001down. All right. Are we going to do tricky tricky tricky tricky? We'll do it. We can plan it out tomorrow. Sorry, I'm getting excited. It's the middle school. Please drive for a moment of silence and get some balloon here. I'll move it. There you go. Good job. Right hand over your heart. Ready? 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. All right, looks like it's just you, Nisha, for the student representative report. To wrap up the year, ASD is hosting a fun spirit week leading up to our step down assembly. The week kicked off with our seniors having local scholarships at the pack on Monday night. Last night, Undead Poet Society hosted
002an entertaining sunset slam where students shared their talents through songs, poetry, and acting. Tonight, the community church is generously host hosting a free taco night for the seniors from 4 to 6. Tomorrow night is air rock starting at 6 through 8:00 p.m. Friday is a pack day for our seniors. Starting with senior breakfast and panoramic panoramic uh pictures in the morning, which is followed by step down assembly. our stepdown assembly which will start at 10:24 through 11:24. Everybody is more than welcome to join. Fin finishing off their last full week of high school. Seniors go off to grad night. Juniors and under will finish off the school year with finals starting Monday through seniors will celebrate their graduation on Thursday starting at 400 p.m. making the end of their high school journey. I would like
003to thank you all for this opportunity and I can't wait to see you all next year. Thank you. Thanks for coming. So you can unless anyone has any questions, let's let her get to study. She's got a very busy week. Yes, that's right. All right. Thanks. Good luck. President promised us he was not showing. We did that, but people were talking too loud. [Music] Probably me. [Music] Uh, next session is public comment section. We'll now open the public comment period for 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 now. Um, we value your input and welcome your comments. Please keep the following guidelines in mind during this portion of the meeting. First, each speaker
004will be allotted three minutes to speak with a total of 20 minutes allocated for each item. Uh, 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 the need for immediate action. Three, public comments are an opportunity to share your views with the board, not to engage in debate or question and answer session. Board members will not respond directly to individual comments during this period but will carefully consider all input. Four, uh, to maintain a respectful environment, please refrain from using offensive or discriminatory language. Personal attacks against individuals including board members, staff, members of the public are prohibited. And finally, these procedures are not designed to restrict pro public criticism of policies, procedures, programs, or services of
005the district or acts or emissions of the governing board. Leg legal reference is ED code 35145 and 72121. All right. And Daniel Branson got a comment card for you. Good evening. You know, it seems like uh you're not educating. You're indoctrinating. Parents, stand up and talk back to the to the board. from what I've heard or or any anywhere else is that they're worried about retaliation against their kids. Granted, I've only talked to three parents, but I'm going to be talking to more. You know, Trump's doing a good job. He started on Harvard and Colombia, shutting those things down, taking away their money. I'm hoping that happens soon in California to bankrupt the state because I think he could between their uh train boondoggle and the money the the corruption that's going on in the
006city of no California wait on the city and the amount of money they spend on the homeless people that's been just total fraud. So when Trump starts to get that money back, I think you could push uh California over and then they start down with the school districts like the scons of DEI, woke, hate speech. Seems like you're uh quadrupling down. Why is that? You think those are good policies? Why don't you teach teach history, math, none of this baloney that uh all the school districts seem to want to do. No, re-imagining public school, public education is a losing proposition. Just like your transformative, teach, stop lying. There's schools that are doing drag hour. I hope you're not doing anything like that for this month because I like that one song. Tried to do that
007in a small town and you've done it. You people have done it. You brought this garbage into our city. It's the parents that need to be brought in, not investigations about some things. So, I'm going to make sure that just like our city, Big Bear Lake, people are afraid to come in and talk because of retaliation. We've got so many lawyers, BBK lawyers. Is that your lawyer here, BBK? We got a diaper load of them over there and every other state committee from bar all over. So this is what I say, you know, sit down and say nothing. You can make copies of that to the people here. Thank you. Any other comic cards? Thank you. All right, we have the consent calendar um with item 6R being removed uh which is us. I'll make
008the motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I oppose. All right. The item removed from the consent calendar. That's just for future consideration. All right. Mr. Marquez employee announcements. Yeah, I'll do it in a couple sections here because some of them have to be approved first. Okay, so let's go ahead and go. It's exciting night. That's why we have a full house um of all their families and I think that's even more wonderful. Um I don't think our first one here, we have a couple new classified employees. Our first one is Wana or we know her as Selivar. My I don't believe she's here. Wana is a I love it. She's been with us for a while. Lana has proudly served as an ELLL instructional aid at Northshore since August of 2014. Her dedication and
009commitment make her an invaluable asset to our team. We're excited to have her as the health aid at Northshore to continue to grow with the district and even I'm it's not on her was also a Baker High School graduate as well. She has children in the district. She has children that have gone on to do great things. Um and so we are so excited to have Wana Mario and Salvador. Did you was Mario one? I think you did. Okay. Next one. Uh night custodian at Big Bear Middle School. Uh Randall Randall Valaro, is it? Nope. Uh Randall comes with a background in maintenance and is excited to be his begin his career with Big Bear Valley and Big Bear Middle School. So, I'm sure um Big Bear Middle School is excited to have him. Okay.
