Central Unified Board Of Trustees Meeting May 27th, 2025

001[Music] [Applause] [Music] Yes. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Everything. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Happy Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees. Today is May 27th, 2025. The time is now 6:00 p.m. Welcome to the Central Unified School District office, room 13. As we call the meeting to order, let the attendance show we are currently missing Vice President Coreo. All else everyone else is in attendance. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. We have a motion by Trusty Kon. Second. I heard Trusty Kirk first. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6. And with that, do we have any comments from the public on any close session items? President Singh. I have none

002at this time. And uh Pio Burroughs, we have no callers at this time. We should wait about 15 seconds. Sounds good. Board President, 30 seconds have passed and there's no callers at this time. Thank you. And with that, we will move to close session and reconvene back and open at 7 p.m. Thank you. Heat. [Music] Heat. heat. [Music] Hey Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey hey oh [Music] Do you feel [Music] Hey, I'm [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, oh, oh. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Hey, oh hey oh. [Music] Oh, oh, [Music] Oo. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] I don't know. [Music] Ah, heat. [Applause] [Music] Yes. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. [Music]

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004Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, Oh. Oh. Oh. [Music] Hey, Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, oh, hey. [Music] Hey, Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh. Oh. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, [Music] Yeah. Yes. Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Keep [Music] down. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees. The time is 7:01. Uh welcome to our meeting here at the district office on May 27th, 2025. A report out from items from close session. We had trustee Curio joining us at 6:15 p.m. On item E2, uh the board took action uh in a unanimous vote of 70. On item E3, sorry,

005the the board took uh unanimous action to approve the item 70. On item E3, the board took unanimous uh approval uh of item E370. On item E6, uh the the board took action to approve the tentative agreement of OAH number 20250428. The vote was 70. On item E7, uh the the vote the board took uh action to approve uh oh sorry took action to deny uh the the litigation claim uh unanimously 70. And with that, I'll ask uh Vice President Korea to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Those of you sitting, please Thank you, Vice President Curio. Uh, next may I ask um uh Senior Lazo and uh and Sir Dan Mikolor to join us and share about our community engagement information. Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150

006or 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 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. Thank you. Thank you. for meeting. Agenda section, Spanish extension. Thank you. With that, we turn to

007our presentations, beginning with our student recognition. Um, I will turn it over to Dr. Lopez and Dr. Boight. Good evening, board president, Sing, Board of Trustees, and interim superintendent, Dr. O'Brien. We have a video today that we would like to show you. But first, I would like to uh in recognition of LGBTQ Pride Month, we would like to recognize the work that our diversity, equity, and inclusion department has led to ensure awareness and spreading uh spreading that information through our district newsletter. Thank you, Director English. In addition, we would like to show you this video from Central East High School led uh this is from uh the GSA club led by advisor Nina Jasper. If you can please play the [Music] sound [Applause] [Music] right. The GCA club is important to have students know where

008to go when they need support or where they need to talk to somebody about how or where or where can they go to the next level to show their support and to show how we could support them. Hi, I'm the adviser of the GSA club and we just want to say thank you so much for supporting us and how important pride means to us and the district. So, thank you so much. Know my worth. Advocacy for right. Community strong. We own the night. This is our time for our best events. Share the colors of like represents. Red for life. Come together. Rise above. Orange for healing. We feel the love. Yellow sunlight. We're shining bright. Green for nature. our hearts and fight. Blue for harmony, peace. We seek violence, spirit, proud and unique. Thank you

009for supporting Pride Community. [Music] They created this short video to share what pride means to them, why it matters in our schools, and how your support makes a difference. Our district provides various club opportunities which embody the rich diversity found within our district. Pride Month is not just about a celebration. It's about remembering history, promoting acceptance, and ensuring that every student and staff feel seen and valued. Thank you. All right. Good evening. So, next up, I'd like to share with you some amazing authors and illustrators. I'm going to introduce them and then we'll have them come up and um and shake your hands. So, first off, Wednesday, May 7th was the annual Young Authors Fair at the Fresno Fairgrounds. Central Unified students earned five exemplary awards this year. We have Mrs. Gimenez's first grade class

010from Central Elementary. They were awarded the exemplary award for K6 class book with their entry entitled Closline Clues to the jobs people do. We have another entry from Central Elementary also earned an exemplary award for K6 fiction. Danielle Moses from Mrs. Hernandez's class wrote and illustrated her book Puppy Love. Eileen Angiano from M McKinley Elementary, Mrs. Villa Rial's class received an award for the K12 individual illustrator for her book entitled Fires. Central East High School student Finch Damian earned the exemplary award for 712 narrative for people like us. And Central High School student Flores Davila received an exemplary award for 712 poem the shift. Congratulations to all of our coaches, teachers, and of course, our amazing students. Let's give them a round of applause. [Applause] Good job. Good job. teacher. Thank you to all the

011students, their and their families. Next, we switch gears to employee recognition and I'll have uh Dr. Boight share share some of the recognitions. So, thank you again. So, we're going to start off tonight with our 2025 character and civic education recognition awards. And I'd like to invite up Mabel Franks to the microphone here to tell you a little bit about [Music] this. Good evening, president of the board, members of the board, and Superintendent O'Brien. Welcome to see you again. Congratulations to Central Unified for the work that you're doing. I always call it recovery period in that I feel like everybody went through a tunnel a few years ago. Some schools feel like they're still in it. They can't even see the sunshine. They don't know what direction to go. What we were able to find

012out from Central is that there are schools here that have moved beyond even recovery. It takes a long time to create the type of culture that we found at the schools that we visited this year. And that is extremely important, not only for you to know it as a board and members of the community, but for our entire Central Valley to know that there are schools out here that have moved beyond recognizing that we went through challenges to believe that we can do anything again. And when we went to visit the two schools that earned the award tonight, it was very evident that what they had in place didn't just start two years ago. You don't change a culture in two years. That takes a long time. So what it was that they literally created

013an idea of how we move ahead long before a lot of other schools have. So I'd like you to know and recognize is that they serve as a model for the rest of the schools in our district that are still struggling. But above and beyond that when you go to visit the schools and hear it from the students what is going on, you know it's really happening. When hearing from the adults, you hope it's happening. But when the students are able to describe it and be so excited about the schools that they attend to share what they know and believe and then the parents echo that, it is extending beyond the the boundaries of the school and the walls of the classroom. So with that in mind, I'd like to recognize tonight two schools that

014absolutely exemp exemplified character in civic education as a way uh they do their their work. Whether their students, their teachers, their parents, their staff, everybody's working together to make a difference. So with it, I'd like to call up two recognized schools. Central High School The students were so excited about what they had to share. And I hope that some of you remember the stories. I call it memory markers. We're not taking time to develop those right now. We're so busy trying to do that we don't start to recognize what we have accomplished. So with that, we we actually forced them to recognize. And I know it was hard, but it was amazing what they were able to share. And I hope they'll be able to share some stories with you at some point this year

015before the summer comes. The other one I'd like to recognize tonight is El Capitan Middle School and having been I'm middle school is my love and dream. It's where schools and I don't I could teach a hundred middle schoolers in a single period any day. Give me 20 kindergarteners, I'm lost. But what I what I believe about middle school is that where they either find themselves or they lose themselves. They either believe there's hope and their dreams are there or they believe they're not. And what I saw with El Capitan is that belief in the promise of the future. So congratulations to all you do. Thank you. Okay. So, moving on. Um, so I'd like to share with you um what we received from Samuel Lee, who was the membership coordinator from the Family Career

016and Community Leaders of America regarding Alyssa Fight, Central East High School teacher and winner of the FCCLA spirit of advising award. This is what he wrote. And these are also these amazing students back here in these red suits. In every school and chapter, there are adviserss who go above and beyond, not for recognition, but because they believe deeply in their students, in the mission of FCCLA, and in the power of leadership to change lives. You are one of those adviserss. This is Alyssa Fight. You are the steady encouragement behind the scenes, the problem solver, the motivator, the mentor, the one who stays late, shows up early, and gives students the courage to lead. That is why it is my honor to share that you have been selected as a recipient of the FCCLA Spirit of

017Advising Award, an honor given to no more than one adviser per state each year, selected from over 7,200 chapter adviserss across the country. This award is a reflection of your unwavering commitment to student success, your tireless efforts to build a strong FCCLA chapter, and your embodiment of the very spirit that guides our organization. Your influence is felt not just through the awards your chapter may earn, but through the everyday moments, empowering students to speak up, guiding them through challenges, and encouraging them to see their potential. You have created a space where members can grow into leaders. And that is what this war award is truly about. So that is Alyssa Fight and I'd like to invite her up right now. She'd like to share with you just a little bit about her program. But first,

018can we give her a round of [Applause] applause? I brought them around because I need my cheerleaders. No. Uh, good evening board members and community members and Central Unified Leaders. I am Alyssa Fight, family consumer science teacher from Central East High School. And part of my job as a family consumer science teacher is to advise a chapter of family, career, and community leaders of America. It's a mouthful. Uh, but uh, I wouldn't be here without my wonderful students. So, I'm just going to recognize them by name because they gave up their evening to be here with us. So, we have Blessa and Gracie and Sunshine and Brenda and Delilah and Marco and uh Jared, Rosyn and David. And several of them are outgoing officers that are just turning over the torch to our incoming officers.

019If you're an incoming officer, will you please wave? Incoming officers. They're going to be serving as our chapter officers for next year. And I just want to tell you a little bit about some of our accomplishments this year in FCCLA. So FCCLA focuses on personal career and community development through competitive events, community service, public speaking, and leadership. This year the theme was dare to dream, and our stu students worked really hard to meet their personal and professional goals and dreams. This year we had over 340 members affiliated with FCCLA in our chapter and 16 of those members, many of them which are here today, represented us at the state leadership conference this spring in Riverside. Of those 16, four of them qualified for nationals by placing in the top two in the state for their

020competitions. They will be attending the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida this summer, pending board approval, of course. And um those people are Rosland Tomkins, David Rodriguez, Joselyn Centur, and Alexis Rodriguez. Those are our four that'll be representing us in Orlando. Tonight, we also awarded our students with membership plaques, stole, and cords for those who went above and beyond to serve in community service, star events, fundraising, and other FCCLA related activities. We also recognized our new officer team and they will lead our chapter next year as we affiliate 100% of our students in the family and consumer science program that encompasses child development, fashion design, nutrition, and interior design. And uh our successes this year would not be possible without the following individuals. We want to thank Courtney Avery and Brad Edmonds, our site admin,

021for all of their support. Mark Fowler, our area administrator, and also my colleagues, Shannon Farmer and Holly Choan, for helping us run this amazing program. I also wish to thank my husband and children that support me. Um, I'm pretty sure every time my kids see me in red, they're like, "Again?" with FCCLA. And I'm like, I know, I'm sorry, but it's an amazing organization. I know it changes their lives. And that's why I love to do it. It is the most exhausting, but the most rewarding part of my job. and I love seeing them go out into the community and do amazing things. So, thank you to my students for helping me to get to this point and thank you board members. Have a great [Applause] day. Thank you again, Mrs. Fight, and thank you

022for all the students for being there and supportive. Um, next we turn it again to Dr. Boight to share. Actually, Mrs. fight. Can we have you can we come shake your hand? and maybe even some of the students as well. Now, now we turn it back to uh Dr. Bruntray to share with some new additions to our team. Um I will go ahead and and turn this back to Dr. O'Brien. Well, thank you, Dr. Broite. Um we were going to introduce Dr. Ji Bettheina, our new curriculum and instruction director tonight, but she wasn't feeling well. So, she will join us at our next board meeting. But in the meantime, we are very excited to introduce our new principal at Teague Elementary. Her name is Jasmine Burus Marby and we're very excited to have her at

