001We're at 5:30. Um, can I get everyone to please stand for a moment of silence and the pledge of allegiance to be honest. >> Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. Allegian 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. Um, student representative reports. Let's hear who wants to go first. >> How about Nisha since you've never been Joshua? >> Way to take care of it. >> Okay. Hi, my name is Nisha Fuentes and this is my second year in the school board representative. Um the school year kicked off with freshman orientation on July 30th where ASD gave campus scores and clubs introduce themselves as well that students got the opportunity to meet some staff members
002and purchase merch, yearbooks and tickets for upcoming events. Club rush followed during the night during the first week and students got got to visit tables out in the quad of many of the clubs that we have on campus. Back to school night and picture day both happened within the past two weeks. Since then, our school has been full steam ahead on our homecoming festivities. September began with our homecoming spirit week, which all of our days were Rio themed as that is the theme of this of this year's dance. This Friday, we have our homecoming assembly from 10:24 a.m. to 11:24 a.m. in the gym. Our homecoming football game is at the stadium with JB's kickoff being at 400 p.m. and varsity being at 700 p.m. This Saturday is our homecoming dance from 7:00 p.m. in
003the from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the BBHS gym as and as of right now we have extended our we have exceeded our projected number of tickets sold making this one of our biggest dances in the past four years. Friends of BBHS are hosting the 911 ceremony at the quad on the morning of September 11th from 7 through 7:38 from 7 a.m. through 7:30 a.m. And the class of 2026 is hosting a taco night at Zara from 4 through 900 p.m. For our fall sports, we have tennis. First, tennis has played two matches and shut down both teams. They have had they've had had to call our game Friday on Friday due to lightning. Saturday we got rained out of a tournament on Oak Hill, but the girls all did a line dance in
004the rain to try to wait it out. Uh Tuesday, our game at 29 Palms got cancelled due to flooding. Golf has had to cancel two matches due to lightning and rain, but they did get one match in Palm Desert. The girls played well for their first time on the course. Uh this volleyball season is off to a strong start. They're focused on building their skills, staying game ready, and excited to continue growing both as individuals and as a team. For football, fresh and soft is off to a 20 while varsity is 1 to1. The next games are coming Friday versus Mosam with freshman and sophomore playing at four followed by at all right Josh. We're pretty mean. >> You ready? >> Yeah. >> No, we're not. >> All right. The school year kicked off with
005meeting the two new teachers in the showers in this area. They're they're really good teachers. Uh better than last year. Uh with CT students only need 15 hours. We're they're encouraging us to come every day. We're doing field trips every other Friday to reward those students who are on top of their work and who have their hours like 3 hours weekly. Um we're we're doing live lessons this year. It's not only uh just the Chromebooks, no longer just ingenuity. We're getting credits for doing math weekly uh journals every day. Uh we get assigned a new prompt almost every day for the journals and um we do we have meetings every day now. It's not just once a week. So the teachers interact with us more than last year. And um see >> what do you
006think an appeal to going to school more than the 15 hours is? I mean, you can go more than 15 hours, but kids, you know, at CT have jobs and not, you know, can't always be there when you're working. >> So, I think the 15 hours is fine. I mean, I go more than 15 hours, >> right? So, by going more, do you get more out of it? >> I'm ahead of all my work. >> That's great. >> I graduating before spring break. >> Wow. Were you there last year? >> Yeah, I was here last year. I came in with like 60 credits and I the year last year with 120. >> Cool. >> Is the attendance up? >> Yeah, the attendance is up. I mean, there's some kids I don't, you know, show up,
007but everybody else shows up and gets their hours. Do you see it as an improvement in attendance from last year? >> Oh, yeah. Last year. No, really. And nobody came last year. >> Do you like it like communitywise? >> Yeah, it's really nice. Honestly, I prefer this over the actual high school. smaller group, more intimate, get to know each other better. >> Questions? >> I interrupted you. Did you? >> I would love him to share about Mr. Leong and his >> Mr. Leon is awesome. Mr. Leon is awesome. >> Um, I mean, when we go out of breaks, he engages with us. He plays games with us. You know, he just It's better than last year because we didn't really have that last year. >> You know what's funny? My senior year of high school
008was his first year at Big Bear High School. >> He's been there a while. >> Have you seen him in cornhole yet? >> Oh, yeah. Good. Good job. >> Good job. Good job. >> All right, guys. Thank you very much. I'm sure you have better things to do than hang out with us. So, if you want to head out, you can. >> Thank you very much. You did great. All right. Um item eight, report of action for close session. Item A, um real property negotiator. There's no action taken. Uh student personnel, so B, student certain personnel item 2425 13. Um student is being readmitted um and readmitted to Chicago. Uh student personnel item item C student personnel item 2425-14 student is being read readmitted to the middle school. All right. Have two public comment cards.
