Central Unified Board Of Trustees Meeting April 8th, 2025

001Good evening. Welcome to the Central Unified School Board uh meeting of the board of trustees. Today is Tuesday, April 8th. The time is 6:02 p.m. and we'd like to uh let the attendance show we are currently missing Trusty Chavez. She will be joining um shortly. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. So we have a motion by Trusty Kurfan, second by trustee Sidu. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Thank you. We move on to any comments from the public on any close session items at this time. [Applause] Board President, 30 seconds have passed and there is no callers at this time. Thank you. And with that, the attendant should show that Trusty Chavez joined us at 6:03 p.m. And

002with that, we will move to close uh session and reconvene back at 7 p.m. for open. Thank you. Good evening. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-2763150 or fill out a request form provided on the table near the entrance and submit it to the clerk of the board prior to the meeting. If you wish to speak on an item on the agenda, please do so when that item is called. If you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda, you may speak during the public comment section of the agenda. The district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings. Anyone planning to attend and needing an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559-274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least

00348 hours in advance of the meeting so arrangements can be made for an interpreter. Thank you. Fore section. Spanish translator extension translator. Good [Music] evening. Good evening board members. Good evening board president Singh, interim superintendent O'Brien and governing board members. My name is Eduardo Pedi Casiano and I am an 11th grade student at class who has just recently met my graduation requirements and I am looking forward to my graduation ceremony in June. I began attending class since January of last year. Thank you for the opportunity to present to you this evening. Our students enrolled in both our alternative school and adult school have been progressing well, highlighted by a total of 47 independent student graduates and a total of 46 graduates in our adult school. Thus far, over 130 students earned a third quarter academic

004award last week as a result of maintaining good attendance and having earned a minimum of two credits each week throughout the entire third quarter. Each of these academic award recipients received an award certificate, popcorn, and an award presentation in the principal's office. At class, we recently celebrated Black History Month and Women's History Month. The staff created informative and inspirational bulletin boards highlighting the the valuable and significant societal contributions made by African-Americans and by women respectively and who have been elevated our society and culture with their extraordinary achievements and accomplishments. Each month cult culminated in a opportunity for our students to participate in an arts and crafts activity aligned with the theme of each month. 10 of our students were recently afforded the opportunity to participate in a field in a field trip and attend an

005industrial trade and career technical education expo at the new Fresno City West College Fresno City West campus. By doing so, they were introduced to viable and promising career pathways. Every senior and their parent were scheduled and participated in the in their spring semester senior student and parent meeting with our academic counselor during January and February. these meetings. Um, our academic counselor provided senior students and their families with important information and data regarding their current graduation status and the pacing that they that will be required to meet graduation requirements by the end of the school year. All of our students continue to have the opportunity to attend Saturday live on the first and third Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturday Live serves as an additional opportunity for us to come in,

006work on our instructional units, receive support from a teacher, and take unit assessments. The number of students who would like to attend on Saturdays has been steadily increasing. Upon returning from spring break, we are scheduling additional Saturdays for Saturday Live. Also recently added will be an opportunity for senior students to increase their weekly credit earning by completing an additional instructional unit and by attending Saturday live. The nurse assistant training program or NATP has been reestablished as central adult school having scheduled five separate cohorts throughout the 2024 2025 school year. The first, second, and third cohorts cohorts have graduated. The fourth cohort has begun their third week of theory portion of the class, while our fifth cohort is scheduled to begin in May. Central Adult School recently started the new ESL class at Te Elementary School,

007modeled after the ESL class that has and continues to be taught at Biola Elementary School. These classes serve as an opportunity to help meet the English language development needs sought from our community at locations that are convenient for them to attend. Central Adult School hosted their initial WASK visit Mar on March 27th and have received a complimentary and favorable visiting committee final report by the Wasque chairperson. We are hopeful of becoming was accredited for the first time in our existence. The students in our adult transition program or connections continue to make great strides towards gaining independence and learning to navigate society as a young adult by participating in valuable work experience via community- based instruction three or four days each week. An example of our established community and business partners are the Fresno Chaffy Zoo,

008Round Pizza, the Animal The Valley Animal Center, and the Student Dining Hall at Fresno State University. Thank you and good evening. [Applause] Thank you, Eduardo, and apologize for not saying your full name, Eduardo Appi Casiano. So, thank you for sharing that about class. Next we invite up uh from Justin Garza, Daniel D Prito. Good evening school board. My name is Daniel Dietro and I'm a three-year member of the JGHS Interact Club. Uh for those who don't know, Interact is a community service club that is sponsored by local Rotary Club. Uh ours being the North Fresno Rotary Club of District 5230. Recently, I sought out a partnership with Storyland at Rotary Park where which was in need of renovation and ground maintenance. I spent hours contacting their executive director and visiting the park privately to identify

009areas where Interact could provide the most help and benefit this neglected gem. When we held our first event, I couldn't have been prouder of how it turned out. Not because what I was capable of starting, but because of how my initial vision was adopted and improved upon by the passionate and diverse people I serve with. The beauty of Interact lies in its uniting goal to serve. Service has the potential to bring people from all walks of life together and in my case distance them from some of the world's pains. It draws out creativity, passion, and ingenuity by giving students causes that they can only aid. This club and its people create community, inspiration, and real change in a way that is incredibly unique in the high school environment. This, I believe, is a magic of

010Rotary and Interact at work. However, Interact is only one part of the terrific things that are happening on our campus. I'd like to personally recognize our JGHS Winter Percussion for placing first at this Sierra Cup Classic indoor show at Fresno State this past weekend. Our players showcased their skills so well that they received recognition by highly esteemed members of the percussive community. They competed against groups outside of the regular circuit as well as some groups that were in their higher divisions of their circuit. Still coming out on top. This week before spring break, we're celebrating a series of celebrations leading up to our Garza Palooa rally. Uh we've got a series of music and art themed dressup days and we had a Kona Ice vendor today just in time for the rising heat. A series

011of student staff competitions are being held which historically have brought the school closer together and built community in a campus and culture that is still very green. Finally, at our Friday rally, we'll have several performances and activities put on by our other student groups. As one of the first freshmen of Justin Garza High, I'm proud to see what we've accomplished, what we're accomplishing, and what future the school holds for our next generation of students. Thank you for your time. [Applause] Thank Thank you, Daniel, and I apologize for mispronouncing your last name, Petro, instead. Thank you. Next, we move to our student recognition. Uh, Dr. Lopez, who share with us about Caesar Chavez Day and the Cup Conference. Good evening board president Singh, board of trustees and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Our district had the pleasure

012of providing the a great opportunity for our students this year to attend the 29th annual Caesar Chavez Cipe conference at Fresno State. We had a total of 45 students and four chaperons that attended this event. And uh we focused on male students from the 9th through the 11th grade. Today we have Jacob Carvajal. He's an 11th grade student at Justin Gorsa and here here he's here to tell you a little bit about his experience. [Music] Good evening, president, board members, superintendent O'Brien, and members of our central unified community. My name is Jacob Carbajal and I'm a junior at Justin Garza High School. I'm here to share about an amazing opportunity a group of us had been able to experience the 29th CIS conference at Fresno State on Friday, March 28th. Along with 25 other students

013from Garza and many other students from Central Valley High Schools, I had the chance to participate in an empowering event designed specifically for Latino young men hosted by the Association of Mexican-American Educators, Fresno State, and several community partners. The conference focused on leadership, college readiness, and career expos exploration. workships, workshops were held by and led by Latino professionals in fields like engineering, law, education, media, and graphic design. Hearing their stories helped me see what's possible for my future and that there's a whole community out there rooting for students like us. For many of us, just being on the Fresno Fresno State campus was inspire inspiring. We could see ourselves there one day. The energy from the speakers and the encouragement we received made a lasting impact. It reminded me that college isn't just a dream.

014It's a goal that we can achieve in a reality. I want to thank the staff. Oh, sorry. I want to thank the staff members who helped us, Mr. DeLeon, Mr. Lopez, E, Miss Isaac, and our district leadership for investing in opportunities that represent and uplift students like me. These experiences don't just shape what we want to do, they shape who we want to become. Thank you. [Applause] Very touching. Thank you, Jacob. Uh, Dr. Lopez, is there do we have another uh presenter on this? That is all for today. Okay. Thank you. We move on to our employee recognition. Superintendent O'Brien. Sorry. Good evening, members of the board and everybody in attendance. Uh I have the pleasure this evening of recognizing the fact that we uh are celebrating or were celebrating last week two outstanding women

015from Central Unified who are recently named City of Fresno women of the year. So Serena Dohi who is our executive director of the foundation for central schools. She was recognized by District 1 council member Analisa Pereira for her leadership and support of students and families across the district. And we're especially thrilled this evening to recognize Harinda Kh Ry who was able to join us this evening. Harinder is a dedicated Punjabi teacher at Central East High School and she was honored by district district 3 council member Miguel Aras for her impactful contributions to education and culture in our community. So I'd like to congratulate Serena and her reinder and maybe Harinder could stand so we can see her and yes and recognize her. It's a very welldeserved honor. Congratulations. [Applause] We would love to invite you

