001another diploma track we're going to call this the standard diploma Pathway to and what this would be is a diploma pathway for students on an IEP and in an IEP team meeting they would determine whether this is the correct pathway for them to go towards a standard diploma if a student doesn't get a standard diploma the only other option is called a certificate of completion although a certificate completion is nice not something you can use to get into the military to get into college to get financial aid for college it you have a job application one of the first questions is are you a high school graduate it really is a barrier to getting employment or a standard diploma is going to allow you to get to apply for federal financial aid for college it's
002it's going to allow a student to check that box to get into an interview so this diploma track this would be a non-a through G diploma track obviously we'd like student suit who are able willing and able to do the a through G diploma track this would be an option for them that has high school credit so it's a it's not quite the same rigor as an A through G if you're a member a through G is a college prep class it's approved through the College Board as a college prep class this would still meet State Standards this would still lead the kids to a high school diploma the IEP team can determine whether uh if this is the appropriate placement that a special ed teacher could teach those core classes so this is opportunity
003for kids it gives us numerous Pathways to a diploma and diploma gives kids numerous Pathways to college career military and that's what we want so I'm going to pass this out to you now thank you sir thank you so you're going to see in the in the news the state came up with a diploma plan for all that became state law two years ago unfortunately when they did that they didn't coordinate with the California Department of Education and the California edu Department of Education three weeks ago came out with a ruling that this wasn't going to meet State the state guidelines for graduation so what we are going to do because it is the right thing to do and I'll argue this to the end is give kids an opportunity we're going to bypass what
004they're calling the alternative diploma track we're going to come up with which is legal by law the board can adopt a diploma track such as this and I'm going to strongly encourage you to ask your questions please please please look for this on your next uh a board agenda this is the right thing to do for kids this is going to give kids opportunities again for employment for military for college so what you see before you is the eight period day this would be the same number of credits as the standard diploma it would still count as a standard diploma the only difference you're going to see is it's going to be called pathway two on a transcript and next month you will give a whole presentation on pathway two correct no I think it's
005amazing I mean I don't think there's going to have to be much sale on it I mean it's it's amazing to do for kids absolutely absolutely thank you Mr Jordan any questions from Mr Jordan no I'll call him later [Laughter] and I'd like to for any time I may have remaining to the great Senator and Lyons from our arms Department okay who has a presentation for you I'm Ann Lyons school counselor for the herbs program and licensed marriage and family therapist I'll be retiring this June and I'm here to say thank you to the Center District tonight for allowing me to grow and develop my skills as a counselor during these years since hiring me in 2004 seems a long time ago now and I'm also here to speak briefly about the importance of mental
006health services to our students so this first slide is a picture of my office in the annex where I see high school students and the rest of the slides are of the Care Center on the Spinelli campus going to be talking about that as you can see it's a wonderful Healing Place for children to be in 2011 California put Mental Health Services back in the schools with the creation of herbs that educationally related Mental Health Services I immediately knew I wanted to provide services for our students with special needs who also had very significant social and emotional needs and were struggling at school with the district's blessing i fulfilled a long-held dream and began classes to become a licensed therapist state provided use it or lose it funds to build the herbs program and Scott
007Lair had the vision and the belief to allow me the freedom to create the Care Center a therapeutic environment that gives children time and space to heal through play through ART and through support groups Tracy davenmeier was instrumental in so many ways in this process from the very beginning and she was invaluable as the arms program grew and grew to include most of our school psychologists and most of the behavioral team now Mike Jordan supportively directs arms services on each of our campuses and the need is just growing and growing growing so I've worked in education a long time and I see that funding for programs Ebbs and flows for that reason counseling is always somewhat vulnerable it's hard to measure what was prevented from happening but I have valid reason to believe that through
008school school-based services School failure substance abuse violent violent conflict and even suicides have been prevented from counseling being available to someone it's my hope that the center community will always find ways to provide counselors in therapeutic environments especially to our students who may not be able to access for whatever reason community-based supports not every student is going to be driven to a counselor's office for outside services and school services are sometimes our very best option for a multitude of reasons support groups they're right here with their peers which means a lot I went into this whole field wanting to help children to help children and youth but as it's always the case staff the children the youth and the families have helped me the courage kindness intelligence creativity and heart that I've seen for them
009have shown me that the problems we face no matter how severe and irms program serves the people with the most severe problems top of the pyramid those problems are just distractions from that inner true which lies deep within every child and I believe every person we are all of us lovable human beings with infinite value and worth and we all possess a unique light to shine in this world and sometimes our truth gets buried and hidden by the pain that we experience this quote from Matt Hague a Young author who himself experienced severe mental illness explains mental health problems do not define who you are they are something that you experience we walk in the rain we feel the rain but we ourselves are not the rain here at Center we always want to be
010there with mental health providers to remind our students of who they truly are and to walk alongside of them during their personal storms so they can find a way to bravely shine their life now and in the future they are our light thank you Center Joint Unified School District for helping me to find my life and thank you for all that you've given to me thank you for all that you've given to the students that we all serve and thank you for the Memories [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah these were all um artwork created by the students unprompted by thank you Miss Lyons is there any questions for Miss Lyons we're gonna miss you yeah I mean have you really you know I've got some personal steak back Never Say Never thank you Anne facilities
011update Mr Putnam good evening board and guests uh Center is moving along uh nicely with our two construction projects one being Rex Fortune Elementary School and the other being our CTE project that's taking place right behind us I had the privilege last week during facilities committee meeting to give a very personal tour to president Pope to go through the buildings and show her the progress that is coming along they will be exciting spaces for the students when we have those opened up in the fall for them to be going full bore ahead we have also started the uh renovation part of the theater since all the remediation is done we've actually started the construction work to put it back together again the good news that we did get was the wood flooring for the stage
012is something that is in stock so we are not having to wait six months or whatever to get that material so that is going to help move that process along nicely for us so now it's just basically us surviving all these atmospheric Rivers uh we had a little scare over at Spinelli yesterday had a couple trees that the ground is becoming unstable so unfortunately we are going to have to remove those trees for the safety of students and staff but we'll figure out something else to take care of that and then it's just been the the maintenance and grounds Crews going around taking care of any roof leaks and other items that keep coming up because it's not so much the wind or the rain it's the wind that really ends up causing a lot
013of issues for us we had wind you know it is all that we have any questions from Mr Putnam thank you Mr Putnam thank you okay moving right along to comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda I have a few cards Mr Bate Barker go to the putting place procedure to go up last February devoted to not coming back next year that itself the problem was that several of the people that came to speak to my behalf were anybody to get in because as you know the last week last month was called the students were here for making up their hours so there were no agendas at the door there was nothing so the no one even knew that might happen before you vote okay the other problem I had was that
