001Yes. [Music] Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees of Central Unified. Today is August 26, 2025. The time is 6 p.m. the attendance show we have all but trustee who will be joining us shortly. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? >> So move. >> We have a motion by trusty Korea. Second by trustee Kirk. Those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed name. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6. We move on to comments from the public on any close session items president. We haven't seen anybody in person and few more Is there any comment on any closed session items? >> No, there's not. >> Excellent. Thank you. So to the community, we'll be returning reconvening back at 7 p.m. So that would be an opportunity
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004heat. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Everything. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, Heat. [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. [Music] Oh, perfect. Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yes. Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Good evening community. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees. The time is now 700 p.m. We are reconvening back in open session. Uh in terms of uh items to report out, Trusty Keron joined us at 6:04 p.m. On item E1, we had a motion by Trusty Korea, second by Trusty Kerfon. Motion passed 70. On item E2, uh we had a motion by Trusty Sellers, second by Trusty Couo, motion pass 70. And on uh item E6 uh our uh conference with legal council is our existing uh
005litigation case number OAH 2025040864. We had a motion by trusty career, second by trustee Kuron and item pass 70. And with that I ask Vice President Ko to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Please stand. Thank you. And with that, I invite Senator Lazo to share with us our community engagement information. >> Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150 or fill out a request form provided on the table near the entrance and submit it to the clerk of the board prior to the meeting. If you wish to speak on an item on the agenda, please do so when that item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public comment section of the agenda. The district welcomes
006other language speakers to the board meetings. Anyone planning to attend and needed an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559-274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting so arrangements can be made for an interpreter. Thank you. Next we invite up Fore meeting agenda. Fore meeting [Music] extension translator. We turn to our presentations this evening with our first presentation being around our student recognition and I turn it to uh assistant superintendent Dr. Lopez. >> Good evening board president singing vice president Karo board of trustees and superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight we would like to recognize Michaela Michaela James is an outstanding senior student athlete from Central East High School. Michaela has established herself as one of the top female wrestlers
007not only in our region but in the entire country. She is a two-time all-American and recently placed third at the under 17 world time tri uh team trials during the USA Wrestling Championship in Fargo. She is a three-time valley champion and a three-time Masters champion at the California State Championships. She has placed each year seventh as a freshman, fifth as a sophomore, and fourth as a junior. She also holds a national championship title, adding to her impressive resume. Michaela is determined to bring home a state championship to Central East during her senior year. Beyond high school, she is excited to continue both her education and her wrestling career at the collegiate level. Currently, she is recognized as one of the most highly recruited female wrestlers in the state of California. So, welcome uh Michaela and
008let's go ahead and congratulate her. [Applause] >> Sorry, I apologize. Michaela was unable to make it tonight. We are very proud of her accomplishments and her representation of the Central East Bengals. >> Thank you, Principal Edmonds. And again, uh big big shout out to uh to Michaela. We next turn to item number two, our foundation for Central Schools, and we invite up our executive director, Serena Doy. >> Thank you so much, board president and board of trustees. It's an honor to be here tonight. Before I begin, um I would like to introduce our foundation board president, Mr. Joe Doyland. >> All right, good evening everyone. Uh like she said, my name is Joe Doyand. I'm the um board president for the Foundation for Central Schools. I'm on behalf of the foundation board. I'm here to
009uh just share a few highlights from the past school year. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to recognize a my fellow board of directors who are here tonight. We have treasurer Corbin Gunrreen and member Valyria Garcia. [Applause] Their dedication and volunteer spirits truly reflect the passion of Central Community. I am very grateful to the stand um stand alongside me and for their hard work this past school year and in the past. We are proud to have um supported ranges of programs across the district including VAPA young authors fair, science olympia, central valley robotics, the FFA a conference, close for uh closing closets, te community pantries, and United PE to just name a few. That's a mouthful. Our funding uh reaches over uh our funding for every school site in the district
010has made a positive impact to where that we've had a direct impact to 11,000 students this past year. And that is just a direct impact, not an indirect. Indirectly, we probably can double that number. One of our highlights uh was in uh endowing the central high school or the central high heritage scholarship which became the second endowment scholarship program uh that a significant milestone for the foundation and for our commitments to the students and the opportunities they may have to go into higher education. It was also our first year we've offer offered an alumni scholarship and an employee scholarship. So that was a huge add-on to this past year. As we look ahead to the next school year, we're um eager and we are um open to the possibilities and grateful for the partnerships that
011we share with the district. Now I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Serena. Thank you. [Applause] All right, thank you again for having me here tonight. First, I just want to say thank you to the Central Unified staff for joining us at the fall kickoff on August 11th. We had over a thousand employees come together to start the new school year with inspiring talks from students and alumni, breakfast, music, and some fun giveaways. It was a fantastic event and I'm grateful to our communications team and um everyone who made it possible. Um our student MC's and student trustees put an extra effort rehearsing and they did an outstanding job learning and leading the program. I also um would like to give a very special thank you to our custodial team um especially
