Central Unified Board of Trustees Meeting October 28th, 2025

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002Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey. Hey, Heat. Hey. Hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Boom. Boom. Yes. I'm a Hey, hey, hey. Good evening, Central Unified community. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees of Central Unified. The time is 700 pm. The date is Tuesday, uh, October 28th, 2025. For the attendance, we had uh Vice President Ko join us at 5:37 p.m. and we had Trusty Sidu join us at 5:45 p.m. Our close session items to report. On item E1, we had a motion by Trustee Sers, a second by Trusty Kurfon. Item passed 6. And uh on item E2, we had a motion by Trustee Sellers, a second by Trusty Kuron, and that item also passed 6. And with that,

003uh I will ask Vice President Creo to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. So >> sitting, please. Thank you. And uh next I'll invite up for our community engagement information, Senator Lazo. >> 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 the item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public comment section of the agenda. The district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings. Anyone planning to attend and needing an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should

004call 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. Thank you. Next, we invite up the proud mother but our interpreter translator. Thank you. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Translator meeting translator. We next turn to our uh first presentation or student recognition. And now I'll hand it over to Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lopez. >> Good evening board president Singh, board of trustees and superintendent Dr. Marshall. So in the past monthly recognitions, uh we have presented student performers uh recognizing the monthly celebrations. But today we will honor Native American Heritage Month with a land acknowledgement as well as ways in which our district department of diversity, equity, and inclusion is fostering these learning opportunities through

005ethnic studies. So help me welcome Jasmine Dothur, social science ethnic uh studies teacher Justin Garza. >> Hello. Well, good evening members of the board, colleagues, parents, students, and community members. My name is Jasmine Dothur, and I am a nth grade ethnic studies and US history teacher at Justin Garza High School. As an as an educator, I believe it's essential that our students learn not only about the history of native nations, but also the living cultures and voices of indigenous people today. We have a full unit dedicated to teaching about our local native indigenous groups that help students understand that history is not distant. It is rooted in the very place we live. It allows them to see how culture, language, and traditions shape identity and community. And it also fosters respect, empathy, and a deeper

006sense of belonging for all our students. By including native perspectives and honoring the original stewards of this land, we help our students build a more accurate and inclusive understanding of our shared history, one that values truth, resilience, and cultural significance. We acknowledge that this board meeting is taking place through the unseated territory of the Yukat and Mono indigenous people. This statement also recognized the Sanwaqin Valley's rich history and representation of native cultures. We acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of our various regions. A land acknowledgement is a critical step towards working with native communities to secure meaning meaningful partnerships and inclusion in the stewardship stewardship and protection of their cultural resources and homelands. We recognize and honor these ancestral grounds that we reside and learn upon and support the resilience and strength that all indigenous

007people have shown worldwide. Thank you very much and have a good night. Now help me welcome Mark Fowler, area administrator to present the next student. Good evening board president Singh, superintendent Dr. Marshall and board of trustees. Tonight is my honor to recognize Braj Sakong. Braj is currently a senior at Central Online Home School and boasts an overall GPA of 4.25 and in his free time enjoys programming and building math simulations. However, tonight we are celebrating Braj for perhaps his most impressive achievement yet, a perfect score on the SAT of 1600. Braj attributes his success to countless hours of studying, taking practice practice exams, and his love for learning. Braj is grateful to every teacher in Central Unified who fostered his resilience and passion for academics. Braj is currently applying to multiple colleges with dreams of

008pursuing research in mathematics and computer science at schools like MIT, Princeton, Stanford or Caltech. Ultimately, he would like to become a research professor. Please help me congrat Join me in congratulating Raj Sakome. >> Good evening board president, Mr. Singh, board of trustees, superintendent Dr. Marshall, and everyone here tonight. I am honored and filled with gratitude to receive this recognition. I've been in Central Unified since first grade and I've seen how our committed teachers push every student to do their best. The score represents a lot of hard work, not just from me, but from every teacher. It is a testament to the foundation they helped build. I want to thank Miss King, Mr. Tjo, Mr. Neves, Miss Keaney, and all the teachers of Central Unified for their tireless devotion to our students. I want to thank

009my family for their love and support. Looking ahead, I hope to earn the opportunity and the privilege to represent our community and institution of higher education and to contribute to science in a way that makes my community proud. Wherever I go next, I'll carry Central Unified with me and will work to open even more doors for students at Katry. I hope the world will recognize that our community is one with extremely hardworking people who are capable of doing mighty things if we put our minds to it. The American dream is alive here, both in me and in every member of our community. Thank you. And for the picture, can we have the family could join us too? Yes. Next, I'm going to invite our area administrator, Jeff Garrett, for the uh next student recognition. >>

010All right. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight, it is my honor to recognize 2024 Central High School graduate Logan Wood. As a four years Fresno Central FFA member, Logan demonstrated his tremendous skill in a variety of competencies and has received many recognitions through his time in FFA. You've been to the fair at any point in the last few years in the commerce building and other buildings, you junior uh exhibit buildings, you probably saw a lot of his uh metal work that was on display. Very impressive with all those uh recognitions throughout his time in FFA. But none more prestigious than the National FFA Proficiency Award in Agricultural Mechanics Repair and Maintenance. The National FFA Agriculture Award honors FFA members who have developed specialized skills in agriculture mechanics repair

011and maintenance that can be applied to their future careers. The work can include repairing and maintaining various agricultural equipment, including lawn and landscape equipment and agricultural power systems, mechanical, electrical, chemical, wind, solar, and water power. Members first must compete at the state level and the winners from the state competition advance as finalists for the national award. As you can see, this is quite an accomplishment. Logan continues to apply these and many other skills through the post-secondary coursework he is enrolled in at Reedley College. Central High School and Central Unified are extremely proud of you, Logan. Please join me in congratulating Logan Wood. Thank you. Uh, next we turn to our employee association highlights. I'd like to invite up our CUTA president, Laura Bolton. Okay. Uh, good evening. I I just have a few things to

012share with you. Um, Tilly um their second grade classes um were invited to the 40th annual Teddy Bear Health Fair at Valley Children's Hospital. Um the the students took their own plushies like stuffed animals and bears and things um to this event and they had um an hour to stop by the NICU radiology lab, pharmacy, OT, PT, TR, aiology, day surgery, ortho nutrition, ENT, transport, speech and psychology stations and interact with actual workers from the departments. Um they took some adorable pictures and I uh forwarded on to you guys. So, um I hope you enjoyed those. And then um two of our nurses um were um selected um to receive uh the um high road training um project grant. Um my and I'm going to do it. Mimi Yuatang Jeang. um they um will be

013able to have their um school nursing credentiing program at um CSU Fresno paid for by the grant um and it also funds um their attendance at the California school nurse organization um and grants them an annual membership um and the school nurse academy and the 76th annual CSNO conference. So um th this is providing the education that they need to become fully credentialed nurses. Um this this is our third um uh uh we had one before and this is this makes three um nurses that received this grant in our district. So it's pretty awesome. And then um Central East had um several things to share. Um the football team is set to be the number one seed um after they won division one playoffs becoming track championships. Um yeah um they also um just put

014on their their first play, their fall play and it went really well. And then um today uh I um was asked to volunteer to support um uh Mrs. Fight um in um the library for um three rounds of the Golden One financial um uh challenge. And uh it was really fantastic. The kids come in, they're um given a um a job with a salary and a family. And they have to then go to eight different stations. They're required to go to all of them. and they have to make ends meet. They have to make decisions. They have to think about what is required for their family. Um and uh and this is a multiple day um activity. They pre-teach the information before they go into the activity so that the kids are aware of what's

015going to happen and then they go back after the activity and the following day they review what they did um what worked, what didn't, what pitfalls they fell for um and help them to think ahead for their future. So, um, Garza is going to have a group tomorrow doing this and hopefully we're going to expand this into our other high schools. So, um, Dr. Marshall was there and I know he's going to speak on that, too. So, u, it was fantastic event. So, I just want to share that with you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we invite up uh, Angie Giri, our uh, CSEA president. Good evening uh doc um Mr. Singh, Dr. Marshall and board members. I just want to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation to everyone who played a

016role in completing the market study. Uh this has been a very long journey uh three years in the making and I'm grateful for the collaboration, patience, dedication shown through this process. uh now that the market study is done, we can put that behind us and hopefully focus more towards the sped aids and the instructional aids and then get going with our regular negotiations. So, I just want to thank the board also for their support. Um it's been a very long process and we're glad it's almost done. Thank you. >> Thank you. We next turn to our reports this evening with our first report coming from Central Elementary uh Central Elementary School. May I invite up Principal Slack? >> Thank you so much for having me. President Singh, uh Superintendent Dr. Marshall, trustees, thank you so

017much. And you know, we only get to see each other once a year, but I I it's enjoyable because I get a chance to tell you all about my wonderful school. And hopefully you hear more of those ideas throughout the year, not just at this one particular time. Um we start off uh you might take a look of those couple of those pictures there just kind of give you an idea of some fun that we're having at Central Elementary and a lot of um different cultural. We've got parents in there. We've got kids exploring. They had a Jurassic Day world park thing in sixth grade where you could only enter if you had the appropriate credentials and and there you could see how we prepared for Hispanic Heritage Month. We look at our celebrations here.

018We always look at data. Data is really important. It drives all the things that we do. But it, you know, it there's a bigger picture behind the data. So taking a look, we did well this year. We were I'm very pleased. We we got plus 2.2% 2% increase in our ESPback, which is the Smarter Balance ELA. Um, we went up also 2.1% in our Smarter Balance math. Um, but we do have some work and I'll talk a little bit more about that, but I'm really excited about our I Ready scores. I don't know if you know a lot about that test, but it's something that we have our students do three times a year as benchmarks kind of gauge their growth. But I also have challenged these students the past three years on um challenging

019them to go above and beyond. When you take the test, there's a typical growth. You know, they challenge where they're at. You should grow this much and and you'll be able to work towards proficiency. But my challenge was not that. It was let's go beyond that. Let's go and not do your typical growth, but let's do your stretch growth and let's celebrate that. So last year we gave away 400 different ribbons and medals because our students did just that. And as you see at 57% and 50 um% there in the math they did that. And what that helps them do is get closer and closer to proficiency and grade level. So we uh the teachers sit down with them uh at the beginning of the year goal set. They know exactly where they are. Mid

020year we check in what can we do? What are some strategies? and then we continue moving on with that. So, we're pretty excited. Um, our attendance is really strong at 93%. That's what we ended last year. We're still working towards that always. That's just not good enough for us. We want everyone in those seats, everybody learning. So, we're going to continue to work towards getting that um to the 95% and higher. Uh and also our chronic absenteeism as to date that that 18% was of last year the total but our our average is about 12.9% for the last 3 months. So we're looking at you know really knocking down some of those barriers and we're progressing in different ways and how we're we're working through that. Um you know with our students that we found

021that math is is kind of a struggle and that's been one. So one thing we're working on this year is having an up and running math lab. So, I have a long-term sub and a teaching fellow that work five days a week with students honing in on skills that they need in order to access their grade level curriculum. So, you know, if they didn't get, you know, place value very well, we're going to work on that. We piloted BLA based on um I went through a program with Greg Chaperion and we did a pre-screener and it was something we had never done before and really, you know, narrowed down the kiddos their skill and what they need. and we've been doing cycles very successful with that. We've also did some multi-tered system work where it's

022a lot more uh very defined as to what the criteria is to get into those programs and also what teachers are doing in tier one and tier 2 to support our students. We've got restorative circles uh happening this year and and that's something that's really super exciting. I don't know if you know a lot about that yet, but it's pretty awesome. and I've got uh some wonderful uh staff, myself included, going through the restorative practices um workshops, but also we were awarded PBIS gold. Um we moved from silver to gold in one year. And then we have this thing called Pioneer Roundup. So we have four of them. They're quarterly and basically it's a a tier one um positive behavior intervention support. And um basically when our students strive for five and they don't have