009So I've got to read the script case. Bear with me on this slowly. Uh we will now open the public comment period for our meeting. President invites anyone wishing to address the governing board on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the governing board to do so at this time. We value your input and welcome your comments. Please keep the following guidelines in mind during this portion of the meeting. First, each speaker will be allotted three minutes to speak with a total of 20 minutes allocated for each item. Uh And we've got a large digital digital timer that uh Laura has open. Um second, please note that under the Brown Act, the board cannot take action on items not on the agenda unless specific conditions are met, such as urgent matters or
010the need for immediate action. Third, public comments are an opportunity to share your views with the board, not to engage in a debate or question and the answer session. Board members will not respond directly to individual comments during this period, but will uh carefully consider all input. Fourth, uh to maintain a respectful environment, please refrain from using offensive or discriminatory language. Uh personal attacks against individuals, including board members, staff, members of the public, um are prohibited. Um and finally, uh these procedures are not designed uh public criticism of policies, procedures, programs or services of the district or the acts or emissions of the governing board, legal references, education codes uh 35145 and 7212. All right. Does there's two public comment cards, one from David and one from Bobby. Does anyone have a preference of who
011goes first? You like to sit or stand? >> I can sit. >> You can sit or stand. Whatever you like. >> Well, you'll have to tell me if I'm speaking loud or not because they hear me. I don't. >> All right. Well, um I know that you're all elected officials and you care about kids. And one thing about the school district I've always been impressed with is that we've had creative programs for our kids as compared to some of the school districts I've been involved with down the hill. The other thing is that um we I know all I don't know you. I know you, but I know you're you run for office because you care about the kids and you consider your work, which is really fiduciary oversight for a lot of the dollars
012are spent for our school district. So, the issue with the books came up and still we've tried due diligence and I'm just bringing you up to date. I talked to Manny about it so it's nothing new. Um, we identified the books and the books that I wouldn't have in my home. Um, because anybody that would come into my home, if I had a book like that, it would mean I approve of that material and I don't. Um, we have on our little committee continued research on the authors that promote and develop these types of books. And um, I personally ordered and four books. I haven't read any of them. So, I wanted other people to read them because I didn't want to present my own bias to them, you know. Oh, you should read page
01321, you know. No. So, I've distributed some of those books and I've wait I've gotten input from one and um so I guess my point is so where do we go from here? Um, I feel and I've shared this with Manny and with Kevin, I think we should at some point have an agenda item. So, we can start looking at establishing some sort of criteria for the school, for the libraries, you know, the you deal with everything, but for the libraries, uh, to discuss perhaps even developing standards for what comes into our libraries. Um, and we, I want you to know, are assisting the district because we are moving along with developing some sort of material that's simple to address the issue of the parents that aren't dealing with the kids that have cell phones
014at home because that's interfering with their education. And so we have a committee and part of it is breakthrough task force which is funded under RIM. we we may not do through breakthrough task force because then we'd have to send it to the county and they would have to approve and all of that. We want it to be local. So if it's going to be local, we're going to have to raise the money and we will. So just letting you know that >> good. >> All right, David, you're I'm sorry I can't make out your last name is in class. Well, that's the idea. You came up. >> It's classen. So, my name is David Clen and I'm permanent resident up here in Big Bear. Uh, spent six years in the military. So, I paid
015my dues. I actually ran for Congress in Kansas as a Kansas state representative. And then, uh, I decided Kansas was too flat, so I moved up here. I love the But I didn't like the the dog on wind and the flatness there. I just love to ski. So anyway, enough of that. Um, as a military veteran, it's very important to me and I've gotten some feedback from some people in the district that it looks like we got a handle on it because I did have two issues tonight. One that was the first one was about September 17th being Constitution Day. It's very important that was passed by the United States Congress that we are supposed to use that day and that is uh public law 108-447 that was passed in 2004. So I just want
016to make sure that we're doing that because it is a law that we take that day to do it. And if you need some help with that curriculum, I belong to the Patriot Academy which is uh uh established out of Texas and I have a curriculum from them that's used all over the country and I'd be happy to facilitate anything with that. So u I'll give you my email at the end of this if you need help with that. I'd sure be willing to help. The big the bigger issue is the second issue. I understand there's a curriculum to establish according to AB5 by July 2025 which requires the state of California educational system to establish a curriculum uh supporting the LGBQT. I would like to see a copy of that state curriculum. And like
017I said, at the end, I will give you my email or you can tell me how I can get that is and what the requirements are of educators to comply with that horrendous bill. It is very difficult for me to understand how our state government can make our educators mandate them to comply with something that is totally against their faith. and I am a man of faith and I believe that Jesus Christ was my Lord and Savior. Um, our country was built on Christian fundamentals and the Bible is used to be used and taught in all of our schools. In fact, most of the leaders who helped construct the Constitution were Christian leaders. And it is not my intent to put down those who have a different belief than I do. I just what what
018my intention is to do is not to allow my tax dollars to be used for the purpose to impose others other beliefs on our kids. Well, I guess that's it. That's all further go, right? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I would like a copy of that and what the consequences are if they don't abide. I've never heard of it and I've got kids in the school. So, >> you're going to hear about it. It's law. >> She'll vouch for that. >> All right. Item 10, consent calendar. Get a motion to approve or if there's any item to >> All in favor. None opposed. >> Employee announcements. Mr. Marquez. Yes, sir. Um, we have two we have two classified employees. I do not believe they're here, but we'll still announce them. Um, Big Bear Middle
019School campus safety, which is always needed. Nicholas Toms. Um, Nicholas is passionate about safety and working with the students. He'd be a wonderful addition to the team at Big Bear Middle School, and that makes them fully staffed with their campus safety team. Uh, Baldwin Lane Elementary School, we have cafeteria worker Roberto Hernandez. Roberto has worked in full service food service industry for many years. We have no doubt that his experience will be an asset to the child nutrition program. >> Welcome to new stuff. >> All right. Now, it's back to you again. >> Back to me again. Okay. Um, so a couple things here. One, I want to acknowledge the fact that, you know, we had a power outage again. Of course, this feels like we're really exploring this as far as what is our
020new normally look like here because it seems to be having more and we're discussing that as cabinet. But I want to recognize the fact that yes, I think that was a long day and I want to thank the teachers and the staff and administrators and students and everyone that you know powered through yesterday. Um wanted to make it clear that you know some of the reasons we we you know I know there was questions on why if we stood in school or not stay in school and the reality is is you know when cell phone service started to get shoddy a little bit shoddy too we couldn't guarantee that all students could be informed or all parents could be informed if we were going to start sending kids home on buses early. So we did
021we made a decision to keep in school. I would like to making sure that all students were safe because we wanted to ensure that we contacted parents and we couldn't guarantee that with the way cell service was a little shoddy when it first went out. Um so we wanted to make sure we were everyone was safe. That's really it was made on a a decision of safety and the teachers were able to manage it and get through the day and yeah it's always a challenge when you lose a lot of your resources. It's a challenge. It's a challenge for all teachers when you lose those resources. But I wanted uh even Tina had texted me and let me know that Rita really one of the big challenges when power goes out is beating students because
