001Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees for Central Unified School District. The time is 5:30 p.m. The date is October 14th, 2025. As we call our meeting to order, let the attendance show we are currently missing Trustee Kon. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? We have a motion by trustee SERS, second by trustee Sidu. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6. >> And if we have any comments on any uh from the public on any close session items at this time. With that, we will head to close session. We reconvene back in open at 7 p.m. Thank you. [Music] Yes. Yeah. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I can't. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey,
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005Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Music] here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Good evening. Buenos notes fate. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees. The time is now 700 p.m. uh to report out some items from close session. Trusty Kon joined us at 5:33 p.m. On close session E1, we had a motion by Trusty Curio, second by Trustee Sers. Motion passed 70. And item item E2, we had a motion by Trusty Sers, a second by Trusty Kirk, and item uh pass 70. And um I will ask Vice President Creo to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Those of you sitting Thank you. Next, I'd like to uh invite up Senior Lazo to share with us our
006community engagement information. >> Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150 or fill out a request form provided on the table near the entrance and submitted to the clerk of the board prior to the meeting. If you wish to speak on an item on the agenda, please do so when that item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public comment section of the agenda. The district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings. Anyone planning to attend and need needing an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559-274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting so arrangements can be made for an interpreter.
007Thank you. >> Thank you. Next we invite up Gore [Music] meeting. for meeting. extension. Next for our presentations, we start with our school activities presentations and we invite up Opel from Justin Garza High School. Good evening, board executives. I'm probably Nepal and I serve as a ASB president of Justin Garza High School. Thank you for giving me the chance to share some of the exciting things happening at our school this year. Um, our ASB has been working hard to create spirited, meaningful, and inclusive experiences for all students. And we're proud of the energy and growth we've seen across camp across campus. We kicked off this year with our week of welcome where students participated in fun interactive activities like face painting, balloon animals, and our senior fundraiser, SOA senior. That same week, we held our
008kickoff rally to start the year with energy and unity, setting the tone for what has been an amazing start to the semester. Since then, our campus spirit has only grown. We've we recently hosted our homecoming game where a football team secured an exciting win against Sanwalk Memorial. Our student section was filled with energy and school pride was at an all-time high. Our football team now stands at 5-2 as they continue to bring the community together every Friday night. This week, we're keeping the momentum going with their pinkout game in sport of breast cancer awareness, which has always been one of our most spirited events of the year. In addition to our student led events, we're proud we're proud of the momentum across our entire campus. Link Crew launched this year with over 250 students, giving
009freshman and new students a chance to meet mentors, build connections, and start the year off with confidence. Our athletic programs are also thriving. In athletics, we've had several memorable senior nights like water polo and girls volleyball. They both celebrated their seniors recently and United Soccer will hold its senior night tomorrow. These events have been a wonderful wonderful way to recognize our athletes and their hard work. Beyond sports, our theater arts program just held auditions for their fall production of a course line and the cast is already preparing for the performances beginning November 13th. Our club and culture commission has also been doing incredible work, especially during Hispanic Heritage Month. They partner with their Hispanic clubs on campus to help them and run their annual culture parade at lunch supporting posters, decorations, and setup. It was
010a great celebration of culture and unity that brought the whole school together. Looking ahead, our ASB is preparing for one of our biggest community events of the year, bright night on October 25th. This event brings together students, families, and community members for a night of fun, games, and a Halloween spirit. We're excited to see our campus come alive for it once again. Overall, this year has been about connection and community, strengthening, and school spirit, and celebrating diversity and bringing people together through positive and inclusive events. Our ASB is proud of the progress we've made so far and excited for what's still ahead. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Prevy. Next, we invite up Marco Centunis from class. Good evening, board president, sen superintendent Marshall, and governing board members. My name is Marcos Centunis and I am
011a 12th grade student at class and looking forward to graduating this school year. I began attending class since last November. Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to come and present to you this evening. Our students enrolled in both our alternative school and adult school have been progressing well, highlighting or highlighted by excuse me, highlighted by a robust enrollment in both schools with 276 students currently enrolled in our alternative school and 573 students currently enrolled in our adult school. The first quarter for our alternative school just ended last Friday. All students and families will be receiving our first quarter progress report next week. Every student who has maintained good attendance and has earned a minimum of two credits each week throughout the entire first quarter will be formally recognized with an award certificate, popcorn,
012and an award presentation in the principal's office. At class, we recently celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month. The staff created inform informative and inspirational bulletin boards highlighting the valuable and significant social contributions made by individuals of Hispanic heritage and who have elevated our society and culture with their extraordinary achievements and accomplishments. The month culminated in an opportunity for our students to participate in art and arts and crafts activity aligned with the celebratory theme. Several of our alternative school students are preparing to go to the main Fresno City College campus this Thursday to visit and take part in an orientation of their applied technology pathway including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical system technology, computer aided draft and design and computer aided manufacturing programs. All of our high school students will also have an opportunity to visit and tour
013the new Fresno City College West Campus on November 6th. All of our high school students continue to have the opportunity to attend Saturday live on the first and third Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Live serves as an additional opportunity for us to come in, work on our instructional units, receive support from our from a teacher, and take unit assessments. Upon returning to the new school year, attendance at Saturday Life has been growing with an average of 14 students volunteer voluntarily attending to improve their academic standing. Our students are being routinely awarded for maintaining good attendance and for completing all of their assigned work. In addition, our entire campus community is preparing to celebrate Red Ribbon Week near the end of this month. and then participating in what we call
014thankful leaves in November where we write down what we are thankful for on a cutout paper leaves that will be taped on the windows for everyone to read. The nurse assistant training program or NATP has been reestablished as central adult school having scheduled four more separate cohorts throughout the 2025 2026 school year with our new nursing teacher having recently joined us. Our first cohort began today with 14 new students. Central Adult School has maintained our community-based ESL classes at Teague Elementary School and Biola Elementary School. These classes serve as an opportunity to help meet the English language development needs taught from our community at locations that are convenient to them for them to attend. Central Adult School has created a partnership with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools to support our welding program. In doing so,
015our students will now be able to earn industry standard certifications to enhance their employability status. After after preparing for and hosting their initial WASK visit during the spring of last school year and after having received a complimentary and favorable visiting committee final report provided by the Was chairperson, Central Adult School has officially become fully Wasque accredited for the first time in our existence. The students in our adult transitions program or connections continue to make great strides toward gaining independence and learning to navigate society as a young adult by participating in valuable work experience via community-based instructions three to four days each week. An example of our established community and business partners are the Fresno Chaffy Zoo, Roundt Table Pizza, the Valley Animal Center, and the Student Dining Hall at Fresno State University. Connection students and
016their families recently had the opportunity to attend the annual education and resource conference hosted by the Central Valley Regional Center. Today, we welcomed a local family-owned business, Lardos Pizza, to host a fundraising event with 100% of the proceeds going to our connections program to support their annual Friendsgiving. Thank you and good evening. [Applause] >> Great presentation, Marcos. Thank you. Next, we turn to our student recognitions and I'll turn it to Assistant Superintendent Mlullen. board president, trustees, superintendent Marshall. Can I call um Eevee Singh and Ramona Cheek to the podium, please? Evie is a 10th grader at Central High School. And I'm gonna ask, All right, I have my cheat notes because Eevee is involved in a lot. So, she's a 10th grader at Central High School. She's part of the book club, the Battle of
017the Books, FFA. She's a member of theater and performing coming up, I understand. Right. You have a new part. >> Yes. Um, and she's also a contributor for the teen author and artist book that you see that's coming around. Um, but she is here tonight because she entered the Fresno County Schools um, art competition last year. It was called One Voice and it was to commemorate 9/11 and uh it actually commemorates first responders and victims of the 911 tragedy and her art a nation remembers a dove returns one. And so she has a certificate, a medal, a t-shirt, and a really big smile. So I'm going to turn the microphone over to Eevee to explain her art for you. And the book is coming around. The page with her art is uh tabbed. Thank you
018so much for having me here and I'm extremely grateful to be presenting to you my artwork piece that I submitted to our art competition. Um, my painting represents the outline of the American flag. The colors of New York City represents of what once was a fragile and beautiful day of New York City. The smoke represents the death of loved ones of our American spirits. And the dove flying out of that smoke and into the colorful sky represents the resilience and strength we have in America. The firefighters and officers clearing away the smoke represents the heroism in our society that we can fight through through tragedies like this because of our strength here in America. Thank you so much. Good evening everyone. As a teacher librarian, it is my honor to help students enter Fresno City.
019Nope, sorry, wrong. Fresno County Superintendent um different contests that we have, young authors fair, and Eevee and a couple other kids went for it and she placed top 10. I'm so proud of her and she's so involved with everything. So, I hope you enjoy our annual teen authors and artist book and I'm glad she was able to make a contribution to it as well. And thank you for your time. I appreciate it very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you to you and all the librarians serving our students and congratulations. Yeah, please. >> And I want to thank um the staff at Central High School. The staff is incredibly super incredible. I'm also grateful for the theater opportunity. Myself and Mia Deila, one of our central un one of our board members will
020be playing jur number eight in our upcoming school plays. So hopefully you guys will be able to see that. Thank you so much again. [Applause] I'm going to call Lori Gamber to the microphone because she is very fortunate tonight and very proud not only for Eevee but for some other students. >> Thank you. Good evening board president, Superintendent Marshall, and the members of the board. I am extremely proud and honored to be here tonight to introduce you to three I'm blown away absolutely incredible human beings and students of Central High School who will be representing Central High School as they initiated themselves and were selected to be on the superintendent of schools youth advisory board representing Central High School and Central Unified. These three students that I will introduce in a moment are the epitome
021and the strength and our leaders on our campus. Their work ethic and effort is unparalleled. It is a top in my 29 years of education. These students are in the top 1% of students that I have encountered in my career. I am so proud and humbled for all of their accomplishments, their achievements, and where they are going to go in life. And I tell them and I'm going to tell all of you one day I said I'm going to work for you all because they are going to be no doubt changing the world with their goals and aspirations. And with that I would like to introduce our three students that are representing Central High School and Central Unified. Uh Mr. Jack Klene, if you will come, come come on down. Mia Davala, come on down.
