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002Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Hey, thank you. Good evening community. Welcome to the uh to our board of trustees meeting. Our regular meeting of the board of trustees here at Central Unifi. The date is uh Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. The time is 700 p.m. Uh quick report out. We had Trusty Kurfon join us at 5:32 p.m. We had Trusty Sidu join us at 5:38 p.m. On item E1, we had a motion by Trustee Sellers, a second by Trusty Kuron. Item pass 6 with Trustee Sidu missing at the time. We had on item E2, we had a motion by trustee SE, a second by Trusty Chavez, item pass 6. Was trusty Su missing at the time? On uh item 2 E2B, we had a motion by Trusty Kirk, a second by Trusty Chavez, item pass 70.
003And with that, I'll ask Trusty Kirk to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Please stand. >> Ready? Salute to the flag of the United States of America. stands for all. >> Thank you. And with that, I'll uh welcome Senator Lazo to share with us our community engagement information. Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150 or fill out a request form provided on the table near the entrance and submit it to the clerk of the board prior to the meeting. If you wish to speak on an item on the agenda, please do so when that item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public's comment section of the agenda. District welcomes other language speakers to the board
004meetings. Anyone planning to attend and needed an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559-274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting so arrangements can be made for an interpreter. Secretary. for extension. Thank you. We next invite up to share our community engagement information. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Spanish. As we next move to our presentations, we'd like to invite up Vanessa from Central East High School to share with us uh some of our school activities presentations. >> Good evening board members. My name is Ana Bear and I am the ASB president at Central East High School. This semester has been very eventful. From clubs to athletics, it's been very busy. Um our starting with our clubs, they
005have been very active. We started off with club rush on the beginning in the beginning of September with over 40 clubs ranging from different languages and cultures to hobbies such as hiking club and dungeons and dragons. Um a new club that we just implemented was empower her which um it is run by the women staff and it's to promote healthy relationships with other women. Um uh our NAMI club just um celebrated suicide awareness month in in September with kind notes throughout the campus. Something new we just implemented is um we have a we do rewards for good attendance and good grades. Um some awards include extended break and sweet treats from the cafeteria and students are reacting well to that incentive. Um, we've had many different activities so far, but some of the bigger ones
006include our version of back to school night, which is called, we called it Bengal Bonanza. It included freshman orientation, performances from folk, pep and cheer, and um, the Mong dance club. Um, and we also had a mini club rush. The main goal was to bring the spirit on for the new year as Bengals. We also had uh, we obviously had our homecoming. The homecoming theme was board games. The freshman were Clue, sophomores were Candyland, juniors were Monopoly, and the seniors were the game of life. Um, it went well. People loved it. I think it was like different from what we normally have and I really liked it. Um, we also had our Sades which was called Lost at Lost Treasure at Sades and it was at Blackbeards. The turnout was great and there weren't very
007many complaints. um uh on the Central Unified account, the Instagram account, they highlighted our Bengal road show. We went to all of our feeder elementary schools and had a short rally about like 30 minutes and it gave uh the fifth and sixth graders, the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders a great taste of what's to come at Central East. The kids loved it. We loved it. Great time. Um, and finally, as you guys know, our football team has been doing extremely well, and we are on our way to Valley Championships against Clovis High, and I hope to see you guys all there. And finally, we are looking forward to the next semester. Thank you for your time, and go Bengals. Thank you for that report, Ana. Next, we'd like to invol invite up Eminent from Central
008Online Home School. Thank you. Sorry, Emnet couldn't make it, so I'm here today. Um, fat. Good evening, President Singh Chan and Superintendent Dr. Marshall, board members, and honored guests, Ashikal Gayanu. My name is Navj Mahil and I'm proud to represent Central Online Home School tonight. I'm excited to share some of the highlights of this amazing school year so far. We started strong with an in-person orientation for all students. It was a great way to meet our teachers, review expectations, go over digital citizenship, and make sure we had all the materials we needed. We also learned how to use our Google calendars to access Zoom invites and keep organized. This year, COS added a math teacher to our team. this which means every student in grades 6 to 12 now receives individualized math support and instruction
009instructions. Teacher teachers sorry often go above and beyond by offering extra support sessions on Zoom during longer school breaks. Many academic adviserss host workshops for students to catch up on work, ask questions, and strengthen their skills. These sessions are open to everyone, creating an inclusive space for students to go at their own pace. Our program is growing. We have more dual enrollment students than ever before, earning both high school and college credit at the same time. This lets us students build stronger academic habits and reduce the cost and time needed to complete courses. Beyond academics, Central Online Home School offers a lot of ways to get involved through our college clubs, including photography, pickle ball, croquet, crochet, art, reading and craft book club, and coming soon digital design, broadcasting, and cooking. Some of our favorite
010events this year include Senior Sunrise, which was actually the largest attendance of seniors in COS history. We also had a pumpkin carving contest. We also had field trips to Fresno City. um Fresno West Center, UC Merrced and CSU Sacramento and the fish hatchery. Our community service project placing flags for Veterans Day and continuing our career speaker series which was hosted Mrs. Margot Kim from ABC30 yesterday morning to educate us students about careers in journalism. Central Online's essential part is to build a positive and motivating learning environment. When teachers, staff or program take the time to acknowledge students hard work and accomplishments, it really adds to the growth whether academic, personal, or behavioral. It helps boost confidence and encourages continued effort. Recognition comes in many forms such as shoutouts in class, certificates, small celebrations, or even
011simple verbal phrases. These moments show students that their dedication is seen and valued every single day. Despite everything, if I go into something a little bit more personal, I was managing in my mental and physical health or my attendance schedule as a student coach at Central Valley Pungra. My teachers consistently showed up for me in ways that went far beyond the classroom. They adjusted deadlines, offered extra Zoom support, and made sure I had the materials, resources, and the time I needed to heal without falling behind. It might sound cliche, but my teachers were not just educators with degrees. They stepped into real human roles that are rarely acknowledged or appreciated. Their patience, cooperation, and understanding built a support system I didn't even know I needed. I'm here today, still standing, still growing, and still succeeding.
012Graduating a year early because my teachers showed compassion over convenience. They believed in me when I was struggling to believe in myself. And that is why COS is more than just an online school. It is a community of family where all students learn, connect and rise together. May Vahiguji our God and source of strength keep his hand of happiness and blessings over us all. So we continue moving forward in chardikala which means staying strong, positive and lifted no matter what. Thank you for letting me represent and share our story tonight. Vika kalsa vahiki fate. Thank you for that, Navjot. Next, I'll have uh Assistant Superintendent McClennon share with us some of our student recognitions. >> So, I'd like to introduce to you tonight um our area administrator, Jeff Garrett, who will also be bringing up
013Lori Gamber and talking about our fantastic Future Farmers of America program. All right. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight, it is my honor to recognize these outstanding Fresno Central FFA students who earned high levels of achievement this past October at the Fresno Fair. Their accomplishments reflect remarkable work ethic, dedication, and perseverance. Qualities that often require months, if not years, of effort to develop and to demonstrate. Their projects represent success in the categories of floral, goat, sheep, swine, and cattle. These students embody the very best of Central High School, representing a steadfast commitment to excellence, and the drive to succeed in everything they pursue. I'd also like to thank their families for the continuous support um helping raise these animals, get them to the farm, do what is needed
014to get them to this level. And I'd also like to thank uh our a department staff um Chris Williams, June Bettincourt, Jessica Fehee, Yen Ramirez, and Mitch Pum who some of who are in attendance this evening. So, I'm going to call the students. They're going to come on up. We'll recognize them with their certificate and then they're going to come around and shake each of your hand. Thank you for this opportunity tonight to recognize them. Addison Alice, reserve grand champion goat champion middleweight market dough also goat. Za Klugston showmanship first place swine. Alex Garza reserve grand champion all other breeds swine. Zoe Hada, Sunnyside Garden Society Award table arrangement floral. Ella Hall, reserve grand champion, lightweight market weather goat. Ricky Himenez, reserve grand reserve champion middleweight market goat. Jack Klene, reserve champion FFA for swine
015and champion light cross swine. Devon Luna, champion all other breeds swine. I don't believe Avery Mariano is with us this evening, but I'd also like to acknowledge that uh that student was recognized with best in show table arrangement floral. Katie Melconian, FFA reserve champion beef cattle, champion all other colors beef cattle, champion of excellence beef and showmanship first place cattle. Ariana Mendoza, Reserve Champion, Birkshshire Swine. Kaden Plan, Champion, Lightweight Market Weather Goat, Greg Nani Family Scholarship, Children's Choice Table Arrangement, Floral, and Audrey Wener, Reserve Champion, AOB Sheep. and lots of other accomplishments for all of our FFA members. You can see we took home a lot of the top recognitions as well with this group here tonight. If we can give them one more round of applause. Thank you, Kimmy. Our next recognition will be
016by Dr. Lopez. Good evening. In recognition of resolution declaring December 2nd as National Special Education Day, we would like to provide you with a short presentation showcasing the great work happening in our district to provide exciting outside of academics opportunities for our students and our special education programs. And I have our director Lori Hankle to provide that presentation to you. Good evening board president Singh trustees and Dr. Marshall. I think there's supposed to be a bit of a presentation up there, right? Still not loud enough. >> There it is. Special Olympics. So, I have the pleasure of highlighting some of the amazing work that our adaptive PE teachers do um and how they are able to go out in the community and really bring the students together with students on campuses and across the valley
017for all kinds of Special Olympic events. So, to highlight some of the things that they do, their work impacts over 4,000 students in the district. We're extremely fortunate that we were able to add a third teacher this year to really help move the work. They support students all across the district with their PE minutes for special education as well as put these events on where the students are allowed to come and really enjoy time with each other. Other districts also participate and they do these events very very regularly as you'll see in just a second. So this is great work that they do for our district. Um some of the highlights are up there. I won't go through and read them all. Here's some fun pictures of some of the events across the district. Couple
018weeks ago, we had the event at Rio Vista with soccer, which was amazing. The weather was beautiful and the kids were out there. I think most of these pictures might be from there as well. It allows the students to participate with other students and really highlights inclusive practices. And then finally, the presentation shows a list of all of the upcoming events for this school year. There's quite a few of them as you can see. We welcome anybody to come and enjoy. We did see uh Trustee Kirk at one of the last events. So, thank you very much for attending and we hope to see the rest of you there. Thank you. >> Thank you, Director Hle. We next move to our from our student recognition to our employee recognition and I'll yield the floor to
019Dr. Childs, our assistant superintendent of human resources. >> Uh yes, good evening board. Good evening, Dr. Marshall. Um, we would like to recognize our newly appointed director of fiscal services who's in the building tonight and that is uh Miss Patricia McCurley and we are going to absolutely she has been serving at as our principal at El Capitan Middle School where she has seen student growth and achievement. She this is her 22nd year in Central Unified School District and she recently completed her certification at USC in school business management. So we are definitely happy to have her on board. At this time we will invite her to have words and then shake hands with the board. >> Good evening president seeing members of the board and superintendent Marshall. I am honored to accept the position of
020director of fiscal services for Central Unified. Central Unified has shaped the past 22 years of my professional journey and I'm grateful for the trust placed in me to support our district in this new capacity. I am looking forward to continuing my professional growth as a director and providing fiscal services from the educational leadership lens. Fiscal stewardship is about more than numbers. It's about ensuring that every dollar serves our students, our schools, and our community with integrity and purpose. Thank you again for this opportunity. I'm excited to serve and continue supporting the students in Central Unified. Thank you. Thank you. We next congratulations again. We'd next like to invite up our foundation for central schools executive director director Serena Dohi and board president Joe Doyland. >> Good evening. Thank you board president singing. Good evening Dr.
021Marshall and trustees. First, we'd like to say thanks to everyone and including our trustees and staff for their support for the annual state of the district. It means a lot to see such a strong support from our community and the feedback we received was wonderful. We also understand that breakfastes are not always easy and this was our first year. So again, big thank you um and we will look into next year of um moving it back to an evening event. We'd also like to give a huge shout out to this year's Pillar Champions once more. Jane Isaac academics, Kevin Tinkle for arts, Brian Varel for athletics, Terry DS for agg, Rhonda Rafiti for well-being, and April Henry for community. Because of your generosity, we're able to fund classroom grants and keep the warm for winter
022initiative going strong, which makes a real difference for our students. As a foundation, we're hitting our stride, growing our team, and building momentum, and setting the stage for an exciting year ahead. We'd also like to give our sincere gratitude to the partners who showed up this month to help make sure that our school pantries were stocked so that every student in central central unified could find um food when needed. From all of us, thank you for being part of this work and for caring so deeply about our schools. Our next big event is a tradition that started in 1987 by the Central Unified Board of Trustees. The annual holiday joy food drive and distribution officially kicks off on December 1st. More information about the drive and distribution will be shared via parent square and to
023students and families. We encourage everyone to check in with their own school site and each school is deciding what they're collecting this year. So, we're being a little bit more strategic with that approach and we invite all of our trustees to join us on December 20th this year. I believe last year many of you joined us. So, we look forward to having you there as we complete the first point of the school year. We just want to highlight a few programs that we are currently working um towards and have actually put into place. At class, we now have the nursing assistant training program tuition scholarship available, and that's thanks to our Kaiser Permanente benefits program grants. Students interested in applying for the program can speak to the school directly about this opportunity. The annual foundation
024scholarship application will be open January 16th with over $50,000 in scholarships to be awarded. You can visit our website, centralfoundation.org, org to learn more about each specific program and its qualifications. Community members interested in donating towards our scholarship program or creating their own endowment can also find more information about the process online. Also, now additionally, thanks to our donors and partners, Granville Homes and Assistance League of Fresno, we have been able to provide 2,000 units of winter wear to Central Unified School District students through our annual warm forwinter program. and this was our 21st year. Additionally, the Assistance League of Fresno Operation School Bell has partnered with us to provide a $100 school close shopping event. So far, 310 students have benefited from this program. Both programs specifically helping those in most needs across the
025entire district. We also announced the 2526 classroom and club grant recipients. A total of 17 awards ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 from theater to support to wellness to history and books in different languages. Congratulations to our recipients this year. We will be posting about each project throughout the year on our social media, so please stay tuned for those updates. Again, thank you all for your continued support and we hope to see you all at Holiday Joy on December 20th at 9:00 a.m. Please let me know if you have any questions. Next, we turn to our employee association highlights. Uh, uh, CUTA president Laura Bolton, uh, shared that she was feeling a bit under the weather today, so we wish her a speedy recovery. And, uh, that is Angie Giri from CSEA here. Doesn't appear so.
