if we want to proceed with it then we'll take each one at a time. Yes. Um so cart starting with uh K64. Um do I have a motion to approve for K64? So move second. Okay. All in favor? I Okay. Uh next is K65 uh change order and this is for Lenwood also for the HVAC. So do I have a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor? I I. Okay. And the next one is different. So if we do want to open this if you guys want to have discussion is K66 uh ratify change order 09001. Uh this is for the high school roofing. And this one saved us $7,000 $8,000 almost. Mhm. I hate
108to sound like I'm beating a dead horse, but they added that into in into the installation of the roof. They didn't use it, so they gave it back to us. Just thank you. We appreciate um Go ahead. Just in reading the uh document that's attached, it just says description credit for unused cash allowance. I don't know. Well, it says that, but if you look at what it says, if you go through it, it talks about they didn't use it for the and it said ducting and I was like the agenda and maybe that's a misprint in when they printed the agenda. I say I I see we're on the agenda item. It says under considerations that it says changes are due to the need of professional duct cleaning services for error as listed. Um just
109in reviewing the document it does not mention anything about um um the cleaning of error. It says this is just for the um unused cash allowances. Based on this paperwork, I would say that uh the consideration might not be accurate. It might be a mistrint in terms of um less money for more work. I I imagine that that's not how it goes. Um but in terms of this that that should probably be not on there and the board can consider this as a change order specific for I think that caught on my but it's a roof but it doesn't say it's about ducting when you go into just caught my eye. Does anybody have any additional questions or comments on this? You're saying K6 is K4? K46. My apolog 46. Yes. Okay. If nobody has
110any questions uh or comments, then can I get a motion to approve? I move we second. All in favor? I I Okay. Is that all of them? Further consent. I believe for the pulled items. Just a double check here. I think we're good to go. Discussion. We're good to go. Okay. And we will now move into the discussion items. uh L11 information revisions to board policies and administrative regulations in the zeros. Yeah. So these board items uh the California school board association uh sends out quarterly updates and uh the policy administrative regulations and uh this is a information item for first street I believe. Uh, and these polygraphs are included in the June 2025 update and we have several of them uh for your for the board to uh read and and and and look
111through. Uh some changes coming down the pipe. Um basically these these are all drafts before we actually bring them back to vote. Dr. Anything you want to add? Sure. just in the the 000000 section of board policy, district goals, objectives, and philosophy. Um most of these are based on new laws that impact charter schools. So CSBA sent updates to our policies to make sure they're aligned with new laws. A lot of these are um changes in language regarding court decision related to title 9 regulations at the federal level. Um changing I think 2024 regulations and reverting back to the 2020. So, um, having board policy reflect the court's decision and then changes to the district technology and AI that, um, Neil will be talking more about later tonight in that section. So, as you're reading
112through those, those are the basis for most of the changes in the zeros section of board policy. I didn't really know how because I know like if you say like the 3000s or the 5,000s, I was like, I don't really know how to say that. Something, let me know. Okay. Um, does anybody have any questions or comments on those? Okay. Uh, that's just information. So, we don't need a vote for that one. Uh, so now we'll move down to business services. Uh, L where am I? Oh, L22. Thank you. L22 information a revision to board policies and administrative regulations in the 3000s. So again, this is an information item presented to the board. Um, and the information here, we have a sorry, They're in the 1000s. Yes. So, we have the U board policy 1113
113district and school websites and then also UCP, the uniform complaint procedures. Uh, and I think here we also have, yeah, we have a 1312.3. We have 1312 uh uniform complaint procedure uh district and school websites. Uh we have policy 132.3 just updating the the language the verbiage um in the uniform based on new court decisions. There's a Tennessee versus uh Verdona court decision and then u Dr. Williams is your your office oversees some of some of those complaint procedures. Now, if you want to add anything else to the board, just like in the zeros, uh, the title N changes with court decision. This reflects all of our UCP procedures and policies in terms of being compliant and responding to those when they arrive. And then the other one in terms of district and school website
114policy um is mostly around new laws um that state comes up with in terms of notifications. So, making sure that certain things are on our website as new um requirements of the district out. So these policies will reflect those changes to law and to uh new court decisions. Thank you. And again it's an information act. Anybody have any other comments on this? Uh so now we will move to business services. Uh L41 uh purchase order listing uh June 24th, 2025 to July 1st, 2025. Thank you. So, this is the the purchase order for June and it's all the items are listed and it's a total of 5,521,000. And I can't read that. Make it very hard. 1180. Um, yeah. and I'll open up for any questions. Anybody have any questions, comments? Well, a lot of
115these are open PO, so that's why you have such a high amount open POS for the up for the coming year. 103 purchases normal normal you know purchase order the school year um just um a couple notes through that you know this is the open bill for the year for electric gas water um trash and sewer postage all the maintenance supplies all the vehicle maintenance and fuel uh some online translating services and so sometimes when this PO number comes up um it it seems like a spent number but it's actually just an allocated number at this And so as those bills are being paid throughout the year, um you'll see that reflected in the cash balance um that's recorded monthly if not every meeting um but this authorizes the district to pay those invoices and
116bills as they come up every month. And it's also reflected in the most uh previously approved budget that the board approved. Any questions? I have one not on a specific PO item, but just as you're saying they're all accounted for, it's already into the budget and all that. if and when we hit the end of the year and you know however much from each of the different open POS right does it directly automatically just stay in the general fund does anything move from that standpoint or so each each PO that's there um is for each has a specific fund that it's attached to so even though we say something like um it's a PO for the use of electric throughout the year um that is paid for out of different funs funds based on where
