001All right. I am calling to order the September 17th regular board of education meeting for Unified School District. The board is going to go into close session at this point. I would like to ask for any public comment on close session items. Seeing none, the board will adjourn to close session until approximately 6 pm. Evening everybody. It is great to see so many of you here. Um, welcome to the September 17th, 2025 Chico Unified School District uh, board of education meeting. We are thrilled to have you. The board was until recently in close session. Well, I should let you know, just so you know, uh, this meeting is being live streamed and recorded. For those of you who can't make it, it will be available online to watch. Um, we were in close session until
002just recently. No action was taken during close session. With that, I would like everyone to please join me in standing for the flag salute. Thank you. >> I I know we have an amazing looking front row and they're so excited to be here. Can't wait to see what you guys have in store. First, I'm going to hand it over to our superintendent for anything he might have to report to us. >> All right. Well, uh I am excited that we have students here from Little Chico Creek um to share. Yes. Oh, absolutely. And uh I'm actually going to turn it over to their principal, Christian Shrock, for to uh tell us the rest of the story. Good evening. My name is Kristen Shock, principal of Little Chico Creek. I would like to introduce our three
003fifth grade teachers who have brought a variety of students here who are going to do something special in honor of today. So, come on up. I'll let you guys introduce yourselves. >> Well, I I know you don't want to hear from me. You'd rather hear from the students. So today is Constitution Day, which I think we probably all know it's the anniversary that we celebrate. So um can I have all my fifth graders stand and where do we want them? >> All the way up here. >> But really you can introduce yourself >> and your hear from each just your name. You can introduce yourself and your colleagues. Sure. Okay. I'll start with that. My name is Kristen Thomas and I'm one of the fifth grade teachers at Little Chico Creek. I'm Shauna Bolasco as
004well fifth grade teacher. I'm Beatrice Seahhorn, another fifth grade teacher. Good evening. Today is the con today is Constitution Day, a day that remembers the forming and the signing of the US Constitution back in September 17th, 1787. In honor of this day, we the fifth graders of Little Creek will be reciting the preamble to the Constitution. >> You like each other. >> We the people of United States in order to form a perfect union. Estice ensure domestic tranquility [Music] defense welfare to ourselves and our We the people of the United States of America establish justice ensure the domestic provide common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. and establish this constitution for the United States of America. [Applause] >> That was perfect. Well done, fifth graders.
005We have been studying the Constitution um the last few weeks to be prepared for Constitution Day and all fifth graders have learned the preamble and the meaning of the preamble and these are the brave volunteers that were willing to come and share what they learned with you tonight. So, thank you all. [Applause] >> Well, how about that? Thanks, fifth graders. Well done. >> All right. >> Thank you. We do have let's hear it one more time for these fabulous [Applause] business to but first we are going we have some superintendent recognition so we do have a certificated employee that we'd like to honor Yay, Bart. [Applause] >> I'll take this. >> Okay. Good evening. I'm still Kristen Shock and I'm still from Little Chico Creek and I brought my colleague here under false pretenses. Um,
006so Amy's home very sick. She's not here. So this is about you and I'm gonna try to get through this. Oh. So, good evening. Um, it is my great honor to present the superintendent award to a truly remarkable educator, Mr. Bart Can. Um, Bart is without question the face of Little Chico Creek. He hang on, there we go. He is one of the few hand selected educators who actually opened the school 34 years ago this fall. He has been teaching there ever since. In fact, he has been shaping the young minds of Little Chico Creek longer than some of our current teachers have been alive. Over the years, Bart has become much more than a classroom teacher. He's a trusted leader, a tireless advocate for our students, and the steady, thoughtful voice so many of
007us turn to when faced with a challenge or a decision. You bring wisdom, perspective, and calm, always grounded in what's best for kids. Bart is also one of the most dedicated professionals I've ever known. He's the first to arrive on campus each morning, greeting students as they arrive to the playground. His presence at school is a daily reminder of his deep commitment to building relationships and creating a welcoming and safe school environment. For our staff, Bart has been everything from mentor to confidant, collaborator to friend. Nearly every one of us has leaned on him at some point and benefited from his insight and support. What's more impressive is that after nearly four decades in the classroom, Bart remains engaged, curious, and open-minded as ever. He continues to embrace new instructional practices, strategies, programs, and curriculum.
008With enthusiasm, modeling what lifelong learning learning truly looks like. Veteran educators like BART are rare. Veteran educators still at the top of their game are even rarer. Tonight, we recognize not just the years, but the impact. Bart panic, thank you for the extraordinary service to Little Chico Creek students, families, and staff. [Applause] Happy with this piece of paper. Thank you very [Applause] >> just thank you for this honor. This really means a lot. Thanks. >> Thank you. [Applause] Hello, my name is Jess Crane. I'm one of the assistant principles at Little Chico Creek along with Melinda McCaulay. We're here today to recognize and honor Chrissy Zala, our wonderful PAR educator at Little Chico Creek. She has dedicated over 30 years of her life to education. And every single day, she brings knowledge, patience, and positivity
009into our classrooms. She is the definition of a team player. Always willing to jump in whenever she's needed. Always willing to lend a hand or listen, have a listening ear. Her loyalty and commitment to our students and staff have made her not only a valued colleague, but a trusted friend. In special education, the work is often quiet and behind the scenes, but the impact is immeasurable. Christy has touched the lives of countless students, helping them achieve milestones big and small, always celebrating their progress with genuine joy. Her dedication is unmatched. Her work ethic inspires us all, and her kindness creates a safe and supportive environment for every child she serves. On behalf of our entire school community, thank you, Christie, for your tireless commitment, your unwavering positivity, and the love you pour into your work.
