001e e e oh my God that was the highlight of my evening [Music] are we ready are we ready ready Eric are you ready good afternoon everybody it's 6:17 PM we're going to start this meeting it's our regular school board meeting today is Tuesday June 11th thank you everyone for being here thank you board members um we'll get started uh reporting out on close session um we had discussions on personal matters um we're going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance everybody please rise your 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 withy and justice for all thank you trust uh item number three approval of the following student matters pursuant to Education Code 49073 d49
0029079 resentment of stipulated expulsion agreement of student case number 4-4 do I have a motion I'll move motion by trusty Garcia Reese I'll second seconded by trusty njim all in favor I I opposed motion passes uh next we are moving on to Communications and recognitions um governing board reports uh trusty Espinosa thank you all everyone for being here today and I hope everyone is ready to enjoy a great summer summer set us already you know those those same summer DRS come go but stay cool out here please and stay hydrated um I do want to say thank you to all of the graduation um folks out there from staff teachers our principles our maintenance our Tech I know there always groups and I apologize the work that goes into graduations for these students really sticks
003with them for the rest of their lives and so thank you all for making those experiences are memorable for these students and it's memorable for us too really it takes it takes me back to those days but also days that I appreciate seeing those students walk across and seeing um the staff and teachers and just family just celebrate each other so thank you for a really great day and I do want to say I didn't say last Mee I to that that public thank you thank you Mr lion for being aable to the S Optimus last month and to some requests coming for forer support conference uh we are looking at a steam Wars theme for young girls out here ages 14 through 17 and we're looking to host this at the stem building out
004there so thank you Mr L for being amable we have more details to come but it is really cool and inspiring so if folks have ideas if they have any input they want to provide please this way there's some Co thing that could be happening for the out here um and please everyone have again have a safe safe happy summer and I hope to see everyone back uh in the next board meeting next four year thank you thank you thank you thank you trosa trusty n Jim oh yeah good evening you know it's hard to believe that in other school uh school year in the books you know 2023 it was just like not too long ago we were all getting together in August um you know was a a year full of outstanding accomplishments
005inside the classroom and during after school activities as well was very successful I want to congratulate all the staff you know teachers uh advisers administrators security maintenance Transportation Casto everybody that who assisted in the success of our students this year we had a lot of positive things going on and of course the highlight of that um one of the highlights was graduation ceremonies um I had the opportunity of going to centrals um I think it's probably my 35th graduation at Central so um it it was it was a very memor memorable one and especially the fact that Derek Gonzalez's mom and brother were there um and when they crossed the straight the stage to receive that diploma it was it was a standing ovation by everybody there and it was very you know I still
006get kind of chills talking about and I don't know if if Mr lion had had told the students that that somebody would be there to represent his family because a lot of the students had pictures of Derek on their their cap and gowns so they were gonna Derek was crossing that stage that night with his class even though his mom and and the brother were there and I I would just never I will never forget that um it was a wonderful evening thank you to all the principles Mr lion Mr Derma Mr Diaz Mr PTO and the entire staff for for making all that happen for those those young adults that are that that were there um you know I was at Central on on Monday yesterday uh summer school is up and running guys
007are doing a great job getting that going and looks like the students were were going where they were supposed to be and I were just talking to Mr preciado about how some of them look so scared you know like wow you know it's it's it's it's amazing those freshmen and also people coming back so even though they had just a short time off they're ready to come back and and continue their learning I know we'll miss all the seniors and also all the retirees as well you know Arnold we don't want to cry too much right now so good luck in your endeavors make sure you come back and and tell us how you're doing because uh we miss you already so have a healthy summer and and thank you again thank you trusty new
008Jim uh trusty Diana Garcia re good evening everyone I guess by this time everybody's taking the Thunder out of us huh um of course the graduations there were so much fun I don't think I've never had so many kids want to hug us you know usually they just want to shake your hand but they wanted to hug us and thank you you know I was in at Central's graduation but thank you Mr lion I remember as probably do you that we lost four students when we were in high school in one shot and nothing like this was done back then which I I kind of regret now but something like this would have been beautiful back then and I'm sure it was beautiful today I mean well the day that you did it um at
009Southwest we had lots of fireworks um going off um it was fun though and like I said the the students were so beautiful the girls were so beautiful everybody was so excited um it was great to see them just happy and have no idea what's coming up next right um last month we also had the visit by the surgant general um here at at at at Southwest and then in the evening HOSA hosted a um an event that was supposed to be for her but it would ended up being great for everybody else San Diego State showed us um the new uh nursing program that's going to take over in broy and everybody's all excited about that uh we attended the retirement dinner for the there was so many retirees I don't know what we're
010doing wrong but it was fun it was good to see some of the old retirees come back to the dinner so but everybody had lots of fun uh that's it I hope everybody has a pleasant summer stay cool and I can't wait till we see the little freshman come in next year thank you uh trusty Rodriguez yes thank you and thank you for all those in attendance um the board does appreciate you guys taking the time out of your day to attend the governance process and uh I'll start I don't know if anyone mentioned uh we attended the Law Academy ceremony you know that um lot of awards lot of lot of great things coming out of that and to be honest my daughter sta you know it's kind of bittersweet because I blame the
011Law Academy for putting you know the army into my daughter Thea's you know head you know so she's been there three years now and um you know started with the law Academy you know it it it it gave her the confidence and experience to succeed in the Army and she's won awards you know she's got the job she want she's three years in and you know um so just wanted to share that um I also want to um congratulate the central cheer uh they haven't got enough cheers um thanks and praises is already but uh I attended their their their banquet um it wasn't too long ago last year when uh sah my daughter you know she got hurt you know countless countless of of of girls got hurt last year it was I was
012like what are you guys doing you know this is cheer not football but they were breaking bones they were getting concussions this is only a year ago so um so kudos to the coaches to the staff the admin for supporting these coaches and and and you know this is proof that um they they did very well um their their ring is just amazing I I I don't know if it's appropriate to ask I'm like is this real like it's really shiny amazing ring so thank you for everyone that played a part in making that special for our our cheer girls um graduation yes I attended Central uh graduation every year the last two years this is the third year it's always a a true honor um it's an honor to to be um to be
013in a position myself considering what I've been through in my my life with with my daughters um it's a true honor to be in that position to to hand my daughters their diplomas um you know if it wasn't so fast I'd probably break down in tears but you know everyone knows that it goes so fast you know the emotions my throat just comes right back up um but but yeah I I I um I just wanted to share that uh yeah my my family and I uh were truly appreciative and we benefited from such a a good efficient district school district my three daughters they're all succeeding two uh one daughter in the Army one daughter in school the other daughter my other daughter on her way to Oregon this summer and um I just
014want to share that because I want everyone to know our students to know that you know this happened for me and my family because I put my family first and I displayed action so um I I want us to be an inspiration to our students and and our our Future Spartans and Eagles that uh you could do anything family and action and um thank you to the to the staff again uh you guys uh I do appreciate it I have a personal experience you guys graduated three daughters of mine success successful daughters and um you know I can't say how how important it is to have you know um impacting teachers and counselors you know there you guys do a very very special job and I I consider it a calling and I just do
