Central Unified Board Of Trustees Meeting May 13th, 2025

001Good evening, Central Unified community. Welcome to the regular meeting of the board of trustees. Today is May 13th. The time is 6:05 p.m. Let the attendance uh as we call the meeting to order, let the attendance show we are all in attendance. And do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? We have a motion by trustee sellers. Second. Second by trust uh trustee Kuron. Those in favor please say I. I. Those opposed? Nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. We next move on to comments from the public on any close session items. Unless there's anyone in the audience that wants to speak on any of the close session items at this time and if not uh PI Burroughs we don't have any indication that anybody's calling the uh the line at this time. Okay, with

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004[Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] a [Music] I I'm just going to ask you, you all don't know what they always do, but can we just get a round of applause for Bradley, Kayla, and just Chris Martinez? They they they somehow always work wonders. You you you both are seen and appreciate it. Thank you. Uh next, we call our Central Unified uh school board, our our regular meeting of the board of trustees to order. The the time is 7:07 p.m. Welcome to our central unified community. A few items to report out from close session. Uh the board uh unanimously approved item E3, uh our certificated personnel report. It was a unanimous vote. The board approved item E4,

005classified personnel report by unanimous vote. And on item E7, uh, the board denied by unanimous vote case number RMA-002374. And with that, I'll ask Vice President Ko to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Please stand. Thank you, Vice President Creo. And with that, may I invite uh Senor Lazo and Siender Se to share with our community engagement information. Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150 or fill out a request form provided at 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 the item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public comment section of

006the agenda. The district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings. Anyone planning to attend and needed an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559-274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting so arrangements can be made for an interpreter. Thank you. for agenda. Spanish translator translator. Next, we begin our presentations. I'd like to invite up for our school activities presentations our ASB president from Central East High School, Chase [Applause] Wilson. Okay. Good evening, board members and trustees. My name is Chase Wilson and I'm the associated student body president at Central East High School. As we wrap up the 2024 2025 school year and my final month as a Central Unified student, I feel honored to stand before you

007all one last time to reflect on the incredible journey this school year has been. In April, the week prior to spring break, our leadership team hosted Chicken Week, a spirit week full of lunchtime activities, dressup days, and this year's western themed rally to conclude the week. The rally concluded with the crowning of chicken royalty, a fun tradition where students nominate and vote for their favorite teachers to be crowned in front of the entire school. Throughout the month of May, advanced placement testing has been taking place. During this challenging time for our students, we are trying to emphasize the importance of mental health as well as the ways to relieve stress. May is also mental health awareness month. So, our central eami club is hosting activities to spread awareness. This week they've organized dressup days that

008represent different mental health systems and highlight ways to relieve stress. Tomorrow, NAMI is bringing various agencies to campus to share information about how they support mental health throughout our Fresno community. As you may know, the first week of May is teacher appreciation week. We took a twist on it and turned it into a week where we can appreciate all staff on campus. From our teachers and administrators to our custodians and lunch staff, many different clubs and organizations came together on campus to appreciate them all. Our Interact Club, the largest service service club on campus, brought bought over a 100 sandwiches, cakes, cookies, drinks, and other snacks to thank our hardworking staff on campus. Our leadership team sent out a survey to figure out teachers favorite drinks and delivered them that same Friday. This past weekend,

009we celebrated prom at Wolf Lakes Park in Sanger. This year's prom theme was moonlight in the Mediterranean. And I can proudly say I can proudly speak for everyone and say that we had a great time in the Grecian style. As we approach the end of the school year, very much is happening very quickly for our seniors. May 1st, which is National Signing Day, we had around 100 seniors come to the stage of our performing arts center to announce their plans after high school. Every senior received a certificate and ice cream, which was personally my favorite part. Today we received our cap and gowns for graduation and students who deemed college and career ready by the California Department of Education received a special cord. As you can see, it's been a busy but incredibly rewarding sen

010season at Central East. From celebrating school spirit during chicken week to supporting our students academic and emotional well-being through AP testing and mental health awareness month. This final stretch of the year has tr has truly showcased the heart of our school community. As a senior, I feel beyond grateful to have been a part of these memorable moments. None of it would have been possible without the hard work of our staff, the passion of our students, and the support of our district leadership. Thank you for continuing to believe and invest in student leadership, expression, and growth. It's been an honor serving as ASB president, and I'm proud to leave behind a legacy of spirit, service, and unity. Thank you again, and go Grizzlies. [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Chase, for the wonderful report. Next, we'll invite up

011Mia Morales from Central Online Home School. Um, good evening, President Sing Chan, board members, Superintendent Dr. O'Brien, and honored guests. My name is Mia Morales and I'm excited to share some highlights from Central Online Home School where learning happens everywhere and community means everything. This spring, our students had the amazing opportunity to visit UC Santa Cruz. We rode through the scenic Santa Cruz Hills on the oldest operating steam engine train in existence. Taking in both the history and rich history, sorry, taking in both the beauty and rich history of the region. For many of us, it was our first time attending exploring a university campus. One of our students who had said they didn't plan on attending college had later shared with us that they had been inspired to apply to UCSC after graduation. That

012is the power of real world learning. These kinds of trips also help us grow closer as a community. Students who had only seen each other in virtual classes were finally able to connect in person, build friendships, and create the most amazing memories with each other. Speaking of milestones, we are incredibly proud to honor 26 seniors and four juniors who will be graduating next month. More of our students are preparing for college than ever before, eager to explore career opportunities and new pathways. We hope you'll join us at our graduation ceremony on June 11th at 5:30 at Central East High School. In preparation for state testing, our students in grades 3rd through 8th and 11th received personalized tests test kits. These kits included essential tools and helpful tips to make sure our students felt ready and

013supported even from a distance. We've also continued to offer our enrichment activities that allow students to explore their passions. Our photography class has been a standout this year. Students have learned the fundamentals of visual storytelling and have captured some incredible moments. Their hard work will culminate in an endofthe-year exhibition on June 5th. And there's even potential for their work to be featured through the Fresno Arts Council Art Hop. A huge honor and exciting opportunity for our students. In addition, CO's students have been invited to participate in a joint school balorate service on June 1st at the Refinery West McKinley Church where we'll reflect on our educational journeys and look ahead with gratitude and hope. And before we close out the year, our entire K through2 student body is invited to join us at Blackbeards for

014an end of the year celebration. A well-earned moment of fun, laughter, and togetherness. Lastly, we started a new tradition this year with our senior sunrise in August. A beautiful way to begin the final year of high school. Now, our class of 2025 will close the year with our first ever senior sunset on June 6th, marking the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next. Thank you for your continued support for Central Online Home School. Through these experiences, we're not just learning, we're growing, connecting, and discovering what's possible. We hope to see you at graduation. Thank you. Thank you, Mia. Next, we invite up our Central and Justin Garza high school CAD club. It looks like we might have a familiar face. Good evening, board members and trustees. Um we are CAD um a

015mental health and wellness organization with the Chakato movement and we came here earlier in the year and we see some new faces with the board and want to introduce ourselves. My name is Gishon. My name is Ben. I'm a second year cat or first year CAD intern and I'm from Central East. My name is Sooklin. I'm a first year cat intern and I'm from Justin Garza. My name is Samuel. I'm a first year CAD intern and I'm at Central East High School. I'm starting off with what is KD? So, CAD is a health and wellness internship program by the Chicata movement focused on harm reduction. We have the chance to work with school staff, the school board, and local health departments to support substance abuse, harm reduction, peer education, and better access to mental health

016resources. Um, all of us interns are also CPR and Nlloxxone certified. A lot of you guys may recognize us from the red boxes in every single classroom. K helped to um bring upon the Nlloxxone policy which ensures every classroom is equipped with Nlloxxone and individuals working for Central Unified are Nlloxxone certified. Um something that we do are needle drives. So CAD interns often participate with the Sanwaqen Medical Group in needle drive exchanges in downtown Fresno. This is a hands-on event where members of the community receive food, health care, new needles, nlloxxone, and any other sanitary items they may need. Our interns have helped with donations, sanitary bag assembling, and handing out items the day of the event. Um, then we do more community outreach than just needle drives. though one of the things that we

017were very lucky to do is that we had district attorney uh Lisa Smidcamp come to Central East High School. She was able to give presentations to 9th and 10th graders and then a separate presentation to 11th and 12th graders about the dangers of fentinel and about the importance of Narcan. Um she praised us for having that Narcan in every single classroom, something that the board helped make possible. And um just to remind you guys, we're the first people in the first district in the nation to be able to do that. So it's a huge accomplishment on everyone's part. And not only that, she brought Dean Cardelli, who is a DEA officer, a drug enforcement administration officer who responds to all Fresno County fence cases to investigate. He shared his own experiences with the students. He

018was able to talk. They were able to interact. Our CAD students were able to give our own presentations, do activities so that students actually understood what fentinel is, what the dangers of it are, and then how to use the lock zone. So by the end, we had not necessarily trained everyone, but at least shown everyone how to use the locks in case of an emergency. So, uh, we worked with our school administration who gratefully helped us to get this all planned out. We had a whole rally schedule specifically set aside just so we can do this presentation because the people who need it most are our freshmen, especially our freshman and sophomores. Then we made an exciting connection during this DEA visit with the DEA. Very confusing, I know, but we made an exciting connection

019and we connected with the DA. We visited their office and this gave us a grander knowledge oops of um how our work was impacting Fresno County on a larger scale. And after a lot of love and admiration from the DEA, we learned that Fresno County has been decreasing their fentinol deaths it by four years in a row. So I think last year I don't really know the numbers. I think we had 120. This year we had about 80. So, we have been decreasing the numbers and we're one of the only counties which has been able to do that which is something which um it's part of CAD but it's also all the Fresno counties larger um like ambitions and goals that they have especially if you guys have seen like the you sell we sell

020um no you sell your cell um advertisements all throughout the county which kind of show how they've been um persecuting a lot more on this fentinel. So this April we had our town hall. At our town hall we focused on the important issue of substance use and mental health exploring how they uh affect individuals and our community. We included activities guest speakers and our own presentations from the CAD interns. Uh one of our guest speakers went over the effects of drug use and fentinyl. We also have a G guest speaker uh talk about the importance of breathing exercises. Uh Samuel and Mri did a presentation on mental health and the dangers of stress along with two activities. Gashan and I also did a presentations on substance use in minority communities which shows key factors which

021lead in drug use and statistics from those communities. Uh our other CAD intern Auctioner did an activity with drunk goggles which showed the impact of drinking. Uh one of the activities we did was the yarn activity which we pass around a ball of yarn to symbolize our uh support network which uh is vital to our mental health. Another event that we had was our wellness center visit. Our wellness center visit was at a school in the downtown Fresno area called Favor. The first thing that we noticed while walking into their wellness center was how welcoming and encouraging it was walking inside. They had many resources from food for students who didn't eat or didn't have food at home to different types of toys and activities for the students to play with as well as help

022calm them down. The most important thing in my opinion that the counselors had in was their own room with their own type of creative designs. This allowed for the counselor to work one-on-one with their student and at the same time allowed them to have privacy compared to other schools like Justin Garza where there are cubicles set up in our wellness center. So moving forward, CAD has shifted a little bit of its focus from um doing a lot of fentinol and harm reduction with work especially with drugs and Narcan. We're still building upon that. It's something that always needs to be built upon, but this year we try to focus a little bit more on mental health and specifically wellness centers in our school. So, as Gerson mentioned earlier, Justin Garza has a wellness center, but

023the thing uh they are cubicles and they aren't even wall to ceiling. So, what that means is that any conversation can be heard within these cubicles, right? So, we want to do moving forward, especially at Justin Garza and at Central East, is we want to expand our wellness centers. So, we have the infrastructure there. We just want to be able to expand them, make them a more welcoming place and make it easier to access, which is something that we have been working towards this year with our administration and especially Central East. Central East now has a wellness center. But more than anything, what we are trying to do is we're trying to expand them and we're trying to make them a more welcoming place. Especially because what we have realized throughout the course of this

024year is that we have a lot of the resources that are necessary to make this possible. We just don't have student involvement, student engagement in these resources that we already have and we just need to have them centralized in one place so that people are more likely to go and get help or it's easier for them to get help which at the time at the moment it's not as easy as it should be. So this is just a little bit of what we've done throughout the year and if you guys have any questions feel free to ask them. Any questions? Trusty Chavez. So I I first want to commend you commend you young people for being so brave. Um I think mental health is something that uh people don't understand. So I I myself have

025a PTS disability and have survived abuse. So I can tell you as a young person who struggled most of my life with that disability, having people be brave enough at your age to talk about all of these issues is so important. And I don't normally disclose that publicly, but I feel like as a trustee, it's so important for young people, especially our students, to understand there's nothing that you need to be ashamed about. And if you are struggling with your mental health, I'm so proud to know that there are students who are so dedicated to to make these services available. And just I want to make my commitment to you as a trustee that I really want to focus upon this. And this has been something that I'm a new trustee to the board. I'm

026one of those new faces that you hadn't met the previous time. So, um, I've been listening and learning and trying to do my best to really focus upon being supportive of those efforts. So, I see you. I see what you guys are doing and I'm paying close attention. So, I just want you to know that I really appreciate you coming and sharing all your success. Thank you. I think I probably speak for the board. We're appreciative. We're extremely impressed with all you do and really just being advocates for our entire community. Thank you all. Thank you. [Applause] Next we we continue on uh with our student recognition with our first one being our county science fair awards. Good evening. So we take this moment tonight to celebrate Ashlin Schnarik. She is a talented and driven

027sixth grade student at Central Elementary School. Ashlin designed and built a solar powered irrigation system that earned her first place in the junior division for engineering at the Fresno County Science Fair. And the recognition doesn't end there. The Professional Engineers in California awarded Ashlin $200 and a certificate of achievement. The US Air Force awarded her a certificate for her project and she earned a bid to the state science fair competition as well as the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge in Ohio. What makes Ashlin's project exceptional is not only the irrigation system itself, but that she improved her prior year design, demonstrating characteristics of the true engineer that she is and the career that she will pursue. It's also with worth noting that Ashlin being the well-rounded student that she is, um she did this

028while also playing competitive soccer and she was also in the school musical. We are proud of Ashlin. We are proud of all of her accomplishments and appreciative of everyone who supports her, many of which are here this evening. So, I'd like to invite up Ashlin. We also have Ashlin's mom here tonight. So, I think that mom should also come up. There we go. And then we also have her teacher, Sarah Enrich, Greg Japerian, our assistant director, and also her principal, Wendy Slack, is here. So, I'd like to give her a round of applause and have her come up and shake her hand. [Applause] Congratulations again. We now uh invite up our succeed conference uh students to share a little review. President Singh and district administration. My name is Zilj Singh Ry. Good evening. I'm GP

029Greywall sophomore Justin Garza and we were the planning phases behind succeed itself. Um before we begin our presentation I want to go ahead and thank Jakara movement once again and our district as well as Dr. Lopez, Christina Rodriguez, um and all of the committee uh students that were a part of actually making Succeed happen. Um, unfortunately we couldn't have succeeded at Central Unified this year cuz it was, you know, towards the end of the school year. Um, but we look forward to opportunities next year. All right. So, our main goal with succeed was it can be explained within three words, empowering, educational, and inspirational. We wanted to make sure that it was a spotlight for Punjabi descent professionals that can be showcased to our Punjabi student population. So succeed gathered 13 members of the Punjabi

030community together. These were professionals within the community and who had pursued careers of success such as doctors, attorneys, nurses, educator, educators, social workers and artists. The main goal of uh uniting these people in the Punjabi community was to inspire the Punjabi youth and to show them sources of inspiration. So within that itself we actually held this at Fresno City. So it was um in their auditorium and we had a few classrooms actually about 13 classrooms that were available to us. Um and after the panel members had about three minutes to talk about their background in their profession, um we were able to break them out into small rooms and students get to uh get to decide what um breakout room they actually wanted to go to. Um and they were able to talk to all