022we lose our warmers and read especially at the high school level she was able to creatively find ways to still serve hot meals in the high school and we really appreciated that what she did there and I everyone did notice that yeah that had took some extra effort. you know the the other kids might have got you know PB&J across the board or whatever we can make sure to supply but she rallied and that that's a big challenge when we lose electricity like that yeah we lose all sources but feeding kids is important that's important part of the day so the fact that Rita had to redo everything for her day we really appreciate uh Rita and her entire team for rallying through the day and getting through it we really appreciate that and everybody
023that did that like I said administrators everyone I want to thank them for getting through a challenging day um also the got to do a Baker High School and CT visit and got to spend some time there walking around. It really was a great visit. Um got to spend some time in Mr. Little's class in the Abbott classroom. I really got to enjoy the presentations from some of their um mentors that come in and helped. It was a great It was really a great visit overall. You know, you always hear these things you're talking about. You know, people will automatically sometimes say bad before we say good things, right? And it's the nature of people. But when you go around and you walk around the high school, it really was a great visit and a
024great environment in everyone, every single classroom. The energy of the new teachers, especially watching some of the new teachers, it was a great visit and I enjoyed every minute of it. Um, and on that line too, just like following up on what our representative said, being at the it is a way different energy at CT, watching the kids interact, you know, just watching, like he said, exactly what he said, watching them interact during their lunchtime. They're excited to be with their teachers, to interact with their teachers, to do the work with their teachers, to actually have more one-on-one time with the teachers and not just on a computer. It's a different environment there, and you can see that um it helps to have Mr. Casino there. Everything that's different and moving in the right direction,
025which is getting attendance up. So, we're excited just to have kids coming on campus a lot more. It genuinely is a different environment and we are very appreciative of everyone that took on this new challenge that we asked to step into these roles and they have stepped up to the plate. We're excited for the good of the students. We're genuinely excited about that. Um had a parent advisory committee meeting with all and had some new parents in there. We invited some uh making sure we had a quandry of all representation. We had some new e parent. We had new special education parent on the advisory superintendent advisory. It was a great energy in there last year. you know, it came in and they came in with a lot of concerns, a lot of, you know,
026but saying the good, but this one was a Laura was in there with me and it was a we were even looking over the notes and it was a way different feeling like they were saying so many positive things, especially with our new principles with our new elementary principles. There was so much positive about Dr. Britt and Mrs. Cox and Miss Francisco that they were talking about. Dr. Francisco, it really was a good good meeting where it was nice to hear a lot of good feedback that they were excited about the changes of culture at Northshore. They were excited about Mrs. Cox and familiar Big Bear face being with them. It was really, really good. So, a lot of good comments there, you know, little things that I have to, you know, address with sites
027or whatever it might be, but they were minor. There were very minor things that they brought to the table and it was good to hear their input on different situations especially some of the parents because now I have I think two or three different sped representatives now of children with sped students. It really is good to hear their input. Um and and for the other parents to hear their perspective was great. So we really appreciated that. Um hats off to uh Mr. Williamsy and everyone the sites everybody with the the first round of our William visit. We got through the, as you saw in the notes, probably the Fallsville and Northshore with no findings, which was great. Um, especially the Falls has never been at a Williams visit. So, that was great that they had,
028they got through everything. Uh, especially with the way that school works. It's a unique little school. So, hats off to the school, the administrators, all the e support, Dr. Crow, everybody that came in and really kind of helped with this. Thank you to everybody because we had no findings. Uh, our next one, we have Mr. Williams, when's our next visit? Um they'll be in the winter, January, February, >> in the winter with our next two schools. So we got through the first round. We just get through round two now. So it was great. Um and otherwise, as you saw in the notes, you know, our partnership is kind of furthering with our with the um mom and dad project, which we're very excited about. And just to kind of discuss, so it's a new program
029that allows what's a partnership with us. They can't it's a partnership, just to explain a little further, Mom Pro, Mom and Dad Project can't move forward without us. We can't move more forward without them. It's a collaborative project basically that will fund them to support us. So they can build now for services that's going to sustain their program as far as some of the counseling services, things like that, sustain their program and even offer additional support. So we're in the early stages of that is what that looks like and Miss Drake will be working on that with them with the mom project to making sure we're all in line. U Megan Meadows once again has been wonderful. The team has been wonderful again trying to really realizing as they're in our schools helping already with
030what they've done thus far with some of our EL students um really seeing what where they can support and it's been a wonderful partnership. So, we're excited about the expansion of that. >> And it has long-term funding. >> Yes, long-term funding because it's a it's a source that is not necessarily a grant or anything like that, but it gives them the ability to bill for their services to like u to Medicare. So it gives them the building services allows them to do that. So that's exciting. Um otherwise football game this weekend. Excited about homecoming this weekend. >> So that's exciting. I'll be there for both games. >> Uh governing board member. Um, last week I went to the San Bernardino County School Board Association that I'm a member of and um, you'll be getting some
031information on floor. Had a chance to send it yet about the joint meeting which will be with the San Bernardino and Riverside School Board Associations. Um, Manny and I had a conversation today and he's going to go with me on October 20th, but it's usually schoolboard members, superintendent. I think it's a good opportunity for us to um you know show our faces, be a part of it and they'll have a guest speaker dinner that sort of thing. So um yes, we just kind of talked about different things that we're going to be doing over the next not one but two years and planning ahead for their awards ceremonies and the joint meetings and that >> thank you for your work. Thank you. this morning. >> I got nothing this week. >> I didn't have anything
032until on my way over here, I saw one of the coolest things. Um, I pulled on to Fox Farm and there was a bus that just pulled on and as I was going down Fox Farm to come to the White Hit the boulevard, uh, at the Keller Williams, the little girl, one of the kids that got off the bus, the little girl was waving excitedly with a huge smile at the bus driver as she then went by. And then her mom was at the corner coming around the corner and saying, "Thank you." And it it was just a really cool thing to see that the that the kid loves the bus driver and so did the mom. So if you could pass that on to transportation, it was really cool to see. >> That is
033a big deal because >> it's our community. >> We talked about that before is that sometimes that bus driver is the first first face they see in the morning >> and the last face they see in the afternoon. So it's >> sets the tone. >> Uh it sets the tone for the district. It does. It sets the tone. So that's good. We will pass it on. Thanks. Um, other than that, good. Let's go. Uh, item 14, first reading and adoption of governing uh for policy updates. Second it. >> All in favor? >> I oppose. Item 15, curriculum instruction report, public hearing, public comment pursuant to education code, section 60119, pupil textbook and instructional instructional materials compliance. Is there anything >> public that's just public comment? Okay. So I have V resolution number 25260002 pupil textbook
034and instructional materials compliance for 2526 school year. Uh can I get a motion to approve? >> So second >> all in favor. >> Do you need a vote uh roll call vote because it's a resolution >> possibly? >> Let's do it just in case. >> Board member. >> Hi. >> Board member Harry. Hi, >> Roberts. >> Hi, >> Smart. >> Hi, >> just so everybody knows, this is a resolution saying we have sufficient textbooks. >> All right. Uh, Mr. Marquez or No, this is Brian. >> Yeah, actually turn this over to Brian and ask Brian to go ahead and present a little bit as that's why we've also invited some of our high school representatives if we have any questions for them as we develop our CT pathways. And Brian is particularly versed in this.
