001call the open session to order. Um, everyone please stand for a moment of silence and right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. Uh report of action taken into closed session for student personnel item 242507. Um, do you want us to vote in close session even though you or vote in open session? I think you can just Okay, just record it up. It was uh unanimous to read the student. Vote um for student personnel item 24252. It was a unanimous decision to read the student to Bar School District. Next is the hearing section. Bear with me a minute. I got to read this. Um,
002we will now open the public comment period of our meeting. The 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. Each speaker will be allotted of three minutes to speak with a total of 20 minutes per allocated item. Please note that under the Brown Act, the the board cannot take action on items not on the agenda unless uh specific conditions are met such as urgent matters or the need for immediate action. Uh three, public comments are an opportunity to share your views with the board, not to engage in debate or question and answer session.
003Uh board members will not respond directly to individual comments during this period, but we'll clear uh carefully consider all input. To maintain a respectful environment, please refrain from using offensive or discriminatory language. Uh personnel attacks against individuals including board members, staff, members of the public are prohibited uh prohibited. Uh these procedures are not designed to restrict restrict public criticism of policies, procedures or programs of the district or the acts or emissions of the governing board. Legal references at code 35145 and 7212. All right. First part is from Bobby Martinez. First of all, um I was part of the group that submitted a report to all of you regarding books in our schools that we were concerned about. So I thank you for all of reviewing that material. And I want to say that your superintendent
004did an excellent job in reviewing and spending time with us answering questions and all of that. So, we're very grateful for all of that because, you know, Fair Valley School District really has I've been around here a long time. has a lot of really good solid programs and activities for kids. So, our concern doesn't really have to do with this district. It has to do with the state. And uh we so appreciate Manny being open to us and also giving us a heads up too that if we still there were additional concerns that there is a protocol and will, you know, provide that photo to us and all we have to do is is let the assistant superintendent uh know what some of our continuing concerns are and we will do that. But I appreciate
005u I've worked with school districts down here for years, but I really appreciate because I think all of you really care about the kids. We all do. And right now we're dealing with the powers that be that seem to be not caring about this. But I thank you and we thank you for that and we wanted to let you know that we will come and we appreciate it very much. Thank you. All right. Ai Mus. Did I pronounce it right? You did. Yes. having ahead. I don't think I'll need the full preol. Uh I just want to say first of all, thank you for having me and I do appreciate everything that the district is doing. Um Mr. Marquez, Leon, you guys know me. We've had our disagreements, but you know, it's very respectful and
006I appreciate everything that you guys are doing. I just wanted to bring up um the proposed handbook for parents regarding special transportation services. Had a chance to review it um just today. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to get it sooner. That's another topic I wanted to speak to briefly, but I have some concerns about the questionnaire that's listed at the end of the handbook for parents and caregivers, legal guardians to fill out. I'm concerned about the depth and breadth of the information that's being requested and whether or not it's necessary. So, um I know you folks are busy. I sent out an email with um a list of my concerns and questions and what I'm asking for hoping and I apologize if I'm not allowed to ask this. I haven't actually review all of
007the procedures here. and it's just hoping that the group can withhold or hold up on approving the proposed input so they've had a chance to review and respond to the concerns uh because I think it can impact and affect a lot of the parents and the uh the students that are being addressed there. Um, another suggestion is just that for these proposals as they come through as they're updated each, uh, school year, uh, maybe make use of technology available to us with parent square, let parents know that there are updates to, um, either questionnaire that they need to fill out or if there's a change in policy, uh, a way to reach out to the parents so they know about it. Um I um I think there are good ways for us to uh do
008a questionnaire like request did. I think there are ways to do it with technology and in secure fashion so that people aren't writing down sensitive information passing it back and forth and potentially getting lost. Um I urge the board to consider ways of doing that so that it's um you know we're not killing any more trees than we would in a secure manner. So that is why I'm here today and I appreciate everything that you folks are doing. Appreciate your time. So we're going to move to calendar that's not on item. All right. Um, so I'd like to remove M 9M from the consent calendar and then we can Okay. Yeah, I will. Okay. Um, item 9E has been removed from the consent calendar. The option we have is more. Yeah. 9. Yes. The we
