BUSD - Board Meeting - 3/12/26

001I saw Are you good to start or are you are you leaving somewhere again? Okay. >> You okay? As long as you're not wielding it as a smacker, we're all right. >> No raising cane. No raising cane. Awesome. Okay. >> Are we good to start or are we waiting for a moment? >> Okay. Okay. We got Everyone good on that side of the table? >> All right. Fantastic. Okay. >> Good evening and welcome to the regularly scheduled March meeting of the Bonso Unified School District Board of Trustees. We'll begin with a roll call. >> I nom here. >> Erica here. >> Rachel Dumbroski here. >> Roger Merchant here. >> Lissa Anderson here. And hopefully uh our clerk um Michael Gatis will be joining us shortly. Uh until he is here, we are um going to

002have Mr. Merch act as the clerk for this evening. Uh if we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. And if our student board representative can lead us >> 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. You may be seated. Prior to convening here in open session, the board met in close session where we considered the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, transfer, dismissal of employees, discussed its position regarding collective bargaining with the Bonsel Teachers Association and the California School Employees Association chapter 703 in order to direct the superintendent as chief negotiator in the matter of BTA BTA and CSEA contracts. Uh we met regarding public employee performance evaluation, the superintendent evaluation and then

003conference with legal counsel regarding potential litigation uh government code 54956.9 one matter. And with that we are at the approval of the current agenda. Is there a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Motion carries unanimously bringing us to the minutes of the board study session of February 3rd as well as the regular board meeting of February 12th. Is there a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously. And that brings us to the report section of our meeting starting with our superintendent, Dr. Heather Golly. Good evening, esteemed board members, Mrs. McCannernney and B USD community. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our March school board meeting. And as we move into this superintendent's board report,

004I want to begin with something that we celebrate every March across all of our elementary schools and this is read across America. This is always a really joyful time on our campuses. students, staff, community members all come together to celebrate the power of books and reading. And these are just a few pictures. You're going to see more in just a minute that capture some of those moments from our ReadAcross America celebrations. On the left, that's me reading a book called the uh I think it's my life as a chicken. Was very interesting to a group of absolutely adorable first graders. And on the right, students participated in a book swap. And I'm not sure if Principal Forney is going to mention this later, but it was really amazing to see all the students at Bonsel

005Elementary get to pick out three books each to take home. I love that events like this help students associate reading with joy, curiosity, and discovery. And I think it's a good reminder in addition to the joy, these moments are fun, but they also tell us something very important, which is the lasting power of literacy. And this is a great quotation from Frederick Douglas. He said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." We know that literacy opens doors and we know that it gives students the ability to understand their world to explore ideas and develop to develop their voice as learners. So we really do appreciate that and Bonsel Unified understands that deeply. And I also wanted to share there's a lot of research I think I mentioned some of this research last

006year. There's a lot of research that reminds us of how foundational reading is to long-term success for our students. It remains for all subject areas the foundation for learning. Students who read proficiently by third grade are far more likely to graduate high school. It also builds vocabulary, comprehension, background knowledge that students need to succeed academically. And as a former English teacher, again, I'm very passionate about this. Nationally, reading achievement across the country declined following the pandemic. It just reinforces for us how important strong literacy instruction is and how important it is that we're building really amazing reading habits for our students. I also wanted to share a little bit more and there's some great pictures here. I don't know if you noticed up here there's a student dressed up for a character day parade. These

007I'll talk about in a second. Some Bonso women's club members who are um on our campus. And here we have principal Calib Breeze. I think there's Cat and Hat. And um Paula firefighters as buddy readers for the day. In today's world, as we know, literacy is becoming even more important. We know that as technology evolves, especially with artificial intelligence, students have are having more and more access to information instantly at their fingertips. But strong readers bring something that technology cannot. the ability to evaluate information, ask thoughtful questions, and think critically. So, our goal is not just for students to access information quickly. That's great. But can they read deeply, think independently, and use technology wisely? And that starts really early. And an important way that we start that really early is reading aloud. Yes, Principal

008Anderson, you're there. And you're also going to show up probably in princip I mean President Anderson. You're also going to show up in another um in another report here I believe. But this just reminds us of how important it is with young readers that we are reading aloud to them. It exposes students to richer language. It's strengthening listening comprehension. Builds that background knowledge. And of course it helps build a culture of reading. And we need that in all of our schools, in all of our homes. We need a culture of reading and that is where students associate books with curiosity and connection. Last week we got to see amazing examples of this. We had community readers visiting classrooms at Bonsel Elementary. I think over 40. We had, as you saw, the Cat in the Hat.

009We had Paula firefighters doing buddy reading. We had alumni readers coming back to Bonsel West. Really special. And you'll see a picture of that in a moment. These moments are definitely simple. It seems just reading aloud to a kid, but it's really meaningful and it shows our kids that reading is valued not just in school, but across our entire community. And of course, that reflects the kind of learning culture that we're building in Bonsel. It connects directly to our framework for the future which is how we guide how we prepare students to be engaged community members and to fulfill all those learner profile outcomes that you see there. I always like to pause and take a moment to ask Isla our student board representative to remind us please of our vision and our mission. Could

010you read those for me? Our BSD vision is that all students in Bonso Unified School District engage in rigorous and relevant learning experiences that inspire them to become productive community members and future ready lifelong learners. Then our mission statement is that we empower all students to thrive in a positive, safe and supportive environment through highquality education focused on the whole learner. Thank you so much. Again, those statements guide what we do. It's very important. And of course, the learner profile outcomes that you see there on the right. That's what we want to foster in all of our students. So, I just want to highlight a few examples of what we see across the district because it's always nice to see the learner profile in action. I had mentioned the alumni community readers at Bonsel West

011and every year alumni come back and they read to our students. So for younger students, how powerful to see someone who sat in their same classrooms coming back and sharing their love of reading. It helps them not just imagine their future, but it also reinforces literacy, the lifelong learning and it's a great example of community connection. The fact that these alumni want to come back and they want to read to our students speaks to the experience here in Bonsel. I also wanted to highlight our adult transition program and this is definitely our learner profile in action. This program supports students as they develop life and workplace skills and every week Mr. Quinn and his team and all of the students go around the whole district office with a snack cart and they're practicing customer service.

012They're practicing handling transactions, interacting with staff, and those experiences are building for the students confidence, independence, real world problem solving skills as they're preparing for life after school. Here's another example, learner profile in action. I asked a few Bonsel West sixth grade students to share some feedback with me. I pulled them out of class and I said, "We're building a different commu uh survey for students that's more of a climate survey." And I wanted feedback on whether or not the questions to them made sense. They read it so carefully. They gave me excellent feedback. They said, "I don't think that communicates what you want it to communicate. I think you should change this." Next week, I'm taking the same experience to Bonsel Elementary and I'm going to have our superintendent student advisory council um coming

013up and many opportunities just to engage the student voice because we're helping them practice to be effective communicators and critical thinkers. And that's also helping us improve the student experience here in Bonsel. Okay, another great example. So proud of these students. These are our BHS Academy ambassadors and they recently went to Bonsel West. They also did this at Bonsel Elementary and I know they're they haven't gone to Vivian Banks yet. They are, but they went to talk about our academy programs at the high school and it was wonderful. uh students just showing their communication skills, showing that they're leaders, and also inspiring our younger learners so they can think about their future pathways. It's wonderful. Uh look at these pictures. I know someone took some really great pictures of our baseball and softball teams. Uh

014also wonderful examples of our learner profile in action. We have so many amazing athletics and through athletics, students build discipline, teamwork, resilience, leadership. We see great examples of that across our district. They really have to persevere persevere through challenges as well. And here's another great example. You see maybe someone familiar right over here. This is Isa, our student board rep. This is our early college associate teacher certificate students. And they are an amazing example as well, gaining hands-on experience by supporting classrooms at Vivian Banks. And I know that they're going regularly to uh to get their own practice, but it's also such a benefit to our students and our students get to see careers in education and child development and they're also building those leadership skills and our students get to have additional role models

015in the classroom, which is amazing. Now, many of these opportunities, as we know, are only possible because of the wonderful community partners that we have across our district. I already highlighted a few. You're going to see a few more tonight, but as the saying goes, it really does take a village to support the success of our students. This is just an example of some. These are Bonsel Women's Club members who along with President Anderson went and read during the uh ReadAcross America Community Readers Day. This is our Bonsel Women's Club president. This these are leaders at uh other educational organizations including National University and Cal State San Marcos and of course our neighborhood firefighters who are such amazing partners and the spirit of partnership in this entire community is amazing. Okay. Now, I just wanted

016to highlight before we move to some exciting recognitions. One of the ways that we're strengthening communication with our community this year is we've uh we're hosting town hall meetings in each of the trustee areas. We had our first one on February I think 26 or 27 and that was in trustee area A with uh with trustee Dumbrossski and it was a great opportunity for parents and community members to come and engage in some conversations around our facilities priorities. We have another one coming up on Monday, March 16th, and that's with trustee Roger Merchant, and that's for uh the area D in our neighborhood. And other engagement opportunities. On the right, I've highlighted the other town halls that are coming up. March 23rd is for trustee Ortega and March or let's see, April 14th, can barely

017even read that. That's Trustee Anderson. April 23rd is uh Trustee Gatis. And I think this location, we have an updated flyer that shows it's at the Bonsil Community Center. So, we encourage participation there. We have our Native Learner Advisory Committee coming up Wednesday, March 18th. We host parent workshops regularly. We have family literacy nights every single month that have been incredible. And another amazing partnership with Bonsa Women's Club. We're very excited for this year's Stages of Inspiration art contest. And there's uh we're in the time period right now where submissions are being accepted I think up through April 10th or it says there April 7th. April 7th through the 10th. But we want to have a lot of participation. It's an amazing event and it showcases the spirit of community and service and collaboration that

018we have here in Bonsel Unified. So just some nice highlights of our learner profile in action. And now I have the pleasure of turning over the mic to Mr. Alan Williams, who's going to start off with some recognitions for us. >> Thank you, Dr. And uh good evening, President Anderson, board of trustees. It's really a privilege to uh to do this tonight because we've got some exemplary exemplary uh community partners that we'd like to share with with you this evening. And uh I would like to call them up. I think most of them are here now but uh for these folks if you could join me at the podium and also principal James is going to be up here and please know also that uh Andrea Buringer could not be here our athletic director she's

019busy doing athletic director stuff so she's very busy and uh it's privileged to have the principal James with me uh this evening but I'd like to call up Rita Reita Simei please come on up to the front Rita yeah give her a big round of applause. And uh also uh Andrea Trujillho. Is Andrea here? I didn't see her. Okay. Jen Le Young, please come on up. And um also uh Rick Hawthorne. I saw Rick here and greeted him earlier. Rick, please come on up. and Shalia. Is Shalia here this evening? >> Oh, good. Fantastic. Very good. Great. So, I'd like to talk about each one of them a little bit. We also want to recognize um Jared Casillas. He also should uh should be up here this evening. He couldn't make it. I know his

020name's not up there. We'll make sure that's corrected for Jiren. But first, just to share about Rita and what she does and maybe just a little bit of context here is that oftentimes in a school district at the elementary level, we have tons of parent involvement. They're in classrooms. They're there at the recess time. It's just it's prolific. It's fantastic. But as parents kind of move into the next stage with middle school, you see less of them. They're still there. They're still supporting their their the school and students. So, and we're very glad they're there. Then you get to the high school and you kind of see less parents for a number of reasons. They're still very involved in education, but the fact of the matter is we really need parent involvement at all of

021our sites, at all of our levels. And so these folks here have really served in that role of of really supporting our kids and our in this context our athletic team. So first just a few things about Rita. Our newest volunteer stepped up this basketball season when we needed it most. She quickly became a master of the scoreboard. That's quite a title, master of the scoreboard. And supported both the girls and boys varsity teams cuz you do one, you might as well do the other, right? And uh we are so grateful for her help and hope she stays involved for many, many years to come. So, thank you so much, Rita. We have a certificate of recognition. And I'll let Principal James hand that to you. And we also have just a a small little

022token of our appreciation. The school is very appreciative. Thank you so much. Big round of applause. And Andrea Trujillo has been such a consistent presence for our girls varsity softball team, keeping the scoreboard since her daughter Diamond joined the team. Her daughter, now a senior, has been a starting pitcher and catcher since her freshman year, and Andrea has been there every step of the way. We are hopeful that she will continue to support the program as her nieces are now uh part of the freshman team. So, big round of applause for her. And I know governing board that you know this person really well, Jen Le Young. Uh she has kept so amongst all her other duties that she does. Get this. She has kept the official scorebook at every home volleyball game for the

023past four years. That's incredible. Um her son John has played on the team. Her dedication to this detailed and sometimes tedious work has been invaluable. She did the same when she really superintended that getting our schoolhouse in its current location out here. It's fantastic. I cannot wait for the steps to come in. I want those stairs to be there, too. It's so beautiful. Um, so that's beside the point, but I wanted to point that out. And she will leave big shoes to fill next year. So, I guess you're retiring in this role. Oh, she thinks so. Big round of applause for Jen. if we could present. Did I give you? >> Yes. >> Congratulations, Jen. Okay. And we have next I want to talk about Rick, whose son Adam is a senior on the baseball