012Alfredo who was there all weekend long tirelessly um helping us set up from start to finish. So, a lot of work from our custodian staff and thank you. So, I was able to attach a uh friend back presentation for you and hopefully you have received that. Um, and so looking ahead for this school year, our revenue goals for grants and donation is $343,100, which is a 29% increase for this school year. and our equity equity initiatives, including establishing another endowment. We've set a goal to $210,000, a 38% increase as well. I have highlighted a few of what's been approved so far, and so we're excited to boost our classroom and club grants to $30,000 this year, which means staff can apply for up to $2,000 to support their innovative ideas in the classroom. We'll also
013award 57,344 in scholarships again this year. Very exciting. And we're dedicating 38,000 to help open school pantries for shared site El Capitan Middle School and McKinley Elementary and also Biola Elementary. We look forward to sharing more about the foundation's support at the state of the district on October 23rd. And this year we're hosting a breakfast and hope you'll all join us to celebrate Central Unified and honor our 2025 pillar champions. We are currently encouraging our staff to nominate an honore until September 12th. So that information just went out this week. So we're very excited for the honores. Our next board meeting will be on September 17th. And even though our website is still a work in progress, you can find the latest details about grants and upcoming events there. And please keep an eye out
014for invitations for all of our future foundation events. We'll have a few coming up and we'd love to see you all there. Thank you so much for your continued support. [Applause] questions or comments from the board? Trusty Chavez, I want to first start by thanking the board for coming. I really appreciate all of the time and energy as a fellow volunteer. I know what it takes to do that and I really appreciate you all showing your support and being here a physical person. So, thank you. And um you know, Serena, thank you so much for attaching the report. really makes a big difference and I really appreciated um the level of detail that you included and so I I uh worked with Dr. Marshall um and it was the very last minute so I appreciate
015you kind of adding on those extra questions at the end that I asked kind of just before the board meeting. So I think this is really great like this is a great foundation for us to start. I think um as a person who uh tracks fundraising goals pretty closely, I like that you in the response to me in the questions that I asked you, which is not visible to the public, um you uh kind of laid out your current grants that you're pursuing and you name them by name. And so I think an additional piece that I would like to see in the future in addition to the written report that you gave us is more of a quantifiable breakdown in a spreadsheet format which I can work with Dr. Marshall to give more detail
016um after the meeting. But what I'd like to see is um as I've mentioned I'm very much about us pursuing alternative funding sources especially given the fiscal environment that we're in now. um we have to consistently be actively seeking competitive grants and looking for alternative funding sources that don't traditionally come down to us through to the California Department of Education. So, I can see that you pursued them here and you listed those, but what I'd like to see in the future is more of an Excel spreadsheet format of if you could give us the name of the grant, the amount that you're pursuing, the status, and just an overall description of what your proposal is going to be. So, we can see if you've been granted or you've been declined. So we can see if
017it's been submitted. We're awaiting response. So at any given point, because us as board members, we're going to hear about competitive RFPs in our capacities relatively just because we're out in the community. And so if we can look quickly and have a quick snapshot, we know like, hey, our foundation's already on that one. We're already writing that one. So we know we're not having competing efforts. So, if we could just add um that Excel spreadsheet format to the report next time, I think that would really give us a competitive edge for us to continue looking for funding. Does that make sense? >> Yes. Okay. >> Go for it. for the foundation itself. No, I went for the found. So the so the foundation itself in in my experience. So this is just my experience um
018because I've come from K12 world and and educational world. The foundation has a unique ability to seek funding that the district would be unable to do because you being a 501c3 oftent times us as government we're not eligible. And so foundations have the agility and the ability to jump in for RFPs that we won't be able to. And so us working in tandem together and really you knowing what the district is pursuing and then us knowing what the foundation is pursuing, we have to have that symbiotic relationship because we can maximize those opportunities together. Does that make sense? >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you guys. I appreciate your efforts. Thanks. >> Thank you. Yeah. [Applause] Next, we invite up our uh for our employee association highlights. Uh I saw Laura Bolton, our CUTA president.
019No. Okay. All right. Good evening, everybody. Um my comments are going to be very very brief. Um, I have been making my rounds and meeting um, all of our new district office administrators and um, also our site administrators. I've hit all the new principles. Um, and I'm working my way through others as well now. Um, but it's been a really really good um, start. Um, everybody's been really open um, to having a collaborative discussion and a working partnership. Um it's paying dividends already. Being able to come to people and say, "Hey, there's an issue." Um and we can get to it quickly. I I really appreciate that. Um and uh yeah, uh that's about it. It's just been really great. The the response from my site rep council has been really positive from the um
020their opening of the year with their new administrators. They're really excited and happy. So yeah, that's basically it. Thank you. >> Thank you. And next we invite up our uh Angie Giri, our CSEA president. Sorry. Good evening board members and Dr. uh Marshall. Uh my I'm going to be short and quick too. I'd like to extend a warm welcome to all the new administrators. I've met some of them already. It was very uh encouraging to hear all the positive things they want to do for our district. Um I don't have much to report except we're eager to finish the job study. It's almost there. Um I know we're going to meet soon. So uh we've been it's been a long long process, but we're very eager to finalize it and get moving so we can
021start the other part of negotiations. That's it and thank you. Have a good evening. [Applause] >> Thank you. Next, we turn to our superintendent and board communications, >> Dr. Marshall. >> Thank you. Uh we're going to go ahead and start my report for this month. Um we'll start with the August um shout out and basically you see we have three schools that were recognized nationally. Um Biola, Harden Kernney, and Glacia Point. And they made among the healthiest schools in the nation. So round of applause there for that. You also see a picture of the young lady that uh we talked about earlier. Uh to give you a status report on my entry plan, a few items as far as right now we're looking at what we call a return academic review or return on investment.