010We are so fortunate to have you a part of our team. [Applause] Thank you. >> Thank you. Awesome. [Applause] >> All right. In that case, we're moving on to announcements, but at the top of our announcements, I'd like to ask whether a representative from CEA would like to recognize anyone. >> Hi. Sorry, I'm a bit emotional. Bart, I'm sorry for lying to you. He was supposed to come honor our CSA rep tonight tonight who's homesick. So, well, it was a great lie. Thank you, President Lando, CUSA school board and district office for the opportunity to be a part of the school board meetings. CSA Chico 110 is so grateful for the great relationship we have with Chico Unified. When we talk to other classified employees in other districts, they share such horror stories and we
011appreciate the great partnership we have with you. Classified employees are the nuts and bolts of every site and students would not have the learning opportunities without the sacrifice CSE classified employees make. Thank you for your willingness to allow Chico 110 to celebrate our members with the member of the month. These awards are significant as they are nominated by their peers and to us there is no greater honor. Yesterday was National IT Professional Day. We want to thank all of our IT folks for all that they do to keep our schools running, our district office running, and everything that they do to keep everything moving. I want to personally thank Patrick Beseti, Cassidy Dixon, and Emily Allen for camping out at LCC this week. As our main admin building has had a network outage that has
012affected the copy machines, our phones, and all of the admin uh computers. I'd like to introduce Holly Poniano, CSEA vice president. [Applause] Good evening. My tippy toes. Thanks. Just don't want to like make the big Good evening. Um I want to reiterate the same thanks that Kelly has given to everybody within Chico Unifi, the board um and families and teachers. Um I would also like to recognize a group. Um, this week is actually National Truck Drivers Week. And so I just want to recognize the guys that work in the warehouse and nutrition services who supply our students in schools with everything they need from Amazon orders to our yummy snacks and things that everybody gets to eat. Um, I know them personally all myself as my husband is one of them. So, um I know
013of the aches and pains that he has from hauling hauling food from school to school, but um we just want to appreciate how much we appreciate them for bending over backwards, for constantly being there for us as um rain or shine, you know, showing up with deliveries and all kinds of things and getting onto the campuses um for everybody to enjoy. And um again, so big thank you to them. Um, next I'd like to introduce Shandra Gutierrez, our union treasurer, who will speak about our member of the month. [Applause] Thank you. Uh, CACA Chapter 110 is celebrating our amazing member of the month for July, Erica Stilaha. Did I say it right? >> Yes. Erica is the senior office assistant of attendance at Chico Junior High School. She was nominated by her office manager, Lisa
014Gampel, for not only being a multitasking master, but also the go-to person on campus for not only staff, but for students, including my seventh grade daughter. She is always willing to help her fellow attendance clerks with the multitude of situations that arise. We thank Erica for all of her hard work and dedication to our students. Chica Unified and Chica Jr. are very lucky to have her. Erica. >> Oh, she just said, >> "You don't get off that easy." [Laughter] [Applause] I just want to acknowledge that I work for the best of the best and I'm so lucky to have all of these wonderful individuals um around me on a daily basis. Chica Junior Rules. [Applause] Well, thank you very much. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> And I just want to reiterate, I think I say
015this every meeting, but we have such an amazing staff, both classified and certificated, serving such an amazing set of students. Um, we really, it's hard to imagine being lucky as a school district than to have the people we get to work with every day. So, thank you all for being here and celebrating each other. You deserve it. And with that, I think if our students would like to leave at this point because they have homework or sports practice, now would be a good time to do that. >> Or showers. >> But if you want to stick around and watch and have a meeting, that's fair. You can stay if you want to. >> I mean, it's okay. >> Yeah. Next time. next time. >> Uh-huh. >> And then there was one. >> Yep. That's what
016I was thinking. Well, I suppose we still are on item six, announcements. >> So, pop quiz. When's the almond bowl this year? >> The October 17th or 18th, whichever one is the Friday. >> Okay. >> Never too early to start thinking about it. I'm excited this year. >> She hasn't yet. >> Um, we still got a car up for grabs. Not for us, of course. We can't win it, but >> Oh, good. Okay. >> All right. October 17th. Get your tickets now if you want to get in on the car drawing. Um, that said, anybody else up here have any announcements they'd like to make? >> I do. >> Says, please. >> So, I've started reading pals again. Um, and it was wonderful. Um, at Citrus Elementary, and I just want to say it's, uh,
017this year they've gone back to doing in school, and I think that's really it's it's a different feel, and I I love it. So, I'm very grateful for doing that. And then I also want to give my appreciation to Eileen and um Julie Kell and the whole um facilities team. Um it's been really interesting and exciting. Um sitting in on the the facilities uh meetings and I know Rosedale is so excited and I I my heart goes out to Park View who has to wait the longest. But but it it is really fun to see all the plans. So testing. Okay. Just want to make sure it was on. Um I have two announcements. One is um I was kind of eavesdropping. I do hot yoga and I was kind of easedropping listening to some
018people having conversations after class and um lo and behold they were teachers and one of the teachers said oh I am so happy and the other one was like well why she goes oh my kids my students they are the best I have the best buddy teacher I am just so happy and I'm like I have got to report this um yeah so that that was really fun to hear um and then last night as uh Greg knows Um we I was at and he happened to be there as well the um alt ed their version of back to school night. Oh my goodness what they do for those students. Um it was it was like a little party a a great gathering. You know they provided food. They had a cakewalk. They had some