022Who is juror number eight? And the show you will be getting invites is opening November 6. Um, and our ASB president, come on down, Karai Paige. I don't know if you would like them to say the things that they're involved in because they're involved in so many things and Jack has just come back from the fair who also did exemplary um at the Fresno Fair. So, I'm I know I'm putting you on the spot. I didn't tell you we're going to speak, but if you would like to share just a few things that you're involved with um at Central High School. Hi, I'm Jack Klene and I serve on the FFA officer team as parliamentarian. I'm also involved with athletics. I serve as the C C FCA president and then I also just came back
023from fair with a reserve grand champion and market hog. Hello everybody and good evening. I'm struggling here. I'm not that tall. I don't know who gave you guys the memo that I was that tall. Anyway, so I would just like to introduce myself. My name is me, Elizabeth Dava, and I actually am involved in a lot of stuff. As Mrs. Gamber said, I'm involved in the RO nursing assistant pathway and I have been for um 2 years. Uh I'm obviously part of the superintendent board. Um and then 2026 class historian. Uh, I'm the NAMI club historian. Uh, I'm in Grizzly Theater Co. as your number eight. Um, I am the CHS news anchor. I MC the rallies and I am part of leadership. I am also a spirit commissioner and I've done the multicultural club
024as president. Very proud. I really loved that position. That was an amazing experience. Also leadership and NAMI club. Very prominent member. Thank you. >> Hello again. I don't have a speech prepared, but I just want to say it's nice to see all of you again. Um, as you guys know, I am ASB president of Central High. I am also president of their school's BSU. Um, I am sports commissioner um for our school as well. And I am also, what was I about to say? I'm sorry, guys. Total brain fart. I'm a part of the um student nursing um program as well. I'm training to be a certified registered nurse anesthetist as my goal career. Um, and yeah, that's pretty much it. But again, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here and um,
025speak with you guys. Thank you. And we are not done. So I'd like to have um Dr. Lopez for our final recognition for students. Good evening. So today uh we will be adopting a recognition declaring November 2025 as seek heritage month. And we have some very important guests here tonight. We have the Harvest Elementary Punjabi Dance Club performing for you this evening. But we also have a very special guest, Mr. Gordep Sheriel, who's here to share a very important message. Board President Singh, um, Superintendent Marshall and our wonderful uh, board members and our amazing staff and public. Thank you for this opportunity. Uh, my name is Gudep Singh Shirill and this will be my 20th year teaching in San Unified School District. Uh, and thanks to San Unified School District, I was able to get
026my masters in admin back in 2012. Uh, I'm an investor in the area. I'm also a resident. I live in the area. My two children uh they graduated as Valley Victorian from Central West um high school and currently they are uh in the IT program at Fresno State for their BA and their credentials. Uh so Central is very special to our heart as taxpayers, as community members. Uh this area is very close to our heart. Um and Central Unified School District is so um it means a lot to our sik American community, to our Punjabi American community because uh this was the first district that started the Punjabi language at our Central East High School. Um and for many many years, state of California has recognized uh November as a sick a sick awareness and
027appreciation month. and Sant Unified School District has always supported uh the sick community, sick American community and the Punjabi community. And as as all you know, we have uh two of the biggest gardas uh gardas are are are sick temples. One of them is on Ashlin and Cornelia Avenue and one of them is right there just down the street by 99 Shaw Avenue. Um and if you ever want to meet a doctor of any kind, just go there on Sunday. You will find a heart specialist, a brain specialist for free. just just go I'm I'm I'm for real. So uh so uh you know this recognition that Central does every single year uh to recognize uh the community because you know we are a very diverse group of community. you know, we have multiple lingual,
028multiple cultural, multiple religious communities uh that reside in um in our wonderful Sanford School District west of 99 in the 93722 93723 area. Uh so whenever we recognize events such as, you know, right now we're celebrating our uh Mexican-American Hispanic month. So uh so now we're celebrating in November uh sick heritage uh month. It means a lot because about 15% plus of our student population is of of a sick uh immigrant uh sick American community. So actually it means a lot to a child because as growing up u I was called a lot of different names. It was it was it was pretty different in the 90s you know growing up as a child of an immigrant in the 90s. It was very tough but as a society uh we have come a long way
029where we respect each other uh where we strive to respect and love and learn and I would say as an educator um you know the sick heritage month uh is a is a recognition of course but I think it's a learning um venture it's a it's a learning I think uh experience e even for educators I think we can learn from each other for the admin um for the for the parents for the kids uh and I would also request uh let's please have some kind of a um like a print out uh printed by the offices where we have you know sick heritage month recognition so whenever a family walks in you know they maybe they can ask a question hey what's what's that I think it's a good dialogue even I know in
030the classrooms we also show a video about the uh sac uh uh heritage month so this is amazing I mean school district that is the reason because a lot of people move into this area because they feel home and and that is very and that is one of the reason that our population is not declining. I mean statistically if you look at other districts their population is declining their student population is going down but for central it is going up. So we really really want to uh thank you all. I I apologize. I think I I spoke too much but uh thank you. We really appreciate you and uh and once again, thank you for the for the wonderful opportunity and uh recognizing the sick heritage uh month and and and you're and you're you're
031continuing to support uh all the communities and and just making everybody uh feel safe uh accepted uh appreciated. So, thank you so much. Now we have Kwand Kor and she's the club advisor for the Harvest Elementary Punjabi dance club. She will be introducing our students. Good evening everyone. Um we have our two participants. We have dance club at Harvest Elementary School. So two of our performance are here and they're going to perform on the for the sik heritage month. I think that's what it is. So yeah, so they are here u they're both sahaj bri their names are sah bri they both are saj bri. So here they are and thank you for having us. [Music] All the deep with the seig. [Music] Omari [Music] [Applause] Great job both of you and thank you Trusty
032Sidu. I thought you were going to join them. So nice you stay you stay you stayed in your seats. Uh back to the assistant superintendent or does that does that conclude the >> actually other than apologizing for misintroducing my my partner up here. That's that concludes our student recognitions tonight. >> Thank you so much and thank you to all the students and families that that came out and joined us this evening. We now turn to our employee association highlights. If I can invite up um our Central Unified Teacher Association president, Laura Bolton. All right, good ne evening everyone. Um, I have quite a few things to share. Um, right off Madison uh is happy that they have a a new VP that has started. They've also been awarded the PBIS gold. I'm sorry I'm stealing
033your thunder. Um, the staff are really happy. um and their um PTSA membership is growing. Um Glacier is also happy to have new admin on campus. Our psychologists um have uh shared that um at Garza consistency and collaboration among site co-workers is is good and at Steinbeck the same thing collaborations between sped staff and um with behavior within the FLS classes is getting better. Um Steinbeck also reported that um they had an assembly for their upper grade students um and brought out the American Heart Association. Um JSK held their very first character counts assembly. Um they recognized 24 incredible royals who demonstrated the character trait of respect during the first months of school. Sing elementary is also celebrating um Hispanic heritage month and bullying prevention month with a variety of activities and fun. Shout out
034to our community leazison, Miss Jess, and our counselor, Miss Taylor, for highlighting these important initiatives that promote culture, kindness, and respect throughout our school community. Rio um said that they really appreciate the staff celebrations. They're always celebrating and highlighting um new and old staff, which is nice. And the 20 minute advisory period that they're um trying out seems to be going well. Also, Pathway and Persing both um were notified that they are PBIS platinum status. Um and they wanted to express a special thank you to Sunonny Dylan for all her hard work and leadership with that. Riverluff um held their jogathon on September 25th. They raised $14,300 towards schoolwide incentives, library, new um etc. Um very amazing. Um they also started a coding club this year um due to um interest um in a like
035a they tried it out last year and now they've got so many kids that they've actually got a waiting list and they're um they've exceeded capacity for this semester and they're hoping to um add to their ability to take in more kids next semester and build on it. um harvest um had a very successful and fun trunk or treat class um wanted to highlight that over the past couple of years the district has really increase the amount of supports that they have available to students. Um they said we are in what I believe is our third year of intervention counselor, second year of a cys therapist, first full year of a teaching fellow that we use as an intervention um teacher and we are um about to have a literacy teacher starting in a couple
036of weeks. We've always had the advantage of being able to provide more indivi individualized instruction due to the nature of our site, but it feels really good to be able to speak um at a new student orientation of all these added supports available for students. Our staff is grateful. And Roosevelt held um lotteryia night. It was a huge success. Um they had over 75 families and community members come together for an evening filled with laughter, music, prizes, and a whole lot of Roadrunner spirit. nurses shared that um they have two more of their nurses that are applying for the High Road um school nurse grant. Um they've already had one um nurse who applied and received it. So that's a really good thing. This helps them with their continuing education. Um and then um October
037is um bullying prevention month. Our district adopted a resolution recognizing this month back in 2022 and our schools do lessons and assemblies with our students at all levels. However, I recently noticed that there is a gap in our bullying support system. Um, we do not have any anti-bullying board policies nor any anti-bullying support systems for adults in our district. We all know that discrimination is illegal, but bullying is not. I would like to encourage you to ask questions about this topic as it relates to adults in our district and look into what our district does to does or does not do with regard to bullying education awareness and prevention for our certificated classified MSC substitutes and administrative staff members. And then finally after three years of back back and forth efforts CUDA and Central signed
038off on a standard operating procedure for community schools. Um the site committees are doing their initial work and we have guidelines to follow to ensure the decision-making is collaborative and that all involved have an equal voice. We have balance committees comprised of educators, parents, classified admin students and community partners. Um we are also talking with the district about possibly sending a team um to Anaheim to their learning lab which um was established to support districts in the beginning stages of uh implementing community schools. So, we're hoping maybe we might be able to swing that. And um I want to thank Dr. Lopez for um her positivity and willingness to collaborate with CUDA. Um I would like to request that the board consider adopting a resolution in support of the important work um getting started at
039um six of our central elementary schools, Teague, Tilly, Steinbeck, Biola, Roosevelt, and Madison. We hope to eventually expand into our secondary schools as well. and a board resolution um would show that the board and the district are in this together completely top to bottom. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do we have a representative from the California School Employees Association? President Agiri hearing none. We'll move on to the next item. We move on to reports. We will first hear from Principal Oliver from Madison Elementary School. Good evening, President Singh, Dr. Marshall, and board members. It's such a thrill to uh be here tonight. First off, because I'm afraid I'm going to run out of time, I just want to say thank you for allowing the principles to come up and give a presentation. It's really
040hard for us to think about staying within five minutes because we have so many great things happening at Madison. Let me click with my PowerPoint. Just a couple of the awards that we've won this year. Our gold PBIS. We're really proud of that. And then the California Distinguished School. Can't say enough about that. We're still um just rolling in the excitement of having that celebrations. Well, we've went up again with our ELA and math in ESPback. And so we're really proud of that. We're increasing uh really on every um area that we are working with with our I Ready with Fountain and Panel STAR testing our suspension rates. Awesome. We are working hard. Um, we just got back our results, our preliminary results today from our panorama survey with our students and I of course
041was excitedly looking at them in the car tonight and they they've increased in in every area. We're so proud of ourselves. Uh, I always look at those and um think to myself, what else can we do to make the kids feel like they're part of the community and feel respected, wanted, and safe? So, I appreciate that we get to get that information right away early in the year so we can continue working our English learner um population. We had a a really great u amount of growth. We had 29 students last year reclassify o out of 84 students. So, back in the day I started at Madison um quite a few years ago and I remember we had the biggest uh population of EL students. We had 221 when I started and uh now we're
042down to 84 many um years later. But what I'm most proud of is the fact that the the most of our students are in the primary grades that are EL students because we have an exceptionally low rate of students in grades four, five, and six who have not redesated. And that's because of the hard work we do in all of the areas to make sure that our students don't become long-term English language learners and that we have reclassified them, you know, by fifth grade because we want them leaving for junior high ready um with an RFIP. One of the great things that we have going on this year is um we as you may remember from my last year's um presentation, we used to have teaching fellows in all of our third, fourth, fifth, and
043sixth grade classes and that's been a change over the last few years and it's been very successful. This year we were fortunate to have equity multiplier money and so the first thing I thought of is extra support in the classroom. And so this year we have teaching fellows for three hours a day in every single classroom TK through sixth grade. And I know that that's going to improve student academics, but it's also helping us keep those students in the classrooms because some of those students don't need to take that walk with to deescalate um or go see my intervention um not my intervention specialist, but my thinkery staff because we have more people in the classroom to support them. And so I really look forward to the data. 9,06 hours we have scheduled this year
044with teaching fellows. That's a lot of support for students. I'm super excited about it. Challenges. Yep, we have challenges. We sure do. We have attendance challenges. It's always been Madison's biggest challenge and it's no different this year. We have seven TK and kindergarten classes and that is um sadly our biggest area where we need support in is getting our little kids to school. So our sixth graders, they're coming. We have 94% of our kids coming to school every day. Awesome. Our little ones were at 82.82%. That's our sad news. So what are we doing to fix that? Well, on the 21st, we're going to have um a family breakfast, and we're going to be inviting all of our families, especially targeting our TKK and first grade student families. We're going to invite them in for
045a breakfast. We're going to show some community resources. We'll have Central La Familia, Ry's Closet, and we'll have a food pantry uh to give them some input on maybe there's some resources that can help them improve attendance. We're also going to talk to them about how important that attendance is in the first three years of schooling to get our students ready to learn and on grade level. So, we look forward to that. We've also started a new challenge. It's called Gimme Five. We just want you to come to school five days Monday through Friday. And then next year we next week, we just want you to come to school five days. You can do it. It's just five days. And so what we're doing is we're giving the kids, we have these cute sticker charts
046for our little guys. They get a star every day they come. On Friday, they get a little prize from the prize box. Our kids from first um through third grade get a snack prize or a um different another uh prize box prize. And we're also celebrating by calling parents that are frequently having students miss and seeing how we can get them to school. sometimes going and picking them up, but also sometimes giving those parents the needed support they need. Sometimes they need us to help them to talk to their kids and remind them how school is important. And so we're working on that partnership. And I want to thank our family outreach leazison and my community schools representative who are helping me with that uh welcome breakfast that we're having. Um, we did have a