117the building location is or different things like that. Um if we get to a point in the year where the PO is exhausted if we're um again that 10% rule is available if it goes over. If it requires a new PO or some sort of change that PO will come again to the board um for approval. If it's something that we believe is going to be ongoing then it'll be reflected in the different um different budget presentations ultimately that are given to the board. So at first interim, second interim and during the different actuals and so if those things change during the year um those will come to the board in those two particular ways. If they are lowered then that'll be reflected in the unodudited actuals um that's presented to the board in September
118and then if future budgets need to be adjusted it'll be done part of again that my in the actuals that were spent that that year. So if it just so I'm clear. So if it's on the other end like less like we have a surplus at the end. It basically just stays in whatever the account is that it started from. Yes. Any account that that has been so you know from the account side we make this PO we say this amount of money will be spent during the year. It's earmarked and it's um not spent unless there's an additional action taken. If um if it looks like something may not be used then it can be reallocated at first and second inter. Okay. Uh can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All
119in favor? I I Okay. And next we have technology and information services L51 uh B USD technology plan 2025 to 2028. Thank you. We do have a look here to present. I did come to speaking out to hang out with. It's been knowledgeable. I've enjoyed it. So, Mr. Gothic did ask me to come speak um regarding the district technology plan uh from 2025 to 2028. Um you should all have in front of you uh just a little presentation to summarize it. Instead of me going through the whole plan, I thought I would just kind of uh summarize it and go over it with you all. Feel free to interrupt me at any time if you have any questions. If not, we can go over it at the end. But again, summarize this plan. uh it
120you know basically a strategic integration with technology to enhance education equity and security across all of our schools. So we go ahead and skip to of content. Um so an overview of this technology plan. Um again it is three years. Um I did get I reached out um for feedback at the IT department. Um I apologize I didn't introduce myself. Neil O. I'm the director of TIS the IT department for varsity. uh in November. I've been here 10 years. So, um I did reach out to edtech specialists, which I will touch on a little bit if you're not aware of what they do. Uh principles, uh BEA reps, CSEA reps, uh miscellaneous, uh administrators, and all of my IT staff. So, let's keep on moving a little bit. So, uh, TIS, just to kind of
121give you an idea of our department, there are currently 12 of us, we are located next to, um, facilities maintenance and operations, um, off of Grimrock. So, we have five what we call site techs. They're the ones who visit sites, um, go to the sites and assist. We just recently um were able to get a reclass on one senior network computer technician um who mainly handles integrations um which which would mean um student rosters for teachers in their classroom. So it's all automated as well as website um there's been a need for somebody to specifically address website changes and updates in design. We have two network support specialists who handle network infrastructure in all of our servers. We also have two student information service technicians um which deal with infinite campus which is our student
122information system and they do all the reporting to CalPAD's um federal state and county reporting and then one IT assistant um which kind of helps with basic help desk support. We are considering um I've been working with personnel a little bit on adding a low voltage technician who can assist with intercoms, bells, clocks, um electronic key door locks, vape detectors, uh and surveillance came and I'll touch on some of these a little bit as well. So edtech specialists um I basically consider them um a le liazison between you know classroom technology in the IT department. We don't always know what we're missing out on when it comes to technology in the classroom. So we meet with these ed tech uh ed tech specialists who are primarily teachers. We have one at each school site once
123a month and they kind of bridge that gap for us to understand uh if and when we're missing something regarding technology in their classroom. This could mean you know uh K2 um students have have a hard time logging into their Chromebook. So we provide badges that they can just stand on their Chromebook. It could mean their printers are down, basic stuff, Wi-Fi is down. Um but also when it comes to educational apps um just how to simplify them, how to connect them, how to do all the back end work for them so that they don't have to manually do as much as they have to. It's just it just helps us understand what's going on in the classroom and and they're a great bridge between it and the actual class once a month. I had
124a quick question. Um, with the app side, are we are the apps working I guess as they should? Like whenever there's issues, is it like on our end or are there any of the apps that like we're finding that their end? And you know what I because I know there's a certain point that we can fix and then there's a certain point, right, that's on them. I by no means a specialist. I just know at least at a certain point, right, like that there's only so much we can do. Are at least the apps that we're using able to be utilized for the most part? So, there's there's a couple parts to that. Um, it's definitely mixed. um we can run into anything from enough licenses weren't purchased to uh something on their end is
125down to even something that ourh firewall or our filters are blocking. Um a lot of these apps use like YouTube videos and they embed them into their platforms and those YouTube videos are flagged as being something not suitable. So it's it's a it's a mix definely. The other part of that is which I'll touch on a little bit is and I'll try to keep this you know simple. Um we use class it's a company called class link and they are the ones that are kind of our central portal for students and staff. You log into one website and then they have access to everything from there. So what we're trying to do with uh class link is they have modules available that will analyze how much each teacher is using, how often and it can