016to come up and have the board be able to recognize you. Continuing our theme of employee uh employee recognition, we turn to uh Dr. O'Brien to share some more. Yes, I feel very fortunate to be able to make this next announcement also. So, out of nearly 6,000 elementary schools in the state of California, only 336 were recognized last month by the California Department of Education with the California Distinguished School Award. To put that into perspective, that's less than 1% of all the elementary schools statewide. So, it's a big deal. So only six schools in Fresno County earned this recognition and I'm incredibly proud to share that Madison Elementary is one of them. Yes, great news. So this is a tremendous accomplishment that reflects the exceptional work happening at Madison every single day. So, I did

017have the opportunity to visit uh Madison personally and sit down with principal Jackie Oliver to congratulate her and learn more about what contributed to this achievement. What stood out to me the most was her deep love for her school community and the very thoughtful and intentional culture she's cultivated. She has created what she calls a farm family culture, a nurturing, supportive environment that feels like home for every student and staff member. Beyond the culture, Principal Oliver has also implement implemented strong systems that provide educators with the tools and the data they need to support every student's individual learning journey. It's a clear example of visionary leadership and collaborative excellence. So, this award belongs to the entire Madison Elementary team. I see a lot of blue shirts out there. It's a reflection of the tireless efforts

018of every teacher, every support staff member, and every leader on campus who show up every day with one goal in mind to give their very best to our students. So, first of all, please join me in recognizing and celebrating Principal Oliver and the Madison Elementary uh team for this incredible and well-deserved honor with a round of applause. Hold on. But first, I have to ask you, Principal Oliver, to hold on one moment because I want to give your area administrator, Mr. Jeff Garrett, the bragging rights of a school in his area. So he would like to introduce you. All right. Good evening, President Singh, members of the board, and superintendent O'Brien. As has been stated, distinguished school recognition is not an accident. It is accomplished over multiple years as a school team and a community

019work towards a common goal. For Madison, that has always been a goal of student success. As uh was mentioned, this needs the support of the community and families. And to them I want to say congratulations and thank you. It takes the effort of the entire staff many who are here this evening with us and to them I want to say congratulations and thank you and it takes the students continuing to persevere and grow and to them I also want to say congratulations and thank you and it takes leadership and Madison has in principal Oliver leadership that keeps its focus on students. what is best for students drives the decision-making. Leadership that provides what their students need, their staff needs, and the community needs to help students believe in their ability to be great and to

020do what it takes each day to achieve their best. Principal Oliver's leadership has been consistent in creating a safe, inclusive, supportive, welcoming, and caring environment and has been instrumental in Madison achieving the growth that has made them stand out as a California distinguished school in 2025. And I'll add a unique and special achievement as they are one of our overflow receiving sites. To Principal Oliver, I say congratulations and thank you. And it is my pleasure to introduce Principal Jackie Oliver. Thank you. As you can tell, I was so excited that I couldn't wait to get up and share the news. Thank you for recognizing us um the board as well as Central Uniforified employees. We really appreciate it. We are so excited to see our hard work um achieve to this level. We honestly were

021not expecting to be winners, but we are grateful that we are being uh recognized for the hard work and determination. I brought a couple of students I'm going to introduce to you in just a minute. Um and I wanted to to say uh opening that we did decide to uh use our school as a model for a family farm. And the reason why is because we decided as a team and by a team I mean all of our support staff, our teachers, our aids, our people in the office that what we were going to do is make feel people feel welcome, valued and invest in themselves because our students their education is their greatest asset. So how does a family farm work? Well, the farmer doesn't own the farm. the employees, the families, and the

022students. It's our family farm. And so, we're all gonna get up in the morning, pull up our bootstraps, and you know what? We're not going to stop working until the work is done. That's the way they do it on the farm, and that's the way we're doing it there at Madison. So we worked on building community relationships and that is something that's always been important in schools but even more so now in the environment and the culture that we live in. Schools um have interesting things happening every year all over the nation. We decided what ours was going to be is students feeling welcome, families participating in their kids' growth and building interpersonal relationships between each other as staff members, between families and between students with each other. Daily routines and consistencies. We realize that

023that's part of what makes a farm work. That's our community. We live in a farming community. Our area depends on that. And we know that we have to have consistency and procedures in place to run smoothly. We also know that it's going to require a lot of handson work. This is not work that you just sit behind a desk and do. It means we all have to get together, see what those students need, see what the families need, look at all the resources we have and how we can share them. you know, you might know how to do this and it's might be the opportunity for you to show other people how to do that. It took a little bit of vulnerability on my staff's part and on my part. No one knows everything, but

024collectively we know a lot and this staff, they know a lot. So, I appreciate everyone's willingness to come together and share their data across the grade levels. Open communication with data is the key. And that's one of the things we decided. We're all going to look at everybody's scores for IABS, for FNP, for Wonders, weekly U tests, for math tests. It's not going to be something that we look at in our isolated PLC because guess what? Your kids last year are my kids this year and they're their kids next year. So it is about raising a family and these students need to have that consistency across the grade level. We also looked at resource management. How can we help as a school make sure that we're utilizing our funds the best way we can. One

025of them is by um adding additional teaching fellows in every single classroom. Either they have an aid or they have a teaching fellow for part of the day at least. That's been a great uh way we've used classroom resources to help our students. We focused on growth, which in this case isn't beans or corn. It's student knowledge. But you know what that is? Developing character and a sense of responsibility that these students are going to use the rest of their lives. A couple more things and then I'll be done. But the family values. Family values are super important. not just at home, but the family values we hold at Madison Elementary. And this staff is a family. This staff will help each other out in any way they can. And I just want to give

026them another round of praise because this staff doesn't stop working until the work on the farm is done. [Applause] I'd like I'd like to introduce two of our students who um are coming up to meet with you and they brought you a little pin. It's a little warrior pin and we wear these with pride. Our students receive these when they receive the student of the month. They get a little warrior pin and that's because that's something you can wear with pride knowing that your character's been recognized and your character matters. So, this is my friend Colin. He is in fifth grade. And this is Elijah. And he's in third grade. And I asked them the question, "How does it feel to be part of a California distinguished school?" And this is what they have to

027say. Colin, do you want to go first? [Music] Hello, my name is Colin Lee. I am a fifth grader at Madison Elementary. I am a proud Mong American student to say that I have wonderful teachers and staff members that show inspiration that cares for us. And when I grow up, I want to be a serve just like the rest of my families. [Applause] Hello, my name is Elijah Garcia. I am a third grader at Madison Madison Elementary. I love my school because I feel safe and I know my teachers care about my future. I am proud to be a Madison warrior. We'll give each person a pin. Well, as a Madison falls in trustee Kirk's area, can I ask Trusty Kirk just to share a few words? Thank you so much, President Singh. Um, I

028will start out by saying I am the proud mother of four Warrior alumni. And I can attest to the caring and the passion and the dedication that this wonderful Madison faculty and staff have for their students. Their my kids experience at Madison was one of the reasons I decided to run for uh the school board to ensure that all of our kids in our district have the opportunity uh to be educated by our wonderful teachers. So well earned. We're deserved. Principal Oliver. Well done. The perseverance of the Madison Warrior Way. Okay. Next, I'll have uh Dr. Boatright share a little bit about the 2025 USCA uh awards, but I'm going to do the best I can. There we go. Okay. So, good evening, uh, President Singh, um, interim superintendent, um, O'Brien, and members of the

029board. So, I have the pleasure tonight to introduce Anna Lisa Torres. She teaches ceramics at Justin Garza High School. She was selected as the 2025 United States Society for Education through Arts Excellent and Graduate Thesis Award. This award was granted for her outstanding national leadership in art in arts education. She recently attended the conference in Louisville, Kentucky to receive her award and she's here tonight and we'd like to recognize her. Thank you to all our those receiving recognition from from our schools to our individuals in central. We have a lot of amazing things happening. Continuing that theme, we we invite up for our employee association highlights uh CUTA president Laura Bolton. Okay. Uh, good evening everyone. Give me a second to pull up the right screen with all of my notes. Um, so, uh, as

030I've told you before, um, there's always lots of good things that are going on, um, across the district at our school sites. Um, and every time we have our monthly site rep council meeting, I always um ask for anything that's going on um that should be celebrated to be shared, whether it's big, small, or somewhere in between. Um, so these these are not the only things obviously that are good in our school sites, but these are the ones that have been shared with me um at our meeting on Monday. So, at Glacier, um they are trying um something that is maybe you wouldn't consider to be a reward, but it is for them. They are having one lunch on Wednesdays as a reward for students that have good behavior. Um they ordinarily have a two

031lunch schedule. So on Wednesdays that's a reward for them to have one lunch so they get to be with all their friends. Um at LCAP um they had um uh a special education event um on Friday. Um it was the first time that LCAP has hosted um the Special Olympics event. Um we they host hosted a cornhole competition which was a ton of fun. And the kids were very proud and gracious hosts. Um, all the participants had a had a great time and one of the teachers that did all that is right there. She got to witness it, but I know that she participated. Um, and they also have received the Bonner character award at El Capitan. um McKinley um they are um full swing in tutoring um for their their students that are in

032need of some extra support and um also for preparing for the ELPAC testing for their English learners um for the the the beginning English learners um that's ending this week to prep um um now for ESPback that's coming up. So doing lots of of extra support in this crunch time of the year. At Roosevelt, um their PTA worked tirelessly to put on a great spring carnival um for all of their families. Um they had a great turnout also for their open house. Um kids were excited to attend both of these events and so proud of all the work that they had to showcase at Tilly. Um their sunshine club is doing a great job of bringing the staff together with activities. Um at Riverbluff um they finished a joint production with Rio Vista um for