031of the the the breakout um members, which was the students themselves, and the panelists were able to actually answer questions that the students may have had. Um and again I want to emphasize that this was lawyers, doctors, um educators and prominent community members that the student actually gained inspiration from looking at this from a student perspective being one from Punjabi descent myself. I want to share my experience and if Gertrab could share his as well. Um we really appreciated this and we did this last year as well with Jakata movement. Um and it was really nice and inspiring to actually see that hey there are people like me in professional um fields. So it was wonderful and Gerber if you want to share something. Of course this was my second year at succeed. the first

032with Central Unified and just looking up to these people who were in these careers and asking them personal questions like the struggles they went through, what motivates them, how was their life like growing up really made me see myself in them and really saw uh made me look at them as what they did as achievable and accomplishable and I'm grateful for succeed and the central unified district for allowing this. Yeah. So, as you can see, it was very inspiring. Uh, and some of the notes that we had from students were they really appreciated the way that the panel was set up. They said it was a little long, but um, that's fine. We'll work for that. We'll work on that next year. Um, and it was really nice. Students said that they would appreciate better

033lunch options. So, that's something something to look at next year. Um, so we want to thank Central Unified once again, Dr. Lopez and Christina Rodriguez as well as Jakara Movement and Fres uh Fresno City College for providing their space. So any questions from the board? Trusty Creo. How many students participated? About 159. And this was exclusive to Centry Unified or did we open it? It was open to all districts in Fresno County. Thank you. Trusty Kurfon, this is the first year of 60 second. Second 159 is still a great turnout. Congratulations on all the work you're doing and looking forward to seeing how it'll grow next year. Dr. Lopez, I do have to say thank you to the Jakara movement. So they've been partners with us for quite a few months in the process of

034planning and I know that we couldn't make it happen in central this year but uh do dojo has agreed to come back and help mentor the next group so we can make it happen next year. So we are excited. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Applause] Next, as part of our student recognition, uh although al although um not not quite agendaized properly, but I I wanted to make sure we especially as I see them in the audience, this uh this board has probably more than most others I've ever served on has really centered student voice, student participation, and and just a need to make sure that we're listening to students. Part of that has been the evolution to actually have a student trustee. what what made this actually occur here in Central Unified as we

035get ready and and we're going through the process PIO bureaus is start an application for uh all of our different high school students whether you're at an alternative student or whether you're at a comprehensive school that there's going to be an opportunity for students to really participate in our board meetings and make sure that their their voices their concerns are heard. What what made this sort of opportunity here at Central so unique was this actually didn't come from the board. This came directly from the students. It was the students that took the time to learn the law, talk to fellow college uh their peers and actually create a survey that was signed by hundreds of students and uh AC across their different campuses to not only assure that we would do it, but actually do

036the law to make sure that uh that we had to respect their voice and make sure it's heard. this board just wanted to uh appreciate and to recognize and and shake hands with three of the members that I know that were most active on on their campuses uh sharing the word with their students collecting those signatures. So, if I can invite uh MJ Group and Do we give them a round of applause? hurt yourself. Can we get a round of applause for all of our Mason students? Now we move on to the adults and we start with uh interim superintendent O'Brien sharing with us some employee recognition. Thank you President Singh. Good evening members of the board. Um, as you know, we have 16,000 students here in Central Unified School District. And we have one

037group of students who are very special to us, our students with special needs. And we have a team of highly specialized, highly dedicated and very compassionate educators with a wide range of skills who take care of our students with special needs every day. And recently and most specifically at our last board meeting, you very kindly approved uh the position of director of special education for us here in Central Unified. I want you to know that we looked very diligently for the very best leader that we could find to oversee this very important department in our district. As many of you know, uh, special education has, uh, a lot of, uh, uh, pieces and parts attached to it. And, uh, it takes a very special person to oversee that department and do it with competence, with

038uh, compliance to all of our legal obligations, but also to, uh, inspire our team to be the very best they can be. And with that, we were able to find that special person. Her name is Dr. Lorie Henle. Actually, she is almost Dr. Lorie Henle. And with that, uh, we've invited her this evening to come and meet you, address you, and, uh, share a little bit about herself. Good evening. Good evening, Board President Singh. Good evening, trustees, Dr. O'Brien, and the community and staff here of Central Unified. My name is Lori Henle and it is my honor and pleasure to be with you this evening and to introduce myself as your new director of special education and support services. They say that it's important to know your why. And my why is to improve the

039educational experiences for students, especially those that are on IEPs and require special education services. And uh each of these students has an individualized education plan that outlines the supports and services that they need to be successful in school. There is no cookie cutter solution for these students and this can be challenging at times, but it's worth it. The students of Central Unified are worth this time and effort. So I know the value that the dedicated site and special educ education and administration of the school sites support staff and teachers bring to this work and I'm excited to get to know and to collaborate with each of them. So as I begin this role I will be f focusing on closing equity gaps by ensuring the right services are provided. I'll be listening to the concerns

040of the people in the district and to be a solutionoriented thought partner when addressing these concerns. I also very much look forward to working with the families here in Central Unified. Your students are the reason that we are here and they deserve to be educated in their least restrictive environments while preparing for their life after graduation. Our work together as IEP teams can support them in their journeys. Thank you for this opportunity and thank you for your time. [Applause] Next, we turn to our employee association highlights. I'll invite up uh Laura Bolton, our CUTA president. All right. Sorry. Good evening. Thank you all. Um I'm working off of uh two different mediums here. So I've got my laptop and my um ever famous ever growing notebook. It's very thick at this time of year. Um

041okay. So um apologies. I was working on something else right as you called me. Okay. Um so I want to share a handful of um of the positives that were shared at our last board uh site rep meeting. Um we have site reps from all over the district that once a month when um I call them together they share out um various things that they are proud of and want to share with you. So it's not everyone but it's a lot. Um so starting with um the entire um elementary district um schools, we had 84 teachers from across the district who completed the letters training. Um this was a two years uh two-year program um to help with early literacy for our um youngest students. Um if uh teachers out there haven't submitted their units

042um for this, go ahead and do that. um and please recommend it to your um colleagues because there will be another cohort coming out um for next year. Um Riverbluff raised $5,445 in the Kids Heart Challenge benefiting the American Heart Association. They originally set their goal for $2,000 and they doubled it and they exceeded that. So they were very very proud to share that. Um Teague Elementary um had a very very um wellperforming track team. The 4x100 boys 11 and 12 year old relay team took first place in the valley championship. Um from Bakersfield to Merced they got a personal record time of 5453 which was the fastest in the valley. Congratulations to Raari Jefferson Kane Tennyson Alan Morris uh Key and Key Newsome on this great uh accomplishment. Um Remari Jefferson from Teague also

043took third place in the 100 meter dash and second play place in the 200 meter dash um for the valley championships in his division. Steinbeck um participated in the science olympiad and two of their student students Ivan Yang and Luna Hernandez received four medals um and two of those were second place. Um Liddell um has been in the science olympiad for quite some time now. has a very successful group of um of students and they won 29 medals at the science olympiad. And then um back to River Bluff, Cory Kulie took first place in the 100 meter dash in the 9 to 10 year olds um division. Um and that was also in the Valley Championships. Let's see. And then Roosevelt um wanted to share that they um have a really um interesting um reward

044system that's been helping out um the three Rh hour um like thinkery um reward um well yeah reward. So end of the day um the last 10 minutes of the day on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, students who have been working on their behavior and have um been meeting their behavior um goals get to spend 10 minutes at the end of the day in the thinkery being rewarded. Um this might sound funny, but it's a really big deal for them. They got new toilets at Roosevelt. They're very happy. That's one of our oldest schools. Um the back to Steinbeck also they are doing um an interesting new um PBIS um reward uh quarterly they are having clubs um where the kids get to pick all these different clubs and instead of like going to like maybe

045a reward event they get to do reward enrichment activities. So there's um learning and um and reward mixed in. And then uh middle school at um Rio Vista on April 12th. Um the Rio Vista math team um titled the Titans of Math complete and competed in the California State University Fresno math field day competition. uh a team of um Arshanor Bra, Theo Ecman, Sarah Fratwell, Haley Valoria, Timothy Pambukian, Bavia Bavia, and Coralia Reyes placed first in the small school division. Um they they have not done this in quite some time. This is their first effort. So to take first place was really um a great um achievement. So um please if you know these students, congratulate them on a a job well done. um Garza um they are league championships for boys volleyball and swim

046and dive teams and also bad mitten had four athletes um as CMAC placers. Um yeah, and then finally, I think, oh no, one more. Um Central High School um East has roof repairs going on. Finally, no more leaky roofs the next time it rains. They're really excited about that, too. And this is finally. Um so our district this year was awarded um a project fellowship for um the lose n news literacy project fellowship. Um, so if you recall, this is a project that um is uh allowing our students to learn about um media and recognizing um facts from fiction and um how to use media safely and correctly and all of that. Um so they um were awarded a one-year extension for this um fellowship after completing year one. And so now they will be

047able to continue to com um complete this project all the way through June of 2027. Um, the fellowship provides funding to curate, share, and teach media literacy lessons in grades K through 12. So, thank you very much. [Applause] Thank you. Uh, next we invite up uh Angie Giri, our CSEA president. Didn't see her. No. Okay. We hope all is well. Next, we turn to our superintendent board communications. Um, Superintendent O'Brien. Good evening, members of the board. I have I'll try and keep my report relatively short this evening as we have a busy agenda. But I do want to start out by saying that one of my favorite things to do is to go out and visit our schools. And uh we recently created a uh schedule of school visits and I'm extremely grateful to our

048board members who are uh accompanying me as we uh make our way through various schools between now and the end of the year. Uh the schools we visited so far are Tilly Elementary with the principal Christian Ginger Hen Karnney. That was a great experience going out to Hton Carney with principal uh Courtney Gendron who I recognized from third grade. That was a great experience. Uh Persing uh high school and pathway continuation school under the principal ship of Jill Young. I was at H. Hearnden Barstow with Paul Marashian. Liddell Elementary with Erin Gunstream. Steinbeck Elementary with Esther Kercher. Central Elementary with Wendy Slack. We were at McKinley with principal Dr. Marilucano El Capitano with principal Patricia Mccurley and Central East High School with principal Brad Edmonds. I mentioned the principal's names because they are synonymous with

049these schools. Leadership really matters and um it was a great opportunity for our board members to see our principles and our students and teachers in action. It was also a great opportunity for them to see how our facilities are being used to ensure maximum instruction. For example, we have amazing reading labs at all of our elementary schools with wonderful reading lab teachers. We w we were able to witness intervention counselors showing us the areas where they help uh provide wraparound services for our students. We got to visit thinkeries where we got to see the kinds of activities that our staff are engaging in to help students reflect and to help them uh regulate their behaviors. We got to see CTE facilities. We were out at the athletic training room at Central East High School and

050we had a great tour of the industrial engineering facility at Central East and we're very much looking forward to doing the same at all the other schools that we're going to be visiting. The library facilities in our district are wonderful and beautiful places where children in our district are engaged in meaningful reading with qualified librarians. Really wonderful little havens on all of our campuses and really nurturing a culture of reading for our students. We got to see support staff providing wraparound services for students ex especially for example at Persian high school and pathway uh continuation school. Very special schools with students who really are benefiting from the compassion and the love and the dedication, the hard work of a great team under principal Jill Young. We got to see how our expanded learning opportunity dollars

051are being used to great advantage uh to enhance uh the facilities for our students. We saw the green space at Tilly and amazing facilities around our district. Uh I know our pools being used for swimming lessons this summer. Our athletic fields and numer numerous other facilities are being used to provide extended learning opportunities for our students. But most of all, we witnessed intense, structured, engaging learning environments. And uh as uh members of the board, you are going to be uh considering renewing and approving some large uh grants and or not grants uh contracts that we're bringing before you tonight. Uh I will be speaking a little bit to those uh contracts so that you have a very good understanding of what they mean to us here in Central Unified. And we have invited some of

052our principles to speak about the benefits of those contracts and what they're doing for student uh performance and student academic achievement in Central Unified. And just to finish off, I wanted to mention that I was out uh on Friday, May 2nd at Central Elementary School with Principal Wendy Slack and our campus catering uh lead cook Sylvia Beltron to celebrate the amazing work that our campus catering folks are doing all around the the uh district. And we all know that those thousands of meals that they prepare and serve every day are probably the most favorite part of our students day. So, let's make sure we always remember that. As you know, last month I shared the exciting news about Madison Elementary being named California's distinguished school, which is a tremendous accomplishment. I'd like to formally invite

053all of our board members and we'll make sure you have it in writing to join us in celebrating this achievement on Thursday, May 22nd at 1 p.m. We'll send you an invite. This event is a special opportunity to recognize the dedication and hard work of the students of Madison as well as our principal Jackie Oliver and area administrator Jeff Garrett and their their staff. We have a fun afternoon planned and I hope you'll join us as we honor all of the great things happening at Madison. Another thing, we have a valid Victorians lunchon. It's a special uh event that I want to invite you all to. It's on Monday, May 19th. This upcoming Monday at 12:30 p.m. we'll be hosting the Central High School validictorians lunchon. But not only will we be recognizing Central High's

054outstanding validictorians, but we'll also be celebrating a historic moment in our district. Our very first group of students graduating with their associate of arts degrees through the dual enrollment program. 11 students have reached this incredible milestone and their hard work is a true reflection of the excellence here in Central Unified. So I hope you'll join us as we honor these remarkable students and their achievements. I just want to thank trustees Kirk and uh Keron for accompanying us out at uh McKinley Elementary School recently where we celebrated with uh tree fresno in the Sanwalken Air Pollution District. Our students planted eight trees, the first of almost 50 trees that are going to be planted throughout Central Unified School District. Uh the expansion of green spaces and trees is a concerted effort on the part of the

055air pollution district to improve the air quality in designated areas of our city and county. So it was really great to see our students learning how to plant trees, digging holes in the ground and uh you know really engaging in the process. So, uh, a a really great event. Uh, a very important thing I want to mention is there has been a lot of hard work going on at our high schools in this district this year. And it's really important to acknowledge this. As you all know, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges is the body that uh is responsible for the accredititation of all of our high schools. And it's important that our schools are accredited because that means that our coursework is recognized at the university level. So um as you also know

056members of the board, it's a very intense and involved process where a team of education leaders and specialists uh from WASK spend several days on our campuses engaging in focus group meetings with staff, parents, students and other community stakeholders. They really do take a deep dive into all our systems, our processes, our programs, our data reports, leaving no stone unturned in their evaluation of our schools as being worthy to maintain appropriate accreditation. It's a very very in-depth process. So I just me want to mention a couple of notes. Class, which is the central learning adult and alternative school site, our central unified adult school received their very first WASK accredititation under principal Ed Robinson. So that was a class uh a proud moment for our team at class and we were very happy about that.