022Looking at all of our contracts in terms of are we getting the benefit to um those programs. Then we're looking at facilities. I'm looking at the facilities and our deferred maintenance. That's been a topic as I go around different sites talking with the principles about what the needs are and such. So, I'm doing that. As far as uh the meetings and uh visits, uh one thing I'm very proud of, I consider that I visited every site. Now, there is one exception. Uh the preschool program here at the district office. Uh I they wouldn't let me in. So, I'll put that disclaimer there. Uh I've met uh key officials in Fresno. again had great conversation with labor partners uh the communications department we're getting ready to have the uh listening post and then the survey there's
023a survey that's out there I encourage everyone to do the survey because I've looked at the vendors kind of sent me like a draft of the results and I'm starting to see some themes and I think what's what what they're saying is spot on but what I'm concerned about is is like with survey research it depends on the number of surveys we have about 16,000 students. So, we should get like about maybe five if we got like 5,000 surveys, that would be a better sample. So, we just need to get more uh more surveys in. All right. Next, uh as far as uh a status report with the media, uh again, I respond to requests. Uh there was a wonderful story on ABC30 that I that um I've gotten lots of feedback about uh as
024far as with the board. We had a governor's workshop, very successful on the 16th. And then we'll be having some more workshops like uh we CSA talked about as far as the workshop about the job study that's coming up. As a reminder, at the end of the um entry process, I'm going to compile everything and you're going to get a document and that's going to be the perspectives for the five-year plan that I talked about and you also can use that data for my evaluation as well. That's my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Marshall. Any other communications from any board members at this time? Trusty Kuron. >> Uh thank you, President Singh. Uh great great to be back uh for the school year. Uh it was at the uh back to school night for Steinbeck
025Elementary along with Dr. Marshall. Was good seeing you there, sir. Uh as well as I guess meeting their mascot, uh Mr. Swim Shady. So they they they might have the most creative names for their mascots, but it was great seeing the programs going on. And uh also seeing the new uh TKK playground they have um that was renovated recently and is now ADA accessible. The previous playground uh I think was going on 30 years or so. So about the same age as some parents of those same students. So glad we got that uh uh for the students there. And that's all I have for at the moment. Thank you, >> Trusty Sudu. >> Yes. Um, so um on Friday along with uh Trustee Chavez and uh Trustee Sers, we were uh we engaged in uh
026student achievement and wellness subcommittee. We met for that. Uh we learned about LCAP um and it was just a great way to get greater insight on you know how um those uh like things like LCAP um greater understanding. Um, and then, uh, I was able to, uh, go to the Central East, uh, high school Bengals, the first Bengals game. Uh, that was really fun. Uh, they they did great, 41 to 12. Uh, was able to watch all of that. And then, uh, we went I went to back to school night at Teague Elementary. Uh, engaged with staff there. Um, it was a great um, showing from families and students are really excited for the school year. >> Dr. Marshall, did you want to add? >> Oh, yeah. I forgot one point. uh Biola uh this
027morning uh that they had a power outage. I want to commend the staff uh Christine the um area administrator. They did a fantastic job as far as making sure that the kids got served the principles there. I mean they did a fantastic job and I wanted to point that out. >> Thank you. and with that also had a chance to join some of the back to school nights and since we we have both of our community as well as our uh site administrator just want to appreciate all the work you all put in and and do and really wish you all a successful school year. Uh I also want to remind the public that beginning uh next meeting we will beginning our open or sorry our closed session will begin at 5:30 p.m. and uh
028public session will remain uh we'll be sorry open session will begin at 700 p.m. The reason is we will be expanding our trustees to include our new two student trustees. And so we want to make sure to finish at a decent time so that they can go home and remember that they are students first and foremost. But we will be uh shifting the time half hour earlier beginning at the next meeting at uh 5:30 p.m. And with that Oh, did I miss did you miss Oh, sorry. Trusty Chavez. >> Um so I I don't know if I am supposed to I don't know if I'm supposed to say this out loud or not, but I I mean I don't see why I know. Um but um I just wanted to thank Dr. Marshall um for
029helping us facilitate our first board retreat with this uh with our new superintendent. And so um it wasn't this past Saturday, but it was the Saturday before where we all got together as a board and were able to look at the strategic direction of the district and really work collaboratively together to look at our future and our vision of where we see ourselves going. And I want to thank you, Dr. Marshall, for giving us that opportunity. Thank you. And with that, we uh move on to comments from the public. This is an opportunity again uh for the public to comment on anything that is not on our agenda this evening. >> President Singh, I haven't received any comment cards at this time. >> I I have received one um caller, board president. We're I'm just
030waiting for them to be sent through. We'll wait a few seconds. Good evening, Claudia Chavez. You have three minutes to address the board. Please make sure to turn down the volume on your listening device so we can hear you loud and clear. Again, you have three minutes and your time starts now. >> Hello. Good afternoon. My name is Claudia Chavez. I'm a parent of my daughter goes to Central High School. My concern is the boundary lines that you guys made. My do well we live next to Tilly's. I have to drop off my son to Till's. Then my daughter that goes to preschool from a different school. And then my daughter that goes all the way to Central High School, which is like 15 minutes away from my house. when Central East is 5 minutes