035for for those of you not in the know, CTE is career technical education pathways. >> All right. So, we just wanted to take a few minutes tonight to kind of share uh where we're at with the CT pathways at Bigger High School as well as some potential opportunities that are out there for us to take advantage of. Um I think here in the district, we have a very wellestablished enrollment program. we're really targeting those um students where that's their pathway, but it's also incumbent upon us to ensure that we have career options available as well. And so, it's a good time to kind of take a look at where we're at and what are some potentials for moving forward because there's some really exciting things on the horizon. So, as of right now, Big Bear
036High School, um we have pathways under three industry sectors. We have transportation, which is our um auto technology pathway. We also are getting aviation going again and that's actually really exciting because that is dual enrollment. So that's actually through Valley College. >> We have I have a question. >> Did the the current teacher for the auto classes, Mr. Roberts, >> he was, as I understand it, a a junior college professor. Is there any thought of getting getting some of those classes as dual enrollment as well? >> I think we could have. >> Yeah, I think um the Tina and and Chris and I are all on the same page with we're open to exploring all the enrollment opportunities within CT because that's just providing an additional layer of opportunity for the students. So, absolutely. >>
037Yeah, he's not he has he has not approached me on that but I will definitely approach him. >> Wasn't he a professor in the past? That's what I heard. >> I don't know that. I have not heard that. >> Okay. But I can go ahead and investigate that for you >> because I like that. >> Can Can I say anything? >> Not really, but >> Oh, aviation. I'm a second lieutenant in the civil air patrol. I moved up here from Montana. So, if they if there are enough kids to get that going again, I would certainly be a big help with trying to get that going again. I still air patrol's quite a a character builder. >> Not going. >> Not up here. It's not >> not for >> Yeah. >> We don't have anything
038going. >> Okay. So, in patient care um with Kenbeck and Lisa Griff, we have effectively our sports medicine personal fitness trainer and internship pathways. And then under our visual media arts um through Hunter Natik, we've got the media arts one and two as well as our graphic design. Um media arts does a lot of the filming of the football games um different designs for the uh school and the graphic design is where this is what we're offering right now um at the high school >> and Hunter is in charge. >> Great. >> Can you ask Hunter if it's possible to look into CAD as well? That's a whole another issue. >> It is and it's not part of the CTE, but it might be that through dual enrollment. >> I seriously doubt how you would
039be able to teach it, >> right? >> Anyway, I totally agree. It would be great if we could offer it, but that's a I've tried to learn. >> I'm taking a class right now on >> Oh, really? >> So, you'll come teach for me? No. No. He said no. >> You opened your mouth. >> I said I'm taking a class. >> All right. So, what we're looking at right now is um getting CTE grants brought back into the district. They've been out for a few years now. Um Jess and I already wrote for 132,000 um funding for this year for our current CT pathways. Um, and we asked the teachers what they needed. A lot of supplies, professional development, student opportunities, all within what we already offer. That's that's what we just sent off to
040the county last week and we're waiting to hear back from. Um, but what we have is an interesting opportunity is that the California Department of Education has released a facilities grant. And when we talk to the uh CTE teachers at the high school, the same problem comes up over and over and over again is that there's just not enough space at the high school because all these CTE programs require a lot of space. Whether it's printing machines or welding equipment or you know you name your CTE program, we need space and this grant which we can write for is designed for one specific school site which is fine. Big Bear High School, but it can only be for one industry sector. So, I couldn't put a building in and put health on one side and
041aviation on the other because they're not the same industry sector. And so, what we're in the process of doing is looking at different uh looking for different feedback from different stakeholders about what how we could spend this. Now, all of these grants do require matching funds. Um, for the CI grant, we're allowed to use our salaries and benefits that we're already spending, so it doesn't cost the district any money. For the facilities grant, we would need to look um either at RDA funds or with the potential cell BBE how we could make that match. >> It's one to one. >> So for the CIG is a 2:1. Um, the facilities grants a lot. So, in speaking with the high school administration, we kind of came up with three potential opportunities of how we might be
042able to write this facilities grant. Okay. The first one is we already have a really strong health pathway at the high school. We could build upon that path pathway. Um, we could explore looking into EMT and fire as well as well as expanding the capacity of the sports medicine. So effectively taking one of the pathways that we already have and just expanding what we offer. So with that, can you does it mess up the grants if it's then used for dual enrollment as well? Like for instance, if the EMT program that Craftton offers or any other college, >> we I asked that specifically um to the county about how dual enrollment uh factors into it. Um, and I got the same answer from the county and the CTE that they don't care as long as
043it's connected to CTE. It makes no difference in the grant world if it's a high school CTE or a dual enrollment CTE. What they care about is that it's a single industry sector and that it's servicing our kids and that's it. >> So like they have radiology classes, all anything that we brought in as long as it was under that healthcare. >> Terrific. Um, another one which was uh another idea that's floating out there is graphic design and product development is actually one industry sector. So we could tweak what Hunter's doing a little bit and focus more on the graphic design sort of things. that would be kept and then and then connect that with something like welding which is the product development and I could put that in the same building >> where I