009did not have an academy after all. All right. Can I get a motion to approve the consent? Second with those emissions. All in favor? Imm [Music] 10. those two items removed from the consent calendar to uh not to discuss now but uh have you guys review 9m? Yeah, Jess will be a part of that conversation as well because that falls under her jurisdiction with transportation but then it falls under the ant too with special education. So it's something we'll probably discuss as a cabinet and really evaluate and I'll have have a conversation. I did see an email come through a little while ago from Abby that I'll make sure I have a conversation with Mr. Mositz and understanding all of his concerns with it and then we'll have that discussion with that. I had a
010special ed student so I get it. Thank you. I appreciate it folks especially on short notice. Thank you. All right. Um Superintendent, go get your wife. You're coming up here. Okay, I'll go ahead and start with classified staff. Um, our new employees is uh Roosevelt Aricio. Oh, that's good afternoon. I'm sorry I'm a little late. That's okay. And I'm saying it Roosevelt. Yes, sir. Rosevelt. Perfect. It's beautiful name. You're not late. No, you're not late. Right on time. Good to hear. Uh Roseel is will be employed as our cafeteria uh worker floater uh with our nutrition services. She has a background in the food industry and we are very excited for her to begin her career with BBUSD and child nutrition program. Child nutrition program uh takes great pride in what they do and I
011think Louisville is going to be a wonderful addition and we are very excited to have you. So am I. Yes. Thank you. I appreciate you being here and nutrition services is one of our pride as far as our classified departments. They are so well run and I think you're going to be a wonderful addition. I hope so too. Yes sir. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. On the certificated side, we have a few here. We are going to start with Stephanie. I'm gonna make sure I say it right again. Stephanie Tuer. Tukurt. Tukurt. I did the ch again. Um, Tuker. Okay. Stephanie coach. She will be our performing arts teacher with Big Bear High School and Big Bear Middle School. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Stephanie to our team. A dedicated and passionate educator, Stephanie
012brings a wealth of experience teaching middle school English language arts and theater. She is deeply committed to fostering student engagement, creativity, and critical thinking in the classroom and beyond. Stephanie holds a bachelor's degree from UC Riverside and a master's degree from University of Portland. Her dynamic background includes directing and producing numerous school theater productions, including musicals, as well as training students on backstage management, management, lighting, set, set construction. Welcome aboard Stephanie. Congratulations. Thank you very much. [Applause] So that was extremely exciting when we her interview. There is so much she offered us and and just the perspect normally you don't get a theater teacher who's also an English teacher who has all that perspective. Uh comes in with that kind of knowledge. We are extremely excited to have her. I know the high school and
013the middle school is really excited to bring her on and all her experience especially with the backstage. She has some great ideas as far as involving all students with backstage kings and lighting and all those different elements which where are you coming from? I live here. We just me and my fiance just moved here in February. Um we were living out in LA and wanted to get out of there and so now we're here and we love it and we're so excited. I'm so excited. That's awesome. Were you able to see any of the performances? We did. We saw Alice at Wonderland. That was great. Yeah. Super fun. Excited. Thank you so much. We're excited. Thank you for being here. Okay. And our next one, Big Bear High School special education teacher Jesse Cerrone. Give
014Jess always a source of pride. Jesse grew up in Bear Valley and is a graduate of Big Bear High School. He began working with BBUSD in 22 2022 as a substitute teacher and coach. Having grown up in a small town, Jesse learned the value of community from an early age. Jesse is currently in the process of completing his master's degree from Missou Pacific University. Uh he credits his academic success with the unwavering support of his family and close to community. Jesse is going to be an outstanding addition to the staff at Big Bear High School. It is very exciting to have Jesse and you know if you're talking about somebody that bleeds the red and white that is Jesse absolutely that bleeds red and white and just you know who life goal is to be
015a part of Big Bear High School and that high school community. And I think we're extremely excited to have Jesse. And Jesse, you can go. We kind of know them, but let's go ahead and introduce who you have with you today. So, it's my son, Lucas. Uh my daughter Isabella, and my wife Katie. And Katie, what do you do? I am the So, it's exciting to have your own family. I think you guys are going to be wonderful. And hopefully a long dynasty of food you guys take with us. So, we're excited. We're very excited for you guys. Thank you. And you don't have to say it. You don't have to stay. Uh, and our next one. So, we have another That's always exciting. Another Big Bear High School graduate. Um, elementary teacher at Baldwin