023any referrals, they don't have, you know, any misgivings during the that quarter, they get a chance to do fun things. We've done bounce houses, we've done glow parties, we've done different things like that. And 93% of our students um that's about an average of our students attend those quarterly um events. So it really excited about that. But like I said, there's always challenges. There's growth and there's opportunities for that. So, we take a look at the LP that I just showed you, um, which is our English language, um, proficiency indicator. We didn't grow. We actually went backwards. So, we are really focused this year on that. And we are reaching out to all areas in in that. So, what we're going to do is we have uh our staff working with our EL department. we

024have um them coming in and doing some professional development and also really honing in on our students needs and seeing where we can do that. We have about a 100 Yale students um about 18 are right on the cusp that just need that extra little push to get them reclassified. So, we're really those are the ones we're really focusing in on to get that extra push. Uh we've also, like I said, had minimal growth. We haven't had a big jump in ESBAC, but we are um doing all the good things. So, we're just waiting for that to kind of catch itself up. Um we're reviewing lessons that we're doing. Uh we've done great work with our solution tree the last three years and we want to thank you so much for that opportunity. It has

025been a gamecher in our um professional learning communities within our grades uh grade levels. They have changed perspectives, really sought different ideas, collaborated together. you're not on an island. We're all in this together. So, it's been really wonderful. And that's the things that are coming from that is those common formative assessments. Um, and just really looking at the data and then serving those students that need that help. And of course, our absenteeism, working hard towards that. Little bit different angle this year because I've been thinking about this. You know, we always think about, oh, incentives. Let's get kids come to school. So, if you come to school, you get to have a party. You get to have this or that. Well, that only goes so far. So really what I want is not because you

026want to come to school for a party is I want you to come to school because you want to be there and people want you there. So we're changing things a little bit this year. We're looking at increasing the belonging and inclusiveness in our classrooms. We're making sure that teachers are greeting our students at the door every day. They're doing those restorative circles that are building that community within the classroom. Also giving them opportunities to choose. So if they have opportunities, you still have to do the assignment, but maybe you want to do it this way or you have a different idea. So allowing students to really blossom into their own selves. And then of course um we're also looking at um Oops, sorry about that. Um we're looking at um sorry, we're looking at

027the classrooms with um celebrating diversity. And uh this next one you'll see here we have a a celebrity Dr. Marilyn Lopez is uh came out to our site. We are really diving into the diversity and the cultural and just want to celebrate that. So we we took Hispanic Heritage Month and we celebrated that. We had our fourth, fifth, and sixth graders come in. She gave a great talk to them and one thing that has stood out to me is the fact that she talked about how and kind of asked them questions about how they're different and how they're alike and they without knowing it they realized they're a lot more alike than different. And that was just so powerful that day. Got the kids dancing, got the teachers dancing. It was wonderful. And then uh

028we invited uh President Singh. He couldn't make it but he gave us a great uh for Dvali. We appreciated that. We're going to keep that going this year. It's not just oh one two things. Uh we're doing it for the Mong new year. We're going to have an ofrena uh for um Dia de los Muertos. We really really want to invite the community to get involved. We're doing that with our um our parents and that has been a a real gamecher for us. Whoops. So looking at our spotlight, I just talked about family outreach. I have the most amazing family outreach liaison and please don't ever take her away because she is so amazing that she has created such a warm welcoming environment to our campus. Parents come on, they uh we have classes two

029times a week. she brings in today. They were just had a Spanish and an English class for EECU coming in and helping families figure out these finances, figure out how to how to budget, how to do different things. Whatever their need is, she finds the resource and brings it in. Art class, this is our second year doing art for four through six, getting exposed to all different kinds of mediums and a big opportunity there for our students. and then success together. This is our third year bringing our families in to finally get a chance to um learn together, get to know each other differently and so in good things. So, a lot of great things happening at Central Elementary and I am very very pleased to be their leader. Questions or comments from the board?

030Trusty Kurfon then Trusty Kirk. >> Thank you, President Singh and Principal Slack. Great to see you again. Um, very uh, great presentation. I love seeing all the things that you and your team are using to build and really enhance that sense of community within Central Elementary because I know it's a very close-knit group. Um, I I do want to and I wanted to also give you a shout out again on the uh, absenteeism. That 5% decrease is important. I know it was at a very high um number before, but you guys have been putting in the work to decrease it. I know that's going to continue in that trend. Um I am curious because um we mentioned on your challenges the SBA is in minimal growth but still in a positive trend, but I say

031it's actually pretty far off from the I Ready score with the math. And I know they're different tests and I know we got to, you know, that's how we evaluate growth. But what would you attribute the difference in for example the I Ready math score being so much higher than our ESBACK in math? >> Sorry. You know that's an interesting question and we have really tried to wrap our mind around that in itself because I ready has an indicator when you take that that if you look this is where you should score and for a lot of my other principal friends it's pretty pretty even I don't know I you know we thought okay is it the test is it the way the test is given is it the way that the students are you

032know approaching are we doing enough to prepare them because you know we got we were so long we were focused in on test taking strategies instead of what the kids needed to know. So you know and then we flopped and so now it's like we can't throw that out too. We have to make sure that they have all the tools they know how to use them and then be able to demonstrate that. A lot of it too is I I really tried to work in the value of the ESPback. That's a difficult cell to kiddos. um they don't there's no real skin in the game for them unless you know we we celebrate which we do with our band jumpers and things like that but it's not the same as maybe I ready where I

033have given them that challenge I'm going to do it again this year uh with ESBAC we do rallies and different things but I think there is a gap somewhere and we are going to look towards really kind of um figuring out what that is >> it's it's one of the faults in standardized testing is that there are other factors outside of the classroom that uh can affect the result. But absolutely, I'm glad things are going well at Central Elementary. My final and congratulations on the PB PBIS uh promotion as well. My last question is, what can uh we do at the district office to help you guys fill the English language tutor position? >> That's an amazing question. um because it has been such a struggle um in that you know it's a heavy load

034for our teachers. There's a lot of things that they do and a lot they're working very very hard and I think what we would what would help us is to have that tutor. Um it there's a lot of requirements to it that perhaps I thought maybe didn't need to. it asked for a bilingual but only in Spanish. And I thought, well, we do have our our highest population is is Hispanic. But just because you're bilingual in Spanish doesn't mean you know how to help kids acquire language. So, I think that's more of the of the issue. Um because if you can't do that, then you know, so there's a lot of different things. Also, it's a three-hour position. That's hard to get. That's a hard one for three hours, you know, um people can't survive

035on three hours. And so that is also another. So if we were able to, you know, expand that um to, you know, if we need, you know, not maybe doing a full teacher, but you know, having two part-time to have maybe in the morning and the afternoon um yes, it is three hours, but it may help. Whatever help we could get, we would appreciate very much. >> Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Kirk. >> Thank you so much. I was making a note. I think I have an idea, but we'll come back to that. >> All right. >> Uh, what I wanted to do was um give you a shout out for that idea of belonging. Not just rewarding students for being at school, but wanting to be at school >> and celebrating that diversity and

036letting them feel like this is a place that's so essential to inclusivity >> is to celebrate that diversity. like the kiddos learned, we have so much more in common. The food also helps. >> Oh, yeah. Also, uh so great job um helping these kids understand something that is going to benefit them so much as adults if they can learn that now. So, thank you for reinforcing that. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Trusty uh Korea. >> Well, thank you, Trusty Kirk, because you left me just one point. So, that's great. Um similarly, great job with that. That's really creative and and I just appreciate your willingness to create to create that type of environment um for students to really reflect on the diversity but also the similarities amongst that diversity. And I just want

037to also thank you for your honesty and willingness and acknowledge where there are still areas for growth. I know that can be really scary uh when the principles come and tell us and then we're looking at each other how do we improve, right? Um, so I appreciate your willingness to to share that information and and to also share what what are some of the things that you're doing differently to try and help our students grow. So, thank you. Thank you so much. >> Excited about all the same all the I mean acknowledging where we need areas to grow, talking about what the successes we're already seeing at Central Elementary, and I and I know uh we're about to turn the corner. Thank you, Principal Slack, to you and your team. >> Thank you so much.

038Next, we'd like to invite up principal Mashian Hernen Barcelo Elementary School. Hello, President Singh, U trustees and Superintendent Dr. Marshall. Thank you for having me this evening. Feel like we just saw each other and I think it was February, but I have a lot of great things to to bring uh to bring back up. So let's let's get started. All right. H Hearnen Barto Elementary. It has been a wonderful place to work uh over these last this is my fourth year as principal. Sixth year total. Wonderful wonderful place and we're seeing so much growth and so many things to celebrate. So let's get into it. Okay. As far as data goes, um kind of looking at things from a a longer standpoint, we have two straight years of growth. Yes, it's um small, but like

039ELA, we've grown 4.3 points since u the 23 24, right? Uh wait, I'm trying to think. Yes, 22 23. Sorry about that. I need to work on my math. The E S E S E S E S E S E S E S E S E S E S Epback math is a little bit lower than that. We're at 47.1%, but we have grown 6.3%. Now, one thing I want to keep I want to point out to you guys. Um, we now even though we're and I'm going to get into this later. I I shouldn't have brought this up already, but if you look at our average scores, we're at 0.2 points below average in ELA. So, that means half the kids that are taking it are basically there. So, I can push them up.

040And then and we're we've moved up to about 6.3% below uh points below average um below standard in math. So, we're excited about that. Our in ELA, we have grown. Our ELPI two years ago was 33%. 33% of our kids were making progress and in two years. And now this is tentative because last year I went up to I went up to 47%. I didn't wasn't me. I'm sorry. We did. But now we're up to 55%. So that's a 22% within two years is is huge growth. Um excited about that. Now, we were able to reclassify about 20. We had 23 kids reclassify last year. Five of them were ELTELS. Those are long-term English learners. And uh that was probably the most exciting thing. And we just celebrated like crazy uh for those guys. And

041our attendance has remained strong. We're at we finished the year at 95.2% attendance rate, 12.3 chronically absent. Um and then if you can see on our from two years two years ago, that's an 8.2 2% decrease from 22 23. I'm glad I wrote down the year on that one. All right. Um things that have helped we have our PLC's have been targeted towards our priority standards. We've worked with solution tree. It's been wonderful. They he uh he's been he our coach continued coming, but our our PLC's are running um very smoothly. They they focus on data. They focus on on the cycle of of um what do we need to fix? What students need it? What are some great strategies? Let's try them. Come back next week. How did it go? And then and so

042forth. So, we're working on data. We are giving daily rigorous math word problems. That's what they're seeing in the Smarter Balance and and so we're we're trying to give them as much exposure as possible. Um we're we're giving our standardsbased assessments in in ELA. Those are really well like basically the theme is we're giving rigorous assessment. We're giving rigorous instruction that's aligned with smarter balance and the wheels are turning that it we're gaining traction and and the growth is happening and uh this year we've we've had daily writing in every classroom and daily guided reading and all K through2 our reading scores in our lower grades have have risen and um of course our K through2 is using the 95% group phmic awareness program. So, these things are all working to help us grow. And

043so, I'm expecting, like, I say it now, I'm I'm putting my name on it, we're going to we're going to continue growing. Um, also, just looking toward the bottom, we are in the third straight year of PBIS Platinum. We're excited about that. And aside from a technicality, it would be five straight years. We had one and then we um I I don't want to get into it but it should be but we're excited about three three Pete. Um we're excited about our ESPback and our LP growth for two straight years and we're in the green indicator on the on the California dashboard ELA math and EL. Um and you know chronic absenteeism like that's the that's a big thing. Um just dropping that thing down and we're can we're still working on it. So, looking

044at the next uh slide, going on to our challenges. I said this last year, I'm going to say it again. Our our challenges, I guess we're excited about the the 52% of kids who pass the ELA test, but that means still we're about half of our kids not not uh not yet proficient. 53% of our math students not yet proficient. So, those are things that we're just continuing to grow uh work on. It's just we we know we have proficient students. We just need to get them to that point. Um things that we're doing that Mrs. Sichler, my vice principal, and I we're increasing our amount of instructional feedback. We're in classes every day. Our our dropins uh that are geared towards looking at the rigor and the depth of knowledge of lessons. Those things