010And our next one now is we get into we have a few teachers, which this is way exciting. We have special education teachers tonight. Um, our first special education teacher is at Baldwin Lane Elementary. Is Nicole Nipkin [Music] here? We are excited to welcome Nicole back to BBUSD. Previously, as a dedicated special education instructional aid, Nicole will now be joining us as a new special education teacher at Baldwin Lane Elementary School. She is passionate about supporting students in their learning journey and is committed to making school a positive and comfortable experience for all. Welcome back, Nicole. We're thrilled to have you on our team. Thank you. And who did you bring with us this evening? I brought my mom and my daughter. Okay. Well, thank you so much. We're very excited to have you. It's
011such an important role. Thank you for doing it. I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Next one. Special education teacher at Northshore Elementary, Vanessa Overbeck. I know she's here. Give her a hand, [Music] baby. Please join us in welcoming Vanessa to BBUSD. She holds a master's degree in curriculum and instruction as well as both a single subject and special education teacher credential. Vanessa is deeply committed to serving her community and is passionate about enhancing the lives of young learners by improving access to highquality education. We're excited to have her on board. And if you didn't know, she's also, if you didn't see back there, you can see uh the well-established ChilCo family. She's actually part of the Chilco family. So, she has them with us this evening. It was it was when I offered the job
012when somebody becomes so emotional because they want to be in Big Bear so bad. That is the best possible case scenario. Best possible case scenario. They want to be here so bad. And I love that when I called her. Uh how passionate she spoke. That's an important question on our every interview of why Big Bear. And she went on and on and on. So thank you. And then introduce who you have with you. Well, I have my father and mother-in-law, Mike and Carol. Perfect. Thank you so much. [Music] Okay, our next special education teacher at Big Bear Middle School is Mr. Brian Smith, [Music] which is a hu we are way thrilled to announce Brian will be joining us at Big Bear Middle School as our new special education teacher. As a parent in BB
013USDC school system, a coach, a current a current special education instructional aid at BBMS, Brian brings a strong connection to our classroom, to our community, and a deep understanding of our students needs. He has found success in the classroom through consistent routines and procedure and he recognizes that motivating and encourage engaging students requires flexibility individualized approach. Brian has developed a variety of differentiated instruction strategies to support students unique learning journey. We are thrilled to see him step up to this new role. Welcome Brian. Brian's taking over. He was an aid and he's gonna be the teacher in the same class he was an aid in where Mrs. um Draper is moving on to Vapor High School as the as a CT teacher. He's taking her spot and he has some pretty big shoes to fill,
014but nobody we believe in nobody's more capable than Brian of filling those shoes. I know how excited they are. I know Chrissy and I know Chrissy and Dr. Francisco were begging for this for a long time. So, we're so excited that this is all happening in all the right ways reasons. It's exciting for him. So, thank you very much. Introduce who you have. Oh, yeah. Everybody, my wife Liz teaches at Northshore and then my all my five kiddos, Jacob, Luke, Matthew, Jocelyn, and Camille. Two high schoolers, two middle schoolers, and one elementary. Okay. And I have three more announcements, but those have to be approved first. Okay. And so, we'll wait on those. All right. Do we want to go back? All right, Jason. We're going to go back. Thank you for joining us, Jason.