023the helm and she'd like to say a few words uh in appreciation to the board for approving her contract. Hello. Hello. I'm so excited to be here today. Let me tell you so so much. I It's hard for me to contain it. So, let me just jump right into it. So, good evening, board president, board members, Dr. O'Brien, and then everybody here uh today. So, I just want to say thank you for your trust and confidence in proving me to be Teague's new principal. So, I'm honored and excited to be stepping into this new role and serving in a school community that I already have grown to love. So, I do have personal ties. My son is here in Central Unified. So, um but throughout my career in education, I've had the privilege of working

024in a variety of roles and these roles have given me insight into the diverse needs of staff, students, and families. So just knowing their experiences from day to day, teachers pouring their heart into classrooms and then still having challenges, students facing challenges at home and at school and then coming and still carrying that potential with them. Um challenges uh I'm sorry, hopes and dreams of families for their students that we take care of for many many hours a day. So, I will not lose sight of that in the work that I'm doing and always remember those needs of students, uh, families and staff. So, I'm committed to being equitable and inclusive leader. So, I'm listening attentively, um, leading collaboratively and then making sure to celebrate the diversity that strengthens our school community. So we have

025one clear goal and that is to improve student achievement and we'll do that by creating the supportive and highquality and high quality learning environments for all students. So before I sit down, I just want to let you know that I've had the privilege of being a part of the Central Unified community and family for many years as a parent, but I am now proud to say that I am a part of the Central Unified family, as a staff member, and a leader. So thank you again for this opportunity, and I look forward to working with you all. [Applause] Thank you again and welcome to the team. Thank you. Next, we invite up our executive director of the Foundation for Central Schools, Serena Doy. Thank you, board trustee president. Good evening, board of trustees, and thank

026you for having me this evening. Um, first and foremost, I just want to say thank you to everyone who joined us at our annual scholarship awards. Um, that was just last month. Um, we received so much positive feedback from the community and I have to say that was probably my favorite event, but I say that about everything every time it comes up. Um, and a huge congratulations again to our 23 scholarship recipients. We gave out 26 scholarships, but at the end um we did have three recipients receive two scholarships, which was very surprising um for them and their families. So again, thank you to our community for helping make that happen. Um our next event um was the annual golf tournament, but we did move the date to September 20th. I think the weather will

027be a little bit more on our side and it also gives folks a bit more time to um get their team together. So all that information is on our website, September 20th. So if any of our new board of trustees or current board of trustees want to join us for golf, September 20th will be the date. Um early bird prices will um continue until August 1st. So um some great news and I'm so happy our new Teague um principal joined us today. But we did wrap up the season over at the tea community food pantry. So, it's now officially closed for the summer as it starts to get extremely hot. Um, we don't want to um trouble people with the the heat in there. Um, and so numbers so far that we have is that

0285,435 individuals and um of which 2,243 are children under 18 were served this year. So, I am so happy we could do this. Um, even with some slight um grants not coming in due to some um federal um grants that were put on hold, we still did um a little less than a thousand um individuals from last year. So, I'm very proud of what we were able to accomplish this year. Um on June 3rd, um which is just a week away, we will be hosting a town hall listening session, um to uh learn insights from our families that came to the pantry so that we can help make their shopping experience more enjoyable and make sure that we're still purchasing um for the central community and for um cultural reasons, health reasons. We want to

029make sure that we um can provide those specifics for them. In addition, um, thanks to the Morgan Stanley grant, um, that's been extended for us until September, um, we have hopes that El Cabban Middle School and McKinley Elementary School pantry will open in September. Um, so we have resources for our families um, during our closures of our pantries um, on our website, centralfoundation.org or um and or they can reach out to their family outreach liaison for continued support when our um food pantry is closed. So, a lot of really great news um as we uh end the school year and then start a new school year with our food pantries. Um additionally, our clothing closets. Um I I want to focus tonight on a couple of closets. Um a Central East Careers clothing closet. our

030intervention counselor over there, Victoria Duong. Um she's just gone above and beyond for our high schoolers on their special days. Um whether it be senior photos, a job interview, formal prom, or graduation, a total of 105 students were outfitted this school year. Um so this isn't just Central East students. This these are high schoolers from um all of our campuses, which is fabulous. And that's what I love about our clothing closets is even though it's at a specific school site, it's available for anyone districtwide. So, we have, you know, an email that goes out and someone says, "Hey, we're in need." And everyone kind of looks in those closets and we figure out how to source those items as quick as possible internally first. Um, so 105 students, that's a big number um for our

031school district and um I'm very proud of that. And um I'd also like to note that the Persian continuation and Pathway Community Day Schools closet is in fact um running and it's doing great. Um so I'm super excited that that happened as well. So if you are doing a tour, be sure to ask about that closet. Um, so I do have some um, success stories I'd like to just share with you just so you can hear from a student's perspective. Um, and um, you understand really the impact these closets are making. Um, so this is from one of our high schoolers. Having the clothes available has taken a lot of stress off my shoulders. When it comes to having formal clothes, I don't really have any of my own. I remember I needed formal work

032clothes for an interview I had junior year. I was going to be graded on my outfit and I was stressed out because my family could not afford to buy fancy clothes. Luckily, the closet was available to take the weight off my shoulders. Having a clothing closet is helpful for people like myself who feel kind of embarrassed to not be able to afford clothes for important events. And um the next story I have is um from a staff member. And so she had been coming to school wearing shoes that were two sizes too big, making it uncomfortable and difficult to walk. When we were able to give her a new pair of shoes in her correct size, her face lit up with joy. She was smiling from ear to ear and couldn't stop saying thank you.

033Moments like these remind us why this effort matters. Our clothing closet is more than just clothing. It's about dignity, comfort, and helping our students feel seen and supported. And again, our clothing closets have made such a meaningful difference in the lives of our students. Um, I'd like to say a huge thank you to the Assistance League of Fresno who generously takes us um and helps us stock our clothing closets throughout the school year. Um, helps us in emergency needs and just continues to provide that support so that the foundation can support our school districts and make more of these happen. So, in the new school year, um we are looking at finishing the Rio Vista clothing closet and possibly opening um another one or two closets as well. So, they're very important and um they're

034not just, you know, closets for someone out of dress code, but these are very meaningful, impactful ways to make our students feel um seen and 100% comfortable in all aspects of school life. All right. And as the season changed, we do roll into our grant season. So, um, at this time, we offer high school enrichment students grants for their textbooks. So, we do have summer, um, grants available for students that are enrolled in summer school. They do have to be a current, uh, Central Unified High School enrichment, um, student. And so that information is available on central foundation.org and or students can partner with their career counselor at their school site. And additionally, thanks to the Kaiser Perente benefits program, we have been awarding well-being grants around the district to enhance workplace shared areas and

035boost employee morale. For example, Central High has been embracing well-being by having monthly healthy snacks and Central Elementary will be hosting a monthly smoothie break. So, that's very exciting. It's just a great way to keep everybody energized and um making smarter choices and well-being choices as well. So, picking up a smoothie instead of a soda. Um I think we're all guilty for those things as well. Um so, we'll continue doing that as we get into the new school year. And additionally, in August, teachers and club advi advisors, be sure to mark your calendar for August 4th because our classroom and school club grants will be available before you know it. So, we want to encourage everyone to start thinking about those new projects. Um, again, I just want to say thank you to our board

036of trustees and um I look forward to another uh great school year. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Trusty Chavez. Thank you for that report. I really appreciate it. And I'm I'm seeing here I saw you on the agenda, so I was really curious. I I have a specific interest in the foundation just because I know the work that you do. I'm familiar. Um and I noticed that there wasn't a report here on the for us to view. So, I was just going to ask a couple questions. Um one is about the golf tournament in particular. So, I've been approached by a few constituents who are um former alumni, some are alumni. Um but specifically, they're asking around um you know, our fundraising goals. So, from what I've heard, and

037I don't pretend to know cuz I'm not an athlete at all. So, anybody who knows me, I'm not athletic and I'm not in I I just don't swallow sports very much. But, um they've said that we've had multiple um professional uh sports figures that have graduated from Central who actually come to the valley to do various golf tournaments. Have we tried to reach out to any of those alumni to see how we could partner with them for any kind of fundraising opportunities or to leverage their golf tournament um appearances? Have you done any of that or do you know about that? Yeah, so Jaylen Johnson actually supports another event, Holiday Joy of Ours, as well as numerous um events. He also hosts his own um golf tournament that benefits um another Central Grizzlies um youth

038program. So there are partnerships in place but we can continue to explore those opportunities with alumni as well. Thank you. Yeah. And then the other thing I was going to ask was around um is there a revenue goal for the foundation as for how much um outside funding sources like as far as how many grants the foundation actually writes per year? Do is there an actual identified revenue goal for the foundation to hit as a target? I'm just curious given the budget restraints that are coming constraints that are coming down because we know that. So, we're going to have to start exploring other funding opportunities. So, do we have anything in place? At this time, there's not a set grant um funding application number in process. Um but I do believe that is something we

039can look into. um when I first started in this foundation, I know that we've come a very long way as to where I was five and a half years ago and I think um Trusty Creo and Trustee um Chan can also speak to that as to kind of where we were. Um, but we have been looking at private grants and federal grants in the last three years. And so that's been new for the foundation because that wasn't happening before. Um, and so I'd like to see that continue to grow, but as far as an actual number, not at this time. Okay. So I'd like to work together to see how we can do that. Just as a person who's a former fundraiser, there's always a target that we hit. Um, it's not amount about the

040amount of grants that we get, it's about the amount of grants that we write. So, I'd like to kind of make sure that we are tracking and seeing how many applications we're submitting and if we have a revenue goal that we're actually trying to target every single year. So, I know that'll take some time, but I just like to make sure that we're kind of moving in that direction. And Trusty Chavez, I just want to clarify, are you speaking in regards to the foundation only or as the school district? No, I mean the foundation only. Okay. Yeah, because the foundation has flexibility that's very unique to the to a foundation. Yes. And that's in every educational institution. So, I don't want to leave any money on the table that we could possibly be tapping into

041to the through the foundation specifically. So, I know it's kind of a new way to think about it, but I just like to mention it so we could start moving in that direction. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank Thank you. Uh uh director Dohi. Um, yeah, I appreciate the comments from Trusty Chavez. I've definitely seen sort of the the growth. I think uh that's going to take us to the next level for us to have those kind of goals that that we're trying to hit and uh uh hope to be a partner. I think I look at it in especially in terms of whether it be the golf tournament, but because those are completely unrestricted, the ways that we can actually tap into uh businesses and there is a desire. I I mean you could see

042it in terms of like how much faith that this community has continued to have in the school district. So just uh find finding new ways for us to continue to to solar. Thank you. Thank you. Uh next we turn to our employee association highlights. I'll first invite up our CUTA president, Laura Bolton. All right, good evening. Um, hope everybody had a wonderful 3-day weekend. Um so I want to start off by sharing that um last week on um May 19th uh we were able to give um three scholarships um to students who um showed an interest in the education field and um exemplified what we were looking for in students um that we would like to support in their um their future academics. Um, so, um, Cuda gave, uh, a $750 scholarship to Tessa Davis

043at Central East, to Samantha Perez at Central High School, and Macy Richardson also at Central High School. Um, on Friday, um, we were back at the bargaining table. Um we spent uh a good long um day together um going back and forth and um trying to um find our way to a compromise and to a tenative agreement. Um we did make some progress but it was very very little. Um and uh I want to share with you that the the same student focused um requests are still on the table. So, we are still looking to um bring in social workers for our students with 504s. Um the district has not agreed to this. Um they are entertaining an um internship program. Uh so that that's a potential. Um we're also still looking for support services

044for our English learners. Um we've requested um support to provide push-in support in our core classes for them in secondary. um the district does not agree to this. Um and gave us a a response that essentially they they already do that, but that's not really accurate. Um our secondary teachers are with their students in their classes. They're not able to push in when they have kids in their room. Um and we're also um looking for again more um support for our newcomers and our um very beginning English learners. Um, one of the pretty much no cost requests that we asked for that still has not been um, agreed to is um, ensuring access to reading intervention programs that already exist on our campuses. Um, frequently our newcomers and our ELS are excluded from these programs.

