001e in a in Clos session the board took action to notice a to issue a notice of release of temporarily temporary certified no I'm sorry certificated employees pursuant to Education Code section 44954 effective at the end of the 2425 school year and directed the superintendent or designate to send out appropriate legal notices to the following employees SC 24253 SC 24254 SC 24255 SC2 24256 SC 24257 SC ma'am okay I'll speak louder SC 24 2510 SC 24251 SC 24212 SC 24213 SC 24214 SC 25 24215 motion by Dr agular second by Mrs Flores and motion pass 5- Z in close session the board took action to notice a took action to notice of non election of to probationary certificated employee identified by employee number sc24 2516 pursuant to Education Code section 449 29. 21b effective at
002the end of the 2425 school year and direct that the superintendent or design to send out appropriate legal notices uh motion by Mrs Flores second by Mrs Maguire and it was motion pass 5 Z now we'll take us to the Pledge of Allegiance Dr Kim thank you President peton we are here uh and ready to have Billo Knight with uh the principal of Billo Elementary Miss Connie Monroe to introduce the student for the pledge Board of Trustees president Peterson board members and executive cabinet it is my pleasure to highlight Billo this evening starting with our our student for the Pledge of Allegiance Kalia Rogers Kalia is our fifth grade student advisory representative she has done such a wonderful job at bringing ideas to the table as well as listening to all those around her she
003was she is thoroughly enjoying her time as our rep and being able to meet with other students from around the district Kalia is one of those students who just gets it in class you can look right at her and she will give you a reassuring expression Kalia takes her time to get her work done carefully she is great at accepting praise as well as constructive feedback she will always strive to do her very best she is there to help her teacher and fellow students she has been known to peute her classmates and never complains about who she sits next to when Kalia is done with her work you'll typically find her doing something creative you'll usually see her with some type of a notebook or Journal you may also be able to catch some of
004her Doodles and sketches she's very funny and will make you smile and laugh Kalia is a wonderful big sister even though she will voice her opinion on those feelings she has been a talented participant and one of our closing acts for at least the last two talent shows last year she performed a really creative song about all the Harry Potter books and this year she's sang a catchy tune from Steven's Universe when Kalia is not at school or busy with her siblings you will often find her drawing or playing with Legos and to know Kalia is to love her she is such a wonderful student friend and just overall amazing human [Applause] being e e e okay that takes us to our partner in education Dr Kim all right once again we have it's actually
005the Superstar student correct yeah we'll start first with the Superstar student and of course another favorite uh part of our board meetings is to recognize a partner in education so back to principal Monroe e e e family okay now that takes us to our partner in education Dr please Dr this evening I would like to honor Lori Prince when it comes to generosity Lori Prince sets the gold standard her kindness knows no limits no favor is too big or too small when it comes to supporting staff families and especially our students Lori is the ultimate hostess with the mostess whether it's a PTA event classroom party district meeting or staff appreciation she brings warmth joy and a special touch to every Gathering but her heart doesn't stop there if she overhears a need she doesn't
006just listen she takes action from personally funding Mrs claw reading to classrooms to gifting Disney ears to hundreds of our students for Disney day to ensuring every child has a holiday gift Lorie's generosity shines brightly across pillo in the entire Charter Oak Unified School District her contributions are immeasurable her kindness unmatched and her impact Everlasting thank you Lori for being a true champion of our school community [Applause] w e e all right we're going to move on to item number nine student representative report Logan go ahead sir billo's sixth grade M March Madness Champions a huge congratulations to Bill's incredible sixth grade March Madness Champions this talented Squad played with heart kindness and unbeatable teamwork to take home the title a special shout out to the amazing coaches Greg Batio the be beloved school psychologist
007by day and dedicated coach by Game Time poured his heart into these kids and let's not forget the awesome parent coaches who showed up every day ready to give back and Inspire our young athletes from Seasons seasoned players to firsttime Ballers this team came together like magic but the best part it wasn't about the players the entire Billo family railed behind them cheerleaders students from all grade levels and even past Billo alumni currently attending Royal Oak came out to support the energy was electric way to go Panther Champions your hard work and sportsmanship made this March Madness Unforgettable Billo steam inactive Billo is powering up as a steam School ex exciting things are happening at Billo Elementary every student is diving into the world of computer science with the support of our amazing amazing sixth
008grade Billo Tech Team students are coding their way to success using safiro Indie card Dash robots ozobots and bloxels from our youngest Learners exploring coding with color mats to the oldest students designing their own games every G every grade level is building skills that connect to academic standards and bring stem learning to life and the best part we're gearing up for an action pack 2025 to 2026 school year filled with more fun Hands-On computer science activities for all TK through sixth grade students the future is bright abadilla let's go [Applause] coding Arrow student board report Mr President and members of the board here's my report model continuation school arol high school was granted model continuation high school we are so proud to hold this tit title and happy that our amazing school is being recognized
009by the model school program Open House arrrow High School will be hosting open house on March 27th at 6 p.m. families will be able to visit the art showcase that same night to see the art their students have created they will will be able to tour classrooms and visit the new sunflower Resource Center resource center and Community L our Resource Center is now open we have Miss Nadia our new community L is in charge of it community members can donate clothing pantry food items and other items to the resource center the resource center will provide these necessary items to Sunflower families in need there will also be family workshops shops at the resource center and referrals to community service the resource center will be open during back to school night for all to visit and
010see what is offered there student incentive day arrol high school will be having incentive day on March 19th it will be an ice cream sunday bar all students who received green report cards and 90% attendance on their first progress report of the second semester will be able to attend spring break at the end of the month we will be celebrating spring break I hope you all have a healthy and happy spring break thank you for letting me give my report all right Logan thank you and I know you got homework to do so you're free to go sir thank you for your time and that goes with anybody else who feels they should leave now it's a good time to leave so you don't have to wait the whole time thank you have a good
011day you guys good night thank you okay that'll take us to item number 10 the RO report Mr Rose thank you Mr President at at the S Val all a lots of things going on here there first of all I would hand in with the 2025 the brown act handbook really new and I recommend uh Dr Kim to provide this to the board rest of this board hopefully I mean this brand new 2025 Brown neck um handbook it's pretty good that's one thing I got from from East G griel um R another thing we talk about about trans transic planning for the next few years or so to create a new vision for the uh G Valley o so the uh administrator their are now working on that get back to the board with more
012information what the plan will look like in the next few years or five years whatever uh I can't remember exactly what number of years but I think between three to five I would think so that was going on there and then the last information was is that um they had a meeting Monday morning which I would not havea but going I have work but they presented the second interim report to the board um I haven't got that information yet I apologize that because I think the information is critical because um funding is very limited at their level at the Val hopefully that I will get that information in the next board meeting about the second inter reports back to you Mr presid thank you Mr Rose we'll move on to pres presentation item number 12