057Our Persian Continuation High School under principal Jill Young successfully completed their midcycle Wasque review and during my recent visit there I was very impressed by the dedication of their staff as they engage our students in a wide variety of engaging programs and activities. Earlier this year, Central High School under the leadership of principal Dave Halterman earned great feedback for their work at Central High and they attained a full six-year renewal of their accredititation status. Last week, another WASA team completed its visitation at Central East High School. Uh, and they were most complimentary of Principal Brad Edmonds, who's with us tonight, and his team on the fantastic education experiences and programs at his campus. and they are awaiting a final communication on the renewal status but the feedback at the exit meeting was highly complimentary and

058then finally Justin Gara High School under principal Rosa Rubio is currently hosting a wasp visitation team I'm really looking forward to the exit meeting tomorrow greeting Pennington area admin will be there uh to hear their comments and their observations at the campus during the opening meeting I was very impressed by the guards team's preparation for a successful visit so I just um it's it's very impress impressive to see what's going on in our educational system so that every student can pursue a rigorous education whether through CTE adult school or our alternative uh opportunities and then to close out my report I think it's very important that members of the board have um an understanding of what happened in our district during spring break and it's also precursor to what's going to happen during the summer

059and it's very hard to explain it to you. So, uh, assistant superintendent Dr. Marilene Lopez and her team put together a short video and I will let it h it's self-explanatory, so I'll let it speak for itself. [Music] We had about 750 students from TK through 8th grade participating in about 25 camps here in Central Unified over spring break. For example, the digital uh engineering and journalism class was very exciting where our students were finding out what it was like to work behind the scenes in developing a media story. And so they were uh engaged in factchecking and interviewing parents and it culminated in a field trip to Univision where they actually were able to be part of a newscast that was aired last Friday night which of course was very exciting for our students.

060I had the opportunity to talk to one of our students who had just texted her mom to tell her to look out for the news at 6:00 on Friday because she was on Univision along with many of our students from the digital engineering and journalism program and they were being interviewed about the story that they had put together. My hope for our students to take away from these programs is for them to have been inspired to continue to love learning. And I really do feel that students will only be inspired to love learning if they feel that the topic is relevant. Here in Central Unified, we have over 20 career technical education pathways. I think we've learned in education that rigor and relevance are very important. And so what we had here last week over

061spring break was a great combination of rigorous literacy standards taught within the context of relevant career exploration opportunities. I think students are really benefiting from these camp experiences because they normally wouldn't have an opportunity to engage in these types of camps. And so the fact that we can give them that opportunity and that experience is really vital. They get to work with so many different community- based organizations and get to have fun while they're doing it. So we started with our winter session and now we are in the middle of our spring session. We have kids in the classroom with teachers in the morning and then in the afternoon they get to go to a really fun enrichment camp. So some of those camps are here on campus, some of the camps are offsite. So

062they're getting to go to places like Sierra Sport and Racket to learn how to play pickle ball and tennis. They're getting to go to the Chaffy Zoo. They're getting to go to the Fresno Discovery Center, uh gymnastics classes. Some of our kids are going to a pottery studio. And so there's just really a wide variety of choices for our kids to um engage in this spring [Music] session. You know, as we grew up as kids, when did you ever imagine you were going to use algebra in the real world, right? You you really don't envision yourself using some of the skills that we're learning in the classrooms. They get to see how academics play a role in the real world by exploring different careers. So because of that, we wanted to ensure that our students

063not only experience some extremely amazing camps, but also get they get to see how literacy lives within those career paths. So we want them to be able to explore different careers and have a vision of where they want to go in life and how academics and literacy and soft skills are so crucial and being able to pursue those careers. [Music] Our students are being exposed to different careers, but the most important part is being able to implement some of the academics that they learned throughout the year, uh, literacy skills, but also soft skills that are much needed in the workforce. We have some of our students from Central East and Central West, Central High School now that are able to engage themselves as paraprofessionals in teaching some of the content areas and they are currently

064in the teaching pathway. So now they're getting to be able to see what it is to work as a potential teacher in a classroom with the assistance of a credential teacher. Of course, our kids get to explore careers, but they also get to apply what they're learning in the classrooms. The first spring we had a very large response, very quick response. Most of our classes were filled up within 15 or 20 minutes. And so that was challenging, but it was a good challenge to have. I hope that they go home with a fun experience that they want to come back and engage next time that we have these. We're definitely planning something fun for summer. And I really hope that they get a little insight into some of these career paths and get an idea

065of maybe what they may want to do in the future. [Music] Thank you for all the for all the highlights and and for the team put together the video as well. Next, I'll turn to uh trustee Keron if he can provide some updates as our chairman for the jurisdiction agency subcommittee meeting. Thank you. Thank you, President Singh. So, as you said, on Friday, I was elected chair of the jurisdiction/ agency subcommittee. The purpose of this subcommittee is to meet with other government agencies and elected officials uh that overlap with Central Unified and find shared solutions to the issues that exist in our community. On Friday, we were joined with the code enforcement department from the county and city of Fresno, the city of Fresno public works department, supervisor Brian Pacheo's office, and Fresno PD and

066Fresno Sheriff's uh department. We provided updates on the incremental and upcoming construction at Justin Garza of their sports complexes, uh the BAPA building as well as Jazwan Singh Kalra. The north star at this meeting was public safety. code enforcement discussed the success of their school area team uh which provides proactive code enforcement uh throughout neighborhoods near near schools. So do reporting code violations like broken windows, inoperable vehicles and blocked sidewalks. We also discussed the city's smoke shop ordinance which will reduce the number of smoke shops in the city of Fresno from well over 100 to less than 50 which will have an impact in our community. As we know, vapes, Zins, flavored tobacco products have become a huge problem on campus and this will lead to a reduction in that. Uh our law enforcement partners

067were also happy to share their success with the pivot pilot uh where SRO's in the middle schools uh will visit the corresponding elementary schools and speak to sixth graders to prepare them for the transition to middle school and begin that relationship and fostering that you know uh culture of you know safety. Also under the umbrella of public safety we discussed safe routes to school. An example of agencies coming together to find solutions um is the traffic at Hernand Barstow. Traffic was first alleviated due to Veterans Boulevard opening and uh usually there can be difficulty with the county and city working together on who's responsible for road improvements. But um they've come together and now we are going to have a uh hawk uh uh crossing at Hernand Barstow which will make it a lot safer

068um for students at Hernand Bartow crossing the road. And with measure X being approved by the voters, we'll also be able to improve the uh the parking situation and the uh flow of flow parking when it comes to pickup and drop off. Uh McKinley and Elcap 10 neighbors can also look forward to the safe streets program being implemented on BL and McKinley. Uh thank you to the city of Fresno for approving that. Um when the city of Fresno improves their streets um they have to make everything ADA accessible which means our students can finally look forward to sidewalks on McKinley Avenue. Uh currently they don't have a sidewalk. It's just a dirt route. But the safe route we have to continue fighting for is at Jazwan Sinclra Elementary. We currently do not have a crossrock

069uh near the front of the elementary school for the neighbors living northeast of the school um north of the uh shopping center. Uh I am personally concerned about the potential for students walking, biking or skating to school uh without a crosswalk. I understand we've asked the city of Fresno to uh build a crosswalk on Fountain Way so we can you know have that you know safe and safe uh route to school on the path of least resistance. Um, I urge the city of Fresno to be proactive in keeping our students safe and work with us on this. Uh, because we do not need an unforced tragedy and our families who live and commute on Broly will happily trade an extra stop sign for student safety. And uh, think that's a good majority what we covered

070during the meeting. Thank you, Trusty Kon. Um, any other uh, board communications at this time? Trusty Kon and then Trusty Chavez. Thank you, President Singh. Uh, I also want to say I'm glad to hear that some of our students at Central Online were inspired to go to college by the beauty of UC Santa Cruz, class of 18. Go banana slugs. Uh, I also want to share um, as Superintendent Brandt said that um, we got to be part of the uh, tree planting at McKinley Elementary where our little tigers planted eight trees. Um, so I'm glad we had to have that, you know, providing that shade for our students and that outdoor learning opportunity. Uh, I want to thank Tree Fresno for donating the trees and um, a special shout out on their team to their

071executive director Mona Cummings and fellow Central Unified alum Temperance Tally for making this opportunity happen. Um, and I've been on a lot of the site tours with Superintendent O'Brien. Uh, been to I went visited uh, Tilly Elementary, Hton Karnney, Persing Pathway, Steinbeck Central, McKinley again uh, El Capitan and Central East. Some of the takeaways I have as a trustee is that we have great rigor in our classrooms particularly uh with those classrooms where teachers have completed the letters training. Uh it's also apparent how overdue we were um for uh our deferred maintenance. the uh just see things a lot of our older sites, you know, when there's, you know, peeling paint or, you know, sagging tiles uh or, you know, you know, pools that need to be replastered, you know, it it's it's very it's

072very uh important that we take care of our facilities, that we take care of those investments uh and not just for, you know, for swimming, for example, centrally the pool is not just for our excellent centrally swimming team, but for the public access this summer. So I and that century's pool is one of the only spots where there is uh public access to a pool uh west of the 99. So I think it's great that we allocated 2 million in deferred maintenance last year. Um it will pay dividends for our future and we have to protect that funding. Um, but then just finishing off from the uh there's I could talk on and on about how great our schools are. From the uh reading lab at Tilly to the FFA program at Persing, our intervention

073room at McKinley or the CT CTE pathway to Central East, there's something to be proud of at all of our sites. Uh then finally, uh as we continue the search for our next superintendent, I've attended three of the community input meetings to hear directly from parents as to what qualities they are looking for. Of course, we also have over 1,400 responses from the public on our online survey. So, thank you to the parents who have filled that out. If you're interested in participating in the community input meetings, we have four more in-person meetings this week, tomorrow and Thursday. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Chavez. Uh so, thank you, President Singh. Um so one of the things that I had spoken about with President Singh was uh and I wanted to make sure that I said

074it publicly is I really want to make a concerted effort to uh look at our annual calendar as a board and really start considering how we can participate in some of these larger public events. Specifically um Pride coming up next month um Fresno Pride on June 7th. I know that we haven't had a formal presence in the past that's been specific with Central. There have been various groups that have participated. Um, but I want to make it a point that we as a board really consider how we make ourselves more present um to our community throughout the year at these various um really critical events where we're supporting our students and we're communicating that we are a safe space. we are allies and we're a part of these different cultural celebrations in our community. So,

075I just want to make sure to put that out there publicly so we can agendaize that in the future or have a future discussion noted and and we'll um we'll have a like a conversation in terms of creating a board agenda and those events that we want to make sure that Central Unified is a as a as a district at. Thank you. Uh Trusty Sidu. Yeah, just uh real quick, um I had the opportunity on uh April 29th uh to attend the town hall meeting with council member Perea and um she was discussing um sidewalks, roads, repairs. Um so uh uh we were informed that uh especially right here Gettysburg and Hayes um there's going to be stop lightss added uh mid July. So um that wasformational and we I also got information on Pulk.

076Pulk's going to get uh expanded uh very soon and uh I think they're in the last phase of securing um the space to expand Pulk. So uh I got those two little tidbits from council member Praa and I would like her I'd like to thank her for coming to Inspiration Park in this part of town and addressing our um community members. Thank you. And with that we turn to comments from the public at this time. Uh, first up we have Joe Reyes. Is Joe Reyes still here? All right. Uh, in that case, uh, next up is Laura Bolton. All right, here I am again. Um I uh sent an email to all of the board members, two of them actually. Um a third with a correction, slight correction to an image that I sent you.

077So um I created some graphics to help you to understand um two of the major things that um we are trying to accomplish um through bargaining um for our students above and beyond salary increase. So uh the first one is for our newcomer students. So, um, we currently have 427 newcomer students districtwide. Um, we currently have one EL newcomer teacher and one EL instructional coach to serve all of the students in the entire district. Um, the district has let me know that um, they have approved growth um, positions to double that so that we will have two um, EL newcomer teachers and um, two instructional coaches. Um, but I dropped a graphic in there for you um from the dashboard that shows the number of students that we have that are eelss and that are

078um where their progress is at. We um we really need more support. We really don't think that one additional position for both of those will be enough. Approximately 25% of our district e population are newcomers. um 286 of them are at level one proficiency, language prof proficiency currently this year. Um and we have high numbers of Punjabi and Arabic speaking newcomers which we have struggles um with finding um home language support and um translation support um for those really basic beginning students. Um they also have no newcomer support um outside of their designated teachers in middle school and high school at all. there is no one to work with them. Um, our one ELEL newcomer teacher is working primarily with our elementary um, schools that do not have designated EL teachers. Then the other one

079I sent you was about the 333504 students that we have districtwide currently and why social workers um would be helpful because they can connect home, school, and community resources. We have um 74 as of last month that were um overdue for their meetings. um 62 of those were at secondary sites. Um and I dropped some um pictures also from our dashboard about the chronic absenteeism and graduation rates and these students are specifically receiving these um support services because of things like that. Um the the 504s help them to access and um go beyond barriers so that they can achieve and that they can be present and that they can graduate. um there is a very high number of African-American um Asian English learners, foster youth, etc. socioeconomic disadvantage. These are um the groups that we

080look at um when um we are counting our unduplicated pupils. Um and we receive supplemental and concentration concentration grant money specifically for um supporting these kids. We believe that social workers are an important part um that needs to be added to our district support. Thank Thank you, Mr. Bton. Uh, one more time for Joe Reyes going once. I was able to meet with the parent and he's Oh, and then board president, we have one caller on the line, Michelle Cooper. Please patch him through. Give me one second. Good evening, Miss Cooper. You have 3 minutes to address the board. Please make sure to turn down the volume on your listening device so we can hear you loud and clear. Again, you have three minutes and your time starts now. Okay. Good evening board members and

081superintendent O'Brien. My name is Michelle Cooper and I work at Roosevelt in their SDC preschool. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight. I'm here to ask that we take a closer, more serious look at our SDC preschool program, specifically the current case loads and working conditions um our team is facing. As educators, as educators, we all understand the importance of early intervention. The earlier we can begin working with our students on behavior, communication, and bic basic skills like potty training, the better outcomes we'll see, not only for these children, but for our entire district as they continue through the grades. But right now, we are stretched too thin to provide the kind of support our students truly need. In our current structure, we only have our preschoolers for 2 hours

082a day. In that short time, we are expected to address communication skills, toilet training, behavior interventions, and yes, still find time to work on early academics, and we're doing this with 12 to 13 students in each session. It's a lot of needs packed into a very short window of time. Beyond the classroom, the weight of the case loads is growing. Many of us have over 20 students on our case loads while also participating in initial IEP meetings for incoming three-year-olds. This isn't just overwhelming for us teachers. It's also taxing for our school psychologists, speech language pathologists, and nurses, too. Each of us is juggling multiple roles, and we are doing our best, but the system as it stands simply isn't sustainable. Our preschoolers deserve more than um a triage style education. They deserve a program

083that gives them and the staff who serve them the time, resources, and staffing levels needed to make an a real impact. We are planting the seeds for lifelong learning and development. So, let's give those seeds a chance to grow. Thank you for your time and I urge you to support a thorough review of the SEC preschool program with attention to staffing, case loads, and session lengths. Our students and our staff are counting on it. Thank you. And then, board president, there's no more callers at this time. Yep. No, no others here. Thank you. And with that, we'll turn to our consent agenda. Do I have a motion on such items? Uh, President Singh, I would like to pull uh item number three for discussion. Okay. So, we will vote on item uh L3 separately. I

084move to approve the consent agenda including items 1 through two and four through 10. So, we have a motion by trusty Curio to approve the uh consent agenda uh with the exception of item L3. Second. Motion by Trusty CO, second by Trustee Sellers. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Uh we move on to item L3. Adopt uh resolution 242552. Affirm the district's commitment to foster a healthy school environment. Uh thank you, President Singh. Uh the reason I pulled this is because I wanted to just kind of discuss, you know, I noticed on I think section 4 it talked about limiting uh you know, I think non snack type rewards uh to once a month per classroom. And I was just wondering, you know, as I've been

085touring the sites, you know, and we've been hearing from principles for the past two years about the different ways that uh they find to encourage uh students to attend school and to, you know, do well on ESPback and other testing. Uh my worry is that this may be kind of a takes away one of the tools that teachers and princ principles have on uh encouraging success uh for our students. And my opinion is I feel like I can trust our teachers and our administrators to have that restriction. Uh if they if they have the best uh judgment on if that can be limited to one month or less or more, I think they know the sites better. Uh and this uh resolution also inre adds a wellness committee of you know the public um as

086another layer of oversight. I just feel like, you know, we can do without that additional u uh restriction. Superintendent Davis, sorry, O'Brien, if you wish to address any of I'll I'll just start the discussion. Um I do know that as we've been out at the school sites, I do know that uh especially right now while our students are engaged in state testing, uh one of the things we are concerned about is that we don't want their tummies talking to them while they're uh taking their tests. So the school sites have been making sure that our students are uh well fed and having snacks and things like that. Um I do know that this is greater than that. I don't know if Dr. Lopez wants to comment fur further on the wellness track or we'll have

087Miss Director English talk a little more about it. I think my point was on section four about parties and celebrations. Okay. Yeah. I wanted to clarify that that the section I'm understanding Trusty Kuron is mentioning what it actually states is limit celebrations involving non-compliant food items such as birthdays, holidays, or rewards to once per month per classroom. That's what you're asking. Yes. Yes. That's that's my concern. That's a good conversation. Okay. So, is this on? Okay. So, typically um school districts do have a limit or a cap. Um so, because schools about education and sometimes there's some schools or some classrooms that'll have like five birthdays in a month and that can get very distracting and that's why we try to limit it just to one so you can celebrate everybody at one time. Right.