045Um, we're told that there's just not enough space and that they already get support and so they can't go to reading intervention. There's just not room. Um so the district responded that um newcomers and EL students have equal access to reading intervention services. So having equal access and um actually receiving the services is not the same thing. Um and then um we've we've told you many times that we're looking for more more newcomer support. So uh we continue to request additional newcomer teachers um for our elementary and secondary. um the district did um pay attention and they did um put forward a growth position for um one more newcomer teacher and one more instructional coach for ELEL's and we think that's a step in the right direction but um considering the number of uh newcomers

046and struggling EL students we think that that's just not um sufficient and that there is money in concentration and supplemental um grant money that's ongoing that could be used to provide these. Um we hear um the district's point um that money has been spent to open schools that that it's expensive to turn Central High School into a comprehensive high school that um opening up um our new elementary school came with a lot of costs um and that a lot of this could not be avoided. Um that is true. That is absolutely true. But a lot of it is also one-time and the funding that we're referring to will still be there next year. So that needs to be taken into consideration. Uh that once those things are in place, some of that cost goes away.

047So um finally um we also um have maintained our desire for um expansion of opportunity class um options for um both elementary and high school. Um, middle school has three opportunity classes. This is for students with high behavior um who need um intensive behavior support but um don't qualify for our um continuation schools. They're kind of in between um they're they're needing it right now. Um but they also aren't doing well in the classroom and they're disruptive to the students who are trying to learn. So, middle school, they can be assigned to 30 days of intensive behavior support on campus, still receiving their instruction, um, and then return to class. High school does not have this. Um, elementary has one class for all what will be 15 elementary schools with seats that are supposed to

048fill be filled with kindergarten through sixth graders. Usually about six students are the max. Um the district did put forward an additional growth position for an a second opportunity class this year and it was never filled. We don't really know why. Um it's needed. So um we believe and we maintain that um even having two would not be um enough to separate the grade spans. Um we believe that it's not appropriate for kindergarteners and sixth graders with behavior problems to be in the same room. nor would it really be appropriate for third graders and sixth graders to be in the same room. We think that having um a a separation of K 1 2 3 4 6 would be more appropriate. One classroom per district region, feeder school region um and mimic what we have

049in middle school and hopefully for high school as well. This would provide a place for those very intensive students with severe behavior issues to go and have that intensive behavior training while still being able to learn their grade level standards. And then give the classrooms a relief um who are enduring severe behavior disruptions and give that child a relief to not be constantly in that loop of behavior and reprimand and PBIS. that is not working for them at tier three. So those are the things we still want and that we still think we need and that we think can be found in the budget room for these things or some sort of compromise that um that we think if the district is willing to look at it, think outside the box that we can find

050ways to make this happen. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we invite Angie Giri, our CS our CSEA president. Good evening, board members and Dr. O'Brien. Uh, I just want to give a little shout out to our bus drivers. Uh on Sunday, May 25th, three of our Central Unifi's finest school bus drivers proudly represented our district at the 2025 Castro State Championship Bus Rodeo and competing against the top 20 drivers in California. Uh 10 from Northern California and 10 from Southern California. Our team demonstrated skill, professionalism, and heart. The drivers were Ricky Woods, eight years of service with Central, Tony Hos, three years of service. Maria Munoz, three years of service. All three drivers earned their place at the state championship by placing in the top 10 at the northern section rodeo in April. Their performance

051at the finals was commendable, showcasing the high standards and dedication of Central Unifi's transportation team. We're proud of the unity initiative shown by our transportation department. We just want to give a shout out. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we turn to our superintendent in board communications, interim superintendent, Dr. O'Brien. Good evening, members of the board and everybody here. Um, there's been a lot of great endofear celebrations occurring around the district. But I must say what happened on last Thursday, May 22nd, when our entire administration went out, made our way out to Madison Elementary to participate in a huge celebration of their uh recent recognition of as one of only one of six elementary schools in the whole county to be named a California state distinguished school. So, we were delighted that some of our board

052members were there to represent the governing board. Trustees Carla Kirk, a former Madison parent, trustee Nibia Keron, and then also trustee Josh Sers was there joining our local for law enforcement partners to form a tunnel for all the students, the 500 plus students and staff to pass through on their way out to the playfields where everybody uh formed a very large M for Madison which was chocked onto the field. All of our students had their proudly wore their t-shirts saying I am state distinguished and uh got to see a drone go over overhead and take some photographs of them. Very very exciting. Then Patrick Kelly from producers dairies brought a big truck on site and every student and adult got some ice cream. We want to thank Aldi Ramirez who organized this gesture gesture from

053the Shahadi family at producers dairies and it's another great example of the partnerships we have in our community with not only producers but also our business and law enforcement friends. So that was a lot of fun. Um and actually the team is headed down to Anaheim this week to formally receive their uh award. Uh Monday May 19th was a very proud moment in Central Unified. We had our first cohort of uh associates of arts degree earners. Uh um these are this is a was in partnership with Fresno City College. We had uh 21 valadictorians, 11 of whom earned their AA degree. Um they also got actually to formally cross the stage on Friday night at Fresno City College um at a ceremony there. And then out at Central High School, trustees Kirk and Keron were

054able to join in the ceremony. Also in attendance was interim uh president Dr. Kim Armstrong. Uh she's interim president in Fresno City College as well as trustee Danielle Par. She's president of the state center community college district. She shared some inspirational comments um as she congratulated our students and thanked their parents and the staff at Central High School for their support of this momentous achievement. You know, I had a the great pleasure to attend an event on uh Thursday evening. It was a PK parent institute for quality education event. Myself, Dr. Lopez, Nora Sabios, who oversees parent engagement in the district, and Christina Rodriguez, who oversees our extended learning opportunities program. Uh we went to the uh uh center across the street here, uh um the center, the Familia, and there were 96 parents there

055receiving certificates for completing 15 weeks of uh coursework in uh a variety of topics around parenting. everything from how to help our students navigate social media, how to help them navigate, you know, school successfully, organizing their time, things like that. There were really relevant modules and several parents got up and gave testimonies about how the program had benefited them. Frankly, it was just all inspiring to hear these parents talk about how these modules have made them helped make them more effective, more productive, more understanding parents. And you know, as we in the school district are striving to overcome a lot of challenges as we try to help our students navigate everything uh in their educational journey, it is so important that we, you know, partner with our parents. Our parents are the primary educators. they

056are uh the ones with whom our students are most of their time. So it really was great. 17 of those parents actually got perfect attendance awards. Some of them the they have to attend one night a week. Some of them attended two nights a week so that they could cover more modules. Really was very inspiring evening. And then Univision celebrity newscaster Lupita Lamelli, she provided a motivational keynote speech. She shared her own journey coming from Mexico, the sacrifices that her parents made, but how they really fostered in her a determination to follow her dream to go into television. Um, and you know, she's a obviously a very famous person. So, her presence and her words were a huge testimony to the work of PK and our other parent engagement programs here in Central Unified. So,

057I have to say I was so proud to be associated with that event. And then I also wanted to mention that uh I've been continuing my visits out to our school sites with members of our board. It's really been great to see, you know, just get these little snapshots of things that are going on around the district. When we were out at Glacier Point, we happened to be in a math one classroom and the entire Smartboard as the teacher went through the slides, all I saw was writing. I I really didn't see any numbers because the the project as you'll remember trusty Keram was to design a city which had you know x amount of per perpendicular streets and parallel streets and buildings and certain shapes and there were all sorts of guidelines but as

058I looked up it occurred to me how important reading is even in mathematics and uh that brings me on to Teague Elementary where we were also visiting and uh you have a teacher that you will enjoy working with. Her name is Amy Hoer because her classroom is a model classroom for our letters training and uh she's using that program 95% up and to see uh the extent of uh literacy education instruction that's happening in our first grade classrooms. It really is a gamecher for us here in Central Unified. and we just had 84 teachers um graduate and we have several more going through the cohorts and we have administrators invited to participate in that. So I think it's something you might find enjoyable. Um, and I also got to go out to the Central Online

059High School where Colette Bulier is the principal. And we have some amazing programs for our students who for a variety of reasons need to attend high school online. And they are the Owls, by the way. and uh to see the teachers and how they interact with our students online. It really is very inspiring to see what we can do to make sure that every student within our boundaries is uh being having access to a great education no matter what their um situation. Lastly, I wanted to mention that between now and our next board meeting, we will have attended the class and the Central East High School graduations. So, we are officially in graduation season. I know I see our board members have received their STOs this evening, but we're very excited to celebrate these momentous

060occasions with our 2025 graduating seniors and their families. We've known that many of our students have received scholarships and awards. We're so proud of everything they've achieved. All of our staff will be there to cheer them on and obviously all of us, too. So looking forward to seeing our board members at our upcoming graduations. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. O'Brien. Any other communications from any board members at the time? Uh Trusty Kirk. Thank you very much, President Singh. Uh just another big thank you and shout out to Mrs. Oliver, uh the teachers, and the support staff at Madison. Was a special day that was. And a special shout out to Miss Buchian um who is retiring this year after many years of dedicated service who had one of my son's homework pieces from 2013 and

061ran me down because she thought I would want this drawing that my son did. I noticed my son's handwriting hasn't changed uh too much since 2013. So just that kind of dedication is just really the reason I'm just so proud to be a Madison warrior parent. And secondly, um I had the privilege of being uh part of the platform party for the Fresno City College graduation last Friday and I was able to grab about six of our graduates and give them a hug or high five. I wasn't supposed to do that, but I did it anyway. Um just so wonderful to see them in their central stalls graduating. Such a great honor. So big congratulations to our 11 students who earned that associates degree. Trusty Chavez. Um, thank you for that, Trusty Kirk. So, um,

062I I was also a professor at Fresno City, but, uh, I am going to say something different regarding graduations and I want to address this to any parents who are watching and any students. Um, I think this is a really happy time and we really focus on accomplishment and achievers and, you know, validictorians and I I absolutely agree that those students deserve their due. So big congratulations to those folks. But I fell under a category that was different than other students. And this is actually a very difficult and challenging time for a lot of our students. I was a straight up student in high school. Um and a lot of people believed I wasn't going to make it. So I want to acknowledge those people who are stressing out to the last minute. My parents

063were holding their breath until the day that I walked. So, I know that there are families out there that may not be feeling that same sense of excitement around this time of year and I want to acknowledge those folks and give you a you can do it. Like it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish. So, I will be at your graduations. I am wearing my UC Irvine bachelor's degree gown on purpose because that was the degree that I'm most proud of that my family was very, you know, involved in. I'm a first generation student and nobody believed that I was going to get there. So for those parents who wonder is my kid going to get there and kids who are like am I going to make it like you can do

064it and I just want to make sure that you know I'm going to be on the stage and cheering you on. So good work and keep it up. Thank you Trusty Kuron. Do I have to follow that up? Uh thank you President Singh. Uh again, uh thank you to Producers Dairy and uh ECU for sponsoring um that event at Madison and of course also to our uh Fresno Police Department and our Fresno Firefighters for attending and uh showing our students uh the great role models we have in our community. Um and again, uh just highlighting that I'm on the tour of the district with Superintendent O'Brien. I've hit on this before, but the rigor in the learning we're seeing in our classrooms is just phenomenal. That uh math class Superintendent Brian mentioned where students are

065doing whole projects where they're designing cities with, you know, all all words. That is an introductory math course. Uh we also got to see the uh English dual enrollment courses. So, there's a lot of stuff lot of great stuff going on at our schools all across the district. And then I also attended the CSBA delegate assembly over the weekend uh with trustees from the California across California school districts. Um sharing a couple things from the legislative update although they are subject to change. Uh AB uh 1111 which extends the deadline for school districts uh to convert their school buses to zero emission. Um as some on the board remember if you crush a bus you get a bus. Uh that is uh well saving the district money. Um if the current version passes um we

066would not have to crush a diesel bus. We could donate it to a small or rural district. This creates opportunities to be not only good stewards of the environment but good neighbors to our uh many rural districts in Fresno and Madera County. And if the board would like to know more about the state budget and how it can affect our central unified funding, there will be workshops across the state, but the closest one is at 9:00 am at the Fresno County Superintendent Schools office on June 4th. Thank you. And with that, we then move on to comments from the public. Uh, President Singh, the one I have right now is Elizabeth Gomez Luna on item L14, which is the solution to contract. And uh, Miss Luna, you will have three minutes when you begin. Okay.