126also break down how much that app costs so that you can get a kind of a cost per usage breakdown, right? ROI. Yeah. Right. And part of that too is, you know, um, and this is on, I can kind of skip this later, but a lot of teachers go to conferences, Q or or whatnot, and they come back and say, "Oh my gosh, I learned about this new platform. I really want it. I need it now." Um, class thing, and we're exploring this now, is it it has the ability to kind of track that and say, "Hey, uh, you already have something in place that does what this other platform does. Don't spend the money on it. Inform them that this is available. Okay. So, there's a lot, right? I hope that answers. Yes. Thank
127you. Okay. Um let's go on to page uh section six. So, our infrastructure and network enhancements, we rely a lot on u funding, which is um it's it's basically funding from carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and mobile that we all pay in an indirect way on our phone bills, on our cell phone bills. Um and we get on our category one, we get a 90% discount. What category one is is our internet access and our and our WAN connection. So our internet access is is pretty obvious, right? You go home, you have to connect to the internet. Our WAN connections, our wide area network connections is what connects all of our school sites together so that they're all one big happy family. Um Spectrum won both of these bids um recently and I hope you've noticed
128our internet outages have have improved. Um, we have neighboring districts that are still on a prior provider and they have calmed down and we've stayed out. So, I'm less stressed when it comes to internet access staying up. But our C category 2 is an 85% discount and it's what they call internal connections and that's all of our infrastructure, our switches, our Wi-Fi access points and our servers. So we get we get a heavy discount on on that and that's how we a lot of our funding comes from regarding network. Um our next section uh seven security communication systems I wanted to touch on um our surveillance. Uh we are currently um adding or replacing our surveillance cameras at all of our sites. And I would estimate that we are at 75% uh complete and our
129goal is to have it complete by the start of the school year. So there are still Henderson is incomplete. Um Skyline is incomplete. The high school has a system, but we're we're adding and replacing upgrading that. And um B uh biz and and the junior high are about 90% complete. So it's going to be one system. they're all on the same system. Um, it'll allow a lot of functionality in that you can uh say, "Hey, you know, can you trace a student who wore a red sweatshirt and had a blue backpack throughout the day?" And it will compile that footage for you. So, it's getting rid of a lot of that manual, what camera are they at now? Um, it's a we're still learning it. Um but it's really neat in what it can do
130right automation. The other thing we are working on are enhanced paging and intercom system. So we just did the high school. Um what it allows to what the system allows is for it to tie into other systems like surveillance and like um alarms. So we don't have it fully implemented a lot still. But what it can do is there can be panic buttons on the phones themselves. Um, you can use your cell phone as a panic button. Um, you can call from any desk phone and set off an emergency alert if you see a need to. Um, the phones themselves, uh, this one here, it'll pick and blink. Um, yeah, right there is a panic. we don't have a good program for doing it because we have to navigate students learning this. Um so there's
131just a lot of uh kind of intertwined u functionality with all these systems but our paging systems are really old. Uh we were looking at Cameron and STEM next I mean there some of these are decades old 20 30 40 years old. So, um yeah, that's a big project, but we're working on that. And then lastly on this section is just uh the installation of digital message boards. And there is um uh we're looking into ways to even tying into the message boards if there's an emergency, right? They can say something that the district desires to display to communicate to parents. So, that's a lot. I know I'm trying to keep it short, but for I I did have a quick question on the surveillance systems with the information. Um, just as a check and
132balance, not that I think anybody's doing anything wrong, is the information when somebody's accessing the cameras and the systems in the way that you're saying, is that information tracked as far as what user is requesting what information? Yes. So, it is tracked. Um, it's all log. The issue that we've run into is somebody with a cell phone directly recording the screen. Um, from my understanding, um, an event occurred at the high school um, and somebody who had access to the system, just their own cell phone, reported it to the screen and shared it that way. But without that, yes, it is all logged on who is looking at what, who's retrieving data, what that was, that was definitely a part we wanted. Yeah. To help that I just had some random questions. It's kind of
133like relative to that. Um, will like campus monitors or someone be able to monitor the screens like kind of like how you see like in the movies with like the mall security or something like that? So we are so part of the uh uh the systems going in is most schools opted to have like a a big display just for cameras. Um some did not. Um but most that will have uh their 65 in displays that just have like a panel of cameras on like um are they similar to like our cameras at home? Like can you speak to the camera like hey what are you doing or you know? So, um there is no audio recording and um there's no two-way communication and that is due to privacy concerns and issues. So, but with
134that said, there are options. I know we've been having um issues with our solar panels being um the copper has been stolen. So, there are there are we can tie into these systems to have a speaker say, "Hey, vandalism alert alert alert." a really loud speaker or even like a strobing light. So, with these newer systems, there's there's options to expand it, things like that if that's what you're kind of. Yeah. And it's pre-recorded. Hey, please get away and stop see. So, the new digital signs that they're installing at each school, this is in your box. So these they were actually contracted out for the installation outside of Yeah. So we didn't have much say or input on it. Um we have just been in communication with the company on how we can integrate into
135it. Are aren't they supposed to be put up by school starts school? Yeah, that's what the plan. Okay. Yeah, I've noticed most sites they're under construction. Um that's my understanding too is yeah they're they're doing it at junior high school see people out there working then I don't see them for a couple of days back and I think they moved dirt from one side to the other Yeah I've seen that fence there. I'm like I'm waiting for the sign to go up press line I see them working on it. They did start with some schools that were easier to put on the wall versus a stand or whatever you want to call it. You know mounting a mountain graph. Yeah that's what they do in Junior High. Um, any other questions? Yeah, you mentioned surveillance.