024team. He has been a steady presence at games, running the scoreboard as well. Beyond that, he recently repaired a portable pitching mound. These are very important for baseball. It's a mound that has some wheels on it and you can pull it around. It's pretty incredible. Um, he purchased materials and he spent hours fixing it so it was ready for the season. His initiative and hard work, his volunteer work were greatly appreciated by the entire program. Thank you so much, Rick. Congratulations. And finally, and this is fitting that this one's last for Shala uh Smith and Shela Shal Shilia, excuse me, Sheila. Okay, maybe I'll go with Mrs. Smith. Okay, so um she's volunteered as our basketball scorekeeper for nearly, wait for it, a decade. nearly a decade working that scorekeeping role. Big round of applause

025for that. And two important pieces here. And because of her reliability and talent, she has also keep score for the baseball program. Over the years, she has likely worked over get this 200 varsity contest, helping our games run smoothly and professionally. We are grateful for her dedication and hope she continues. Sorry for this but hope she continues for many many more years. Thank you so much. And we'll present that to her in just a just a final words and then we want to get a snapshot with you all please. So again on on behalf of the athletic director, the principal, we are so grateful for your community service and service to Bonso High School. We could really not get it done without you. So uh all the way from the superintendent to every single staff

026member, big appreciation and a thanks for all you do. Thank you so much. Let's give them one last round of applause. And we're going to let Jyn coordinate the photograph. Maybe they'll just stay right where they are. and principal James if you can get in here. >> I think it's a fantastic photo. And now we have a very special recognition. We're gonna bring up Laura Castro. Good good evening board of trustees, superintendent and student board member. Today we have the privilege of recognizing a value leader who has served our organization with dedication and excellent and excellence for nearly 12 years as our purchasing and risk management director. I would like to invite Alexis Chelman to please join me at the podium as we celebrate her service and retirement. As we celebrate today continue commitment, your

027continued commitment, we want to take a moment to recognize and thank you for your outstanding service in the B USD department, B USD business department especially by that right. Um, your professionalism and deep knowledge have made a lasting impact on our organization. Throughout your time with us, you're consistently provided guidance, dependable leadership, and an exceptional expertise. Your commitment to doing things the right way, this is very important, the right way, help strain our operations and set a standard of excellence that will continue long after your retirement. Beyond your professional contributions, what truly set you apart was the care you show for the people around you. You always took the time to support colleagues, share your knowledge, and ensure others succeed. Your integrity and willing willingness to help made you not only a trusted leader but

028also a valuable friend to many. Thank you for your years of service, your dedication, and the positive influence you have made on all of those who can attest to your leadership and support. While we will certainly miss your presence and guidance and your spikenness, the spiker girl. We wish you a retirement filled with happiness, relaxation. Please invite me and all the opportunities that come with this exciting new chapter. the district just could like to present to you this appreciation award and we congratulate you on your remarkable career and well-earned retirement. Congratulations. So I >> I know that Alexis would like to share some words. Um and >> yes and I'm gonna pass the time to her. >> Thank you. Sorry it's really fast. I promise. So um I just really wanted to take a moment

029to share how grateful I am for the years I've spent at Bonsel Unified. It's only been almost 12 years, but during that time, I've seen a lot of changes. Not only the transition from a union to unified school district, but also many shifts in the structure and climate of the district office. What I'll value the most are the relationships I have built along the way. I've been super fortunate to work with so many wonderful people over the years, both former leadership and colleagues, who made this such a meaningful place to work. I feel blessed that I have been able to stay in contact with most of them since their departures and I hope to continue those friendships for years to come. I'm particularly proud and thankful for the work that I do. It is not

030in the classroom but behind the scenes, but it's supporting the school sites and ultimately the students and that is why I came to work every day. I really love the kids and getting them their crayons is super important to me. Um, so I do love that. I also want to mention my current supervisor, Laura Castro. I truly appreciate her support and friendship, and I really will miss working with her. She's amazing. Um, and thank you to everyone who's been part of my journey here. I leave with many good memories and lasting friendships, and I'm very grateful for my time with Bonsil Unified School District. Good evening, board president Anderson, board of trustees, Superintendent GI, and members of our Bonsel community. It's my pleasure to introduce one of our outstanding students from Bonsel High School, an

03111th grade student who will be help us highlight the talent and and dedication of our district's music program this evening and our teacher. So tonight, she will have the honor of introducing Mrs. Por and the talented students who will be sharing a special musical presentation to the board. So, please join me in welcoming to the podium Lily Olsen from Bonsel High School. Good evening and thank you for allowing us to be here tonight. My name is Lily and I'm proud to represent Bonsel High School's guitar program. This year, our guitar class has grown to 23 students in our new section. And tonight, nine of us are performing on behalf of the whole class. Over the course of this year, we've spent a lot of time developing our skills and learning how to perform as a

032group. Guitar might seem like an individual instrument, but in a class like ours, every player contributes something important to the overall sound. Some of us play rhythm, some focus on melody, and others help hold everything together. It takes listening, teamwork, and a lot of practice to make all those parts come together into one performance. Recently, we had the opportunity to perform at an assembly for Vivian Bangs Charter School, and it was an incredible experience. Our finale was YMCA, and the entire group of students ended up singing and dancing along with us. Moments like this remind us how powerful music can be, as it brings people together and creates energy in a room that not much else can. Our class is also preparing for a competition coming up this April where we'll be performing a full

033set of music we've been working on together. Tonight, we're excited to share one of those pieces with you. The song we've chosen is Can't Help Falling in Love, originally recorded by Elvis Presley. It's a timeless classic known for its beautiful melody and emotional simplicity, and it's a piece that really allows us to focus on playing together as an ensemble and creating a full sound with multiple guitars. We're incredibly grateful to our teacher, Miss Pakor, whose dedication, patience, and encouragement makes this program possible. She challenges us to grow as musicians while also reminding us to enjoy the process of making music together. Thank you again for your time and for supporting music education at Bonsel High School. And now it's our pre pleasure to pres share our performance of Can't Help Falling in Love. We hope

034you enjoy it. I I just wanted to Hey, thank you for having us tonight. Thank you for having music at Bonsel High School again. And Lily wrote that speech. She asked me if she could write it. It really touched me that she wrote it. Thank you again for having us tonight. Thank you. >> Well, I know Miss Pakor, I I speak for the students. you've heard uh the beautiful um introduction that your student wrote and for all of us here, we thank you so much for your dedication and um your talent that you're willing to share with others and just the the harmony that you've created at this campus on our campuses both at Bonsel High School and at Sullivan Middle. And for that we thank you. We thank you. Oh, thank you. Sorry. I

035didn't even Okay. So, this is the time of our program where we take a short intermission before we resume with the rest of our reports and our action items for the evening. So, it is 6:47 and we will resume in five minutes. It's 6:52. And if anybody would like to take a picture with any of our performers or anybody receiving recognition, uh we're happy to do so. If we could make our way back to the DAS to regroup, that would be great. All right. Do we have any of our uh parent teacher organizations here? PTA ping PTO Bonsel Education Foundation. Miss Leang, welcome up again. >> Better. Hello. Hello. Okay, for our general report, I'm going to let our student board member, Isabelle Rodriguez, uh, speak to you. She has served as our student as

036our secretary and has done an outstanding job this year and we will miss her when the year ends. So here's Isabelle. Good evening esteemed board members. Um I will begin with hope for the holidays. Our gently used and new toy drive has was held on Saturday, December 6th here in the BCC. By all accounts it was a successful time for all of our families. We wanted to thank Juliana Hesser for chairing the day and for all the Bonso families who had contributed. Moving on to athletics, the Bonsel High School baseball team received a very nice donation of $1,000 recently. We always we're always excited when the community recognizes the efforts of our students. Spring sports have begun and are going well. With BHS theater company, we have had a very successful show of Frankenstein at

037the end of January. The cast worked very hard. As the vice president of the theater company, our cast and crew loved this performance and had a great time. We're putting on more shows. We love putting on shows for our community. We have enough students interested in doing a small production for the spring and we are looking for the first weekend in May. I won't spoil too much regarding it, but it will be a comedy fit for everyone. We are still doing our Seas Candy fundraiser. We currently have made $142 from the fundraiser, but we are still taking orders from it till the 20th of March. Thank you for supporting us. Um, next, Bonsel Bingo. BEF approved a new pro new program called Bonsel Bingo to benefit the Bonsel Forward Initiative. We hope to have the

038first night on Friday, April 17th. The Bonsel BGO team is Alan Williams, Gina M Ernley, and Jen Ariano. We are working on getting all the information to the sheriff's office in a timely manner and are creating a new account as monies can as money cannot coingle. This event will be a 21 and older event and will be cash only. Be on the lookout for more information as we gather the momentum regarding SMS donation. In January, we in January, we were surprised by a substantial donation of $25,000 for Sullivan Middle School. We are awaiting to hear from Miss James and her team about how they would like to spend those funds. Regarding the schoolhouse, the front stairs will be constructed over spring break and Miss Jen will be around to supervise. Next, our third annual Bonsel

039Golf Classic. We're getting ready for our third annual Bonsel Golf Classic benefiting athletics at both SMS and VHS. We're at the Golf Club of California again at 1 p.m. start and this will be a fourperson Scrabble format. A box lunch will be provided by Jersey Mike's and entry also includes green fees plus cart and rage access. Again, there will be items for silent auction. After golf, there will be ice cream with winner announcements and exciting prizes. Lastly, the car show. We're gearing up for our fifth annual BHS car show in October 2026. More of that is to come. Now, Miss Jen would like to say a few words. So, as you may remember from our September report, our former website fundraising platform, Flip Cause, failed to release our funds, leaving us with an outstanding balance

040of $13,938.18. And these funds directly impact our college and career center, the theater company, support our students campaign and athletics for both the middle school and the high school. Uh despite initial assurances of repayment after we canled our subscription, Flip Cause failed to meet its obligations. In December, the state of California issued a ceased and desist cease and desist order against Flip Cause due their due to their failure to remit donations. Uh their payment processor, Stripe, subsequently froze their assets and Flip Cause filed for bankruptcy later on that month. Over 3,000 nonprofits have been affected and $29 million of donations are missing. It's very upsetting. And while the outlook for recovery of our funds seems pretty dim, we are aggressively pursuing all legal avenues to hold Flip Cause leadership accountable for their actions. We filed

041a report with the attorney general. We filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. We filed a claim against Flip Cause in bankruptcy court. We filed a complaint with the FBI. They are building a case. We've written a letter to Congressman Daryl Isa. and we're completing paperwork now to join the class action lawsuit against flip cause. I have attended every hearing and meeting of the unsecured creditors except one and sadly that is how we are uh seen as unsecured creditors even though th those monies belong to us and last Friday uh I attended a hearing in which the chairman of the board of flip cause was under oath. Nonprofits were allowed to question him in the presence of the Delaware trial attorney, his attorney, the bankruptcy trustee, the attorney of the class action Rashid Shabbaz,

042a journalist from Oakland Voices and over 180 nonprofits. It lasted about four hours. And the bottom line is that he's created some downstream collateralized downstream ventures. Basically took our money and made other businesses that are now part of the estate. Um he deflected every question and we strongly hope that criminal charges are pending. Um I can't obviously this has been very disheartening for us. We worked with Flip Cause since 2019 and had no problems until the end of and then that was the last time we got paid. So we had already, you know, had our golf tournament on there for last year. Over the summer, we made the switch and I was worried we were going to be late. Like, we were late to the party, but we were one of the first companies to

043go. From what I can gather, most people didn't leave until the fall. Some still stayed until early this year, even though Stripe had stopped processing the payments. And other companies actually are still with Flip Cause, which just got sold through the bankruptcy court for a mere $400,000. Not at all what we were hoping for. So, um, the best thing to come out of this is that there are hundreds of nonprofits that are supporting each other, talking with each other, helping each other with the paperwork and, you know, giving giving that kind of feedback on stuff and we wouldn't have known any of this. I mean, we obviously knew there was a problem, but I just have to sing the praises of the journalist Rashid Shabbaz because he's created the information, brought all of us together

044in, you know, an email chat and a WhatsApp chat and um he is the reason I think things happened so quickly and that California did what it did. Um anyway, you can go to Oakland Voices and look at uh the many articles he has written on this and I will just continue to keep you posted as I know anything. Thank you. Thank you for that update and it's uh mindboggling that $29 million could be misappropriated in that fashion. So, thank you for sharing that information and good luck with the process. Are there any other parent groups to report today? That brings us then to our labor reports. Uh Bonsel Teachers Association Saraniano. Good evening board and superintendent Good evening Trustee Gatis and Superintendent and Miss McCannernney. Um, I have to admit I have a pounding

045headache right now and I might be leaving early. It's nothing that you guys have said. Uh, I wanted to say that I keep stressing to my members that we have a team of very quality, nice, good-hearted people from the board of trustees to superintendent to Miss McCannerney to even human resources. That's an inside joke because unions are always battling with them. But no, um, you really assemble the team of very nice people. I mean, they really lead with their heart and, um, that's what kind of makes Bonsel a beautiful place to work and to also send your child to school. And I'm really proud that my son attends Bonsel High School, um, which I think is a special, magical place. And um but the the reason why I keep fighting in my many roles here

046to improve our conditions to get a stronger contract to retain talent to attract talented teachers. It's all about serving the students and that's why you guys are on the board. I mean, I know that. I mean, other I visit other board meetings. It's super contentious. People are screaming and calling names. I've seen people throw things. I mean, it's it's it's wild out there. And Bonsel can be even better. It can be the destination district. I looked around and I moved here for the district when we were just a union school system because of the teachers. And now we're unified. We offer something really special. We need to keep focusing and shouting out to everyone what makes us who we are. It's our unique gift to our students. It's the special relationships that we craft with

047our students. They're not numbers. It's being able to reach out to an admin and get a response, not wait 6 weeks for a principal to call you back. It's that's what makes Bonsel Bonsel. So, I know things get hard sometimes, you know. I just hope you guys realize the reason why we're in it. Our eyes are always on the prize. The prize are our students. So, I thank you for listening to us. I thank you for working with us. I appreciate that. Even when things are a little contentious, we always still care and we always care about Bonsel. So, thank you. >> Thank you. I don't see Miss Starkweather is a representative from CSCA on her behalf. No. That brings us to our management reports. Uh who's our first stop from there? Principal Alison Forney.