015want to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart and thank you I look forward to Summertime break thank you thank you trusty Rodriguez so just um on my behalf again Clos to the district I attended the Southwest graduation it was beautiful um thank you to the staff for organizing such a beautiful ceremony um and before before I forget I want to wish all our district dads a Happy Father's day and may you spend it with your loved ones and really enjoy it because um we have amazing fathers in our district and our teachers staff among our board members as well um so with that we'll move on thank you um next we have our Central Union High School District student Club report you can it's Club is okay um we'll take it okay
016I'm Dr Tom tacky and um as you know I'm I oversee the audio production work at at Central and we've we've had an amazing two years starting two years ago we had three National winners on on music composition last year we had an honorable mention with NPR this year we landed um the valley Vibes thing with uh Power 98 and then this spring we we landed um KPBS a partnership with KPBS to to produce a podcast series for them and um their official announcement of that will be coming out um in the near future but basically we were selected um first above all the professional organizations that were competing in this there there were no schools competing in in the explore 24 but the reason I'm here tonight is this last weekend um I took
017two t two DJs and art Rubio took uh six of the rock combo members to the association for popular music education National Conference at at uh USC um we were selected it was an audition based thing um I also presented two um uh little seminars within the thing too but what's most important is what our students did and um they did outstanding the The Rock combo performed on Friday morning and the the chair of the popular music education um entity of at USC um pretty prestigious individual he was their adjudicator and following their songs he said I think we can all agree that this band rocks you know and they did they they tore it up um you know he worked with them basically you know his only comments were that you know they they
018were phenomenal but they sounded like six phenomenal individuals and that they needed to you know make a couple adjustments they made the adjustments and it was just tight um it wasn't a competition however um the downbeat magazine band of the year the last two run years running for for the nation um was there um we I wouldn't say we're better but we're not worse okay um they're different they're very different bands and um these kids really really really brought it the the DJs likewise um this was the first time that that conference had had DJs and um organized let me know that they were very excited that we um brought DJs to the conference By Invitation um and they delivered um they they um They too had uh great adjudication the comments basically were um
019I would have never done this when I was 16 these were these were professionals um and they also told them that they're basically what the music that they're performing we and we only used our music it was only music composed by our students at Central so there was no no professional Productions um they said it's ready to go any club anywhere in the nation it it's it's set to go so I think you know the the support that that um you've provided um is appreciated um I don't know you know where it's going to go you know it's not really a about what we do outside of of this area but um you know it it is important that we provide our students with you know that that level of quality and and opportunity um
020they're going to go a long way so thank you thank you thank you thank [Applause] you next we have our superintendent report Dr farcus that's hard to follow congratulations Dr tacky and the uh crew uh good good evening uh trustees and members of the audience I was um proud to say my i' I've made it through my second graduation last year it was Southwest and this year was Central still couldn't quite when I started figure out why they're at the same time but I know that hot sun makes it um makes it important to do it after Sunset because that sky was beautiful and it gave us a little break on the heat so it was um it was wonderful and as I was privileged enough to shake hands on the stage with over 400
021graduates I just was reflecting on how fast time goes um two years went in it feels like two months how fast it goes and then I reflected even deeper and saying we remember the highlights we remember the big events and most importantly we remember the relationships that we have whether we're saying goodbye to Fantastic um uh friends that are retiring or um unfortunate situations we always remember our relationships even going back like uh Miss Garcia Ruiz said about her time in high school when she referred to principal lion we always refer to that and when you have this many people together in an organization like a school district there's going to be mistakes there's going to be words that are misperceived and I just want to say I'm proud of the way we're handling and
022resolving situations we need to continue to do that because we're we're setting up for a really nice school year next year to build upon what we have in place such as our mental health programs our collaboration through professional learning communities really focusing on what's going on in our classrooms to bring up our proficiency levels and our graduation rates and our a through G um proficiencies uh numbers and then also paying attention to our just exciting situation with our program transfer for our students with disabilities coming in to our district and our English Learners as well so I guess my message tonight is I'm very grateful and privileged and I also want to say thank you to everybody that's willing to say we're not no one's perfect but we're able to work together to resolve and
023move forward and as much as we're celebrating graduations and the end of a year we're also very fired up about starting fresh a brand new school year and really enhancing some of what we have that's going very well but we could even do better and it's exciting so have a good summer everyone and I just feel privileged to be in the seat thank you Dr perus next we have public comments at this time the Board of Trustees will hear comments presentations or requests on matters listed on this agenda speakers are requested to give their names and addresses time Li for speakers is three minutes the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes the board reserves the right to limit presentations this meeting is being recorded do we
024have any public comments at this time no unless somebody wants to come forward no one okay public comment non aggenda items at this time the Board of Trustees will hear comments presentations or requests on matters not listed on this agenda or other topics that are not on the agenda but are within the board's jurisdiction speakers are requested to give their names and addresses time limit for speakers is three minutes the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 10 minutes the board reserves a right to limit presentations this meeting is being recorded do we have any non-agenda items no this time okay so hearing none we'll move on to approval of the agenda do I have a motion for approval of the agenda were we going to make a move
025yes I did want to ask the board if there's any way that we can make a slight change to the action um calendar I wanted to move items number five and number six up to um to one and two on action if if this board would approve that please it's basically moving our proclamations up higher in our action both five and six yes so I'll make the motion to approve the agenda with the amended items of five and six becoming one and two on action I'll go ahead and second that motion by truste Espinosa seconded by trusty Garcia ree all in favor I I opposed motion passes consent agenda items all items appearing on the consent agenda are routine business matters and will be acted upon by one motion without discussion should any board member
026request an item be considered separately the item will be added to the end of the regular agenda do I have a motion for approval of the consent agenda I'll make a motion the consent agenda motion by trusty Espinosa I'll second seconded by trusty Nim all in favor I opposed motion passes I do want to point out um that we will be having um beginning Orchestra and I think that that's awesome I think that that's you know giving the these kids a little leg up on Orchestra is just the best thing we can do yep thank you next we're moving on to action information items so um item number one the new one is approval of resolution number 4-31 celebrating juneth and I know we have some visitors up here from the Imperial Valley social justice
027committee I don't know if you would um honor us with joining us in the front as we read the proc of juneth um please do we read it here or read it up there hello hello let's go to the front now what do you have the right one yeah prounce it please do it for me new Jim I'm a Jim so we're gonna go ahead and read the resolution centr High School District Board of Education resolution number 0 61124 -31 J juneth Independence Day celebration whereas enslaved people in the western most Confederate State of Texas were not freed until some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay Texas on June 19th 1865 more than two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln is issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st 1863 and whereas African-Americans
