001e [Music] he [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] is [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] he [Music] hey [Music] hey oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] n [Music] p [Music] la [Music] n [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] n [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] hey [Music] hey oh [Music] oh [Music] wo [Music] h [Music] oh [Music] e [Music] p [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] yeah [Music] yeah [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] B [Music] e good evening Welcome to our Center Unified Community welcome to the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees uh on March Mar 12th 2024 at 7:04 p.m. uh a report out of a few of our close session items
002on item uh E2 we had a motion by trustee servantes a second by trustee sellers uh motion passed uh 70 on item E3 we had a motion by trusty cantes a second by trusty kfon motion pass 70 and um we have an additional item with regards to our certificated uh and classified Personnel on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm ploud proud I am proud and pleased to report that during close session the governing board took action to appoint uh Dr marene uh Lopez as the next assistant superintendent for student and Family Services effective May 1st 2024 2024 the vote was [Applause] unanimous later and then do I read this do I read this part too that'll be on the contract item do you want to come introduce yourself now or do it later let's
003do it now okay you want to come up and introduce yourself now push the little button there get at it I apologize for my voice I'm losing it today it's the air I think I want to start by saying thank you to uh board presiden sing um to our Board of Trustees as as well as superintendent Ketty Davis for granting me the opportunity to serve Central unified uh I do want to express you know growing up in Fresno uh as an English language learner a proud daughter of immigrant parents it was always within my heart to serve our community and give back so I started my career actually as a par professional and the in Biola through the migrant program and that's where I learned the amazing supports provided to our kids through Central unified
004and the great support within our schools as hubs for our families so that is what caus me to apply for this position and it is an honor to have been selected tonight so I appreciate you I do want to say that I in recognition of women's History Month I want to express a thank you to all the women that work in our district as well as at home for serving our kids and loving on our children and having said that I do have uh individuals here today supporting me that have been mentors to me I want to say thank you for being there for me and my daughter uh for parents please know I know that being an educator a teacher par professional a single mom of two beautiful children I know that it takes
005a village to raise a child and I am just so delighted to be part of this collaboration and part of the system where we're going to hopefully make some great um work together come up with some great work together to meet the needs of our kids and our population as well as our community have a great evening that concludes the readout of our close session items as we turn to open session we ask um truste sers to lead us in the flag salute please stand for fledge Allegiance FL in the back ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Justice than you thank you trusty sellers we we invite William lozo to join
006us uh in the front and share about our community engagement information or our Mrs bios yes if you wish to address a board call 559 276 3150 or fill out that request form provided on the table near to the entrance and submitted to the cleric at the board prior to the meeting if you wish to speak on an item on the agenda please do so when an 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 see the district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings anyone planning to attend a meeting an interpretor for language other than Spanish will be to call 559 274-4700 extension 105150 by noon on Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48
007hours in advance of the meeting so Arrangements can be made for an interpreter thank you next we turn to our presentations we ask if Maya Morales our student body president of central East High School can join us hi my name is Maya Morales I'm the ASB president at Central East High School in January we had about a week and our theme was Battle of the toys rally Space Rangers versus Cowboys it was such a great success so much student involvement on dress up days lunch activities and at the rally in February we had formal which was Tangled in our memories it was also Black History Month great great lunchtime events put on by our black student union and they attended and put on Ed an educational lunch in for the staff this month march today
008was kids next week is chicken week chicken KO chicken everyone is looking forward to chicken week and then preparing for graduation thank you thank you Maya uh next we ask if uh Mia Morales can join us our student representative from Central online home school can good evening Central unified Board of Trustees Mr President sing tan and superintendent Mrs Davis my name is Mia Morales and I'm a freshman at Central online home school I'm here to share a few highlights of chos with you our overarching goal at Coos is to provide students with the various opportunities to engage with school and interact socially we are accomplishing this goal in several ways the CHS staff is in the process of finishing the Western Association of schools and college self-study and preparing for visit that will take place
009in April when students parents and staff will be meeting with the was committee We are continuing to offer enrichment activities for students of all grade levels and will be making some adjustments to what we offer in an effect in an attract and sorry in an effort to attract more students our newest addition this spring will be pickall for students to come and enjoy our create through five students have continued to enjoy a monthly hybrid family literacy night with January's book being what do you do with a problem February's book being wolf in the snow and March escape goat students and families can share and participate in an activity together usually families will come in ahead of time pick up their books and materials for the activity the stem enrichment program on Fridays is definitely a
010favorite with our younger students and some of the recent activities this semester are creating a family board game and creating a mini Greenhouse in the fall our K through five grade students completed 94% of their courses in our uity program in February in honor of Black History Month Stan Tucker a children's author came to read and sing the book we shall overcome sorry a story about a song written by Debbie Levy it was so heartwarming to see just about every kindergartener and fifth grader student in attendance we also revti our social Med our social media during the month February we focused on black History Month highlighting a different person in our nation's history each day to get current update update information please consider following us at Instagram at Coos Rising last week we kicked off
011read Across America with officer scoffield giving them the opportunity to get a closer look at his patrol car each day of the week the staff and students were encouraged to dress up based on the theme stop Dro and read Monday was Al's have Big Dreams Tuesday days was read a read about a famous American and wear red white and blue it was also election day Wednesday was read about an influential athlete and wear sports gear Thursday read about read a book about a different culture where wear something that represents your family's culture or your hometown Friday was draw the cover of your favorite book and enter in our 's writing contest last semester we had a 98 completion rate of courses in grades 6th through 12th which was an improvement from last year this year
012we also have a career speaker series every month in our home room so far we had a chief from calire a published author and a registered nurse a Fresno Police Officer and next month we will have somebody from city the city of Fresno to talk to students about city jobs and construction this allows sixth through 12th graders students to hear from people in various careers about the jobs and paths to get there we are looking forward to our four Graduation Ceremony this June and are aiming to have a 100% graduation rate this year two of our seniors started with us sorry as freshman um this is our first year of having full four years with chos three of our seniors have already graduated this year and started college the military and the workforce one of
013the graduates has already started his own business building GTI ice chess on a go-kart um we have featured his invention in our social media we take pride in our students and their success thank you for your time and have a good [Applause] evening thank you Mia and and I apologize Dr boat right for just jumping straight in um next we turn to uh um Mr Collegian assistant superintendent Mr Collegian to share about some student recognition thank you thank you president Singh it is with uh immense Pride that we announce the victories of the just Garza High School cheerleading team the girls wrestling team and the boys soccer team and clinching Valley championships this season yes our dedicated athletes and coaches have showcased exceptional skill teamwork and determination throughout the season culminating in this remarkable achievement
014their hard work perseverance and passion for their respect Ive Sports have truly paid off uh please allow me to introduce Justin Garza High School athletic director Mr Tan who will share further details about their outstanding performances and accomplishments let's all applaud our Justin GS of Aly Champions congratulations on this well-deserved [Applause] success good evening board uh thank you for allowing us this time and opportunity to be here to recognize um the successes and and uh the efforts of our cheer team that's up here tonight um our cheer team uh coached by Britney aino uh Katie mendenhal and Alan Rios are repeat division one section Valley Champion uh Champions they are the division one state champions in California and again made another trip to Orlando Florida to compete in the UC national championships where they finished
015six out of 118 teams in their division so thank you for allowing us to be here to recognize them okay come on around congratulations and this is Trusty CIO congratulations to all of you I hope you here's over the phones telling you congratulations too congratulations great job great job really fun to watch congratulations very very congratulations thinking next year again too right another year coming congratulations [Applause] congratulations assistant superintendent clean keep them coming okay uh time to honor our next group Justin Garza High School girls wrestling Valley [Applause] Champions so I wonder if the coach for this team is if you have Maria doap before they leave yeah okay the next uh team that we are recognizing tonight is our uh girls wrestling [Music] team our girls wrestling team is coached by Paul maram Mingos
016and Gabby ralo along with their assistant coaches uh some of the accolades to go over as a team uh the girls this year were crowned division 2 Valley champions for the first time in school [Applause] history we also have a few individuals uh who had uh some Championship marks as well that we would like to recognize uh s Reus uh in the 130 lb weight class was a division 2 individual section champion [Music] wo Olivia racho in the 190 lb weight class was a SE uh section division 2 Champion as well as placing second in the uh section Masters tournament and finishing top 12 in the state meet and Bakersfield earlier or last month and lastly and lastly noi sadano uh who is our heavyweight division 2 individual Champion third third place finish at masters
017section championship and finished in the top 16 at the state meet in Bakersfield last month ladies and gentlemen Justin Garza's girls [Applause] wrestling congratulations congratulations congratulations to all of you from tro minut congratulations congratulations congrats congratulations great way great job have them wait for just a minute have wrestling wait for just a minute congratulations congratulations great job thank you for all your hard work thank you for your hard work for your hard work you guys lot of effort thank you thank you you mind having Maria come up to do you want me to ask you to do that they know what we're doing no yeah president Singh if we could ask to go out of order on agenda and bring up the alumni recognition as well because there happens to be someone amidst the wrestling
018uh group that's right in front of us that's about to be recognized so with your permission can we go out of order absolutely evening everyone this week's honory a central East High School class of 2020 Gabriela racho and the person who nominated her says Gabriela racho was a wrestler for Central East High School however after graduating she would return to Central unified and become a coach at Justin Garza High School in her few years at the campus she has transformed the wrestling program she's been working with athletes to try and make them the best they can be last Last Summer she sent one of her wrestlers to Fargo North Dakota to represent California her athletes have been absolutely remarkable in the last year and will certainly be a name to remember in the next two
019years especially with what they have accomplished in this last year she does many other things off the mat as well she ensures students are doing well in school inspiring them to pursue a college education and teaches them that the sport of wrestling is life-changing as long as Gabby continues to coach she will certainly continue to change the lives of boys and girls on her wrestling team the central alumni certainly deserves the recognition for everything she does as well as help develop Justin gara's wrestling program to the best of the best thank you Gabriela for your continued service to our community and commitment to our youth let's give her a round of applause would you like to share a few words it's all yours I would like to say thank you for um the nomination it
020is an honor to you know come up for this award um love Central unified I've been here at a very young age I grew into this and this has been a longtime goal of mine to inspire young athletes that sky the limit you can do whatever you put your mind to and to continue on I I hope to send many athletes on full R scholarships to college thank you so much for this [Applause] award yeah and Gabriella can we have you come up yeah thank you time number two yeah thank you thank you for everything had to do it with your whole group here congratulations than thank you thank you for fix congratulations Gabriella and as you all shake her hand I just I'm I'm sorry that I'm not there in person especially given how
