001All right. We call this Thursday, May 8th, 2025 regular board meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Roll call, please. May's here. Tony here, mask on here. Uh, Mr. Day, Dr. Deus and Mr. Fodgrap are both not present. agenda. I'll motion. I'll second. Dr. Second. Thank you, Mr. Mask on. There are no changes to the agenda for May 8th, 2025. Discussion. Call the question. May I? Tony I. Mask on. I Dr. Saki. Any public participation at this time? Not at this time, sir. Thank you. I get a motion to at this time we will adjourn to close session. We may discuss conference with labor negotiators, public employee discussion, discipline, dismissal, release, conference with legal counsel or student matters. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Call the question. May I? Brianna Tony I. Mask
002on I. We adjourn to close session at 6:31 Yeah. All right. We reconvene this regular board meeting at 7:33 p.m. Rihanna, would you lead us in the flag slip? Sure. Please stand. Right hand over your heart. Raise Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Fals, would you please read the civility statement? When conducting the district's business, we will strive to communicate clearly and concisely with respect for the time of others. Listen objectively, carefully considering the opinions of others. Understand the counterproductive effects of disruptive, demeaning, and intimidating intimidating behaviors. Understand and respect district policies and procedures. And maintain a respect for the rich history of the district and the efforts
003of others who have served in the past. Thank you, Mr. FZgraph. All right. Tonight in close session, uh the board of education, the the board of education discussed the superintendent's evaluation. The superintendent received a satisfactory evaluation. The superintendent's compensation will remain the same for the 2025 2026 school year as set forth in the renewal of the superintendent's contract. Dr. Sak, any public comments? Yes, sir. Just one. Mr. Pete gets I say that right? You have uh three minutes. Three minutes. I won't need three minutes. Good evening everybody, members of the board, district office personnel, and community members. U I'm not here to address anything formally on your agenda. I actually wanted to take just a quick second to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Pete Gats, and I'm the director of expansion and program development
004for Method Schools and Method Schools LA. While our reauthorization is not up with you guys for a a while, I wanted to stop by and just personally witness some of the amazing things that are happening in your district and spend some time with you this evening. I clearly picked an amazing night to be here because you're recognizing some of your your very best in the teaching community. And that's very much all I wanted to do. So, I wanted to say good evening and thank you and I wish you a wonderful evening and summer. Thank you very much. Thank you. Correspondence, proposals and reports at a representative Good. It's on right. Can you hear me through this? Okay. Good evening board and community members. I want to acknowledge that that communication at Metallark continues to be
005challenging. Many teachers still feel targeted, overwhelmed, and weighed down by micromanagement. Those concerns are real and deserve to be heard. And at this time, our metal art teachers feel like no one is hearing us. At Vasquez, behavior issues remain a top concern among staff and it's impacting morale and instruction. That said, we are thankful to Paula for taking her time yesterday at the staff meeting to walk us through the discipline policies. That kind of clarity and leadership matters. Let's not forget the inspirational night of the stars is coming up. It's a chance to come together, celebrate our students, and remind ourselves why we do this work. Let's keep showing up, speaking up, and supporting one another. Thank you. The CSEA representative student representative to the board. Good evening everybody. Today I'd like to start with
006Metallark Elementary School. Last Friday Metallark hosted their much anticipated talent show and it was absolutely spectacular. Led by our incredible talent show committee, Mrs. Brilan Fernandez, Mrs. Charmaine G, and several supportive staff. Our students lit up the stage with their remarkable talents. We had a packed house filled with proud families and the energy in the room was electric. It was truly a night to remember and a powerful reminder of how our students thrive with support from our amazing school community. We also recently kicked off our books for fun project led by Miss Sienna Tony. Through this initiative, every student every student at Medallik will receive free books to take home, supporting a love of reading and helping build home libraries. This project is a wonderful step towards increasing access to literacy and engaging families in
007reading together. To build momentum for testing, we held a high energy CASP kickoff assembly where students performed a skit. Staff created an an inspiration inspiring video. And we ended with a fun Tetris performance competition with our grade four and three with third grade proudly taking the win. Our super testing hero theme continues to bring joy and motivation to our testing days. We are also very proud of Mrs. Porter who recently invited her class families to a mother's day breakfast at Blackbeard Diner in Palmdale. It was a heartfelt celebration that beautifully reflected the family's connections and we value that we value so deeply at Metallark. Some events that we have coming up for Metallark is May 12th is our VIP breakfast hosted for parent dedicated parent volunteers who support our school every day. May 14th is
008our spring concert from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our students will showcase their musical talents for families and community members. May 15th is open house and grand opening. Fourth grade living museum is Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20th and 21st, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. And the fourth grade gold rush play is Wednesday and Thursday, May 28th and 29th from 9 to 10:00 p.m. Sorry, A.M. Moving on to High Desert some Hawk Highlights. Mrs. Banola. Her thoughtful creativity enriches her lessons and is and she is a valued member of the fifth grade team who loves her students and colleagues. Keegan Ferry and Jesus Pacheo Rivas. They received they offered to clean the lunch tables to support our staff and did a wonderful job. Julia Swanigan always is doing her best, being on task and taking the time to
009help others. She's a great caregiver to the class pet bunny B. Celeste Santos Garcia. She demonstrates integrity daily by always being on task and modeling citizenship for her peers. Some past events for the Hawks. Incoming parent night. Parents of incoming Hawks attended a great parent night. Informing informing information information about athletics, academics, and activities were shared along with the campus tour. Fourth grade road show at High Desert welcomed the fourth grade metalarks to tour their campus and learn more about what it means to be a future Hawk. The students had a great time and we are so impressed with our ASB students on their leadership and mentorship to these younger students. CASP testing started this week. Staff made fun videos with tips to help encourage students to do their best. Our amazing counseling team went
010to each class last week and gave presentations about testing anxiety and how students can work through and overcome it. Our students have been working hard this year and we are excited to see them to see them show what they know. Sixth grade chicks hatching. Mrs. Heather Campbell entered a contest called Hatch a Chick and won a set of eggs for for our students to hatch. Three rounds of eggs and two incubators later, we had two chicks hatch just in time for spring break. Students were so excited to watch these miracle chicks hatch. Thank you, Miss IRS, for supporting this great project in life science count counseling presentations. Our incredible counseling team has been proactively working to support our students prior to spring break. They shared a presentation on bullying prevention and focused on cyber bullying
011that has been shown to increase over break when students are more likely to be on their electronics. We are so grateful for their inspiration and their work with our students. Some upcoming events. Career Day. HDS welcomes community members from a wide variety of careers to share their profession professions with our students during career day on May 16th from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We invite you to to join us to see their presentations. Schools to watch celebration is on May 29th at 8:30 a.m. Student showcase and open house is on May 29th at 6 p.m. High Desert Athletics is wrapping up all of our spring seasons. JV girls volleyball is having a blast. They didn't make it to finals this year, but they learned a lot and grew as a team. JV Flag football made
012it to the semi-finals and is looking forward to playing in the finals next week. Varsity basketball held their championship games last night. Although we didn't bring home the win, the games were so exciting to watch and our students played really well. There's a group of strong eighth grade students that are interested in basketball entering the high school next year. Thank you to VHS for allowing us to host and thank you to the coaches, Mr. Rivas, Mr. and Mrs. McWilson for the time they invested in our students this season. Track and field has their first meet next week. Some campus updates for the Hawks. The mural project started work on Monday, April 28th. Students join artists. Students join the artist for lessons about how to make career in art as well as painting the project themselves.