016Wayne Baldwin Lane Elementary School. I know how excited Chrissy is for this. She wanted this when she was at the middle school. She wanted this person. Okay. So, Quay Mlin, give Qua Mcllin a hand, please. Qu is a Big Bear High graduate. Was raised in Big Bear. He earned his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University, graduating sumakumlare. Uh currently uh serving as a substitute teacher at with BBUSD, Quay brings both passion and strong academic foundation to our district. Coming from a family of educators and leaders, Quaid is continuing a proud legacy. We are so excited to see him grow within our schools. We are confident he will be an amazing addition to the Baldwin Lane Elementary School team. KOA has been has been around and pretty much subbed everywhere and we had principles fighting for
017him at every site wanted to do something wanted him anywhere. He he worked in special education in our uh some of the challenges we had at the high school in C6 and just came in like a tenure teacher. He has been we could have put him pretty much anywhere in this district and he has been impressive and every like I said everywhere I walked into go we we really need here. We really need here. Uh, so the Mlin family has much to be proud of. Congratulations. Who do you have with you? I have my dad, John, my mom, Andy, and my brother. Okay. So, we thought we were getting rid of Mcllins, but you know, didn't happen. Unemployed mom. Your unemployed mother. Yes. Somebody has to support the family, right? Cuz you have two retired
018parents. Somebody's got to step in. Um, and if you didn't know, his brother also works at the hospital. He just finished his nursing degree and so he's been working at the hospital there. So, um, we're really excited family as a whole, coming back to this community. That's what we always want for our students to go get their education, go get their experience, and they did exactly what we would love from all of our students to come back and serve in the capacity they do. We're really excited and I know Baldwin Lane is really excited about that. It was a hard for the person he replaced or who they lost, but once I announced that it was Quake McM, okay, great. We're going to be in great shape. So, does Quake know his assignment yet? Did
019the principal let him know when he's teaching? You're going into fifth. Yeah, he's Lauren Shower, who's going over to CT, he's taking her position in fifth in fifth grade. I think he's going to be great there. Just listen to Katie. Just listen to Katie. Yeah, exactly. That's why. And Mrs. Right. And Mrs. Right. Craig, when I was hired here as a teacher, he told me I'd be teaching fifth grade at Bigger Elementary. Spent all summer. I was so nervous prepping had like everything. I get a phone call 3 days before school starts from Beth Grade saying you're teaching first grade at Northshore. Rule number one. Nothing is guaranteed. Flexible. He came he came with that attitude. Goes I'll do anything. What an awesome grade though. I'll do whatever to start with. I think you'll have
020a lot of fun. Yeah. I think it's very exciting. Congratulations. Congratulations to all our new all our new employees and all our new staff. We're really excited. We feel very fortunate. We've been really, really lucky with everyone we've been pulling in lately. It's been exciting, especially with be able to high hire the Big Bear High School graduates. That's a big deal for us. We take great pride in that. So, thanks for all three of you coming back. Yeah, we appreciate it. We need you. Whenever my kids break something, he was when Jacob broke his Was he there with Jacob? Awesome. All right. Governing board member reports. Do you have anything to say? The graduation was in the high school. And it was uh great. I particularly like the high school ones because they say what
021they're going to do. It's exciting to hear what their what their first job is or what they're going to do if they're going to go on. It's exciting. Is that it? That was it. It's fun. All right. Superintendent. Okay. Real quick. Go ahead. Thank you. I just wanted to say real quick that um our I wanted to thank my cabinet that we got through our first year and we're all still standing, you know, through your first year, but we um it was wonderful today. We had uh we were fully staffed today for the first time with having in our cabinet meeting today. Brian came on today and it felt very complete. It was really nice for all of us to start releasing duties onto Brian. It was wonderful. Um and he fit right in um
022having opinions and giving grief and everything else like we like in there. And it was just it really was it really was really nice that we're going into this year with that. It's really exciting. Just want to mention to all the graduations I was able to make every graduation and every fifth grade promotion, every kinder just running around all in one day. But it was it was a lot of fun to see the differences and the uniquenesses of the school at Baldwin Lane and how they do things so unique and fun and how Northshore does things different. Uh, congratul I just want to congratulate everybody who the end of year gets so chaotic and gets so busy that what they pull off at the end of year is pretty magical and I really really really
023appreciated all that. So, it was a great great great end to end to the end to the school year. I said, great. Um, I just want to talk real briefly about uh the end of um the school year breakfast. It was great. Child nutrition put out some good food for the staff. It was nice uh to in the military we call it a hail and farewell. You're saying bye to folks. So, that was really nice. Um, and it it's a great event to have each year. It's more relaxed to have all the staff coming into the uh cafeteria at the high school. So, it was a neat event. It's good to see people in a more relaxed environment. So, yeah, it was it was a good energy. Yeah, for sure. Um, and then that's it.