067I don't Good evening board members, superintendent, staff, and members of the community. My name is Elizabeth Gomez Luna and I am a central community member of DLEC and a former central educator. As we move forward uh with solution tree, I'd like to speak on PLC's in our district guiding principles. We state that we believe in collaboration and community and that we ensure academic success. I believe that solution tree will support us in meeting these goals. But the following needs need to be considered and transparent. Modeling the work of PLC's begins at the district level with the district supporting all the staff in its implementation by making sure there is a clear understanding of what a PLC is and is not. Also a need for buyin and commitment from staff and community. This PLC process will

068require a lot of work, monitoring and strategic planning, but it ensures learning for all and the effective development of MTSS which is multi-ter uh support systems which supports all student needs including the excelling. It's also important that our community have an understanding of who and what PLC's are and how they the community fit into this collaboration because as we know it takes a village right to educate a child and so we need to work closely with our community but they need to we need to be transparent. They need to know what strategies, what programs we are utilizing and and truly understand them. The PLC work is datadriven. It's not negotiable. It's not like, okay, today I don't want to have PLC because I want to talk about uh the field trip or um what's going

069on in my classroom with discipline. It's that commitment of of taking a look at data and making decisions on student learning, learning for all. Um and our goal also is learning for all and also the establishing of uh sustainability because if we want um this work to continue, it's really really important that it's monitored and that it's supported by all in the district. Please know that there are teachers out there that truly want to work in a PLC, but they are confronted with with struggles and challenges. They are in PLC's where maybe they're the only person that really wants to do this work. Thank you. Thank you, President Singh. I have no other comments at this time. Board President, there's no callers at this time. So that then we will turn to the uh to

070the consent agenda. Before I take a motion, I just want to highlight um the board is recognizing the month of June as LGBTQ plus awareness month in our desire to be inclusive to um see all and make sure that all students know they have a place of belonging in this district. And with that, I'll take a motion on the consent agenda. Motion to approve. We have a motion by trustee Kon. Second. Second by Trustee Sellers. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. We move on to our action items. Our first action item is our student discipline case. Case number 2425020. Uh, and with that, I'll take a motion on the recommendation. I move to accept the recommendation. Second. We have a motion by Trustee Kirk,

071a second by Trustee Kon. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. We move to item number two to accept gifts to the district. Assistant Superintendent Nick. Good evening. El Capidan Middle School received a donation of 53 library books valued at $736.90 from the donor chooseorg for the El Capetan library. Administration recommending the board to accept gifts to the district. Question or comments from any board members? Just out of Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Trusty Sellers. I was going to make a motion to accept. Um, so we have a motion by uh, Trusty Sers. I I'll second so we can hear your comments. Yeah. Second by Trusty Kon. Um, just out of interest, um, Assistant Superintendent Nick Paul, were there specific types of books that were being donated or

072was it sort of just general books? I I can get you more information about this. I Okay, I'll follow up with you. Thank you. And with that, do I uh, so we have a motion by Trusty Ser, second by Trusty Kurong. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6 with trusty absent. We move on to item number three. Approve and adopt resolution 2425-55 authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds. Assistant superintendent Nick Ball. Okay. This is a returning item. It is it is a resolution to authorize the sales of bond. Uh administration is recommending the board approve and adopt resolution 2425-55 authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bond. questions or comments from the board that I'll take a motion. So moved. Second. We

073have a motion by trustee Ser by Trusty Kurfon. Those in favor please say I. I. Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. We move on to item number four. Approve approve legal services for 2025 2026. Assistant superintendent Nick. Again this is a returning item. This is a renewal of annual contracts for all legal services. Administration is recommending the board approve legal services for fiscal year 2526. Questions or comments from the board. That I'll take a motion. I'll move to approve. Second. We have a motion by trusty Korea, second by trustes Chavez. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. We move on to item number five. Approve the 2025 to 2026 dates for elementary schools attending sixth grade camp. Area administrator at Pennington. Um good evening uh

074board president Singh, interim superintendent O'Brien, and members of the board. This item is returning from our last meeting. Um there was a question that came up regarding funding for our sixth grade camp and I just wanted to follow up on that and let you know that um uh all we have worked together and then all of the funds will be covered for each of the sites for sixth grade camp. The registration costs will be covered. So that that that's a yay good thing. And then if there are um um administration is recommending approval and then I'm happy to answer any other questions that you may have. questions or comments from the board. Trusty Curio, first thank you to our administration for going back and taking a look at that. Um it's important for me and

075I think collectively for many of us on the board to ensure um equity and that's one of uh one way that we can ensure um so thank you. What I would like to consider in the future or moving forward before the next approval is that we look at the transportation cost because I do want to just make sure that if there's an opportunity for this board to make a decision and allocate those funds to make sure that that's not um prohibiting any school from attending whatever camp. I know that um a few years ago, maybe even three or four is when we switched over to the board um essentially allocating the funding for these camps to ensure that they're not have the school site is not having to sacrifice certain programming, right? But what we

076know has been consistent is the cost of transportation keeps going up. So, I know that this will alleviate some of their funding, but I would just like to make sure that the board is aware of what that cost looks like for transportation in the future and they can decide um whether we have additional funds we want to allocate for that. So, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Of course. And just to add to that, we did look into the cost of transportation. And so, um the Sierra Outdoor, which is one of our schools goes to that is 3,300 because it requires a chart a charter. So, um, and then, uh, Calvin Crest, which two schools actually go on one bus, is $1,900. And then, um, for Wonder Valley, it's $550 per bus. So, we

077do have those costs. And that, um, most of the sites, the sites have, um, included in their site plan to pay for those the costs of the transportation for those field trips. Okay. The camp. So with the board and by board meaning the general funds covering the the u the cost for each of the students attending. Do the school sites still fund raise for the transportation? So, I know that you mentioned they budget for that, but I still want to know is that something is our expectation and directive to the school site that they cover those transportation costs or do they still have the ability to fund raise and have parents pay for that cost? Well, at this point, there have been school sites who fund raise because also the registration costs and those pieces,

078right? But now that this is going to be cover the cost of all of the registrations then it allows the schools to be able to put that transportation in their site which is much easier to pay for. But at I think going forward we're going to have that discussion. Um most sites do. I can't say 100% that every single site has um done that but that is something that going forward that we would talk to the sites about so that the funding isn't coming from parents. Okay. Right. So, just to clarify, there's no funding that's coming from families or students. Okay. Right. Okay. And that was the whole purpose just for our new board members of me advocating and the board as a whole voting to take on the cost was to make sure that

079no student was responsible and therefore their parents don't feel like how do I make this work whatever their circumstances may be. So, thank you very much. If no one has any question, it's not really a question. It's just a tie back to a previous comment that I made and this is just for board members. So when I was discussing earlier the possibility of us starting to move towards having a revenue goal placed on our foundation, this would be the type of fundraising that I'm talking about to have the discretionary funds available and the flexibility if we found ourselves in line coming that we actually do have some of the funds for some of these experiences for our young people because I know those funds are very hard to come by and I really appreciate that

080the district has been creative to be able to make those things happen. But I think that there could be an opportunity for us to start to explore some of these additional outside sources. And if we start to really start to be strategic about how we're seeking some of these grants, we can lessen some of the pressure and some of the burden on the district and on the sites. So that's just for future planning for us to think about. Great. Thank you, Trusty Korea. And as a reminder, just very quickly, President Singh does sit on that board. And so I hope you've been taking notes of the feedback because Trusty Chavez has had great points and that you will advocate that that board um consider those types of recommendations and developing a strategic plan to that

081effect. That's awesome. Great idea. And with that, I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Motion by Trusty Creo. Second by Trusty Sutu. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Thank you. We move on to item number six. Approve bid schedule and award for the Dakota and Hayes fencing project 2425-104. Director Rodriguez. Thank you, board president and board of trustees and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. This is a returning item uh tonight is to approve the bid award uh for the Dakota Hayes fencing project uh to ACE Fencing Incorporated. administration is recommending approval of this item and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments from the board on this item? Jesse Ko, did we receive the list on this one? Because I

082think this was closing or like recently closed, right? Uh last week. Thought I saw it on there. Yeah. you have access. Okay. And so we're awarding it to the lowest bidder. That's correct. Just confirming. That's correct. Thank you. And with that, I'll entertain a motion. If no other question. So moved. Motion by Trusty Creo. Second by Trusty Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 6. We move on to the next item. Item number seven, adopt resolution 2425-59 authorizing filing of applications for state allocation board administrated programs for the central unified school district on May 27, 2025. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president. Um, attach uh for your approval is the board resolution 242559. With the passage of a prop 2 comes uh new program requirements in

083order to continue to participate in the school facilities program. The state alloc uh allocation board is now requiring that all school districts uh that file funding applications as as our district adopt a governing board resolution that acknowledges the master plan requirement and pledge to uh provide a compliant master plan prior to their funding application being aortioned by the state allocation board. Uh administration is recommending approval of this item and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Thank you. Questions or comments on this item? Trusty CO. So, just for the record, when when did we last update our master plan? 2021. So, we're good until 2026. And we have a plan moving forward uh at the latter part of this fall. We'll go ahead and refresh and update. Okay. And

084that t that'll come to the board. Absolutely. Is that typically what we do a workshop about? Okay. Just flagging it for those of us on the board. Mhm. Thank you. And with that, I'll entertain a motion on this item. Motion to approve. Motion by Trusty Sers. Second. Second by Trusty Chavez. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 5-0. We move on to item number eight. Approve bid schedule and award for Central High School exterior painting project. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president. Uh this item comes back again uh for your consideration. Tonight is to approve uh the bid bid award for Central High School exterior painting project to Pacific Rim Painting. Uh for over 35 years uh Pacific Rim Painting is located in Fresno and specializes

085in residential and commercial uh painting. Administration is recommending approval of this item and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Questions or comments on this item? With that, do I have a motion on it? A motion to approve. A motion by Trusty Kirk. Second. Second by Trusty Sellers. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. That's many bathroom breaks. I have to keep writing. Who's absent? Um, we move on to item number nine. Approve bid 2425-1404. Fire alarm testing and inspection services. Director B. Uh good evening uh board president Singh board members and interim superintendent O'Brien. On April 24th the district posted bid 2425404 for fire alarm testing and inspection services. Uh the lowest responsive bidder was uh seammens. Uh the

