001when we get to the finals. All righty. It is 4:04 and we will call the meeting to order. Mr. would like begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, next we'll go to business from the floor. Oh, uh, roll call. So, uh, we have four of five trustee members. Uh, tonight, Miss Given is not here. We have present is Mr. Williams, Mr. Yeless, Mr. Preya, and myself, Mr. Helton. We will go to business from the floor. Uh the board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. It is not a town hall meeting with the board. This is a time
002for 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 speech or take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional person speak
003only 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 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 person persons wishing to be heard. For the record, please state your name. Do you have any in descent? All righty. And it is uh 4:06 and we will adjourn to close session. Let me stick. It's beautiful. Stay close. Hey, hey, hey. feel. Hey Heat. Heat. Thank you. The rain is raining all around and falls on field and tree. It rings on the umbrellas here and on the
004ships at sea. Wow. Wow. Howdy, stranger. He's just in the back. You're so old. Just crazy. Are you I forgot. Heat. Hey. Hey. Okay. What? Is that one? Yes. Ezekiel your book. You make me You made You think you Is that you? Something. Heat. Heat. Down. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. I know it's something else. Facebook. Yes. Brian's question. probably seven and we'll call the meeting back to order. Uh next we're going to presentation and recognition and I'm gonna turn it over to you high school student athlete recognition uh on April 10th uh we were invited decided to go to Atlanta High School and participate in their uh VIP field event for SH students. So we got our our students got opportunity to participate in uh various uh tracking field events and
005our students I'd like to report did an amazing job. We had about 17 students with receive medals and with multiple students receiving uh multiple medals as well. So that was really outstanding. Um Victory Union hosted the event. Uh I used my previous connections to uh see if we can get ourselves in there and thankfully they did and our kids did a great job participated. They they were really excited. Uh Miss I would like to send a big shout out to my teachers uh Miss Roles uh Miss Bartlett and especially Mr. Ud teacher who worked with our kids here preparing for event. So when we first started Mr. Chavez was there to see how amazing our kids did on the very first couple events where our kids knew exactly passing the bat on one to another
006and just screaming the competition. That's the best word I I can I can did a great job participating and it was an all day event and our kids were fabulous. They respect uh representing our school the best way possible in the district. I'm really proud of him and I'm looking forward to continue our partnership with uh the union to ensure that our our students get that great opportunity. Um and Mr. We were able to show the video. We need to have something in place where you guys can see. There's the exit. B Stay right there. I was wondering. We have Jacob. And we have our Andrew. And I'd like to brag a little bit of Andrew, too. Uh on Friday, we had our prom event. And guess who was homecoming? I mean, prom king. I
007want to thank the district for giving us great opportunity to participate being here today because I really want to showcase the greatness of our students at the first high school. Thank you so much folks. Appreciate you guys. Stand up. You guys a lot of pictures, right? in the middle. There you go. Right there. Thank you. Oh, excellent. Okay, here we go. One, two, three. Thank you very much. Uh, next presentation is Cameron Elementary fourth grade. And I'm not sure who's third and fourth grade class. So, we have a project based classroom where everything's based on hands-on projects. And some of the kids were invited to present some of their projects and stuff that they do and learn. So Cameron Olympics, you guys want to come on up. We got our order, but that way we
008have our order. Thank Travis that you're going to present to first. He's a fourth grader. So where you want to share your video or talk first? talks. My board meeting is about um the California gold rush and how they find jump. It's like the risk and everyone of them make the board and the rules. Rules are they only mean um you go First person puts um their piece anywhere they want on the outside pieces and and then um it goes in clockwise order who puts it like clockwise order once we kill all the entire outsides and you can put it anywhere on the inside and clockwise order again. Um the when you it's your turn, you reinforce with two blocks in the beginning and then you get to choose if you want to attack or
009if you don't if you don't want to attack, you just give it the dice to the next person. But if you do want to attack, you if you have three pieces on one um hexagon, then you could uh you get to roll three dice. But if you only have two on one hexagon, then you can only one roll one dice. If you're defending you and you only have one piece on that one hexagon, then you can only roll if you only can roll one dice. Attacker can roll three. Um the defender can only roll two. If you if you the vendor rolls the same number or higher than the attacker, then they win that they take away those two pieces. The attacker can choose to go again or end their turn right there. video. We
010can get a talk over your video. This is us playing the game. One of my friends just layer as many as you want. have to have one of the one of the other attack. You'll have to go see one again. your history project to go to all white student. And when she got there, her first days, white people were standing at the crowd and throwing jeans at her and saying that blacks were and she had discovered that she was the only person in the school. The others had stay at home and she had a teacher who was white too, but she was was a racist and she was from the south and most people was from the south wasn't racist. And now space and more easier for black and white together wanted to be a
011teacher. Her brother has suffered a severe injury and now she wanted to help people who couldn't afford to go to other schools. the school board because most teacher bands and she didn't stop there. She went on the battlefield and the risk her life and now they angel angel of the battlefield. She had a leg disease called polio and her legs and she was ready to start school but the principal wouldn't let her go because her legs important. But finally in fourth grade they let they let her go to school and she had met other people there with disabilities soon and she's studied to be a teacher in college but new girl wouldn't let her be a teacher because her legs didn't work. So she went to court to fight for the right to be a
012teacher and she started helping a group until she died on March. Sister knew over 7,000 homeless people and even heard a lady crying that she might never be cleaned. So idea sparked me from her head. She know she knew that a food truck stopped by from people houses to get out food. And she had an idea to have a clean sink, a clean toilet, and a shower toilet. Then the shower got and they could get condenses and haircuts and stuff. So this goes for Bridges. This is Jenny Hillman. This is Claire Barton. And this is cool. He was a little creative with his project. What did he tell you? I'm presenting y'all about Ruby Bridges. Same thing. I'm presenting a rap about Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges is the only the only black girl the first
013black girl to go to a white school. She was in the classroom for a whole year by herself. All the kids didn't want to come stay home. And I wanted to make a rap uh to be like my dad. He's a rapper. And You ready for it? Yeah. Okay. He made a rap video. This was his history project. texting them right now. Tell me over a member of um a student in that class. Well, uh I was only in class. So about Stand tall through the doors of black history. My people have victory. I spread the world to my people. when it get better. I spent an advice teacher secret like kids and one teacher came from Boston. She was white. She was an amazing teacher became my best friend like a second mom. And
014um you know I knew even though she looked exactly like the people outside she wasn't like she showed me my heart. I knew that she cared about me and she made me feel safe. Two third graders are gonna say you're smarter than a third grader. So some white boards with some markers. We're gonna start with Jacob. He's a third grade. And his history project uh was um on a game show that he made. We shortened it. But so then we added another one. So we'll let him start with his once they get it up. Yeah. So he's just going to read the questions and he'll give you the answer after you guys put your board and put the board around. So you can shoot down markers and good luck. Okay. So I don't know how
015much. Okay. So may not get any bigger. So Jacob, go for it. Number one, the red. Yeah. 1542. Who did the leaders of Spain send to sail along the coast of Cal? What was it? 1542. So you can just put the letter on the board. Write it down. A is one Rodriguez. B is Craig Gabriel Scott. And C is King Julian. Which one's right? Sorry. Waiting on the tech guy. He's trying. Tech Guy's trying. You can take his time. That's okay. stand along coast of Oh man. Sure. You're going to make it a little bigger. There we go. That's perfect. How long did it take and the UFW to get higher to get higher pay and safer working conditions from a farm machine. 79 who sailed to San Francisco Bay and mailed up a sign
016that claimed the land belongs to school. Okay. So, this one is Camila. Come on board. She's the third grader and we call her the genius in class because she is. So, if you guys want to stay that way, she can use that board. She's going to let you guys answer. Then she's going to trigger the work on the board. So there's a marker. Martha's right next to your canoe. She can show you. I'll let you get off. There's some machine. Please note it's like a state test and it says mark all that apply. It's not that important. And there doing the whole thing. You have to show your work. furniture. It's actually respond. Safety Yeah. I know the answer. positivity. answer C and I see a D. She's got one more heart. What the house?
017You can treat us. We got one answer. Almost got two. Okay, answers are in. Now you got to explain how you do this when you're done. It's the best. Please student. I have two gentlemen that would like to introduce the last breakout game and they had a board member show up to you last time and they'd like to invite you and they want to just introduce you to the very last breakout game. Yes. No, there you go. The secret of Missy who the brave changes of the school. For many days you may have wondered about your teachers. Why does she care for the belt full of green red and white Poké Balls? Why did her eyes when you talk about legendary creatures among fall? Where did she disappear at lunchtime? Finishing through that little room,
018never returning until the bones. This very afternoon outside fiery bird shot out the mag and it clawed. It carried a small box marked with the symbols of ancient Pokemon. M sprinting after it holding a Pokéball. I call himing Phillip, get back here. That's not a toy. The birds soared away as his turn to you. My fellow trainers, he said with a sigh, I can no longer keep my secret. I'm just your teacher. I'm a Pokemon master. Spent years training legendary Pokemon and protecting the school from wild and dangerous creatures. She pointed towards the sky. But now my mistress mist stole someone's most important relics. Dragon Age filled with legendary Pokemon. Lucky bones and phoenix feathers are used to calm restless Pokemon and keep them safe from the wild powers. She kneel and spoke seriously. I'll
019need you will join me on my quest to track down lost relics and bring them these things out of your hand. With these items, rare Pokemons may appear on the school grounds. And these will lead every trainer to come to find peace. Sharpen your sentence. Ready your Poké Balls and prepare for adventures. And now for your crown on the legend legendary relic hunt sign, guardian of legendary Pokemon. So we had a couple three of you guys last time. You're all welcome to come. It's our last hunt. So this is my brilliant third and fourth grade classroom. It's been a pleasure teaching them this year. Thank you. Here we go. Ready? One, two, this year. We have actually had two opening up our first defense. So we have second America Jordan. Take it away Brian. All
020right. So we uh we are Central High. Um we uh this year we did a school field trip on Silverwood Lake. It's amazing trip. Was very nice, calming. What? Um one of the first um events of this year was um the autumn field trip to Silverwood Lake. Um we got rided to um throughout the park and um we learned about the um sunken city known as Cedar Spring. Uh we learned about the local plants and um trees and the apple. We also found frogs. It was very tiny. Yeah, we visited the visitor center and um we saw a bunch of um stuff that's like in the forest including bob ps and bears and the mountain lines. It was really cool. Um we also learned about fish and trees and then we finished the field trip
021off with lunch um in forest. It was really pretty. Um that's about it for specific next. Um so Central High School does two more ceremonies every year. One in December but one in Lake Bay. During these ceremonies um students are recognized for the work in the classroom, citizenship and behavior. Along with those um students are also recognized for their courtiousness, their hard work and their successfulness. Uh each teacher gives out the respective awards for their subject. Now multiple teachers have multiple different subjects. So, of course, every student was going to get multiple from each teacher or just from every single teacher that they have. Um, I'm going to brag a little bit. I got more than five. Most of them, two of them were for finishing three classes within a month, meaning I finished two
022six classes within two months. Um, the office gives out attendance awards because that has been really important in Central High School. Uh and but besides awards, they also give out parties every month for the people who are there for the full month without the absences. Uh it's like donut and pizza parties and it's just every up next we have the Marty party. Arguably one of the biggest events for Central High School is the Marty drop that happens every October. while it be made charge and and take charge of participating in the parade of us participate in the parade and while students and staff come together to create something we're all proud of. We are thankful that the parade happened so early on including that the whole entire student body will come together and be connected
023because of the theme for the parade as you can see was wild. So we have to wear our build jail and see all that all of our experience themselves. Another thing we're thankful for is is the opportunity to participate in the frame and the tradition and to alongside the community to celebrate 100 years more and those those students are not seniors are hope to participate in great nation. Uh to celebrate the Spookies event, uh Central High School hosted its first annual trunk or treat. This was a diverse community that sell well over 150 trick-or-treaters, a dozen Trump participants to hand out candy, plenty of candy donations for from local entities such as Barcela Youth uh Coalition and participation from Barcel Police and fire departments. Students from Central ASB as well as some teachers all dressed
024up to hand out candy and host games. And we we hope to continue this in the future and make it a permanent tradition. This event didn't go unnoticed by parents from the public as one of our amazing ASB members even had long posts raving about her and Barcel rants and rave on Facebook. Okay. Central hosted its annual awards auction in the month of December. This yearly event is one of our most popular and anticipated events of the entire school year by the central staff and students. For about 40 days, students were given auction points based on their behavior, attendance, and academic progress. The week before winter break, our students then attend an auction for students to come to real and valuable items donated by members of the community, including Baros Kiwan Club. The event is
025loved by the students because it helps us get us items both for ourselves and our families. It occurs right before Christmas. Most of us use our phones to get something special for our loved ones. Some of the many items are include Chromebooks, many toys and blankets, gift sets, and other things that bring a smile to our faces. We value this event not only because we get free stuff, but because it shows us that there are other members of such an animal club that values us as much as we value them. Presenting this school year of science teacher Mr. Brian Le coordinated two park field trips to Northbury Farm and both of these field trips were very fun and educational. At Northbury Farm we learned all about motion and physics including kinetic motion kinetic energy energy
026hydraulics and other forces. We separated into two groups and went on about five roller coasters a piece. And with each roller coaster, we learned about the different forces and mechanics that make them work. They also showed us how each of these forces are used in our everyday lives. We also learned about physics and motion in universal, but they were focused on the specific ways things move in the three different spatial dimensions. The movements were yawning, pitching, searching, swaying, and running. We were challenged to recognize all of these different types of movements on the hill streets that we built. Both of these filters bring a lot of excitement and energy to our schools and we're very and we're very thankful for the opportunity to be able to attend them. Next slide. The EXP industry coaching helps
027us young people gain experience, unlock door, and build confidence we need to succeed in school, career, and life. I got to attend the industry coaching and mentorship opportunities at Central High School throughout the school year. As a student, it helped me develop career readiness, respect, and life skills while learning from successful professionals. I was able to sign up for a a summer internship program they have and I was given the opportunity to work one of the workshops that they have gave me. I am either going to be working with the Barto paramedics or firefighters. I am thrilled about the EXP industry coaching because it helped me grow as a person and I am getting the experience on what the workforce looks like after high school. I want to thank Miss Patty Negradi for bringing this
028awesome program to Central High School and for preparing us for the future. Last month, Central High School ASB hosted a community aid hunt for the city of Barto. We had over a 100 children attend the hunt to hunt eggs, play games, and meet the Easter bunny. We I'm sorry. We also had a teenager egg hunt with golden eggs which held special prizes. We also had a chalk egg competition in which anyone who drew a chalk on the floor would get a special prize. Um all of the members in ASB met and worked hard to make this event happen and it was one of many group efforts that help our city grow as they valued in tidying in the city of Barstow. Families from around the community brought their children out to have fun and we
029are thankful for the chance to connect with those who helped make our community a better place. This was our first community egg hunt to ever be hosted at Central High School and we are hoping it will be the start of a tradition that looks that grows into something valued and looked forward to by our community every year. Thank you for All right, here we go. Ready? One, two. Got it. Thank you. Next presentation is for the classified employee of the 2024 2025 school year. That honor Maria Great. USC classified employee of the year 2024 2025. This certificate given award. This certificate given award to Maria Creo who has earned grateful and heartfelt appreciation by continuous demonstration of unselfish, faithful and devoted service to the students and staff as well as for their support of the
030mission of Bars Unified School District signed by both myself and the board president. Thank you. have flowers for you. Okay. And they want they're going to want pictures right here. Always. Yeah. Perfect. Right there. Oh, Miss All right, here we go. One, two, three. Thank you. And we also need to announce the teacher of the year for 2024 2025 and that teacher is Michael Freovich. Congratulations USD teacher of the year 2024 2025. This certificate given award to Michael Kredovich in appreciation for all you give as a dedicated employee and for making a positive difference in the lives and educational process of the students of Bar Unified School District. signed by both myself and the assistant superintendent of HR, Mr. Jorge Gutierz. We have this card and also go one, two, three. Good job. All right,
031it's 553 and we'll adjourn for a short recess and then reconvene back in the normal room. Thank you everybody. It is 62 and we will call the meeting back to order. Uh in close session, the board took action to approve the stipulated expulsion recommendation of students numbers 09 1 615 and 2 425 1 0 2 1 349 05862. Uh the vote was unanimous with uh for the re for the recommendation of the uh stipulated ex stipulated expulsion recommendation uh of four eyes's to zero naz. Uh the board also voted unanimously to approve the stipulated expulsion recommendation of four eyes's and zero naz. both with one absession. I'm sorry. One absence. Absence. Uh next we'll move on to the approval of the minutes. Um do we need to take each of them separately? Um can I
032get a motion to approve the meet uh the minutes from the regular board meeting April 8th, 2025? Move. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Can I get a a motion to approve the minutes from the special board meeting April 3rd, 2025? Second. All in favor? I. And can I get a motion to approve the special board meeting, the minutes from the special board meeting, April 1st, 2025? There you go. All in favor? I. And can I get a motion to approve the minutes for the special board meeting March 31st, 2025? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Next, we'll move into business from the floor. Uh the board meeting is a business meeting of the board held in a public forum to comply with the Brown Act. It is not a town hall meeting with
033the 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 actions 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
034may 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. We have Yes, we have one Mr. Jason group G from the G Foundation and he would like to talk on agenda item in reference to the employee appreciation uh picnic donation in addition to PC update and PC board compensation as he is the one of the uh our commission members.