047back- to-school experience for all our overflow kids. We have about 25% of our school that is overflow. So, they generally miss our open house. So, we call every single one of them and invite them to come to the school to have an opportunity um to come meet the teacher and have a little back to school night uh at the at the beginning of the time that they come to see to move to Madison. So, that little rodeo picture, I'll just tell you it was a cute little day that we had to thank um Stephanie Nelson for supporting Madison while we didn't have a uh vice president, vice principal, and also to welcome in um Miss Atwall, our new principal. And so, our staff theme was it's not our first rodeo. This is the third vice
048principal in three years, but we can do this. And so those are some of the cutie pies that were uh enjoying the dress up festivities. So I think that is all unless you have any questions for me. I I will say that our um attendance chronic absenteeism has gone down from last year. So that's a little bit of an improvement. We're still working on it. Thank you. Have a great night. >> Thank Thank you, Principal Offer. may have some questions from the board. >> Questions or comments from from the board? >> Trusty Kon. >> Uh thank you, President Singh. And uh thank you uh Principal Oliver for uh presenting. I think I I remember earlier this year I got to visit your school and see some of the rigor going on the classrooms and it
049shows in our ESPback scores in just two years that uh 13% growth in ELA and 10% in math. Um, so I think we're doing great there. Madison is a great school, distinguished even. Um, but I want to ask about the attendance because I know it's a bit lower than the district average. Um, what are some of the barriers that you and your team are finding um, for parents helping their kids get to school um, on time and for the uh, school day? Well, some of the barriers are that our students uh we have seven classes that are TK and K and um just getting your student on a bus to drive that far. We're an overflow school. Some of them aren't in our neighborhood. Four years old is is really young and some of our
050parents may not see the value in sending them to school all day. And so that is um a big challenge. How we we help um to make them feel better is we have about 15 people in the front of the school welcoming them, learning their students names, telling them, you know, hi Miguel. Well, welcome to Madison. Can't wait to see you. And oh, wow, cool shirt. Getting them used to coming in, getting the parents re feeling relaxed about dropping them off to us. And then um this educational program that we're going to have on the 21st should help. We're hoping to help parents. Thank you. And then I noticed that last year we had zero suspensions at Madison. Uh what are some of the uh things we're doing to uh reach that? I imagine there
051can't be, you know, zero upsetting instances, right? >> There is there is u upsetting instances at times, but some of it's preventative. U we need to make relationships with these kids. And by I say we, I mean everybody on that campus needs to show five-star service and make sure that that student feels wanted and supported. We have a a big group of teachers who are willing to help former students or any student for that matter. So sometimes um a student doesn't need a suspension, they need a reset. they need an opportunity maybe to take a bit break from the drama, still get their education with a certified teacher and uh maybe find another alternative than staying home and playing video games. And so our staff members, we try really hard to find a solution that's
052fair and reasonable for that student because taking away their educational opportunity at Madison isn't reasonable. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> Thank you for all the hard work you and your team are doing. Thank you. >> Next, we invite Principal Margel from Riverbluff Elementary. Good evening, board president Singh, trustees, superintendent Marshall. My name is Anna Margellet and I am the proud principal at Riverbluff Elementary. Thank you for the opportunity to share Riverbluff's 202526 school report. This evening I'll highlight our key accomplishments, instructional priorities, student engagement efforts, and goals moving forward. Our celebrations, this year's academic results show strong progress. For our ELA, we were at 61.25% 25% which is a 5% increase from last year. Our math 56.75% 2.25 increase. English learner progress indicator or LP 59.6% an increase of 2.8%. Our reclassification rate
05324.5% up 13.4% from last year. These gains drum I'm sorry these gains demonstrate that our instructional focus is working. Students are growing academically and our targeted supports are making a measurable difference. Our attendance rate is at 95.9% which is up 1% from last year. And our academic focus remains grounded in professional learning communities where grade level teams collaborate weekly to review data, align instruction, and ensure every student receives what they need to grow. The support and expertise provided by solution tree have played a key role in our school's growth and success. So we have been working on our math unit plans and we're refining them for this year and we are planning our ELA units this year to monitor learning. We're using the IABS and FABS ensuring each grade grade level completes a minimum of
05415 per assessments per year. Uh we ranged from nine as the lowest up to 23 IEBS last year. These assessments provide real-time insight into student progress and help teachers effectively adjust instruction. And our English learners also have a access to ELPAC practice opportunities and they will have targeted afterchool tutoring as we approach the summit of assessment in February. We are proud to share that Riverbluff earned PBIS gold status and advancing from bronze to gold in just one year and we are working towards PBIS platinum status for this year and each classroom developed smart goals that are evaluated quarterly and showcased on our road to victory bulletin board located in our foyer. Our challenges well we want to keep our goals clear. So, we want to increase our ESPback ELA math scores by a minimum of
0555%. We want to close the achievement gaps for our English learners and our students with disabilities, strengthen math fluency across all grade levels, and promote purpose purposeful writing that emphasizes clarity, creativity, and citing evidence. We're confident these goals are achievable through the structures we've built and the dedication of our teaching teams. We know that strong academics require strong engagement. So this year we've made a concerted effort to help our youngest learners, especially our TK and kindergarten students, build stamina, focus, and persistence in their learning activities across all grade grade levels. We're empowering students to become independent learners through goal setting, self-monitoring, and reflection. They're discovering not just what to learn, but how to take ownership of their learning journey. We're also equipping students with strategies to manage healthy stress and growth challenges, helping them build
056resistance and confidence that will serve them well beyond the classroom. And a positive school culture starts with students being present and connected. So last year, our average attendance was 94.9%, but our chronic absenteeism was at 16.6% and our goal is to reduce it to 15% or below. To support this, we're strengthening partnerships with our families using proactive communication, recognition programs, and support services to address barriers to attendance. We also continue to prioritize a safe and inclusive climate, one that values respectful relationships, cultural awareness, and a strong sense of belonging for every student. Beyond academics, Riverbluff is a vibrant community of learning, creativity, and exploration. Uh, as spoken before, our coding club uh engages over 40 students from grades two through six, introducing them to problem solving and digital design. We have art instruction now offered
057to our fourth through sixth grade students and our upper grade functional life school students also attend. We've expanded our success together parenting classes directly shaped by parent feedback to strengthen school home partnerships. Central East Bengal road show is coming to Riverbluff on October 27th and and it's providing a mini rally to all feeder schools uh for our future Bengals. We also have our Alo play uh playground coaches uh where students enjoy structured recess recess activities twice a week building teamwork and social emotional skills. We take pride in our Falcon of the month program recognizing students for both achievement and character. Our read across the world event celebrates the diversity of our school community. We have engaging field trips to Scout Island, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Fresno State, the Chaffy Zoo, and our sixth grade camp, Wonder
058Valley. Our afterchool program continues to thrive, and we have over n0 students each day, and they have these wonderful enrichment uh opportunities including African drumming, Hawaiian hoola dancing, and Guavara arts and leadership program. Riverbluff was honored to be recognized as US News and World Report, ranking in the top 40% of elementary schools in California, and we are currently awaiting the release of this year's updated rankings. In addition, we were recently notified that we have once again been recognized as a California honoral school by the Educational Results Partnership. The ERP honor role acknowledges schools that demonstrate exceptional success in closing performance gaps and improving student outcomes relative to their peers. These recognitions reflect the collective commitment of our staff, the engagement of our families, and the hard work and perseverance of our students. In closing, Riverbluff
059is moving forward with purpose and momentum. We've strengthened our instructional practices, built systems that support every learner, and created an environment where students feel safe, seen, and supported. Our goals for 2526 are ambitious, but with our talented staff, engaged families, and dedicated students, we know that they are achievable. Thank you to the board and to our district leadership for your continued support and partnership. And together we are ensuring that Riverbluff remains a place where every student can learn, lead, and thrive. Thank you. And I am happy to answer any questions you may have. [Applause] Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Korea, >> just one question. I'm curious if you can share just one thing that you guys are going to be doing to help close that achievement gap specifically targeting our EL and
060students with disabilities. >> So, it all begins with knowing your students, knowing where they are and where they need to grow. So, it just knowing all of that data, uh, working closely with our instructional coaches for our ELELS. That's what we did last year and I believe that is where we saw all of those gains we had. We had 34 students reclassify last year, uh, which is the most we've ever had. Uh, currently we are below 100 students for our ELELS, which we haven't seen that in many years. Uh, for our students with disabilities, it's we have 92 students on IEPs at Riverbluff. >> Uh, we uh work closely with um our RSP teachers, with our speech language pathologists um to ensure that we are really focusing on what those students need and knowing that.
061So knowing exactly what that student has in their IEP, where those gaps are that we need, and then providing that targeted support in the classroom. >> Thank you for the great work and appreciate you and your team. >> Thank you. >> Next, we move on to our superintendent board communications, and we start with uh Superintendent Dr. Marshall. Okay, I have a few things this month. I want to first start with uh as you're aware there's a shutdown at the federal level and it's the longer this goes on uh the more of a chance of an impact on the school district. Right now it's just limited to special education. But I think as this goes on, we just need to kind of be aware that there there will be an impact. Anything that touches has federal
062funding touching touching it may have an impact in the district. So we just need to keep that on our radar. We saw the result for our latest assessments. Uh the state of California re released the results and our results we improved in both areas as far as reading language arts and mathematics. Our trends were very consistent with the state as far as uh increasing by two percentage points in reading language arts and then a percentage point in math. That was consistent with the county and the state. We're also waiting on as far as the the blue ribbon school, the accolades that are national program that was disbanded. But what you're starting to see, like I said last month, is that different states are coming up with their own ways to recognize their winners. We did
063have Liddell. If they had the program, that would have been our first blue ribbon school. So just kind of keep that on your radar. Uh October is a month of a lot of recognitions. Uh custodians day, school bus safety, uh world teacher day, and then national principles month. As was mentioned previously, we did have several schools that did the that were selected for the educational results partnership honor. That was Liddell River Bluff and Rio Vista. Next month we're going to have a lot of our kids participated in the fair. A lot of accolades and we have a winner to announce tonight at national convention from FFA Logan Wood at the Foundation for Central School State of District um pillar champions. You have several areas uh listed academics, art, athletics, agriculture, well-being, and community. You can
064see the uh individuals who will be recognized at the breakfast listed. I want to give you a quick update on my entry plan. I mean, it's almost over at my 30 days or 90 days. And you can see on November 18th, there will be my board presentation, kind of the summary report. And uh my spoiler alert, I'm going to give you on next page that shows what that looks like. you'll get these are all recommendations that I have. I've highlighted a couple. One is a district need to kind of develop a plan to increase revenues at the local level and then be more um proactive about getting external resources in and in in today's um fiscal climate. I think that's essential. And then I talked about having a deferred maintenance plan and a master facilities
065plan. You need that because to get access to Prop 2 funds that were approved that those billions of dollars, if you don't have those two items in place, you can't get it can't get a dime. Couple reminders. Uh the uh school boards trustees association from Fresno County, that would be on October 21st. And as I said earlier, the Foundation for Central Schools will be hosting their breakfast on October 23rd at uh 7:30. I've heard a lot of uh city dignitaries will be there, city council, uh county supervisors, they all be in attendance. So, just want to put that on your radar. That's it. Thank you, Dr. Marshalls. Thank you. Next, we turn to our uh student achievement, engagement, and wellness subcommittee, Trusty Chavez. >> Uh so, uh we met last Friday. Um, and I want
066to thank our committee for being so well prepared. Uh, we had the full LCAP, for those of you who are familiar with that plan, um, printed for us to review. So, it was very thorough. Um and what came from that conversation, uh myself and trustee sellers were in attendance and we determined that based on the amount of information that we were receiving and the thoroughess of the information, we felt that it would be something for us to consider as a board for us to have a special workshop. um perhaps apart from a board meeting in order for us to have a full overview of the LCAP plan as well as um more of an explanation around the funding. And primarily because um one of the things that we were discussing within the wellness committee was
067that as time goes by uh and we do know that there is federal funding that rely we rely upon as a district there is potential that those funds are going to potentially be impacted. So, it's going to be especially crucial for us as a district to be prepared and to fully understand some of these other supplemental funds that our district receives through the LCAP monies and some of those um other funding sources. So for us as a board to have a full understanding of how those plans are developed, the input that's gathered from our community, um the level of engagement from our community and our students, just so we can have a real um consensus around how we learn from what we're doing currently and how we potentially move forward in the future. So that's
068to be continued. Um but uh look for that because we do have a midyear report that we have to submit for the LCAP and then after that um we're looking at potentially having a special workshop before we have the public hearing that will happen in the spring. So um that way we as a board can have full understanding and just so that that way we can be able to answer the question of our constituents and our community. So that's our wellness committee. Thank you for the update. Questions or comments from the board? >> Trusty Gville. >> So, I had some Central East track and field athletes reach out to me regarding some issues and concerns they had with the track and some concerns they had regarding sharing the track with Justin Garza. And after talking
069with Dr. Marshall, I just want to reassure the student body of the district that plans are in motion to accommodate the athletes at the track and we're trying to manage a permanent solution, but it is in progress. So, I just want to tell that to students of Unified. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Any other board communications at this time? Jesse Kon. Uh >> I don't think we had said it yet, but just hope everyone uh yesterday had a happy indigenous people's day. >> Thank you. >> Next, we invite comments from the public. >> Our first comment is from Gerard Shug and after that will be Ayad Sidu. And so you'll have three minutes. >> Thank you. Once again, good evening uh board president uh Dr. Marshall and wonderful board members. Uh I actually forgot to
070recognize just one second Colorado school. Uh we actually made history. That was uh one of the world news. I'm in Canada. Actually Canada is jealous right now of us. They're like man we had a defense sick defense minister. They have so many huge politicians but they're like man you beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat us to it. So great job central. Keep up the good work. I also want to congratulate that we also have our student board members. That is amazing. So, thank you for that. Now, the reason I'm here uh West area Pacific plan is coming upon um uh on Thursday. Now, we talk about money. Okay, I know we need money. Now, how are we going to get money? Well, we are going to get money.