044was interest introducing something like welding and then expand upon what Hunter had. >> Yeah, that makes sense to me because you could a kid learns how to use CAD and then you can either be on a plasma cutter and cut out whatever metal or you can 3D print it. They even have metal 3D printers and all cool stuff like that. >> That's awesome. >> And the third one that kind of came up is hospitality. We're in Big Bear. That's a cornerstone of our economy. So, um, looking at what we could with this one, it's a little bit trickier because we're not expanding a pathway that we currently have. We're starting something from scratch. Do we have percentage of how many kids stay in town? because that's a cornerstone of our economy. But it was my
045experience am too that we tend to fly the coupe and then a lot come back later but a most don't stay and I know that's anecdotal but there's got to be real data. So do we really want to invest in a in a sector when most of the kids are leaving anyway? Well, and what would the class what would the classes be? So, under the hospitality, there's um three different pathways that we could offer. Um one is basically like a nutritionist sort of pathway. One would be culinary, arts, chef, and one is hospitality, recreation, and tourism. >> Um so, it would have to fall somewhere in in those three. >> So, you guys kind of already brought up some of the considerations. So when we're thinking about what we do, we kind of have to
046take a few different things in consideration. First off, between Big Bear High School and CT, we have roughly 700 kids. We don't want to build a pathway that we can't fill with students, right? It does me no good if I we spend $3 million on a building, you know, through these funding, say to build a welding shop and then I have 10 kids in it all year, right? That's that's not a good use. Um, we also need to understand that staffing is not covered under these grants. So, we have to be prepared with whatever we are introducing that we're able to provide the staffing. As student interest, we're going to be sending out surveys through the high school and the middle school because it'll affect both of them as what the students say they will
047take. That's actually part of the requirement of the grant that we provide that student interest uh component. Can I ask a question? Have you participated or connected with the Chamber of Commerce? >> Uh, not yet, but we certainly >> Okay. Yeah, because that would be a good source of input as far as what's needed on this mountain and the benefits for >> Well, and that goes into the choice of industry sector. So, we're more likely to get funded if we are tied in with one of the top five um industry sectors of our particular region. And being in Big Bear, we can actually look at either direction. We can look at the Inland Empire or we can look at the high desert. Um healthcare certainly fits both of them. Tourism fits the front side of
048the mountain but not the back side of the mountain. And so we have to prove with data that it this is going to serve a need within our greater region. And so we have to consider all of these things so that one, we write a grant that's likely to get funded. And then two, we're actually creating something at the high school that we're able to staff with that we're able to staff and fill with students for the long term. >> The long term is the hard part. It is okay. >> So, Manny and high school administration and I going round and round and round and round and round days, weeks >> and we can always we keep keep convincing each other of one thing than another thing because it's all can be good and to
049be honest we keep coming back to help. We want to offer our students something where they have a very tangible good income and introduce them to a sector that's going to do something for them no matter where they go. >> Right? And the benefit of health is we already have so many pieces in place. >> So a lot of those things we know we have proof. Tina showed me your numbers today. We have proof that we fill these classes. So we already have proof of concept. >> We already have a staff member there. And so now we're just looking to expand a little further rather than build something from scratch. So that that's one thing that's kind of leading us in the health direction. Um but you know honestly we're here looking for that conversation
050and looking for that any >> from the board and you think about you're always talking about dual enrollment. We have a hospital up here multiple times they try to partner with us. That's our foot in to start working with them and getting this up and and moving and broadening it from what we've been for so many years. >> Yeah, I think it'd be awesome. I I'm excited about the the health care aspect because that provides actual opportunities for kids whether that you know they start out as a medical assistant but I mean we can expand it as far as the kids are willing to take it you know phbotomy classes whatever um the kids are inspired to take and >> um and I think that's it's an exciting opportunity for the kids and >> and
051our community and it's I worked at the hospital and was on the hospital board for a while right after I retired. So, um I'm familiar with the challenges there. There's some some fields like clinical lab specialists that or scientists that are impossible to fill and you never hire anyone from Big Bear. It'd be great just like hiring our teachers. It's great to hire teachers that went to school here or CFOs that went to school here because um you know what it's like to live here and and the weather's not going to scare you away. >> All right. Thanks. >> Any other comments from any other input from the board as far as their >> all the reasons you said about healthcare are all valid totally valid. um the you know mixing welding with design and
052creative design and CAD um those are careers now we don't have any experience there so that would be risk um so this is a grant to expand space that doesn't preclude us if it in the future I mean maybe the grant should be focused on healthcare because it's a it's a better chance of success okay we have experience and all that but I would hate to to then say that's all we're going to do. Um we might want to >> No, and we've talked about that that this is just for the purposes of this grant and we have this opportunity with the potential of MA matching funds. So this is just for the grant. if we need to use regular district funds or a different pod of money to you know say expand Hunter or
053look into CAD or something that doesn't preclude us from doing that is what's our best chance of success because this would be such a big influx of cash for the district to allow us to provide something unique >> unique that we haven't been able to provide in many years and so it's about maximizing those dollars not necessarily what we're going to be able to provide in CTE forever >> and some of the CT some of the courses they have they can just operate at any standard room or asking for something on a medical. We would need something a little bit more specialized, something that we have when you have a unique opportunity with found money per se that you can do something special with it, something special being a building that's designed for this purpose.