035Um today I'm here with my wife Simone. We're both uh directors of the G Foundation and we're here to uh discuss uh present our donation to SP help sponsor the employee appreciation picnic. The G Foundation has uh been a longtime supporter of the BUD. My grandfather used to be a trustee here and my mom she worked here for over 27 years. I think her picture her picture is still somewhere hanging along the walls. Um, our G Foundation scholarship program has been going on since 2005. So, in the last 20 years, we probably awarded scholarships to over a hundred Barcel High School seniors. And we'll be out there at seniors award night. I think what Thursday, Thursday, giving another round of scholarships to this year's class. So when the superintendent and the EAP committee approached us
036to see if we wanted to help donate or sponsor the employee appreciation picnic, we thought it'd be a really good idea because serving on the commission, I I can I come to a greater appreciation of what the employees, especially the classified, what they do for this district and what they contribute. So, we are we're more than happy to we made a donation of $1,000 to help sponsor the picnic this year. So, me and my wife, we decided that and yeah, we're happy to be back. Always help the district. Um, second item, PC update. Just wanted to let you know that director Ortiz has been here for a few months now, getting to know the position well. him and his staff, uh, Julie and Maria, they've been doing some really good work at the commission working
037with CSEA, uh, filling the classified vacancies and doing the onboarding and training of the new hires. So, they're doing a really good job there. Uh, I know Director Ortiz gives you updates at every meeting, but uh, if you guys have any other questions or concerns about the commission, feel free to contact me or the director or attend one of our meetings. Uh, I know uh, Trusty, he's been to a few our meetings. He we've been trying to address some of his some of his concerns. So, if any of you want to reach out and contact us, feel free, please. The third item was a item on your agenda for board compensation and you added commissioner compensation. So, we appreciate you adding us and looking out for us to for the adjustment in our pay, but
038unfortunately the director checked it out and our commissioner pay is is I guess what is capp is capped by the ED code. So, us commissioners are only allowed to make $50 per meeting. So, we'll be happy with staying at that level since that's all we allowed by law. And we'll let you trustees make the big bucks. So, thank you. All right. Uh, next we'll go into staff reports. Uh, first is the Barcel High School CTE program and Miss Holly Bowser is here to present information that was his board meeting in program at High School. You have a click right there. I'm just your assistant today. And I think your slideshow should be up here. Thank you for Okay. Good afternoon. It's my pleasure to be here today to speak with you about career technical education
039at Barstow High School and within Bar Unified School District as a whole. Please, as I go along, interject with any questions you have to keep the do topic relevant to your needs and your concerns. First, on the cover of the binder presentation, we see the California I know you have the binder, so I'm going to keep moving. We see the California Department of Education's definition of CTE. Since we are work-based learning, may I have a volunteer to read that, please? Sure. CTE, career technical education, is a program of study that involves a multi-year sequence of courses integrating core academic knowledge with technical and occupational knowledge to provide students with a pathway to post-secary education and careers. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's what we're going to bring tonight's workshop about. All right. Next, please. Okay.
040And the common imagery that you've probably noted is our bird. It's our pet skull. Mr. Ortiz and I were speaking earlier. It's a mystical magical bird of Meso America. We adopted this mascot as our program logo to align course with our Aztec heritage. Thinking of our program operating now within the larger context of Barstow High School. Would someone please volunteer to read the BHS mission statement also on the stage? Sure. Um, pride. The mission of the Barcel High School in partnership with the community is to prepare all students for the ch for the choices, challenges and opportunities in the future. So already we can see an alignment between PTE and Barto High School. Uh next is our pathways bubble page which is quite a busy page coming up. There's uh on this page then this
041is provided by the California Department of Education again. So I thank them for having great references for us. In our pathways tab, we're going to see this diagram. The bubbles here, I call them bubbles. They represent industry sectors. There are 15 sectors recognized by the state of California as CTE course eligible. The bullets within the sectors note pathways that could be common for that sector, but they're not exclusive. So there can be a pathway for instance that's not mentioned there but the sectors are locked into the state. Uh these most of the ones here just represent the most popular ones. For instance medore you're going to see behavioral mental health within our health sector. BHS has eight that I've overlaid the markings on here in the chart. BJHS and STEM each have one. At STEM
042for instance the CTE class is within the sector of engineering and architecture. The pathway is engineering technology. At BJHS, CTE classes within the arts, media, and entertainment sector, and the pathway is performing arts. This page is our planning tool used in forecasting future pathways. Please see at the bottom, yes, we can see it there. Uh the bottom has the growth plan at BJHS. They are planning for a print shop pathway for next school year, which is very popular in our region. BHS has already interviewed to hire for patient care and child development, while interviews for a welding pathway teacher are scheduled for later this week. Barbbering is of interest for our students and we plan to to use this coming year as a planning year to launch a possible barber pathway in 2627. It's a
043passion project of Barb. Um, if I can add, uh, Barber is something that when I was at V, uh, Victor Valley High School had opportunity, my barber came up to me with that idea and I ran it to my with my principal and she goes, "You know what? We're full with our choices. We we're going to take a tax." I did not let that go. So, once I got the opportunity to come here to Barcel High School, um, and talking to Miss Bowser, it's which she is amazing at what she does. Um, we discussed about how we can continue to expand our CT program that encompasses what students want and need the skills necessary to give them the the the jobs that the careers that that's that will be beneficial not only for themselves but
044for the community. So, we talked about welding and we and Miss Miss shared with me the the the rich history that welding once played at Parks High School and we felt that it was necessary to bring that back. That's why it's on the books for for next year. Right now, I want to thank Mr. Gutierrez for working with us on setting the the interviews and making it work to where we have candidates to to bring the program uh up for next for next year and also for medical pathways as well. uh this is going to be a great uh opportunity for our kids. Um of course with with those in mind we're also trying to find ways to grow our our our program. So we continue discussing the barbering uh program and Atlanta High School's
045implementing one in their district. So they took that idea and implemented it from Victor to Delanoto. But that uh is giving us the uh the information that we need to create our own program here at Barcel High School to serve our community, which I believe uh with the different choices that the CT provides for our students as they come as as as nth graders to our school, they'll be well informed to make a choice, you know, for themselves on what they want to do. And it has to be it doesn't have to be just one pathway. they will have the opportunity to to try two, three, or possibly even five depending on how how serious they are. And we have students like that in at Barcel High School. So definitely I would like to take
046Miss Bouch to take the time to to really thank her for everything she's done for our school for CTA and we'll continue working together to ensure that our programs continue to grow. Here that we see a recap of our 2000 202526 H course listing. As we look at course listings, I wanted to bring attention to the AG status. In this case, A status refers to a high school course that meets the content eligibility requirements and course rigor necessary to meet minimum admission requirements in UC and CSU schools. All CTE courses have been AG approved. Our courses represent largely the elective credit based the G courses with one course uh multimedia in our visual arts category. I have noted on the bottom of the page a related course. It's our cadet core. I call it our
047cousin class because while it's not considered technically CTE, it is within our designated subject credential field. So they do work from time to time with us and we do have a lot of mentoring capacity that we share. I wanted to introduce our designated subject credential, the USD CTE and cadet core teachers. Tonight respect in our data tab we'll be touching on specific committee to our high school program. Our district is a member of the mountain desert career pathways which is a consortium of CTE districts in our region. Member districts are Apple Valley, Baker, Barstow, Hisperia, Lousern Valley, Silver Valley, Snowline joint and Victor Valley Union High School. Diana serves on our governing board of the MDCP. MDCP has provided this snapshot from our CalPAV data. Much of our data here is focused on subpopul reporting
048sector participations and CTE enrollment which is very high at Barsto High School when compared to others around our region. For instance, 67% of Barto High School students participated in CTE. This data is last year's data. So know that this year's data informs next year's data and so forth. So we're kind of always looking at the past, looking at that data, living in the present, and looking forward to next year to make our plans. Of note in the pigraph I'd like to highlight two terms. Concentrator the big blue area in the piraphph refers to our year one students while the little gray area there capstone refers to our year two students. Next page please. There it is. Thank you. The next data snapshot focuses on graduation rate of our computer students. Compleers have taken two years
049of one pathway and have received a grade of C or higher in each semester of both courses. We are happy to report that our completer students are at 100% graduation rate which includes all sub populations specified within the Perkins Act. Special populations of focus within the Perkins Act include students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, English learners, and foster and homeless youth. The Perkins Act is the primary federal law that supports and governs our CTE program and policy. Next page. Next page. Thank you. Our next data focus on enrollment history by sector from 2021 forward. As with any data, there are stories behind these numbers as we see them coming and going. And you can see that some of our pathways ended in 2021. And so when we look at this many data points in this presentation,
050we're certainly not able to cover each story, but we provide you with references to study and to prepare for f future inquiries that you might have. The data in the sector report though informs our regional labor market snapshot, which is on our next page, please. So the numbers of our students studying by sector are going to be the numbers in the bar chart in the middle there. Those are going to be our purples are the enrollment and the blue is the demand within the sector. I did that right? Yes. So the regional occupation snapshot in the labor market tab shows a healthy forecast of jobs in our region. Chamora economics and analytics is projecting a 93,000 plus jobs to be added to our region in the next 5 years. The yearly demand per sector is
051listed in the bar graph. Of note, speaking to Mr. Navaro's point about the pathways that we chose to build this year, we see that education and manufacturing one-year job demand in the blue is greater than our number of students enrolled in this region shown in purple. High demand sectors with high wage opportunity lie in in the upper right hand corner. We see them in education, healthcare, transportation, and business finance. I'm going to point out something that's unique to California. Most regions tend to mimic California, but in regions such as ours, more rural perhaps, what we're going to see is business and finance there, but in the state as a whole, if you look at it, they're going to have the energy, utilities, and environmental sector right there at the top of the path. Next page,
052please. Our CLMA tab refers to our comprehensive local needs assessment driven by our annual Perkin survey. Just recently, Deian and I attended the Perkin stakeholders meeting with our consortium, including industry partners, college instructors, school administrators, labor board representatives, students, and CTE teachers. BHS worked with stakeholders to collect data and report our takeaway summary. The areas of strength include our pathway completion rate, our number of pathways completed with special note to students who complete more than one pathway. Our record for this Thursday will be four this year, and our fledgling leadership program our strengths. Areas in need include our state testing results in core subjects, our alignment of pathway courses to community need and industry need, and our soft skill development. Our welding startup budget is here. We have provided it for your information. It was
053approved at our stakeholders meeting. The survey data led us to launch this new pathway in alignment to the increased need at US Borax and Riotinto VNSF with its proposed fix project and local need here. Additionally, Bara Community College has a well-developed welding pathway with sections being added regularly to supply students into the demand. A dual all enrollment pathway extension would be our end goal, allowing students the opportunity to certify in welding earlier than anticipated and get workforce rates. The proposed budget is summarized here. This would be coming out of again our perk budget. You'll see those budgets. Next week, the soft skill need discussed earlier is detailed here in our leadership tab. Our CTE teachers attend advisories annually with industry partners. The industry partners since 2021 have repeatedly identified that students have the required technical
054skills necessary to perform well as apprentice workers, but they lack sufficient soft skills to compete successfully in the job market. Our mountain desert economic partnership has outlined these six skills as the greatest need. collaboration, effective communication, critical thinking, ethical behavior, work environment, and work ethic. Next stage, please. So, to respond to this need, earlier this year, the board approved Marshall High School's leadership consultant. He guides our capstone students through soft skill development. Students gathered in the library each Wednesday to participate in a book club driven by the book Atomic Habits. The leadership sessions focused on job readiness skills, coping mechanisms, networking, developing a voice, interviewing skills, every detail down to handshaking. And I think Mr. Williams was there for two of those shorts. Thank you. We were inspired by the input. Our students participated at
055levels not seen in their classrooms, and they've gained volumes of that which cannot be graphed, nor measured, nor tallied. Yet, these characteristics count. In fact, leadership skills are a key indicator of job success and retention. We are excited to take what we've learned this year and apply it forward in revisioning the program. Mr. Navaro wanted us to share our Atomic Habits copies with you and we'll get those to you. And on that note, can somebody please read the quote on the bottom of this page? We wanted to pin in why we chose the title sand castle. So, if you'd like to look at our theory behind that, would someone please share that quote at the bottom of the page? Thank you. on the opportunities. Yes. Okay. Opportunities are like grains of sand. They slide right
056past drooping fingers, but an active palm can gather whatever whatever is within reach and shape it into a little castle. It is a act of engaging with the material that gives its shape. Thank you. Fantastic leadership. It's been an important component. If you come to our cleaner awards, we're having James there to do our ending statements. Next page, please. The accountability tab includes the essential elements which control our grant intentions. All 12 elements are reviewed annually in a self-ealuation survey using a rubric scale. The goal is not to achieve a perfect score, but rather to constantly find areas of need and build improvement plans to bridge those gaps. As we fund projects and set budgets, I pin back to these 12 elements constantly to verify that funds funds are being used properly and according to
057grant policies. They overlap. So within them, sometimes I can get lost in the weeds and think what belongs to this one and they they do overlap and they do that intentionally. So they're constantly revisiting these key elements. And next page, please. There's our grant. Our active grants are listed in the table. Each grant is tied to specific purposes, populations, target objectives, sectors, and timelines. Some grants additionally require district match from 1 one to 2:1. Thank you, Mr. Beaton. The greatest amount of district provided match comes from Lap salary and benefits earned by CTE staff. match refers to the district providing resources from its revenue to match dollar for dollar the amount awarded by the grant or sometimes $2 for every dollar. So you can see there there's different timelines. There's always grants coming up on
058the calendar and there's always grants sunsetting and we always have a different cycle of grants that we follow for each grant. K12 SWP is our state funded grant source. Perkins which is up right now is our federal funded grant source and CIG is a little bit of a combination. It comes through the state but it's certainly federally powered. The K16 is a special grant that was offered through the DRC Inland Empire Desert Regional Collabor Collective as a consortium also. It offered a grow your own pipeline for teachers this year. We got on board for that one. So that was new for us. Next slide please. The standards tab includes two different sets of standards. And that's where it starts to get really intense in your binder. So you don't have everything in the presentation, but
059we do have these. First, the overarching standards include all sectors and pathways. And they are called the standards for career ready practice. Pathways have unique anchor standards which clarify these objectives into sector practices, but they still remain general. On the next page, please. If you'd like to search out any of these standards, you can find them at CDECT standards. I think that's the page I go to on my computer. Always researching to make sure we're staying within the state's ideas. In your binders, in the binder copy, but not on screen, you'll see specific pathway standards. So, the pathway standards are the nitty-gritty. They refer to those specific performance taskbased technical skills unique to the pathway. In the pages that follow in your binders, we have provided samples of the pathway standards for welding in the
060blue frame pages. So you can see some things that might be happening in that welding class next year. And in the barber reading, we've included those standards as well in the brown frame pages. So now we can just go to the next page on this slideshow, please. This chart plays a various surveys. I'm sorry. I have a different ones for in my binders that I have up there. I'm just going to speak to what is in your binders. It is it didn't catch in the slide. The chart that displays various surveys that were taken throughout the course of the year. Surveys are structured around requirements and can be advantageous to program design. At the same time though, surveys can suffer from non-participation, bias, lack of foresight, or simply a bad vague. Conversations are needed to
061help clarify the data needed, the intended purpose, and the projected results. Specific results from the surveys listed have been summarized through action plans, CLNA reports, agenda, course offerings, and student scheduling. So on mine, I have right now it's ongoing the post-secary survey. You might see at the door if you are there for Thursday, Thursday afternoon's awards that our students that have not yet completed this will be stopped at the door and asked to complete it before they enter. Yes, we are going to make sure that every postsecondary survey that's required by our Perkins legislation. So that will be done by every single completer senior. So we have different surveys for different purposes. Uh the Perkins stakeholder survey is given to a wide swamp of folks in our community to include industry a few students that
062are in the pathways that we are projecting to be funded, parents and and the whole regional consortium that's involved in those and our college partners as well. Um, our welding course interest survey was of course just given as interest to our students. Please sign up and that was given in counseling at our leadership sessions. Everywhere we were, we were talking up the welding program to see if we could get enough signed up for it. Leadership surveys were given to see what our leadership how our leadership would be engaged by our students and it it ran very high on all sessions. A planning guide. I want to bring out our counselors. Wow. What would we do about them? We don't know how we get so many students involved in our pathways except our counselors, our wizards.