019basketball stuff. They had some community um members there that that could help provide service. And it it was music like it was it was really nice. And the staff I talked to several of the staff and they're just they seem to be just one very tight community and they all work really well together and uh it was fantastic. So if you missed it this year, you got to go next year. Yeah. >> Awesome. Thank you. Excuse me. Any further announcements? Like we're off to a pretty good start for this school year, though. It's exciting. We are going to then move on to item seven on our agenda, which is items from the floor. Um, in case we have any speakers, I want to remind the public that items from the floor are for speakers who
020wish to address the board regarding an item that is not agendaized. If you wish to speak on an agenda item, you just speak under that particular item. Because they're not agendaized, we are not in the habit of responding so as to avoid accidentally deliberating on something that the public didn't know we were going to be deliberating on. So, if we're quiet up here, that's why. Um, that said, do we have anyone who wishes to speak? I don't didn't have any signup cards. Anybody here wish to uh address the board? Mhm. But it looks like that's a no. All right. In that case, we're going to move right along. We are on to our consent calendar. There are a couple of cool things on there, but nothing I think we have to debate. Uh, would anyone
021like to pull an item for further discussion off the consent calendar? We got some cool field trips coming up. Anybody want to talk about them? Okay. Um, well, I will just say that I hope that um the trip to Ashland is great this year because I see it's on and it's always a big treat for the drama kids. Okay. Um, if we have no uh questions or items to pull on consent, do we have a motion? Oh, yes, please. Member Robinson. >> Thank you, President. Thank you, President Lando. I um slow on the pickup. When I was going through the agenda and saw the uh new course proposals for independent study programs auto one and auto 2 that we are going to be able to offer in conjunction with B but college. I was just
022thrilled. I if you haven't taken time to read through those two proposals, what we are going to be able to put into place for um our students is wonderful. And as the proposal um stipulates, it also will provide a safety component for our students to get these skills and knowledges safely because of the wonderful instruction that they're going to be afforded through BU College. And so I'm I'm applauding our um administration and others who put these proposals together. I believe Pedro Oh, there we go. that it's just um I'm thrilled. So, thank you for working on getting those put together. That's it. >> It's a good point. Thank you very much. Okay. Anything that we need to pull from the agenda? Going once, going twice. Do we have a motion regarding the consent agenda? The
023consent calendar? >> I move approval. >> I'll second that motion. >> All right. We have a motion by Vice President Conkin and a second by member Robinson. This is our first action of the evening. So, we'll be taking a roll call vote. Uh any further debate on the consent calendar before we do that? Seeing none, I'm going to ask uh that we start with member Olsson. >> Olsson I. >> Conan I. >> Lando I. >> H I. Robinson I. >> It is unanimous. The consent calendar passes. Thank you all very much. And with that, we'll move on to our discussion action calendar. Our first item is 9.1.1. This is resolution 1703-25 regarding continued funding for our preschool programs. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Heather Suentes. I'm the director of elementary education. And so
024each year we'll bring this resolution to you and it is to approve the application to show our relationship with the state to continue our funding for running our seven state preschool classrooms. So our duty is to make sure you are aware and approve of the the contract and that is why I'm here. >> Very good. Um, I am fairly certain we're all in favor of continuing to offer the state preschool program, but are there any questions for clarification from the board? >> Not clarification, but I just want to say what a tremendous program it is. Um, I'm so lucky that my grandson has um entered the preschool program over at LMA Vista and it is amazing and um I just can't say enough going on campus. People are so friendly. um people not in his
025classroom recognize him. It's it's pretty amazing. So, I just want to say what a great service that is for the uh residents of Chico. >> Thank you. I couldn't agree more. It is a happy place over there. >> It is. >> It certainly is. Any further questions of clarification? Seeing none, uh does the public have any comment regarding this item? Looks like no. In that case, um, do we have a motion with this associated with this item? >> A motion approval. >> I'll second that. Sorry, my mic was already on. So, we have a motion by member Hayes, a second by Lando. Uh, any debate or discussion on this item? All those in favor then signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. >> And that is unanimous. Thank you very much,
026Mr. just appreciate you. Item 9.2.1 is a discussion of the unodudited actuals for 2425. >> Hi. Uh Sherice and I are here tonight to present 2425 unodudited actuals. Um can I get next slide? All right. Um, unodudited actuals represent actual revenues and expenditures for the year. Uh, you're used to us coming to you to present a budget, and we do that three times a year, so you're really used to it. Um, this isn't a budget, but it's really the true PI financial performance measurement as of June 30th. Um, also, these are the numbers before our audit is completed that could possibly result in some adjustments. We're not anticipating anything major. Um and the auditors will be on site starting September 29th to complete that work. This is our um actual versus funded average daily attendance
027or ADA. You guys are used to seeing this slide um so I won't overexlain but I do want to point out that in 2425 our enrollment and average daily attendance dropped. So for our local control funding formula, we ended up using prior year ADA. Um the states recognized that school districts are losing out on funding due to attendance and absenteeism. So we're going to have a new opportunity this school year to recoup attendance uh via the attendance recovery program. Um the plans are already underway. We're going to be it will be uh working handinhand with the afterchool program that we already have in place. All right, this is our general fund income statement. We ended the year with a bottom line of 7.7 million. We had expected to end the year with at least a