013Dr Kim oh no how about the superintendent report first item number 11 thank you president Peterson I'm glad you didn't forget about me uh it's it's my pleasure to talk a little bit on share about really great things highlighting uh occurring in our school district Logan was just here and he mentioned spring is around the corner in a spring break a much deserved one for all of our great folks that are servicing our kids from our classified folks our teachers our counselors our certificated employees um welld deserved a timely break uh but also um important to note that it's that season as we're nearing the end of the school year right and as we think about the end of the school year we think about the promotions and the celebrations and of course the graduations
014that we're going to have uh for all of our um 12th graders here so exciting times uh exciting work ahead uh one of the things that I'm really proud of of what's continuing to um occur across our district is collaboration and we shared with this board before that collaboration truly is a key driver to improving student outcomes and so up and across through the past several months under the direction of our Educational Services Department we've had collaboration across Elementary School teachers across subject Area Teachers in the secondary schools and it's really powerful when teachers are coming together learning together dialoguing together and growing together as professionals to grow in their practice and so really proud of that work uh that's happening uh across our district uh I be remember Miss if I didn't share a
015really neat collaboration that we've collectively come together with in partnership with our leadership from CA with COA and with our district leadership and we didn't have a great name so we call this is the big team meeting and this big team we came together earlier this month and we asked ourselves some really deep questions around what do we value in our district as it's reflected in our local control and accountability plan and we had a really deep discussion and dive around what does our Trends or data look as it relates to our data excuse me our enrollment and from there we started examining what is our current fiscal outlook look what's budgeted what's in there we're going to have an opportunity to hear from uh Miss Branford in a moment within second interim in that
016report and so what's going to ur later in this month is as well an ongoing discussion around working together to address what we know is not happening from the state meaning we're not fully being funded for the needs we have in our school district and henceforth knowing what we are receiving in Revenue how do we make sure we are not maintaining what's referred to as a structural deficit meaning we're spending more money than we're receiving from the state and so we have to work together to make sure we address that and we have a positive look move forward that's clearly one of our pillars for Success it is financial responsibility it is making sure that we are working together and not alone that in and of itself is one area along with monitoring what's happening
017across federally right and as we've heard some news recently we're monitoring what's what potential impacts are happening on K12 schools as it relates to Federal actions uh one of those considerations is making sure that we are seeing and not uh advocating for ourselves as it relates to not losing any federal funds that come our way for most of our uh for our most at risk or at at promised students along with our students with disabilities so again uh those are things that we're continuing to monitor uh I just appreciate the good work that's happening across our schools I appreciate the collaboration that's happening amongst our our our leaders from our labor unions and uh we look forward to continue doing that work so with that concludes my report thank you Dr Kim now we'll do
018presentations Dr Kim all right as I shared uh previously um at this point of the year uh every year we have in March our uh second interim financial report uh that is later going to be brought for your consideration as an action item um Miss Branford is going to share key highlights that's reflected in that report and give an update as it relates to our fiscal status here in Charter unified Miss Branford e e e thank you Eric um so this is basically it's a continuous cycle we never stopped doing budgets and so I just want you to have an overview of that uh the this slide shows the assumptions that we use to project this budget and so the statutary cola for this year has not change um but looking at our 25 26
019fiscal year you can see that we we were projecting a 2.93% cola it is now at 2.43 which is a half a percent lower than we had projected at the adopted budget as well as the first interim and that's as of January the governor's Budget on the 2627 Year we're seeing a little bump almost a half perc that's a good thing 3.52% our enrollment is showing a little bit of a bump again I always speak to our TK trans expansion and that we're seeing a little bit of a bump because of our TK and so we are capturing those numbers and kind of keeping the projections flat across the years our up percent is our unduplicated pupils we typically around 70% for the last few years and so we see a little bit of an
020increase and we hope that will continue because that's really how we get our supplemental and concentration funds our funded Ada however is showing a decline as I stated we're not growing but then we are losing attendance and so this fiscal year 2425 we are actually benefiting from the hold harmless years and so this is actually the last year that we will see some benefit from those higher Adas and so looking into the out years as we continue to decline our Ada will decline which means we're losing funding uh other set of assumptions speaks to our pension costs calers and Calpers calers has stayed flat which is good it's been 19.1% for for some time calers tends to go up and down and we can see that we're showing a little bit of savings in the
021two out years and our lottery numbers have stayed steady this slide shows a big picture for total general fund so this is both the unrestricted and restricted combined the general fund is our major operating fund um at the first interim and I'll compare first interim to Second interim our revenues went up a little over 2 million and our expenditures actually went down about 300,000 so we seen some decline in our deficit spending we went from 10.9 million deficit spending to now 9 million deficit spending the components of the ending fund balance so of the 9.5 million which is the ending fund balance 4.6 million of that is actually restricted ending balances so those belong to our categorical programs and after meeting our 3% reserves our supplemental and concentration carryovers we do see an increase over
022first interim so at first interim we were looking at 732 th000 as our ending fund balance or fund balance that is available to now 1.8 million e okay so still speaking on the revenues at first interim we talked about increases in special education and so we did a lot of analysis and deep dives into the increases in special education and while those expenditures did not go away we were able to shift some of those expenditures into restricted programs as well as back into the unrestricted because of of the funding sources for some of our staff and so we were able to recover some of the contribution at second interim so we went from $4.5 million in deficit spending to now 3.3 million which is good we're making progress and so because of that we're able
023to see an additional see some increases in our available fund balance so from $700,000 to 1.8 million our 2526 fiscal year we across the years we're spending more than our revenues we we are projecting 48.6 million or we are spending 52.5 and the same goes for 26 27 our expenditures are 53 million but our revenues are 49 million and so just looking at the deficit spending it continues to be almost $4 million 2526 however we are only showing 1.1 million as our ending fund balance which is not enough to meet the 3% Reserves and so the same projection happened at first interim however we've made a little bit more progress we were showing a little over $2 million as the shortfall that we will need to meet the $3 million in and the 3% in
0242526 now it's 1.6 million and that's because of all the things that we were able to do in terms of reducing the contribution we brought in some more revenues and so now we need 1.6 million and again that's if we do nothing if we don't reduce our expenditures we'll actually need to draw on our Special Reserve fund which is our fund 17 we'll need to bring in 1.6 million looking at the 26 27 year saying however ending fund balance is actually negative -2.7 we don't have enough money for the 3% reserves and so what that means we'll now have to draw further on our Special Reserve fund $5.5 million the restricted side of the books is basically revenues matching expenditures unless there is fund balance and as you can see 2425 they do have some