031away from my house. I just don't understand how you guys made those boundary lines when you guys don't even know like the gas that I'm wasting. My insurance is blowing up cuz I'm putting more miles on my car. And those are just my concerns at the moment. It's the boundary lines that you guys made. and thank you for listening to me. >> Thank you, Miss Chavez. And then, board president, that is all the comments that we have for this evening. >> Thank you. And with that, then we'll turn to our consent agenda for this evening. Do I have a motion? >> Trust. I just wanted to make sure that we're highlighting the uh resolutions on the consent agenda. >> Thank you. Uh so um I'll do that then prior I guess. Um so >> I
032will withdraw my motion. >> Thank Thank you, Trusty Korea. So uh this evening we have uh two uh board resolutions. One proclaiming September 15 through 19, 2025 as National Arts and Education Week as well as proclaiming September 7th through 13, 2025 as suicide prevention week. And thank you uh Trusty Kon to make sure that we we center those. Do I have a motion on said uh consent agenda? >> I move to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> We have a motion by trustee Curio, second by Trusty Kon. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. >> Those abstaining. >> Motion carries. 70. Thank you. We move on this evening to our action items. It action item one approve project stealth mentoring contract area administrator Gator. >> All right. Good evening
033President Singh, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight I bring for action a project stealth contract for mentorship services supporting students at Persian Continuation High School and Pathway Community Day School for the 202526 school year. Again, this partnership will provide targeted assist uh guidance, academic encouragement, and personal development support for the student to help the students reach their academic uh educational and career goals. Um again, project stealth stands for stop teen exploitation and liberate through hope is an outreach initiative. It's designed to support struggling youth in Fresno and the program provides mentorship, counseling, and intervention services aimed at preventing harmful behaviors. As we heard the impact shared through testimonials by students, families, and staff at the previous board meeting, we are eager to see the positive impact Project Stealth will have over the course
034of an entire school year. I'd like to thank student uh Persian student Kira Lopez and principal Jill Young who are with us this evening in the audience in support of Project Stealth. Administration is recommending approval of this item and I am happy to answer any questions. >> Trusty Korea. >> So I don't have any questions, more of a comment. Um, I appreciate the the presentation from our last board meeting. Um, I will reiterate some of the comments and concerns I I expressed last time, which is it's concerning that to me, and perhaps it's just my lack of understanding. Um, and so whether you all do a better job of making sure that I or the board understands, it seemed to me that a lot of what the um this contract does, my expectation is that
035we should be doing in-house. And so I I am going to support uh this contract. Um, but I'm going to be much more critical come next year. And I do want to make sure that if this comes back that we have a plan so that that we have a sustainable plan. My concern is that as we're seeing a lot of funds uh being eliminated, we're going to have to be very critical about how we're using our money. And if we're relying solely on Project Stealth to be able to provide the the services and support to our students and our family, that's very concerning. Um and again, maybe I just don't fully understand and it's supplementing what we're already doing. And if that's the case, then I'd like to see that. Uh but I just I
036want to encourage you all to make sure that we create a sustainable program um and that we are efficiently using our funds. Um and I'm like I said I I will be more critical um if this contract returns whether it's with them or any other organization. So thank you >> Trusty Kirk. >> Thank you very much. Good evening Mr. Garrett. My first question is, are we going to see this contract again in July 2026? >> We'll have to make that determination at the end of the year. The original contract that we brought in Jul January uh of this year was for the pilot to see how what the results would be um and based on those results wanted to then extend that for a full school year. We'll go through the same process collecting the
037same data points um as we did with the pilot and make a determination based on its success um services that we already provide in the district. the additional layers that this or an additional contract would add um and bring that back for consideration um if it has been uh impactful. >> Thank you. And additionally with that question, I'm plan on voting to support it this time. However, my question continues to be the $50,000 setup fee that doesn't seem to come down and this is my question about next year with this contract. So I understand that some of it is a donation and some of it is for students but setup they shouldn't we shouldn't have to set up again as we've been doing this now for the pilot and coming in. So does that amount
038as we look to go forward does that amount ever come down not necessarily the donation that we make or the resources that we're providing for students but you know do we have to buy them new uniforms and retrain them? So does that it seems to be a flat amount. Does that amount ever come down based on the continuence of a contract with Stealth? >> Sure. I think with some of the uh aspects of the program that that does go to to support some of the family activities, the uh the the park, the trips to they do the barbecues, the things of that nature, the whole family events. I think as we look and we see how many of those we did entertain this year, we see the cost of those things. We see where that
039money and how it was distributed. We definitely that is could be a point of negotiation next year to see if that what that could look like if we did move forward with an additional contract based on how we utilize those funds throughout the course of this year. Um definitely something we could revisit before bringing something back if we were to do so. >> Thank you very much. >> Trusty Chavez. Uh so um I've thought long and hard about this and I just want to make sure that I put it on the record that I absolutely support students and I absolutely support us providing supplemental services to support students. However, I don't think that this meets muster for me. The pilot didn't prove enough compelling data and the investment was just too much money for too