0283.5 million surplus. So, we ended up higher than that. Um, some of the larger adjustments that were made at year end close were the adjustment to the fair market value of cash and that was $1.6 million. Uh the special con ed contribution came in 733,000 lower than anticipated and our expenditures came in 1.5 million lower than anticipated when we um prepared estimated actuals in Aprilish. All right. So this pie chart shows how our expenditures were broken up in last year and you can see we spend the vast majority of the unrestricted monies on salaries and benefits. That's the green section. Uh we are in the people business so that's pretty uh typical for a school district. We include the special ed contribution in the category because the vast majority of special ed expenses is also
029salaries and benefits. >> Yes. Um, I did ask earlier, but I it's an uh I'm particularly interested in the special education encroachment and I asked for an accounting of what those percentages have been and thank you for the for the response, but I think it's an important bit of information for everybody to know. So, I'm interrupting. What I'd like is the trend of what the encroachment has been because of special education costs on the general fund. >> So Shereice is speaking to that in the next slide actually. Never mind. Um do you have the trend? Okay. All right. So just making sure. So yes. >> Okay. On a separate note, you'd mentioned that um there's a plan for making up attendance and it's going to be um coordinated with the afterchool program, but since we
030have since we're broadcasting to the masses, um I think it might be important to let parents know like what could that look like? I know one thing is that if your child is sick, you can ask for independent study work. Um, so I but I didn't know if there were other features of that that maybe we could highlight. >> Yeah. Tina, can you speak to how that's working? >> Well, you're right with the independent study packets that need to go home with kids and parents if they are taking uh up to 14 15 days of time off. The afterchool program is uh has implemented through ELLP funding a new opportunity for schools to garner some attendance back. it um it cuts according to the hours that they're there and some time frames all related to
031July 1. So, we're still figuring out how that works and how um working with with Jen Mcllin, our Cowpads division, how we can record that well and make sure we're recording accurately. So, it's a new opportunity for us that we're investigating, but we're always looking for great ways to incentivize people to be at school to to make sure that um if they're not there, how can they how can they still get credit for being there and schools are are open to have those conversations with people anytime. >> I do have a question. So, I know like CO is rampant again. I had it. Julie Kle had it. It's just been it's been bad and my granddaughter had it and so she missed several days. Is do the independent study packets do they have to be
032done? Like do they have to be requested while the child is out or could those go home with her now that she's back? Is that a possibility that she could still complete that work um so that you know the the school and she could get credit for for those days >> to recoup the attendance? You know, Jacqueline, do you I don't know the answer to that one. That's a great question. Um we're happy to look into that. Yeah, I think it's important because um I think I know that her parents would be happy to do that, but you know, I don't want to like throw off any auditors, but you know, when your child's out sick is not the easiest time to get to the office to pick up stuff, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. >>
033So, oftentimes the whole house is sick, which was the case. So, >> yeah, we'll look into that. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I have a question too related to attendance. um Saturday school, that's also an attendance recovery opportunity for that's at the high school. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, another part of the um unodudited actuals that we look at is in the general fund transfers in from other funds as well as contributions. So, Eileen, I'll speak to that special ed trend when I get to that uh bullet point. uh transfers in. At the end of last year, we had about $4.1 million in redevelopment agency pass through. We use that to help pay for our rout routine restricted maintenance account, RMMA, which is otherwise known as our maintenance and operations department. Um and
034then the other smaller amount there, that 35,000, that's 3% of all of the developer fees that we collected over the course of last year. So, speaking to contributions, um, special ed, our contribution came in at about 22.7 million last year, and that's down a tiny bit from the year before, but we did have a very large increase to Eileen's point from 2022 to 2023 24 that was about 14%. Um, so it's good that we flattened out a little bit more um last year. Uh, Jen Skol is working really hard to help support the students that we have. We also um luckily have on the AMIM discretionary discretionary block grant that the board approved the plan to help mitigate that um general fund contribution. And so we contributed about $1.1 million from another restricted account to
035help offset the special ed encroachment. >> When I found out that it had flattened or or decreased, I wondered what had happened. Yeah, because our student population definitely is not decreasing. Um, so our expenditures do continue to grow, but luckily the board took action about a year and a half ago to say that we wanted to put those monies aside to help with the encroachment. And if I'm not mistaken and and Miss Scala is gone already, but I think um one of the efforts to make sure that our um aids match our IEPs to the point where we don't have an over staffing for IEP um accommodations for students that need continuing help. I think that's also been an effort >> on the part of the department to make sure that those >> those things
036are, you know, handled because economics is a big part >> of how we support our special ed students. So, I appreciate the fact that we're >> we're coming down a little bit. Thank you. >> And Mr. Robinson, I can speak to I can speak to that. Um there's certainly no overstaffing, I would say, with our instructional pair professionals and our special ed um program. Um, I will speak to um what the program has been doing the last several years is we had some positions that were maybe three hours, three and a half hours and recruitment became a very um challenging um excursion if you will. Um so what we've been doing is we've been trying to mirror up the length of the day with the hours. So all elementary we're trying to make all sixhour
