001[Music] Wow, heat. [Music] My [Music] only good evening and welcome to the regular Another board meeting of Carpa Unified School District. It is May 13, 2025. Can everybody please stand for the flag salute? Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance 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. Okay. Welcome everyone. Hello friends. Um okay, we're going to begin with our closed session report conference with labor negotiators. Um we uh I am happy to report out that after two years of negotiations, the district's pleased to have reached an agreement with its teachers and staff that honors their dedication to public education while upholding the district's fiscal and operational responsibilities. Our teachers and staff play a vital role in
002supporting students and are an essential part of our school community. This agreement reflects the district's deep appreciation for their contributions and provides fair and meaningful compensation for the hard work and commitment. Um and I will read out what it is. So um for certificated and classified the same uh let's see here I'll start with certificated um for the 202526 school year the certificated salary schedule will be revised to reflect an increase of 5% effective July 1st 2025. um and an off-schedule compensation. The district will pay each certificated unit member currently employed and in paid status at the time of the contract is ratified and approved by both parties a one-time offsc equivalent to 4% of their base salary in the 2425 school year. This payment will be extended to certificated unit members who retired during
003the 23 24 or 2425 school years. For purposes of this provision, base salary excludes all forms of additional compensation, including but not limited to stipens, longevity, and extra pay assignments benefits. Beginning with the 2526 plan year, the district will contribute to an individual HSA account for any eligible unit members enrolled in the HSA 5000 health plan. All ACA and HSA rules and limits will apply. Beginning with the 2526 school year, special education teachers shall receive an annual stipend of $3,000 in recognition of the specialized skills required for their roles. This stipen will be paid in equal installments or over the course of the school year. For classified 2526 school year, classified salary schedule will be revised to reflect an increase of 5% effective July 1st, 2025. Off-scale compensation. The district will pay each classified unit
004member currently employed and in paid status at the time of the contract is ratified and approved by both parties a one-time offset sum equivalent to 4% of their base salary in the 2425 school year. This payment will be extended to classified unit members who retire during the 23 24 or 2425 school years. For purposes of this provision, base salary excludes all forms of additional compensation, including but not limited to overtime, stipens, differentials, and additional hours. Instructional assistance, all currently employed instructional assistance will be moved to step 13 effective July 1, 2025. Medical, dental, and optical benefits. Beginning with the 2526 plan year, the district will contribute to an individual HSA account for any eligible unit member enrolled in the HSA 5000 health plan. All ACA and HSA rules and limits will apply. Contingent adjustment based
005on property property tax allocation for certificated and classified for the 2425 property tax allocation. Unit members will receive a one-time off-schedule payment based on the Santa Barbara County Office of Education's final P3 property tax allocation for the 2425 fiscal year as follows. If the property final property tax allocation reaches 31.750 million, uh a 0.5 off-schedule payment or if it reaches 32 million or more, a 1% off-schedule payment. Any off-schedule payment is based on property tax allocation under this provision shall be paid by October 1, 2025. This provision applies one time only and shall not be included in future agreements. 2526 property tax allocation. The salary schedule increase will be adjusted based on the Santa Barbara County Office of Education's final P3 property tax allocation for the 2526 fiscal year as follows. If the final property
006tax allocation reaches 33.25 25 million uh.5 shall be applied to the existing salary schedule or if it reaches 33.5 million 1% shall be added to the existing existing salary schedule or if it reaches 33.75 million 1.5% shall be added to the existing salary schedule or if it reaches 34 million or more 2% shall be added to the existing salary schedule. Any increase based on property tax allocation under this provision shall take effect October 1, 2026 and shall be applied to the existing salary schedule as an ongoing adjustment. This provision applies one time only and shall not be included in future agreements. Article 13 leave provisions certificated um and hang on uh and just clarify it's same for both. So this is the same for certificated and classified. Um new 13.5 registering employee absence and leave.
007Unit members will register their contractual absences, leave notifications, andor leave requests using the district's designated absence reporting process 13.15.1. At the out I should say these annotations are different between the two CBAs, but I'm going to read it once because it's the same for both. At the outset of each instructional year and upon hiring, the district will provide unit members a district-wide notification clarifying the most current reporting process. The notification will clarify how unit members will use the absence reporting system to register leave and leave requests to district administration. Unit members will be notified of any changes to the district absence reporting process prior to said changes being enforced. This factf finding agreement resolves all outstanding negotiable issues between cause certificated and classified and the district for the 23 24 school year. Furthermore, this agreement
008shall act to close any negotiations for the 2425 and 2526 school years. No further negotiations shall be required for these years unless agreed upon. Um so the next steps in this process um is that the union will meet with its members and ratify the agreement um and then it will come to the board to approve and then we will be able to pay our staff and employees based on what is in the contract details. Um, so I I I'm sure emails will go out from um union leadership to its members to notify them of the dates and times and locations of the meeting. And um I also just want to mention um over the last couple years we've heard lots of misinformation about how the district measures up to others. Um this right here is
009uh the factf finding binder um created by school services of California from three different state reports the J90 seabeds and the sachs report comparing 13 unified school districts across the tri counties to to Carpanderia Unified. This truly compares apples to apples. It's available on our website. It is publicly available. It's been published there um with all the information for anybody to view. It's a comprehensive picture of how the district measures up to other similar districts. Um, and there's a lot of really great info in there. Uh, it's a lot. There's like 50 pages with lots of supporting documents, but um, lots of great tables including, uh, reserve averages both statewide and across the tri counties and other unified districts. Um, especially for basic aid. um our IIA to student ratios um are the highest across
010the other comparable school sites. Um and uh it talks about employee benefits and other things. So it just gives a very uh it's a very comprehensive picture like I said, but also it's from state reports, not anything that was made up by anybody. So, um it's just yeah and it's available and that's that. Okay, we are now going to move on to C3, public comment for items not on this agenda. If you would like to make a public comment for items that are not contained within tonight's agenda, please step up to the podium now. Go ahead and line up just one right after the other. Um you don't need to sign a speaker card. Um and please just keep going. Otherwise, I'm going to move on to the next item if if I don't see
011you um coming up. Okay, we will begin. Thank you. Can you hear me? Okay. Uh, Girls Inc. Uh, [Music] Uh, see there's The desert [Music] kind no Foreign [Music] As I grandche uh professionistas. Uh now I I'll speak in English. Uh yesterday at uh please reset his time. Thank you. Yeah. uh yesterday at uh our city council meeting I think girls inc uh because of the great uh achievement that uh uh that has done and is doing uh with uh with girls and and I can only talk about girls because I I I got three girls no boys and so that meant that for 25 years I went to girls every day and for uh same number of years I I went to the school uh to the school sites every morning. Uh so uh
012but uh that that was a great effort effort by uh uh by uh everyone and uh I would like to thank the teachers uh of the past current teachers uh for their great effort their great uh it's determination to keep going uh and regardless of language uh uh but Uh back then there was no dual language uh immersion program, nothing. And uh uh today uh they have it and they should take advantage of it. And uh it's only through effort that uh students can uh succeed and uh they have succeeded in the past and uh they have succeeded uh uh currently we we have uh attorneys, we have teachers, we we have uh uh psychologists, sociologists everywhere in the states and uh that whenever I uh years. Uh I mean to me my one of
013my greatest uh satisfactions as a a board member was uh graduation day. That handshake meant to me everything. 12 years of uh effort, 12 years of dedication and that strong handshake for me. I'll never forget that. I'll take that to my grave gladly. And uh so uh once again I thank the teachers. I I thank you and I thank the students. I thank families uh moms, dads for the great effort and that I'm glad that they're here today. And once again, thank you all. Thank you. Next. Good evening. My name is Rachel Kent, mother of Caspian and a first grader and Rillian and TK and I'm speaking to you as a family school parent. CFS families want to remind the board how important it is to maintain family school. We understand the budget challenges that