040few students served. So, I just wanted to publicly say what my thought process was. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Korea. >> I have a follow-up question based on Trusty Kirk's questions and and comment. We're donating money as part of the $50,000 or can you clarify? Because if part of it is a donation, that's concerning. I would be concerned that that's not an authorized donation that we can legally um do. Uh and it's also my understanding is that I mean this is another public agency, right? I mean it's the the Fresno Police and Fire Chapency. Um so so that's concerning. >> It is up to the amount noted on the contract for the purpose of supporting the programming needs over the course of the year. So that can be um the events that they put on,
041could be materials, supplies, things that they use to support the students. Um could also be um through the program how we have help families in need um based on the support that the families might be needing during the course of the year. Um it is an up to amount and that's why it is something as was mentioned that we could look at what we utilized over the course of the year and look at what that starting point would be if we were to bring this back. My my understanding is it's not a clear donation. Okay. To the company. No. >> Okay. >> If it is, that needs to come back to the board. And quite frankly, I would request um our board president and our superintendent to to request a legal opinion because I I
042will not be supporting um any donations. I don't think that would be in compliance, but I I'd happy to I'd be happy to be wrong. I would revisit my consideration again in the future. Um I that's concerning. So I guess the other clarification would be so is this a situation where we don't necessarily get an accounting of how we how the $50,000 have been spent. So we just play the we pay the flat fee and then it covers some of these expenses and >> maybe more. >> Yeah, it is outlined in the contract um projects and process fees. Um it does not state that it's a it's a don and they do not use the word donation. Um they do describe there's about eight bullets of things within the contract under that section that it
043goes to uh support during the course of the year. >> Okay. >> Trusty Kervan. >> Thank you, President Singh. Uh yeah, I I that kind of caught me off guard because I didn't see the word donation anywhere on here. So I was wondering where we're we're getting that from. Um so I understand that this is that the students they're serving can be hard to reach and requires a lot of extra you know support and intervention that you know maybe is not always the most orthodox. Um, I I would be interested to see if we could get kind of that uh accounting at the end of the year saying, "Hey, or maybe as a presentation, here's what we spent the $50,000 on um to see all the different ways that they're all the tools they're using
044to help students, especially if we are considering one day uh doing this in-house. It would be beneficial to know what services the students are already receiving because we may not be able to provide that same level of program if we're doing it in-house and we have to set up ourselves. I imagine that our own set of costs might be more than that um with all the trainings we'll need. Um but I am in support of the program and I've been able to hear from students last meeting that were uh that went through it and seemed to have greatly benefit from it. So, uh, I am in support of this. And if are there any other if there's no other questions? >> I was just going to say we can we can bring back um if
045we were to bring this back for another year, we can bring back how that money was allocated during the course of the school year, what was tied to events, what was tied to materials, supplies, incentives, and so forth so that we have an account for those dollars in the within the contract. We could do that. >> Right. Thank you, >> Trusty Chavez. >> Okay. I'm I'm confused. Um, so we're the funer in this situation, correct? So we determine how things get spent. We don't ask our provider to tell us how they spent it. We dictate based on how we're granting the money to someone. This is what we are okay with you using it for and then they report it back to us. So there's never a time where a provider can have discretionary funds
046to be able to use at their discretion across eight bullet points. That's never that's never in accounting and any kind of business practice I've ever been involved in in public education. It's just not it's not allowed because there's no transparency with that. It's there's there's no ability for us to tr fully understand how did they determine I want to use it for this bullet point but not that bullet point. We're we're basically relinquishing all of our control to the provider and their expertise, which quite frankly I'm still not convinced they have, and that they're going to use this funding responsibly to maximize the benefit for our students. So, that just is simply flatout not okay if that's what we're doing. Just for the record, I just want to make sure the other trustees understand. And
047maybe I misunderstood. Is that is that what you're saying or I'm kind of confused >> for I mean any of the events, the incentives, the things there's a partnership between the school and the project stealth. So the meetings with administration conversation updates um anything that's set up that would be working through administration. This would not be arbitrary um activities or events or items that are that occur without administration being part of the process signing off on those things. Um there's basic setup things such as the staff uniforms that are listed in their administrative oversight. But when it comes to incentives, when it comes to uh incentives for engagement, um those types of things, family meetings, family events, those are calendared. administration is very aware of when those are happening, what's being provided, food, whatever that
048may be. Um, they're part of that conversation. So, it's not without partnership and collaboration. Um, >> see, but again, I think that's just so confusing to me because we've lost all control. We're the funer. So, we are the ones who know best as the provider of the funding. This is what we need our our students need. So there should never be a time where an outside partner comes to tell us this is what we think your students need. We are giving funding to an outside partner saying hey we need to address these specific concerns for our students and this is the mechanism that we want to contract you to help us do that. So we need to be driving the car and they are the passenger. Does that make sense? And it's a collaborative process.