014earlier in the year 27th of January the exactly I was asked to reside based on guys my contract with that too and my only question was how on the January was a February decision already told or anything and so that I'm at a loss the board meeting that that I observed if you don't have any conflicts that I didn't have any conference it was very contentious you know if you had some problems with some other people that have centralized yeah talk found out later that that was the problem this person had some other issues but how do you know that you know so coming in line and a couple of students that I have that I actually talk to me about it later they were like man it was completely rude business whatever you know
015and I was just trying to say I don't know all I know is I thought I had to go back and watch a whole bunch of wood because before I make that decision I think you should too okay um edad is made the problem I had the main problem I had was that there was no way that I knew I was in a day at all there were there were no agendas right now available anymore because it was so full and it wrong they were already wrong and I'm not blaming anybody for that I'm just saying it wasn't available it wasn't until I was able to go online and get the agenda that I found out I was on the extent and then I received the letter from the board that was all signed that
016everybody voted to not approve my contractor next year I'm only concerned with the fact that I was already told about this in January and I was asked give my resignation sat on Friday or today may let them know one day later on Monday let them know on Monday and of course I didn't reply it I was dying uh so here we are so I don't know what the solution is I don't know how we're going to move forward from this you know I'm just kind of concerned about that day and several parents that didn't show up tonight because okay so I'm just here to say hey I don't know what happened I don't know why thank you um I I would like to to make a little comment um any Personnel issues would have to
017go to Mr Grimes and so if you do have a concern of the process or a question Mr Grimes will be available to you just call his office and they will definitely schedule a meeting with with him or if you would like to send him an email that would be the other alternative unfortunately the board is unable to talk about Personnel issues um okay so that would be the avenue to go thank you sir yes and I appreciate you coming to the board meeting um Mrs Mr Farrell um I have you coming talk about Rex Fortune very important members I'm excited tonight to be able to come and announce that we have um so during the month of February we collected mascot names through Google form shared out to the community the staff members at
018our site we have lots of great ideas or over 15 submissions of names so we took that initial list we narrowed it down by comparing it to mascots that are similar or the same as mascots that are currently in our school district and preparing them to the surrounding districts and so that kind of weeded a few of those out and then we sat down and talked about the creating that and so as our district expands out into Roseville and City of Roseville we felt that it was important to connect with that rich history that Roseville has yeah so um mascot that would represent that Union Spirit Club the area Plus student experience so tonight I'm pleased to announce that we are moving full steam ahead as the Rex Fortune Flyers so we're working on a
019School logo currently and once that's that's finalized we didn't share that out probably and I know very I just wanted to give an update and we're excited to be home of the flag go Flyers thank you Mr Farrell um next up would be Miss Salmons and Mrs Anderson would you like to come she's right there a little bit yes ma'am and I'm being coordinator and volunteer coordinator and and we just had our pasta dinner it was the first one that I was just open I don't remember what I'm connected with an inner it was phenomenal um we just want to say thank you so much I know that Nancy and Mr fell in there and I know the recipe and some of you were just not feeling well but we are so thankful for the
020support that we receive not only from reward but just community members we got a lot of support and we were able to raise quite a bit of money to put back into the school to be able to uh refund some of the teachers for some of the things that they put into their classroom or field trips so we just want to thank everybody for really showing up this year because our events have been way bigger than we thought they were going to be um so thank you so much we couldn't have done it without any of you so we appreciate it and can't wait to see you at the next one and our next one is going to be our field day it is going to be a Saturday event on April 15th if you
021are free or if any of you would like to volunteer we would love your help and it is a get active event we'll have resources for sports we will have the library out so all things for our students and families to get active together but also something when they're out of school for activities to keep them busy so we hope to see you guys there very nice thank you and I'm sorry I missed the pasta day I was that's okay I was pretty excited to go pasta the Lions did it it would have been yummy thank you ma'am um is there any other excuse me public comment on nothing online I do want to give a little shout out to some individuals that are here and that's BSU our black student union so thank you
022for coming we appreciate that very much and moving right along to the consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended removing item number one I'll make that motion thank you do I have a second thank you Mrs Anderson General consent hi hi okay thank you very much and I heard Mr Mason's vote so that's cool thank you Mr Mason and before we go on I'd like to thank Mr barassi for his efforts in getting the safety plans together um it or and submitting them all together because that is a great help so thank you for doing that and then also a little shout out to Tammy jabaly if you notice that she did created items 18 through 23 and one of those would be the El Cap which takes
023a lot of time to create so I appreciate her efforts for this month's meeting and then in regards to consent agenda number one approve adoption of minutes for January 18 2023 regular meeting do I have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you is there any more discussion on this item okay I just want to say that we removed the item because it was requested to have the minutes revised so um I want to thank Carol hunt for doing that um so just to make sure everybody's aware we have the original minutes and then the revised minutes so there is no action at the moment for this item so do I have a motion for somebody to approve the minutes with
024a motion thank you Carol a motion to um which one do you prove the original or the revised the revisements do I have a second to approve the revised minutes from January 18th all seconded okay thank you General consent okay Mr Mason okay thank you then moving right along to business item a business item a resolution number 20 2223 opposition to the Aspire territory transfer petition and further requesting the Placer and Sacramento County committees on School District organization denied the petition do I have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion thank you do I have a second all second thank you very much uh Mr Lair are you there I am here hello uh yeah so I I wanted to just take a moment I know the board is is very aware
025of the process I know I appreciate a couple of you have been able to join us at some of the the hearings um the board had requested we come back with a uh a resolution to oppose the proposed transfer with the idea that if it's approved it would then be sent to both County committees uh at this point um I think the board is very aware but just so the community would be aware there's a portion in the top of our district that is in the I wouldn't even call it the North it's the north we'll just call it straight north um where about 80 120 homes are requesting to be transferred into the Roosevelt High School District and Roseville joint uh Union Roseville city school district um in that uh the petitioner has requested
026that they be transferred to that at this point what we're asking the board is to consider the resolution to uh oppose that and we do also have on the line uh our attorney and then our consultant machine green and David soldani with us if the board were to have any further questions um so I'd turn that back to you uh president Pope thank you sir um to my understanding from the last uh date of the scoey Sacramento County meeting we had 120 days for the next decision or the next meeting is that is that correct yeah my understanding was there would be no it would be no sooner than 120 days possibly longer depending on if there is any Environmental Studies that might need to be done I'm seeing uh Mr Green here nod too
027so I'm speaking correctly yes so we would not hear anything for at least under 20. this resolution if approved to oppose we would send copies to both of the county committees so they were aware of our position going into it as the study uh continued um can you give some examples of some environmental issues uh I might have to turn to Mr uh Mr Shin green on that one I know one that was brought up I'm not sure if it's a legitimate one but uh Mr screen do you know any environmental ones that might there are no specific issues that I'm aware of exactly but it could fall along the lines of things of traffic impacts uh as a result of revised travel patterns from the development to propose School sites and could also involve