037aid positions and then at our junior high and high school they're all six and a half hour positions. So we're trying to make sure that there's sufficient aid time for the entire school day um not just components of the day um to support the student and the teacher as well. >> Okay. So the other large contribution that we typically um every year have out of the uh general fund is the return again RMA I'm not going to say the whole thing um 6.1 million and per ed code that's 3% of all general fund expenditures. So that's a calculation we do at the end of every year. And then we also had a very small uh contribution about 23,000 into a new account that is going towards PG& um electric bus infrastructure. So um we're working
038with PG&E. They'll be reimbursing us for a part of the project, but basically to install new chargers for more electric buses at the courtyard. Okay. So this chart shows the components of the restricted side. So now we're talking about grants. um title one, all of the restricted accounts that we have. The largest balance you'll see up at the top there is about $12.9 million. And of that, the learning recovery dollars is the largest amount. It's 9.6 million. Um the biggest uh charges that we have coming out of that account in the next few years are targeted case managers, professional development, and reading pals. So, we work very closely with ED services to make sure that we're spending those grant dollars before the grant expires. And finally for you guys, so conclusions, as Marie mentioned, um
039our attendance percentage and enrollment was down a little bit this last year. So we were funded on prior year ADA. Um as she mentioned, we're working really hard this year to try and recoup some of that ADA. So hopefully that won't happen again and we'll have it increase, but you know, we're we're constantly working on that. um the lar large restricted ending fund balance. We're constantly talking about uh what that looks like for planning for continued social emotional supports and learning recovery um in the 2526 and 2728 years. So we'll make sure that all those grants are spent before the expiration of each one. And then the audited financials will come through in January. So we're, as Marie mentioned, we're in the middle of our audit right now. they will come for their final visit
040the week of September 29th and then um barring any adjustments the numbers will stay the same um but I will come and report to you so I'll be back here in January to report on the audit okay and any questions >> it doesn't look like it that was very clear I appreciate it >> you're welcome thank you >> and we'll need approval on the audit >> absolutely there will be action Just giving everybody another couple seconds to digest the last. >> It's always a lot of data and once in a while a question pops up like >> okay now I heard that. What's this about? >> Um >> are we and this might be a question more for Jacqueline. I'm going to ask this a couple every time we talk about the budget. Are we
041anticipating being impacted by uh any potentially withheld federal money at this point? I can speak to the funds that the um federal administration talked about over the summer that they were going to withhold, but they actually ended up funding us. Um they are working, they being the federal um government is working on their um budget for the next year and that would impact us in 2627. So, um, we don't believe there'll be any impact to the 25 26 year related to federal funds, but should there be a reduction, um, in federal funding, it would impact LEAs in California in 2627. >> Thank you. And I know we're looking at our actuals from last year at this point, not the future. I just always nice to to make sure the public knows where we're at in
042terms of whether we have anything we need to worry about. So, thank you for that. Looks like we're in decent shape for now, which I appreciate. Okay. If there are no other technical questions or questions of clarification, is there any public comment regarding our unodited actuals for the 2425 school year? Seeing none, do we have a motion regarding this item? >> I motion that we accept the unodudited actuals. >> I'll second. >> All right. I believe that was a motion by member Hayes and a second by member Olsen. Any further debate or discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any oppose say nay. It is unanimous. Awesome. Thank you very much. You guys appreciate your work as always. Excuse me. We're going to jump right on down to item 922, which
043is anformational item. We will not be taking action. It is a update on the 2025 summer projects. It's Mr. German. >> Well, thank you for uh giving me the opportunity to come up here and just share just a small glimpse of what our M team accomplishes over the summer. Um you know, when I was asked to present this, I can always come up here and I could literally talk for the rest of your meeting about the accomplishments of our M team. They do such a great job every summer. Um, but I figured I'd just give you a few quick statistics and then we got a slideshow we're going to show that just kind of highlights a few of our projects. But you start to think about what our custodial team is responsible for around the
044school district. And I did some calculations and they clean roughly 1,100,285 square feet of space really on a daily basis, but over the summer deep cleaning. We've got over 343 restrooms that have to be cleaned and deep cleaned. and we have a plumber that has to take care of every one of those those bathrooms. Our M staff uh completed over 700 work orders between June 1st and September 1st over the summer on top of the summer project list that we presented to you guys as well. And I think districtwide we have well over 600 classrooms. If you think about on average if we had 20 desks in each one of those classrooms that represents about 12,000 student desks. If we had just three pieces of gum on each one of those desks, that means our
045custodial class had to scrape over 36,000 pieces of gum off those desks this summer. So, you start putting those kind of in perspective of the things that we have to accomplish over the summer. You know, our work orders that we do are everything from fire alarm panel testing and certifications to uh flush valve replacement, irrigation test and repair, heating and air conditioning, uh continuing maintenance, ongoing maintenance. There's a lot of things that we do every day that aren't maybe flashy. It's hard to get pictures of our alarm tech fixing or repairing the alarm panels or our HVAC taxs up there in the attic in the citrus doing air filter replacements or working on the belts, cleaning coils. But in our presentation, we want to just show some of the more highlight some of our more