021many young ladies and women we are celebrating today uh and and the fact that it's women's history month so congratulations to you [Music] all our celebrations are not quite done yet please welcome CIF Central section division Champions Justin Garza high school boy soccer [Applause] team okay we got a big group over here uh okay uh as Mr Collegian said our varsity boys soccer team uh some of the accomplishments uh obviously coached by our wonderful coaches Christopher Young and Christ uh Christian sujan uh like it was said section four division Champions first in school history uh it is the first boys sports program on our campus to bring home a section Championship um we were thrilled to be able to for the first time in school history not only win a section Championship but be able
022to host a section championship and we were able to do that in front of about 11 a little over 1100 fans at kigian Stadium uh which was a a wonderful experience for the boys and the coaches um they Advanced to the noral uh Regional championships uh where they made it all the way to the semi semi-final match traveling to King City uh the boys came a little bit short but it was an experience and an opportunity that they will never forget uh and a little added note to that the team they lost to ended up becoming the section of the division four state champion so it's nothing to be to be sad about so again our Justin Garza boys varsity soccer team congratulations to you all great job great J congratulations great job congratulations fun
023to watch congratulations looking forward to next season congratulations great job great job congratulations congratulations job great job congrats congratulations great job you guys were really fun to watch this year Cong great job conratulations [Music] youon great thank you good job you guys great job you guys thank you for all your efforts guys time and you're fun to watch next year there you go y y that'll work I know I appreciate that they you any good you got like thank you very much probably just in case those people I figure I'm getting every germ there is Jeremy's got the hearty I voice this week from myold so I had a cold couple mons ago thank thank you to all the families that and and all the students and all their support let's do it everybody next
024we turn to our employee Association highlights can we invite uh Laura Bolton Central unified Teachers Association president okay thank you for again having us on the agenda it's always nice to have this time to to speak and share some things with you um so I have um a lot of um positives that were shared with me this time from our site reps um and um some of these things are about um students that they they work with and some of these things are about um our members themselves so the first one um is um about a Central graduate um Xavier worthy um if you haven't heard he ran the 40 yard dash and 4.2 1 seconds beating Usain Bolt's record um so at the NFL combine so they wanted me to share that with you
025um I am going to apologize up front I'm probably not going to pronounce these names very well um and I didn't have anybody to check how to how to pronounce them so um two students um that were honored at the county leadership conference um were honored as senior of Distinction Sidia Haynes and Sydney akaka I don't think I said him right but I tried really hard um so so both of those students have um distinctions for the things that they've done for the schools um president of the BSU vice president of bscu at the state level um uh Saia um was um given an award um of a scholarship at the state conference for her acts of service in our community and Sydney um has a 4.0 GPA as well as the things that she's
026done for the campus um Alysa fight our teacher Alysa fight and the FCCLA family career and Community leaders of America formerly Homemakers of America um their Regional Conference um recently they had 18 um Central East High School students that qualified for State um two students were elected to the state office six first place finishes and four second place finishes um we also had a group of seven School nurses that traveled and attended the California school nurse organization conference um this past month um our very own um certificated nurse Lena NN at West was awarded the state school nurse of Excellence of the Year award for California from csno um at Glacier Point um the e8th grade boys basketball team won the SE Val Championship um at McKinley um they wanted me to share that um
027they are doing an after school um elpac Academy so elpac eel Pac um the is the one for the state test for our English Learners um they're they're doing small groups of students after school working on the four domains of Reading Writing speaking and listening to prepare them for their elpac assessment um I thought that was a creative way to try to get in some additional support for them um Madison Elementary um their Odyssey of the mine team placed first in our region and they're now advancing to the state champ competition uh River Bluff um they have set up a sensory gym um and the kids are really loving it um speech and um OT occupational therapy are um using it also for their session so it's got multi-purposes um Megan Turner at um Rio
028Vista coordinated her second um idea um Fellowship event for Black History Month um there were um uh eight students from Ela that um presented informational research posters on black history figures the BSU Club um created posters um U Mrs pne's home at class created a quilt um and Aaron English was the keynote speaker that day um and they also hosted an African drum group as well um Tilly Elementary um they they came up with a an interesting idea this is um not so much something that they're doing but something that they'd like to do and it's kind of um piggybacking on what um McKinley is doing um they have 36 newcomers and um they are talking about um wanting to do some creative things after school to try and service those kiddos and I've brought
029this up with um with our district admin to see if there's a way for us to possibly um use some of the funds that are existing like maybe migrant funds to actually do some of the work um for newcomers after school rather than during the day so um they thought it was an interesting idea and I I know they're going to look into it and see what can be done um and then finally um the Fresno be's best of um Central California vote um happened recently and we had um several of our schools that were nominated for best school in the Central Valley um the voting's closed and the the results will be announced in June on June 2nd but um Steinbeck um Central Elementary El Capitan and Central East were all nominated as um
030best schools of the Central Valley so I want to make sure that even if they don't win that you know that they were nominated and um that's that's an honor in itself so thank you very [Applause] much next we invite our um California School Employees Association uh president Andie giri hi good evening uh board members of superintendent Miss Davis um I just have a few highlights um some of our site reps wanted to uh highlight a few classified members in the district so I have uh just about three people uh this is from our site reps I would like to highlight Charles Lee here at Rosevelt elementary school he is a bad Aid Mr Lee is a great role model for our kids and a fantastic leader to our troubled boys I've noticed countless times
031where Mr Lee guides young boys in the right direction with his feedback and playful attitude he doesn't know how special he is to provide a safe environment for our kids and allow them to have someone safe that they can talk to and rely to Mr Lee is a great leader and SP Aid and goes above and beyond for our student we are very uh blessed to have him here at Roosevelt Elementary School uh the second one is uh to highlight Matthew and Adele Rancho which their daughter just got an award I didn't know kind of worked out they are both bus drivers and both serve as the booster club board for Justin Garza wrestling team they have been involved with wrestling for our district for many years they used to coach at Teague when Adella
032worked at uh Teague Elementary they have always been very involved with both sental and Garza wrestling programs and promote the sport for both boys and girls the girls wrestling program is growing so much they want to see it grow and succeed in central unified they both have the passion to help build our district wrestling program to the fools and help the kids at the best way they can other than that that's all I had to report uh the other thing is job studies going good uh we've already negotiated with Mr quar on 15 job days it went very well tomorrow we're doing another set of 15 um hopefully we'll have everything wrapped up by the first week of April we're going to continue to meet with the classified employees during summer uh spring break so
033we'll have everything ready hopefully by April that's it thank you next we ask superintendent Davis uh to provide a report to receive information regarding boundary process timeline and related board policies thank you and I did take the slide if you guys can get the timeline slide up onto the screen just thank you so much so attached on this item uh really the intent of this is to prepare for our upcoming uh study of attendance boundaries and so tonight's report is to First provide a timeline for you and then also uh just bring to light and have a brief discussion around the board policies associated with boundary timeline process and open enrollment so as you can see uh the uh new Elementary School certainly triggered this attendance boundary work uh right now we are in March
034I can't believe I should say we're almost in late March at this time uh but you may have seen last week we did launch a video to give an overview as well as a uh just an alert to our community that we do have Town Hall meetings coming up within the next week we will announce what those dates are in April uh and we plan at our next work session that we have uh to bring uh some some of the boundary process as well to continue this conversation so tonight isn't to share any of the boundaries um but merely the process so our goal will be that um we do release to the community prior to the town hall meeting sample boundary options that has been a a habit of our um our our plans
035in the district and that we go through both inperson Town Halls as well as online input uh venues for people to give their feedback for or make suggestions to uh which boundary recommendation should be brought forward to you and then our goal dates are that 10th we bring it for information and May 28th um recommend an adoption of a recommendation for uh both a set of um adjusted boundaries for the opening of a new elementary school and then also following the school facilities work for uh the High School boundaries for Central High School the other items that are attached to the agenda are the board policies associated with this and so you may notice um board policy 5116 that is attached uh just really addresses that the role and responsibility for establishing School attendance boundaries
036comes to you all as the trustees uh and identifies the factors that are to be considered uh when identifying boundaries there's not an AR for this policy however there is a second policy attached that does have AR and that's board policy 511 6.1 that is related to the open enrollment policy and in that board policy it authorized the superintendent or design to establish procedures uh and for the selection and transfer of students within the schools in accord in accordance with law and so uh in AR 511 6.1 if you have the attachment open I I didn't pull it up to the screen but is attached to your item um in the administrative regulations on page labeled C it's the third page there I just wanted to draw your attention to uh what the um processes
037or the procedures for student enrollment which I know I saw our supervisor in the back mayy Young when she's handling all the intra and Inter District transfers and all of the logistics of enrollment thank you already for what you do uh but we outline in this policy or excuse me this administrative regulation that when those attendance boundaries are revised uh that there are some considerations for elementary middle and high school we have have Sunset um the term grandfathering to have more inclusive language in the process for this open enrollment transfer but that is the terminology that was used in the past to identify are their student groups that uh it would be appropriate when an attendance boundary changed to be allowed to stay or request to stay at the campus that they were at even
038though their residents has now moved to another spot if I can draw your attention even if you don't have it open what I would summarize in it is that the administrative regul um regulations indicate for elementary school that this offer to stay at a campus if their campus or home residence has changed to a new school if they were in either entering in 25 26 either fifth or sixth grade so finishing their sequence at the elementary school uh for Middle School it would be if entering the 25 26 school year because remember we're year out in this process um if you're entering 8 grade that you'd be able to if you wanted to stay and finish out your middle school experience and then uh with high school in this case uh you can see that
039it would um be uh applied for 11th and 12th grade students as well so if start of that 25 26 year if you're entering your 11th grade year um that that uh you would have the opportunity if you wanted to to stay at the campus that you had started your high school experience at uh so there's a process to do that uh the processes are all outlined in those plans the importance for you to see them first and have any discussion if there needs to be any discussion is that we know that this is going to be a big question when we get to the town halls or what are those processes what are those policies what are the administrative regulations what's the process for this if my family were affected uh by an attendance
040boundary and so we will fold in this information uh to the presentations and to what we provide families online um but first we wanted to bring it to you for any discussion or um input that you may have so that's all I've got we're not recommending any changes to the policy but certainly want to get the process started with um with each of these steps trusty santes thank you board chair in regards to getting this information out besides the town halls that are going to be being held how are we going to get this information out to to parents that don't attend a town hall so uh we are trying to use both the web access so on the website we have a dedicated uh space on our website already that Olay has gotten started
041where anything we're talking about at meetings is available there uh we are going to uh include in our messaging out that goes out to uh families through parents Square any of these updates that we have uh we'll try to use video in some cases we've gotten feedback that sometimes an explanation by video has been helpful and we'll continue to do that uh people who don't want to attend the town hall can also give feedback either on an electronic form or uh we have also met with each of our uh principles they will be involved in this process and part of their involvement is not only attending a town hall but also uh delivering the same content in their PTA uh or PFC School site Council elac meetings so there's some in-person discussion at the school