136That kind of mean the big topic. It's it's for safety and to protect our property, right? Yes. Well, that's what it's going to also be for primarily. It started as um, you know, student incidents which it started for student incidents, fights, fights. Yeah, it's definitely vandalism. Um, and anything, right? Um, and I've just recently heard of the solar vandalism, solar panel vandalism. That's got our department really thinking of how we can use these systems to deter because I guess we got a quote and it was very high from another security film. So that got our brain turning on how we can use these systems to prevent this vandalism, you know, and then also, you know, um as a former employee, you know, I'm very cautious about using these uh to surveillance employees, you know, I'm
137very against that and I know it's not kosher and I just want to bring that up, you know. Yeah, I agree, you know. Yeah, they we do have options. um if if anybody is in a camera view um where they can see their screen, it can be blacked out. So their screen is never recorded. So um I think I see what you're saying in that it can be used to quote unquote catch an employee doing something say tardies or whatnot. Yeah. 20 minute break versus you know what I mean? I don't I don't agree with that at all. you know, with with the vandalism and all that. I mean, you know, that's I can remember when they first came out and then half the time they couldn't find out who it was and it was
138in a night camera. This, you know, motion camera. We are experiencing that already. If it's night and they're covered up. Yeah. Yeah. I I get it. They're not always smart, but sometimes they are. Yeah. All right. Well, that's all I have. Thank you. Yeah. So, you have you also deal with the solar panel arrays. We don't deal with them. Um I've just become aware that they've been vandalized. The co they're stealing copper. That's a big thing here. Yeah. So, it's just got us thinking like so um let's take the uh community track. We have two cameras here up on the up on the district office. their point of zooms where you can really see the track and they have no idea the expanders are down there. So that's kind of our thought with um the
139solar panels, right? Like can we at least see who they were, what kind of vehicle they're in, something there are also other options with loudspeakers and strobe lights that hopefully we can get some like lasers to take down. Yeah. When I seen the couple months ago when I had the the exitation force of the cameras and they widen their view of the campuses and areas that weren't covered at one time, now everything is cuz I was at junior high school. He was an area. He said, "We always had a problem with this area." Probably the cave. Yeah, I guess that's what it is. And he said, "Now we got cameras." Yeah, and our plan is to do an afteraction review. Um, there are going to be spots that were missed, but at the same time,
140there's always going to be spots that are missed. We'd have to litter this exit campus. Students learn quickly. You know, the first system that went into high school, they learn they can get away with it. Smart kids. They are. Um, a couple sections left. We are working on upgrading all of our multi-purpose rooms. We call them MPRs. Um just to make sure the screens brighter, large enough for the whole uh to be seen. Improve the audio, you know, make sure it's clear and loud. Um the I went to the fine arts uh they called it the summer school field trip. That was that was really nice to see. That was fun. They really engage with the students. They add a nice, you know, they use the lights and the sound. Um, we're looking to have
141them all upgraded to something similar to fine arts. Uh, we're currently working on Skyline, STEM, and the junior high, which would leave Central High School is the only one that needs to be upgraded. All right, let's go to section 9, cyber security measures. I'll try not to bore you all, but this is what keeps me up at night. Um, we continue to update uh multifactor authentication to explain that simply. That's when try to log in to your bank account and it texts you a phone code saying I resist you doing that. Um, we do a lot of annual third party audits. We get a lot of assistance from federal, state, county entities out there that audits our environment and tell us what we're missing. It's very informative. Um, we try not to um I don't
142try to recall if we test the board, but we do uh fishing simulations where we send an email to everybody in the district. Um, if you enter your account, you can get a Starbucks card or the IRS needs you to check on this, enter your information, right? A lot of staff, they don't they feel they're targeted, but our our the idea behind it is to just raise awareness on what to look for. Uh misspellings, weird email addresses, links that take you, you need to enter your password immediately, you need to pay this. We're just trying to raise awareness. We do get some frustration on it, but it's the best way to to let everybody feel, I would say. I mean, if everybody's fine with it, and I don't know if this needs to be like
143an official item or anything, but I would be okay if you send it to me or I don't, like I said, I don't want to totally speak for everybody, but I mean I I think we if everybody else is doing it, I think we should do it too. Does anybody what he's saying as far as putting it out with the employees as far as I'm sure in some sort of a random fashion or something? That's that's I agree. I support that. Well, hey, you do get I get a lot, you know, we get a lot of stuff on our emails and I called him one day and I'm like, yeah, you you wanted me to do you wanted to talk to me about something and you like send me an email, right? I will. And
144the bad thing about it, I gave him my phone number. That was that was going to be my second point point on that is that there actually has been at least one person if not two people that have independently on two separate times. One was to contact to Sam as far as a a purchase for things to be that it was 100% not me. I mean everyone did all the right things that the the individ the employee did the right thing you know we all contacted not through you know that's what was found out you know so that whole incident happened like I said everybody did the right thing but it people are doing this and then like the other one that he's talking about so people are actively trying it is out there our
145student accounts are getting hit 100 times a day in um bad actors throughout the just just spam every account they can find and try to log in. Yeah. And that touches on number four, conditional access. We try to block certain countries, Iran, Russia, they're always trying to get at us. Yep. Um and speaking of that, we, you know, if and when we do a visioning attempt on board members, um I'm sending you my phone number. Uh, we do have to let some staff know that we're doing it because they're really good at immediately telling all the other staff this is not real. So, that's good, right? We want that to happen, but sometimes we let them know, hey, leave this one alone. Um, let me see. Digital citizenship. I just want to review. We use
146a uh and Jamie can touch on this a little if needed, a company called Common Sense Media where all teachers go over just um digital literacy and safety with their students on how to behave, how to look for people that are um again being bad actors um exploiting them. It's kind of a scary online world out there, right? Um and it's also required um we collect a form saying that every teacher went over with their students um for to receive a project basically digital literacy. Um staff and student devices. Uh all all staff have at least uh a laptop. Uh most have a laptop and a desktop. Some have iPads, some have Chromebooks. So, we refresh them um every five years on average. Um although it sounds like it might be a new one over