045are happening, the feedback is happening daily and and teachers are used to it. They're like, "Okay, they're coming in. They're going to ask us about the depth of knowledge of this." And so then you start seeing the the actual lessons changing, the the wording of their questions, questions changing. You see the word problems every day. It's exciting. Um the word problems, as I said, PLC's are reflecting on instruction and so they're looking at data like the the main things we're using. Of course, we use I Ready, but our IABS, the the interim tests on the Smarter Balance, it's it's worded exactly the same as as Smarter Balance. So, why not use that? That's that's so that's what we're using as our our main um our main form of formative assessment. And then our reading lab,

046we I have a I've hired we have a great reading lab working super well. And we also hired a long-term sub who is in the reading lab. And she's specifically working with our our long-term uh English learners and students who are fairly newcomers. Um still like really not making as much growth. And um you're seeing kids who are newcomers that don't speak much English and then all of a sudden they're reading in English. It's exciting. things are moving along and um and then we're just constantly trying to move our our teachers into uh with our professional development into things like working on the depth of knowledge, providing the question stems. Um we're providing project-based learning opportunities to so that we can get our students engaged so we can solidify the things that they're learning. Those

047are exciting, memorable ways to teach all of the standards and to have students collaborate. Okay, finally going to our spotlight. We have an This is I'm excited focus on engagement and inclusivity. So, so if um some of the things that are working really well this year, we have our thinkery teacher is um incredible and when problems arise, we have we we we go through the restorative justice process. Last year, I brought up our school service jobs and you know, students apply. We have things I think I I mean I I brought it up, but I'll tell I'll tell you more. Um, you know, kids can be can do the flag. Uh, you see kids doing the flag up there on my picture. We have kids that can that work in the cafeteria. Um, we have

048kids that are doing things around campus, helping with the equipment. Um, and they have to apply. This year we had over 200 applicants. Now I have some kids that are experts at what they did. They did it last year. They're sixth graders. it kind of morphed into this itself, but they're actually not just training new people, but they're actually managing small groups in certain jobs. It's it's incredible. So, you're they're gaining leadership skills. They're working with all kinds of different personalities. It's it's um real world training and and it excites me. I talk a lot about our chess club and we have this year over 70 members. It's probably like I think you what it tells me is that we have yeah we have a lot of kids that want to learn chess and play

049chess but we have kids that want to do things and so it's just leading to hey what what else can we start? Um we just went to the first tournament of the year in Farmersville and we took third place overall in our uh fourth through sixth grade. So I'm always bragging on those guys. Um really proud. Okay. So, this this um Oh, and then last year uh I was I was I said I was I was asked by the board, hey, what about those kids that are quiet and and maybe they didn't apply and so we have been going, you know, they they see me coming like a pitbull. They don't want to make eye contact, but um but I'm making eye contact. I'm at, hey, what what job would work? I had some sixth

050grade girls that were super shy. They're like they didn't want they didn't want it. I said, okay, well, what else? What about what about a a lunchtime club? Anyways, these girls started a lunchtime art club. Okay, it's open to open to kids in their grade level. It's a thing. We have a lunchtime Lego we're starting a lunchtime Lego club. We're starting a Beyblades club. Leading into my next one, it's super like inclusive. You know, Hearnen Barstow, we have our regular We have we have so many programs at Hearn and Barstto. We have our we have set over 700 students that includes the opportunity program that in includes um SDC that includes uh two county classes, the circles autism program and and and the county ed program. And when you look at any of our programs

051like music, band, dance, our clubs, we have kids from the entire like everyone is a Lobo. Everyone's part of these these clubs. In fact, I one of our, you know, we have students that are actually created it. One of our students from one of those programs is the one that created the Beyblades club, which is really fun if you've never played. So, it's just sky's is the limit when you're a hernobo. Everyone's included and and it's going well. and our uh after school program in spite of us losing about 70 students in as a school population we we it's such a great program we've actually gained 60 kids so our student population shrank our afterchool program um population grew proud of that they do lots of great STEM activities art they're they go they've been

052on a few field trips already and um our PTA is moving along great we have new this year. We we're and we're just rolling it out like it's not fully implemented, but we are we have room parents and and the room parents the real idea behind it is is that they can not just run a party, but it's they can recruit other parents from the classroom to come take part. We just want we want everyone to be part of our our school. So So as as we go as we go through the year, it's bring everyone in. And um last year we we did something really unique with our our it started in wrestling and because you know in w in wrestling you you're dealing with um with different you know you're dealing making weight

053and whatnot and so we our psychologist and our athletic director like director actually created a sports sensitivity training kind of like the other trainings we go through and um and that's being continued to be implemented at Hernand Barstow. So we're excited about that. It's just like, hey, this is the way to talk to students. This is this is the the proper way to, you know, deal with different issues and and so very proud of that. And of course, our librarian is doing wonderful things like tons of multicultural books representing our our area. So, hey, lots of good, lots of growth, lots of celebrations in and continued areas of growth at Hernand Bara, but I'm I'm very proud of what we've been we've done so far. And that is my presentation. Thank you. >> Thank you.

054Questions or comments from the board? >> Uh, Trusty Gwell. >> Um, first off, congratulations on the third year platinum status. >> Thank you. >> Hope you guys get that five years and two years. >> I know. Um, I just want to congratulate you on fostering such an interactive school environment with the lunchtime clubs, after school program, PTA, and the multicultural books. I feel like that really helps with attendance and getting kids to school as well as encouraging kids to do their best. So, I just want to congratulate you on that and thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Excited about all the progress being made and and more to come. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. >> Thank you guys. >> We next turn to our superintendent board communications and we

055open it up with superintendent Dr. Marshall. >> Okay. Well, first I want to start with I think we're all aware that there's a shutdown at the federal level and it's getting to a point now where a lot of our families going to be impacted. Now, as a district, we do have supports in place. So, I would like Dr. Lopez has to briefly go through what we have so people will know. >> So I first want to start with um in collaboration with uh our communications office, we've updated our website and created a link to resources provided throughout our the city of Fresno and county. In addition to that, we updated a translated copy uh into Spanish and we're working on a Punjabi translation so our families know where to go to get help. Uh but

056I do want to emphasize that as a as a district, we provide resources to our families through our pantry. We have a district-wide pantry and what we have is we've identified students uh in need or families that uh may need supports. Uh we have a total of 600 right now as of as of today. um 100 were identified within the last week and a half. Um those 600 students are represented by 303 families. So we are constantly looking at who may need supports and our family outreach leazison in collaboration with our leaders site leaders and staff are able to identify those families and they are able to add them to our list on an ongoing basis. um those families have access to our pantry as needed as well as uh we have once a month

057a rotation uh um they are provided a voucher so they're able to come and visit our pantry. Uh we are opening uh El Capitan as a soft launch uh starting this week another pantry there and the Biola pantry will be opening in January. Um it is important to know that we have various events and and I do want to acknowledge that as a district and as a board um and through the central uh unified foundation uh you guys have created a system of support that allows us to be here today and be able to provide for families in a way that I have not seen in other districts. So I want you guys to be aware that what was built over the last two to three years has allowed us to be here today and

058say we have a system in place. we can identify families and these families are being provided with supports and services regardless of whether this is happening or not. So, I do want to commend that. Um, we have other resources and I'm waiting to pull up my list. I apologize. Um, and I'm going to read a few of them to you. So, another example is I want to do I want to give a shout out to Steinbeck Elementary School. So, they do operation wobble this month. Um, so go I always say that in Spanish. So, um, Steinbeck Elementary, our principal there, along with her team, uh, collaborate with Analisa Perez's office and they, uh, donate a total of,5 this year. We have a total of about 1,500 turkeys, uh, along with, uh, boxed items and food

059to u, in collaboration with producers, dairy as well, and their staff. So they are going to be giving out is a voucher system that will be provided based on need um in their community and they collaborate with other schools and our FOs also to provide those. Additionally we know that this is going to be a domino effect. We know that when we take away food from our families then our families may try to provide food and therefore lack in paying bills as well as providing hygiene items to their kids clothing. So we are also looking in uh we do have other um supports in our system to provide for those needs. Uh we do have uh currently still the grant from the city of Fresno where we provide assistance um to pay for PG&E and

060utilities as well as rental assistance if needed. Uh we have uh food distribution focused through CBOS's uh partnered uh the T community resource center is another essential uh partner with us. We have warm for winter coming up where we provide coats uh to our students. We currently have about two 2,000 sweaters and jackets ready to go to provide for those needs. Additionally, the the foundation has partnered with souls for souls uh to provide 250 pairs of shoes and socks to our kids and that is also an additional item that we're looking at. Foundation for central schools also dedicated funding to purchase hygiene products. So again as our family outreach leazison and site leaders identify those needs they let us know and they are provided with those uh items. We have um district clothing closets available

061to our families. Uh operation school bell which is found uh the foundation coordinates with assistance league of Fresno to provide a $100 shopping experience for pre-identified students as well. Um please know that when they identify the student they don't just provide the gift card to the kid. We identify the whole family. So now the whole family if it's four kids then that's $400 for the family. And uh we collaborate with FO's notice our parent engagement office to ensure that they're giving a shopping experience. Um so there is a lot of supports and services. Um, we are ensuring I had a meeting, an emergency meeting with our FOs today and our family outreach, our coordinators, our community school coordinators to ensure that they are all using the resources that we provide them and referring our families.

062We are keeping log of what families we're referring to, what service presented to you earlier uh this year. And uh we also want to ensure that we are working with our site leaders and teachers and staff because we know what we need to start looking at. We need to start looking at our kids coming to school sleepy, tired. Uh that could be a sign of the fact that they may not have enough food at home. Are they expressing things like I want a snack? I'm hungry. So being aware of these needs uh and being able to talk to our family outreach outreach lay on so we can contact the family and say, "Hey, you know, checking in. We heard he's been coming sleepy this week. Did you know we have resources just in case you

063need anything?" So we are excited to say I think we have a good system in place and we have now a website full of resources for our families to to look through that's going to be sent out via parent square as well. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um additionally uh last month we talked about the uh Fresno fair this month and there's going to be a special presentation. There were so many names that that would be a presentation in itself as far as all the winners. So that'll be next month. Uh, we have Liddell. We found out that they are our offic first official blue ribbon school. >> Yay. >> And they're the first school in the district to uh to get that honor. What's interesting is that even though at the federal level

064that they stopped the recognition program, a lot of states went through the process of doing their own celebrations. So, California kind of fell in line and the ceremony will be in April for all Liddell. So, I'll send more information about that. Again, congratulations to uh Bro and Logan. Uh it was interesting when the board went to three comprehensive high schools. You know, you made that very courageous decision. You look at the fruits of this. Mrs. uh Central High School, I just want to share some accolades. Girls golf team league champions. Men's water polo team league champions. Tennis league champions. Okay. A lot of the elementary schools, they want their accolades. You look at the vol of elementary schools for volleyball, you have McKinley, uh Riverbluff, and Harvest. Uh elementary football, that's McKinley, Liddell, and Teague.