071We're going to get financial more financial money coming in by if we build more if there are more homes um and uh more development into the area. Well, how would the development come into the area? Well, it would come into the area and we have a Pacific plan. Um, I have worked on that plan. Um, and I know Mr. Singh, you know, we were on the steering committee since 2017. A lot of community involvement. Um, I also serve as one of the planning commissioners for city of Fresno as well. Uh, so this plan is coming about this Thursday at approximately 10:00 a.m. So, humble request to our center school district. uh communities, especially our communities and our 75 school district because most of well almost I would say 70% of our schools are in the
072plan. It's Clinton 99 Clinton all the way up to uh Garfield all the way up to uh um H Hearnden. It's a huge triangle. Uh so please call your rep, call your council member. We have our council member Mike Kbasi, we have councilwoman u uh Perea, we have council member Miguel Aras. They are the three representatives that represent this area. So the number to call them is 559-6218000. 559-6218000. Please do give them a call and please encourage them to vote yes because there is a saying in this area. People say this is forgot. West of 99 is forgotten Fresno. No, we are not forgotten anymore. Our community needs to get involved and uh so please do uh support us with that. and uh a humble request to central school district, please collaborate with the city
073of Fresno and the county of Fresno especially. Let's let's bring in more infrastructure or roadways. You know, our parents, our students, our teachers, everybody travel on these roads. Let's let's work on them. So, thank you so much. Please do call your council member 5596218000. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next comment is from Yad Sudu. And make sure the button is uh bright green. And you'll have 3 minutes when you begin. I first of all thank you for the center unified district staff and board members for the incredible support and dedication for our event for the kubi event. So I recognize I'm just come to here to the say thank you to you for like for helping us because our jip code and our ground you give us on the last Saturday. So I just
074say come to say just say thank you to the board members and the staff who helping us to for getting this event happen. So your partnership means so much to us your entire community of my entire club say thank you to you. Thank you. Just I have something I have something to give the award of honor to you. If you don't mind, I can give to you right now. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Maybe give it to uh Pio Burroughs. Thank Thank you so much and congrats on a wonderful event. >> Thank you. Our next comment is going to be from Laura Bolton. And Mrs. Bolton, you'll have three minutes. I will be very brief. I just realized that um I left one school report out and it was a really important one. Um Garza shared
075that um they had Club Rush and they specifically wanted to point out that Science Olympiad went from singledigit membership to over 50 students. So uh and I Science Olympiad has a very warm spot in my heart. my my own children, myself, we all we're a Science Olympiad family. So, um I'm really happy that Garza has some um increased interest and participation in Science Olympiad. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next comment is from Ethan English and you'll have three minutes. Make sure the button is bright green when you speak. Uh good evening board. Uh good evening uh uh President Sing Chan, uh Superintendent Marshall and board members. Um my name is Ethan English and I'm a freshman at Central uh High School. Um before I talk any further, I ask permission to hand out these
076um these papers that will relate to my topic relating to Central High School and uh Central uh Unified School District if that's okay. Um, as you can see from the sheet, um, I've handed out, I've been working on a project to create a new school brochure for Central High School. Um, after many recommendations from Miss Gamber, uh, who left just minutes ago, but I do thank her for it. Um, I agreed with her decision starting my projects from school level. Um, I've also been asking Central High School staff, like our library, uh, staff like Miss Cheek, uh, making sure what we put in the brochure is tasteful and needed, um, for Central High School. I'm currently in the design phase and have started gathering images to include. Um, I apologize that I do not have
077a finished brochure to show you today, but the single pager you have outlines my plan and my progress. My goal is to present a final portfolio, the brochure to uh, Mr. Topia and Mr. Burroughs by December. Uh, this project will be an incredible learning experience as it as it has especially shown me how um, studentled initiatives are much powerful. Once the Central High School brochure is complete, I would be absolutely honored to do something for Central Unified. Um, I would just before I um I stop my time, I would like to acknowledge um a few people that have inspired me to create all of these uh ideas and projects for especially like the brochure. Um, I would like to thank um, Miss Brida from um, from McKinley Elementary. I would also like to thank uh,
078Miss Schwam and Miss um, Miss Angie from El Capitan and especially uh, Miss Gamber and Miss Mullen from Central High School. Thank you, >> President Singh. I have no other cards at this time. >> Thank you for all all your hard work, Ethan. Um, next we turn to our consent agenda this evening. Uh, and I wanted to highlight that uh, tonight we are proclaiming October 20th through 24th National School Bus Safety Week and want to definitely thank all of our school bus drivers that continue that safety every every day. Uh we are declaring October 23rd to October 31st as Red Ribbon Week and uh declaring the month of November as sick heritage month. And so with that, do I have a motion on set item? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion
079by trustee Korea. We have a second by Trusty Kong. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. Move on to our action items this evening. our first to accept gifts to district. Um, thank you, director. >> Thank you, President Singh. Um, members of the board, Dr. um Marshall, superintendent. Tonight I bring you um two donations um for Central Unified, $100 from Systo Mononttoya for Central High School aquatics aquatics uh program and $1,000 from Gordon Park Justin Garza High School for the mock trial completion of 202526. Administration is recommending the board accept the gifts to the district and I'd be happy to answer any questions. I move to accept. We >> have a motion by trusty CO, second by Trusty Keron. Those in favor, please say I.
080>> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Move on to item number two. Approve the governance handbook. Dr. Marshall. >> It's recommended that the board approve the changes to the governance handbook from our workshop um in August. question questions or comments from the board. Jesse Korea, >> I have um one recommendation for the board. Is there any interest in removing since we've changed our our processes in place given the change in in our administration and the improve improvement in in procedures? Um, is there any interest or willingness to remove section C governing protocols related to Oh, page 11 uh board representation interview panels. I would just entertain that idea. I would like to keep that uh process uh on the table um should something happen in
081the future. So, I would not be in favor at this time. >> Other comments or questions from the board? Trusty S. >> Oh, sorry. Uh, separate comment. Um, I just want to point out for the public that during our workshop where we discussed the uh governance protocols, uh, we wanted to talk about what was our unifying vision for the district and that is to be student focused. So that's one of our main amendments to this uh handbook is that our top uh priority on our meeting behavior norms on page five is keeping our focus on the best interest of students. >> Page 11 uh letter C. Yes, section C, governance protocols. and it's just what's listed on that page 11. >> Can you repeat what your recommendation was >> to remove the board representation section
082and un in panels? >> Uh I'll agree with Vice President Curio. >> Um while others contemplate and and after I'll make a motion unless President Singh had any other feedback. I do want to acknowledge that this handbook was created before the governing board um had any student trustees and so we have had previous discussions and and I' I've asked that our student trustees create some language to incorporate their representation and their role in our board. So I I just want to make that clear to our student trustees and also to the public that that was not an intentional exclusion. Um unfortunately previous boards did not um agree with me in having student trustees. So that was not incorporated since you didn't exist as part of our governance team. Um President Singh if you don't have
083any comments or feedback then >> No. C can you just repeat what your uh recommendation was? >> Yes. So my recommendation is to remove on page 11 uh the section the three paragraphs related to board representation. So it would essentially remove our participation um on hiring interview panels. and Trusty Chavez has a comment or question. >> So on this topic, I I am in agreement with Trusty Guro given the fact that I believe that when this was in really vital to us was because we did have turnover of our administration and I do think that it was important that we did have consistency. So, we did have board um participation in those interview panels, but given the fact that now our administrative positions are filled and we are in a in a position of um
084I guess organizationally finding our footing and strength in those interview panels. I think I'm comfortable with us removing that language from the from the handbook. >> Trust her. I just want to be clear that we have not exercised our rights with this um over the past few months. Um while this has still been um in our handbook, uh what this motion would do, it would tie our hands in the future should we want to exercise that oversight on future administration. This is no knock to our current administrators. This is a process that could help the board of trustees and therefore the public have more oversight for hiring uh whether that is this year, five years from now, 10 years from now and it would be another whole process to amend the handbook to bring these
085uh ability back to us. So for that I maintain my respectful opposition. Trusty Sidu. >> Uh although I do hear your point, Trusty Kurfon. Um I also look at the other side where five 10 years down the road there could be nefarious actors that could play a negative impact on hiring practices and therefore I do not agree. >> Trusty Aura >> and I would just add that now you all have the language. So should you still be on this board 10 years from now or 5 years from now or two years from now and there is a need, all you need is a majority. that's four members from the seven member board to be able to adopt this language and put in these restrictions. Um, and so with that, I will move to strike the
086three paragraphs on page 11 related to board representation on interview panels um and approve the remainder of the governance handbook. So we have we have a motion by trustee CO to approve the uh governor's handbook with the striking out of section 11C or P and we have a second by trustee uh Sidu and uh we give um first uh student trustee Garville. Do you have a vote on I a I may orain? >> Okay. And for uh the rest of the trustees, those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. >> Nay. >> Those abstaining. So motion end up carrying 420. >> Thank you. We move on to item number three. Adopt resolution number 2526-14. Continued funding application EED 3704 aligned with CSP contract for 2026 2027 school year. Assistant Superintendent Mlennon.