014you're facing, but we urge you to avoid drastic short-sighted decisions that could permanently impact this unique and valuable program. We know that one proposal is to move the gate teacher to a 34 class at Canolino. Instead, we asked that the board would consider a no-cost alternative, having that teacher lead a 23 class at the family school while distributing fourth graders across Canalino and CFS. This would help sustain enrollment and strengthen future pathways into family school. We've heard concerns about low demand, but many families simply don't know about the program or how to register. Keeping the 23 class will help rebuild interest and allow time to create a stronger pipeline. Thank you for your time and considering solutions that preserve this important community resource. And we also wanted to invite you all to the Moana production
015that our students have been working really hard on this Friday at 6 PM and Saturday at 12. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next. Hopefully I don't start coughing. Hi, I'm Lori Lee Collins. I teach at Carpenter Family School, fourth and fifth grade. Hi, Klets. Nice to see you guys. Excited to be here. Awesome blossoms. Um, I just want to thank the board and cause and everybody who's been a part of negotiations the last couple of years collectively through your time, energy, efforts, and dedication. You brought a sigh of relief to the community. We all just really wanted that stability and just I understand the energy. Before being a teacher 22 years ago, I worked for United Parcel Service. I was in management. I was on the other side. And so, I get it. I
016get that there's compromises and I get that there's a lot of time, energy, and effort and dialogue and paperwork and etc. So, I just really appreciate everyone's effort. So, thank you so much. It's really what I want to say, but then I'm going to do a Moana plug and a family school plug. Okay. Family school. I helped start it 22 years ago. I love it. I adore it. Our dear Jan Silk is retiring this year from our second and third grade class. She is the muse of family school. She's the reason why we have these giant musicals. I'm always like, I'm not doing it again. You should have seen how many times I was ready to quit the musical in the last couple of weeks. It's just pretty much every day. Um um and it's
017it's such a wonderful unique experience. And so we do want to invite the whole entire community to come see Moana this Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 12:00 p.m. If you go on Parent Square, there's a poster with a QR code or just show up and get a ticket. And uh Jan is retiring. It's on June 8th. There will be a little ceremony down at the state park and the amphitheater. If you are a former family, school parent, family, kidlet, if you did a musical, show up. And if you want to say something about Jan, please consider coming down to celebrate her because she I don't know how I'm going to do it without her. I just truly don't. So, I keep telling her, "Why are you leaving me? Don't go." Anyhow, um but
018she's ready to go to the next uh wonderfulness in her life with her husband and her family. So, I'm super excited for her. I think that's all I wanted to say, but just really Oh, in in Moana, Maui always says, "Thank you. You're welcome." So, you better show up so uh you can hear that song. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. And I just I actually already have it in my notes for board announcements to talk about that. So, we got we get to we get to sandwich it right there. And I already have my tickets for Friday night. Awesome. Blossom. Thank you. Yay. All righty. Thank you. Um, an impass settlement was reached last Friday, May 9th. The bargaining partners, CUSD, and employees represented by elected union leadership, are still working out
019a few remaining details, which once resolved could save the district hundreds of thousands of dollars in healthcare costs. Although this agreement does not resolve the significant labor disputes in CUSD, it does resolve collective bargaining for the 23 24, 2425, and 2526 school years. Thus far, we've avoided the disruption of a general strike and are in the process of encouraging employees to ratify the agreement. That said, it should not have taken so long to reach this agreement, and it doesn't even come close to bringing district employees the economic stability or salary increase they've earned. Unfortunately, the district squandered that money, millions of dollars in legal fees, equivalent to a 17% salary increase during the two years it took to negotiate this contract. But the agreement brings slight relief to employees whose salaries do little to keep
020up with the regional cost of living increases and still far fall far far behind most surrounding districts. There is much more work to do before CUSD can claim it prioritizes employees economic stability, but we're going to help with that. Of significance, we should talk about what didn't get accomplished. Also, the district was unwilling to reach an agreement on any of the 50 possible safety improvements proposed by employees. Although we could have, we didn't include language that could have resolved four outstanding arbitrations. We have not resolved the inability of CUSD to retain employees or motivate a workforce yet with collaboration and shared decision-making. We've not resolved either district officials uh seeming apathy for the genuine well-being of district employees or their significant lack of understanding on matters of teaching and learning. We have not resolved our
021board members inability to listen often, let alone actually hear and transparently discuss the experience shared by those who directly work with students and families. And if you believe that these board meetings are an example that you listen and hear, we believe the record of your performance makes our point for us. To be clear, union leadership is not being uncharitable with these comments. Rather, we're clarifying why our comments pertaining to the impass settlement will include appreciation. We are grateful, but not applause for your leadership. These comments are not designed to appease delegate egos. They're offered to accurately clarify the process and agreement reached on Friday. After two years and much delay and obstruction, the parties did reach an agreement that resolves the impass process. We're grateful for that fact. We're grateful for any role that you
022played. It's the best employees and union leadership could do with the bargaining partner we have. The agreement is a step forward and we encourage employees to support it. Thank you. Okay, we are going to move on now to uh approval of the minutes. Um public comment. We will first take public comment on approval of the regular minute the minutes of the regular meeting of April 22nd, 2025. If you'd like to comment, please step up to the podium at this time. One right after the other, please. All righty. Thank you. So, let the minutes show at minute 11:40 that union leadership thanked Miss Pursoon and Mr. Anderson for their efforts to institute the very changes at Carpenter Middle School that employees in their union representatives had been requesting for the last six years, far too often
023requesting at great cost to their personal and professional stability. Let the minutes show that both Superintendent Riby and schoolboard members failed to publicly acknowledge the critical role that employees and union leaders played last year when court rulings favoring employees exposed several low-performing administrators who chose to quietly resign from the district. These resignations made way for a complete makeover at Carpentry Middle School. Let the minutes show that for the five years preceding the current, Miss Rigby and the school board permitted the academic and behavioral culture of CMS to erode to historic lows. Under your leadership and under your leadership, Miss Diamond, let the Minist behavior plunged to new depths, district officials were busy encouraging impressionable and atrisisk students to view themselves as both traumatized and victimized, going so far as to reward students willing to testify
024to those very perceptions of victimization that district leadership was encouraging. Let the minutes show that as soon as the student testimonies were no longer needed, the middle school lay in AC and the middle school lay in academic and behavioral ruin. Miss Pursoon was sent to clean up the mess and was at last permitted to use the very techniques that teachers and support staff had been encouraging for years. Implementing cell phone bans, enforcing the dress code, disciplining students for violence, possession of weapons, foul, dis disrespectful, crude, and obscene language. All administrative responses that should have been going on in the years prior but weren't. Interestingly, this year, instead of demonizing and disciplining the teachers and support staff who strongly advocated for a return to the high standards CMS had once known, district officials finally began to
025applaud, defend, and provide resources in a way they hadn't for years. Let the minutes show that the mythmaking around principal pursoon and the board's commitment to the middle school is truly the stuff of fairy tales. The mythmaking is designed to distract from highly unethical behaviors of our superintendent and select board members who exploited students vulnerabilities to bolster erroneous allegations that CUSD pursued in court. Allegations that were later rejected and found unlawful. Let the minutes show that union leadership doesn't fault parents for recognizing that there has been improvement at CMS. There has been and we're pleased to recognize it. But the minutes should also show that principal Persoon's family, friends, and loyal cohort of parents shared a terribly simplistic version of events at the last board meeting. A version of the middle school's recovery that utterly