065Uh elementary cross country, that's her name in Barstow and Central Elementary School. They want to make sure that I give props to all grade levels. At the middle school level, Rio Vista, they're the girls uh tennis league champions. You see some individual winners. And then at uh back to high school, you see Justin Garza, the girls uh golf team. They won a league championship. Central East head coach Kyle Biggs 101 career wins. Uh just yesterday, our Central East RO fashion program was highlighted by Kce. There a lot of good stuff out there. Tomorrow I'll be at an event to recognize Tommy Martinez. He's a teacher librarian. He's being recognized as a 2025 innovation grant award winner and that reception is tomorrow at uh Fresno County. And then as um Miss Bolton said that our football

066is still in progress, so more will follow it out at our next board meeting, but we're still doing well. All right, we're in the last stage of the entry plan as far as uh this is the fun part while I met like a lot of city people and stuff, but now it's getting to the next level. I was at uh with Miss Bowden the uh financial wellness challenge and it was so nice at Central East to see students just engaged in the work. I mean, you had a a library full of students and they were in very intent into the uh the activities. So, that was nice. We have uh the ELOP lights on event that was a great event last night. You saw like a lot of the community was there and I mean

067it was just nice to see a lot of the schools highlighting their great programs. Uh as we talked about earlier, the foundation for central schools, the state of the district breakfast that was a success. uh I attended the uh English language learner master plan meeting that was uh you know very uh eye openening uh one thing that there I'll kind of share this briefly uh the teams that were putting together ideas one of the ideas they came up with I saw in district in Georgia like an ambassador type approach so it's bas basically you know cool to see on both sides of the country innovative uh practices uh there's also the district English learner advisory committee meeting that training went to that the vapor. I got an invitation from the vapor teachers, come to our

068plays. I saw a great play at Central East, Once Upon a Mattress. That was that was that was a good play. Uh then we had I had meeting with parents. I met with the uh Justin Garza Garza water polo parents. Uh that was a good meeting. Uh today I went to Central High School uh for the pumpkin patch that they do with the elementary kids. Very well received. Uh, one notice, one last piece is that the Island Water Park gave us a special invitation on November 1st. They're going to be having a special um, student and staff night for Central Unified. And if you're a Central Unified staff member, our student, you can go for free on Saturday and then uh, everybody else is half off for family and friends. So, there was a flyer

069that went out to that effect. Like I said, this is the last entry plan update you're going to be getting. and I may send you a d a draft copy as far as like what my findings are for in advance of the 18th meeting in November and there'll be a lot of areas that will be covered. So look forward to that. So that's my report. >> Thank you Dr. Marshall. Next we invite our student uh trustee if they have any reports or anything they'd like to share this evening. >> So um I was reached out to by students regarding food wastage at school sites. They were concerned with the amount of food that was being thrown away by students and possible solutions to that as well as being offered seconds. Um, we're currently working with

070Dr. Marshall regarding that. Another one was a medical pathway at our Gar Garza. There was a a group of students interested in establishing a medical pathway at Justin Garza similar to um, Central High Criminology Pathway which would offer um, college credit to students at Justin Garza. um a petition was sent out to students and it's currently available to all students at Justin Garza and we are working with Dr. Marshall about that too. Um there's a group of students from NAMI um advocating for multilingual mental health resources for students, families and teachers who cannot provide those resources in other languages such as Mong, Punjabi, Spanish. Um there's also advocacy from NAMI and other groups of students at Justin Garza regarding mental health, further mental health in the curriculum, how to implement that, how to provide um

071awareness regarding mental health and drug abuse within the curriculum as a resource for students. We are also working with Dr. Marshall regarding that. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Trusty Felix, anything you'd like to report this evening? Thank you. Next, we turn it over to the board if there's anything y'all anyone would like to share any communications. Just two quick ones. Then I want to uh thank the u uh central foundation uh for an amazing state of the district event uh last Thursday. Um definitely definitely was a great event. Um I want to appreciate the uh board for for all their work, hard work to put on such an event. And of course, as um uh Dr. Marshall uh presented. Just want to also uh send kudos to Principal Gunstream and the team at

072Liddell for uh the blue ribbon school. Next, we invite comments from the public on any items not on the agenda this evening. Clerk Kon, >> thanks President Singh. So, our first comment card is from Marissa Madreal and Sumar Pri Carr. And if you two want to take turns, you can each have three minutes or you can present together and it will just be three. very short. Okay, then you'll have three minutes. Oh, okay. Hello and thank you superintendent board trustees and student trustees for giving us the opportunity to speak tonight. We would like to begin by echoing our support for what our student trustees has mentioned earlier. We on behalf of Justin Garz's High School express our deep interest in creating a medical pathway similar to Central High's criminology pathway. We believe this opportunity would

073open new doors for our students by giving them a chance to explore the medical field early, discover their passions, and gain hands-on experience that could help shape their future and give a chance to our students to not only save money, but also have more time to think about college and their careers in the future. They can also feel more prepared and inspired as those next steps. And at this time, I would like to acknowledge Enu for her effort she has given to help these steps to add this pathway to Garza behind the scenes. And now I would like to pass it over to Marissa, who will share a little bit more about what we've done so far and what this means to our students. >> Um, thank you. With the support Thank you. With the

074support of our cultural ambassadors, we launched a petition petition to show just how much this means to our student body. In only three days, we have received nearly 200 student signatures. That's 200 voices saying that they believe in this pathway. 200 students ready to learn, grow, and give back to their community through medicine. We've also spoken to our student trustee and will continue working closely with them to make this vision a reality. We truly believe that bringing this career focused education to Justin Garza High School will give students the tools and opportunity they deserve. Thank you for your Thank you again for your time for listening and considering our propo proposal. We appreciate your com commission. Wait, sorry. I'm sorry. With your We imp We appreciate your commitment for helping our students with the bigger

075dream and turn those dreams into something real. Have a wonderful evening. Thank you. >> Great job. >> Thank you. Great. Uh our next comment is from uh Harjut Carr and Angel her. Hello. Good evening. I first I first like to thank uh the superintendent and board of trustees and student trustees for allowing us to speak today. We would like to echo the words for our student trustee from earlier. Uh we the students of Central Unified part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness or so as NAMI would like to advocate for multilingual mental health resources to be available for students, families and teachers. These mental health resources are essential for all classes to provide to students and not only students but also parents. Now not all students or families can seek help in just English,

076especially immigrant families or first generation students. Imagine coming to school and not knowing what is being taught to you. This can lead to a decline in mental health and not only just the environment that's provided in them but also struggling to catch up on academic um resources and our current mental health I would like to add that our current mental health support systems are limited by that language such as only providing mental health resources in either Punjab, English or Spanish. We therefore being we would like to expand beyond these by incorporating other languages into our mental health support systems and resources. >> Okay. We would also like to propose another idea. We would like to provide a mental health related unit as a part of the health freshman class. All freshman have to take a

077health class. And although mental health is um a topic in this class, it is very brief and we would like a whole unit dedicated to mental health because it does play a significant um part in our day-to-day life. So there should be a a whole unit dedicated to it. Mental health is a part of our physical health and students must recognize and know how to approach the symptoms of a common mental illness. Okay. Lastly, we would also we would like to continue to advocate for this. We thank you for giving us this opportunity to speak on behalf of the NAMI community. Thank you. Well said. Our next comment is from uh I apologize if I mispronounce this uh Garand Deepep Singh >> and you'll have three minutes sir whenever you begin. Yes, thank you everybody.

078My name is Gagand Div Singh. I'm here as the father of Meras Singh Sunner kindergarten student at Herend and WTO elementary and I'm going to come to the point uh this is regards my son's exploration and Dr. Marshall and says he wants student to know beyond their grade level to be considered for acceleration. My son already does. He knows everything that being taught in kindergarten and know sits their bored every day in the class that can easily lead to behavior and if he does the dick district will be responsible for putting him in this that position. How's that how that putting student first? My son ace his benchmark test instead of recognizing that Dr. Marshall dismissed his success by saying it was because he had a tutor. Later he said my son would be re-evaluated

079but the focus kept changing from one test to another. First benchmark then devils making the whole process unfair and confusing. We asking multiple time why our son was not allowed to take the IRA test along with the classmates. And as usual, Dr. Marshall choose to write us another denial letter and brush us off instead of giving us a real answer. We went through six meetings where we felt intimidated and outnumbered. It seemed like everyone was on one side and we were being used at example of not to accelerate a child instead of being treated as a parents trying to help our son move forward. We will keep continue to advocate our son. If Dr. Marshall loves to throw codes at us and feels powerful doing so then he should know we as parents have a

080bigger codes the right to stand up for our child's education and the truth I highly request that school board not brush us off to off to Dr. Marshall and say only the holes and right to accelerate my son we are well aware of that but it should be done fairly not by jumping from test one test to another if Dr. Marshall mentioned that taking the benchmark into consideration that he should stick to his awards. Thank you very much everybody. >> Thank you. Our next comment is from Sandeep Carr. >> Miss Carr, you'll have three minutes. >> My name is Sandeep Carr and I'm here as both a parent and an employee of Central Unified School District representing my son Midas, a kindergarten student at Herendon Barto Elementary. My goal was to accelerate my son from

081TK to kindergarten and I gave a written letter to principal last year requesting this. However, I was told by him that due to staffing issue, it was it would be if to persuade acceleration during kindergarten to move him to first grade instead. I was yelled at by the principal during work hours about my son's acceleration request and then warned that my son was moved to a different classroom and that I should not talk about acceleration anymore. I immediately reported it to the area administration, but her only response was that the vice principal backed up the principal and denied it that it happened. I have evidence to prove that the incident occurred and I am prepared to provide it through the proper legal or investigative process if necessary. You might also wonder why I had to

082request a teacher change. Beginning of the school year, my son passed benchmark test and his teacher learned that Dr. Marshall wasn't in favor of acceleration. From that moment, everything changed. Suddenly, my child didn't know how to line up, couldn't cut properly, and was labeled slow. My child was targeted, and his confidence began to drop. Now that the same teacher was filing complaint against me, and I am being monitored, isn't that retaliation? Now, let's take let's speak about uh the wonderful vice principal who had administered my son's first I Ready test. My son mentioned that she was the one pressing buttons for him and doing the test for him. I reported this incident to Dr. Marshall and he did allow my son to retake the same test again, but with the same vice principal. When I

083asked if I could sit in during the second test, she refused. The same vice principal even went out of her way to go to my son's classroom to stop the teacher from giving him first grade site words. During the first TK meeting, I told her uh with pride that my son already knew everything from kindergarten. Instead of being proud, she said, quote, "Miss Carr, you can't just print stuff off for teacher pay teacher and teach your child. I love my job at HB, but because I'm being targeted, I feel being transferred or removed. After so much unfair treatment, testing, exclusion, changing standards, intimidation, this is clear discrimination. My son deserves to be the same opportunity as every other student. Thank you, Miss Wallen, the third grade teacher, for pulling my son out of class to

084read your student without read to my student and have him read to you without even me asking. Dr. Marshall, that's real meaning of putting students first. Thank you, >> President Singh. I have no other comment cards at this time. >> Thank you. We then move on to uh this evening to our consent agenda. Um uh of which I want to highlight that uh um we are declaring the month of November 2025 as National Native American Heritage Month and especially to recognize the Yokut land that that we're on. Do I have a motion on set item? >> So moved. >> We have a motion by trusty Kurond. Second. >> Second by trustee Sidu. Student trustees. >> Yeah, please say I or >> I. Sorry. >> I >> uh board please say I. In >> favor I.