025fund balance falling out the same for 2425 and so going to 26 27 basically revenues match expenditures as you know we have other the operating funds in the district and so starting with our adult education we have cafeteria fund we have our Capital facilities fund capital projects fund and as you can see they're all showing positive ending fund balances our ongoing considerations as I stated we are seeing a little bump in our enrollment but Ada attendance is still down we're looking at from 96 to 97 attendant in the past prior to covid and now we're looking at at about 94% so we are definitely seeing lower attendance and that's absolutely affecting our revenues we're seeing lower colas but hopefully if the economy stays strong then we'll see higher colas in the future our one time
026federal funds have all expired as of September 30 2024 we have some State funds but those are set to expire in 2027 we're seeing uh that as I mentioned rapid increase in special education and therefore erosion of our fund balances we've also seen increases in insurance premiums due to ab218 and we continue to have Capital facilities needs which we need to address and at this point and as we keep deficit spending or not meeting our reserves Lakers is requiring that we have a board approv fiscal stabilization plan which we did one at the first interim our next steps will be the publication hearing of for 2526 proposed budget in elcap as well as the approval that concludes my presentation I'll be happy to answer your questions have any questions hi thank you so much for
027this report it's always very thorough and easy to understand um I do have a question about fund 17 can you share with me uh like the balance the uses things of that nature so on my multi-year projection I did show inant transferring from from our Special Reserve fund which is fund 17 so fund 17 is basically an extension of the general fund and we can choose to put additional funds as as as I would like to call it a rainy day fund so that is for um fiscal stabilization and so when we put those funds in fund 7 it was due to the land sale monies and the board you approved that this will be for our fiscal stabilization so there will come the time when we need to use those funds and this is
028the time so right now the balance is roughly 8 million there's 5 million from the land sale and previous to that you had also authorized funds set aside for technology upgrades um infrastructure as well as teacher laptops Chromebooks so those funds were authorized by you to be set aside for times of need and this is the time thank you I think if I can add uh one one important note about just that fund 170 the land sale money that we often referred to it's one time and so um what's interesting to note here is that that is helping to make sure that if I'm saying this correctly to for us to pay the bills to have our minimum required reserves by law in order for us to meet our reserves and also pay all the
029operational costs that we have we're having to bring that in into the budget at some point once you spend it it doesn't come back to us and therefore you have this ongoing impact in years out thank you any more questions thank you m brownford wonderful information as always very thorough um do your numbers account for a potential loss in federal funds not at this time no so we may need to also dip into absolutely we don't have enough information right now but as we develop the new budget we'll probably have more information because then the governors May revise we'll give us more information on that thank you you're welcome Mr each of the years I have a question the when when the board approv the 7.1% in pay increase last year is costed this about
030$4.2 million I if I remember correctly Yes somewhere around there yeah around there I I recall that number that kind of add to the budget and we got to find the money for the the next three years yes because it's ongoing so yes it impacts the out years as well all right so we have money I don't know where we got the 4.2 for this year to cover up budet am I right say that again I'm what I'm saying is that we we we down them the funds to cover 4.2 million for this visal year but not 26 27 2028 yet right well they included to it it's already built into the budget but in order for us to meet the reserves we're pulling on the onetime funds so we're pulling in our Special Reserve
031funds which are onetime that's the only reason we're able to meet the 3% in the 2out Years gotcha I understand that once we the board approve the 7.1 pay increase we also subit ap200 form to the county yes the county look over the form and they're only um they only approve when we met the when we meet the 3% Reserve correct correct they're now looking at the uh the money down line they don't look at the threeyear plan do they they look at the three-year plan absolutely and I recall looking at AB 1200 form I um noticed that page four I believe the county demand that if there's a deficit in the report how are we going to stve this yes if we deficit spending and it's a high percentage they do want a stabilization
032plan and they're very strict about that right yes so if we don't meet the demand and the they will tell us how we're going to do how to handle Bud include Cuts well they don't tell us Cuts but we have to find those cuts we have to make those decisions so if we're not meeting our reserves or we are deficit spending at a high percentage we have to make the decisions about the things that we will do to fix that right because I read the report and there the deficit in in there and yes and I knowed down page four and you mentioned what action the board will take to meet the the bud in the county approved it yes again thank you back to you just one question would uh the county approve or
033give us a positive certification without that land sale money well if we didn't have those funds we would be filing either qualified certification or negative certification uh negative certification has major implications about ongoing how we will continue business and so we will become an ongoing concern meaning that we may not be able to serve our students and so the state and the county would step in um hi Mr Bradford thank you can you speak a little bit to the fiscal stabilization plan that was submitted for the first interum and some of the highlights or some of the items there that were being looked at okay if I remember correctly we were um had a plan to reduce about a little over a million dollars in expenditures next year and then the following year about a
034million and a half we're also asked if we foresee any extra revenues coming in we have a little bit of um lease revenues use of facilities not a whole lot but um based on on the projections in terms of the reduction it would greatly help us because a million dollars this year kind of equates to two million the following years and so it has that impact as you go in the out years so if you cut this year it helps the following year and so a million next year and a million the following year would reduce our deficit greatly and so at the time we were submitting about 2 and a half million over the next two years Dr agular if I may add um a part of the work that we've begun even dating
035back to several years ago but obviously we have a cycle where we look at enrollment projections and it comes through our student services department they do a great job of really analyzing the data and then from there using what we refer to as enrollment based Staffing so making sure that we have appropriately based Staffing for our school sites based on the enrollment at those School sites so making sure we're working with an our contract contract languages we're not necessarily overstaffing our schools um per se but Mak making sure we're following within those rules and Staffing our schools appropriately thank you right any further questions thank you ma'am you're welcome all right that'll take us to our next presentation on ethnic studies Dr Kim all right we're really excited about this uh next um presentation and
036really proposals to this board on several ethnic studies courses that have been uh designed created uh by our own teachers through input across their community and uh with that I'm going to turn it over to Dr Mustafa talk a little bit about these courses thank you Dr Kim uh good evening board president Peterson vice president Dr agular Board of Trustees members of the community um it is my distinct pleasure to talk to you about our ethnic studies course proposals this evening um but let's kind of briefly remind ourselves about why we are here with ethn ethnic studies back in October of 2021 assembly Bill 101 was passed and what does that mean it means that beginning with the school year 2526 school districts in California must offer an ethnic studies course additionally students gra the
037graduating class of 2030 must take an ethnic studies course to graduate so we are here today so the process over the last two years we've established a committee and we've met with the committee and community members to discuss ethnic studies and what that looks for us here in Charter Oak we've developed a shared understanding of what ethnic studies is a shared Vision a district lens a perspective of what that means for us we looked at demographic data of who we ser here in Charter Oak who our students are and what would be meaningful to our students and that really guided our courses that was developed um also looking through our model curriculum I have the distinct pleasure of working with most of our teachers sitting in the audience here today but today I'm going to