046more uh showy projects that we do, some things that really can make an impact. And once again, I just want to thank our M team, the the people that do the work because they're the ones out there all summer long just working hard to make sure our schools are are up and running for the kids. So, if we could start that slideshow, I'll try to kind of tell you guys which school. We put names on the slides originally, but it was really uh clogged up because the slides go by so quick. So, I'll try to announce what these schools are just so you're aware. So, this is a Bidwell Junior High locker rooms. We did a full paint over the summer on these and I think you can really see the difference it made. As
047you can tell, we also epoxied the floor in there as well. It really is, you know, for the kids to be able to come back to see that change is uh pretty impressive. We did both the boys and the girls locker room. This is the front wall. The students like to sit on the bench and peel the paint off the walls. So, They can start again. We got a fresh coat on there. We did use a uh automotive grade paint that's supposed to be a little This is a PE classroom at Fairview. Old green carpet from who knows how how old. We've got some siding repairs we had to do at LCC. Um you can see where the sun and rain has just deteriorated that wall. And there is uh the new wall. And you
048can see all those penetrations were on the wall that had to be removed and you know walled around. Parking lot. I believe this was Marold. Um, even though it's a newer school site, it's amazing how quick that uh painting and things start to fade. So, it's also amazing how many tracks are already on it. Again, this is carpeting at Marsh Junior High office that was original, as far as I'm aware, to the school when they first built it. This is the staff parking lot. Some of the cracks that have uh developed over the years. Flooring at Marsh in a classroom. uh water had gotten underneath those doors and rotted out the flooring in there. So, our carpenter did the repairs and then we used a local contractor to help us with the new flooring in
049there and matching up with the school colors. Serior view, the overhangs over there, all those drain boxes have failed over the years, the original lead boxes in there. So, we took the uh underside apart. >> Mr. Chairman, go back. Can Can you move it back one? Because >> I'm gonna let our IT gentlemen Yeah. What? >> That is the underside of the overhang. So that white part there is where the drain above that is the roof line. >> Was this a PV? >> No, this is at Sierra View. >> Ah, cuz >> Yeah, if you go back one more, that's the before picture. So that's what we opened up to get to that spot where you see the next slide. >> Good. I I've seen that happen at PV where for years you knew it
050was leaking and then when they finally opened it up, it was like, oh my god. So, the problem on these ones is that white box you see in the the next picture, that box there, it's an old lead style box in there and the lead is deteriorating in the corners. So, it's not leaking in a place you have access to unless you take apart the roof to get to it. >> Yeah. >> So, we've been doing this slowly over the last uh several summers working on this and this we got the majority of it done as view. So, you'll see in the next few pictures, you can see where we've made the repairs. Got the new uh drain put together and freshly painted for him. Lighting project at PV High. So, this is the softball
051field. So, way up on that lift, I think you could see our uh electrician. This was the Yale building. The wind had pulled some of the roofing off. Um, this is Neil Dao parking lot. So, we did a new center of the asphalt there was alligatored completely, removed it, put in some new asphalt there and restriped it. We rebar all our playgrounds over the summer. We've put in over a thousand cubic yards of playground bark this summer. This is roofing at the Mwing at uh PV High School. And then some of these pictures are just the our our custodial crews, some of the cleanup work they've done at the schools. Sorry for that one. just showing, you know, some of the work that they've done in our classrooms to get them ready for the kids.
052The uh stripping and waxing floors, shampooing carpets, as I said, scraping gum off desks, and uh cleaning the surfaces. You know, our custodians, they take a lot of pride in the work they do, making sure the kids get to come back to a floor that you can see a reflection in. And these are just some great examples of uh the work that our custodial team does. That's Citrus Elementary School, original hardwood floors in there still. Um and Hooker Oak and be happy to answer any questions you had, but this is just such a small sliver of the work that gets accomplished over the summer and just trying to highlight some of the things our crews do. >> Now, I have a do have a couple of questions. Um, when we go back and look at
053what our dream project list was when it was first presented to us, >> and it's obvious that we didn't get to everything. Not only um is is there my concern um but as we we have quite a few things yet that that aren't checked as completed and the intention my understanding is is to go back and finish completing those lists during the time during the school year when there aren't kids on campus. Um, is there a a process, a plan, um, something that allows you to pre-plan when those things are going to occur because there's a lot left? >> Yeah. So, this budget, if if you notice, is the 2526 school year budget. >> So, this budget doesn't only have to cover this summer's projects, it also covers June of next summer's projects. Mhm. >>
054So, we always hold back some of these projects for the start of next summer. So, we're always kind of like uh raceh horses come July 1. We're sitting there ready to get these projects going and we're waiting for that fiscal budget year to start up again July 1. So, when we create this project list, our intentions is not not that every one of these projects will get done this existing summer, but it's during that 2526 school year. And the summer projects, we kind of just coined it that because that's when we get a lot of these work done. But it's really I think a more appropriate term would be special projects or extra projects. So over the course of the years we will be completing some of these projects during the school year as it
055allows within the educational flow. But then June, you know, as soon as schools out in June, we have a list of projects we start up again in June so that we're not waiting all of June before we get our budget. So that's been common practice for the last quite a few years that we've been doing this. Do you um feel that you're able to do that by assigning current classified employees or do you utilize some of our always there substitute employees and if so what's the advantage of that? >> Yeah. So we use a combination of methods to get things done like you know shown you those 702 work orders that we completed in the summer on top of >> those summer projects. You know, John Carvery, who was a director of M for a