042level as well well there be a limit or a cut off or Andor only allow a certain percentage of kids or all kids will have that ability and parents to stay in the school that they've um already started things of that nature I mean how many parents are we going to allow or how many kids are we going to allow is a certain percentage that we're going to be allowing or is it just everybody or anybody that wants it anyone that wants to participate in a town hall no anybody would like to stay in the exist for open enrollment you want to talk a little bit about the process I mean it it's a option that we've used in the past correct I don't know that I could answer the how many number trusty cantes
043but the way the uh uh boundary change continuous transfer is identified in in the in the current policy it would allow for uh for particular uh we could start with elementary schools it would allow for uh the if you're in 2025 26 if you're a fifth and a sixth grader procedures in place to allow you to stay in your current school that you're attending if we go down to the Middle School level that would apply to uh entering the eighth grade in that in that given school year through this again the the boundary change continuous transfer process essentially they would have to you know apply between the month of April and May of that previous year to be um placed into so they can remain at that school essentially and then again high schools would
044be um 11th and 12th grade to stain those areas so uh can't give you hard numbers I think when we enter the uh that that transfer portion time in real time we'd understand of how many students are electing to stay in their current school so we could staff them accordingly and then at the same time um the new school would there where there'd be residenc into because of the new CH new boundaries and how we appropriately staff them to determine how many students are enrolled there so that Springtime prior to the actual occurrence of the changes would be a heavy time for staff to U make sure that those transfers are taking place and assigning students those specific schools of choice and there is a timeline if I can add to that point so that
045Staffing in space can be arranged for because there could be for a two-year period of time an additional fifth or an additional sixth grade classroom to accommodate students that had requested to stay according to this and um that would then as those students move on those that staff would would move where uh the the school is yeah is going to be residing so with opening of a new elementary school it is relieving the capacity at all of them so there is some space for that um that percentage of of offer that we've had thank you trusty sellers yes thank you uh are we sending out any type of mailers or anything to reach the parts of the community that don't use digital technology we've talked about that um right now uh we haven't planned to
046do a mailer but if that is the U an idea that you think will help to reach everyone we certainly have the time and the ability to do that okay I I think it'd probably be a good idea and then we Al gives us the ability to capture the uh residents who may have small children who are not yet enrolled and uh are not accessing the platforms that we're putting out truste Korea thank you president saying following up on trusty cervantes's question um will I I understand that we don't have numbers now because it's going to depend on how many students request to stay uh in their schools now based on this criteria um but is it correct to assume that there there could be a potential that we have more students than we have
047capacity and we will not be able to honor everyone's request I don't want to say never because we haven't done this process yet but when we talk to the demographers and we start looking at planning we're not uh closing a school down and moving we're opening a campus so it is relieving and reducing numbers at all of those affected campuses and so they're right now serving the population that they have if if I'm making sense in that regard uh and so if they all chose to stay for their sixth grade year there's already space for them and staff for them there uh the idea would be with the new school opening that there's some reductions of classrooms needed at those campuses and it may just not happen that first year of 25 26 because um
048so many fifth or sixth graders let's say were're talking Elementary had elected to stay okay got it thank you for that clarification and who is currently preparing our boundaries I'm assuming we're using a vendor can you remind us who that vendor is yes the vendor that we're working with is power school they did our demographic audit uh and so they have our residential development information and and the data and so uh they will uh continue to work with us and and take our feedback in your input uh to make sure that um that we've got some map examples that that work okay and what information have we provided them thus far to help guide them in developing uh proposed Maps uh the residential housing information the demographic information for our area they produce the demographic
049audit I'm also looking at uh assistant superintendent ebal he might want to add more to this uh the files for uh the demographic of the students enrolled that uh make up each of those counts that they have so they can also look at um the the equity balance or distribution when changing attendance areas um what other information either director Rodriguez or assistant superintendent did I miss anything no that's about it okay so we haven't provided them with our board policy oh yes they have board policies yes sorry I was thinking in numbers yes they have board policies they understand the factors criteria um that are outlined and and also uh were able to share those with us if you may recall at the work session they walked through some of those processes uh with us
050as well and I may have um missed this because I I was unable to attend the facilities Workshop uh but was a copy of the demographic audit provided to the board yes there was a summary page that we'll make sure is available and was attached to the item uh the board item that shows uh each campus and both their current prior four or five years and then 10 years out the predictions as well as uh a map kind of a heat map of where residential development is occurring okay thank you and then two more questions um you mentioned we well let me rephrase this I think it's it's fair to say that we're going to have a lot of questions from our community members and I'm sure disgruntled community members as well if there are
051members that have questions that we as trustees are receiving if we're unable to answer answer them based on the information provided tonight and based on the information that we anticipate will continue to be provided to us um who should we direct our community constituents to from the district to ask any follow-up questions or receive any information thank you for that uh each principal uh came already to our initial training and we will equip them uh they helped us to develop even additional frequently asked questions that they're already Hearing in their community and will add to and that will also be made available on the website and we will make sure you have that as well thank you so and my last sorry go ahead I just wanted to add I'm sorry uh I'm assuming everyone
052is attached to a school in some way um certainly if uh they are unable to or don't have a student that currently is attached to a school that they could talk to a a school principal uh we have a general email or contact number on our website that they could contact and get a hold of any one of us to help them with with those questions to be answered okay at our next I think our Workshop we're going to have some additional discussion related to this item um can you provide that information so that it's part of our minutes just for anybody who may be watching or ever looks at the minutes and also so that we can easily refer back to our own um records as a board absolutely fantastic thanks um one last
053question uh you mentioned the website out twice um what languages are do we have the information available on the website uh any of the material we're sending out is available English Spanish Punjabi and Mong and that's what is loaded on that website so when you go to the site and you see a resource right underneath that resource is a link to the link languages of any of the resources that are posted there great thank you so much no further questions for me trusty sers yes thank you just wanted to add on to uh trusty Cervantes and cio's comments uh questions uh in regards to the allowing students to remain on their campus that they originated uh how do we see that playing out with the high schools so with the high schools as they are
054the the administrative regulations would be grade 11 and 12 stay we are under capacity although at Comfort level at our campuses so um certainly Justin Garza is the one that we've had the most conversation around if the 11th and 12th graders um opted to stay there that may instead be um moving to another campus um they would stay uh full in all of their classrooms for one to two extra years and um our administrative regulation or the procedure for that has just been how can we make something like this that is a long-term decision as um minimally disruptive to the current students and so it might mean that that campus stays at a larger capacity and when I mean capacity I'm not saying sight capacity but Comfort capacity that we've been trying to keep it
055you know a little bit smaller than um using every single corner of the campus uh just because we don't have any boundaries decided on yet in the the event or the potential that there was a influx of students they will be allowed to stay there so the administrative RS say that there that is an option so if if um thinking ahead if there is a family that uh will for future go to Central High School or Central East um and their child's in 11th grader they could um I'm pointing to the back here but they could um ident ify themselves during the window of time saying I want to stay at my campus and so we've got to be ready to maintain the staff there and and they wouldn't the staff wouldn't reduce yet because
056those students were opting to stay for their 11th and 12th grade year okay typically how long would that window be April that's right it's the first school day of April to last school day of May it's in policy and when we get to next year at the other side of of the boundaries uh that type of information will need to be at the ready for everybody because that will be a very common question and we'll include it even in the town hall work now because some people may have that question already right thank you one more question comment if I may president yes yeah Char C please based on truste sellers' questions and Miss apology superintendent Davis's com comment um can we also ensure that in the town halls we identify the Personnel responsible for
057any requests related um to the administrative regulation so the in District I think you said um and I think she's a director so I apologize if I miss the uh Miss Young director young yes she she will be identified and and I did make a note any staff involved in the process also participates in those town halls but in terms of making it a available for people to know clearly where they would go to get questions answered uh principes will also know how to help uh route them to the right space and and we'll make that available and I would also request that we ensure that in these communications um and in these uh town halls and and discussions with the principales and director young that we're also including our community Lea because I anticipate
058that they're going to be the ones especially communicating with our non-english speakers um facilitating that information and making sure that all of our families uh have access to the information and are aware of the procedures yes and that's one of the reasons we're trying to uh to move these things to you right now is anything that we have material-wise we want them to have have time to translate and understand uh just as much as we want office staff secretaries as we want um uh members of of um our team from around the district to have that information too we we want to be ready with answers and and not having to direct people other places or grab their question and and hold on to it so okay and so I would just request once there
059all further discussion is concluded that we do bring this item uh back uh to our April 9th meeting just in case there are any revisions based on our discussion or if we want to have any further discussion about potential revisions and we don't have to necessarily act if that's not uh the desire of the majority of the board that would be great because that would be right before Town Hall start so I could provide any of the most current information for you thank you yeah thank you so so the item will return for action on the uh April 9th uh meeting next we turn to our superintendent board Communications well I sure wasn't ready for that to jump right over but just a couple of quick uh notes for you I did give you a
060copy of a letter received from the state superintendent of Public Instruction uh congratulating principal Jill Young and the persing continuation high school for being designated as a model continuation High School in the state of California they are one of 31 Statewide it's pretty incredible yes yay woohoo I was looking to see if she was here but it was an incredible experience to to be even a part of the interview and hear the the feedback and and if I could just um share in the letter to principal young um there is commendations for her and her staff for demonstrating extraordinary commitment to students and their families providing students with a myriad of educational options Mental Health Resources and other Support Services to set all of their students um out for success and so what this means
061is over the next three years uh continuation schools that are struggling continuation schools that are trying to improve their service to students uh will be directed to uh Persian continuation school to get ideas on how to surve students uh I also want to share in terms of schedule uh sometimes you get questions on this last week we did just finish our Middle School Parent conferences and next week we do have Elementary parent conferences so it does adjust their schedule to minimum days on those days for parents to come in and meet or meet online and then uh just as a followup for you uh you recently approved the school accountability report cards and you may recall they were lacking some of the data and I had committed to let you know when that data had
062been received by by the state uh it has it's the time for me to let you know it has been received it's currently in translation for posting on the website and if I could I don't oh he's in the back if I could take just two minutes and thank oligario um Tapia who's in the back there who has been helping us for the last few months until Maria Cortez joined us for public relations I know you've seen him at every board meeting helping out and and being in contact with you all and so I I appreciated the continue service that's all for me tonight any other communication from the board trusty Kon thank you president Singh uh I'll go first happy uh women's uh uh History Month uh to all women are part of our