013The project should be finished this week. Next week, and we look forward to everyone being able to see it during April during open house on May 29th. Moving on to Vasquez High School. Some highlights for Vasquez. State testing and the AP testing have been the topics of our campus. We are happy to report that we have completed the bulk of our state testing and are finishing up some makeups. The VHS counseling and we care teams in partnership with Dr. Smith are leading the classroom presentations on the impact of students words to promote mental health awareness, positive language, conflict revolution, revolution resolution and a respectful school environment. VHS held a very fun car show on April 12th put on by the senior class in collaboration with ASB. We had our studentr run flag football game, also
014known as powderpuff, on May 30th, which had a very nice crowd and some upcoming events for Vasquez. We have some very special events coming up like our night of the stars on May 21st. We are excited to honor our students achievements. Some athletics updates. Big shout out to our varsity boys volleyball teams. They absolutely killed it this season for winning their league and getting to go to playoffs. Swimming has come to an end. The last meet had the team once again taking their personal best. We hope to return next season with an even larger team that will continue to grow. Track heritage league championship meet stated stated with a bang. Freshman Ivy Rios won the 1600m and Vasquez swept the podium in high jump. Congrats to high jump league champions freshman Savannah G, second place
015Riley Larson, and third Haley Honiki. The 4x00m relay made third place. Congrats Maisie Woring, Sophia Aguure, CA Kayn Paradoma, and Destiny Sanchez. Riley Larson also won 400M dash and long jump. Ivy Rios won the 100m run. Vivian Schneider led triple jump sweep and Victoria Hagu was second and Mazing Maisy Woring was third. The girls shattered the record for the four by 400 relay team and qualified for CAF. The boys 4x400m relay earned third with Austin Helton, Brendan Blaine, Cole Steve, and Blake Masone. Austin Helton held Austin Helton placed fourth in high jump and qualified for CIF. Amazing job to all of our CIF qualifiers. Softball just secured undefeated heritage league champions again going eight for zero for five years straight. Currently, we have a 42game league winning streak and we are waiting for our playoff
016schedule. The ga first game is next Thursday and the bracket will be released on Monday. Baseball finished second in league and we qualify for CIF playoff playoffs starting next Thursday. And that is all for my report this evening. Anything else? Thank you, Natalie. Uh spotlight. Thank you. She's a hard act to follow for sure. Uh one of my favorite parts of the evening, spotlight recognition. So on behalf of the board of education and myself, I extend our heartfelt thanks to our dedicated teachers for their tireless work throughout the year and every single day. Tonight we celebrate the educators who inspire our students and empower our students every day. How many students do we have here? Show of hands. Let's put you on the spot. Be extra kind to your stu uh to your teachers, not
017only during teacher appreciation week, but every single day. And I know that each and every one of you are. So, thank you students for being here in support of your family member that's being recognized. In addition, we are also celebrating and recognizing our incredible classified staff whose daily contributions are essential to us achieving our vision, which is empowering minds, building futures, our small district infinite possibilities. Thank you for your unwavering commitment. classified staff and classified school employee week is celebrated between May 18th through 24 and teacher appreciation week is May 5th. We're in it this week through May 9th tomorrow. I want to kick off this celebration with Metoark and Metallark principal Mrs. Jones to go ahead and recognize her staff and distribute certificates. Then we'll follow with Vasquez, then High Desert, and we'll conclude
018with our district office classified staff. Mrs. Jones. Few words. Today we uh celebrate the heart of our school, our amazing metal art staff. Your dedication, passion, and unwavering unwavering commitment to our students and family are the foundation of everything we do. You stay after hours without being asked. You create meaningful programs that enrich lives. And you step in again and again whenever there is a need. Whether it's supporting a child, covering for a colleague, or helping a family in need, you do it with grace, compassion, and heart. Your flexibility, teamwork, and willingness to go above and beyond make all the difference. You don't just work here at Metoark. You lift this place up every single day. You are the reason Metallark isn't just a school for me. It's becoming a family. From the bottom of
019my heart, thank you for your incredible service, your spirit, and your incredible heart. I appreciate you more than words can say and every day. You make meark shine. certificate. Help me out. Dana Haley Alexandra her is not present but I saw that she was watching. We miss her. Barry Nolan he's not present. Nicole Santa, Gabby Greyber, Gabriella Greyber, Brelin Fernandez, Robert is not here. Robert Sereno, Janet Bilski, Linda Porter. Sorry, I apolog All right. Well, good evening, Raina Smith Vasquez. Now, I have to say that maybe this is probably the hardest task that I have ever been given. um you know we have to sometimes write 100page reports and that's nothing than um compared to turning in only 10 names so we have such a you know wonderful staff and I I can honestly say
020that this is the hardest task that I've done. Um so these people are a shine and I just want to share just a little bit about each one to tell you how we all feel about it. So, let's start with actually I'm not going to say very much about our Christina Wagner teacher of the year because I'm sure she has a lot of thunder coming up. So, I am not going to steal it today. So, she's our teacher of the year. She's not here. And I don't see Dr. Justin McWilson, but he this is his first year as our sped teacher. He is just phenomenal. I mean, so flexible. He's not here today, but um congratulations also out of town at a graduation, but uh Mr. Sheldon Sparks. He's a everything guy. We do have
021Araeli Burroughs here and she's our EL staff member. So compassionate, just works so well with our ELS student. We have Maria Ortiz. She's our resource assistant. And I can say safely say you're a huge resource. So flexible, so positive. Just love working with you. Oh gosh, I could talk for hours from this one. So, Mr. Alan Mora, come on down. Best way to sum him up is he's the kid whisperer. Sometimes a lot of us try, you know, I try, somebody else will try and they he might be the only one they listen to. He it if you had a chart, his bar graph on favorite person on campus would overshadow a lot of us. Next, we have Eddie Romano, our uh maintenance team member. He's not here. Very hardworking team member. We have also
022our secretary, our the person that runs that school and that's Miss Shiloh Via Seenor says everything. Next we have we call her Tammy. Tammy Brooks and I don't think she's here but just such a nurturing cafeteria staff member. And last but not least, Lana Gals and our attendance staff member. So thorough keeps us in line. So thank you everyone. We appreciate you. Good night. Mrs. Van Orum. It's just not very loud. Okay. What? Oh, did you use my teacher voice? Okay, I'll use my teacher voice. Um, so I have to say I am really proud to be the principal of High Desert School. Um, developing our Hawks family over the past four years. um for my position is really been a work of the heart and I think that you can see that in all
023of our staff. Um every single one of our staff wants to be at a middle school which is rare. Um so we're doing something right if people want to be there and the kids want to be there and so I'm I'm just really proud of all that we've accomplished. Um this year our theme is anchored in achievement. Um and all of our staff members have really bought into that. Um and and we're really focused on making sure our kids excel and that they exceed our expectations and and what we expect of them. So um in typical high desert fashion, all of our staff members that being um awarded tonight will receive a Medal of Honor coin. Um the Medal of Honor core values are throughout everything that we do. And so they'll each receive a
024coin because they represent all of the core values um that we have at our school. So with that, uh, Miss Maria Gonzalez is our custodian on campus. She, uh, this is her 19th year as our custodian, so she has spent a lot of time at our school, takes great pride in the school, and she's so shy. I tried to convince her to come, but hope maybe she's watching us online. Um, she was like, I just can't. So she's cleaning our school right now as we're celebrating her. So when you see her, say thank you. um Mr. Juan Hernandez um he w has been our maintenance staff uh for the last three years and um does a great job, takes great pride in the school. Um I he is now working at Vasquez, but I did
025still want to celebrate him for all of his years of service at High Desert. Um he's not here tonight because his baby is in the process of being born. So hopefully we'll be seeing some baby pictures before tonight's over. Um, next is Odis Lamelli Lovo or Liz as we call her. Thank you. So, Liz is part of our supervision staff um and has been there the length of time that I've been there and I am so excited for how she's really flourishing this year as a leader on our campus. um we've had some turnover and she is now the veteran and she's taken that and really excelled at it. So I'm really proud of all the work that she does with our students in special education and really the whole campus. Um Miss Chelsea Labelloo