088And I don't necessarily have a problem with that. Um, however, when it comes to uh rewards, you know, I don't I don't want if a administrator is using a uh ice cream social for validatorans or for perfect attendance or or our our students crushed the sback this year. I don't want to uh take away a tool from a teacher or administrator that they may be using. I I trust them and their their site teams to understand if this is too if we've gone too far or if we you know need this extra uh motivation for kids. Absolutely. That that wouldn't um be the same thing, right? But it but it mentions reward limiting one month for rewards. So if a my understanding with this resolution is that if you know uh little little Susie has

089a birthday in March that means we can't also reward the classroom for anything else with a non-compliant snack. Good evening. I'd like to just um provide some more clarification and really the emphasis is on the non-compliant foods and as part of the um USDA rule we are um and if you remember our presentation from last board meeting we are really trying to streamline that compliance process where we can with true fidelity realize that we're not serving foods that are laden with sugar or high in fats that go against what we are um mandated to do. So we wanted to provide the opportunity for that one time a month so that people can be appreciated and we know that many families do want to celebrate their children or find ways to do that and that is

090why that is in there. Thank thank you and I agree. I don't want to uh take away uh things from them. I just if if for whatever reason a principal or teach or teacher SSI come together and say yes we think that our students have earned two rewards because it's June. I I don't have a problem with them. I trust them to make that decision in the best interest of students. Yeah. Um basically it's limiting parties in the classroom but when there's a reward for the students we're not going um we have no problem with that. that that's not the language that we're looking for. Okay. And I would like to also highlight that Alyssa's team provides opportunities in fact um for to celebrate students. They're um done tacos um and other I'm not sure

091what the other taco bars um we're doing we're doing taco bar for a separate program but um anything they want we try to provide. Right. Um and they can order online and if they want above and beyond we always do that. Pizza parties. Yeah. So if in the interest of you know keeping those rewards on the table I motion to approve this just with the omission of the word rewards in that uh section. Yeah change it to is that your motion? Yes. So I I just like to make a comment about So we we have a motion on the floor. Okay. Sorry. If there is no second, then it dies. Or if there's a second, we can continue discussion or a new motion could be presented. I move to approve L3 as presented. A second.

092Okay, we so we have a a motion for uh by trustee Curio for L3 as presented and that has been seconded by trust trustee Sidu. And so now if you wish to take further discussion on the item now would be an appropriate time. Dr. Well, I I just wanted to share that having been an elementary principal for quite a few years, I understand it can get very overwhelming in the classroom with a lot of sugary foods. And I know that a lot of parents will welcome us uh you know, taking some measures to try and either limit those sugary experiences or substitute them with more healthy options. And I think that that seems to be the intention of this. So I also know that rewards are very important. So I think that it's a good

093combination of both and it's a good faith effort on our part to try and be able to provide some guarantees to our parents that their kids aren't getting provided all these sugary options on top of their healthy lunches. Jesse Chavez, I just I kind of want to add um to this. So, I admire what you're trying to do here because I found it challenging when I worked within public education where especially because I worked with some of the more um students that were considered resistant. I don't like that word, but that's really what we would call them in public education. So, there would be this idea that I won't do something unless I'm rewarded. And so when we start to cultivate that type of culture, it's not necessarily a healthy message that we're communicating. I'm

094all about celebrating people, but I think there's a lot of ways that we can do it that doesn't involve, like you say, sugar laden snacks. So I really admire your efforts, Trusty Korea. Um, and while I admire you pointing that out, Trusty Keron, the reason that I'm made a motion and and support those resolution is for the reasons that have been stated, um, it's important that we start to change the culture around that. And I I would think if not all of our principles, some of them may appreciate having a policy and telling that parent, I'm sorry, we can only celebrate once a month all of the birthdays with the sugary items. or to be more creative about um bringing in compliant food. And I think it's also more intentional um as there are more

095kids with food restrictions and severe allergies. This provides an opportunity to to be more intentional about what we're bringing into our classrooms and provides our our principles and our uh teachers the opportunity to put it back on us. So, I like the idea as well that we're not creating this environment where if you're constantly doing the right thing, you're going to get a reward. And so, if you don't, then um students will just respond to the behaviors and environments that we're creating for them. So, thank you for your hard work and really developing this. And I think what there's an opportunity to do is that perhaps um this resolution is approved every year. Do we have it come back? Um no this is actually if there are addendums we can but it's really just there

096if I can point out too that with the work of the wellness committee as you know that is made up of um many teachers classified um staff nurses we even had um parents come and this was something that they've put a lot of work and thought into especially when looking at applying for um status like healthy um school status. they cannot apply under this particular category if we're still following some of our current practices. Got it. Thank you very much. So I have a motion uh by Trusty Curio for L3 asis and a second by trustee Sudu. Those in favor please say I. I. I. I. Those opposed nay. Nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 61. Thank you. We now turn to our action items. Uh our first action items are our student discipline cases. Do

097I have a motion on such item? I move to reject the recommendation for case number 2425016. Is the is the desire to vote on them separately or or spec Okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, we will first uh we'll take these indiv individually. Uh so, uh we have a uh recommendation from from the district. So, I will first take motions with regards to So, I did make a motion. I didn't hear anyone respond. So, I'm assuming there is no second to that motion. I will second. And and as a reminder, I am moving to uh reject the recommendation for case number 2425016. President Singh, point of uh uh question or query. Uh we're not allowed to discuss any personal information on these cases. Are we allowed to make any non-personal information statements on the on these?

098Um any non-identifying information. I I would I mean we we have uh director Young here. I would be very very careful just because we are talking about like minors. If there are any questions, those do have to be discussed in close session. I see. No. Uh no questions here. I just uh I I think that the district is making the right decision um in these cases. I in in the interest of public safety uh for the district and and and I think we should reserve that kind of language. you you'll have an opportunity to vote on it in any which way. So, at at this point, we have uh we will be splitting the two cases. We have a motion by Trustee Curo to reject the recommendation for case number 2425016 and seconded by uh

099Trustee Kirk. Those in favor of the denial of or rejection of the recommendation, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Nay. Are those abstaining? Abstaining. Okay. So, I had three nays, three supports, and one abstension. Point of clarification. I believe trustees do. What was your vote? Uh, yes. And I Yeah. To deny. Okay. Okay. So, it was Okay. So, so then motion passes. No, we do not. Um, in order for motion to carry, you need a majority of your sitting board. So that means we need a four votes for yes in order. Yeah, we we have four four votes. Who were the four votes? I supported you. So it it passes to reject the recommendation at 421. I'll make a motion to approve uh case 2425017. Second. We have a motion by trustee Kuron,

100a second by trustee uh sellers. Those in favor uh of supporting the recommendation, please vote I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Next, we turn to item number two, accept gifts to district assistant superintendent tick ball. Good evening. We have two gifts tonight. Central elementary school received a donation of $1,000 from Central Youth Calorie Pin League for the purchase of athlete award. The second one is Central High School received a donation of $16.87 cents from Ohio Pilot Prince for associate student body. Administration is recommending the board accept gifts to the district. Motion to approve. Have a motion by trustee Kanton. Second. Second by trustee Curio. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those obstaining. Motion carries 6 with trustee Sellers absent. Next, we move on to

101item number three. Approve out of state travel. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Boight. Thank you. El Capitan Middle School teacher John Lamb will be traveling this summer to Nevada to attend a conference put on by the Association of Woodworking and Furnishing Suppliers in collaboration with the College of Woodworking Knowledge. Administration is recommending that the board approve this travel request. Motion to approve. Motion by Trustee Kirk. Second. Second by Trustee Sudu. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 50 with trustee SERS and absent. We move on to item number four. Approve annual declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 2025 2026 school year. Super assistant interim superintendent O'Brien. Annually we are required to estimate how many teachers or uh teachers we will be needing uh who may not

102be fully qualified. Uh typically these are positions that can sometimes be hard to fill and uh we annually uh make this declaration at this time of the year. We'll uh circle back after our vacancies have been filled and we'll uh amend uh once we have a more definitive number and this year's number is similar to last year's. Thank you, Dr. O'Reilly. Do I have a motion on set item? A motion to approve. We have a motion by Trustee Kirk. Second. Second by Trusty Chavez. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 5-0 with trusty sellers and kon missing. We move on item number five. Approve authorized signature and mailing permit. Assistant superintendent ball. The fiscal department would like to add two additional staff member to finalize and sign purchase

103order. Administration is recommending the board approve the authorized signature permit. Questions or comments from the board? Do I have a motion? I move to approve. We have a motion by Trusty Chavez. Second by Trustee Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 5 Z with trustees sellers and Kon missing. We move on to item number six. Accept donation agreement for Edison Social Club property at 3325 West Clinton Avenue and Freso near Clinton and Valentine Avenues. Director Rodriguez. Thank you, board president and board of trustees and interim superintendent uh Dr. O'Brien. Uh at this time uh before I give my presentation, I'd like to introduce uh to you uh Mr. Jim Henry. He is the board of one of the board of trustees with the uh Edison Social

104Club. Thank you. uh all distinguished people here. Uh I'm here to uh offer which I've already done uh our uh facility building in uh 4.82 acres on the corner for to the school district and there's going to be roughly a million dollar donation for that give or take maybe 50,000. We've got a couple of insurance cases that are pending. We get it. You're going to be over a million. Is anybody got any questions about the property? Okay. All right. So, I'll give you a little background. So, in late uh November uh of 2024, uh Mr. Henry uh approached our district uh to ask if we were interested uh in being a potential candidate to receive uh the Edison Social Club property located at 3325 West Clinton Avenue in the form of a donation. The uh

105the club property resides in our district boundary which allows for an opportunity to use the building to enhance our services to our community and students. Honelli Elementary School is adjacent to the club's property. Uh on March the 6th, 2025, uh at the Edison Social Club's board meeting, the trustees voted to donate the property to our district. Um administration's recommending uh recommends to accept the donation agreement, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Joy Kon, uh no questions, but Mr. Henry, I just want to personally thank you for making this donation and uh give you uh you know my my confidence that Central Unified will be able to take care of this facility to the best of our abilities and use it to serve the community. So, thank you Jesse Curio. Thank

106you very much for the donation. Um I did review the contract. Was uh Atkinson Anderson uh the district's legal counsel that received a copy or was that a representative for the social club? No, he's our representative. He's our legal counsel. Are we going to be conducting any testing? And then I I know that there is a provision that's asis. So anything that we discover we're going to be responsible for. Correct. You're correct. And Mr. Henry has allowed us to actually go in there not once but twice uh to go in and inspect the uh the the building. Okay. And the building. Okay. Thank you. Just one question. Just a fun question. Um were you Central alumni? What motivated you um to you know donate this to Central? Uh this was in our by our minutes

107or I bylaws at the beginning they said if the uh club disband whatever we've got to donate this to a nonprofit school church okay and you're the school. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Kirk. Oh. Oh, I was going to motion, but I'll I'll motion to approve. We have a motion to second. We have a motion by Trusty Kirk and a second by Trusty Kon. Before we take a vote, I I just wanted to ask you, Mr. Henry, if you could just share a little bit of the history. I know it's uh the the social club is celebrated uh over it's been over there for over hundred years. could you share a little bit about the the the history of the uh club and and even the facility? Okay, real simple. Uh we're 104 years old

108this coming June. Uh they started with three uh different clubs over on the west side of Fresno. They had to move twice and the third time because of freeway came through. They came out to Clinton and bought this property 4.82 acres. I don't know where they get all that is, but they that's what they say. And uh we've been there since 56, I believe it is. Uh one thing I like to tell people is once they started the dues were $2 a month. They raised it to $3 with a provision the company doctor gives all free care to the members in their families. You'll never hear that again. Any other questions or appreciate you sharing with us that that that that history and and a memory of what what healthcare could have looked like. But

109we have a we have a motion by trustee Kirk, a second by trustee fawn. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carry unanimously. 70. Thank you so much, Mr. Henry. To you in the [Applause] club. We move on to item number seven to approve authorization to file notice of completion for Central High School Aarite improvements project. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president and board of trustees and interim uh superintendent O'Brien. uh for your approval tonight is uh the board authorization to file a notice of uh completion for the a barn and and the site improvement project. Uh a notice of uh completion is a document that establishes the official date that the construction project uh is complete. Uh the project is important for all parties involved uh that

110were uh involved in the project. This is sort of a standard industry practice and a and and for for our sake public record. Um, as you recall, this was an SSER project. So, uh, staff has reviewed and recommends approval of this item. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Trusty Sers. Make a motion to approve. Second. A motion by Trusty Cyrus, second by Trusty Kon. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to item number eight. Adopt resolution 2425-54 designating specific materials, products, things, or services on a construction project for the visual and performing arts project at Justin Garza High School pursuant to public contract code section 3400. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, uh, board president, board of trustees,

111and interim superintendent O'Brien. Tonight is uh an approval for an adoption of resolution 2425-54 a specifying material and products that would be sight specific uh electrical equipment for the visual and performing arts building at Justin Garza. These standards are to assure uh conformity and integrity of the existing electrical system at Justin Garza and benefits the district. Uh in that regard, district staff recommends and uh the that the board adopt the resolution. so that we may incorporate uh into the agenda prior to uh bidding uh bid opening and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Trusty Korea, how are we going to ensure that the contractors actually use the materials that we are approving today? So, it will first go into the uh bid package. So it'll specifically say that specific product will

112be uh the only item authorized for this project. Then when the submittal uh process uh after award comes through then we'll be able to see what is being provided. So is there going to be any additional procedures? I mean, I'm I'm thinking specifically because what's going to keep me other than a violation of a contract? If I just decide, yes, I'm going to submit my proposal. It's going to include the materials you're requiring, but then I make adjustments, are we going to have anything procedurally during the project to make sure that they are actually ordering um the designated specific materials? Yes. during the submittal process because that goes through the architect goes through the the con construction manager the architect and then the district that pro project uh that project's not specified it's rejected okay

113no other questions so I have a motion on set item so moved I'll move to approve second we have a motion by trusty creo second by trustee sellers those in favor please say I those opposed nay those abstaining motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to item number nine. Approve community information exchange CIE. Supervisor Smith. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. I am bringing for action tonight the youth suicide prevention pilot in partnership with Manifest Medics Health Information Exchange and the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health. We have been invited to be a part of this youth suicide prevention pilot along with Sanger Unified and the Fresno County Department of Health and select Fresno County healthcare providers. This pilot opportunity will allow us to receive an alert

114when a student is treated at a healthc care facility for self-hering behaviors outside of school hours. This alert will then help us mobilize school support as quickly as possible. Alerts are scheduled to begin next school year, approximately September 1st, and details regarding this information exchange will be included in annual notifications to families at the start of the year. Additionally, steps will be taken to ensure student privacy, such as the emails only containing student name and date of birth and the staff receiving alerts being required to attend annual HIPPA training. Administration recommends approval of this item and I am happy to answer any questions. Trusty Korea, are we going to be revising any uh administrative procedures uh or regulations to ensure that we're identifying um who's going to be receiving these notices and then what their

115responsibilities are with respect to the notices that they receive. You mentioned the notice is going to be provided after hours. So they need to be able to mobilize after hours or the expectation is next day. The expectation is next day. So we will be receiving alerts that may happen after hours. So for example, if a student is seen at a facility on the weekend and we have no knowledge, we will be receiving that alert and then when we reconvene in that school day and are there to support that student, that's where we will be able to make that connection and follow up. Okay. If I can add, we also have a standard operating procedure. Um so this would fall right in place. As soon as we hear about it, we have the team that responds.