054>> And to bring back ENT um several years ago, we had that with um one of our teachers and then she left. Um it would be great. It would just be great to have that facility so we can build that. But I'm like you Dr. folks when they came to me. I wanted them all. >> She did. She asked for all. >> She did. She said all. She did. >> I said I have to go. >> That's a good question that you asked. This is does not leave a short side on the fact there's other things to want to look at. But for the direction of how we might want to apply for the grant or what direction we want to give um Brian and the cabinet team here to be able to move forward
055with something. We're just looking for a little bit of direction from the board. So understanding if we apply for this money that means we're going to have to do matching funds. So if we get $3 million, we have to have another $3 million to put into it. >> We get two, we have two. >> Hopefully we will. >> It sounds like like the healthcare is worth. >> We always talk about culinary, but that that is, you know, an unknown and a very expensive program to run. Right. Right. Is an extra but but we already have something so well established >> and and the opportunity isn't it it's there's restaurants everywhere. However, the average person working in the culinary industry is not as well paid as like medical industry. >> That's correct. Can the automotive be
056I know we have three levels but can it can that be expanded upon anymore or is that sort of at the top of >> I mean I think where we're at with is we already have I mean that's our most built out pathway because we have a full-time teacher dedicated strictly so and and a room so I mean we have a room and a teacher all day >> and the supplies so I would say with automotive specifically that's probably the one pathway that we are at capacity capacity with because I can't expand staffing and I can't expand space anymore on that one. >> There's room outside >> and we do use that outside. >> Well, but just beyond the the the block wall dirt. >> Yeah, you're right. We used to have classrooms back there.
057>> I know heard in Spanish. >> Okay. Any other comments from the board on that? Thanks for >> Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Item 16. I think that's for you, Jess. >> Yes, that's me. Um, so this, you know, for Jack, I won't take much time. No, but um, this is our unodited actuals report. So, by nature, there's really not there's not a lot to this, so it won't Oh my goodness, I have a lot of here. Sorry. >> It's trans. Yeah, it's dictating what you're saying. specialy is the numbers >> not presentation here. >> It's down at the bottom >> presenter view, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah, >> that's what it was. Okay, thank you. All right, so um this is our unedited actuals. So
058this is for the year 2425. So essentially when when we build the budget at that time we estimate what our actuals should be for the end of 2425 so that we have a starting point for the new year and then this is the time of year where we we come back around and we find what our actuals truly were. These are unodudited so they'll be audited this fall and then we'll get that report sometime over the winter. So this is where we are now. So this is just our table of contents. We'll go over the comparison of where we were at estimated actuals to where we are now, the components of our ending fund balance, a detail of fund 25 and then all the other funds. So this is our comparison. I know this is
059very small. I'll zoom in here if I can. Here we go. So this is our comparison slide. This is all fund 01. This our general fund. And this is a sideby-side comparison of the estimated actuals that we we had at budget building time or in June. and what we're showing now for our actuals for the year 2425. So our enrollment um from P2 to annual is our reporting periods for our our um our ADA and enrollment. Enrollment stayed actually went up by five students, but our ADA essentially stayed the same when there was really no not much of a change there. So our LCFF funding, I'm sorry if I'm moving around too much. Our LCF funding here stayed pretty um static from one to the next. >> Thank you. >> The federal funding is what
060you see on the next line. There was a redemption there uh from estimated actuals to now of $248,000. And what this is for the most part is shifting what are known as unearned revenues from one fiscal year to the next. When we talk about unearned revenues, these are mostly federal programs and grants and some some state grants that uh we can only record revenues in a given year that match what our expenses were. So if we, you know, if we're carrying forward some expenditures to the new year, we have to do the same with our revenues. So this is typical at year end. You'll see some revenues and expenditures shifting to the new year. And this dollar amount is mostly comprised of titles one through four. Under the state funding, there's also a big difference
061there, which is the next line down. There's a difference of three over $3 million from what we were showing at estimated actuals to now. And the almost all of this is our CCSP grant. So that's the California Community Schools grant. And what happened there was all originally all of the revenues were budgeted to be received in the 425 year, but they are giving those to us. Um they're allocating those out to us yearly. So, we didn't receive all of those. So, we've shifted those forward and we'll be showing those more accurately going forward. This is a new uh revenue stream for us. Under the local revenues, there was an increase of 1.6 million. This was our second um so a big portion of this, almost 900,000 of this was our second aortionment of RDA funding
062for that year. And then there were some adjustments known as fair market value adjustments in the past. These were done by our county on the back end and we never saw these due to new laws. We now uh process these on our own. So these show on all all of our financial reports and they're essentially a net zero. They're adjusted in the one year. The negative adjustment happens in the next year and it's to bring our cash balances to where they are according to market value at that time. So that's, you know, long story short, that's showing a $219,000 increase on our local revenues. And then we also received our fourth quarter tax aortionment of 176,000. So overall with that that large shift in the state funding for CCSP, we're showing 1.7 million uh as
063as a reduction to our overall revenues. And these are our transfers in on this line. So just to kind of show what this looks like, this is our inner fund transfers in and that increased by 20,000. So that is our fund 17 transfer. And that is a it gets a little bit complicated, but we have our fund 17 is a is a fund that carries a balance to be used as an offset for the out-of pocket costs for health and welfare, excuse me, for our employees for the two bargaining units. And essentially what that is, if an employee opts out, if they already have their own health insurance, they opt out of the district's health and welfare cap, um they do get paid out a certain amount as an opt out, but the remainder of
064that goes into this fund 17. And then our teachers union and our classified union both get to decide how much of that goes to their um their members and it it reduces their out-of- pocket cost. So each year there's a lot of back and forth between all the funds to determine how much came into fund 17 and how much has to go out. So this is what that adjustment means. So looking now we're going down uh to the expenditures section of the slide. So the first two lines are certificated salaries and classified salaries. And we have some a 2% difference in each of those. So schedule C's stipens and extra duty those are paid out. Well, extra duty is a constant, but sub schedule C stipens are paid out at the end of the year.