063They're performing magic and getting these kids through the two pathways the two years that they need to and some of them multiple pathways indeed is what our counselors are doing. So down there they're making sure that when they intake students they're surveying them. Maybe it's on a question basis. Maybe it's not on a on a Google form. But if they are getting the information that's necessary to be able to put a student in the courses that they need to number one complete high school and become a graduate and further their career interests, whatever they might outreach. This is my outreach page here. We'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to continue your research and discovery of the CTE programs. Please come for a tour of classrooms. Explore the MDCP website. They've got such
064great information and join our initiatives. MVCP would love to engage with you as industry partners, serving as an adviser, hosting field trips, becoming guest speakers, and inspiring our youth toward rewarding careers. The website is included here on this page, and that's the form you would fill out to have them reach out to you and find out what specifically you can add in in within those 15 centers. and time money. BHSCTTE invites you to our annual Completer Awards on May 15th at 12:45 in the Billsboro Gymnasium. We expect a high energy afternoon celebrating student achievement and honoring career development. Please join us if you're able. We'd love to have you there as we spread our wings into the future. Thank you. Yes, I have questions. I did. Uh, speaking of the barber's program, it's a great
065program. I know um BCC has it under the cosmetology section. Yeah. And I think they just starting or getting ready to start a barber's program at BCC. That' be something to look into and see how we can tie ourselves into that. A great idea. Same same approach with with welding like yeah as pastor said just making the connection that our kids are prepared with their enrollment opportunities that they would get uh with uh taking those courses at our school and as they continue to go to community college that'd be great and and that's the way and that what that's what I really appreciate when having our conversation with Miss Bowser is that we think about those things how we can expand these opportunities because we don't want to do something where you know we provide
066this information for the students and it's difficult for them to continue if they're interested, right? that we can connect into things that are within our community. I I sort of believe they will boost uh our our students uh confidence and they'll be prepared to accept those higher paying jobs because one of the things that uh if talking to my staff talking to my teachers to Miss Bowser what what I'm really working towards is to make sure that when a student receives a diploma from Barstow High School that has a lot of a lot of it behind it that these kids are ready to contribute to the workforce ready to go. So definitely with the continuation of our focus on on our CTE on our focus on our A3G completion rate that's going to be a
067big uh a big task for us as well. We want to make sure that students once they receive a diploma that they have the skills necessary to be successful academically in college and also uh in the workforce if they want to go to trade school or continue through going to college or going right out to work. So, we're definitely we're we're thinking big because that's what our students deserve. Simple as that. Because everything that we do is for our students. We have all the opportunities here in this community for these kids to go a long long way. Um so many programs whether it's at Bara High School or whether it's at Parson Community College, it's there. We just got to get the word out and and and get these kids into these programs, you know.
068Um wish we could start them early. That they would be greater. But I understand. Yeah. And and also cons we're considering the fact that a lot of our students have different skills different levels, right? where for from our AP students to our students who are in special education who need these skills, these opportunities to have them have those those opportunities that they deserve, you know, to have a highpaying job and a career. So definitely we're finding ways to connect them to things that are interested to them and exploring any other opportunities as well because we don't want to stop that. We want to continue to grow as much as we can. Thank you. Anybody else? Great presentation. Thank you very much. And you know, uh, I've said all along, you know, the community here, the
069students really need, you know, the CTE here in Barstow. I mean, it's, you know, I think it's very important and I'm glad it's expanding. And you said we're going to start welding in the fall. We're in. Oh, okay. What What room are we going to use? We're going to use the old wood shop or carpet tree room. Oh, yeah. That's plenty of room there. Yeah. All right. Well, good luck with that. Thank you very much. We're looking forward to those interviews on on Friday. Yes, holding is very important. I want to say thank you. I know this is like a lot of work. There's a lot of different data, numbers, information, and getting all that in there. So, thank you for, you know, educating us or clarifying a lot of different things. I did have
070one question. I didn't want to go too far in the weeds with it with the welding side. Do you guys know with the machines because I just seen 12 listed if they're going to be all the same or if I was I'm assuming like different because there's different types of welding. I have my fingers crossed again. Would you be in for being our industry rep when we have that meeting? Um yeah, potentially. Okay. Yeah, because we've only spoken and I can only speak with industry reps, you know, here and there right now as they're not actually funded. So I get them when I can. So it was just a little draft of our proposal. I do not have details on that. Okay. Yeah, I would love to. Yeah. Well, and with certain types of welding
071go to certain jobs. So, for the railroads looking for, you know, not just generalized but certain skills. But yes, I would. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh next we have the vandalism report third quarter. Thank you. Um this is the third quarter report from January 1st, 2025 through March 31st, 2025. Uh during this time we had 17 work orders totaling $3,265.17. This is a 15% dis decrease in work orders from last quarter. And we also had a 51% decrease in cost of analysis from last year's third quarter report overall. We're we're seeing less, right? So yeah, something good thing. Glad to see the numbers coming down. Thank you. Uh, next is the Williams third quarter report 2425. That's going to go to Miss Fischer. Our Williams third quarterly report
072um was uh reported from the Sanino County Superintendent of Schools and um I'm happy to report that we have no findings in the areas of instructional materials. Um suffici insufficiency school accountability report card reviews, school facility inspections and teacher missions and this presented a board as anformational item. Any questions? All right. Uh, next is the district office customer service survey report. I'm just going to go over to Mrs. Hey. Uh, good evening board members and guests. Uh, on the screen are some percentages for you, but I have a report prepared as well. So, in February of 2024, the superintendent's office launched the district office customer service survey via Google Forms. This anonymous survey was designed to gather insights and experiences from staff, parents, and community members who visited the district office. If you visited recently,
073you might have noticed the QR codes posted around the office in the lobby. And if you signed in, you've recent recently received an email from our receptionist inviting you to complete the survey. The survey consists of a few quick questions. Which department or school site did you visit? On a scale of 1 to five, how satisfied are you with your experience? On a scale of 1 to five, how professional were the staff you encountered? On a scale of 1 to five, how positive were the staff you encountered? Were your expectations exceeded, met, or not met? And were your questions or concerns addressed, answered, or left unanswered? Additionally, the survey does provide a space for respondents to leave comments, allowing both positive and constructive feedback. And at the end there's an option to provide contact information
074should a respondent wish to discuss their experience further with a member from our district. Every week the data collected from the survey is reviewed and shared with appropriate department director site supervisors via the cabinet level cabinet meetings that we have on Monday mornings um highlighting both positive feedback and areas of improvement. This process works effectively the chain of command essentially backwards from the superintendent's office down through the leadership teams enabling us to address concerns quickly or to commend our staff on their exemplary service. If there are requests for follow-ups I ensure that the necessary details are forwarded to the correct district personnel so that that contact is made. And in the last year, um, in March, we added the school sites, we sent out a mass mailer of postcards to every student and every staff
075household with a QR code on it. Recently, we just had the superintendent's newsletter went that went out that also had that QR code on it. And again, those all of those results are reviewed every single week. So, the summary report shows that the most visited departments are certificated and classified personnel offices. Um, our most visited school sites are Barstow High School and Cameron Elementary School, representing 22% of our responses. Overall, 71% of our respondents say that their satisfaction level is at a five, which is very positive. Professionalism is at 79%. Positivity from staff is at 80%. 41% of respondents say that their expectations were exceeded and 43 felt that they were met. So that's like 84% felt that expectations were met or exceeded when dealing with the district office. Question resolution is at 76%. And
076contact preference about 90% expressed a desire to be contacted. So although there have been things that have not been so pleasant to read, we do address them in a timely manner and try to correct um those concerns. But there has been an overwhelming amount of positivity that has been shared with our staff. So, it's nice to get those little shout outs every once in a while, too. Any questions? You have any questions or comments? Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. I think these are very, very important. Um, I, you know, you hear a lot. Um, and when they approach me, I always ask the question, have you talked to this person? Have you talked to this person? I have you talked to this person. Um, a lot of times most people just want to be hurt.
077Correct. When they feel they're not being heard, that's when we have the problem. And and I like the idea. I I like seeing that. So, yeah, it's working for this. Um, be great to get it to 100%. But, you know, it's not going to happen. I understand that. But I just I like to see these numbers because it shows us what the rest of the other than the 10% what the rest what the 90% are out there looking at. Um so yeah, we didn't get that. I like that. So this you do this once a year. This is the first time I've seen this. I mean this report. Yes. This is the first time that we have presented this report. Yes. It's great. Yes. Yeah. We need to keep it up. You know, jumping on
078this, you know, we gave it a year to collect some data. We rolled it out, like I said, in February of 2024. So, February of 2025 was the one-year mark. And then in March of 25, we expanded to the school sites. So, you know, if we did it half year or even a year later from now, we would have even more data to present to you. Yeah. I like the numbers that, you know, we can improve, you know, I hope we can, you know, you know, positive reinforcement is great, you know, and uh yeah, I like it. I I'd like to see another one. I mean, next year, I guess, when we do it. Very informative. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. I'd rate that uh 90% uh express a desire to be contacted
079following their visit. That means, you know, they they want feedback and that's good. Exactly. We like we'd like to see this like maybe once every six months. You get a really good from where we at to where we at. Can I do that? Yeah. What would you guys think as far as that goes of like kind of like the semester like doing one towards the end of the calendar year? That would be like roughly the end of the first semester. Then you get all the fall data, the back to school and fall data, and then doing one again around this time that would capture your, you know, because it it'll give us a good snapshot what we might need to work at, something that we need to work on. I think yeah, very easy to
080collect that data. No problem at all. One, I wanted to say thank you to everybody, the staff, you know, doing the work, but also for Christina for putting it together. Um, and also just to let everybody know, communitywide, we are listening to everything that you all are saying. And this is part of what we're actually putting into action of hearing what was said so we can all hold each other accountable all the way from the top all the way down to the bottom and everybody in between. So I I think it's good to see the numbers and like I said, just to say thank you to everybody for all the things you're doing and and we definitely agree there's always more work to be done. like to see it be 100, but you know, good
081job so far. Need a walk to walk. That's it. That's the last one right there. Uh, next we have the superintendent report. Thank you. Good afternoon, board members, staff, and guests. I guess evening now, but um on Sunday, May 4, 2025, I received news of the tragic loss of life for three of our BUSD students and one former B US student and also Barto High School graduate. This news has struck our district in an unimaginable way. Former BUSD student, Barto High School graduate, and father of the three of of the other three individuals lost in a single vehicle rollover accident on I40 was Mr. Bryce Martinez, the three B USD students and Mr. Martinez and um I'm sorry, the three B USD students and Mr. Martinez's children were Cole Martinez, Trent Martinez, and Sailor Martinez.