026So then we'll turn to our school reports for this evening. We'd like to invite up um Biola Persian Elementary School principal Shalon Shepard. Everything's calm until your name is called. Uh good evening. Uh thank you, Superintendent Marshall, um Board President Singh John Chan, and the members of the board. I appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight to share with you the exciting things that are happening at Biola Persian Elementary. Our theme this year is saddle up for success. Um not sure if the presentation's coming up. Uh there we go. Um and our students and staff had have enjoyed participating in various theme-based activities um around around that theme. But our theme is more than just fun activities and connection. It truly embraces where we are as a school. Biola is experiencing a lot of successes
027and I'm excited to share them with you tonight. As you can see from the data, Biola continues to make academic growth in both language arts and math. With our CASP results from this last spring, we have a 45% proficiency rate in ELA, a 37 proficiency rate in math. Um we are looking towards increasing our DOK levels, our um depth of knowledge. We're focusing on vocabulary for math. Uh again that focus on word problems and small groupoup instruction. I ready. We've also um have a 40% proficiency in ELA and math 45%. Uh attendance um is one area that we're very proud of. This last year, we achieved a chronically absent rate of 7.97%. I did not round up to eight. I wanted to own that 300ths of a percent and be under. Um, but we've been
028working really hard to make sure that our kids are at school every day and targeting our chronic our families of our chronically absent students to ensure that we're providing for their needs. For our English learners, uh we did uh have remain a status of high on our our LP. That's our one-year growth for language proficiency for EGL student. Um 59% of our of our population is achieving that one year's growth in one year's time. Um and then of course reclassifications. We are at an 11.3% reclassification rate. Uh one of the other things that we're really proud of at Biola is taking a look at that Panorama survey data. Uh this really goes to the culture of what's happening at our school site. You will notice that uh we have lots of positive areas but under
029our teacher teacher efficacy um this last year 83% of my staff uh felt that they are having a positive effect in their teaching practice. That's up 39% from the previous year. And so taking the time to work on our staff uh their abilities, making sure they know that they're doing a good job has been a great impact. We also had a great increase in staff leadership relationships and of course family engagement is always very high at Biola. Excuse me. But that's great. That's a snapshot for one year. But what's even more exciting for us, if you look over at the progress on the right hand side, Biola is really making great strides in closing our achievement gap. uh from the 22 23 school year until the 2425 um school year uh we have increased um
03012 points or 12 percentage points in our number of kids proficient in ELA. Um and with math we've grown 13. And so that's stat statistically very significant. Um in just a short period of time we are now above where um our our statistics were prior to COVID. And so that's really exciting for us. Um, even more importantly, we are closing the gap from the bottom end. Uh, when we get our dashboard data, it tells us how many points we are away from standard. And for ELA, this last year, we closed that gap by 13 points. Um, that was almost 50% from where we were. So, we're making great strides there. And of course, very proud to say that we are an award-winning school. We are um achieving the platinum level status for our PBIS program
031as well as we were um noticed as America's healthiest schools in two categories this year. One being our student health services and then our student wellness programs. So we're very excited about that. But with that we're not done. We've had a lot of p pro tongue twister a lot of positive progress but it's still not enough. And what I feel is very important is not just look at the snapshot of where we are now or where we were at but the why. We have every piece of the puzzle seems to be in place. We have a positive school culture. I have an amazing hardworking staff, both my classified and certificated, well educated, well trained, and we are still trying to dive into why are we not making more progress? Because even if we're 45% proficient,
032that's still 55% of our students that are not. And so, one of the things that we've taken a strong look at is instructional time. We recognize that this is an area that some pieces of it we have control over, some we don't. So the question we've been asking ourselves is what takes away from instructional time because if we're not teaching, kids are not learning. And it's very clear that we do have some areas, you know, athletics, especially taking into the academic day on a regular basis. It's just a fact that that takes away. Um, but what we have control over are things like transitions. How are we transitioning in the classroom from one activity to another? Um, what are our pullout services looking like? are the academic activities we're doing, are they low rigor, or
033they high rigor? So, we're digging into that and how we're addressing it this year. Um, intentionality when I'm walking in classrooms, we are talking about what the rigor is. I'm feeding that information back to teachers. Um, and so that way we can continue to build those practices. Um, what's new for us at Biola this year is we actually developed a protected instructional block for language arts. Every grade level has a 1h hour protected time where we do not allow any pull out. Um and all of our pullout services have had to schedule around those protected blocks. Been a challenge. Um but if kids are being pulled from instruction, they're not learning. And then of course other things, solution tree, we're working on our guaranteed viable curriculum which is what are the essential of the essential
034standards. Um, if you're familiar with research, Marzano says that if we wanted kids to master every standard that we have in California, it would take till grade 22 for them to do that. So, we have to look at our standards and make sure we are teaching the most essential of the essential. And that's the work we're working on right now through our PLC's. Um, another challenge is tier three student behavior. Those are extreme student behaviors. This, you know, these years have passed. kids are coming in with more needs and so it takes time away from class. It's disruptive, takes a lot of resources. But what we're trying to do to address that um we've really focused at Biola on our MTSS program, our tier 1, two, and three. Uh what are we doing in our
035classroom for all kids life school is a product that a software product we use to track positive points as well as demerits or negative points. We also use it to track our tier one interventions. So every time a child gets a demerit, teachers also input a strategy that they're doing to help support that child and that data comes through in our PBIS discussions and in our bait meetings. Uh we have our thinkery which is essential to have a space for kids to go to regulate. And then of course we are working on restorative practices. You'll see there um the book from circles. I have many staff members that have been going through the training on restorative circles and that's something we're building on um at Biola. And finally, a spotlight. Uh, we are officially a
036community school. We are working in our community school world now. Um, it's adding another layer of of things to try to navigate, but at the same time, we are really able to reach out to our community and our family and to connect with partners. So, by the end of November, we will have had right about 21 events that have connected parents to school since the start of the school year. Um, which is why if you see the bags under the eyes and we're tired, we're working really hard, but our parents are coming. They're connecting. Um, community partnerships with Actrow and Toys for Tots. Um, we do have a food pantry coming thanks to the foundation to help support our community. Uh the other thing that I've tried to work a lot this year on is
037not only looking at our students and taking care of them, but taking care of our adults. And so one month, one Wednesday a month during our staff meeting, we have staff wellness Wednesday. You'll see an example of a rock at the top. We did rock painting um during one of those sessions and just talked about how that ties into wellness, taking time for yourself. Uh we now have a staff calming corner in one of our um one of our one of our office rooms where we had a generous donor bring in a little bit of furniture and a coffee pot and just if people need a space to breathe away from kids, we have that as well. Um and you'll see a little picture of a book on the right hand side and it's actually
038a real book. It says if you don't feed the teachers, they eat the students. And so, um, we're really trying to make sure as we talk about the whole child, we're talking about the whole school system as well and caring for everyone's needs. And then, of course, our wellness center. Um, and with that wellness center, we have a tier 2 wellness coach that's going to be teaching some small scoop skill instruction. We'll have resource fairs through them. Um, and we do have a significant number of increased walk-in requests happening. So, the wellness center is becoming much more active and busy and we're providing for that mental health for our students. Um, very exciting. Today we had our first turkey giveaway. Um, and that was through my family liaison and my community school support staff uh
039reaching out to other entities. So, uh this afternoon we uh distributed 100 turkeys to our community. um they were fully distributed in 13 minutes and unfortunately we did have to turn some families away. Um so we're going to be reaching out to try to find some more resources to help support them. But this is uh kind of our exciting life at Biola. Uh it's truly a blessing to be a member of that community. It's my seventh year at that site and I'm excited to see where we still get to go. question or comments from the board. Jesse Kirk, >> thank you so much. I remember coming to your wellness center opening and it's just incredible. You have done 20 events since August. That's just 16 weeks in case no one was counting. That's just 16
040weeks uh until now. So, that is in incredible. I know that community is incredibly tight-knit and so being there and being a space that almost at least once a week it looks like our families are coming together there and as incredible and awesome as our kids are in this uh district. Um this space that you provide for teachers who are humans and sometimes need a little coffee break or a quiet place to sit so that we can continue to love on the kids. I think that is amazing. Um, so thank you for that what you're doing and it's showing. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Keron. >> Thank you, President Singh. I'm not sure why you were nervous. That was a great presentation. It's all positive. Um, I I definitely believe that Biola Elementary has all
041the right uh ingredients for success, including um very clearly a positive mentality. It's very student focused. Um, so I props to you and all your team at Biola. Um, I also appreciate that. Um, because I always I like to ask our principles, well, how did you achieve this success? You already listed, you know, all the different things that are why ELA had su success, including the reading intervention and uh, phonic phmic awareness, phonics curriculum. Can you talk a bit more about how the reading intervention has helped uh these scores because I noticed uh one of the challenges was the pullouts but this is you know positive pull out right? >> It is and a couple of things have happened. One having that protected block this year to make sure that the pullouts are not happening
042during the core academic instruction for ELA um has been a huge gamecher to make sure we're not supporting our kids' needs but not also teaching them the standards. Uh, so that it's been a little bit of a fun experiment to say and to schedule that. I don't know how high schools do master schedule. I mean, a little elementary of 200 plus kids was hard enough. Um, but that's been really important. Uh, uh, we do a lot of assessment. We have kids that have clear criteria why they enter a reading lab. We don't live leave them there forever. They meet the criteria. They transition back into support in the classroom. We also have a partnership with Reading Core, which is through Americanore. So, we actually have um some one-on-one tutoring that's happening that is guided by
043my reading intervention teacher um with a very scripted program as well, and they then in turn have to follow that same pull out schedule so that we're not um intervening in what's happening during the class. >> Well, hats off to the intervention coach as well. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Principal Shepard. You all are doing, like I said, amazing things in BA. You've showed the the uh progress and double digits on both. That's kudos to you and your team. But what I really appreciate about you and your team is you all saying where we need to go and you're and you're you are vulnerable and brave enough to to face that with courage and and really kind of share with our community where what what what achievement could look like. So really thank you
044and to your entire team at Biola. >> Thank you. >> Next we'd like to invite uh Principal Kirker from Steinbeck Elementary School. There we go. Good evening, President Singh, esteemed trustees and superintendent Dr. Marshall. I'd like to preface my presentation by sharing that Steinbeck is only one of two AVID elementary schools in our district. AVID stands for advancement via individual determination. And what that means is that our teachers are very intentional about teaching strategies to support students for college and career. These strategies include writing or note takingaking, specifically Cornell note-taking, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading. Additionally, Steinbeck has achieved three consecutive years of PBIS positive behavior interventions and supports platinum recognition, demonstrating our staff's continued commitment to intentionally teaching Finn's behaviors. We are Sharks focused, independent, nice and safe. By reinforcing these expectations schoolwide, we
045ensure that our students learn in a safe, productive, and mutually respectful learning environment. There we go. For our celebrations over the last four years, our students have demonstrated progress and improvement in both ELA and math data. This positive trend did not happen by chance. It is a direct reflection of the dedication and hard work of our teachers. Every day, our teachers work with intentionality, delivering grade level instruction supported by research-based strategies that ensure all students have access to grade level rigor. And while we recognize our and celebrate our growth, we also acknowledge that this is not where we want to be yet. That's not where we need to go. We're going in the positive direction, but we're not there yet. But it what is most encouraging is the mindset of our staff. Our teachers are
046deeply committed to collaborating in professional learning communities, analyzing data, and using that information to guide our next steps in instruction. This ongoing cycle of reflection and refinement is what drives our continuous improvement, and I'm com incredibly proud of their efforts. The California dashboard indicates that 50% of our English learners are making progress in English proficiency and that too is attributed to the rigorous instruction and the scaffolds that are embedded in our instruction to meet the needs of our various level learners. We have a robust reading lab that provides literacy intervention during the school day. We too partner with our Americanore tutors. We have a database tutorial after school focused on literacy. We partner with our Shark Island afterchool program where our tutors are also doing book buddies, literature circles, even site words with our youngest
047Shark students. Our teachers are focusing on writing this school year by writing in daily instruction to help students become more confident, capable communicators. Um, we're writing across all can content areas to strengthen students stamina, vocabulary, and grammar. Our challenge is student attendance. Our goal is 95% or higher to help students stay on track with academic success. Um the reality is that students must be present to learn. When students miss school, they miss the opportunity to uh be motivated to make connections and of course for instruction. To address to address this, we offer individual class and grade level incentives to motivate students to come to school every day. From recognition and rewards to fun competitions, our goal is to make school a place where students want to be and not just where they have to be.