086bid is for three years with an option to renew for two additional or for one for two one additional year increments. Uh the seammens came back at $108,258 annually. Uh administration is recommending the board approve this uh bid uh for the fire alarm testing after answer any questions the board may have. Questions or comments on this item from the board? Trusty Sers. This is for all central sites. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Trusty Korea. the tally was that something we prepared because I see that we crossed out initially uh the bids were for or at least two of them and and the one we're awarding was for over 300,000. Yes. So that was when we were reading the bids. Um and sorry I don't have the exact page number. Uh we asked for the total price

087and so the total price was the three years and there on page there's a I don't have the page number on here but the cost analysis page does break it out for the yearly cost. So I crossed it out and put the yearly cost for the year. Okay. And and that's the how everybody else had we had both down that way. Okay. Are any of them because I did not I apologize I did not have a chance to thoroughly review the per the additional supporting documents. Do any of them propose an increase? No. After the year. So it's going to be the three years. The three years were locked in. Okay. Okay. Thank you. We'll uh for the renewals we'll bring back that contract at that time. we can address. Do I have a motion

088on the item? I'll move to approve. We have a motion by trusty Korea. Second. Second by Trusty Chavez. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 6. We move on to item number 10. Reject bid 2425-1403 Roosevelt Elementary Cafe HVAC installation. Director Bach. Uh, good evening again, board members. So, on April 21st, the district posted the bid for the Roosevelt Elementary Cafeteria HVAC installation. On May 9th, the district received one bid. Um, and due to us receiving one bid, administration is recommending we reject the bids and rebid the project. Um, after the after answering questions the board may have. Questions or comments from the board on this item? Trusty Korea. So, what do we expect will be different? So, we talked to the architect who designed it. We're trying

089to find out if there was something we did and maybe we we made a mistake. Our addendum that we sent out was quite large and so we're thinking it's a timing issue. I did hear there was some larger other bids going on around the same time. So, just a short amount of time. So, with this, we'll have to we're going to go back out to bid or if the item is approved, we'll go back out to bid providing a little bit more time. It does uh unfortunately delay the project getting complete, but um you know, I want to make sure we get multiple bids, we get um a a good base to make sure we're going to get the work done. Right. Right. Did we have an anticipated completion date or is this something we

090were trying to get done over the summer? It would have got done over the summer and we had um and I I didn't put the print the bid out, but I believe it was a 60-day window to get it complete. And so, we're going to rework some of that to give it a little more leniency and hopefully open it up to more biders. Okay. Thank you, Chelsea Chavez. This may be um a little too much for this particular item, but I'm kind of curious, how do we promote bids to potential biders? So, this bid was through um Cupka, which allows us to post um we have a CupKa list. So, we sent out an email to that CupKa list. We also posted it on um so we use a a service for this quality biders.

091They put it on their bid calendar and we also sent it out to the trade journals. So um by law we're only required to send it out to our um cupka list but we did the cupka list posted it on a um bid calendar and then we also posted in the trade journals. Thank you. Do I have a motion on this item? I'll move to reject bid 2425-1403. Motion by trustee Korea. Second. Trusty Chavez. Second by Trusty Chavez. Uh those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries to reject the bid uh 6. Moving on to item number 11. Approve purchase of a John Deere specialty tractor. Area administrator Garrett. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and interim superintendent, Dr. O'Brien. Tonight, I am bringing for approval the

092purchase of a John Deere specialty tractor for the Central High School agriculture department. This specialty tractor will be used by students in the permanent crops program. Students will gain practical experience with essential agriculture operations, including spraying, mowing, harvesting, and cultivation practices. These skills are directly applicable to the agriculture industry and will better prepare our students for success in post-secary education or immediate employment in the agriculture sector. Purchase approval has been received from both Fresno County Superintendent of Schools and the Department of Education. Uh California Department of Education and Administration is recommending approval and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Trusty Sers? What do we expect the uh lifespan of the tractor to be? Yeah, I can get that information. Um, I don't know the lifespan of a

093tractor off hand. That's a great question. Um, I do know that there was uh definitely research done in terms of the functionality and the quality of the tractor being purchased. So, I would expect that it would be a an appropriate amount of time for what they are hoping to get out of it. Okay. And then uh the second question is that I assume it there's a factory warranty on it and replacing parts that may be recalled later on. Yeah. So um actually a lot of the work can get done with local uh vendors uh who can do repairs and then we do have a John Deere factory certified uh location about 15 miles from the school who can do anything that does need to be done by John Deere. Mhm. Trusty Silu, do we have

094any um tractors previously or is this like the first time we're doing this? No, we have other farm equipment including tractors on site. Uh this has some additional um things that it can do uh to provide that experience and opportunity for students in association with the crops that they're planting and harvesting and taking care of. And the students that are driving the tractors, is there a special license or permit required or is it like supervision? Uh there's supervision. Um I'm not aware of a specific license. Um but definitely on the farm and operated under supervision of staff. Okay. Do I have a motion on the item? So moved. Motion by trustee CO. Second by trustee Kong. Those in favor please say I. I. I. Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Thank

095you. We move on to item number 12. adopt resolution 2425-60 authorizing application for the city of Fresno home ARP supportive services grant. Dr. Lopez. So, I'm very excited to present uh this item to you guys today. Uh as you may know, we received the city of Fresno HUD grant last year to provide housing assistance uh to members in our community. Through that process, we've been collecting data to analyze the need in our community. And what we're realizing is many of our parents choose to pay the rent over utilities because obviously they don't want to lose out on their home. Um so we realized that we needed to pursue grants that help us cover the cost for utilities for our families. So we notice uh noticed that the city of Fresno had issued the notice of

096funding available NOA for the home American rescue plan. Uh and we applied. Uh thank you so much Dr. O'Brien. uh she gave us her blessings and support uh from staff including Serena Dohi. So, thank you Serena. We completed the application process, submitted that and we just got great news today. We got $75,000 to help our community to meet some of those needs. Um so, it is very exciting to announce. So, I am here in front of you uh for you to be able to accept this resolution uh as well as allow me to be the authorized signature for the grant since I signed for that grant. uh and um that is why we're presenting this to you today. Thank you. Question or comments from the board? Trusty Chavez. Um what are the specific parameters around

097the usage of these funds? Have they given out the specifics yet to Yes. So we are looking at um individuals that are behind at least two payments uh PG&E, water bills. Um so what we are doing is collecting some more information from the city of Fresno now that we received the grants to understand more of the parameters. However, what I can tell you is uh when we tried modifying the city of Fresno HUD grant that we received it is tougher to try to provide some of that assistance as a school district. We're one of the actually the only school district that holds those uh has received that grant because we have to go through uh consortium of care and entry system which is very hard to do. we have to collaborate with other entities outside

098of our district and that can take up to two hours just to do an entry. Uh so with this grant we don't have to do that but there is different requirements. So we are looking into the training. Okay. So just just so I'm clear um with the continuum of care you don't actually have to input your information nice into HMIS we collaborate with um uh oh gosh Pavarello Health. Okay. They're incredible partners with us. So we we ensure that our parents have access to them, whether we have to drive a parent out there to ensure that they enter them in the system. So what I'd like to see just moving forward specifically since this is new and congratulations cuz I know these are hard to come by. So um I think it would be really

099helpful for us to use this as an opportunity to see if this boilerplate language that we use for the application can then be applied to some of these future grants. because if you've been successful here, the likelihood of you being successful in future grants is just going to build that momentum. So, if we could um have a report back as far as how the progress because we want to do a good job because then obviously we'll go for other NAS and other RFPs and other opportunities. So, this is from the city of Fresno, but I'm assuming the county of Fresno probably has additional funds potentially and you know, so we can explore and this is again going back to the foundation and how we can start to look at our membership and some of these

100things because that's how those opportunities become available to us. So again, congratulations. I just will always want to see us tie it back because if we could really collectively start to organize this, we can pick up some momentum. um and and um these are this is such a unique opportunity for our families. So, thank you so much for pursuing that and thank you Dr. O'Brien for your support. So, know that we uh share the sentiment. So, we did we we looked at the prior application we submitted to the city of Fresno utilize that to support us with this grant. Uh know that there's more grants coming forward. We're waiting to hear more about others that we've applied for. So, thank you, Trusty Korea. I just want to echo what's already been shared and just to

101really thank administration because I know that many of us on the board have been asking um for different ways to support and your position is one that we approved a year and a half ago, maybe two years. And so, thank you for the work that you're doing and the collaboration with other administrators and our leadership for for supporting you in that. Our community appreciates that. Trusty Kon Thank you, President Singh, and thank you to the administration for applying for this grant. Students are uh learn better when they are safe at home, when the lights are on, and when they uh have the have a full belly. So, last year when we applied for the first grant that was specifically for uh rental assistance and um I think uh vouchers for hotels. Uh what did we

102fully expend those funds? So, we've gotten an extension because what we've noticed is the majority of the grants were to cover housing, but what we realized is many of our housing needs were stemming from parents going through the whole 6 to 8month process of eviction. So, then in reality, the need was to cover past due bills so they could pay the rent and stay in the homes. So, then we modified the the actual grant uh with the help of Etica from from the city of Fresno. She's been amazing and we were able and Serena Serena supported with that shift as well so we could actually pay bills and get our families out of that debt so they can have their lights on and ensure that they stay in their homes. Uh so because of that

103data then we decided to pursue this other grant. We still have the vouchers uh with the HUD grant right now for hotel vouchers and we still have rental assistance as well as uh we implemented the a new component of it which is if you feel you can get into a home you can show us proof that you're employed. We will pay for your first uh down the down payment into an apartment as well as your first month's rent. Thank you. So So we still have these funding with this second grant. Are we then rolling over those old uh funds into this new grant or are we keeping the in two separate buckets? Uh we would like to focus the HUD grant uh for housing needs and the vouchers for the hotels. Um and we are

104choosing to utilize this one for the emergency um utility assistance component. And with the current economic and political climate, um, are those, uh, vouchers in danger of being taken back by the Department of HUD if we don't spend them by certain? I'm not fully aware. I try to keep up with the political part of it because I know it impacts us. Uh, I did read something about it, but I am not fully aware of it. I I I know the uh housing department in the in Fresno is facing a pretty big uh budget cut from the federal government. So, we may want to look into if these are expiring and if they're expiring, make sure that we spend that money so we can uh serve our our constituents and our families. So, in advance of

105that, I know I held a meeting with Mark Baddy, director of housing as well as with Joe uh from director of um health services for county and we're looking at how do we become proactive before anything affects our districts. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Trusty Chavez. Um so, Dr. Lopez, I just want to make sure are we members of the continuum of care? Do we do we pay our membership and we actually go to the meetings? Yes. Okay. Because that is going to be one of the best places for us to get the HUD updates because obviously they have an interest in keeping us informed. So um I have a close working relationship with Katie Wilbur from RH Community Builders as well as Laura Moreno and she is our chairperson of the continu. So should

106there ever be a need of, you know, we need to have a collaboration even closer with them, let me know because I know that that funding environment can be volatile and very unpredictable. But the continue of care is going to help keep us on that right page. So as long as you guys are attending those meetings, I think they're going to forewarn us if we are going to have any of that funding pulled or I would hope that they would. So I'm glad to hear that you're participating in that. And please let me know if you need any support at all. I'd love to step in and help if I can. Thank you. It's me and Macy Young. We take turns attending. And and just uh Dr. Lopez, just so I know you and I