048>> Good evening board members, Dr. Gina. Um we are opening up tomorrow uh registration for new students. And so um I I tasked one of my TK classes. is I saw something on Instagram and I thought I am going to ask and see if I can get one of my teachers to do this. So, um they did and I am hoping to be able to to upload it to our our our school's Instagram. But, um the little please come to our school. Welcome to Bees video. We did check it. Are you ready? >> Are you ready? Ready, set, go. >> Those are TK students. Sorry it's so small. Um, but those those uh papers say um >> English and Spanish, but we have a seat for you. >> Um, >> are you ready? >> Oh,

049thank you, Christian. >> Are you ready? Ready. set go. >> And I literally like sent it to her in the morning on a Friday and it happened to be like a bonsai >> blue day and so she's like, "Well, they all have their t-shirts on and her pair up with the bear outfit on and another teacher had a class set of sunglasses and so it just came together." So it was very cute and very fun. Okay, I'm going to start with our um our multicultural celebration. This was our second annual multicultural celebration and it we we decided to do it in February because last year we did it in May and it was so hot. But the day we chose to do it, it was 90 degrees outside. So that's okay because we definitely there

050was a lot more participation um this year than there was last year. Our first year we really tasked our teachers um with each choosing two countries um and and representing countries that meant something to them and they did a wonderful job. This year we invited families to join us um and it it just turned out way better than we could imagine. Um, you can see all the families up there that brought in items, food, um, they did demonstrations. Um, the Seami family is always great to us. They did move away for a little while and we were so glad when they came back. Um, but, uh, VJ Seami, third grader. He went and did a Samoan dance all by himself in the quad. Um, have to thank Mrs. Haro and Miss Po. They really put

051a lot of energy and effort into the logistics. Um, Miss Pedo did a lot uh to in the community. She got um everything donated from the Guan Grill donated 100 lupia. Cortez Mexican Food donated 100% of the food to us. And Panda Express also donated 100% of the food to us. Uh the Seami family were um had traditional Samoan food. Um we had uh the Tokar family, they had some of their traditional family food. our Vietnamese families. They had amazing Vietnamese coffee. It was my favorite. Um, thank you, Mr. Merchant, for coming out. Um, it was a big event and we are just so excited to continue to grow um this event with our families. Um, we had a a family that did um represented Japan and they did traditional Japanese karate. Um, so it

052was just really special to have uh everybody there and and enjoy learning about cultures and allowing our families to celebrate their heritage with us. Okay, some pictures here. Um, over on the left hand side there, we celebrated the hundth day of school, which is always a really big deal in kindergarten in TK. um our kindergarten teachers uh dressed up as old ladies. You can see one student up there up there. It was so cute to watch them come in in the morning. Um I I have so many pictures and I wish I could share all of them with you. Um one student had a hundred pennies glued to his shirt. Um some kids were dressed as twins. Um little girl there 100 days brighter. So it was really fun. They had a lot of fun

053activities. And then even in some other classes, some second grade classes did some STEM rotations, a 100 day STEM rotations. Um, so it was fun to see those activities. Um, we also celebrated Megan Hound, our counselor up there during um, counselor appreciation week. She's just such a blessing to our campus um, and comes in with a smile every single day and just honest to goodness loves what she does and she lets us know that every single day. She loves Bees and she loves what she does and it shows. Um, second grade uh did their let's hear it for America celebration which is always a great annual tradition. Um, we also PTA held uh their annual um talent show. We have quite we have a lot of very talented students, lots and lots of um singers

054and uh dancers. some fifth grade boys did a uh synchronized swimming um little bit which was hysterical. Um we had one student who was uh doing the Rubik's cube. He had like four different shapes of Rubik's cubes and he was standing up there doing them as fast as he could. So um that's always fun. And then afterwards the PTA provides dinner for families out on the lawn. Um so it's a great community builder. Um we also celebrated and honored our classified employee of the year up there. Um Erica How is our occupational therapist and I will save everything I have to say about Erica for next month. Um but she just uh she serves our entire school community, not only the students that um she's meant to serve. Um but not only did we honor

055Erica, um we also honored all of the classified employees who were nominated and recognized by their peers. So, um that's Yolanda there, our CNS coordinator for our um for our campus there. And we just went around and thanked them and gave them a little bouquet of flowers to let them know that that they're seen and that um they're recognized by their peers. Um a little bit of data here. This is I Ready. Um so on the left hand side, uh you see the math overall placement in fall of 2025. Technically, we start it closely after school starts, end of August, early September. Um, so kids are coming in from that summer slide if they haven't been keeping their brains going all summer. You can see that um at that point in the school year, we

056had uh 28% of our students in the green, so they're working at or above grade level. 41% of our students who are working just one grade level below and 31% of the students um were working two grade levels or below. We don't assess kindergarteners in the fall window. We wait till the winter window to do that. Our winter winter window was um late November, early December and you can see the gains that were made um in those months. So at that point we had uh 47% of our students working um at or above grade level. 37% of the students working one level below um their grade level and 16% were working two grade levels or below. So that was a pretty big jump from 31 to 16% almost a 50 50% um decrease there. And

057in reading, um, in the fall, only 15% of our students came in reading at or above grade level. 54% of the students one grade level below, and 31% of the students working two grade levels or below. You have to take a lot of factors into consideration, too. Um, kindergarteners who are going into first grade, the I Ready test looks completely different to them in first grade than it does in kindergarten. Um, so they're they went left kindergarten where the I Ready test was read to them and then in first grade they're having to do a lot of the reading themselves. But this gives teachers a really good baseline um as to where they need to go to support their students. So, in the winter placement, we had uh 32% of our students working at or

058above grade level, 53% of those students just working one grade level below, and 16% of the students working two or two grade levels or below. The students won't take this test again until really late um this spring, almost towards the end of the school year. We'll get CASP out of the way for third through fifth grade. Um, in years past, a couple years ago, we weren't having third through fifth grade take the the I Ready test in the spring, but um, as a staff, we decided that that information is really valuable um, just to see growth from the entire year from fall to spring, but also to pass on to the next year's teacher that that information goes on. So those teachers do have a baseline and they can compare their end of the year

059baseline to what that beginning of the year looks like for that next grade level and see um which students might need a little bit more support in which areas. Um this is uh grades three through five um projections on um what students could possibly our grade levels could um to be proficient in CASP. So the top numbers are um math projected proficiency. Um CASP runs uh one, two, three and four. Um so it level one is not meeting, level two is nearly meeting, level three is meets expectations and level four is exceeds expectations. So you can see um right here in grade three that as of right now um and mind you this this is about 75% accurate. That's the accuracy rate for this. Um but grade three about 52% of the students should be

060proficient. 49% of the students in grade four should be proficient which is a 10% jump from what the grade four students were actually last year. um grade four students only um ended up with 39% proficiency last year and they've been working really hard with their new curriculum this year and um outlining and mapping the scope and sequence of that to ensure that by the time the students take the CASP test that those items that will be on the CASP test have been covered. And then grade five only 34%. Um we kind of talked a little bit about that and and they're an anomaly. They're our last COVID group which they're probably missing still missing some of those foundational math skills. We are in a um an intervention a math intervention cycle right now with our

061students. Um we have about 90 students going to before or after school intervention for math. Down below is um the reading expected proficiency on CASP. So in grade three you see 46%, grade four 61% and grade five6%. So these percentages are taken from students their last um IR test that they took. So that November December window and students who were showing um progress in their annual typical growth big huge algorithms that I will never understand. I just trust the people at I Ready when I read their information that this is this is what they're doing. So there's this is about 75% of the time accurate. So be curious to see Dr. and I were just talking about this the other day. We'll be curious to see um when we get our cast scores how accurate

062it was. Okay, lots of good stuff coming up. Um but threw in a couple more pictures. There's Dr. reading to a fifth grade class. President Anderson reading to a kindergarten class. Um down here on the left hand side during the PTA um talent show uh first time a group of employees put on their own little talent show and surprised the students choreographed by um by Mrs. Costa to the song Pump Up the Jam. Um, I was almost finished learning all the moves until I had to go to negotiations. So, I still have the outfit. I figure I might use it at some point. Um, but down here, I just wanted to quickly highlight this is Mr. Dell's fifth grade class. And, um, talk about belonging. Mr. Dell has created a really a community of belonging

063with his class. And you just feel it when you walk in. So he recognized and heard from students that they wanted to be in the talent show, but they just could not imagine standing up in front of there were probably 500 people in the NPR at least watching the talent show. So he created a class talent show and um a bunch of us from the office came, some other adults came. There were no other students there watching them. They were tickled that we were there to watch them. and these students got up and with just were so brave. They sang, they danced, they told jokes. Um so he just really embodies what belonging looks like. And I just wanted to highlight him today um to let everybody know that there are teachers who are seeing

064students that um they recognize need a little bit of extra support and a little bit of extra love and they are ensuring that those students are seen and heard. Thank you. >> Thank you, Principal James. Okay. Good evening board. I'm a little shorter than her. All right. Good evening board. Doc, superintendent, Dr. and Mrs. McCannernney. Um, so as you can see in this front page, let me get to the great school. Here we go. Um we've got at the bottom corner we've got our superintendent advisory council which at Sullivan Middle School and Bonsel High School came together and they shared their voices and perspectives directly with district leadership and Dr. Galy. These meetings foster authentic student voice and empower participants to advocate for their peers while developing important communication and leadership skills. And I'm sure

065Dr. GI will second the motion that all of these students were very outspoken and they really represented their peers well um in in telling very truthful stories which should be told but in order for us to come together and really support them. Um so we've picked a really good group of students and it's hard because we have so many. So thank you for the opportunity Dr. Gully to bring these students together uh so you can really hear the voice of our our students. Um, so as you can see over in the other picture, we have her classified into I too will wait till next month, but we have Hosaphina Gonzalez and she is one of our pair of professionals who's outstanding, amazing, they all are, but she really shines because of the support and things

066that she brings um, not just into our EL classes, but the support in all of our general education classes. And she helps out wherever in every class. So, we'll we'll talk more about her next month, which is great. Okay, we've got our sports student voice and creativity and excellence. So, if you see um at the top picture, we have our semester awards ceremony which we had I told them we had record-breaking. I said, "Teachers, are you sure we have record-breaking?" But the students were so excited and so quiet, which was unheard of as we called all the names up. Um so, we had about 380 students get awards, which was a lot. Um, but they've worked really hard and especially our eighth grade because we do see all three years, the sixth, seventh, and eth.

