001All right, we call this meeting to order at 6:30 on June 26, 2025. Roll call, please. Balls giraffe here. Mayor is here. Brianna Tony here. Mask on here. Agenda. You get a motion. I'll motion. I'll second. Call a question. No changes to the agenda for tonight. Thank you. Call a question. Falls. You have I May I Brianna Tony? I public participation at this time. Not at this moment. Mr. Musk. Oh. All right. Thank you, Dr. Sag. At this time, we will adjourn to close session where we may discuss conference labor negotiators, public employees discussion. Can I move that? I don't. Um, conference legal council and student vendors. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Call the question. Paul I may sus. Brianna Tony I. Mask on I. We adjourn this meeting for close
002session at 6:31 Yeah. All right, we reconvene this regular board meeting for June 26, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Natalie, would you lead us in the flag salute? the right of your heart. Ready? Begin to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Yeah. Red, white, and blue, we salute you. That's right. Mr. False grab. Would you read the civility statement? The final time. Oh, Natalie. When conducting the district's business, we will strive to communicate clearly and consisely with the respect for the time of others. Listen objectively, carefully considering the opinion of others. Understand the counterproductive effects of disruptive, demeaning, and intimidating behaviors. Understand and respect district policies and procedures. maintain a respect for the rich history of the district and
003the efforts of others who have served in the past. You. Thank you. Report of action taken in close session. There was no action taken in close session tonight. Who wants to go first? Stay herself. Okay, I want to begin by saying this is like extremely hard for me, especially because most of you have known me my whole life. You know me personally and you know the person I am and the character I am. For those of you that don't know me, let me introduce myself. My name is Taylor Sulliff and I'm a community member, alumni, and previous third grade community, I'm sorry, third grade teacher at Middleark Elementary School. I'm here to make my final statement before I head to a new school district. First and foremost, I want to thank the AADUSD for giving
004me the opportunity to come back to my hometown and begin my teaching journey. My life has always been a second home to me. While I did complete my own education through Aquados, High Desert, and Vasquez, I can remember the numerous days and hours I would volunteer in my own mom's classroom at Middleark High School or Metallark Elementary. While doing so, I gained this passion and love for teaching. And I knew what better place to be than the place that welcomed me. With that being said, it brings me sadness to state my experience I had at Metal Art being a first- time teacher. With a little background knowledge, I learned I was expecting my firstborn son. And as you can imagine, that's already scary enough as most of you are already parents. This was very daunting.
005It was scary. And I didn't know what the future held. I worked past my due date and I ended up getting preeclampsia and it was due to the amount of stress that I was under for my work environment. It brings me sadness to say that the new administration that was previously hired created a work environment that was unpleasant and unfit for my conditions at this time. I stayed though and I committed myself to not only my community but to my students. And if you know me, you know that this was my dedication. You know that I put my students in my community and Actton first. When return when returning back to the school for the remaining school year and the previous next school year, I was a nursing mother and for some of you, you
006may not know the struggle. Being a nursing mother is very hard. Spartan is not easy. It's very challenging. I was never adequately provided a room for pumping that included a proper lock on it. Due to this, I was interrupted by previous employees that came in and watched me pump. Due to increasingly hostile work environment and a frankly untainable working conditions, I am choosing to follow the following teachers. Katie O'Brien, Vanessa Shroud, Michelle Fernandez, Candace Palosios, Aaron Finn, Sandra Hamilton, Sandy Jacobson, and my own mother, Kelly Sulliv. and leaving the school district. Let me not point out countless staff members that have also transferred or left these past two years. Since I have not yet received my own exit interview, I want all board members and Dr. Saki and HR Jackie Erdrich to consider this my
007exit interview. Unfortunately, all the countless emails, conversations I've had with several of you, and meetings that were recorded but never never heard, I felt like they fell on deaf ears. I hope in the future that this district will listen to not only their teachers but their staff, their parents, their community members that a lot of you are moving forward. It is very heartbreaking. I don't come up here to be another complainer. I don't say this because I want attention. I'm saying this because I truly care. I have a son that would I would want to put in this district. I was born and raised in this district and you guys, a lot of you know our family. We would give anything to support our students and our community. I want to stress and reiterate that
008I will always be here for this community and for this district. I do support these students. I support this community and I support our parents always. And I have nothing further to say and that's it. Thank you. Thank you. What was happening? All right. Um, good evening. Um, my name is Kelly Sulliff and I was a kindergarten teacher at Metallark Elementary School for almost 14 years. I would like to thank this community and all my former students for 14 amazing years. You all truly made my job memorable and I enjoyed every minute of it. Uh if teaching was my happiness then these students were my joy and I am honored and proud to have been their teacher. I just want you all to know and I want it on record for the reason I have
009decided to leave. It is not for the money or to be with my colleagues that have left before me. I am a professional with my own mind capable of making my own decisions. And if it was for the money, I would have left decades ago. I wish I could erase the last two years. Our administrator brought in a very hostile and toxic work environment, one of separation and mistrust. The amount of retaliation, harassment, and unprofessionalism against teachers and staff was just unbearable. Now, I know you would like us all to believe that it was all made up. All the teachers, all the staff, all the parents. My response to that is this. Board members, show up. Come visit unannounced. Look at the morale of the staff and the students. Listen to the parents. Notice how
010many families are choosing to go elsewhere. And they're not coming back for High Desert or Vasquez. Um Dr. Sahakian, be present and mindful. Make decisions based on best educational practice and not just community gossip. Community, get out and vote for board members. Don't let them get the position just because no one ran against them. If you have the time to contribute and can make a difference, run for the board. These are your kids. I will be leaving Metallark, but not this community. These kids have my heart and always will. I will be moving on to find my happy again and hopefully make a difference in another community. Believe me, these reports are not madeup stories and you will figure it out when more come forward. It's not going to stop. I was here I have
011been here for a long time. I made it through three superintendent, nine principles, and countless curriculum adoptions. I have never had a problem adjusting to change, and I still don't. It's part of my job. It's what we do. So, be told. So to be told in a letter dated on June 2nd to the community by Dr. Sahakian that there has been some resistance to the change in instruction that has been implemented. Um well that's just ridiculous and I'm not even going to address it. It's not the change. It's not the test scores. It's not even the curriculum. It is the school environment, the leadership and the morale. You have lost many great teachers. I would have stayed. They would have stayed. We love this community, but we can't stay. Thank you. Correspondence, proposals, and reports.
012Hang on just a minute. I'm going to call for a recess. Five minute recess. Call the question. The Jillian I. Falls draft. I may. Rihanna taxony. I got it. We reconvene at 7:46 p.m. Item seven, correspondence proposals and reports. Dr. Sen, uh, there are no reports at this time. No add CSCA rep, I'm just going to confirm since we have our CSE rep here. SLtechnology I want to confir nothing to report this evening. Thank you. Anything from the student rep tonight? Starting with Starting with High Desert this evening. High Desert is officially a national school to watch as well as a California school to watch. Mrs. Vanorum, Mrs. Alfred, and Mrs. to see more are proud to represent High Desert Hawks and accept the national award in Washington DC today and tomorrow. Thank you so
013much to the district and school board for supporting our school to continuing to be a school to watch on our fourth redesignation. A short recap from Metallark. This year, Metallark focused on three core priorities. building strong foundational literacy through the SOORE program, deepening student engagement with AVID strategies across all grade levels, and fostering a positive and inclusive campus culture through PBIS. With a renewed emphasis on early literacy, we saw notable growth in reading fluency and comprehension, especially in our primary grades. Our teachers took advantage of professional development opportunities and collaborated to enhance tier one instruction and interventional support. Through our AVID initiative, students students developed academic habits such as organization, goal setting, and evidence-based writing using the race strategy. We proudly hosted studentled conferences and saw an increase in student voice and ownership of learning.