087>> Good evening. Central Unified operates five state preschool programs. Um eligibility is based on income and family size. The preschools offer a three-hour kindergarten readiness program. Children's growth is measured um using the DRDP, which is an assessment of child development skills. This approval or this resolution would allow us to have continued funding for that state preschool program. >> Questions or comments from the board? Our first questions or comments from our student trustee? >> Questions or comments from the rest of the board? >> I'll move to approve the resolution. Second. >> We have a motion by trustee Korea, second by trustee Chavez. Uh, student trustee, how would you like to vote? >> Yay. I >> board of trustees. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. >> Motion carries. Uh,
08870. Uh, we move on to item number four. Approve school site council reduced composition agreement. Assistant Superintendent McClendon. Approval of this action item would allow our small schools of under 300 students to maintain a small school authorized school site council of six members. The challenge with the small schools is finding enough staff members and enough parents to have a quorum and consistent school site council. So this allows those small schools that flexibility under education code. It must be approved by the unions. And so you can see their signatures on the second page. Um, and the board >> questions or comments from our student trustee. >> Question comments from their board. Uh, Trusty and then trustee Sellers. >> Do you know is this the first time that we're having to adopt this? Because I have like
089zero memory of ever adopting and I'm wondering um whether if this is a new problem that we're facing in in recruiting uh enough to have a quorum and I'll just leave it at that. >> It's certainly not a new problem and it's particularly um pertinent to our alternative educations that have you know challenges with family involvement anyway. Okay. >> Um so we have several schools that have been struggling this school year. I can't speak to whether it's been done much prior, but I did do a little bit of investigating just recently and I couldn't find anything where this had gone through the board. It may have been being done, but I couldn't find anything that was being done through the board. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah, at least not before 2018. I I would have
090known before that, but I have no memory of ever having to consider this request. Okay. Thank you, >> Trusty Sers. when I read through the uh portion here, who are the six members that will be required for um the new makeup if this was adopted? >> So, if you look at the front uh the front page, um you would essentially have to match your classroom teachers and your other school personnel. I mean, your classroom teachers and school personnel are typically two and then the principal and then you would have three parents or community members as the six. So are we seeing a uh a shortage of faculty staff members or is this a parent shortage? >> It depends on the site quite honestly. Some have if there's a there's a significant time investment involved and
091so sometimes we have problems with parents or we have um a revolving door of parents and you have to have consistent because they're officers and you have to hold elections. Um and other times it's the number of staff members. So for small schools that have, you know, a dozen or so staff members, it can be hard to get three of them consistently to serve on the schoolside council. >> Okay. Um, does this uh have a term limit to how long this would be good for or is this to move forward in the future? >> So the way that we worded this particular one is it doesn't have a limit on it. we could always go back and rescend it. And it also doesn't um specifically state that a school would be excluded. It gives examples
092of schools that are at 300 or less right now, but it just says currently these are the schools that it would affect, but it could potentially affect any school that would be under 300. >> Okay. Um my concerns with that then are I looking at the current schools I understand some of the challenges they may face but I think it's important for us to be creative and think of out of the box ideas of how we connect with our parents we connect with our faculty members and encourage them to participate in this because this does serve a very important purpose. Um, I think by lowering the number and having it uh an endless date does not incentivize us to become creative thinkers. It just status quo is good enough. >> It's true. the um resolution
093or the uh agreement does require them to make concerted efforts and so my plan is to have them work with the state and federal um director to ensure that they have done outreach and to to basically show that effort because I agree it's important to do it that like I said the challenge is it's really hard to get five staff or five um uh parents if you only have 10 staff members that could possibly represent Um, if do we have the ability to amend this to have a 24month and then it comes back to the board for reapproval? >> Yeah. You just propose that? >> I would like to make that motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay. So, so we have a motion to C. Can you say your very specific motion >> uh to
094amend the current resolution that this would be good for uh the remainder of this school year and the following school year and then be brought back to the board for uh approval again if necessary. >> So the so the motion is for this item to come back in two years. >> Yes. >> And we have a so we have a motion by uh Trustee Sers. We have a second by trustee Kerfond. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Oh, sorry. Our student member first. Yes. >> Thank Thank you. Uh for the trustee of the board, those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Nay. >> Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. >> Uh Trusty Kurfont. So, uh, assistant Superintendent Mclennon, um, is it just the six sites that were
095listed as the, uh, on the smaller side that are struggling to fill their quorum, or are we seeing this issue with other larger sites as well? >> We do see that issue with larger sites, but legally they have to maintain 10. So, they have to, for lack of a better word, beat the bushes and, you know, get out there and and do outreach. The other schools, we waited. We didn't do this at the beginning of the year as an automatic because of that outreach. Um but those sites are struggling with it. Some of them may be able to make it. They're close. Other ones are are not. >> Um and is there a um stipend for this uh school site position? >> So I believe there is payment in the uh CBA for the staff
096members, not for the family members. >> I see. >> Or for the student members for the secondary sites. >> Okay. Yeah. >> No further questions. Thank you. Yeah. We move on to item number five. Uh approve authorized signature and mailing permit. Um >> I'm back. >> Right. Good evening. Um thank you President Singh, members of the board. Dr. uh Marshall Superintendent. Tonight I bring you the authorized signature and mailing permit. Per education code 426 point or 33. The governing board shall each school district shall have a responsible filing and causing to be filed with county superintendent of schools the verified signature. Each person including members of the governing board authorized to sign orders in its name. The superintendent, chief business officer, and assistant superintendent or a majority of the governing board are authorized to sign
097orders in the name of the district as approved by the board July 22nd, 2025. In addition, the following fiscal service staff are authorized to sign purchase orders but not contracts. Purchasing fiscal analysts um authorized to finalize and sign purchase orders up to a limit of $200. The purchasing warehouse manager authorized to finalize and sign purchase orders up to a limit of $35,000. Uh furthermore, Dr. Javon Childs and Julia Mlelen are to be added as the authorized signers and sign orders in the in the name of the school district. Administration is recommending the board approve the authorized signature and mailing permit. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> Questions or comments from our student board member? >> Questions or comments from the board? I move to approve the authorization, signature and mailing permit. >> Second.
098>> We have a motion by trusty CO, second by trustee Kond. >> Uh Trusty Gville, >> favor. I >> board of trustees. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6. >> Thank you. >> We move on to our information items this evening. Item number one, receive updated information regarding state um state aid services contract with Caldwell Flores Winters. >> Good evening. I'd like to introduce uh Rosa Perez from Caldwell Flores Winters provides a professional consultant services for facilities planning assessments educational program consulting, state aid grants and modernization construction and school facilities election services for bond uh parcel tax campaign committee program implementation services or uh for facilities and educational programs throughout the state of California. and she's going to give a brief presentation. >> Good evening,
099President Singh, members of the board, Dr. Marshall, hello, and members of the Central Unified Community. Um, just want to start off by uh letting you know that we met Dr. Marshall is someone we've worked with before. We met him when he was at the East Side Union School District. And I want to tell you that he mentioned Proposition Two tonight. And I wish I could say that it's just as simple as submitting an application to get assistance from the state when it comes to school facilities funding. It isn't. Um I have worked with Cwell Flores Winters for 15 years. I'm a retired community college chancellor. I was a college president. I started by the way as an EOPS counselor back in the day. You might remember uh always looking for ways to help students in
100low low-income communities and facilities has really become my passion. when we met and he was at East Side, we really we helped him obtain funding to build a school from the state. Uh districts oftentimes think that they've got to fund a lot of their work with the local general obligation uh bond dollars. Uh congratulations on getting a bond, but you know what? We're here to hopefully tell you you're eligible for a lot more from the state. I want to talk to you a little bit about how to get that. uh after we assisted him with a school funding in East Side when he went to Los Vanos uh he became an expert in uh facilities funding. He really is. He's one of the most knowledgeable superintendents when it comes to how to work with the
101state and we've had the pleasure of working with him in Los Vanos because that district like yours has a high percentage of free and reduced lunch eligible students and is also we'll talk about this later eligible for financial hardship because of your bond because of your facilities indebtedness. um we were able to get him 100% funding for building TK kindergarten classrooms for that district. So when he got here, he called me up one day and he was visiting schools and he said, "You know, I've got so many school sites here that need work in facilities. Could you look up our eligibility?" I said, "Sure." So, we looked it up and um we found a lot of eligibility for the majority of your schools. So, um that's great news. We're going to talk to you about
102that. And I'm actually not going to do the presentation. That will be done by Greg Norman, who is our vice president of state aid services for our firm. He's got over 30 years of experience. He's the most knowledgeable guy working with school districts in the state on on getting this funding. Um, we're going to go over your eligibility, talk, let you see which schools are eligible. Like I said, it's the majority of the of your schools, and then talk about how to go about getting you that funding, which hopefully will be more than what you got in your bond. Okay, great. Good evening, board. Good evening, Dr. Marshall. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. Let me get this started here. Perfect. Let's start with the basics as to what the state program is. It
103is called the school facility program. It is uh Senate Bill 50 for those of you that uh would like to do the research. What the school facility program is, it's a partnership between the state and the local school district as it relates to your facilities. The partnership can vary from a 6040 uh partnership, 60% born by the state, or it could be a 50/50 partnership. So, we'll get more into detail there. The school facility program has been around since 1977 uh for the old-timers in the group. Senator Lee Green was one of the uh founders of the school facility program. It has undergone numerous revisions. It started off as a lease purchase program and today it is a grant program. So it has always been there for school districts and as Dr. Marshall and Rosa
104uh have commented on with Prop 2, it provides a unique opportunity for our school district here. So the school facilities program is the is the name of that program. So, Prop 2, most of you are aware that uh this past November, the voters of the state of California approved Prop 2, which provides $8.5 billion to TK through 12 learning institutions for schools. That is broken out into new construction, and we'll briefly go over what new construction means, and also modernization. There's two boutique programs, one that specifically uh would be beneficial to our district here and that is the CTE, but there's also funds available for charter schools uh as well. Wanted to provide you with the information that our district here has been a partner with the state uh previously. So this is not anything
105news, not uh anything recent that you guys have engaged the state in partnership as it relates to your facilities, but you have uh uh partner with the the uh the state and specifically as it relates to new construction over hund00 million. So what we're here tonight is to say you have current opportunities uh for aortionments from the state as well. So, let's get to the meat of the presentation. These are your uh schools, your campuses, and corresponding amounts of eligibility. So, all in total, there's about a little over $und00 million uh that is currently available uh to your district in partnership uh with the state. And so the majority that you're seeing here is modernization. So let's get into what modernization means. So on your campuses, any of the permanent structures that are 25 years
106old or older or those portable standalone buildings that are 20 years old or older are eligible for modernization funding. And so each particular campus generates its own eligibility. So if one campus generates the eligibility, you cannot use it at another campus. So each one uh is specific as it relates to their eligibility. The two that we have highlighted there, the reason why they are highlighted is because you currently have the necessary documents in order to make an application today to access those funds. So, what are those necessary documents? There's three uh three approvals that you would need. You would need the division of state architect or the DSA approval. uh the CDE or the California Department of Education approval and then a board approved construction contract. If you have those three elements, you are in
107position to submit an application to the state uh for funding. So, in speaking with your CBO, those are two projects that we do currently have the necessary documents in order to submit an application. The other critical thing is that a good portion of your campuses are eligible. So this could provide you with a planning tool to determine what other types of improvements do we want to make on our campuses and you can actually know what the budget is as it relates to the available amount of money from the state. And again, these are just your basic grants. Uh there are supplemental grants that would go over and beyond this, but these are called per per pupil grant amounts. And so this is just the basics. Typically uh we get anywhere from 20 to 25% more
108in supplemental grants that would go above and beyond the numbers uh that you're seeing there. Okay, there it is. Now, with Prop 2, it has dramatically changed the school facility program and specifically two areas. Uh, under Prop Two, there is a regulation that states that if you have buildings that are 75 years old or older, and we've listed those buildings there that uh are currently in the district, that the state would provide you with new construction pupil grants or new construction aortionment in order to demolish those schools and build them a new. You don't have to have new construction uh uh uh eligibility. As long as the facility is 75 years old or older, it provides you with an opportunity to tear it down and to build it back. The state's position is that a
10975 year old building has outlived its useful purpose and so they're willing to give you the funds in order to rebuild it. The second thing with Prop 2 that I think is quite significant is what is called minimum essential facility. Again, this is something that is new, has not been part of the school facility program uh previously. A minimum essential facility could be a kitchen, an NPR, a gymnasium. So what the state is saying is that if any of your campuses lack what they consider to be a minimum essential facility, they will give you the funds in order to construct that minimum essential facility. If you have a minimum essential facility that is undersized based upon the enrollment at a particular campus, they will give you the funds in order to bring that particular facility
110up to the standard. And again, it's title 5 and CDE is the organization that determines based upon your enrollment uh the size of specific uh facilities. So, two opportunities that are unique to Prop 2, the 75-year-old uh building and the minimum essential facility. Now, new construction, new construction, I always refer to new construction as the three-legged stool. uh the the way that we calculate new construction and new construction doesn't necessarily have to be a brand new school. Typically, when people hear new construction, they they think of a brand new school, but in this case, it's anything that adds square footage. So, it could be a roll of uh new classrooms that are replacing dilapidated portables. It could be a new gymnasium. It could be a new cafeteria. It could be a parking shelter. So, anything
111that adds square footage is considered new construction. And new construction eligibility. Again, three-legged stool. It depends upon your historical enrollment data. So, we take an analysis of 5 years, 10 years, and 18 years worth of enrollment data. That's the first leg of the of the stool. The second leg of the stool is your existing capacity. Those classrooms that you have uh that are available for uh the students. The state utilizes their own student loading standard for the lower grades TK through six. It's 25 pupils per each classroom. And even though your teachers contract could be higher than that, the state loads those classrooms at 25 students per classrooms. And then for the upper grades, it's 27 per each classroom. So based upon that formula, they determine whether or not you have enough space to house
112the children that you are educating. So that would be the second leg of the stool. And then the third leg of the stool is something that was mentioned uh already here tonight and that is any new housing developments that will occur within the school district boundaries. So what the state does there say for example there's a 100 unit apartment complex being constructed within the school district boundaries their student generation rate is 0.5. Now your student generation rate historically could be something significantly different than that but it's 0.5. So out of that 100 unit apartment complex they are willing to give you 50 new construction pupil grants. So they're saying out of that apartment complex 50 students will impact your school district. So you need to have the space in order to house them. So, we're
113going to give you the money in which to build the facilities uh to house them. So, what we do is we look at those three legs of the stool and that determines what your new construction eligibility uh would be. So, again, there are many opportunities. Uh tonight, one of the things that we have spoken with Dr. Marshall about is financial hardship. But let's talk about how you come up with your match if that is indeed how you partner with the DIS with the uh with the state. So on the screen is your 10-year election history. As all of you know, you just passed a a a recent bond and you have actually sold some of those bond funds already. uh there isn't to our understanding any more bonding authority that is available. So that would
114put you in a position where you would be eligible for financial hardship. So what is financial hardship? We had talked about the fact that the partnership for modernization is a 6040 partnership with 60% being born by the state and the new construction the partnership is a 50/50 partnership. So what happens if you don't have your match, you don't have your 40% or you don't have your 50%. Then there are certain criteria that you would have to apply for or be eligible for and the state would then not only pay their portion of the project, but they would also pay the district match. So in essence you would be getting 100% of the project costs coming from the state. Okay. So that is financial hardship. The other major uh change in the school facility program and
115one that is quite significant and and that is that a facility master plan and Dr. Marshall uh alluded to that in his comments. uh facility master plan is now uh at the top of the list in order to get an aortionment. So there won't be any aortionments unless you have a certified facility master plan. And the different types of uh information uh that is now uh in that facility master plan is quite significant. And what we've done there is we have listed some of those things. Probably the most significant thing that is now required in the facility master plan is the capacity and having as many schools as you have. That is quite a task to every space has to be identified and recorded in that document. And then there's other criteria that is necessary.