085Those in oppos say nay and those abstaining. Motion carries. Uh 660 and 20. >> Thank you. We move on this evening to our action items. Our first action item this evening is to accept gifts to the district assistant superintendent uh Mr. Rick. >> Good evening. We have one gift. Uh, Central High School received a donation of $125 from Kelly Hope for the yearbook. Administration's recommending the board accept gifts to the district. >> Questions or comments from the student trustees? >> No questions. Questions or comments from the board? >> Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. We have a motion by trustee Kiron, a second by trustee Kirk. Uh stu student board >> I >> board those uh in in support, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion

086carries unanimously. Thank you. We move on to item number two. Approve state aid services contract with Caldwell Flores Winters. Um Assistant Superintendent Nick. >> Uh this is a returning item for the board. So, administration recommending the board approve the state aid contract with uh CFW. >> Uh questions or comments from the board trusty Korea? >> This is the contract um to get the facilities plan in place. Correct. And then we don't pay anything out of pocket. It's out of >> until they get the money. >> Okay. It's out of whatever the project. >> Yes. Yes. Once they get the money. >> 2.5%. >> Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to confirm that that's correct. Okay. >> Any other questions or comments from the board? >> I'll move to approve. >> We have a motion by trustee

087Korea. >> Second by uh trustee better. Uh soon trustees object to vote. >> I those in favor please say I >> I those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries unanimously. We move on to item number three to hold our public hearing and approve Williams uniform complete procedure. Director English. >> Good evening, President Sing Chan. Um members of the board and superintendent Dr. Marshall. This item is returning from last meeting. No complaints were received this quarter. So administration's recommending that the board hold a public hearing at this meeting and approve the quarterly Williams uniform complaint procedure. And with that, we'll go ahead and open um the uh the public hearing for the Williams uniform complaint. And without any comments, we'll go ahead and close. And do I have a motion on that item? We have a

088motion by trustee Kirk. >> Second by trustee Kerond. >> Student trustees. How do you wish to vote? >> I. >> Board. Uh. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. >> Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Move on to item number four. Approve list of obsolete textbooks and materials. Director English. >> Good evening again, President Singh Chan, members of the board, and superintendent Dr. Marshall. This item is also returning from the previous meeting for action. The attached list of instructional materials has been submitted for declaration as obsolete and administration is recommending board approval. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? >> I'll move to approve the list of obsolete textbooks and materials. >> We have a motion by trustee CO. >> Second. >> We have a second from

089Trustee Gwell. Student trustees. How how do you wish to vote? >> I I >> board. Those in favor, please say I. I >> those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries una unanimously. Thank you. Move on to item number five. Adopt resolution 2526-14 soul source procurement assistant superintendent. >> Again, this is a returning item. Uh board administration is recommending the board adopt a resolution for the soul source. >> Questions or comments from the board? Vice President Kao. >> Is there a timeline to get this complete? because I know um trustee Chavez and I were supposed to look at this. I completely forgot so I I failed to add. >> Help it just helps us if the soul sources we can do a signature and approve something. >> Okay. Is are there any pending contracts or >>

090Not that I know of. >> Okay. So we're okay if we bring this back in November? >> So So I mean uh we we can absolutely uh bring it up in November. So I did have a conversation with uh Trusty Chavez. I think she was much more interested not so much in changing the amount just actually having a conversation about how we're documenting it internally. I think Dr. Marshall was part of that conversation. >> So I think we could actually potentially uh approve it. I don't think uh uh trusty we can we can wait to >> I think the discussion I agree with you. I think ultimately the discussion was including language in the resolution as far as documenting the procedures because her concern was how do we then verify that you're complying with the

091resolution. I mean we can always add an addendum. So if there's that's why I'm asking if there's any delay any potential pending projects because I don't want it to be delayed on the account. >> Not that I know of. So, um, yeah, >> Jose, >> I was just going to add as a reminder, there's a request to have the, uh, soul force documentation included in the warrant list. So, any board trustee that wanted to review it had access to those. >> So, so at least and and maybe >> can I answer that question? >> Yeah, please. >> That probably is difficult because the warrant list is a Fresno County uh, standard report and it goes to all the school districts. So, what we want, they probably won't add it. This is just a standard CAN

092report that we get from President County software. So, >> how much work would it create for you guys to track and just give us a list? >> Not a lot because we don't get a lot of the soul source. Not a whole lot. Maybe five or 10 in one year. So, >> but we can always bring it up, you know, when we when we present or when we accept the contract, it's going to say soul source and it'll give you the detail why it's soul source. >> Jessica, >> thank you. Uh, Dr. Marshall in the board report this week. Could we just get a copy of all the soul source contracts we've approved this uh this year? >> Okay, we can get you that for this year. >> Just just to you know verify the

093Yeah. >> How many contracts have you gone over? >> Just because I don't want to speak too much for Trusty Chavez. I'm just going to ask for we'll have this and and if there's nothing pending, we'll have this return as action at the at the next board agenda. Um >> just so to make sure she can vocalize if if there's anything we miss. >> President, do you need a motion to table then? >> I don't. No, I don't. No, we don't. We're fine. You can you can table or continue the item. Um I do just I want to go back to the request because I want to be mindful. >> How much time is that going to take because all the all the soul source projects that we've had you've all have identified them during

094these board meetings. So we could easily well not easily it's going to take time. We could look them up ourselves. But how much time? >> I don't know time would take >> if you want it for this year. There shouldn't be any for fiscal. You're asking for fiscal year 25 26 not last year. Am I correct? >> Right. Yes. >> Correct. >> Yeah. So it's like yeah we it's probably three months we can I don't think there is any but I'll check. >> Okay. >> I'll check. >> I was referring to calendar year superintendent >> and I think the desire and I don't want to we're already going to table the items. I don't want to belabor the point but I think uh as trusty shave shared with me and Dr. Marshall, I think um

095what she was seeking to do is essentially anytime we do a sole source uh type type contract that we at least provide the reason the the staff provides the reason and rationale. So >> they document >> so it's documented. So you're a board's future have access should should they want to understand why a particular group >> and again this is below 49,000 because once it's go over that it goes up to bid. So we we don't have any control. >> Correct. >> So we'll return this as action at the next board meeting. Thank you. We move on to item number six. Approve rebid 2526-1406 Roseville Elementary Cafe HVAC installation. Director Ba. Good evening, board president Singh, board members, and docu Superintendent Dr. Marshall. Uh, this item returns from the previous board meeting. Uh, bids were

096open for the Roosevelt Cafeteria HVAC installation. Uh, and the lowest responsive bid is New England Sheet Metal Company, and their bid came back at $325,000. bid documents were examined and everything was in order. Administration is recommending the board approve this bid and award the HVAC installation for the Roosevelt cafeteria after answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board on set item? >> Student trustees, how do you like to vote? >> I'll move to approve. >> Oh, sorry. A motion by trusty CO, second by trustee Kon. Sorry. >> Student board members, how do you like to vote? >> I I >> thank you board. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Move on. Item number seven,

097approve light speeded filter renewal. Assistant Superintendent Npal. >> Yes. And this is a contract for light speeded. It's an online web filter for classroom management. It's used by teachers to monitor and manage student devices during class time. It is also it uses as a filter where the student meet compliance by ensuring browsing is safe and secure. So administration recommending that board approved the light uh speed filter renewal. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Motion to approve. >> We have a motion by trusty a second by trustee gutterville. >> Student trustees. How would you like to vote? I I >> thank you. Uh board uh those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Move on this evening to our information items. Our first

098being to receive information regarding services contract with Capital Advisors Group LLC. Assistant Superintendent Nick. >> So we have uh Bill, Mr. Bill McGuire from Capital Advisor and he's going to give some quick rundown regarding the staffing study. I think you heard me. We're good. So, uh I uh was in Clovis Unified School District for many years. I was as the associate superintendent administrative services. I was I was in uh deputy super in Twin Rivers and finally superintendent of uh St. in the unified school district and my good friend Terry Bradley told me that I got a F minus in retirement. So, I've been consulting for the last 5 years uh for school districts all over the state of California uh doing this type of work and and working with capital advisors. The key to the

099capital advisor's uh contract is uh advocacy is what's what they do best and you it's a it's a contract uh relationship to um advising you and making sure that you're known at the capital and making sure that things are going forward. The second part of that is a a a study of staffing within the district and comparing you to other unified school districts that are similar in size, demographics, your UP and like. And so with that, we've done many of these studies throughout the state of California by comparing other districts. What we will do is is uh work with you and your staff to come up with some recommendations for how the district should be staffed in the future. All of that relates to two things. How many people you have and how much you

100pay them. That's what happens in public education. We're a people business. And so with that, we put all of the information together. We uh do a lot of comparative analysis. We ask the individual districts with the help of uh your district, asking those districts to help us getting their position control data and working together. Why would another district do this? Because they get all of the data back as well. They don't get the recommendations that we provide to you, but they get all of the data relative to that. And we've been very successful uh in working with many school districts with with the state. Also part of that then is five months of uh work with you to implement uh the solutions that are that are brought forward. Um and again these are the things

101that these are not easy tasks. We can do the study but the most important part of the study is the implementation of the study and what we find is that it's it's very important to assist the district in moving forward to uh to identify the recommendations. The one thing that is true is many of these reports are a deficit reduction report that tell you everything you're doing wrong. What we want to do is tell you many of the things that you're doing right uh and then and then how we can make an improvements. So I'm here to answer any questions uh before we get started on the program after your next meeting. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Korea. I'm stingy, especially when it's not my money. Um, how how much time

102I mean, this is the first time I'm seeing this type of contract, so I don't even know if like 50,000 is is a reasonable number. Um, how much time does it take to prepare this type of study? because I I see the summary uh of the work but I ballpark >> uh well it's actually uh going to take about two months of work over the time of working with with the school districts to gather the information then we have a team of people that puts it together to analyze it to bring reports we also have some very expensive software that we use that's able to provide that data in a relatively quick time um and you the ones that we've done in past. Uh it takes a considerable time and effort to work through the

103the findings and the recommendations, right? Because we're not just slamming things together. We're actually communicating with the district. We're communicating with other districts to determine how best to make those recommendations for you. It's just not me sitting in a room with chat GBT coming up with something that's going to make a difference for you. Okay. Thank you, >> Trusty Kirk. >> Thank you, uh, Trusty Creo, for saying you're not used to this kind of contract either. I'm trying to get my head around this. Could you provide for me the total cost of this? I see $50,000 for the study, but then there is the contractor rate and >> for efficacy and the retainer is $3,000 a month. uh for five months that will be 6,500, but then go down to $3,000 a month, which is

104the standard um capital advisor rate for school districts your size uh for advocacy in Sacramento. And then the 50,000 and the additional 3500 are related basically related to the study and the implementation of that study. I can tell you that I was just in another school district with about 25,000 students in Southern California uh for 4 days uh last week doing a study exactly like this and they're paying significantly more than you are. >> Could you run those numbers by me again? Because you said the numbers that are here. So I'm looking at total cost. >> Yeah, I'm actually going to uh look to the district to provide that information for you. I'm not actually the math guy here to do that. Uh even though I should be. Um I did not include what capital

105advisors was and what the period was for. >> So you have the you have the staffing study which is 50,000 and then you have that uh monthly cost for like seven or nine months I think. So that they're two separate things. >> The term for the for the legislative. >> Yes, that's the that's the fee. >> That's the 3,000. >> I only see one document attached. >> Yeah, it's under compensation 3A. It's so from November 19 through uh March 31st, it's $6,500 a month >> and then from April 1st to >> the conclusion TBD is 3,000. Do you have a rough estimate? Did you calculate what the total cost of the project of this contract is? >> This is 50 plus. That's about like um I believe like 20 22,000 22 >> 22,000. Okay. So

106about 72,000 for this. Okay. >> Yeah. But do they are two separate study. This is this is going to be study and then the recommendation. So that's why there's two things in that contract. >> I guess my last question is what are we voting on on the 18th? Are we voting on the $50,000 contract? >> We're voting on the $50 and then if you want to vote on the monthly uh the advocacy fee. That's the other part. >> Okay. >> Thank you, uh, Trusty Keron. >> Uh, thank you, President Singh. So, this is a little bit closer to actually what I've done since I do do have a consulting business. Um, so what this service would provide us uh among other things, you know, keeping us compliant with uh ever changing California law, but also

107um to advocate on behalf of Central Unified uh to Sacramento, to other um government agencies to make sure that our, you know, legislative priorities and also our budget priorities are being conveyed. Um, for example, when you have uh, you know, Prop Prop 2 money out there, um, our our Fresno and Central Unified families are paying taxes to the state of California and California meshes that out however well they do. Um, many districts across the state to have someone advocating for us. Um, because our own staff are busy administering our district, make sure that some of those tax dollars we're putting out are actually coming back into the district. So having a consulting group uh working on behalf of Central Unified is beneficial uh for us. Uh I do have a couple questions though uh for

108capital uh one um how capital advisor so when we get our reports about you know policy whatnot what's going on in the state of California or the United States government um are we going to be receiving anything different beyond what you guys already provide to the Fresno County um uh trustee association? >> Uh it will be different if you request something different. So, it's up to you to request and working with the superintendent to ensure that you're getting what uh the district needs. >> Thank you. >> And uh do you have any other um clients within our region? >> Capital Advisors is throughout the state of California with over 500 districts within the state that work with them and they work with almost every county office of education. >> Okay. Thank you. And uh I

109think my other question would be um what other um uh do you normally work with the board of trustees or or with the district admin or is that um up to the district? Well, >> it's up to the district. the contract and the point of contract is with the superintendent and then the superintendent many times will have Kevin Gordon come and Kevin Gordon will give the board an update on the current uh fiscal issues within the uh the the state even the federal government and then also many times around the budget uh but typically it is through the superintendent the superintendent then may request that capital adviserss come to a board meeting. >> Thank you. And then a question for admin is a soul source contract. >> We have other agency but this is the