065So, that's a big portion of that difference. And there was also the districtwide increase that was negotiated that it was reflected on uh at the end of the year there. >> So, they're paid out at the end of the year. So, if the football coach coaches in the fall, they don't get paid until >> if it's a schedule segment, then yes. mid year. >> We do make the error. We try to get it completed. >> Yeah, thank you for correcting me there. Um, not much of a change as far as employee benefits and books and supplies, the 1% difference there, but there is a larger difference under the services. There was a $723,000 decrease in our expenditure there. And that again much of that is due to shifting those unearned revenues forward. So we're shifting
066the expenditures forward and all the revenues forward and that just gets carried over into future years. There's also things like utilities and annual purchase orders where we had you know we're reconciling at the end of the year what was truly needed and what was budgeted but was not actually spent. Then the next sizable difference is this 15% that's an increase in our other outgo. So what this is is what's known as excess costs. Those are paid to Desert Mountain Selpa and that is the county office that um basically receives and distributes our special education funding. And we have they provide also services to some of our students and we are build at the end of the year for costs uh that are over and above what we contracted with them essentially. >> And that's primarily
067due to the increase in in special ed kids we got. >> Yes. I mean that this number has increased past years because of that. But we do have an increase in special education students but also the severity of their disabilities. And so overall our expenditures did decrease by $256,000 from estimated actuals to unodudited actuals. We then have some inter fund transfers out. So here's our transfer out from of fund 01 to fund 17 is 190,000. uh we have our transfer out of those RDA revenues that I mentioned up above that we had received. And so our transfers out increased by over a million dollars. So overall, if we're looking at this bottom line here, this was the deficit that we were expecting. This is planned deficit spending um of one, you know, onetime revenues as
068we're shifting back from some of these funding sources that are still expiring. Um 1.2 2 million almost 1.3 million is what we were predicting at estimated actuals as of unaudited actuals we have a deficit of 3.8 million which is a a decrease essentially of 2.5 million like I said that is planned and in our multi-year projection um it does right size after the next I believe after the next fiscal the current 2526 fiscal year and so this is a kind of a breakdown some of our non-recurring revenues and expenditures. So, some of these um had little to no difference from estimated to unodited actuals. There was a difference in the homeless grant um just unearned revenues that were shifting to future years. That is one of those grants and we have to match revenues and
069expenditures. So, you'll see also um down below the matching expenditure also was dropped out. Um, this next change here of 62,000 is our CSI grant that is belongs to CT and that's another one of those. We have several years to spend that. We're just carrying it forward to a future year. This is 3.4 million. That's that CCSP grant that I talked about. So, dropping that out of the current year and we'll be showing that in future years as we actually receive that revenue. So, overall our nonrecurring revenues decreased by 3.4 million. And then looking at expenditures, many of those actually match what we looked at up above, dropping out the unearned revenues. There was an audit adjustment in some of these ESSER funds. So the ESSER programs have expired. We did have um there was
070an audit report that was um presented at a board meeting in January that showed that there were some adjustments that were needed to the 23 24 fiscal year. and it was essentially um recording revenues, correcting the year in which those revenues were recorded. So that's what this is reflecting. And then the universal or I'm sorry, the learning recovery emergency block grant, we dropped out some expenditure there. Again, just shifting that to a future year. And we had some ovens for Big High School under the kitchen infrastructure grant that were purchased. That was um our child nutrition manager, Rita Alabo, is spending spending those funds down before they expire and she was able to purchase some ovens for one of our schools. And we have some increase in expenditure for the CCSP grant, which is great.
071Um originally none were budgeted, but we were able to kind of begin kicking off that program. We had some staff that were hired under that program and some supplies that were purchased. And then under the last line here, the educator effectiveness grant, we have really ramped up our our efforts um as far as offering PD for our our educators. Um and this is a special pot of grant funding that expires after the 2526 year. So we have been making plans for this year as well. So, our non-recurring expenditures increased by 516,000, which is a good thing when you look at these um special funding sources that have expiration dates on them. And then, so looking at the the bottom line here, our ending fund balance as of June 30th, as of estimated actuals, we were
072showing 11.9 million. We're now showing 9.3 million. And on the next slide, I'll go into the components of that ending balance. So our reserve for economic uncertainties is 4% that's 4% of our expenditures and transfers out and that is 1.7 million. We have our revolving cash and stores and then prepaid so essentially prepaid expenditures like um conferences things that we have to pay for before the end of the year. Um, and then it's then journal entry to hit the the correct year. But this larger portion of the slide deals with the restricted portion of our ending fund balance. So though we do have this large $9.3 million ending fund balance, this slide is just to highlight how much of that belongs to restricted programs. Um 1.3 million for for expanded learning opportunities program ELOP. 1.5
073million for the learning recovery emergency block grant. These are some of the bigger pieces and as you can see there there are quite a few of our restricted resources that carry fund balance from year to year. >> Excuse me a second. The title says estimated actuals components. Did you adjust this to unodited actual? >> Oh my goodness. Yes. Good catch. This should say united actuals. Yes. And uh so our unassigned unappropriated portion of our ending fund balance is actually 1.3 million. This is a detail of what was spent in our fund 25. So this is only the portion that deals with RDA. So we have um two portions of fund 25. We have one that comes from um uh developer fees and this portion is only RDA. So redevelopment agency funds that are used for
074capital facilities essentially or things that are related to those facilities. So um we've got um HVAC project lane and water filling stations. There is again this there's an audit adjustment that was the other one. There were there were two um taken forward in that audit report. This is the other piece of that shifting um a helis invoice from one year to the other. So that's why there's a negative here. We also have this is just our debt service on the um on the lease lease back that we were able to fund the stadium project with. We have 1.3 million for the science lab project, some stadium supplies that were purchased, quite a bit for like our football program and um as well as the tractor and golf cart and things that were needed for the