026failed to acknowledge those responsible teachers. Time is up. Please stop talking immediately. Okay. May I get a motion to approve the minutes? I'll move to approve the minutes. I'll second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I. Okay. Approval of the agenda and consent agenda. We will now take public comment. If you'd like to comment on the agenda or consent agenda for today, please step up to the podium now. All righty. the consent agenda. Given that the recent second interim budget just confirmed the CUSD's reserves are anticipated to skyrocket even with the recent impass settlement agreement, employees encourage district officials to improve to approve the investments under this consent agenda. Field trip request for beach day 2025. Uh conference request for CHS teachers, Mr. Morales to attend the AVID summer institute. the agreement between Carpander Unified
027School District and the University of California for Compass as long as it truly is at no cost. Uh the 2025 list of eighth graders for promotion at the middle school and the 2025 list of senior class candidates for graduation. Uh Aries ASP subscription renewal, the California Distinguished School Awards Banquet, and of course regular payroll. These expenditures directly targeted at our students academic and social experiences are exactly where our robust basic aid revenues should be directed. These are much more effective ways of investing in our students than the millions of dollars in legal fees paid to our superintendent's favorite firm which have been misappropriated in the past two years. Employees are here to remind district officials to avoid such political distractions in the future and focus on the priority and mission of the district. Employees remind
028you that resources invested in academic and extracurricular programs for students, including economic stability of those who work directly with them, teachers and support staff, are exactly where we should be focusing district revenues, meaning our community's tax dollars. It is time to live up to that mission and put aside the unlawful attacks against those who share the voices of employees which serve as attacks against the employees themselves. Let's keep the kids, students, and the families in focus. Thank you. Okay. May I get a motion to approve the agenda and consent agenda? I move to approve the agenda and the consent agenda. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Uh, Eric, hi. Aaron, I. Sally, I. And I am I. Okay. We are going to move on now to public interest reports and presentations. If you
029would like to make public comment on any of the items under the heading of public interest reports and presentations, meaning E1 through three, please step up to the podium at this time. All righty. We appreciate the patience of all the kids and families, by the way. Thank you. Uh, in her report, Miss Rigby provided appreciation. She reports to appreciate teachers. She reports to appreciate principles. She reports to appreciate the district nurse and food service workers. And Miss Riby even reports to appreciate CUSD's classified support staff. Miss Rigby never misses an opportunity to thank these employees in public, but behind closed doors and in the workplace, employees consistently report to their union leadership that she condescends and bullies and dismisses their inquiries, concerns, and suggestions. Unfortunately, the majority of district employees believe Miss Rigby's appreciation is
030something else. politically motivated sentiment, feckless in nature, sent more for the sake of optics than meaningful than any meaningful sense of gratitude or acknowledgement of the critical services and relationships these employees provide and build with students and their families. The community might be amused to learn that just this last week when Miss Rigby forwarded a copy of her appreciation via district email, several employees tried to respond districtwide. They wanted to share their encouragement that she through her performance demonstrate the sentiments contained in her words that rang more than a bit hollow across the district. Of course, employees were not entirely surprised to learn that their email responses had been blocked. You see, in CUSD, even with all Miss Rig's platitudes of appreciation, communication only goes in one direction, and that's top down. Although the superintendent
031reports to appreciate your service, don't expect it to influence the decision-making process and definitely don't even try to discuss it openly with your peers. That's not encouraged and it will be blocked. As for our soontobe graduating student board representative, Angel Peda pal, you remain an inspiration to both your peers and the adults who've had the pleasure of working with you, including myself, both professionally and personally. With that in mind, union leadership wanted to be sure that you knew that as per EDC code, you are entitled to a variety of benefits that come with your sacrifice and participation in this unique role of CUSD student representative. As edode states, the governing board of a school district may award a pupil member either or both of the following. elective course credit based on the number of equivalent
032daily instructional minutes for the pupil member services provided and monthly financial compensation as determined by the governing board. Perhaps it's time to talk about this with Angel and see how we can pay him back for the sacrifice that he's offered. Thank you. Thank you. Roel carpentry um resident for many years. Uh yes. Uh uh Superintendent Rigby. Yes. Uh I appreciate uh you have supported students and teachers but uh when I was yeah you you I was there with you for years 2016 2020 uh basically this my that slogan of my campaign was transparency after four years I I left my board seat still looking for that transparency and as of today May 13 2025 still looking for transparency uh meaning that uh you have to accept compliments you have to accept criticism as well. That's
033what makes a good leader. Accepting everything. And uh once you get past that transparency, show it. We you will be talking about the six of you out there. You will be a lot more credible and Our student rep an uncle Pineda also he deserves which sorry which agenda item which what are you speaking to specifically? Uh I I can speak about the superintendent report. Correct. Oh sorry I'm just trying to figure out what within the report you were responding to. That's all. So add 30 seconds because I just also include 20 I think that was maybe 20 seconds and also included is uh uh that's true and representative correct. That's what you said. Okay. Right. So just trying to tie it together. That's Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that's why there's three items that we're
034we can talk one minute each. So uh Pa thank you. Thank you so much for your service and uh it's been a year and you have represented you have represented the students greatly and uh my daughter Anad was also the student representative and uh I appreciate you representing every student. Thank you. Okay. Okay. We are going to go ahead. Um, first of all, I just I'm going to there was a comment made about blocking emails and I just want to clarify with um information from our I the head of our IT department. Um, Superintendent Riby is not blocking anybody's emails. um there had been abusive and condescending and false posts to the Google group um that this email was sent out to prior to 2021. Um and so the permissions back in January of 2021
035were set so that there was no reply all to that email group in particular. Um and it's been that way since 2020 January of 2021. So there was no blocking of responses to the email that Superintendent Riby sent out. Um, and I just need that clarified. Um, for those that maybe didn't understand that, um, school sites, they're able to email to each other, but as far as replying all to that email group, um, it's been blocked since 2021. So, thank you. We are going to start with our student report with Angel. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. For those of you who do not know me in this room, my name is Angel Pineda. I am a Carbon High School senior graduating in a couple weeks and it's my job to give a report on anything
036that happens on with a school campus activities and ASB plans. Um, so it's going to be a little lengthy one, but May continues to be a busy month at Carbonet High School. AP testing commenced last week and will continue throughout this week. It is noteworthy that we are observing a slight decrease in the number of students taking AP exams this year, which we attribute to increasing popularity in the dual enrollment program in partnership with the Santa Barbara Community College. Looking ahead, our 11th grade students will be participating in the CAST test in English language arts, mathematics, and science next week. Uh we're also pleased to report that yesterday's academic awards ceremony was an incredible success. We had over 700 students attend or 700 attendees uh in the gymnasium and we celebrated students who maintain an
037academic GPA of 3.5 or higher recognizing the achievements of our 9th, 10th and 11th uh grade students by individual academic departments. We look forward to honoring the senior academic awards on May 29th, Thursday. This coming Saturday, May 17th, the junior senior prom will be held at Marmon Monte Hotel from 700 p.m. to 10 p.m. And after prom will be hosted by parents for CHS at Bolero from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. In the athletic department, Warrior Athletics, boys volleyball made a valiant effort in the quarterfinal match at Desert Christian of Lancaster, where their wonderful season came to an end. Boys tennis netted a pair of 11 to7 wins to advance to Monday's quarterfinal match at home where the Warriors knocked off number one seed Hurupa Valley in round one and then dispatch Morantha in round