082Cole was in the 11th grade and Trent was a freshman at Barsto High School. Sailor was a fourth grade student at Skyline North Elementary. On behalf of Barcai School District, I would like to extend our condolences to the families of Bryce, Cole, Trent, and Sailor. Your anguish at the loss of these four beautiful souls is felt across our district and our community. For those of you who would like to help the families, there are GoFundMe accounts established to provide assistance during this very difficult time. Please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. The last week of April, I traveled with four of our board members to Washington DC to attend the 4th annual Coast to Coast federal advocacy trip. While in DC, we engaged in discussion related to the possible elimination of federal
083funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA. The impact of the loss of this funding to B USD totals $6,65,657 from title one to title five categorical funding. The B USD board, other San Bernino County School Board members and I met with Representative Jay Obermulty urging his support for the continuence of ESSA funding and other legislative issues affecting K12 education. I'd like to thank board president Erin Caldrid, board clerk Anthony East, board member Leonard Williams, and board member Elizabeth Given for making the long trip to DC with me. I appreciate the collaborative advocacy demonstrated among our governance team and the continued support of all who attended. I'd like to acknowledge the board's ongoing effort to conduct school and classroom visits for the guidelines established in board policy 1250, visitors outsiders, and board regulation 6116,
084classroom interruptions. Board policy 1250 states in part, "The governing board believes that it is important for parents, guardians, and community members to take an active interest in the issues affecting district schools and students. Therefore, the board encourages interested parents, guardians, and community members to visit the schools and participate in the educational program. To ensure the safety of students and staff and to minimize interruptions of the instructional program, the superintendent or designate shall establish procedures which facilitate visits during regular school days. Visits during school hours should be arranged with the principal or designate. When a visit involves a conference with a teacher or the principal, an appointment should be scheduled during non-instructional time. Board regulation 6116 states in part, "In order to allow students to take full advantage of learning opportunities, while in the classroom, school
085staff shall ensure that interruptions are kept to a minimum. Strategies to reduce classroom interruptions include, but are not limited to the following. And per the numbered list number four specifically, inform school visitors that whenever possible, they should make appointments in advance in accordance with district policy. Tomorrow we celebrate all our incredible BUSD staff members with two showings of The Incredibles. Staff members and their families may arrive at the performing arts center at Barca Community College beginning at 1:00 p.m. for food and snacks, two photo booths, and raffle prize pickup. The first opportunity for our staff and their families to enjoy the movie is 1:30 p.m. and the second opportunity is at 3:45 p.m. This employee appreciation event celebrates and honors all of our incredible staff who go above and beyond as BUSD's superheroes of education,
086ensuring every student in Barcel Unified School District is provided a safe environment conducive to learning. Thank you. Next we have board reports. Yes, thank you. Um well, we went when we went to Washington DC um I went wondering is this will this be effective? Will is this going to work? So, my hopes and dreams weren't that high, but I left there feeling so much better. Um, they listened, quite surprised they were first on the issues we were talking about. Um, they trained us really well. The different classes, the first I couldn't figure out why are we going to all these classes? Why do we have to sit here? But the progress from that led to the meeting. Um and then then it all made sense. It all came together. So you know what what's going
087to happen? We don't know. We gave it our best shot and a bunch of other people there too. I mean, we have the biggest contingency of anyone there uh for our district and for San Bernardino. Um San Bernardino, we had 53 53 different people there. Biggest contingency um um of the group. Um and just had a wonderful time. Aren't a lot um I think that's something we as a board have to do. We have to get out there and we have to advocate for our district and advocate for our kids which is number one thing we should do and and was amazing. It really was and I would recommend if you ever get a chance to go do it again my hand you know immediately. So it was very productive. So for those who who
088some some say ah you spend all this money blah blah blah. It was very very productive. Like I said I was cynical when I went but I was left with a smile you know and thank you Christina for making me have not have to worry about anything. Um I have to be guided that way. That's perfect. Um so on that fantastic um thank you for the CTD um briefing. I I've been I've talked about that before. Amazing. I love CTE. I love some of the programs in it. Um had had a chance to speak to a BCC class and I'm I'm nobody. But surprisingly I I I figured I'd give him 10 minutes. I spoke for an hour on entrepreneurship and it's truly amazing. So that program, you know, talks about entrepreneurship for welding. Welding,
089you know, Mr. Hel welder, right? Pretty much um I'm a mechanic by trade, you know. Um so the trades are very important to me. Trades are extremely important to me. You can make a very very good living in the trades. and we have a chance in the city of Barstow in this community to build on that with the big project coming in. Um so I push it as much as I possibly can um with kids and adults. Um enough of that. Tomorrow I tomorrow I get to Thursday I get to go play with the kids at Cameron that's presented to us tonight. Um the last time I was there we we had um escape room. Thank God for um um Miss Lewis because I'd probably still be stuck in there for letting me out, but
090it was a lot of fun. I tell you, the kids are amazing. Um the board members who haven't went in a while, just amazing how smart those kids are, kids are great. I I loved it. Um, they invited me again. Now they're gonna do it outside so I I can't get locked in. So, and yeah, the gangs was amazing how these kids can put this stuff together, you know. Um, that young lady, she's just a brilliant girl. She br any Jesus. Yes. Yeah. I want to echo a lot what Mr. Williams said. you know, that CTE is very important for the city of Barstow. I believe in it, you know, and uh and I'm an advocate. I mean, I I really believe in it. And, you know, we have a lot of kids here. You
091know, I guess it's like 77% of our students are not going to four-year schools, you know what I mean? And uh I like the cradle to career saying, you know what I mean? And that's what we do here. You know, we get them from kindergarten all the way through. And uh I think a lot of those programs have the kids ready for a career, you know, I mean, a decent career, you know, mostly welding, you know. Uh that's that's an art. I don't know how to do it. I'm scared of it, you know what I mean? And I guess that's why they get paid money for doing it, you know. Um I went to uh Henderson School uh when they had the little robots over there. It was my son-in-law, my daughter. Uh I was
092very impressed in the discipline of the kids there. They lined up alongside their classroom and they waited very patiently. They didn't jump up and jump on the robots. Teachers were right there very proud of their students. I was proud of them. It was awesome. I mean, everybody was having fun. I mean, you know, it was it was awesome. You know, the discipline, I really enjoyed that. You know, I'm an old coach. You know, I I believe in discipline. And to see those kids land up against the wall waiting patiently, you know, you could tell they want to jump on them with robots and everything else, but uh they sat there uh to the principal, to the teachers, to the staff, to the students, and to the parents that raised those kids. I mean, I was
093very, very impressed on the um again with the the Martinez family. Uh he's my waiter at the Canton when I go eat at the on Sunday morning breakfast. Uh it's very sad very sad thing. Um you know on that note I uh I promised this little kid well yeah I pretty much promised him he his mom his grandma you know they they ask me a lot of questions you know about what's going you know the Brown Act and you know what's the Brown Act. It's more for the grandma. a kid comes and asks me and the last one they asked me is how I got uh interested in being in politics and I know you guys have been here a long time and you guys don't want to hear a long self but I'm going
094to go ahead and say it because I promise this young kid and uh you know I've been told I like to hear myself talk anyway so you know here we go uh I was about uh eight years old my I was raised by my mother my aunt and my uh her oldest sister was like my grandma And uh my grandmother lived on 517 Park Street and if back in the day they had no gutters and the rain used to come down 7th Street, Main Street, Sixth Street right into the body and almost uh flood the houses away there. And we used to have to dig trenches. I'm sure Ray remembers the old days. And uh to keep the rain from washing your house away. Anyways, uh my grandmother was very uh into politics and she
095used to uh uh host uh politica uh hontas would translate into political meetings and they hosted the people that were running for city council, school board, even the county supervisor. But at 8-year-old, I didn't know I just knew it was people coming over and I was a very uh tough kid to control. But my mom for some reason took me to those things and I went ironed up my shirt and stuff and had big pictures of coffee, pet milk and sugar and they used to strain the coffee into it and they had pancho with Mexican uh bread and cookies. It was a very fested day, you know, atmosphere. And uh the the guy that came in, they asked him, it was a city council and he asked him about the street gutters. And he says,
096"I'll get my engineers on it. It's by if I get voted in, I'll get them on right away." Eight-year-old, I'll say, "What does a Santa Fe engineer have to do with street gutters?" I mean, that's where I was at. So, anyhow, so time passes and we there's a couple other meetings they had and then four years later, this guy comes back and he walks in the door and my grandmother's sitting there waiting them and the festive mood is not festive, almost like a funeral. I mean, everybody's very quiet really. serious and he introduces himself and he sits down and then first thing my grandma gets up and says what about those street gutters about like that I kind of shocked and he says oh Mrs. Yeah, ladies. The wheels of the government move very slow.
097She jumped up, grabbed his coffee, opened that old wooden screen door, and said, "I'll see you later." I take that as a no. And uh I remember that. And also remember uh my eighth grade teacher, I had to pass the constitution test back in the day to go to high school. And I wanted to play football very, very bad. And uh my parents knew it, the teachers knew it, and they I got in advance English and history with Mrs. Coffee. And uh she pushed me and pushed me and pushed me and I learned and learned with her and I was even in my math class doing her homework. And I remember the math teacher coming, "At least you're doing something." And didn't interrupt me from that. And I got at high school, you had to
098pass DoD, political uh science class for to graduate problems of democracy, pod. And Mr. Laughy, he was kind of a goofy guy with a Berkeley guy, had fluorescent ties and leopard vests and stuff. And uh we he would read the newspaper every morning, the current events in the front page. And I told him one day, I said, "Why don't you read the sports space?" He says, "Well, if you on Monday, if you review the three sport the three uh front pages of these newspapers, I'll read the sports page." I mean, dang. He hooked me in that. It was Watergate and before I knew it, I was into it. And uh so that's how I got into it. And I believe it's my civic duty. Anyhow, uh I enjoy helping people. Uh I enjoy this you
099know interaction with these kids you know when we come and uh hear them reading and you know challenges us and uh it's awesome. Uh so that's how I got interested in polit politics and uh like I said I'm not the type to point fingers at somebody. I said I'm I'm going to go try to do it myself. And I've said it a thousand times it takes guts put your name on a ballot. It takes a lot of guts, intestinal fortitude, you know, that rejection. Anyhow, uh I better stop talking before I start talking about my neighbor's wart in her toes. And I'll take the cotton out of my ears and stick them out. And thank you for letting me share. Leonard, real quick, can you hit where it says extend on that screen? Just tap
100the word extend. Okay, it's not you. Never mind. I wasn't sure if it was that screen or if it was on the guy behind the door screen. Thank you. Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz. Yes. Uh, Miss Korea. Oh. Oh, the first thing I want to say is uh that Tony is so interesting. Great story. I really appreciate that. Yeah. Anyway, uh I want to offer my congratulations to uh our classified employee of the year and uh our uh teacher of the year and I want to let them know that I know we all up here at the on the board appreciate their service very much and not everybody could be elected to those positions. Uh but I think that all our teachers and all our class light employees are pretty special. Uh I
101really appreciated the presentations we had today from our students. U they challenged us a little bit and and demonstrated to us uh that they can't stand up in front of a group. Uh I just can't imagine myself when I was uh growing up standing up in front of a group and giving and reading a paragraph or so. Uh a tough thing to do and I really appreciate the fact they did that. Uh our CTE uh presentation was fantastic. Yeah, I think uh as many of us on the board feel that that's one of the most important programs that we have going. And uh uh I'll tell you the short story about my involvement in CTE is when I got out of the army uh before I went in the army, I was working at the
102base. I was working in packing and preservation uh which was okay. And when I got back, I found out that I'd been promoted and I was uh sent to the welding uh lab out at Germo. And uh so I went there and I was happy to see that a lot of my relatives are working in the in the welding lab. And I found welding to be one of the most difficult things I could ever imagine. You know, just trying to run a bead was just crazy. I got to the point where I could do that and uh I could handle the settling torch pretty good. But uh I made a decision one summer and I said I think I'm going to quit this because you know I came home every day and I'd you know
103breathe in that that dust and powders and I blow my nose and it was just terrible you know and I said uh I don't think I can do this the rest of my life you know. So I decided to go to college and that worked out pretty good for me. So but I look but I look back and and and see the uh and remember the the fellows that I worked with and they were just artists when it came to welding and they they put together some great projects for the military. Uh we also did some things for for the railroad that all involved welding a very important pro uh program and uh uh I would also like to offer my personal condolences to the Martinez family. I just can't imagine what they're going through
104and the problems that they have on their hands right now. So they all they deserve our thoughts. uh our prayers and hope to continue moving. Thank you. That's all. Thank you. Um I would also like to wish my condolences to the family again the same as everyone else has said. I I can't imagine what they're going through and just wish them the best moving forward. Um, I would also like to um congratulate the award winners. Um, and also as Mr. Prey said, thank everyone. Um, only one person can be named into those positions. Um, but we know that there's tons of outstanding teachers and staff all around the district doing it every day. Um, also with the students, um, great great job. I I think that's one of the best things that we started doing
105um here at the board meetings is my biggest takeaway from those are always reminding us why we're all here. Um and that definitely does that every every single time that those kids get up there. Um I like that and I also like seeing after the awards are done, after the student presentations are done. At least for me, it makes me feel good seeing the families there, like people taking the pictures together, just spending that time, building that community, um, to make us all feel like a family. I definitely see it. I feel it. May not be perfect, um, but it makes me feel like we're moving in the right direction. Um, and I definitely appreciate all of that. Um, also wanted to second or third, fifth, uh, on the CTE presentation. Um, definitely enjoyed all
106of that. um and and like all the directions that we're going and adding to all of those programs. Um and I did want to talk a little bit about the DC trip um and its importance for us to be there right now. Big picture wide, there's a tax going on on all kinds of different funding streams and organizations. One of those is being title one, a huge portion of the money and the funding that we're getting for our kids in our schools right now. Right as we were in DC, they were going through bud budget reconciliation. So, as the people that we are talking to in there are the people that are going to be voting to say where we want to cut and where we don't want to cut. So, us having that voice
107and being there in that room, you may not see it as a statistic, but that actually pays dividends. And just like what Leonard, Mr. Williams was saying we had over 50 of locally represented people there for our congressman for Jenoli's office. The closest second was 23. So we had more than double to just to show him how important it was for us and for our community and for our students, for our teachers, for our staff that that was why we were there. And some of the things that we were there to promote, you know, were the Rural Schools Act, um, trying to get IDA fully funded, um, one to help to get the funding for those programs, but also so then we don't have such a large encroachment going onto our general fund so that
108we have more money to spend on all the rest of the students that are out there. Um, the new teacher programs and initiatives that they're looking at cutting all of that. So there were a lot of things that we were able to go in let him know were important to us and how you know and like I said it wasn't just some random time. This is right at that key moment when they're going to be making those votes. So um just wanted to say thank you for them for their time um to Mr. Obernolulti um and everybody else for going because I I really I could feel that we were making an impact and they knew how important it was for all of us. So I think that was all really good. Okay, that's our
109longest set of reports we've ever had around my neck. And next we have the student representatives report. Hello everyone. Good evening. Special shout out to Mr. K, Mr. Kovich, who's my seventh grade history teacher. Much deserved. Um, prom is this Saturday at Fox Theater in Redlands. We're looking forward to lots of fun. Our prom spirit week is also this week. Today it was pearls and ties because our theme is the roaring 20s. Okay. Kind of interesting, but going to pan out, huh? Um, our senior events are starting. Our senior awards, scholarship awards are this Thursday. The also the CTE awards. Shout out Miss Bowser. As as the kids say, she's the goat. Uh, we got senior sunset coming up, grad night, and of course, graduation on the 29th. I invite all of you to come
110watch us walk across the stage. Um, and those who are not graduating this year in ASB are looking to get next year's prom venue book. And special announcement, I'm passing on the torch to this young man right here, Elijah Sanchez, who also happens to be a very close friend of mine. He'll tell you that we're siblings, but don't believe him. I have no doubt that he'll do amazing. Um, this is my last meeting as student representative. I'd like to thank all of you for the for not only giving me a voice but the students of BHS a voice to be heard. Had a wonderful experience. Thank you. Good having you. Your name plate Vicky too. That's yours to keep. Thank you very much. No, you're totally good. Thank you. Just want to say thank you
111for everything. It's been awesome having you here. Um and you are more than welcome to leave whatever you would like. If you would like to stay, that's fine. But you see you soon. Oh yeah. Thank you. We have representatives for Portbea. We'd like to congratulate the teacher of the year and the CSC every year as well. It's welld deserved from um we're here tonight on behalf of our teachers. Uh the dedicated professionals who show up every day uh for our students and communities and I have to be honest, the level of frustration among our educators is reaching a breaking point. We are still waiting for the district to provide us with a list of mediators. The delay is not not only unprofessional, it's disrespectful. It sends a message to our teachers that their concerns are
112not priority. Um that their voices don't matter. Quite frankly, it's getting ridiculous. Our members deserve to be heard and we deserve to have a fair, timely process in place to resolve important matters. Every day this is delayed chips away at the trust and working relationship um we should be building together. In addition, we're asking for an update on the DTA meetings that have been held. We had two me two members who have attended the meetings yet. We continue to be told that we're waiting on a video for Mrs. Swearing to be added to the slideshow before the information can be shared. This unnecessary delay is frustrating for our members who were the who took the time to participate and for those still waiting to be informed. Timely communication is key to building a healthy collaborative
113relationship and right now it's falling short. Adding to this disappointment is the fact this year many of our sites experienced teacher appreciations meet with silence from the district. And in a profession where morale is already fragile, a simple gesture of gratitude goes a long way. The absence of recognition felt and intentional and our teachers noticed. Many reached out to express their hurt and frustration and rightfully so. They work tirelessly, often under challenging circumstances, and should feel valued not just in words, but through meaningful actions. Lastly, we would like to request that next year, if it's possible, BEA would like to have the opportunity to suggest some ideas for the staff. We have received feedback from several members this year who are unhappy with the current format, and we believe with some collaboration, we can help
114create the event that better reflects our staff, what our staff would truly enjoy and appreciate. Our teachers are the backbone of this district. Their voices deserve to be respected and their efforts recognized. I urge this board and district leadership to reflect on how we can move forward together. By honoring commitments, improving communication, and showing our educators the appreciation they so deeply deserve. We remain hopeful that with open, honest dialogue and shared purpose, we can rebuild trust and create a stronger, more supportive environment for everyone in our school community. Thank you. Thank you. CSA. Yes. Uh personnel commission. Yes. Uh good evening uh board members, uh staff and members of the community. Uh this is a report from personnel commission. Uh currently in our statistics, we have uh zero interviews in progress. We have four recruitments