028a myriad of other sort of similar impacts that may be caused by the change in flow and traffic patterns that would result from such a proposal thank you thank you very much is there any other questions or comments or the attorney or Mr Lair okay thank you um is there any public comments nothing okay do we have any board discussion on this at all Mr Bruno Mrs Anderson do you have any discussion Mrs Anderson Mr Bellin student Representative no chair does not either do I have a motion to approve business item a and please State your motion please State a motion you could just read what business item a says and that could be your motion so you could just read what business item a says and that could be your motion the way it
029is the trans opposition to transfer petition and further requesting the classroom Sacramento County committees on School District organization deny the petition okay thank you do I have a second on that motion okay very good General consent an advisory vote thank you very much very good second reading board policies regulations and Exhibits are there any further questions regarding business Item B is there any public comment Miss Carol nope I didn't but thank you can we bring it to the floor for a discussion I'll move to bring it to the floor and I appreciate that do I have a second I'll second okay thank you now is there any questions regarding the okay thank you and we do not have any bored comments so do I have a motion to approve business Item B reading policies regulations
030and Exhibits as a whole I will move to approve them as a point very good thank you do I have a second okay thank you General consent advisory vote very good okay moving on to business item seed first reading policies regulations and Exhibits this is in regards to policy number 4118 4119-14219.14319.2 4218 and advice administrative regulation 4218 do I have a motion to bring it to the floor for a discussion I'll move thank you do I have a second well thank you very much is there any other questions regarding these policies this this Pope if I might jump in just to explain to the board just for public the reason we brought these back it was requested by one of our trustees uh to reference understand the reference to the Bremerton case it was a
031Supreme Court case I just wanted to point out and I think Mr Grimes for his paragraph behind it explains um the process why when we get our samples from csba anytime there's amendments to our policies they they reference Senate bills assembly bills laws uh Supreme Court cases that might change or alter the um the the language in a policy and so the only reason the Bremerton case was referenced is because it did have impacts as you saw in your backup on um some potential employment thing which employment uh related items that's what these policies are related to Personnel matters so I just wanted to clarify that uh no no change was done to the policies from last meeting thank you for the clarification Mr Lair and sends that clarification I'm going to re-ask is there
032any public comments nothing okay okay um do I have a motion to approve business item c as a final reading thank you do you have a second all second okay thank you General consent okay advisory vote thank you Mr Mason moving on to First reading policies regulations and exhibit this is in regards to policy 3515 campus security can I bring it to the floor for discussion thank you do I have a second I'll second okay is there any further questions regarding policy 3515 campus security okay is there any public comment I have a point on this item I just suggest we at this point we we pull it because the uh this deals with uh legislation uh that directs I believe that there be certain guidelines and and documentation prepared which is not expected to
033be completed until July of this year so what do you mean by pull you mean table to read table correct yes please uh just and I Mr ballen I think I'd uh sent an email to you that that will be addressed in a separate policy this uh policy was only addressing um I think it's surveillance and locks as it related to that uh assembly bill so the the outline the the parameters that you're describing uh will come up at a later date and it probably in a different policy um so I just want to make that that uh clarifying point with it okay so no need to table this item okay very good do I have a motion to approve the final reading for business item D policies regulations and Exhibits all moved okay thank
034you do I have a second all right okay General consent final reading yes yes thank you uh advisory vote okay thank you moving on to one other policy board policy 30 73 10 naming of facilities do I have a motion to bring this to the floor for discussion also move okay do I have a second second okay uh Mr Bruno since you brought this forward would you give a brief introduction um this started with me wanting to expand our options for when we're naming School sites and other facilities to give us more leeway in that um trustee ballen also had some things that he wanted to incorporate into it so he and I have been working together and this is what we have so far okay very good um Mrs Anderson do you have any
035discussion on this policy through it can you tap on your mic please I'm sorry I kind of was puzzled reading through it because I couldn't figure out we had one page from Center one page from City and we ended up with three pages I don't know how you guys did that it was kind of interesting um it seemed a little wordy um to use Dill's food to be honest um but I like what you put in it uh and it ties everything up really well uh sometimes I worry that we say too much and it really ties us too much to certain things we have to be careful about that but overall I think it's a good policy um Mr Bruno or Mr ballen I'm sorry so uh uh my version um was essentially I
036I looked at what other districts not only uh in California but but throughout the country uh the language and um I took what I thought was the the best of the best and that's what I uh put in there with uh trustee Bruno amending a few things advisory comment I read it over the weekend um I asked some people about it and they all seem to agree on that word on the wording um myself um I wanted all due respect gentlemen because I was wondering what the heck happened as Mrs Anderson stated it went from a one-page policy to a three over three page policy and I couldn't understand why the actual policy was Rewritten when it was stated that we were going to use our policy and take some Snippets of Sac City Unified
037um and plus it is very wordy um and I just was kind of confused in why it was Rewritten is is basically it and as Mrs Anderson had stated sometimes when you put specifics into a policy then you are kind of limiting yourself into decisions in the future so um that that's my comment um do you have anything to add to Mr Bruno um um not a whole lot um I think we were making good progress on it we've both had things going on and didn't get to devote as much time to it as we would like um so at this time I'm going to move that we table this item um probably for a couple months I don't I think we're far enough along that for the immediate needs our current policy will suffice
038and um we just I think need some time to keep going back and forth and working your suggestions into it unfortunately because of the nature of board work only two of us can work on it so choo choo um this is the only way we can get your feedback so can I add a friendly amendment to your motion or to your table to table your motion a couple things is I wouldn't be inclined to change the name of the policy changing the name of the policy does include going through csba it's quite the process there has to be a re-numbering situation and it does take time naming a facilities for 73 10 I think the name the name of that policy itself is sufficient the other caveat would be if we can keep it to
039a page a page and a half is my thought my opinion okay those will be goals for us but just my opinion okay there's you've got others um so is there a second table all second to table the this motion um and then you know what let's just go ahead and take a vote on the tabling um trustee Bruno hi okay Mrs Anderson thank you trustee balance aye um chair votes eye and advisory vote please thank you very much thank you gentlemen moving on to so I'm sorry Ms oh just for my clarity and Miss hunt sorry I feel like I'm just coming out of nowhere when would you like us to bring this back would you like me to work with uh Mr trustee Bruno and trustee ballen and then we will bring it
040back once we feel like we've met some of those parameters or just looking for a little little direction thank you mine I think we should just continue to work on it and then when we feel we have a good one we'll schedule it yeah I I agree um I think with uh being a board member sure it may be uh the first of the next uh school year as soon as that doesn't mean it keeps growing yeah we're gonna work on in the other direction okay thank you then I I will go in a weight a waiting pattern then okay thank you okay okay very good thank you um everybody on that we'll continue on to business item F naming of Career Technical education CTE facilities do I have a motion to bring it to