038two in Pasadena in a 95 degree heat. So this wasn't normal for them. Yesterday's match was at CHS at 4 PM versus YU LA where CHS boys team came up the winner and will advance to the semi-finals will be which will be held tomorrow at Bosa Grande in Garden Grove, California. Representing the swim team at CIF Division 2 prelims at Mount San Antonio College, Jake Elers and Lucia Smith made an outstanding outstanding effort against some of the fastest swimmers in Southern California. Rounding out the week of successful efforts, softball played their very best game in the final game of the 2025 campaign. The Warriors fell just short of a dramatic W under rainy skies in a matchup with the Nordof Rangers. Congratulations to the competitors representing the Warriors at the meet this past weekend, but
039especially to Nathan Korea and Melanie Avalos as they advanced to CIF finals to be held this Saturday at Moore Park High School. Avalos was was a double qualifier as he earned third place in a discus with a throw of 127 feet and sixth place in shot put with a throw of 34 ft and 4 in. Cabo reached a new height in PVA as he cleared 10 ft and sits poised to raise the bar at this next meet on Saturday. Lastly, a bit of information on the class of 2025. Firstly, 55% of the senior class has applied to a 4-year university. And lastly, 57% of the senior class attends to attends or plans to attend Santa Barbara Community College in the fall, which is an amazing effort made by all of these students. Congratulations. Thank you,
040Angel. Does anybody have any comments for Angel? I'd just like to congratulate Angel on your academic achievement award. Great job. Good work. Congratulations. Yep. Yeah. Thank you uh for great report. Um and congratulations. I got to see you and I mean it was amazing how many names were called last night from across all the grades, but it was great to see the seniors called out and um and so yeah, it was very impressive last night. all of the all the names called for the academic honors and then um really how all the different departments worked to to be able to pull and um and highlight the students in across the different departments, CTE classes, uh multiple departments kind of coming together and uh and creating awards. It was just it was really great to show
041for these students to feel recognized and to be recognized and to have so many people there to support them last night. So, um, and the track meet last weekend, I came by at the end of the day, um, right before, let's see here, I think they were doing the two-mile and then the relays and to see how many people I mean, I don't know if anybody noticed all of the giant tour buses and and cars parked all down Lyndon and the Canolina lot and spilling on over to the the neighboring streets, but it was amazing. I heard from boosters that they sold out of just about everything, all all food items by 2:00 and then drinks and ice by I think it was like maybe 3:30 or 4. And I mean it was it was
042crazy how many people showed up and it was really great to see all of those people and families showing up to support their kids and to support our kids and that was great. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Angel. We're going to move on to our superintendent report now. Great. Thanks. So, I'll begin with appreciation. And um my first appreciation is for the National Teacher Appreciation Week, which was last week. It is a week-long celebration in recognition of teachers and their contributions they make to education and society. It's always held the first full week of May of every year and it provides an opportunity for the school committee to school community to show their appreciation for all the hard work done by teachers. At each school site, our teachers were honored and celebrated for
043their impact on students and their families. We also had National Principles Day which is celebrated on May 1st each year. And this day acknowledges the valuable work performed by our principles and assistant principles. It recognizes the contributions made by frontline leaders who interact daily with students, staff, parents, and community members. Thank you to CUSD principles and assistant principles Herardo Corno and Kristen Newman, Jeremiah Sabennis at the high school, Jamie Pursoon and James Anderson at the middle school, Luis Cantero Canalino Family School, Brett Wyberg at Aliso, and Shannon Coulson who's our teacher in charge at Summerland. We also have National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding for the role of school nurses in the educational setting. School nurse day was celebrated on Friday, May 2nd. And we recognize CUSD school nurse Seard
044Cooney for her excellent health care that she provides to our students and families. We also have school lunch hero day and that is held annually on the first Friday in May to honor for to honor each person responsible for providing breakfast and lunches to millions of children across America. Each staff member responsible for making sure nutritious food is offered to students is certainly a hero and this day was specially designed to show appreciation for their valuable and important contributions to students well-being. We appreciate Chef Michelle Hernandez and her food services team. And then lastly, we celebrate classified school employee week. That's May 18th to the 24th is the California School employee week and we salute the important contributions of all of our CUSD classified school employees. We appreciate all their hard work and dedication to
045our students. My next item is related to some congratulations to our high school. The Accrediting Committee for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, granted a six-year accreditation status through June 30th, 2031 to CHS. This significant achievement includes a midcycle visit scheduled for the 2728 academic year. And this accomplishment is a testament to the dedication and hard work of principal Corno, assistant principles Newman and Sennis, teachers, staff, students, and supportive parents. This six-year accreditation affirms our commitment to providing a highquality educational experience for all of our students. And we also have some more congratulations. Kiara Foster at family school earned first place and Safhina Guerrero at Canalino earned third place in the Santa Barbara County's Battle of the Books on April 24th. Canalino and family school students that were also included, Leila Lawrence, Henry Green,
046and Eevee Mayor. and they were chaperoned by Canalino parents Jessica Mayor Mayor and Julia Mayor. These students were placed on teams for different schools across the county. Each group invents a team name and are quizzed on 26 different titles during three rounds ending with a final battle royale. Our students prepared all school year by reading and rereading these 26 books on a designated list before the battles to test their knowledge through trivia questions about plot, character, and themes. We also have our state testing. So annually, COSD administers the smarter balance sum summitive assessments to students in grades three through eight and 11 for English language arts and mathematics during May and June. The California Science Test is required for students in grades 5, 8, and once in grades 10, 11, or 12. The California Alternate
047Assessment for Language Arts and Math is for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who are unable to participate in the Smarter Balanced Summitive Assessments. The primary p purpose of the cast system is to assist teachers, administrators, students, and parents by promoting highquality teaching and learning through the use of a variety of assessment approaches and item types. Their web page provides a more del uh detailed overview of the tests. May is National Mental Health Month. CUSD recognized that our students and families have mental health needs and we provide robust support for students well-being. At every school site, the principal leads a weekly mental health team meeting with a school psychologist, counselors, and school-based mental health therapists from family service agency to monitor student mental health wellness. But by providing school-based mental health services, therapists help
048students develop coping strategies, manage stress, improve self-esteem, and increase academic achievement. CUSD also provides a mental health confidential care provider, carsolus, at ww.carolis.com/carpfamilies. Our CMS peace poll on April 30th, Carpentria Morning Rotary, AHA Peaceuilders, Dr. Pursoon, Mr. Anderson, and CMS students celebrated the first installation in the city of a peace pole on the CMS campus on Carpentry Avenue. The peace pole is a simple structure, but its message is powerful. May peace prevail on earth. These words are written on peace polls around the globe in many different languages and they serve as a universal reminder that peace is possible and that it begins with each one of us. We are grateful for the collaboration between Morning Rotary AHA and CMS. Our next item is the instructional continuity plan. In compliance with Senate Bill 153 and Education
049Code 32282A3, California school districts are required to approve the instructional continuity plan by July 1, 2025. This plan will be integrated in the annual school safety plans and outlines how the district will ensure continued student engagement and instruction during emergency school closures. This plan includes protocols for communication, instructional delivery, whether it's in person or remote, equitable access, technology readiness, staff training, and student well-being. It aligns with state guidance and details responsibilities for implementation to maintain educational continuity and meet attendance requirements. And our last item is our promotion and graduation ceremonies for this school year. We begin June 6 at 1:00 with a fifth grade promotion at Summerland. And then following that evening at 6:00 is our CFS fifth grade promotion. On June 9th at 6:00 at the CHS amphitheater, we'll celebrate the Canalino fifth graders.