026uh so we we she's not able to be here tonight. Um but basically her story is she was started as a parent volunteer. She loved it so much and was bored at home I guess. So she became an instructional assistant. Now she's our library aid and she's taken the library to a whole other level with our students and is really starting to bring a love of reading back for our kids which I'm excited about. So um yes uh next one is Miss Janet Olsen. Um Janet Olsen is our um special ed instructional aid in the self-contained class with Miss Aunia. She has seen many a special education teacher go through that classroom. I looked it up. this is her 30th year as a special education aid in our in our um district. So very welld
027deserved. Um she is out with her family tonight, but I know that she's listening to us. So um next up is my right-hand person, Miss Heather Campbell. So, the one thing I've learned as a principal is you need somebody that can tell you all the things that are happening so that you know what to watch out for and where to go. And so, she is that person for me. She knows what I need to know and make sure I I can, you know, put out all the fires before they um become bonfires. So, I'm grateful um really grateful for her um support. Uh, next up is Miss Monique Ortiz. So, Heather is my right hand, Mon'nique would be the left hand. Um, anything that Heather's not doing, Mon'nique is doing. And sometimes they're both doing
028it at the same time. Um, I love their friendship with each other and rapport, but also Mon'nique makes sure um, she's our attendance person and so when you see our attendance numbers going up, that's her making all those phone calls, setting up millions of independent studies recently. Um, she is just a rock star and every single day it's with a smile and her steadfastness. She's always there. Um, I think it's perfect that our um, she has almost perfect attendance and she is the person calling for attendance. So, I think that's pretty perfect. So, um, Miss Zulie Quesada, our school counselor. So, when you feel the vibe on campus, it definitely has significantly increased since the arrival of Miss Zulie Quesada. Um, I am so proud of all of the work that she's doing. She makes
029a difference every day. And I just want to say like she got me from day one because I love to play games and hear kids laugh and play. And day one she was out there building things with the kids and setting the example and building rapport. And now she's working on having kids build pure relationships. Um our discipline numbers are down a lot because of her. And so we're just super grateful to have her on our campus. Um, Miss RC Rellis. And RC started out as a long-term sub. Um, and then Metallark stole her for a little bit, but we stole her back uh as a permanent teacher. And now she she went from literally from sub to permanent teacher and now she is the lead mentor of the fifth grade team a year later
030because she's that phenomenal. We are so grateful for everything that she does in the fifth grade team. Um her my favorite thing she does is CASP testing. It's May the fourth be with you. And so the force is with all of our fifth graders as they are testing this week. So, Miss Nicole Akuna, so she is our outstanding self-contained teacher. We are so grateful to have her as part of our team. Um, it it's not a class people usually want to go to, but we have people asking to get into the class now because she is that amazing. Um, but we are so grateful for her and it was a fun story. Her son, I had to call her as a principal and she was teaching at another school and we were talking about restorative
031practices. She loved everything so much. She applied for the job the next year and came and taught with us even though I had to call for discipline. So, but Eddie's amazing still and so is Nicole. So, we really appreciate her being on our campus and she's even serving as our sped um chair now and really heading up the department and making a difference across all the campuses. So, she's amazing. Miss Gina Botton is our next one. Um she is at her daughter's um choir performance tonight and so she's not able to be with us, but she is our stellar um PE teacher. She was an AP teacher, now she's a PE teacher and an athletic director. She coaches dance force. I mean, she does it all. And my favorite thing is she just wants to
032bring out the best in all of our students. Um, so I'm really grateful. And if you can imagine, she has 313 students on our campus because she sees everybody. So we're we're so grateful for her and all of her support. Miss Denise Seymour made it. Yay. She was at paint night tonight, so we we were stalling a little bit. So, be careful what you wish for when you walk into High Desert School. She walked in one morning and just told us, "Hey, I'm on the sub list if you guys need anything." And I said, "Actually, we need a long-term sub for a teacher." So, she longterm sub for that teacher first semester. Then, magically second semester, we needed another long-term sub in math. So, then she taught math and she we talked her into getting
033into a program. And within the past two years, she has gotten into a program, earned her master's degree, she's in it, she already finished her intern credential, and now she's by mid year next year, she's going to be clearing her credential. So, she is on an accelerated path. So, be careful about walking through the door. We might put you to work. Um, and then last, but absolutely not least, um, the absolutely amazing Mr. Larry Roland. I'm trying not I'm trying to talk. Um I could write you a book on all the things. So I just want to celebrate the little things and I'm going to try and say it without crying. But Larry and I have talked together for the last 22 years. um this is year 40 for him. I can't imagine 40 years
034of teaching and I can't imagine somebody that has never stopped growing. Every single year he adds new tools to his tool belt. Um we have an an instructional program called Aludo. He has 30,000 points, which is like 280 hours of professional develop that he did just because he wanted to and he wanted to learn more and know more for the students and he's a little competitive. Nicole Chen tried to beat him a couple of times, so he had to make sure that didn't happen. Um, but just every single record he just uh he's into physical fitness and rowing and so he just celebrated his 2 millionth mile in rowing. I can't even imagine that. Um, so you name it and he does it and he always has to do it exponentially. Um, every single thing
035is done with the most thought and the most care. Um, including everything for his students and the the work that he does with students every day is nothing short of a miracle. We were talking about scores the other day. The sixth grade has the highest. There were there were fireworks when sixth grade scores went off at our meeting today. um the work he does just is is beyond measure. And I am so grateful to have spent so much of my career working alongside him and to call him my colleague and friend. And I know many people are um grateful to call him their teacher um and as he wants them to call him their friend as they become adults and I think he has a whole community of friends um that are Hawks but also
036are community members. So thank you Larry Roland. Thank you um from all all three principles. Thank you for a great job. Thank you staff for being here. I know it's been a long day for each and every one of you. So, thank you for being here and being present. We congrat congratulate each and every one of you for your hard work, your dedication, commitment to your students, to the community, your school. and on behalf of the board of education and myself once again congratulations. We value you. Thank you. And speaking of value, uh our classified staff here at the district office itself, they go above and beyond. Um they wear multiple different hats. I know we have a union rep here in terms of job descriptions. Sometimes they go above and beyond in their job
037description itself. I'm being completely honest because there are so many different things that need to be um addressed and supported and and service for the school sites because we only exist at the district office for the schools. So, the following individuals are are excellent in terms of what they do. Our staff is excellent, but these individuals I want to go ahead and recognize. Some may be here, some may might not be here. Miss Maria Romano, Miss Christina Bachnik, Miss Amy Frank. I worked them too hard and they're not here. Miss Christy, too. I think that's not Christie. Mr. Caesar Ortiz. And last but not least, Alex Erdosia. He's always here. And that concludes Spotlight. Thank you, everybody. Dr. Saki, can I make a make motion that we can stop and grab some pictures before we
038move on? There are some questions. Okay. So, I would like to make a motion to take a 15minute recess. Can we pause? Um, I would like to actually loop so that we can all share. Is that okay? Yeah. Um, start with me. I've talked too much today, you guys. Um, no. I just I love all the teachers I have this past four years. I'm a senior. I'm graduating next month. So, I can I can vouch that our teachers are just amazing in this district and we're very thankful for them. They're great. Again, thank you all, all the teachers, all the staff. Um, you're a critical part of our kids' education. So, thank you all for being here. One of my favorite things about um being a board member is to watch student success and then
039also um support those that support our students. Um so this is one of those days where we get to honor those supporters. Um, and so many of those names I could go on and on. As Michelle said, you there's just so much to say. Um, as I look out into the crowd and I, you know who, you know who you are when I could just sing your praises over and over and, um, inappropriately tell you that I truly love you. Um, and thank you for doing what you do and to the faces that I don't know. um you're obviously doing incredible things for our kids. So um to new and old and growing and contributing, thank you so incredibly very much. And thank you Dr. Sahakian for um bringing all of these people here because