107have discussed this before, do we currently do have hotel vouchers on on file if if we need them? Yes. And we made sure that everyone was retrained uh around the holiday seasons. Our FOs understand that we have a system of support. Reach out to Nota or Maisie and if it's in the weekend, reach out to everyone has my cell phone now. It's like we don't want a family to go without housing uh if that is what they need during the weekend. Thank you. Do I have a motion on this item? So moved. Motion by Trusty Kon. Second. Second by Trusty Creo. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carry 70. We move on to item number 13. Approve LCSSP grant funding restorative PBI training. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lopez. So

108again, another exciting grant that we received. Uh so we had applied, thank you to uh Cassie Smith, our supervisor of climate culture and safety. We presented this to you guys as we received the GAN letter uh for $2 million in support of uh climate and culture initiatives. Our focus as a district has been to strengthen tier one supports because if we have really good tier one supports uh then we th those are preventative to escalating issues with safety as well as issues relating to the climate and culture of our district. Um so with this grant comes multiple support staff that we're able to acquire but one of the components is training. As we know fidelity of implementation is so important in our districts. If we don't provide the appropriate training to ensure those systems PBIS

109matrixes are happening uh and they are uh followed with fidelity then uh there's no sense in having any support staff right so the focus of this specific item coming to you uh for your approval is for us to be able to hire uh we were able to look at PBIS trainers in our uh in our surrounding districts that embed culturally relevant restorative practices is because we feel like you can create great systems that tackle tier one supports for kids, but if we're not being culturally relevant as well as understanding the importance of restoring relationships, then there is no point. There is only one vendor we were able to find that implements the two PBIS as well as uh restorative culturally relevant kind of curriculum. Uh so we would like to move forward with um having

110her do some of the training starting next year which includes administrative cohorts uh for uh leaders that will be carrying out this work as well as teacher training at the beginning of the school year. So we're all at the same level when we open the year and knowledge of uh the vision for our district. Uh and that is what you have in front of you tonight. uh administration I would like us to move forward with um recommending the board uh to adopt not I'm sorry that was a resolution for us to move forward with being able to hire this specific vendor to do these trainings. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Trusty Creo. How do we ensure after we provide training to to the point that you made that there is fidelity in

111the the support systems that that we put in place? We heard earlier during public comment, which is always very concerning to me personally, pulling students out of a class because they're disruptive and not correcting the behavior and essentially what I perceive as ponding them to another classroom and not addressing those behaviors doesn't help the student. Um, so how do we ensure then that this training is effective and useful? Otherwise, great. We have $2 million to provide this training and we still keep this ideology of we need additional support systems. We need a system that which pulls a student out of the class and it's someone else's responsibility to correct that behavior. So something we are looking into is the idea of the mind shift, right? Growth mindset requires three research proven three to five years.

112You can't change something overnight. So the idea is that we look at a five-year plan for our district because what you just mentioned is one specific topic amongst many that we need to start looking into. How do we provide strong tier one supports with appropriate training follow through with fidelity imple implementation and being able to look at progress over time. Um so we are looking at two items just to open the year. We are looking at the matrix that this individual is able to able to bring forward the PBIS matrix with those restorative approaches embedded into the PBI uh uh framework that we currently do not have. Being able to use that measurement for year one around do we have these um processes in place at all our schools being able to take beginning of

113the year uh data on the on that matrix and close the year with where we are for those cohorts. We are looking to start with a total of six cohorts and being able to see their progress for year one. Um but besides that matrix data on restorative approaches, we also want to look at fidelity of implementation. Uh and in order for us to do that, we would like to look at panorama questions. Uh we already examined some questions that can target the fidelity of implementation for teachers uh that are part of that cohort. Dr. Right. Thank you, Trusty Korea, for bringing up that important point. Um, we talk about MTSS all the time, multiple multi- tiers of systems and support. It's so important that we integrate a lot of these kinds of trainings in our

114district so that when we walk into a classroom, we can see that our teachers are being successful on tier one that there are systems in place that we're monitoring whether it's behavior systems or even systems of learning. Uh MTSS applies to instruction also. And um I I just want to, you know, piggyback on what Dr. Lopez is saying because I think it's so important that if we can really strengthen the tier one processes across the classrooms in our district, we won't have the situations where we have students who need tier 2 services. And even when we do, they will will be able to address those within the context of the teacher and and other support staff helping the teacher to also um implement tier 2 within the classroom. Really a tier three uh service is

115when all other uh efforts have not been successful and that's when we start exploring other options. But that really should not occur very often. So I feel, you know, I see we have a lot of MTSS systems in place. This is just one of them. But thank you for noticing that because I think it's very important that we strengthen our tier one systems across the district. It helps us not overidentify students into a number of other programs where they actually frankly don't belong. Thank you. Um, if there's consensus from the board, I I would like to request that at an appropriate time we get a report during a workshop. Um, because I think it's also important for us as a board to understand and and hold you all accountable to make sure that then we're

116providing continuous support to our teachers and all of our our all of our administrators to to ensure that there is fidelity in what we're investing in. I I made a note as well if if it seems to be the wishes of the board as as well as obviously Trusty Chavez um desire for report on the previous item. Do we have a motion on this item or do we have any other questions? Yeah, Trusty Sers. Thank you. Uh Dr. Lopez, do we currently have any PBIS training in the district already? we do provided by Cassie Smith and this is something we some of those components started this year uh because as I came in during the summer I met with Cassie Smith our supervisor climate culture and safety as well as Julie at that time director

117of special education and we realized that um when we don't meet needs at level one multi-ter support academic both in uh social emotional then we start noticing a higher demand for assessments for kids into special education classrooms. So the idea was for us to build capacity at year one. What you need to focus is on building capacity because and that's when you know that there's gaps uh within our system uh and just knowing the basics around assessments meeting students need needs at tier one. um that uh so then that provided opportunities for Cassie to do um uh trainings for both thinkery staff, intervention counselors, intervention specialist all monthly on the monthly basis with a focus on how do we build our capacity to meet tier one needs at the site but also tier 2 and

118tier three. What we realize through this framework is that we need an actual professional that can come and help us with more of the restorative and uh climate culture related to culturally relevant supports in our district. And what we want is we want a professional to come and support us through that uh because we want it to be meaningful and we want to be able to also receive tools from that professional that can help us uh measure growth and that is what we were lacking. Uh so this professional comes with that the matrix ready to go for us to be able to explore. Okay, here's the training. She's literally has modules of trainings that she's going to use with our leaders, but also with the cohort of teachers and staff that want to volunteer to

119do that. And we're able to now track the impact on those individuals with the Panorama survey on self-efficacy and and fidelity of implementation. And we're able to track the implementation of the items and the rubric at the school sites. Okay, I want to confirm that we're looking to enhance our current, not replace what we're doing. That is correct. Enhance. Um, on the slideshow here, I was looking at the goals for year one implementation. We're looking to hopefully get a 3 and a half% increase on the Panorana survey. Is that an average or are we looking at a three and a half hoping to have a three and a half% minimum at each site that we're doing this? at each of the cohorted sites because they're going to get the intense training including the leaders. Okay.

120And what what I'm hopeful is we right now have high interest. So it's exciting to see that people want to do this work. So that tells you it's not that when we hear things are lacking, that doesn't mean people don't want to do it. It just means that possibly we don't have we have not provided the opportunity for them to learn. Okay. I appreciate that. having it at each site instead of across the board average where some are really successful can throw off the you know that balance out that that's not really as effective. Um my last question is those first few cohorts that we're looking to establish is there groups that we're looking to prioritize or is this all uh variety of administrators and other support staff or are we primarily focusing on in

121the classroom? So we were looking at data for our district around the panorama uh panorama data according to parents and student responses as well as staff responses. Uh we were also looking at suspension rates at some of the middle school secondary sites specifically because our we notice that they go higher as they uh are in middle school and high school. Uh however what we want is we want to see what interest comes in first analyze because obviously if people want to do it they'll be more willing to be able to be part of the work along with us and once those names come in which I'm just going to tell you some of the school sites that we were looking based on data are showing interest. Um so um we'll be able to tell you

122a little more details once we get to see the full list of people that want to come forward. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a motion on that item? Motion to approve. Motion by Trusty Kurfon. Second. Second by Trusty Couo. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Move on to item number 14, approve student wellness contracts. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lopez. So this week is my turn to bring my items forward to you. So, I will have now uh the full set of wellness contracts for our special education department. And as a reminder, these are contracts that we currently have this year. So, we just need them uh to be approved for the following year, not to close this year. Um so, as you see in front of

123you, we have the CYS contract, which provides crisis intervention services, community outreach, as well as individual and small group instruction, uh support, seal support. We specifically focus on our tier three. So some of our students in this cohort of support include um uh class as well as I believe pathway and purging but then also within our system when we identify our social emotional team our safe team social workers have already gotten to their level of support then we use them to uh provide services to tier three within our district that do not have medical. So it's individuals that don't that are not covered under all for youth and those other platforms that we use. HANA interpreting interpreting services are required by ID uh IEP document translation. So we use them. Um metamorphosis therapy group uh

124is another provided for IEP services under MS. Uh the talk team uh under IEP we identify speech services additional coverage for employee speech services when they are out on leave especially it helps us cover absences. The speech therapy link occupational therapy is another vendor that we use. It's hard to find um uh staffing so we utilize two uh when we can find it through one. Paradigm healthcare um supports a district by prepare uh preparing and submitting all medical claims for reimbursement to the district. Our psychologists use these platforms to uh submit for reimbursement. Emerges emerges maximum healthc care staffing services provides additional support to fulfill the par profofessional needs and that's one that I brought to you guys earlier. Um the financial impacts uh have been added to this item as well. So, administration is

125recommending that the board approved student wellness contracts for the upcoming year. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Trusty Chavez, I don't have a question, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for including the sole source. I'm kind of a stickler for that and I really appreciate the attention to detail. So, it really helped me. Thank you, Jesse Sers. Just real quick, the uh paradigm healthcare that we build for medical claims, does the district bill for any other services uh to build medical? So, we were really hopeful and starting something this year with FCSS uh which was the use of our intervention counselors, intervention specialists to be able to bill for services that they provide. Um I believe I presented that to the board. However, there's been some setbacks and they're

126putting things on hold at that level. So, the last we heard was that they were attempting to do it with smaller counties and a trial kind of basis. Uh, our staff has been trained. We're ready to go, but that is another one that we're waiting on to hopefully be able to bill for services. Thank you. No other questions. Do I have a motion on set item? I move to approve the student wellness contracts presented. We have a motion by Trusty Creole. Second. Second by Trusty Sers. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. We move on to the last item on our action uh items for tonight. Approve summer program vendor contracts. Assistant superintendent Dr. Lopez. So in order to run effective programs, we collaborate with uh entities

127in our community. One of them is the Fresno State Community Based Learning. We were able to use some of these services during the spring and winter camps. However, they were only one week, so they didn't exceed the amount that I needed a board approval for. Uh since this we're looking at a two-eek program now during the summer where we're going to offer some of these options um some of them do exceed the 50,000 threshold. So Fresno State Community based learning this contract is to provide the twoe summer session in Richmond camp experiences. One session is on our site with 100 students and the other is at Fresno State University for 90 students. The second contract also includes meals for students in the uh student dining hall so they get to have that experience of eating

128at Fresno State. Um and it's a full day camp. The emerges contract as you already know we open our district um our services during the summer, spring and winter to all students regardless of uh background regarding of disability. Uh so Emerges helps us cover for that tier three par three support so we can include kiddos in our FLS programs and our RSB programs and that's why you'll see them in our pictures. They're engaging along with the rest of our kids. Um, so they help fulfill that paraprofessional needs during the summer. The California Teaching Fellows Foundation is to support staffing for the four-week, so they extend outside of the two-week in June. They also provide staffing in the July sessions. And in that contract, you will also see our students getting paid. We are rehiring our