063community that makes Cent and fight so great uh and then last week was read Across America week I had the uh pleasure of reading the classrooms at both Tilly and McKinley Elementary thank you superintendent Davis for saying that up uh principal Ginger and Dr cono for giving me a tour of the campus and for uh all the teachers I got to meet and the students um that you know got to share in the joy of reading some of them my neighbors others I had met previously and uh our students well behaved and hopefully this encourages them to uh read more so we can you know improve our literacy and just get kids to understand how great reading is and how many opportunities I can open up for them thank you thank you H oh I'm
064cantes for chair yes um I'm not sure if this is the right time or the appropriate time but I wanted to try to bring something um to the board perhaps for discussion in terms of bringing some CTE course uh fire protection fire science um I had the opportunity to speak with Chief Henry who's a Central grad um and they currently have this program over at uh Kerman high and they come right over here to shills in uh in in Grantland right down the road from our high school and in the middle of all our schools for that matter and they have the capacity to take on another school and um I'm I'm not going to quote any of the numbers that he said but it seems to be relatively inexpensive and I think they have
065the capacity to take somewhere around 25 to 30 students which I think could be combined between depending on interest could be combined from the three separate High schools and they can all feed there what would we how would we be able to move on that or what could we do to have a discussion in that regard we'll follow up I'm smiling over at principal Halterman there have been some intro conversations as well as estimated budget for that too so uh that conversation has already happened so it sounds like you've had a more recent one we'll pick up from there and um report back as we have more information on CT pathways is um we have a area administrator right now who is submitting for two grants not to bring more money in I'm joking I
066don't know where she's finding the time but she's already found to more uh places for us to bring in dollars for CTE so I'm excited about it well collectively I'd like to see all three high schools have the students have the opportunity to enroll not just one or one particular one and then also there's a there was a I forget where it was it was a huge um informational thing on a short of of firemen Nationwide so it's a resource it's a very professional lifestyle and a good you know good living and their way to be able to civically continue to serve their country or Community for that matter but thank you president s trusty Korea thank you um one item I just want to share uh the Latina I'm sorry the league of Mexican-American
067women is hosting its annual um adante conference on Saturday April 13 2024 um for young women in high school um and also any uh any females in college uh the focus and the theme of the conference is dream Bel achieve and so if anyone is interested um in attending the conference I have just been asked to provide uh a training session related to uh employment rights things that students need to know about work hours and and those kinds of related items so if there are any uh students that are interested I will be sharing this information with the district and hopefully um we can share it with our students but anyone can also contact me directly um at my district email or my cell phone which just post it on the district website but I
068just wanted to share that since it is something that's available for uh students in our community and I think would be really beneficial thank you thank you trusty Kio can I just ask for clarification is this the one that has a deadline to apply by March 17th um I'm looking at the flyer now Cho Latino youth leadership project is the one I'm looking at no okay no this is different this is if you can that's what I thought you would said if you can also share that with us I know our College and Career counselors uh posted on all of their sites the other opportunity so we have some good resources to get that information out fantastic and and I typically do that just for the benefit of all all the other board members um
069but since I just received this over the weekend and I took this opportunity to share it as well but I will send it to you shortly thank you so much thank you trusty sers uh to trusty Sant point I appreciate that and I I second that I think the district would be benefit it would benefit the students to to have that form of a CT I just ask the district to explore all opportunities and options that are out there and with that we'll take comments from the public uh cler Kon thank you president Singh uh our first comment is from uh Aiden Oli good e good evening Board of Trustees and Miss superintendent KY Davis my name is Adano Loi I'm a senior at centuries high school I'm here today to make you aware of
070a mental health club at East Campus the club's name is Nami Nami stands for the National Alliance of mental illness I am the President of the club and I want to share my experiences of what I have done and seen in the club the club was initiated in 2018 with the purpose of bringing awareness to mental health and stopping the sigma East Campus is the first school in the valley to have a mental health club we have been able to do activities that bring awareness um we have brought commune resources through other agencies such as Fresno County dep P Health evolved treatment centers and NAMI Fresno Nami has also had opportunities to present a symposium as well as a webinar for fesno State the Nomi Club at Central East has not has noticed the overwhelming
071struggles of students when it comes to to stress anxiety and depression the club would like to continue supporting our students and look forward to adding more projects and collaborating with other clubs and Community agencies I recently sent a survey to our student population inquiring the effectiveness of the club 60 students responded and 78% of them were not active members of Nami through this survey we gathered about 98% of respondents that stated that mental health is important and 85% that feel that Nami has done its job at spreading Awareness on Mental Health Nami board members also shared their experience on NAMI and that they have learned leadership skills and Gau happiness through helping others my personal experience has been amazing in Nami through Nami I have been able to grow my leadership skills collaboration with others
072public speaking skills and character because of Nami I have becoming a leading advocate for mental health and strive to help my peers through my work in Nami I have had the privilege to also receive a lot of support from our administrators our school has approved to award Nami members a sash as a token appreciation for their hard work on campus all based on their commitment to Nami as well their High academic standards in addition Mr Edmonds our school principal has shared that he will look into our funds for our club we are very appreciative of his support and and spreading Awareness on Mental Health on campus I want to thank the board for all their hard work that you have put into our district and want to inform you that Nami wishes to continue spreading
073awareness and bring Awareness on various topics that pertain to mental health as we strive to be an advocate for mental health we would like for our cons for your consideration on this topic uh and possibly look into allocating more money to clubs such as Nami so we can continue spreading awareness to our middle and elementary schools in addition we would like you to consider the imple implementation of therapy dogs at Central unified to help cope with Stress and Anxiety Studies have showed that therapy dogs can reduce stress anxiety depression and chemical levels this would be an effective way to help students on campus since we know students struggle a lot during adolescence we have been working with our school principal to see what we can do to continue helping students since Central East we want
074to expand our efforts and appreciate your continued support as we spread awareness to all centr unide students St thank you and have a great rest of your evening thank you any other comments uh from the public trusty [Music] Kon perfectly timed um I have no other uh comments at this time we we'll wait a few uh 30 seconds for the would you like me to set the clock we have no callers thank you we turn then next to our consent agenda and just wanted to note that uh as part of our consent agenda we will be declaring March 31st 2024 as Cesar Chavis day of service and learning as well as uh potentially adopting a resolution to declare April 6 through 12 2024 as week of the young child do I have a motion on
075motion to approve second we have a motion by trusty Solis we have a second by trusty on roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty soless yes president sing yes motion carries 70 thank you we next move to our action items our first item is uh our student discipline Case Case uh 232 24008 do I have a do I have a motion motion I would move to approve sorry trust I would move to accept both recommendations so we have a motion by trustee CIO second we have a second by truste sis R to both recommendations so maybe make sure understands both so so just to as to clarify uh these are for both case numbers we're going to make a a single vote to
076group them together roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty soless yes president Singh yes motion carries 70 thank you uh next item accept gifts to District assistant superintendent Nal good evening the district has received four gifts the first one is Central High School received 2500 from the central youth Cal Ripkin league for student athlete the second one is Justin Garza High School received a donation of 4,900 from party with Cynthia for winter formal Decor the third one is Justin Gara High School received a donation of 400 from Mandy Sanchez for the foror performance and the last one is Justin Gara High School received a donation of 500 from party cnth Cynthia for the senior bank so Administration is requesting the board to accept
077the gifts to the district and as a followup the district will be sending thank you letters to the donors motion to accept we have a motion by trustee sers second gracious we have a second by truste cantes uh roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty surv Mones yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solace yes president sing yes motion carries 70 we move on to item action item number three approve compensation modifications for unrepresented employees management supervisory and confidential membc assistant superintendent Collegian thank you president seeing Board of Trustees attached for your review this evening are recommended salary adjustments and Health and Welfare contribution adjustments for Central Unified School District's unrepresented employees including management supervisory and confidential specifically uh recommending management and supervisory to a 7% increase to base salary retroactive
078to July 1st of 2023 separately confidential uh employees at 7.6% increase to base salary retroactive to July 1st of 2023 and inclusive of all three unre unrepresented groups that the Health and Welfare benefit contributions are adjusted from 855 contributions from District to 910 effective July 1st of 2024 Administration is recommending approval of this item happy to answer any questions the board may have thank you questions or comments from the board chair do you have a comment trust um I would probably like to make a a motion to approve this item so motion by trusty siss on this item and a second by trustee mink president saying did we check if there were any public comments oh yes thank you for reminding are there any public comments on on on any of these items yeah would
079you like for me to set the clock sure we have no callers thank you so we have a motion trusty Solis second by trusty mail link uh roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solace yes president sing yes motion carries 70 next item number four approve employment agreement for assistant superintendent student and Family Services superintendent Davis thank you uh June 27th 2023 uh you did approve the job description um and the budget for hiring of an assistant superintendent for student and family services and attached to this item is the formal contract for the assistant superintendent um we do recommend board approve um meline Lopez uh for um uh acceptance of the contract I know you already approved her for the position and then
080I think you've got the rest of the item so the board will now consider the approval of assistant superintendent student and family services employment agreement between the district and Marine Lopez the agreement includes a base salary of $165,100 41 along with a salary schedule that has four steps a monthly car allowance of $400 Health and Welfare benefits provided on the same basis as other District management staff and other terms of employment questions or comments from the public from the board if we can start the clock as well 30 seconds on the clock thank you uh as we go on to each item we will start the 30 seconds for anybody in the public that would like to make a public comment or for anyone else uh on on the board uh beginning on the next
081item motion to approve no callers motion by truste serantes second second by truste Solis roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty Kon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solace yes president seeing yes motion carries 70 welcome to the team thank you and if we can invite assistant superintendent uh Lopez to join us welcome sounded good ass congratulations conratulations next we move on to approved 2024 ballot for csba uh delegate assembly superintendent Davis thank you there are three vacancies in the region for a csba delegate the BIOS sketches for the three interested candidates are attached uh just for clarification uh trustee kfon will already serve as delegate completing the two-year term uh first held by trustee Sellers and that's why you don't see his name on the ballot but he will
082be continuing to represent the district uh so following your discussion recommend you vote so we can submit on time by March 15th motion to approve we have a motion by trustee cantes second we have a second by trustee mailing roll call vote would you like to wait the 30 seconds or yes well as we as we start it for each item okay 30 seconds on the clock no callers thank you roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solace yes president Singh yes motion carries 70 thank you and if we can start the 30 second for the item number six approve the 2023 2024 second interim budget report assistant superintendent kbal okay all right good evening again before we talk about the second interm