040this is this is really fun. This makes for an incredible board meeting and a a great way to um to support our our our people. you're our people. So, thank you very much for doing what you do. And um to some of you, I love you. Well, I don't I don't know everybody. I'm sure if I knew everybody personally, I would love you, too. But some of you, I really love you. Maybe I should do a doover. So, yeah, thank you very much for coming and uh thank you for allowing to celebrate all the wonderful things you do. uh for our kids uh in our district. I I think if anyone that knows me um they'll ask me what makes the difference for even our own business or whatever we're doing. And it's always about
041the quality of the people that you have on your team. It's really the only difference between us and the next place down the road. You know, we're teaching similar curriculums. We're teaching the similar things. We're doing a lot of the similar things, but if there's a difference, it will always be the people and the quality of the people you have. So, thank you again and uh thank you for allowing us to celebrate you. Like to make a motion to take a 15minute recess. I second. Call the question. The Jillian ISI mascot. Please come up so we can get a picture with you. I don't know where she went. You know Thank you. 8:25 p.m. Dr. Saki in the superintendent report. Yes, I'll keep it short and sweet. I'll try. Tonight, I'll be focusing on two
042uh goals. Student achievement and effective uh instruction and leadership. I'll start off with goal number one. Congratulations to our Vasquez cross country team and their coaches for the six school records that they have broken this c this season with four co cross country. The photos you see here, the two are from the LA County Frost Soft Championship at Golden Valley. Congratulations for an excellent season. In addition, we are thrilled to share that the Vasquez varsity boys volleyball team is completed an amazing season. They finished with a perfect 8-0 zero in league play and an overall record of 21 to6 for the season. The team also made it to the second round of playoffs, showcasing their incredible talent and dedication. Congratulations to the awesome players, their inspiring coaches, and the staff that helped to make this
043a remarkable season. Last but not least, goal number two, effective leadership. As we celebrate school nurse appreciation day May 7th, as she's eating her cookie, uh, and nurse appreciation week of May 6th through 12th, we want to take a moment to recognize the critical role school nurses play in ensuring health, safety, and academic success for our students. Miss Carrie Wright, thank you for everything you do to keep our students healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Your commitment makes a lasting impact on health for our current students and the future that they will have. I have to thank her publicly for her positivity and commitment to growing expanding opportunities here at the district. I tell you, she sends me emails or packets and oh, we got to send this to Vasquez. This is something that we
044have to do. Can we get an advisor? Can we do this? And it's all for the benefit of our students and their well-being. She's like I said con constant communication with me with potential opportunities that arise. Thank you for your commitment and advocacy for all students. Congratulations for this week and every week. That concludes my report. Facilities and finance subcommittee report. on our meeting on April 29th of the facilities and finance subcommittee. Um we asked for an analysis of power outages. Um there was eight powder outages over the last 5 months. Um we did ask for a backup generator quote which came out to almost $600,000 plus a $3,500 a year cost to maintain it. Um, after finding out this information, um, we've decided that at this time it's not appropriate to get these backup
045generators, but we are handing it over to the education committee to figure out different ways of handling this situation if the power does go out. Um, we also talked about the ASB balance sheets. Um, we went, they brought us all the club accounts. They gave us the football uh balance sheets for an example um and how they're running this. They also went over the fact that they're working on getting new software so that all this will be more readily easily usable for uh the people inputting the information and for everybody to see it. Um we also uh Mr. Ernesto Moore is going to give us a presentation on uh items that were submitted for to be done over this summer. Um and then we talked about some cost cost cutting measures. Um and they talked
046about developer fees. Um so that's pretty much where we're at. Thank you. Thank you, Bill. Yeah. Um, guess we should have told you we were kicking the power outage thing to you ahead of time, but congratulations. Yeah, it was just entirely too cost prohibitive um based on on the impact. So, other measures will should be available um online academy was suggested for extended days of power outages. So, good luck. uh education subcommittee report. Um we have not met since the last time I was here. Um we do have another meeting planned for the third Tuesday and I believe we made that a little bit earlier. So, we meet at 3:00 now instead of 3:30 to give us more time before the facilities and finance committee. Um, so we meet at three, facilities and finance meets
047at 4. Um, and we will be discussing plans for future power outages. There you go. Oh, you already had that on your agenda. um policy and management subcommittee report. Uh nothing to report. I want to remind everyone that the kickoff of that um subcommittee, we did bring in the attorney to tell everyone how board policies are set. Uh what's going on here? Adopted and maintained. Um, and we got into depth about expulsion and suspension policies. And I ran the attorney through a scenario in which I could take a child that has an IEP or a 504 and turn it into a $2 million lawsuit just like that and then divert the responsibility for the results of that off to the individual parties who don't understand what federal law means. So if you have any questions
048about that that uh the library I think is on the district website. So feel free to watch that video at nauseium and then if you have any questions and you don't understand it after that contact me personally please. Thank you. The next time our exciting topic is going to be proper conduct of volunteer and visitors on our our websites because if you can't do it on the campus, stay on the website. Thank you, Mr. Fzgraph, for that colorful commentary. Just call me. Um, Dr. Second, any submissions tonight? There are no submissions this evening. Thank you. Uh, next, can I get a motion to move the consent agenda in? A motion. I'll second. I want to pull the uh the warrant register very badly. Dr. Sak will pull the warrant register. Um, for can I get
049a call to question for items B, D, E, F, G, H, and I? The Jillian I Falls I May I Rihanna Tony I Mask on I consent agenda item C Mr. Falsegraph could you please put that up on the big screen I want to see page four find the one about the lawyer. I can't see. Where is it? Yes. Warrant number a bunch of zeros. 22124 532. Yeah, there it is. Could someone explain to me what this is? Dr. Sak, anyone? Yes. The CV process that we went through as as a district and and the board, the California Voting Rights Act was brought to our attention in terms of the purpose of um redesating boundaries uh for school board elections. that was brought forward by an attorney by the name of Mr. Shankman. Um he
050is with Mr. He's with Shankman and Hughes. The fee um that is described and highlighted on page four of the warrant register indicates that the payment of 30,000 that was made directly to Shankman and Hughes for initiating a letter that prompted the CV CV process to um be revamped for AADUSD board elections. So I'm very confused. I don't recall seeing this in any of the budget forecasts last year. I didn't That's right. recall doing a contract with this firm for anything. I don't recall anyone on this board or the superintendent's office asking for this service. I I don't recall any of that. So, was this initiated by the district? No, it was not. And I don't want to call these people out, but what did they do in terms of say for example uh the
051generator? Did they come out and service the generator? Did they deliver food? Did they sell us books? Was there any service that was provided in kind like I'm doing something for you for this money other than to give us a letter? No. No, no. So, I'm in the wrong business. So, in other words, I send you a letter, I get $30,000. Okay. So, now, can someone tell me about what it cost to do this work on our end? Does anybody have any estimate of what the legal fees were to be responsive to this? um you know our our legal counsel is with AARR and that's something that we're going to have to go ahead and um provide a summitive in terms of the cost for our legal counsel and the amount the exorbitant amount of
052time that they put to walk us through. There was a demographer that was actually hired. The demographer had to be paid from the district as well. So there are some costs that are involved. So this was also we could figure out how people in the community could vote because because I don't guess that they didn't know how to do that before because obviously not cuz I'm sitting up here being your prime example of that failing. But other than that, this is where your money goes. any cost estimate on what it would have cost to say, you know what, go pound sand. Tell me about Palmdale or just anybody that or Santa Monica. Let's go with the $6 million one. Uh those who have received letters to um readjust their voting process. um if there was