116Uh the OPSC has given districts 2 years in order to come up with the facility master plan. That's how detailed uh it will be as it relates to uh the required uh information and we will be working uh with uh Dr. Marshall uh and your CBO in providing additional information as it relates to the facility uh master plan, but in order to get in line for the aortionment for the dollars that we've spoken about tonight, uh you would have to have a a a valid facility master plan. So, a lot of information uh in a very short uh period of time, but the overarching uh message that we wanted to deliver to you tonight is that you do have a significant amount of eligibility, which means that there is quite an opportunity to make the
117necessary improvements on all pretty much all of your campuses and also the necessary uh resources that if you needed to do any new construction that you could partner with the state. So, uh, be happy to entertain any questions that you may have. >> Trusty Korea. >> So, my understanding is that we have a current um facilities master plan. So, do we just need to improve it and add maybe more components? >> It's my understanding that the current plan is no longer um is no longer current. >> Okay. So, we have a facilities master plan. We just need to update it. Okay. But they're the same components or is there still much more that we need to do to it? I guess >> much much more. I've taken a look. Yes. I've taken a look at
118your existing one. To give you an example, the Office of Public School Construction have had 177 stakeholder meetings on the new regulations for Prop 2. So all of those master plans that were done by architects in the past, they do not contain all of the elements. Now they do contain some of the elements, but the majority of the elements under Prop 2 uh would be additions to a typical uh master plan uh that was 2, three, four years ago. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, the other thing that looks like would not be part of the facilities master plans if we agree and the board approves after whatever other processes have to be followed for the demolition of any of our schools. I mean, I think it's important that we also include what our plan is going
119to be to house those students because what we know for certain is we can plan and say it's a two-year project and here we are 5 years later still trying to complete a project. Um, this district is very familiar and a lot of us are very familiar with uh the timelines with construction projects and and the cost of money. So, I just want to point that out that as as we continue to have these discussions to make sure that we include all of our partners uh within our administration and we have plans to house our students because I mean I'm all about demolishing portables and old buildings, but we need to make sure we can still house our students. >> Yeah, the interim housing is is key. Uh a lot of school districts what they
120will do depending upon the acreage that uh that is available. If all of the buildings are on one part and then there's playgrounds on the other part of a campus they will build the new structure on the playground area then demolish the old or where the existing facilities are and then that will become the playground area. the Oxnard uh elementary school district has done that on six of their uh campuses and been quite successful. So, the interim housing is definitely something that uh needs to be planned. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Sers. >> I think you just answered one of my questions. Uh but uh is there a limit of how much money a district can be awarded annually or just overall? >> No limit. It all depends upon your eligibility. >> Okay. Um, want
121to clarify it. I believe you said it's prop two buildings that are 75 years or older. Is it the school site has to be 75 years old or the building itself? >> The building itself. So, you may have buildings of different vintage on a particular campus. So, those buildings that are 75 years or older are eligible to be replaced. >> Okay. Um, and then the uh believe the term you said was minimal essential buildings. >> Minimum essential facilities. >> Facilities. >> Yes. >> And that has to be on a 75-year-old campus. >> No. No. So two two separate uh uh parts of Prop 2. So the 75 year old is totally separate than the minimum essential facilities. So, the minimum essential facilities can be on a brand new campus that doesn't have a library or
122a gymnasium or whatever the case may be. >> Would a uh visual and performing arts theater building be considered essential? >> Uh, not quite. >> Uh, that was it. Thank you. >> Okay, great. >> Trusty Kurfont. >> Thank you, President Singh. Uh, building off of one of my colleagues questions. Um if the district does not have a record of how old a building is whether it's you know 75 or 55 uh how would we determine eligibility in that instance? >> Uh the division of the state architect the DSA that's where we go to get the so all of your buildings are DSA approved or should be DSA approved and so that's the resource that we tap into. Okay. And uh in your mind, how long do you think the state will have the $ 8.5
123billion available for school districts? How quickly will that run out? >> It's it's going quite fast. If you recall, this past November, there was quite a bit of uh local bonds that were passed in anticipation of districts having their match. So I think it was actually a record number. So it is on a first come the school facility program is on a first come first- serve basis. So, one district gets their application in on Monday, the next one gets it in on Tuesday, the one on Monday gets uh the money. >> Right. Well, thank you. And it's been almost a year since the votive central approved measure X and about a year, I don't have the numbers for Centry Unified, but 53% of Fresno County residents voted yes for Prop 2. Uh my final question
124is since it's been a year, has the district been trying to apply for any of the Prop 2 funds? And if not, why not? Do we have someone from facilities that can answer that? >> I mean, I think what they said is that we don't even have a facilities plan to qualify. So, I'm not sure that we would have been able to apply. >> Okay. Are we are we working on updating that facility master plan then so we can qualify? >> Yeah, that that's that's related to this item. Abs. Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> All right. Excellent. >> So I I I can state that the OPSC has no records of receiving a application >> from from our district here. >> Okay. Well, thank you for your presentation and I hope we can uh get this
125approved then. >> Trustees Chavez. Um, so I'm looking at your contract and I noticed um this contract is entered into this 28th day of October. So this is more a question for my fellow trustees. Uh, so we're getting information, we're receiving information tonight. So this will come back to us for approval for us to approve the cont. Okay. >> Okay. I just wanted that clarification. If no other questions, thank you so much. We'll have this return under action at the at the next agenda. >> Okay, sounds great. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Just want to add the hardest I mean we have to move quickly. The hard part for your district is because you have so many schools and we've got to go for the money is to kind of prioritize. And I
126know there's, you know, and it really is an equity issue looking throughout your district and deciding how to move on what order. And that'll be something, of course, we'll be working with Dr. Marshall on pretty aggressively because we do want to get get those first two in and then work on the others. >> Thank you so much. >> It'll move forward to um for action on October 28th. Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. Next item number two, receive information regarding revised board policies. This is Superintendent McClennon. >> This board policy went to the subcommittee. However, just after it went to the subcommittee and we were going to bring it to the last meeting, we got a new new update and so there were some minor wording tweaks and some clarifications added in here like the word
127student instead of just you know they will learn it said students. So it was it were those kind of clarifications beyond what the subcommittee approved but I wanted to pull it and just bring it once to you. So this item is up for approval. It does allow us to do some things through our career technical education program with the most recent additions which include some student paid internships and some um eligibility for potential, you know, depending on what the department of education does, potential funding through some of the um student workforce initiatives that that go through there. Question or comments on this item? Then we'll have this returned under consent at our next meeting. Item number three, receive information regarding Western Association of uh schools and colleges, WA was uh assistant superintendent mlennon. >> So
128this is a happy happy one to share. Um I did not find record of the Wasque results for that we got at the end of last year being brought to the board to share. So I did want to share that all four of our schools received the maximum accreditation term that they can receive. So, three of our schools, Central East High School, Central High School, and Justin Garza, received six-year accreditations after their WASK visit. They will have a three-year midterm review, and if everything goes well with that review, then they automatically get the the rest of the term. And then Persing, you heard about Persing being accredited, so they had their mid-year review because they got a six-year review, which is not easy for alternative programs. So, they had their midyear or midterm review and
129got the remaining three years. Thank you. We move on to then item number four. This was just anformational uh receive information regarding 2025 2026 school plan for student achievement SPSA for just one singer elementary school area administrator Fowler. Good evening, President Singh, Superintendent Marshall, uh, trustees. Um, tonight I have the distinct pleasure of presenting the Jaswalt Singh Kra Elementary single plan for student achievement, uh, for information, the first ever. Um, administration is recommending this item be placed on the October 28th board agenda for action. Um, and I would just like to say and give a big shout out to Mr. Diaz, who was opening a school, getting everything organized, and managed to put together a SIPA, uh, which is awesome. So, he's here tonight. I wanted to recognize that. That's a lot of work. Um,
130but this is for information. Um, and, uh, we're recommending it be placed on the October 28th uh, board agenda for action. And I'll take any questions you may have. >> Questions or comments on that item? >> Trusty Kuran. Thank you, President Singh. Um, so administrator Fowler or Prince, uh, principal Diaz, uh, since this is our first time uh, with Jasmine Singh Kalra, um, have a school being tested, uh, how do we set expectations, uh, for our, you know, I Ready or SBACK scores? >> So, right now with it being new, um, you know, we we pull a lot of data from our surrounding schools where we had students come, right? We had a lot of students come from Roosevelt, Harvest, and Steinbeck. So, looking at that data, setting a baseline, and then setting where our
131goal is going to be. So, right now, all the students took um the initial I ready, and then our goal is to see how much we're going to grow. Right now, we want to grow about 25 points by the time we get to to December. >> Okay, great. I just wanted to make sure we're not aiming blindly, but it sounds like you guys have already been put in the hard work then. >> Yeah. No, uh right now our PLC's, they're going really well. We're looking at our data. I'm excited about our K2 literacy program. Right now, our teachers are imple implementing UFly and looking at that data every Monday. And then same thing with our I Ready and our Wonders weekly assessment. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Thank you guys. >> Great job. Thank
132you. We'll have this uh uh return under consent. The next agenda, move on. Item number five, receive information regarding ethnic studies course. Director English. Good evening, board president singing Chan, members of the board, and superintendent Marshall. I'm here tonight just to provide an information item on our ethnic studies course and just get like a midcourse overview. I know that we just implemented this course this year, so I'm here to provide a brief presentation. So, in my brief presentation, I'll be talking about the progress, our opportunities, and the impact that we've had this year. And as you remember, um, this California ethnic studies course aligns with the state requirements. We use the model curriculum the teachers did to develop this pro program, and it focused on cultural awareness, identity, um, equity, and historical perspectives, especially of
133our four major ethnic groups. um the instructional approach that the teachers are using a lot of discussion based um it's not just a open an article and highlight annotate but because this does with related to interpersonal skills there are a lot of discussions that are taking place in the classroom with the students it is an inquirydriven course and they also do have projects as we know um because there are different conflicting opinions this really does build critical thinking and empathy. What we want all of our students, you know, to leave us with as they go out to be productive human beings and adults and really focusing on that cultural competence, knowing that even though they themselves may be of a different ethnicity of someone else, they can still interact and interrelate with one another. We
134do have um as a review, we did select um the 10 um history social studies teachers who have that history social science credential. And so at Central High School there are four teachers who are teaching this class and at Central East and Justin Garza there are three teachers each as um built by the master schedule. Um, we did offer this course for original credit during summer school as freshmen can take that course through the E2020 egeneuity course. And we did have 189 students who completed the course prior to um looking at making sure that this course was approved through the UKOP um University of California approval process. And I myself did look at the course making sure that it outlined with what the students were being taught commensurate in the fall um course. Currently we
135have about 500 students taking the course throughout our um high schools in our district. And we actually do have a handful of 11th um you know 10th through 12th graders who were interested in that whether it's based on um having a teacher who taught a previous course the world cultures course or just having an interest in that. So it is open for all students to take. However, we are requiring all ninth graders to take that. The students who are not taking it currently, who are taking the health elective, will be taking that ethnic studies course in the springtime. Um, we have um done some professional learning opportunities. I myself have a um cultural um proficiency certificate and access and equity. So, before the school year in August, I did facilitate a training for all of