041the floor for discussion so moved thank you do I have a second oh second thank you Mr Bowen uh Mr ballon you brought this forward did you give a brief introduction to this um so in um the initial stages of the CTE buildings being developed um it just occurred to me that we have a number of buildings in this District as does other districts and other government entities where they name in honor of people who were responsible or greatly contributed to the actual building or to the actual subject or ant or type of work that that building encompasses and in in thinking about this um a a person that I came to know came of Mind who I think was very much responsible at least from a a philosophical perspective of these dcte buildings being
042built and with that with those thought I thought it was be appropriate for the buildings to be named after or at least at least one of the two buildings to be named after this particular individual who was greatly responsible for trades and vocational training and education in this district for many many many years and so I suggested that we create a a move forward in in creating um the ability to name these buildings by such a person or persons that we deem appropriate thank you very much is there any public comment is there any public comments okay um we're going to go to board discussion I'm confused as to what we're doing he did an introduction to the item ask for public comment now we're going to discussion okay okay Mr Bellin did you want
043to give further discussion on that you said well I'll expand further so um an individual who is a member of this board for I'm not sure how many years 20 something years by the name of Ray Bender Mr bender and I uh in my activities with the district over the years had many discussions and he and I were very much a liked to think in terms of not every student is going to have the opportunity to go to college and how can we best prepare them for their future um thus vocational and and trade uh training and education was a subject that we we spoke of often and something that we uh felt that should be expanded upon in the district uh if I'm not mistaken and maybe Mr Lair or or board member Anderson
044could speak to this but at one time we had a Cisco Academy here in the district that I believe Mr Ben uh that the uh this person I'm speaking of is by the name of Ray Bender Who is a member of this board for many years that he was responsible for and so I myself would like to uh basically put his name in the Hat nominate them or whatever terminology we're going to use here to recommend that the buildings and or one of the buildings um because it was brought to my attention that another building maybe asked to be named after another individual which I would have no qualms about either so um I guess that's it I I don't know if you I say I nominate or I never command or I suggest or
045uh uh you know I I I'm not prepared with um uh his history um in terms of what he contributed but uh if we need to bring this bring this back to uh for further discussion or continuance of any kind or tabling I would be more than willing to uh speak with District staff and and the Bender family on how he greatly contributed to this District well there's nothing to table because it's not an action item it's just in discussion right now so um but thank you thank you for your comments Mrs Anderson um I know you have some words to say I do um and I went back and pulled some information on Mr Bender because I think he is so well deserving of this and as Howard said he had was on the
046District board for over 20 years he was also um recognized by the Placer County School boards Association and awarded the school board member of the year for them he was very much into vocational Ed and technology and basically forced the district into technology he brought digital High School to the district which brought teachers and students into computers and technology and basically introduced them to it he insisted on the groundwork being laid the fiber optics being laid to bring the computer systems into the high school when the high school was first laid out um he was twice a delegate to the California school boards Association he was instrumental in getting the first Bond pass to 59 million dollar bond which brought us three schools or he was you know here when we built three schools the
047bond I'm not sure did the bond pay for North Country Scott are you still there I I think it assisted in it yes I don't know if it paid for all of it but it absolutely contributed well I think it was all of them were matched with I believe you're right brought in two Charter Schools well he was here at least helped with those um all of that being matched for State money and the Performing Arts Center the classrooms the high school the computer labs um he was instrumental in bringing open court to the district which was even before the state adopted the program he was a big supporter of that he was into the bringing the health and services to the district it's a mosquito I'm sorry Hill services to the district um and
048really championed that program at one time we were almost ready to offer a medical assisting program he set it all up so that the union the the head union guy in the state of California at least some of the head Union people were going to set up apprenticeships for our students um all paid for but they had to have 18 year olds and so at the last minute it fell apart it was we didn't have enough 18 year olds but Ray went out and laid all the groundwork for that he was five times toward president he was um vocational training he was big on because he realized all kids weren't a College Bound even though he was very high on making sure kids were ready for college and that they earned college credits in high
049school he supported that program 100 but he knew that other kids weren't going to college and that they needed to be also prepared for work as well as the kids who were possibly going to need extra help and needed to have extra training and just workability that was a program that he brought to the district and pushed for to where those kids needed training in job applications and interviews and just maybe sweeping floors at McDonald's because they were specially challenged kids that need extra help that was a grant program that was brought to the district he worked the snack bar for over 10 years and that's just not a Friday night job he's there late Friday night when everybody else is out having pizza cleaning the snack bar two days other days a week he's
050out picking up supplies then stopping the snack bar and all of those extra jobs he truly was dedicated to Center School District and the students of Center School District if there was a uh tournament the kids didn't have the money to attend um a league fee they couldn't pay he found a way that it was paid and half the time they never even knew where it came from or if a kidney to choose and Ray found out about it he'd pay for him and they would turn up somewhere and the kid didn't know where they came from we had a student one time that didn't have a place to live his parents wouldn't let him live at home or he didn't have anywhere to go he was living in a field and the Benders took
051him in and he lived with them for at least two years well he finished high school I don't know that I have known anyone who was more dedicated to kids and the students of Center than they were I would be in full support and I think it would be well deserved to name at least half of the building or they're the one building after Ray and I know the other building's been mentioned to be named after Vern Bishop who passed away as a teacher in the district and who also did a lot for the district and the students in the district so that would be my thoughts on the idea so I would appreciate it if the board would give that some consideration thank you very much Mrs Anderson Mr Bruno um unfortunately I did
052not know Mr Bender sorry unfortunately I did not know Mr Bender um but and you guys all are aware of my general reluctance to name things after people but um frankly from what you guys have said it sounds very appropriate especially since he was instrumental in laying the groundwork for what led to the CTE program um I would just ask you know that we look for any reason that might this might be controversial at all but it doesn't sound like there is and as far as Mr Bishop goes um I can't object to that either my only comment in um is that both individuals have already had a ceremony of recognition and a facility or a building or a partial of a building named after them that's my only comment I'm Mr Mason um I
053wouldn't be opposed to having having Mr Bender be the name of the CTE buildings thank you Mr Mason okay um what do you want to go from here did you want to put it as an agendas item in a couple months once we give it some thought Ponder on it and um but I'm going to go back to uh whatever if it was the last meeting a board meeting or the one previous so there will be from my understanding a some form of a a ceremony dedication ceremony for when the buildings are ribbon cutting whatever you want to call it um so with that said it would be appropriate that if they if that was to take place that the naming of the building is already been decided on and the appropriate placard or whatever
054it is that we are going to do is um is purchased and um and adhered to the building uh in time for such a ceremony so I don't uh there were different months that superintendent Claire brought up I think everything between May and September so I have no objections to post postponing um further discussion or action item it or whatever course the board would prefer to go I'm fine with that as long as we make the timetable as it relates to the opening and dedication of the building as my understanding is it will be open and ready for business for the next school year hey um Carol how long does it take to have those breast plaques made what Nancy or Miss Anderson what we'll do is probably honestly the sooner if the board wants