038bring up two teachers who worked endlessly in creating courses for our students in ethnic studies who are going to give you a brief overview of the courses that we're proposing this evening so it's my pleasure to bring up uh Raymond Chung and Nicole pedi up to the podium and they're going to briefly give you an overview uh Raymond Chung is going to give you an overview of his course first and then Nicole pedi will give you an overview of her course I'll briefly talk about next steps and then we'll open it up for questions right good evening president Peterson vice president Dr agular members of uh Board of Trustees I'm really excited to share our course proposal for ethnic and social impact studies uh before I want to dive into specifics though I want to
039share a little bit of the load scars uh load Stars guiding the development of a course that we hope to act as a connection to cultural heritage to Community Action and the first is optimistic pedagogy much like M's belief that the Arc of history is long but it bends towards Justice the course maintains an optimistic perspective as we explore complex histories and while we're going to acknowledge past challenges we have a purposeful focus on stories of resilience and how those challenges are overcome secondly of course we want the reflection uh the course to reflect our student population uh the curriculum celebrates the diverse culture represented in our student Community students will see themselves and their histories reflected in what they study while also gaining um insight into the experiences of others third is engagement this
040is a required course for graduation but we've designed the course to be interesting and engaging for students through Project based learning collaborative discussions and opportunities for students to learn how they might affect change in their own world so this is our course in overview it combin the course combines two academic disciplines of ethnic studies and social psychology in a harmonious way that hopefully results in a course that is more impactful together than they would be separately in the ethnic studies component We examined the cultural heritage resilience and social movements of diverse ethnic communities and how they've contributed to American society the social psychology framework helps us understand how individuals and groups interact and how social change actually happens and through these two lenses students will develop both uh historical knowledge as well as the analytical
041tools for understanding contemporary issues um we have the course structured in two acts act one comprises of stories of resilience where we will explore those histories of diverse communities focusing on how they persevere through challenges and made their mark on American history the ethnic studies model curriculum focuses on groups Native Americans African-Americans Asian and Pacific Islanders and Latino Americans uh so we will going we be going through the history of those groups uh the last unit of act act one focuses on Latino American history and actually uses the impact of Mexican American educator Sal Castro and the birth of the shako movement as examples of both stories of res resil sorry resilience as well as examples what we will learn in act to uh which what the theme of the power of agency that part
042of the course builds upon the historical foundations and examines how both individuals and communities have created change through various social movements more importantly students will investigate the factors involved in how movements succeed and apply that learning to issues that are important to them to to them finally the course culminates in student-led projects where students apply social psychology principles through a so Community impact project where students identify and I address an issue in their own community Through the creation of a potential action plan that creates meaningful change the other option is a social research paper where students will analyze either a historical or contemporary social movement and identify how social psychology affected uh the success or failure of that movement we're considering two proposed text for our course which is Ronald takaki's a different mirror for
043young people and Elliot Aronson's the Social Animal for the social C psychology component um these will of course be supplemented with primary sources and other multimedia resources so this is a standalone course uh with no prerequisites uh it will open to students in grades 9 through 12 it can be offered as either a semester long or year-long elective depending on our scheduling needs and as a college prep elective it will meet the ucg requirements so I'm really excited about this program the potential of this course uh to give our students a more in-depth understanding of both history and their own agency in creating a better future for the Next [Applause] Generation did I turn this off sorry I think I turned screen off there we go hi um so Ry and fose both did an
044incredible job prefacing what is an ethnic studies course and what the requirements are from the state so I'm going to jump into what we're actually doing in my course in my class um so we have Latino pop culture and this is actually an interdisciplinary Arts course so we found other UC approved interdisiplinary artarts courses where students in high schools are learning a little bit about visual art a little bit about dance a little bit about music a little bit about theater and so I took that same framework and applied it specifically to our Latino group um the framework from the state says that you can teach an ethnic studies course on all four ethnic groups or you can actually Focus down on one it's free to meet the needs of your community so with Charter
045Oak being 6 six 67% Latino I figured this would be a great way for our kids to see themselves reflected in art and see themselves um uh making connections with what they're seeing at home and in their families and their own communities and bring it into the classroom so um the class is going to focus mostly on looking at how Latinos are portrayed in the media and how we're portrayed in film how we're seeing ourselves reflected in music um there's going to be a lot of focus on the historical context and social cultural factors that have shaped Latino art and what has come in as influences for people everywhere ranging from L guo who was a mariachi artist back in the 1940s who was using Cho slang in his miachi music which he was a
046revolutionary for that all the way up to Bad Bunny and what he's doing right now trying to revolutionize salsa music for his generation because he realized a lot of millennial andenes don't know how to dance salsa anymore so he's trying to bring that back in um looking at creative expression oh sorry cultural impact so how this collides with all other facets of our own students lives and then creative expression so it's really really focused on Hands-On projects for the kids because it primarily more than anything is an arts class so there's very minimal writing obviously there will be written assessments but really the focus is on letting them have creative expression um so some of the um things that we're going to be studying specifically again looking at Latino filmmakers and playwrights like um Luis
047Valdez and his revolutionary work with Zoot Suit but we're also at plays like in the Heights which I know a lot of you are familiar with because we've done it twice now in our community and they loved it um also made famous by the same uh writer of Hamilton uh film uh and Med media like Jane the Virgin or um uh uh The Longest Yard which is you know a film about students in the 1940s who were Latino and wanted to be the first ever Latino golf team um down here in Southern California lots of great media that is represented um for our culture um and then engaging in discussions about those and then every student even though it is written as Latino pop culture I've had students already approaching me at school well I'm
048not Latino can I take the class of course you can it's just the framework for the class the projects that they're turning out are reflective of their own experiences so even though we're looking at Latino play rights they're going to turn around and talk about their own experiences as an Asian student or as a white student or as an African-American student so it's open for everybody on our campus and their own experiences it's targeted to grades 9 through 12 um we may tailor it down if it becomes really popular and we have to you know limit it to one or two age groups just to get everybody through um it's written as a year year-long Standalone course and an addition to fulfilling the ethnic studies course uh requirement we're hoping it will also fulfill a