014This year also presented its share of challenges and metallark wants to recognize the extraordinary resilience of our staff, students and families. Despite obstacles, we remained so focused on student success and stayed committed to continuous improvement. All three schools wish everyone a happy and safe summer. And that is all for my report this evening. Thank you very much, facilities and finance or sorry, superintendent report. Thank you, Mr. Mascan. Uh my report is brief. Um just to go ahead and on the summer theme that Natalie touched on, summer officially kicked off on June 20th. I want to share that I'm proud of all of our students and the academic progress they made throughout this past school year. Students, parents, and staff, thank you for your commitment throughout the year and ensuring that our students receive what they
015need to receive academically, socially, emotionally. Wishing our entire AA USUSD community a safe and restful summer. to our student board member Natalie. You made it to the last board meeting of the academic calendar and you're still smiling. Kudos. I want to thank you for your dedication, energy, thoughtfulness you brought to every single meeting. Your updates were always insightful and showed just how much you cared about your fellow students. We're very proud of you, excited for all that's ahead. Don't be a stranger and make sure that you come back and share all the great things that you're going to accomplish. We want to hear about it. So, thank you again, Ed. You guys want to comment? Let's go around. Catch my board member comments. Thank you. Thank you, Natalie, for everything you did. It's been uh
016fun working with you. Thanks. Thank you, Natalie. It's been a pleasure. Your your smile, your happiness all the time. It's it's great to have you around. Thank you. you really brought such a lighthearted just giggle to our board which we so desperately needed. Um you're so fun to look across and just see you having a good time while taking care of business. It's been very fun to see you out and about at events um from football games um to the ASVBA dinner where you helped out and you were a fantastic representative of the student body um and to go from being ASB president ASB president, right? ASB president. Um and just really taking so much pride in not only Vasquez and your student body but our entire district as a whole. Um it's been so
017fun to get to know you and I'm you're definitely going to be missed. Um you've created some big shoes to fill. So thank you very much for everything that you bring to to our board. Yeah, thank you very much. It's been absolutely a pleasure and uh it's been fun. So thank you. I changed my mind. Natalie, are you going to need those flowers later? cuz I'm kind of in the I'm kind of in the dog house and I could do those. Okay, that's all. Yeah, we're gonna we're grab a picture. I know you're going to be famous someday. It's all back. I'd like the picture of me without All right. Facilities and finance subcommittee report. uh facilities and finance subcommittee met uh this Tuesday, June 24th. Um we went over some of the facility project
018status updates which they're doing a great job on metal arc landscaping painting of portable classrooms is just about done. Um the district office kindergarten, they've installed carpet. They've installed s uh sinks in the cafeteria. Um they've done some the panic hardware on the doors for exiting. Uh they purchased some walkie-talkies in the staff lounge. Um there's still more to go, but they're doing a great job getting that stuff going. Uh we did go over some uh cost-saving measures um which will be discussed at a future time. Um, and we went over the facility survey results which will be, I believe, brought up at another point in another meeting. That's pretty much where we are. We are going to be meeting in July. Um, we're not going to take a break. So, should be second week,
019third week of July, third week of July. All right, that's it. Thank you, Dr. Sakin. Why why are we talking about cost cutting measures in the facilities and finance subcommittee report? Have we had reduced funding? Are we at reduced funding? Yeah. From the state, state federal? Absolutely. Yes. How much did we are we potentially going to lose in grant funding? Potentially on the horizon, I want to say about 1.5 million. How much did we lose in the governor new budget? from a percentage base. Mr. New went down from what was proposed in January to was inactive in June with a 1 percentage point reduction approximately. Thank you. Education subcommittee report. Um, we just met this past Tuesday. We, um, had on our agenda to revisit our new STIS contract. Um, and, um, Paula went over
020that and just some extra details pertaining to the STIS contract. And um we did agree to add that to our future agenda just because when that gets put into place in the beginning of the year, there's going to be a training um right at the end of summer or the beginning of the year with um the office staff that is actually putting that into place. It was already being used the last month or so of school. Um so they got a taste of it and um added some details and things that needed to be fixed and adjusted and what was working and what wasn't. Um, so I love the feedback from the people that are actually putting that into place and so we're able to um look at those and you know ease of use
021is going to be huge if we're going to get parents to actually um go through with the new STIS contract. For those of you that don't know, short-term independent study um precoid was 5 to 15 days a student had to be out for a minimum of 5 days. Um, if you're going to be out for a minimum of 5 days, you sign the contract, get the work in, and when the students turn in all of the work that they had missed while they were out on vacation or sick or whatever, um, they get counted in attendance as if they were in class. Um, after COVID, that changed to it can be a minimum of 1 day, so 1 to 15 days. So, if a student's going to be out, if you're going to go to
022Disneyland, if you have a doctor's appointment and or if you're sick, signing that independent study contract, um, and getting the work in means that your student will be counted present and that that absence whether it's exc or would have been excused or unexcused will not count towards your child's absence to towards their attendance. Um, so they can potentially be um be absent for a day and still have perfect attendance, which is super cool. Um, that also helps us with ADA and I think it's going to be huge in increasing our ADA back to precoid numbers. Um, we're really looking at that 95% I that we had in 201920ish I believe. Um, I would love to supersede that, get up to 96, 97%. That would be fantastic. Right now we're sitting at about 89.90% um of
023of our attendance. Um, so we did look at that and we also put it on for um future meetings and I believe that we'll just be putting that on future meetings just so we can discuss it and see how things are going. We also talked about the instructional continuity plan. This is a plan that um is um put in place and it's um required by the state, right Paula? required by the state um for if we have to be out for any certain amount of time, if there's a flood, if there's a fire that destroys our buildings, if any catastrophe being out for a pandemic, again, god forbid. Um it's a plan on how the district and the families will um deal with that. And it spells out quite a bit. I know Paula and
024her team have done a fantastic job with that. It's a a really detailed document. Um, we talked about it. We also talked about putting things into place um for things that we know are going to happen. And we talked about we know we're going to have power outages. So, what are we going to do when we have a power outage? And that's not even an if. That's that's a when we know it's going to happen. Um, so we're going to revisit I don't know if we'll revisit the instructional continuity plan. I know Paula wanted to put um a few more details into that plan so that everything's all in one place, but then also make our what if when there's a power outage, what are we going to do available to our community and to
025our families and students so that we do have a plan in place for when that happens. Um again, we just want to make sure that that's communicated out. So that is also a work in progress through the ed subcommittee. It's awesome. Thank you. What does 1% increase in ADA mean from a revenue standpoint? Kai might be able to answer that. Yeah, it's about $160. So, if you got 5% increase in your 800,000. Yeah, I know. You could fix all of our problems. That's my goal. There you go. Wish you luck. Let us know how can help. Policy and management subcommittee report. Uh yeah, we reported out Um I do have this to say um the facility finance committee subs 15 minutes after parent child all the signs and then suddenly you don't know what's going