055to consider that next month our plan would be to do the ceremony once the ribbon cutting right at the beginning of school when it resumes so what's at August 3rd this year August 5th so if the board would want to consider that next month that gives us hopefully enough lead time to get whatever we need done um from there I don't know Miss hunt might have a better idea on some of the plaques I know she helped me before okay I was just assuming it would be like the regular Plants standardized it would probably be like a bronze plaque of what for yes and and the one we did for Vernon and I think those took at that time a month okay so we'll bring it back um for future discussion um when we talk
056about future business items we'll talk about that when we talk about future business items at the closing of the meeting okay okay we're gonna move right along to business item G instruction material adoption grades K ten through five Foss generation science curriculum do I have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion so moved do I have a second oh thank you Mr ballen Mr Larry do you want to give an overview uh yeah just the basically I think the the background material shows and supports this but really what's completing the cycle for our tk5 uh as the the backup shares we we had it uh ready to go covet hit we got derailed with that and now we've piloted the materials we've had them on display for folks to to take a
057look at and we've identified the the Foss curriculum would be the one that we would be recommending to meet those standards and then move forward very much is there any public comment Mrs hunt okay very good board discussion um trustee Bruno uh seeing this agenda item I did a little um research online um looking into this and uh It generally receives uh positive uh comments and the links that were provided in the board packet it looked like pretty good material so I concur that was what I found Mrs Anderson I'm good okay advisory that's good and it looks good to me so do we have a motion to approve business item oh shoot business item G instruction material adoption grades K tk5 fuss Next Generation so moved uh do I have a second second okay
058General consent okay advisory vote awesome very good thank you very much we'll move to business item H English learner newcomer curriculum adoption middle and high school do I have a motion to bring it to the floor for a discussion awesome do I have a second thank you Mrs Anderson Mr Larry would you like to give an overview yeah so as as the material shares there uh we have seen it a significant increase in in newcomer uh status individuals typically those are individuals who who really have uh zero English and so this program is something we've identified and that will help us fill that Gap with our other ELD curriculum I know our ELD teachers English language development teachers have really been striving to to meet the need and they've done a great job but this
059will help them meet the needs of our our students as they come forward very good is there any public comment okay um is there any board discussion Mr Bruno Mrs Anderson no Mr ballen student representative nope board night or chair neither do I have a motion to approve business item h all motion to approve business item age do I have a second all second thank you General consent it's very good advisory vote very good thank you very much and then business item I 2223 second interim report and do I have a motion to bring this to the floor for discussion so moved thank you Mrs Anderson thank you Mr Bruno and the lovely Mrs Coronado hello hello I've submitted to you the second interim report for approval and that looks at the fiscal activity from
060July 1 through January 31st it also looks at the budget and the projection through the this current year and then two subsequent years enrollment I'm pleased to say that it is still going up um I've looked I follow Sacramento Area Housing sales and the sales the the amount of time that they're on the market is longer and the salary and the cost has come down a little bit but they're still selling well and our developer fees reflect that we are taking in about five hundred thousand dollars per month consistently which is what we took in last year per month consistent so we're not showing any slowing at all in our own area or the Sacramento area at large so we're really hopeful that those come in and then we heard today from Mr Farrell that
061Rex Fortune has topped 100 students so I think they're at 101 now sweet congratulations so the suits are continuing to come we're excited about that the daily attendance um we are still working on that we look at the attendance regularly trying to get our students who are chronic absentee students to come to school and so Mr brassy has been leading that charge the Ada goes down because we have that three-year rolling average where we're protected from the declining enrollment which has been up until this year so we'll see our Ada go up in our ears now when I look at the revenue versus expenditures we are deficit spending this year by 4.4 million dollars but the next slide will show why we're doing that we're spending down our one-time funds that we had in our
062little savings account we'll call it the out years are more important because I only look at Revenue versus ongoing expenditures and we have a surplus of about eight hundred thousand dollars there and then the year following um have a deficit of about 600 000 that's within a margin of error where I'm not too concerned about our spending pretty much even at first interim um it was a little bit different we had um we have five hundred thousand dollars more spending this year because we're spending one-time funds which will be the next line and then next year we have a greater Surplus it's going to be a negative at first dinner on my projected but now it's up to eight hundred thousand and that has become because we received home to school transportation funds and that's
063about a million dollars also we had a 5.38 polar increase it was projected for first interim and that has been increased to 8.13 Cola now it's second in a row we have to watch that because the legislative analyst office says the state can only afford a 6.4 percent colab so they'll be battling out how much of a cola and that's cost of living increase which doesn't mean cost of our living is the cost of doing business and then the out year in 2425 our demographer changed the projection of our students and so that changed our Revenue significantly so I'll be watching that that's the third year out we have time to see how accurate our demographer is the one-time expenditures that I mentioned was the two million dollars that we negotiated for the salary bonus
064I mean it differed by the unions but it was about two million dollars total of one time um expenditures and then the two million dollars of one-time expensive Miniatures for the board committed maintenance funds we had 700 000 site discretionary funds and all the sites and departments received 25 to 75 000 just for facility needs so in the business office we are redoing the flooring the carpet and painting so we tried to focus on on needs for the facilities that you just don't get money for regularly and that totaled about seven hundred thousand dollars and then other maintenance and Technology was about another 200 300 000 so that's where we get that negative spending but these are one-time expenditures so it won't be negative in future Lisa in regards to one-time expenditures um the monies
065don't expire so for instance if if they said for instance you know expires by May 2024 and if you don't use it you lose it is that a is that right or no that's correct this is from general fund money so that does not expire good good thank you so when we look at our ending Sun balance because the board increased our our Reserve from three percent to six percent that brings our unappropriate and Dean fund balance lower than in previous years but we still have a healthy surplus of 2.2 million dollars read that it's too small um but there is a healthy Surplus each year that we can still draw on and then I just included a slide of the board committed funds so that you can see how we're doing on the spending
066of the funds that you set aside carryover for unspent School site funds so last year they didn't spend all their money that carries over to this year that has all been given to them so the balance on that is zero the supplemental concentration Grant funds we have not used any of those yet the balance Remains What was carried over and now those funds are going to be used for the pandemic relief positions that we added that'll get us through next year the HVAC upgrades fencing general maintenance the two million dollars we have spent about one million dollars at that so there's about one million dollars left when I'm looking at the projection for three years out or this year and two years out I had a great concern of special education it went up about