129kids in the teaching pathway program to be PAR support in the program. And we're in addition, we're also adding the Justin Garza culinary arts students who will be helping teach the culinary class during the summer program. Uh the financial impact is about 132,000 for Fresno State emerges 192 for the staffing. Uh California teaching fellow is the largest since it covers a four weeks and that's 410 and administration is recommending the board approve summer program vendor contracts. Questions or comments? Do I have a motion? So moved. Motion by Trusty Kon. Second by Trustee Chavez. Oh, Kirk. Sorry. Closer to my ear. Um, 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 2025 2026 deferred

130maintenance plan. Director Bach. Good evening again uh board members. Okay. Um so in an effort to keep our school sites in good repair uh the maintenance of permanence has has been working on our deferred maintenance list. Uh annually we bring this back for uh review and approval. And uh tonight I'm going to be going through a quick presentation and then going I'll be going over this past year's deferred maintenance plan and our upcoming uh deferred maintenance plan for next school year. So, just a little bit of background of what the deferred maintenance projects are and what we're doing. Uh so, what defines deferred maintenance projects are they're maintenance projects that are not regular and routine maintenance. They are usually classified as a major repair place or replacement. And a big change to earlier this year

131is some projects will require DSA review and an architect to design the repair. Um last year that was usually do not but DSA has made some updates and now more items are going to be fallen in their purview and we will uh need to make sure that we follow the correct steps. So some of the areas of deferred maintenance we have roof repairs uh flooring HVAC parking lots play courts uh furniture electrical plumbing and hazard abatement. One other area is I want to talk about is our routine restricted maintenance. This is our ongoing maintenance which is done daily uh through the work order system and our in-house staff of our maintenance department. uh through the routine restricted maintenance, we do cover some of these issues that are listed above. Uh they are typically single in

132failures. So we have one unit that goes down or we have one floor that needs to be replaced. Um so our process to get to our deferred maintenance list is we conduct assessments of the school sites. We update the list of projects and setup priorities and we implement a multi-year plan. So for the 2526 school year, we are looking at a $2 million budget. Uh we will set aside 1.7 million in budgeted projects. We will save 300,000 for reserved for any emergency repairs that might need to be done during the school year. Sorry, it's a little small. So, um I'm going to go over really quickly some of the projects that were completed this year that the board had approved at a previous board meeting. Um we got some of the uh flooring replaced at

133some of the kitchens like Central and Teague. Uh we replaced carpets at the Madison portables. We um updated some of our restroom partitions and at Teague and Rio Vista and we um replaced a fire alarm which was a emergency repair that the board approved. Uh we also repaired the track and we have another item which was a emergency which was the Steinback Elementary playground that uh the kinder playground that were in the process. Additional to those projects, we had three other projects that were funded through the preschool fund, which was the preschool project replacements and adding of a of a shade structure at Biola Hound Hernand Barstow and at Teague Elementary. And for next year, we are um this is our plan. We are looking to continue with roof repairs at Persian Ele or Persian

134continuation and at Central East High School. Uh we are looking to round out and finish up our security upgrades at Persian and Harvest Elementary. Uh we are uh going to finish the HVAC install at Roosevelt Elementary and we're going to replace um we have some flooring left to replace at Liddell Ele Elementary that we did not finish up in a previous year. Uh the preschool department has worked with us. They have an additional I believe it's a grant uh and some funding available to do another preschool play structure and that one is Madison Elementary and we are currently working on that and getting it ready to come to board for approval. Um just really quickly uh Purging and Harvest Elementary were previously updated prior to us implementing the deferred maintenance plan. Uh from that time

135to about two years ago we um really changed on how we do our cameras. Additional cameras, additional storage. So Harvest and Persian are the last two sites. Even though they were upgraded to newer cameras and the exist the new viewing software, they are they don't have the same um level as the other sites. So we're bringing those up to the rest of the district standards. Uh before we get to the questions, I just want to highlight a couple more things. Um, in addition to our deferred maintenance and our routine restricted throughout this school year, uh, the board has approved other projects, and I just want to highlight a couple of them. At Central East and at Central High School, the board approved the gym floors to be redone. Uh, Central High School is done. Um,

136and it looks really, really good. You will I will get you guys a picture on a Friday report. It looks really, really, really happy with the way it came out. Um, Central High School also got the interior painting done by Mr. Rodriguez's department. They repainted the the interior of that gym. Uh the music room got remodeled by the maintenance department and the weight room, wrestling room, and the foyer in the gym also got repainted by the maintenance department. So, those are just some additional stuff we did this year to get Central High School and Central Lease ready for next school year. Um there's a couple other attachments. I put the reference sheets for roofs, HVAC, and all the other areas for you to review. uh it basically lists the projects and like I had previously

137previous previously stated it does not include one-off projects of single rooms or anything that we have done throughout the school of the um you know during our time. This is more larger projects that we did uh multiple areas. Also, uh you'll have the additional two years. We do go out three years for our deferred maintenance uh to try to plan out areas. Um try I'm trying to cycle through and um hopefully next year I'm able to uh get some schools painted, keep on uh replacing flooring, also replace some PA systems that need to be done and uh HVAC at some of the schools that have not be have not been done. Um administration is recommending this item be placed at for action at the next board meeting after I answer any questions the board may

138have. Trusty Kurf, thank you, President Singh. Uh, thank you for the presentation. Um, I I would have liked to see the Central High gym on on here just so we can see uh how much that cost. Um, do do we know how much the redoing the gym uh cost the district? Um, I don't have the exact number. I can get that to you. I can give you an approximation. I believe it was right aroundundred and Yeah, let me just get back to you. It's not on top of my head. Sure. But so did that come out of the $2 million deferred maintenance bucket? Okay. And I I see that we added on here the uh Steinbeck uh elementary playground. Um when we previously discussed this item, we felt that we were going to potentially go

139over that $2 million for that project. Um but now it seems that we are under. So how did we uh make that happen? you know, throughout the year we have approximations on prices. Um, as the year goes, I update the plan with actual costs as we go through. And as I got to the end of the year, our numbers came in where I had actual numbers of every dollar and penny that we spent, and that's where it got to 1.9 million. I I will say with Steinbeck, you know, that is going to be happening um soon. Um, we are getting ready. I I know the contractor is working to get our window in with DSA and uh we'll keep providing updates as that project it's going. Okay. Thank you. Because the presentation also says that

140it's completed in June. Yeah, the push is to get it done in June. We are trying uh everything we can to do to do that. So, I'll have more information on that. Okay. Thank you, Jesse Korea. So, thank you for your work on this. I know that this is something that I'm excited to see that we're actually planning um and that the board is allocating. So, is the 2 million enough? It's never enough, but yeah, we have to start somewhere. And as I previously mentioned at the very first board meeting where I presented the plan, uh the biggest thing is to continue. as long as we keep it keep going and we keep doing this every year, we will chip away at it and we will start seeing some real real fruit of our labor.

141Um, you know, right now I'll be honest, it's a little bit like the floodgates and we opened them and I'm we're trying to organize them and prioritize them, but as we go through this process, it's also allowing us to look at this and say, "Okay, we got to kind of stick to a cycle. We need to do roof repairs. We need to start getting our schools painted. We need to do HVAC." and then you know if I'm not able to do one thing one year go into next year have that ready and try to do that and and um you know just have that plan. This really does help us as we go through our year to see what comes up what doesn't come up because if we're able to take care of something sooner

142you know obviously we don't have to worry about it but it just gives us a good three-year map. Uh obviously it's not set in stone. Things change. I could go to work tomorrow and we could unfortunately have a huge ca um failure somewhere and got to change. But you know we do our best to plan. Dr. O'Brien. Yeah. I'd like to mention that um you know uh we have a duty to be good stewards of our facilities uh to our community. our community after all, you know, supports us with school bonds and uh property taxes and things like that. And so, uh I appreciate your question because probably 2 million is not enough. And I think we do have to continue to evaluate that figure every year because uh our facilities uh monetarily are our

143biggest asset in the district and it behooves us to take care of them. Um and the more we do the longer they'll last and the more our community can continue to enjoy them also. So um I I want to compliment uh Mr. Bath but also assistant superintendent Mr. who made sure that we put that deferred maintenance plan into place because we definitely need to take care of our facilities. Jesse Korea, sorry. And what I was going to say is then I think in the future what I would like to hear um and make sure that this board is asking is what additional recommendations for that funding what re what recommendations and then what we can actually allocate um so that as we're making decisions and allocating funds um ultimately that's the authority that we have

144as a board to increase uh that pot of money and to make sure that we are giving you sufficient funds uh to keep up with our buildings. And I know that this is new. So, I'm glad that that we're being again proactive. Um but I do want to make sure that we're having that conversation that we don't get just get stuck and we allocated 2 million and we're not revisiting that and you're just saying I'm thankful for the 2 million that the board has allocated. If you want to give me more, great. But I would say my expectation would be that I'm looking for guidance and recommendations to say how much more do we need to ma to be at a point where now we're just keeping up understanding that there may be situations where

145we have emergencies and and that's what the fund is there for as well um but also just ma maintaining our buildings our facilities. Thanks Trusty Chave sorry assistant super did you want to share something on this? Just a quick remark we should think about and I'm I'm going to talk to Mr. Bad about it is we should think about a plan to paint our campuses at least one campus a year and that way you know the campus stays new looks fresh. We haven't have a program like that but I'm working on it because when we had the price for the central high school I was also surprised it was like 230,000. If we can paint a campus for 230,000 then every year we should choose one campus and paint it using deferred maintenance. We can

146allocate a little bit money because this is this is one thing that with the you know the campus stays fresh, clean and looks new. So that's something we we're going to think and bring it to the board. So I just want to make sure that you feel empowered to bring those recommendations and I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that is our expectation. I'm not here to do your job, but I do want to hear how can we better improve and then we can collectively make that decision and have that discussion of where we're going to be allocating that money from and where we're choosing where we're prioritizing um the use of our funds. Trusty Chavez and then Trusty Kur. Um so I feel like a broken record tonight. So this is what I'm

147talking about us looking more closely at our grant funds. And again, I know it's like really outside of what we considered for our foundation, but um as we move forward, you know, with the 2 million isn't enough, I have personally written grants for capital outlay. And so that is a thing. There are alternative sources. And so if we could be um thoughtful and strategic of how we maximize our staff members who are seeking new opportunities, I think that really given our budget constraints as we move forward there I I can already imagine the grant language to um create uh because basically the deferred mment and and su uh interim superintendent um O'Brien, you you have said it that our community deserves to have facilities and schools that reflect the pride that we have within our

148district. And so I think that we really as a board need to start exploring how do we get you those additional funds and how do we look within the district for the expertise in order for us to help um enhance our fundraising abilities for us to bring in those funds that maybe could could could bridge that gap of where the funding is coming from. Thank you, Trusty Gund. I actually want to thank Assistant Superintendent Ikbal because my next question was going to be about painting. So, I like where your head's at. Um, and that would be a very uh bold idea for Central Unified to have this kind of uh master schedule for uh painting. Um, uh, Director Bath, uh, what because I didn't see any paint jobs scheduled under for this uh, school year.