026and then sometimes people in the community want to feel this way and then other people feel this way. So what do meract [Music] But for example, So decid I couldn't remember what I was Oh, it's way off. Can I start over at brain man memories? I can do that. Are you through yet? You need six more meetings and you'll get you'll get there. Trust me. So, at the end of the day, when it gets to the policy and management group, because they're trying to do everything they can to make this all work and come up with a reasonable plan so you guys aren't looking for um a place for your kids to go and go to your job and everything. I could go on about that, how that works, but it gets to the policy
027and management group and that group takes a look at existing board policies and says forget what the state says, forget this or this. We need to think about what matters for our district. So that's how these subcommittees are supposed to work. Also, um it is a great tool. there's a library. I've asked that um it put a a keyword list together. So if you want to know about expansions, suspulsions, how policies are developed, we don't just come up here and decide because I got three phone calls from Arizona that I'm going to change board policy to whatever I want it to be. That's not what's what's happened. So there is a means to look at these uh movies that we have and go through them. If you want to run for board, if you want
028to be an effective school uh site or safety committee member, it's all there. What I tell people is these subcommittee meetings, it's a good place for you to kind of have an inside look uh at the business below this level and how it's developed. So that's the idea. this group, how policies are developed, changed. Sometimes we're required to change them and how they're maintained. So, um, guys, this is a full year of something I wanted for years and you all have done really, really good work and I I would like to say that staff pretty much runs the meetings because of those people over there in the staff row. So, Thank you, Ken. You're absolutely right. If you have any interest in being a board member, which it sounds like some people do, that's a
029great place to learn all the stuff that you'll have an opportunity to have to weigh in on and be able to have an opportunity to have your voice heard and influence some things. Submissions. We don't have any submissions for this evening. Thank you. Item eight, consent agenda. Can I get a motion? I'll second. Dr. Sak, are there any items um that need any clarity for the consent agenda items? Discussion. Call the question. Jillian I Falls I May I Jai. Brianna Tony I. Mascan I. Item nine personnel. Can I get a motion? I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Hawin, any changes to the No, there are no amendments or addendums to the part. Thank you. Discussion. Call the question. The Jillian I graph I M I D. Brianna Tony I Mason I. Subject B. Memorandum of understanding
030between LA Speech Pathology Services Incorporated and Actton Unified School District. I'll move. I'll second Dr. Saki. Thank you. So, this contract will secure a speech language pathologist, an SLP, as requested through an independent education evaluation um by a parent with a student with disabilities at a cost of 2750. Discussion. Call the question. Did Julian Igraph? I may. Yes. I Brianna Tony I. Mask I. Subject C memorandum memorandum of understanding between CSEA ADUSD chapter number 473 and Acton Auadosa Unified School District extension mechanic duties and transportation motion. I'll move. I'll second. Dr. Sakin. Sure. Given our difficulty in hiring a second part-time mechanic for our transportation department, we currently have one that's been hired um and contracted out. So thisou would just extend our contract from December of 2024 to December of 2025. Discussion call the
031question. The Jillian I. Paul I me I masc. Item 10 student and education services. Subject A strategic plan update 2020 2425 school year information. Subject B. Oh, just information. What's that? No, we have to move it in. Oh, okay. Move it in. No, just information only. Dr. Thank you, board. Uh, this is an information item as as promis as promised to the board and to the community. We have a strategic plan update presentation. Um, it'll be short and sweet. Um, goal one is what we focus in on. As we know for the updated strategic plan, we had five goals. Goal one kicks off the plan. The plan goes from 2024 through 2030. It's typically a six-year plan. So goal one, student achievement indicates improving student academic, behavioral, social, emotional success for all students in order
032to graduate from our schools ready to be independently productive and purpose and purposeful leaders in college, career, and life. So we're very deliberate, my team and I, in focusing on just one goal as part of the update for this evening. Next slide, please. Thank you, Caesar. So how we tackled this assignment? We did a SWAT analysis. SWAT uh indicates strengths looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. And this is an exercise conducted with my media team uh cabinet over the course of a couple of months uh which allowed us to identify what we do well, where we need improvement, potential growth opportunities, and potential challenges. And again, our focus with this exercise happened to be goal number one, student achievement. So to share a few insights from my team and I and what we came
033up with, I'll start off with strengths. Building capacity through professional development. Uh this typically is tailored professional development staff training based on tailored needs of our staff. New platforms presented such as I Ready Diagnostics, new curriculum adoption such as math, interim assessments at Vasquez High School such as Renaissance, test prep motivation when it comes to standardized um testing through the state, interim interim LPAC assessments, the English language proficiency assessments for California. New for this year for 24-25 we have a new HR standalone department positions being filled rapidly with highly qualified candidates. Then we went into weaknesses as part of the exercise turnover of certificate and classified staff um has been a challenge. difficulty with change such as newly adopted platforms and curriculum because there's always a learning curve and time to get adapted to new
034platforms as well as curriculum ADA I know we touched upon it earlier the average daily attendance needing improvement um ed services cabinet myself we have an aggressive ADA recovery plan I know that Miss Tony vice president for the board she touched upon the EDS subcommittee work regarding the short-term independent study We're looking at a Saturday school for recovery of um attendance and instructional time that has been lost. So that is well underway for 2526. Next slide. Thank you, Caesar. Opportunities defining clear objectives as we move forward for each department and for our schools. Find finding innovative ways to engage our parents and community to increase that parent involvement. Building from within a teacher induction program that we have in house to have our um teachers clear their credentials has been quite successful. Innovation kindergarten joining
035the little owls learning center center a learning space tied to enhanced engagement for fall 25 split elective blocks at high desert which would allow students to have more selection and choice uh when it comes to electives and exploring their interests. threats, state funding reductions. We touched upon it. I know board president did ask our assistant superintendent for business. General fund contributions particularly from um the sped allocation um never enough coming from the state for any and all districts. Aging facilities and technology is something that we face as well as all districts. And inclement weather and power outages I forgot to even mention water breaks. We've had that too. Moving forward to the next slide. So tonight's focus is one of the platforms that was supported and approved by our board. So thank you to our
036board for supporting our endeavors in student achievement. We're going to focus in on kinder through 8 are our I Ready implementation for 2425 um focus and I'll kick it off to Dr. Chamberlain to go ahead and break this down for us. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Sakian. Is this okay? All right, I stand here. Um, thank you and good evening board members. Um, I get the pleasure and opportunity to share some of our I Ready data. Um, and interesting, we have a lot of teachers that contributed to this. So, I want to thank you in advance. So what I Ready is is it's an adaptive platform that um is a way to um use assessment tools that deliver accurate actionable insights to our students and their academic growth and with an emphasis on math and
037literacy. Um it helps us know what students need next and um it's reliable assessment data grounded it grounded in research. Um it's a norm reference assessment as well. It also helps us understand um where students what they know and what they need to know. It provides a lot of high quality items as it relates to learning and alignment with academic standards. It also helps us connect data to instruction and it meets unique um needs of each learner with assessment data that's fully integrated with instructional options. So, the really fun part, Can you like zoom in on that a little just so you guys can see it a little bit better? For me, this is fun. Um, I can tell you Wait, let me put some of that small on there. I want you to be