049Visual Arts Credit so kids are knocking two things out at once with their a through G requirements um again focused on Hands-On projects um media arts so students are going to be making short films we're going to be making podcasts anything that really has a creative Focus the students are going to have some kind of project that they're turning out with it um and then again opportunities for Community engagement and storytelling at the end we are hoping to be able to do a Community Showcase where the students get to show off all of the work that they did throughout the year uh thank you so much thank you Raymond and Nicole um so our next steps uh we want to continue to share information and gather feedback from our school and our community members uh
050we see board approval at our next board meeting April 17th uh we would like to obviously put this for course registration uh for our students to be able to register for courses next school year uh provide our instructors the resources and allocations to get their courses up and running uh have ongoing development and explorations of integrated courses for master scheduling purposes and last but not least update our board policy with graduation requirements uh that concludes our presentation so we are open for questions any questions just one comment thank you uh this is wonderful and we're excited uh to have this come to our students so thank you for your hard work and I'm looking forward to coming to your classes and seeing some of the projects so thank you you knew I had something to
051say you always that goes without saying I was over here trying to compose myself CU I think I'm getting old cuz I feel like I'm tearing up um uh hold on I'm I'm so uh blessed and I feel so honored to be on the board hold on don't make me cry it's just so important for students to be able to see themselves in their cour work and I just feel really honored that uh I get to sit here and consider this uh for all of the students uh this is stuff that I never got to experience in k12 and know I want to come sit through the classes next year like I'll take the classes I just I'm I'm I'm very happy about these courses I think you guys have done an amazing job I
052can see all the love and care that I went into creating this and um thank you Mr Rose thank you I have a question about the core textbooks two book you recommend two you recommend you Rec comedian recommend the two textbook the the different mirror and The Social Animal and I did take a look at it the look and reference in po KH from the community itself now this book recommended by the state or the community select the textbook uh the course doesn't have any textbook recommendations uh at this time so it's kind of up to us to look at uh what's out there these are the these are appropriate for uh this the age group um the a different mirror for young people is geared towards High School age uh social animals a little
053bit higher it can be a low it could be considered a lower level College textbook um and we're not going to probably use the um uh the majority of it we're going to take selections from um from that textbook yeah I'm aware of The Social Animal and yeah it's most likely College textbook yeah and yeah social psychology unfortunately there's not a lot of offerings for high school level um textbook wise I understand is there any other textbook that you plan to use for the for the curriculum other than these two you're going to add I I know you add the super mental textbook as well yes influenced by Robert chalani is also supplementary um text we we were considering as well all right thank [Music] you thank you I'm sorry for my tiredness I thought
054it was next week but um as a 12th grade grade senior I'm very jealous but I'm very excited for the next classes to have this experience to have like um representation and like historical content in the classrooms and Miss P you know like um you're very special to me so I'm just really excited for you that you really had this opportunity to do this and I'm excited for the course I want to just basically say how impressive it is that our teachers on campus are developing courses that says a lot about what we're about what you're about about uh to be able to manage your classes and develop a new course is just incredible so thank you thank you very much well I want to know how Nicole finds time to do this I know
055new it we were really really fortunate that Danny and Bose started the process really early for us so they were able to give us a good heads up and really give any teachers who were interested in developing the course plenty of time and plenty of heads up I think it's better to have the notice than to caught off guard and be scrambling and copy pasting a district from a curriculum from another District that might not meet the needs of what our kids want so thank you too for for getting the ball going early because I think that made it easier for Ray and I to get started on what we needed to get started on I think it's also easier since we're we're both so excited to teach these courses that it helps when we're
056developing it's actually um really exciting to be able to have this opportunity and I think uh to that end I actually want to commend you guys both for your hard work and your excitement that you're clearly displaying I mean you guys are you know chomping at the bit to get some students in there and pilot these curriculums so that's really exciting um do we have an idea of you know students enrolling for in these courses 25 26 they let's say they are freshmen let's say so then in what year they will graduate would be 29 2030 right uh 2030 would be there 29 20 yeah 2030 is their graduating year if they're a freshman next year I think it's 29 right 29 yeah if they enter 25 26 yeah so I think it's 29 so
057so it won't be technically required yet for them until 2030 yeah the seventh graders are okay so graduating class of 2030 thanks uh graduating class of 2030 is when it's actually required yes okay so is there kind of a target number of students that we would be considering or wanting to see in these courses starting you know for next academic year even though it's not required yet for their grad great question Dr agular as you know master schedule is driven by students student interest and so being that our high school is a single high school district and we have a lot of electives and appap of courses it is really dependent on how many kids and how we are able to sustain the the high school master schedule so we're trying to start early so
058we can kind of build up that you know the the teachers with their hard work and get the word out there so they can really Market their classes if I may add uh a part of the challenge the good challenge that we have is that we these are great electives and these are new electives we have obviously a slew of cre electives for our kids choices and so part of the ongoing work and Dr Mustafa talked about this before is that we need to continue thinking about what other additional courses specifically integrated courses into our existing academic ones that we can continue to build over the course of the years that way there's not too many elective choices choices and now it it impacts what kids or what we can potenti potentially offer and for
059the record I a fan of Bad Bunny so I appreciate thank you Nicole how did you manage to get Bad Bunny in a presentation um so uh interestingly enough he's a lot more um subal than I think people think he is and I think because a lot of his lyrics are in Spanish it's easy to to just tune out what he's saying in his lyrics but he talks a lot about his homeland he talks a lot about his motherland but the way that it integrates into the course is we would have a unit on Latino music we would be talking about salsa music and where the salsa rhythms came from and salsa rhythms actually originated with something that's called the clav it's that that beat which actually has its roots in Africa and western Africa
060so it's talking about the diaspora of how did Latino people come to adapt and integrate something like that within their own culture and then going and looking at also other um salsa artists and and their Roots Within all of that so yeah so bad bunny is just the tail end of this really long line of incredible music history for Latino people awesome an A through G also right yes and it's a through G so it would be knocking out an El or a require a college graduate a college requirement for the students thank you any further questions no thank you both we appreciate all the hard work I would just like to end by also echoing the board's uh sentiments by really congratulating Nicole and Raymond for all your hard work it's been an absolute
061pleasure to work alongside you and see your passion come to fruition so thank you all right that'll take us to public comments Mr poen [Music] sorry okay Neil plls in he him uh thank you trustees uh three weeks ago uh the school district sent me a response to the public information request presumably many of the documents the district already had in its possession two weeks ago I went through and commented on those and sent those to members uh of this board many once again of these rules are simply not being followed for the hate church that's currently renting Charter o going down the list any use of school facilities for nonuse purp non-school use purposes shall comply with state and local fire health and safety laws still blocking uh fire exits still blocking fire poles