050June 11th, we'll begin at 10:00 a.m. in the morning at Aliso celebrating their fifth graders. At three o'clock, we will celebrate the eighth grade students promoting from CMS. And then finally, on June 11th at 6 PM at the stadium, we'll celebrate our graduating seniors from the high school. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions from the board? Okay. And now we get to the to the best stuff. Yeah. Uh, Aliso Elementary School presentation. Brett, Principal Brett Wyberg, Aliso, school principal, will give a presentation on the school's 2025 California Distinguished School Award, as well as updates on the school library and the astronomy club. All right. Good evening. I'm honored to be here tonight to share some exciting news on behalf of Alisa Elementary School. This year, the California Department of Education has recognized us as the
0512025 California Distinguished School. This recognition celebrates the incredible effort and dedication of our staff, our families, and most importantly, our students. It acknowledges our commitment to academic growth, closing the achievement gaps, and creating a positive school co culture where all students can succeed. To celebrate this honor, I'm taking a small team of teachers to the awards banquet at the Disneyland Hotel on May 30th. It's a wonderful opportunity to represent the hard work that happens at Aliso every day. Tonight, I brought a few of our students with me to share what makes our school a special place from their point of view. I also have Caitlyn Damron, our amazing school librarian, here with us. Miss Kate, as the students call her, has transformed our library into a vibrant hub of reading, learning, and creativity. We will
052be sharing some of the exciting things happening in our library, including how new funding is helping grow our Spanish language collection and supporting our DLI students. We're also joined by Matt McFersonson, one of our fantastic teachers, who volunteers his time after school to run the astronomy club. Thanks to Mr. McFersonson students get to explore the wonders of space and science in a hands-on exciting way and um an example of the kind of dedication that makes Aliso such a wonderful place. Tonight we are excited to highlight some of just the few reasons why Alisa is such a great place. All right. Hi. Hi, my name is Susan and I'm in fourth grade at Aliso. This year, Miss Kate added something really exciting to our school library. Book talks. It's a fun way for students to share
053their love of reading with others. Here's how it works. If you read a great book, you can fill out a short form and sign up to record a book review with Miss Kate. Then your book talk gets featured on our weekly Lion Pride newscast so the whole school can hear about the book and probably get inspired to read it too. To kick things off, Miss Kit recorded the very first book talk as a model to show students what it could look like. One of the book talks you will watch today is mine, and I'm excited to be able to share one of my favorite books with you today. Now, we'd like to show you a few book talks, starting with Miss Kate's. All right. So, hopefully we can get these videos to work. So, this
054is our very first u book talk with Miss Kate. Hi everyone, my name is Miss Kate and today I'm presenting a book called Mel Bell. I really enjoyed this book for so many reasons. Um, the first being that when you read it, you actually read it like this, looking it sideways, instead of reading it in our normal way, like this. This book is about a brave little bird with a big idea. She wants to leave her nest for the first time ever. Some of you have read this book. Most of us have read this book, and most of us really love this book. I would recommend it to all ages. Um, it's a sweet book. It's a silly book. You laugh. you get a little nervous and then you laugh some more. Um, Mel is
055a wonderful little character. She's full of a she's she has a great big idea. She accomplishes her goal and I don't want to give away too much of the fun stuff because I want you to read it by yourself. Thank you for listening to my book talk. I hope you enjoyed it. So, we'll watch a few more of the student book talks. I had a really hard time picking. So, who to to choose? Do I put them in any order? Um, if they just go in order that they're in. It's it's it's Hi, my name is Annette. I want to present The Witches by Rald Doll. This book is about a boy and his grandmother who secretly saved a lot of people. This the witches in this book are not your ordinary witches. I like
056this book because there is sweetness, kindness, scariness, and twists and turns. I recommend this book to second graders and up. S I mucho I I person I am [Music] Um ea salvasto e bras ordinarios. Good morning, Alisa Lions. My name is Evelyn. The book I'm presenting is Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library. This book is about a boy who goes who goes to a library and he brings his dragon and the dragon scares people by being big. And the reason why I love this book is because it is it is funny. It rhymes and it it tells you what to do and what not to do at a library. I recommend this book to second grade and up. My name is Natalia. I'm in fifth grade. And the book I'm going to talk
057to about talk about today is Manu. The book author is Kay Kaye Fernandez. And this book is about a girl that has terrible magic and about her learning to how to use it. I like this book because it is exciting and has a lot of action. I rec recommend this book for third and fourth graders like who like graphic novels. Yeah. Hi everyone. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah. My eyes on fire. Hi, my name is Susan and today I'm going to present a book called Zia. It's about a young a young 14-year-old girl trying to rescue her aunt from the island of the blue dolphins. She tries and she fails. In this book we can see she never gives up. I like this book because it shows adventure and even though in the book it says
058even though you try and you fail, you show perseverance. I recommend this book to grades fourth and up. I hope you like the book. Screw. Hi, my name is Natalia and I'm in fifth grade in Mr. MSAS's class. I really enjoy making a book talk with Miss Kate this year. One of the book talks you just watched was mine. I wanted to do it because I love reading and it was fun to share a book I enjoy with other students so they might want to read it too. I also participated in something called Battle of the Books. It's fun reading challenge where students read a bunch of great books and then work in teams to answer questions about them. I've already read read more than 10 of the books and I've really looking forward to
059the big competition happening next Friday, next Wednesday, May 21st after school. I can't wait to work with my teammates and show how much we know about the books we've read. And one more thing, I was also part of the astronomy club this year, which you you'll hear more about later in the pres presentation. It's been fun discovering more about what out there in space like stars, planets, galaxies beyond Earth. Hi, my name is Sammy and I'm in fifth grade. I've been a part of Battle of the Books for the last 2 years and I'm really excited for this year's competition coming up next week. One of the things I most enjoy is getting to read new books I might not pick on my own. It's helped me become an even stronger reader and introduce me
060to some great stories. I also filled out a form to do a book talk with Miss Kate and I'm looking forward to recording mine soon. I think it'll be fun to share a book I really liked and maybe help other students discover something new to read. Another great thing we've had at Alisa this year is the book fair. We've had two book fairs and they've been a big hit with students. It's a fun way for us to get new books and also raise money to support our school library. The money we earn helps us buy even more books for students to check out, which is pretty awesome. Hi, my name is Sophia and I'm in fifth grade. I've been a part of so many things at Alisa over the years. I'm really going to miss
061it next year when I go to fifth grade when I go to middle school. One of my favorite things was has been serving on student council. I've enjoyed helping plan events and and being a voice for students. I also got to help with the book fair which was a which was a great great way to get new books into students hands and raise money to support our school library. I've also been a part of Battle of the Books for the past two years. I It's been so much fun reading books and working with my teammates to answer questions. Last year our team even won first place which was so exciting. I also made a book talk with Miss Kate because I wanted to help other students get excited about reading the books I love. I
062think it's really fun to share to share great stories with others. Another awesome thing I got to do was was join the astronomy club which we'll talk more about in the next part of our presentation. I love learning about space, planets, and stars and especially launching rockets. Before we move on, I want to say a big thank you to the Carperia Education Found Foundation for their generous donation to our library. Because of their support, we've we've been able to buy more books and grow our Spanish language collection to support our Spanishspeaking students and those in dual in the dual language immersion program. Thank you for helping our make our school even better. All right. Next, I'm gonna have Miss Kate come up and talk a little bit about the books that we've been able to
063purchase. Hi everybody. Um, I'm Miss Kate or Caitlyn Damron. Um, first I just wanted to say I'm so proud of these kids back here because they are so brave to be here and they are so brave to do those book talks that get aired in front of the whole school. Um, I was nervous to do mine, so big props for them. Um, and I definitely want to thank CEF for that money that we were given. Um, our DLI library is starting to explode. I'm gonna have to find a new place for it in their library. Um, I am an avid reader and I'm a huge believer in the power of a good story. So, to have every student on campus, whether they're speaking Spanish, English, or bilingual, have just any story at their fingertips is
064so important to me. Um, and so far it's been really appreciated by students and teachers alike. So, I really thank you for that. Thank you. All right, you're out. Up next, we want to talk a little about the Aliso Astronomy Club. Astronomy Club has been so much fun this year. The theme of the club was the life cycle of stars. We learned all about the Big Bang and how the universe started. We learned about nuclear fusion, how hydrogen atoms collapse into each other forming helium and igniting stars. We found out how the solar system formed and why the inner planets are rocky while the outer planets are gas giants. We talked about black holes when gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape. We also learned that the biggest known star in the