015You know what? You showed up. That's what matters. Showed up. He showed up. That's what matters. So, we're going back to item four. Uh B. Hit it, Jason. Thank you. To end off the CT year, we want to congratulate 20 students that are graduating and our teachers for being a huge help. We're finishing up our last book of the year, The Outsiders, along with our journals with Mr. Piper. We've also begun to play bad mitten at lunch and also Mr. Piper. Miss Gates will be transferring to a moderate to severe special needs class where we hope her the best and while missing her a lot. CT is also getting its own principal and two new teachers, Miss Shower and Miss Draper. We welcome them with open arms and are very excited for the future under
016the lead of our new principal, Mr. We would also like to invite you to CT graduation June June 12th at 10:30 a.m. Anyone have any questions? The first time you're on the outside? Um, yeah, it is the first time around the outside. Did you watch the movie? I I like it. I actually like the main character. He's kind of interesting. Like his name's Pony Boy. It's like kind of interesting. Yeah, we old people. That was a book that was real popular when we were back then. It's a classic for sure. My dad read a lot of books. I never read it. Brad Rice had us read some weird stuff. Is 20. That's a larger class than usual, isn't it? Last year. I don't know. Last year. Yeah, last year. That's great. That's great. I think
017a lot of them are juniors, too. All right. Thanks for All right. Thank you. Better late than never. Yeah. [Music] All right. Next is superintendent. Yes, sir. Okay. Um, couple things here. So, we got through our we had our federal progress monitoring audit and that is was a monster and I want to shout out to all the school sites. Um, everybody in the district office, my executive assistant, Laura, everybody and my cabinet. It was a huge undertaking, but the biggest shout out goes to Carol Craig who we had brought in to help us out with this because it was a monster as far as the federal all the federal programs audit and making sure everything was running as it should. We learned a tremendous amount through this process with only two findings, okay? and which
018is a little bit, you know, out of the norm because they normally have far more findings because there's so many programs to audit. Um they even let us know that, hey, some some schools have much as 26 findings and we had two. Um so a couple simple ones to fix. I did want to bring to the board's attention with that. We're going to have to have further discussion. One of the big the findings is the Sips. Okay. And with the SIPAS, um we have to make sure SIPASS are done for the next school year before this school year is out. I'm not saying we're doing that now, but as we move forward, and I think I had this discussion with you before, Dr. F. Part of the challenge is data. It's a greater discussion because
019it will basically be the previous year's data that we have to put in there. But that's the only way because as per the rules, we cannot spend the money until the money is voted on until the SIPA is approved by the school side councils. I mean by the board, it has to be the school side council has to approve the SIP. So the SIP is going to have to be for the next school year. We we should be approving it now. We're starting that process to get it approved in to get it through summer. So, it's approved August 1st. Um or August, I should say, the first couple weeks of August by the time we come back. But in order to making sure we're fiscally uh responsible with all of our requirements with the federal
020government, we want to make sure we do this in the manner and most schools have switched to doing it this way. No, have switched to doing it this way because means it's got bad data or a year old data. A year old data. Yes, sir. Year old data. And a lot of times I can still report to the board what the current data is, but what's on the SIPA technically the embargo hasn't been released from the state yet on the grade on the scores because I'm getting scores right now. They're just not released yet. Um, so so once we get the data though, we can update it. We can. Yes. So that's a great question because what's going to have to happen is there is also an October revise. So we Jess when she puts
021in the t all the funding she's making assumptions off of last year when she puts in that uh what what's going to the schools then from there we don't actually know exactly our funding until October till all of our unduplicated counts come in. We don't get our funding until December first our first well it's well what I'm saying is as far as knowing how much we're going to get based off of our unduplicated count once we do all that comes through in October. So yes in December. So now we're going to have to do the process exactly like um Mr. Robert said that we're going to have to bring it back in December for another approval with any adjustments we made because sometimes it's more money that we got from the federal government for title
022one, title two, whatever it might be that we're going to go ahead and give uh but might have more money. That way we have to allocate the spending accordingly. You guys reapprove at that point and see if and it's not but sometimes the data still isn't released in December. So that would be the hard part. So, we'll have to see if we can adjust to that. The other one was just some voting on some ELAC members at to making sure ELAC. But anyway, hats off to the entire team and the really the whole district on this to be able to come through and what was the one of the nicest compliments was just coming out of the high school. This guy, when does that happen with auditors? The guy came out of the high school