110only one that provides this kind of specialty uh services. >> I see. Um so if there are other agency because our current limit is still $50,000 unless we want to amend the contract to go down $1. Uh we I think we'd have to I think we by um our board bylaws have to go out to bid for this, don't we? >> Right. But we have you know we had um other we we couldn't get any other proposal. This was the only company that has it that does specialty work. >> That statement is not correct. I want to clarify that the 50,000 limit is whether it has to come to the board for approval and whether they have the $49,999 comes back for ratification. whether something has to go out to bid is a separate uh

111there are contract um code sections that dictate that and it depends on the type of projects versus this type of contract which is a service contract. So I just want to make that distinction that there are different rules that apply. >> Thank you for the clarification. So um admin do we have to go out to bid for this contract? >> Not necessarily. This is contract. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Um, I'll think of some more questions over the next two weeks, but uh, I know you guys are well renowned, so thank you. >> Okay. Um, >> I just want to ask a couple questions to make this as simple as possible. Um, so uh, my first question is um, is the goal of this um, contract uh, to have a partnership with you to basically

112communicate with the state of California on grants and funding sources? Is that is that the idea? Is are you advocating on the behalf of the district to help us with that? not necessarily grant and funding sources, but if you if like legislative issues, >> okay, >> relative to uh advocating on behalf of the district for a certain uh thing within the education code, within the state budget to ensure that funding is coming to all of the districts or uh it could be earmark where you're requesting from the legislature or the governor a very specific uh dollar amount for a process, but not the typical federal or state grants. >> Could you just give me like a small example so I know what we're talking about? Like just something that's been done in the past. >>

113So, well, one thing could be an earmark. So, an earmark would be we would go to the local elected officials and go to Sacramento and ask for a dollar amount. I can give you a crazy one that happened in Lynwood. Lynwood uh got $250 million to build a new high school. >> Okay. Okay. >> The legislative process. >> Okay. So, >> it's very much legislative. >> Okay. So, that was just my third question is um uh just input output. So, if we're giving you 72,000, what's our return going to be? I'm kinding kind of starting to see a little bit of the picture. Um yeah, I think I'm I mean, if you have anything to add, I think >> Well, I think the largest portion is working with you to come up with, you know,

114staffing formulas. Okay. staffing processes as you're a district that's growing. Our comparative groups are districts that are a little bit larger than you and that would then help you determine what kind of staffing you need to have into the future as you grow and become a more significant district within the area. >> Okay. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Gvo. Um just for the larger picture has um this question may be more towards admin but have has the district uh ever worked with a group similar to this in its history and if this is the first time we're doing it um why is this the first time we're doing it and why haven't we worked with them previously or a different group previously >> that's a tough question I can answer the first one we haven't

115done any analysis uh the second sorry the second question is uh we are trying to rightsize our district when you mean when I mean a right sizes uh for a school let's say there's thousand students what ad administration we need what teachers do we need so we have to right sizes and for that you need a specialty expert who can come in who's going to use the software who's going to see in other school district and tell us how each school site can be right sized so if that answers your question >> thank you yeah I just want a larger picture to see like why we're doing this now and why haven't we done it previously Thank you. We'll have this return under action. >> Thank you. >> Uh we move on to item number

116two. Receive information regarding resolution 2526-15 designating Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 as the annual organizational meeting of the board of trustees. Dr. commercial. >> As you stated, the uh resolution is for uh to establish uh Tuesday, December 9th as the annual organizational meeting of the board of trustees and that's where you elect your officers and such. >> Questions or comments from the board >> and we'll have this return into action. Thank you. >> I think consent is fine unless somebody >> Oh, it's just designating it. Okay. >> Yeah, it's just a designation. >> I see. Thank you. We move on to item number three. Receive information regarding restructuring of climate culture and safety department. Assistant superintendent Dr. Lopez. >> Good evening again. So to better serve the district's safety needs and to ensure adequate supports for

117the district's climate and culture safe team and social emotional learning. We are proposing an update to the supervisor of campus culture and safety job description and the adoption of a new safety manager job description. So, what I have in front of you, and it's also being passed out to you, just because I know sometimes it's hard to read when it's on that screen, is the proposed job descriptions. So, currently, as you may have, as you may know, we're we were struggling to fill the current supervisor, climate, culture, and safety job description. It embodies a lot of different uh departments in one. and it is an entrylevel admin position which doesn't allow for retainment of that individual. It is a vice principal kind of pay. So at the end of the day when they seek other

118opportunities outside this is why this position can become a roving position. Uh we lost Cassie Smith. uh she was a prior uh supervisor climate culture and safety and as you've heard from our kiddos the way we got to start looking at SEAL is more as almost like a director of curriculum but it's not a director of academic curriculum is a director of social emotional learning curriculum which it it's led through our tier one tier 2 and tier three supports we have curriculum for all those levels they also provide training to our intervention counselors our thinkery staff our safe teams and They lead all the district-wide practices around social emotional learning and threat assessments. So it is a very big job description. However, not only do they cover all those components, they're also ensuring that we

119have a safe safe campuses. So they oversee the leazison, our district-wide safe um safety teams. So it can be a very large position and this is why I think we're struggling to find a candidate that can apply and actually get the position. Right now, we have not had people applying in all honesty. So, at this point, the need for us to turn this into a director rather than supervisor will elevate the the cost to our district. However, uh there was a prior position in the uh CWA uh department, the supervisor of C.WA, WA which we are looking to eliminate to create the funding the remaining funding for this position and absorb part of the SARB and attendance processes into the SEAL since they also since this position also oversees bait teams and bait teams oversee

120behavior attendance intervention supports. So they would uh collaborate with the CWA director and addressing our SAR and attendance processes through the bait teams. Um, so that would be also added to this job description so they can lead that work, support in leading the work because currently Macy Young, our director of CWA, also does that work and they have intervention specialists that they work with. These positions are intertwined. They work very closely together because bait processes are not just once again not just behavior. It includes attendance, seal needs and interventions. Um the next job description that you see right below it is the safety security manager and they would oversee the student leaison and provide adequate training. This job description would require background in safety security or uh any of the fields that are um adequate

121in that field. We feel like this position is needed because as you may have seen in our district, we currently have five different individuals that oversee different aspects of safety. Sometimes that can get convoluted. It can get missed. We don't want any misstep. We want a person overseeing safety, just safety for our district and be able to provide adequate training and ensure that those practices are being followed in each one of our schools adequately. Um, this person that I know there was a proposed safety dispatcher position that came to you. So, this position would also oversee uh the running of those um programs for our district. Um, now if I get into the funding, it's small to see, but you have it in front of you now. Uh, so as you can see, uh, by

122eliminating the supervisor CWA position, it allows for some of the funding to be absorbed through the new uh, job descriptions. So the general fund uh contribution there's actually a contribution now because what we h what I had to do is I had to do the math of how much of the time they'll spend overseeing after school programs because our kids are here until 6:00 and I also had to take into account the percentage of time that they'll invest in inner sessions winter spring summer Saturdaymies which we're going to start soon uh and calculate that into the cost that needs to be contributed from ELO funding. So ELO will cover 35 that's the percentage that we were able to come up with 35% of the cost for the safety manager job description because they would also

123oversee safety for those programs. So at this point because of that contribution we're actually contributing about is it a thousand I believe $1,000 into general fund. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Um please note that the the proposed job description that was attached for the director climate culture and safety uh we are going to write write in the word collaborate that's what we noticed was missing with CWA department because again these uh these are going to intertwine and they're going to have to work closely together to u to tend to some of these needs. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Student trustees. Any questions at this time? Trusty Sers. >> Thank you. Uh the new proposed climate culture safety position or excuse me uh climate culture, we're increasing the

124salary on that. >> We have to it'll make it more appealing for individuals with administrative credentials and hopefully people that have experience doing the work that would want to apply for the position. Do you think we're getting a lack of interest currently because of the collective job duties associated to it that by reducing the responsibilities you may find someone >> we're no because we're also adding now a SAR process that wasn't part of it. So we're >> taking away the safety piece because we feel that has to be standalone seal and safety. Sometimes this can be seen as uh reactive. Many times it shouldn't be or it can be seen as punitive depending on what you're dealing with. We don't want that to be associated with and mental health and curriculum for mental health. So

125that should be separate. Uh however um I don't think it the responsibilities are reduced because we are adding a new department to it. Okay. The uh the new district safety security manager position, who will they report to? >> So, they would report directly to me. >> Okay. >> Um my last looking over the job description and education experience requirements here. Currently have uh listed some requirements as well as a minimum of two years of oversight of school district safety security. Is there a specific reason for that? I would I would personally recommend >> striking that >> because what we're doing is limiting our our candidate pool. Obviously, we could utilize that in the the process, the interviews, and making recommendations, but to eliminate somebody ahead of time just if they don't meet the qualifications to

126even apply. >> Okay, let me go ahead and read it really quickly. So, you were saying the manager safety, >> but I would be concerned that there is there's a unique factor in candidates who have worked in like the school setting versus other settings that are not the equivalent. So if it's if it's going to be I would recommend instead of if there's consensus from the board rather than removing it adding some additional qualifiers of like similar experience or something to that extent >> some andors but I think you're going to have a hard time identifying and finding a candidate that has a bachelor's degree previous experience in criminal justice or law enforcement and school education. uh you're that's a very small pool to find somebody >> and the position still reports to you. >>

127So yeah, >> there is the oversight. >> Mhm. >> We can definitely explore. >> Okay. >> What else we can do since it'll come back to you for >> Okay. >> action >> like just have some more discussion about it. >> Yeah. And and I see what you're saying. The idea was that hopefully we get to pull on individuals that have either worked at security for sites for school sites with experience of both or SRO's that have been retired or that have had both experience with law and criminal justice but also in our schools because if you just hire from one it worries me about the training that they've received over those years that could not may not have been culturally responsive or understanding how work with youth. So that was our only worry but

128I mean we can definitely look at it and see what else we can write in >> like to have some more discussion about it. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Jesse Kerfont. >> Thank you. President Singh. So if we're looking for someone who understands safety but also cultural awareness and responsibility. Um why has that not been working in our current role um that we had with you know uh the previous employee that you know was working here for I think for what been we had it for a year or longer. >> Um so what was the issue there with >> safety in you maybe have noticed in the past year? >> I don't think there was an issue. I think she did a very good job and to be honest it was overworking of an employee uh

129at many times because of all the different duties. Um so I feel like um the emphasis on ensuring that safety is of priority and focus to one individual and I mean there's so many components to safety there is school safety plans there is also ensuring that we are following state laws and regulations and all the training that we provide making sure that our leazison receive the right training and operations NCI training holds are we completing the paperwork is safe team doing their job and completing the reports and providing those adequate reports. So there's so many components of safety and now imagine that person also overseeing all the social emotional curriculum for the whole district, all the tiered one, two and three interventions for all our district with counselors and thinkery and you name it. So

130it just became it was a really big um job description that we and we feel that safety needs to be a a big focus with its own job description. So, if the position description is broad and we're narrowing it down, you think that'll help us find uh more candidates even though it's uh more narrow uh job description. >> I don't want to say narrow because we are adding the SAR component. However, it's all related, you know. So, SAR processes, attendance, why do kids not come to school? Many times it's because climate culture, welcoming environments. I mean, we've heard this in the principal presentation. So, they're all related. Um, so being able to have this individual work with our CWA department that oversees a lot of these processes as well, I feel like would be more

131aligned to a social emotional climate and culture job description. >> So I guess I'm a little hesitant on that. Not because I disagree with the goal, but because if the difficulty we have with filling this job is that there's too much on its plate and we're adding in more as soon as we take something off, I feel that wouldn't we just run into the same issue of not being able to find anyone who wants to do this uh uh difficult job? >> Can I can I interject? I think what hasn't been said here is that it's not competitive. Yeah, >> the position from a from a financial standpoint is not competitive. And so what this does, it separates into two separate positions and better aligns so that the additional tasks tasks is not the right