033u a play called Once on This Island Jr. Um it was a full house all three nights, a fantastic um production and um kudos go out to the kids and Mr. Hernandez who is the drama teacher over at Rio. He brings the kids from um River Bluff and um invites them to participate in the middle school production which is really helping to um grow the program at Rio Vista um and um help the kids understand like the opportunity for drama as um as one of their electives in middle school. Um so we really appreciate his inclusion of the Riverb Blast students in the Rio Vista production at Central High School. They've got quite a few to share um in wrestling. Um shout out to their wrestling students and um athletes, their student athletes, um and

034coach Jason Pierce. Anthony Vargas was fifth at state and second in the central section. Anthony Castillo top 12 at the state and third in central section. Um Mario Calderon, Ezekiel Rangel, and we Castro were sec central section qualifiers. um Central High School's criminology um program um their students Kayla Gaffford, Emiliano Maldonado, Jenna Mora, and Zeke McDonald McDougall, sorry, um placed second out of um 14 schools at the Fresno City College Career Skills Challenge. Um Zeke McDougall, Jenna Mora, Kaden von Oh, I'm not going to be able to say that correctly. Bever, I hope that's right. um and Ruben Castro took first place out of 10 schools at the Kerman High School public service day um for um vehicle felony stop the vehicle felony stop portion of the competition. And then their criminology program was personally

035invited by Judge Anna de Alba of the 9inth Circuit Federal Court and her staff to tour the federal courthouse and congratulate them on their recent accomplishments at competitions. The ROP nursing program at Central High School has 18 out of 18 of their seniors that are in the program um finishing with their clinical hours over spring break, which is a big deal if you know what that means. Um I know you know what that means. um 18 out of 18 will be taking um the state certification exam in May and um 100% of their juniors, 32 out of 32 pass the ROP medical careers and FCC dual enrollment allied health um assessment. Um and let's see, 98% 31 out of 32 juniors currently um enrolled in the spring RO um MC and FCC HIT10. a lot

036of letters and numbers that have to do with college uh medical terminology um course they're they're already enrolled um so that's a really good thing because the the program is going to continue to grow and 18 from um from the HOSA club volunteered at um Pavarella House um so that's pretty awesome so three out of the uh 30 no that was March 30th okay and then agg um the state conference um 27 students attended Um so specifically um uh Reagan Porter was a scholarship finalist, Macy Richardson a proficiency finalist, Aaron Ramirez a proficiency finalist um Za Klugden a recipient of Central High School heritage scholarship and in welding um they're they're attending they've attended a I'm not sure if this is past or present but a competition in Kurthers for trailer building. And the last

037but not least um a really important one um the fruit and vegetable harvest. Um, as of today, they've harvested over 100 lbs of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, and they've got plenty more in the field um that they will harvest in the next few weeks. Um, the seasonal crops are studentled as they are um SAPEL projects for our students. And then the seasonal crops that are um coming up and about to be picked um will be cherry season. I really hope I get to have some of those. Um, so thank you for giving me this time to share all this amazing news and um, I'll talk to you later. [Applause] Thank you. Next, we invite up Angie Giri, our CSEA president. Good evening, board members and Superintendent O'Brien. I'd like to take a moment to recognize

038the outstanding work of the Al Capitan functioning skills class under the guidance of Mr. Herrera and with the support of his two incredible sped aids uh Miss Shannon Bolan and Regina Cook. This uh team recently hosted the Outcap very first Special Olympics event. Uh I have been at ALCAP 23 years. It's the first time we had and it was an amazing experience. Uh from the planning stages to the final wrap-up, they handled every detail with care, enthusiasm, and dedication. The event was not only well organized and smooth, it was a celebration of inclusion, teamwork, and student achievement. Mr. Herrera and his team went above and beyond and they truly showed. I want to recommend them for their leadership, their heart, and the joy they brought to our campus through this event. LCAP has an amazing

039sped department and ALCAP wouldn't be ALCAP without them. Thank you. Thank you, President Giri. Uh next we move on to our superintendent and board communications. I'll turn it first to uh Dr. O'Brien. Well, thank you. Thank you, President Singh. And I'd also like to thank members of the board, Central Unified Board, for putting your confidence in me as we all work together to finish our year strong. And I would also really like to extend a very sincere thank you to everybody in Central Unified who has given me a very warm welcome. uh we we have a great great district here and I think it's the people who uh who really make this district. So, thank you. I've I've just so enjoyed getting to know you all and I'm looking forward to continuing uh working with

040you. Um, I've had the pleasure of attending some amazing events since I came here. And one of the first up was the annual scholarship night hosted by the foundation for central uh uh schools. Uh we had 23 outstanding students who were honored that evening and it started out with a live panel discussion of past scholarship recipients which was very interesting. Uh and you know when you go to an event like this you you are really reminded of the amazing potential uh within our schools. When you see how community comes together to uh to give our students the sense that the community is investing in them and believes in them as they go on to the next steps of their journey. and you could really see it written on their faces that they were so happy

041to know that people uh believed in them. I also want to thank President Singh and trustees Chavez and Curo who are in attendance there. I enjoyed uh sitting at the table with you and uh you know enjoying the evening together and and being able to really appreciate the wonderful uh achievements of our students. I also want to mention that area administrator Mark Fowler accompanied me out recently to Central East High School and as you may have heard one of our own students was in the news quite a bit recently for all reasons that we would be so proud of. Samuel Ruiz MSAS uh has been accepted into no less than 15 universities. That includes four IV League universities and also Stanford University. So what an accomplishment that is. I had a great opportunity to chat

042with him and you know just to hear about his experience at Central East. I was very impressed by all the things that he was involved in his he spoke so highly of all his teachers, advisers, mentors and um he is going to be spending some time over spring break touring some of these universities as he makes uh a big decision for his future and what a a big decision it's going to be. I did ask him, one of my favorite things to do is to ask, if you could sum it up in one word, what would you say that Central Unified, Central East uh High School uh provided or or exemplified to you that has helped you be such a success? And and I thought he mightn't be able to get it down to one

043word. So I said, you know, it can be more than one word. And he goes, no, no, I have one word. and his word was community. And I thought that was so special because that's what I see in this district is a real sense of community and Samuel felt it too. I also wanted to mention that uh I'm excited to share a major update regarding the progress of Juwan Singh Kalera Elementary School. So you may recall at our last board meeting there was a concern with weather delays and how that might uh the the potential electrification of the school might actually impact the overall timeline towards you know opening our school and getting it ready for our staff and students. So um I was scheduled to visit the site but before doing so I reached

044out to Erica Cabrera at P Gen and she immediately went to work coordinating with her on ground team and ensure that everything was in motion to keep this school's construction on track and I know John Rodriguez was very happy about that and they worked all through the night and um and got the school electrified uh so that our team could continue with the construction in and and adhere to their timeline. So later on I visited the site uh and I had the chance to witness the incredible collaboration firsthand because PG was out there. But what I noticed was so many professionals pouring their time, their talents and their heart into making this new school a reality. So I you know we don't often have a chance to thank these people and so um I just

045wanted to mention their names from PG& the guy who is responsible for leading that team his name was Robert Gonzalez he's the foreman there and then we also had uh Adrien Garcia from he is a project superintendent there as one of our 12 prime contractors our DSA inspector came his name is Michael Atkinson and uh our from PBA PBA uh PBK architects we had Robert Urebe and then from Kitell we had Elizabeth Espinosa who is a project manager and Gustavo Gimenez who is a project superintendent and they all work very closely with our construction team headed by uh John Rodriguez. So I just wanted to say we shouldn't take anything for granted. Uh people uh are working hard behind the scenes to make sure that our school is opening on time and Mr. Rodriguez let

046me know that furniture is on its way. Teachers are busily getting packed up around the district ready to move into their new classrooms. The librarian is getting ready to stock the library. Principal Diaz is getting ready to welcome his new staff in June. So we are on track and we are very excited and very soon we'll be announcing announcing the ribbon cutting uh uh ceremony for our newest elementary school Kalera Elementary. I also want to mention that I was out at El Capitan to witness the Special Olympics and what a great collaboration between our general ed education students and our students with special needs and to see the staff working so hard to ensure that our students had a great experience. So, uh, Miss Bolton, I I I share what you mentioned about the staff

047and how how great they were. Um then also last night I had the pleasure of uh attending the AXA awards which uh this is a um an organization that was honoring outstanding administrators in our region and uh we had three great administrators um recognized last night the principal at El Capitan, Patricia Mccurley, and our principal at Central Elementary, Wendy Slack, and our vice principal at Glacier Point Middle, school, Erica Siggoia, and they were honored for their outstanding leadership and uh their ability to implement, you know, educational strategies at their schools and their commitment to our students. Um, a big thing happened also last night at the AXA awards. We had a stu we have a student at Persian Elementary. Her name is Stevie Rendan and she was honored and then became the nominee to go

048to the state. So she's going to be representing Central Unified at the state for our region. Uh um she was honored honored as a shining exam example of the talent, determination and promise that we see in our students. So, it was very proud moment for us all uh there last night. And then just wrapping up, I just wanted to mention that spring break is around the corner and Central Unified is very busy. We have uh students uh going to be we we actually have 750 students between the grades of TK and 8 attending uh enrichment and exploration camps. And we have 400 students participating in credit recovery courses. We're very proud of our 92% graduation rate in Center Unified. We want to make sure that every student finishes strong and so I just want to