053an appeal that was pursued um many have actually lost the appeal uh based on the CV requirements um that have been uh mandated by the state and for some cities who have appealed such as city of Palmdale um they have lost um and paid millions in fees. Wonderful. Okay, that's plenty enough. Any other comment on the warrant register? Nope. Call the question. Julian I. Volgraph. No. M I Brianna Tony. I mask on. I Everybody catch what just happened there? Right. Item nine, personnel report. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Sakin. Thank you. There are no changes made to the PAR report for this evening. Thank you. Any comment? Call the question. Balls graph. I Jillian I. Ma. Brianna Tony. I Mason I. Item B memorand memorandum and memorandum of understanding CSA
054chapter number 473 bus drivers. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Stock. Thank you. So, Natalie, we take care of our seniors. There are charter buses for grand night, which is May 29th. Something to look forward to. So, if thisou is approved, the district shall compensate our district bus drivers from the end of their regular shift through the return of the charter buses for the Vasquez grand night trip, which is again May 29th. And this is uh thisou is for grand night only in terms of the compensation for bus drivers after their shift. Discussion any comments from the association and that would be CSCA. Um no thank you. Call the question. Digilian I. Falls draft I Maze I. Brianna Tony I. Mask on. I subject C declaration of need for fully qualified
055educators. I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Sakin. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and uh refer to Miss Jackie Erdrich, our wonderful HR and people and culture director. Good evening. Um, so this is something that we have to do every year and we send it then to LEGO and to the CTC and this is saying that we have a need to hire teachers. That's all it is. Thank you. Discussion call the question. A Jillian I graph I me I masc. Subject D, annual statement of need for 30-day substitute and designated subject career technical education 30-day substitute teaching permits. I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Dr. Sen, Mrs. Erdri, please. So again, this is something we do every year saying that we have need to have substitutes available for when our teachers are out ill or at
056professional development. So again, this is for LEO and the CTC. Thank you. Thank you. Discussion. Does this cover IEP times? Yes, because if we need a substitute to cover the general education teacher or the special education teacher. Yes. Thank you. Call the question. The Jillian I gra. Mask on. I Business Services, ADUSD. So, approval of amended California Voting Rights Act resolution. Yeah, sorry. Uh, actually item 10, Student Education Services, School Plan for Student Achievement, SPSA, Metallark, High Desert, and Vasquez High School's first read. Okay, second. Thank you. Sorry. as a first read. Um, thank you to the sites for preparing the SIPA, the school plan for student achievement. It takes a lot of work. It's a community effort at each and every school site. I see one of our charter principles just nodding their head.
057They know they know the work that goes into this. The content includes for the SYPA and it's not limited to school vision and mission, student performance data, school performance data overall, the school goals moving forward for for the c for the forthcoming year as well as school budget to make sure that the plans and the goals move forward as they as they're supposed to. So, thank you. discussion. Dr. Hakin, is this something we could ask the principles to present to us at a board meeting? Absolutely. Yes. Do we need a motion for that? Can I make make a motion for that? Can I get a second? I'll second. Call the questions. The Jillian ISO I mascot I. Thank you. That's noted. Item number 11, approval of amended California Voting Rights Act resolution number 2024-25.15 and
058election code section 21130 disclosure report. President, I'm going to abstain from any discussion or consideration. Understood. I get a motion. I'll move. Second, Dr. Sakin. Thank you. So, in in communication with our legal counsel from AALR, Mr. Wankart. He did indicate to me that the LEO staff has asked for an amended resolution to add information including statutory language that took effect recently so that the information will not have to be presented to the county committee orally at the public hearing. So the amended language is what you find in the attachment for item 11A. Discussion. Dr. Sakin, as we've done in the past, can we include everything, all the historical documents as well as this and put them together somewhere? Yes, we could go ahead and just upload all of that information onto the website. We
059could put it under the superintendent's link. I know previous board um agendas do have all of the artifacts and documents as an attachment for any CV related board agenda item. Thank you. Call the question. Dillian I abstain Maze I Rihanna Tony I Mason I subject B AUSD summer projects 2025 in a motion I'll move I'll second Dr. Thank you. First off, I would like to to thank um the opportunity to present at subcommittee meetings. We appreciate this this new platform, this vehicle to really move agenda items forward to have inepth to have in-depth discussions of pertinent issues that relate to policy to education as well as to facilities and finance and summer projects like discussed um during the update by Mr. Maize and Mr. mask on is one of those agenda items that we took
060took really careful look at to really present information that comes to the board that's really funneled and really concise. And with that, we'll have Mr. Mora, our director of MOT, as well as Kuwen, our assistant superintendent for business services, present the summer projects 2025. Hello everyone. I just want to present the summer projects for 2020 for25. First page is going to be a list of the projects that we're going to have including all sites. The first one is going to be High Desert School building one and building two installing uh new roofs. $240,000 per building. It's going to be coming out of general funds going to Vasquez High School shade structures. Mr. more. I before you move on from that one, could you just discuss a little bit about the age of those roofs and
061you know what's been done so far to try to keep them? So, we've been patching the roofs every year. The roofs got installed in 1992. So, there it's the original roofs. They're outdated. They need to be upgraded. We're going to have to start from scratch, remove everything, and put brand new roofs on them because we have a lot of leaks on those buildings. Thank you. At Vasquez High School, we're going to put uh shade structures. It's going to cost 160,000. Is going to come out of de developer fees and it's going to be installed in front of the Mustang. I met with all the students uh from the uh ASB and I was talking to them and they decided where they want them. A lot of them wanted it along the buildings, but we cannot
062do it there because it's a fire pathway for the firefighters to go through. So, the center of the campus, that's where it's going to be located if it gets approved tonight. Now, we're going to Metallark Elementary. We're going to do a landscape and painting of all the portables. The same thing, those buildings are original since they built the site. The paint is looking really bad. It's time to paint all the buildings and make them though they're going to look pretty again, like brand new. It's going to cost 130,000 and it's going to come out of general funds. There's a picture of the buildings the way they look right now. And your pictures don't show the dry rot at the bottom and all that stuff. So, no, the pictures look a lot better than it really
063does. No, they're allowed. You can see a lot more, especially in the back. Yeah. Now, we go to the district office. We're going to do the uh repair two carpets, install brand new ones. It's going to cost $20,000. It's going to come out of developer fees. The district uh cafeteria, we're going to install a sink there. It's going to be $7,000. That's a picture of the flooring, the sink. The last page, that's what we need to have the actual kindergarten classrooms. Here, I'm going to go down the list. We need to put uh new door levers on all the Yak classrooms that are going to be occupied with panic bars to make it safer for students and staff. It's going to be 3,997. It's going to come out of general funds. Then we're going to
064do 12 walkie-talkies. It's going to be 3500, which is going to be less than that. I've been looking for other prices. That's just a rough idea how much it's going to cost. Then we're going to do the staff lounge for uh the staff. It's going to be $11,500. It's going to come out of developer fees as well. We're going to do a PA system for the campus, 60,200. It's going to come out of general funds. We're going to put furniture in the buildings, $50,000. Developer fees. Then we're going to put uh data drops for the classrooms, 1,200 general funds. Then we're going to do four laser jet printers, 1,800 general funds. That's all I have for tonight. Is there any questions? Thank you, Mr. Mora. One thing, um, all your numbers are budgetary numbers at
065this point. You are trying to Yes, working on getting quotes. Do we have a total amount of uh what everything is planned to cost? Is that in your presentation? What's that? Not $129,000. So close to a million. Yeah, it's a lot discussion. I I'm sorry. I just had a quick question. Yeah. Um the shade structure the shade structure for Vasquez, you said you talked to ASB students about the placement. Yes, I was there yesterday. There yesterday. Okay. I was just wondering. Y So, this seems like a good placement just because we always use our easy ups, but easy ups can be inconvenient for when we're out there because sports teams and, you know, other groups and clubs like to use them. So, that's very nice. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. So, um is there contingencies