056long time, used to tell me, M can do anything. We just can't do everything. And so, a lot of times we'll take a look at all those projects that we have listed out and we'll meet with our staff and say, "All right, which ones can we accomplish in house? Which ones do we think would be a better resource to use some of our local vendors, contractors to do these projects?" So, it's really a collaboration between myself, Joe, our maintenance staff to come up with the projects we're going to do in house and the ones that we're going to reach out and ask our local uh contractors to give us help on. And usually what the most of the time the driving factor is what's the best interest of our students? How can we get the
057most accomplished in the shortest amount of time? As you can see, our summers tend to get shorter and shorter every year. You know, this year we had summer school in June. We had early back in August. We had, you know, a short week in the first week of July with the Fourth of July holiday falling on a Thursday. So you look and we keep compressing our summers and yet our workload keeps kind of expanding out. So we use a combination of methods of what is the best interest of the school to get these projects done whether it's contractors, our wonderful CSEA staff or whatever means we we can do. the 3% that um you know get get scattered yeartoear. Are you being stretched to the point where you're being able to handle that within the
0583% or should the board be looking at um you know additional funding for because we're increasing our facilities. >> Yeah. um and the the nature of some of our facilities. I know Tisha and I are currently working on the triplets, the three new schools and some of those designs with the pod concept >> is going to my opinion change how we apply custodial unit workload um initiatives and things. Yeah, that is an ongoing conversation that we have regularly within our department with Jacquine, with our district office team is how are we going to allocate the funds to maintain the buildings the that we have, especially moving forward. So, that's something that happens daily really is we have discussions about it, adding staff, adding positions, and our district office, the board has always done a great
059job of supplying us the funds we need to get the work done. Now, that being said, if if you guys wanted to give me a lot more money, we have plenty of spaces I could uh I could spend it on. You know, we're always there's always things that can be done in a school district. You know, we're always uh there's always projects out there that are on our wish list. Um but it is part of a daily conversation we have with our with the district office. The >> one of the things because I am on the uh the facilities committee for the the three schools that are going to be touched. Um, do you have a process for taking a look at what we're planning to say, "Oh my gosh, are you kidding? We're, you
060know, not going to be able to do that?" I I know we've we've mentioned having uh adequate custodial uh facilities because, you know, every custodian needs a bucket of hot water and a place to dump it. >> Need to hang their mop somewhere, don't they? Yeah. >> Yeah. So Julie and her team has done a wonderful job of including our department in their future plans. Um, one of the things we did this summer is had uh several meetings with them which we call page turners where our trades people, our electrician, plumber, irrigation techs, our alarm technicians, myself, Joe, we all met with their engineers, architect firms and went through each site item by item of what products do you guys want us to use? what products do you not want us to use? What are
061some things that you see that you like? What are some things you you would like to have changed? And it's really been an open process for us to work with them. And you know, I give credit to Julie for organizing that and working with our teams and really making our uh trades people and our our staff feel like they're a part of those decisions. >> Yeah. Because there's um there's a lot of differences between where we are now with those three schools and where we're going excuse me, where we're going to end up when we get done. >> Absolutely. And you know, it's a unique thing in a school district. We have buildings that are, you know, built in the 1930s like Citrus that we're maintaining, but we also have McManis. It's a brand new
062campus. And you have a, you know, say our locksmith who has to know how to work on these locks from 1930 and these door hardware. >> We also have all these new mechanical and electronic locks and right hardware that's new. Our electrical is the same way. So, there's new skill sets that are having to be learned and our staff has done a great job picking up those those, you know, that that amount of work they do. Yeah. But yeah, Julie's done a great job including us in those decisions. >> Well, keep showing up because um Tisha and I are are on that facilities committee and we're very interested in making sure that what we end up bringing to the board for approval is something that you guys can and gals, excuse me, there are many
063women in our department >> um can maintain. >> Yeah. >> So, >> well, thank you for doing that. We're we're welcoming you to be involved. Thank you. >> Excellent. Thank you very much. >> Not so much a question, but um just a comment looking through those slides. Um it's very obvious to me and I'm sure the rest of the board that your um department just takes a lot of pride in what they do. Um, and I can just tell that you strive towards excellence and I think it speaks volumes to um, the families of Chico Unified and also the students and it's just setting a really good example of being good stewards of our properties and taking care of them. And I think the fact that you are demonstrating pride in your work also um
064that transfers to the kids and they they're going to have pride in the schools that they attend and that they are going to take care of um their campuses. So I think it's a huge example you're setting. So I appreciate that. >> I appreciate that. You know, and our our staff members, you know, they're vested in these schools, their kids, their grandkids, you know, these are people that are a part of these schools. So for them, they're doing this for their families, their friends, their loved ones. So I think they do take a lot of pride and it shows in the work they do. Yeah, thank you very much. Any other >> Yeah, pass on our appreciation. I will. Thank you so much. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Well, thank you so much again.