083I want to briefly go over the formal uh budget process or cycle it starts with the annual budget which approves before July 1 the next budget document that is approved is the first interim after that is the second interim finally the fisc year ends with the unaudited actual one thing to important to remember that second interim is a snapshot in time between July 1st and January 31st so any Financial activity after January 31st will not be captured in this report in addition to the second interim report the district has to inform the county and CDE Califor Department education what certification is the board approving so for the second term it will be a positive certification which means the district is able to meet its obligation for this year and the next two years again uh
084this is a quick summary of the second interm data points before we look at the financials the district will be submitting our second interm as a positive certification the district enrollment is at 15,942 uh average daily attendance is 93% and UND duplicate percentage is at 76.0 before we dive into the second interm budget I would like to go over the main highlights of the state budget that was presented in January uh Cola is going to be reduced from 3.94 to 76 for the next fiscal year uh as of now no budget cuts for the education program but it might change in May uh no deferral has been mentioned but again this could change again May and the SR funds will be ending in September 30th 2024 we are looking at the unrestricted general fund please
085keep in mind that this is the fiscal statement or a snapshot between July 1 and January 31st so the beginning balance is 52.6 million uh lcff revenue is 212 million other state revenue is 4.9 million local revenue is 7 43,000 contribution is 27.1 million and expenditure is 196 million so after that we are left with a balance of 47 million so if you look at the lower part uh 8 million is both committed fund then 6 million is committed for uh facilities then reserve for economic uncertainty is 16.1 million and the state and board approved 5% is 17.3 now again keep in mind that these are the financial activities between July 1 and January 31st once we process the raise the Retro the financial landscape is going to change you see that 16 million it'll
086be used towards those salaries so we will be down from 47 million to a balance of 31.4 million so as you can see this is a big change okay this slides so shows the distribution of UNR expenditure we have 80.6 million in certificate salaries uh 28.1 million classified salaries uh 47 million in employee benefit benefits uh books and supplies 8.2 uh services and other expenditure 16.8 capital outlay is 16.4 and other outgo is netive - 1.3 so uh salary and health benefits equals to 156 million which is about 80% of our unrested budget this slide shows the distribution of the expenditure in districted fund uh we have have uh 20.6 million certificate salaries uh 9.6 in classified salaries 20.4 in benefits books and supplies is 50 million 50.9 uh Services other expenditure 20.8 capital outlay
087is 13.5 and other outgo is 7.2 now I would like to quickly remind that books and supplies is a very broad category there are 13 different categories within the books and supplies there's books there's instruction material there's computer Food Services item Fuel and oil uh ground supplies office supplies medical supplies tires uniforms equipment and vehicle supplies okay since we have stated uh a positive certification it is important to look at the multiair projection uh before we look at the numbers let's look at some of the assumptions the first one is uh uh we are projecting a flat enrollment Ada in nyp uh we want to be careful uh and not over project our revenue for the next two years uh the next one is we are keeping our um UND duplicate count at 76% and
088maybe the same for next two years again make making sure that we uh have a uh are careful with our Revenue the third is uh we anticipate a slight increase in lcff because we are going from 3.94 to. 76 so there's going to be little increase in scff um Pur is going to increase from 25.3 7 to 20.8 in 25 26 uh stirs will remain same and then I want to remind that we have a cop uh certificate of payment for 2.8 million for next until 2033 so these assumptions help us with our fiscal planning and how much uh the school will be receiving next two years right all right please keep in mind this uh nyp is within July 1 and January 31st uh again for this year we have uh 47 million reserve
089and then uh the balance is 88 million in both authorized fund six goes to the committed funds uh 16.1 economic uncertainty and then State and board required is 17.3 million for 2425 uh if we don't spend the 6 million it goes back as a beginning balance we have our expenditure at 227 million uh sorry uh yeah Revenue as 227 million expenditure as 20 16 million and then contribution at 29 million so again uh the ending balance is 35 million and then we have uh 13 million going to the board authorized fund 6 million to the facilities and then 16.6 is the 5% for the last year 25 26 again we have a revenue of 233 million expenditure of 222 million contribution of 25.1 million and ending bance of 21.8 million so again uh the signed
090board fund is 5.9 million and the state and board required Reserve is 15.8 million now once uh we go through the process of raises and retro the myp is going to change again uh we have a this year the available Reserve is going to be 31.4 million next year is going to be be 22.8 and then the oute is going to be about 22.3 million moving forward given the governor's budget we have to be careful with our financial planning we have to make sure that we can manage our staffing and da daily operation for the next two years okay some of the key highlights of the second inter term again the second inter term reports is from the period July 1 to January 31st uh currently we are able to meet all Our obligation district
091will monitor enrollment and Ada since this is the main source of Revenue and then special education and transportation costs continues to increase each year uh SE the special education we usually receive 8.8 million and our contribution is 17.7 million from the general fund for transportation we receive 3.4 million and our contribution is 4.3 million from general fund board requested uh to bring back uh the SR balance and how we going to uh approach this so this is the summary of our Sr fund expenditure based on on the balance please keep in mind the Esser expense are related to Green Space Safety and Security Outdoor Learning and school facility repair related to safety health and cleanness and also using the S fund for one-time expense related to mental health Staffing okay all right final slide shows
092the allocation of the elcap fund based on the three goals uh you'll be getting uh more information next week with the elcap workshop this is just a quick summary and a preview so goal one is about academic success and we have allocated 60.6 million goal two is about Equity of access and we have allocated 144.5 million and goal three is about safe school and we have allocated 26.7 million so with that I end my second inter and I will be happy to answer any question do we have any comments from the public on this item 30 seconds on the clock thank you and opening to board discussion trusty mink yeah thank you um I like what you what you put together um I think your office is doing a really good job with transparency um
093second I'd like to thanks for elaborating on books and supplies there's a lot of questions all the time within that within that realm um did this budget take into consideration um Shields and broy and also the boundary updates that that that we're okay going to foresee we will when we do the budget next in June that's when we will consider the shet and Bry school so all right thank you trusty Cervantes thank you for J um I again thank you for going over the books and supplies that would $50 million you know books of supplies for million dollar but where does the uh pg& water sewage and that thing get those are operation operating expenditure okay and then secondly in regard to the usra funds I mean these are all outstanding wonderful projects I'm just
094curious to see how we prioritize I I don't remember ever having a board conversation where they're multiple I mean how did we end up with these versus anything else within usually I mean one of the things we have to look at is there are some requirements and uh let me go back to my page I all right some of the requirements are um Outdoor Learning yeah you kind of went over them when you um let's see we have Outdoor Learning Green Space Safety and Security uh then school facility repair that's related to safety health and cleaniness and then uh you know one of the other is Health St uh Health uh Mental Health related no understood again where was the board input I I really would like to have seen more in student achievement student
095recovery learned recovery and again every single one of these projects are worthy I'm not trying to say that they're not worthy I just want to know what was the board input other than coming and kind of rubber stamping what's been presented to us what was the input by the board and what were the other options and how did you conclude to these options versus the other cuz student learning student recovery learning recovery Etc they were all under that same category but I don't see other than the counselors the Outreach the nurses and the psychologists I mean obviously that's going to have an impact on the mental uh wellbeing of our students as well but I wanted to see more of the student academic achievement if if I could interject on that one because it was
096prior to to your start what he's showing you is the balance of what remains and so what I think would be helpful in the question you're asking is to show in totality of those Co funds because many of them that went to the academics those have already been spent against and they were identified in either the lcap or in this case the Deferred maintenance Andor the facility PL so we were just trying to take anything that was assigned to or already identified as priority that would be covered in these items and these are the remaining items so in terms of learning loss in in terms of academic supports in terms of staff to help and academic supports in the last prior two years probably have to just extract that from the master spreadsheet to show
097you that the bulk of the money actually did go um to those purposes again I just wanted to know where was a board's input on this particular list when did we have a discussion on any one of these projects on the list I don't ever recall having one this is the first time I've actually remember seen it so so we went off of what was allowable and what was is already in a plan um and and I hear what you're saying in terms of uh I guess at this point in time you seeing this list in the remainder of time if there's something that we can do um to to have you look back into that information we were trying to go off of existing plans that already had been um your purview and and
098your prioritization and work from there president thing yeah trusty Korea so um in addition to Tristy cervantes's questions because I completely agree with him um I have similar concerns I think that it's important that the board has input in these types of items I know and I've heard clearly both in the presentation and in the response right now that there are certain that there's certain criteria that must be met so the clarification I'm looking for here is um what plans uh are you referring to superintendent Davis that were previously presented to the board um in which we prioritized and identified the projects in the order that that we want them to be done um that then was pulled into this uh S3 pending expenditures so in a couple of cases is uh there are Outdoor
099Learning spaces or green spaces that were part of I believe the facility plan the tiles the Tilly outdoor and like the Tilly outdoor space there were some incomplete projects that you would already prioritize that fit this criteria uh but to to the question uh there there was not a formal item that came in isolation for this okay so what I would like to see is just a a full list of what items would qualify for the use of these Sesser funds and for the board to have a discussion um a more thorough discussion looking at that complete list now if you're representing superintendent Davis or assistant superintendent eball that this is the list of all possible projects that would qualify under this funding source based on the criteria that you've identified I think that's a
100different response and perhaps I would withdraw my request um but but I think to trusty Cervantes this point I and please trusty Cervantes clarify if I'm misinterpreting um I would agree with him that I would have liked to see a full list of all projects that qualify and perhaps a discussion of your recommendation as to why uh you recommend PRI prioritizing those specific projects okay we can we can bring it back so okay and um with that what is the deadline to use these funds because I also don't want I want I want to as a board you've only heard from two trustees so far um to be cognizant of the need to spend these funds or they're going to be uh I'm assuming we'll have to send them back so the line is September
10130th and some of the projects if we get started now we probably can finish it in four or five months so okay so would it reasonable I don't know how much work this would require would it be reasonable to request that the cem return specifically only the Esser right three pending expenditures because the budget is separate and apart from the specific list right the second inter term yeah we need to approve the second this this can the second yeah the second would it be would you have sufficient time if we request that this come back for the April meeting yeah I mean the list is here and the requirements for S I'm looking at uh Mr rball right now I think all of that information we have so just bringing it back as its own
102item it sounds like is is the request the detail from the prior question from trusty Cervantes about all of the other already expended funds that might take a little bit longer to pull it together but we could certainly show the each of the different funds that had been received that were for learning loss what the total amounts were and a general idea it just wouldn't be a list like you're seeing right now in this item by by April 9th I I saw questions from trusty Kon and then trusty mailing uh thank you president sing um my questions are also regarding the uh the These essr funds so if we're talking about whether these items are Mo approved or pending approval I see like for example security cameras board already approved those so we've already decided
103back in November to approve the security cameras correct but we haven't approved all the items on these Esser funding list not really not all of them not really yeah okay um yeah if this item comes back I would like to see more clear lineage between already approved and uh not approved um very I don't know if you can clarify this uh uh this isn't superintended but the security for East Campus at the bottom for 5,000 can you explain you what that is and how that's separate from security cameras or any other item we we had a issue uh I think last month regarding uh some uh I think it was uh broken into the Central High School so we had to provide security for safety at night to making sure that it does happen for