066built into these projects? It's an estimate and there's flexibilities where to answer your question, no, there's no contingency cost additions to it. But if there's if it's cost more, then we have to look at other means whether it's additional funding from the general fund or we can use developer fees. Okay. So my my suggestion is when you're getting when you're finalizing contracts for the work, unless this is going to be internal work, um set a limit on the contingency for cost overruns. Um before I um make any other comments, this is what the subcommittee work was. I fought for a really long time to make this happen. And um it's a way for people to understand need and identify need and for staff to be able to come forward and be able to say to
067us and the leadership, this is what we need. It's documentable and we have to prioritize it. I'm going to in my board member comments talk about the reserve and what what that means and why we've been stingy with it. Um, but what I want to hear from now is the sub the the uh subcommittee, the finance and facilities subcommittee and I want to hear your recommendation because this is your work. Yeah. Uh, thank you Mr. Fzgraph. We um we had many meetings over this um including uh you know full sight walks of all the campuses and we really wanted to put together um a list of items that in particular were going to prevent us from continuing to educate our kids. So a lot of the higher dollar numbers you see on there that if
068we don't do them will we will impact our ability to continue to educate here at the campus. Um, in addition, we are creating new floor space here at the Actton school site. Uh, so there'll be three new classrooms available for however the education subcommittee would like to use them. Um, that'll be fully functional, ready to go here on this campus here. There's been some ideas about what they'd be used for, but that'll be the education subcommittee to make the final decision or the final recommendation on how they actually get used. In addition, there were a couple of additional items that were have been asked for for many years. Um, the shade structure being one of those particular items that we included along with this as well. So, it is the recommendation of the facilities and
069finance subcommittee that the board approve uh this cost this evening. Okay. So that said, um I remember when I was vice president, I let everybody know that my my focus was floor space and it would be floor space when I became the president. Um can someone refresh me as to three years ago what floor space was added that very next year? We we were able to add some floor space. We housed another 40 kids. Does anybody remember? Yes. We're we're talking about the Early Childhood Learning Center, Little Owls, with TK and PreK. Okay. So, um have we not increased our attendance for the past three years? Enrollment, yes, has gone up. So, um do you think that the people that are going to pay for those houses up there are going to want to see
070trash schools? Okay. um is is what I'm hearing tonight as part of this approval, you are asking the board to say it's okay to pull down the reserve level. How much of this is going to come out of reserve? We're looking at Let me add it up. Bear with me. Um because this is a combination of developer fees, general funds. So I would have to break it down. General fund would mean um um what's the word? Yeah, the uh the developer fees will not impact our reserve. Got that. But there's a word I'm thinking of restricted funds. These can't be used for there's no restricted funds in this other than possibly the one for the kitchen. Is that correct? Yes, sir. So the rest of it is a combination of general fund but in or
071in the long run what this is going to do is going to draw down the reserve. That is correct. So that's what the reserve is for. Are there any cost staff? Is there any staff cost uh we adding positions with any of this money? No. Are we going to put it into unfunded pension mandates? No. So this is strictly about putting in the building. Yes. and you're committing to do that and it's your recommendation the subcommittee this is a very first yeah that's all I have this is why the subcommittees exist thank you guys any further discussion call the question Natalie digilian I balls graph of course May's eye tone I masc Con I you have a lot of work in front of you Mr. Mo. Yes. Subject C actual Elsa Unified School District 202425
072second interim letter from LEO. Yes. So recently business services Mr. afternoon when he had the opportunity to present the second interim report to of course our trustees to the AADC community and on April 11th we received a positive certification from LEO there's only three options either a positive certification unqualified or negative we have a positive certification once again Mr. Luen any comments? Um, basically this letter from LA County Office of Education summarized what I presented to the governing board regarding the second interim that we will meet our financial obligation for the current and the two outer years. Thank you, Mr. Win. Any discussion about this? Go back to the first page, please. Deficit spending. They're warning us of deficit spending. Do you know of anyone that hasn't been warned of deficit spending in the entire
073world that you know of just anyone anywhere? Huh? No. School districts. So, this is the county office of education that tells us what to do because we can't figure that out for ourselves. Um, is going to tell us that they didn't give us enough money. And I'm gonna get in I'm gonna go on a rant about some other funding later, but I want you to make sure that you know that they're not giving you enough money to give to everybody that needs it. Do you know that? Yes. Okay. Just wanted to check next. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. Next one, please. Next page. Labor negotiations. Have we completed labor negotiations? Well, then why would I be talking about it? Because that would be illegal. But I'm glad they could tell us that we haven't completed
074labor negotiations yet. So we don't know how much more deficit spending we're going to do. Bravo. I don't know what I would do without these people. Expert toutelage. That's all I have. Thank you. Any further discussion? All right. Item 12, board comments. Mr. FZgraph, you are on again. Oh no. First off, this is very serious. I would like a moment of silence for Chris Kelsey, please. I've just set a world record for me not talking. Um Chris Kelsey was on our playgrounds mainly at Meadowark for years and years and years and I don't know how many kids that she was able to say hey don't treat each other like that. Um she was a character builder and she was very calm and kind person to both of my children and she has passed and we
075have suffered a great loss. Tammy is saying hi to her I'm sure. All right, I already talked about the dis discipline policies. Watch the movie. I ran the lawyer through the worst special ed possible scenario short of tying my kid up in a classroom. I won't talk about that tonight. These are milliondoll lawsuits. When you drop the ball on discipline policies, kids end up in out ofstate private placements to the tune of I don't want to say that number. So, you know what? I should say the number. That way, I can be sanctioned by the board and ask for a public hearing so I could tell everybody what happened finally. But I won't. Funding cuts. Oh, wait. I want I want to talk about this one first. Listen, if I'm 15 years old and I
076want to buy cigarettes and booze and vaping products, do you know anywhere in town where I can do that? Well, good. Give me their name so I can have Kendra, who still looks like she's 14 years old and who's going to do some time with the DA's office, arrange a sting operation so I can take your liquor license. I can take whatever vice you're selling and I can shut you down and run you out of town. You are on my radar. If you are some business in this town that's selling the stuff that ruins my kids lungs and livers, I want you done. Spread that around. They're going to be there. I'm dug in on this one. You know what that means? If you know me, oh God, please pray for these people. I don't
077want you selling that stuff to minors in this town. It is my moral and civic obligation to see that you do not does do we have a subcommittee that talks to the to the local sheriff. Yeah, the policy and management subcommittee. I'm on that. Can you put that on the agenda, please? And please invite the sheriff or or somebody anyone It's okay. You can hate me. I like it. Makes Christmas really cheap for me. Okay, let's talk about funding cuts. Dr. Sahak, and can I put you on stage and tell me when when we came here, we had about $4.2 million of charter revenue. And and and I I have to tell you some of that stuff we still have left because nobody wanted to go to court because the first people got I don't
078know federal indictment. So that's where the reserve come from. So when you are sitting up here and you don't know how to not get rid of teachers and you don't have the money you need, sometimes you get creative. So I didn't like that kind of creativity. I was taking packs of cigarettes down to the people that were indicted while they lied to me right there. But here comes Dr. Sahakian. He gets $4.2 million in a federal grant. So, you want to tell us what happened to that money now? Um the the the the grant for the mental demonstration the mental demonstration grant that was uh put forward by the US Department of Education is is a 5-year cycle. Um and recently we received a letter indicating that um the grant cycle um is going to
079be cut short. Is it five years now? No, we have another two and a half years left on this on this grant. tonight. Okay. Go ahead. Um and so you know we we have our social workers that are funded through this grant. Um and the letter indicated that the scope of work within the mental health demonstration grant does not uh align to the philosophy of the new administration uh white house administration. And so we have an appeal process that's in place. Uh we're not the only district or agency being impacted and we are going to make sure that we do everything that we can possibly to um to run the grant through its its entire life cycle and make sure that we do that with fidelity and our students receive the supports that they need.