038able to. So what this first slide is is this is high desert math and this is looking um this is end ofear data and uh this this is all grade level. So there's five, six, seven, and eight. What which is hard to see in the red is what what the red is is and I don't know if I can read this one either. It's so small now. I I made it a lot bigger. We went from 15%. So the part that's hard to see is all the way on the right. There's like red and there's red with black lines which is the lowest level um of academic performance. So we moved for we moved up in that area 15%. We moved up in the other red area 15% so a total of 30%. um we
039had a 30% increase as well in the yellow and together in the green we had a 31%. So what if you look down in the bottom those LA the the the four sorry you guys I wish this is easier. I think when you make it big in it'll be big enough but the the ones on the bottom is grades um five six seven and eight. Five is at the top. Fifth grade had for their they had an 82% increase and 40% of students actually improved and that improved on their learning target um with 60% meeting 62% meeting their stretch growth which is like an additional growth area for grade six. Um they actually exceeded the national average at 121%. and they had 55% of students met or exceeded uh their growth targets. Grade 7 had
04058 58% with 42% of the students increasing and grade 8 had 63% overall growth and 41% of students moving from where they were like moving uh bands. So for the next slide, this is also high desert and this is reading And we we so for the red we moved up 34%. And for the second red we moved up 15%. So in the in the yellow it looks like 35%. Or are we should I wait? Sorry. When I was reviewing this data I apologize. It was on my computer and this copy either my eyes are really got worse or it's a little blurry. It's small. Okay. So, you can you can thank me for that. Oh, you know what? Sometimes you love technology. Let me do it this way. Yeah. Oh, dang. I don't know if
041that really helped. Okay, let's see. I am let me go enter. Okay, back one. So, okay, this I'm going to go back to that first slide. So, I could make it bigger on my other screen. So, for fifth grade again, that was 12. Let me make sure I'm on the a reading. Okay, I'm on the high desert reading one. So, high desert for fifth grade, they had a so the 123% which is the top of the four lines at the bottom is is in excess of the national average. So, we had some really really great reading scores. We met with the I Ready team and they just were really blown away by how well the students did. For grade six, we had a we actually had in excess of 200 we had 214% above the
042national average. Grade seven it was 125% and grade eight it was 178%. With grade six over 60% of students exceeded their target range and moved up. In grade six um 78% of students moved up and grade seven we had 40% and in grade eight we had 58%. And so in the red in the in the low in the farthest to the right, the lowest area, we moved 34% of students up until the next area and 16% moved from the red, which makes the yellow get a little bit bigger, but we still had 25% of those students move. In the green, we had a total of 25% of students who moved into the green. And that the green, the solid green is at grade level. that where you see the little black lines that are students
043um now achieving above their grade level and this is first year using this um diagnostic. So let's see now I'm on metallark and I don't I wish I can make it a little bigger. So I have the metallark math. So 81% of students um met their targets and grew. So that's the first chart on this side for the um so the red we had kids went for up from 8% to 12%. In the yellow we had 27% and another I think it's 59% of students moved and then in the green we had 20 25 and 24. So 29% of students moved. Um, so we had a lot of growth. Um, from the beginning of the year, the red got a lot smaller. So that's always really good. For our grade, for our kinder kids, 84%
044of students moved up from where they were at the beginning of the school year. Um, grade 1, 72% of our students moved up. Grade 2 69% and grade three 79% and grade four exceeded the NA national average at 111%. So uh really really saw a lot of growth. The next slide is the metal arc math. And so for the metallark math for the for the blue on here, this was one of the biggest areas of growth. And yes, it's reading. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. So this is the metallark reading. This is one of the biggest areas for growth with 103% for the total for the year. Um for the red we went we moved from 9% up to 10%. uh we had growth in the yellow a combination of 52 and 23% so 75%
045and then in the green we had the 11% and another 6% of kids that moved up with the green being pretty much the same as the yellow at the end of the year we ended up with I think it's 45% sorry the numbers are pretty small on here too that were of students actually performing a grade or at grade level or below. Um that's the school overall broken down by grade levels for reading. 76% of our kindergarters moved up to grade level. Um grade for grade one we had 88%. And for grade two there was they made 113% growth. For grade three they made 127% growth. And for grade four they made 143% growth. These are some really um great growth numbers. There was really a lot of work done at both Metallark and High
046Desert. This is a K8 program and I mean we've been we've gone over this data a lot. We've been super excited about it and shared it at places, but you know, at sites, but it's really exciting to be able to come and stand before the board and and share with the community the growth that we saw based on the work that our teachers did to support our students in math and reading. Thank you, Dr. Chamberlain. Thanks. And thank you for providing us the opportunity to provide the update for goal number one for 2425. Thank you teachers metallark and high desert and students great work. Yeah, thank you Paula. Um I think that's fantastic to see that sort of growth and with the I Ready we're able to see real data from right now instead of
047waiting on the state dashboards that are often years behind to actually see our results. This data is this is beginning, middle and end of year data. So we it's live data with the cask problem with the state testing is it's one day um and it's everything you've done. So if I come to school I'm not feeling well I might not test very well. This data really is the data that we really use when I say we our teachers really use to drive instruction. So you can see real time effects of your decisions and things that you're doing throughout the year. It's fantastic. All right. Item B. Oh, yeah. You have more. Of course. No. Oh, no. I got I got nothing that Don't look at me. All right. Let me tell you about what I
048do. I run widgets and living things and people that deal with them. Okay? And I can literally sit at a computer and I can tell which person running which piece of equipment is working faster, less, more, how big it is, what the quantity of work, what the quality of work is. I can sit there in my office and do that because all the stuff has computer tags on it and I can tell the speed at which it moves. And then all I got to do is get in my car and drive by with my little suit on and go, "Oh, that guy right there, how long has he been with this company?" Because it's all subcontracted out. And what I want to know about these things is this. Is this an indicator of teacher efficiency?
049Yes. How So how is this an indicator of teacher efficiency? Yes. Well to start like first of all teachers have to and there was a lot of professional development. Teachers spent a lot of time with I Ready and with I Ready staff and with the staff at the school learning how to use this program and a big challenge for kinder especially because kids have never done this. So it's a lot of work for kinder and first grade just to get the kids on here. So the teacher efficiency piece is just really working with the kids using their new learning to teach the students how to use the program. And then the way the program works is that teachers have the students on the program. Um it's a diagnostic for 40 minutes each week. You can
050break the 40 minutes up into 220s, 15, but the research shows that time after 40 minutes doesn't necessarily give you the biggest bang for your buck. And our teachers did that. Um how do I know that? because on the back end we can see who's doing it and our teachers were 100% really involved in making sure that our students um had the opportunity to spend that 40 minutes on the diagn diagnostic every week to answer your question. Okay. So I was the kid in fourth grade that put a lit cigarette on George Washington. So I don't know what I Ready would have done for me. But is this just a better I'm I'm I'm sitting up here going, are we finally able to capture data? Is that really what's happened? Uh I would say yes.