049thank in advance all the staff and Dr. Lopez, Dr. Boight have been very instrumental putting all this together and uh helping our students finish strong and uh and graduate from Central Unified successfully. And so with that, I just want to thank everybody again for the warm welcome and what a privilege it is to be here witnessing all the great things going on Central Unified. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, interimm superintendent uh O'Brien for for that update. Uh next we turn it uh to our subcommittee, our finance, facilities and safety subcommittee. Trustee Kon. Uh thank you President Singh. I will report out for that. Uh this subcommittee oversees the oversees uh finance facilities and the safety committee. Um at this meeting uh I get to ask the tough questions and we had a detailed conversation uh

050that we can't always have on the dis. Um but the documents from that meeting are in your folders. Um so I encourage my fellow board members if you have any questions on our facilities reach out to me so that the subcommittee can get you those answers. Um I mean the this committee is so important because uh outside of our our students and our staff know the most important uh the greatest investment we can find make financially is our facilities and if we don't take care of our facilities we will still pay for them later but it'll be a lot more expensive. Uh if Mr. Buff can uh come up in case I need to clarify a couple questions throughout my presentation. Um giving a brief overview of the meeting. Um, another benefit of these meetings

051is that um, we get to be informed of the positive changes the district uh, staff make. Like how the work control manager um, now has a monthly site meeting at all of our schools to review their work orders and better prioritize their most critical needs. Um, because when facilities get over about 600 work orders each month, uh, there's a need to triage. And then uh thank you Superintendent O'Brien for the update about uh Kalra Elementary. Uh last week the varsity um there was an electrification at uh Justin Garza, right? I my my notes said we we were electrifying the uh varsity baseball fields. Um yeah, that actually might have been Mr. Rodriguez, but Oh, Mr. Rodriguez. Yeah. Did come up as well, sir. Sorry. So you like the breast press boxes or the scoreboards? Scoreboards.

052Score. Scoreboards. Yeah. So, uh the scoreboards uh that were increment uh those got electrified and uh they're in use uh tonight on their first softball game. Excellent. Well, I hope hope they score a home run and uh uh that I think that just goes to show that we're making these investments into athletics at uh Justin Garza High. Uh outside of athletics though plans, we talked about the VAPA building. Uh and the plans including an 800 seat theater, balcony, basement, catwalk. Uh all we need is a chandelier and we can put on Phantom of the Opera and and we'll have classroom space for band, choir, dance, broadcasting, theater, costume shop, a drama lab. It's going to be great. uh on our deferred maintenance. Um last year we set aside $2 million in our budget um for

053for that and uh I think we'll uh very on that our top list of the board's priorities have been uh safety um which was the security cameras uh they have a shelf life of about at most 10 years and every security camera in the district has been updated in the last four years. So, outside of new schools, we have some uh breathing room for for quite a bit of time. Um there's still a lot of deferred maintenance projects on our list, but the district is actively applying for grant funding so that we can be good stewards of our general fund dollars. Um with only 2 million for this fiscal year, uh one of the unplanned projects the district had to prioritize and pay for is the playground at Steinbeck Elementary. There was a part that

054broke, right, Alan? The playground. Correct. And this is the general playground or the kindergarten playground? The kinder playground. Okay. Um Okay. So, and then uh we had hoped to get this uh done. What was the original timeline for this project? The original timeline we when we first happened was we wanted to happen during spring break so the kids could use it right away. Um and then during this process, there's been some changes and we went over how DSA now has to get involved with our playgrounds. So, right. Um yeah. So the the state of California has come in uh changed the regulations and now the project has been delayed. Um so we have what's what's the new timeline for this project? Uh it's still going to be beginning of 25 25 26 school year. Okay.

055So when students come back our our new kinder kids will be able to play but since we have this delay uh the district decided that we're not going to just spend all this time for one small thing. We're going to completely redo and improve the whole playground. It's been there for 30 years. Uh so some of the parents of the kinder kids in Steinbeck may have been on that playground themselves. Uh so we're going to replace the wood chips with turf. We're going to make it ADA accessible. Um we have some integrated shade and of course bigger is better. Um so that's going to be exciting. Uh how much is this project going to cost us, Mr. Beth? Approximately just a little over 220,000. And it will be in your guys's folder is the exact

056price, right? But but we know this project is important. Our kids deserve to be safe and have fun on a modern playground, not one that is older than almost a third of this board. Uh so uh will that's that's $2 million question. Are we going to be within our uh budget? I'll have the finalization of that later this week and be bringing that forward with Mr. Trusty Kon, if you could provide kind of more more of an overview as opposed to a question answer at this at this time. Sure. Okay. No worries. Uh the overview is that we may have to come back with a slight uh budget ask to increase our for maintenance so we can get this project done before the uh school year starts, but our kids deserve it. Thank you. Thank

057you. Thank you, Mr. Kam. Thank you, trustees. Thank you. Thank you. Uh any other sort of board communications at this time? Trustee Sadu. Yeah. Uh I just uh wanted to quickly offer like words of encouragement. I believe it was Jacob. Uh correct? Uh um and then what was the stu uh student right next to you? Daniel. Daniel. Okay. So Daniel um Interact Club. Um it was in 2013 that Miss Donna, she first started it and we were the part of the founding uh students that we we started it. Um, but the I'm so happy that it's still thriving. We did uh we did Rotary uh Storyland, Shinszen Garden, we were it was so much fun. I'm so happy that that's still going on and I couldn't be more pleased the work you guys are doing.

058So, just words of encouragement, keep doing it. It's going to pay off. Trust me, college, everything. Those uh Rotary uh guys that you guys go meet in downtown uh Tower District, they're there for life. They'll help you guys out anytime you need them. Yeah. Thank you. Uh just just although uh inter superintendent Brian already highlighted it and just want to again thank uh the whole community for coming out to the uh scholarship dinner last week. Uh Trusty Chavez and Trusty Curio and I were got to really just see um just the amazing things our our student, our staff, our community is doing in the district. So thank thank you all that participated that that came out and and really what what makes this such a unique community. With that, we turn now to comments from

059the president. Oh, did I miss someone? Oh, trusty Kfon. Sorry. I did want to give my own personal update. Uh, good evening. Um, again, uh, celebrating Thank you, congratulations to Madison on the distinguished school award. Um, and then on Friday, I also attended the Roosevelt Open House and Carnival, though I don't think I won any of the auctions. Uh, it was a great meeting with the teachers, the admin, the parents. Um, I know that our students will be in good hands with principal Hamlin and vice principal uh Woodard. Um, and I was also president for the city of of Fresno Woman of the Year Awards to celebrate uh Miss Harender Carry and Miss Serena Dohi. Um, yeah, that's all for me. Thank you. With that, we turn now to comments from the public. Um, persons

060wishing to address the governing board on any item not on the agenda may do so at this time. We have allotted uh 20 minutes total to set aside for the people wishing to address the board with a maximum of three minutes per person. That would be allowed. No portion of a speaker to allow time may be given, assigned, relinquished, or donated to another speaker. If you wish to address the board, please call 559-276-3150. If you wish to address the board on an agenda item, please do so when the item is called. Items requiring lengthy discussion may at the board's discretion be scheduled as a specific agenda item at a future meeting. Speakers are requested to state their name and to address comments to the board of trustees. The board is governed by the Brown Act

061and may briefly respond to public comments but take no action except on items scheduled on the agenda. Uh clerk, how many comments do we have at this time? President Singh, I have 10 at this time. So that would be 30 minutes. Uh so so if you can ask everyone to take maybe more closer to like two two minutes per per um comment this evening. Thank you. Uh with that, our first comment is from Jacob Carbajal. And as the board president said, uh you'll have two minutes. Hello again. I want to uh address uh our winter percussion. Also, the band at Justing Cars High School. We won first place as Daniel said the week before we won third place at down in Lemore. Uh some upcoming events for the band. We are performing at Washington Union

062with the Fresno Community Band on April 26th. On May 4th, we are performing with the Wind Symphony of Clovis Paul Chago Hall. That's that's a big one. Can't wait for that one. However, we are also in dire need of of facilities for growing BAPA uh programs. Uh I know that like you said uh that the building will be here soon and we're looking forward for that. Uh we are also constantly being denied uh for using facilities regardless of last minute use or advanced use. Uh I also feel like a second rate student seeing multiple athletic groups benefit from district uh support. uh seeing like the baseball fields right next to the the third building where the band room is, but knowing that there probably won't experience a vapid building before I graduate. Meanwhile, we can't

063get access to a gym without being attacked by admin. Uh we are constantly being told to adjust to benefit others, but we have also lost a great fundraiser to make $6,000 to the uh music program with the help of the South Valley Winter Arts Association that was that would have taken place back in February. But we yeah so we were denied to use the gym at the time and I hope you guys uh take this in consideration. Uh we are also looking forward to using the evap building in the future and uh I want to want you guys to know that we are working very hard bearing closed doors to make all this stuff uh come possible. Thank you. Thank you. Our next comment is from Lisa Papo. I have no All right, I'm going