132word, the additional duties that are being performed are more in relation to the the the position itself. That those two are correct and it's elevated. >> Thank you, Trusty Cre. I'll reclaim I'll reclaim my time now. Um my last question uh uh Dr. Lopez is the current uh CWA supervisor that position is vacant correct? >> Mhm. >> How long has it been vacant? >> Since last year March. >> Last year March. Okay. So we've also had difficulty filling that role too. That is difficult because when you're looking at a classified management position and you're seeking experience on that field, it it is hard to find people unless they've been intervention specialists that have done the job that would like to step into a higher role. >> Okay, I see. Then thank you. >> Trusty Sers,

133>> last question I promise. uh the culture climate social emotional position since this is dealing with social emotional component of student life is there a uh PPS requirement or encouragement to select a person that has that background? >> Uh no because there's a lot of training that is provided uh via other aspects. So a counseling credential isn't required. However, like for example our TOSAs right now neither of them have been counselors. Well, one of them has, I'm sorry, but they've gone through restorative trainings and that training they're trainers of trainers now and they're able they got certification and they're able to provide services to our families and community administrative credential like we have to go through a lot of training and be able to be able to provide that service back to our members. So,

134I don't feel like it's required. However, if they have it, great. I believe we left it there. We left multiple credentials. >> They have to have a primary. They could they they either had to have been a teacher PPS. So that's in the job description. >> I'm just trying to think of who's the most appropriate with the most experience in that sort of a environment. >> And ideally, I mean, obviously when we interview, we're going to be able to get to hear their background, right? And what do they bring to the table? So that's really going to answer a lot of our questions related to that. But we didn't want to limit the pool because that's what's happening right now. Um Cassie had a psych, right? So she had all these different gamuts including a

135BCBA background. So it's hard to find that. It's almost like a unicorn and we don't want to get stuck in that scenario. However, when we interview, we're adamant about looking at that background. That's why we didn't hire on the first and second time we interviewed. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Gvo. Um just for broader picture when a position is vacant how are those responsibilities fulfilled? Is it like shared by the department? Is there a substitute? Is it taken on directly by you? >> This has been so much fun. I I have an answer for you. It's about five of us right now. So I oversee I I've been attending the intervention counselor meetings and I basically collaborate with the TOSS right now to create professional development and I'm doing that. We have Erin uh which

136is our district school psychologist Pereira Pereira and she's been taking on the school uh the school psyches training as well as the safe team components. Maisy Young and Jeff Garrett have been over overseeing safety components. So many of us right now are taking literally all the different com parts of that job description. >> Thank you. I just want to like make sure like those responsibilities weren't going like unfulfilled, you know. Yeah. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you so much for the discussion. I think we'll have a little bit more questions. So, we'll have this return under action. Thank you, Dr. Lopez. >> Thank you. >> We move uh to item number four. Receive information and hold the public hearing regarding contract openers for labor negotiations between Central Unified School District, CUSD, and Central Unified

137Teachers Association, CUTA Chapter 961. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Yes. Uh good evening, President Seam, members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Marshall. Um, as required by government section code 3547 and 3547.5, the initial proposal from the Central Unified Teachers Association, chapter 961 and Central Unified School District will be officially received. Um, both CUSD and CUDA look forward to successful labor negotiations working together on ongoing labor matters in an effort to support students in our district. So there is no financial impact associated with this. Uh administration is recommending that the item be placed on November 18th board agenda for a public hearing and action. The openers for uh CUSD is article uh 8 teaching teaching day hours and school calendar and also article 13 transfers and reassignment. And for CUDA, the articles reopening are article

138seven, class size, and article 35, nurses, school psychologist, speech speech language pathologist, counselors, academic coaches, teachers on special assignment, and certificated teacher librarians. Any questions or comments from the board? Then we'll have the hearing at the next meeting and we'll have this on action. Thank you. We move on to item number five, receive information regarding classified employee job classification and market study. Director Quay. >> Good evening, board uh board president singing, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Marshall. I'm pleased to present the job classification and market compensation study results and recommendation which reflects a tremendous collaborative effort between Central Unified School District and CSCA chapter 474. Now, beginning in 2022, Central Unified and CSE leadership embarked on a mission of updating the classified job descriptions as well as analyzing its compensation pay for classified personnel.

139Now, both parties dedicated many hours to ensure transparency, accuracy, fairness during this process. The teamwork fostered an open and productive relationship, facilitating honest discussions about job roles and market standards. Now, in October or September 2nd, 2025, during a special board session, the results of the job classification and market compensation study were presented to the board of trustees. The report presented provided the results of the district's comprehensive market compensation and job classification study conducted by strategic pay resources. As a result of this study and ongoing negotiations with CSA, anou between CUSD and CSCA was agreed upon between both parties. Thisou is attached as an exhibit. In addition, attached to this information item are exhibits that demonstrate the changes made to specific job titles and pay ranges. These changes also include personnel from the management, supervisory, and

140confidential we call MSSE classified personnel. In conclusion, the new classifications and salary adjustments aim to attract and retain skilled staff essential for student success, ensuring our compensation practices remain equitable and align with current market trends. Um, and we are recommending this item be moved to the November 18th uh board meeting for action. Any questions? >> Thank you, Director Clare. questions, comments for the board. >> Since we have had a conversation about this, do we do we believe we could have return this under consent? >> I does it need to come back uh under action because it's salary. >> Okay. I mean, I think return it under consent and then you guys will verify whether it needs >> we'll change it if it needs to be. Thank you. >> Thank you. We move on to item

141number six. Receive information regarding compensation modification for certificated substitute teachers. Assistant superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Uh yes. So members of the board, you do have the attached presentation in your file uh that proposes an evaluation of the substitute teacher daily pay rate in Central Unified School District to ensure classroom coverage, competitive pay, and support recruitment and retent and retention efforts for certificated staff. Our current compensation rates are $165 for our subs from days one to through 19 and then the daily sub rate is $185 once they are 20 days and more. Uh the average daily rate of a contracted teacher right now within our district is $452.16. So our proposed compensation rate is daily sub rate is $215 for days 1 through 19 and for 20 plus days or more 225 that day 20 will

142reset every year. So, our administration is recommending this item return for action on the November 18th, 2025 board agenda. And I am open for any questions, questions or comments on set item. And because this involves compensation, it should be under action. Okay. We'll we'll double check uh during agenda prep, but otherwise for now, we'll put under action. Thank you. Move on to item number seven. receive information on the renewal of the health and welfare reinsurance Voya contract amendment. Assistant superintendent >> so the district is a self-funded entity. So one of the things the district does to protect from high cost is for any staff member when the medical bill goes beyond 225,000 voya insurance kicks in and starts making the medical payment. After cost benefit analysis, we we see that if we increase the deductible

143from 225 to 275, then we can have an annual savings of $48,413. Staff is recommending the item placed on November 18 board agenda for action. >> Questions or comments? Trusty Sers. I'd like to just clarify what I'm reading here that currently the uh if I god forbid was to get in an accident and go into the hospital, there's such a large bill. >> If it's $225,000 >> deductible >> that the district is paying. >> Yes. >> And then anything above that the insurance is covering that and we're looking at adjusting that to 275. >> Right. Right. Correct. >> Thank you. questions or comments on this item. Could we put under consent? Thank you. We'll move on to item number eight. Receive information regarding resolution 2526-16 designated official representative or official alternate representative to the California

144Risk Management Authority CRMA board of directors. Uh, assistant superintendent Nick Paul. >> So, this is an operational item. The staff is recommending that Dr. Chai, essent be an alternate representative for CRM. So, staff is recommending this place on November 18 boarded for action. >> Questions or comments from the board on that item? If none, we'll have it under consent. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Move on to item number nine. Receive information on change orders for athletics complex increment number two project at Justin Garza High School. Dr. Rodriguez. >> Good evening. Uh thank you, board president, board of trustees, and superintendent Dr. Marshall. Uh for your information tonight, our change orders uh for the multi-prime bid packages uh and the attachment itemized summary list uh for the Justin Garza complex increment number two. So, just

145to recap, uh, increment number two is the all the athletic fields, uh, with the press boxes, the bleachers, the scoreboards, the batter's eye, the, uh, flag poles, all of the block buildings, including the concession stands, restrooms, maintenance yards, and some additional perimeter fencing. Um, staff has reviewed uh with the district's construction manager and recommends that this item return to the board on November 18th, 2025. Board agenda for action. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. >> Questions or comment on that item? >> Trusty Sers. >> I know I've asked in the past. >> Yes, sir. >> Prior to starting construction, we've gone back and we've reviewed the plans that we are operating off of. Correct. >> That is correct. >> How is it that we are missing so much?

146Well, we've we've tried to, you know, we've done a constructibility review. We've uh kind of did an in-house review. We've even have a a third party uh actually look at it. Um that we uh engaged in. Um I think it's just a disconnect with the drawings on the increments. Uh that's just my personal opinion because of when I when I see them. Uh a lot of them if you overlay them like let's say increment one where we stubbed out for everything then you overlay number two they just the drawings just don't match up and that's a coordination issue with the uh design professional. And so we that's why I have it indicated here on this spreadsheet that it is the design professional's uh issue. Okay. Uh is this the same architectural firm that has designed

147the VAPA building? >> That is correct. >> Okay. Before we keep moving forward with construction the VAPA building, can we review those plans again so we can at least try to get ahead of some of the smaller change orders? >> So that's what we're currently doing. you know, uh just trying to look ahead uh just to see if uh so we we have uh certain meetings uh with the contractors and which I'd like to be a part of that actually kind of lets me know what's coming up ahead and they're very helpful in letting me know that. So what I do is I take that back to the design professional and have that discussion. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Trusty Kon, >> thank you President Singh. So if there is a lack

148of coordination, what are we doing specifically on our our increment two and three and the VA building to make sure that we are in lock step with the designer because we've been having a lot of change orders um at Justin Garzo. >> Correct. So just just to back up a bit. So this is multi-prime. So you see a lot of them here but because we don't have just one contractor we have several contractors. So when you have one change, let's say there's a footing conflict, we have different trades very specific that have uh interest in in that particular one might do concrete, the other one might be doing demo, but both of them don't do they don't share that responsibility. Right. I'm I'm not sure that multi-prime was the strategy to go with then because

149we've had it's been very difficult to coordinate with all these different contractors then. >> I would have to agree with you. >> Are we doing multi-prime for the BAPA building? >> Yes, we are. >> So why did we choose to go with a multi-prime contract if we've had such difficulty with the other increments just in Garza? So, I believe the board had made that determination based on my department's size and the the need or the help that we needed. So, I I believe the intent was to help uh the district, but uh I didn't well no one for foreseen this including the board. Yeah. So, I'm foreseeing a lot of change orders with the VAPA building based on previous experience and also because we've had so many change orders as we spread outward in Justin

150Garza because we weren't coordinating the uh plans. I guess if we're doing the VA building, it's in the center of the campus. So, if we're not in lock step, are we going to have to do a change order to hurt other buildings if to make it fit? >> No. No. That's that won't happen. So, yeah, it's just Yeah, that just doesn't happen. >> Okay. I'm not I'm not in construction, but >> right >> I I hope that the it seems that these change orders have been excessive and I'm not looking forward to anymore. >> I'm sorry, but if you look at the totality of it, um we've been under 6% 5 to 6% right now. Currently, this increment two is going to be wrapping up very soon here and we're at a little over four

1514% of change order with the the totality of the project >> and it's a 6% for each increment or for total project >> total project costs. >> Okay. So, with increment three, are we anticipating getting to 6%. I don't anticipate that because increment three was a little bit uh a little bit more tight and the reason being is because you didn't have anything in there. You didn't have anything in that storm basin. >> Yeah. >> So there was no really no unforeseen or anything like that. >> When we hit 6% uh on in uh if if we hit 6% increment three or increment two, what does that mean for the district? >> Are we out of compliance? >> No. So statute 10% is >> Yeah. statute is 10%. What across the board around the state,