051So again, how does our ability as a district to provide the tool to capture the data, how does that relate to what this would have looked like two years ago? or three years ago. Well, I mean, if we had it three years ago, we could have used it three years ago, right? And we and we didn't. It was the state state assessments that we would wait for. Okay. But this sounds like this this is this program is kind of taking my tree inventory and showing me real time data and all that kind of thing. And so I'm wondering if the test scores are not more an indicator of a more accurate data capture than it is a teaching methodology. Well, I think it's both. So the data is giving teachers feedback because they're on the
052computer two or three times a week that what when the students on the computer doing the work, it's giving teachers live feedback on what exactly the student needs to know. So if you're in a classroom teaching a class, you need to differentiate because everybody kids are at different levels. So you do your best as a teacher, but that's super hard when you have 25 or 30 kids and one of them's me, right? Get that part. Yes. And so now this supports the teacher in that what I Ready does is when the kids are working on I Ready, it targets exactly where what exactly what you need to learn. So every one of you might need to learn something different. It targets exactly where you need to learn. It gives the feedback back to the teacher
053in real time. It lets the teacher even know, hey, you can take these kids in group and work in them in a small group in in this like on uh like fractions, improper fractions. So the teacher may then grab this small group, which they do, and now I know specifically what areas to work with kids in in this area. So it'll give you three to five different groups and it's constantly changing. So as soon as you learn something, you may now move on to a different concept in math or reading where if a another student is still struggling, it gives you that feedback. If a student is struggling, that gives a teacher um like a like a an alert. So the teacher can go in and start supporting the student one-on-one. So it's not even
054like you're not just leaving a kid on a computer. It's live during the class while the teachers are using it. Okay. I appreciate your competent ability to have this discussion with me, but when when like like when governmental agencies subcontract things out, typically what happens is like they won't pay um somebody's long-term uh pension uh burden and all that to have somebody run a com one of these inventory and data programs. So, it all gets subcontracted out and when it when it comes time when you're going to change programs, you're kind of sentenced to the the the computer using it gives whoever's doing this an advantage. Um, kind of like trash contracts and things like that that get subcontracted out. You lose your internal capacity. And in my world, this ends up with stacks of
055paper this deep where no one is entering the data. and then you don't know what's going on with your inventory. You know that it's out there, but you don't know what's been done to it and and all that kind of thing. Um, what's the reliability of this five years from now? Is this a state mandate? I No, it's not state mandated, right? Yeah. I has been around since before co when I was at administrative elementary school years ago. Been around since 1960 and the result wasn't pretty. But 5 years from now, is this a mandated program that a lot of people are using and we can depend on it to be there? We can depend on it to be there. It's not mandated or their curriculum. So my final question is how do we do
056a better job at communicating what the teachers are using and what that means to the community like to the parents? Do the parents know what this is and how the the classrooms are being managed? And hang on, hang on, hang on. You'd have to fill out a speaker card. The inter the answer may be interesting. Well, from my perspective, one way is through board meetings like this. We also do it through PTSO and PTO meetings where I meet with families that come to the meetings. not as many teachers are necessarily at that those meetings, but when we go over LCAP data with um PTO and community members, this data is part of it. Okay, so this data becomes I mean it's public through the LCAP too, but the LCAP really requires you to sit down
057with people and explain because it's such a huge document. Um, I'm sure in the classroom it's commuted in a lot uh communicated in a lot of different ways through conferences because I know teachers have conferences with the students. There's reports that I'm I'm assuming and I'm making some assumptions that teachers are sending home. In addition, one of the things that we probably will grow into, we may not have done this year is ready lends itself really well to goal setting. So what the idea is and what I've seen done and what I hope we move to is um even at so teachers the goal setting forms that um I already has part of the system it has the data so if I'm sitting with your if I'm a teacher I'm going to use the goal
058setting forms with the kids to show them this is where you are let kids know when you tell a kid this is where you are this is what you need to learn tell me what what do you want to do and have the kids set their own goal to as it relates to what they want to do and then when they do the next diagnostic you sit down with them again as a as a principal when I was a principal at elementary school I went with the teachers did that with their with their kids those went home so that was the parent communication piece and as a principal I went and set when I went to every single classroom I went with every single kid K through five and I'm telling you the growth kids
059know so they it's a really I already really lends itself well to being able to engage students in their own learning and that's when it really matters because as soon as I'm a student and I can understand what is I need to know to do next I'm a lot more of an independent learner. So does this help kids feel like I the teacher just doesn't like me because of one reason or another? This kind of gives you your own educational track to see where you're successful and you might be struggling over here but you're pretty successful here, right? Yes. And I I want everybody to recognize she didn't get to the position she's in by not being everything and principal, teacher, all that kind of thing. And I do know at my age when you
060come into my world, um, and I'm been doing this for 25 years for the finest city there is, and somebody comes in and shows me a computer program and tells me it's going to outwit me, I might buck up at a little bit. So when I when you add up everything that I'm hearing from all different kinds of things, I'm just wondering how this can be better understood and communicated to everybody kind of goes, whether you're a teacher or a child or a parent. And I think we have a speaker slip, don't we? Can I go please? Hi everybody. Okay, here we go. My name is Christina Santa. Um, I don't know enough about I Ready to know say if I would recommend it or not. I'm not trying to challenge it, but we're talking
061a lot about what's important to parents. We're talking a lot about um attendance at school and we're losing staff and all these weaknesses, but you have a problem that nobody is doing anything about and you have an entire community that is speaking up to you about the principal that you have at this school and nothing has been done. So, at what point do you realize that it can't be an entire community that has a problem and what is conspiring against this one woman? When when is something going to be done? And you guys have been notified of the issues. She is a liability to you, to our kids, to this community. And you knowing the things that are going on and doing nothing about it makes you negligent and makes you liable for her. And
062something's going to happen. She's, you know, it's I, my son has been at Meark for one year. He was at Little Owl before that. And in that one year, we have had issues with her, personal issues, and she's lied, made accusations directly to me, refused to answer my questions, um, and other things that I don't have time to get into right now because I know only have a couple minutes. But um in one year, I've already experienced an issue. Nine teachers. She named nine teachers that have left because of this woman. Nine. And you have families that are pulling their kids out of school. Families that have grown up in this town, who have been here for decades. And they would love nothing more than to have their kids in your district. And they are
063pulling their kids out. And we all know we need to keep attendance up, right? because that directly impacts funding for our school and for our district. And so if you want to keep those numbers up, doesn't it mean something to you that all these parents are pulling their kids out of this school district? At what point do you do something? So, thank you. I'm back on. Um, I'm not hearing in that comment that should we call for recess? I didn't hear anything in that comment that talked about how the program, its value, its methodology, and that the users, the parents, and the teachers are all coming together. We don't seem to be at that point yet, and I would hope that we could get to that point relatively soon. Um, Bill I have nothing. Um,