136the um instructors teaching that course. really looking at those sensitive issues and making sure that we were able to attend to students needs who may have some different viewpoints than themselves or just viewpoints as other classmates and really just looking at some interesting information that they might not have seen before. So, we went on a deep dive on that just making sure that we can put or all of our teachers can put their personal biases away and be able to facilitate the dialogue and interaction in class for all students. Then um we do have a wonderful group of teachers teaching the course who are also looking forth to finding new professional learning opportunities. One of the teachers from Justin Garza brought in um this um Asian-American education project she and wanted to know if we
137can engage in some professional learning through them. And so we did um I participated as well um and we did a zoom with them for a one-hour session which was very fascinating and they talked about the AsianPacific Islander Desi American group and then they are a well-reputed group and have consulted with PBS learning media as well on many of their projects. So it is good to know that the teachers are active in finding some other opportunities where they are um collaborating with one another and with finding um well-reputed groups to continue to build their capacity as they're teaching this course. So we do have um some opportunities as well in the spring that are coming up, but I just wanted to highlight the two that have already um transpired this semester. I was able to
138send the teachers a survey to the students and so um it was a five question survey just kind of like what's their engagement level in the class and I just wanted to highlight that kind of it makes us remember why we're doing what we're doing and why this class is so important. So, just a few little sound bites of like what was the most interesting. I'm not going to read all the dialogue on the screen, but just really highlighting that some of the students didn't know these things existed. And this class has really opened their eyes even knowing what's happened here in Fresno and knowing that even with the Asian-Americans, the prevalence of break dancing for the Mong students or, you know, being able to just understand who they are and how to relate to
139their classmates. So, I just really um thank want to thank the board for the time and the um just opportunity to present this and just to also provide this update for the course because I know that from where we were prior to where we are now, it's really made an impact on our students and I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you, director English. Questions from the board. Trustee Korea, >> if I understood correctly, we had 188 I might have missed one or two num students. um complete the course on I Ready. How did they do? >> E2020. >> Sorry. Um those were the students. Yes. Um those are the students who successfully passed the course. I didn't pull their actual letter grade, but they did receive the five credits for that course.
140>> Thank you for the presentation. Next, move on to item number six. Receive information regarding core and supplemental materials for secondary courses. Director English. >> I have this one. >> Okay. >> So, these are some materials that we have struggled uh finding some really good quality materials. One to help our AP Spanish students and the other one where it's very difficult to find Punjabi materials that were by our instructor and you know, mad respect for the screening and the diligence in trying to find those. But um they were able to finally identify some very strong materials that they feel like that can help students attain that proficiency. So we're bringing those materials to you for review and then for approval. >> Question or comments from the board >> and we'll have this return under consent.
141Thank you. >> Thank you. Next item number seven, receive information regarding Cordley Williams uniform complaint procedure. Director English. >> Yes. Good evening again um board president singing Chan, members of the board and superintendent Marshall. This item is in um presented in compliance with the William settlement requirements. This is a quarterly report that provides information regarding the three key areas, teacher qualifications, school facilities, and instructional materials. Um, each district is required to conduct quarterly public hearings and submit a report to the county superintendent. Administration is recommending that the board hold a public hearing at the next board meeting and approve the quarterly Williams uniform complaint procedure. >> Thank you. We will have the uh the quarterly Williams uh complaint procedure the hearing held at the next board meeting. We move on to item number eight. receive
142information regarding list of obsolete textbooks and materials. Director English. >> Thank you again. Um I'm here to present this item. Educational services submitting the attached list of instructional materials that um are declared obsolete. These materials have either been replaced by new adoptions or are no longer in use due to age and/or condition. In accordance with the state law, these obsolete materials will be first offered to teachers, students, parents, and other community members. Any unclaimed materials can then be offered to nonprofit organizations, discarded or sold to used textbook retailers. Um, any of the proceeds that we do receive will be deposited into the district's instructional materials account and administration is recommending that this item be placed on the October 28th, 2025 board agenda for action. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Then we'll
143have this return under consent. >> I think we have to return this under action. Yeah, I want to say it requires a super majority or something. >> Correct. >> Yeah, it has. You're right. It has to be returned. Thank you. We move on to item number nine. Receive information regarding California positive behavioral interventions and support PBIS model school recognition. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lopez. So, we are excited to officially announce the 2024 2025 PBIS recognition and I have in front of me uh two of our teachers on special assignments and that is Versa Shaw and Jamie Garcia who will be providing you theformational item. Hi board. Thank you for having us. Uh we would like to take a moment to celebrate the schools who applied for and received PBIS recognition for the 2425 school year. For
144a platinum award recipients were Biola, Central East, Hernand Barstow, Liddell, Pathway, Persian, Rio, Vista, Roosevelt, Steinbeck, and Tilly. Gold award recipients include Central Elementary, Central High School, Harvest, Hton, Karnney, Madison, Riverbluff, Teague, and Soyan. Silver award recipients include McKinley Glacier Point. And our bronze recipients include Garza High School. We'd like to take a moment to celebrate the schools for creating a safe and positive school learning environment for their students and staff. We would also like to go over our tier fidelity inventory. Last year, um, our schools received recognition for tier TFI 2.1. This year, we're beginning our implementation of TFI 3.1. And uh we're we have a cohort of schools that will be implementing restorative PBIS um and also um align with the restorative practices um which emphasizes um climate um sorry which emphasizes equity
145and also um classroom practices um and it the requirement for our 20 thou two 2027 PBIS recognition will be the TFI 3.0 O and we're building that capacity this year and following year to um receive those recognitions and these this TFI will um also the this implementation sorry will align with the LCSSP grant um program goals. We'd also like to acknowledge our restorative practices pilot groups. We have 13 schools who have volunteered to be um and aligned with our LCSSP grant and in partnership with the International Institute of Restorative Practices to begin training and so receive additional support for restorative practices. So those schools would be Alcap Central Tilly McKinley out Steinbeck H. Hearnen Barstow Harvest Teague Roosevelt and Glacier Point and Garza. So, we'd like to congratulate them on being pioneers in restorative practices
146in Central Unified. >> Thank you for your time. We have if you have any questions. >> Thank you both. Uh we have a question from Trusty Korea. >> Yes, thank you very much for that information, but you guys used a lot of acronyms. So, for those of us that don't don't always remember what they mean. So, first tell us a little bit about what what are the restorative practices? Like what are these pilot programs doing? Like just the 30 secondond down and dirty. What does that actually mean? >> Okay, so restorative practices has uh deep-seated roots in indigenous practices. Um it's community based in uh how being we can do harm circles, we can do community building circles, we can do proactive circles where essentially we're bringing members of the school community together in order
147to have conflict resolution or community building. It can be used in a a multiple number of ways. And so that's why we're beginning the training now in order to align it with the PBIS practices that we are currently instituting. Okay. These practices also bring community together in the classroom and build rapport with teacher and student and student to student. And we hope that this will help also improve school climates and culture overall. And so these are situations where if there are disagreements among students or between the students and the teachers and making sure that we are rather than kicking our students out or taking other disciplinary action, making sure we are creating better relationships between the two. Figure out how do we better support our students? What are the expectations by the teacher? where is
148the miscommunication to try and make sure that we're keeping students focused and um more participatory in in our classroom versus some of the disruptive behaviors. Would that be fair to say? >> 100% correct. Um, I could also add that um, in my previous experience, they can be used in academic settings as well. In particular, they've been very effective in ethnic studies courses. Um, but outside of that, in all of the core component or core classes as well. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Trusty Sers. >> Forgive me, I don't know. Um how are the different sites selected or the uh the recognition how is it awarded? What criteria is used to determine that? >> Are you referring the TFI? >> Yes. Okay. So um every school site implements the PI PBIS framework and in that they
149um they take a survey and there's three tiers at schools. There's tier one which is all the schools I mean all the students at the school then tier two tier three but the so what the school site does is they implement the PBIS system in their in their school so it's practicing their um they have for example Roosevelt has be respectful be responsible be uh be safe and so they we're teaching kids these practices and we're acknowledging their practices as well and and teachers are implementing the practices in their classroom as well schoolwide and then they're given the their it's it's a whole system of behavior that's being placed in the school uh which creates community and safety and the tier process is a they um it's a survey that the uh PBIS team does
150and um grades themselves as to the criterias on the survey. So, it's a whole survey. It's a whole system that takes place and they take they take the survey in the fall and in the spring and um and then they're scored based on how they're doing. >> Okay. So, it's kind of a self-reflection. >> Yes. And there's an additional component. There's walkthroughs also that are made. So, there it's evaluative. So, not only do they do the survey, but we have to take walkthroughs and evaluate whether it is happening or not. Thank you. >> No other questions. Thank you so much for the presentation this evening. >> Thank you. Thank you for your time. >> We next move on to item number 10. Receive information regarding resolution 2526-14 soul source procurement. >> All right. Thank you,
151President Singh. >> Board of Trustees, Superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight um I bring information regarding resolution number 2526-14 soul source procurement. Um we bring this to you every year. So um all source all soul source procurement currently require board approval. This impacts the school district's purchase order timeline and approval process authorizing the superintendent or designate to approve sole source procurement up to $49,999 will reduce the impact of school um impact on school operations. A sole source procurement occurs only when a v there's one vendor is capable of providing a unique or proprietary product or service. um administration is recommending this item be placed on October 28th, 2025 board agenda for action. And just to um let you know it, it is valid for 12 months and I will return to you next year. I'd be happy
152to answer any questions, >> questions or comments from the board. >> Trusty Kon. >> Uh yeah, just one question. the uh $49,999 limit. Is that an arbitrary number or statemandated? >> Um I think it's just because it's under 50,000, >> right? But is that 50,000 trigger? Is that a number? >> Yeah. >> Is that a Is that a number that triggers because of our district policy or because of a state policy? >> I'd have to get back to you on that. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> I think it's our internal policy that we've established. Um, I don't remember if the board did or when we did, but it's been in place for some time now. And so, anything over the 50,000 we do require that they bring back to us as the board because
153we want to be making those decisions since um it it involves funding. >> No, I'm I'm Thank you, Trusty K. I'm familiar with the the number we use where term weather comes to the board. I was just curious as to where the number if that's from our own policies or it's from the state >> our policy. >> Trusty Chavez. >> So I did quite a bit of investigating about this when I first got on the board because I was curious. Same question as Trusty Kon. Um and I was told that it was our own internal threshold that we imposed. Um so I have a question for my fellow board members. Um I mean I am wondering about the threshold and I am kind of notorious for asking for soul source even when it's below the
154threshold. Um primarily because I I want to have us have historical reference as to why the sole source was utilized in our own documentation. Um, so my question is, obviously we're not here to approve this tonight, but when this does come forth, um, can we have an internal conversation about the threshold amongst administration just for us to start to redetermine like re-evaluate? Is that number appropriate or does it need to be lowered? Does does um sorry trusty CO >> I do know my recollection is that I had similar questions when I first joined the board and at some point I vaguely remember that we might have lowered it and it impacts efficiency. Um that means that a lot more of the contracts have to come to us for approval um versus what currently happens. all
155the contracts still come to us. Even those that are under 50,000, they just come back as ratification. So, I think if you're interested in making sure, right, I'm not mistaken. Okay. Um, nobody nodded or said anything and I'm like I that's my recollection. So, after going back and forth um ultimately this has been we've kept this policy at least in the last three or four years um of my second term. Um, but that has always been the concern is how do we figure out I think at some point it might have been at 25,000 and we had a ton of contracts and then it's not efficient because what we say is we require them to come back twice. We want them once as information, second time for action that's like a whole month additional planning.