115that are in the testing stage. Actually, we probably move this more toward six now as an update. Uh we have uh zero recruitments that are open currently. Uh we also currently have 382 classified employees, uh 178 hour full-time, 126 benefited part-time employees, and then 78 uh non-benefited part-times. We uh still carry uh 15 classified management employees. As far as the um classifications, we have uh no vacancies in security. Uh safety, we have two vacancies that we're uh still trying to schedule. uh Gustoio has no vacancies. Uh after we concluded our abolishment of a number of positions and some of the recent hirings, our vacancy list should be reduced to about 70 70 positions and that will keep u reducing. Um we have paused some of the the par educator um um interviews for the part-time
116PAR educators because we are currently focusing on scheduling testing for all the other classifications that we have sitting in the pipeline which uh we thought were also uh important and also um people were kind of waiting for this. So the uh classifications that we're currently uh testing for we have to review the applications and and all time to test. Uh we have health health assistant library media maintenance worker one nutrition services too school accounting technician paran buyer and translator. Uh all those we're conduct conducting testing almost every day for the rest of the month. So, we're just wall- to- wall testing. Um, after we, uh, finish scheduling all these testings, uh, we're going to focus on the recruitment for nutrition services 3 and also the HR technician, which is one of the last classifications that
117is in the list. So, we should be going uh complete that process. Uh as far as the number of onboardings that we've done this year, we're uh above and and higher than 110 since July. So we've been doing a lot of movement lot of on boarding on on boardings. The campus safety and security trainings, we have an update. We're trying to schedule some more trainings before the end of the year. There's just uh too many moving parts. So we're going to push back that to July uh for the first week when when they come back. There's a couple of days that are set aside for training. Uh July 28th, 29th, and 30th is what we're looking at uh for CPI training and possible training on team building and also uh some active shooter training. So,
118we have a vendor already for that. Um let's see what else do we have uh for an update for you. We have uh we're still working on some uh nutritional services uh positions. We've been talking about this. We're going to do one one last review. We'll probably bring those uh to you for approval shortly. Uh there's a lot of movement that uh the department wants to make. Uh some decrease in hours, a couple of abolishments possibly, and then some additional positions. So, there's a lot of movement in nutrition. Um we're still working on a lot of these uh other tasks that that we work on. Uh we sent out the reasonable assurance letter. So, those were all sent out. We're working on some of some of the end of the year letters. Um still seniority
119list, vacancy list and and uh so on and so forth. Um we are also conducting a lot of onboardings for newly subs. So a lot of individuals apply at the school sites and we got those applications. So we're we're turning that around. And then um our next uh PC meeting is uh we did a schedule change for June. We're going to have it on Tuesday, June 3, uh, 4:30m again in this room. And let's see. I believe that is all I have to report for this one. Any questions or comments? I did. Uh, Mr. Ortiz, just want to thank you for improvement for personnel commission. you know, as an employee, I uh believed in the merit system and the per personnel commission and uh you've really improved it. I don't want to go on to
120the past, you know, course, but uh you're doing a great job. Your staff's doing a great job. The commissioners are doing a great job communicating what's going on, you know. Uh I really uh enjoy going to your the couple meetings I went to. Uh but all in all, as a group, you guys are doing an excellent job. you know what I mean? In my eyes, you know, and I really appreciate it. This was one of my pet peeves coming in, you know what I mean? And uh and you've really improved the uh personnel commission. Uh the new commissioners have really helped out. Two staff members are awesome and uh I know you probably don't get enough pat on the back as you know, but uh thank you very much. Uh I sleep easy at night
121knowing that you're up there in the charts. Thank you very much. Thank you for that, Mr. Xles. only that's is the staff that really carried that department. So both Maria and Julie have a lot to do. Uh I just want to say the same thing also um just saying hey good job and I I love always seeing us growing whether that's you know through Mr. Gutierrez on the teaching side whether that's through you on the classified side. I know I there's a whole host of names that are coming in this time it was Paris last time. Um, but anytime that so long as you know it's okay and Mr. being uh with you know on the money side um anytime that I you know see our our group growing I I definitely like it. So
122thank you. Uh point of order. Mr. President, can we take a break? Yep. All right. Uh it's 7:23. We'll take a fivem minute recess. My facing. Hey, hey, It is 7:29 and we are back in session. The next item we will move on to is the adoption of the agenda. Um with can I get a motion to approve the agenda with we have four corrected copies. uh K22 inservice education L4C1 uh one time off schedule bonus for certificated and classified management confidential personnel for 2425 school year uh L6D1 amendment to the contract to employment for superintendent and L6E2 board bylaw 9250 compensation. So, can I get a motion with corrected comments? So, move. Second. All in favor? I uh next we'll move into the consent agenda. Does anyone have any items that they would like
123to pull? Not at this time. You have one. I did, but it was answered for me. Um, don't don't be mad at me. Uh, first is K21. Second is K22. Uh, K29, K31, K39. and K411. Oh, yes. K33. Excuse me. K33. K33. Yes. Um, I'm not sure what that one K42. Yes. K42. Okay. He meant K3. So H39. Yes. So, first we need to approve the cataly really fast. Make sure I didn't. Yeah. Okay. Just double checking. Yes. Uh, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda a agenda with items four? So, move. All in favor? I I So first we will go to K21. K2. It would be inservice education. I'm going to hand that over to Miss. So uh for this board agenda, we have six inservice trainings um PD opportunities
124for our teachers and counselors and other certificated staff. Um the first is Canva create which was for um partial fine arts academy. This particular one was for the counselor to attend a workshop on Canva. Um he was actually on the wait list and then um and so we were we didn't take to board because we didn't think he was going to be able to attend. At the very last second he was able to. So unfortunately we're having to bring it he already attended so we're bringing it there. Um, our second is the basic auditory and hearing um problems um workshop for our RN and our LBN to um gain certification to be able to do auditory screens for our students. So that'll be fantastic. Uh we also have the wellness conference. We have um already
125taken to board for approval for the Barcelo junior high to provide a team for this conference. And this is in addition we are we have 10 sites overall represented in one department for um our group to be able to attend to um gain um the most up-to-date information on providing our students um as well as our staff with um with wellness strategies. We have the American um school counseling association conference for two of our um school counselors and this is a top-notch conference that we um recommend for our counselors each year. We have an additional team going to the AVID summer institute. We send um many of our um AVID sites to this training each year. And I personally am excited for us to also bring bring forward the California Administrator Reading Collaborative. Um we
126have a group of um representing three departments and um three sites who will be participating um next um school year in um a statewide collaborative on literacy. And so it'll offer us the opportunity once a month um to be able to um connect with our um other literacy partners throughout the state and um learn about providing great literacy for our students. Well, thank you definitely for all the additional information on on those trainings. Did you guys have any questions or not at this time? What initially drew me as far as pulling it on this one was just the um with all of the the wellness conference that I had pulled it earlier because I knew there wasn't quite as many names and then I was like, "Oh, it's such a good class. I would like
127to see hopefully we could get more people." So, it was just nice to see like all the addition. Um definitely like all the training. So thank you. Uh can I get a motion to approve? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I uh next is uh K22 uh with corrected coffee for inservice education out of state. So for this one we have three out ofstate conferences that we're bringing forward for approval. The first is innovative school summit which is held annually in Las Vegas and we have a teacher from Bars Academy who is an add-on um for this conference. So we have a larger team um who is going throughout the district and so um Mr. Rodriguez will be um representing Barcelo Fine Arts Academy. We also have the Kagan Summer Academy which is
128in Orlando, Florida. Um this one is um was brought forward actually by my department in collaboration with Barstow Intermediate School. We have been working for the last several years with uh Kagan Cooperative Learning, Kagan Learning to bring um cooperative learning strategies to our students and to our teachers. Um Miss Malden, who is obviously the administrator of Barto Intermediate School, was um the first to bring Kagan to our district back prior to the pandemic. And it was through her efforts that educational services and instructional support learned about Kagan learn um Kagan cooperative learning. We um brought in recently a coach from Kagan to work with two of our sites, Skyline North Elementary and Barto Intermediate School. And the coach who came in to work with Barto Intermediate School just finished up his doctorate with Harvard about
129cooperative learning specifically with Hagen and um he was really impressed with Barstow Intermediate School. um we have struck up a collaborative um with him uh as a representative of Kagan and um he recommended that we um try to bring a team from Barto Intermediate School to the Kagan Summer Academy which is um only offered during this time period in Orlando so that they can bring back um the the most relevant information about over the course of those five days um about cooperative learning to that site so we can move forward. with um cooperative learning efforts at that site and then actually across the entire district. Um we additionally oh well I want to say on that particular one we do have a strikeout one of the teachers who signed up is unable to attend. Additionally
130um Melissa Hilton was awarded a grant from the Kagan uh foundation to be able to attend the entire um week-long coursework for free. So her um her registration is paid for. So the district would only be um paying for for um travel and lodging expenses and um based on the other free um teachers who are going Esther Manuel Renault would um as the actually as the administrator will attend for free. So we will also just have to pay for um meals and lodging for transportation. And then finally, we have the Broadway Teachers Workshop, which Amanda Will from Bars Finance Arts Academy will be going to New York and participating in um an entire program with Broadway workshops, learning how to put on um technically Broadway level shows. Um, and then through those workshops, she will
131also be able to attend um what would be considered lab time um with the pre-production and post-production of each of our different um productions that are going to be going on in Broadway. So, um that's a really great opportunity for her to bring that back for our students. Comments. Yep. I I because that was the question I had when I got him. Broadway Teachers Workshop New York. I I assume something to do with drama, but I I I don't know. Will, so I had to ask that question, you know. Yeah. And it's kind of exciting because they do have um as part of all of the workshops that she does during the day. Um they will this the students the participants are also offered the opportunity to be able to go to um the before
132um the play actually starts and I know I'm using the theater production starts and see how it's all put on and then also how it's all torn down everything that goes along with that which is a lot. It is not. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. A lot of good follow on information. Um some of the things I I didn't know all about as far as with the different um Kagan courses and why and these people in these places and all and it makes way more sense after getting the whole backstory of information and it's it sounds like a really awesome opportunity. Um and I like that it's something that we can get that yes bar so small but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad thing. I like that that can be
133something that we can be niche but be awesome and pilot something and you know try to be on the cutting edge of something. So I think that's awesome. Um can I get a motion to approve? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I All right. uh K29 amplify K2 reading difficulty screening and that also says okay so um the department of education California department of education has been working um for quite some time with a literacy effort um for all of our students in California. So, um, the next step in that process is that starting in the 2526 school year next year, all of our students in California in grades kindergarten, grade 1, and grade two must be screened for reading difficulties, which includes dyslexia. So um in that process we are bringing to
134board an approval for um what we um have chosen as it is technically it is Dibbles um but it is um brought it Dibbles is a reading screener a set of reading screeners actually it has been around for quite some time through the University of Oregon it's a very renowned um reading set of screeners and it has been digitized by Emplas which the publisher is amplified So saying all that um there were four reading screeners that were approved by the state board of education in December and so uh districts have to choose a reading screener from those four and the the group that I've been working with um in Barcel Unified is our group that is the most um well trained and and um in literacy which is our language essentials of teachers of reading
135and spelling which is our letters group. And so in looking at the possibilities, we decided to go with amplify dibbles as our reading screener for next year. So we're bringing to forward for approval um three different quotes. The first is um for which is the I guess you can say like the mandatory quote for us to provide the screeners for our K2 students which also includes professional development for our teachers and our well teachers par educators and our administrators. And then um included in that and I I I failed to mention is um the reading screener also has to be offered in Spanish and so the Spanish version of that is lecttora. So we will be offering um dibbles and lectura for our students. Um additionally we are wanting to provide amplify uh hey the
136screeners I should say for our grade three through six students so we can screen for reading difficulties with them as well. And dibbles through amplify offers screeners all the way through. So we are bringing a supplemental quote for our grade three through six students in both um English and in Spanish. An additional um quote for uh much more professional development that I believe our teachers and our educators and including our um our administrators will need about administration and reporting and all of the requirements that go along with that. And we are asking the board for approval. really look like you have a question. Well, no. I I I wrote an article about K2. Um, are we getting ahead of the game when we talk about 3 through three through six? or what grades three through
137six will offer our students is that any of our students who have um who have not been picked up for in at their site level for intervention, these screeners will offer an an additional opportunity for us to catch if they do have a reading difficulty and including dyslexia. So or I should what I should say is tendencies for dyslexia. By no means do these screeners diagnose any uh anything along that line. Um but what they do is provide um markers for us to look deeper into um what our students are experiencing in terms of reading difficulties and the types of really intensive interventions that we can provide for them. Because dyslexia is neurological and while it can never be um it can never be cured, there is a lot of research that shows that we
138can by all means with intensive intervention reroute the neural pathways and so um students who are displaying dyslexia can become really great readers. I don't know. So, you threw me off there a little bit, but So, we're required for K through two, right? And what three through six is going to do is going to catch those that we've missed. Yes. Gotcha. That's the wrong thing. Okay. Sorry. You know, as a as an old reading teacher, I can tell you that one of the most difficult things to do is to pick up on efficiencies and areas that you uh it's very difficult that once you find a def a deficiency you have to do a one-on-one and you can't do that in a classroom when you've got 20ome students so I you know I think it's
139great you know I would love to have that when I was teaching very I kind of had a few different questions I was I had one but then as you were talking I was getting more and more. Um, so we have, so we do our screenings, we go through, we identify the students. Yes. In the testing through that initial then are I'm assuming then then we're doing further screeners based on that for those students and then potentially developing 504s and all that stuff. But that's like our inception point basically. It will be. Yeah, it'll be our inception point for um for K2. We screen up. So, and we actually already have screeners in district, but the state wants all districts in California to use only their approved list. Um, so the state board of education,
140there was actually a reading panel that was tasked with um with choosing or selecting the screeners that California will use. um and they're all similar in um in the fact that they screen for you know certain types of um you know phmic awareness and and all of that. So in K2 we'll screen up starting with just letter recognition and letter sounds and then in our grades three through six we'll actually screen down. So we'll start with comprehension and then whittle down to okay what are the elements of um of of literacy and reading progress where where you need help and then from there um what Dibbles and Amplify offer are um for our teachers to be able to provide the their stopping marker so you don't screen all the way through um at that stopping
141marker it's okay the student needs intervention at this specific point so that they can move on um and we will be provided the um instructional strategies and activities to that are really intensive for those students at that point. Oh, so it's more Okay, so it's a little bit more in depth. I thought it was just going to be so so it'll be the surface, but it'll also be the individual. Okay. And this is slightly going into like a two-prong part between both of you guys. I'm I'm going to assume here from the CBO side that we're not getting any additional funding as far as because I would assume now right that so we're getting we're going to need to have this is going to take time teachers are already you know digs are already more
142than full as it is and as far as so I I guess the starting point is who can administer because I said I heard you say par so paras teachers and administrators can all under the guidance are okay to administer it Right. So, in terms of administration, um the screeners themselves, um for K2, there's not a ton of required screeners. While Dibbles offers a lot of screeners, the only ones that are required are minimal. And usually they take about one minute. And as I said, um you only screen like, you know, once you screen for this one, if the student isn't able to pass that, you don't go on. If they don't know their letter sounds, their letter names, you don't move on. um we um actually are being provided a grant by the state
143to implement this. So um that's why on the quote um C it says that it'll be funded by the CDE literacy screening professional development grant. Um and then we will be paying for our additional professional development out of title 2. And then the quote for the grades three through six is supplemental. So, we'll be paying for that with our title one. Okay. Um, and do through the mandate, is there a window like whenever they're doing it that like say from hey, it's part of the rule to this point is when how long is of a window do we have? Um, and I didn't fully answer your previous question. It's okay. I know there's a lot. So actually um the administration we are if board approved on Monday providing two sessions of training on this particular
144screener. Um this training itself is six hours but it's broken up into two three-hour sessions. So the first session is in person and we'll be hopefully providing that um here in the boardroom and in the SDC. Um we currently have um close to 60 people who have shown interest in the K2 realm. So um we have and that is with teachers and with para educators. Um honestly it is um the administration is very simple. It is digitized which is fantastic. In part the requirements of the K2 reading difficulty screener from the state is that um J the vendors provide a simple easy to understand report for parents. So that comes out of that. So that'll be the second portion of our training which will be uh virtual after our administration window. In terms of administration
145windows um we haven't fully determined what that will be. I need to um connect with our letters group as well as with the vendor. There's um kindergarten would be difficult to screen immediately because they haven't had the opportunity to learn the skills that they need to be screened in. Um so typically the kindergarten screening is um is a little bit later, but we can screen our first well really first through sixth graders immediately. Um what is nice about Dibbles is that they offer a um beginning of year, middle of year, and end of year opportunity to screen. However, the CDE only requires that one screening is administered throughout the school year. So um and they will students will need to be screened each year, kindergarten, first and second. Um, we will need to provide a
146parent notification letter at the beginning of the school year because similar to state testing, parents will need to be given the opportunity to opt out for whatever reason they want their students opted out of it. Um, but um after that they just need to provide that in writing similar to what we do with state testing and they'll be notified of screening windows. So most likely um it will be beginning, you know, when I mean given a little bit of time to acclimate to, you know, school and so a screening window roughly around the time of our um of our trimester report cards. Okay. I'm I'm just trying to make sure like when it I like what we're doing, but I want to make sure as a district-wise that we're we're doing a screener for a
147reason and they're going to find things. And then when we do that, just to make sure that we're positioned, you know what I mean, move it forward to then be able to carry that on and see it, you know, to I guess. So then sites would would take that information um process it as grade level teams as well as with their MTSS teams and determine um just because a student you know screens at a certain point they will be provided intervention but it doesn't necessarily mean that they have you know by any means dyslexia or a major reading difficulty could just mean that they have a gap. So it's it's providing those stopping points. So multiple screenings would um be able for us. We would be able to determine that. Thank you. We approve. Huge