104a week so we can find out who the person was so that's what we had to use it for Safety and Security okay uh thank you and then um so we have with this remaining balance $141,000 yeah this is just in case something comes up because this was supposed to spend by June 30th so from June 30th until September 30th if we had something then we have some fund to address any of the issues okay um because as I recall from the uh facility planning uh documents you gave us there are some items that were around that um uh cost so if this we're have a discussion in the future um um we haven't discussed prioritizing maybe some of those could be um put on the SR list okay okay okay meink thank you um
105just one question on the pending expenditures um by September 30th do we need to secure the materials or is it just dedicating that money we have to we have to complete the projects okay so uh some of them we these facilities we already uh included or did an app ation to CD saying we will be doing the projects so we have to do application for some of the facility projects okay so we have been working on that at least we we have that moving forward so thank you and and that's why you see a lot of the Deferred maintenance type projects that would typically come out of general fund um trying to use this to then release or relieve general fund from there trusty Solis when these projects were initially brought up were they initially
106going to be fund funded out of General funds any of them yes yes okay and so by using Esser funds we we have released some general fund money correct yes thank you so so I I think I'm want to uh try to sort of understand in terms of uh uh at at least some of the suggestions that uh trusty CIO and I think trusty cantes were were at least articulating so um I think it's important of course to uh highlight what what trusty Solis just did in terms of uh yes this this this takes um we we have to expend These funds the projects have to be completed by by by that particular date and some of this relieves pressure from our general fund I as as as I am understanding um trusty cantes and
107and trusty kio's comments were is is is there even a time available and and the answer may be no but but is there a time available where right so in terms of these projects my assumption is there's probably a larger number that could have been selected from but these were the ones that were that that were selected both due to the criteria in terms of the the the Esser the what the Esser funds can be utilized for um obviously you know we're we're hearing comments that there would been a general preference where the just as the board did discuss the security cameras that some of these items may may have been discussed uh and and figured out in terms of prioritization by by the board as well um so so I I heard a comment
108to see if if there is a a timeline ability to um vote for the uh because it is on action I'm to to to vote or to defer um voting to our next meeting um the approval of the second interim budget and is that sort of contingent on this list or is that um or or or could these two items essentially be split to a separate to to a separate items we can approve the second inter term and we can bring this back the list the this Esser list was out of interest for this discussion it was not and and from some of the previous questions you asked it's not even included in the second inter room report that goes to the county okay separating president Singh trusty Cel just to further um emphasize what
109administration just responded this item the only request for approval is for the second interim budget report um but I think that's not I think that's part of my concern is that uh in past discussions and as it relates to budget items uh I believe that the board should have an input and fully understand what projects we can prioritize consistent um with some of our goals and priorities that we've identified um so that would be my request try soless um if it's the wish of the majority to table this small portion of it that's fine but also I would like to bring back the boards of attention to the facility Workshop where basically we we were informed that there is going to be a shortfall of money and we had a director or financial person to
110go over and see where he can Implement Esser funds where where is appropriate for the purpose of freeing up General funds that we're going to discuss in a few more meetings of what we can do with that so um this is not a surprise to me but I mean um if you want to table it just for that you can look at and maybe prioritize some of those that's fine but also he's going to have to go over it to make sure that the project is appropriate for the Esra funds and appropriate that we can now move over General funds to be used as decided later in our next couple meetings so trusty soless and I apologize because I was not able to attend the facilities Workshop so are you representing in your comment or
111am I correct to understand from your comment that the board provided direction to allow Administration to identify projects that would qualify under the Esser 3 funds um that would alleviate our general fund and to proceed with the necessary action uh to expend those funds funds uh to identify them and bring them back to the board I understand your point that we never instructed them to prioritize them so I mean if that's the basis of your argument I understand it but yes they were told as when we were told that there's going to be a budget shortfall and to address that budget shortfall we've sent our financial director back to his books to look where we can move money around move over General funds to be used for other things that we're going to discuss about
112and utilize Esser funds where there they are appropriate at no time did we mention anything that I can recall about prioritizing those projects Mr chair correct so so um so so very specific this was a particular slide uh on on this particular item we we can entertain a motion to pass the the second interim budget and we can request an additional item to to return to the board so that we can have a conversation in terms of prioritization and potentially in terms of uh what was included on this list what what what may also be uh potentially um qualify for these particular funds as well Mr chair if you're looking for a motion I'll make that motion so so we have a um motion by uh trustee Solis and and and I'll second that and
113that's to approve the interim trust trusty mailing unfortunately beat you trusty K but uh we'll do a we'll do a roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty cantes yes trusty gon I trusty maing yes trusty sers trustee soless yes president sing yes motion carries 60 with truste sellers absent thank you and thank you assistant superintendent item number 7 approve assembly Bill 181 home to school transportation reimbursement Transportation plan director Bart all right good evening board president Singh board members and superintendent Davis tonight the transportation plan for the 2425 school year returns uh revisions were made based on comments from the February 13th board meeting uh Administration is recommending approval of this item and after I answer any questions the board may have motion to approve second we have a motion by truste Cervantes we have
114a second by truste CIO roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty kfon I trusty maing yes trusty soless yes president sing yes motion carries 6 Zer with truste sellers absent Mr chair can I make a small little statement please thank you very much for your your good work sir I went over your document it speaks to what I think we we need to know so thank you very much and thanks for your team thank you for item number eight and if we can um uh begin the clock to allow any uh public comment approve the replacement of the PA Bell System uh elcapitan Middle School director bot uh good evening again LC capan has an analog PA system that is in need of repair uh the system had has failures and no
115longer feasible to um no longer to uh has had failures that have made the prepair no longer feasible uh the site has had to use alternative means to ensure staff and students will hear bells and announcements uh the system will be replaced with a digital system it is a system that is used by multiple sites in our district currently uh the clocks and the Public Announcement system will be in one unit and will be connected using our network uh this work will be completed utilizing a Cass purchasing to expedite the replacement the approximate cost of the replacement will be $298,400 um the EST fund and this was on it so no McKinley not McKinley was on it no they're talking about elcap oh they were oh no it is on here yeah on there also
116it is on there how does that fall so we uh need to replace it it's a safety issue we are recommending using Sr funds for it but if you would rather direct us to use general fund for it we can um it is an allowable and expense that's been cleared yes and so that is the recommendation so since there's a motion on the floor I will second so that any further discussion can be properly held thank you so we have a motion by trusty uh cantos the second by trusty CIO we have no callers trusty Kon um due to the uh sa is is there a safety need for this item okay yes well due to the safety concerns I'm willing to uh approve it through Esther funds um because of its urgency that makes
117it relevant um just you you know this is like for our our Co dollars recovery so want to make sure that we are able to use some of our exra funds uh toward making our classrooms you know more uh cleaner you know safer for our students and also for know Green Space and getting our kids academically back on track but safety of course is very important so I I'm willing to support this as is so being said the overlap and great catch I will resend my me uh motion um so okay so so the initial motion has been will withdrawn yeah so I will make the motion to approve this item second W with with with Sesser friends FS just so I'm we're we're saying it clearly so we have a correct the item before
118us just just for purposes of clarity the item before us right now that we would be authorized to take action on would be used of Esser funds I just want to clarify that my concerns with respect to the previous item and the Esser funds I just want that the board have an opportunity to be part of the discussion I mean clearly this is an item uh that is being brought back to the board for consideration and approval so I just I wanted uh to confirm and I I just was unclear as to why the other items um were not brought to the board for discussion and prior prioritization related to them okay so so now we'll take a call vote uh with regards to the approval of the replacement of the PA Bell system at
119elcap middle school or ELC capan Middle School uh with a a motion by trusty Coro and a second by trusty Kuran trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty kfon hi trusty meing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solace yes president Singh yes motion carries 70 thank you and uh director Bots remains with us as we approve Furniture purchase for school sites yes uh for the last time good evening um the district has completed a Furniture assessment for the district based on that assessment Administration is recommending replacement of the following H Kerney Elementary classroom Furniture Steinbach River Bluff and Teague Elementary cafeteria tables uh H Kerney Elementary receive new student chairs desks and science tables uh with steinback River Bluff and teue Elementary receiving new cafeteria tables uh the furniture would be purchased through meteor Furniture using
120a Omnia purchasing contract uh the cost of the furniture replacement total would be $36,250 66 funded through Esser Administration is recommending approval of this item after I answer any questions the board may have this is also on the list motion to approve second we have a motion by truste cantes a second by truste maing and a roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty gon I trusty mailing yes trusty sers yes trusty soless yes president Singh yes motion carries 70 thank you next item number 10 approved DSA INSP ction services for Justin GZA High School Athletic Complex director Rodriguez thank you uh board president uh and members of the board and superintendent Davis uh for your approval tonight is the uh the district has received a proposal from Mr uh Kazam el el
121sheipi uh for DSA uh division of the state architect inspection services that are required by the the California building code uh for the Athletics complex project increment 2 uh if you remember the increment 2 is is all of the buildings for the Athletics complex project uh Mr uh El shivi has provided inspection services for San Diego Unified School District uh Los Angeles Unified um Selma Unified School District and Kerman Unified School District to name a few uh Mr El shipi is from our Valley and resides in Clovis Administration is recommended that the board approved the DSA inspection services for the Justin guards Athletics complex increment two and if we can set time on the for the public questions or comments from the board trusty cantes does this process go out to a bid no so
122they they get vetted through the RFQ process so they'll uh submit their statement of qualifications and that's how we vet them okay thank you we have no callers thank you do I have a motion motion to approve second I have a motion by trusty Solus second by trustee kuron roll call vote trustee CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty Kon I trusty meing yes trusty sers yes trusty soless yes president sing yes motion carries 70 thank you item number 11 approved districtwide lighting project 2324 d102 change order number one director Rodriguez thank you again uh board president and Board of Trustees and superintendent Davis uh for your approval tonight is change order number one for the districtwide lighting project uh the increase to the project is due to either non-operable or nonexisting emergency egress lighting fixtures
123at various sites throughout our district uh the emergency lighting fixtures are devices that aluminate interior building areas uh when the power supply to the building is interrupted by either power outage fire or failure within the building uh the fixture uh the fixtures light the pathways and exits that lead out of the building the staff has reviewed the change order and recommends that the board approve the contract change order and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have we have no callers do I have a motion motion to approve second we have a motion by trusty Solus a second by trusty mailing roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes yes trusty kpon I trusty maing yes trusty sers yes trusty Solus yes president sing yes motion carries 70 thank you director Rodriguez we