116Okay. Thank you. And I I'll just add without this it's very possible that one of our students could have uh could be treated at a facility over the weekend and turn up at our school uh during the week and us have no knowledge and not be in a position to provide those services. So it's really great for the district to be able to uh address those issues and for parents to know that you know we'll we'll be able to do that. trust each of us. So, I'm I'm really fascinated. I I really do appreciate pilots because I understand that we're testing and, you know, we're we're trying something new. So, I I don't expect you to have all the answers at the moment. I think that one of the things that, you know, I read

117over and over just to kind of understand. Um, I guess my question is more on the pragmatic side of things. So, if these alerts are coming after hours and my assumption is just based off of my experience as a mental health professional, um, if somebody did engage in suicidal behavior or have an attempt of some sort, um, and the school wasn't made aware of it, you know, for whatever reason, not because of any shortcoming of the campus, it's because it happened out of after hours. I guess I'm just wondering how and and and I'm I'm assuming we'll figure this out as the pilot goes on when the alerts come when you're supporting the student. I guess my question is around I'm assuming there's going to be um a a delicate kind of dance you're going

118to have to do because that student didn't knowingly give that information over. And so my question to you is just kind of how our staff is going to handle that because I can I can kind of foresee that students are not going to take kindly to having those notifications necessarily communicated to us. So I guess I'm just kind of wondering from a pragmatic standpoint like how are we planning to roll that out within our campus if you have those answers yet. I don't know. Well, and that is part of the conversation that we've been having because we had the same concerns and questions. And so part of the plan to address that is one with the annual notifications. So making sure that we're communicating with families that this is part of a communication plan that

119will be in place. Um and with those notifications then because we cannot we can offer support but we can't require that support through the schools. Right? So it's making sure that we are sharing that hey based on this pilot that we are in this is information that is shared. this is something that we learned about. We are here to offer support. We want to make sure that you're okay. Whatever you feel that you would need in this moment and that they can still decline those services. They may be getting services and support elsewhere. It might just be we are here, we are willing, we are able um if you need anything and that's okay. So, are we going to just make a blanket notification for all parents to know that we're participating in this pilot?

120So that's the plan and it would go with the packet of other information that is shared with families at the start of the school year as well. Okay. Okay. So as long as they understand that yes, we are a district doing this. So yes. Yeah. And wanting to make sure so I help support our intervention counselors who will also probably be part of this discussion and making sure that they know about this as well and knowing and the annual notifications to make sure anyone that's connecting with family can help remind them of that because if it's like me, I'm not going to remember everything I read in August. but making sure that we're being consistent and transparent with that. And I think my only other thing is just for food for thought as we roll

121this out because I really am interested to see where this goes. Just the stigma that a student can really um experience or suffer because of the fact that if they've gotten to a place where there was a suicidal gesture attempt, they've actually gotten to that place. I don't ever want to think of a student being labeled or have anything that kind of stays with them even though we're being notified. That's such a deeply private. So, when we're talking about the training of our staff and who's going to have those notifications, um what kind of level of qualifications are we still kind of discussing that internally of who's going to be able to accept those notifications? Do we know or have you got there yet? They take this very seriously and it's actually going to funnel

122through just a few people at the district um and being very guarded and protected. Okay. as far as who that goes to and any individuals at the site it goes to are the support staff that already have these regular conversations with students. Okay. And are well trained. Okay. Well, thank you Trusty Kon. Uh thank you, President Singh. Uh unfortunately, Central Unified is no stranger to uh suicide. I know when I was a student, we had you know kids in in school that know committed suicide and passed away. Um, and I know plenty of people who have suicidal ideiation or have attempted it. Um, and so it is it it's good that we're having a pilot. I just want to also be careful like Trusty Chavez said that we're not stigmatizing and that we're not we're

123creating support and not um not you know labels on kids because unfortunately so many young people are going through a increased levels of anxiety and depression. uh it may be very might see a large case load I I fear if if we're being too um out there with this with this program. So uh with that I would like to motion to approve. We have a motion by trusty Kon second. Second by trustee Sers. Those in favor please say I. I. Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Move on to item number 10. approve expansion of the marriage staffing contract. Assistant superintendent Dr. Lopez. Good evening board presidency, board of trustees, and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Um, as you may recall, I brought emerges maximum healthc care contracts to you. In the past, we are

124looking for an expansion of that contract because we need to close off the year and ensure that those supports are provided for our students with individualized plans. Um and this um contract helps provide the staffing as well as covers for absences with paraprofessional needs. Um administration is recommending that this item be placed on the May 27th um board agenda for action or did we place it in the action? Oh yeah, we did. Thank you. administration is uh proposing that we approve uh the 175,000 to be added so we can cover um those pair of professional needs until the end of the year. Trusty Sers, thank you. Do you know how much we've spent uh with this contract so far this year? Yes, we had 600,000 that have been expended and we need 175 to cover

125the year. So, we we'll round out the year with $775,000. Yes. Okay. Um are are we evaluating or re-evaluating this uh going into next year that is there more appropriate ways for us to manage our our needs? So, staffing is a great need that we are evaluating across our system including with substitutes for teachers. So para profofessional absences when we don't have parah a good parah pool we have to call on emerges to help us cover those needs. Um we are below last year. I just want you to know we had two contracts last year which was aces and emerges. Uh so so far we are lower than what we spent last year. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Motion by trusty Creo. Second by trustee Kon. Those in favor,

126please say I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Move on to item number 11. Approve Central East High School athletics uniform and equipment quote. Director High Totower. Thank you, board president. The district has completed a equipment assessment uh for Central East High School sports program after their recent mascot change. Uh based on the assessment administration attached a quote for purchase for uniforms. Um Central East will receive new uniforms for fall, winter, and spring sports programs. The uniforms will be purchased through the BSN sports um using the Omni purchasing contract. The cost of the uniforms is $328,7329. administration is recommending uh approval of this item so Central East can have um updated uniforms with their new mascot change. Happy to answer any questions you have. Trusty Kirk, thank you. Um thank you

127so much for this. I had a question from some alumni and some parents from um Central East's past accomplishments in sports. Is there any discussion or consideration of what to do with the banners that have the previous logo and um mascot on them? Yeah, the the plan is to uh duplicate that for Central High School. Uh so both both site uh school sites will honor the the championships that they they had at both sites. Thank you. And then can we auction those? Are they interested in buying them? Possibly. I mean, if my name was on there, I would be interested. Or the year I was in school. Just a thought. I'll move to approve. Second. Motion by Trusty Creo, second by Trustee Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those obstaining.

128Motion carries 70. I love the little tiger uh stripes on some of them. We moved on to item number 12, approved purchase of four gas box trucks and four Ford electric lightning trucks from Enterprise for Child Nutrition. Director Engel. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Um we're bringing forward um a purchase of four gas box trucks and four electric lightning trucks. We um just to give you a little bit of background, we have not added to our fleet since 2017 and as the district grows. Um we are in need of these these trucks to uh deliver groceries. So administration is recommending um approval and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Uh where will be charging the um trucks? Like do we have a specific spot to charge the

129lightning trucks? I brought back up Um good evening um board members. Um so we'll be installing chargers at locations in conjunction with food service. Are the chargers also included in the invoice or is that going to be separate? No, that that'll be separate. We'll have to purchase those. And do we have a ballpark estimate of how much that going to be? Uh we've purchased um we have to purchase I believe two or three of them. Um, due to the electric buses that we received on a previous grant, we haven't got our electric infrastructure grant completely done. I want to say it was $850, but don't quote me on I'll have to get back to you, but it was roughly I'd say under $1,500. Okay. Trusty Sers, is there any specific reason we're going with electric

130instead of traditional Oh, he internal combustion engine. [Music] Um yes. So California passed a regulation that we have to start phasing out our gas and diesel engines. Um the district has there was a choice to go to two pathways. We went to a pathway where every year the number of vehicles we purchase over a certain gross vehicle weight we have to do 50% in electric. So uh working with F service and director Angelle we decd lightnings would work for them in that aspect and then also meet the requirements trusty Kirk. Thank you. I am excited to see that we are making our small part to decrease the pollution uh here in our in our our precious valley uh by looking to move to electric vehicles where we can. So I do um I am glad

131to hear that we are making that move to help decrease our footprint uh where we can. So thank you trusty crew. And you said we were expanding our fleet. So this isn't a byelectric crush uh diesel gas, right? So, how many current vehicles do we have? We um currently have four transit vans, eight trucks, and two of them we will be um surplusing because they have over 100,000 miles and they need a lot of work. And so then we're adding the four and um the four um box trucks which are gas and then the lightning trucks will be used um for super the three supervisors that um go from sight to sight. And so are we or and by we I mean you all um developing a plan to be more forward thinking and and

132better budget these expenses so that we're not waiting until the last minute because I'm sure you've been struggling um for now some time and as we continue to expand and our district only continues to grow. Uh if you're not talking about that I think it would be in our best interest as a board to start having those conversations. Yes, we've we've gotten um by with what we have and we have we're um utilizing kit funds which are um um funds that were basically like grant funds through um from COVID. And so we have to we've been purchasing things that we need all this whole time and now we have to have this um we have to have it spent or encumbered by June 30th. Okay. Thank you. I'll move to approve. We have a motion

133by trustee Ko. Second. Second by trustee Kuron. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. Move on to item number 13. Approve purchase of four vending machines. Director Engel. All right. Thank you again, President Singh, board of trustees, interim superintendent, Dr. O'Brien. Um we're asking to for approval of purchase of four vending machines. two will be going um to East Campus and two will be going to um Justin Garza and they provide reimburseable breakfast and lunch for those students who don't want to come into the cafeteria and so they'll be placed outside to where the ones that don't want to come in and they can still purchase and um no cash. They use their pin their pin um code to get the meal. We already have

134one at um class. That was our our trial. Jessica Farm, can you give us an example of some of the meals that would be in a vending machine? Um, in the vending machine for breakfast, we we do cereal and you have to have the the fruit and or juice and milk with it. So, it's it's completely reimburseable. Anything that you can serve um cold because they there's no place to reheat it. Lunch, we would do sandwiches. We have lunchables, wraps, salads, um, that we make. And so there's a variety of different things. We try to get creative because it's things that you that, you know, that aren't heated, but it seems to be going well. Oh, interesting. Thank you. You're welcome. Creo, how many food items will it uh support? So, what's the capacity? Um,

135it'll support um I think like 40 48 breakfast and then about 48 lunches. And so I'm assuming you have or you will be developing a plan to ensure that we are restocking and we don't get complaints that there's not enough food in there. Yes. No, there there'll be um there'll be a system in place for restocking. They'll be dated and um first in first out, they'll be rotated. Absolutely. And then I know I asked this question um and I don't think we had collected any feedback. Do we plan to collect feedback from our students as far as the effectiveness or the quality of the products when we're putting them in there? Um, we can collect um information as far as the one that we have at class. It's been all positive. Okay. Yeah. Thank you.

136You're welcome. And then uh for Central High School, uh is there going to be is there vending machines are there already? Are we planning on getting some? There aren't vending machines there yet. Um we we could still purchase them. We'd I'd have to go out there and look, but their their numbers enrollment wise aren't as high as um Garza and East. Uh I I think we're going to be changing that this upcoming school year. Correct. They'll still be lower, but they are going to be Yeah, they're still significantly lower. Okay. All right. Thank you. But we definitely will put one out there if we need it. With that, do I have a motion on the item? So moved. Motion by Trusty Kon. Second. Second by Trustee Sers. Those in favor, please say I. I I

137those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Move on to the last item. Approve truck repairs for child nutrition. Director Engel. Uh again, thank you, President Singh. Board of Trustees, interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Um this item is to um improve the trucks that we have. It's to put new lift gates on them. Um new new um era and repair floors, roll-up doors, any anything that needs to be done. It's to repair and make it as new as possible. And these are all tracks with less than like 30,000 miles. And so, um, administration is recommending approval of this item. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Oh, and cameras. Sorry. Backup cameras. Trusty Korea. Um, so this is part of the state grand kitchen infrastructure and training funds that you mentioned needed to be uh encumbered.

138How much money are we going to have left or is this going to cover? Uh, we're going to be cutting it pretty close to what we have left. Okay, thank you. Do I have a motion on the item? Motion to approve. We have a motion by trusty seller. Second. Second by trustee Kon. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Director Engel. We move on this evening to our information items. Our first one being to receive information regarding resolution 2425-55 authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds. Okay, superintendent Nick Paul. All right. This is a resolution to authorize a selling of bonds and the proceed will be funding authorized projects. I also have Mr. Mark Farrell our from Dalen Scott. He's our fiscal adviser

139to share some timelines. Dr. O'Brien. So there we go. Um the as you may remember the process to issue these bonds actually started back in January when the board approved the um application for a waiver from the debt limit. Um the state board of education just approved that waiver uh on May 7th. Um so we're kind of ready now to bring this resolution to the board. Um the resolution will authorize the issuance of $37 million of measure X bonds. Uh the remaining uh balance would is currently planned to be issued in two different series in 28 and 2031. Uh roughly equal dollar amounts. Uh really from here the next steps uh with the board's direction will bring the uh resolution back for action on May 27th. Uh we need to do a quick update with

140Moody's uh the rating agency that provides the district's rating. um looking tentatively to uh price the bonds, sell the bonds, lock in the interest rates on June 4th and then the district would have the funds on June 18th. Uh in the current market, um we're looking at an average interest rate of about 4 and a.5%. Uh the bonds would be repaid over a period of 25 years. And back when we put together the bond measure for the election, the interest rate assumption was 4.75%. So, we're a little bit under what we were uh estimating back in really about this time last year. So, happy to answer any questions. Seems not this time. Thank you, Mark. We'll we'll have this return action at our next meeting. We move on to item number two. Receive information on

141solution tree on-site support assistant superintendent Dr. Boight. Thank you. Oh, sorry. Love Dr. Oh, go ahead. I was just going to preede Dr. Boight by saying that uh during our recent visits at the school sites actually uh uh Trustee Curo uh accompanied me to a visit to Liddell Elementary and we witnessed four schools. uh Hooton ele Hooton uh Kernney and River Bluff and also Tilly Elementary were there and it was really amazing to see all of those teachers engaging in very focused conversations around instruction, what they can do and how they can plan together to in a very concerted and productive way to really move the needle on student achievement in Central Unifi. So I just want to thank those principles and all their teams and I know that Dr. uh Trusty Curo enjoyed that