048Beyond academics and attendance, we remain committed to supporting the whole child. There is a graph triangle on the left of the screen. At Steinbeck, we implement a comprehensive multi-tered system of supports to ensure that every student from TK through grade 6, at 645 students, receive what they need in order to be successful. In reality, as my colleague Miss Shepard shared, the students we are teaching today are much different than the students that were in our classrooms 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even five years ago. Therefore, we have implemented tier one practices for all of our students that foster a welcoming and safe place to help our students feel seen, respected, and valued. Every student is greeted at the classroom door by their teacher every morning. We have collaboratively uh developed respect agreements in every
049classroom developed by the students. We have calming corners in every classrooms where students can self-regulate. It's not a punishment, it's just an opportunity. Um, and we have morning meetings to help set the tone for the day. The second tier, 14%, that is 90 students at Steinbeck receive tier 2 support, which includes daily check-ins with a trusted adult on campus at the start and end of each day. Some students also participate in social skills development sessions led by our amazing behavior intervention counselor, Mr. Blanco and his intern, Miss Jessica. Some students benefit from using zones of regulation in our thinkery to better identify their feelings and develop strategies to help calm and regulate their emotions. When we give children strategies instead of consequences, we teach children skills instead of fears. And yet, at the top of
050our tier, 5% approximately 30 more students receive additional counseling services that Steinbeck is so grateful to have five days a week for our students. These practices all help to create a learning environment where students feel valued, connected, and ready to learn. We also know that belonging is a powerful productive protective factor for children. So, we've expanded opportunities for students to participate in clubs and leadership activities. In addition to student council, this year we have a added AVID club kindness ambassadors and robotics. We're also excited to announce that we'll be soon bringing back our peer mediators. Peer mediators are trained to support conflict resolution and positive communication during recess or unstructured times, helping students develop their social skills while fostering a a safe and peaceful campus culture. And our spotlight just we just like we focus
051on relationships with our students, we equally are intentional about building relationships with our families. We believe that parents are most important our most important partners. And when trust is strong between home and school, then students benefit in every way. In partnership with our parent teacher club, we've scheduled community events for every month of the school year. These gatherings, whether they're cookies with with Santa or trunk or treat or game night, they allow us to build rapport with our families, strengthen communication, and create shared experiences that help families feel welcomed and engaged. Um, the images that you see on the screen are of last year's Operation Gobble. In partnership with Councilwoman Analisa Perea's office, we were able to distribute 1,000 turkeys to families in our community. This is a huge increase from our first year of
052only 250 turkeys. This year, our projected goal is over 1,500 turkeys. We are grateful for the support of our community partners that have contributed food items. We have Central Valley Foods Producers, Coca-Cola. We work with our staff. We work with Central East staff, our partners just down the street, our family outreach liaison, our community school site lead. Um, and of course the the office of Analisa Perea. Um, this Saturday or this Friday, we'll be working to box all of our food items. We'll be there clear until probably close to midnight getting everything ready. Um, and when families feel connected, um, they're better able to support, uh, their children's education. So, we're we're very very grateful for the continued partnership. Thank you. >> I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Questions or comments
053from the board? >> Trusty Kirk, >> just real quick, did you all have an event today? What is today? We have an event. I feel like we have events every day. There's so much excitement that goes on in this campus. We do have uh days where Central E students come over and they partner with our students. I'm not exactly sure. >> I saw while I was devouring a hamburger at Carl's Jr. before this meeting, I saw one of your sharks in her gear. >> Oh, her Avid t-shirt. >> Sharks. >> Okay. And so just wonderful to see them out wearing their gear or supporting their I I I always love when I see our students out wearing their school stuff um showing their spirit. >> We've been very fortunate to provide every single one of
054our students with an AVID t-shirt. We have uh every we have Mon make Mondays matter with our social emotional component. We have AVID Tuesdays, college wear Wednesdays, kindness Thursday and then our spiritware Fridays. We are very fortunate to provide every single student with an AVID t-shirt. And Steinbeck has a lot of students that come and go. So the first Friday of every month, our thinkery teacher, Miss Castillo, provides an onboarding session during our regular fun Friday where our new students come on and they learn the Finn's way of being focused independent. They learn how we roll, what our expectations are, and they're provided our Steinbeck Shark merch so that they feel part of our family. They feel part of this is how we roll. this is who we are and this is what we do.
055So, thank you for sharing that. >> Trusty Sudu, >> I mean, just real quick, I'm just really happy that u you know, Avid is still doing good. Uh I still take Cornell notes whenever I need to take Cornell notes. Wonderful. So, uh I I did I took AVID uh 9th to 12th grade. So, I have a personal connection with AVID and I really love that program. So, great on the kids, you know, and great on you guys. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Kon. Uh um like Trusty Sidu, I'm also an alumni of AVID. This is a great program and I'm really happy to see that we're doing spreading that also into the elementary schools with uh Steinbeck Elementary. So um hope to see uh the students Cornell know sometime soon. >> Absolutely. They're displayed in
056every classroom. >> And Principal Ker, I just want to say thank you for uh illustrating just the consecutive growth that we've seen in both uh our ELAC scores as well as our math scores. and kudos to you and your new team and hopefully we just continue to make that progress. Thank you to you and Steinbeck's the entire team. >> Thank you to our both uh two principles for joining us this evening. We next turn to our superintendent board communications and first up will be superintendent Dr. Mark Marshall. >> Okay, you should have received a copy of my uh entry plan report. I'll be referencing that. Right. And I'm not going to read page by page, but we'll go over the highlights. So, from an introduction standpoint, this basically report details my findings from July 1st
057to October 31st of uh this school year. Uh this the next page lists the goals of the entry plan as far as transition uh listening and learning uh hearing from our partners a working relationship with the board of education and then that data review and then hopefully at the end of the process completing the instructional improvement framework and then have a vision moving forward. I won't read those in detail but that kind of lists the goals of an entry plan when when superintendents come into a new district. the outcomes. The most important outcome I'm going to discuss tonight is this is a report on my observations, the findings and recommendation for the future. And you'll see on each slide I'll have things just highlighted in yellow. It's just the points that I'm going to touch
058on. The next page is just your preface statement. Talks about the district. Uh its attributes uh a lot of awards and recognition. You have multiple California distinguished schools, a lot of schools among the best in California and we recently had a national ribbon school. You we talk about the budget and then community partnerships. Now the structure as I talked about previously there's a data analysis and data uh document perusal uh communication with the media that working relationship with the board of trustees uh the meetings interviews meet and greets site visits student activities and then it's always the piece of uh utilizing outside expertise analyze our gaps. Next the next page gives a list of all the different individuals that I met with during my time here. This is those people. So now I'll give some
059reports. Okay. As far as the board of trustees, uh I'm presenting my I presented when I arrived, I did I presented the plan to the board for feedback. I've conducted individual meetings with the board of trustees and we even had a retreat uh at the onset. So here are the impressions. Our board, you know, they place the well-being of students as the first priority uh as far as student achievement and they want to see every student successful. That's one thing that stands out with the board and the board's eager to further the district success. I mean, we're not satisfied where we are. We want to get to that next level. Our recommendations, I'm not going to read them all, but the two that I feel are most important, continue to make decisions based on established
060district goals and priorities. The second, you have a great uh process as far as that subcommittee that looks at the policies. A lot of districts have issues with that as far as being able to do that on a regular basis. You have that mechanism in place. So I say continue that. Now I'm going to get into the data analysis, document review, and then the organizational review. So I looked at all the departments, child nutrition, ed services, human resources, facilities, maintenance, and operations. The next page lists some of the activities. One thing, these are just normal uh things that a good superintendent would do. But one thing is that this work is not in isolation. You have to work with your uh neighboring districts. So, one thing I did do is partnering with a lot of
061people in the Fresno County area. So, I want I want to highlight that. But in terms of looking at the budget, um having meetings, looking at our dashboard, looking at all those attributes, I've done all that. Next, here are some observations about the district. Now, again, there are a lot, but I'm just going to highlight the ones in yellow that really stand out to me. Uh, our program for English learner students is strong based on some of the data we heard tonight. You look at our community, it's very engaged. It's one thing that's interesting. If you if I live here, so what happens on a Saturday morning, it's very rare you go pass by schools on Saturday and see them very vibrant every school site. So that's that's one thing that we have going for
062us. Special education nationally is a challenge. Uh there are facility needs that need to be addressed. Uh we have uh some great um arts and athletic programs. As we learned tonight, our A and FFA program is a district strength. One concern that came out is that the constant turnover in key leadership. That's an area of concern. A lot of people in the public. Next. So, here are the recommendations. One, there's a need for a long range plan to kind of guide the district for the next five to six years. That that's imperative. Uh the organizational chart needs to be revised to better need to meet the needs of students. There need to be some tweaks to the current um organizational um structure. Build not don't be satisfied where you are. build upon the success of
063your dlacking elac. Next piece that's very important nearly 85% of our budget is is spent on people in light of the fact that fact that our enrollment is flat and we're not declining enrollment. We're not like some of our neighbors that are growing at two or 300 students a year. So we have to be very as far as our staffing ratios. That's critical when you're in when you're in flat enrollment. Another item, differentiated assistance. There are certain areas where the state will say you have to make improvements. So have some strategies to kind of address those areas. Next one deals to meet the needs of all students. So we need to add, you know, coursework that increases the rigor and then more uh post-secondary options for students like AVID like we talked about, GEROTC, community
064college partnerships and dual immersion. I think a lot of our kids would benefit from that. Since our enrollment is flat, you know, look at your ways for increasing revenues at the local level. That's where your that's why your ADA becomes so important. Looking at your um alternative income forms, making sure to get all those farms back and then being very aggressive as far as going out looking for external resources. Next, develop a master facilities plan for new schools and then supporting existing school sites. That's very important because if you look at the city of Freso as a whole, this is the only area that can that really you can grow. So, at some point you will see that growth come. We'll be ready when when it happens, we have the building to do so. You
065know, you don't wait till it happens. You you know, you have a plan now. That's important. uh human resources basically kind of they've already started the work but enhance the policies for providing leadership development updating practices and then look at succession planning that's real that's real big as far as um looking at state initiatives ethnic studies other improvements by the state making sure that we look at how we implement those a master plan for our VAPA department we have a great uh performing arts program but kind of a master plan and then augmenting our gate program and looking at our policies for acceleration. That's key. I also looked at as far as community engagement and district communications. Uh one thing is I think it's very important is to reside in the district boundaries. So I
066live here so I get to be here firsthand. Try to reach out to as many partners as possible to kind of hear what are the views on our district. I try to do as many events as possible in the city of Fresno as a whole. I know that's one thing that's real big. And some things that I've learned is that the community is very welcoming. And then we're also increasing our efforts to to reach partners recommendations kind of the district and the sites kind of lining our communication practices. Um branding that's very important. I mean lot the districts have branding uh mechanisms. And then one thing I should do personally is to establish an advisory council. That's another mechanism to get feedback from students and from staff members and administrators. The media relations basically you
067like it or not the media is there. You have to basically um partner with them. So, you know, I did the introductions and if you're, you know, basically have a very, uh, candy relationship with them, they will highlight the good stuff, but they'll be transparent. They'll share what needs to be shared because that's that's the job. So, basically, uh, one thing I see that in central there's a very, uh, active social media presence. Couple of groups. I'm a member of both of them. So, just be part of that. And so, there are a lot of untapped opportunities as as it relates to telling our story. recommendation uh as far as like bringing something back from the past, a regular newsletter that highlights our district successes. That'll come in handy when they start building more houses