147there. Um so, they do go bad. So, student Chromebooks, we are at a minimum one to one ratio. And what I say with that is we have at least enough Chromebooks that each student has one Chromebook. Some schools have enough where they can issue some Chromebooks out. The high school Maybe I'm jumping ahead on this. They are looking at um issuing a Chromebook for each student. And the thought behind that is they come in as freshmen and they're issued a Chromebook. It's theirs and uh when they graduate they keep it. And the idea is that it's theirs so they keep better care of it. They don't pull the keys off. They don't do a lot of things to um I'm kind of excited to see how it goes. I've talked to other districts about it
148and it's gone uh very well in keeping Chromebooks from being destroyed. There's a lot of Chromebooks that are temporary. Um, two sections left. So, classroom projectors, a lot of them are aging. They just need to be replaced. They're dim. There's new laser style projectors out there that uh don't use a lamp. They're much brighter. gone to some classrooms and and they're just um very I don't know if I'm old and have bad eyes or both, but I can't uh to touch on our uh student information system. We're continually looking at ways and I believe this has been brought up recently on how to reach parents especially because we need information from them uh annually. Um and with parent square now we are looking at um we we did this a bit last year uh attending
149the IT department attends back to school events and we try to funnel parents through so that they sign up for parent square. Some sites had an incentive where they received a t-shirt if they signed up and that worked really well. So, I'm hoping we can get a lot of schools to do that again because once they have that parent square app, it just allows that two-way communication between the site or the teacher and the parent. So, we're working on that. Uh lastly, um just to track and the last is kind of what we were talking about earlier with glass link um how it can um monitor all these educational apps. It's been hard for us as an IT department to um kind of keep up on how many there are. There's so many and it's
150hard for us to be aware of uh you know if they're overlapping we're paying especially for two that are doing the same thing. Um, and then I don't know if we're going over AI at all, but um, AI we are currently working on policy. I did serve I sent a survey out to every staff person throughout the district. We got right around 100 replies and it asked questions from how familiar familiar are you with it? Um, do you think we need it? What are your concerns? Um, what platforms do you know? and it's really across the board. Um, so we're working on breaking that data down and and providing training and policy for AI district. The AI policy is in the drafts for okay just tonight I probably won't separately but with any of that
151information is any of what is put out in there or anyone's concerns at all like any type of confidential information just meaning if we're about to make the policy to go over this whatever they have to say would be extremely could be enlightening for us to know. Yeah. By no means am I trying to get if anybody put anything that's, you know, confidential or doesn't want information shared. You know what I mean? Exactly. And and that's what we're navigating. So, there are platforms. There's there's versions of AI. There's open AI and there's closed AI. Closed AI is kind of just closed to your environment, right? So, we can say all of this information stays within the district. Open AI platforms take chat GBT one the more you use it the more it's taking your information
152so we have to worry about personally ident identifiable information students putting in names whatever social security numbers or staff the same so that's where it gets difficult to navigate and again going back to when when teachers go to these conferences they see these new tools tools. Well, we have to kind of vet them to make sure that they're secure. Um, and it's funny, I actually use an AI platform to summarize the survey results I got sent out and it's really good. It was excellent. I mean, I wish I could have came up with that. Um, but it I I used it to summarize their concerns and I used it to summarize how it would be useful for them. And that's what we're focusing on, how it can be a good thing and how we how
153we um address circumstances. I'm just wondering like from our perspective, could we know even if it was like filtered through you guys as far as like say like what the chief concerns are or whatever that we could know what those concerns are. But is that so then whenever we're deciding what we're putting in or not putting in to our policies, we're factoring in what all the chief concerns are. Is that something we could do? I I definitely think that's something we can do. And and there have been um uh Sanino County Center SBCS. I would say that they've vetted a lot of apps already. Um so has site which is California IT and education. It's a nonprofit. Um they vetted a lot of these apps and that their student data privacy. they've gone through their
154lawyers and um and in the whole process to make sure certain platforms are already established as good. But when it comes to concerns within the district, that's exactly what I'm looking to do. Um starting with that survey and there are a lot of feedback saying we don't need it, it's not good, um it's the end of the world, right? Um, but that was what we needed to to address because AI is going to be something that we all deal with and live with in some way when you call support a lot of it or go over a drive through person. But wouldn't it make sense if we if school district did have a closed Yes. AI system? Yeah. That way, you know, they're just feeding them. So, you'll have it solving folks and not have
155anything going on. I think so. Yeah. So, it's hard for me to be the AI guru because it's so new and I I haven't truly spent hours and hours and hours at it. But, yeah, that's exactly where I'm at, dude. Especially with the school district, it it's better to go a little slow and a little cautious than just open the floodgates and have something go arrive. Yeah, I'm an expert at it now because I used it. I used it for the first time. You can show me now. I don't know. I just talked into my computer and I said push a little button and it I'm like, "Oh, I like that." That was easy. Oh, go ahead. I'll just say I'm extremely not knowledgeful in AI. But just in a super layman's terms, if we
156hypothetically are only closed or we say that we're only closed is a students andor staff members ability to access open AI, would that just be something that basically like a website that we would block these websites that would allow the ability for that? Is that what that would look like? Right. We would just block it as we can. Okay. But it's also like, you know, gaming websites for students. They they just keep finding new ones and we just keep chasing them. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's it's it's an interesting concept, but you're right. It can get way out of hand. So, I' I've been to some AI seminars where you can say um create 10 multiple choice questions in fifth grade vocabulary and tell me and then uh with answers and if the student gets gets
157it wrong, tell them why they got it wrong and it in seconds builds up the whole thing. And that's just the thing. I found by accident because I was like, what does this button do? I can talk. Crazy question. And I don't I'm this may be going into a legal situation. I don't know. Can AI block future AI? Meaning like what you're saying, right? So then like if I'm on version A123 and then A124 comes out, can it automatically like see it, recognize it, flag it, and then like So is that I I want to go down. No, that's an interesting to touch on that a little. AI detectors are getting to the point where they can't tell. If you tell one AI detector to talk to another AI platform, they it doesn't know that