062still operating generators next to buildings all requests for school use premises shall be denied where the proposed use is inconsistent with the proper and regular use of the facilities as we can see the regular use of the facilities for all of the examples above are not being used and should be denied no altercations or additions may be made to any District buildings or grounds without first obtaining written consent from the officials of the chief business official or the office of the chief business official is a responsibility organization to return the facility or grounds to its original condition no such document or written permission was provided in the documents and yet modifications are being made all permits and are restricted to the activity specific areas and times scheduled on the use application the organization must see
063that unauthorized area are not molested and the premises are vacated as scheduled they've admitted to banners being out out across the campus uh e e e thank you Mr pen Bonnie shaki e e e Mr Portillo good evening y all um just you all know I've been coming to these meetings since 1998 yes um I really came here to say kind words to uh Dr Kim I'm going to be short on that but I still meet him over the years we've had casual conversations I appreciate them because I've come to this room and been shunned and been hated so when you talk about uh culture and diversity it has little to do with that it has to do with being kind being professional now I've gone off the rails in the last year because I've
064sat here and the peanut gallery has laughed at me literally she has shouted at me he has shouted at me so I apologize Dr Kim because I had a what I thought was very eloquent because you have been kind to me and so as um Ike Marosa and I'm gonna tell you about culture I was born in Englewood lived in Florence went to Florence Elementary School I remember when my father I was about 3 years old I remember the first civil unrest in 1965 I remember my uncle's coming to my dad's house he was a highly trained Marksman and um he was handing out weapons move forward I remember the death of L e e e is coming from not agreeing with some I'll talk to you more I'm really encouraged what I heard today
065because that tells me better here Poli years govern several so moved I'll second the motion one yes yes yes yes yes item number two 2425 second I'll make the motion I'll second any discussion Mr R yes I uh want to make comments about the report here I honestly I don't like to see that numbers but in reality it's it's coming so we got to keep this in mind what we're dealing with in the next three years even though we um even though our numers showing reduction in adaa let me find that information one more I'm trying to do this the uh the funding for Ada had gone down I like to C question why it got done down on page there's no page number here is inter assumption the number AA gone down page four
066yes I'm sorry there it is Page four I can't see p four and um Branford if you can explain the uh Ada and how we're operating by uh in the ensuing years okay so um as you know we are declining and not just enrollment is not the only factor that gives us our Ada it's actually students coming to school and so our pre pandemic attendance levels were at 96 to 97% now we're at between 92 to 94% so our average daily attendance is it keeps going down so we are actually declining in attendance and so um as I stated before we were funded at a higher level based on our prepandemic Ada because we were given a hold harmless um um it was um approved by the state that we were funded at the hold
067harmless levels but as we continue next year we're actually seeing lower Adas because we're no longer seeing those higher Adas as part of our calculation gotcha and then the cola was the jumction was 1.07 that is down from the initial initial assumptions it's down significantly for this year last year we looked we had a call of over 8% 8.22% this year we have a call of 1.07% so that's a huge decline which means loss in revenues loss in revenues even when uh 1.07% that's hardly a dent in in our budget right it's just a very small dent actually look at um things that happened on the natural like step and column Health and Welfare benefits contributions to special education um 1.70% is not enough to cover even those initial costs okay I have another questions
068K Kel Pur went up it was projected on page five k Pur it projected the cost to go up the range for the increas of right so calers does go up and down and we actually seeing increases year-over year um it's reduced somewhat going into next year but it continues to be an increase I got you um great you can ask someone else if they have any question I'm looking for one more information anybody else have any questions no Mr Rose no other questions okay I'll see what I can do about this information here um the three year three years projection B and shows in the red and we have to submit theab fisal stabilit plan to the county we submitted one at the first interim and so we'll continue to utilize that stabilization plan
069oh they're going to use the same one we submitted we yes because we have not fully implemented all the things that we've um recommended that we can do so it's we continue to work on those things and as we get into the development of the 2526 budg budget we will have to implement more of those things thank you you're welcome um my comment is that we are in un we are in a time of uncertainty un unring we are in a time unting we don't know what's going to happen at the federal level now we heard a lot of things happening at the White House and in the Congress now they're going after through the state of educ um education department I'm sorry Department of Education that could impact us down the line we don't
070know what kind the action the available level going to take but we we must be prepared for this we also heard about recession so that also came up recently that couldn't have impact all that that couldn't impact all budon my my I I mean I love in having intervention teachers in the classroom I believe this they they uh are funded by restricting that that being impacted by the federal government so we were able to keep them but that if we have to take action to reduce the budget do we have to take action to okay all right I mean I love have Innovation teacher in the classroom well once again I said we we B the future um we face unting at this time and we need to work together from the board to all
071the way down to classified position uh I strongly believe we can work together and focused on the projected budget and came up with a plan to continue to support our students Down the Line This is reality it is here I did look at other school districts they also faced a similar situation which we are right now the they are same Bo we are at this moment so let's face reality this is the this is the time that we need to get everybody together to maintain support to the student provide service to student and keeping every teacher in the classroom now the AP 1200 also show that if we have to make Cuts we will make cuts to balance our budon which I do not want to make Cuts but if that the action we need
072to take that's down the line so let's work together from the top to bottom so that we can take care of our students in the next three years back to New other questions no to Echo Mr Rose this is reality and it's something we're very fortunate that we have a team of leaders who are tackling this now so we're set when we get to that that edge so I appreciate all the work hard work everyone's putting in with that being said I'll call for the vote Mr Rose yes Mrs Maguire yes Mrs Flores yes Dr agular yes a yes I'm also a yes motion passes - Z with one student rep in the affirmative and then we'll move to item three resolution number 1012 2425 and we do have a card Mr poral so my
073question is of [Music] work image so they're using the the lease agreement with the organization is it triple net not sure the same trip n that the property out 10 years I don't have as long as I get a check I don't have to do anything they're in charge of Maintenance because they have over years assume they that's what in commercial real estate what assum responsibility we're going to have to get back to the next question is when you lease um there's a formula I don't want to get into too much but you take percentage of your gross income always to naate negative occurrences and I'm concerned that we have to go to an emergency resolution for this property because there should be money have already been set aside for years to take care of
074and neate that's what a commercial agreement be that's a standard situation and I'm concerned that that hasn't been taken care of this is going to be Tak care financially through this resolution but you need to look towards the future and whatever properties you're leasing you have to the minimum take 10% off top so that these situations can be taken care of on their own thank you thank you can I get a motion bring that forward so moved second I'll second Dr McGuire I would love to Second you would love to Second absolutely you can second all right Dr Kim can you give some clarification yeah I think this is helpful this Branford can uh clarify the purpose of this resolution and that way we can um um seek forward for the repairs that are needed