065universe is UI scutum which is 5 billion times bigger than the sun. We learned about how the moon formed and how and why lunar and solar eclipses happened. We also learned about the history of astronomy, talked about Newton's laws, and talked about current events like the discovery of life on K218b. We even got to watch astronauts launch to space station live and launched our own rockets on the playground. Um, another fun part of astronomy club were the activities that we got to do. Just before winter break, the astronomical astronomical unit of Santa Barbara came to the cafeteria and gave a cool presentation on asteroids, comets, and other bodies in the solar system. Then when our club meetings started in the spring, each week gave us a new fun activity. We built galaxy slime to learn
066about the expansion of the universe. We used Play-Doh to model how the solar system formed and how rocky bodies clumped together to form planets. We learned about the requirements for life and missions that are currently searching for signs of life. We even made our own aliens out of delicious materials. We made star charts, constellation maps, learned all about and learned out all about orbital mechanics and so much more. Probably the best feature of our of astronomy club was our ask astro table. During the week, students and staff were able to write questions for to Astro in in this box. And each Monday on the newscast, astronomers from our club helped Astro answer the questions for the whole school to hear. Students from all grade levels had their questions answered. It was really fun and I
067can't wait for next year's astronomy club. We wanted to thank everyone for letting us share just some of the exciting things that are happening at Alisa. So, and then up on the picture is a little uh screenshot from the newscast when they were uh presenting and it has actually come to be my favorite part of the newscast, too, because I've learned a lot. So, thank you so much for letting us be here tonight. That is so awesome. Thank you kids for being so patient and waiting. Thank you. I love your book talks. Um Miss Kate, I love your book talk. Thank you so much. Uh kids, uh students, scholars, if you will. Um really impressed with your book talks. Um I So there are a lot of fabulous books that have come out for your
068age group long after I was your age. And so I love seeing other new books that kiddos your age are interested in or would recommend to others. Um and so like for instance Zia, I did not know um I don't know if it's a newer book or not, but growing up not in this area. I knew of Island of the Blue Dolphins, but I didn't know about Zeia, which is off of that. And so that's really cool and exciting and that's something that I would want to read even. Um so thank you Susan for sharing that. And I love hearing about the astronomy club. That's so exciting. And how many how many kids how many students how many astronomers I should say are in your club? 30. Wow. 30. And what grades is that open
069to? Third. Third through fifth. Third, fourth, and fifth. We had to kind of limit it because everyone wanted to go. Wow. I bet. Cuz that sounds super fun. That's really awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming tonight. Does anybody else have any say thank you all for being so patient while we had the of our previous uh discussions at our meeting and and also I'd be remiss. It's already been said, but congratulations to Aliso as being a distinguished school. We're so proud of you guys. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay. Okay, we are going to move on now to F board policies. Um, if you would like to make public comment on F1 or F2, please step up to the podium at this time. Yes. Uh thank you recent. Okay. Uh uh number two, board policy 3312
070uh says that uh the superintendent or designate uh can decide uh when uh uh a bitter uh it doesn't agree with uh your decision. Who's that designate? Uh I don't know. He said the superintendent or this or Yes. typically it would be the assistant superintendent. Oh, I see. Oh, yes. Or in charge of business, Jason. Oh, okay. All right. uh on the same uh policy. Uh it says that uh this basically more than one bid. How can the community uh make sure that that's that that bid that uh the board approves? It's the more convenient I mean uh because when I was there with you for years as uh sometimes I would uh ask the same uh the same questions and uh it it's not until that I uh made that uh uh uh question
071that uh well the board would say yes there's there was two or three bits but uh but the agenda would show just one so how I mean how can I know that it was really one bid the lowest bid or the more convenient bid I mean, if there's two or three, how can I find out whether that's the the better one? I mean, let's say that because at that time moneywise, uh because sometimes the big the what the board would select was the the the most expensive one. I was there before you, Sally. So maybe I can help out. Yes. So um typically we present when we present three bids, we indicate who the bidder is and what the amount was, but if you want any more information, we're happy to just request the backup
072information and we're happy to share that information with you. Yeah. Yeah. It's a public request for record. Yes. Correct. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yes. Uh we actually have an example in tonight's agenda later on approving the kit. It's the one that it was approved and then the other two bids there that they were not approved and they were more expensive and it's just the one. Thank you. Okay. Um we have F1 board policy and admin administrative regulation 3311 bids first reading. The board has asked to approve the first reading of BP and AR 3311 bids. The governing board is committed to promoting public accountability and ensuring prudent use of public funds. When leasing, purchasing, or contracting for equipment, materials, supplies, or services for the district, including when contracting for public
073projects involving district facilities, the board shall explore lawful opportunities to obtain the greatest possible value for its expenditure of public funds. When required by law or if the board determines that it is in the best interest of the district, such contracts shall be made using competitive bidding. Any questions from the board? Okay. Uh may I get a motion to approve? I'll move to approve board policy and administrative regulation 3311 bids. I'll second of that discussion. Okay. Uh, all in favor? I I Okay. F2, Board Policy 3312 contracts, first reading. The board has asked to approve the first reading of BP 3312 contracts. The governing board recognizes its responsibility to enter into contracts on behalf of the district for the acquisition of equipment, supplies, services, and other resources necessary for the achievement of district goals. In
074exercising this authority to enter into a contract, the board shall ensure that the district's interests and prot are protected and that the terms of the contract conform to any applicable legal standards, including but not limited to bidding requirements in public contract code 2111. Any questions from the board? Okay. May I get a motion to approve? I'll move to approve board policy 3312 contracts. Um, let's see here. And hang on a second. Okay. Um I'll second it. Second. Okay. Uh any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I I Okay. We are moving on to educational services. If you would like to make public comment on educational services, we just have one item under this. Uh G1, please step up to the podium at this time. Okay. Seeing none, G1, Carpenter Unified School District. Instructional continuity plan. The
075board has asked to approve the instructional continuity plan, ICP, for Carpenter Unified School District. This plan outlines how the district will ensure continued student engagement and instruction during emergency school closures in compliance with Senate Bill 153 from 2023 and education code 32282A3. integrated into the school safety plans. The ICP includes protocols for communication, instructional delivery in per instructional delivery in person or remote, equitable access, technology readiness, staff training, and student well-being. It aligns with state guidelines and details responsibilities for implementation to maintain educational continuity and meet attendance requirements. Any questions from the board? Um, so just well I guess for clarifying and just for the record. So this is basically a law that is now solidifying something that we've had essentially on the back burner or what we a plan that or a response that
076we have been doing for quite some time between the debris flow and or the fires and the debris flow and then the pandemic. We've dealt with remote and emergency level school services. And so, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but we've always kind of for some time now, we've informally had something similar to this, but it is now being enshrined by law. We've always responded um making appropriately making the best decisions for students and their families in face of emergency. But now, the state is requiring um to include particular areas and it's really in response to the LA fires. Gotcha. Yeah. So, our fires weren't five years earlier weren't enough to make this happen or maybe but um Okay. So, well, good job. We've already we probably I'm guessing it didn't take too much effort
077because we already had these types of policies in place. Just we already had the experience of the responses in place. So, it was basically we followed this was a state and county template. Okay. And so we we had to meet the requirements for each of the content areas that were required. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Um may I get a motion to approve? I move to approve uh CUSD instructional continuity plan. All second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. H. Business operations and facilities. If you'd like to make public comment on H one through three, please step up to the podium at this time. Thank you. The warrants confirmed that Miss Riby's friends at F3 Law Firm walk away with another $53,368, making the total for the last 12 months $700,000. What portion of this $53,000
078includes the services associated with the district's factf finding preparations and participation to the factf finding at the factf finding hearing last Friday. Union leadership sent two people myself and the California Federation of Teachers regional representative. The union sent no lawyers, no senior administrators, no executive corporate specialists because you don't need such an army of highly paid consultants to tell the truth. The district, on the other hand, did bring such an army. A collection of handsomely paid lawyers, a corporate analyst, and senior administrators. This evening's warrants only cover up to May 8th. Yet, the hearing was held on May 9th. Does this warrant contain any expenses incurred building the district's factf finding team of nine? Will this or future warrants contain the cost of three very well-paid lawyers from F3 Law? The firm charges approximately $475
079an hour per attorney. The factf finding hearings started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 8:00 p.m. So, you do the math, which doesn't even include their considerable preparation time, their lunches or travel and lodging expenses, etc., etc., etc. CUSD's team also included the most senior executive analyst from School Services of California, a private consulting firm that claims to have, quote, the strongest legislative team in Sacramento. What must this analyst's presence have cost? Over or under or under $1,000 an hour? Will we find that expense on this evening's warrants? CUSD's team also included the three highest paid administrators in the district, Superintendent Riby, Assistant Superintendent CF, and the HR coordinator, Miss Lopez. Has our board attempted to determine the cost of their participation at the hearing? Will this or future warrants itemize costs associated with contracting