068and you uh going like going to the realtor's office to kind of hear, okay, what about when people look at buying real estate, one thing they look at, what are the schools like and you have to tell your story there. technical expertise like most districts in the nation we do partner with a lot lot of outside individuals but from my our first surface look there's really not a defined system to gauge how effective the work is so recommendations just a regular communication with consultants needs to occur just to monitor that progress so we know how things how these partnerships are going one thing that uh Julie has started was the uh return on investment review a lot of our academic programs that we have or a consultant we have. All right. Next page is deal
069with what's next. So the next steps need to we need to identify establish a long range plan for the next five to six five to six years. That's important. And it needs to cover a lot of items. The district's mission, the vision, what do we value? And then there needs to be some targets as far as academic, social, emotional supports, communication, staff development, facilities, communication, and uh physical stability. That's important. And then finally, you can take all of that. What I like about this document is that you can go back when you guys do my evaluation and to see if I did X, Y, and Z in terms of things that we say we would do. You know, it's in writing, so it's pretty easy to follow. The last documents I just want to talk
070about if you like I like this is the um the academic stuff that we've been working on. These are the academic blueprint 4.0. These are targets. That's what I'm talking about. You have goals from 2025 to 2030. Very ambitious goals. So basically you have a plan that basically but that incorporates a lot of this but also looks at the other items that I talked about. The last document is just something that I proposed this now. I'll bring this back. This is one change that I think needs to happen with the um organizational chart that immediately needs to change. I'm proposing moving special education the educational services because the whole like student support process SST and that that's regular ed right now it's married. So those need to be separate special ed needs to fall on
071the ed services and then the supports go on the other end. So basically I'm going to be bringing this back as far as um a revised organizational chart. I didn't want to read um the entire document uh but this is my findings since I've started. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Marshall. Next, I'll invite uh Trusty Kurfon to share an update about the finance, facilities, and safety subcommittee. >> Uh thank you. Um so last week we had our subcommittee about the uh three very um important subjects, finance, facilities, and safety. uh safety. We discussed uh some of our you know recent uh incidents that happened in our district and also just going over plans on how to further address uh things making sure that all of our protocols are followed safely and that um we
072uh can make our students safer. Talked about you know um issue of you know vaping on campus and strategies to reduce that. Uh with regards to finance, we you know talked about our uh fiscal uh state of the district and you know all of our spent a lot of time talking about deferred maintenance as well. Um we have you know a small amount that we find the board last year um allocated for uh deferred maintenance uh which the board had not done before but uh we have a lot of issues that need to be addressed throughout the district and our team is identifying uh priorities and uh the life lifespan of certain facilities such as roofs, carpets, etc. And then with our facilities as well that kind of bled into that. We talked about the
073uh state of our water quality at you know some of our rural schools as well as our um you know PA systems and um our other uh facilities at our other sites. Anything else um my team would like to add? No. Yeah. No, it was it was a long meeting but thank you to the staff for putting that all together and we will uh reconvene that uh probably in the new year because it meets quarterly. >> Thank you. Next, we invite our our student trustee to share a report. So to start off on a highlight, me and fellow trustee Jesus Felix were able to attend the Fris County Superintendent Youth Board Advisory Committee, which is basically a group of students from around various Fresno County um school districts where they meet address issues pertaining to
074the wider Fresno County and how those issues trickle down into individual school districts and possible solutions. Some possible solutions we came up with would be for example equitable funding for all school districts, spaces for community spaces for students to gather, discuss and basically spaces where uh students can feel safe to learn. Um there was also various um solutions to various problems that we talked about and we were guest speakers and it was a really good time to be in that space talking with those students who are very solution oriented who knew what was going on within their communities and were working towards solving that. But going on to some concerns that I've been approached by within our district. Some students at Central High, formerly Central West, reached out to me regarding lighting issues for their
075winter sports. Um they don't have enough lighting because of how time is changing. This has caused um schedule changes within their scheduling for soccer and baseball. And that forces them to basically make their games start at 3:00, which leads to not enough student support because their school ends at 3:35 and a lack of parent support because usually parents work ends at 5:00 p.m. So, there's not enough lighting for those sports and it's not a very equitable situation for those student athletes at Central High, which me and Dr. Marshall will be discussing on possible solutions to increase equity. And I was also reached out to by some seniors about valid Victorian status. Um there's some confusion and a lack of clarity going on and we'll be working on solving that lack of clarity. >> Thank you
076student trustee. I think that's exactly we want to make sure that we're highlighting student voice because you're you're you're there. Um thank you for bringing up the central high issue and then I will uh talk to uh Dr. for Marshall because we absolutely need to have clarity with our valid Victorian. So I'll thank you for bringing that up. I'll talk to Dr. uh Marshall to have that on a maybe as a report for our future agenda so that our community absolutely knows what the expectation so so they all know what it is. Next I turn to our board trustee reports. Trusty Kurfon. >> Thank you President Singh. So I had the pleasure of attending our Veterans Day celebrations at Teague and Harvest Elementary along with President Singh and Dr. Marshall. uh appreciate staff at also
077giving us time uh before the rally to meet with the veterans in our community uh hear their stories and thank them personally for their service. Uh I also attended Central High's presentation of 12 Angry Jurors. Uh this was their inaugural performance after 30 years and the students knocked it out of the park. Um so congratulations to the Central uh Central High Theater Department. Um I hear their next show in the spring is a High School Musical which I look forward to attending. But it also hurts me as a millennial because after speaking with the students, I'm shocked to learn that they do not recall uh watching that cable premiere of High School Musical. They had not been born yet. Um so look forward to that. And then uh I also uh last Thursday attended JSK
078Elementary's uh cultural celebration. Uh we had a chance to break in the new cafeteria with some spectacular dance performances from the different cultures that make up our student body. And that's all I have today. Thank you Trusty for Kuron for highlighting a number of those and in some ways that segus me to share a little bit about some of our guests that are here this evening. Uh Trusty Kurfon talked about sort of the veterans and even here in the audience today we have really sort of veterans for the secret war that actually happened in Laos for over five decades. Our Mong community here rooted in bravery and serving alongside the United States in the secret war in Laos under the influential leadership of General Vang Pal who not only served on the battlegrounds there in
079Laos, but really made sure that our community could find a home here in Fresno County, one of the largest resettlements of our Mong community anywhere in the world and obviously here in the United States. That community has not only thrived in this community through the 18 clans leaders and and structure has actually made sure that their children have found a place to be prideful of their mong cultural heritage and really just make and shape Fresno for generations to come. General Vang Pow's legacy continues through his designated successor and we're honored to have here uh this evening his son and and designated successor Ning Chu Ving who works closely with all of our families to make sure that the Mong community's future is bright here in Fresno just as it is for all of our communities.
080And so it's my esteemed pleasure to welcome here uh the th those in in audience. On a personal note, um I had an opportunity to participate uh at the encouragement of uh Blanong Jang, a a forum actually for Mong families really to interact with our uh elected members from from the state level to the county level and really to the school level and overwhelmingly our families are most engaged and most interested in really what are the student outcomes and the opportunities for them, their children and their families. It was really touching for me to hear their voices, find so many connections with some of my own experiences. And here in Central Unified, we're absolutely committed to make sure that our Mong families belong, feel welcome, and could absolutely thrive here in Central Unified. So, with
081that, I wanted to introduce some of our uh esteemed uh families that are en uh that are here with us this evening. If I can uh invite up uh General H sorry Jerry Vang the head of Vang National Unity Foundation, Zang Mua Jang, head of the Jeang of Fresno County, Waj Chia Yang, the head of Yang of Central California. While Dr. uh Vicky Jang Lur would not be here tonight, I still want to make sure that we acknowledge the Mong Lure of Fresno County. Uh Chair Ku Tao, president of the Tao of Fresno County. Um, and so if I can invite you all uh and we'll uh just take a picture up in front and thank you for your service to not only our central community but really our Fresno County at large Next, I'd
082like to specially uh welcome and recognize in in the audience today Nang Chu Vang. This is General Vang Pa's son, his uh his designated successor, as well as his wife who's joined us today, Mary Vank. if I could uh appreciate you all and have a have take a come take a picture with our um staff. We're extremely excited to have you in the audience and here with us this evening at Central Unified And while he's probably upset met with me. Uh I'm going to actually ask uh Blangh Jong if uh he could share a few words. Blangh Jong has been serving this community for for many many decades. Uh former District 1 council member many of the things that we see here in Central Unified Inspiration Park were definitely under his leadership at the city
083council has served at the national level with the USDA and uh is always um really trying to invite more engagement, more connections with all parts of our community. So, thank you, Blan Jang, for joining us today. >> Thank you. It's been a little bit since I've been back. Um, Trusty Singh, I've always known you as deep and friend on the community. Didn't know you were the president. I apologize. U, I want to thank um, Uncle Du and and the rest of the family leaders uh, for giving me this opportunity to just quickly speak and I won't be so longwinded as a former politician uh, used to be. Um you know for for for us as a community education is about family and part of our children is about our family and our parents and so
084it is very critical that when we talk about education education success for our students for our kids that the family is part of that and and the general nchu has been playing a critical role of keeping that system and helping the community and so we appreciate this uh opportunity to be here and being recognized for hard work. I would tell you, uh, the family leaders here and and the rest, they volunteer. There there's no money into this. They put their time every week. They put hours and hours just talking to to to families and and those that the decisions that that you make here, they are usually the front line when there are parents, when there are issues with their kids, with their stuff, they come to these uh family leaders and talk to them
085about this before even comes here. And so I just wanted you guys to understand the glimpse of the work of what these family leaders do and the hard work they do and then the yman's work of uncle Nu and what he does in terms of working with all the the family leaders here in Fresno County but actually he he does this throughout the state of California and he travels around the country. So he is an important figure for all of us uh even for me we would not be able to do our work within our community without these folks behind us. So, thank you very much for recognizing their efforts, their importance in our community and thank you for this evening for all the amazing work you do. I know the Mong New Year will
086soon be upon us. We we wish you all and our entire community obviously participation at the at the large events, but also just light, family, and oneness during as we enter these holiday season. Thank you all for joining us this evening. Next two two just other quick uh board communication highlights. Um I wanted to really share with our entire community but of course with my colleagues on the board um the fantastic work our administration has been doing. So the goal was that on our agendas especially on the online version that's uh can be visible to the entire community. each of our uh decisions that we should be making should be attached to LCAP goals so we can actually see how this actually fits into our larger vision. The uh Dr. Marshall and the team are
087working. So I heard many of you loud and clear specifically with regards to contracts. So when contracts come before us, we know when they're ending, when when they should be resetting and hopefully building out that time so we're not making decisions just at the at the end when when they when they tend to be resetting. Um, the third thing I just wanted to uh highlight and I'll um work with Dr. Marshall and uh PIO Burroughs uh on this coming Sunday on 11:23. Um I'll be working with some community organizations that will be doing a turkey giveaway specifically aimed at our uh Sing Elementary, Harvest Elementary, and Tilly Elementary families. So, we invite you all out and entire our entire community uh to join us as we prepare boxes and and we'll be serving the community,
088but I'll work with Dr. Marshall and PIO Burroughs to make sure the information goes out to the board and to our entire community if they'd like to volunteer. Thank you. And with that, I will um we will take now comments from the public. Clark Kon, >> thank you President Singh. Our first comment is from Kamal Priit Carr. I hope I pronounced that right. And you will have three minutes uh whenever you begin. >> Hello everyone. U my name is Guml Brig Gore. I am this year's CAD fellow. I were am responsible for choosing um sorry recruiting, interviewing and selecting each of these wonderful interns be behind me. Um sorry I was not nervous until I got up here. Um I just wanted to highlight that you know this year's class was chosen for its integrity.