156We can we can have that discussion. But just to give you some background, if you are concerned with documentation and ensuring that there is fidelity and making sure it's a sole source, I would recommend more thoroughly reviewing this resolution and including language that says they must make conduct the analysis even if they're doing it internally because then any audit or if at any point you want to inspect any of the contracts that that we're ratifying because you see them or we ask that they be listed as sole source so that it's flagging it as they're coming for any of us. Then you can ask those additional questions without necessarily delaying spending that money because then we get into issues. Is it grandfunded? Do we have to complete it by June 30th and now we're returning
157money and all these other external concerns that we may trust administration. Um there may be some contracts we disagree with or we want to question, but now it's being flagged. So, I would I would suggest considering adding additional language and I'm happy to work with you on how we can improve this resolution to address some of the concerns you may have because my main concern is I mean it's basically 50,000. So, if we're giving discretion under 50,000 that soul source isn't necessarily required. What we're doing is, and this is my concern, is we are empowering individuals, administrators to make decisions that are still sizable. I mean, they're sizable amounts of money where they could have chosen a out external provider or contractor. Let's just say a $30,000 contract, $35,000 contract. How do we know for
158a fact that that is somebody who is uniquely qualified to do that work? What was the rationale as to why that person was selected? I still want to know. Somebody may think like 35,000 in the scheme of things isn't a big deal, but in this fiscal environment, that is a very big deal. So, um, yeah. So, if we could work together to just work on the language because I don't have a lot of experience with that, I would really appreciate it. I think from a staff standpoint, I think the efficiency piece is kind of you can work together as far as if there's a language thing. But for like the amount piece, given the size of the district, I think that's kind of our that's the main thing. I think that's that's probably why you
159went to that threshold years ago. And and the way to address sorry did someone the way to address the concerns whether not the most efficient or effective decision- making is happening is this board employs one person and we get to evaluate our superintendent and it's providing direction um and addressing those situations. But I I do I will work with you to figure out some language so that at least it's flagging for us um and we're more aware. Uh but I think collectively as a board we've also mentioned a number of times to all of our directors, our administrators and our assistant superintendents that we want to make sure that you are being diligent and that it's truly a sole source right situation. But yeah, I can work with you. I'm happy to do that. >>
160And it and it is a superintendent or designate that would be able to verify the sole source. Trusty Sers. >> Uh, when the board receives notification of this, is this what comes back in the warrant list? >> Yes. >> Um, Trusty Chavez, are you looking for more approval and oversight or justformational knowledge that the district has been >> justformational? TR truth be told, I trust our staff to make those decisions, but my concern and and kind of my experience working with so many um grant funded and externally funded programs with a variety of funding sources, historically you can lose track of why we chose different providers. And so in my experience, it's best practice for you to just attach the sole source. It's not necessarily that you're going to scrutinize it, but that narrative language
161is put alongside whatever it is that we are approving for the contract. It's not that I want to get in the weeds to actually question, but in case we ever wanted to go back or if something went arry or we see that a contractor is being selected year after year after year, we need to be able to justify in audit why why were these people chosen, right? Because that could potentially happen. Well, just to give you an example of a soul source is a music tuning company there. It it's very it's one and so it's there's not a lot of soul source out there. But that's just an example >> and that's a perfect one because that would be an easy justification a couple of sentences as to these people are uniquely qualified because they
162tune instruments and they provide this service. like it's just clean in from the accounting standpoint if we were to face audit >> and that would all be documented. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Would it be difficult to just include that information in the warrant list so those trustees that are interested can just pull it up and review it as it comes before us? >> I can make a note of that. >> That's a great suggestion. Yeah. >> Thank you. We will then um return for action >> please. Thank you. >> Next number 11 receive information regarding school connected organizations. >> Thank you again. Um board policy 1230 school connected organizations require that groups uh desiring to be recognized as school connected organizations with the district shall request authorization from the board. um attached you have
163a list of our um school connected organizations. They've all been vetted and u meet all the qualifications and so we are administration is recommending this item be placed on October 28th, 2025 board agenda as action and I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> No questions. We can have this return under consent. Oh, trusty Kuran. >> Quick question. Is this the entire list of our uh school connect organizations and boosters? >> Yes. >> So, if a booster is not on this list, they're not active for this upcoming school year. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Yeah. Uh item number 12, receive information regarding purchase of bus cameras. Instructor Bach. >> Good evening, Board President Singh, uh, Superintendent Dr. Marshall, and board members. In an ongoing effort
164to ensure the safety of students and staff, the transportation department has evaluated a new camera systems that will provide more proactive approach to monitoring. Uh, the current cameras do not allow live streaming or verification of the system, actively recording. Uh the proposed system will allow staff to access live views and receive notifications if any systems go offline. In addition, several buses will receive additional cameras and all buses will get a forward- facing dash camera. Uh staff is recommending the purchase and installation of the Scion bus camera system. Um and it will be done in a three-phase process. Uh this will minimize downtime. Uh the systems will be purchased through and installed by Faber Communications utilizing the TIPS contract number 230205. Um the estimated costs uh for the total project are $385,523 with a annual renewal
165cost yearly of $34,08. Administration is recommending this item be placed on the October 28th, 2025 board uh meeting for action after answering any questions the board may have. trusty sellers. >> Uh, as far as the monitoring, is this going to be a a screen that the driver will have access to? No. Um, the live monitoring is more of a like a screen that we can see in the office so we can log in and if we need to, we could look live into the camera out of on a bus. >> Okay. while they're on route >> and we have no intention of having someone monitoring that constantly as needed as needed right now. >> Okay. >> Uh what are the three phases? A little more information on that. >> Uh the three phases. So we
166have um buses and routes that we want to implement the cameras on right away. high school, certain buses, and then depending on how fast we can get them rolled out, approval, how they can how many they can get done during Christmas break. We broke it up into a proposed three-phase to get them done by the end of the school year. But, you know, they might be able to get two phases done over Christmas break and then one over spring break. It really just depends on when we get the pee signed over. >> Okay. So, we're talking about groups of buses, not components that things at a time, >> groups of buses. Uh and then the last question is the uh annual renew cost is that just for the monitoring? >> Yeah, that's so the the
167live view the the live view is a cellular service. So a majority of that cost is for that. There is also licensing fees and and for each of those cameras also. So the annual renewal cost is for the cellular portion so you can live view. >> Okay. Um I guess my last question I just thought of right now is how many cameras per bus? So they they all do differ because we have large, medium, small buses. Uh large buses are about six cameras I believe seven with the outward facing dash camera. Uh inward it goes down by one each one. And then we do have some smaller small ones. So those those are about four. >> Okay. Thanks >> Trusty Ker. >> Um thank you. Thank you Trusty Sers because you asked some of the
168questions. So, what's the lifespan uh of these cameras? Because the renewal fee is just for the service. >> Renewal fee is for the service. We have a three-year warranty on the equipment. Uh cameras are since these are indoor, I would say closer to 7 to 10, going closer to the 10year. Uh but, you know, damage and stuff like that, I would say about 7 to 10 years. Can we make sure that we develop a protocol, something of some sort to ensure that we are monitoring and repairing any of them that are broken? Because, as you well know, we tend to find out that they're not functioning when we're trying to recover something. >> And so, the big the big push on this is for that purpose. Um, we we our buses have to come in
169every 45 days by law to get u PMD, right? uh preventative maintenance on them. Part of that is, you know, right now the way the systems are, these are older cameras. There's not any way for our mechanics to verify that the system's actually recording. This actually has a safety check system built in, so we'll know right away if the system is recorded or not, so we can be a little bit more proactive in getting them changed out. >> Awesome. Fantastic. Thank you. >> No other questions. We'll have this. >> One last question. >> Sure. >> Because I think this was also a question we previously had with other site cameras like years ago. Um, who's going to I'm assuming we're going to identify who's authorized to access the cameras and when and under what conditions.
170>> Yes. Um, so the board policy currently does not have that portion of school buses on them. >> Let me let me look into that and uh I'll get some I'll have something back. Okay. >> I have to look into that though. >> Okay. Thank you. No other question. We'll have this return under consent. Thank you. We turn now to advanced planning. >> Sorry. >> Must be on the >> Here you go. >> Okay. Receive information regarding rebid 2526-1406 Roosevelt Elementary Cafe HVAC installation. Director V. Good be uh good evening again board members. Uh so this item is returning um on September 26th. The district posted bid 2526-1406 for the Roosevelt Elementary cafeteria HVAC installation. Uh this bid is to install previously purchased HVAC equipment for the cafeteria. Uh bids will be open on October
17115th, 2025 at 2 p.m. And this item will return after the bid opening at the next board meeting with the results. Um, administration is recommending this item be placed at the October 28th, 2025 board agenda for action after answering any questions the board may have. >> Trust >> very briefly, you know what I'm going to ask >> maybe. >> So, why did we purchase it first and now we're reinst? So, um, we purchased the equipment, um, thinking we would be able to speed the process up and and a cost savings ideally. Um, really did not work out ideally. Um, little bit of a lesson learned. Um, we went out to bid the first time. We had one bidder respond. We wanted to get a more competitive pool. went back out to bid, but we bid
172it under CupKa bid limits, which is 70,220,000. I like that because it gave me I thought where I could get where I wanted to be. Um, unfortunately, the bids came back higher than that. So, we had to reject all bids. Um, that was done at a previous board meeting. So, uh, this time when we went out to bid, we did a formal bid, which, you know, the limit is a lot higher. So, we won't fall into that problem anymore. Um but yeah, thank you. I appreciate your honesty. >> Yeah, >> no other questions. We'll have it returned under consent. >> Yeah, >> that one has to be under action. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> move on to advanced planning. >> Okay, as a reminder, we need to set a date for our work study
173on special education. That's for advanced planning. and um move on then to additional information, closing comments. >> I'm going to turn my time over to uh Julia for an announcement. >> She's been sitting very patiently. I'd like to introduce um our new director of curriculum and instruction um based on your approval. So Cindia Scandon, she's currently working in our English um language office and migrant and she's been doing some great work in systems and evaluation of programs and she is largely responsible for pushing a lot of our EL growth that you saw in our reclassification of students. So Cindy, [Applause] >> uh, good evening, President Singh and board of trustees and superintendent Marshall. Thank you for your approval this evening. I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to continue serving Central Unified as a director of
174curriculum and instruction. um throughout my career. I believe that every student, no matter their background or language, deserves access to highquality instruction that nurtures both their intellect and their identity. I look forward to continuing our shared work with teachers, leaders, and families to ensure every student in Central Unified thrives. Thank you for your trust and for the opportunity to continue growing and serving our community here in Central Unified. Thank you. [Applause] >> And with that, a reminder for our next meeting. The next regular board meeting will be he held here on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public at the Central Unified School District Office, District Office Room 13. And um do I have a motion to adjurnn or uh yeah do I have a motion to adjurnn?
175>> We have a motion by trusty CO. >> Second by trustee Gville. Trusty Gutteral. How do you vote? Hi. >> Rest of the board. Uh those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Nay. And those abstaining. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you. >> 9:41 p.m.