023with a Big Bear High School t-shirt on. He was so excited. They were they just kept complimenting Tina and the and the site. They like Joanna Kent, they said, "Wow, what a wonderful interview she had." Miss Kent interview just when they interviewed people they were genuinely sincere and excited about what was going on at the high school the systems in place um at the middle school at Northshore and the schools they audited because Baldin did get audited but they were extremely excited about what they saw and very impressed by and it was a great learning process Dr. pro and everyone that helped all the coordinators. Um I want to hats off to everybody. It was but it was a it was actually a great experience. You know, you don't people say FPM's coming and schools
024panic. That's districts panic when FPM's coming. And we took it differently and we approached it differently like, oh, this is great. We're all new. It's a learning process. Let's go with it. And we and we learned a lot. And it's not just that. helping us, making sure we're doing the best things for students, re-evaluating our programs, making sure that we just don't go with status quo, that is it actually working. They were great. Anyway, that was that was great. Um, I went to I got to speak at awards night. That was wonderful to see all the awards of this community. The way this community stands behind these students was just wonderful that all the awards that were given away. And it's amazing some students that all it's it's a little bit like the Oscar nights
025because you don't know who's gonna win and all a sudden you ended up we had one standout that kept just winning and winning and winning. It's like she just ke it was like oh my god the cheers just got louder and louder and louder every time she kept winning. Was it fair? No. It was Farah Vasquez. It was impressive. They had a range truck. Yeah. I don't even know her total but it was amazing. and just and just certain things like even Sir Optimus Club they gave away to 20,000 to but they gave away 18 ditch to see all those girls lined up all these impressive young ladies lined up that Sopimus gave away money to th those things were inspiring it was really a wonderful night um that is so unique to our community
026as far as the money that's given away and how they support these students and recognize them was wonderful and it was great great night um had great dual this was our first dual enrollment task force meeting this just had it this afternoon. It was really I I appreciated everybody's feedback on how we do things better, how we what we're leaning towards as far as making this program run smoother, what our challenges might be, and it was a good conversation. Who was in the task force? So, it was teachers, parent in there. We had teachers that teach dual enrollment. We had counselors in there, um, principles from both sides in there, counselors from both sides looking at how like middle school has to look at one of the things we talked about, how is it being
027introduced, how are we giving parents information, are we giving parents good information as far as how to help them plan for their students, whether it is whether they want more enrollment, whether they want um some of the more challenging classes, whatever they might want, we have to make sure we communicate that through the middle school and making sure we're communicating with the high school what classes can be offered in one of the big tasks ahead of us is looking at it and going, "Okay, we have all these classes we want to offer to the cohort, but who's going to teach these classes is probably one of our greatest challenges. Who's going to teach them?" We learned that the online system was not the best way to do it with our the one course we did.
028If we have to, we have to, but we want to find a way around it. It's something I'll be discussing the board with board a little bit later with some different options going forward on how we solve this problem. And I think there is a way to solve this problem looking at um also involving Cal State. We're still trying to in the process of still trying to get Cal State agreement that we can get on with Kelsey San Bernardino because we can use them as well. We can use them concurrently um with using um the community college San Community College and Kelsey concurrently. I the only question I have is that one class is not representative at all. No, it's not. Um, one, it's more difficult content, but two, you know, sometimes you don't get
029the greatest professors. And I can tell you if my junior just is about to finish 13 or 14, uh, his 13th and 14th dual enrollment class, and he's done a lot of them online, most of them, and he's had some great professors. So, and it's and that's not something that stops us. We just want to be able to say if we can I'd rather have our teachers teach it, but that's not going to stop progress for the No, it is not something we're looking at stopping anything. We just want to be able to come up with a plan on how we do do if we can do it how. All right. Someone's buying ice cream. So, okay. Um excited about step down assembly coming up. I know they they mentioned that already. Um wanted to
030mention we had seen the senior visits to the elementary schools was able to get to uh North Shores not Baldwin but um what a great event that is every year if you haven't seen that before. It's really is a wonderful event when the seniors visit the elementary schools. is once again something unique to Bear Valley um that they you know sure they run the halls at Baldwin they do different but they really celebrate them and it's so exciting because the seniors don't realize how these pe these little ones look to them as heroes and what they're going to accomplish and they show up in their gowns and everything and it's really is a wonderful event but what a lot of people don't know is this event started I like giving credit where credit is due