075sure so this resolution is required because it's an emergency the damages were caused through wind damage during the fires and so the governor did declare an emergency and because of that we are able to do an emergency resolution which means that we can bypass the formal bid process in order to get the work done and so the county office also sends out a bulletin advising districts that they can take this process if they have a case of emergency and need to do repairs right away so that's the purpose of this resolution okay thank you discussion yeah so I could follow that up with kind of a question then so this is not related to the source of funds the funds are funds that have been committed previously this is more about the Timeless of being
076able to implement the repair and the funds actually we are insured so we are doing this to our insurance company great thank you yeah any further discussion Mr Rose I think the I think that you ask you the board approv like 225,000 for the something for the somewhere around 230,000 I mean that the number I mean there's no bidding because we are using the resolution to take care of right but we did an informal bid and the insurance requires that we do an informal bid so we did do that we receive quotes from various contractors and so the insurance will select the one um company that we should use okay thank you any further discussion I'll go ahead and call for the vote Mr Rose yes Ms McGuire yes yes Mrs Flores yes Dr agular
077yes aoui yes I'm also yes motion passes 6 or 5- Z with one student rep in the affirm so will take us down to action item B Educational Services B1 contract agreement internet service provider with Leo I'll make the motion to bring that second all second any discussion no discussion I'll call for the vote Mr Rose yes M Maguire yes Mrs Flores yes Dr agular yes I'm also a yes motion passes oh I'm sorryi yes motion passes 5- Z with one student rep in affirmative and that'll take us to item six I'm sorry C Human Resources one approval of assistant superintendent can I get a motion so moved can I get a second a second Dr cim do you have a recommendation I do have a recommendation uh I'd like to recommend Dr Seth bond
078for the position of assistant superintendent of Human Resources okay I'll go ahead and call for the vote Mr Rose yes misss Maguire yes Mrs Flores yes Dr egler yes and I'm also a yes I don't think AER you can vote on this one right but thanks for thinking of it motion passes 5- Z Dr Kim yeah we're really excited thank you for uh this board for um your time and attention to the need of our school district this is such a critically important um position across our district and going through such a um comprehensive recruitment process we think we found the strongest candidate to help support our needs for our students our staffs and our school district Dr Seth Bond comes to us with years of experience across K12 education he has Middle School assistant
079principal experience he's been a high school principal at a school that's nearly the size of our entire school district and uh he has learned years of in-depth experience to be a quality assistant superintendent an inhuman Resources with a depth of experiences where he's currently at and uh um Dr Bon if you don't mind standing up and just uh so that we can see who you are and he's brought a cheering Squad it looks like there's some [Applause] uh thank you congrat congratulations Dr Bon welcome to the team move on to HR C2 approval of employment contract of the assistant superintendent so moved second I'll second all right any discussion Mr Rose yeah um I have a question the contract contain all I you want to ask Dr Kim okay here let me uh let me
080read oh sorry the reporting compensation per government code section 54953 C3 pursuant to government code section 54953 sub division C3 the board provides this oral summary of the salary indoor Fringe of benefits provided to the assistant superintendent by the way of the pending Employment contract the term of the new employment Employment contract between the district and the assistant superintendent Human Resources Dr Seth bond is from April 1 2025 through March 31st 2028 the new annual salaries be to be paid to the assistant superintendent Human Resources is $27,800 benefit package in the same amount as other full-time District management employees and $1,000 per fiscal year for incurred expenses not covered by the health benefit package group life insurance at the amount of $50,000 as stated in the management salary schedule District Paid Dues for the assistant
081superintendent membership dues in the association of California school administrators and the other service clubs as approved by the board and reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses Mr Rose any further questions I do have a question in the contract with there a uh Clause that say that the superintendent can do can can can receive pay raise based on evaluation performance our assistant superintendent on our fixed salary schedule that has been previously approved by this board uh that is always that's publicly reflected I don't know if you answering my questions he he would be he's on the final step of that salary schedule I don't understand how that works asking if he eligible for raises after we do annual evaluation after you uh good question so uh what we do with all management is take in consideration
082any raises that are given across all of our bargain units those would be the ones that are reflected across all management inclusive of this particular position fine then then another clause in the contract indicate that he also will receive payr based on Payway from the certificated employees correct from the um in the CL do the correct that's what I was referring to okay my comment I I'm not uh I'm going to have to vote no on this one because I do not believe in getting automatic Payway for management petition they you know they make a lot of money $2 200,000 over $200 a year I don't understand why they're getting an automatic pay rate I'm talking about all management here in our district that's why I keep voting no because why are we giving them
083pay ra and pay ra and pay ra when they making quite a bit of money I prefer that the the management position should be getting paid based on valuation performance I always believe that that the way that she this can move forward with positive valuation I think that back what I'm saying is that I would like to see the stend and do the job that's what I believe in automatic pay raise no so it's back me to phone no on this one back June any further discussion with that being said go ahead and call for the vote Mr Rose no Mrs Maguire yes Mrs Flores yes Dr agular yes and I'm a yes motion passes 41 welcome sir again welcome president Peterson can we have ai's report now she has to get home oh you
084got to get home and do homework okay I mean I love it here can you me the bottle water right there is that open or not the water bottle water I need one oh yeah oh no Rob going to get that from Logan okay a why don't you give us the board report okay for Char High School good evening Mr President Peterson and Board of Trustees Dr Kim and executive cabinet thank you for giving me the opportunity to share all the amazing things that are happening at Co so last week o dance presented their dance show from March 6th through 8th at the HK Barrett theater and they had an amazing turn out I went other than that I have no other previous events recorded since our last meeting here is my spring sports update
085Boys Baseball is 2 and five boys tennis is 0 and one girls softball is one and zero and here are some upcoming events on March 20th our school is holding a cohos showcase where other students will have the opportunity to see all the amazing things that are happening at chos and all the programs that we have to offer our spring break break is March 30th through April 4th April 9th is our spring rally and our theme is Carnival our prom court will be revealed during this event again tickets are on sale for Charter Oak Theater Department spring musical Newsies that will be showing on April 24th 25th May 1st through 2nd thank you and that concludes my report thank you ma'am and you can go ahead and get out too than you thank you AI
086all right that'll take us to a consent calendar do we need anything pulled Mr Rose you need to pull from the consent no think than you all right with uh nothing being pulled can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar as written I'll make a motion than a second second any discussion call for the vote Mr Rose yes Mrs McGuire yes Mrs Flores yes Dr agler yes and iy yes motion passes 5 Z which will take us to our board comment Mr Rose what thank you thank you I think we got a good meaning here I think the I I mean I believe that the F we should do work together and work with the budget within our means so that we can move forward serving our student I know I said it