028who had been formerly enslaved in the southwest celebrated June 19th commonly known as juneth Independence Day as inspiration and encouragement for future generations and have observed the tradition of celebrating juneth independence day for over 150 years and whereas the state of California has designated juneth Independence Day as our country's second Independence Day in recognition of the emancipation of all enslaved people in the United States and whereas juneth Independence Day celebrations have been held to honor African American Freedom while encouraging self-development and respect for all cultures in our times for reflection and rejoicing and whereas the faith and strength the faith and strength of character demonstrated by formerly enslaved people and the descendants of formerly enslaved people remain an example for all people of the United States regardless of background religion or race and whereas the
029United States Congress has designated June 19th as juneth Independence Day in recognition of the historical significance of juneth Independence Day to the United States and in order to support the continued Nationwide celebration of juneth Independence Day to provide an opportunity for the people of the United States to learn more about the past to better understand stand and reckon with the experiences that have shaped the United States and to recognize that the observance of the end of slavery is part of our history and Heritage of the United States and whereas thereafter President Biden proclaimed June 19th as juneth and juneth day of observance and called upon the people of the United States to acknowledge and celebrate the end of Civil War and the emancipation of black Americans and Comm commit together to eradicate systemic racism that
030still undermines our founding ideals and Collective prosperity and whereas the central Union High School District seeks to further solidify and expand its support of the leg local observance of juneth as an annual celebration and as a continued opportunity to recognize the impact achievements and significant role of the African-Americans that have played in The History of the United States and now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education of the central Union High School District designate June 19th 2024 as a local holiday in honor of [Applause] juneth I never smoked so that's good we don't have to ride or do you want to share some of the activities that you're going to be having locally for Jun tell us what's going to happen yes I can do it real briefly but first of all Wow
031first of all I just really like to thank the um School District the high school district and why do I want to do that is because I know that this is that is given to us today is with sincerity and and and it's appreciated I also want to thank uh the trustees in all for the last couple of years why do I that he have been working with us he have been working with us in promoting and creating public and student awareness of the pight of the African-American here and in gr County not only the P but the local contributions which are heavy and I think at the school district you you see that a lot uh with some of the past employees and pan leaders and football coaches and all and it still is
032on I really appreciate that and your superintendent is awesome and and again Maya Angelo says you may not remember what people say where is he you may not remember what people say but you know and you remember how they make you feel and he he has done that you know so anyway I want to say thank thank you to all and people that you see here with you is just a fraction we're all volunteers if you ever look on our Facebook you'd say God what what you know the activities and things we're involved in and also volunteers and they're committed and if you can come out Amber I don't know where you are if you can pass out aers you have any time on Saturday come by The Pavilion it's going to be awesome like
033nothing You' seen before and and the last thing I'll say before I if in case anyone here would like to say our next event B event will be September 16th and we will be surprised history because nobody knows it nobody knows it and so we're going to promote the history of September September September 16 you know but in case adri and Lawson would like to say something I passed Bon on the special events coordinator so I've been doing it for so long and now she just in the past couple years she has shown why I need to step back a little bit uh because it's at a new level we GRE out of the community center and that's why we're going over there and we have some a lot of historical um presentations there well
034some good entertainment and for those of you that like Louisiana boil crab we got that there we got rib so if you don't want to come in you can pass by because food vs will be outside ra but again thank you thank you very much and we look forward to continue working with the district collaboration of things thank you so I just want to thank everyone thank the board um for supporting us through the years some of the people on the board I know very well Maria supports us and everything she's not everything Diana is there Mrs N I mean I've heard a lot about you but this is my first time actually but I want to thank you for supporting us Elizabeth has been to some of our events also uh Carol Taylor is
035my sunshine back there you guys stld her from us years ago but she the heart everything so I just want to thank everyone here for supporting Jun and then thank us for making it a holiday for [Music] you I'm just thankful for everyone okay [Applause] onebody here's here so we're moving on we still need to vote on that one oh okay they left with the proclamation hav't been approved we need a roll call vote we need a roll call vote for hi yes yes hi thank you next we move on to the approval of board resolution number 0 61124 -32 proclaiming the month of June as lgbtqia a plus pride month I don't believe there's anyone here from the LGBT Resource Center but we'll go ahead and read it um proclaiming the month of June
036as lgbtqia a plus pride month whereas lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer intersex asexual plus lgbtqia a plus pride month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 still wall Uprising in in Manhattan and whereas current and former presidents of the United States have officially declared June an lgbtq pride month and whereas the central Union High School District CSD is committed to safety inclusion representation and affirmation for all students through developing and coordinating activities training and opportunities and whereas through inter agency collaboration cgsd is working to cultivate positive and safe School environments to empower youth with confidence and knowledge to successfully navigate and and improve the everchanging world and where CSD Works to honor all students staff members and families who identify as lgbtqia plus fostering a welcoming School climate where
037they can live their authentic lives and be treated with dignity and respect and where all students deserve to feel safe and welcome in their schools to be known by their preferred name gender identity and story and to see themselves represented in the curricula and whereas the availability and the utility of lgbtq I A Plus related School resources and supports help offset the negative effects of a hostile School climate and promote a positive learning experience and where CSD supports schools in implementing a history and social studies curriculum that highlights the contributions of members of the lgbtqia plus community and allows students to see themselves accurately reflected as prescribed by the fair Education Act Senate Bill 48 which was signed into law on July 14th 2011 and whereas California state law addresses discrimination harassment intimidation and bullying
038towards lgbtqia plus Youth and whereas a hostile School climate affects students academic success and Mental Health lgbtqia Plus students who experienced victimization and discrimination at school have worse educational outcomes and poor psychological well-being and whereas there have been numerous studies indicating that inequities experienced by the lgbtq a plus community including poverty homelessness School harassment physical assault domestic violence hate crimes mental health issues and substance abuse concerns and where cuhsd supports schools in the adoption and implementation of comprehensive bullying harassment policies that specifically enumerate sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression with clear and effective systems for reporting and addressing incidents that students experience and where CSD recognizes years of struggle for freedom and civil rights by lgbtqia plus people and their contribution to the rich history of collective action champion in equality for all people
039and where CSD celebrates this Rich history acknowledging the contributions lgbtqia plus individuals have made and continue to make to strengthen the fabric of American society and its promise of equal rights for all now therefore be it resolved that the central Union High School District Board of Trustees does hereby Proclaim June 2024 AS lgbtqia Plus pride month adopted this 11th dat of June 2024 so do I we have a roll call Vote for This Proclamation motion I make a motion to accept resolution number 06112 43-32 motion by truste Garcia re second seconded by trusty esposa hi yes yes all thank you everybody next we move to uh approval of personnel report June 2024 the board is requesting for approval of the June 24 P personel report as presented do I have a motion for approval of