067And at the end of the semester, we'll be doing the separate eighth grade awards that will really highlight what they've been doing for the full three and then coming up on some special medals that they get. We have a silver, bronze, and gold for them. Um, we also had the girls soccer and boys basketball that finished our season strong. They worked hard and we're rolling right into our spring sports, which is our track. um and field. And we also have our girls basketball and our boys soccer. And then if you can see the last bullet point, which I had to reread it, I know we're doing our our our true north at 2030, but I I feel like that's so far away, but it's really not. So when So 8th grade parents that are watching,

068right? Yes. It's the class of 2030 that gets the first look at Bonsel High School opportunities. So, if you see at the bottom, um, our high school teachers and student leaders, and we have Isa up there as well. Um, our student leaders came over to speak with our eighth grade classes, each one of them through Mr. Davis's social studies class, and really highlighted the things that we're doing at Bonsel High School through athletics, um, all over different clubs, speech and debate, trying to get more interest in speech and debate and trying to bring that at the middle school. Um and then also our mock trial and then just some special activities and they really we really highlighted to themies and got the students excited about that. What we're also doing new this year is we're

069going to do our Legion launch. So we're going to bring our eighth grade over to the high school. We're going to be doing a scavenger hunt. So they have to find things on campus and um we also have them they're going to be walking into specific classrooms and probably the biggest part is we have some snacks and free swag for them. So, I know that's what they're all excited about, but we will be doing that in April with our students. Um, so some key student and staff support and behavior metrics. I wanted to bring up because we actually presented this to our staff because it's easy to say, oh, it's yeah, this is what our discipline is this and oh, our attendance is this, but not until you see it. And especially when we make

070it through the fall and you're going through the month of October and you get to March and you're like, oh my gosh, the school year is almost over. It's really good to reflect on all the good that we've been doing and saying, "Yes, the work that we're doing does pay off. It does matter." So, with that, you can see um from last year to this year, when we talk about pre-referral interventions, these are what the teachers are doing in the classroom to work with students. Maybe it's a phone call, maybe it's restorative conversations, maybe it's working in small groups. So, it's academic and um behavior interventions. We do have them documented into our system. Aries, we had 328 pre-referrals last year. We are at 368, which doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It just means

071that we're providing more interventions for our students. So, as you can see, it's a 12.2 increase from last year. And the growth does reflect that we are committing to early identification and intervention, helping students succeed through timely academic and behavioral supports. So, you can see also that our suspensions have decreased, which they weren't high to begin with, but even finding out sooner um about the girl drama or the boy drama or just working with students that, you know, sometimes just need a pep talk or need help in facilitating a conversation because, you know, our little sixth grade and our seventh grade and eighth grade sometimes don't know how to communicate appropriately. So, it's just those skills that we're teaching as they move on through high school and beyond. The next one is we have the

072call log which we also make phone calls to parents um or families that are um overseeing our students. So we had a 21 increase from last year to where we are currently. And again this demonstrates in our outreach efforts to our families and really bringing them along with us to provide that support through our parent compact as well. How can we all work together to support our students? And then again you can see the discipline incidents. So, we pulled all of these. These are not just what admin does, but again, it's restorative conversations that we have in there. So, we had we've had a decrease, a 48% reduction because of the pre-referrals we've done. We have a 48% reduction from last year to this year. And I do have to say we have an outstanding

073assistant principal, Miss Suos. My hats off to her. um as far as working with our teachers and our staff, but it really as far as student behavior, more effective classroom management strategies, enhancing social emotional learning programs that we've been implementing, our MTSS TOSA has been a huge help in this as well, really having those conversations with students and families. And then it also changes our intervention approaches. So, we've done things a little different this year and it does have to do with the help of our MTSS TOSA at both sites. Um, so I wanted to bring this up too because I know we talk about professional development and I really want our teachers, not just our students to have the autonomy, but our teachers as well because professional development, it's for all of us, but

074I wanted teachers to have an opportunity for them to choose what they wanted this year for professional development. So last year we threw out a survey. The topics at the top, you can see this is what they chose to focus on for this school year. And they had a choice. they could pick three out of the four. And this past fall, we actually had teachers who volunteered and I did give them hours because I'm like, you're doing the work. So, I paid them. Um, but they graciously came up with lessons and prevent uh and presented PD for our staff. But this is really they said, hey, we want AI and technology. We want classroom management strategies. We want differentiation for our EL and sped and we want small groupoup collab. What does that look like?

075So, we had different groups. So teachers were able to on Fridays during collaboration really pick and what they wanted to with those strands. So this is the feedback that we got for them because we gave them a survey at the end and it was the majority of participants rated the cohort model is an excellent and they feel very confident applying new strategies in their classroom. The next one the topics they identified the IEP procedures classroom management behavior intervention strategies and AI integration. They love that because now they can tell more when the students are using AI. um it was helpful but it also helps them manage their time and it I said look I'm going to give you the gift of time so if it's going to help you create a lesson for our students

076and really help differentiate that it's the gift of time for them um and then looking ahead so we are going to do this next year too I just spoke with leadership but participants teachers prefer monthly or twice per semester sessions because we were doing it quite often so we're going to change that up from feedback um but they want to continue with deeper AI integration and dedicated time for professional reflection So that was a good nugget for us. So as we move forward next year in year two of this, I just wanted you to be aware of how we're supporting our teachers and really giving them the autonomy of what they want out of their professional development during the school year. So upcoming and thank yous. Um you can see at the top we did

077celebrate I have Carrie up there, our counselor, Mrs. Grassbrink. We did celebrate her and we had all the students like we wore her favorite color all day. We took selfies with her. Um, we surprised her with a bunch of food and hearts and all the love notes that our students wrote for her. Um, and then if anybody wants the QR code, it's right there. Sees candy, we are also doing. So, I had to put that up there for our PTO. Um, we also have spring sports triyouts. Uh, March 17th, we have our um, show choir and guitar that'll be playing. Um, we have our LCAP forum, our spring dance, which all the students get excited about. We actually are doing some blowup stuff up there. Um, and then we have our career day, which we

078have our largest group. We have about 38 people that are coming to present to Sullivan Middle, which is very exciting. So, if anybody has an opportunity, come up, check it out. It's going to be in the morning because it's on a minimum day, so it'll take up the whole day. And then we also have our amazing art show May 6th and we are we are taking all the the applications and all of our entries for this. Um, but it'll be at 5 o'clock at SMS and BHS. Okay. So, I want to bring up Isabelle again. I want her She's going to be talking about our Interact Club and all the amazing things that they're gonna be doing. Good evening again, esteemed board members. My name is Isabelle Rodriguez and I'm the current president of the

079Interact Club at Bonsel High School. You may be wondering what Interact is, but it's important we talk about Rotary as it gives us an opportunity to opportunities to grow and move forward. Rotary International supports the Rotary Club whose main goal focuses on community service, promoting integrity, and advancing world peace. The Rotary Club does this through the key initiatives of fighting diseases, supporting education, and improving local economies. Our Interact Club helps create more future Rotarians who wish to continue helping their community well into their adult years through enabling students to participate in community service and volunteering. As a club, we provide opportunities for students to bond with each other and community members to foster a love for service while gaining new and impactful experiences. Currently, we have the following plans moving forward for the club and

080how we plan to help out our community. I'd like to share our current plans towards sorry and providing our assistance in the local community. Firstly, our club is helping with selling snacks for the baseball and softball at home games alongside ASB, and we did so for the first time at yesterday's home games. Next, we have a leadership meeting next Monday to introduce ourselves to fellow interactive club members statewide. This is just one of many Rotary Interact events we currently have planned to attend. As I have mentioned before, we have events planned in the near future. We we currently have 15 students volunteering for Fbrook Arts in the Parks event happening on April 26th. I've been in contact with Miss Donna about it and how long everyone can stay. We've also been looking into cleaning up

081beach events for Rotary has asked for help with as well as help in Los Pen Los Pensos Canyon Preserve environmental enhancement projects. Our adviser Mr. Darte and our club council has all been so proactive and helping in launching this club forward to make a difference. With Isla Nicknam as our vice president, Evan Pepper as a secretary, and Jean Le Young as a treasurer, our leadership is in capable hands. Thank you so much for your time, and Miss James will continue with from here. That was great. All right. Okay, we've got um all right, if you take a look at the upper corner, we've got our mock trial. And I know Dr. mentioned this last month. Um but we're very proud of our mock trial. Uh we had an outstanding year. We finished the season with

082an amazing four individual awards for Bonsel High School students and there were 44 teams with 15 to 20 students each. The committee only gives 30 awards in total. So, we were the only school that got more than two awards and many of the schools got no awards at all. Our students are truly outstanding. Isa being one of them. Um, and our mock trial team, congratulations to them for such an outstanding season and Mrs. Arho for who leads our amazing team. Um, also I love this picture in the upper right hand corner. Um, it's just they our students work so hard for our um, blood drive and they just they pose. It was like, we're going to pose for this picture. And it was like muscles out and thumbs up. And we also have our president,

083Mrs. Anderson, up there. Um, but the students worked really hard for the the Bonso High School blood drive and recently came together to host a record breaking blood drive, showcasing the true spirit of Legion leadership and service. With an incredible 41 donors participating, this event made a significant impact by supporting life-saving efforts within our community. The strong participation reflects the compassion, responsibility, and commitment to serve service that defines our Bonso High School students. Beyond the powerful act of donating blood, our students also work to raise funds for scholarships, demonstrating their dedication to supporting one another and investing our future opportunities for their peers. All right. Nextly, we have our Battlebots tournament, which you can see at the bottom. Um, so our Battlebot High School students put their creativity, collaboration, and engineering skills to the test

084during our exciting Battlebots experience. There were no sparks this year. I told them, "Please do not do that. We don't want catch something on fire." Um, so he promised me there would not be sparks and there weren't. Right. They worked really hard to the teams designed, built, and uh programmed their own robots that faced off in a friendly competition that showcased the problem solving and innovation. Beyond the battles, this hands-on experience gave students real world realorld exposure to STEM concepts and inner innovative design. So, the two winners, congratulations to our champions, Gio and Trenton that they were there's a couple at the bottom right there. Okay, our esports I just got an update. He texted me during the meeting. Um, our our uh the coach, Mr. Shaw, um, they recently we recently bent beat Mission

085Vist in our esports tournament. Yay. Which put Bonsel High School I know I had to say it right. Put Bonsel High School in the sixth out of the state. And we have Cody G, who is the highest ranked individual player in the state. So we And there's huge scholarships for esports. like they're giving away huge scholarships. So, we're excited that this weekend we are actually hosting our first esports tournament that we will have ASB there and it's going to be super exciting. I've never seen one, so I'm going to be there and go and cheer everybody on um for this weekend, but it's going to be at Bonszo High School. So, we are very excited and I know Mr. Shaw and um Mr. Robinson are very excited too about hosting all of this there. Um,

086if you see in the upper right hand corner, we had senior night and for our winter sports and then our girls basketball team. So, our seniors were very excited and I don't know if anybody's ever been up there, but they put on a huge celebration, the balloon arches and everything. Um, families come and it's a huge celebration for our seniors. A lot of them, like you can see the two here, this was their first year playing basketball. Um, but you can see our senior, he had played basketball for the four years and went on, but this is a very special time. So they get delays and they get the candy and they get and their parents show and it's quite the event. There's a lot of tears because it's the last time that some of

087them are going to be playing, you know, the sports. Some of them will go on to college. Um, but I do have to say with the girls basketball team, we are very proud of them even though many of them it was their first time we won our CIF league. So we were hosting which this has never happened and I don't know if it ever will, but we hosted our first CIFF basketball game which we had some members. Thank you, Mr. Ortega, for being there and Dr. for being there. It was on a Tuesday during our February break and we had a lot of parents there and people were cheering them on. Um, we won and went on to the second game. Um, they played hard, right? Um, we didn't go on any further from there,

088but it was really good. We were super excited and again we're like, we get to host CIF and it's we took money and the tickets again. Don't know if that'll ever happen again, but it was it was a great experience for us. Um in the bottom lefthand corner you can see we had student of the month again and again I want to give a shout out to Bonso women's club who does give um gift cards to our seniors and really just representing the outstanding work that our students do and show and represent that leadership component every day at our school. Okay, our innovation hub I wanted to give a uh really talk about this. Um, it's at Cal State San Marcos and we have really been lucky to have each group or each academy go

089to the innovation hub and really learn from people in the industry on whichever academy went or that is going and they they get to um really participate in project-based learning activities and learn about career and technical pathways that are all a part of the innovation hub. So, we've been working with people there and hopefully to continue that with teachers next year. So fingers crossed that we get to be a part of that. Okay. Exciting. We have the val Victoria Circle. Um and we're proud to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our class of 20126. Um these outstanding students demonstrated the exceptional dedication dedication, perseverance, and academic excellence. So with this, they have to have a higher 3.5 GPA or higher during their high school journey. and all of these students represented. But we have our valadictorian,

090Isa Nickmmont. Congratulations. And we have a saludiatoran which is Leo Preston. It was a wonderful evening really to celebrate our students and the hard work that you did over your four years. Congratulations. All right. So some data that we have for AC attendance and suspensions. Um, so we were super excited about this and I was giving high fives to Sonia who's our registar up there because she works really hard to make sure that we're getting this stuff back for our independent study. Um, our first for 2425 last year the whole year we were 27.9% chronic absenteeism. This year right now we are at 2526. First semester we went down to 18.1 and we are currently at 14.4%. Which we are keeping to decrease. So, it's a decrease of 13.5% from last year and I know

091she is working on getting some of the paperwork back and just we will continue to see that go down and confident of that. So, we're really excited. Also, suspensions um you know if students feel like they belong and we're we're really working with them. We saw suspensions last year at 20 students which was 6.6%. We are down to um eight students this year at 2% of suspensions. So we are really institute like we're um working with our students doing restorative conversations. Again I do have to say it's been the help and the work of our MTSS TOSA along with that and really working with our students and our teachers developing these relationships with our students as well. Okay, upcoming events. Um you can see we've got our LCAP forum. We do have our SATs coming