149Do we have a cost estimate for how much it would cost to pay uh, repaint a school? So, up in, you know, I was talking to Mr. for Rodriguez cuz that's one of my things also. I've heard it and you know I've been here for 11 years and I've seen it. You know, that's a big thing for me. I want to try to do that. Uh we really didn't have an estimate and so it was hard to kind of schedule that. We had uh pri priorities with roofing and some other stuff come up before the painting, but when I saw the bid myself, I was talking to Mr. Rodriguez last week and I saw that price come in. I said, "This is something we definitely can um you know, budget for and try to get

150done during the school year." Um, you know, we are holding back some funds that could be somewhere. Um, what I'm trying to do with the deferred maintenance plan is bring it to you guys sooner so we can look at it and then, you know, come really the reality is is come January, December, we need to make a decision with those funds to the full 2 million because we need to start planning. You know, if we still hold some back, that's great, but things do take longer. So, that would be the time I can also revisit that. Thank you. So, so do we have a cost estimate for like a ballpark or how much would it cost? Yeah, I would say right around 250. 250. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And it's a little dependent on the

151dry rot. So, I'll just say that we always want to be a little bit just mindful of depending on what site it is. There could be some additional cost, not really painting, but you know, secondary or other unforeseen costs. Thank you, Dr. O'Breight. I just want to also remind us all that we have our facilities subcommittee which is a great uh place to have these lengthy conversations around what um both of our other trustees were saying around evaluating if we uh need to set aside other funds for deferred maintenance. And as director Bath also said, when we're doing, you know, projects like painting such as what happens out at uh Central High School, that's when you discover other situations such as dry rot and things like that. But by addressing it every year, it helps

152us to stay on top of that. So um yeah the the I happened to attend a facilities subcommittee recently and uh it's a great uh place for us to really pay attention to all of these projects and then also uh to take all of that information to a facilities workshop which we really should be hosting every year so that all members of the board then are brought up to speed on it's it's it's quite a long discussion to talk about all of the facilities in the district. So a workshop is really where we need to do that. Um thank thank you uh uh director Bach just just for the um benefit of our other board members. So the idea around the of the um deferred maintenance actually really came literally just last year from the

153board. It wasn't something we were regularly doing. uh there were bits and funds as as director Bach was sharing which was much more um ad hoc as as sort of needed. So it was really just last year for the first time where the where the board really pushed actually and allocate. So they're developing the muscle to be able to make sure they can expend the money. Obviously they're happy to do more but it'll probably be a little bit more gradual so so that they can they they have the internal abilities to put the checks into place to make sure that things are happening at the at the highest level. Um the only reason I'm going to ask for this not to come onto consent uh director B is I I had uh offered it last

154time but I have a fantastic Excel template just to make this visually a lot better for you. So I'd like to just offer that and uh um ju just so it can all be in one place and visually a lot easier to understand. I'm happy to share it's just an Excel template for it. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, this information is however I can make it easier for everybody to understand it just yeah we can we can provide it anyway. Thank you. And that will return under action at the at the next board meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Um, next item, receive information regarding 95% group. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Boight. Thank you. So, the 95 core uh phonics program will be implemented as supplementary early literacy curriculum for tier 1 instruction in all kindergarten through 2

155grade classrooms starting in the fall. The tier 2 program, which addresses more intensive literacy needs, will be implemented in kindergarten through 6th grade RSP classrooms and elementary reading labs starting in the fall. So, administration is recommending that this item be placed on the June 10th board agenda for action. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments on it? Trusty Sers. Thank you. Uh do we anticipate being able to see the the investment of this in the panorama survey coming up or maybe not panorama um just what the uh the results of this investment. Yes. So there will we will see um with the um formative assessments with our benchmarking system we'll be able to measure um progress. So we'll be assessing students at the start of the school year and

156then mid year and then end of the year as well. And then also there's progress monitoring that's occurring throughout the year. And so yes, that will be shared with you. Okay. Do I know with um do we have an idea of what the anticipated growth that we're hoping to expect? We're expecting a lot of growth. Um I we can measure growth right now um just based on the pilot. Um when we compare those teachers that have been piloting these programs um and then also we add the variable in of the teachers that have received letters training we do see progress. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Are we okay having this return consent? Thank you Dr. Butright. Number three receive information on expanded learning opportunities programs. Assistant Superintendent Dr. us. Thisou with FCSS supports the running

157of the afterchool programs and inner sessions for the 206 2526 academic year. Uh currently what you see is 6,734 and what we do is we cost share. Uh FCSS currently has 20 the 21st century as well as asset grants that they receive. So that helps pay for a lot of the staffing to run the programs. However, every year we have to use expanded learning opportunity grant funds to help fulfill the remaining need. Last year, as you may know, we made a decision uh to move forward with offering after school programs to all in our community. So our numbers went from 1,700 students uh that attended these programs to now 3,800 students. So, it's great to see the uh engagement and and the fact that our kids are able to attend these programs uh with no

158barriers. However, that increases the contribution that we have to provide for staffing uh and for the experiences. Um so, administration is recommending this item be placed on the June 10th agenda, board agenda for action. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments from the board? Are we okay having this return on your consent? Thank you. We move on to item number four. Receive information regarding resolution 2425-58 in support of the applications for eligibility determination and funding designation of authorized district representatives. Assistant superintendent Paul. Okay. So this is a resolution allows myself to sign documents on behalf of district on any state facility program. So administration is recommending this item be placed on June 10th, 2025 board agenda for action. Questions or comments on this item. Then we'll have this return under consent

159as well. Oh, action. Okay. Thank you. We move to item number five. Receive information regarding public hearing and adoption of the 2025 2026 proposed budget. Assistant, superintendent. Uh this is a placeholder for the fiscal year 20 2526 budget that will be presented in next board meeting. No other questions. We will have this returned under action for the public hearing. Item number six, receive information regarding resolution 2425-57 dedication of easements to PG& for the development of safe routes to school for McKinley Elementary School APN 312-180-53T portion. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president, board of trustees, and interim uh superintendent, Dr. O'Brien. Attached for your information is the board uh resolution 2425-57 for the dedication of easement uh to PG&E in connection with the development of the city of Fresno's safe routes to school project. The

160resolution contains uh an easement deed pursuant to ED code 17556 where this easement will allow PG& to move an existing power pole in order uh for the city of Fresno to provide sidewalks along McKinley Avenue. Currently, the poll is in conflict with the proposed sidewalk alignment. Administration is recommending that this item be placed on the June 10th, 2025 board agenda for public hearing and action. and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Questions or comments from the board? If none, we'll have this return under action for the public hearing as well as the action. Item number seven, receive information regarding construction testing and inspection services for Justin Garza High School visual and performing arts project. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president, board of trustees, and interim superintendent Dr.

161O'Brien. For your information tonight, the district has received a proposal for material and testing and laboratory services uh that are required uh pursuant to the California building code for Justin Garza's high school's visual and performing arts project from Kroanne Associates. Croan Associates has previously provided geotechnical engineering services for this project as well as multiple district projects and is knowledgeable about our facilities. administration is recommending uh that this item be placed on the June 10th, 2025 board agenda for approval. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Trusty Kirk, just because I've been asked by some folks, do we have an expectation of when the building is going to be ready for our students to use? So, we're we're we we plan on uh issuing a notice to proceed uh

162June 23rd of 2025. So, I'm guesstimating around two years after that. So, around June of uh 2027. No other questions. We'll have this one turn under consent. We move on to item number eight. Receive information regarding change orders for bid packages SBO1. Just one thing. Colorado Elementary School. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president. Uh for your information tonight or change orders for the multi-prime package uh SB01 and the which is the off-site bid package and the attachment to the itemized summary for Jazbot Singh Kalera Elementary School uh project for your review. The increase uh to the project is due to impacts implemented after this project was originally bid. Staff has reviewed and recommends this item returned to the board on June 10th, 2025 uh board agenda for action and I'll be happy to answer

163any questions you may have on this item. Thank you, Director Enriquez. Questions on this item? If none, we'll have a return under consent as well. Thank you, sir. Thank you. We move on to item number nine. Receive information regarding air balancing HVAC at various sites. Director B. Uh good evening again board members and interim superintendent. Uh air balance testing is being scheduled as part of our district's ongoing commitment to maintaining high quality learning environments. Uh air balance air balancing is a key part of maintaining indoor air quality and system performance after the HVAC work has been completed or modified. Uh we will be looking at Steinback, Soyan, Liddell, and Hearn and Barstow to make sure that their systems are optimized and working correctly. Uh the total cost of the air balancing test for the four

164school sites will be $69,950. Funds will be allocated from the general fund. Administration is recommending this item be placed on the June 10th, 2025 board meeting after answering any questions the board may have. Questions or comments on this item? If none, we'll have it returned under consent. Thank you. And lastly, receive information regarding sonetrol contract. Director B. Good evening once again. Um, in order to limit theft and vandalism, the district has intrusion alarms at every single one of our sites. On September 12th, 2023, the board adopted a resolution 2324-07, which found the district's use of Sonetrol products and services uh could only be provided by Kimberlike Corporation and enter entered into a sole source procurement contract. On September 12th, 2023, the board approved a two-year contract. That contract will expire on August 10th, 2025. Um,

165this item is a placeholder and I'll be bringing that contract back to the board at a later time. Um, I do want to just provide some background really quick. This contract with Sonatrol that we signed for two years, we did lock in a 0% increase over those two years. So, we were locked in. Um, so for the next um either we'll get a couple options and I'll bring that forward with the increase to to get the board's approval. Um, I'm happy to answer any questions the board may have and and recommend this item be placed at a future board meeting. How how future? How much time do you think? So, we got the contract back. Me and Mr. Rickball are going through it. Assistant Superintendent Ball uh to just make sure everything matches and the

166funding is right. I'm hoping actually to have it to you by the June 10th board meeting. Um, I just didn't want to put too much on uh my plate or Mr. Rick Paul superintendent, assistant superintendent Paul's plate um to get that to you. But I do believe we should be able to. Would you like it for action at that at that meeting or or for information? Again, action so you can see the item and any if any questions I can answer them. Any questions right now on this item? Jesse Korea. Is that going to include our new elementary school? Yes, I believe um I did double check that. I got the contract and I look, but my my goal is to have everything included even if we're not going to be charged right off the

167bat July one because I believe the last two-year contract we had to amend it to include Okay. Yes. So the last two-year contract we amended it probably at least once if not twice for the addition of Justin Garza High School's aquatics. So this contract will more than likely have to amend it for the VAP building once it does come online. Do we anticipate it's going to be another two-year contract or um they have preliminary have given a three or a fiveyear option. Um and that's what me and Mr. Assistant Super Equal will look at. Okay. Which would then put us at the June 2027 that I heard mention and I'm sure some of us will remember that date. Um okay. Thank you. We'll have it return on action. Thank you. Next we move to advanced

168planning. Oh, Trusty Kirk. Thank you, President Singh. I would like for the board to review board policy 5127 regarding graduation ceremonies and activities. I would like Can you repeat the number again? I apologize. I'm sorry. 5127 graduation ceremonies and activities specifically regarding graduation attire to allow for consideration for the students who received associates degrees uh from Fresno City College in any of our institutions moving forward that that be allowed as part of their graduation regalia. Great suggestion. We will definitely follow up on on that item. Creo, when's our first graduation? And do we have a list where I can see all of them and not have to look for each one of them? The first graduation would be June 9th. Okay. We are in the middle of preparing a document that will have times, parking

169spots, maps, all things needed for graduation. So, yeah, we'll make sure you have all that information. Trusty Kirk, you know what? I'm thinking she's smiling at me because there is a 14-day um Is that what you're talking about? A 14-day requirement? I think we're just just getting up close to that. Okay, got it. I didn't know that. We'll make sure you have it. Just talking about it today. Okay, thank you. Any other items to bring up during advanced planning? not any any additional information or closing comments. And with that, as a reminder, the next regular meeting of the board of trustees of Central Unified will be held on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 at 6 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public here at the district office room 13. And with that, we will readjourn

170back to close session. Thank you.