089I saw qualities of grit, determination, and most of all in tenacity needed to complete, but also succeed in this internship. I believe this year's class is exceptional. I might be biased. Um, but I do want to highlight and bring to attention that our interns outside of CAD are also involved in honors classes, advanced placement classes. They're taking dual enrollment, dual enrollment college courses as well. We have some students engaged in extracurriculars like NAMI club um as well as Rotary Club etc. We also have some athletes on the bunch and I bring this to your attention because I want to it like emphasize that our interns are you know every week practicing the essential skill of balancing competing priorities and you know not only is that going to carry them through high school but college and
090life beyond. Um, so needless to say, I'm incredibly proud proud and honored to be working with our students this year. I, as the fellow am in charge of, you know, making sure that they feel supported throughout the internship. I help and create that structure that they need to successfully execute on our policy recommendations, um, our, you know, community events that we're going to be planning as well as onampus campaigns. I also work to be the bridge between outside organizations as well as CAD. Um you know I create those communications and later down the line we collaborate and you know one of them that I would like to highlight is o Owen um opioid education Narcan distribution program. They're going to be coming and tableabling on our campuses in February, Central East High School as well
091as Garza High School um for opioid education or opiate awareness week. Um that is all that I would like to say. I'm going to hand it off to my students. They're going to take it away and tell you more about the internship, uh the history, and a little bit more about what we're you can expect from us this year. Thank you. Okay, good evening trustees. My name is Harmonell and I'm currently a junior at Justin Garza High School. So, what is CAD? As you know, CAD is a peer-led substance use reduction and education program. It first started in 2020 and focuses on harm reduction by bringing to awareness the effects substances have on one. We work closely with school facilities, our school board and health department to promote harm reduction, peer education and scare share
092health resources. Over the years, this program has expanded to six school districts across nine campuses in California, making a large impact by implementing small changes such as having the availability of Narcan in every high school classroom. This program will continue to make positive impacts on our district for years to come. Thank you for your time. >> Good evening, trustees. My name is Sanj Gerval and I'm a freshman at Central East High School. As you may be wondering, what is CAD's motive? CAD, which also sounds like care, focuses mainly around health and youth health youth awareness. CAD's message to our communities is to prevent substance abuse, harm, and mental health struggles. 50 CAD interns are each hand selected in California by our fellows which of is GMO. Nine of us this year hold the honor of
093being a part of the Fresno division. With the support of one another, we are working together to keep our youth wellness safe. We use the health we use the help of our fellow interns and the feedback of others to ensure youth health is kept safe. It is more than it is more than important to keep to prevent youth from going down the wrong path which more than 50% of this generation is going is struggling with substance abuse. We have made it our job to prioritize this task and help anyone who however they need it. This marks the fifth year of the CAD internship being offered which adds to another year of successfully making an impact. As you may already know, our previous CAD interns have accomplished the requirement of Narcan, which is also known as
094no lock zone, being required to be offered in every single classroom in Central Unified School District. Although we are only a high school studentled internship, we are determined to make an impact no matter what. Everyone deserves to have support no matter what of age. Our youth deserves to be respected, especially in times of struggle. Thank you so much for your time. Good evening trustees. My name is Clara Guba. I am a senior at Justin Garza High School. In previous years, our team has worked across six cities, six school districts, and nine campuses throughout California uh to strengthen policies around Narcan accessibility and overall student wellness. One of our greatest accomplishments locally has been ensuring that Narcan is available in classrooms across high schools and middle schools. Um, we also made sure that teachers and administrators
095became Narcan certified, giving them the confidence and skills to save lives when needed uh and uh providing them the training to act quickly in emergencies. This has always been about saving lives, raising awareness with empathy and preparedness. Beyond this, we focus on breaking the stigma surrounding substance substance use and harm reduction. You see, it's become almost normal to see a student hit a vape or a pen in class. The teacher doesn't say anything or the students look away. This silence is normalization and that and that's the stigma that we are working to break. By hosting town halls and community movie nights, we create spaces where students, parents, and community members can come together and talk and talk openly about this subject and also learn about it. Our advocacy has also driven policy policy changes making
096the lock zone more accessible in schools across Central Unified and soon the whole state. This means that when a crisis happens, someone close by will know what to do and will have the resources to save lives. We've also taken initiatives beyond the classroom as well, organizing beach cleanups and um needle drives to support harm reduction in our communities. These efforts remind us that wellness isn't just about one policy or one campus. It's about creating a healthier environment both physically and emotionally for everyone. Thank you for your time. Good evening trustees. My name is Japalene Deon and I'm a senior at Justin Garza High School. As my colleagues have stated, KED is a peer-led initiative that aims at promoting substance abuse education and helping individuals who are struggling with substance abuse. We hope to continue the
097work that previous year years KD interns have done in promoting substance abuse education and in educating peers and our community about substances as well as mental health and wellness. We want to emphasize that people who struggle with substance abuse issues are not bad people. Instead of being punished, they deserve to be helped and supported on their path to recovery. In addition, many students struggle with mental health and do not know what resources are available to them to reach out to to receive support. We want to educate them further on what resources are available both at school on our campuses as well as off-campus to help them with their mental health and wellness. Much like substance abuse, mental health is an issue that is often highly stigmatized in our communities. Through educating and raising awareness about
098these issues, we hope to break down the stigma to make it easier to approach these issues with kindness and compassion rather than judgment. We also hope to continue collaborations on our campuses with organizations such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Friday Night Live to continue spreading awareness throughout our campuses. Through doing so, we hope to make Central Unified a more safe and supporting environment where all students can feel comfortable and able to express who they are and be assisted on a path to recovery and staying away from substances. Thank you. >> Good evening trustees. My name is Amita Moreno and I am a senior at Central East High School and I would love to talk to you today about what KD has accomplished this year so far. Our most recent event is kid
099has been our tableabling advocacy both at Garza and Central High School for World Mental Health Day on October 10th. As some of you might know, World Mental Health Day has been created to reduce the stigma around it, raise awareness, bring more advocacy, and promote well-being. Apart from focusing in harm reduction in substance use within youth, we also advocate for the mental health of these young students. At the tableabling events we hosted at our schools for World Mental Health Day, we had a great turnout with students approaching our table and wanting to learn more regarding mental health. We asked some questions such as, "What is mental health? What are some negative impacts? What are some coping methods you might have heard of?" We try to ask open-ended questions in order to boost that student engagement and
100interaction and give room for these students to initiate conversation about these hard and heavy topics. Another thing we also aimed to do at these events was inform students about mental health and try to bring them to learn to want to learn more about this topic. In fact, multiple students that came up to us didn't even know that anxiety is classified as a mental health disorder. But walking away from that table, they learned something. In addition to that, we have created PSA videos which are public service announcements where we did informational skits and in we added informational facts which we broadcasted throughout our campuses that entire week following up to world mental health day. We did this to really pull students interest and really encourage them to go out and participate and want to learn more
101regarding this topic. Thank you for your time. Hello and good evening, Central Unified Trustees. My name is Annila Lopez and I'm a junior at Justin Garza High School. Three weeks ago, schools across America celebrated Red Ribbon Week, a national prevention campaign that promotes a substance-free lifestyle. As a peerled program, we thought of various ideas on how to educate and advocate for the safety of our students on our very own campuses. At Justin Garza High School, we passed outformational flyers at tableabling events throughout the week. These flyers included information about Red Ribbon Week. They included information about addiction, the danger of substances, and how to find help. At at Central E High School, we also worked to table throughout the week and spread information. On one of the days of Red Ribbon Week at Justin Garza
102High School, we made anformational awareness video on fentinel. Fentinyl is a danger in our society and is taking the lives of many in Fresno County. Due to this fact, at Central East High School, one of my colleagues, Rosalyn, administered Narcan on a practice doll and showed students at Central East High School what to do if they are in a situation where Nlloxxone is necessary and they need to save a life. Throughout the whole week, we passed out gifts to spread the message of Red Ribbon Week and we decorated our campus with posters that advocated for Red Ribbon Week. On the final days of tableabling at both schools, we brought students together to make a pledge to stay safe and substancefree. We did this by using posters to either have them use their thumb print or
103sign their names to make a pledge. Our goal for Red Ribbon Week was to come together to prevent substance use in our community. We are striving to make an impact on not only our school campuses but also on society. Thank you for this time. Hello and good evening, Central Unified Trustees. My name is Bonnie Kojich. I'm in ninth grade and I go to Justin Garza High School. I'm here to talk about implementing education about drugs, vapes, and focusing on harm reduction. A lot of kids don't know what vapes are or what harm they do or what they even have in them. I know I didn't know a lot about what vapes were or anything about drugs or the types of drugs that are going around our schools until I joined K. K helped me learn
104about the dangers of drugs and vapes. Going back to that, high schools have very small units of drug education or vape education in our schools and it's often too late by high school for kids to quit or like they get hooked onto drugs. They get hooked onto vapes and they can't quit it once they are in high school or once in the future when they're adults. And students need more information about mental health. Students need more information about how it will impact them in the future. A child at Central East overdosed on opioids. Although the teacher had no idea what was going on, they were able to call 911 and administered the Narcan in the classroom and saved the life of a student. The health and wellness of students is important and that's why our
105wellness centers need to be the best they can for students. Thank you for your time. Good evening members of the board. My name is Rosen Tomkins and I am a senior this year at Central East High School and I am one of this year's K interns. I would like to highlight a project that we have been working on regarding our campus wellness centers. Last week, we sent out a survey to both school sites asking about substance usage on school campus. We had questions ranging from drug usage on schools campuses and also our school's wellness centers. We had a third of students who took the survey had no idea that we even had wellness centers on school campus. And we realized that this was a huge problem because students are missing out on valuable support. We
106as KED want to bring awareness to our wellness centers and the amazing resources that they offer. We've met with our principles and presented the data and are currently working with our schools to bring more information and programs to our school sites so that students are made aware of the resources that are available. Our goal as KD is to promote our school's wellness centers so every student feels safe and heard on campus. Thank you for your time and listening and we look forward for your support throughout the year. Uh good evening trustees. My name is Simraa and I am a 12th grader at Central East High School. My colleagues have already done a fantastic job at telling you what it is we do, what we have done, and how we did it. So before I conclude
107our um showcase, all I wanted to do was touch upon a few events that we have coming up. The first event is a picnic in collaboration with Jakata. And at that picnic, we will be featuring Narcan demonstrations, tables that raise awareness for drug use, and we'll have different sports available for everyone to play. We will also be writing letters to Miss Herdor's family, a lady who was deported um without being able to say goodbye to her family and friends or visit her home one last time. We will also be writing letters to our uh Punjabi elders in nursing homes to let them know that they are seen and that they have family present in us in our care members and our Fresno community. Um for events a little further off we will be having a
108town hall next semester and during that town hall we would like to raise awareness about uh drugs and substances and in doing so hopefully uh eliminate stigmas regarding drugs and substances. Overall, CAD hopes to reduce harmful effects of drugs while educating people about them using love and compassion. Thank you and have a wonderful night. Uh thank you to all the great student speakers and the uh care uh uh program. You guys have done great work this year. Um President S, do we want to shake hands as well before before we move on to the rest of public comments? probably not during public comments, but when you guys do a presentation from us, we'll we'll we'll do something at that time. But thank you all for joining us this evening. >> Great. Thank you so much,
109everyone. >> Our uh our next comment is from Ethan English. Is there an English in the audience? Oh, thank you. >> They're coming up. >> Make sure the uh button is on and you'll have two minutes whenever you begin. Good evening board members, uh, board president Ting Chan and, uh, Superintendent Marshall. My name is Ethan English, and I'm a student at Central High School. I acknowledged a little while ago I shared an idea about creating a brochure for Central High School to highlight our programs and student achievements. Uh since then I've been thinking much more. Building on that I love to share a much broader uh vision. However, I'll leave it I'll leave you with this thought. Imagine a digital or physical publication where every corner of Central Unified from the visual and performing arts
110classes to a Shark but genuine chief of staff office a magazine where students aren't just mentioned, they tell the stories they make for us. It's very rare for Central Unified to do something entirely that revolves around students unlike our neighboring districts. Oh, and when talking I have to realize that this is a big idea and one that revol and that one that requires students, faculty, and the community with their support. That's why I'm here tonight. I considerably request that the board consider placing this placing a proposal on a future meeting agenda so I can present a full idea in introduce desired layouts and get a little deeper into my meeting. I ask you to really consider my request as you can trust that central unified community will feel much more fruitful with stories that are
111both created and written by my peers. Thank you. >> Thank you. Pio Burroughs, can you make sure to have the students information so that we can uh follow follow up with you? Thank you so much for joining us this evening and giving us those suggestions. >> Thank you, Ethan. Our last card I have is from Kylo Weir. or sorry, Kyle, is it Kyle? I apologize. You'll have three minutes whenever you're ready. >> Uh, good evening, President Sing Chan, Dr. Marshall, and members of the board. Uh, I'm Dr. Kyle Weir. I'm a professor at Fresno State of Marriage, Family, Child Counseling. Dr. Marshall invited me to come here tonight to tell you about a opportunity that I'm uh having conversations with uh Assistant Superintendent Mlennon and with uh uh Jeff Garrett. Uh we have a grant
112from Chevron to provide free career counseling to up to 500 people in the community, anyone in the community. Uh we have been doing this with uh numerous high schools. uh for example, Minets High School, Madera South High School, many other places, uh nonprofit entities. We would like to uh have our students, my students, marriage family therapy, they're all getting their masters in counseling. They're all l uh supervised by licensed therapists. Um come to your schools and provide free career counseling. It's six free sessions. Uh again, it's already paid for by Chevron. And uh we uh involves things like assessments of different uh career interests. Uh it involves work values, work contexts. Uh we do resume preparation, interview prep, dress and grooming. Uh and help them develop a solid plan for either educational opportunities moving forward
113uh or career options in the present. Um and so we uh we this is open not just to students, it's to anybody in the community. Um we uh so if parents or if you have adult schools or other opportunities like that, we would love to partner with you uh to have this this chance to provide this this experience to as many people in the community as possible. And if for whatever reason we exceed 500, fine, let's do it. Um we would love to provide as many people as we possibly can this opportunity for career counseling. Um I I'll continue my conversations with Mr. Garrett and uh if but if you any of you have any quick questions I'd be happy to answer them. >> So I I don't think we'll be able to ask questions
114because of it's on agendas but what we can do is make sure that we're in touch with Dr. with Mr. Garrett if we have any specific questions. >> Okay. Thank you very much and you have a good evening. >> Thank you >> President Singh. I have no other cards at this time. >> Thank you all that made public comments this evening. Uh we next move on to our consent agenda. And before we do, I I just want to highlight um we will be adopting a resolution to declare December 8th through 12th, 2025 as computer science education week. Uh declaring December 2nd, 2025 as National Special Education Day and declaring December 8th through 12th, 2025 as inclusive schools week. Uh, Trusty Chavez, >> uh, President Singh, um, I would like to pull consent item 10, um,
115for discussion, please. >> And do I have a motion to go ahead with the consent agenda of items 1 through nine, not including 10, uh, which would be voted on separately, but 11 through 19. >> So moved. >> We have a motion by Trusty Kon. >> Second. We have a second by trustee Sidu. Those in uh we're going to do a roll call vote because we do have uh one member joining us telephonically. Trustee Kand. >> Uh I'll wait until the student trustee goes first. >> Sorry, my apologies. Yes. Student trustee uh Gerville. >> I. >> Thank you. Trusty Kon. >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> I. >> Trusty Kirk. >> I. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. I >> I I vote I as well. Motion carries
11670. And uh next we'll discuss uh item number 10. Trusty Chavez. >> Okay. Um thank you, President Singh. So um I just want to make sure my fellow board members are aware. I've had these conversations with um President Singh as well as uh superintendent um Marshall and I don't want to make adjustments to the language for our sole source procurement um resolution. What I would like to discuss first of all is just I would I read it in depth and if you'll recall in not this previous meeting but the meeting before that I had some questions regarding um our threshold and all kinds of things that I had said and after much discussion with um uh superintendent Marshall as well as President Singh um we've determined or I've determined that I'm comfortable with the threshold