080Okay, back to me. these grants came along because when COVID hit and somebody decided to shut down all schools, I don't want to get into all the politics and the masking and vaccine and people wearing uh Viking helmets sitting up here. I I don't want to talk about any of that. I want to talk about our town. I want to talk about, you know, what we do with the money. But anybody knows that as soon as COVID hit, everything shut down. two lawyers filed simultaneously at the exact same minute, the exact same lawsuit in California and in the state of New York, which that scope of a lawsuit turns into a federal lawsuit. And what it did, it had the effect of de of claiming that every student in the United States who was had
081an IEP or a 504, anything protected by IDA or any of the title title funings was not going to receive FAPE. So you think about that all the kids who are used to sitting with a speech language pathologist or a counselor or any of that in order to support their uh exposure to curriculum. That's what education's about. Suddenly we're robbed of that and that's a violation of federal law. So, what happened is somebody figured out, well, we better give everybody a bunch of feel-good money, and that way we can remedy the lawsuit and we can pretend that we're going to have somebody talk nice to a kid that lost three years of their education and social development. Yeah, I said that. So, I'm not up here and I don't prescribed to anybody sitting up here
082that they're the left, the right. I don't care what you are. This is a an this is not a partisan position. And what I'm going to say right now, you better close your ears. And I don't newspapers, listen to this. You have heard me say in the board, nurse Carrie brought a nice book forward and it said it's okay at the end of the day. It said it's okay for you to wonder if everything is okay in your life and get somebody to talk to if you don't think it's okay. Kids develop by affirmation from responsible adults. Don't make your kid what you wanted to be and failed to be. Find out how to remove the barriers for your child to develop to their potential, not yours. If you don't do that, you'll fail as
083a parent. Bottom line, but when you assume because I back to nurse Car's book, I asked and I kept a straight face. If I was going to have to get by this book going around, I read your book. It was lovely. It's so out there, right? Please put that in agenda immediately. Please. Yes. I still have it in my car right now. You want me to go get it? It's very dirty. I read it. When I wonder why people are so goofy at work, I read it and I don't yell. And I'm virtually absent from HR now. But I asked, am I going to have to get a lawyer to find out if my child is identifying as a kitten? We're not that kind of town. So this assumption that this money is being used
084to sub to to uh undermine parent rights, that's that's what this says. That these that these these supports for um our counselors that we're just uh supplying services that ba basically says that everybody needs has some mental problem. I'm the only one with a mental problem. and I'm not covered. But but we can all get together and and sign a petition and do all that and have whoever's running this up above us who's making the decision to gut his budget. Okay, so here's what I think, unless somebody's lying to me. These funds are being used to help kids access further education. Is there anybody that doesn't think that that's what's happening with these funds? So, we're giving people this is unorthodox, but kids, if you know, just yell it out. If somebody is watching out
085for you and they're using whatever they see to see that you're struggling a little bit and they can they can use these systems to gain access for you or find out that you I'm not picking you out, but I mean it's your your sister's fault, blame her. So if I pick you out and I pull you off to the side and they say, "Hey, can you help out your your classmate here?" That builds community. There's counselors. There's all kinds of good things going on here. I'm also interested in the development of life skills. I just gave you a perfect example of one. You helping your little brother is a life skill. Family building is a life skill. Do you know how many people self-medicate or chronically undermployed because they wonder if they're okay? That's what
086I think has happened to this money in the district. And finally, I am interested in the kids that leave here to become independent, functional adults who are employable. Do you know what that means? If you're one of my kids, it means you're not going to be on my couch when you're 24 years old playing video games. But I don't know what that means to everyone else. But I would really like it if the education subcommittee could look at this and start bringing me numbers. We have to protect everyone's dignity. We're not up here to say we helped this kid with special education. You should help. But I need some framework put on this. So when we finally get the attorney to write a letter and say this is I need people up there saying this
087is what this program and its funding means in our district. And I want specific examples. I want number and data. And I don't want this to be some feel-good crybaby. You stole our money and we're harmless. We just hopeless. We just committed a million dollars for the first time to make sure that that gentleman back there finally gets his buildings the way we want them. I'm going to have to dig into the the general fund reserves to make sure that this program continues. Yeah, I will dive into the reserves to make sure that the counselors keep doing the kind of services that we're doing that create these goals. Again, continuation of education, development of life skills, and independent adulthood. That's what I want. Other than that, everything's just wonderful. All right. Um, thank you to
088all the teachers and staff that were here tonight and recognized. Uh, we really appreciate everything you all do. Um, congratulations to all of our sports teams and the way they're going. Uh, especially the softball team. They are rocking it at a 10-0 on season and uh or in in their season. Um and they're going to uh championships and baseball as well. Um and we have a busy uh month ahead of us with a lot of cool stuff coming up all our kids. So other than that, have a good night. Okay. So, I usually try to keep this short, but I was not at I try to keep it short. I was not at the last meeting and it's been over a month, so it's not going to be short. Apologies. Um, I did want to
089mention Miss Chris Kelsey. She was such a fantastic force on the playground. When I was 18, I got to work with her for an hour and a half a day. That was my entire job to stand on the playground. Um, and she was really fun to work with. She had such a connection with so many kids on our playground. And I know she was at Aguodi first and then came over. I don't even know how many years of service, but I know it was a lot. She was just fantastic and those kids adored her. Um, and I know that she really, really loved her job. So, I am thankful that I got to work with her and become friends with her and just to know her. She was definitely um a great part of our
090school and a great part of um my kids upbringing and a part of me developing in my educational um employment journey. So, um just um just really wanted to mention her and and thank her for everything that she's done for for myself, my family, and our community. Um moving on, Michelle, thank you for these. These are so very cute. I love it. I love that your school does the theme and carries it through all year and really has that um connectedness to to buy in to that all year. Those are very cute. Um I appreciate that. Thank you. Um I was able to attend the metal arc talent show. I always am in awe of those kids that are able to just get up in front of a whole bunch of people and do their
091thing. So, um, kudos to the Metallark staff and, um, parents and students for that fun night. It was, it was really fun to watch. Um, I was asked to, uh, announce for the Powderpuff game at Vasquez. Last minute, I took off work, ran to the game. I'm so glad I did. It was fun. Congratulations to the junior sophomore team um, for their win. And um thank you to Anthony Saledo for thinking of me and having me come out and and announce for that fun event. Um I was also able to attend the VHS the last um home game, the volleyball game that they had. Our volleyball volleyball is fun in general, but watching high desert volleyball and then watching Vasquez volleyball, they're just really really fun, exciting games to be at. It's fun to be
092a part of the crowd. So congratulations to them and their um history making season. That was so very cool. So congratulations boys volleyball. Um silver league uh basketball championships for high desert were last night. Last night right last night at Vasquez. I did not get to go, but the athletic director for sore prep and night prep is on my campus at work, and he wanted me to pass along how incredible Vasquez and High Desert are to work with um season after season, sport after sport, and um to play our teams and to come to our fields and to be a part of sports with High Desert and um then using the basket Fields. Um he just wanted to give a shout out and kudos to all of our staff. And it makes me really proud