040the Personnel report motion to approve personal report motion by truste Rodriguez I'll second seconded by truste Nim all in favor I post motion passes item number four variable term waiver request waiver of Education Code 44253 do11 waiver of certificate of completion of Staff Development to provide instruction to English Learners the board is requesting to approve sub submitting variable term waivers to the California Commission on teacher credentialing on behalf of the following employees in grades 9 through 12 to wave the certificate of completion of Staff Development to provide instruction to English learner students effective needs of waiver April 8th 2024 through December 1st 2024 Kevin lawren CT business and finance Central Union High School grades 10 to 12 are there any questions regarding this item no questions do I have a motion motion by trusty Garcia
041ree I'll second seconded by trusty njim all in favor I hi opposed motion passes public notice of information as per education code 42141 regarding self-insured workers compensation financial status it is requested the Board of Trustees of the central Union High School District provide public notice as required under Education Code 42141 any questions regarding this item no no n okay we'll move on approval of board resolution number 06112 4-30 workers compensation benefits extended to unpaid volunteers the board is requested to approve the following board resolution extending workers compensation benefits to unpaid volunteers board resolution 06112 4-30 per section 33 63.5 ET skew of the labor code of the state of California is there any discussion on this item questions no do I have a motion for approval motion by trusty Garcia ree second seconded by trusty
042Espinosa all in favor I I opposed roll call v i yes yes hi public hearing 2024 2027 CSD local control and accountability plan including the annual update for the 2023 2024 local control and accountability plan it is requested that the governing board hold a public hearing regarding the local control and accountability plan including the annual update for the 2023 2024 local control and accountability plan this will open the hearing are we opening both hearings at the same time or no I think we're opening one first one first and then the is yes I haven't done this very often and it's a contest so here we go go start the timer just a reminder that there are 10 lcff State priorities but as a district we were only responsible for the first eight that you see
043there nine and 10 are um for County offices of Education um only so in essence Priority One we're looking to ensure that we have qualified credential teachers in place instructional materials are available for all that they're standards based and that our facilities are in good repair priority two we're implementing our state standards uh and we're working toward uh those accountability measures and ensuring that our students are proficient and prepared for life after uh High School priority three we're engaging our parents and our families priority for uh student achievement as measured by many of the metrics on the dashboard things like um how well they do on state exams um priority 5 student engagement we're measured on that based on uh suspension and expulsion rates and graduation rates and things of that nature uh along with
044school climate are we engaging our students right do they feel safe um do they feel like they have an adult on campus that they can go to when they have um some kind of um issue and priority seven you hear us talk me yeah you hear me talk about a lot tonight as far as course access goes um and priority eight is kind of a catch also all other things before we get into this let me give um Kudos uh to everybody on the team who work to ensure that our ELC cap really is um representative of the feedback that we've received from our educational partner so here in this room your administrator is on the back two rows back there and um Arnold and his team as we work through budget and this guy
045right here Mr Anthony um my right-hand guy who makes sure that we stay out of trouble so I'm grateful to all of those in the room and out right those who are not here who have contributed in some way shape or form to um ensuring that we're improving our services for our students and families um so I've already kind of talked about what those measurements are but you'll see the measurements there that are on the dashboard there are a few more that are coming you'll see that that third bullet talks about LEL information so ltels are our long-term English Learners students who have been in US schools for longer than okay three and five is in my head okay thank you six years um for many of our our our ltels have been here since
046kindergarten and for whatever reason um find it difficult to move on find Proficiency in the English language right so that's that's one of the things that we are continuously working toward improving just a little bit of data there I'm not going to necessarily read all of this to you but um on the elcap for the first time this year and this is the 10y year anniversary of elaps um we have to write to the areas where our students or our schools fall in that red category so we all want to be in that blue at that blue level um you'll see here for our all students and this is in ela as measured by Casp um we're in yellow so we're not great we're not horrible and again I like to tell people data is
047just it's data right it's it's not necessarily a judgment it's our job to determine how do we get better this is just a snapshot of where we were on a given day or at a at a given time and um you'll see that our English Learners are below our all student group in that red category and if you look a little bit underneath that I think what's most concerning to us right now is um for the first time in a long time our all student group has declined in ela Ela has been a place where where we have continued to make some progress small small increments um but this is the first time that we're seeing a decline and you're going to see that across the board with both our English Learners and our students
048with disabilities so you'll also see as we go through our plan that those two groups specifically um we know we have some work to do and and and we've made some decisions on how we think we can best support those groups in math you'll notice nobody's in red and that's a beautiful thing um and while we celebrate it there is still room for improvement and the reason why we don't fall in the red category is because we've either maintained or we've increased none of our student groups have made a decrease as in points so we are still below standard which is concerning um but we're not decreasing as far as scores go when you look at our College and Career indicator on the left hand side you'll see our all students that are in that
049Medium category and I and we said this uh in some other presentation that I think must been the midyear elap uh presentation we believe that 40% prepared is low compared to what we do do and that we do have some data cleanup to do to ensure that we're capturing all that our students are doing and we've done a better job of this so we hope to see some increases there and we're also having some hard conversations about students who are completing more than one pathway and perhaps taking the place of another student who could be completing a pathway so how do we how do we open Pathways up to ensure that all students have access to at least completion of one pathway what is concerning for us is again on that leftand side our students
050with disability fall in that very low category and so we are also having conversations and um making some movements to ensure that we are accommodating students uh needs um um sometimes we like to say a student can't do this because they can't do this and if I get too detailed then I'm throwing people under the bus and I'm not trying to do that so all of that to say um we have some mindsets to shift to ensure that we are providing accessibility to all of our students and all of our Pathways you'll see in the middle there that our English Learners and our homeless students are in that low category and then on the right hand side there our Hispanic and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students are comparable to how all students are doing graduation rates
051you'll see a decline across the board um Co right uh we came back as different people and so there are adjustments that need to be made inside of the classroom to ensure that we are meeting current student needs and so um um we're working on it we're we're we're training teachers we're training administrators again we're having hard conversations and and we're committed to really looking at our data and letting Data Drive decisions that we're making suspension rate on the left hand side all students we're in that orange category there is a slight increase in the number of students who have have been suspended at least one day and as a district our foster youth fall in that red category so 22% of our foster youth have been suspended at least one time during the school
052year so um with a new F FRC coordinator on board and the work that she's been doing um along with other support staff uh we we feel good about the fact that we think this is going to increase we're making adjustments and and really um trying to connect this group of students to their schools on the right hand side you'll see also in the orange that our English Learners our Hispanic and our homeless students as well as our socioeconomically disadvantaged students fall in that orange category again our goal is to try to get into that blue also important to note this is the first year since Co that we've gone back to the colors um and you'll see you the um college career indicator was still that cell phone bar next year they will be