117staying as it is and the language staying as it is in the resolution. But I want to make sure that I actually say on the dis publicly um that I want for us as a district to um really move towards having proper documentation uh regarding our usage of soul source regardless of the size of the contract. So what I mean by that and just to clarify for the public, when we have external contractors that come to us to provide services to our students, we as a public entity are required to get competitive bids in order for us to be able to sufficiently compare are we receiving the best services for our students? Is this the most cost-effective option? And so when we soul source that basically means we've determined whoever is putting forth the contract
118has said this person is uniquely qualified for this job and that's why we didn't actually go and pursue competitive bits. So we didn't go find multiple competitive people to examine their services and to compare. And so what I'm proposing or what I want to suggest and it's not something that has to come in front of the board every time. It's more of an accounting practice which I could talk to Dr. Marshall or uh Mr. Marshall about more um in depth off the dis but really one of the things that I'm noticing as we're doing more external contracts. One of the things that um I get concerned about is when we have various contracts, we have so many different ones that are below the thresholds of the 49,000 and somebody made the determination that we are
119going to soul source, meaning we didn't get competitive bids, but we as the board members or anybody else who's coming back to look at that contract later doesn't understand the rationale as to why we chose that individual contractor. So we don't have a clear idea as to why was this particular entity the right choice and do we want to do that again. So in in my opinion we need to have breadcrumbs in order for us to follow and we can start to establish that best practice for our district for us to have and it's just an additional step. It can be something very structured and systematic that we can um incorporate. It's just a simple form that basically narrates um you know why was this why is this person uniquely qualified? What are the services
120they're proposing? And that will accompany the external contract. So it wouldn't be a change. It's a resolution. It would be more of a a training practice that we would have to incorporate throughout our district and start to um adopt. I guess not necessarily through a resolution, but it would just be something more we would do on the back end. Thank you. And with that, do we have a motion on set item? >> I'll move to approve the resolution. >> We have a motion by trustee Curio. >> We have a second by Trustee Kirk and uh uh Assistant Superintendent Dick Ball wanted to make a quick comment. >> Just a quick comment. Uh when we have a soul source, we do have a form. They have to fill up the form and I'm the only one
121who's going to sign it. So if I don't sign it, it's not going to be a soul source. So I will be very careful. That's how it is. I have to sign it. So that's the that's our kind of the process. >> I appreciate that. Thank you so much. >> Okay, we'll do a roll call vote. Uh student trustee Gervo I. Thank you. Trusty Kerond >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> I. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I vice president Curio. >> Hi. >> And I vote I as well. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on this evening to our action items. Our first item to approve services contract with capital advisors group LLC for comprehensive staffing study. Assistant Superintendent Nball. >> Okay. Good evening. Uh
122this is a returning item. The contract have been revised. We are only including the comprehensive staffing study. That's all it has. So, uh staff is asking for board approval. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Chavez. Yeah, this would be one of the ones that I would like to see the soul source narrative for. Not because I'm questioning, but just for us to get into the practice. So, I read the bid and I can understand and I've actually had a conversation um with Superintendent Marshall about it, but just for us to get into the practice of us doing that. >> Thank you. We could add that. >> Any other comments or questions? >> A motion to approve. >> We have a motion by Trusty Kirk. >> Second by Trusty Kerond. We'll be doing
123a roll call vote. Trusty Gwell. >> Hi. >> Trustee Kon. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sers. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Vice President Creo. >> I vote I as well. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Move on to item number two. Approve restructuring of climate culture and safety department. Assistant superintendent Dr. Lopez. >> Good evening. Um so attached to this agenda we have two revised policies. So we heard your feedback from our last board meeting. We met as a team and discussed the changes. Changes were made to the manager position over safety uh and security as well as uh changes were made to the director job description to include SST processes. As expressed in the past uh we need to pull that out of
124special education so it's not seen as a ladder to overidentify students. So now that work will be uh uh will be part of this job description and they would collaborate with the director over uh educational services in that department. So they ensure that these practices are being carried out at each of our schools. I am happy to answer any questions that does mean that the CWA supervisor will stay as is. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Trusty Kon. >> Thank you President Singh. So just clarification, we're no longer eliminating a position. We're creating more. >> So the manager of safety and security is the growth position. >> Can you repeat that, please? >> The manager of safety and security, it would be the growth position that we're proposing. >> Okay. So we're
125creating a new position, but we're not eliminating anything. >> We're not eliminating. >> Okay. And so the current position that's been vacant, how have we been trying to fill that position? Like what what methods have we using to recruit? >> So we currently, if you're talking about the supervisor CWA, we currently have a list of applicants. >> Okay. >> That are ready to be interviewed. >> Okay, that's great. I think I thought previously we were having trouble filling that role. >> No, the supervisor of climate, culture, and safety is the one that we've been struggling with. >> Okay, thank you. Other questions? >> Motion to approve. >> We have a motion by Trusty Sers, second by Trustee Glutville. >> Uh we'll do a roll call vote. Trusty Glitterville. >> I thank you. Trusty Konain. >>
126Thank you. Trusty Sers. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Siddu. I >> trusty Chavez. Hi. Uh, Trusty Cou. >> And I vote I as well. Motion carries 6 with one abstension. Thank you. We move on to item number three. Hold the public hearing and approve contract openers for labor negotiations between Central Unified School District CUSD and Central Unified Teachers Association CUTA Chapter 961. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Uh, yes. Thank you. So, in compliance with government uh code section 3547, a public hearing will be held prior to adopting the initial proposal from CUDA chapter 961 and CUSD affording an opportunity for the public to be in informed and provide input. Um both CUSD and CUDA look forward to successful labor negotiations and working together on ongoing labor matters in an effort to
127support students in our district. There is no financial impact associated with this item. As of now, administration is recommending the board hold a public hearing and approve contract openers for labor negotiations between Central Unified School District and Central Unified Teachers Associations chapter 961. Thank you. So, at this time, we would be uh opening public hearing. So, we will go ahead and open public hearing. Do you have any callers or any commenters at this time? >> Board President, there's no callers at this time. >> Clerk Kon, do you have anyone? >> No cars at this time. >> With that, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and then uh and then we make and we approve contract openers. Do I have a motion on set item? move. >> Motion by trustee Sellers, a second by
128Trustee Curio. >> We'll do a roll call vote. Trusty Dwell >> I. Thank you. Trusty Kon >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sudu. >> Hi. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. >> Hi. >> Thank you. Motion carries 70. Move on. Titan. >> Yes. >> Can you guys all please make sure you use your mic? I cannot hear you unless you use your mind. >> Thank you for the reminder. >> Thanks. >> We move on to item number four. Approve compensation modification for certificated substitute teachers. Assistant superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Yes. So based on an evaluation of the substitute teacher daily pay rate in Central Unified School District and to ensure classroom coverage, competitive pay, and support recruitment and retention efforts for certificated staff. Uh we
129are proposing a daily rate change for substitute teachers from $165 per day for days 1-1 19 and $185 a day for days 20 plus to a new rate of $215 a day for days 1 through 19 and $225 per day for days 20 plus. Each year that daily rate will be reset where each new school year they will start back at one have to work their way from there. administration is recommending the board approve compensation modification for cert for certificated substitute teachers. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? >> Jessica Fon. >> Uh thank you, President Singh. I just want to highlight page 18 of our document that lists market comparison uh data. So, some of the uh nearby school districts that you know pay uh their substitute teachers, Fresno Unified pays $25
130daily. Madera Unified 220 daily and Clovis Unified 165 daily. Just highlighting for those who are look who are in the market to become substitute teachers that with this if this item is approved, Sunry Unified will be uh very competitive compared to our neighboring districts. With that, I would motion to approve. We have a motion by trusty Kon. Second. >> Second by trustee Sers. Roll call vote. I. >> Trusty GVO. I. Thank you. Trusty Kon. >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> I. >> Trusty Kirk. >> I. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. >> I. >> Motion passes 70. Thank you. We move on to item number five. Approve bid for roofing repair at Persian Continuation High School. Director Bot. Good evening board president Singh, board members and superintendent Dr.
131Dave uh Marshall. Um this item is returning from the previous board meeting. Uh we did open our bids for the roofing project at Persing uh Continuation High School. Uh Nation's roofing was the lowest responsive bidder with a cost of $285,277. Uh the cost of this project will be funded through deferred maintenance. Um administration is recommending this board be approved. Um, also just to mention the one of the biders who was lower did send an email to pull their bid. CNI did ask to um pull their bid because of a clerical error. I'm happy to answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Kon Singh. Uh, for this for purging this roof contract, is that going to be for the entire roof or just a portion?
132This one was for the cafeteria portion of the roof. >> Okay. >> Um I do want to point out if you look at the bid tally sheet, there is an alternate bid number one amount. While we were doing this walk, we took the advantage of adding it to our current bid to do the rest of the high school. So we have that ready to go and um in the queue for next year's deferred maintenance. So we're one step already ahead. >> Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to clarify that. >> A motion to approve. >> Motion by Trusty Kirk. Second. Second by Trusty Gville. Roll call vote. Trusty Gervo. I. Thank you. Trusty Kon. I. >> Trusty Sers. Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> I. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty
133Curio. >> Hi. >> Well, I as well. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Move on to item number six. Approved bid for roofing repair at Central East High School. Director Bach. >> Good evening again. Uh, this item again returns from the previous board meeting. Uh the bids were open for the repair to the Central East PAC building. Uh Fresno roofing was the lowest responsive bidder coming in at $199,975. Um this will be funded through the deferred maintenance projects. Uh administration is recommending the board approve the bid to award to Fresno roofing after answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Motion to approve. >> I have a motion by uh Trusty Creo, second by Trustee Sers. Do a roll call vote. Trusty Gero >> I. >> Thank you.
134Trusty Kon >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sudu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. >> I vote I as well. Motion carries 70. >> Uh, thank you. We'll move on to item number seven. Approve bid for districtwide trash and recycling services. Director Bach. >> Good evening again, board members. Um, as again this this item comes from the previous board meeting. This is for the district's trash, recycling, and organic waste services. Uh, bids were open and midval was the lowest responsive bidder. Uh the annual cost for the uh upcoming contract will be $210,66912 for trash, $36,384.32 for recycling, and $438.90 for our current organic services. Uh the annual cost for this contract with the prices listed will be locked from January 1, 2026 to
135June 30th, 2027. uh administration is recommending the board approve this bid after I answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you Trusty Kuron. >> Uh thank you President Singh. So uh just as a reminder how many years is this contract for? >> Uh this one will be for four and a half years. Um we did the half year to get caught up to the um we had to do this contract originally on our previous bid and it and it fell on a calendar year versus a fiscal year which just kind of threw off our um PO services or PO process. That's all. >> So if it's a four year, then this would end on like a June. >> Yes. Now it would end June instead of the uh December 31st >> 2029. >>
136Um >> I'd have to look at it. It was 4 and a half years from 2026. So uh June 30th uh June 30th 30th 2030. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Do I have a motion on that item? Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion by trusty Kurfon. Second by Trusty Gutteral. >> We'll be doing a roll call vote. Trusty Gville. >> Hi. >> Thank you. Trusty Kuron. >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> I. >> Trusty Kirk. >> I. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. >> Hi. >> I vote I as well. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to our last item of our action items this evening. Approve the purchase of four vans. Director Bach. >> Good
137evening again, board members. Uh so this item is for the um sorry the board previously had approved uh to lease five 10 passenger vans back on March 10th of 2020. Uh since then since then the district has been utilizing those vehicles and has come to a point where more vans are needed. Model 1 has provided a proposal to provide the district four additional 10 passenger vans. The purchase would be used uh or would be made using piggyback 2122 SC11-01-B. The cost of the four vehicles is estimated at $32,54.60, which will be funded through the general fund. The administration is recommending the board approve the purchase of these floor vans after I answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Jesse Kirk. Thank you. This is the purchase
138of the four vans. Are we still leasing the 10 vans? Um, >> so this year is actually our last year on the on those leases. So, we'll be doing the buyout and paying I believe it's right around5 or $6,000 per those five vans to purchase. And then we'll own those five also. >> Four. >> Total of 10. >> Total of >> 14. >> Eight. >> Don't let me do the math. >> Sorry. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> No, sorry. Okay, let me let me clear up. We p we leased five. Yes, we leased five. We're purchasing four additional. We're going to have a total of nine. Four, five, nine, 10. Sorry about that. >> I want our students to see sometimes you still got to use your fingers and that's okay. >> Stuck at
13967. >> I'll move to approve. >> Second. >> We have we have a motion by trusty Curio, second by Trustee Sers. It'll be a roll call vote. Trusty Gwell >> I. >> Thank you. Trusty Kurf >> I. >> Trusty Sers. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Hi. >> Trusty Sidu. >> I. >> Trusty Chavez. >> I. >> Trusty Curio. >> I as well. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Director B. We move on this evening to our information items. Our first being to receive information. Again, this is information only for our California statewide assessments. Assistant Superintendent McClennon. >> So, we are going to go through quite a bit of meaty information data. I send it to you early, but you also have another month to look at it before we talk about what we're going to
140do about the data because this is a very long meaty presentation. We divided it up that way into two so that we give you time to digest. So tonight's presentation is going to be a lot of information in a very short time in the interest of this evening. Okay. I'm going to call uh Mr. Eric Winrik up to go over the data with you and then you'll be able to ask any questions between now and the December meeting as well and we can send data to you or follow up and then at the December meeting we're going to talk about now what this is the data now what >> there we go thank you good evening president Chin superintendent Marshall esteemed board members community members that have gathered here in the room and with us
141online as assistant superintendent mcclennon said we're going to be brisk tonight and we are just going to do an overview of the data. Remember that all the data in here reflects the hard efforts of students and staff as we go through it. So with that we had two recent releases of data that came out. One was in October when we got the general release of our information on the ELPAC and also on our ELA English language arts and mathematics achievement. The one that just came out this past Thursday on November 13th reflects the California school dashboard and it is a more comprehensive set of measures on school performance. Well, this will be the focus of a good chunk of our presentation tonight. For our academic measures, the first three we'll be looking at tonight are
142reported on the test results for California assessments as well as the California school dashboards. And you can see those indicators listed here. The first one we'll be talking about is the English language progress indicator or LP for short. As you're aware, English learners take the English learner proficiency assessment or LPAC on an annual basis. The summitive English language proficiency assessment for California is divided into four levels shown here and reported on the test results for California assessments website. As the name implied, the LPACT is just for California and the three level the levels reflect a progression rather than a rating. All four levels students are expected to be in one of those four levels based on their English language development. When we apply those levels to the California school dashboards English learner progress indicator, we
143see LLPAC levels two and three are divided into a low and a high level. Each year, English learners are expected to advance at least one step as shown here. In order to advance, each student's status from this year is compared to their status from the prior year. And the percent of students making the expected progress is computed. And you can see that on the left hand side there kind of in miniature about how that process would work. for the 25 for the 2425 school year, 53.9% of our English learners met their LP target. This was a 3.6 increase from the prior year. And I'll note in passing that reclassificated reclassified students do not count in that particular measure. The California school dashboard assigns each district, school, and subgroup with enough students a performance color based
144on the 5x5 status and change. From the prior slide, we know that the status for 2425 was 53.9%. This places central unified in the medium row um for status. We also know that the change was 3.6 points. This places central unified in the increased column. Combining row for our status and column for our change that intersection where Central Unifi's performance is rated. This puts us in the green category right where we want to be for the California school dashboard for this indicator. When we repeat this process for each of the schools, the following picture of school performance results. And here you can see each of our schools where they fell with regard to their status and change from the prior year. And thinking about progress on a 5x5 grid, we want more schools to be
145moving from the upper right corner and fewer schools in the lower left corner. So essentially we want students to be moving from down here in the red areas to up here in the green and blue areas. So bottom left to upper right. Moving on to English language arts and mathematics results. We get to a metric called the distance from standard. But first let's look at the breakdown for smarter balanced assessments. The Smarter Balance Consortium test, commonly referred to as the ESBACK test, are administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and 11. As you can see, they're broken down into four levels. The top two levels are shown as a percent of students meeting or exceeding standards for their grade level. Here we see the trends for California, Fresno County, and Central Unified charted out.