092up next Friday, so a week from tomorrow. We've been reminding everybody um March 18th our inlac committee. April 30th and 3rd we have spring break and then we have our CASP testing for our 11th grade coming up. Um and then we also again have our art show. Um but I do want to say a little bit about this um picture up here. We did have San Diego County Office of Ed come up and they wanted to um speak with some of our Native American students and really how they are perceiving our school and their leadership opportunities that we have and really walking around our campus and wanting to us to highlight the work that we're doing in partnership. Um so we were excited about doing this and we have Dr. Stacy Block in the middle

093um that was there to really help facilitate this and really um answer any questions that we had or they had, but they really wanted to to come visit our school and see the work that we're doing and uh really how we're supporting our students. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you. >> Is that all of our principal reports for this evening? Fantastic. And that brings us to our board member reports. So we'll start with our student board representative. >> Good evening everyone. So I want to start off by saying that guitar had a lovely performance and I'm really excited to see that we have music at the high school now because um my past three years we didn't have anything and music is just such a big part of every mo I'd say most people's

094lives. It is of mine. and I play the violin and whether it's just like listening to music or playing an instrument, it's it's just like food for the soul really. So, I'm really happy about that. Um, in regards to our sports, we have volleyball who boys volleyball who won their first game of the season on Tuesday. So, we're really happy about that. And then softball has won most of their games. They're almost undefeated. They only lost once. So, we're looking to have another great season. And then baseball is doing well. Also, track and field currently had well, it's probably finished by now, but they had their first meet today. So, if I could be at two places, I would be there as well, but um too bad I can't be. And then in ASB, as

095Miss James mentioned, ASB as along with some of the ambassadors presented to the eighth graders, just giving an introduction about the high school and all the opportunities we have from clubs, themies, um our sports and early college programs. And they were such a great audience. They listen, they asked questions and yeah, we could see that they were interested and wanted to learn more. Um, we're also ASB and the ambassadors are also helping at our Legion launch which we're doing in April instead of August. And um, we're going to be playing games with them. them. We're going to give them a tour of the high school and just build connections so with the students as well as letting them know get to know more about the high school and just um see more of it. Then

096we're also having a spirit week for St. Patrick's Day and we're going to play themed games like a scavenger hunt and hiding a little leprechaun around. So that's going to be fun. And we're also gonna have a sports day with a dunk tank um before we go on spring break. So, we're gonna have teachers in there, we're gonna have students in there, and we've never had that before. So, we're really excited. I think it'll be really fun. Um and then for the clubs, speech and debate had um their the speech state calls last Friday and Saturday. State calls last like two days, so it's very long. But and then this week, debate is having their state calls for Friday and Saturday. So we hope that our um members are able to make it to state.

097Um yeah, so we're cheering them on. Really hoping that we make it. East, as Miss James also mentioned, esports is having their Mario Kart tournament this Saturday as well, and they're going to be competing against teams of other schools there because there's going to be a food truck selling breakfast burritos and tacos for lunch. Um, and we've never had something like this before, so it's going to be really exciting and we're looking forward to having over like a hundred people at our school and hosting this. So, yeah. Um, I want to shout out Erin Ariano for starting the club and it took him such a long time to um, start it up and we've um, are seeing that they're doing really well. I mean, we beat Mission Vista. That's great. And then having um, a

098student that's like ranked six in the whole state is really like such an achievement. So, and I feel like people don't really think video games can be, you know, um in like a bigger activity that provides opportunities like scholarships. But it's great that we've have that and are recognizing that it's it does it is important. It develops different skills. Um themies so our oh and also interact club. So, it recently got established only this semester. It was previously known as Rotary Club last year, but we're already getting involved and we have lots of plans underway for themies. Um, our ambassadors went to Bonsel West Elementary just last Wednesday for their career day and we just introduced like the pathways and gave them a look at all the different career possibilities that there are for them.

099Um, we really enjoyed seeing them get excited about um, what we were talking about. And there was one sixth grader that I remember and we were like, "You can take college classes for free and you can, you know, start your own club." And she's like, "Oh my god, that's so great." Like really excited and interested. And we loved hearing about what they wanted to be, what they were interested in, and saw just how ambitious they are and wanting to be astronauts and wanting to be, you know, mechanical engineers already, even just so young. So, it's great that we've are establishing that belief in themselves that they're able to achieve what they want to. We're al also of professionals in the field and it's just really impactful and they can just get advice advice or knowledge

100or just yeah, just again hearing about the experience these people are having in hopes of um getting a better idea of what they want to do and where they're going to be going in the future. Um Dr. Goaly mentioned the early college students going to Vivian Banks and as part of one of those um as a student who also goes there. Um I'm so glad that the elementary school and the district is like allowing us to go there and work with the students as part of the early college program. And we've been going mainly on Fridays. We actually went today as well and are just able to help both the teachers and the students just um like relieve the load of the teachers or like can you come every day and we're like we wish

101um and just providing the support wherever it's needed and gaining experience of working with children as well. And they just light up our day. We're so happy to see them and they give us hugs and are when are you coming back and all this stuff. So, we just love it so much. In regards to the upper classmen, the juniors are taking the SAT before spring break. So, um they're definitely a little nervous as it's important for college and applying for programs next year, but they're going to do their best. It's just part of the process. And then seniors are going to hear back from most of the UC's at the end of the month, but many of us have already been accepted into UC Merrced, UC Riverside, Cal State San Marcos, and San Diego State,

102just to name a few. And so we're really proud of them and excited to see what they'll be doing and where they'll be going next year. Um, and then I'm just hoping that everyone has a great rest of the month and stays hydrated because it was quite warm today. And thank you, >> Trusty Ortega. >> Pardon me while I get adjusted here. Um, just to let everybody know that uh I'm using this cane really just to get up and out of the chair. I got a muscle spasm on my back that affects me when I try to get up. And apparently when I step in and try to swing my my foot around too, it also hurts. But um I'm actually fine and I should be even 100% by the end of the week pro

103hopefully. Um I wanted to thank all the people that came up and spoke. Uh, I I love to see that teacher camaraderie and stuff and that was pretty pretty awesome to see see the teachers coming together and they're all teachers that I truly respect and uh they're they're the information that was given. I'm truly I put a lot of weight into it. Um, other than that, I really don't have a whole lot. Uh, you know, honoring our our volunteers is awesome. Uh, I volunteer for a lot of things. And a lot of times when you volunteer, you don't really volunteer so that you get awards, but it is nice to show that to see that someone appreciates what you're doing because uh uh there's a lot of people that do stuff. And I mean, there's

104things that, you know, obviously we're all in this position. There's things that we can't do, you know, like me personally, there's things I can't do. And when I see somebody volunteering to do it and they love it, um, you know, it just kind of, wow, that's awesome, you know, and stuff. And you really, really want to show their appreciation for them helping out. And, um, I think that was pretty cool that decided to honor them this time. And, uh, yeah, I didn't realize she had been doing that for that long. And I also I also get her name wrong. I all these years I've always called her Sheila. She just answers to it now, you know. So it's just easier for me. Um and I guess that's all I have right now. I love the

105way the school is going. I love the way the the students are responding and and speaking up. And um I I like to hear the way the teachers are happy about most things. And yes, we we always have room for improvement. There's always things that we could do. So, we don't want to just sit down and just say we've accomplished everything. But we have accomplished a lot at this point. I mean, for a school that's this young and and we're we're having competitions that are challenging some of the larger schools and more established schools and stuff. Um, students are students. High school is four years no matter where you are. And once your school program is four years old, uh, you know, you can do a lot of things. And, um, I think our I

106think our teachers, staff, and everything's doing really great. And I like the fact that our students feel like they belong, you know, and and, uh, and they believe and achieve. I think we're getting there. Um, we have obviously a long ways to go. And, um, I also wanted to save some of my comments for uh, item number four, which is going to be coming up later on. So, I'll end it here. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Dumbrosski. >> Thank you. Um, so I first wanted to uh acknowledge the parents that took the time out of their busy schedules and away from their families to come to the town hall that we had at Bonso West uh a couple weeks a couple weeks ago. And um thank you to them. A lot of them are

107PTA uh parents. So thank you again for providing more service to the school. Um and just I really appreciated the conversations. They provided wonderful ideas that you know expanded my thoughts. Um because a lot of these parents are heavily involved with Bonso West school and curriculum and other things. Um so it was I really appreciated it and I even sent out a couple personal texts to some of the moms who came. Um, so, uh, that being said, um, I do want to just kind of, uh, state, you know, I've I've always said I'm, you know, been a big big advocate of children's health. And so, um, I've been talking, you know, with with district leadership and with Dr. And so, I'm going to definitely be looking at our health policies moving forward for the district.

108Um, and just, you know, reviewing them and seeing if there are areas that we need to improve things. If not, um, it will stay the same. Or maybe it's more focused on implementation and monitoring of those policies. Um, because you can have paper, you know, on the on the docks and it's all in the implementation of it at the school building level. Um, so that's something that I will hopefully be engaging in over the summer when I'm not teaching myself at Cal State San Marcos. Um, and I don't have, you know, 150 students that I have to answer to. So um that's probably when I will be um engaging in that. So I just wanted to note that and in this you know spirit of March and literacy I mean health literacy is also a

109big thing that you need to have. So um that's something where you know I would like to look for more opportunities for the district to engage in that and also maybe you know apply for some grant dollars or something that would help us to you know make healthy students better learners for the district. So, that's kind of all I Oh, and I am coming back to the high school um on St. Patrick's Day next Tuesday. So, I'll be speaking with the law and leadership uh group more about my lobbying work in DC. Um and so that's what I'm going to be doing next Tuesday. And I just realized it is on St. Patrick's Day, so I better wear my green that day so I don't get pinched. All right. Well, um that's all. So, thank

110you. Thank you, >> Michael. You missed out. We had a wonderful guitar performance. In fact, I am inspired to go get my guitar and pull it out. Probably not tonight, but tomorrow I'm going to pull it out. It's probably going to be way out of tune. But also wanted to thank um uh being invited to the multicultural event. I went not knowing what I was going to find. one, you know, four booths, five booths. Was it going to be inside, outside? Well, it was definitely had to be outside. This was a major event. I had to do a little filming there and show my wife because I'm saying this was this was fantastic. It was a fun event and it was a great and the kids didn't even know they were learning. That's the great

111thing. They were learning a lot of great stuff, but they didn't know it. So, I really want to thank all the people that put uh I know you have Haro and Kelly Po. Um, and I know there was a lot of other people there that the time and energy that went into that was a lot and but I think it was well worth it. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Well, I want to invite Roger to bring his guitar next time and uh you can do a little showcase for us up there. So, >> that'll make >> Yeah. So, so that's my So, anyway, normally in a my normal life, I like to encounter um academic principles outside of the classroom, right? It's, you know, theories and laws. You see it in in practice,

112correct? Well, today I saw the theory of supply and demand in in practice. Um, as I was going to him, I was going to a listing appointment in HTT in the middle of nowhere, my tire blows out. Now, I have run flat tires, so I don't have a spare tire. So, I just have this run flat. So, I'm in Hemtt and I go down and I'm like, "Okay, surely I'm going to be able to find a tire for my car. Maybe just one if I have to. Whatever I can find." So, I go to Hemtt and I go from place to place. They don't have my size. Nobody in him has my size. So, I'm I'm driving around, thank goodness, because it's a run flat. And I'm like, I can only go a certain miles

113an hour, but I'm driving down the streets. Finally, I get a call from a guy because I went and visited him after eight tire shops. He says, "You know what? I think my guy can drive to Ontario, pick up the tires that we don't have in stock and put them on." Then he tells me the price. It's probably about $400 more than I would spend down here. And I'm like, so I'm sitting up there and I'm like, "Okay, now if I don't do this, I can't drive on a freeway and I can't come home. So either my wife's got to come out there and get me or I got to spend the night in him." So sure enough, I end up capitulating and I end up spending $400 more for tires than I should. So

114that was my adventure and that was why I was late. So that was not fun, but uh I made it. So I'm happy about that. Um the next thing I wanted to talk about was the uh graph uh from the the on the uh test performance. I noticed it was interesting. I was looking at it and I think it was the fourth grade math. I think it was almost put it had a perfect uh bell curve uh on it and I think that from our perspectives that's what we're really looking for is is because performance is going to be staggered if you're doing things right about like that. So I was wondering if maybe in because I was looking at the other data and I was wondering I wonder what it would look like you

115know if we curved it out maybe if we present that data in the form of a curve graph and we can see how these things go because then you'll be able to see where you're deficient in right because if the bell cra if it ends clear up here and it starts over here then you know obviously you got to push it this way. So I think if we did that it would but I was looking through all of it and trying to say okay this one this one's almost a bell curve this one's not at all you know so I just think that if we could do that that might be helpful. Um the other thing I want to mention is uh speech and debate state qualls that that is a very grueling event people