087once and I'm going said it one more time tonight we really need to sit down talk about it face reality we don't know what's going to happen at the federal level we don't know what about our economy we we don't know what's going to happen with the state level we haven't heard from the May rision yet that's coming up I think we need we need to use common sense we need to use common sense to to work with our bud so that we made the right decision to move forward I hate the idea have Legos tell us what I mean Legos they know this and that I hate the idea that the you know State take over it because we don't have the money as of right now the way I seen the the second
088inter report all perception I know it's all perception but it doesn't look good it's all red I see a red flag I did not see yellow flag green flag orange flag I see a red flag here at this moment I see it and I think it's time we all need to settle down let the stuff settle let's s together and work out a budget that is fair and adequate and most important to support every student in our district back to you Mr Peterson thank you Mr Rose Ms McGuire I'll try to keep myself composed this time guys sorry about that um I know uh so I I work in federal policy during the day and so I've just had a really really stressful week I don't know if you guys have heard um so so
089I think I just got overwhelmed with hearing good news uh for a chance and um I'm just so proud of uh the district right now um and the ethnic studies courses um it is women's history month and uh every year uh our State Assembly selects women from our Assembly District to uh honor um as exemplary women uh and here at Charter Oak we actually had two people uh make the honor um she's actually uh Roxanna who is misidentified in the invitation by the way it says CVUSD so we need to fix that cuz she's ours uh Roxanna uh was honored as uh well will be honored as women of the year at the IND District celebration at March 29th um which I think is a huge accomplishment um and at the state capitol uh each
090assembly office selected one nominee to bring the Sacramento in honor uh in front of the whole state and my daughter was the second person um and when we got there thank you um and when we got there we also realized and found out that she was actually the youngest person to be honored and the youngest person to ever be honored from this assembly district um and that's the great stuff that comes out of Charter Oak and I think that's um some of the work with uh Miss figuroa what she does for the students in this community um and what she does to help make sure that our students belong here and feel like they belong here is so important um so courses like these ethnic study courses are really important not only in our district
091but in every District I especially as things get tight federally um and as the country starts to feel more polarized we have to remember our core values here in the charur O Community um and how we rely on each other and how we work together um and how we always want to just build build and make our district better for all of our students um and I I just I just think that's so important I'm so fearful what's happening in the state of uh education today uh but I I feel overwhelmed with joy being here tonight so thank you m Flores so I'd like to thank all our Educators that are here tonight thank you for being here most of you have Tau have taught my kids or my nieces or nephews Miss Chavez are
092you are you there Chavez um uh thank you so just thank you for being here this evening go Dodgers uh we appreciate all that you do for our kids so thank you all right I got you um and also want to congratulate uh Katie Maguire who was honored in Sacramento so big kudos to Katie who's a senior and she will be a freshman at saak State and an assembly woman in the next like six years or something yeah um so big congratulations to to her as well and to roxan fera who is really just an angel in our district um she is here to support our students our vulnerable students our students that stay under the shadows our families that are afraid to ask for services so um roxan is really an angel who continues
093to support our kids regardless of their status economic situation um and under the leadership of our amazing Maria Thompson so thank you again for continuing to support our students uh we appreciate all that you do U you know day after day so thank you all um also make sure you go and see Newsies uh let's support our vapa programs um let's support our athletes as well and um let's continue to have a great year how many days until graduation do we know we're count counting down too many count down count down so thank you all for what you continue to do and let's continue to move forward 49 more days uh we're not counting and welcome uh Mr uh Dr Bond welcome to Charter Oak is it Bond a James Bond how many times have
094you heard that in your lifetime so welcome uh we look forward to working with you and welcome to the Char family so thank you all Dr agular thank you um yes also would like to extend my welcome to Dr Bon uh welcome to the team we're looking forward to what you'll contribute to our executive cabinet going forward supporting all of our staff here across the district um thanks again to our teachers with their wonderful presentation of the ethic studies course absolutely exciting and really showcases the hard work of these amazing teachers just a small sampling of all of our amazing teachers across the district some other amazing teachers recently took uh over a 100 middle schoolers over to Disneyland the band the choir and the theater down there um they had an amazing time time
095they were invited to perform in some workshops and and they got some really good development for the students there but of course that wouldn't happen without the amazing teachers that pushed that forward and create that and our award-winning gold medal band is on its way to Disneyland for spring break sorry wrong place even better Hawaii for Spring Break um and so they'll be performing there and that'll be really exciting uh I couldn't make it I have to do my job but but I wish I could that would have been awesome and uh so just kind of wish them a wonderful trip and I'm sure they will represent our district really well um all the way in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that'll be cly amazing and then a quick little science corner for tonight
096we do have a total lunar eclipse this evening in case you weren't aware if you happen to stay up a little late uh you can take a little peek up and if there hopefully aren't too many storm clouds uh it's a total lunar eclipse uh that doesn't mean that the moon disappears unfortunately instead the light scatters around the earth from the sun it's in our shadow but instead you'll get a kind of really cool red Hue that they call the blood moon so I think that starts somewhere around 11: p.m. this evening can goes into the early we morning so if you're up late grading like me tonight uh you can enjoy that cool thank you I think we should have a science Corner every meeting Dr Bon welcome for the third time uh we
097sure have a lot of doctors around here doctor doctor doctor uh speaking of doctors proud dad moment uh my daughter my middle daughter is graduating with the doctorate in May and she just got hired as a professor at Arizona State University so so I'm excited for her uh yeah she's a she's she's yes ma'am for now for another six months then she gets the other dude's name whatever that is uh congratulations to uh Billo on the March Madness Victory you know uh and thank you thank you to the Ed foundation for putting it on uh we all know it's for the kids to get out there and interact and compete but it's really the principles who are out there competing and and you know no one's more prer than I get a Hoist the trophy
098than Connie she's going to be holding it in the quad every Friday but something two out of three yeah yeah two out of three you know yeah and then uh but being coached by Greg palato go Schoolboard member we like that uh congratulations to Arrow High School on their model uh continuation school uh and I want to Echo something Dr Kim said about the teacher collaboration I didn't know she was here I was going to talk about Miss Chavez I didn't know she was here but she's all quiet in the back not wow yeah she uh my daughter's in her class and she loves her class and she had a question about uh in going into the high school and Mrs Chavez was communicating with the high school gave great clarity to my kid made
099it easy for for her to understand what was needed and what the expectations were so the collaboration between teachers and the scaffolding process is a fantastic job Dr Mustafa getting that done uh we appreciate all the work that you're how you're leading all of our our staff and getting them to work together and so they complement each other as as the grades as a the kids increaser grades uh with that I do believe we are done our next meeting is going to be April 17th 2025 no need for closed session and we are adjourned at 837