031and when I was at Northshore I got a call one day from it was boan and boan said, "I have this idea. Great." And he emailed Tina and I and said, "This is what I'd like to do." And it was like, "Okay, they're busy. We seniors are busy. Let's work through it." And it's been an event year after year that just keeps getting bigger and more amazing. Parents get rid of it. Now parents are showing up and to see the event. And it was really, it's really turned into something special. And that was something uh an idea that came from a teacher. And it doesn't the ideas don't have to come from us or from the administrators, you know, with just listening to our teachers coming up with exceptional things for our district. Um, hats
032off to Bo for doing that, especially considering he's one of our retirees this year. And, you know, because it's nice when he's thinking not just of his kids, but what it does for the elementary schools as well. It's something amazing. That's all, but that's all I have for today. All right. Governing board member reports. You have anything? Um, I'll keep it short since we got a lot of other things to do. I went to steam night. Um, it was some of them were oldies with good hoodies, but some of them were brand new things I hadn't seen before. It was exciting. I think the the cardboard mechanical hand with strings and I put my hand in one of those, too. And they could grab things um that the kids all made in the class. It
033was pretty impressive. Uh the the part of the the um invention convention that was at the middle school. Um those were some pretty creative things that some of the kids came up with. some of them simple, some of them more complex. It was it was fun to talk to them. Um, as you know, I love that. I went to a local scholarship night. Um, and you do summarize it very well. I mean, clearly this community is very supportive. Yes. Of our seniors and it was it was a fun night. That's it. Miss, I went to the Balin Invention Convention and that was really fun. It wasn't just all M&M's. It was they branched out a little bit. I mean, there were still the Eminem things, but but on the whole, they were more creative than
034I remember. And so, it was u exciting and they and I pulled a U. I went up and started talking to them. And normally I don't do that. And um they responded. I mean, they knew what they were doing. You know, it wasn't like their dad did it or something. It was like that they really had done the work. So Lauren Sharder does an awesome job putting putting that together. I agree. Yes. I'm glad that Tina is here because I wanted to acknowledge and our and our school district um sitting in with the board that last week she received an Eagle of Excellence award through the Rotary Club of Lake and it was really a wonderful evening that I was able to attend and um yes, we're very proud of her and I wanted the
035district to recognize that. She's so humble. She kept that pretty quiet. I did. so humble about it. She kept it pretty quiet and the chill coats were there as well. Thank you. I just Thank you. All right, Mr. All right. I tried to take on the district this week. Try to attend every event that was in our things. I'm really tired. A lot of them are already mentioned. I'll mention a few things that that were mentioned or different takes on things. Um, I went to the the final end of the year uh music concert out at the high school, which was amazing because Patrick, can you say that louder, please? No. I say Patrick Buckroer and every time because he was in Germany, he has to correct my pronunciation. So, Patrick Buckroer. Yeah. Did a
036great job. Uh, you know, it was interesting talking to him afterwards. He set the stage. We hadn't had band in this district. I think I stopped teaching in '05 and Drew Pulbert was the year after we left and Carl Thompson was maybe a year or two after that. It had been years since we had a music program in this district. It's something that we had focused on as a board as we're going through the great recession and didn't have money and it just was never the right time to do it until 3 years ago when we were lucky enough to hire Patrick. And it's one thing to come in and take over a program. It's another thing to actually start a program. Imagine teaching music when no one's ever touched an instrument before. You know,
037it's different when you come in and you have eighth graders been playing since fourth grade. So, he had an amazingly difficult mountain to climb and he surpassed that mount and took us to the stars. I mean, he really did an incredible job and I thanked him very much for, you know, being that person to take that point and he was clear with everyone in the crowd that, you know, advocate for the program. We don't want this to go away. We have things are looking good in the future and to continue on. I thought that was really nice. Secondly, at the awards ceremony, Scott Keric gave a particularly interesting speech. I thought it was a great speech. It was an interesting take on your normal graduation speak speech that I had never heard before. It was,
038"This is what I thought when I was a senior. This is what I've learned." So, I thought it was very heartfelt, especially coming from math and science teachers. You know how they are. Um, I was a math I was a math and science teacher. Um, uh, but it it was amazing. It was really nice to uh to have such a great speech kick off the night and all the awards that went to the kids. And then last night, the Dead Poet Society uh performance that was just it was one of those things where you just sat there, you know, when you're on the board, you deal with a lot of stuff. It's tough. You deal with a lot of discipline. You deal with a lot of problems. And it's always important, I think, this is
039my reflection on the week to get out and see this fun stuff that goes on to see who the kids really are. And to watch that group of about 50 kids that were there interact, I was like, "Something's different. What's going on?" The way they were talking to each other and performing and supportive and no one had their phone out and it wasn't like there wasn't no no phone rule. They they didn't want to have their phones out because they were all enjoying the performances and talking with each other. The only people with their phones out were the people preparing to go on for the next. So, and the courage that it takes to go up and share your poetry in front of all your friends and some very heartfelt things. I mean, it was