116that is a two-day event and it is it is very taxing on the kids and they put a lot of time and energy on it and it is it is a very stressful time for the competitors. So, I'm I I know that the results don't come out for I think a week or two um because they have they stagger the different events and then announce them all at once, but hopefully I'm going to put out a bunch of good vibes for Bonsel and I hope that a lot of good good comes back our ways. Um and then I want to mention that today that uh this next week especially is college time, right? It's been college time and this week is a heavy hitter college week. And so I just want everyone, as I always

117say this week, hug your hug your senior because it's very stressful putting all those applications and then, you know, sitting in front of that computer and opening it up and hoping confetti comes. And so I just want to, you know, everyone have appreciation for senior, you know, uh, seniors because it it's a tough time for them. The last thing I want to mention today is I know last year I had a little kind of a a talk with the seniors I think about prepping them for college. Correct. And what I mean by that is you know for example when you go to college it's a completely different environment than high school right and and for for example there's re there's reverse pedagogy used in a lot of classes. you know the the TAs are are

118important resources um you know they and most importantly colleges don't stress just learning they stress critical analysis and it's very very important that you understand that our seniors understand what the expectations are going in as far as the differences in how they're going to be graded for like literature projects and all these things because critical analysis is key in in in college. So, I know last year we did it. Um, and oh, the other thing I think is really important they need to know are what resources are on college for them. Tutorings, free tutoring. I know they get a lot of this in in their, you know, in the orientation at their college, but no one listens to it. But this is these are things that are really crucial for the success of people not

119only in high school, but but in college. and and I think we're we need to try to coach them a little bit so that they're not hit really hard when they go there and realize, oh, this is different. So, I was wondering if there's a way we could set up a time that we could talk to them and kind of, you know, put together I you were there last year, right, Dr. Collie? And so, I and I I think that the kids were a little distracted last year because we did it at the one of the senior days, so they were, you know, doing all kinds of stuff, having a picnic and stuff. But I think if we could do something like that for them, I think it would help them. And I think they

120would they would appreciate it when they get there and they understand, you know, what they're into. So So that's all I got for today. >> I'd love to participate in that as well. >> Uh like trustee Merch, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the Bonsel High School uh guitar class uh performing uh Can't Help Falling in Love uh this evening. And fun fact, uh the UB 40 version of that song from 1993 was an inspiration for uh I tell my husband uh that I loved him. So it was really special to hear that performed at our meeting today. And that song is also a really good reminder that in a small district like ours, the work we do is really rooted in love. Love for our students, love for our staff, love

121for our community, and love for the future that we're building together. And when that love stays at the center, it helps guide how we approach the decisions in front of us. So, as always, a huge thank you to our teachers, our classified staff, our administrators, families, and community members for all the work that's done every day in support of our students in schools. Uh, as a small district, one of our greatest strengths is the way that people continue to work so beautifully together. And with St. Patrick's Day next week, I'll just say how lucky we are to have the people we do here in Bonsel Unified School District. Uh this is the time of year that there's always important work for all school districts. We've got staffing, negotiating, um uh negotiations, budgeting, and planning for

122the coming year. And that all happens at once. And it requires a careful look at where we are and where we are going. And when you look around at what is happening in many districts around us with very large layoffs and major budget reductions, we're rather fortunate here in Bonsel Unifi that we're in a relatively strong position. And that comes from years of careful decisions and a shared commitment to keeping our district stable and moving forward. At the same time, it is this board's responsibility not only to look at the coming year, but to look well into the future. Facilities, academic programs, enrollment, and community confidence are all interconnected. The condition of our campuses affect learning, teacher retention, student pride, and whether families choose to remain in Bonsel schools from elementary through high school. And

123if we want to strengthen metriculation and be in a position to ask the communities to support future improvements, including a potential bond measure, then we have to plan with a clear long range vision. Good governance means balancing urgency with responsibility. Our students deserve bonered learning environments now and our community deserves to know that when they invest public dollars, uh, we are doing it in a way that makes sense, not just today, but well into the future, 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now. and that requires alignment between our academic goals, our facilities planning, and our financial decisions. I am proud of the work that's being done across our district, and I'm grateful for the people who continue to show up every day for our students. This board remains committed to supporting all of our schools

124and to making decisions that protect the long-term health of Bonsel Unifi. Thank you. And that takes us to our consent agenda item number seven. >> Motion approved. Second. >> Is there all in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously bringing us to our information items. We have one information item today which is facilities planning update. And Miss Caroline Brown, we welcome you to the podium. >> Good evening board. Dr. Collie, Miss McCannernney. Um, we're here to do a facilities update for today. Ma, the lion share of the presentation will be a review uh of the uh data and uh some of the decisions that we made at the board workshop uh last week. So, uh we'll start with framework of the future. Um we'll go into the board study session overview uh summary of the

125survey uh the action plan and the other guiding principles and timelines that we talked about along with the decision for the alignment of the grade levels at the elementary level and then our closing and uh future calendaring. Um this is our grounding in our board vision and mission and we went through that already so we'll skip right through that. So, the board workshop we shared uh a a pale 378 completed responses uh that have been received to date. We're going to continue to disseminate and we're going to plan on um keeping the survey open until the trust the uh trustee area uh town halls are done and then we will disagregate the data even further than what we've done so far. um and the survey data just so that the public knows that we went

126through in detail. I'm not going to go through every slide that we went through on Monday, but um just a sampling of the data that we're we're looking at. This is the question on the Gird Road property. There appears to be some strong support for development. Um and uh there's uh more investigation that needs to be done on what the possibilities are for the development on GR Road. Um this is a one snapshot of some of the uh key themes that were brought to the top when we talked about building on um Gird Road and using our current assets uh to maximize the delivery of the educational program. Um the community re realizes that there is capac pressures on capacity and that we need to do something about the middle and high school and further

127separating the 78 and 912. Um there were tra safety uh traffic and safety concerns that were highlighted as well. Um and then this is a chart showing the possible partnerships that the community so far are interested in having. You can see multi-use medical and um the uh community use venues that are high highly attractive for the site development. Um performing arts, media, community use venues, uh health related and housing and commercial uses, some sort of mixed use uh were high priorities. And then some other comments that were received from when we said are you interested in any of these then are you interested in any other ones that we haven't thought of. And so these are the ones that floated to the top with 14 responses on um public on soccer and community u activity

128some equestrian and then um YMCA education and civic and then commercial. Uh we also asked for um what's the tolerance of investigating further funding options and so there is a high interest in a geo bond support and the state and federal funding of course and then developer fees rose to the top of the three that we need to uh encompass into our funding structure. And then to get to the grade level configuration, there was a strong support for alignment of the uh elementary and the uh 78 912 and then plan transitions to uh between grade levels. So we had uh 39 plus 22 in support of the alignment. Uh and then we had some that were neutral and didn't really un or didn't really u chime in. and we had somewhat that are opposed out

129of the 300 that we saw. Uh here's another some additional comments and key themes around the grade level configuration models. Uh there seems to be a strong opposition to a shared campus as a 712. Uh but then other people said if you separate them then that would be an acceptable use of of the campus. strong preference for um sorry broad level concern uh broadle support for the traditional K6 TK6 78 and 912 uh configuration. Um so some of the highle summary uh things that we that rose to the top. The respondents recognized that the district faces some real facilities pressure. Adding portable classrooms uh enrollment shifts tied to residential growth and concerns about the current shared campus are consistently referenced throughout the survey. Generally there was support for the gird road development facilities priorities around

130replacing portables with permanent structure. um aligning the grade level configuration and really exploring the funding um the funding opportunities. Um and we'll keep the survey open and then we will after it's closed we'll disagregate the data more and for example respondents by resident area to provide reports by sub areas and look for some of that data to come back in I would assume May of 26. So then um the town halls, we had our first town hall. We have our second one on next Monday. Uh these are the question prompters that we had. So you know what's working and what did you notice? Uh what are the safety impacts neighborhood impacts? What's the priorities for the future? And then funding and partnership. We had a table that that talked a little bit about um a

131geo bond and then the partnership opportunities. At town hall A. We had um input for what's working. A lot of things were efficient and organized as it was a Bonsel West um trustee area. So they like the efficiency and and the organiz organization of the school, the sports activities and the safety and comfort. There was a comment about regular emergency drills etc. And then uh when the group got to talking about safety, access and neighborhood impact, uh they were um worried about the facilities and infrastructure improvements at West Lilac. And then expanding the and enhancing the outdoor recreation space at Bonsel West and at West Lilac and then um increasing the staffing around uh STEM, PE, art, and some of the specials. And then the priorities for the future, transportation was a topic, logistics and

132scheduling, and then um campus safety and infrastructure. And when the um funding and uh partnership considerations were discussed, um some of the new options that came up in the part uh in the partnering was the um veterans affairs and maybe um some other kind of VA services. And then um the bond there seemed to be wide the need for widespread outreach and to reach the people that don't necessarily have students connected to the schools. So I left the discussion slide in because I wanted before I transition to the action plan. Were there any additional discussion items following the survey information? Any more thoughts since Monday? Okay. So then um we have the uh we had uh Dr. Dr. Lance Richards and Monica Ferraria uh join us from the MGT team to pull together some materials

133to help us break down an action plan into work streams because everything in is intertwined. The decision gates are in order leading us to a phased implementation and accountable work streams. It's kind of on the no regrets decision makingaking model. And this is just an illustration of that action work plan and how we're going to have decision gates, phased implementation, and accountable work streams. The next slide is about guiding principles and what we're thinking about as we are determining what our long-term goals are and our short-term actions. And then we developed a framework, an action plan framework where you take the decision gates, so gate one, two, three, and four, and move them over into a phased approach. So we're going to do gate one which is the elementary alignment and then go through uh

134the first phase zero which is decision readiness and then the work streams are going to be the tasks that are outlined there on the right and the facilities phasing milestones. The milestones outlined here illustrate the work to be accomplished in the next 90 to 120 days um including um community outreach and communication. U and then this is the phase timeline. So it's it's a it's a long-term project. So, we're going to have uh 0 to 6 months, 6 to 24 months, two years to five years, and then five years to 10 years for a long-term phasing from our short-term goals to our long term. So, then we'll transition into gate one, which is the grade level configuration. uh primary near-term capacity uh lever uh directly affects West Lilac scope and interim space and we need

135to make the decision as to whether we're going to go TK6 at Bonsel L and 78 and 912 currently at the West Lilac site. And this illustration um shows the work that we need to do and on the right hand side is a list of the action steps that we need to take. um the TK alignment workstream. This is we're we're going to we did receive at the Monday meeting uh staff direction staff was directed by the board to provide a deliverables along with an impact briefing space analysis cost estimate for grade six improvements to help inform the decision around the alignment of grade levels with an emphasis on the educational program. The space analysis is districtwide. In addition to West Lilac, we need to look at Bonso L and Bonso West. Um the team

136will concentrate on immediate objectives while considering future decisions and ongoing communication within and around the community. any other items that you would like to share from the uh workg group of the study session on Monday or did I get the board direction right? Okay. And then next is our um engagement. We don't have any more uh study sessions on the calendar yet. They'll be descheduled as we need them. And then our next uh trustee area D meeting is on Monday, March 16th. And that's here. Yeah, at the Bonsal Activity Center, community center. And then as always, closing, we have the um list of where we're documenting all of this work that we're doing over the last 18 months. That concludes my report. Thank you, Caroline. I I know we are uh spending a lot of

137time this last year or so on our facilities discussions. So we have some a significant consensus vote that happened on Monday as it related to the deliverables for moving uh forward with decision- making around alignment of programs. So looking forward to getting through all those quoteunquote gates as has been defined and u seeing how the community discussions evolve with our town halls moving forward. So thank you. That brings us to our action items for the evening. First action item is 9.1. This is the renewal of the Palomar College CCAP uh partnership agreement. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I Motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item 9.2. This is the first read of the artificial intelligence uh documentation for our um uh board policies. >> Do we have to

138approve this or just and then go on to the next one when it's the second time or >> Okay. So motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> motion carries unanimously bringing us to again another first read. This is the uh board policy 1114 a district sponsored social media. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item 9.4. This is one that trustee Ortega wanted to have some discussion on regarding board policy 1445 response to immigration enforcement. Mr. Yeah. Um, one of the things that's been been brought up, I've talked with some people about it is um, the border patrol has been setting up a checkpoint on the way toward the poly reservation. So, the school bus drives through that

139either in the morning or in the afternoon, whenever they set up that that thing. As far as I know, they've never stopped cars. They just set it up and they don't they don't do anything. It's and this is the border patrol. So, it's not the ICE, you know, category, which is a totally different entity. Well, not totally different, but a different entity. And um I know it shows some it has some concerns for some of the parents of our community. Uh one of the things too that uh we have some some parents that actually drive their kids to school to uh Bonsel Elementary. They choose not to not to take them to uh Baby Banks, so they go to Bonso Elementary. And uh from what I understand, sometimes some of these parents will not go

140that way if they know that checkpoint is there. It's not that they're at issue or they're they're worried about having an issue. Uh as far as they're not they're not in a situation that um would cause them to have a problem, but they are people of color and they don't want the stress on their children and their and their families. uh because you know things have happened that um it hasn't been considered right or done fairly. So uh there's a lot of stress right there that uh some parents decide not to go that way or take their kids to school that way. So they either go an alternate route or they don't send their cool their kids to school that day. So, one of the things I wanted to make sure that we put into