075new stadium. And another big portion is the compensation of the project manager and two utility workers. Um those job descriptions have now been changed to groundskeeper and going forward we will not have the project manager. That was um Terry Plants who has now retired. I'm not sure I agree with that. Okay. >> Well, for this year anyway. >> Well, for this year, yeah, for the for last year, it's done. >> But for going forward, >> unless there's they're working on capital improvements to our grounds. I don't think they should be funded from that. >> Yeah. And that's something that could change. You know, the the grounds keepers that are currently being funded out of fun 25, you're absolutely right. That's not necessarily >> a permanent, >> you know, I think but that's how they've been
076funded in the past, you know, the most recent years. So this is our breakdown of our other funds. Um this is starting from the top left. This is our ASB. So this is a combination of middle school and high school. It shows where they were NCT, I'm sorry. This shows where they started at the beginning of the year as a combination of all three of their beginning balances, all three of their revenues combined and expenditures and their ending balances together. So this is the one time of year we update that portion of the slide and we show their actuals for the the year that has just ended. For fun 13 um we have pretty consistent ending balance from beginning balance. Um revenues expenditures are nearly matching. Um deferred maintenance that's our fund 14. Um some
077of the we have our our yearly or annual transfer of 300,000 and then as well as some interest income and then the fair market value adjustment, which this year is in the positive, and our expenditures, a portion of the expenditures there were paving projects at Baldwin Lane and HVAC, plus some flooring that was um installed at Falls Elementary. Our fund 17 is that health and welfare employee uh program that I mentioned earlier that offsets employee costs. Those are the ins and outs of that. um the redevelopment agency that is the slide that we just talked about in detail on the last slide for RDA revenues and expenditures. Um actually it was just expenditures on the past slide but that this uh this slide also reflects the revenues of our RDA funds and interest. Developer fees
078um that is the other portion I talked about of fund 25. This is our income for for developer fees throughout the year. The expenditures there are related to the science lab project at high school. Uh there are also two portions of our fund 40. We have our special reserve for capital outlay. We had revenues that's interest income only a fair market value adjustment and there were no expenditures in that portion of the fund. And the special the other the other portion of fund 40 is our uh tech sustainability program our tech refresh. So we had our transfer in which is annual of 300,000 and then expenditures amounted to 965,000 that's for refreshing the technology for our district as far as you know um devices for students as well as many other purchases that Jay can
079speak to but that is um he's got an ongoing plan for that to keep our technology current. >> Good job. >> Yes. And then fund 51. This is handled by the county treasurer and then we just reported out. This has to do with our our go bonds, our geo bonds. >> Before you go to the next slide, somehow in my head, I thought our RDA revenue was was well less than 2 million, but is are we going to be getting 2 million going forward for the next few years that we're getting? >> Yes, that is going to be standard. It's actually going to be slightly higher each year or it's projected to be slightly higher each year. Um so a little over 2 million um until 2030 which when they're expected to >> So Jess
080on the deferred maintenance, >> is the expenditure lower than expected because we're using other programs to pay for things? >> Uh yes. So we we don't necessarily spend all of what we what we you know transfer in to 51 each year. We do have >> we have been in the last few years. Yes, we have been taking care of some some large projects and we've got plenty of more planned. So, don't worry, we'll be spending. >> Well, our I hear you, but we didn't spend it this year. And my concern is I hope we're not slowing down because >> there's lots of stuff. >> You're absolutely right. >> The high school parking lots pretty rough. Yeah, asphalt is actually kind of the next uh facility master plan item on our list. >> Well, not just
081a master plan. We need to have a a pavement management plan. You know, looking at when you seal things, making it last longer instead of >> I 100% agree with you and I've said the same thing actually because as >> well, but you're the boss. >> So, >> yeah. So, >> make it happen. >> Consider it done. Yeah, >> the you know as we know like you know maintaining those things and sealing them is going to prolong the life and then we won't see >> you know >> and it's better for your bottom line >> right that's you know that's my main concern here >> that's your favorite thing >> that's my favorite >> a lot of the expenditures I mean that we've done the last couple years we've been making sure that we spend
082developer fees >> right >> because those are highly restricted probably the most restrictive that we Right. >> And we had a project that qualified for them and so it clearly went there. >> Exactly. That one's >> only classrooms only for that one. >> A lot of the the projects are contractors. So >> true. >> But somebody still has to watch. Whatever. You're right. >> So uh any other questions? That was actually the end of my presentation. I've been asking her as we go. So, >> Thank you, Jess. >> So, we have to vote on the unodited actuals. Can I get a motion? >> We have to approval. >> Well, there's I've been told by my script that there's a B, which means we vote. >> Oh, >> no. There's no >> 16. So I have
083wrote it in but it um under content it does say recommend the governing board approve. >> Okay. >> I'm just following >> I'm just looking at my >> second. >> All in favor? >> Item 17. We'll just skip that one. >> At least I got the actual approved. Go ahead, Manny. >> Thank you, sir. Um, as we just witnessed, um, Jess's depth of her knowledge and everything she provides for this district goes pretty far. And if we want to make sure we are in line with what is common knowledge, common use of title, we're, you know, throughout California for her position is the chief business officer. She is entitled an executive director, but we'd like, I'm requesting that we change it to chief business officer as we are an educational system. Uh and Jess did
084go through and she has earned the certificate of chief business officer. She did that two years ago. Um >> Through the University of Spoiler. Yes, she did. Just for the record, it's one of the only ones out there. >> The best one. >> Exactly. It does keep us more in line with common practices across districts, the common language, whether we're signing documents, applying for grants, all those things. the chief business officer uh does hold a little bit more weight as far as when the title is there and it is more appropriate for her position uh fiscal ability payroll purching risk management everything she oversees classified personnel falls under a CPO she's been amazing that we title her doesn't change anything except her title that we're asking we change the title to CP >> so the
085CBO includes the classified personel >> yes it easier to say. >> Thank you. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? I >> congratulations. [Music] >> Can I have money? >> That's the asking for money. >> And I just your math teacher. >> You were a math teacher. Wow. Take the credit. Take the credit. >> Quite the inspiration. >> I think Paul tries to make the same claim, doesn't he? >> Mr. Mr. >> I just have to throw a bone when I >> Yeah, exactly. >> Did you have her later though? >> No, I had her in eighth grade. >> Eighth grade. Well, when >> Yeah. So, you had her later. >> All right. uh board members or superintendent future board meeting agenda items.