124move on to our information items um item number one receive information regarding District dress code policy supervisor Smith good evening pres sing MERS of there we go good evening president Singh members of the board and superintendent Davis each March the Board of Trustees review The District dress code outlined in board policy and administrative regulations 5132 input collection began in January and site leadership met with student groups such as ASB student council leadership classes and principal roundtables discussions were also held with site leadership teams add feedback was collected from students parents and staff via parents Square emails phone calls or in person board meeting dates when the dress code item would be presented for information and action were also provided to the community last year several changes were made to the administrative regulations and include streamlining
125streamlining the dress code to limit repetition and grouping like topics together updates removed language around a certain width or length and and utilized language that defines appropriate student dress and provided Clarity on what would be an individual self-expression we are not recommended any specific changes to be made to administrative regulations 5132 at this moment based on feedback received this year we would like to focus our efforts on building a shared understanding of current dress code policies given recent changes we plan to accomplish this through ongoing communication with school staff students and the community I'm excited to join superintendent student cabinet tomorrow to gain insight as part of this work a summary of this year's feedback is attached this includes an overview of student staff and Community suggestions and a table of highin items along with
126the current dress code policy I would like to note one particular recommendation that was made which was to consult with the equity team to ensure dress code is not unduly biased our director of diversity equity and inclusion Aaron English recently reviewed our current dress code policies and reported no concerns with the current wording we will continue to include our Dei director in dress code review processes to ensure any future changes are made with equity for all students in mind Administration is recommending this item be placed on the April 9th agenda for action and I'm happy to answer any questions presidency trusty cel um thank you so much for the presentation and um I'm happy to hear that our um director of Dei am I remembering that correctly yes uh English reviewed this uh when this
127I am requesting that this item return under action when it returns to our next meeting um can you just provide information as to how she made her assessment I'm just curious uh not necessarily questioning um her judgment but I know that this is something new so I would just like to understand um kind of her process and in her review but I I really appreciate your work and the work that everyone is doing to make sure that we have these types of dress code policies that are Equitable um and that allow students to express themselves but still in compliance uh within our our appropriate dress code for our school district so thank you yes absolutely I will discuss with Miss English and bring more of that information for you at the next meeting thank you
128if no other question any other comments from the public then the item will return as action thank you thank you supervisor Smith uh item number two receive information regarding revised board policies assistant superintendent Dr butri and and and Mr Clan all right thank you so much so I do have several here for your review tonight and your approval I'll go ahead and get started started and then pass pass this over to uh Mr collegium so the first one is board policy 0500 this is the um board policy for accountability um the revisions to this policy include the California school dashboard um no longer includes any modified methods applied to the state indicators for all dashboard um alternative school status so basically that means that our alternative school sites will be treated the same as our
129other School sites when it comes to um dashboard information it also adds that long-term English Learners um as defined by the new law SB 141 um is a student who has not attained English language proficiency within seven years of initial classification as an English learner the second board policy for tonight is board policy 0520 this is intervention in underperforming schools this policy is updated to reflect the new law which is also s sp114 which expands technical assistance based on a numerically significant subgroup not making sufficient progress towards its local control and accountability plan which is what we call our lcap to include identifying student subgroups that are low performing or experiencing significant disparities from other students or subgroups as identified also on the Cal California school dashboard um moving on we have board policy 1431
130this is on waivers this reflects also new law s sp114 which prohibits a waiver request for transitional kindergarten and kindergarten requirements provided for and specified Education Code sections moving on we have uh board policy 5145 point6 this is on parent and guardian notifications this requires districts to develop a plan to meet alternative formatting requirements for individuals with disabilities to enable individuals um with speech vision and hearing disabilities to effectively communicate and participate in the medical program we also have board policy 6161 point11 this is the board policy on supplementary new material s this does require the California Department of Education to develop by July 1st of 2025 guidance and public educational materials to ensure that all Californians can access information about educational laws and policies that Safeguard the right to an accurate and inclusive curriculum
131it also provides that complaints alleging discrimination related to the use of these materials um or any book or resource in a school library may be brought under the district's uniform complaint procedures the last one that I have is board policy 61 63.1 this addresses our library media centers very similar to the um revisions on the supplementary instructional materials this requires that CDE um issues Again by July 1st 2025 that guidance on regarding how to review instruction materials to ensure they represent diverse perspectives and are culturally relevant um also require CTE to develop that guidance um regarding instructional laws and policies and also once again mentions that complaints um brought forward alleging discrimination go through the district's uniform complaint policy and with that I'll hand it over speaking of the uniform complaint procedure policy uh there's
132also an update in relation to some of the board policies that Dr bght just shared with uh uh with the school board uh board policy 13123 uh also known as the uniform complaint process has some updates to ensure compliance with the CDE and also to reflect the new law assembly Bill 1078 essentially what that does in effect is clarifies that it is uh an unlawful discrimination for the school board to refuse uh to approve uh the use or prohibit the use of any textbook instructional material supplemental instructional material or other curriculum in the classroom or any textbook or resource in the library and essentially gives right for the complainant to file uh under the 131 12.3 uniform complaint procedure to include um the language stated before thank you so we we our Administration is recommending
133that this item be placed on the April 9th board agenda for Action questions or comments from from the public or any of our trustees with regards to any of the uh new bills and uh revision of board policies mentioned president seeing trusty care I would not be I would not be opposed to having this return under consent unless there's any other trustee um that would like it to come under action I typically request them for action for for the review but a lot of these are are based on the legislative updates correct thank you we'll return the next the item number two then for under consent item number three receive information regarding professional architectural services for the Central High School a barn projects director Rodriguez thank you board president and uh Board of Trustees and
134superintendent Davis uh attached for your information is a proposal from Darden Architects for architectural services for the Central High School a bar uh the a barn is part of the a master plan for that particular complex uh The Darden architects in Fresno has provided comprehensive architectural planning and Interior Design Services throughout California since 1959 under this proposal Darden Architects will prepare project documents for design uh bidding and construction um so as Mr ikbal had mentioned that I have a a deadline because we're using S3 funds for this is September to 2024 so I'm you know this is going to be pretty tight so Administration is recommending that this item be placed on the April 9th 2024 board agenda for action and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have truste Kon thank you
135president Singh um it's been a while since I've been able to a tour the uh a section of Central High is this where uh we normally have our uh turkeys and other poultry no no it isn't uh it's this particular is a new a new barn right yeah but this the site where it is currently what is it look like right now right now it's it's that's a vacant uh piece of property there it's next it's just south of the the new the newest Greenhouse that's on site okay one that we have used for roow crops in the past yeah currently whoever's speaking I can't hear you if you're not on the mic and it's on so please use your mic you know and actually So currently the ground where the the barn would go
136uh is open because of the projection of this project but it is ground that we have used for rad crops before however those students who are participating in the row crop cooperatives are not going to lose out um because of the assistance many moons ago well not that many moons ago um but when we had the community partner that came in and developed those 13 acres on the north side of the parking lot um there is availability there still for row crops and along with our Vineyard and Orchard thank you and then presid we do have public comments as well on this item later no if we can um if that's okay with the board to reserve our comments and invite the public comments up well Mr Williams you're up first so you have three
137minutes I appreciate uh your time and attention last week I had the opportunity to return from the educating for careers conference up in Sacramento and one of the statistics that they shared up there for the 2122 school year for the whole state of California was about attendance and and students enrolled in CTE uh and I wasn't necessarily surprised uh other than the the size of the number Gap um but when they looked at all Races and ethnicities uh and compared students who were not enrolled in a CTE program uh and then compared them to single phase dual phase and program completers there was an improvement from anywhere of 2.1% on up to 20.4% for students engaged in CTE now with that being said I I I get that it's not an action item tonight but
138investing in this CTE facility for our campus would provide opportunities for our students at Central High School especially as we get bounded and our clientele numbers go up um currently we are using a barn that has some age and time under it and I am not opposed to things or people that have age or time however I would like to say that that Barn can use some some upgrading and some love uh we are running two different species and two different phases of production in that Barn that was uh designed and built well before we had the numbers that we have currently out at West um we are housing goats and sheep and and you know Common thinking may be that sheep and goats are about the same size they kind of sound the same
139they sort of look the same however um they are very different species and one is far rougher on the facilities the goats um need quite a bit more investment in terms of facilities and opening this barn and if if this barn and and the project is approved when the time comes it would allow our students to have better opportunity to more appropriately handle their projects it could even open us up to um biotechnology procedures like artificial insemination and embryo transfer which were a little more difficult in those small rined animals uh require a little different facilities than what we're currently able to provide um also the current Barn um let's just say it gets crowded come Fair time okay uh students and animals are packed in about as as tightly um as we can make
140functional in that barn and allowing for a new barn and providing for new facilities uh would allow students to prepare their animals uh more specifically to each animal's needs it would also help us to have a cleaner facility um be healthier for the animals and it would be uh more successful for the students in the long run looks like my time is up I thank you for your attention uh thank you Mr Williams our next comment is from principal Dave Halterman thank you president sing superintendent Davis members of the board agriculture program our department is really the Cornerstone of Central High School and it's been so for a long time the Barn's a good idea for much of what Mr Williams just talked about but I wanted to describe some of somewhat of a frame
141for Central High Schools a program 48 since 2016 we've had 48 American Farmer degrees that's the national uh distinction 145 State degrees at the Fresno fair we have about 100 uh students and most of those gaining Awards like Grand Reserve Supreme champion in mostly the livestock category so what uh Mr Williams is saying is is pretty important as far as how we use our animals and how we show our animals and how we raise our animals our a students spent a lot of time in those facilities earning those degrees in their awards they're taught the value of of hard work and and they study and our a program is strong even as we switch to a school of choice and we look forward just like Mr Williams said to what happens when we have boundaries
142and continue to grow the program i w I wouldn't I want to make sure I I State Mr Williams he was outstanding young teacher from cataa and teacher of Excellence June Bon cour was teacher of Excellence Jessica Fahy was teacher of Excellence Terry DS was had a teacher award from Blue Star moms Heen Ramirez last year was Champion for agriculture for Central we have a strong a department and so when you're considering the barn please just uh remember the modernization of the infrastructure it's something that's important to CHS and something that's important to Central unified and yet it's primarily for Hands-On additional opportunities for students and so thank you for considering this for our Central High School Community any other comments from the no other comments from the public at this time further discussion or
143comments from the board trusty Solus president St um due to the fact that there is a high need for from the students for this project the fact that it is time sensitive uh I would go ahead and make the motion that we place this on consent so we can get this project going no noted um trusty CIO I would request that it return under action I have a couple of questions because well I understand and I've just heard the need to improve um and if I'm understanding I mean to build a new agar I guess I guess my concern is how are we prioritizing these projects because I don't recall having a discussion about this Barn Pro project and I don't recall it being at the top of the list when we discussed the Central