141the board board policy is not just the fact that the bus driver won't allow people to get on the bus uh to to check things out. At least that's my understanding of what our policy is. Um what can the uh bus driver do if someone is armed and forces their way on there? and this being a federal federal agent forcing their way onto the bus. And um also is there information that we could provide for our students and our families that would help them be a little bit more understanding of what their rights and responsibilities are uh in such a situation because right now it's like they don't know and so they don't uh you know they don't send their kids to school. Um, and I don't think they have a reason to not send

142their kids to school, but since there's a lot of fact they they don't know what's going to happen or what could happen or what their rights are. Um, I think that's something that we as a board should consider providing information for our students. Um, but I didn't want to do that on my own. Um, I didn't want this to be say it's coming from the school board or the school district and then me provide information to our our parents. But I wanted to know actually I wanted to see what everyone else's opinion is on this and uh if we should put something like that into the policies. Um is anybody opposed or against it or am I speaking out of turn here? That's my question. >> Thank you Mr. Williams for coming out to addressing

143the questions. >> Yes. So there is explicit language in the board policy which is derived from assembly bill 49 I believe it is. um calling us to come up with a policy. We have not developed the administrative regulations at this time which is really um just our prescription or how we're going to follow this board policy. So I think any additional input would be helpful as we develop that AR which would be tucked in alongside the board policy. So, I think, you know, we can put some uh very explicit statements in an AR saying what we're going to do as far as our administrative regulations or our are carrying out these policies. So, I hope that's helpful. >> Yeah. Also too, just um the stress on our bus drivers. What would they have to be

144trained in or to uh help help their student help the students are on the bus and the families of the students that are on the bus uh to be able to answer questions about I I just assume that there's going to be a parent or so that's going to ask a school bus driver what are they going to do? And um you know, is the bus driver going to be trained on what to say? that's uh going to be, you know, what our policy is. >> Yeah, I think that's very good input and we have a a really great director of transportation and a really good team that I think that would be really invaluable to give them some explicit training. Um I I c I also came across some information about people that are

145putting out cards that have a list of their rights and responsibilities for uh to people for people to carry on them so that they can actually because tell you the truth I'm an American citizen. I we we all know our constitutional rights but can we recite them word for word? So if you have like a a card or something that says you know well the constitution says this and this is my right and um and also as a parent um we get a lot of information asking our parents to have a lot more control over um our activities of our students at schools and stuff and but there's a lot of parents that don't know especially in this particular area they don't know their rights in these areas um I you know again I could

146probably when I when I went to school, we had to learn the constitution. We trained on it and you know, we studied it. But, you know, apparently the constitution is not that simple. I mean, you can recite it and someone says, "Well, that actually means," and then they arrest you, you know, and so um um yeah, so information I I think helping our our parents out with information and stuff and and I don't know how this I don't know if this occurs on other bus routes or other parts of our district, but I know it's occurring there, and I also know it's occurring in Fbrook, which is not in our district. And uh I don't know what their policies are on it either, but I was thinking about reaching out and asking some some of

147the board members if they had policies on it. And um um but yeah, these are my these are my concerns and they've been, you know, concerns that I've been dealing with um for a few months now or a couple of months anyway at least. Okay. >> Because this this checkpoint has really just originated this year. It wasn't there before. They used to have a border patrol and checkpoint, but it was actually up at the northern end of uh politic grade >> and they don't they don't they don't have it up there anymore, but they have it right there in that spot which um like I said, the big concern about that is our our students that come from the reservation. >> Absolutely. >> Well, thank you and I appreciate the input as we develop the

148administrative regulations for this. >> Thank you, Trusty Ortega. With that said, is there a motion to approve the first read as presented? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously. Thank you uh Mr. Williams for making sure we address the concerns coming from our uh PALA representation. Bringing us then to action item 9.5. This is the board policy 6163.4 student use of technology. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously, bringing us to action item 9.6. This is resolution 26-03-01, elimination of the school psychologist management positions. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously, bringing us to action item 9.7. This is resolution 26-03-02, elimination of temporary certificated positions. >> Motion to

149approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries. Bringing us to action item 9.8. This is resolution 26-03-03, release of employee 628538, school psychologist. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item 9.9 resolution number 26-03-05 identify the amount of budget reductions needed in 2627 and 2728. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item 9.10. This is the fiscal re sorry fiscal year second interim budget report for Bonsel Unified School District. Miss Laura Castro, you have a update for us. questions. >> Hi and good evening again. Um, I'm going to be presenting to you the second interim report for the fiscal year 2526 and I know the information

150can be tedious and just bear with me through this presentation. I'm still thinking how to put pictures or images to the numbers. So, I'll I'll work on that so it can be more attractive. So we're going to start with just a trend on enrollment ADA and and duplicated people counts um historical information in some projections. The bars represent the enrollment and then we have uh three lines. One is the actual ADA founded ADA and then the other one is in the people count. As we can see, we have um kind of where we're recouping on the last uh last fiscal year. We were going up in enrollment. Now we went down 2526 for the funded ADA which is the color I don't know you can see kind of blue gray um for the current year

1512526 where is based on prior year um ADA which is higher than the projected one for this year. the following two years was our projected numbers 2627 and 2728 we're projecting um a flat um actual ADA so we're funded on an average uh because we are projecting that you will see the numbers on the next slide it will make more more sense so last year we were obviously higher than duplicate peoples as well now we went down from um 1,92 22 to 978. So that's the decrease from 2425 to 2526. That's for supplemental supplemental and concentration additional funding. Just you can see the trend of enrollment and the ADA. Okay. Then we have some assumptions over here that are utilized in order to do the projections. This information is provided but by the county we

152need to follow their um the information that they provide for us like some of them is particular to the district some other is uh provided in this case for example the cost of living adjustment which is a cola uh for the current year is 2.3 uh the following year's slight increase when we compare these numbers to the uh previous reporting period first internal report uh the 26 27 the cola was projected to be higher 60 um higher than what is now after the January governor's um budget update then we have right there the actual ADA so we're projecting based on P1 P1 was done on on January we're funding in on P2 but these are the numbers that really close normally P2 is very close align to numbers of P1. It's a slightly difference but

153we for several years that I have seen that pattern the pundited ADA is higher because on this particular year you can see 2526 is um on prior year ADA because it was higher than the this year the actual ADA or the projected actual that's what we funded that's the ad that we're going to be receiving the funding following year 26 27 is um the funded It is an average because we're projecting um flat the the estimated ADA for the following two years. And you can see there is an average of the prior three years ADA. If the numbers continue like that, if is there any change on the on the actual ADA for further years or even for this B2, things are going to change in a different way. Um but based on the current

154data, this is how we're projecting to be funded. And then the trend line is reflecting the BBM banks um projections that we have in in the books. 5188 for the current year and slowly decreasing um 2728 and then 50.858. The enrollment we're projecting it flat based on census day uh the first Wednesday of October 2025. And for Bian banks, we project a slightly decrease on the last uh on the third year out and duplicate pupils we're projecting in a way conservative way. We're projecting a flat. Uh we had an increase last year. We're thinking that because the developments are coming um at one point we have to see that increase again. The the stores remains flat for the three years 19.10% 10% and the purse is increasing from 26.81 projected for 2526 and ending on

15526.90 on the third year out. This is just the LCF components of the local um control funding formula for which is the major revenue that we receive. Um so state aid 9.9 millions and then we have the education protection account is related to the prop 30 that's exclusively for um instructional services it can be um uh it should be uh salaries can be also other other instructional materials but typically we identify that for salaries purposes for uh in classroom and then we have the property taxes the net of net property taxes after we contribute that to um the charter school for ADA that they have is 16 um 3 million. The total will be 26.7 million for LCFA funding. And we go to a comparison. Uh what is the difference between first internal report and

156the current report that we're presenting today? Beginning balance remain the same. No changes there. We uh have finalized the audit and everything remained the same on the financial statements. Um so for total revenues we do have an increase. We have a difference of $451,000 and I'm going to explain this is a net um of different type of revenues. Um we have an increase in LCFF revenue compared to how it was projected on internal report because we do have an increase on ADA on TK um TKDA there's an additional uh funding or adds on as part of the LCFF for TK uh and because of that that increase represent $277,000 about that for for that increase from 86 ADA projected enforcing 4 to 129.65. So we have an increase on on kids and grad that grade

157level. Um we also see an small increase um of $35,000 and the general um LCFF. This is due to the projection that we had once we uh saw the numbers um of the enrollment. P1 was not completed at that point. We had to submit the first report on December. we had to do a projection and um it was a slightly different than the actual P1. P1 was a little higher which is good. We all like to be conservative and this is where it's coming at $35,000. Then we had some federal revenues. Um we had reduction on title one for 11,000. It's it's a minor reduction but is is is going down. Um the state revenue we have an increase of $95,000. This is just to give you the total net. I'm I'm laying it out

158every single category so you know where it's coming from. The difference of increase of 451,000. And then um for the state revenues, we have a total of 95,000 increase even though uh the ELO um grant projection went down $150,000 and I explain why. Um there are two tiers of funding for the this program and based on a duplicated pupil's percentage. So bonsel uh is part of the two tier. This is funded um after the first allocation of the location of the 31 is done and we are part of the districts that uh our unduples are 54.99 or less and that's when we fall on tier two because of that whatever is available whatever the other districts live for the districts that don't need that threshold that's what is available distributed to to the districts with

159less uh upp We want to take care of people's counts. So we don't it still is um uncertain. It's just projected once we have um the annual they do a revision because if districts that they had a higher unduplicated pupils they don't use the funding they had to return it and then the pool grows again and is redistributed to the other districts. So it changed basically the right. It's it's a playing uh game because they always play with my uh play with my feelings. how was the um the superintendent because every time that we go and check it's something different. Then we have also an additional revenue for the CTA programs at $175,000 and then also a transportation um there's an additional revenue for $45,000 compared to first interim report. This is based on prior

160year expenditures as a percentage that they give us in addition to whatever is included on the LCSF LCF. in addition funding additional funding then also we receive a $20,000 for literacy screening as part of the AB121 a local revenue increase for $100,000 this is related to um $62,000 increase in intraela agreements the students that we are serving over here from other districts so it's revenue that we're going to be collecting for that and then we have a $25,000 increase in medical program and some other small adjustments and donations and other small programs. So all of that give us the revenue net increase of $451,000. That's the line of the revenues. And then we move to the expenditures section. It's just a decrease on $111,000 and it's a combination of um several things too. The first

161one is a um an increase of 20 $23,000. And I'm going to want to want to be clear, the majority of these increases are related to restricted programs. So we have this $23,000. We have booking supplies as part of some other programs. For example, um this is coming from the 8150, which is restricted maintenance account. We have an increase of $16,000 for u the purchases of equipment for custodians to cleaning the carpets. the C CEK program increase and supplies $20,000 because we receive an additional round for the CEK program. Then we have other adjustments um for 13,000 and another small programs. Then in services and operating expenditures we have an increase of 122,000 and all of these are restricted funding. So we have CT program 34,000, CEK 36,000. Uh the student support and professional develop

162block grant which is the new grant that we received this year. A section of that is reserved for uh service and operations $20,000. And then um the increase also a contract for par professionals. This is related to special education services as $40,000. All these are increases. But then we have a uh a decrease on the general fund because we did a transaction um we put the debt service which is related to the solar lease. We move it from the general fund to one of the capital uh funds to help with the deficit spending as it was presented to the board um I don't know probably a couple months ago. Um and that's uh $295,000 reduction. All that net is just a um a reduction total compared to first interim report to the second interim report.

163$111,000 less and expenditures. Then the sources seem to remain the same. This is just a a requirement to record it that way. It's a wash up. We have a that same amount on expenditures. So it's is just a requirement for Gatsby. The transfers out just have a small um decrease of 707 95 super small the contributions is $35,000. This is related to the pro the tuitions that we're talking about for SULPA because we do have an increase on some agreements on some contracted services on a special education but because we have receiving this revenue of $62,000 then it is $35,000 and decrease on the contributions compared first internal report and the second internal report. So with all these changes we do see um and just so you have in mind all these total numbers are

164including restricted and unrestricted. So both are combined in both lines. So the total uh net uh the difference is we have um $630,000 and increase compared to percent on report on your fun balance. So the end informal projected as first internal report was 6.1 million. The second internal report it had an increase um to 6.7 million. Then we move to the next one. We'll see what are those components for the current year. The 6.7 million. That looks kind of funny like a really oval. Um so we have a part of th the that amount 2.3 millions as restricted. Then we have the reserve that is required 3% 1.2 million and 20,000 that is set aside for emergencies that give us a total of 3.1 in and an assigned or available. All of those um are

165the components of the fund balance of 6.7 that is the projection um for this fiscal year. Here we have the multi-year projection. So we already dive into 2526. We ended we we saw the ending balance on 6.7 million. That take us on the second column which is going to be the beginning balance for uh 2627s. And then we see a decrease on revenues. We do, if you remember, we do have a reduction in cola uh on the projection compared to one year to another. But what is uh the major difference between these two years is the uh restricted programs that now are exalted and the revenue was recognized prior years. There's a lot of programs that are closing out. And then in expenditures I would like to uh walk you through what is the reduction.