080out duties that they were too preoccupied to perform while preparing for the factf finding and hearing and impass? Lastly, Mr. Schaefer and Miss Diamond completed the district's team. A fascinating contribution to the brain trust the district assembled. Miss Diamond, can you please confirm that your and Mr. Schaefer's attendance came at no additional cost to the district? No cost to the district. I even brought my own lunch. That is a relief. Thank you. You're so welcome. As we look at the items contained on the district's warrant, are any of you asking if the rest of these expenditures are any more or less effective when compared to the district's factf finding team, the cost associated with the district's team for duties? Your time is up. Move on. Thank you. uh Roelo Degado Carpenter resident said it I
081have said it many times u that uh um legal expenses are just uh too much and I sound distressed because I'm really am Uh I would like to see uh at least a year without any uh legal expenses. I mean what other uh district nearby or far away depend on attorneys so much when the end result is going to be the same. The end result is going to be the same with or without attorneys. Believe me, because an agreement uh was supposed to be made regardless whether you had 10 attorneys or you had none. And uh uh also there's another uh charge for 19,000 for the uh uh on legal legal fees for the uh sex uh abuse of the 70s. And I think that whenever there's a a a charge for that case that
082you should explain something to it cuz uh I have had uh people ask me about that. Believe me, not everyone uh uh reads a coastal view uh or it only they only uh publish that once. No. and that they ask me because I I move around about that case and uh I shouldn't be doing that. Should be you because there's a lot of money. You knew it about this since 2022 and you have spent 400,000 on it. Thank you. Okay, moving on to H1, warrants. The board has asked to approve the warrants for the period of April 18th, 2025 through May 8th, 2025. That's not 225. Just strike one of those zeros in the amount of $686,433.78. Warrants are issued once a week on Thursdays. The report format shows check number, check date, pay, brief
083account description, payment comment, and check amount. Any questions? No. Okay. May I get a motion to approve? I'll move to approve the warrants. Second. Okay. Discussion. All in favor? I. Okay. Gifts, grants, and donations. I'm going to read through and then um ask for a motion on the whole 2. A donation from Carpa Education Foundation CE to Carpa High School CHS AVID program. The board has asked to accept this donation from CF of $5,000 to CHS AVID program to support teacher Favian Mur Muras participation in the AVID summer institute. Uh 2B donation from Charles Bryant to the science club at CHS. We're asked to accept this donation of $150 to the science club. To C grant from Santa Barbara Bull Foundation to Carpenter Unified School District elementary school program. We're being asked to accept this
084donation of $6,474.60 to the CUSD Elementary Music Program band teacher Nicole McKenzie to purchase 30 violins for use in all fourth grade music classes next school year. And 2D, donation from Carpa Beautiful to Carpa Middle School. We're asked to approve uh CMS principal Jamie Pursoon's proposal to accept and a donation from Carpenter Beautiful of uh $4,760 to fund enhancements to the threeb block area and courtyard at Carpa Middle School. These improvements will create a more inviting space for our students and provide a beautiful setting to showcase their panel art. Any questions from the board on 2 A through D? May I get a motion to approve? I'll move to approve with gratitude. I'll second that discussion. I just have one question. What is the Yep. Um sorry. the threeb block area is that so that's
085in the the quad and then um the three blocks or panels are um in the attachments it shows the pictures of the wall of the the um multi-purpose room multi-purpose center and so it's the three panels right there will have three panels of art that are being worked on by students um and then the painting of the steps and the the other area just to kind ungray the area and make it more inviting and engaging and then also representative fresh and representative of the students um especially since it'll be showcasing their art and I believe it's going to be like rotating that art the panels um year-over-year which is really cool because it'll be representative of the students that are actually there at the time. Can't wait to see it. Yeah, really exciting. Um any
086other discussion on these items? Okay. All in favor? I I Okay. H3, purchase of kitchen infrastructure and training kit, storage room shelving from Dawn Supplies on the fly for Central Kitchen. The board has asked to approve the purchase and installation by Dawn Supplies on the fly of food storage shelving at the Central Kitchen and Carpria High School. As the food services department continues to prioritize healthy scratch cooking, it has become evident that our current shelving units no longer meet the necessary standards for capacity, organization, and food safety. Three companies submitted their quotes with Dawn Supplies on the Fly being the most economical. All quotes are attached. The cost of $11,642.38 from Dawn Supplies on the Fly will be paid with restricted kit funding. Questions from the board? Yep. Um, may I get a motion to
087approve? I'll move to approve. I'll second that. Okay. In discussion, just hope that um some people would look at the attachments and see the quotes. Yep. So, um, so just highlighting this is the item that does have uh the three quotes and showing the most economical was the one selected. Um but also just really important that to highlight that um Michelle Hernandez, Chef Michelle Hernandez, um has been incredibly intentional using this grant funding. Um if you look at uh well, now that the the walk-in is installed, the walk-in uh refrigeration unit is installed. um the space that they have available for storage. Using this type of sto shelving um where the racks can slide. Um it allows more racks to be put in place for better storage um and better accessibility. So, um it was
088just very intentional and deliberate and it's wonderful what she's doing with the central kitchen. Okay. Uh all in favor? I I Okay. Measure U. Uh if you would like to make public comment on measure U, we just have one item, I1, please step up to the podium at this time. Uh specifically about I1. Uh thank you. Elected employee leadership would like to inquire whether the cost of this agreement for services performed by Move Green will be paid for out of any money the district receives from the robust revenues associated with the sale of the Balor properties. It's being paid with measure U bond funds as stated. Thank you. As we mentioned at the April 8th and April 22nd board meeting, elected employee leadership is having a hard time understanding why the district chose not to
089include any mention of the robust revenues from the sale of the Balor properties in its budget presentation on April 8th. We remain concerned that decisions to underestimate and/or under reportport revenues serve to misrepresent the district's reserve balances. Now, we understand that move green services and other expenditures like it are promptly reported even though they are restricted to the MeasureU fund. Why then aren't the multi-million dollar revenues associated with the MeasureU funds as promptly and transparently shared? Will actual dollars from the multi-million dollar sale of the Veiler property be used to fund the move green services contained in item I? or have these dollars not yet been received by CUSD? Miss Diamond, you had the answers before. Would you like to answer again? How the district funds this $5,700 agreement with Move Green is insightful. It
090is indicative of CUSD's overall fiscal health. And with that in mind, employee leadership reminds the board and the community that although CUSD was not required to include all the data pertaining to the restricted revenue categories in its April 8th presentation, doing so would have provided a more comprehensive and accurate accounting of the district's financial position and maybe make it a little easier to figure out where actually is this money associated with the $5,700 agreement with Move Green coming from. Not just what fund, but how is that fund being funded? Thank you. By the state. By the bond. The bond. The bond and state money. No. No, we're not. It's not a It's not a back and forth. Yeah. No, it's not. Thank you. Okay. Uh I1 approval of move green estimate for Aliso Elementary classroom
091relocating move. The board has asked to approve the moving estimate from move green for Aliso Elementary. This includes relocating desks and chairs from portables scheduled for demolition into on-site classrooms and storage containers. The estimate also covers the relocation of temporary classrooms number 19 through 23 into classrooms 1 and three. Staff will complete all packing prior to move green's arrival. The estimate for this agreement is $5,700 and will be paid with measure U bond funds. Any questions from the board? Okay. May I get a motion to approve? I move to approve. I'll second discussion. Okay. All in favor? I. Jay. Personnel. If you would like to make public comment on J1 uh personnel summary, please step up to the podium at this time. So, it's the middle of the hiring season. Actually, it's kind of the
092tail end of the hiring season. Is anyone asking why we are only reporting resignations and retirements and not the hiring of new employees? We've had openings all year. Tonight, the retirement of a CHS math teacher who certainly has more years to offer is being reported. This evening, three more resignations are reported as well. One, a psychologist that works with pupil services and with the SPED program. Not only is another SPED resignation reported this evening, there are also there also aren't any sped hires either, right in the middle of the hiring season. The other two resignations are those of teachers who might have otherwise remained with the district had it not taken so long to resolve our impass disputes. But it didn't. It took two years without a raise for employees while administrators gave themselves two
093raises. And so it doesn't take a genius to understand why these employees have left for better paying positions in Santa Barbara. The report contains no hires of classified employees either. The community and school board may be interested to learn that CUSD now spends more on other operating expenses. the budget category that contains legal fees and contracted employees than it does on classified employees entirely. entirely. Classified employees, that is support staff serving in food service, clerical, custodial, transportation, instructional aids, warehouse workers, maintenance workers, those who work on the grounds, and others who work directly with students and families, safety personnel, and others. The personnel report continues to serve as a clear indicator of the self-imposed hardship. Self-imposed hardship CUSD continues to create for itself by refusing to invest properly in the district's teachers and support staff.