024That's all. Uh, next is curriculum and instruction report. uh 13A first reading and adoption of reclassified form for English proficiency grades K through 12. Second. All in favor? Oppose. All right. First uh item 13B, first reading of the comprehensive uh school safety plan. So move. All in favor? Quick comment. You're going to change the principal. Thanks. Oh, that's all first read. Okay. second read. We change it on the second read because a lot of the staffing will change on some of that stuff. So, yeah, that's all on the second read. Yes. All in favor? Oppos. All right. Uh item 14A, adoption of the 2526 LCAP and budget overview for parents. So move. Second. All in favor? I opposed. All right. Um it item 14B adoption of the 2526 budget with the corrected budget. Um can
025you tell us what the correction is? Yes. So on the slide the budget to budget comparison for 2020 or 2425 adopted original budget compared to the 2526 budget. There was on that screen there was one funding source that was listed twice and that was the CCSP grant. So that was just an area that was eliminated. We also removed the uh transfer out of fun one into fund 40 for the tech refresh because it's no longer nonrecurring. It's every year now. So it doesn't really go in the nonrecurring section. The uh unrestricted balance is correct. Get a motion to approve as amended. So second. All in favor? I suggestions for future got the workshop all handed. Yeah. Um at the August board meeting, can we get an update on how this year? Yes. Well, I was
026going to include that as also as far as board at some of the board workshop on the 25th and what that look like. I'd like it official so everyone can see. I think it was a resounding success. So I think it's a it's good for people to see how many you mentioned it in the breakfast and that was the majority but not all the statistics. It's not and we're still trying to narrow that down to said how we get into all those statistics as far what was completed. Do you remember any of that stuff you had? What's that? How many how many kids? How many units? How many Okay, hold on. I believe it was 430 units, 3 38 students. Uh the highest being I know Julia Jan completed 21 units as a freshman. And
027I know that that um Gonzalez who's a senior in over the last two years when we looked at her, she completed a total of 38 units. Um how many units do you need per day? Around 60. So, it's it's pretty impressive. The kids that that are taking advantage of of it are really making some incredible growth. And I and the fact that all those freshmen are walking away with, you know, classes are walking away with is pretty impressive. The one that did 28 units this year, was it 21 units? 21 units, but she took additional classes. What grade is she nth grade? She's ner Julie Jock will walk. Yeah, she will. she'll have well the the issue is I found with my own student is the 11th grader now 12th grader they need more counseling
028from a college level counselor as far as hey if you want an AA you have to declare a major you can't just get 60 units that's not what's going to do it you have to have a major and complete those required courses for that major So, you'll have a a kid that maybe gets 70 credits because they're fulfilling high school class for say it's history or political science or whatever that that they may be double hitting a GE requirement. So, to get your degree, you have to have it's usually, you know, six or 10 courses. Yeah. Of the major course of study. And right now with us being in flux between counselors counselors I I thank Williams for stepping in. But she's awesome. You'll have some basic numbers for our workshop. Yes. I'll have some
029basic numbers to look at for the workshop. I want to get the other side too. The kids it didn't work out for and why. Okay. I'll I'll have numbers as far as how many kids dropped out and then see if I can get some figures on why they may have dropped out and say of the cohort stood pretty strong. We probably only lost a few but we'll get into those details at border workshop. Yeah, absolutely. That's a a good figure to have. Okay. Okay. The average GPA for those if you can get Okay. Cool. All right. What's seven?