152school districts, it's normally 6%. >> So, that's okay. >> Yeah. So, we're we're still flying low. I just don't, you know, we're trying to do everything that we can in our power to to uh ring some of this in, including uh there's been a lot of them that has have been denied. So these have been vetted and you know we we owe it to the contractors. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> No further questions. >> I I think I mean uh as my colleagues have kind of shared their concerns. I think >> really um I know we've had traditional partners but making sure in our open bid process that we're we're really uh encouraging as as as robust participation as possible is very important. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. Sorry, we'll have this returned

153under consent. Move on to item number 10. Receive information on change orders for athletic complex increment number three project at Justin Garza High School. Director Argo. >> Thank you again, board president. So, this one here is for the increment three uh for your review. Now, if you you remember this was uh all of the basin infill, the concession stands, your footsaw courts, uh your toilet rooms, your ticket booth, and miscellaneous seating and lighting um in this in that particular area where we infill the basin. So, we have reviewed uh with the district's construction manager and we recommend that this item returned to the board on November 18th, 2025 uh board agenda for action. and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this one. >> Trusty Sers, >> the change order work

154associated with Fresno Municipal Flood Control District BAS. That is not our property. Correct. >> Correct. And so I'm assuming that because we're adding space to it, we needed to dig it out. And that's when we encountered uh material that was discovered at a depth of 9 ft. That's unsuitable >> unsuitable for building. Yes. >> So, we had to dig out our capacity. >> Okay. >> Out of out of there. We couldn't go anywhere else to get fill dirt. We had to stay there. And for that, uh Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control worked with us to actually move out the basin to get the dirt that we needed. But at the same time, we had to realign their fence uh and realigned I think we had to realign some uh piping as well. >> Okay. >> So,

155this is the cost for that. It's >> like hit hard pan and didn't want to keep going through it or something. >> We hit sand. Uh yeah. And and so in in that whole entire area there's we've we've even got it at Justin Garza at certain depths. So it's just uh it's unfortunate but uh >> okay that that's that was what I was trying to get clarification on. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> No other question. We'll have this return under consent. Thank you. >> We move on to item number 11. Receive information on change orders for visual and performing arts project at Justin Garza High School. Director Rodriguez. >> Thank you board president. And this one here is for our VA project. So this one's also a multi-prime u with al also a multipl

156uh prime project delivery method for the VA project. Uh so this project consists of uh obviously the 800 plus seat auditorium uh the orchestra pit, the lobby, the basement and nine classrooms uh which will be accessible through the uh the Justin Garza camp campus mall. We have reviewed uh all of these change orders and uh staff recommends that this item return back to the board on November 18th, 2025 uh for action. and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. >> Trusty Korea, >> we're getting credit for some on some of these. >> Yes. >> Can you tell us a little bit about that? >> So, let me let me uh Yes, I can. Let me go back to So the first one some of it was uh one of

157the credit uh was the earth work uh for the practice ball fields that we are not uh using. So there's some practice ball fields that we took out so that way we can have the steel delivery. we can set up the uh layown yard for all the contractors. So, that was that was omitted. It wasn't needed. And then the the the credit for the uh shoring and bracing. So, there was a a workaround that we were able to save a little money uh in order for for the for the for the shoring and bracing. We were able to use the actual existing dirt to actually make our steps to uh create that um shoring effect. So this was the credits that we we received. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Sers. >> In

158regards to the structural concrete work in the columns, this went through the DSA process and was approved by DSA as well, right? >> It did. It did. So they have their mechanisms in there, but there was a there was a problem with some of the the additional concrete that was needed for structural and that was discovered dur during one of those meetings. So there was a a uh several meetings regarding that with all the the prime trades and it was discovered that uh there was there was a missing link in the drawings. So we had to uh you know mitigate that because now we have a domino effect. The other trades are waiting for all of this other work to be completed. >> Is it because of how we constructed the buildings that >> or

159what the uh structural component that's was missing? It's it's part of the uh the footings and the peers and the way they are all put together and the way the the way it's constructed. So there was just some missing components there. A lot of steel, a lot of uh rebar and a lot of concrete that was missing from it. So it was missing from the VA building itself >> because we've waited and already have other buildings in place. So we have to show up to make sure >> has something to do with that. >> Thanks. You're welcome, sir. >> No other questions. We'll return under consent. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Director. >> Thank you. >> Item number 12, receive information regarding purchasing roofing material for repairs. Director Bach. >> Good evening again,

160Board President Singh, board members, and Superintendent Dr. Marshall. So, um, tonight I'm bringing, um, as part of our 2025 20226 deferred maintenance plan, uh, with the board approved on June 10th of 2025. Uh, we're bringing the purchase of roofing materials for Persian Continuation High School and Central East High School. Uh, Central Le East's material will support the repair for the remainder of the 300 building. Uh the project will be owner supplied material and the labor will be bid out separately. That is also on tonight's board agenda. The materials will be used purchase uh will be purchased using the CMAS the California multiple award schedule contract number 42056006B. Persian continuation high school material will be support uh will be used to repair the cafeteria building. Um the project again will be owner supplied material with the

161labor bid out separately. Uh the material will be again be uh purchased using the California multiple award schedule contract 42056006B. Uh the repair material cost for Central East is $29,96941 and for Persian continuation is approximately $546,87521. administration is recommending this item be placed on the November 18th board meeting uh after answering questions the board may have. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Kuron. >> Uh just one comment. Um having toured that site a few months ago um during our interim period say the roof is definitely in need of some repair. Uh it's one of the ones in kind of worst shape of our district that I've seen. uh looking at wood coming off and pretty steep uh uh wasp infestation. That's a recurring issue for the safety of our students. So, uh

162looking forward to approving this item. >> Thank you. We'll have this return under consent at our next meeting. We move on to item number 13. Receive information regarding bid for roofing repair at Persian Continuation High School. Director Bond. >> Yeah. Um good evening again. So, you got me for the next few items. So uh this is a bid for the repairs at Persing as I previously mentioned for the materials. So this is the labor portion for the uh cafeteria building. Uh currently uh we are on bid and we actually opened the bids yesterday. So we are currently reviewing and we'll be bringing that forth on the November 18th board agenda for action. Um and so administration is recommending this item be placed at the next board agenda for action. after answering any questions the board

163may have. >> Yeah, we'll have this return to action. Thank you. Probably the next one as well, but we'll say it out loud. Receive information regarding bid for roofing repair at Central East High School. >> All right. Thank you again, board president. Um, as the previous item, this is the bid for Central East um uh roof repair. This is the last part of the pack building. Um, bids were open uh yesterday. Um we are going through and making sure everything meets uh to confirm confirm. This item will be brought back at the next board um agenda on November 18th for board action after I answer any questions the board may have. >> No questions. We'll have a return action. Thank you. Next item number 15. Receive information regarding camera upgrades at Persian Continuation High School

164and Harvest Elementary. Director V. >> All right. Thank you again board president Singh. Uh Harvest Elementary and Persian Continuation High School had previously had their cameras updated in 2021. Since then, the district has changed their standards and um now Harvest and Persian will be brought up to the same level. Uh the project was also listed on our 2025 2026 deferred maintenance plan. Uh district staff is recommending we upgrade the cameras at Persing and at Harvest um using the current system we have and uh being purchased and installed by MagnaQatar Incorporated using CMAS contracts 3243 1055 319840048B 32304 1061 3249 1061 and 32506 1059. Um the total cost is $388,543.92 and will be paid by deferred maintenance. Persian continuation um and the breakdown is below. Persian continuation was 195,25406. Harvest Elementary was 193,28986. Uh administration is

165recommending this item be placed at the November 18th, 2025 board agenda. And I'll answer any questions the board may have. >> Trusty Kirk. >> Thank you. Are there going to be other schools that need to be upgraded or is it just these two? >> This is the last two. We've had a couple uh different supervisors oversaw just through attrition. So, we're going through and combing through. There might be some light touchup we need to do uh just to add a couple more cameras. Um but nothing major on this scale. >> Thank you. >> No other questions. We'll have Richard consent. Number 16. Receive information regarding purchasing bus radios. Director Bart. >> Thank you again, Board President Singh. Um, so currently our buses in our district are using analog radios that use old radio towers in

166order to for the office to communicate with our bus drivers out on route. Um, we had an issue where our cameras were or our radios were down last year for an extended period of time. So staff has been evaluating new radios um so we can move forward. Uh, the current system has been there since 2007. uh district staff is recommending we purchase and install the two-way radios for our bus uh at transportation and then we're looking at the Motorola wave talk radio system which will be purchased and installed through Jay's communication using sourceful contract 042021-ot. Uh the cost initial cost would be $82,421.39 and with an annual service of $30,54. Uh, administration is recommending the item be placed on the November 18th board agenda after I answer any questions the board may have. >> Sellers,

167thanks. >> Is this system going to be a VHF or UHF? >> So, it's actually cellular. So, it's using cellular towers and we're moving away from anything with the radio towers. >> Okay. Uh, well then I guess that was part of my next question then. Are we going to have to make infrastructure upgrades? Um, >> no. Um, so the bad thing with the old system with analog is we're relying we're pretty much at the mercy of whoever owns that radio tower if they are maintaining it, if not maintaining it. And um, you know, we did we took a long time to look. We took about 9 months to investigate to try to find lower the cost. But this is something that I don't want to say it's future proof because nothing's really future proof, but

168we're moving to a cellular base. Shouldn't have any more issues. >> Okay. Um, how how was Jay's communication selected? uh Jason communication was selected. So we reached out to multiple vendors to see what type of service and system people have. Fresno Unified, Madera Unified to see what people are using. Um Motorola had the wave talk as their cellular service when we talked to Motorola who is in the area who's an authorized retailer. Um and then really the uh source contract is with Motorola and since Jay's communication is authorized retailer, they're able to use Motorola's source contract. Okay. >> Um, and those prices are from 2021's contract. Is that correct? >> No, no, the prices that I listed. >> Uh, yeah. When I was briefly trying to read through it, it's a very long document. Uh,

169>> oh, yeah. So, the actual source wall contract was, I believe, originally bid out in 2021. Um, so we get a little bit of benefit of that when we use some of the source wall contracts to purchase material. If we are lucky, we're able to find something that was done earlier on and we get a little bit better savings on the price of the unit versus just going out and buying one or two. Okay. That was just curious if we had done any research as to what the uh uh cost of them would be today because I know in 2021 when I went to buy a 2x4 it cost me 10 bucks and it doesn't cost me that anymore. Uh yeah, we did um when we got our last round of buses, we did look

170at different um radios. Um I don't have that off the top of my head, but it wasn't a cellular, it was just again so analog digital. >> Okay. And then the uh the last question, since these are going to be operating off of a a cellular network, do we have a contingency plan when there's a outage in the cells? Yeah. So during work hours and our drivers are out on buses, uh we also have our smart tag system, which is our bus pass system for students to check in and out. Uh we don't like to use that, but we do or we are able to send emergency notification on that if there's a reason we need to use that. Um doesn't really read. It's kind of a flash. Lets the driver know to pull over

171at the next available stop and give us a call. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> No other questions. We'll have return consent. Thank you. Item number 17, regard uh receive information regarding bid for district Hawaii trash and recycling services. Director Bot. >> All right. >> Uh thank you again everybody. Uh so on October 17th, the district posted our bid 25265008 for district-wide trash, recycling, and organic waste services. This bid is to service our district-wide trash and uh recycling services. So bids will be opened on November 5th and this item will return after that at the November 18th uh for approval. Um the administration is recommending this item be placed on that board agenda after answering any questions the board may have. >> Questions, comments from the board on set item. If not, we'll have

172a return action. We move on to advanced planning. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. The only uh item that I'll bring back is that I would like to get us together to talk about uh special education. Just finding a date to really delve into that. >> Thank you. Any additional information or closing comments? And with that, a reminder that our next meeting, our next regular board meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public session here at the Central Unified School District District Office, room 13. And with that, I ask for a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Trusty Kirk, second by trustee GBO. Student trustees, how do you vote? I >> board. Uh, those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay.

173Those abstaining. Motion carries unanimously at 9:29 p.m.