0673.6 million dollars over last year and that is a trend that just can't continue our Revenue only went up 460 000 so I brought this information to Mr Jordan um out of concern because as you saw our Surplus was only eight hundred thousand dollars next year so we can't add on another 3.6 million dollars next year or we won't have the funds to pay for it so Mr Jordan took that seriously immediately and went and met with all the school sites in their special education departments and um the preschool program and brainstormed ways that they could reduce the cost while still meeting the needs of our special education program and so the eights of you pets and I want to talk about that in a minute yes yeah thank you I was going to say
068that and these are not our employees I know that that was a concern that came up out there in in the district these are contracted employees we have open positions we want people to apply and then we don't need to use these other agencies that cost a lot of money so thank you Mr Jordan for helping fund 20 we still have our um opeb retire other post-employment benefits for retirement that we are putting money into the trust I haven't done that this year yet but I will do that before the year ends we have 445 000 in fund 20 to go in the trust and we have 1.4 million dollars in the trust right now our liability um by the actuary company that was 5.2 million dollars so looking ahead we want to look at
069the governor's Revision in May um he could revise this current year still he took away some of the art music and and discretionary funding because that art music proposition passed in the state the voters approved it so they're kind of battling that out does he have the right to take back that money now or not so I'm interested to see how that plays out we're watching special education and seeing how the redu the costs come down the ongoing cost of course watching the attendance rate and enrollment and new construction in the homes because that brings in enrollment and just watching the economy in general so I have to say that the district's still in great shape we're hanging in there I appreciate the unions I know they are anticipating I thought they would be here
070they're anticipating you know and salary increase um all of the the special education increase that 3.6 million dollars equals a 9.47 salary increase so that was lost by increasing the special education cost so if we can bring that down then maybe we can talk about a salary increase also that is 68 of our coveted position costs that's 51 FTE um three quarters of the year that's the cost of what the special education would equal so we want to bring those costs down so we can keep people pay them what they deserve so that's mainly what I'm watching right now so that's just not the contracted individuals that's all of special education it's all of special education but the contracted individuals is what has made that amount go up so much significantly understand is there any
071public comment before you go yes yes Mr Jordan will you go to this Podium place that's okay Lisa pre-coveted about 72 8 we call it aids isph is the structural assistance we ballooned up over in the last year and a half to over 140. so what we're trying to get we're never going to get back down we're not we're not going to say never it's unlikely we're gonna get back down to 72 but closer to that so we looked at how we can revise what we're doing in our programs that we cut costs and that's what we are doing without uh hurting the kids obviously as little impact as possible but just revising how we are providing services at the Elementary Preschool level and the secondary level I know it's spoken to me a minute
072ago for the record that was Doug Huey Doug Huey [Music] oh that's funny contract workers great people incredibly expensive so we cut 38 contract workers that brings our costs significantly down and I want to stress none of our Senator fight at school positions foreign we would love to replace all contract workers immediately with the center are we only gonna cover some of those are hoping to feel some of all 30 to 38 are properties the 38 that we're talking about are positions that are no longer needed with our restructuring in the program so we'd still have 100 two or whatever still but if we're looking at right now there's still about 15 of them absolutely you want a job [Laughter] do you have any friends that want a job before Mr Jordan sits down yeah
073Mr Jordan well this excuse me um Mr Jordan is not on the agendas regarding the budget uh as it relates to the subject matter yes the budget yes so um in yeah it's all about the money so in uh I was in a meeting at Center High School and we had the opportunity to uh stop in and look at the special needs classroom there and superintendent Lair explained to me the um what I saw on the on the board is it relates to cost and so um in one of my uh board reports I exclaimed that you know this this to me was very important and I think very serious and so I only asked that you know if we can think outside the box maybe maybe you know look at somewhere else um you
074know where where are the you know there's funds there's always funds for those projects that people who make make things happen so maybe you know think a little bit out of the box maybe we'll look at some different things different areas different people anything because I see that as a huge problem when it I don't know what the percent increase is but it's it's pretty significant and if the funds aren't aren't there and then we're a double on a double-edged sword now we're with their contract we're also spending more because those contracts are very expensive so maybe we can do something different I don't know if if we can do if we can do that but I I really like to see for every every all of us to look at that yeah and uh
075please know we are looking at everything you need to show me the numbers I mean that is a significant 3.6 million some of it a lot of his contractors we do have more kids in Publix and those are those are expensive but they're messes so there's some areas we can cut and still provide great services and others that you know foreign to be used and different areas different parts we gotta get back to the topic of the budget but well this is budget but no yes I just wondered if any of it was used in special ed that could cover some of that or if okay um did we finish public comments yeah um no just miss Samson Sam's thanks I'm trying um is there any other public comments from the audience or anything online
076okay um and so Mr Bruno did you have a comment I think Mrs Anderson no I did okay I don't um Mr Mason thank you Miss Lisa that was very enlightening you have to vote on it yes we'll do that okay we'll do that right now okay yes you would appreciate that so do I have a motion to approve business item I 2223 second interim okay and do I have a second so thank you Mrs Anderson General consent hi right advisory vote thank you thank you it passed Lisa student representative report Riley Mason uh in the past month we've had our glow-in-the-dark rally we had our first Multicultural night our second annual talent show hosted by the class of 25 and then this past week we had Breaking Down the Walls on Thursday and Friday
077we're about 300 students 15 staff participated and speaking of Mr Huey Mr Huey and Miss Bowler put it together so I want to say thank you to them and just all around on campus even this week Vibe kind of on campus has been better our spring blood drive happens tomorrow the seniors have an assembly um to Aid them in transitioning from high school life to adult life tomorrow baseball has a double header against Sutter starting at one because all the games this week have been postponed uh tennis is at Lynnhurst as well tomorrow track is at Yuba Yuba College um and then on Friday softball is at Sutter and then we're uh piloting this new online ticket sales um for our volleyball games and then we're hoping to implement them to other the football games
078later and then basketball games could you do the ticket sales for like prom and other Center events or is it just athletic um just Athletics that's pretty cool um next week golf is at Cherry Island on the 21st and 23rd and then on the 24th swim is at Bear River on the 29th we have a staff for our students basketball game during both lunches our student our spring sorry our spring drama production is being held on the 23rd 23rd 24th and 25th and then on those weekdays Thursday and Friday uh seven to nine and then on the 25th two to four um and then that is recommended for a more mature audience and then the week we come back from spring break we have our rally on the 14th and then prom is on the
07915th and for the two people here students here and make sure to buy your prom tickets tickets and on the 24th and then that's it 29th of April is the staff versus student correct okay at lunch both lunches yeah thank you awesome thank you um okay let's go Mr Bruno do you have a board report this evening yes um this month I got to participate in a meeting with technology department and learned quite a bit um unfortunately I couldn't stay for the whole meeting but I found it very informative and I look forward to doing that again um also I got to participate in read Across America at Dudley actually my wife and I both participated she was reading her book and brought our pet pigeon to show the students which ties into the book
080um we had a great time everyone was very welcoming and delighted to see us except the class that I went to that thought they were going to get the pigeons so they were a little disappointed that they only got me but they only got you yeah I I was reading uh Dr Seuss's boxing socks which is very challenging to read because it's full of tongue twisters but I really enjoy it and I got great feedback ranging from a student giving me a hug another student telling me I was a pro to a student in the middle of me reading telling me that I was sweating and a student uh raised in her hand after I finished to provide the comment that she laughed zero times I just love the honesty but uh we had a