166It's about 2 million right there between 2526 and 2627. The majority of this is related to the um resolution that you have approved already for budget reductions and I'll show you here. Here is the predicted reductions for 2627. So for classified positions $400,000 for certificated positions 1.75 million and reccastification on solar expense 295,000 capital LA 205 and if you add a map is basically that difference between the two years that we're projecting. Yes. If we can put it back in the general fund. >> The other capital funding. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> Retroactively. I don't think >> I don't think the spouse books have been closed already. >> Okay. >> It will be like a major major change and a process to follow with auditors and everything. I I don't think we can do that.

167I can definitely look further and give you know a certain answer but I don't see it because the books are closed for all those years. Yes, everything has been audited and closed and everything. So I don't see that as a possibility but you know definitely I I can ask um for further clarification. >> Yes. >> Okay. So we go back over here to to move to your projection. So um we do have in the transfers out. I see a reduction right there. We have lifted reduction. This is related to some of the reductions that have been board approved have an impact on fund nine which is the charter school that will be reduced that as a transfer out of the general fund but also the district has already implemented um as this month the increase

168on the daycare fees which is going to help to mitigate the contributions of transfers out the general fund to other funds. And that's why we're projecting this reduction for 26 27 and 2728 compared to 2526 which is the current year. Um because we're going to be gradually increasing those fees. So we started already in this this month but in August start with a different an increase again and then every semester and then it's going to be a percentage um per year for the contributions. Um we just have a small uh decrease right there. Um this is related to the services u contracted services to the nurse that were paying a higher rate. So it's expected those contracts to end this year and not to um contract for those services no more. So we have the

169ending balance. We already talked about the 6.77 million. If the for the 2627 the expected or the projected ending fund balance is 4.7 uh 4.2 2. The third year out is 1.7 and that's the year that put us in a qualified status because we're uh that put us in a red number and then we'll see right now the the percentage we're going to meet the reserve for the out the next will take you will tell you what is are the reserve for each year. So we are meeting it for the uh first two years but for the third one we're slightly under. So this represents $97,000600 that's the resolution you just approve for that amount that we need to come with reductions if anything changes if anything changes um in the budget when this is

170uh enacted by by the state or any other changes other grants that are coming up. um any other increases like uh salaries that need to be included right there to cons to take in consideration for productions also. So um the required amount typically like this current year will be 1.2 2 million for the reserve that represent the 3% of the expenditures that it out because we are already projecting reductions is down to 1.66 um million but it's still wining and you see the 1.72 just wanted to clarify that that's combined restricted and restricted and other components of the ending fund balance. So restricted amounts we cannot include it on the calculation for the reserve. Then we look at this. I'm going to skip this one and then conclude with the presentation. Um, >> do you

171want to see it? >> Do you really want to see it? Okay. >> He said we we have got to cut energy cost. Hire someone who lights up the room with her smile. >> Okay. Yeah, I have a I have a a comment or question, whatever you want to call it. So, whenever I look at the budget, right, and I look at the projections and I say, "Oh, in three years, we're not going to be in good shape, right? We're always three years out." >> Our response is always cut, right? Because we don't we don't produce anything, right? We we're dependent on certain revenue sources, >> part of which is our student population, you know, our student count. So I think you know it's like what do we do about that right we it's because

172you might be thinking well we can't get more we can't make students appear so then our budget is restricted right but I do think there are two avenues that and I preached this so many times over the years that we are missing the boat on this because there are two avenues that we can do to try to bring in more students. Number one is, as I preached before, put a very special program into Bonso West, something extremely unique that nobody else in this district ha I mean in North County has. Put something in there so unique that people will want to come, right? You have to do it. And we can talk about it and talk about it and talk about it, but then we'll end up just talking about cuts again. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

173>> But we have to also work on the other side. How can we how can we change things? How can we improve our product? How can we how can we we we make people want to come here now? Whether that's through interd district transfers or that's through people wanting to move to our district because we have this program that nobody else does and they want our kids to go there. So if we want to if we want to change number beyond just always cutting and being on the defensive, we need to get proactive and we need to say what can we put into that school especially and I've mentioned Bonso West because it has the space and it has that. So, what I'm saying is we that's one thing we need to do and and

174and and I I get tired every year I see these numbers and I'm like we're just we're I I say this stuff, right? And it's like it's it's it seems simple, but we need to start thinking outside the box. How can we deal with what we have and try to draw people here? The other thing that there's the other thing we're missing the boat on is the Bonsel Virtual Academy. That is a very lowcost relatively um way to get student population counts. We get the same amount of money for BVA, is that not correct, that we do for so we get the same amount of money without the overhead, the extensive overhead. So I've said before if we have to go out and charter it in some way, I don't even know what that would

175entail to be able to reach beyond our own district and start, you know, offering this to people who are on um homeschoolers, to people who are, you know, other there's parents all around that would love our flex point system. Our flex point system in the BVA is very efficient. It is a very very good academic program. It's a very great curriculum with a lot of course offerings that a lot of schools don't offer. So I know if if we put that information in front of a lot of these, you know, these uh you know parents that have homeschoolers or they're out of the district for whatever reason, if they want to teach them at home, this is a very good uh substance for them. It's a very good foundation for them to to build upon,

176you know, if they want to do other things beyond that. So I think if we're if we did that if because think about every student we get helps right that we get at Bonso Virtual Academy. So the more we get over there the better it is and if we work with Bonso West we can we can start offsetting some of the cuts that we have to make on the other side. So that's my that's what I have to say. >> Thank you. Um I agree I agree um 100% in your on your comments. We appreciate that. um regarding the virtual uh bones academy. So we do have to meet some ratios that comparative ratios to the district. Um then we do gain uh ADA if they complete the homework. So we're pushing forward to that.

177I mean, I know they're working um really hard to make sure that they fill the contracts and then uh if they're going to be absent, they notify, they get aligned, they get the paperwork to complete the homework and everything. But if that is not turned in, that becomes an absence and and that is in against us. uh regarding the structure the structuration of the programming uh I think we agree hocus group uh to do that um make a unique program at the bones west elementary and I think we have the opportunity now that the the board is looking into do a situation on the um grade levels at different sites and move uh students I don't know put boundaries and all these things that are coming up and it's a great opportunity I think um

178our um team, our cabinet members are looking into that as well as an um opportunity to make this happen. So looking forward to that. Thank you for appreciate that. >> Another idea that we could look at too is um this is something I've been wanting to propose is increasing our busing. If we were able to increase our busing, we might be able to keep a lot more of our students that don't want to pay those large amounts of money to to bus their kids to school or they have to drive their kids to school. And and our our district is really big and even for people that want to drive their students to school, it's a lot of lot of effort. Uh there's a lot of traffic on the road. If we were to look

179at the idea of increasing our busing, I mean know we actually the last thing we did was we started doing cuts. And one of the things we did cut was our busing program. And right now we're b we're at basically bare minimum on our r busing program. Um and I probably shouldn't say that because it probably could be less even. But um if we were to increase our busing program, we might be able to not only increase our students but also retain more students. Um we have a lot of parents that drive a long ways and they choose to go somewhere else. Um I I I can speak like for Paula right there. Bonsil is only 9 miles from Paula which is a good amount. I mean it's not far at all. When I went

180to school we had to go to Fberrook and it's uh I don't know 23 miles or something like that. And you know it's a 40 40minute drive. But um that nine miles you got to remember there's another high school great oak that's only eight miles from Paula. different county, but it's only eight miles and no stop one stoplight to get there. And the other one is uh Valley Center, which is 13 miles from Paula. And again, one stoplight and no traffic. I I know you guys have been out to Paula and you've seen the traffic that goes from here to there. Once you go the east on 76, there's no traffic. So, um that's that's also a benefit for all. And then they also choose all tribes which is only I want to say 11

181miles from Paula. Um and again one stop light. It's a 15-minute drive. >> And to Eric's point that happens on both sides of the district, not just Paula but on the Bonsel West side too. Over there we lose a lot of kids because of this for the same issue that he's mentioning on that side. So that is another avenue I believe that that would be good to look at. >> Yes. Thank you so much for the input and the feedback. We we are in agreement 100%. We understand how impactful can be uh not having the transportation that is needed especially when the distance is so far you know not notorious or so far away and also that we're competing with other districts and surroundings that they provide transportation to all students. So, we totally understand

182that. I have um starting looking into um busing or bus programs to fund it to be able to purchase more. I I haven't come out yet with one grand available right now, but I'm start looking already and checking to see what is available. So because we do care about the transportation as well, we know we know that it's important is a need for the students that that are able to there's will be more attractive for them to have that that option instead of paying or not having you know the the opportunity to to ride a bus. So we're looking into that as well. And I guess um we will follow up with this as a as a cabinet um and members to see what how we can um make this um an opportunity for the

183students as well. So thank you. Well, I would like to request approval of the second interim report if you have any other questions. >> Thank you, Miss Castro. I do have I just want to add on to Trusty Gatis' comment uh about the uh Bonsel Virtual Academy. When we first founded it in uh during um COVID times, virtual was pretty much where we needed to be, but I still have I stumble over the nomenclature. I think that if it was called Bonsel Homeschool Academy or even just Bonsel Academy, uh perhaps then uh because it's it's not just purely virtual either. We have field trips and extracurriculars and a lot of other programming that I think that just the word virtual >> um is uh >> very strict or >> it it it I think it's

184>> it doesn't it's not encouraging you know >> it doesn't represent what it really is because like like you're saying it's more than just a virtual experience. We offer you know uh field trips that social interaction you know we have all of these things socioeotional as you would say yeah opportunities that you can't get in a lot of these like even for some of the competition for example um you know like for example San Juan Capistrano has a virtual academy but I don't believe that they have anything like what we have where you can still interact and you can still do those things so I think for for parents who want to have their kids at home but at the same time want opportunities to to have uh the socio emotional type connection. I think

185that the name doesn't conotate that. The name conotates, oh, it's a virtual you don't have any interact. So, I I think you're right. I don't think it conotates exactly what it does. So anyway, that would be my one recommendation to maybe explore how we can move forward uh to because there is a very significant homeschooling population in this area and if we were to, you know, maybe kind of rebrand it and relaunch it, you know, with the software and everything else that we have in place, I think that there could be a u reinvigoration in enrollment. >> Thank you so much. Yes, we have some homework to do. >> And and with that, uh is there a motion to approve the second interim budget report? >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second it. >> All

186in favor? >> I >> motion carries unanimously. >> Thank you, Laura, for that report. And uh we thought we I know you thought you were done, but we just gave you a whole lot more stuff to work on. >> And my passion wasn't directed at you per se. I just it's just in general. >> You had tires. You know, my I'm taking my tire for straight. >> Bringing us to action item 9.11. This is the contract with Wilkinson Hadley King and Company LLP for audit services for fiscal year 2526. >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item 9.12. This is a proposal from Alpha Studio Design Group for architectural services for the Bonsel West Elementary Schools fire suppression system. >> Motion

187to approve. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries unanimously, bringing us to our last action item for the evening, the public works contract with Santa Fe paving for work completed at Vivian Banks Charter School. I wanted to make uh be before we um look at that uh um I wanted to make sure that we understand that if we do this in the future that a lot of times buying the materials for the tribe the tribe can a lot of times do the work um they're not really professional papers but they could do that like you know we have a lot of employees that have the equipment to do this kind of thing and they have done it uh but um you know it it might help defer the cost a

188little bit because again the community does want to help out out there. It's just you know buying the equipment and everything like that is kind of the only cost but >> that's it. >> So thank you. Thank you so much. We can definitely explore that option. Just wanted to uh clarification on the requirements for the contractors that they have need to have the California license that specialized on on this the category that are doing the work for they need to be part of the DIR. If they're not paying perilian wages, then we're going to hire them or contract with them because we're we're not able to pay them. We're going to be against what we're required to do as what pertains to our procurement process as school district or government agency. So, I just wanted

189to let you know ahead of the time, but we definitely can explore that possibility. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Those darn school rules, huh? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. Motion carries unanimously, bringing us to our public comment section of our meeting. Miss McInerney, is there anybody that would like to say anything else in addition to >> Do you want to say anything? >> Okay. So, our clerk does not get to read our requirements for public comment today, bringing us to our planning section of our meeting. And we have our next regularly scheduled meeting is for Thursday, April 9th. uh close session at 4:30, open session at 6, as well as we do have the upcoming uh town halls, including next Monday, uh the 16th of March, and then

190it was the 23rd is the the next one uh 23rd of March as well. And with that, we shall adjourn at 9:08 p.m. Thank you everybody. Happy March. Happy St. Patrick's Day. And see you soon. Lunar New Year.