049>> No for sure. And and I appreciate the question because I think when we were uh originally meeting with Project Stealth uh in fall of last year, putting together what we were looking for and the uniqueness of some of the services, this original contract, which a lot of it is is uh or in its original form from what we we built uh back in November um was built around the things that the Persian Pathway community needed. So how do we engage families? How do we provide um families who need counseling or support services to help the student reach their goals in school? Um what do we do to support students? So um when we look at the contract, the contract was built around that collaboration and there was the meetings that were held leading up
050to the original contract being constructed that were to meet what we had talked to project stealth about what we needed at Persian and Pathway and some of the unique things that they could offer um that we did not find in other companies at the time um that met that need. And so that that is a lot of what you see in here as is as a result of that. But I understand what you were saying as well. We do not want to relinquish control. We are we are paying for a a a company a service and we need to control that. I would say that um some of the the historical uh process in putting this together was through meetings where we did dialogue with project stealth and say here's what we need and they
051were able to put this together in uh response to that. >> Okay. I I mean I don't want to beat a dead horse but I think there's just general confusion around this whole entire project. So that'll be enough for me. Sorry. No, I appreciate it though. >> I I think I'm going to underscore it a one more time. Um I I think uh working with our probably our finance department because um I think uh Mr. Administrator Gary, I think what what as I understand Trusty Chavez is for instance, say we won't have a food expenditure. Let's say that is $10,000 for the year. That is usually budgeted up front. You can do modifications, but but usually there's kind of a set amount for each one, right? So you can provide justification that could be approved
052that could be not approved you know you can say whatever those things are you usually have kind of these aotted I understand this contract came in conversation of a lacuna of services that we needed but I think uh as we have moved beyond the pilot year I think for us to sharpen this to and and this will probably help them like as well and and I think probably our finance department can help them even develop a budget which should better satisfy the needs of our trustees and probably make them sharper as well. >> Understood. >> Trusty. Trusty Sellers. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion by trustee Sers. We have a second by Trusty Kon. Those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. >> Nay. >> Those
053abstaining. Motion carries. 61 with zero abstensions. Thank you. >> We move on to item number two. to approve 2025 to 2026 school plans for student achievement SPSA director Griggsby Cham Chamberlain. >> Good evening uh presidency trustees and superintendent Marshall. The school plans for student achievement return to you tonight for final approval. As mentioned at the last board meeting, the SIPs are required for title one schools and serve as each site's roadmap for setting goals, taking action, and utilizing categorical funds. After addressing any questions you may have, we recommend the board approve these plans for the 2526 school year. >> Trusters, >> first of all, I just want to thank you guys for um the issues that I brought up last meeting. They've all been adjusted and corrected and thank you for that. >> Yes, I
054appreciate that. It was a formatting issue, so we have it resolved and hopefully good to go. >> Any other questions or comments? Trusty Korea, >> just a comment again echoing what President's saying acknowledged earlier. Thank you to all our principles for being here tonight. Um, we know you have a lot of other things to be doing, so we appreciate you being here. And I don't I mean I don't anticipate we'll have a whole lot of questions, but know that we do read them uh even if we don't have lengthy discussions as you can see by Trusty Sellers's questions. Um so again, thank you for all that you do and and for um preparing these plans. Thanks. >> No other comments. I have a motion on set item. >> I'll move to approve. I heard I
055I heard a motion by Trusty Curio and a second by Trustee Kirk and synchronized swimming fashion. And uh uh those in agreement, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. We move on to action item. Well, thank you again. Uh uh assistant superintendent, >> my apologies, but are we okay to release the principles? >> Thank you >> indeed. >> While you're all here, thank you so much for all the work you do. Appreciate you principles. Um, I we'll move on to item number three. Hold the public hearing and approve the 2024 2025 contract openers for labor negotiations between Central Unified School Districts, USD, and California School Employees Association, Chapter 474. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Childs. >> Yes. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Marshall. In
056compliance with government code section 3547, a public hearing will be held prior to adopting the initial proposal from CSEA chapter 474 and Central Unified, affording the opportunity for the public to be informed and provide input. Both Central Unified and CSEA look forward to successful labor negotiations and working together on ongoing labor matters in an effort to support students in our district. administration is recommending the board hold a public hearing and advocate I'm sorry and approve contract openers for labor negotiations between central unified and California employees associations chapter 474 and the articles to be reopened from the on behalf of the district are article six pay and allowance article 10 leaves and article 18 professional growth and the articles to be reopened for csea are article six pay and allowance article 7 health and welfare benefits
057and article 10 leaves So at this time we will hold a public hearing. >> We'll open it for a minute if unless we got comments. board president, we have no callers at this time um from the starting of the item and then there's no comments in p uh in person either. >> So that then we will close public hearing and then we uh um do I have a set motion on set item? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion by trusty Kon, a second by trustee Sers. Those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to this evening's information items. Item number one, receive information regarding California Education Partners collaboration. Area administrator Garrett. All right. Good evening again, President