144High School modernization about a year ago in a facilities Workshop um the other concern uh I have is that there was an item that initially I believe was going to be brought forward um a couple of board meetings ago related to the a bar um and so I I just just don't understand why now there's like it feels to me that there is a sudden need um to expedite these projects but we don't know what projects we are choosing not to expedite um over this abar project and I and I hope that by my comments no one nobody misinterprets that I don't care about our act program or that this project is not a priority I'm just trying to understand what our priorities are and what the list of those projects would be since this
145is another item that would be funded by sr3 funds um which need to be expensed by September 30th of this year so so I think um trusty CIO I I think uh in in terms of we we've asked an item to return in terms of for us to have a conversation about the uh the the Esser uh Pro projects um and and and if any board member wants to have a bit more conversation the the recommendation is for this to be on action anyway so it it makes sense then for us to continue this on action for our next for our next board meeting thank you president sing then I would just request the as far as the presentation of the action items for the next meeting that we bring back that priority L I
146guess not priority list but whatever list would qualify so we can have that discussion before we take action on the agard um item so that I have a full opportunity um to evaluate uh whether I will support it or not thank you Mr chair um it might be helpful when you're putting the agenda together to go ahead and put the item with all the uh project on it first and then after that have sub items or other items such as the barn on there so we can just go down and hit them all at the same time makes sense thank you for the suggestion thank you uh uh Dr Rodriguez um item number four receive information regarding a public hearing for preliminary environmental assessment pea report for the doota and hay School site director Rodriguez
147yes thank you again uh board president and uh Board of Trustees and superintendent Davis this item comes to the board as an informational item for public participation uh that are that are requirements in connection with the uh uh the preliminary uh environmental assessment which is the Pea uh report for the Dakota Hayes property uh this item will allow uh the general public an opportunity to comment on the report and at this time uh with the board's permission I would like to open this forum for public comment if any we have no callers so if if Jesse Sol us one question can you one question can you give us a quick a summary update and I'm not looking for three pages a little paragraph where there any downsides in the report did they find anything on
148the property so there was a finding so right now currently uh we're in that 30day Comet period so uh while we're out uh in that Comet period it is also at uh the department of toxic uh substance to control they're actually looking uh looking at it as well uh they will comment on it but the Pea the Pea report did uh uh kind of listed a few few items on that property that need to be mitigated but that will come later once uh dtsc finally get does their final um comment after the 30 days thank you are you going to bring this item back to us yes uh I I will bring it back I was hoping that there would be some comments so I could take it back to dtsc will you have the
149uh findings from those samples by that time uh it is in the report oh and I can I can uh than can you speak to how you would eliminate those items and the cost to do sure so the cost will be paid out of out of uh developer fees but the um after dtsc reviews this uh they will have a meeting with myself uh and our consultant and the dtsc representative they will go ahead and outline a work plan that's uh that's within the guidelin of dtsc we'll put it put that work plan together and then we will um actually they will help us uh bid put it out for advertisement as because it's it's something like 350 cubic yards of soil that need to be removed at various areas of that property okay my
150question isn't surrounding where the board is going to get the money to pay to do this my question is an itemized amount per whatever your are having to remove how much that's going to cost we don't know that until the work plan is put together once this comment period is over MH then we'll we'll know a little bit more after after that well to put it bluntly if you want my support sure you're I don't give out blank checks no absolutely and I don't expect you to so this is just a part of the process I need a round ball park figure I will provide that for you thank you yes sir trusty mey thank you uh did we didn't we do a phase one and a phase two uh in escrow to purchase this
151property uh we did a phase one which led us into this pea okay because it was a a uh agriculture uh zone for agriculture and it was also uh uh it was a agriculture land so they they it rolled right into a paa just yeah that's what the the findings were of the phase one so so would the previous owner be liable for this expenditure it's because there were dwellings uh on that property that are no longer there that's where all the like contaminants are they're just like burn debris uh some other uh things that are pesticides that that are concentrated in a localized area and that's that's but it's just it's scattered it's it's um in various areas yeah mhm you're welcome I don't think that answered his question his question was does the
152was the seller respons responsible in any shape or form yes or no or I maybe or we I would have to go back and look at the at the agreement uh but I I I I don't think so I think we overpaid for the property from the get-go and I think that we should do everything and exert our whatever resources we have to make sure that if is responsible that he is held accountable this is Trusty CIO and if I remember correctly from the contract they are not resp responsible uh that period of time has long passed uh from any ability to require them um if I'm remembering the contract correctly because I do remember H reading it thoroughly and having similar concerns and I believe that the board as a whole even discussed the
153specific concerns trusty Kon so there are contaminants was the seller aware that this a this land was contaminated no because that we already had owned the property already okay and um there are no current it says here that there are currently no site designs uh for School site would you be able to Ballpark how many years we are away from opening a site here if I was to guess maybe 2028 okay thank you MH trusty Solus well as previously stated the the site had at least two residence on it so you have to worry about that as well at one time it was a working Ranch it had Vineyards and uh a few fruit trees on it and since it was a working Ranch he was spraying stuff out there not that there's anything wrong
154but it it it may affect that so um by no means am I trying to indicate that it was an industrial dumpsite okay I'm not trying to say that no matter where you buy land just about in this area that has been used for farming you're going to have to possibly deal with these issues president s trusty Kel I just want to clarify that this item before us is a request to bring this back uh under action for a public hearing we're not approving or accepting anything this is simply in in compliance with the Ed code that cited we are required to hold a public hearing uh related to this report correct at at our next meeting exactly so thank you it will return for public hearing thank [Music] you next item number five receive
155information on just J Garza High School athletics complex change orders for bid packages 6 s and 8 director Rodriguez all right so for your information tonight are change orders and the attachment summary of each item for the multi-prime contractor packages on the Justin Garza High School athletics complex um the change orders are necessary for the work that not included in the original contract scope uh and are necessary to complete the project um U the package most most of the items uh that were listed uh were errors and omissions by the architect and we have a meeting uh scheduled this Friday to discuss some of those items and staff has reviewed and recommends approval of this item to return for Action uh on the April 9th uh 2024 board agenda and I'll be happy to answer
156any questions you may have trusty sers just point of clarification can you confirm who the architect was PPK Architects thank you try Solus if the items aren't resolved at your initial meeting would this be on the agenda for when we have our true up meetings with the contractors you know I planned on uh taking uh a just a series of them maybe the first and second and then come back to to the board for information on on those items for those for those earlier change Ord ERS and then just kind of do it in a cycle and I've noted that with the architect and he's in agreement because for us to sit there all day and go back and forth uh you know it just makes more sense just to have a batch which I've
157already had my office compile and we'll meet on those this Friday thank you if there's uh if there's no other questions from the board and uh everyone's uh if there's a general consensus should we return this as consent thank you um item number six receive information on Justin Garza High School Aquatics Complex change ERS for bid packages 37 and N director Rodriguez thank you uh board president and again uh for your information tonight or change orders uh and the attachment Su summary uh for the m MTI prime contractor packages for the Jus Garza Aquatics uh project for your review uh as I mentioned uh previously on the other item uh that we uh intend to go back to the architect for some of these errors and omissions um on this particular one yeah yeah this
158is this is the same the errors and omissions so staff has reviewed and recommends approval of this item to return turn for action on the April 9th uh 2024 board agenda Jesse Solus were these uh change charers initiated through our new multi-prime process uh as far as yeah they've they came out and said we need to do this this is not correct or we need to add this what typically happens yes they'll send out an RFI for clarification a a request for information it'll go to the design team the design team says yes we will need x amount of pipe on this deal because sometimes the plans aren't clear then they'll uh come back with a uh notice uh of a potential change and then that and then once we look at that then we
159start to have the conversation okay what happened here and what went wrong so that's with each and every change order and sometimes that's why they're dated so long back because we're still having these discussions so in your opinion in your team's opinion is the multi-prime process working to some extent yes because it's it puts a second set of eyes uh on it you know uh because typically when we get a change order um it will route to the architect first he will look at the dollar amounts and when it goes then it and then and he'll look uh on the specifications because we have it all broken down what they can charge for certain things then after that it'll go to uh the construction manager he will look at it then he'll come to the
160district and we will take a second look at it and so it goes through uh three four sets of eyes before it actually comes to the board okay uh in your office please keep a list of anything we can add to the multiprime process so if we decide to use it again you're already ahead of the game and you can change some things up I yes and we we were currently working on that to tighten the tighten the system up so it seems to be working pretty good thank you if if no other um uh questions we can return this under consent thank you uh final item uh for information receive information regarding change order number 02 for Justin Garza High School interim Portables building director Rodriguez yes thank you board president uh Board of
161Trustees and superintendant Davis so for your information tonight is a change order with additive and deductive amounts and the attachment summer for each item for the Justin Garza interim Portables project for your review I have discovered some mathematical errors uh on this attachment summary on the attachment summary so if we examine both documents the change order and the attachment summary you will notice the increase in contract price are the same for both documents which is $ 5,734 however there are incorrect amounts listed on the credit items on the attachment summary so inadvertently somebody just copied paste and you know just because it was a Word document not an Excel document uh the credit amounts on the on the change order attachment should reflect the credits on the attachment summary so it was an error on
162my part and I would just like the opportunity to correct the document uh with the board's permission and bring it back uh April 9th 2024 with a corrected version and director Rodriguez would you like to bring it back for action or would you like are you recommending bringing it back on as information with the corrected uh I would like to bring it back for action since the the the the amounts are the same uh it's just the the the the uh credits are not correct any questions or comments so so just to give uh people adequate time we'll return that item for Action then thank you and with that we turn to Advanced planning just a real quick reminder uh next week on Wednesday not a Tuesday night uh was the uh determined date for
163the board workshop on March 20th originally we had slated that to be uh part of the session on the local control accountability plan uh making making sure all of our goals are in place as that plan is Rewritten and also on nutrition um we have uh done a swap and we've pushed back the nutrition conversation in order to provide some time with boundary mapping and that process so that we uh stay on the timeline and uh and then just as a reminder we do not have a meeting on the reserved date of March 26th any additional information or closing comments from any of the board members then with that a reminder just as uh superintendent Davis shared um while we have one more uh Workshop this month we have we have no other board meetings
164this month our next meeting will be Tuesday April 9th beginning at 6 p.m. for close session and 7 P p.m. for public session here in room four at the central unified district office do I have a motion to adjourn so moved second we have a motion by trusty mailing a second by trusty Korea roll call vote trusty CIO yes trusty Cervantes trusty Kon hi trusty maing yes trusty salers yes trusty soless yes president sing yes motion carries 60 with uh trusty Ser servantes absent thank you have a wonderful evening good night everyone good night see next week yeah