053a color Arnold's going to cover budget here so I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this other than Arnold's going to address these numbers here in just a little bit uh but there's a pie chart for all of the revenue that comes into the school district not school district lot of words here um so Ence there were some areas I figure in your you have access to it in your free time you can read a whole lot of things um in essence there were areas where there was a difference between what we had planned to do and what we were able to do whether that was we were unable to find Qualified staff to take some of our positions uh we're still in a place where um working additional hours is
054after school things of that nature is not necessarily something that a lot of people want to do I get it right family is important too uh so we're just trying to find balance how do we how do we use the resources that we have to effectively meet the needs of our students and and I think you'll see as we go through this that that we're we've come up with maybe some Innovative kinds of things to do I'm also not going to read all of this to you um but I did want you to have access to see the kinds of things that our stakeholders are are saying so we met with students they had a lot to say we met with parents they had a lot to say we met with those certificated and classified
055staff they had a lot to say we met with a a group of foster youth Advocates parents not parents what would the guardians Guardians got some feedback from them or deac or El our impact met they provided some feedback to us as well and we also met with a group of sped people but we we met with our program transfer parents and staff often and so you'll see some things here in our lcap to ensure that we're addressing those needs as well goals didn't change a whole lot a little bit awarding uh the gist is the same except for when we get to goal three and goal six so go one in essence we're looking at how do we provide Equitable access to our students so that they have a well-rounded standards based curriculum that
056they're able to work toward meeting our state standards and accountability measures in a supportive way so um we heard loud and clear from parents and students and even from our staff members that interventions need to be more immediate and take place in the classroom sometimes a lot of times we look at because after school is that's where we're going to catch all students and what we know is that not all students can come and usually a students who need it the most won't so we need to be more intentional with our instructional time during the school day to meet students needs and to remediate Andor to enrich students and parents are also telling us that interventions or after school activities are more of what they already got in class so we need to look at
057our strategy and determine how can we serve different learning modalities in different ways and they talked a lot about flexibility and I many used the word Grace although it was not necessarily their word um but sometimes maybe deadlines can be a little more flexible maybe we can listen to reasons for why things haven't worked out the way they needed to work out and extend a little bit of Grace we've also heard loud and clear um that our teachers are not in classrooms as often as they need to be um both parents and students said my teachers are absent a lot and Subs aren't necessarily teaching what maybe teachers leave um so we instituted that field trip conference request guideline right and that didn't sit well with a lot of people it was intentional we do
058want students teachers in classrooms as often as we can get them there that's why we're here right is to teach we also heard that we want more vapa opportunities and as you saw in the data our English Learners and our students with disabilities are those who have the hardest time making their way into what we do offer um we have $28 are going to help us um to create more classes and things of that nature um because through those $28 80% of them as of now because our waiver has not been approved um 80% of those dollars have to be spent on salaries people and so in order for us to extend or expand we need facilities so you're also going to see in the in the ELC cap that we have written in some
059dollar in some modular specifically at Central we probably need to have a conversation of the Southwest in the near future so that we have places to house those classes and programs so we're trying to leverage different dollars to help us meet the needs of of students as well as the requirements of the the funding that's been provided to us um we also realize that with our our Visual and Performing Arts program specifically at Southwest there is some updates that need to be made to the theater and so you'll see some of that in the Y cap as well um improve advisory we've got the time um what we heard from parents and students is it's not utilized efficiently and so we were able to get some language into the contract this year to really Define
060what advisory is meant for and so now it is up to us as administrators to that we reforce that and monitor tutoring will continue to be offered however we're looking at different formats and a lot of that's going to be paid through title $1 uh but what we heard from students is right after school isn't helpful because either I'm trying to get on the bus to go home even though there's a late bus um or I have other after school activities and so one of the things that uh we're going to we're going to play with a little bit is the idea of virtual tutoring late in the evening so after athletic events and there'll be a teacher waiting in a Google classroom and you can log in to we're going to try it we'll
061see how that goes and we're also looking at additional Counseling Services particularly at Central and at Desert Oasis uh Central's numbers are higher than those at their at the their sister school and so looking to balance case Lo between those two schools and um utilizing the equity multiplier dollars that are available to Desert Oasis we're looking to bring in additional Counseling Services that's those are some of our more needy students in the district Mr Diaz War goal two focuses in on teachers so where goal one is really we're working toward uh supporting students will do is to support our teachers um so Dr fargus talked about plc's we're really looking at um beefing up our collaboration efforts um to better support our students with disabilities we're looking at co- teing we're not looking at we
062are implementing co- teing opportunities in math where we are pushing in students who may have in the past taken a math B basic course pushing them into a gened course that special ed teacher comes in to support um the gened teacher it is not uh this teacher does this and this teacher does this if we do it correctly it's really these two teachers working together planning instructing and assessing but our SP teachers have the expertise about how to help students and um so through that collaboration we are hoping to some increases as well we're going to continue with the teacher Clarity initiative and we're bringing in um West Ed to assist us with inclusion and accessibility so really looking at our practices at our placements um and helping teachers to understand not only their legal
063obligations but moral obligations as well and supporting students through um their coursework as we went through the differentiated assistance proess process um we've heard from Department chairs that it's been a minute since we've looked at our standards and our Frameworks and our and our testing Blueprints and so we've heard from them it's time to go back and ref familiarize oursel and to take some time and to really think about what it is that we're teaching and whether or not those things are meeting our students needs and in order to help us do that that last bullet there we're bringing in a baseline assessment that uh will be administered to all students 9 through 11 to help us determine where student gaps are so that we are ensuring that what we're teaching is where really what
064students need and then uh mid year and at the end of the year we will reassess to see what kind of progress or growth we're making goal three has changed this used to all be Mount signal um but now it is really looking at how we're going to support our English Learners and our students with disabilities and so we have a need to improve our LR co- teing is going to help us with that instead of students being placed in a special ed classroom they're in a gened classroom with support uh we've talked a lot about the United PE and the leadership class mostly for those program transfer students is that is there a curriculum for that or is it just based on the the ability of the students coming in there it there is
065a culum for that and teachers have been through some training there's there's a need to continue to train them um but yes and the leaders who will be assisting through that process will also be trained I know Southwest is training during the summer Central May jump on board with that um but yes really getting our our gen ed students to work with our special ed students particularly those who are um at that moderate s level and and helping to grow their leadership skills at the same time um we're looking at adopting Andor revising our ELD and El Support classes again as we went through that differentiated assistance um process there were things that were brought to our attention Patty has um taken some of those concerns to to the daac and they've made some adjustments
066to um place practices um and and and we'll further look at some of those practices as well for example um students with disabilities you would just be placed in either uh a basic course for English or a gened class depending on what was going to work for them and we didn't necessarily um provide a a designated language support class and so part of that process that we went through really had us reflect on is that really the right placement or should we have some kind of a a language support class for these students as well and is the basic course the best placement or is it the uh the ELD course that might best meet their their needs and so we're working through that uh We've hired two additional instructional coaches who will be assisting