148motion to approve. You want a second? Okay. All in favor? I All right. Uh next is K33. K3. Oh, I got a lot of different numbers. K31, that would be Oh, the contract with Doc B sign 2425 and 25 26 schoolers. Yes. And I've asked Mr. Ortiz to address this. Uh yes. Uh so this is a recommendation to the to the board to approve the contract with DocYsine and to renew this contract. Uh, docysine is an e signature company and this will be for use by uh USD people services, schoolside administrators, special education case managers, teachers and IEP 504 service providers etc. The uh length of the contract is from uh March 28 to 25 to June 27 and 26. I have some additional background information if you if you want to hear this. Uh
149Dr. has been used by people's services department, special education etc. since uh uh 2020. So that was around time of uh co when a lot of these documents had to be electronically signed because we were not having inerson meetings. Uh they use it um people services uses this for IP signatures and also for IP members who attend IP meetings virtually but not necessarily in person as well uh as well as for obtaining parent guardian signatures on required documents for parental consent and to provide services and assessments. Right. So a lot of this has to be uh dig digitally signed. Uh the district works with uh many virtual uh special education service providers and case managers and in continuing our contract with docysine will allow for consistency and compliance in the process of obtaining electronic signatures
150for IP documents and also for efficiency just so that it would be faster. Uh just as a note um the you also approved in April the digitizing of people services documents through scitec. This company docuign can integrate with scitec to provide electronic forms so that these forms can be digitally filled out and signed and submitted so that we can eliminate that part of the process and be more efficient and faster. Um so this is submitted for you for approve. You answered my question right at the end. Does anybody have any uh questions or comments? Didn't he do this couple weeks back? That's that was the last part that he was just mentioning. So the they're digitizing the documents was what we signed. This is specifically for the docuign part. So for them to be able
151to do the signatures, but the cool part is that they can link everything together. So now you can have all the previous history. everyone can review everything, but you can also have the signed documents in there as well. So, it'll ri I'm assuming take a huge burden off for everyone having to do the paperwork side. I I have seen this before. Close. Yeah, this is adding with the signature capability. So, okay. Yep. Can I get a motion to approve? It's like all in favor? Hi. Hi. All right. Now, K. Uh, Gaggle Therapy Contract June 1st, 2025 to June 30, 2026. And Dr. Yes. Uh, Gaggle is a new company, a new contract that we're bringing to the board for their consideration tonight. They offer tea therapy services. Um there's two major kind of um programs
152that we're asking the board or plan to use this company with board approval. The first is tele te teleaotherapy services for all K through2 students. So this is um equivalent of a tele doctor for mental health um therapy. Uh currently we have um mental health providers at mid at all of our schools at least in some form uh in person at least one to two days a week. our larger schools, we have four days a week, but this would allow for more flexibility for that direct service for students um within our setting. And also, there's what's called a gaggle reachout, which is a 247 crisis counselor. Again, with um another company that we work with right now, uh Wellness Together, we offer a lot of in-person support services, and that is obviously um our preference,
153but a lot of times there is more need than there is ability to meet. And there's also students who have um uh who could benefit from this type of therapy as well. And so we're bringing this new program and asking the board to consider it. Uh gaggle therapy also includes uh the potential for support for school staff as well as students. And so that would be through um its own private connection. These are all uh private. They're HIPPA compliant. They're with doctors. And so the really the only time that we would be interacting is with progress. um towards goals for our students. Uh originally or you know um these supports used to be are or continue to be provided through our county um counseling services um but those would be infrequent sometimes. So we moved
154into wellness together. So we have a quicker response for students who were in need of mental health the therapies and supports and so this is an additional method to get those supports to students um with flexible timing. Most of these will still be during the day, but there is the option for different times if parents need to be involved or student needs um therapy and non-school hours and things of that nature. And uh under fiscal considerations, it shows the different prices for both outreach and g therapy. And it says that these funds will be paid for the paid for from the CYBHI grant. Just to expand on that, that's a grant from California that uh refers to children and youth behavioral health initiative. And so there's a push from California through this grant and different
155funding to increase the availability of mental health services for students in the school set. You know, they've always been available uh privately or through insurance, but uh the state right now is really um using these funds to make them available uh for schools. And so in addition to what we've already expanded, this is another option to to be able to make that. We started thinking of different ways in which students could be uh you know either in center at school or have access to a computer and have access to these uh these therapists uh directly on campus. Um and so those are the two items, right? Oh, last item is it is for next school year kind of in general because we're at the end of this year, but the company did make it effect
156in June, so this fiscal year so we can start piloting out and have it available during our summer school time and for some off-time services. So, uh, this was something that was kind of looked at for next year, but we're able to kind of start it a little bit earlier to work out some other things and hopefully have u a lot of our practices in place for the start of school. So students can contact counselor crisis counselor 247. Yeah. So the line itself is for 247. So when we start advertising to students is students can refer out to it. Um but again one of the things is we hope this will be a tool for all of our staff when they come across a student crisis at the school site. You know we're able the
157the company says that they'll be able to get with them connected with counselor within a minute. we don't have to necessarily wait and rely on someone to come um from across town. You know, we certainly can when that's called for, but when there is an immediate need for a trained counselor to be able to interact with the student, we can get on that right away. And so, we expect this to be um a school tool, but since it is 24/7, it will be available um to students and families when they recognize um the need when they're not school time. So it will be available to them and it can be that it expands it uh more than we could with um the current resources. Sounds good. So there isn't necessarily like a direct like no
158one has to like say approve this meaning like if one of the students wants to call or whatever they don't have to wait on this coming either like the principal approves it or the counselor approves it or anything like that like before them to be able to get the treatment. So for the Google uh pardon me gaggle reach out if a student is in crisis they can reach out to someone but for students to receive um clinical help there does need to be a u approval process from their parents and so a parent can come to the school and say and this has happened to us many times over the years where a parent says I um I want to get some help for my child or the child identifies that I would like some
159help and we were able to connect them with them when it was through outside providers of people coming in. It was sometimes hard, sometimes it required an insurance, it sometimes required a lot of external things. So, we started with again our in-person ones together and that reduced the time and they're able to see somebody right away. Uh now, this can be even faster but still collaborative. There are uh very few times in which um based on the needs of the students there are uh ways where if the um parent approval is a concern you know that that we can work with that but all of these still require collaboration between the student and the parent what the student says with the counselor u as long as it meets the right conditions is private and it's
160still confidential but um getting them approved like a student can't just say I want to talk to someone and text somebody in the middle of the night so those are still going to be things that go through the school. But we found with our wellness together with our in person, usually those things can happen within a day, sometimes same day. And with this, because of the availability of counselors, the moment everyone is on board, they can start providing that therapy and they can kind of work out what that regiment looks like. And so whether that's uh continued therapy support, whether that's a bridge to something else, whether that's kind of some other coping mechanism, whether that's sort of a private thing after that, it it reduces the time that students have to wait and this
161makes it even shorter as we thought. Thank you. I'm looking at the infrastructure and you kind of touched on that. You know, I'm thinking of a little room that they can go into and talk because most especially when you get junior high in high school. Sure. I don't want nobody know what they're doing. You know that they have problems. All the world is all good. Hence, you have team suicide that happens and nobody seems to know what happened, you know. So that's, you know, I'm trying to figure out my I'm looking pictures are popping in my head of the little room with the computer. Can we make it where the the the young kid comes to principal or his teacher, they talk to him. They go to the administration and the administration call the parents
162parents say it's fine then they can operate it or do we have to have the same um no there's there could be digital connections on it it's not always necessarily a signature it can be verified a couple of different ways and then in terms of the what it looks like we've had a couple of different conversations in terms of like I said sometimes it's hard for um one professional to come on campus speak with one student then go across town or or how different things may be But there's always people at a school site and so a student being called down to the office. It doesn't have to be for any particular reason. So we'll still provide them space. We've um um looked at a couple of ways. I know some schools have a couple
163of stations where they can record audio recordings or like the podcast thing or do some things with their computers um but they're still being supervised by uh by one of our employees. And so we we thought about maybe even having that as a possibility where we have a room where there's lots of things um happening, lots of kids coming in and out, lots of kids testing on the computer, lots of kids doing this on the computer, and one of them next to them might be doing this particular therapy session, but it's not um it wouldn't be noticeable to somebody walking by. And so there's a lot of ways that we can probably a lot of ways that we can connect students with this particular service at the school site um to to increase their avail.
164Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? I move. Second. All in favor? I K42 uh K42 donations for employee appreciation event. Um, and if we could, I just wanted to for a couple seconds just to go to the bottom just to pull up each of the lists really quick. Were you able to do that? He's got it. Um, so I just wanted to take a minute um or at least just make it known um or these are, you know, some of the people who on the we have two different lists. Um, one is was for either items, the other one was for cash. Uh, but just to say from us, from the board, uh, thank you. Um, or from myself at least personally, thank you. Um, all of our teachers and staff do work
165extremely hard and there are only certain things that we can do, um, for them. But this is another way to help let them know that they're appreciated. And so I appreciate it um, for your appreciation for them. So, thank you. And then we can show the other list, too. Kind of interested to see who's going to end up with all the tickets. There's a heated mouse pad, guys. We've had some late additions too and so we'll be bringing you another list. Okay. Yeah, just like I said, just want to reiterate um you know, just thank you for all the people who donated. It's good to see our employees be able to get uh welldeserved items. So, thank you for that. Anybody else have No, I had a question. Do we have a list of uh
166contributors to our scholarship program? People who, you know, every year contribute scholarship funds, you know, that are so that would actually be my mom. Um that she'll be doing that uh Thursday. Um and so they have a she puts together a whole program. Um they give out all the different scholarships as some of the people here will be um attending and anything if you want to know. But she's really grown. I mean, I want to say it was about 20,000 or so whenever she first started and it's been around six figures. Yeah. Yeah. So, but she keeps it every year. Has the whole list of all the people, the amounts, all the Does she contact those people with a Oh, yeah. Lots of phone calls. Yes, sir. It's a lot of Yes, it is. Yep.
167Real quick question on on on on the employee apprec It's not so much about the employee appreciation. It's the funding of it. Who manages that funding and where does that funding? You know, most people places have a foundation that does all that stuff for them where the organization does it. Do we have one? Do we have a foundation that's doing this? Do we have a B the USC booster club that handles all this or it's Mr. Beaton's office services office handles the employee appreciation what was referred to as employee appreciation picnic referring to as the employee appreciation event has been handled with business services. So a lot of the money is comes from donations. Yes. I I left we I uh been exploring the idea of starting a foundation and you need to get that
168done. Yeah, good. We could talk about we have lots of interest. So, I just need to put in the ground, put in the footwork, and I get that five C3 paperwork submitted, develop a board, and there I actually uh started one in my previous one. So, I There you go. One of the things I'd like to get you did, let me know. Ready to go. Ready to help. Okay. All right. He does he does have a committee that works every year on employee appreciation. Yes. And they work tire hires tires. No, I was just wondering who handled the money. It's not there appreciation. But if you have a foundation, they can just do more than just employee appreciation. They can do other things. Uh foundation or 5123, right? That would be able to handle longings
169that we run out of time for. Exactly. Yeah. And that takes the pressure off and you guys can do your jobs and that would be great. We would love to have that conversation. Yes. Yes. That would be very fun. Okay, that's all. Thank you. So take it's in the works. It has been. It's It's in here. We got to get it out of here. Well, take that coffee cup out of your hand. I will um if you guys are fine with it, we can recommend um to move it for um whenever we get to the end for items for future board meetings, we can put it on there for Are we good with that? Yeah, that work. And for this um does anyone have any other questions or comments they'd like to put in for
170this item? Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. So you can close. Okay. Next is discussion items. First, general L11 board policy overview. And for the second time tonight, go to Mrs. I'm going to stand up for a minute. Been a long time sitting. Make it an official presentation this time. So, good evening once again board members and guests. I am pleased to present the Barca Unified School District board policy adoption process tonight to you. I don't think we've done this in the six years that I've been in the superintendent's office. So, I'm excited to share how this process works. Um, there is a presentation. I'm just going to click on it maybe. So the board policies are broken into nine sections based on the content that they
171cover and those topics include things like the district philosophy, administration, policies on students, instruction, and board bylaws. On the next slide, each of those categories contain up to three different components. policies, administrative regulations and exhibits. So to put it simply, a policy is basically the guiding rules or plans. An administrative regulation is the implementation of those policies and then the exhibits are those supporting documents that are the evidence to support the policy. So you'll hear us talk about them globally as policies, but it contains those three components at all different times. On the next slide, the California Schoolboard Association represents the interest or I should say California Schoolboard Association, also known as CSBA, represents the interest of school boards in districts throughout California. They provide advocacy, training, and resources to support effective governance and education,
172including policy development. Quarterly, CSBA's policy development team compiles packets of policies, administrative regulations, and exhibits to update to be updated by districts. These materials undergo a thorough vetting process by policy experts to ensure compliance with federal, state, c, and county laws relevant to education and our district practices. You may notice on these that there are minor edits such as little uh grammatical changes or um shifts to general neutral language. Or it could be more extensive changes um when we took away all of the COVID mandates. Those were big massive changes, big lumps of language that were taken out of policies. Um so CSBA typically drafts those updates. They use lawyers. They have legal advisors and they specialize in education law and governance and they are in deep in ed code and federal codes all of
173the abs and things that are going through and they they have very boring jobs. Um the updates are typically expected upcoming in June then September, December and March of 2026. on the next slide. In the adoption process, which you're going to see in the next couple board agenda items this evening, um they come, like I said, in quarterly update packets. For example, tonight you're going to be presented a total of, I believe, 46 policies, administrative regulations, and I believe one exhibit. The board will be presented the draft version of these policies, which you'll see an example of there on your screen. Additions are highlighted in green. Items with deletions will be struck out with red highlight and that is for you to see what the policy currently looks like versus what we're adding and what
174we're taking away. I will introduce these items as an information item during the first meeting of the month to allow ample time for the board to review them. And I wanted to make one special side note that the board has the option with specific policies. If there was something that was an immediate need or something that had minor changes or again referring to a later item on tonight's agenda, you can take and review an item, I'm sorry, a policy and approve it and adopt it the same evening. So you don't have to go through the long process. We give that because it gives you time to read through all 46 of them. So on the next slide, the items will come back a month from now. So the items that you're being presented tonight on
175May 13th will come back to you on the consent agenda on June 10th at the regular board meeting. During this month-long period, the board members will have the opportunity to share any questions, concerns, or suggestions with the superintendent prior to approval. And this ensures that they're made publicly available for your consideration over that time. So, you're not expected to receive your agenda on Friday. Read through all of these, make any kind of sense of this information, and vote on it four days later. That would just not be fair. On the next slide, so once the policies are adopted and approved, I will incorporate the track changes and store a clean copy of the policies on our website. On the next slide, if you visit www.busd k12 and click on the board of trustees tab underneath
176the policies tab, you will find our digital online board policy handbook. Annually in December, I take and download this complete packet and we have a hard copy stored digitally on our network. That's the shortest version of policies I could come up with. Do you have any questions? I did just have one thing. Not a question, but we can stay back up at the other slide, the last one where the the web Yep, right there. Um, one thing that I did find extremely useful um as a new board member is on either the codes or the titles there, you can search. So, if there's something in particular that piques your interest or that you're specifically looking for, you can put in a word and or phrase in there and that'll pull up any of your board
177policies andor regulations. So, that was a tool that I used uh quite a bit to try to uh navigate before I kind of had my footing as far as what all the different series were and all that. So, definitely really helpful. I'm glad you brought that up because that search feature, what a lot of people don't realize, it's a system that I spend probably way too much of my life inside of. Um, and everybody else, you know, if you have a lot of hours that you want to do something very boring, you can click on them, click on the search tool, and you can actually search policies throughout the rest of the state of California with members that are registered with PSBA's gamut system. That's what this is. So this is actually the preferred provider
178that CSBA works with. So all of their updates are made in the system already, which makes it really nice for us. It integrates with our board agenda already. So like you said, you can do keyword searches, you can do key phrase searches, um you can do numerical searches if you know the policy number that you're searching for. And if there's ever a policy that you have a question about or you heard of from another district or you just want to know what ours is, please feel free to contact me anytime and I will pull it up for you. And one other thing at the bottom of all of them will always have all of your additional documentation. So like when you're saying, "Hey, why do we have to change this to say this? Why are
179we including this? Why are we taking this away?" Whatever. It'll have all your subsequent, you know, either state, federal, whatever. all the different documents and you can and hyperlink too. So you can click right on and it can show you everything about the why all of this is coming about. So there is an insane amount of knowledge uh put in there. So I do also include actually if I can jump ahead on the agenda for a second just because it's an information item. So Alex if you could go to the next item on the agenda. So, I did mention that we have a bunch of policies coming forward. I break them down on the agenda by their category. Under current considerations, I do take the snippet from the California Schoolboard Association packet where they've rationalized
180what it is that we're updating and why. So, just for a quick example, I'm not going to go through each one. Complaints concerning instructional m materials. the policyy's been updated to reflect a new law, Senate Bill 153, which was adopted in 2024. And then it gives you the rationale behind that. So, you will have that every single time I present an a board agenda. I'm sorry, a board policy to be updated. There's no question. I'm going to go take minutes on myself now. Thank you. Do we need to take each of these individually or can I just the recommendation is to read the first part of the information so that we just the presented as information are the revisions for the following board policies and administrative regulation and what the titles are in each section.