081great time and uh really enjoyed doing that the other thing I want to say um is with the work we were doing closed session the work uh trustee bound and I were doing on uh the board policy we're working on and some of the things here I like that we're finding ways to disagree and listen to each other and try to find common ground and I think if we continue down this road we can make really good progress on things and that's my board report a very nice board report Mrs Anderson um I was able to go to Oak Hill and their pasta night and play Bingo with them and it was a lot of fun and Mr Ballin of course won the prizes I didn't get to win it um but they had a
082great time and it was a very well attended event very well put together an organized but I would encourage you to attend some of their events because they're a lot of fun um also Mr Bowen and I attended a tour with Mr Lair and we went to Wilson Riles McClellan and Oak Hill I have to say that every classroom we went into was extremely well behaved extremely quiet and under control the kids were focused on learning the walls were decorated and very well [Music] um designed and colorful and you know kids projects were great I was just so impressed as always when I walked through our classrooms they're they're very uplifting and spirited the I think every classroom we walked into had the character count Words the reminders of respect and just so positive very
083welcoming reminding kids you know what what's important in life and how to behave and it's just uplifting to go through our classrooms I just love it and I think Mr Bellin had some insights too into what goes on and what what you see in the classrooms so it was fun it was interesting and that was about all I had really for this time around awesome Mr ballen the boat so uh this month was probably the busiest I've had since taking office I've had many opportunities to meet with faculty staff and students at a number of schools I went to a number of several a number of several school after school events I have to say what this District does compared to when I went to elementary school and even a generation later when my son
084attended in this District as well is very impressive so many extracurricular activities and I've I've noticed in this District uh ongoing every every week almost almost daily um the schools and the ptas uh and the ptos with their outstanding programs show why this is such an exemplary School District so some of the events that I uh or the events that I attended on Friday uh February 17th I had the opportunity to meet with the district's technology director Eugene Grant superintendent layer director of facilities Richard Putnam as well as board members Steve Bruno as you mentioned momentarily ago as it related to the district's technology and information security of this District I was very impressed with Mr Graham's presentation and feel very confident that the district is in very capable hands as it relates to information
085technology and security within our district on Friday March 3rd I attended a well on the next item was on Saturday the 25th I forgot which agenda item I attended the uh scoe the Sacramento County Office of Education hearing relating to the territory transfer Petition of aspire Solaire that we spoke to earlier with superintendent Lair and also president Pope on Friday the 3rd I attended Oak Hill Elementary School pasta dinner and bingo fundraiser along with School Board member Anderson as she mentioned and what a fun way to bring students their families teachers and friends all together I believe it is very worthwhile to gather events such as this I think it does a lot for the for the kids on Monday March 6 I company accompanied by President Del Rey Pope I attended the saint baldrick's
086fundraiser at spinella Spinelli Elementary this event which raises funds for childhood cancers was fun and entertaining and what an outstanding way to help those in Need by such a young group of students I'm not sure what the youngest ones but they were uh very early on in in elementary school they're all to be commended for those that you don't know they got their uh their heads shaved in in order to raise funds for those kids that have cancer so very solemn and uh sincere thank you to those that participated on Tuesday March 7th I attended Spinelli Elementary School Multicultural Fair it was very impressive and the food samplings provided were awesome as to as I didn't have lunch that day the timing of this event was perfect so uh I didn't go hungry until dinner
087it was really quite a showing of different cultures by students their families and the volunteers that assisted on Wednesday March 8th along with President Del Rey Pope I attended two events the North Country family math night and the center High electives Center High electives night and Multicultural Fair many thanks to the faculty staff and students that helped with these events and made them the success that they were I had a great time and I remember how much of basic math I've forgotten and the event at Center high was so crowded with great turnout you could hardly move about and then I thoroughly enjoyed the showing off of the robotics the robots moving through the crowd it was quite fun to watch people getting out of the way on Friday uh March 10th I had opportunity
088along with board member Nancy Anderson to visit and tour Oak Hill Elementary School Wilson Riles Junior High and McLennan High School many thanks to principals Allison Kent Erica Homestead and David French for their warm welcomes and devotion of their time to showing us around also on March 10th I had an opportunity to speak with the district's school resource officer officer Ahmed after our board meeting in December and where officer Ahmed and Twin Rivers Unified School District Police Department Lieutenant coquier spoke officer Ahmed has been visiting on average one hour a day our elementary schools I'd like to thank officer Ahmed for taking the initiative to show a law enforcement presence to our elementary school students faculty and staff after some concern was expressed that our elementary and junior high schools were not being watched over
089as much as some believe they should be also it is important that all our district students faculty and staff come to know officer Ahmed so that any event he needs to preside over a crisis event all know who he is and why he is present lastly I'd like to report that on Monday February 27th I received an email from superintendent Lair that I had been sent to him by high school principal Ferguson from the center High School chapter of future Business Leaders of America also called FBLA pertaining to the northern section leadership conference and where our chapter placed fifth in the northern section sweepstakes competition with 11 of our competitors becoming award recipients by placing within the top 10 of their events congratulations to those FBLA members for this outstanding success and achievement and best
090of luck to those six members that were chosen and will advance to the state leadership conference in closing as I've said in previous meetings and I will say at each meeting I want everyone that watches this board meeting live or recorded know that you are more than welcome to come attend these meetings in person and I know all the best rest of the board would be in agreement with this as well your presence would be welcomed by the board and District staff and should you wish to provide any input you feel would be helpful and beneficial to the board the district our schools or our students would also be welcome additionally please know that we would appreciate any comments on any of the district's social media platforms such as YouTube Facebook Instagram Etc remember it
091is you the parents and guardians of our student to have the strongest voice in how your children are educated and your voice is always welcome here this completes my report for Mark shove 2023 thank you very much thank you Mr Bowman Fair are you available you betcha uh so I just wanted to tag on I I think most people ended up sharing some of the different events we went to but I think what makes the events and also the school tours so positive is not only the staff for the work that they do each and every day but also our families we've really worked after coming out of kova to re-engage and get back to some of the things that we missed over the few years that we were dealing with the the kova crisis
092and I just want to say it's impressive to see there's so many events you can't hardly go to them and for such a disregard size that that's pretty impressive um additionally I just wanted to give a a thank you to Ann Lyons for all that she's done she has assisted thousands of students over the years uh probably hundreds of Staff members and other adults but Anne will be greatly missed but we're really happy for her she called me a very classy move called me said she had to come to him I had to come meet with her because she wanted to tell me in person that she would be retiring at the end of the year of course we're happy for her but we're very sad to see her go the other couple other quick
093things before I close was just a reminder that the board candidate seats we have a vacancy it closes on Friday so if someone's interested in joining the board please put in your paperwork uh next the board and I've been sharing with folks about our logos we're looking at rebranding and updating our logos I'm hoping Friday to the board members I'll be able to share some preliminary logos with you I think Miss Coronado and I got a sneak peek this morning of those I think you'll find them to be uh pretty good pretty good and then finally I just want to say one thing I think that's special about our district continues to be how we work together we work with each other when people have things going on we all pull together no matter what