067us with those inclusion and accessibility uh supports um we've talked a little bit more already about that proper placement we heard loud and clear that there are real concerns for some of our parents and our teachers in the program transfer and so we worked to make sure that we included some of the supplies and the needs that they're going to need in in that area as well uh we have flown positions for additional School psychologists um um you saw the uh suspension rates um with the program transfer coming our way we know they're going to be additional needs that we need in that school psychologist area but we also recognize that behavior maybe in other areas are is something that we need to um better support and be proactive in uh we haven't been very
068successful in finding candidates and so if you know any school psychologists send them our way go four really focuses on school climate um there's not a whole lot that has changed in goal four as far as actions go uh except for we have written in extracurricular activities there is no money allotted to that at this point but we recognize that as we continue to expand our sporting activities that there may come a point where we are increasing and improving our services and that maybe elcap needs to to support some of those efforts so you'll see the language there there are no dollars allotted to that at this time and then we also heard from students um that our campuses need some beautification so there is some uh dollars written in for things like murals and
069things of that nature to kind of spruce up our campuses a little bit uh we continue with some of the new positions that we have recently ly hired in the way of our FRC coordinator and our public information officer and we realized that continuing to build relationships is something that we need to work on as well as communication and so while none of us are fans of additional meetings I think it has become apparent to us that if we are really going to be transparent in our communication we need to bring more people to the table more often so you'll see some committee stuff there as well goal five vital services not basic Services um as we sat with icoe they questioned some of the words that have been in our LC cap for a
070while um but we've made some adjustments there um safety in the restrooms is still something that is uh coming up in our conversations they're not talking about vaping as much as they were uh last year but they are talking about uh the spacing and those privacy walls and um so there are some things that we still need to do in the restroom there we're going to maintain the additional security that we have um added in recent years we have piloted Vape detectors this year um we're now going to be installing those Vape detectors in all of our restrooms um cyber security is something that is on our radar and we realize that there's probably more we need to do there in a in um in the upcoming years and as you know technology is always
071changing and so we continue to update our networks or fiber optics our our SEC security systems as well as the wiring that goes with all of that and we've purchased Raptor and it should be implemented here relatively soon as well but we're continuing to look at hiring highly qualified teachers and so I just want to put a disclaimer here too because you have probably heard heard from some people that our um hiring practices have changed a little bit um we're doing things in rounds because we recognize that the expectation of the state and what's good for students is that we are hiring the most qualified people so in the last few months there are a few positions where we have had two to three different rounds of um interviews so we interviewed those who had
072credentials first and then we moved to those who held that uh eligibility and then those who we would have to put on some kind of a waiver but looking to hire the most qualified um first and then goal six is our multi our Equity multiplier dollars this funding is only provided for Desert ois Phoenix rising in Mount signal and uh those are allocated based on uh non-stability and our socioeconomically disadvantaged thresholds this funding has to be utilized for what they call research based or evidence-based strategies and so with those schools they are looking to continue their seal programs um their coordinators impactor um was one of the programs that was presented at the board meeting uh we've had some other conversations about how do we support Desert Oasis um maybe with some kind of a
073student alternative placement like we have at the comprehensive site so instead of moving straight toward um suspension is there some kind of intervention before a suspension to to really focus in on the behavior and try to counsel students before we go through down that um discipline route um we talked about the counselor earlier and the behavior intervention that we'd like to put into place uh Mr Diaz has also shared that his teachers are interested in having a writing Improvement program that they utilize um I've added the reading there because usually with writing comes reading and so giving us some flexibility there and then we're also thinking about Partnerships so in order for these our smaller schools to meet some of our accountability measures that College and Career indicator is something that um we need to
074be working toward that is a difficult thing when you don't have a lot of teachers or a lot of sections uh so while at the at Desert Oasis we have implemented the Beauty and Barber and Beauty and Mr Diaz has brought in the um cyber security we recognize the need to do some of that even with our M signal students through an online version of that but we also need to ensure that these students have someone or someone's in the community to whom they can look uh for inspiration and and guidance and so we we will look into some job shadowing and internship mentoring kinds of things for students questions suggestions like I said it's a team effort team effort and now you get armed y thanks Trisha what was the time Mr lion were
075you still keeping time great job9 did you say yeah fast as9 oh I'm sorry I was waiting for you to open up the public hearing and go through that process officially me go back to my notes to close the hearing you can close the outc cap hearing sure close the public hearing 2427 situation the local control and accountability plan item number eight public hearing for the central Union High School District adopted budget 20242 it is requested the Board of Trustees at the central unit High School District hold the public hearing as requested under Education Code 42127 there you go thank you thank you very much uh gentlemen ladies of the Board of Trustees Central Union High School District uh folks in the audience uh tonight is going to be my last budget presentation no claps
076Craig and I I do have uh my own personal fan club in the audience tonight uh which is my wife Blanca and my son Alejandro and my wife was having trouble sleeping last night so I said you know what why don't you come over to my budget presentation and and I I think I can take care of that issue with for you you know so she's here tonight to get some sleep I guess no I'm just kidding just kidding um because it is my last budget presentation um my family wanted to be in the audience and make sure that uh make it a smooth presentation and it's quickly as possible for Craigs uh benefit as well so again tonight uh we have the 23 24 estimated actuals and 2425 adopted budget uh presentation uh we'll
077go ahead and begin by opening up and sharing a little bit about the governor's May revise in the middle of May the governor released his May revise in which at this point in time because of declining State revenues he has to deal with de budget deficits in for 2425 and 2526 in addition to that he's got to deal with some Revenue shortfalls in the 23 24 fiscal year as well and in doing so he's trying to protect education as much as possible he's proposing some significant spending cuts in government operations outside of Education uh he's trying to Shield education k14 as much as possible but remember he's got to do that in certain certain fashion and way and by doing that he's going to at this point in time anticipate depleting the prop prop 98
078Reserve so has money that was set aside for a rainy day well the rainy day is here and uh he's trying to maneuver or try to see what he can do in order to uh Shield uh k 14 education and the funding for that but again that does not come without any risk I've already heard from um the legislature or heard some Rumblings from the legislature that they are anticipating or at least acknowledging that there's the potential of deferrals moving into the future so deferral means uh for people in the audience that uh the state owes you on a monthly basis State ow school districts on a monthly basis a paycheck but sometimes they'll say I'll owe you that paycheck and pay you in a different month in the future that's just cash flow situation
079CL cash flow management that has to occur regarding that so uh anticipate the uh potential of deferrals in the future so in early uh April the governor met with the legislature and said you know what we have some very difficult uh issues that we have to resolve um and of course the deficit I just mentioned uh that the state is in and so the governor and the legislature took action AB 106 it is law early action budget agreement whereby AB 106 made 17.3 billion doll in early action solutions to resolve or at least reduce the projected shortfall and you can see there by the numbers and that uh you know in this bill there's 3.6 billion in reductions 5.2 billion in revenue and borrowings there 5.2 billion in delays and deferrals I've just talked about