064Dr. Sahakin, I thank you for your report and um, Paula, I thank you for your detailed report. Um, and I know that when schools say, "Hey, all of you teachers, you're going to learn this new program and we're going to implement this new program and it's going to be one more thing you're going to have to do during the day." It's hard. Um, I know that that is something that teachers don't always love to hear. Like, what do you have me doing now? What do you now next year, which is going to be something different? Um, I would hope that by what we're seeing and the improvements that we're seeing that this is the program that's actually going to stick. So, teachers don't need to learn a new program in two years because we've decided
065something else is better. Um, I really hope this program is as promising as it sounds. It sounds fantastic. So, um, thank you to the teachers for learning and implementing this in the classroom and putting the time and the effort into implementing this program. Um, if teachers weren't on board and if staff wasn't on board, we would not see any growth, no matter how fantastic the program is. Um, so I'm I'm glad that we have the program. I'm glad it's showing results. I always like to see when we vote to purchase a new program, I like to see the results. So, thank you for bringing this to us. Thank you for the presentation. Yeah, thank you again. Data driven directed results are usually way better than brute force or to be clear which is a sevenyear
066adoption that we adopted last year. So, I may not have been clear. It's not just a standalone program. Thank you. Item B, approval of local control and accountability report. I'll move. I'll second. Thank you. So, we had our formal presentation of the 2526 LCAP U plan at the previous board meeting presented again by Dr. Chamberlain. Uh, tonight we're asking our board to approve the plan so we may move forward on it. Thank you. Discussion. If any of you want to see everything that the district's planning, everything it thinks it's important, all of its goals, there's a very large document called the local control and accountability plan that's publicly available that I would encourage um anyone who's curious to look at. You'll learn a lot through that. Call the question. Jillian I Balls Graph I MA
067Cuz I Brianna Tony I. Mask on. I subject C 2526 local performance indicator self-reflection. Thank you. I'll call up Dr. Chamberlain once again. It was just a reflection on you. It's a consent item information item on the agenda. It was part of the presentation. Remember left? Okay. Last time when I did at the end I did the indicators. I have the slides but so you did at the first read last time. Yes, we did a first read and there were quite a few questions I believe. Yes. the document in order to change this to an action item from in in our consent item. So the LCAP is I I So what you're saying is that we need to vote on it correct? So this is just information and we do not need to vote on
068it. on but it's required that we present the reflection the local indicators which are reflection at the time that we present not uh let's do it this let's do it this way I'll move that this becomes a voting an action item tonight do I have a second second thank you call the question I will abstain I may say Brianna Tony I mask I so call the question for the local performance indicator self-reflection. So I'll move I'll second. I call the question. Falls I me. Yes. Brianna Tony I Yes. I apologize for the discrepancy. Item 11, business services, approval of the budget for the 2526 school year. I'll move second. Dr. Sak. Thank you. So, the budget report uh which includes budget assumptions, projection years, uh must be submitted to LEO LA County Office of Education
069no later than 5 days after July 1st. So, we are meeting that timeline. So, now we ask for approval of the 2526 budget that was presented by Mr. W assistant superintendent business services at the previous board meeting. Discussion call the question. Did Jillian I we had a lot of discussion about this and coverage last time. I Mason. Brianna Tony I Mas I. Subject B, approval of the proposal for Sun Country playground shade structure. I'll move. Thank you. So, due to the good work of the facilities and finance subcommittee, we were able to secure a proposal for 16 shade structures for Vasquez High School, uh total cost including the shade structures/ umbrellas along with the installation is 220,000. This fee would come out of developer fees and not impact the general fund. Mr. Any other items
070after or input? Thank you. Discussion. Um I have something. You have anything? Is there equity uh in in um like playground structures where there are playgrounds like at Little Owls and Metallark? Is there equity in the shade structures in comparison to what's going to happen here? You know what? I think that's a focus for the facilities and finance subcommittee. These are all being installed over at Vasquez as part of the I got plans. Got that part. That answer your question. Yeah. So I'm suggesting if there is no equity at between putting shade structures at the high school and there are no shade structures over the playground equipment for the little kids. Try to work that into your plan. That's my suggestion. Thank you, Mr. Fitzkar. Yeah, there's all kinds of funding and stuff that goes
071with this. I mean, there may be um um surfacing issues at the playgrounds that stop you from putting something on unless you change that. There's there's all this to it was a suggestion. I'm glad we're getting shade at the high school. Any other further discussion? Call the question. Dillian I. Falls Graph I May I? Yes. Susai. Brianna Tony I. Mascon I. Subject C. The approval of service agreement between Relayhub LLC and Actton Unified School District medical billing. Move. Second. Dr. Sak. Thank you. As a district, we participate in receiving reimbursements for refer referrals to services which accept medical. Since we do this, we are required to maintain an electronic platform for recordkeeping, housekeeping, uh to maintain all the records pertaining to this um medical reimbursement. This platform covers that mandate. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you,
072Dr. Saki. Discussion. I'm being a pain tonight. But who holds the data? The district holds the data and then we transfer the information. We work with medical billing with um with relay help to compile the information that we submit to. So that the confidential furpa data on the students is held in our data structure and not by a third party. That is absolutely correct. Yeah. I had some administrator one time call children's hospital illegally and asked for my daughter's medical records. I'll talk about that a little bit later. They're popping back up into my world. So, um, so the data belongs to the district and is not shared where someone could breach it and find out that all of our special education kids have this, this, this, and this. That is correct. Perfect. Thank you.
073Further discussion. Call the question. The Chillian I Falls I May I? Yes. Brianna Toxone. I subject D. amended agreement with Sansar Incorporated for the expanded learning opportunities program school year 2526 not to exceed 365,000. I'll move Dr. Hawk. Thank you. Uh for items 11D and E. I'll defer to Commission. All right. Thank you, Dr. Hawin. Um this is an updated contract where the district will provide after school services up to 70 students for the fiscal year 2526. really stands providing after school services for the district discussion hearing none call the question. The Jillian I Falls Drive I Maze I Yes, Brianna Tony I Mason I subject E amended agreement with Sansar for the expanded learning opportunities program 30 non-school days 2526 not to exceed 85,000 I'll move thank you um this is an update contract
074with Sansar to provide services during summer as well as winter resource for basically after school and during school program when there's no school in session. Discussion call the question. The Jillian IS. Yes. Who's Brianna Tony? I mask on. I uh we have a board comments. Public comment. I'm new. All right. Hi, my name is Ashley Stephace. don't actually have any children in the district yet, but I am here because I want to learn about where to send him or keep them myself. So, I've never heard of I Ready till today. So, I wrote down my questions because I am not good at this part. Um, one thing that kind of stuck out was she said that the kids decide what they want to learn next versus what's curriculum. If we started here and we ended
075up moving one day, would that set him on his own learning curve versus being on a state learning curve and being up to par with other schools? Hang on just a second. Yes, sir. I move that we return to discussion on the item that we're discussing which was Paula's update. Do I have a second? That's fine. I don't Hang on. Hang on. Falls graph I Yes. Brianna Tony I. What that did was it opens up the discussion again so staff can be responsive. Other than that, we just sit up here and go like this and we can't say anything. So, should I wait or should I not ask? Oh, go ahead. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm new. This is my first meeting. I want to be involved because he's four. I want to be prepared for
076what I'm stepping into. So, I'm sorry if that's not correct. Um again, so would that set him up for his curriculum to be in line with other districts and other state stuff or would he fall behind because it would fall personal to him? Um I know you can't answer, so I'm just going to ask my question. No, we can. Can we be responsive to that? Yes, please. It's based on what they know. So if I'm if I'm a student and I'm on it's going to fill in my learning gap. So it has to do with what they want to do. It's based on what they're showing that they know. Then that data is being sent to their teacher too. So the teacher support instruction and it's all standard. Got it. Okay. Starts right. Okay, that