142visit too and discussing uh the solution tree um contract and that's just to by ways of introducing what Dr. Broy is going to talk about now. Thank you so much. So in order to support academic goals and ensure high levels of learning for all students, there is a need for continued professional learning committee or PLC work. The plan for 2025 2026 is to build on existing PLC structures within the district to ensure site leaders and teachers have the tools and strategies that they need to strengthen and support collaboration in their schools. I have invited um three principles here tonight. I wanted to invite them up um to the podium and have them share just some ex some of their experience um with the solution tree work. We have principal Shalon Shepard from Biola Elementary. We

143have principal Christian Ginger from Han Fontilli. And then we also have Principal Patricia Mccurly from El Capitan. Uh good evening. Thank you um President Singh, board of trustees, interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Thank you for the opportunity to be here um to share with you guys what we've been doing with the work through our solution tree partnership um and coaches uh supporting us. We are completing our second year of our work with solution tree. I've had the privilege of working with the same um PLC coach for two years now, building the team at Biola um and their capacity to really provide strong standardsbased academic education for our students. Uh we're a unique setting at Biola that we are a school of singletons, single grade levels. Our greatest challenge in starting was how do we train our

144teachers to truly collaborate? sorry to truly collaborate um with each other when they don't share the same standards or the same um academic discourse within their grade levels. So we did a lot of work our first year and how do we collaborate as singletons? How do we look at data points and have those strong conversations? This year we then have stepped into breaking down standards and taking the time to really dissect each the grade level standards, working to identify what is the most essential of the essential uh and identifying how we know students will be proficient on those standards. What I loved with this work is watching my staff grow, watching their capacity grow, and we're seeing the impact in our classrooms with our student performance. We have done a series of writing samples this

145year that following that process of breaking down the standard, identifying what proficiency is, looking at the completed data, and then take determining next steps on what to do with our students that are um meeting standard and needing to excel or those that are still struggling. When we do our panorama uh data, when uh one of the questions that it asks is about teachers and their own efficacy, how they believe that they are doing as teachers. Last year um at the end of our our first year with our PLC coach, only 44% of my teaching staff actually identified themselves as feeling confident that they're providing strong standardsbased instruction. That was a pretty devastating number because we know statistically that teacher efficacy is a huge gamecher in how our kids end up performing. And so if you

146look at the slide we have on the screen there, this year's Panorama data, 83% of my staff now feel that they are confident that they're providing rigorous standardsbased curriculum um and instruction to our students. That could not have happened in the span of time that we've had without the support of our solution tree coach. somebody that is able to help guide me as an administrator to help narrow the focus, build my team, build my capacity, my teachers capacity, um, and get us to this place. For me, the work's not done. We still have another layer to go in identifying the essentials of the essential standards and more of that vertical teaming within our own staff. And so, I really look forward to the opportunity to be able to work with a coach again this coming

147year. Good evening. So, a lot of my statements will echo what principal Shepard um had stated. So, Han Fontelli has had the privilege of working with our solution tree coach for the last two years. Within those two years, teachers and administrators, myself and my vice principal principal have worked alongside our coach to build capacity and clarity around common core standards to support student learning and proficiency. According to Hadtie's metaanalysis of most effective influences on student performance, teacher efficacy has a significant effect size on student achievement with collective efficacy having an even greater influence. Historically, the panorama or the spring panorama data um has indicated anywhere between 57 and 65% of Hanfontily's teachers feeling um confident in being efficacious. However, through the ongoing PLC coaching the last two years, the implementation and accountability with support of

148dissecting priority standards to understand what exactly students need to know, identifying common formative assessments and consistency in planning units of study with interventions and supports embedded in during PLC's. Our teachers at Hanfontilli have indicated a 35% increase in teacher efficacy with 100% of our teachers feeling confident that they are providing rigorous standardsbased instruction. And I know you may not be able to see that. Um and I know one of the questions may be well what is the response rate? So the response rate was all 20 of my of my teachers who have rostered students to them that are in grade level classrooms um took that survey. So that is a true representation. That is 100% of our grade level teachers who feel um efficacious in their um in their instruction. That is a significant change

149that also supports teacher clarity. When teachers have clarity about what they need their students to learn and how to get them there, student achievement increases. Our solution tree coach, as mentioned, has been a significant support for our teachers, our students, and our administrative team, especially when it comes to discussing and analyzing grade level data. Not only do our teams analyze and discuss common assessment data, but our site leadership team also discusses common formative assessment data or proficiency data on a monthly ba basis, which is the graphic on the other side of the screen. As you can see from that graphic, trust and transparency in reporting that data and discussing that data are key. We all know that we own that data as all of those students are our students. We have been able to vertically

150align expectations and learning targets, supports and interventions through those conversations to positively influence student learning. These conversations are productive and prescriptive in nature. Conversations about schoolwide supports, nuances in academic vocabulary varying between the grade levels, and the progression of expectations of standards are all items that have been discussed, and collective clarity is gained during that time. All of these conversations and instructional practices were not as in-depth as they were before we receive coaching through solution tree. At Hanfontilly, we have gained so much clarity and understanding around standards and what our students need to know to be proficient. We know, however, that our work is not done. Research shows that meaningful change typically takes 3 to 5 years to fully implement and observe significant sustained impact. We would like nothing more than to continue this work

151and academic momentum into the next school year. El Capatan has experienced steady growth over the past three years while working with our coach through solution tree. You can see the steady progress towards standards mastery our students are making. El Capitan has grown tremendously. You can see by the slides that you have for you using I Ready as the local assessment to measure progress. Our students have progressed from 9% from 2022 when we started with our coach to a projected 25% proficiency. this year in math and from a meek 2.5% in 2022 to a projected 46% proficiency in reading this year. During the same period of time, our DNF rate has decreased from 30% of students failing at least one class to 8%. Through the collaborative focus of PLC's, you can see and feel the progress

152in our classrooms. Instructional practices are driven by teachers using common formative assessments, checks for understanding, reviewing data with their colleagues, reteing and reassessing, all of which are guided and planned during the weekly PLC meetings. This process is not taught in college preparatory classes. This is a process that requires long-term commitment, a systematic approach, and buyin from all. It requires evaluation, refinement and adjustments based on the present needs of students which is a constant moving target. The staff have grown tremendously in the past few years as we have worked with our solution tree coach. And when I say staff, I include our classified staff in this. They too work with our coach. Our special education instructional aids are provided with training relevant to professional learning communities as well. They also review data based on the students

153IEPs they support. They work with teachers to provide instructional support in the classrooms and after school. And they use the data provided to make adjustments to how they support our students. This data and coaching has provided me and my team with thoughts, ideas, supports, strategies, and accountability to make changes needed for our students. As a result of everyone learning so much over the past few years through our coaching, El Capatan has been recognized as a promising practices school specifically for the growth made as a result of PLC's. As an administrative team, we thank you for your time and consideration in continuing the work with solution tree to promote professional learning communities in our classrooms, our school, and in our district. Thank you guys for your time. And with that, administration is recommending that this item

154be placed on the May 27th board agenda for action. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. And I'm sure our principles would be happy to as well. Any questions or comments for now? Oh, we have a comment from the public. Uh, yes. Uh, we have a comment from the public and then board. Um, we have Laura Balden and you will have three minutes. Uh I just want to share some information. Um I I would like to encourage you to request the panorama data um from all of the schools on the questions that you saw. Um the I Ready data from all the schools for math and ELA and the DNF rates from all the middle school and high schools, please. Um, Rio Vista reached out to me um, wanting some support about

155um, potentially not having solution tree coming back. Um, I put together a single um, question survey for them and it it simply just asked would they like their um, solution tree coach to come back for another year of solution tree coaching. Um, and then a follow-up if yes, why? If no, why? Um we had 22 responses and 19 were no, three were yes. Um of the yes, one was pretty lengthy in description about how they would really like to see some PLC work that is u more specific to electives. Um the elective groups and the singletons feel very left out of this process. They don't feel like it applies to them and feel like it's kind of a wa a waste for them. And then I'd like to point out one comment from the nose.

156Uh the first two years were helpful at getting our department aligned and on track. However, the last set of meetings seemed to be just the same info and goals as before. We are set to continue our PLC growth and alignments. Um I I believe many people in the district feel this way um after several years of solution tree work that they are feeling good about it. Um and that they don't need to continue to be hit over the head with the same stuff over and over again. So unless this is drastically new and different, um I I think maybe we could look at u patching this in for our newer people who have not gone through training as opposed to continuing on with those who have had it for several years now. Thank you. Thank

157you. President saying no other comments from the public at this time. Any other questions or uh comments from the board? Trusty CO and then Trusty Sers. What is the purpose of the PLC contract? So what is what is our expectation as to we heard great things from the principles and and I my recollection is in the last couple of years that we've talked about this and from my friends who are teachers not in the district this is always a struggle because you're you're you're really looking into the data um and really focusing on why are things not working right um so what are what what is our expectation of the contract and how do we balance that with some of the feedback that we're hearing and what I would assume and perceive and this is

158just me making an assumption is potentially push back um from the critical discussion of this is the data the students are not learning right so the first year that we entered into a solution tree contract we had quite a bit of push back and I think there were some people that that reached out to you um our our school board, our trustees um with concerns and their um unwillingness to to go through this process. Our PLC's um for many years, we've had PLC's in school in Central Unifi for probably I don't know 10 15 years now. Um and what was happening was that they were not functioning effectively. Um they are what we call PLC light. So they were sort of going through the process. They had the four questions, but they weren't really utilizing

159um the process to actually have a positive impact in the classroom. That's when we entered in the into the solution tree contract the very first year. Um like I said, there was a lot of push back. Some people, you know, bought in right away and were willing to kind of sit down at the table and to be very transparent about their data and their practices and to work together. others just wanted to sort of keep doing what they were doing which as I said was not very effective. We got through that first year um entered into the second year in the contract and that's where we really started to see the progress and the growth. Um our teachers became as a whole less resistant. um our principles really started to be able to engage in

160um more um academic and rigorous conversations around um standards, essential standards and and those practices in the data. Um I meet with the solution tree coaches on a quarterly basis. Um and what I do is I sit with them virtually. Um but we talk about, you know, what are you working on at the school sites? you know, they tell me the things that they're that they're working with the teachers on. Um, we've talked about, you know, some of the resistance and some of the things that they've done to sort of um, you know, have people, you know, kind of join them along in this academic journey. Um, we are seeing progress. Um, it does not happen in a year or two. This work takes considerable time. It takes focus. It takes dedication. Um I I

161really would and I know that I'm I'm am retiring soon, but I would love to see this work continue on um for at least the next into the next third fourth year um to really really see this work really permeate Central Unified. Um as part of this contract, we're also um asking to add our high schools for next year. They were initially approved and set to begin this year, but since all three of our high schools were going through the Wasque accreditation process that is a very rigorous, time-consuming process, we agreed to have them start um next year. And so they are excited and and willing to join the process as well. So, what can we do um in situations, and I'm sure Rio Vista isn't the only um school that may feel this way

162because we're approving this contract and we're requiring every school within our district to participate in the PLC. Correct. That is correct. And so then um I believe my recollection is that the principles are responsible for ensuring that this work is happening. Yes. Yes. So, what additional work can we do to ensure that where we're we're hearing the feedback um regardless of what school you're in? Um whether it's the role of the principal or assistant superintendent or our area administrators to come in and say, "Well, this isn't working. We need to reframe or I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out how do how are you ensuring that this is effective?" I mean, you've al and our principal said it's going to take time, which I hate. I want everything to happen now because our

163students need to be able to see that growth, right, and that impact now. Um, so what measures are we putting in place to to make sure that it is working? So, we do monitor the data. You know, we're in classrooms. Our area administrators are out of classrooms all the time. Um, our principles do sit in on many of the PLC sessions that are happening at their school sites on a weekly basis. Um, when the solution tree coaches come out, so for elementary, for example, for this next year, they would come out a total of 5 days over the entire school year. So, they're not there on a weekly basis going through this process. So they come out, they spend a day at the school site, they spend time in the PLC meetings, and then they

164spend time sitting and working with the principal individually as well. It's up to the principal then um and the VP at the school site to continue that work. So they're continuously going into those PLC's. They're continuously going into the classrooms to see the impact um of the work. Um, I I just I I would regret if we stopped this process now because I feel like we're really on just the brink of really seeing a lot of things just starting to come together in Central Unified. The progress that we saw just from what those three principles shared is what we are seeing across the district. Okay. I'd like to add to Dr. Boight's response when you're ready. Okay. So, uh, you know, in recognizing what Miss Bolton mentioned, um, about PLC at the secondary level, at

165the intermediate level, and also the high school level, it does look a little different than it does at at the elementary school. And we we heard uh, principal uh, Shephard from Biola talk about the singletons and how beneficial it is to be able to collaborate with uh, teachers from like grade levels from other uh, schools. Similarly at the middle school and the high school discussions around how the PLC um uh concept can be more beneficial have to occur. So for example, if you're a single French teacher and there is no other French teacher at your school, then you know collaboration across schools within the district is an option that many districts do very successfully. And as you mentioned Miss Bolton then there are also electives and similarly uh teachers in different electives whether it's art

166or uh drama or any of these electives very healthy conversations and beneficial conversations can uh occur to help us continue to improve our elective uh offerings and our students success in those electives. So I think a big part I think it would be um uh what's the word you know I think we would be uh miss the word is not coming to me but if we uh based the decision on some of the areas where it demands a little more focus and attention on how we can use the PLC process to enhance student learning even within those singleton areas or electives. There is no doubt in my mind that and I agree with Dr. boat right that it's a gamecher in our district and PLC light is a common term that we use uh in

167education because if we don't continue to stay with it and if we don't continue to freshen our skills and have our our solution tree coaches inspire us and and um encourage us as teams to think think and evolve and grow. we will become uh PLC light where we revert to using those meetings to plan out other things and not actually focus on the data and it is hard work. It is hard to sit down and to talk about how my class had only 47% proficiency but my two colleagues had 87% proficiency and to talk about what was it that you did in your classroom that helped your children be more successful. These are vulnerable and um uh raw and real conversations that take a little time like Dr. wrote right was saying and our principles

168were saying it they take um uh nuanced leadership and I'm so glad that our leaders are as I witnessed and you witnessed the other day when we were out at Liddell our leaders are in the thick of it in those conversations with our teachers supporting them and learning. So, I think it would be a shame if we um if we based a decision on just the areas and I think Miss Bolton brings up a point that it there is room for conversations about how the PLC can be adapted to some of the areas that are a little more nuanced, but the majority of especially our early learning experiences in our schools occurs at the elementary level where PLC is a total gamecher my opinion. Okay. Um, my last question on this item and and just

169very briefly because I know that the purpose of this item is to consider approval and renewal of the contract. Um, how does this contract or the work that the PLC's are doing support EL students? I hope that was a a a good site. Okay. Is this on? Yes. Um, so I can speak for myself, Liddell, Riverbluff, and now Hot and Carney because we all share the same coach, which is amazing. Um, we our our teachers and our grade level teams are identifying and creating units of study, which you heard me kind of mention. In those units of study, they dissect the standards. They identify the learning targets. Um they identify the materials and supports that students may need. And then there's an added um section where it talks about um intervention, supports, scaffolds for our

170students with disabilities and our EL students. Um we just I'm just going to go on a soap box here really fast. That's why I script things out, guys. Not because I can't speak to you, but I will go rogue like I'm doing right now. Um, we just got our summit of ELPAC scores back and I will tell you we are going to surpass our 20% reclassification rate at Honilly. So, I'm super excited about that. The PLC work along with some other EL supports that we've put in place has supported that growth. Um, so it's it's we we talk about our students with disabilities. We talk about our EL students. We talk about our African-American youth. We talk about all of our subgroups when we delineate that data. And then we identify interventions, supports, retach, reassessing