080that 3.4 billion in cost shifts from the general fund to other state funds uh as you can see in the bottom half of this slide um early on uh the governor had said that we're going to delay 550 million doar in California preschool transition transitional kindergarten and full day Garden facilities program well in his May revise he's cut that out the next bullet reduces a planned 875 million one-time investment in school faciliity program and he wanted to reduce that by 500 million he's actually going to cut the whole 875 million and that's the whole 875 million out of the May Revis so beginning with the 2425 projections we're estimating $ 44.9 billion in a deficit uh for the State uh by moving forward with this early action budget plan he's reduced it to 27.6 billion
081dollar still a lot to come still a lot to lot of work to to do and how did we get into this problem well um if you recall for the last prior two calendar years the federal government and the state government push their income tax and corporate tax filings into the future so instead of filing an April for the previous calendar year they filed and submitted their uh income U notifications and taxes in October it was fine for the first year because there was a windfall it wasn't good for the second year which was for the 2022 calendar year we came in $26 billion short below estimates and having that done after after the fact after the fact that the governor had enacted the 2324 budget at a higher level and then finding out that
082we didn't receive all the revenues that we had anticipated the governor now modified his budget in January to 98 billion for education and now in may revised to 97.5 billion dollar so it's a huge reduction in prop 98 uh funding okay please help me if there's any questions if you have any questions so for our school district and I've shown this to the Board of Trustees and the public before you know that over time since 201920 we have been seeing a reduction in enrollment the reduction in enrollment between 1920 and 2324 is 130 137 less students in our school district and because of the whole harmless uh funded hold harmless that was started in 1920 and then 2021 and continued in 2122 our funding Ada was flat and was held harmless and was not impacted
083by the decline in enrollment we are now at a stage where we in 2223 have a threeyear average Ada uh over the last three years and so as this Ada as the enrollment goes down so does Ada and we're starting to see the effect of that decline in Ada going into the future so because of this three-year average decline in Ada uh that is currently in place we only lost 69 Ada over these last two years but that still equates to 1.1 1 million in Lost Revenue so Mr PR the yes the declining enrollment um Statewide that's is it just is it secondary is it C is it everybody or is it just Statewide Statewide uh families are leaving the state too expensive to live here um also families moving to to Mexico and when
084they say say when I say moving out of state moving to much cheaper States Arizona Texas Nevada uh California is very expensive to live in and it's Statewide at every level at every level and I've showed also uh previously in another budget presentation the decline in enrollment for various counties and the projection for Imperial county is that we will lose approximately 16.9% of our enroll EAS uh come the end of 20 30 okay so in in that as well our feeder districts are also declining in EN R yeah Central Elementary our larg largest feeder district is also declining the only District in Imperial County that isn't growing that is growing is Imperial imp I think that's where the housings at any questions so we uh projecting based on the lcff local control funding formula calculator
085to lose another 5488 next year so this is a very important graph that I want everybody to understand and it's basically the graph of the previous uh chart okay but I have a very important line that I want to show so this Top Line right here is enrollment which dict dictates uh ada8 now this starting here in 2021 and moving forward was our three see the the hold harmness here and then the three-year average threeyear average threeyear average so the decline in Ada is not as steep as our actual this is our actual Ada year-over year P2 and if we were funded at actual we would have lost lost $2.6 million in revenue and it's not because our folks aren't doing their job they are actually doing a very fine job and when I say
086our folks our attendance folks our attendance clerks our our community Liaisons our attendance Specialists are doing very very good job at getting our students into the class our attend our attendance rate is 95.4% so it's not that they're trying that they are trying very hard to make sure that the students are in the classroom and so we're trying to make this line as as best as we can here because this will affect our three-year average as we move out any questions so this is a another chart this is from school Services of California and they provided it the means where uh any and all school districts can take a look at some of these numbers and so of course I pull out C un High and again a different format of the charts that I
087just showed earlier here's our enrollment 4150 4162 4140 4116 4093 and then we dropped to 4023 over here but you can see that our drop in enrollment you can see the incline and increases in teacher salary expenses this is just teacher salary going from n a little over 19 to 20 almost 26 million here under object 1100 we can see over time our classified FTE has also dropped here and when you put that in a line graph you can see that this middle blue line which is enrollment has dropped our salaries uh teacher salaries have increased this is 34.67281 so it gives us thought to evaluate our R Le uh and impact and and things that we need to do uh to make sure that we are solving what does the lcff look like for
088CSD with Ada loss and cola well the cola is only 1.07% for 2425 but if you compare the two years 23 24 which were current year to what we're projecting next year you can see that we've lost $165,000 a minus .25% so because of our threeyear average and continued decline in Ada that 1% means nothing okay because it's it just absorbed the 1% Cola increase to the district and because of the 54.4% loss in Ada we lost the potential of this other $886,000 so if Ada was flat we would have seen an additional 886 so for the alcap and lcap uh which funds uh Mrs Pet's elcap here um this is our P elcap so the so first of all of the district's lcff but I just showed here lcap is 23.3% of the lcff
089dollars that we received from the St so already in our budget we have to carve out 23.3% and fund the alap plan with these funds and you can see here in alcap we lost approximately $20,000 so this is flat as well right but we have greater needs so um here also because of the loss of ADA we uh lost $27,000 for the alcap so in terms of lcff and lcap dollars we're flat local control funding formula again six 64 million here 64 million here for the two years and you can see the the unduplicated pupil percentage going from 78.0 five to 7811 so we are we are collecting trying to collect as much information making sure our families who are eligible to be counted as unduplicated pupil low income low social economic Foster youth English
090Learners uh that we count them because they also provide us with the lcap money under supplemental concentration so let me get into the budget real quick again 64.6 million 64.4 million because of some of the adjustments within the L lcff it's $195,000 decline from the actual uh estimated actuals this would be estimated actuals and this is adopted budget um no change under Federal revenues this is just the all dollars we received same thing with State revenues Transportation Lottery funds are stagnant uh local revenues that just decrease because we Ed up one time FFA Grand dollars here and then also uh reduction in SDSU Rise program funding so the difference here in unrestricted revenue is $237,000 going into expenditures well our certificated salaries have gone up budgeted certificated salaries have gone up by 1.2 to because
091of uh positions that we have in our lcap same thing with classified positions in lcap and then of course if salaries go up so does our statutory benefits and employee benefits one thing here I'd like to note uh under employee benefits is that stirs is still at 19.1% but purs continues to increase so we've gone from 27% to 28.1% in pers folks classified statutory benefits over 38% 38% is statutory benefits so for every dollar that we pay out in salary we have to pay out 38 cents for the statutary benefits it's it's just mind bubling whereas in in certificated is 23.8% and that's because this percentage just increasing uh books and supplies we made some Cuts uh shifted some of the alcat budget based on reorganization to positions we made general fund budget cuts as
092well next category services and operating expense again same thing projected expenditures in ALC cap shift general fund budget cuts as well um and then Capital outlay slight decrease due to completing capital projects in the AL and budgeting new facility expenses in the new budget but very little as you can see it's flat um decrease and out other outgo this is this is an important piece here so approximately $600,000 now is not being transferred out of the district to Imperial County Office of Education because now we are going to be servicing the community based program students in our district so we don't send the Revenue to them anymore we keep that and that's that $600,000 is right there other outgo the current projected decrease in indirect costs because we are spending all of our federal dollars