094We made some progress with this recent agreement. That is a long way to go until you have prioritized the stability of district personnel. We still don't see that in your budget for years out. Still nothing in the budget about future investments on district personnel. We continue to see the district struggle to hire qualified staff, not just fed teachers, but a variety of other positions in the district. Once known as a golden employment opportunity in one of the last small and picturesque coastal communities in the region, you have run and been elected to resolve these matters to influence them to bring vision to this conversation. It is time to bring that vision. Thank you. Roelio Delgado carpenter resident for many many years and uh I have also lived many many many years in in Mexico and
095uh I taught there also in Mexico and believe me uh not even there a salary increase took this long. Two years is just too much, too long. And uh uh the US is not a third uh world country. It's supposed to be the first world teacher simply should never wait for a salary increase for two years. No, this is uh there's going to be more. I I hope not, but I think that uh this is going to cause more resignations. Uh because uh they know that could be another couple of years before they get another salary increase and uh believe me uh it's going to be hard for someone to convince to come to this district and teach. It's up to you whether you want them to stay or whether you make hiring of teachers
096easier. Thank you. Okay. Just to be clear, we we agreed on a on a 5% raise for for next year um increase. So, I just I feel like the last comment made it sound like there's nothing, but there's definitely um something. Okay, so J1, personnel summary. The board has asked to approve the following recommended personnel items. Retirement of one personnel and resignations of three. Any questions from the board? Okay. Uh may I get a motion to approve? I move to approve. I'll second. Uh discussion. All in favor? I I Okay. K. Future agenda items, public comment. So last week, uh the entire cause leadership team was reelected by CUSD employees. As our leadership team prepares for another two years of service, we realize that our current district officials and senior administrators may not have an
097accurate understanding of the role an employee union plays in a healthy operating organization such as ours, that being a public sector TK through 12 school district. Based on the district's behavior over the past several years, both Superintendent Riby and each board member seem more inclined to recognize the adversarial aspects of our federally and statemandated partnership. And in only recognizing the adversarial aspects of that partnership, CUSD fails to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities that exist when employees, their elected union leaders, district administrators, and schoolboard trustees work together with the interests of students and district families in clear focus. Therefore, our newly reelected employee leadership team, also known as Caus's elected officers, ask that CUSD place on a future agenda a transparent discussion pertaining to the basics of that partnership. This future agenda topic could include the
098fundamentals of a union affiliated organization, the objectives of our federally legislated and protected role in the district, the opportunities that a unionized workforce bring to an organization like ours. How a unionized workforce can ensure that employees experience positively influences outcomes and our ability to accomplish the mission. How a unionized workforce can ensure that the needs of an organization are clearly understood by those who directly interface with their clients being students and their families. How clear and easily accessible collective bargaining agreements bring clarity to daily operations of the district. And how these collective bargaining agreements, our certificated and classified contracts, can be used as valuable tools in navigating challenging conversations and responsibilities. how they promote durable agreements and can be used to actually minimize conflict instead of becoming platforms to create conflict and even how to
099address conflict in a depersonalized manner if and when it arises. The discussion could include how through shared decisionmaking and the inclusion of all levels of an organization like ours, increasingly sound and well-informed administrative decisions strengthen the organization versus weaken it. The employees of the district have clearly demonstrated that they do not wish to change the leadership structure of our union. Thank you. Your time is up. Therefore, we enter into another time partnership. Thank you. Okay. So on our future agenda, we have our 2526 proposed budget and our 2526 LCAP. Um and then for our board calendar, um our let's see here, it was uh supposed to be second half of the month uh school board tours, but we already did that. Um so nothing on board calendar of note. Um which brings us to board
100announcements. Anybody? Um, I was just going to say that between the tour that we did last week, the tours of all the schools and the open houses, what I was most impressed with was the high caliber of learning that's going on, um, especially at the lower levels when I compare what I was taught in first grade and kindergarten a long time ago. Yes. But, um, it's it's truly amazing to see these kids learning what they're learning. And I also wanted to say that the Carpentry Education uh foundation last week held four days of interviews with our seniors at the high school. Um an amazing group of students, not only their uh the students themselves, but the GPA that they all had and um the universities and the colleges that they're all going to from our
101small school. It's really pretty impressive. Um, we were able to award over $60,000 to each, not each, we had $60,000 to award and each student we interviewed um received some money. So, it's pretty cool. Great. Thank you CF for that and everybody that did the interviews. That's it. It's a lot of time and three of us that did it for four days. Wow. Amazing. It was well worthwhile, however. Um, okay. Well, uh, yeah, I just want to recap that we did school site tours about two weeks, a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. Um, we got to see all the school sites and it was really great to see what was going on in the classroom. There was a lot of, uh, CASP testing going on. So, um, we let those classrooms be
102and didn't want to interrupt them. Um, but we got to see a lot of really great things going on in classrooms from um really purposeful play to also um some freestyle play. We got to see uh big buddies and little buddies. Uh we got to see some really great stuff going on at the middle school and of course uh some amazing educational opportunities at the high school. um some good time in the engineering lab and the new equipment that's been added since the last time we were there. Um and just really ex Oh, and then the the new walk-in at the high school in the central kitchen. Um and got to envision uh how that will grow and um yeah, it was just it was a really great opportunity uh to see each of the
103different things. Oh, we got to see a little snippet, a little preview of Moana 2 at family school. Um, so I'm going to do my plug for that this Friday and Saturday. Uh, Moana 2, Carpenter Family School will have their play. You can get tickets online. You can look search Parent Square and I'm sure there's some flyers around town. Um, but I believe you can also buy tickets on site. Um, at school. Oh, at the middle school. That's right. Because it's at the middle school in the multi-purpose room. Um the high school academic awards were last night. Um very well attended as Angel said and uh it was just great to to see all of the achievements of of our kids get get honored and um and how many students were names were called um
104and whether they were there or not their names were called and I think that's also important. Um, not everybody was able to make it whether it's sports or family commitments, but um, they were all recognized last night. Um, and then, uh, Muses is coming up as well, I believe, in a couple weeks. Next week. Anastasia. Yes. Um, so, uh, get your tickets for Muses. And with that, we're adjourned. [Music]