065We really appreciate it. >> You're welcome. Thank you once again for your time. >> We'll see you again soon. Have a great afternoon, evening. Is it still afternoon? Just about. Um I say that because I believe we're at the end of our uh agenda unless there we are um ready for any more items from the floor. If any of you have been inspired by what you've seen to come up with a new topic you'd like to bring up. >> Eileen. Mr. Robinson, what you got? >> It's not a a new topic to bring up. It's my inability as a board member to get through the slides fast enough to know where we are on the agenda. I'd like us, if you will allow, Mr. chairman a chance to go back to um consent calendar and
066uh it's this the last approved budget cost. That's not it. >> So >> there we go. Consider approval of account payable warrants >> 3.1. So, we're looking at 831. >> Is it eight? >> Um, yeah. 8 is in the consent calendar, right? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, um before we do that, I'm just gonna make real quick make a motion. Uh is there the to uh suspend the rules of the meeting temporarily to go back to the consent calendar? >> I'll second that. >> All right. Um any debate on that? >> All right. In that case, uh all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? All right, having done that bit of housekeeping, what do you got for us? >> Thank you. Because this this was some important information. I don't
067know if the public sees what we go through in the way of looking at these warrants, but there's a a lot of stuff out there and something very important happened in this month's warrants list on September 9th, I believe. I was scrolling and scrolling. That That's how long it takes to get through this stuff. Um, August, >> when you find it, would you let us know what uh page of the PDF you're on? >> Yes, I will. >> Oh my gosh. See this? This is why I'm >> I missed it on the first time through. We're >> so quick point of clarification though. We're not going back to revote. We're just making a comment. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. Because >> just just double checking. No problem. You keep keep looking. We
068That's >> There's a lot that happened on September 9th. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Superintendent. But no, everything was fine. It was it it all should have been approved. It was and I'm thankful. Um, however, >> I believe you're looking at the end of PDF page 33. >> Thank you. >> 34. Where's 33? If the public wonders why we we get confused, it's because the volume of stuff we go through is huge. >> So, which item am I going to >> Mrs. Robinson? I believe Zach has it up on the screen ahead of you there at the bottom. >> The Emma Wilson restroom. >> Yes, it's the restrooms. >> Okay. Thank you >> for any of us that um that have been attending the student the LCAP student uh input meetings over the last several
069years. One of the things the students kept commenting on at all levels, elementary, junior high, high school, is the bathrooms and the condition of the bath there. it is um the condition of the bathrooms. And this year we were able to um put money toward um the bathroom project A. And that project was um for Chico Jr. I can't move move it high and >> Yeah. So, phase four of the restroom renovation projects had Chico Junior, Chico High, Emma Wilson Elementary, and Little Chico Creek as well. Those four schools. >> Yes. And the amount was um roughly 900,000. It was by contract bid. Um, and one of the questions that I had was, um, how do we get to take care of the next part B? >> Now, >> great segue. Yes. >> So, uh,
070phase B of the restroom renovations will occur next summer. Um, these four schools were able to be kind of expedited because the plans related to the renovation did not have to go to the Department of State Architects. um which adds a very lengthy process from um plans from architect that have to go to the state to be approved before we can even go out for a bid etc etc. It extends and elongates that time period. So we are working on um phase B right now um with architects to be able to draft the plans to get those to the department of state architects um with the hope that those will be back and we can renovate um phase B restrooms next summer. >> Thank you. So, for the students that cheered, and many did, uh,
071staff heard hoay, hurray, hurray when they got to school and saw the bathroom renovations. If your student is at a school where that hasn't happened yet, be patient because we know it needs to be finished and we will do that as quickly as possible. But I did want to because it was explained, you know, in this warrants um process that that's what's happening. And uh thank you for um the work that our our people are doing on getting those bathrooms taken care of because that was that was a number one thing from the students. Get the bathrooms fixed. We are >> I I'm done. Well, since we're since we're back at at this, I just wanted to express my appreciation to both um Superintendent Blake and to Jacqueline for looking into the water situation. Um,
072one of the things I noticed in looking at the pay warrants is that uh, and um, Miss Krueger totaled up like yearly what is spent on water at the site and it's about $20,000 and that was water that is mo mostly being utilized by the adults on campus. And my my concern was that you know all of we don't serve a student that has a fully formed brain. And so if we are going to be providing you know filtered water it seems like that the the focus should be on filtered water for the children. And I'm not I don't want to take anything away from staff but I did want it to be added for kids and Jacqueline and um Mr. Blake are looking into that and I'm really grateful for that and I want
073to say thank you. >> It is kind of fascinating to look through the warrants and see all the amazing and varied things that the district does. Like just because you mentioned and now I'm wondering what the heck is a scrap monster with feet. Um which we apparently paid $1,700 for. But that is a question for another day I think. Unless one of you knows off top of your head what a scrap monster with feet is. All right. It's just it's on the same page as the as the restrooms just a few lines up. And I was very Yeah, I I didn't notice that when I the first time, but now I'm like there's a story there. Um but before we before we digress anymore, um I'd like to return us to our regularly scheduled program.
074We were looking for any future further items from the floor. I didn't think we had any, but now you got one more chance in case you want to talk about scrap monsters. Um, and if we don't, then I would love to see a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> I'll second. >> All right, we had a motion from member Conin and a second from member Hayes. All those in favor of journing, say I. I. >> I. Thank you all very much. Have a wonderful evening.