064to talk quickly. Good evening. My name is Lisa Papo and I've been a part of the Central Unified family for 36 years as an educator with experience as a fourth and second grade teacher starting at Madison mentor teacher, induction support coach, and master teacher. I've also been a part of the vertical team, the technology team, and was part of the Central Unified Fresno Pacific cohort where I earned my master's degree. I've been in education long enough to see my students become parents, had the joy of their children becoming my students this year being no exception. I've enjoyed seeing students of mine become bus drivers, office staff, and teachers in our district district. Finally, I was chosen as the 2016 teacher of the year for Central Unified, where I was proud to stand on a stage

065surrounded by many of my peers and previous student teachers. I can tell you that Central Unified family history is like this is where one builds loyalty and trust amongst the people you encounter, including students, parents, co-workers, and beyond. Now that you know where I come from, here's what I've come to speak on. A few weeks ago, I was driving to work. I received a phone call asking if I had heard the news that our central unified board had terminated without cause contrary to false narrative that she stepped down to take care of her son, our superintendent, Ketty Davis. Someone who is also just as richly embedded, if not more so, in the central family as I am, who had earned her right through unwavering commitment and dedication to be held in high esteem with the

066utmost respect not only in our district but surrounding districts as well. Except it would be appear not to our own board members. What? Why? How could this be? Within a few days, I had sent out an email to all board members stating how shocked, sound, and disbelief I was. I received one formatted auto reply that simply said, "Thank you." So tonight, I want to make sure my voice is heard, a voice that many in our district echo. Mrs. Davis will always be the epitome of unwavering commitment to our district and our guiding principles of academic excellence, high expectations, and continuous improvement with students and teachers best interests. What a shame it is that you as the board cannot see how diligent she was diligently she was working in favor for all of us. It's an

067embarrassment to the whole Central Unified family to her of her dismissal by a board whose job it is to recognize through the guidance of a superintendent what is best for the district. The letting go of our superintendent who has worked arduously for excellence for one and all shows you know nothing of what it means to represent our school district family. I can only hope that we will soon gain new board members who know our district, our students, and our staff in a way that truly represents us with deep regret. Lisa Papo, Central. Thank you. Our next comment is from Stacy uh Oberdick. Okay, thank you. Okay, next comment is Connie Nice. and yes. Okay. Okay. Good evening, Board of Trustees, President Singh, and Superintendent Dr. Brian. Welcome. My name is Connie Nes, and I'm a

068dedicated mom to a stellar senior at Justin Garza. And as I've tuned in to your live broadcast of board meetings, I've been in awe of the behind the scenes and frontline work that is being done to ensure excellence in our school district. Thank you all for your hard work. Many of your efforts are similar to what I've done in the healthcare sector tonight. I stand at this podium solo, but I do not stand alone in raising a concern and presenting a forward-thinking idea that I would like to share to the board. Although I understand that action cannot be taken during this board meeting tonight. I kindly request a deeper dive for approval and a potential change to be included at the next board meeting agenda. At Justin Garza, we stand for more. And that is

069exactly what my son did when he completed all his graduation math requirements after his sophomore year in high school. The opportunity to complete freshman year math in his middle school served him very well. In his junior year, despite fulfilling all math requirements, my son willingly enrolled in AP calculus as an elective course. Rather than enrolling in any lower division elective course, he decided to challenge himself and stand for more. The augmented fivepoint scale class was challenging and he completed the course with his first ever C. That seed now stands in his way of receiving the valadictorian award and the recognition is being denied by his school. After seven completed semesters, my son Steven Vasquez has a weighted GPA of 4.0 GPA and when looking at his class rank and class size on his transcript, he

070sits at the top 10% of his senior graduating class. Before the board of trustees, I respectfully ask for a reconsideration so that my son may walk the graduation stage as validictorian. Please note that the valictorian criteria recognition did not include augmented courses when he was enrolled in that AP calculus. The revision for that criteria is dated June 2024 was which was at the end of that school year. Your action and approval will encourage our centrified unified students to continue enrolling in those higher division courses without any backlash at graduation. If the board is unable to approve this request, then I'd like to propose a forward-thinking idea of incorporating a broader academic Latin distinction, sumakum, magnaum, and kumla. I believe we may have an opportunity. That was two minutes. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate

071it. All right. Our our next comment will be Linda Lavender. [Music] Hi, good evening everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight about an issue that impacts a growing number of students in our district. The urgent need for greater support for English learners and particularly our newcomers. Over the past three years, we've or over the past few years, we've seen firsthand the difference that targeted EL instruction can make with the support of educators like Marcy Breck, our newcomer teacher, and Tammy Kenundan, our district-wide ELEL instructor instructional coach. We've seen increased reclassification rates among EL students who received early and consistent language development instruction. Our district is seeing a growing number of ELTELS, long-term English learners. Many of these students started school here but never received the kind of early structured support they needed. The

072longer students stayed classified as ELELS without achieving proficiency, the more likely they are to fall behind, not just in English language, but in literacy, math, science, and so on. The research is clear. Early intensive language support is the best way to prevent ELTEL status. The success we've seen through Marcy and Tammy's work proves this, but right now we don't have enough staff programs or time to give every student the level of support that they need. We're asking for your help to invest in more newcomer programs, increase the number of EL specialists and coaches, and prioritize early intervention. These are not extras. These are essential supports that determine whether a student classifies in five years or struggles for 10. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Our next comment is for Twilight Lawrence. Okay. Our next comment is

073from Andrea Chase. Hi everybody. I just wanted to first thank you. Um I know you all have day jobs and responsibilities and I just appreciate all that you do uh coming here and staying probably till about midnight. Uh I just wanted to highlight some needs in our district. Um, I think most of you know I I teach special education and that's where my heart is, but I'm also see such a need in our district from um students that are struggling with issues that don't always seem like it's educational. We have students who have emotional needs, mental health needs, um have um social needs, housing insecurity, food insecurity, and I as a teacher am not equipped to um deal with these things, but I know that those things are available through um help with social workers.

074Uh, I feel like we are we have such an influx of students requiring services and being assessed for 504s and IEPs where they could be getting their needs met um earlier and more efficiently um with help with social workers on staff. Uh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Our next comment is for Steven Chase. and you will have two minutes. Okay. So, most of you can see by where I was sitting that Andrea is my wife. Um, but I am also an MSWLCSSW who graduated from President of State. Um, was a practicing uh licensed clinical social worker for years. Um, I'm constantly astounded when she comes home and she's kind of venting that the services her students need, they can't get because they don't have someone educated in how to do it. That's

075where social workers come in. So, social workers are the connective tissue between family, community, and child and the school. Without that, a lot of things get dropped off. Social workers, a lot of people don't understand what we do. There are those who do clinical and do therapy and then there are the those that are basically brokers of services. So a family if they don't know how to get services say for a deaf child, a social worker can refer them and help them get acquainted with uh the deaf and heart of hearing need services uh over by the CEU or not CU the EECU over on Fresno Street. Um, it's astounding to me. You know, you got the thing up there that says leadership, uh, what was the other part? Innovation and continuing progress, but you

076can't do that if you don't have everyone involved. Social workers are a key and intricate part of education. Um, we get kind of swept away because we're hidden. We work. We're kind of like work in the shadows. We don't run around going, "Hey, look what we did." It's like, "No, look what they did." The family, the student, that's our focus. But without them available to the teachers, they can't focus on what they do, which are IEPs, meeting the students needs in the classroom. That's their job. The community and connecting people, that's my job. So, I'd like to encourage you to look into hiring more social workers or getting them more involved in what you do. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Our final comment is from Laura Bolton. Okay. Okay. Um, so I'm going to talk

077just very very quickly about the three major things that we are trying to achieve at the bargaining table that are about student supports and you've heard quite a bit of that. Um, social workers um we'd like to bring in social workers to assist um with all those connections. They provide counseling support services to students working with children, parents, teachers, school administrators. They address mental and emotional health needs and ensure safe and conducive learning environments. Um, at Garza alone, we have 69 students on 504 plans. Those 504 plans require annual updates. And if we had um social workers um who can carve that work away from our school counselors who are currently doing that work, um our school counselors could get back to the main job that they do, which is helping kids graduate high school

078and go on to their after high school education, whatever that might look like. Um, we also are trying to get newcomer teachers. You heard some of that. We have, um, 472 newcomers across the district. Uh, I just got these numbers today. 24 um, with a a language proficiency of level four, 55 level three. As the numbers go down, the struggles increase. 107 at level two, and 286 at level one. These are the ones who struggle to communicate at all. Um, so we really need those newcomer teachers. We have one newcomer teacher, Marcy Brekie, for all 25 sites. Um, she is currently only able to work with elementary school sites. Um, we will have 15 elementary schools next year. Um, we would like to see at minimum one additional newcomer teacher for our elementarymentaries and at

079minimum one per high school and and feeder school so that they could work for um bringing along our middle school um and up into high school. um newcomers um and and the families because it's usually families. It's not usually just one kid that's a newcomer. It's a family of newcomers. And then finally, um special education. Um all of our sped classes across the district um uh are operating at near or full capacity. That's that's kind of the central model is to to fill up the classes as full as we can possibly um fill them. Um just tonight I got the preschool SDC number. So, our youngest um they're they have 22 22 and 23 students. That is an AM and PM, but that's 22 23 students that they have to do on every year. And