146The general trend that we see is that student data is going to be up for each of those categories up in mathematics as well. I'll point out that this graph stops in 2019 and then you see the co interruption both 2020 and 2021 in those spring of those two years we do not have any state achievement data because of COVID. So this picks up after COVID. Our um level here actually in English language arts managed to get back to where we were pre-COVID and the impact on math was much greater from COVID. And so everybody is struggling. California, Fresno County, and of course, Central Unified as part of that larger trend. Here we see just what it looks like across other districts in Fresno County. Again, the general trend being up for English language arts.
147And in a similar way, the trend shows that we are up for mathematics and where we were relative to that red line is kind of where the co um precoid line would be established when we do the same thing for our individual school sites for English language arts for elementary schools. Reminder, because it's um only certain students take this test. For elementary schools, this means it is only for students in grades three through six. results are arranged from highest to lowest based on their most recent results. And in a similar fashion, we do the same thing for our middle schools, high schools, and alternative schools. I'll note that for our middle schools, they use all of their students in grades seven and eight. Our high schools only include students in grade 11, only our juniors.
148And then, of course, our alternative schools for the online home school and class, they have students in all the grade levels, so 3 through 8 and 11. and Persian only again once again only includes students in grade 11. Much like our ELA performance, this chart reflects the percentage of students who scored at meeting or exceeding standards, the two highest levels for the past three years in mathematics and again range from highest to lowest. For our secondary schools, this is the same thing. We see the trends from middle school, our high school, alternative schools uh for mathematics from 2023 to 2025 percentage meeting or exceeding standards. That information came from the public release that was in October and is our general one. when we start getting into the school dashboard measure, we start looking at a
149little bit different metric and that metric is referred to as distance from standard to distance from meeting the standard. So what it does is it establishes a baseline and that baseline is right here depending on I just use the same graphs but it's levels three and four are included above one and two are included below. The further away a student gets, it's going to be a negative number in front of it. And the higher a student gets above that line is going to be a positive number in front of it. So they reflect a more refined processing of the data by applying a series of rules to it. Um so that students have to be continuously enrolled from information day in October all the way through when they take the test. There are grace periods
150applied, small school adjustments applied, participation rate penalties which don't impact us that much, but they're also applied as part of the processing. As we saw for the English learner progress indicator, California school dashboard measures utilize both status and change. So for distance from standard, we don't just consider the percentage who are meeting or exceeding what we consider each and every student making a contribution to that number. So the important things to know again is the line below is going to be negative. Scores above are expressed with a positive value. Those below are expressed with a negative. Every student scores matters. Once again, all valid student scores are averaged together to determine the hypothetical, right? District school subgroup distance from standard is what we call that. So here you see the distance from standard plotted out
151with 2019 being the year um before COVID right as a baseline and then the four years after COVID for English language arts on the left mathematics on the right and reminder that zero line establishes where we want to be and anything above that is a very positive result indeed so we'll see some of those coming up in fact right now this slide shows the distance from standard for English language charts for our elementary schools. And like prior elementary school sites, it is based on students in grades 3 through six. I'll note that the numbers shown here represent the status for this measure. Um these numbers have been updated to reflect the data just released. This slide shows the distance from standard for our secondary schools. And notice again we have a couple of schools that
152are actually for that average student is above the line. Again, grades seven and eight for our middle schools, grade 11 for our high schools, and combination thereof for our two um alternative schools. Persian being again just grade 11. Same thing we do for the English learner measure, we also do for the English language arts, math, and the other measures on the California schools dashboard. They are ranked according to a status and change. And here you see where all the different schools that are ranked in this category have landed for this particular um measure for English language arts. So distance from standard. The same measure applies for mathematics. And this slide shows the distance from standard for mathematics for elementary schools. Like English language arts, the elementary numbers are based on students in grade 3 to
153six. And again this is a measure of the status of where we were school by school. Same thing for our secondary schools. This is the distance from standard in mathematics. Grades seven and eight for all the include all those students in middle school 11 for high. Same kind of thing. I will just point out there is a break in the data there. I did graph all of these with the exact same scale except I could not fit class and persing on this particular measure. So there's a slight break in those data. They are labeled correctly. However, again, 5x5 grid. This is where our schools landed for mathematics in the measure and the metric for distance from standard. All right, moving on. From this point forward, all the measures that we're going to be talking about
154are the recently released dashboard measures. There's no overlap between the two. Um we're going to discuss discuss the two engagement metrics chronic absenteeism and the graduation rate. Then we'll move on to conditions and climate measure for the suspension rate and finally conclude with the um college and career indicator. I will point out that there are other measures that you'll see if you go online to the California schools dashboard site. Um, we've already covered some of those with you in terms of Williams compliance, the local climate survey through Panorama that I presented a few months back and parent engagement that we presented at that time as well. So that first measure has this kind of monopoly looking kind of car that comes directly from the dashboard itself and it has a little gauge to indicate performance
155in this particular area. Chronic absenteeism is defined by a student having 10% or more days absent from school during the academic year um for whatever reason. And there's some other criteria applied to it. You'll see our performance here um was 20.9% and it declined by 1.2%. And I will point out at this point that chronic absenteeism like suspensions remember is what I sometimes refer to as a flipped measure. So you see a number going down that's a good thing. We want chronic absenteeism and suspensions to go down. So, a little bit different than we sometimes interpret it. Same thing is applied here. Again, we look at our status for this year and our change um from last year and all our schools then fall into a particular color zone as well as the district and
156any subgroups that would be rated. The next measure is a graduation rate. It's a four or a five-year cohort rate and it's primarily a four-year cohort rate. The five-year comes into play for any students from the class of 2024 who would have graduated with the class of 2025. They may have had a few credits to make up or whatever and so they graduate with that year. They're added in. So graduation right here is 90.5% graduated, an increase of 1.4% from the prior year, putting us in the green category. And here you see, remember this one is only for schools that have students that are seniors in grade 12. So, a lot fewer schools. And here's where we fall. Um, most of our schools here lying in the green and plotted in there. So, the suspension
157rate is an interesting measure because I want to be clear that I put the word rate in quotes to emphasize it's not really a measure of frequency. Rather, it is a measure of prevalence. In other words, it doesn't reflect how many times an individual student got suspended or how many suspensions there were on an individual campus. What it does reflect is a number of unique students that were suspended. Essentially, an unduplicated count of students that were suspended for at least one full day. And as you can see, the 2024 25 level was nearly identical to the year before, up only 0.1 points from the year before to reflect a 3.4% of students received at least one full day suspension, rating us in the yellow category on this particular metric. Here's where our schools fell. And
158this one does include all our schools. Again, determined by the intersection of status and change for where they are. The threshold levels for different schools um are different. And so on this particular consolidated one, I just took off the numbers. So if you don't see the numbers here, it's just because I consolidated all the the different varieties of suspension into one 5x5 grid. The last one, this one, the college and career indicator is in the green category. Students are rated on a variety of measures as being prepared, almost prepared, or not prepared. It only applies to students, schools with students in grade 12. And there are a lot of different ways that can that they can be prepared. Um again we were up 5.9 points from the prior year. Um that gives us the green
159but as the name implies there are two main categories to it right college readiness and career readiness. So for college readiness here are the ways that a student might demonstrate their preparedness and readiness um to pursue higher education. Give you just a second to take that in. In a similar fashion, here are the ways a student might demonstrate the readiness to go straight into a career. Several different categories there as well. Just a second. All right. So the result is 485 students were prepared in either the college measure, the career measure or a combination of the two. That is an unduplicated number out of our graduating class of the 1251 you see there. For the chart on the right, you will see each one of these lines is a way and the number of students
160that met that particular way. going across any one individual line, it is an unduplicated count of students within that particular category and that criteria for meeting the indicator. Going up and down across them, you're going to have a duplicated account because a lot of our students are meeting this measures in multiple areas and in multiple criteria. Putting that together on the 5x5 grid, again, only schools with students in grade 12. We have most of us landing in the green for our comprehensive high schools. And of course, that's where that puts us for a district, right there in the green indicator for this particular college and career indicator. This is an evolving one, and you'll hear more criteria in the future as as they add to it. Anybody seeking more information is welcome to go to
161any of these sites. Uh 5 by5s I've kind of emphasized a lot today. Um but there's a lot of other information out there and some very technical um nitty-gritty information. So if you're having a really hard time getting to sleep at night, go into the dashboard communication, pull up any one of the technical guides, um and just start reading a few pages of that. It should help you uh pretty pretty easily uh fi find your rest. With all due respect, sir, I I feel the opposite. It gives me a heart attack that we're only um only 40% of our students that are graduating are prepared for college and career. It actually has the opposite effect. So, >> there's a lot of work that needs >> and just just to clarify for President Chan, yeah, what
162I meant was reading the actual nitty-gritty. >> No, I I understood the joke, but I I I just wanted to make sure that uh my my uh my my concern is is is centered. I mean, we we have a a great team. We have a great superintendent. We have a great board, but we have a lot of work that we need to to make sure that we're doing. >> And with that, you've already segued us right into our questions and comment section. So, please uh please proceed. >> Yeah. Questions or comments from the board on on uh this information item. Uh Trusty Kon, >> thank you. Uh it's a lot of information. Uh don't ask pretty quickly. So, I guess I'm curious about the ELA uh distance from the standard change we're seeing at Central
163High and Justin Garza say that we're declining significantly. Can you explain why that is because that sounds very concerning. >> It is a general trend that we've seen across some other high schools. I don't have an explanation for it at this point in time, but we will look deeper into it for you. >> Thank you. >> It just came out last Thursday, so I I appreciate that we're going to be doing this in in two parts. So, I'll probably prepare a lot lot of questions um absolutely for for the next meeting. Thank you so much for presenting this evening. >> Very good. Thank you for your time this evening >> and this is information only so it will be returning to us in in a part two. Thank thank you assistant superintendent McClennon for you
164and your team's work on such efforts. >> President Zing. >> Yes. Uh Trusty Ker >> I apologize I accidentally left the meeting meaning meeting to unmute. Um >> I know this was only for information uh and you guys probably discussed this so I apologize. When are we going to have a discussion about what we're doing given this data and and I too am not going to be able to sleep now for some time. So when do we expect to have that conversation? >> As as far as I understand uh assistant super mlenny when will be the second uh it'll at our next meeting we'll have a second s set of data and then um we can we can talk to Dr. Marshall about potentially having a a workshop or something to to deep dive a
165little bit more. >> Thank you. >> We turn to item number two. Receive information regarding nomination of trustee for CSBA delegate assembly superintendent Dr. Marshall. >> Okay. what you'll find attached is information about the uh CSBA delegate assembly and um there are I guess our current trustee I guess there going to be three new delegates for region 10 uh the term is going to end in 2026 so everything's attached and you can look at it and you have to it's due like on January of uh 2026 >> thank you trusty >> Kuron Uh just as a clarification uh being a CSBA delegate means that instead of being at the CSBA convention in December for you know two or three days I'm there the whole week and then there's another convent uh delegate assembly in the
166springtime as well. So uh it's a bit more travel and commitment but happy to represent central. >> Thank you. We move on to item number three. Receive information on BrainPOP. Assistant Superintendent McClennon. >> Thank you. Um, BrainPOP is one of our supplemental curriculum resources and it provides a lot of multimedia resources that teachers can integrate into their lessons, including short videos, cartoons, um, some different uh, action diagrams that they can include to help students understand some of their topics and to provide a little bit more engagement during their lessons. There is also an English learner component to it that we use frequently that has helped um with some of the growth that you saw in the English learner performance indicator and we are looking at because of the discount price renewing that for two years.