093and that's diminishing so since we're diminishing an expenditures there's less indirect rate that we can pull from those programs to assist with other costs in the district one thing also the next item other Financial sources uh in 23 24 we did transfer $3 million for fund for 400 we are anticipating transferring another $1 million from fund 400 into the general fund and why are we doing that well that's to offset the next item contributions of restricted programs and offset it slightly because uh let me read the description or the reason why current budgeted contributions are projected to increase great based on the community based program transfer the program transfer plus additional special ed Staffing cost amounted to over 2 million in increased deficit so the funding that came with the students is not covering the
094cost of the program and so we're making adjustments as we can in the budget as you can see we made all these minuses and cuts over here transfer million dollars in we're trying to offset this deficit and so we went from $5.4 million in contributions prior year to S and a half SO2 million any questions comments restricted budget uh there's no lcff in restricted budget we'll go to Federal revenues uh here there's a decrease in federal revenues because we're spending down and we are now uh in our last uh go run with the Esser and gear funds expenditure that's going to end in September uh of this year September 2024 we have to spend all the s and gear dollars State revenues that increased here because we have the learning loss recovery block grant the
095CTE funding increase art music prop 28 and art music construction material that's included in this budget local revenues inre budget based on additional sped funding from Sello based on community based program transfer so these are revenues that come through idea and uh also through the Sala under ab62 certificated salaries here the same as what uh we uh talked about already a community based program special ed expenditures we have salaries and staff we hire the teachers we hire the classified staff to support the community based program and of course with the increase in salaries we have the increase in employee benefits any questions books and supplies in in uh restricted decrease because again the SR gear funds are going down same thing for the services and operating uh Capital outlay we've done a lot with the
096federal dollars one of the things that we did with federal dollars uh from Esser um was to build our warehouse number two we call that personal protective equipment warehouse okay and that's where we're going to store all of our cleaning solutions and supplies and equipment so that was purchased by using federal dollars also what was purchased with federal dollars is the actual shade structure not the in installation but the actual shade structures is what we purchase uh and we use other funds for the installation of the shade structure of desert Wes in Southwest High and at Central okay that and that was for Outdoor Classroom space right okay um slight increase here in leas equipment other outgo again the decrease if there's a decrease in the federal expenditures or restricted expenditures then the outgo also
097goes down and again here this is the offset from the restricted side of the budget where we bring in $7.5 million to cover the deficit here and that's why there's no deficit any questions this is just another breakdown contributions and that's the single page that I passed out to the board uh to to look at again this is just a breakdown of what we have idea uh special education uh funding Sala just you can see the numbers going from four 5.4 to 7.5 and there's your $2 million deficit so in the general fund we go from $3.3 million to the good we transfer monies out at 7 and a half and so the general fund unrestricted is that $3.3 million deficit uh here's that $1 million transfer in for the year and so we go
098from unrestricted beginning balance of 148 to 11.3 and on the restricted as $2.1 million the bottom red square and I don't want to go too deep into the weeds but that bottom red square is $2 million that has been committed and we're asking the board to consider the 2 million doll as committed what does that mean it's a designation the general fund fund bance required in order to keep the fund balance under the unassigned and assigned year under a 10% Reserve so because of the state the state uh uh school superintendent sent out a letter in early March that says you will budget as if the state has all of the elements there where the districts can not have more than 10% in their unassign category so that's why we have it have that there
099as a designation to make sure that the bottom line is no more than 10% and that's because uh Ed code 42127 point1 which is mall that was passed a couple of years ago so I know that in June of 2020 the board and did adopt a resolution for us to have those designations uh I will ask the board to consider a resolution that I bring in June of 25 this month to consider uh again that resolution to commit uh and officially commit the $2 million as per the resolution it's to me it's mind bogging because I've done this now for 30 years and I said now then we need to have a smaller Reserve when actually when we get into certain times like these you need to have a larger reserve and so um this
100is the our conundrum so to speak for the district any questions I do have a question I know you were um talking earlier a little bit about foods and the cost of food going up and how is that affecting our budget overall for next year yeah um so in the cafeteria fund uh we have what I consider to be excellent reserves and that's because we assisted uh the cafeteria fund using federal dollars to pay for a lot of the food that we had to distribute to our community uh when we were in the pandemic that helped the cafeteria fund um and we also have a spend down plan because we have to have a certain level of the cafeteria fund to have no more at this point in time no more than 6 months worth
101of uh uh carryover Reserve in order to sustain the program for 6 months food costs are high and they coming in high and I've noticed that as well in in speaking with our Child Nutrition Director Erica Allen and so we anticipate that those food costs are going to continue to be high going into the next year we will keep an close eye on that to make sure that the fund uh isn't compromised but uh that is something we need to keep an eye on uh as we move forward into the next fiscal year the cafeteria uh Personnel have done a wonderful job in expanding their variety of different foods I know that they have Po and they have other you barbecue chicken and getting away from a lot of the pizza stuff but and and
102the kids love it the kids love it and participation this year has gone up both in breakfast and lunch they really love it just yes questions actually went up it used to be three months worth of uh reserve and now it's 6 months worth of Reserve is it uh well it's a regulation through the California Department of Education and USDA no any other questions so tonight's presentation is part of the public hearing and uh the next time uh we bring this back for the board's consider duration then June 25th would be for the board to consider uh adopting the budget thank you so from your experience because I you were around 20067 2008 is any of those are there any repeated you can speak freely well that's why the governor is is um at this
103point in time protecting as much as he can uh prop 98 and education funding um but there isn't enough money to go around so the discussion at this point in time is to move forward with deferrals um at least three deferrals starting in June of 25 and then going into 26 and potentially some other time in between there uh to to push the cash out into the future and not have this impact on uh the state um that's why reserves are important that we have higher reserves to absorb and mitigate those defs but it was much worse in 2007 8 n and 10 11 much much worse thank you Arnold yes [Applause] [Music] wow over [Laughter] under and if if it's okay with um my fellow board members I I know that Mrs Rosa Diaz
104is here I know she's here for the proclamation for the pride month um we've read we read it earlier but we would welcome you to come to the front and accept the proclamation in person and then share something about pride and what's happening with pride B in imperal Valley please thank you the is very especially too and some other cities where the weather is better people are crating C inide in October of October and that arees are supp children theg we provide resources and services and our best indivual so thank you students and this is one way for us demonstate our students orientations School District them and know and thank you for do Valle it's Val it's apph [Applause] um next we have our ecsta and CCA comments do we have anyone from ES csta
105here or CA before before we end can I I just I forgot to mention that uh Mr Derma at the graduation it was beautiful to see the kids out on the field having fun you know usually they're kept in the gym you know until they come out but it was beautiful they had a beautiful arrangement that's a class of 2024 and everybody was posing Mar and I were posing too um but it was great to see the kids having so much fun out there getting to see their parents and their friends you know before the ceremonies and before everybody kind of runs out afterwards um I really like that so um kudos to that I I just wanted to say that so many parents told me that they loved it and then the kids got
106to see where their parents were sitting and so they could totally ignore them during the ceremon so it was it was great I really like that new thing that you guys did thank you we'll go back to close session e e e