077that all I heard was you say what they decided next. So that's why No, you're fine. That's why I'm asking. I wanted to know. Um Okay, good to know. So then another part was my son is very hands-on. When we do trace the lines, color the dots, that doesn't work for him. We taught him to go outside and ride your bike. Let's go count apples outside. Let's go do this. So, if he is such a hands-on person and we're sitting in front of the screen, how does that like balance into it too? Because if he's going to be on a screen, why don't I keep them home to do the screen and do my own outside kind of stuff? You know, that's So, it's no more than 40 minutes a week. Is there rules on
078there? Like, does it turn them off? No, but teachers aren't going to do it. And I think our teachers are breaking up 15. It's never done. With older kids, you might be for little like kinders might be on. Okay. That's like I said we don't have to engage the audience. So I don't No, I appreciate it might be a better opportunity for you to reach out to Miss Chamberlain via email, phone call. That's fine. Yeah, that's totally fine. probably expert teachers too. So you can get the feedback from a teachers perspective as well. That's kind of where my feedback has come from. Mainly why I'm here is because I want to know if I should outsource him somewhere else than here. No, you shouldn't. I don't want to. Okay. That's not my goal. That's I
079do not want him to leave this community. We love this community and we want to be a part of it, but I also don't want to put him in a hostile environment that I I don't even know about, but I'm hearing so much about that he's for. He's not even like he could go to TK, but we're choosing not to for all that we've heard. Can Can I help? Yeah. If you have questions that um are very specific, I was trying to give everybody the opportunity to speak and to have a full discussion again rather than not just sit up here and uh Okay, I hear you. I can't say anything% you voted for me, but I'm just a puppet. I don't like that. So, it might be good for you to send the uh
080superintendent an email with your questions, and then if they're significant to the program, I would expect to hear back from from that staff. I would love to see that. Like, I would still learning one of us and I will become we have kids here now for summer but school starts okay so then my last question I'll shut up and I'll sit down if this is so online would it be a better like option to have this be their homework to see where they go home and what they've retained and then the teacher can bring it up in class and like address it that way or is this like one or the other like like I said I'm still learning I'm so sorry you link up Uh, yep. Thank you very much. I would like to
081comment. Um, that as well everybody. Everybody else did. So, I'm going to pipe up too and give you my two cents. So, I am a mom of six. All of my kids All of my kids went to Metallark. All of my kids went to High Desert. Um, four of my kids went to Vasquez. Two of them graduated from Vasquez. My job took me out to the Analopee Valley. So, I took my kids out to the Analopee Valley. It had to do with driving and I wanted my kids close to me. It was I did not pull my kids because of the education here. It is top-notch. Um, specifically at Metoark, um, I had five kids at Metoark at the same time. It was fantastic. Um, my daughter who's 19, she graduated in 2024, is now
082the librarian at Metallark. She absolutely loves it. She loves the kids, loves the staff, loves working there. Um, my son, who graduated in 2022, now works at ABC, so he also has a job in education. And my daughter that just graduated in 2025 is going to um Channel Island. She's going to be a history major. and she wants to become a teacher. And I do believe that all of those um those futures in education that my kids have come directly from the school district and the care and um environment that they received. Not every family has the same experience. At the time that my kids went to school here, there were families that were um not happy. We've had several principles. We've had several superintendents at all of the schools. Um it it happens and
083I do believe that education is what you put into it. That's what you get out of it in any scenario. Um and I'm not trying to discount people that are unhappy or people that are happy. We for my family had a great experience at Metal Arc. And would I do it again? I'm in my 40s now, so I won't be doing again, but if I had it to do again, I would absolutely send my kids to Metallark. So, that's that's my own personal experience. I'm going to say something too. Well, we can close this discussion out now and move on to board member comments because I have things to say along the emotional line. I think um just in general, this is a big community and uh there's not much of a community here without
084a school district. It really doesn't exist without it. We'd be a veteran community for LA without everyone's support to make this what it is. So, I very passionate that everybody participate in every way we can. It is a great big family and like most families there's probably some dysfunction but uh we can move through it and we can continue to fight through it. Board member comments. Perfect. Um yeah, I get the family dysfunction thing. I'm 2500 miles minimum from any other member of my family at all times. So um moving ahead, Natalie, you have done a really really good job. the smile and the miss uh congeniality, which by the way, that's Miss Taxony, so that's not you. Um, you are happy and cheerful, but I'm a linear person, so the smiles are wonderful and
085everything. I pretend I'm happy when I see my mother-in-law, but you were so inclusive down to every kid in your report. So you're talking about Mealark, you're talking about and uh High Desert and Vasquez, and there was never a political overtone. So you got no adult out there sending you in here. And I I I'll leave that at that. We'll we'll be okay with that. You're you're person. You are your own person. And you think about what others are doing, even the least of them. So you are nonpartisan. You would make a wonderful public employee ranging anywhere from a police officer to a district attorney. You cannot fill positions like that. Here's another one. This person is a police officer, very humble, has doctorates, all those kinds of things. But when it comes down to
086as I know the both of you as people, you are looking to make sure that everybody has an equal chance. I applaud you. I've been talking in circles all the time. I think you've picked up the pattern. You know, I don't say anything without a reason. You're bright. Your future is bright. You are somebody that is going to shine out there and make this town proud. So, I very much appreciate your service. Okay. Give me the twine. speakers. I'm going to show you this. We had a talk about this. These are my kids. The one was at Meark. I think she has the Guinness World Record of being at Metoark. I don't know how many times all these people were her teachers. Um, she was treated with dignity and respect. She skipped me or or
087high desert. That's why Miss Van Ornum was the speaker at her memorial because she never got to be her principal. But she was accepted by the Vasquez community. And this picture is her sister who's finished second year of law school, works for a mu m a music production company, is working simultaneously on an MBA, and works one day a week as an aid to the county court office for the district attorney in Las Vegas and works three days as uh in another office of the district attorney who does permitting for all kinds of whatever they're doing in Vegas. Hopefully, it's good stuff and not some of the stuff that happens in Vegas where I lived for 14 years. Anyway, these are my kids. I think that you two know these kids. And the little one
088passed away out of nowhere. And that one right there who was raised by that one right there, I got these letters from these little kids in that class and they were the purest thing as if God was talking to me through children. So whatever all this is, I don't know what it is. I don't have this where I work. I don't want it where I work. I don't permeate it at work. I don't give out Valentine's cards at work. We work and we produce a standard and the people that work for me know their value as individuals. But this is what those two did. Whatever the rest of this, I don't know what it is. I'm not sure I want to hear too much more of it, though. I will be off the board next
089year. Can somebody watch the movies and figure out what education is and find out? Paula, you did an exemplary job tonight. That was so unorthodox for her to field questions. And I hope you can see that she's a a professional. She believes in programs. I fully support what she's trying to do. And when she can stand up there and field any question you have, it speaks to her experience. And I'm glad she's here. and Miss HR over there. That's the first HR person that I've ever been able to get along with. And she's never signed a paper with my name on it. Let's put it that way. What else do we have? Looking ahead. You look ahead by looking backwards. I asked some questions tonight that if somebody is can read my mind, I will