040just an amazing event. Everyone had a great time and Mr. Shower does an incredible job with that and it's very apparent the impact he has on children when you see uh the environment he's created with that special group of kids. So, um you know with the week almost being over, we got a rock, a few more things to go, it's just amazing the community how much it supports it and it just reminds me you know so much you hear about phones and kids and anxiety and all the problems they have. They're still kids. I mean when you watch them they're still they're still there. They're still having fun. They're still being kind and respectful to each other. And it was really nice to see. I really appreciate you saying something about Scott Clark. Yeah, that
041was an amazing speech. He It was very vulnerable. It was very It was wonderful. I thought it was quiet. The kids were listening. It was It was real. It was He did a great job. I I don't know if I've ever cuz him and I both ever tried to run towards Scott to shake his head because he did it. He's really quiet. She's saying that. Yeah, he's a really quiet guy. because it was normally that's not normally who he is. And it was it was wonderful that he did that for the kids because you don't know the kids choose who they want to speak and they chose him. He got voted to speak and it was just it was a wonderful moment for him and for the students to hear from him and that kind
042of honesty in speech. It was great. I don't have anything this week. So, let's go to item 10, administrative reports. There's assistant principal bear high school and the principal for shiake. Yeah. So, you Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and we have to vote on it first though. I move approval. Second. All in favor? I. None opposed. Okay. This is exciting. Okay. This is always exciting. Um, so what we have here, let me make sure I'm on the right person here. Yes, we are. Okay. Uh, so for assistant principal at Big Bear High School, we have Mr. Chris Casino. We are absolutely delighted to welcome Chris to Big Bear High School team. He holds a master's degree in educational administration, is currently pursuing his uh, educational leadership. Chris brings valuable experience in in leading
043program initiatives, enhancing learning environments, supporting staff development, and ensuring safe and inclusive space for all students. He firmly believes that educators mission is to help others discover their purpose, a philosophy that aligns perfectly with us here at BBHS. Welcome to the team, Chris. We are excited for all that you will bring to this community and this school. Thank you so much. It has been wonderful to get to know him. I mean, I talked to him three different times before we hired him and it was exciting and wonderful. Everything he had to say just impressed both Tina and I through this process and he visited if you didn't know, he visit us a little bit today. No pro, you know, preemptive, but it was and he's already got a great deal and approval. Pending board approval.
044I had a I had a staff member come through um when I was coming through the hall for my meeting this afternoon high school and he literally stopped me and he shook my hand and he goes, "Uh, great choice." because he had a chance to talk to Chris already and he says, "Great choice. Look, it's only initial Manny." He says, "But it looks great to me." Chris, we we welcome you. Thank you. Yeah. So, um this is my son down here, Connor. Uh this is his girlfriend, Harley. This is my mini me right here, Tristan. Um this is my beautiful wife, Maryl. And this is my family. Thank you for the opportunity. I appreciate it, Board. um just blessed to be able to join this family now and so thank you for the opportunity. Thank
045you. One of his quotes when I was talking to him that stuck with me aboard. Yeah. He uh he he made everything I've always said, you know, we need to create something special. He repeated that twice in his interview. Everybody, you know, the quote that everyone wants to be a part of something special and in our one-on-one interviews, he said something about that got me. is I feel like everything I am, who I am as a person belongs in Big Bear as far as with this school in a small district where I can be more who I am and connecting with people and I think that speaks a lot to him. I'm so excited about that. So, one expectation I have, we were at the um this CSBA um was it this year and uh
046there was a a section that we sat in on where it was talking about dual enrollment. and a few districts are doing dual enrollment with their um credit recovery like Shiakwa. So if we can get it in there, especially if it's like CTE or anything to get those kids inspired great news is we've already met with volunteers and already started fill out the applications for sure and and that in itself is a complete pain in the butt. And just just as a side note because of the fact that he is going to be you know he's also going to be our principal for CT um is that I wanted to thank Tina for all the years of holding double duty and she agreed to this hands down that we needed to do this. I want
047to give Tina a hand. Thank you for lost everything. You know you think it's just a small school but it's double everything no matter what to all of the two sips everything she's had to do. I appreciate and she was you know she was very gracious says no because if you didn't know he has uh Chris has experience in alternative education and has been a principal over alternative education programs before which is which ended up being a perfect fit in this system. So thank you. I don't give up my peeps very easily. No. All right. Uh item attendee uh assistant principal for Big Mouse. I do have I think you have one more. We have B, which comes before C. Oh, I'm sorry. No, no. My bad. My bad. You're right. I'm sorry. Yeah, exactly.