158it's AI or not. All right. I'll stop with the what ifs. Yeah, I know. Yeah, you can go down a rabbit hole. Thank you. Any other before we go down the AI rabbit hole Thank you. All right. Thank you. And this technology plans presented to the vote for approval. Where? Right here. Right here. Okay. Um, can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? Uh, next we have personnel services. Uh first is certificated L6A1, a public hearing for provisional intern permits or PIPS or educators for the 25 26 school year public hearing. Public Oh, gotcha. Okay. I was just waiting if he was going to say but normally you start. you that's okay. So recommend the board of trustees adjourned to a public hearing to provide an opportunity for the board to receive
159input concerning the proposed provisional intern permits. It is 7:33 and we are adjourned public hearing. have any questions, comments, and okay and it is 7:34 and will brief. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. So, just to present this item presented for approval for the board. A diligent search was uh was made and no fully credential teachers were came through came forward. Um the two individuals understand that they need to complete the multiple subject C sets in order to continue uh with the next credential or completing appointment with us. So, following a public hearing, uh, recommends that the board of trustees approve the submission to the state of said permits pertaining to the specific California teaching requirements. Do I have a motion? Second. All in favor? I All right. Uh, next is L6 A2, a public hearing for
160educators employed in specific positions not fully meeting California credential requirements for the 2526 school year. Uh recommending the board of trustees adjourn to a public hearing to provide an opportunity for the board to receive input concerning the proposed vi variable term waiverss of California education codes or the educators listed covering California credential requirements. It is 7:35 and we are journ public hearing. Going once each train right it is 7:36 and we'll reconvene. Yes. So job advertiser strictly and no appropriate potential candidates came forward. Uh this individual Mr. Robert Shel will be doing CTE welding at the high. The uh requirement wave is the English learner uh certification and the employee understands that he needs to complete that in order to continue his credential and appointment and it's presented to the board for approval. Thanks. All
161right. So following the public hearing uh recommend that the board of trustees approve the submission to the state of said waiverss pertaining to specific California teaching credential requirements. Um, the only thing I would add on it is I'm glad to see that that position and that program's coming back to the district. There you go. That makes me happy. Is anybody else Do we have Are they Is it going to be held the same location? Yes. Okay. So, there's room there with the wait room and all that. Uh, we have a really good candidate. He actually teaches at college. So, he's got many years of experience with multiple types of welcome. I actually want to get my um go up there and see what they're doing. Mess a little bit with it, but we have to
162go to the college. We have received the equipment that we ordered for. Correct. I I know that they were ordering it uh through the CTE program. They had that grant that we're going to fund some of that equipment. So, yes. Yes. It was an order. I don't know if it's if it's in there to be Yeah, that's all I know. I know we we approved that a while back. Mhm. Make sure we we got feature but no equipment. So we'll make sure they to have the equipment. There you go. We might own from home. Okay. If approved by the board. Um with that, does anybody have any other questions or comments? Okay. Can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Uh next is L6A3 establishment of two certificated positions uh
163teacher elementary transitional kindergarten TK. Yes, thank you. So uh these two positions are actually going to uh ensure that we have programs that are appropriate to meet the needs of our district. uh it'll add another position at Barcel Fine Arts Academy and Skyline which was the last school is going to be the last school to receive a TK program and with that we will be meeting the mandates under the legislation passed in 2021 we will have TK at every school site and it's presented to the mor program. Anybody have any questions comments? Do we know as far as the so with TK I know it was something that from the state that we had to um offer but it's not is it mandatory in the same way that K through 12 is or is it
164just obligated on our end to offer it and the teachers have the option to do TK so or not teacher like the parents right so like if a kid if the parent wants to send their kid do they have the option or is it like cuz I Kindergarten is where it starts to be mandated by the state. Is it the same way or So I'll turn it over to Mish. She's got more knowledge of that. So um it's part of our California universal pre kindergarten program. So it is optional for parents um that we have at the at our district level that we offer a program for um students. It's the first year of a kindergarten program technically um but as you said kindergarten is where school technically begins. Um this kind of would take
165the place of a preschool program for many students. Um and um the way that the governor, you know, designed the legislation um is that that way our students are being in our communities are being offered a similar program to, you know, their kindergarten peers. Yeah. No, I I definitely think it's great. I I love the program. I was just seeing like where we fall and thinking down the road as far as like could we potentially end up getting a substantially larger right if right if it's not mandatory and we start but then as soon as people start seeing it being instituted and they see it there then are we going to see like a you know like an explosion or something after just just trying to think yep you know like down the road so
166um but thank you for that information thank you missions Um, so can I get a or does anybody else sorry have any questions or comments? Okay. Um, can I get a motion? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I Okay. Uh, next is L64 uh employment of certificated contract and hourly personnel for the 25 26 school year. So 64. Can we skip one? Oh, sorry. My eyes are failing now already. So, yeah. So, this is the the presented to the board for approval. Uh these are the some of the pips that you guys already approved and the stiff and also Mr. Sheldon who is the uh CTE teacher. So, we wanted to have the the public hearing first before we recommended employment to them as presentable. Anybody have any questions, comments? No, sir. All
167right. Uh then can I get a motion? I'll move. Second. All in favor? I Okay. Uh classify L6B1, establishment of classified positions. Uh one, nutrition services worker three. Uh five, nutrition services worker one. Yes, thank you. So, Veronica Calderon, director of nutritional services uh director uh is requesting an increase in uh staff members to increase the fresh produce and office for students. So, there's more demand to provide more services per student and uh hence the the need to increase the uh the resources in in her kitchen. Um and is presented to the work for approval tonight. We need Yes. The funding the funding for this position these positions are coming from where? So, uh it says fund 13 cafeteria funds. Okay. Now, you said um what you say fresh fruit and vegetables. What what it's