080our adults, I have one last part and please, our adult transition, they're the 18 to 22 year olds at connections. They have 16, 14, and 15. That's a lot of FLS students. Um so, we'd like to do a study um for weighted case loads. Thank you. [Music] President Singh, I don't have any other comment cards. Thank you. Uh, clerk. We next move to our consent agenda, which I'd like to highlight. Um, we are adopting a resolution 242544 in recognition of the uh the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. We are adopting a resolution in recognition of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We are adopting a resolution declaring May 18th through 24th classified school employee week. We're adopting a resolution declaring May 5th through 9th um 2025 educator appreciation week. Adopting a resolution declaring May 2025 as

081mental health matters month. We are adopting a resolution in recognition of school nurses day uh for May 7th, 2025. We are adopting a resolution in recognition of school bus driver appreciation day for April 22nd, 2025. We are also adopting a resolution in recognition of the Vaki uh celebration day. Uh so all of these items are our on our consent agenda. President Singh, I'd like to pull um consent items L10 and L11 for discussion. L10 and L11. So we have a uh motion by trustee Kerond uh to approve the consent. You don't need a motion to pull consent. Oh, sorry. So we have a motion. He he didn't motion. He just pulled items. So I will move to approve the remaining consent items. Second. We have a motion by trusty CO, second by trustee Kuron. Those

082in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. We then move on to We we moved to uh item to to discuss item L10, approve field trips. Thank you. Um so, President Singh, I had a quick question on the uh field trip for Justin Garza ELP. Uh I'm How are we paying for this field trip? It's a cost to district but also students is $0. So, what's our funding source? This is the one funded to go to the university. Um, okay. It it didn't mention any university, which is why I was a little confused because it's, you know, purpose is for education and STEM, but the only thing mentioned on the form is Six Flags. So, Oh, that's interesting. Are we talking about the same? So, they're supposed to attend

083a university trip, do a scavenger hunt. They're supposed to get a presentation done ahead of time. So, they will be receiving information about the specific university and then they're headed there. Thank you. And this is the uh April 26th field trip. Yes. And it's yellow. Thank you. EP funding. Excellent. I don't want to be the bad guy that takes away a field trip, but And I apologize for that. Yeah. If it said educational STEM and it doesn't Yes. Okay. Uh in that case, Sano Vispo is that Yeah. No other questions. Sanitho or Vallejo. Vispo. This field trip is set for Vallejo. Okay. It's on page three on the attachment. Unless they change the last minute cuz we were trying to figure out who can make it to our school to give the presentation. So perhaps

084it changed. There is a slow field trip as well. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. But but this one is also for which university then? So I would have to check details. We can pull it if you'd like and we can bring it back because that that how much time I I understand but I I don't feel comfortable giving you an answer because I don't I'm not aware. Do you feel comfortable telling me that this field trip will have an educational component STEM related? They do and I know Penny Miss Pennington you usually review them. I do. This is one of the scenarios where because the field trips are approved by the site, they go straight to educational services, Christine Pennington, and then they're approved that way. So that's why I apologize. I did not have

085my eye on that one. I'll follow up then. Thank you. Thank you. With that, I motion to approve. We have a motion by Trusty Kon. Second. Second. I heard Trusty Kirk's voice. Um, we have a motion by Trusty Kon, second by Trusty Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to item number 11. Adopt revised board policies. Uh thank you, President Singh. So I just have one question on board policy 3452, uh which affects student activity funds. Uh would these changes affect a student club's ability to raise funds for charity such as cancer awareness, Marjorie Mason Center, something similar to that vein? Do I'm looking at admin. Do you know I I don't think so. This is more for ASB and how

086we uh collect and calculate the funds. That that I think that was the direction we was missing that piece. Okay. That that's my only question. I know when I was a student, I was actively involved in clubs that raise money for charity and I want to make sure our current students have that same opportunity. Um as long as board policy is not going to hinder that, then I will support it. I don't think so. No. All right. Motion to approve then. Thank you. So we have a motion by trustee Kanton. Second. We have a second by trustee Korea. Those in favor please say I. And president Singh. I do also just want to congrat or thank Trusty Couo for bringing these policies forward. I was looking through some of the some of them and they

087haven't been updated in like 20 years in one case. So commend you for doing that work and updating our language. Thank you. So we have a motion by trusty kon, a second by trusty crew. Uh those in favor please say I. I. Those opposed nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to our action items. Our first action item being to accept gifts to district assistant superintendent. Good evening member of the school board and super O'Brien. U central high school received a donation of $350 from Austin Jenna Large for the FFA program. administration is recommending the board accept gifts to the district. And as a follow-up, the district will be sending a thank you letter to the donor. Questions or comments from the board on this item? Trusty Sellers. Motion to approve

088to accept. Excuse me. Thank you. We have a We have a motion to accept by Trustee Sers. We have a second by Trustee Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We move on to item number two, approve interim superintendent contract. So, um, Anita will be passing a the contract for the interim superintendent to, uh, to each of us for for review. Generally speaking, it's a standard contract for um interim superintendent, especially those that are calister retirees. Uh the contract includes a daily rate at the pay of $1,56.58 per working day. The contract began on March 26, 2025 and for each day worked with no fringe benefits. The in in uh keeping with our our sense of our fiscal responsibilities, the contract is uh absolutely

089within those that we have had for previous superintendent. Happy to answer any questions or any comments from any of my colleagues on the board. I'll move to approve. Second. We have a motion by trusty Curio, second by Trustee Sers. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. And officially welcome aboard Super. It's interim superintendent O'Brien. We move on to item number three. Hold public hearing and approve quarterly Williams uniform complaint procedure. Director English. Good evening, Superintendent Chan, members of the board, and inter superintendent Dr. O'Brien. This um this item returns from the previous agenda. I do want to note that one complaint related to facilities was filed during the third quarter. However, the complaint has been resolved. administration is recommending that the board hold a public

090hearing to approve the uniform complaint procedure. Thank you. And with that, we um we open uh our public hearing for the uh Quarterly Williams uniform complaint. Board President, 30 seconds have passed and there are no callers at this time. Any questions or concerns from the board? If not, Trusty Sers, may I ask what the complaint was that was filed? Yes, there is um a HVAC situation at Liddell Elementary School. Thank you. You're welcome. With that, we will close the hearing and do I have a motion on the item? I move. Go ahead. I'll move to approve and I'll take a second from trustee Kirk. So motion by trusty CO, second by trustee Kirk. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carry 70. Thank you. We move on to item

091number four. Approve bid schedule and award for Justin Garza High School Athletic Complex increment three. Director Rodriguez. Thank you, board president, board of trustees, and uh interim superintendent uh uh Dr. O'Brien. Tonight, I present to you the bid uh tabulation for bids uh that were opened on March uh 19th, 2025 for the athletic complex increment number three. Uh I would like to mention that uh because of our our contractor outreach, we had a lot of participation uh at both the job walks and at the opening of bids. Uh there was uh plenty of interest uh in our projects. Uh administration recommends that the board approve to award to the lowest apparent biders responsive biders for this project and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Questions or comments from the

092board on this item? Trusty Korea. I see the tabulation, but overall uh given the number of interest um did we come around or below or how close to the estimated cost initially? I think we kind of hit it right when I came back and initially uh gave just for information I said around 8 million. So we're right exactly where I thought we'd be. Okay. And then how much do we allocate to is it a contingency uh to the general what's what's the line item that we use if for any I'm forgetting the word for the project change orders and stuff. Oh yeah the statute the 10% statute. Yeah. That doesn't include that. No. Thank you. Mhm. I'll move to approve. We have a motion by trusty creel. Second. We have a second by Trusty Kon.

093Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Director Rodriguez. We move on to item number five, approve authorized signature and mailing permit. Assistant Superintendent Nvall. Good evening again. This is a item to approve authorized signatures on school district related documents. Administration is recommending the board approve the authorized signature remaining permits. Motion to approve. Questions or comments from the board. You have a motion by Trusty Kuron. Oh, sorry. We have motion by Trusty Kurfon. I'll second. Second by Trusty Curio. Any any questions before we take the vote? Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Move on to item number six. Approve security camera purchase and installation for just once in Colorado elementary school. Director Rodriguez. Thank you

094again, board president and board of trustees and uh interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. I I got the agenda kind of mixed up on my paperwork. So, I had to go back and get the one. Let me let me pull that one up right now. Board President, if I can add while um Director Rodriguez pulls his notes. Um just for the board's uh knowledge item six and seven uh the executive team made a decision to bring this as an action item just to ensure that there's no delay in our purchases. Typically I know we have a practice of bringing these items twice but when there's uh an ability to ensure that we can control as much as we can as far as increasing cost we'll do that. So if ever you have any concerns please make sure

095that you're reaching out to the board president. Yeah. Thank you. Uh, Vice President Creole. Uh, Director Rodriguez. Okay. For your approval, uh, tonight is the purchase and installation of security cameras for Joat St. Kalera Elementary School. In your attachment is the proposal from Magnetar US Incorporated to furnish and install cameras using the uh, California multiple award schedule CMASS contract. The acronym uh, that is frequently used as CAMASS contract. uh when the need arises and it's in the best interest of the district, it is often advantageous to utilize CAMASS contracts when items are identical to the district specifications. util utilizing CAMASS uh has have already have already been awarded through a competitive bid process uh is an efficient mechanism for legally procuring materials, supplies and services and uh at the same time uh preserving the district