048Um, approval. Second. All in favor? None opposed. Now it's your turn. Thank you, sir. Did you vote? Okay, just making sure. Okay. Assistant principal at Big Bear Middle School, Mr. Justin Ross. Can you please give me I like your haircut. So we are very excited to have Justin. Justin holds a master's degree in educational administration and is deeply committed to fostering a positive inclusive learning environment where every student has the opportunity to thrive. Uh through innovative instructional strategies and personalized support, Justin has consistently helped students achieve meaningful academic growth while developing the skills essential for lifelong success. We welcome Justin to be BS and we are thrilled to have him on board. A couple things you know when we this was not an easy process. We had a few different candidates um that we went
049through and ultimately you know you know Dr. Francisco had to look at me I need just this is what I need. You know after talking to him a second time just know this is what I need. this is what Big Bear Middle School needs. Uh this is what we believe is right for us right now. He he's got a great energy about him. And even I called that superintendent. I said, "Okay." I I called his principal. I'm sorry. As current principal, I said, "Tell me about him." And it was a wonderful conversation. When you get those kind of high marks from your current principal going, I wish we had something for him, but you know, you're getting some you're getting gold. And it was a wonderful, wonderful conversation with that. So, we are so excited.
050We feel very fortunate to have Justin. So, welcome. Thank you. Melissa, my wife, and Odin, my son. All right, Odin, stand up because we can't see you back. Okay. Welcome. Welcome to your families. Thank you everybody. And now since C comes after Thank you. Wow. You could let it go, could you? All right. Uh transportation. Uh it's a handbook on uh transportation of prohibitive drug and alcohol misuse policy handbook. So move second. All in favor? Okay. Um 11. Uh consolidated application for federal funding for categorical aid programs. Some second. All in favor? I oppose. And then first reading of transportation policy handbook and special education transportation handbook. So second. All in favor? I oppose. Uh item 12, certificated employee one, Dina students at Baldwin. Make it a motion to approve. So move. Second. All in
051favor? I. All right, Manny. Okay. Dean of students at Baldwin Lane. We are very excited to welcome Danielle Morris. Can we give her? So Chrissy has a new partner. Let's see if she survives. Chrissy, we're very excited. I love that. This is all recorded. I know exactly. We're so excited to welcome Danielle to BBUSD. She holds a bachelor's in history and and a master's in educational administration and brings with her over nine years of classroom experience along with a strong background in leadership. Demo is eager to contribute her expertise in behavior management, student support, and collaborative leadership to our school community. We are confident that she will be a valuable addition to the team. We welcome to UDSD. We welcome Danielle. Congratulations. I know Chrissy is really excited about it and it's hard cuz Chrissy
052was my partner and she's so wonderful to work with. I think you're going to have the best time. And you know, Dr. Francisco will tell you the same thing. She has a wonderful team and I think you guys are going to accomplish great things at all. Could you introduce who's with you? Yes. Uh my husband Dustin and then my three kids Jason, Charlotte, and Liam. And as we just figured out, you already know somebody in our district. Yes, Liz. You were together with in Rialto. She was at Riala High. I was at Eisenhower High. But we met when we ran tutoring hub together at Rialta High. Yes. That's exciting. So, you already have family. Well, welcome. We're excited to have We're very excited. We're very excited. All of our new leaders coming in. Uh this
053is awesome. A great day for us. All right. Uh item 12 B, job description at Chicago High School for student sports specialist. Can I get a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? None oppose. All right. Item 13, ratified classified contract. This is uh it came later um but it's uh what the board approved you to negotiate. So move approval second. All in favor? Oppose. Do any of the board members have suggestions for future meeting agenda? All right. will adjourn the meeting at 6:12 p.m.