058Singh, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Marshall. Tonight, I bring for information contract with California Ed Partners. Again, this contract specifically through the on-track collaboration is a three-year network commitment running till June 2028. This collaboration focuses on helping districts improve student outcomes. The key features of the ONTRA collaboration include customized coaching by California Ed partner staff to exchange ideas, develop solutions, and push thinking, establishing site-based monitoring teams to identify and address challenge areas. We have uh provided information based on questions from the previous board meeting and I am happy to answer any further questions. >> I think Dr. Marshall would like to make a comment about it too. >> Yeah. And I want to uh apologize cuz it was my fault last time about bringing a contract. I mean I I didn't know about the
059the guideline as far as the mutton advance and stuff. So I I I own that. So um again it's a good program and I tried we tried to answer the questions based on all the feedback we got last time. So want to say >> trusty Korea, >> can you confirm Central High was part of the um first round of of this previous contract when we were doing math or >> Correct. Central High School was one of the four secondary sites that participated in the math cohort. >> Okay. Okay. I think for me it's just as as we continue to have contract after contract and unfortunately we've just we probably feels like we're picking on you. I'm sorry. It's not like that. Um I I I just I want to be more critical and make sure
060that I then understand what my ex what the expectations are and what I we anticipate we will um receive from this contract. So going back to Dr. Marshall's point in his um report earlier to really look at the return on investment and how are students benefiting and being able to connect that so that when we're hearing feedback from administrators, from our teachers that's saying this isn't working well, we know and are better prepared to ask some of these questions or if you're not getting that feedback, we can redirect them. Um and so I I I know this is just for information. I think what would be helpful moving forward and and this is something that I think we just need to discuss more internally is clearly identifying what the goals for us and some matrix
061of some sort or a rubric so that when this comes back we can ask and evaluate and say this is how we're going to be able to measure and this is the success we expect um or this is when we're going to look at and and pivot or whatever the case may be right because I'm not an expert. You all are the educators and I'm not trying to be an educator either. If I do, I will resign and become something with education other than practicing law. Um, but it's hard for me to assess and really evaluate time and time again when we're looking at these contracts because then I look at the data and then we're getting the feedback from our students, from our uh employees that are saying things aren't working. Students aren't getting
062the counseling time. they're not developing the A throughG plan or some of our students that aren't pursuing A throughG. So, there's just a disconnect and we're trying to connect it and when you leave it to us or to me to piece it together, it's not going to look pretty. Um, so thank you for providing responses to a lot of the questions that we had. Um, I think we just need a more clearcut moving forward, not just this contract, but some of the other ones for us to be able to measure and know what the expectations are. So, you know, and um one thing I want to add is that having done the work, that's a chance to network. You get a chance to network with different districts throughout the state. Not districts that are in
063trouble, so to speak, but ones that you want to aspire to be. You know, I look back a couple maybe two years ago when you had the trend of I guess most districts in the state went down in one of the areas, but you had a a few to go up in both areas. and like why did they do that? And both of those districts, Modesto City and Sacramento un uh city unified districts that moved in both in both directions move forward and you learn from those districts. That's that's the whole networking aspect of it. So I know that it works. The goal is you want to get to a place I agree with you. You get you do want to get to a place to where you kind of can do it yourself. But
064what I like about the process is that they guide you through it. you they they keep you accountable and that's why we got the results that we did the first round, >> Trusty Chavez. >> So, I absolutely agree with what you're saying and I think it's important that we do use our limited funds intentionally to support our staff so they can learn from best practice and promising practice. I want to go back to a public comment that we got last time from a teacher that shared with us that unfortunately in their experience that that information wasn't being brought back to the school site. And I can say as an educator who has been an educator for I mean 20 years I guess now I'm doing the math. um too often I saw these types of
065um investments in initiatives and other things and quite frankly people used it as time to travel out of town and to get away stay in a hotel get some information but there wasn't a tie back to the campus I'm not making accusations and I'm not saying that's what's happening here but I want for us to be really careful as a district that if we are going to use our limited funds funds to to fund something like this that we actually have some concrete mechanism to ensure that we're bringing whatever those individuals are learning back to our campus and that we are actually seeing like trusty Curio saying that return on investment and that does come with very clear-cut transparent data and that's the only way that we're going to be able to monitor it because