096resources such as staff time to prepare the bid documents, drawings, specifications and legal advertising. Uh administration is recommending approval of this item. questions or comments on the from the board on this item? Jesse Ko, do we anticipate additional items? So, um, remind me, do we conduct our own surveillance for the cameras or we don't we don't pay for the service, right? We don't I'm trying to remember what we did with surveillance and like constant monitoring. Yeah. So, so that the site will have access through a license uh through Synapse and and uh the maintenance and operations transportation also has uh the ability to actually look at these cameras as well. Okay. So, we won't have to bring back any additional contracts or add it to any of our existing contracts for any security services for

097for specifically related to our camera system. That's a good question and I I'm going to say yes because I have uh bought prior to the uh construction cameras that are similar to these and I'm going to uh work them through the change order system. I'll bring them back to board to hang those cameras for additional security. Got it. Okay. Thank you. I'll move to approve. We have a motion by trustee Korea. Second. Second by trustee Kon. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. We move on to final item uh on our action items. Uh number seven, approve purchase of kitchen equipment. Director Engel. All right. Good evening, Superintendent Dr. O'Brien, President Singh, and members of the board. Tonight, I bring you information um to purchase

098kitchen equipment. Um and we're recommending it to be board approved. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments from the board on this item? Motion to approve. We have a motion by trusty Kon. We have a second by trustee Sidu. Those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, nay. Those abstaining. Motion carries. 70. Thank you. We move on to our information items for this evening. Our first being to receive information regarding core and supplemental materials for elementary and secondary courses. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Boight. Thank you. So, school staff have reviewed and requested these novels for use beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Approval is being rec requested for these items. So, first of all, we have the novel Clean Getaway. Um I can give a little summary of

099this is a story about a boy retracing the South's um segregationist past with his grandmother. Um, and then we also have Willow Dean, which is a timely and timeless tale about our fragile earth and one girl's fierce determination to make a difference. And then lastly, we have Catching Fire, which is the sequel to the Hunger Games trilogy. So, we are asking for approval on these. Um, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. I also have copies of the novels if you'd like to review them. Trusty Kuron, could I get a copy of Willow Dean? I I don't need a copy of Catching Fire. I read it in high school. It has a great book. I have it here for you. And do we have the Oh, sorry. Yeah. Trusty said the first

100parts of the Hunger Games or is it just like the sequel? Uh do we They do have the other books in the libraries. Yes. Yes. All right. And we're just asking that this be on the next agenda for action. Mhm. Trusty Sudu, I believe the freshman class read Hunger Games and the sophomores read Catching Fire. This I read on my attachment. Is that correct? That sounds about right. If no other questions, would we uh like to have this return under consent? Yes. Thank you. We move on to item number two. receive information regarding resolution 2425 to affirm the district's commitment to foster a healthy school environment. Director English. Good evening again, President Singh Chan, members of the board, and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. I also have with me um director of child nutrition Alyssa Angel.

101And we'll be doing this jointly today. We are not experienced clickers, but we will make it work. Ah, yay. Thank you so much. Before we begin, um this does partner with the resolution as we're providing this um annual wellness policy update. And to just um give you that background for those board members who were not here last time, I did provide a trienal report last year and part of our recommendations from our wellness committee was to strengthen our language and this is the result of some of the work that we've been doing during this 2425 school year. All right. So why we have a wellness policy? So, the USDA mandates any school um district that operates in the National School Lunch Program um has to have a wellness policy. So, that's the reason why we're

102here. We give updates every spring. And um part of the reason for the wellness policy was um to put restrictions on food sold in cafeterias and the food that we serve in cafeterias and also because of childhood obesity. And in Fresno County, we have approximately uh 40% of kids overweight between the ages of 5 to 19. And um the culture of our wellness policy is to have a safe school environment. We do um nutrition. We serve breakfast, lunch to all sites and 19 of our sites do after school pro um snack and supper. And then we do nutrition and physical education and part of that also is communities staff and students involved in our policy. I can still thank you. As we met as a team besides compiling the information for actually um this resolution

103for the welcome um the wellness policy that we can use for our district which will in turn serve our sites. It was our goal to also establish goals that can be measured and then um as we look at these each year they will give us information for our triannual update which will take place during the next threeear cycle. So as you see on the screen these are the four goals that our nutrition um excuse me our wellness committee came up with this year. Some of these goals we are already accomplishing but we realized that in the previous triannual update they were not called out explicitly in our document. So, we wanted to just make sure that we can look at those, be able to um not necessarily check that off, but know that we are

104in compliance with these issues and be able to celebrate that we are focusing on these goals here in Central Unified. So, as we see, we are focusing on integrating this um nutrition information really throughout all of the subject matters. It shouldn't just be for PE, but finding out where we can integrate those into our core subject areas like math, science, and then our health class that um our freshman students take. Also, um really what Alyssa's department does with the child nutrition is really highlighting those um and celebrating the foods that are being offered and served to students. She's done numerous tastings through the years. um especially looking at some of those um alternative foods that students from various cultures will partake of in our service um in our school lunch meals and then implementing the

105foods from our um local FFA program our at Central High School that are being served in our cafeterias. Then um once again this PE we've always had PE and we've had um expanded our PE with our elementary coaches but part of that was not explicitly called out in our previous wellness plan for that trial review. So we did put that in our resolution specifically the number of minutes that students are receiving. And then finally just um not just focusing on nutrition and physical fitness but looking at all aspects of health looking at our thinkeries are um what are we doing to support students socially and emotional as well. Um in our review also we do have areas of compliance. Some of these um we want to always remember because sometimes our school sites lose focus

106of these especially with other organizations. So, um, as Alyssa mentioned, we are serving students foods at breakfast and lunch, and we are really needing to focus on the, um, foods that are served during the school day and so that are sold. And so, we really wanted to focus on that, especially with some of our, um, snack bars. So, there's been some information that has not been um, completely understood as to why we're selling a particular variety of a snack. And so we're re-educating our members of the wellness committee so that they can speak to their staff at their school sites that maybe um even though it's a bag of chips that we can offer from the child nutrition department why they can't just go to Costco because it's not made with a particular whole grain.

107And um so we're that's an area of compliance that we really feel that we need to strongly focus on as well as um marketing products whether that's with the PTA or the PFC's the particulars of advertising what is being sold for fundraisers. And so that is something that we also want to focus on. It's an area of compliance that we need to um just really um educate not just our staff but our um whole community on that. Um here's just a picture of slide that you see that really just has some artifacts that is used in our trienal as well as our annual wellness policy to give you those updates. So we have the mandarin oranges from our central farm. Um we have some thinkery pictures that have been expanded to our secondary sites. The

108top is at Central East High School and then there's a thinkery picture from Rio Vista Middle School. We still want students engaged in physical fitness, whether it's a jogathon, you know, not just during their PE classes. Um there are opportunities for students during the spring camps to really save movement and so we are really excited that we are um meeting the goals in many of these areas and are continuing to make progress with that. Um thank you and we'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you both. Questions from the board. Trusty Kirk. I like that ringtone. I have uh just a couple of questions. I'm looking specifically at um the other areas of compliance. It does call out um about food served during the school day. So, that is not going to impact uh

109like sporting events and their snack bars. They can still sell the very unhealthy nachos and um they can sell you can't sell non-compliant food from midnight to 30 minutes after school. Okay. So, if it's at 30 minutes after school, we're good. Okay. My second question is I remember this came up when my kids were still in Central Unified. Is there any possibility that we can look at options for salads or a salad bar? We have salad bars in every single school and we do salad, fresh salads, fresh wraps at um all secondary and we serve salad on the salad bar with fresh fruits and vegetables at all elementary sites as well. Fantastic. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Trusty Chavez. Uh I have just a question and maybe I missed it, but um this is

110kind of more about the wellness subcommittee and I'm curious about how this fits in cuz I don't remember us discussing this particular piece at our last subcommittee meeting. So I just want to see how this connects or if it does. So the wellness subcommittee, the one that you're talking about is the one that's also tied to academic achievement. and the wellness is about the social emotional mostly. So the panorama survey results and those um types of data points the next wellness committee I don't remember the date I think it's in August maybe um will have those results back and so Dr. Lopez will be sharing that with you at that time. This though is a separate wellness, right? But I'm saying like this does connect cuz they're discussing the thinkeries. They're discussing some of the

111things about snacks. So I'm seeing connection points. So that's why I'm asking, you know, is this so supposed to be part of it? Have we thought about that? What are you going to Yes. So there is a workshop coming up soon, the MTA multi-tered systems of support workshop, which embodies the whole gamut. Uh and uh you did hear thinkery. So some of those components were in our subcommittee that we discussed. So thinkery staff social emotion I think I believe when these committees were formed we didn't necessarily think about child nutrition as part of a a component of that subcommittee. So there's an opportunity to grow that. Right. I think that's a great conversation for you all to agendaize at your next subcommittee. I'm assum you're on that subcommittee right? Yeah. and then talk about when

112is an appropriate time to incorporate some of that and just to get that feedback and and have connection points and then how can we leverage some of our resources so they can supplement what you're doing like I see connections as you're talking with some of the things that we discussed. Yeah, the wellness policy the board policy falls under um child nutrition and so when we get reviewed the wellness policy gets reviewed as well. Okay. So I think for both of you the board now has subcommittees and so that's what she's talking about the wellness subcommittee which talks about I think the the initial I believe the initial focus and the development of that subcommittee was around the alcap and some of the multiplier funds some of these funding sources academics and mental health right we