094it is I would like to thank Carol for her continued support uh with me being in and out lately she's been great she's probably tired of my text tired of my phone calls um but I just appreciate all that she does and that's just one example of what people do for each other when we need to pull together so thank you Carol thanks everyone and that concludes my report thank you Mr laram please feel better soon and for myself um I would like to also say congratulations to the FBLA on their successes so I'm anxious to see what comes about on April 27th after their conference um I too uh attended the Sacramento County committee land transfer on the 25th and it was very similar as to the scoey committee meeting Mr Larry gave his
095presentation on the oppose of opposition of the transfer and then I'm hoping that the two committees deny so um that's that hope that goes in our favor March 2nd I too read at Dudley Elementary for reading Across America I read The Giving Tree by by Shall silverston um for Miss Dobson's third grade class um Mr Bruno is correct um those those kids are really cute and they say what they mean I read um it was I read um again what did I read I'm sorry uh The Giving Tree as I said um and it was an amazing book and then after that I read a poem called chicken lips and chicken lips was a poem that was introduced to my children in third grade by their third grade teacher at Oak Hill Mr Dan stolphus
096and I was watching the Expressions on their face and one of the children said oh Mrs Pope that's so gross as my children said so I'd like to say thank you to Dan stolphus for introducing that to my family and we still talk about that poem today but as a student Say Say the Darndest Things actually I asked the students what does a dragon say and they look at me and one little fella says you said dragon no you said dragon and I went yes what does a dragon say it's dragon and I said that's what I said no you said dragon and I went oh let me tell you where I'm from I'm from North Dakota and sometimes we say our vowels incorrectly so yes that was so cute the kids were tentative um
097they were lovely they're just a great joy so thank you Dudley and Mrs Mason for including the board um to read Across America and please let's do this again next year because it was it was truly a blast um uh March 6 was Saint baldrick's as Mr Bowen said and Jean Luigi organized this for 10 years within the 10 years they shaved 288 heads and raised over a hundred thousand dollars so congratulations Miss Luigi um unfortunately um this might be her last year so hopefully um they can last year doing the saint baldrick's so I hope somebody else will um continue that that Spirit within that school on the seventh I did attend the Multicultural night at spaghetti great food great uh display tables there was dancing outdoor activities unfortunately for the rain the dancing
098horses didn't come but hopefully next year we can do that and I just want to say thanks to Mrs Amanda L um Alden she did a great job so um let's continue that practice as well um I know it stopped during covid so there you are um darn covid but we're done with it hopefully um same on the seventh I attended the facilities meeting and I did run solo nobody else showed up so I got a private tour so thank you Mr Putnam on the 8th was family math night at North Country their very first and for their very first event it was well attended it was great fun and yeah Mr ballen and I don't want to talk about our math skills that was kind of embarrassing we did tour the Center High School
099electives fair and their Multicultural night the booths they had there was a Center Height booster clubs the MCA Athletics including chair BSU was there Bible Club dear Asian youth club best buddies engineering and Robotics hispan his Hispanic youth leadership Club Key Club along with science social studies Arts math and English and as well as Mr ballen had said you better careful when you're walking around that cafeteria because you might get a robot in the ankle but they were so cool so our our engineering and robotics team have been very busy and then one thing that I wanted to bring attention to is our art Department I stopped by the art table and the amazing art that was displayed on Mr asbury's Booth was amazing and there was a young lady from BSU I believe who
100is also an artist and she does have her paintings for sale I don't remember her name great Gracie Gracie she showed me her heart or art to excellent paintings um so if you are interested in any any paintings from Gracie or want to see them I'm sure somebody from BSU you can contact them and um and look at them because we have some amazing talent between Center High School's talent that I saw the other night and then McClellan said I saw earlier in the year congratulations students they're amazing and then Mr Putnam has been busy if you drive around our district office you may have noticed this brand new sign so thank you Mr Putnam it's amazing replacing the old one and I believe it's going to be illuminated with lights sometime soon right that
101would be that's cool so thank you for doing that and then I'm a big shout out to Sarah Wildman she has been working on our district a Google Calendar and I was flipping through it the other day and I went oh my God these events are on the calendar I don't to go to each site so thank you Sarah because that's a huge huge win for us so if you want to know what events are going on in our district board members and and Mr Mason um they're right on our district Google Calendar and I'll show you the time and date and other information so thank you Sarah that's quite quite wonderful it is wonderful I know Mrs hunt has been trying to get that information so Sarah has completed that so that's awesome so
102thank you everybody then continuing on with the meeting and if you can imagine shoot it's eight o'clock almost I was going to be done by 7 30. I'm sorry I rambled um Advanced planning future meeting date right here uh April 19th and the annex is their suggested business item a suggested agenda item I know we're going to talk about the facility facility naming of these CTE buildings um I believe Mr layer suggested in April and is there any others I do yes sir as I expressed in previous meetings that a number of things that come to my attention while I campaigned for the seat I'd like to bring one of those those items forward I did a little research and reading on it and apparently it co what I learned campaigning coincides with what I
103researched online uh board meetings are about conducting the business of the district but it's also supposed to be a recognition and a realization of why we're here and that's the education of our students um what has been brought to my attention and what I also researched is uh with the exception of our wonderful student member Mason um and we don't have and and the occasional when it's agendized presentation by students we have no feedback from our students uh no we don't there's no recognition of the things that they're accomplishing we're here uh to ensure that student achievement is is at the most that we can possibly provide for them and we should be able we should be recognizing that on a regular basis so I would like to propose as as for discussion that at
104the next meeting that we take some time during our board meanings to recognize our students what they've achieved the different clubs the the different singular academic achievements and and um things of that nature maybe take a 15-minute block of uh of each each board meeting or carve out a part of time or something along those lines so discussion around that subject matter is what I am proposal you actually did that before covid we just hadn't really started it back up again well Mr Larry does talk to the administrators and they do give us their board report I think it's quarterly is that correct administrators quarterly and so on a quarterly basis which I don't think you've been here yet for one the yes you have actually the administrators do give us some input on what's
105going on in their school site and what clubs is what's going on and so we do get that on a quarterly basis okay so I I get that but what I'm but where the actual students can come and for those that don't typically would come here would be able to give a presentation or we would do some kind of recognition of of the achievements of what they did either individually or as groups and recognize them or would have students come in and recognize like the honor roll um things like that remember before Kobe that's a long time ago but yeah we have we'd recognizes so um um Miss Pope what I would say is what I'm hearing is we'll put an item on to discuss ways to to to bring back some of those things
106and identify so I've heard a couple good brainstorms so we'll put a discussion item on to see how we can continue to uh publicize or or share or bring students in uh that that's that's that's a great idea and get back to that I think I think what you're looking for is stuff to talk about at the next meeting so we'll put it on the agenda for the next meeting to talk about that's what we just said yeah we'll do a discussion item yeah okay the board will not reconvene in closed session so at this time 7 49 we will adjourn thank you everybody thank you