167It is used across all of our campuses. So the cost is about um it ends up being about $2,500 a year per campus to use it. So, it looks quite expensive, but when you look at the 26 schools in a multi-year contract, it's actually very reasonable for a district-wide um supplemental resource. >> Questions or comments of the board? Trusty Sers? >> This is available to all campuses. >> It's available to all of our campuses. In fact, you can see in the supplemental materials that they were using it and with the e augmentation, the extra lessons and the extra resources available for that. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Trusty Keron. >> Uh I'll just say share a testimonial. Um as a former Century Unified alumni, I'm mainly familiar with BrainPOP in our science curriculum
168and it's definitely one of the more uh engaging parts of our uh our school or school lessons. So, uh, happy to see a comeback. >> Trusty Tus, >> uh, as a former teacher in K12, I actually use Brain Pop all the time, so I loved it and I couldn't say enough about it. It was always something that I could rely on um, when I needed to have a graphic or something that was more entertaining. So, to me, 2500 per campus isn't a huge commitment for the amount of use that we're going to get from it for our teachers. If no one else is going to say anything negative, we'll put it. >> I mean, I don't remember the name of the guy, but the orange robot guy was really cool, you know. >> Fair enough.
169We'll have this return under consent. Thank you. Item number four, receive information regarding annual report for Fresno County and District Summary, Williams legislation. Director English. >> Good evening, President Singh Chan, members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Marshall. This item is for information only. You will have the reports from um annual reports from Fresno County and our district which show full compliance. Schools had sufficient textbooks, facilities were in good repair and SARCS were accurate. These reports along with the Williams visitation summary have been provided for your review and this is an annual reporting that is completed from Fresno County. I'll be happy to answer any questions or comments from the board. >> President Sing if I may. >> Yeah. >> Um, one change this year is that the county was provided to augment and add
170their own reporting to it. Um, apparently that was part of a law that's been going on, but they haven't been actively doing that. And so, you'll notice this is the first time the county report is mentioned for this. We always do our quarterly reports. >> Correct. Yeah. No questions. This is just an information item. We'll review director English and if there's any questions, you'll get them through Dr. Marshall. Thank you. We move on to information item number five. Receive information regarding education behavior consultants contract for special ed intensive behavior program. Director Hankle. Good evening again, uh, President Singh, trustees and superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight I'm bringing the the education behavior consultants contract to you for information. EC provides specialized behavioral support services. They're specialized in creating and supporting trauma informed practices and behavior analytic interventions.
171They have experience and expertise in evidence-based practices as well for the classroom. They work with both schoolwide system and individualized behavior support plans and have high quality supervision and classroom support in the form of registered behavior technicians, behavior technicians, and they're supervised by doctoral level board certified behavior analysts, which are the BCBAS. Um, they have the experience and the expertise that we're looking for in this program that we're creating. Currently, the supports are costing roughly $600,000. This would be a significant decrease and would have the ability to take on more students. At this time, it's for information. If you have any questions, >> questions or comments from the board, >> trustee Chavez, >> uh, I just wanted to compliment your soul source form. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. It was very thorough
172and I appreciate it. Now I understand why we use them. >> Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. If no other question, we'll have this returned under consent. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. We move on to item number six. Receive information regarding resolution 2526-21 regarding PARS supplementary retirement plan and approve agreement for administrative services for PARs director assistant superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Uh yes, thank you. Um I will call if our PARS representative Jeff Herman. Are you >> you want to come to the mic? Um, I'm ask Mr. Herman just to give a brief overview of what the PARs incentive is and then we'll close out. >> Okay, there you go. Uh yeah, the PAR supplementary retirement plan is a one-time financial incentive um to the employees that are um a certain age
173and service u retirement eligible. Um and so the um proposal is um potentially for an 80% of final pay plan. Um and so um the plan is possibly for um the board to vote at the next board meeting to approve the plan. Um so at the next board meeting it would uh simply be approving a resolution to uh adopt the plan and open up an enrollment window that would last for 45 to 60 days. Um and then at the end of the enrollment period, PARS would conduct a financial analysis um and determine the fiscal impact um of the plan. And at that point in time, the board can then um in February uh vote to um approve the plan moving forward or cancel the plan. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? And
174with that, we'll have this return under action. Thank you. We'll move on to item number seven. Receive information regarding the 2025 2026 first interim report. Assistant superintendent Nick Ball. >> Good evening. This is a placeholder for the first interim report that's going to be presented in December 9th board meeting. >> Thank you. We'll come back under action. Item number eight, receive information regarding replacement of PA Bell system. Director Bach. >> Good evening again, board members. Uh this item uh is for the replacement of Glacier Point, Riverbluff, and Central Online Home Schools uh PAM Bell system that is no longer supported. Uh the sites have a clock speaker combo device uh that will be replaced and order for a new software that will be able to support the um bells and announcements. The new software is
175already being used at other sites. Staff is recommending using global CTI, their CMS contract number 325108 and the PEPM, which is the Pennsylvania Education Purchasing Program for Microcomputers contract number 535122-20 to purchase and install the devices. The cost of this replacement will be $218,622.77 paid from the general fund. Administration is recommending this item be placed on the December 9th board agenda for action after answering questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board on this item? Trusty Sers. >> The systems that we're replacing right now. Do you know how old they are? >> Um they're right about 12 years. So the devices aren't the actual issues, the actual software. They just stop supporting the software. So it's kind of end of life. Um the units that are going to go
176right back into replace them look very similar to the old ones. They're just newer and work with the new software, which is a lot of the other schools already. >> Okay. Do we have any other campuses that are currently utilizing that same generation? >> No, not the same generation. Um just these three that have the old one that we need to swap out the devices. Okay. Are are there any other campuses that we as I know as you're going through doing the safety walks that identifying that they may be needing service? >> Um we have uh I don't want to give you the exact number. I have it on a list but we have about I would say approximately five sites that are right in line next that we need to swap out the older
177systems and switch everything over to this new digital IP PAL system. >> Okay. And then uh as far as the technology, it's continuously changing. Yeah. >> Is this something that we're going to anticipate in another 10 12 years be replacing these current ones? >> Yeah. So again, the the the hardware was pretty good. It's more the software without knowing as long as they support the software. I would see this going past the 10-year mark. Um it's really now we're going into the age of software and how long a particular company might be sticking around. um best we can the what we're going to try to do is just stay ahead of it and not let it get to this point where we are hey it's now end of life and we need to get it
178replaced right away. Okay. Thank you. No problem. >> No other question. We'll have this return under consent. >> Thank you. We move on number nine. Receive information regarding replacing kindergarten playground structure at Madison Elementary. Director Watt. >> Good evening again. So this is an information item for the current kindergarten playground structure at Madison Elementary. Uh this has reached the end of its service serviceable life and uh replacement is recommended. Uh the new structure will be similar to the other structures that we have been replacing in the district. Uh the new structure will be designed to pro promote age appropriate physical development, social interaction and imaginative play. Um, KA has provided a proposal to remove and replace the existing structure under their CMASS contract number 420780089C. Total cost of this contract would be $314,310.15 funded by
179the general fund. A couple things just to clarify. We are doing a preschool structure at the same site. Uh, the preschool is funded through the preschool a preschool grant and is a separate structure than this kindergarten one. This kind garden structure is at toward the front of the school. Uh, also included in this is a shade structure. Administration is recommending this item be placed on the December 9th, 2025 board agenda for action after answering any questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board on this structure? >> If none, we'll have it return under consent. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We move on to item number 10. receive information regarding the 2024 2025 annual and 5-year development impact fee report. Assistant Superintendent Paul, >> good evening again. Uh this
180is a development impact fee report for the last fiscal year 2425. This is an annual report that board approves every year. I just want to clarify that the development development impact report is a revenue that the school receives when a new house is constructed and sold within our school district. Administration is recommending the item be placed on December 9th board agenda for action. Questions or comments on set item? If none, we'll have it returned under Can we have this return under consent or has to come under action? >> It has to be into action. >> Okay, we'll have it return into action. Thank you. We move to item number 11. receive information regarding intercom systems at sites. Director Bach. >> Good evening, uh, board members once again. All right. So, in order to enhance our
181school safety, the district has evaluated the entrances to our school sites in order to provide an additional layer of safety. Uh, site staff have requested a intercom system that would allow site visitors to have a direct line to someone in the office and a mechanism to allow staff to gain that to provide that visitor with access. Staff has evaluated systems and are is recommending a Barcata uh intercom system. DJI has provided a proposal under their CMASS contract 325061033 to purchase and install the systems. The total cost of this project would be $410,34 347.20 to be paid out of the general fund. Uh so this is not uh the exact same device as previously mentioned on an earlier board item as a intercom system. This is a standalone at the front door that would allow a
182guest to basically ring like a doorbell in or use a key code or to have actual a physical card that would allow them access into the site and site staff would be able to um also uh buzz that person in. Um administration is recommending this item be placed on the December 9th, 2025 board agenda after I answer any questions the board may have. Trusty Kirk Thank you. This is for all of our school sites. >> So, this is for our 15 elementaryaries and two alternative education sites. Um, it's technically ends up being 18 because I consider Pathway Persing kind of one area, but there's actually two gates that have it. So, it's 18. >> Thank you. And this is something that would go on that front gate. >> Yeah. So, some of our sites already
183have something close. Uh this would be you um giving us the um a standard across all of our elementaryaries. Um it would be a box that has a camera that uh would be really close to the front gate. Um Mount Hernie has one currently that is just a buzzer. Uh Pathway and Persian currently do have one. Teague Elementary has one currently also and so does our brand new school Joan Singh Ko Elementary. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Trusty Sers. >> U Trusty Sers and then Trusty Korea. >> The This is a locking mechanism that is essentially restricting anyone from coming on campus. >> Correct. >> It's only good though if the door is actually locked. >> Yes. And and we're we're finding that to be pretty much the case for for that. And so this
184is a good step. Is is there any kind of alert that will indicate the person monitoring that the gate is not closed? >> Yeah. So, it has a kind of like a door jar alarm. Um, so there's multiple ways that the person has access to this. There's an app on your phone. We can set up a desk a desktop server. So, yeah, I mean once we roll this out, we'll work with the sites. Multiple people will have access and be able to see that part. >> Okay. Um, is there a reason why we're not looking at putting this on all campuses? >> Um, so elementaryaries and the the alternative education sites, like I mentioned, they all have one point of access. Our middle schools and secondary sites that we're still evaluating right now, they have
185multiple points of access. So, we're just trying to find the best um solution to fit a multiple multiple entrance point site. um putting a buzzer with a you know you might not need a video camera buzzer at every entrance like a a middle school. We might we're just looking at what else we can do to to kind of bring it all together >> at at all of our campuses. Do we not try to funnel everyone into the office? >> We do. Um but you know gates do get um open for events and um I'm I'm also looking at like the gymnasiums at our secondary sites and after school proh projects and giving this could als this this goes into access control and providing key cards to people staff should say staff. Thank you >> Trusty
186Curio. >> Thank you Trusty Kirk and Trusty Sers for your questions. Um, I want to flag for Superintendent Marshall that this probably means we need to revise our board policy or the appropriate administrative regulation to ensure that the gates are being kept locked and compliance with the use of these devices. >> Make a note. >> Thanks, >> Trusty Kuran. >> Thank you. Um, Director Both, is uh, Verata a recurring uh, vendor for us or are they a new vendor? >> Um, they're recurring. They've done some work in the district. Our current guest uh system is also through Vicotta. >> Our current guest system is through >> I want to say it's called like a guest checkin, but we replace the Raptor system. >> Okay. >> Thank you. If no questions, we'll have this return under
187consent then. >> Next, we turn to uh our advanced planning. Any uh we should be looking out for? Uh I echo the uh commentary from the uh vice president. uh we do need to get together to talk about I guess once we look at all the data in terms of like what's the next step uh again we'll put out some information and I think we also need to talk about special education that's that's a a high pressing uh topic and moving forward to I know we're going to uh CSBA uh we're putting together our schedule uh for the board >> additional information and closing comments So that I will then follow up with Dr. Marshall to make sure that we have a board rep uh a report at a future board meeting with regards to
188our valid Victorian. Um making sure that that's full clarity on that. Uh and then and then uh even though we will be having another report out with regards to our data, we won't be having a workshop specifically on the the data that that we had as well as the special education. So, we'll make sure that we will have that um uh get that calendarized before the end of the year and and hopefully in the next few weeks. Uh a reminder, our next meeting, our next regular board meeting will be here held here Tuesday, December 9th, uh 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public session at the Central Unified School District office, room 13. And with that, we thank you all as we um as we head back to close session. Thank
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