113didn't think about food physical but holistic we can join holistic approach and then also if I may add and part of that was the work of this um district committee to really bring forth this resolution so that it can be looked at when we just had the simple um gamut BP5030 that was you know more broad not necessarily to our district here now that this can um hopefully be um res resolved um we can really start to implement that and then you know trickle that down to our school site so that they can implement that and then we can also provide um materials to our community about these efforts, right? So, just one last thing. I mean, something simple when you're talking about physical fitness and you're talking about nutrition, it so connects to behaviors

114and it so connects to the school day. So, I just see such a symbiotic relationship between the work you're doing and what we're trying to bring forward with that subcommittee. So, I look forward to working with you guys. Awesome. Est. Thank you, Trusty Korea. So, help me understand. Uh, director English, you mentioned, so we have the student wellness board policy. Um, you're not proposing any revisions to that policy. No, you're proposing a resolution. Yes. Okay. Do we have an administrative regulation or is that kind of what the resolution's going to function as? I don't know if you know or if anyone from Yeah. Do we have an AR? Okay. So, how how are we going to make it work to make sure that because I love it. I the resolution is a great plan and

115this the uh committees at each of the schools. How do we ensure that they're aware and that we're holding them accountable that they're actually meeting um and they're being proactive that our PE teachers know about these instructional requirements? Like what does that look like? Yes, absolutely. So this is where the work of our district wellness committee lies. Initially we do have um membership from every school site and then um from there we are able to they take that back to their school sites and then um there there's a process of you know at the beginning of each school year um doing a survey basically seeing are we in compliance in certain things? Where are our opportunities for growth? where are our strengths and our successes and then um looking at those results really kind of

116structuring the school year to whether it's do we need to provide additional training for example last year Cassie Smith the supervisor of campus security and safety came really to talk about those social emotional pieces that we might not have had in prior committee um sessions and so without necessarily this resolution to carry forth for the school sites and to start um there's a process of providing materials for our community, for our families, our teachers as well. Um and then just being able to know as um Trustee Chavez says about the link between you know fitness and behavior and we can actually provide those sites um provide those documents for families and list those on the website. That's kind of where we move into that accountability phase because as I mentioned we will have another trienal

117review and so we will need to know um have we made progress or are we um stagnant or going backwards. Got it. Okay. If I can just add as well, we don't have an AR for this policy. There's an exhibit, but the exhibit is really about what um Alyssa would cover as far as you know, this percentage of calories have to be from, you know, it's those really, really strict requirements on those meals and things that were served. So, the resolution though is broader and really talks more about in central unified. This is what we do. This is what we support. And that makes sense that that's why I remembered that we only had a BP and not an AR. So, thank you for confirming that. Thank you. Thank you. No other questions on this

118item. Can we have a return under consent? Yes. Thank you both. Thank you. We move on to item number three on our information items. Receive information regarding student wellness contracts. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lopez. Good evening. Um so car solus currently in 430 school districts throughout California is a web-based program that all psychologists intervention counselors intervention specialists site administrators and teachers have access to uh in collaboration with the school sites carolers assist in connecting students and families as well as our own staff to mental health um their mental health needs and services that accept private insurance. The Kosolas database of services providers is updated every 6 months. The total cost is 59,250 to be paid out of the learning recovery emergency block grant. Administration is recommending this item be placed on the May 13th board agenda

119for action. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Trusty Ka. Thank you, President Singh. I have a couple questions. So, could you clarify for me exactly which services we're getting like the students would be interacting with? So, if there's a need, if uh any mental health need um that our family is struggling with, there's a phone number as well as an we have a website that they have access to to call and get information about services that apply to them with their uh current coverage and carolus provides that access to them as well. It's for our uh employees as well as our students. Thank you. And you said it's web- based, web and phone number based. So I contacted just to give you I wanted to learn more about it. So there was

120a family in need. We contacted the number to see how it would play out. And what it does is after they reach out to asking for supports and expressing their need um they text them a phone number and email them list of all the providers that uh their their current um insurance would cover. Is this the primary mental health service that we have for our students? No. No. We have various needs. However, for outside agencies, if they want family therapy, if they want services to be provided outside of our school setting, um we provide this number. Okay. So, this is for external services. And then, um how much do we currently pay careless under a current contract with them? You said 59,000 for this current this new one. Yes. So, I can give you that

121information in the action when it comes back for action. Thank you. And then um since the contract is over $50,000, is there a reason we're not going out to bid? It is a sole provider. So it does have the letter for being a sole provider of the services that they have. Um so that is why we are staying with them. Okay. No other questions on this item. Trusty Chavez. So I love the term soul provider because I do soul source things all the time. uh why is this person a sole provider? What what makes them uniquely qualified to be able to be the sole provider? I can read that out for you. I have it here with you. So, it says that uh Car Solless as a sole source provider for mental health care coordination

122and navigation service for Central Unified School District students, staff, and private insurance. It was chosen for its ability to provide FURPA compliant mental health care coordination services for K through2 schools and mu municipalities. The company connects individuals to mental health providers and community school services. Supports school-based referrals, collaboration, billing, and reimbursement processes utilizing its electronic health record technology platform. Carousol facilitates building submission, revenue cycle management, and expedited claims reimbursement and researching alternatives including greenspace, talk space, and hazel health. No other provider offered the comprehensive services Car Solus could provide from provider search to billing. Care Solus maintains copy copyright and trademark rights for its products and services including Carololis caresolus.com uh the calming the chaos of mental health warm handoff care loop powered by car soloulless and care companions as well as three other services.

123Okay. So, um I guess one last thing would be um so those services that were listed those sound like standardized kind of like services that they have I don't know branded for their company. It sounds like um and when you say the insurance this is what I'm curious about. Um you were talking about private insurance. So they're working with private insurance providers but are we also billing are they medical are they billing medical as well or do you know so for medical we um tend to go through the all for youth path. So we have a lot of services that we can provide to our families that have those. So these ones are doing separate from medical. That's yeah we want to make sure that every addition to that is correct. Okay. That clears it

124up. Thank you. No other question. Um, we can have this returned under consent. If anyone else has any uh other change or wants to look at it more, please please uh follow up with me. We turn to we then move to item number four. Receive information regarding athletic complex increment 3 DSA inspection services for Justin Garza High School. Director Rodriguez. Thank you again uh board president, board of trustees and interim uh superintendent Dr. O'Brien. Uh for your information tonight is the uh uh the district has received a proposal from uh Mr. uh Kazum uh El Shafi uh for inspection ser DSA inspection services that are required by the California building code for the athletic fields project uh increment 3 at Justin Garza High School. Uh Mr. El Shafi uh has provided uh inspection services for

125San Diego Unified School District, uh Los Angeles Community College District, Torrance Unified School District, and Kerman Unified School District. Mr. El Shafi resides in Clovis. Administration's recommended this item be placed on the May 13, 2025 uh board agenda for approval. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Trusty Korea, this is the first time we're contracting for his services. He's on currently on increment two, so I'm just trying to keep the continuity. Okay. I didn't remember the name, but thank you. No other questions. If no other questions, we can have this uh returned under consent. Thank you, Director Rodriguez. We move on to item number five. receive information regarding construction testing and inspection services for athletic complex increment 3 at Justin Garza High School.

126Director Rodriguez. Thank you again, board president, board of trustees, and interim superintendent Dr. O'Brien. For your information tonight, uh the district has received a proposal for materials, testing, and laboratory services that are required by the California Building Code for Justin Garza High School Athletic Complex increment number three uh from RMA Geoscience. RMA Geoscience has pre previously provided materials testing and lab services on multiple district projects and is knowledgeable about our facilities. Uh administration is recommending that this item be placed on May 13th, 2025 uh board agenda for approval and I'll be h happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. No questions. We'll have this return under consent. Like I said, if there's any later questions, please return to me. Item number six, last but not least, receive information on just one

127in Colorado Elementary School project change orders for bid packages SB203 and 08. Director Rodriguez, thank you again. Um the so uh free information tonight are the change orders for the multi-prime packages and the attachments of the uh itemized summary for Joswat Singh Colorado Elementary School project for your review. The increase uh to the project is due to the impacts implemented after this project was originally bid. Uh staff has reviewed and recommends that this item return to the board on May 13th, 2025. Uh board agenda for action. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. Looks like no questions from the board, so we'll have this also returned under consent. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Director Rodriguez. Thank you board president. We next move to advanced planning. Um Dr. O'Brien, do

128we have any uh coming events at this time or Oh, we do have a board workshop. Yeah, sorry. Um we are looking at that board workshop. uh we just discussed it today to determine if it might be advisable for us to wait until uh the summer for that given that there will be some new personnel on board and also given the fact that this room which we were using uh there's some modernization being done so um I will discuss that further with you president Singh but that's a topic that's under discussion right Yeah, thank you. And with that, any other uh additional information or closing comments from any of my colleagues on the board? Sorry, one other item I just want to draw your attention to is that we are in discussions about having a

129celebration a celebratory ribbon cutting at Kera Elementary and I will get that information to you as soon as we finalize that date. Looking forward to it. Thank you. Uh our next meeting we will um our next uh regular board meeting will be on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 at 6 p.m. for close session, 7 p.m. for public session here at the Central Unified School District District Office here in room 13. And with that, we will um adjourn back to close session. Thank you all for joining.