168uh fresh increase fresh produce and options for students to have healthy healthy meals. They were eliminating that program at department educational level. As far as I know, not currently in the state of California. Okay. Same thing. Yeah. Does anybody can I get a motion? I move we find the approve. Second. All in favor? I All right. Uh, next is A L6B2 establishment of two classified positions. 20. Oh, 20. 20. There we go. All right. Yes. So, yes, these are these are actually TK positions. Uh the the the current legislation in the state of California requires that the upcoming school year in the TK program, we have a ratio of 10 to1 10 students for every adult. So, that means that we're going to have to increase the PAR educator support uh to meet the the
169increasing needs in the school sites. So, for example, if you have 24 students, which is actually the class size limit, we would need to have 2:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and the teacher present for a day. So, that's why it sounds like it's it's a lot, but it's meeting the needs. Uh, we're exploring at other ideas uh potentially looking at other programs to see how we kind of shift some of the the uh the supports and resources being that, you know, we we are struggling to hire PAR educators. So hopefully with the recruitment and and and the advertisement, the job descriptions under the TK positions, um you know, the parent educator position, the TK will have a little bit more interest and we we hope to fill all those positions at the start of the school
170year and it's presented to the board for approval. You really look like you had a question. I did. We don't we don't have a clue how many what the numbers are for our so we can look at past uh enrollment and do projections. Uh so on average we have about 200 students coming every year for TK. Yeah. Okay. So that is what I'm these numbers are based on analysis. We're going to have to be very strategic and and and deliberate on how we place these pair educators as the numbers continue to increase. Usually we start kind of low and then we start filling we start filling. Uh last year we had some uh we had to kind of move some students around to meet the needs. So yeah. Well, we not have a program at
171uh Crash Line. We do. Okay. We do. We don't need these are additional. Okay. We currently have 10 positions that are vacant. Yes. In in the books. So we're filling those right now. Uh we're going to we we calcul we need about 40. Yes. Um, so we have some already that that are filling those positions plus the 10 that we already have approved and these 20 we'll we'll be okay. So a couple questions with it when we formulate all these positions are we asking or are is anybody interested I guess in being a full-time employee versus a half-time employee? I I I do realize that there is a cost associated with that. But at a certain point, if we are short, yeah, on employees, then basically you would cut this list in half as far
172as the employees that you would need if we were buying them as full-time positions. Is one is is that a consideration that we've even had? So, I'm glad that you asked that question because we actually ran the numbers, right? the cost the cost of I know that's a part it would it would it would be three three part-time pair educators to have one full time because of the potential of health and welfare right because $25,000 only. So it we would have to look at three three.5 hours will actually be the same as one full-time on the co side. Uh we have actually some that are full-time uh that we're actually going to be bringing up because of the 20-day rule. It's coming up. Uh some of them were not able to fill some positions and
173they went over some some some language that they're entitled to 20 to a full-time position because of the 20-day role. So, we'll be bringing those to the board. Uh they'll be covering morning and they'll be fulltime in the classroom cover and PM. And I guess if if we do that, that was kind of going to be my question is say that we're trying to get these 20 positions, but like Mr. Ortiz has said, depending on the position and everything, right? Like what we end up with is nowhere near what we have coming in. Is that do we have to change anything or is that just another approval like that? that comes to us say like, "Hey, this person is a three-point." Say we hypothetically we have 10 that we get hired and then you know
174they're all willing to do 20 and we don't get the other 10 or whatever, right? Is that like a simple process as far as just bringing it back to us at the next board meeting and so long as we want to say yes, we can say yes. We don't have to like redo the whole It's not a physical process. It's just a process for us. Yeah, it's a process. But that's phase B can be for us. Okay, we have plan A, B, and C for this because there are a lot of par educators we need to hire. So, yeah, I'm just trying to at least if we don't get the best case scenario that we have people in the classrooms to do the work as much as we physically can. So that 3.5 hours a
175day. Mhm. What's that? And FD or full time is seven. Well, they qualify for four benefits after four. Okay. So four hours is the threshold. Once they go four hours and and more, then they qualify for the benefits, H&W benefits. Okay? Which could potentially be up to $25,000 per family. So that would be the added cost. uh hypothetically speaking, not that everybody's gonna qualify for that or actually buy into that or or take advantage of that, but potentially that could be it. So there's 10 kids per class, correct? No, 24 per TK. 24. The 10 is the adult to student ratio, correct? So that would be 10 kids. That's the way. So if you have 10, if you have 10 kids, you only need a teacher. You don't need a parent. So because you got
17624, you need two two in the AM, two parents in the or if you have full time, just two parents and you're done. But basically the way that the cost loosely is breaking down if I'm understanding this correctly, right? Is that basically costwise is that you're getting two to one as far as employee because AM and PM, right? But on costwise, you're paying three to one. I just l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l loosely I'm not like stating to an exact dollar figure but yeah go for it I was looking at the numbers and I I like that that we have 20 and I just want to confirm that we still do a sublist right so if we can get
177to capacity where we do fill all these positions there's actually a a waiting list or like a list where the other parents would be on and they could be called in to replace for a day or two to sub out so I just think it's it's good to have that I'll just say I I do know there's a cost to it, but I I do talk to a lot of people and just for future reference, there's a lot of people that not that trying to think of the best way to say this. There's a lot of people that I think would have a stronger ambition to be in the position if we offered full-time positions versus parttime. Like I said, I get there's a cost. I'm not negating that whatsoever, but I I do feel
178like if and when we can put that in there, I think the value to the students would improve if we can do that. Morality, workers, I 100% right. Said everything I give them better than I could. I mean, hey, if we can get 20, fine. You know what I mean? I I'm all for all of them. You know, seconding what, you know, Miss Given is saying. Um, but even if we can, like I said, opening opening more hours, I think the candidate pool, the the number and the quality, I think, would both increase if we could start getting more full-time positions possibly. Personal service will note that. I don't know. The numbers just not adding up in my head. I don't know. For some reason, I'm I'm blocked to this these numbers you're throwing out.