171through that process. So, it really is all-encompassing. Yeah. Thank you, Trusty Sellers. I think you guys kind of hit on most of my questions. Um just want to confirm that we have different solution tree coaches traveling from site to sight. It's I'm trying to figure out a reason why there may be a variable in the feedback that some really favor and others not so much. Is it a possibility and how how are we kind of tracking the accountability from those individuals to individual? So as I mentioned I do meet with the coaches on a quarterly basis. um if there are specific concerns about a coach, we have switched out coaches in the past. So, Solution Tree is they they work really well with us. Um we had concerns two years ago and it and it

172was at Rio Vista um with the coach that was there. Um he was not a good fit um for that school environment. And so we did talk to Solution Tree and we had that coach just switched with someone who was a better fit. These coaches are not um from the area. They travel from in from across the United States. Um and so they they come in with different perspectives sometimes. You know, all uh part of the solution tree philosophy and that mindset, but sometimes their ability to work with certain teams is not as effective. And so I would um welcomely sit down with principal Frink and also Mark Fowler who is her area administrator and see if maybe there's something like that that's going on. Okay. Thank you. U my last question you guys kind

173of briefly mentioned I was asked uh how does this apply to uh special education. Um sounds like it's it's already in the works. Yeah, it's exactly what um Principal Ginger was just saying. Principal did you want to add? Uhhuh. Yeah. So our special ed teachers are a part of the process and they are meeting at various levels. So for the middle school level at El Capitan, the special ed teachers are meeting with the gened students with with the gened teachers and they're working to support the gened teachers um on how they can better provide interventions for their special ed students based off of the data and and that is happening on a regular basis. I want to speak to um Trusty Couo, you had mentioned the singletons and um the elective teachers. So at El

174Capitan with our solution tree coach, we actually found a way to useformational text and that standard is is taught in every single classroom or has the ability to be taught in every single classroom. And so for our elective teachers at El Capitan with our solution tree coach, we are using theformational tech standards to be able to PLC around those specific standards in order for them to go through the PLC process and be able to articulate what the students needs are across the common language. So no matter if you're teaching wood shop or if you are teaching theater, dance, if you are teaching um home economics, art, everyone is usingformational text to teach and we're using those standards to go through that process of of deconstructing the standards, understanding the rigor and teaching those and then

175looking at that data. So that is something that others can do as well um to bring in that PLC process for those singletons. I have nothing else. Trusty Kurfon and then Trusty Chavez. Thank you. Uh I just want to comment my support for the uh solution tree contract. Uh this board has set the expectations that our test scores and learning must improve at Central Unified. We cannot we're not accepting the status quo, but this district is implementing that direction from the board and we're seeing success as a result. Professional development cannot happen in a silo and community is at the center of education. As we heard from principal Shepard that when implemented correctly, there is even PLC support for the singletons. And last week I was in classrooms at Tilly Elementary with principal Ginger and

176the level of rigor and learning happening in these classrooms uh which serves our most some of our most vulnerable students in central blew me away. And uh Principal Mccurly, your I Ready growth um and the DNF uh reduction as we discussed when we met uh this week um without sacrificing the rigor in your classrooms is commendable. It just goes to show that student learning and achievement is the focus of uh you and your teacher. So thank you. it the pre the solution tree contract from what we've seen is working and I feel like if we were to change course if we were to remove this contract it's going to hinder our ability to grow in those metrics that we have set expectations that we must meet. Uh so I I I appreciate the concerns and

177we should always find ways to uh fine-tune it. You know, we want to be accountable to ourselves, to our administrators, to our teachers. We also should be accountable to our coaches. If the coach isn't working, we'll find a new coach. If the coach is working, let's replicate that because that is what PLC, professional learning communities, is all about. So, that's my two cents. Thank you, Trusty Chavez. I just um have one question. So, uh obviously we can't I don't think we can make everybody happy. Like I think it's different users, different expectations, all kinds of things. Um I think just really considering some of the people that might not be finding the most benefit from solution tree. My question is around um if somebody has already had a couple of years of solution tree is

178there the possibility of them having additional um like can it scale to the knowledge so it's like not repetition so you're not coming in and repeating every year like the same things that you had previously. So is there flexibility I guess is what I'm saying. So it's not meant to be a repeat. they're meant to continue to build on the work. And so one of the things that um principal Shepard was talking about was sort of what that that progression looked like for them and then looking ahead to next year where they plan to go next. So all all of our school sites are sort of in a different place with the work. there's like a needs assessment that's that was um completed at the very beginning to really identify you know not everyone started

179at step one you know some grade level PLC started at a different level along that process so it's individualized it's meant to be individualized um by school site and also by grade level teams okay so yeah so I think you know just based on understanding that we have to serve a large group so even though we may have people who may not find the most benefit. I think just given the time constraints and us trying to find another provider and what we could do. I think maybe we I'm just saying this out loud for myself go through another year of solution tree and then we come back to this cuz this is only a one-year contract for us to do this for one more or how many years? This is a one-year contract. Okay. So,

180we can revisit and get some feedback next year. So, that's just what I'd like to see is just for us to do a check-in next year and to really cuz I I don't feel like I have enough information at the moment, but I do think we'd be cutting it short. Um, you know, I I don't know if we're gaining maximum value by just deciding to not continue it. So, next year at this time, I'd like to see um additional feedback or some sort of reporting out of, you know, where we where we found ourselves. Jesse Korea, I know that this is towards the end of our agenda. Um, but what I would like to see and it sounds like there may be support and consensus from the board. Um, I I think this is our

181third year, right? Or is it going to be our fourth? So, this will be our So, next year will be our third year for elementary and middle school, first year for high school. Okay. It would be helpful when we schedule our workshops to related to um student performance to spend a good amount of our time talking about the PLC expectations and what that work looks like so that we all better understand because I know we receive bits and pieces um as to what that work looks like when we get presentations and you guys are doing fabulous work but it also when we have these workshops it helps notify the public including our teachers and our staff what what the contract is supposed to do or what the program is supposed to do and provides them

182an opportunity to then provide feedback because I think that is important. Our job is just to approve contracts and and review and question and make sure that that it's following our mission and our goals. Um, but I think it's important that our community, including our employees, understand what is the avenue to provide that feedback and we kind of remove the stigma from being such taboo to talk about the data and acknowledging we need to improve, right? Thank you. Thank you. Just because of the size of the um contract, we'll have a return interaction and and if anyone else has any other questions, they'd like to get answered. We move on to information item number three. Receive information on the Parseek Education Incorporated. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Boatright. Thank you. Parseek has provided a service um this

183year that allows us to quickly and effectively monitor student achievement along with the impact of our instructional programs. So the Parseek dashboard um it's unique for us. It allows us to create reports with a 360 view um degree view of students educational experience through the analysis of both quantitative data which we see numbers but also those qualitative um data pieces which have become very very important. Um, one feature of Parseek does allow us to send questions out to students, to staff, to parents in multiple languages and then their responses are quickly um, analyzed and added with a report on program evaluation. So, one particular program this year um, that we've added with Parseek um, is our letters program. So, we've been able to really monitor the progress of those students that are in classrooms with

184those teachers that are receiving that letters training. Administration is recommending that this item be placed on the May 27th um board agenda for action. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have, questions or comments from the board. Then we'll we'll have it returned under consent. If and if anyone has any questions, please follow up with me. We turn to item number four, receive information regarding the 2025 2026 contracts to support academic achievements. Uh, assistant superintendent Dr. Butright, but I think uh Dr. Dr. O'Brien was going to share a little bit first and I just want to reiterate how proud I am to have witnessed uh 84 teachers actually it's 88 teachers in total who completed two years of training outside of the school day uh uh recently at Glacia Point on a

185[Laughter] oh we were able to witness them and celebrate them and congratulate them. But I will say as we've been going around the district and witnessing children learning reading in the classrooms, there is very intentional, engaged, specific teaching of reading going on in our classrooms and uh already we've been talking about the progress that our teachers are seeing and I anticipate that we'll start seeing it on state tests now as we start going through the cohorts. We have uh another couple of cohorts. One has just begun. Another one is about to begin. So we we will right now in the next in this go round we'll have 170 teachers trained in letters which is really great news for Central Unified and 17 elementary administrators which is also very exciting. Yeah. Okay. So I have a

186number of academic contracts. Um I'll go through these with you. So the first one is Illuminate Education or Renaissance. This is a one-year extension of an existing contract. This system does host testing data and it also allows teachers to create standardized assessments for classroom instruction. I also have Imagine Learning. This is a two-year extension of an existing contract for students who are deficient in credits for credit recovery original credit content um for summer programs. And then it's also the core curriculum for our central online home school. The third contract is I Ready Curriculum Associates. This is a one-year extension of an an existing contract. This contract has been in place with us for 5 years. Um I Ready provides assessment of students ELA and math achievement along with instructional support in grades K through 8.

187So this is our benchmarking progress monitoring system in Central Unified. Um there's also the contract for letters which is what um Dr. O'Brien was just mentioning. this letters it uh leverages research to help educators identify the source of reading difficulties and then utilize the components of the science of reading to address those gaps in learning. Um it's really focused on early literacy, so preschool through third grade. Um Panorama, this is for a two-year extension of an existing contract. Um this is a comprehensive data analysis and reporting um survey for students, families, teachers, and staff. This really gathers information um regarding culture and climate. We have Star Reading Renaissance. This is a one-year existing uh extension, I'm sorry, of an existing contract. It provides reading assessment information to monitor students as they reach um high levels

188of literacy. And then lastly, success together with this is a family engagement program designed to strengthen the connection between schools and families. We'd like to bring this program in for next year to work with our littlest um students in our preschool program. So, we are recommending that this item be placed on the May 27th board agenda for action. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about these contracts. Trusty Kon. Thank you, President Singh. Uh Dr. Broite uh ingenuity under imagine learning that used to be called E2020 right it yes it's the same program so that program and the star reading we've had in the district for quite some time right yes we have are any of these other district I mean is other contracts long-term uh contracts or which ones are new

189which ones are no established these are all existing contracts these are extensions for existing contracts we've even had success together we just want to add it next year for our preschool programs. Okay. And for Imagine Learning, um aside from Central Online, uh are we offer are we using that for original uh main course credit? Yes. So, we do use this for original credit over the summertime um with our um summer program for original credit. That looks different from our regular school year. So for four weeks of summer program, students receive 5 hours a day of seat-based learning um with a teacher who's credentialed to teach that subject. And then in addition to the the four um weeks of 5-hour a day seat-based learning, there's an additional two weeks where they um they they work independently

190and they're still monitored by an instructor. So, our semester, I'm sorry, our year-long courses during the school year are 150 hours um of seat-based learning. And so, when you look at our summer program, the way that it's structured, students are receiving a comparable number of hours. Okay. uh my I guess I I'm not as familiar with that curriculum because from what I have heard the or that it is not it doesn't have the same level of rigor as you know our traditional you know year round instruction around the course. Um my my concern is whether we is if we should be doing this for original credit. I don't mind um for a credit recovery, but I just worry if they are maintaining and learning the same standards if they're just doing it over one month

191instead of year round. So, it's over 6 weeks and like I said, um 5 hours a day is is quite a bit of time of seatbased time that they're spending with a teacher. They're not spending 5 hours a day during the regular school year. Um this is also the core curriculum for our central online home school. So that is the curriculum they use year round. Um we've used um egeneuity or e2020 in our summer programs for original credit um for a few years now. Last year we had 642 courses completed during the summer program for original credit with success. Right. Thank you. That that's the only uh contract I have a question on. I'm big fan of star reading and and letters and not as familiar on the others, but I'll be reading into them.

192Any other question or comments from the board? Since most of these are returning, we'll just have this come on as consent. Thank you. We've turned to item number five, receive information regarding core and supplemental materials for TK through2. Uh, assistant superintendent Dr. Boight. And thank you again. I'll just keep going tonight. Um so administration has reviewed and is recommending the following instructional materials for approval based on their effectiveness as learning resources to support grade level competency. Now the first one is amplify or mclass. This is the proposed assessment um screener for kindergarten through 2 grade students. It aligns with education code 530008 which requires all local educational agencies to assess students from kindergarten through grade 2 for risk of reading difficulties with a screener. Um this did come from the state approved list and that

193work must or use of the screener must begin in the fall. The second um item here is for Frog Street. This proposed curriculum meets the criteria um and is designed to provide targeted instruction for transitional kindergarten students. This year was the first year that the state actually re u released state approved materials for transitional kindergarten. And so the curriculum that we've used all these years has been sort of a modified version of our kindergarten curriculum. So we're excited to actually have something that we can use for our TK students. administration is recommending this item be placed on the May 27th board agenda for action. I'm happy to answer questions. Trusty Creo. So with respect to the screener, how are we going to ensure that based on the assessments that are being conducted that the teachers,

194the principal and every school site is consistent with using that information to actually help students. Not that anyone would not help students, but that something is being done. And how are we holding student? Yeah. And it's it's brand new and it's something that every single student is going to receive. So the idea with this is that we can identify students at a very young age that are that have reading difficulties. um our um early literacy supervisor Michelle Bergman has been instrumental in this work um and will be working to put together a very standardized um process and procedure to follow when students are identified. So basically they take the screener and a student that receives a red check is one that's been sort of tagged as these potential difficulties. um our our teachers that are

195going through the letters training are receiving very specific training, you know, on what to do to help these students and to um to sort of rectify these early reading difficulties. We also have students in our reading labs. So, our reading lab teachers as well um have very specific training um on what to do with these students. Um, I'm also very very happy that we'll have our early literacy supplemental materials in all of our primary classrooms starting in the fall. So, that's also going to be very um specific and targeted um to address these um reading difficulties when they're identified. And so, we have set up a very good support system to um to help these students once they are identified. And then of course if we go through all of our interventions, all of our

196programs in the classroom and a student is still struggling, well then we'll have to look at something different. You know, perhaps that student might have uh a reading disorder such as as dyslexia that's going to require more intensive support. Maybe we have a student that has a a learning disability. But we would want to exhaust all of our resources and supports first before we go down that process because the last thing we want to do is label a child if if there's no need to do so. Uh are we going to be providing training? So I know you mentioned that the letters or the teachers that are going through the letters and I believe the three administrators maybe it was a larger number 17. 17 and I believe we'll have 147 teachers trained. We will

197Okay. Yeah. Which I don't think is reflective of of the number of teachers that we have. So are we going to be providing training to ensure that everyone knows what their role and responsibilities are with respect to assisting students who receive the red check? Yes. So we have those two professional development days um at the very start of the school year. And so a portion of one of those days will be dedicated to this reading screener. Um training the teachers that will be administering it and also training them on what to do with the information that they receive. Thank you. Font. Uh thank you, President Singh. I think the amplified contract is going to be another gamecher for the district. I've done some work with older kids who do have learning disabilities or have dyslexia

198and they didn't we their parents didn't find out until much later in their school in their school uh school life. So if they had been able to be screened out, you know, this is universal screening like we're proposing that could have helped them get intervention and get support uh well well early into their education career. And as you know people know you know third grade is really the transition time when you stop learning how to read and reading to learn. Uh so this kind of intervention would really help a lot of our kids. I obviously we don't want to overlabel but being able to identify and find support for kids is something I think we we all you know care deeply about is you know providing support for kids who are struggling. So um I'm

199looking forward to approving this contract. Great. So that we'll have a return under consent. Thank you. We'll move on to item number six. Receive information on extension of core and supplemental materials for 2025 2026 elementary and secondary courses. Dr. Bo, these instructional materials are currently adopted and in use in Central Unified. Due to the fact that um new state board of education adoptions are not yet available, we need to extend current contracts for instructional materials. So, the first one is for Amplify. This is a 4-year extension of English language arts for middle schools. Carnegie Learning, which is a one-year purchase of math for middle schools. HMH, which which is a four-year extension of science for the high schools. McGraill, which is a four-year extension of English language arts for elementary, and then SAS Publish Publishing,