181They'll be up on the board. Okay. So, we can click on L12 and then just read that first part out loud. I would say and you're saying take taking each one do the one. Okay. All right. So, we have uh presented as information or the revisions of the board policies, administrative regulations and exhibits for BPA exhibit 1312.2 into complaints concerning instruction materials. Uh like the whole Nope. Just and then BP. Okay. BP R 1340 access to district records. Go to the next one because these are not voting on items tonight. Okay. Next is BP 3311 bids. 3311.1 uniform public construction cost accounting procedures. EP 3312 contracts, EP 3516.5 emergency schedules and EPA 3580 district records. Next we have BP 4151 4251 and 4351 employee compensation and BP 5148 4158 excuse me 4258 and 4358 employee
182security. Uh, next we have EPAR 5125 student records. EP5131 conduct, EPAR 5131.6 alcohol and other drugs. EP5131.8 8 mobile communication devices, BP5141.5 mental health, BPAR 5141.52 suicide prevention and BPA 5145.13 response to immigration enforcement 6142.93 science instruction instruction BP6142.94 History Social Science Instruction BP6159 individualized instruction or education program and BP6159.2 nonpublic non secar secretarian school and agency for special education BP 9150, student board members, BP 9224, oath of affirmation or affirmation. And BP 9260, legal protection, fun stuff. All right. And those were all presented asformational items. Uh, next we're going to move to educational services ed L22 new course textbooks for US history with ex ethnic studies integration bar high school and that's the speaker. Okay. Um, this is also being brought to the board as an information item and for approval consideration. It'll be
183brought brought back to the board on the May 27th um board meeting. And um so what this is is uh integrating our embedding our ethnic studies requirement from the CDE into our US history class grade 11. Um and we will be adopting if approved eventually um the um text that will meet the ethnic studies requirement and Miss Swaren has a copy of it there. Cool. Thank you. And I did also want to note so that these texts are available, right, for everyone to be able to view them if anyone else I know I'm personally going to be looking at them um but if anybody else would like to look at them so if they have any comments, concerns or and this will be the text that will be up for um approval next. Is it
184coming back in May 27th or June? No, in May. So next board meeting and then this is the current adopted curriculum that's being used. So but yes these will be in in the department of educational services for you. Is there any possibility that in the future they will be a standalone ethnic studies course? Possibly. At this point, what the CDE recommended is that through the um let me get the name exactly correct. The ethnic studies essentially framework is that um is that districts look at the courses they're currently offering and see where the perspectives which are the four major perspectives of um of ethnic studies be embedded. And those those perspectives are African-American, Latino, um, Chuco, Native American, and AsianAmerican Pacific Islander. I know that, um, we have community colleges and, um, universities, colleges that
185offer a standalone course. So, I would imagine that it would move in that direction. That sounds clear eventually. Yes. I want to totally go up. Are do you know or is there any other schools at all if they have or or has the CDC at all looked at if there is a because I'm sure there's probably a school that somewhere has this say like as an elective class that if it already exists well it would it would then qualify or are they saying like 100% it just must be embedded. You know what I mean? Or is there that option as like what Mr. saying say, "Hey, if you have this whole other course that's already here, right? Is that already other districts doing that or is that an option?" There probably are across the state.
186Um, however, the way that the CDE is rolling this out to make it um make it I'm going to say easy, but make it available for our um students because the course needs to be require it is required to be offered in 2526 and our students who are graduating in what's it 2930. you can try to think 2930 are required to have the course um as their graduation requirement which it can be embedded in um in history um in social studies. So um I would imagine that as the as the state um progresses with ethnic ethnic studies, our publishers will our main publishers will catch up with this and be able to offer it. But the way that almost all districts are um approaching this at this point is um providing the um additional text
187required text to the course. Yeah, that makes sense. And there are a number of districts in the state. Yeah. That are offering uh standalone ethnic settings. But so they're out there. Yeah. And I didn't slightly bad on me but see that are we is this on I'm guessing on us on as far as the funding of this. Yes. As far to my knowledge I don't know of a grant that's supporting this. I just I love the the mandates with the no funding. It's just like thank you. But there could be grants out there. Yeah. I don't know if they'd be better. Yeah, exactly. Anybody have any chance? Any other questions or comments? Thank you. Uh, next we have L23, uh, new course outline for STEM, computing, and robotics land, Barstow High School. So, sure. Okay.
188Um, additionally, this is um similar to the last where we're bringing it forward as a discussion item for approval of consideration. It'll be brought back at the next board meeting. Um, this is for a new course at Barstow High School, STEM, computing, and robotics um which will be offered for our um grade 9 through 12 students. Um, and um questions I guess at this point I don't know what all you're looking for. What do we know? What the is that? I'm assuming that's an acronym. Land L A N D. Um I believe so. Let me look at the that particular portion. I know that it's going to be incorporating many um elements of um CAD of coding. Um the students are going to be um working through a lot of virtual online labs um and
189working through scenarios um so I apologize that I'm assuming land is an acronym but I do not know the actual so I'm assuming there's a demand for this yes there is not um with with this as far as I know this is just the outline have we got it all to the the actual like teaching side, meaning um is this because this is going to be at the high school. Is this going to be something that if we have this outline that we're having the say a math teacher or a science teacher or somebody else teach? Are we talking about bringing on somebody else or have we got at all to that point as far as if we approve this what that's going to look like in like you know practical sense of doing it?
190Do we guess no? I don't know where I am. I can answer that. Yeah. Uh so when we're hiring people for be it STEM or be it the high school, we're looking at uh their course of study. Uh for example, we interviewed a young lady who has a uh for math position we uh she's got a background a masters in aerospace engineering and mechanics and coding. Yeah. So, um there isn't a specific credential for for these uh for these courses, but there could be add-ons and uh the teachers have to sign a a set form for us as long as they have a a full credential, they can go ahead and and provide those services. have a missile. But we're looking for for those those features that could uh enrich the for our students in
191a different way. Not just the basic math, basic science, but also looking at engineering backgrounds, looking at coding backgrounds and uh there are there are a few out there. Our recruitment, we've been able to identify a lot of people out there that actually are going into that field more and more. So I don't think we'd have an issue with building this position. Um, yeah, we actually have a teacher at the high school right now that has an engineering authorization credential. So, not to get into, but we do have people that Yeah, great question. I just know like it the specialty positions are super hard to fill, whether that's, you know, sped, the, you know, the fine arts stuff, the like I know those positions are really hard. So, I just hoping that we have a
192good vein. I love the program. It sounds awesome. I just hope we can see it to fruition. Yeah. Great question. Land stands for local area network denial. So it has to do with networking fancymancy stuff. Okay. It IT stuff. Yeah. Ah yeah the course will cover cyber security. I mean it's it's a broad range. Thank you. Everybody good. You guys have any other questions there? Could that be could that possibly be slid into the CD program? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Uh next we have business services L41 purchase order board report 329 2025 to 552025. Mr. Yes. Uh the district is recommending the board approve the 54 purchase orders listed in the attached purchase purchase order board report totaling 2,296,446. You've been busy. Yes, sir. Excuse me. We're doing good things. So here you are. It's
193a pleasure. You guys have any questions? Is there one you want to ask? Yes, I do. I have a question. Um, on PL 251591, it's on the second page. Yeah. Or third. 25 1591. Is that second or third page? Page four. That's what it says. If I look at the bottom I need my glasses. There you go. Thank you. What's the total? It is. Sorry, page three. 294,000. 294 371. That's a mon, right? Yes, sir. Um, how do you say this? Not attaching it to something. There's a very specific reason for this. So that that can be explained either that's is that for one module? It is a extra large module modular but this is for the STEM. Um this will be physical education classes. So they have a space to do. Oh okay. Okay.
194Indoor gym. Yeah. right now is there they are absorbing two classroom spaces that as STEM expands um we're going to need those classroom spaces and so we're talking physical education teachers and asking them if they need that they wanted a larger space they have so in inclement weather or those kind of things that they would have a space to be able to take students to do physical education and so this will be that because obviously being like PE they're not going to be in there all most of the time they're going to be side, but this way it's bringing up to actual brick and mortar classrooms for students. Not brick and mortar, it's portable classrooms as well, but they are specific classrooms that we will need as STEM continues to expand. So this year we
195brought on 33 additional students in fifth grade, 33 additional students in sixth grade. Those students will migrate to seventh grade. Those sixth grade students will migrate seven. So seven next year will expand by 33 kids. And then in the next year after that, eighth grade will expand by 33 kids. So we need we need those two classrooms. No. And I I understand that. So we're going to use them as a gym. We got to get them. We got to place them, right? Yes. And we need the county, state, or whoever it is. Department of State architect is the the most challenging. Yes. Yes. As as we place these buildings. Okay. Yeah. So that's just going to start. That's not going to be the the finished. We have ramp issues. We have ADA access. We have
196travel. That's where the state architect really becomes um not our friend. They love their job. They do a great job. They do. They're, you know, their their interest is protecting our kids. No. And it makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah. And so we're just getting the ball started. I hope we hope to have it in place by December. Or did I say? That sounds like I know. Wish link. I hear I hear December. We wanted it in Thank you. Any other questions on the budget? They use more than just PE room or NPR. It can be. Yes, it really will be up to principal discretion, but it's specifically for physical education teachers to have a space to to use as a classroom of things specifically to free up the two classrooms that they're you know
197taking. We picked a vendor that's on the cutting edge. This is the newest U modular company. Oh, really exciting. What they bring to Y and I and I asked that question looking at because I've asked that question before when we're talking about another a different that's my Thank you. Will it be located on top on the upper ledges? No, it's going to be located down below next to the um on the end of the portable classrooms that are already there. So like you're coming down the if you're up on the top deck of parking parking lot and you're coming down steps, you know, there's there's that space right there before you hit the portable classrooms, it's going to go right there in that space. Okay. As long as as long as DSA allows us. We're
198still waiting on that. It may have to shift a little bit, but that's that's our hope to to not take up too much real estate. Sounds good to me. Get a motion to approve. We approve. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Uh, next is L42 Southwest Gas Grants of Easement. Mr. Yes. So, Southwest Gas has um been offering a great program to uh replace our gas lines um at their cost. So, there's a program out there um state um student taxi and other districts that are also joining on that. Hopefully, they'll um get the grant again so that we can do we continue and get our other schools done too. So put it on the state budget and how that works. We'll see. You know, cow works kind of went to the wayside. But as
199far as this uh grant of easement, the reason for this easement request is because once Southwest gas has more than 2 meters being served, a portion of the service line needs to be classified as a gas vein. The request for the easement is a direct result of adding additional meters. The location of the line and easement will be in a roadway commonly referred to as the fire lane. So would not affect any buildable area or existing building on the campus. I've um highlighted that area for you. Um a general representation of the location Southwest Gas is requesting can be seen in orange along Silver Lane on the Google map Earth map that is also referenced in exhibit A of the attached packet. You can see that the easement is only a strip of land that
200is 10 ft in width being 5t on each side of the center line of the natural gas pipeline. Uh, Southwest gas requires a formal grant of easement from the property owner to me memorialize the implicit easement rights that already exist from the natural gas facilities as required under Southwest California Gas Tariff approved by the public utilities commission. An applicant for natural gas service must provide all easements necessary to install facilities required to provide the natural gas service to the subject property together with the ingress and ingress rights and physical items. And also the easement can be revoked if the district stopped using the service or if the property was sold. So I wanted to make sure that was that was kind of my concern whenever we first brought it up and I saw easement and
201I didn't know like I said if they're using existing or adding to and if they were adding where are you batting just to make sure with all the different restructuring that we're doing we're not putting ourselves in a bad spot. So, and their issue, they just don't want us to put a building on top of their gas lines because then they which makes sense. And that's that's fine. But the eastment run straight up that road. Yes. They'll be putting that whole that whole road will be there'll be a pipeline underneath of it. That doesn't mean the road goes. No, no. This is my question. Cast is really slow when doing these things and they have a tendency to want to do it in the oddest time. We can't close school because they want to do
202these. Well, and yeah, that was the people. My question was gonna be is when are they planning on doing construction? Because STEM parking is already a thing and having that whole road out of commission during the school year would be really not good. Yeah, this is going to be done during summer um once school's out. They they've assembled a whole team. Um I was do we have a date from them as far as or will they have a date after we get if we approve this tonight when could they have a date for us to have a completion because not to be rude but I would pro prefer to have a date that's going to be something before the end of summer now. Yeah. Is there a timeline? You know what I mean? Yes there
203a timeline and there's an inate that's um I'll get that information to you. Uh but there is a plan to make sure that school is ready to open. They know we have to have school ready and they've been plann we've actually already started some of the prep work and so it's already uh planned. Okay. I'll I'll get that because some of gas is really good for that. That's a lot of that's big in a long and Yeah, I've had the same concerns. So, obviously it's not going to be this year this summer is Southwest Gas. So, when they're saying that they're laying the gas line inside of this, I'm assuming five feet on each side means they're talking about actually repaving that road. Oh, yeah. They'll make it put back together put it back together
204better than it is because that I mean that's a that's a that's a pretty major project. It's about I $400,000 they um are planning on spending on this and this is coming from it's no charge to us. No, I see it. That's a I'll be surprised. Yeah. If they do that, I'm not timing just the timeline, but I would be shocked if they do need that 400,000. I'll just leave that one alone. I'm just my my thing is just the timeline that you get it in writing in blood and everything else cuz I've never seen them do anything in the time when they gave and for us we have to have it. Are you good or you say comment? Go for it. You know, I I worked there for almost 30 years and when the
205the heaters are turned on in the winter time, we need to do something. You know, timeline, cost, whatever, you know, you know, we're here thinking about the students, you know, them bringing that gas and I mean, it it's bad. I mean, you you bring up gas and they just walk by because it's everybody's used to it, you know. It needs to be done. You know, agreed. You know, I'm not an engineer, but uh I'm telling you, it's it it needs to be done. When we had the issue of Monta, that's what um you know, we had the gas line actually leaking through the grass. Our lines are old and need to be replaced. So, when they approached me and said, "We got this project for you and it's at our cost." I was like, "Yeah."
206Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. weekends. They've had they've got it all mapped out. No, I think it's got to be done. I'll say I'll say this for sure. I I want to make sure that I say it. If anything happens, if we're in the middle of the project and we are not tracking for whatever reason that that is, I would like to know about it long before school starts. I don't want to find out about it the day before school starts and we're scrambling on how we're going to readjust, how we're going to reallocate. I know construction and things do happen. I hope that this does go as they say it does, but if it doesn't, I just want to make sure that we know with ample time so we can put a plan
207in place so it doesn't adversely affect the operations they got going. Mr. If maybe we'll do a Friday report and we'll have a Friday update. Can you provide me that information? So they're not no surprises. No surprises. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Does anybody have any additional Okay. With that, can I get a motion? I'll move. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Next is L43. uh proposed agreement AV2760 with BEA Baro Education Association and CSA chapter 306 classified school employees association. Awesome. Mr. I wanted to um provide some backup um information on AB1200 and how it all started so you guys are aware. So um Assembly Bill AB1200 um chapter 1213 statute 1991 commonly referred to as as AB1200 has been successful in focusing the attention of school district governing boards and country county superintendents on
208their fiscal management and oversight responsibilities. So this was started in 1991. Since the enactment of AB1200 in 1991, fewer districts have experienced fiscal crisis. Transparent financial detailed multi-year planning, risk assessment, and multi-year cash flows are essential to understanding whether a district is fiscally solvent or in fiscal distress. The first level of fiscal oversight rests with each LEA's elected governing board and administration. The second level of fiscal oversight is provided by the county superintendent of schools which also includes management assistance and progressive intervention to all school districts in the county. In addition to increasing the authority and responsibilities given to county offices, AB1200 created a fiscal crisis and management assistance teams known as FickMap to help California's local educational agencies meet sustained financial obligations. AB1200 and subsequent legislation provide a statewide structure for the county and
209school districts to work together locally to improve fiscal procedures, accountability standards. Under the guideline of AB1200, the county superintendent is responsible for reviewing school district budgets and interim reports and determine whether or not a district can meet its financial obligations in the current and two of secret secret fiscal years. In addition, county superintendents review the public disclosures, which we have tonight, of collective bargaining agreements and non voter approved debt. So, tonight's public disclosure demonstrates how BSD's recent union negotiations affect our current budget and the following two years budgets. The public disclosure has to be submitted to the county 10 days prior to the board meeting for review and determination. The comm county provides an acknowledgement letter which is attached for review. Um, it basically says the county acknowledges it and conveys a review of the
210district's proposed agreement with the Barco Teachers Association and the classified school employees association for the 25 2024 2026 years. The fiscal information submitted indicates that the district will be able to maintain the required unrestricted general fund reserve of 3% for the current and two sub fiscal years. Upon approval, the district will be required to input budget transfers implementing this agreement within 45 days. Thank you. Next, we'll go to personnel services. We need Oh, this one's approval. Okay. Second. All in favor? I All right. Now we go to personnel service uh certificated L6A1 tenative agreements between Barcel Unified School District and BEA Baro Education Association negotiations during the 2425 school year. Mr. Gutierrez. Thank you. Uh good evening board again. Uh I'm pleased to present to you uh the set of agreement uh between BEA and
211Bar School District. Before I get into this, I want to thank the the negotiating team for for BEA uh and and also the B USD negotiating team in coming together and agreeing to these uh articles. Uh article uh article 13 uh payment for extra duty extracurricular duties. Article 14 stop working 14 hours. Article 16 leaves, article 17 class size, and article uh 27 compensation and benefits. So uh Barc District and BEA negotiating good safeties articles. We worked on uh updating language. We we changing some language to to meet the current needs of our district and employees. And we have attached for your uh for your reference the BEA BDA uh B USTA and also the CTE uh salary schedule that was changed to meet um current demands in the CTE fields. Um and this item
212is presented for approval just to highlight a couple things before it goes to vote. Uh this uh is a if you if you look at compensation and benefits, it is a onetime stipen bonus equivalent to 8% off schedule for the 2425 school year and 11.25% on schedule increase for the uh 2526 school year to be applied on July 1st to 2025 and it's presented for approval. Any questions? question comments from anybody. Sounds good. Uh I just want to say uh one also congratulations or good job to everybody on both sides on the negotiation um team that once everybody got sat down everything got hammered out pretty quickly. Um and just welld deserved. I'm glad to see our scales are you know climbing and getting all of our employees the money they deserve. So good job.
213Thank you. Are we competitive in the high district or so? We're in the mix now. We're in the mix definitely. Um depending on the salary schedule. So if you analyze the high higher paid feature bottom of the scale for the teachers, we're a little bit above some districts at at the beginning of the scale. Step one, column one, we're right there with some districts. We have some catching up in some areas, but overall with the benefit packet and the and the 8% increase, we it was a very uh very welldeserved and competitive uh you know uh negotiations and and you know agreement where there I'm I'm very I'm very happy that we're able to do this for for our staffs and uh I thank you and I thank uh Mr. Beaton and and Miss Dr.
214Williams for supporting me, our superintendent, uh, you know, uh, in making sure that we have the the ability to negotiate effectively and be competitive in the high desert. Uh, not to get on soap box, but I think this is going going to make a huge impact in our district. I'm happy to see it. Definitely going to make Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank certified and you know good deal. Thank you very much with that. Do I have a motion to approve? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I next we have L6B2 teacher hourly increase for K preschool program. Awesome. Yes. Thank you. So, what I have here before you tonight uh with this uh item is again 11.25% increase for the July 1st, 2025 school year and 8% one-time uh stamping bonus
215for our fork teacher. they are unrepresented uh staff members, certificated teachers and uh they're also going to be uh receiving the same compensation and benefits for their H&W and we feel it is it is just and and uh and equitable for them to also receive u the same increase and it's presented for your approval signal. groups. I think it's good just overall. I know we'll get to all the other ones later, but that this was just all-encompassing. So, it wasn't just this group, it wasn't that group. It was, you know, we you and everyone else made sure to include everyone. So, yep. Good job. I like I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I moved. All right. Next is classified L6B1 supplemental assignment translator interpreter Spanish English limited term. Mr. Yes. Thank you. So
216uh Dr. Heather Reed, director of people services has identified a need to uh provide additional supports uh for our transit interpreter limited term substitute during the summer. Um we have to catch up with uh translating interpreting IEPs. There's a backlog. So this item is presented to the board for approval tonight. questions, comments motion move. Second all in favor. Next is L6B2 tenative agreement between uh Barstow Unified School District and CSEA California School Employees Association negotiated during 2024 2025 school year. Thank you. Yes. So again, a very similar item. Um what we have before the board tonight is the uh negotiations and agreements of the tenative agreements between CSCA and Bar Unified School District. Uh article 8 hours and overtime. Article 9 payment allowances. Article 12 health and welfare benefits. Article 15 leaves. Article 29 position
217classification plan. uh B USD and B uh and CSC negotiated in good faith and it actually went through the 610 process for approval and we have attached the TAS for your uh reference and just to highlight again uh when we look at Yeah. Article 9 pay allowances 11.25% increase on schedule for uh the 25 26 school year effected July 1st. Actually June June 30th at 11:30. Yep. Sorry correction there. And then also increase in H&W of 7% and 8% off schedule to the salary schedule for the 2014 last school year. And again uh I thank the CSCA negotiating team and you as the negotiating team and coming together and agreeing with with these TA and then present it to the board for room questions public very well deserved as well. Can I get a motion?
218All in favor? I Okay. Uh, next we have L6B3 CSEAU 2425-00007 position vacancy overtime between BUSD and CSEA chapter 306. Mr. Yes. Thank you. So thisou is to address um couple of things. One uh we identified that at times our employees are are are not willing to do overtime. uh you know they they sometimes they need to go on vacation and and we need we need to approve some time off and sometimes we can't because of the projects that we have in place. We also have some positions that have not been filled and uh we don't have a sub list, right? So, uh, CSCA was was gracious enough to work with us on this article. I'm sorry, on thisou and we negotiated a memorandum of understandings to address vacancies uh, and to contract out LVN
219work, health assisted, special education, uh, parent educator positions, facilities and maintenance and operations, custodial and classifications. Um, and so we thank him for this. Uh, first we're going to offer the work to our current employees. If they're not willing to do the work, then we're going to contract out and and and we're able to work on that. But our our intent is always to make sure that we offer the work to our employees and we don't contract work out. And it does have an expiration date of August 30, 2025. So just a little bit over the summer. Make sure we catch up with some problems. Let's present it to the board for approval. Um, is there anything supplemental because I know you listed a bunch of different positions as far as filling those positions or
220are those all like basically it's like filling any of those? Are we approved? Do we need to approve anything else? Are you guys able to do whatever you need to do for those positions with this approvals? So for example, we have health assistant positions that that we just don't have, you know, the toain and and actually we're using another promoted. So anyhow, yeah. So uh so we have we have some some positions that require us to sometimes look out, you know, look outside the contract and in the meantime while we hire. Uh this is not a a uh a prolonged plan. uh this is just to stop gap and and to fill the needs that we have the immediate needs that the district has but yeah any with the other classifications we're always going to
221offer the the work to our current employees so they can have the opportunity to earn more money that's always good for our folks I'm just trying to make sure that I'm understand when we're saying the August deadline is that the time of the employment or that just meaning the time for us to hire said individuals so August in August this will expire. It will no no longer be in effect. So we as a district need to ensure that we are doing what we have to do to hire in that in that in in that what I'm saying is like say we hire 10 people tomorrow just hypothetically speaking we hire 10 pairs tomorrow are those paras forever employees or those pairs stop employment at August when thatou is expiring? No. No. So this is to
222contract out. Okay. It's It's not for current employees. If we're unable if we're unable to fill if we fill positions, we're never going to contract out. Yeah. So, we're never going to So, for example, let's just say we have uh the weed abatement, right? Yes, Mr. Bean. We had issues with the weed abatement. Uh lots of rain. Lots of rain, lots of weeds. Uh a lot of weeds to remove. a lot of wheels to remove fire hazard, potentially code enforcement coming after us, right? To and so we wanted to have the opportunity that if that happened that we could first offer overtime and then if they were not willing to work, cloud trap us a company, a local company to come and and help us out in the meantime a week or two just to
223get ahead of the work a little bit and then that would happen. Stop the work. Uh after August 30th, we will not we will not be contracting out. That's okay. So hiring some of the positions, contracting stuff, meet it over time that Gotcha. Great question. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Most of it's maintenance rounds, all the stuff that we do over summer school that we don't have enough to do. So this allows us the opportunity to actually use our staff. Yep. I'm not I'm not against it by any means. I'm just clear making sure I'm understanding exactly what we hire, we're not going to use it. If we hire, we're not going to use it. And then we just got Thank you. Any any other questions? Well, I don't like the word contracting. I don't like
224the word privatizing. So, I will vote no on this when it comes to it. Okay. It will. Yeah, we're we're going to But um does anybody you guys have any other comments or questions you'd like to add before we take a vote? Excuse me. I move we approve. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I all oppose one. Uh next we have L6B4 CSEOU 2425008 reclassification of network computer technician pupil services technician and senior office assistant between the USD and CSEA. Thank you. So thisou addresses uh the reclassification of three positions. We had three employees that submitted a reclassification uh request to the reclassification committee. That committee is composed of two district members and two CSA members. And they we overview the the the request. We look at the application. We look at the job description.
225We look at the at the functions that the employees actually performing, compare them to the job functions and the descriptions. And if if they're performing work that is outside of their job description and we make a recommendation to the personnel commission for reclassification, then it goes through that whole process of reclassifying the the position, right? Uh in this instance, we have three positions that that uh qualify for that. And if you turn to that is the attachment scroll down a little bit. Oh, there it is. There it is. Thank you. So if you look if you look there we have the senior computer uh senior network computer technician uh range 47 260 days. People services specialist range 34 worker work year is 260 days. Senior office assistant 2 range 31 work year is 230 days.
226So if you look at that bo at that box uh below that where it says the following position shall be reclassified. You have the previous classification. So you have a network technician, computer technician that with a current range of 43 that was reclassified to a new job description, senior network computer technician, range 47, pupil services technician, range 32 that was reclassified and we had to create and negotiate a new job description, pupil services specialist, range 34, senior office assistant from range 29 to senior office assistant 2, range 31. Uh they went through the 610 process. The job descriptions are attached and they're presented to the board for approval tonight. Questions, comments? I get move for approve. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Uh, next we have L6B5 CSEAU 2425009 interim out of class assignment
227director purchasing between BUSD and CSEA. Thank you. So thisou addresses the working out of class uh term that Jose Cruz performed during the vacancy for uh purchasing director. Uh it it was was going to extend. This is why we're bringing to you now. uh and and this will take him home. Uh he actually worked from January 22nd to February 21st and during that that time he he would be earning defeat. He was working out of class and so it's brought to you tonight for approval to me. Any other questions, comments? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I next we have management. Uh this is a corrected copy L6C1 onetime offschedule stipen bonus for certificated and classified management and confidential personnel for the 2425 school year. Mr. J. Thank you. Just to continue with
228the same thing, right? Recommending the board of trustees approve a one time off schedule of 8% to s certificate and classified management. The names are listed u and are presented for your approval. Any questions, comments? Um yeah, uh I think everything looks great and again just like I said with the other two um just welld deserved and thank you to everybody for all your hard work. So with that, can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? I next we have D. Superintendent. This is also corrected copy L6D1 amendment to contract of employment agreement for superintendent. Mr. Peter. Yes. Thank you. So, this item is uh to amend the superintendent's contract under section um five on the agreement. Um we want to delete and replace the following line of section 5. It says
229the superintendent will receive a onetime off schedule 8% of the actual base salary for the 2024 2025 school year. And then uh also in this one we have an increase of 11.25%. The annual salary for this agreement shall be uh 224,58 and it would be effective 71 2025 and is presented to the board for your approval. Thank you. We have any questions, comments? So it's 11 11% uh increase or that's adding that's added on to everything like everybody else got. Yes sir. Well okay I go around with that. I just wanted to point out one thing on all of it and just so everybody is, you know, is aware, this was intentional as far as having the teachers and the classified having theirs first. So that way everybody knows that they're getting taken care of,
230then the management, and then superintendent being last, and is that we're taking care of the employees first as far as monetarily wise. Just wanted to point that out that that's the way that we worked it and that was intentional. Does uh can I get a motion? I move we approve. Second. All in favor? I. Next we have general L6E1 updated salary schedules. Much. Yes. Thank you. So what we have for you uh are all the salary schedules updated with the 11.25% 25% seller increase effective 71.25. Um we have classified bargaining salary schedule, classified confidential salary schedule, classified management salary schedule, certificated teacher salary schedule, certificated counselor nurse and teachers on assignment salary schedule, certificated speech therapist salary schedule, designated subject, career technical salary schedule, certificated management salary schedule, and all of them reflect a 11.25%
23125% increase uh beginning for the July 425 and the attachments are there for your reference. Um if approved, these will be posted on the website and will be used to continue recruit recruitment and is presented to the board for approval. Any questions, comments? I move for approval. All in favor? I I All right. And we have a corrected copy L6E2 board bylaw 9250 compensation. Mr. Yes. Thank you. So, uh, we didn't forget about you either. I think that we're all in the same boat. We're all working, you know, to to improve our district to provide a good quality education for our students. And so this item is to recommend uh an increase to uh to the board member, the board of trustees, approve the revisions of board bylaw 9250, remineration, reimbursement, and other benefits increasing
232board member compensation rate to 132 per board member per meeting uh attended not to exceed $264 per board member in any month. and the additional stop for board president to $66 per month not to exceed total earnings of $264 per month. Uh we had a clause there for the personnel commission but as you can see we cross that out. Uh that's not presented to the board for approval and uh it it reflects the 5% increase. Okay. And I'll read the last part. Thank you. Yes. It is also recommended that the board wave the second reading protocol and vote on this item tonight in light of the other items that have been approved for districtwide compensation consideration and it's presented to the board for approval. uh and we have the bylaw attached to it and so
233this would be your information I first read as well. Yes. Is there any questions, comments? All right. Feels a little bit weird saying this. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll do. All right. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Yeah. Do we have items for future board meetings? Yes. That was I don't remember what it was, but I remember you had something project. The foundation. No, the foundation. The foundation. It was a long time ago. USD Foundation. Yes. Assists. All righty. Any others? All righty. Do I have uh We do not need to go into second close session, I believe. Right. Everybody's good. All right. Can I get a motion to move? All in favor? I 918.