066we can't go off of just anecdotal like oh it was great I learned a lot like I'm happy for you, but that's not that's not what we're doing here. That makes sense. So, I don't know exactly how that needs to look. And like Trusty Couo says, I'm not the expert, so I'm not the one who's tracking the data and doing all of that, but we need to see it. So, I would just encourage us to be more thoughtful and very very direct and concrete. So, I noticed as well the last previous meeting when we ask questions, especially regarding some of these contracts that the responses to the questions, they just need to be quick because if they're long explanations, I get lost in it. And I've been in education for 20 years now. So, I
067can't imagine how the community would feel and how my fellow board members feel because it's it's so much explanation and and it just if it's if it's effective, it's simple. we get to the point, we say this is what we did. This is the data and this is how we did it. So, let's just keep that in mind moving forward. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Marshall. I think one I'll be the last comment. One thing we will do, we'll do updates throughout the process. That way you see it in real time. >> If no other questions on that item, we'll have it returned under action. Uh we'll have it returned under is consent. Okay. All right. Thank you. reach out to me if you have any additional questions. >> Okay, thank you. >> We move
068on to Thank you. We move on to item number two. Receive information regarding construction management services addendum number one for visual and and performing arts center project at Justin Garza High School. Director Rodriguez. >> Thank you, board president, uh board of trustees and superintendent Dr. Marshall. This item comes to you as an information item as an amendment to the current construction management uh contract with David A. Bush Construction, also doing business as Bush Construction. Uh the purpose of this amendment is to formally uh acknowledge that the original agreement will remain in effect with the modifications due to known construction costs. Uh the addendum will confirm that the construction manager services will continue under the new terms. Uh these services are crucial uh aspect to our building project. Uh legal council has reviewed the amendment and
069administration is recommending that this item returned to the board on the September 16th, 2025 for action. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Questions or comments from the board? Trusty Sers, >> the uh amended contract increase of just shy of $1.1 million. Is that the full cost or is that just the increased amount? >> That is the increase. >> What What is the full amount? >> The full amount uh will be uh 5 million uh 5,129,000. >> You're welcome. If no other questions, uh, we would like to have this return under consent. Thank you. We move on. Item number three, receive information regarding the 2024 2025 unodited actuals report. Assistant Superintendent Nick Paul. >> Good evening. This is a placeholder for the unoditated actual and the report is going to
070be presented in the next board meeting. >> Thank you. We will have this uh under uh act action to so we can have enough time to evaluate it. Thank you. We'll move on to item number four. Receive information regarding resolution 2526-05 to establish appropriations gn limit. Uh assistant superintendent. >> Again this is a placeholder. Uh the GAN limit resolution is going to be presented in the next board meeting with an audit action report. >> Great. We'll have this return under action then as well. Move on to item number five. Receive information regarding the bid rejection of cafeteria HVAC install at Roosevelt Elementary School. Director Bot. >> Mr. Bot is uh unable to attend. He's sick. So um I'm going to present for him. The district would like to reject the bid for the HVAC installation
071in the cafeteria at Roosevelt Elementary School. Administration is recommending that the item be placed on September 9, 2025 board agenda for action. Trusty Kurvan. >> Uh thank you, President Singh. So um can you uh go for us again one more time about why we are rejecting this bid instead of uh just approving it? >> When we when we we went under the Cupka bid limit and one of the things we included in the bid is the work needs to be done before and after school. That cost was over 150,000. So what we're going to do is we will rebid this in a pure uh bid process and in that specs we will say the work is going to be done under Thanksgiving and winter breaks that should that should reduce the cost by 100,000 because
072150,000 is a labor cost because we are letting them know that you have to work before and after schools. So that's a kind of overtime for the contractor. So that's why we will again bid it your bid. >> Thank you for saving us some money then. Thank you. Uh, do we have the ability to return this to consent? Oh, sorry. Trusty uh Siddhu. >> And then if you have an answer for this, um, would it be done under the four weeks? We have like the three weeks of winter and the one week for >> that's what we are kind of shooting for. That's what we're going to put in the bid for uh, the Thanksgiving break and the winter break. Okay. We'll see what happens. >> Trusty sellers. >> Sorry. the uh HVAC system that's
073in place right now, is that operational? >> Not not that well. So that's why we so that's why we have to replace it. >> So knowing that we still have some days that are still in the hot part of the year, is this the best thing for our students and staff to not have an operational HVAC system or >> I I think what we are planning to do is put a big fan, but I'll get to you. I I'll let director B and see what our solutions are. >> Thank you. >> We'll have this then return under action at our next board meeting uh advanced planning. Okay. Uh which you'll find attached to that agenda item, we have our 12-month calendar. Uh as a reminder on uh September 2nd uh there'll be a board uh
074special board work study around the job study that I want to remind you about that and then as we move forward there that be different topics that we talk about like one item of special education. We'll get to that at some point. >> Now the time for the board is there any uh desire for any additional information or any closing comments at this time? >> And if not a reminder our next meeting again as Dr. Marshall just shared, a special board meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for public session here at the Central Unified School District District Office Room 13. And our next regular board meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. for close session and 7 p.m. for public session here at the
075Central Unified School District District Office Room 13. And we will adjourn back to close session. Thank you.