200which is a four-year extension of English language arts for high schools. Now, we do still have our textbooks, right, that go with these adoptions, but what we have to do is we need to um renew the contracts for the consumable materials and then also the digital items that come with these programs. So, administration is recommending that this item be placed on the May 27th board agenda for action. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. All right. Thank you. and we'll have it returned under consent. We move on to item number seven. Receive information regarding core and supplemental materials for secondary courses. Dr. Boight, Central East High School's French teacher has reviewed and requested these items for use beginning with the new school year for an AP French course. Approval is requested for the

201following textbook and supplemental instructional materials. You'll see that's and I'm I don't know French. AP Prrenons second edition and then also um a novel Phantom of the Opera. Administration recommends this item be placed on the May 27th board agenda for action. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Doesn't look like any questions. We'll have it returned under consent. Thank you. Move on to item number eight. receive information regarding the 2025 2026 dates for elementary schools attending sixth grade camp. Um, area administrator Pennington, but I think Dr. O'Brien was going to lead off. Actually, I'll turn this over to area administrator Pennington. Good evening, board president seeing um, interim superintendent uh, O'Brien and members of the board. So, contracts require board approval tonight. All 15, including our new Singh Elementary School, are requesting approval for

202contracts to have students attend sixth grade camp during the 2025 20226 school year. Documentations attached and administration is recommending approval and that this item be placed um on the May 27th agenda for action. And I'm happy to answer any questions. Trusty Kon. Okay, Trusty Kel. I now know why I was going to comment, but actually Trustee Curo did uh charge us with taking a look at this and um we had a lengthy discussion about it at our cabinet meeting and uh we did see we have three different places, Calvin Crest, Wonder Valley and Sierra Outdoor slightly different prices um uh per student and then we also took into account that you know some of our smaller schools like Biola might not use even half of the $20,000 aotment but other schools such as Tilly for

203example might actually need more. So we found ourselves realizing that there's an inequitable access to these programs and that the students who are at larger schools regardless of their socioeconomic status uh are being required to fundra versus uh students at smaller schools may not. So, we did the math and uh appreciate you asking those questions because they did force us to reflect on it. And it turned out that the math um turns out that if we when when we award the all of our 15 schools at 20,000, that's about $300,000. But for an extra $36,000, we could provide every student with an equitable access to uh their their sixth grade summer camp or uh camp. And so we would like to bring it back to you with that um proposal if uh unless there's any

204other questions or comments. But I do appre appreciate the partnership that went into that discussion. Trusty C. Um, thank you very much for that because I did look and I had my notes about that. Um, do the what I couldn't figure out and maybe I just missed it because I looked at these very quickly since there there were a number of them. Um, does this include transportation cost? Because I believe all I saw was the fee for accessing the camp. It does not include transportation cost. No, it does not. No, thisite funds that which is great. So, I love the idea of increasing to make sure that at a minimum we're covering the entire cost. Um, and I know that this was something um that I advocated for for the allocation, but we wanted to

205be very intentional moving forward because it was literally a matter of we were approving these contracts and then each of the schools for those new board members, each of our schools was then using their own funds to support this versus the district saying, "We're going to give you this money to make sure that you're not having to make the decision of what program you're going to attend or how many students are going to be going." and how much parents have to raise. So, I love that. I would eventually, and it doesn't have need to happen for the next year, but um something for future board members to consider uh in the ongoing years is what's the cost for transportation? And we know that that's constantly increasing. Um and so there's they will still have to

206allocate some funding, but I would be curious to know what that's costing. I I do know that many of them that go to Wonder Valley, it's a lot closer, whereas um um I'm not sure. Um Calvin Crest is a little further away, so it would cost a little more. I do know that Biola and Hton Karnney usually go together, so that helps, but yeah, the transportation is definitely Right. Right. And and that's one of them. Um I won't say how I know, but they spend about $8,000 on just transportation. So, in addition to their $25,872 that they're paying for just attending a Sierra Outdoor Camp, it's another 8,000, a little bit under 8,000. Um, so I I appreciate that and unless there's any objection, I would love to to have an item come back with

207that additional amount and perhaps then future items consider what's the cost of transportation and how do we allocate those funds. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Kurif. Uh, thank you, President Singh. I'm a little curious as to why three uh fir my first question is why three of our schools are not going with Wonder Valley. Uh why they've what's the thought process between uh choosing to go to the um all the way to um Sonora or um Oakst and I think this has come up before. I it's a decision the site makes. You know, the sixth grade teachers um and uh and the school site administration looking at their own, you know, school site and really just basing it on on their experience and what is beneficial to their students. So, Wonder Valley um has

208definite benefits because they're closer to us, but then there are the other opportunities that may be a little further away. I'm just wondering if it's a if it's a question of feasibility, uh, ability to afford it, you know, things like that. And then I remember last year most of the but not all again of the elementary schools that had sixth grade camp that went to Wonder Valley, most of them also went to Cat Haven. I don't see that on this contract this year. Are they not doing that? U, I don't recall that they some may be taking field trips to Cat Haven. No, it was it was combined. It was on It was on the same item. So those two places are really close together. I mean, it would be easy for them to to

209make that stop. Our principles do also have their own site funds that they write into their single plans for student achievement. They're in the process of doing that right now. And very often they'll build in money for experiences for students. And so they could easily Yeah, it's literally on the way to Wonder Valley. So So are they not planning on doing that this year or I that's a sitebased decision. Okay. Okay. And they are they definitely do build in those funds for transportation and those items into their own LCFF funds that they receive anytime. Okay. Ju just curious know I've heard a lot of positivity um from last year about that. Just hoping to see if we can continue that. Thank you. Thank you. Great. If no other questions we'll have this uh so there'll

210be action. Okay. Please. Thank you. So item number nine, received information regarding power school attendance intervention software contract 2025 to 2028 school years. Hello again Dr. Lopez. So at the beginning of the year I had brought forward the attention to attendance A2A contract. Um and they what they do is they provide services to sites to monitor attendance efforts. Uh letters aligned to the SAR process and data tracking pertaining to those efforts by site. After examining this year the use of that program uh and examining other programs that we have available to us uh we discovered the powers school attendance intervention software follows a continuous improvement model aimed at improving student outcomes by boosting student attendance and it also offers additional services that usually through A2A we would have to pay for. For example, uh A2A

211focuses on tracking and monitoring and and for us to be able to address the needs for um chronic absenteeism and being able to communicate with families uh through letters and phone calls and identifying those those students and families. However, Power School also offers um opportunities for us to send uh cards, they call them digital cards to kiddos that are improving attendance. So being able to um know that we are not just focused on the chronically absent students but if we're increasing attendance that that is an impact to that child and and the fact that they're now uh choosing to come to school more frequently. The other option uh that it provides also it allows us to text families uh in English and the family receives that communication in their home language. So now when the

212family responds to us via text, it allows them to respond in their home language and the administrator or teacher would receive it in English. So it allows for a total of 85 different languages for us to be able to commu uh communicate back and forth with families without waiting on a family outreach leazison to make that contact. Many times we wait on that one individual at the site to make all these different calls because of language barriers. Um lastly, uh because we currently have other um uh contracts within our district with Power School, they provide um also a reduction in cost of about $5,000 per year. So administration uh is recommending that we bring this item back for action uh in our next board meeting. trusty sellers. Do we already currently have a software program

213that tracks attendance? Yes, it's it's called A2A. Okay. And we will continue with that or that will be dis No. So that is expiring soon and we already notified them that we would not be continuing that we would be bringing a different program forward. And does this program work? I know uh some of the schools use Minga and some of the others. Does this work and track attendance and that? So, it's a little different. So, Minga and um I believe there's another one called FiveStar. So, it allows us to track um student interactions in the hallway, restroom passes, um and it allows us to collect data which is also very important whether a student is in class or out of class during periods if uh if the teacher uses the application. Right. uh this here

214focuses on once that is reported. So let's say a student is absent from period 1. Then this communication allows us to send a reminder to the parent that such and such student was absent from period 1. And it what it also does is it allows us to enter notes for uh when we communicate with the families about that and it allows us to have those conversations with the student about well we just noticed you were absent from period 1. Your parent got the call automatically through powers school. So it allows for a very e a lot of ease in communication. Okay. Um and then parent square. I know I get lots of updates on regular basis. If uh students uh absent from school, assignments are missing, will we be utilizing this for those communications as

215well? We are trying right now to determine whether we are going to stick with parent square for those processes or through this new application. But this is going to require us once it's approved to reach out to our administrators, get feedback, and yeah. Okay. Determine. If no other questions, we'll have it returned under consent. We before we move on to the next item, as much as I'd like us to finish before 10:30, I don't think that's realistic. So, I will at this time move to extend our meeting past 10:30 p.m. Second. We have a motion by trustee Curio to extend the meeting past 10 10 uh30 and we have a second by trustee Keron. Those in favor please say I. I. Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. Uh 70. Thank you. We move on

216to item number 10. Receive information regarding legal services for 2025 2026. Assistant superintendent. Okay. This is a renewal of annual contracts for all the legal firms the district uses. So um administration is recommending the item be placed on May 27th board agenda for action [Music] question on this item or Jesse Creel I would just ask that this be placed on action and I would just note that they're all increasing their prices but that's consistent across all firms so another question we'll have trusty kon Okay. Uh, President Singh, would it uh lead to an increase in hourly rate to have uh a maybe possibly our junior associate uh attend our board meetings to provide legal counsel should we need to rise? Sorry, this is this is for this is agreements for legal service including our district

217attorney. Uh correct for the the district for the board. Correct. These are all law firms that we contract with for various uh district related e legal services. Yes. So, what you're asking, um, if I understand you correctly, is it would increase our legal fees if we had legal counsel present during our board meetings to ensure that we are in compliance with the Brown Act as usually their services, Brown Act, other other um issues. just I I think it might benefit the board for a topic of discussion if we were to have that legal counsel um at our uh board meetings to provide you know help if we ever get stuck on a motion which has happened before. Uh we may not always need our you know our the big partners if we can get even

218an associate here that might assist us as as we uh grow in in district and complexity. So, so as I understand the contract and please I know jump in assistant super Nicole this is like the the max and then we draw down if we were to have someone present like probably going to draw down much much much faster even if there were like uh like I said not a senior partner. So no this item is for the board to consider at the next meeting approving contracting with these firms. We don't have uh I looked quickly through the contracts. We're not setting um a PO for any of them to say maximum of 50,000, maximum of 10,000. It's a matter of these are the folks that we've agreed and allowed our our district to contract with

219without having to bring the contracts back every time. So the discussion you want to have Trusty Kon um is not agendaized today. And so that would be an appropriate request for the board president to consider and bring back. So the request is um for an item to consider uh retaining legal services to attend our board meetings on a regular basis. Exactly my point. We we may want to have uh our our board attorney here then. Thank you. So we'll we'll consider that at another time. Um so we we will return this then under action uh at the at the next meeting. Item number 11, receive information regarding annual resolution 2425-53 authorizing to purchase via piggyback contracts and other cooperative purchasing agreements. Assistant superintendent Paul. So the staff is requesting the use of available piggyback contract

220in existence. This is just a blanket authorization to use piggyback contract when applicable. Administration is recommending the item be placed on May 27th, 2025 boarded agenda for action. So we are just asking for a blanket authorization. There's no questions or concern. We'll have this return under consent. Thank you. Item number 12. Received information regarding bid schedule and award for the Dakota and Hayes fencing project 2425-104. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president, board of trustees, and interim uh superintendent uh O'Brien. Uh tonight you're receiving information regarding the Dakota Hayes fencing project bid schedule and award timeline. Uh this project will consist of perimeter fencing around the entire 32 acres of property the district currently owns. Uh this project began to advertise on May 5th and again uh on May on May 12th. The job walk

221was today uh at the project site and we anticipate opening seal bids on May the 21st, 2025. Administration recommends that this item returned to the board on May the 27th, 2025 for award to the lowest apparent responsive bidder. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Trusty Sers, the fencing, is that to currently or secure the property as it is currently or would that be used for future development once the site is improved and turned into a campus? It's it's just to to uh secure the site currently. Okay. Thank you, Jesse Crew. Thank you, Trusty Sers. That was my question. Then we'll have it return under action. Thank you. Item number 13, receive information regarding bid 2425-1404, fire alarm testing and inspection services. Director Bach. Uh good evening, board

222president Singh, board members, and interim superintendent O'Brien. Uh on April 24th, the district posted our bid for the fire alarm testing inspection services for our school sites. Um, this perbid is to provide the annual testing that's required for our fire alarm devices. Uh, bids will be opened on May 13th today and this item will return after the bid opening and and review for approval. The cost of this inspection will be brought forward at the next board meeting. Um, administration is recommending this item be placed on the next board meeting on May 27th, 2025 for action. After asking any questions the board may have, like that. We'll have it returned under consent. Was there a uh a cost associated with that yet? Um we have a cost from last year and it was very close to

223the bid limit going forward. So we went out to bid. It was $116,000. Okay. Thank you. Next item number 14, receive information regarding bid 2425-1403 Roosevelt Elementary Cafe cafeteria HVAC installation. Director Watt. Uh good evening again, board members. On April 21st, 2025, the district posted a bid for the install of the Roosevelt Elementary Cafeteria HVAC. Uh previously, the board had approved the purchase of the HVAC uh unit for this cafeteria. Uh bids were open on May 9th. Um, we are still in the review process and the cost and this item will return at the next board item. Uh, the administration is recommending that this item be placed on the May 27th, 2025 board meeting for action after answering any questions the board may have. We'll have a return under consent. It needs to come back

224for action. Oh, sorry. Sorry. For action. That's right. probably need to make the change for the previous item too. Uh last number then 15 receive information regarding JAMF Apple device manager renewal. Director Martinez. All right. Good evening uh board president Singh members of the board and superintendent O'Brien. Uh this item is the annual renewal for J software. We use J software uh to support and maintain over 4,000 Apple devices including MacBooks, iPads, and Apple TVs. Um the cost is approximately 55,000 out of uh to be funded out of general funds. Um administration is recommending this item be placed on the May 27th board meeting uh for action and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. No questions. So this will have returned under consent. Thank you director. Next, advanced planning. Yeah, then information

225is attached. Additional information, closing comments from the board members Korea. Um, just a couple of requests for future items. Um, I I believe we are completing the first year, maybe the second year of our uh police officer contracts. And if I remember correctly, I haven't pulled them, but I believe it requires an annual report out of information related to incidents and and other information that we allegedly or they allegedly collect. So, um I would just like to flag that and make sure that that we bring it back at an appropriate time for report on that information. Um there was a request from a community member two meetings ago for a item on the validictorian. Um, and so I just want to make sure that we flag that and at at an appropriate time we bring

226that back. Um, and then finally, I did request this already, but just so that it's in the appropriate item, uh, a a PLC progress report or update on on what the expectations are. And then I would specifically like information when that gets presented at an appropriate time that you all determine um how that's supporting EL students um special education students and then some of our subgroups with the larger uh population of student representatives like our African-American students uh that have lower performing ratings in our um dashboard. And that's all I have. Thank you, Jesse Kirk. Thank you very much. Uh, speaking of future agenda items, I would love to see an update on our ethnic studies progress uh, both in development of a curriculum and training and support for our faculty who will be teaching

227those classes to our students. Uh, so an update on where we are with that. Thank you. And with that, a reminder, our next regular board meeting will be held here Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 6 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public session uh at uh district office room 13. And uh with that, we will be jouring back to close session. Thank you all.