179So you have one teacher and two parent and you have 200 you're estimating 200 students. So that would be well let me So it's not an exact thing. Whenever I say it's not an exact what I mean is is that if you have 10 and under students you have the teacher. Yes. But as soon as you have 11 but to 19 then you have the teacher and the parah. Okay. But then once you have between 21 and up, then you have to have the third person. Yeah. But you don't always get the perfect bang for your buck. Does that make sense? So like you could have say 21 students in a class. Well, then you've got to have that second pair, but you're not getting 10 students for that pair. At that point, you're only
180really getting one. That's what he's saying as far as having to play this shuffle game, right? Because we have to keep meeting the 10 to one ratio. But where do those students, right? like do we have you know what and I'm saying 19 here so we're getting a lot of value for that parrot in that in that 10 to one context or are we at more at the 21 side where we're getting very little does that make more sense no but if say for instance you get a 100 students that want to join TK you hire 20 pairs then what are you going to do well we have to do make an an do an analysis see where they are what school site Right. Sure. Because you, like you said, you might have 19 at
181a school site and 21 on another and then you you have to meet that ratio 10 to what? Wherever that is, you have to meet that ratio because what are the repercussions, Miss Fischer? If we don't, we're monetarily penalized. We have to report and it's by classroom and we can't average by district. So, it is literally each individual classroom meeting those requirements. Do you have a dollar amount for that? I think they they threw some dollar amounts out there if you just Yeah, it's like 300 something like that. Yeah, it's astronomical. Like $300,000, something like that. Yeah. So, we have to meet that quota. And that's why uh we can't be under, we can't be over. No, we can be over a little bit. Look, fiscally conservative, we can't be over, right? But but you
182know, making sure that we're strategic about it. How do how do we spread them out to meet to meet the the the ratio, right? And it's I I I talked to Mr. Ortiz uh last week. We we're going to have to monitor those numbers like three or four times a day and having close uh communication with open and continuous communication with CEC Center for Enrollment to make sure that we're not missing the the ratio. So those especially those first few weeks is there's a lot of women. Yes. Go ahead. I just also want to say that I don't know if it's changed but before there is internal only application so people can come into the district right become part of the family even though no one wants to really see 3.75 but it's still a
183good opportunity for them to become a part get acclimated right and then there's opportunities that come along that only staff members can apply for. So it gives them an advantage. Just want to say that out loud. Even though we know you know you want full-time jobs but there are some perks to accepting these type of positions. Thanks for the information. I'm good. Good. Everybody's good. Okay. Uh with all that then can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? I all right. Uh L6B3 increase to work hours of classified positions. Pared educator. Yes. Thank you. So, uh, Jose Cruz, director of purchasing warehouse. No, I'm sorry. Am I the wrong one? Oh my god, I skipped it again. I about to say you're talking about a warehouse. I apologize. Okay, so uh, we
184talked about increasing hours, right? Here's it. Here it is. So um recommend the board of trustees increase the hours for the the classified employees that we have listed the pair educator and parts of fine arts accounting from 3.75 to 7 hours and another part of fine arts academy par educator uh from 3.7 hours these employees actually went over the 20-day rule they're in the TK position and they're full-time employment if the board approves it. So, just so I'm making sure I'm getting this right, is that the ones that we just approved, those positions are future positions that we do not have. They're vacant future positions. The positions that we're talking these two are actual people that we've already hired and we're ready to put them into the classroom. They're actually they worked there last year.
185They went over the 20-day rule. They worked 20 days consecutively and now they own the hours. Gotcha. Okay. So, yes. and is presented to the board for approval. Does anyone have any questions, comments? So move. No activity. No, you're If nobody has anything, go for it. Yes. So move. Check it. All in favor? I sorry. No, you're fine. I'm just trying to make sure I give everybody, you know, trying to sneak in there. Uh uh L6B4 supplemental assignment limited term substitute. Thank you. Now we have uh Jose crew director purchasing warehouse uh identified a need to have a limited term substitute to support with operations in the office and uh it's present to the board for approval. That one seems fairly self-explanatory. Anybody have any questions? We're adding a office assistant. So, this is a
186limited term substitute as an office assistant. He doesn't have an office assistant. And in order for us to uh sub have a substitute, you have to approve it because it's not a position that currently exists. So, it's a limited term and we're allowed to do that under the under, you know, PC rules. Um, but you just said subsequent. Yes. Why is it why is it limited? Uh, because if it would be permanent, we would be bringing to the board a a new position for approval. I see. So, this is not a position that we want to fill. It's just a limited term for a specific a time determined time. 6,000 birth. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I move we approve. Second. All in favor? All right. Items for future board meetings. Are you raising your hand? Me
187or anybody? Yeah. Next item I want to add Mr.'s name. Just give me a class. I don't care. You're welcome to come tomorrow anytime we'll sit down. We'll get the numbers open invitation to any for I I did want to bring one um for next session as far as I I think with seeing the presentation uh that Mr. Williams did with the school sports and with the funding uh to look at where the money is coming from and and what our our end is ours meaning the district and I say that is and this is my two cents one person but I kind of feel like if there's anything that's necessity like that must happen in order for students to play sports I kind of feel like that we should cover that again like I
188said that's my I'm not speaking on behalf of all it's just my personal thing. But so say like you know referees if they absolutely must have officials in order to play the game. I feel like that I feel like that shouldn't the students shouldn't pay that. I feel like we should pay that if it comes into Yeah. So I don't like I said we always talk about student first here. You know I think we need to look at that. Uh um well, I'm going to tell you as an old uh athletic director, you know, you you have to move money around. And if you don't have to do that, it makes it easier. Who benefits? The athletes, students. Well, that's what I'm thinking is if if we made that then say that that B baseball
189thing that he was talking about, they would have that. They more practice is something that's really needed. Things would be happening. So yeah, it's a safety issue. You get batting practice, foul balls going all over the place. You got a cage. Yeah, they have batting practice during track meet. Well, not anymore. Well, track practice. Yeah. You know, it's a safety safety. just to we will make sure we relay that information so that um CB provides more information and student can present it to either close session or prior or an open session whichever however you know we do but yeah just something I just got one uh the kicking the dead horse again the restrooms at Pitcher Park you know it's they're out there right now I mean that it's over 400 people where Where where
190are we on that? That's would like to know that we are somewhere that I you know there was supposed to be talk at the city council. Um I think one of the issues is what we have to live under and what they have to live under because they want to approve spending $30,000 to refurbish the bathrooms and make it ADA compliant 30 $50,000. But the numbers we have totally different we slightly toying rules than the city does. What's the price they have? I think it was like $35,000. It's not I don't want to cut anybody off, guys, but we are going a little bit off topic, but I do agree that we should put it in and it should be something talked about, but we got to agendaize it first. I've said it the last
191three meetings and nothing said. Well, thank you for bringing it up. It is it's a it's Thank you. It is a good point. And I'm like I've been waiting for it to come up. So yeah. Any other items to bring up for future? No. Okay. Can I give you We second. All right. All in favor? Do you guys have to go back into close? Do we need to go back to close session? Just in case. Not from I nobody. No. Okay. All right. All in favor? I 84. I have stuff for you. Please don't leave me.