093when, you know, friends and colleagues of mine come to let me know how um very cool our our facilities and our staff and our players and our parents um and our teams are to be around. And coming from competition like that, that's that says a lot. So, good job. Hi, Desert. Good job, Vasquez. Thank you very much for making us proud. Um, this the event, the Anal Valley School Board Association dinner, it was a long time ago, but like I said, I wasn't here, but I do really really need to um send some shoutouts and some thank yous. Um, for those that don't know, the Analopee Valley School Board Association is made up from Analope Valley School Board members. Um, we have a dinner every other month and I don't remember and everybody that I
094talked to, everybody on the Eboard there could not remember the last time that acts hosted. Um so when I became the liaison to the um ABSBA, I started asking what can can we host one of these dinners? We'd be great at it. I really want to host. So for two years I was asking if we could host and we finally got on the books this year and we hosted March 31st. We hosted at Vasquez High School. Um and it was such an incredible community event. And when I say community, I mean because High Desert Meettoark and Vasquez and the district office staff, everybody really came together and just showcased our district perfectly. It was really a great event. Um, and dinner after dinner that you go to, I can say that we knocked it out
095of the park. It was fantastic. Um, so there's a couple people that I wanted to thank. um Miss Waganir the and the culinary team. Um and I know Miss Lana helped them out too. They um planned they cooked everything from um orurves to dessert. They did everything. They served it. It was beautiful. It was tasty. It was really, really fantastic. And to just have kids there serving and being so professional and um they were just great. and I know that she put so much work into that. So, huge thank you to her. U Mr. Roland and his handbells came and they were our entertainment. Always fantastic. I don't even need to brag on them because they're just phenomenal. Um and a lot of the board members that were visiting had said that they had heard
096about our handbells and they were so excited to hear them. Um, and definitely a lot of of compliments and people in awe of what uh Mr. Roland and his handbells are able to do. They were just beautiful. Um, I want to thank our Vasquez ASB, our ASB president. They worked really hard um just getting everything ready and being very welcoming, opening up your school. I know you guys worked really hard to plan. you brought your family out to help. Um, that was a really a really fun thing. And then we also got, um, High Desert School, uh, Pep Squad and Metallark, I believe it was Metallark student council, um, that came and they were decked out in their colors. We also had school mascots. Um, the little Bailey, Karen Bailey's daughter, I don't know her
097first name, but the little Emma Bailey, she wore the high desert mascot costume. Oh my gosh, that kid has a career cuz she was so cute. She high-fived. She was like just the little star of the show. She was really funny. So, those kids, you know, lined up and just greeted everybody. It was such a treat to see all of our schools come together um from little to high school. It was really fun. Um, our custodial maintenance team from planning to set up to clean up. You guys are awesome. Um, Miss Owens and Mrs. McWilson from our arts vapa for getting um, we had a student playing guitar for about 45 minutes. He didn't want to be seen. I won't mention his name. He just sat behind the corn the the curtain and nobody even
098knew. Everybody thought he it was like a professional track playing, but he sat back there and played live guitar music and the whole beginning of the show. It was fantastic. And then Melia Bruce sang the national anthem beautifully. Um and the art on the tables came from um little owls on up and it was it was just beautiful. They just really added such a cool personal touch to every single seat. So, thank you for that. Um, I do want to mention both my daughters helped out. Sienna took pictures and she made a video of the whole event. Um, and then my other daughter actually jumped in that the Mustang costume. Um, she doesn't go to Vasquez, but she was still willing to represent and jump in the costume and she had a blast. Um, and
099then the district office staff, Eric, Yolanda, for putting everything together and really being incredible and um, and um, helping to organize everything and really being the voices of everything that was being put together. Um, and last but definitely for sure not least, um, when I found out that we were going to be able to plan this, actually before I even found out, when I kept asking and I had this vision in my head, I knew that the only person that could help me pull it off and that I needed on my team and that was um, going to be like this driving force was Shiloh Venor. She is so phenomenal in her in her delivery and her ideas and her let's make this happen and she just thinks of these things and then all it's
100like magic and she just has this stuff done and I don't know how she comes up with these things and I don't know how she executes it so flawlessly but um she was and is and will forever be one of my favorite people on earth and she just really really worked really hard and I just there's not enough thank yous and praise to go out to Miss Shiloh. So, if you see her, just tell her she's awesome cuz um she really is. So, I do have a video. Alex, if you could play it for me. It's very short. It's like a minute. Hey, hey, hey. Yay. So fun. Um, so my daughter made that video. High five to her. Um, and that's that's the end of my board comments. See, short and sweet. Wait, set
101expectations on. Um, I'll uh try to be short and sweet, not in her style, but in my own. Um, just to reiterate what Mr. false is saying about the grant that we are being informed that we may lose. These services are incredibly important for our school. I know many kids that are um getting a lot of help from this. So, Dr. Hakian, if we had to cover this ourselves, what would it cost us annually? Approximately it it's really um payroll and benefits. So, it could be anywhere from about 500 to 750,000. Mr. when can we afford that? He turned white and and and be under budget without without deficit spending. We know the answer is no. I just it was a trick question. But the qu the thing is that we really do need this
102this this money to be able to continue to offer this program for our kids. It's um it's critical. I don't know that anybody would be listening that could do something about it, but we're going to do everything we can to make sure it continues because I it's just not something we're willing to lose. Uh next, uh facilities and finance. So, thank you to my board members for uh giving us the space to, you know, figure out what was needed. Thank you to staff for all the work that you did to the walkthroughs, the meeting with contractors, the everything that was required to actually put those budget numbers together and come up with, you know, the things that are needed and wanted for the facility. So looking forward to seeing the result of it for sure
103and uh thank you. Item 13, calendar. We have a regular board meeting May 22nd and June 12th and June 26th. Does anybody have any conflict for those dates? If I am if I'm done writing the the the student board member accused me of violating the CIVI civility statement. So, I've been up here writing I will not swear in in the board meeting. I will not swear in the board meeting. Mommy, get a picture of this. get a picture of this. Okay. So, if I'm done with my writing sentences assignment, I will be at all the board meetings. Thank you. I did not make him do that. Thank you very much. But you didn't swear. All right. Order in the house. So, I I will be at all of the board meetings, but I do have
104to mention that I and last year when I said this, I cried. So, I'm not going to cry this time, but my daughter is graduating high school on the same night as Vasquez High School's graduation. So, I am devastated, devastated to miss it again. But I will not be at Vasquez's graduation because I will be at court. Um I'm going to move on before we disrupt it anymore. So item 14, future agenda items. So it sounds like we are going to see an additional presentation from the principles. Yes. So, we're going to conclude the school side presentations with the Vasquez on May 22nd and then the strategic plan update uh focusing on goal number one, student achievement on June 12th. And it sounds like we'd like to get the principles to present their their student
105achievement plans as well. Yes, cuz that tonight was the first read. We could have them go ahead and present some of the highlights as the um as at at the next board meeting when it's an action item. So, we'll have that discussion. Dr. Sak, would it be possible um would you be able to fit it into one of your current agenda items for spotlight if we could see some more data about the work the social workers are doing here at the campus? Yes. Um you know they per the grant they have to keep data data that's a requirement and so that's at our fingertips and we could go ahead and provide a either an agenda item for we care a part of my superintendent report. I'll share it with the team. Okay. Thank you. Thank
106you. With that, can I get a motion for adjournment? I move. I second. Call the question. Did Jillian I to skip? I Brianna Tony I. Mask on I. We adjourn at 9:30 p.m.