090want to know next year what this I Ready program did for people. And it's whether the data that's being captured as a tool that the teachers support and respect because I think the teachers knew what to do before this fancy program came along. They knew enough to send me to the principal's office so the other kids could learn. But I think part of teaching what concerns me is all this COVID stuff. It put the kids at home. they lost socialization and then they come back in and they don't know because when kids are young, they learn their behaviors and boundaries by how the other kids are reacting to them. So when they're at home and I'm going to go out on a limb and say this, we all know what Title N is if you
091don't look it up. But I think it's really weird that one part of a family is always seen as the one that's got to always pick up the kids and you know you're the one that has to go home when the kids leave and all that kind of stuff. So anything that this district I just said something very politically dangerous there by the way. I see what happens at work. I see who gets promoted and I see who gets held back. And having children is not a reason not to be promoted and certainly not a reason to be held back in your career. The bottom line is if we up here don't look around and figure out through the subcommittees how to make sure that we're reliable and you guys knowing when your kids can
092be dropped off that they're safe there and all that kind of thing. I think that the subcommittee system has worked really good and I've got a lot of examples of that. Whoever you are in the school district, whether you are a parent, a volunteer, a kid, a a teacher, a staff member, thank you for everything that you have done this year in the interest of children. Your class, I made an internet movie and I read the class comments of these little cards and I I have to stop thinking about it right now. It was just like, and then they see me and they know who I am. It's like, I'm not the one to look at. Those kids are the ones to look at. I would love nothing better than to live long enough to
093know what they will turn into as adults because they are what our community is all about. They don't know about all this garbage and they shouldn't have to. They shouldn't have to worry about it. And if that's your focus, the next time you start feeling bad about somebody, feel bad about my kid who's in an earn that those people took care of. That's what I want you to think about. This community has supported me in so many ways. If you're going somewhere else, be as great there as you were here. Just do that for me, please. Okay. Hey, I'm I'm really dreading this part. When I started here, there were all kinds of charters going on. And I knew it wasn't right. And I knew it wouldn't work. And I know that you don't pay
094taxes over here and then take the money and go somewhere else. And I got beat up so bad. If you can find it on the internet, there was a candidate forum in 2016 and I had people with presidents of organization and groups taken after me in public trying to discredit me and then just mysteriously it all came true. Everything I said well it wasn't rocket science but you know the comments now these people are surfacing again. You'll see it locally. people that were administrators here. I mentioned earlier that somebody from this school district took my little kid, this one right here, called Children's Hospital and tried to get all her medical records so they didn't have to give her service. There's a foundation that goes with what she had. They called someone on the board
095of directors, hired them as a consultant to take her services away. Well, that person wrote a report on the college thing somewhere away. She saw her for 12 minutes. I don't think they work there anymore. I'm a champion of little kids, especially ones that can't fit in. Anyway, someone resigned from that seat five minutes before I left before I was sworn on. The minute then then this board back then signed a consultant agreement to keep that person on while they went and moved all of the charter revenue over to a neighboring district. And then it's showing up in the newspaper now that they're making $350,000 a year and another $57,000 of the stuff. And when somebody finds out and runs them off, then their their counterpart who did the same stuff to my child is
096doing the same thing. And they say, "Oh, well, it was all legal. People voted for it." Yeah, dummies like us. Nine years later, my reward for running that out of here is to be dogged by somebody, you know, bring our district back. Where are we going to bring it back to? We going to bring it back to uh Florida or Arizona? Is that where we're bringing it back to? We're going to bring back to people who who who just built personal wealth on the backs of our students. Guys, I know you're upset. I can see it. But I've lived days where it was just I was being attacked up here. Now I find out they're off doing it somewhere else again. Watch for it in a newspaper. You'll see it. We have come so far.
097But in what world does somebody steal $84 million of taxpayer money and then it takes a judge in San Diego to get them to stop and they're back out there doing it again. If I were to look back, guys, we got charters coming in here this year for renewal. And I will tell you the reason charters started is because they are supposed to provide alternative means for kids who aren't reached under privileged kids, kids with cognitive disabilities. I sat up here one time and said, "You get these." They had a they had a a form, an application you would fill out to go to their charter and it would ask you questions about the language your parents spoke. It was this is ACLU lawsuit waiting all over it. I was getting shelled up here. I
098said, "I will call the DA myself or you'll pull it out of here." It was really rough. I have such a wonderful board. And if you look back to get here, we've had Kelly Jensen, we've had Chad Wadssworth, we've had Tim Jorgensson, we've had some wonderful people come through here to build this up to where we can function at this level. But I will tell you what, it just bothers me to know that people will do do this. So the charters, again, let me finish up here. the charters. If you're a charter and you're taking on kids that can't get through school and they're doing credit recovery because they're tired of feeling stupid because they fail math all the time. If you're doing that kind of work, we love you. If you're reaching kids that
099can't be reached, that's what you're supposed to do. If you're helping a kid who's afraid to talk, but is a going to be a offshore welder on a drilling rig and make a ton of money. How many people do you know that are plumbers and air conditioning people and electricians that are just wonderful community people and they make a lot of money and they're good hardworking people? If you're a charter that takes high school dropouts, if you're someone that supports a female through a pregnancy and gives them their dignity and lets them get a job or couples that have to marry early, if you are a charter that does that, you will have my vote. But if you're going to come in here and you're going to stand up here and you're going to going
100to convince people out in a community and divide them so they can put you in place. These charters don't just come in to a community, they're let in. And there's certain people you got to ask yourself, find that movie, that candidate for him. See how ridiculous it is? And ask yourself, is someone that grossly naive or is there something like this going on in the background? I would tell a judge right now, forget forget the investigations and stuff. go right to the per superintendent, the person sitting in that chair, and pressure them to find out who is on the vendor list, who's getting money, what are they doing for it, what's the duration, and what's the frequency. We're able to ask questions in here about what these teachers are doing at 10-minute intervals, but yet
101we can't find out why somebody's punking me in a public meeting and clinging on to something. I've never seen married couples 80 years old that were more more loyal to some hidden thing. So, if you're out there, you're still out there. Yeah, it's me. Come on. I ain't got I I ain't got much more time to go and I'm pretty empty. So, let's make the end chapter a good one, shall we? Everybody, um, thank you for being patient with me. I've shared a lot with you. Each one of you has a success in in this. And, um, my board is wonderful. And I would hope that you would join me in clapping for for what did you say your name was right now? And always get to follow that up, you know. None of it
102was important, dude. Thank you all for coming. Natalie, it's been great working with you this year. Um, as I said, your smile, your giggles, it's always fun to see and I know you're going to do great. Um, parents, thank you for showing up. Numbers matter, right? So, we appreciate you guys being here. Um teachers, we hope that your future is good and that you find somewhere that will be good for you. Um and everybody have a good summer and we will see you in August. Can you shut up my mic? I think my mic is very low or you guys got some great mics and I have a No, I'm pushing this on green, but can you See? Okay. I guess I got the broken one. Yeah, sure. How about that? There you go. So,
103first I want to thank everybody for being here tonight and for your continued commitment to of course our students, our staff, and our schools. Uh I also want to apologize for missing the last few meetings. Uh work has been in uh incredibly busy with the LA protests and which kept me fully occupied there. Um, I want to sincerely thank the teachers who spoke tonight and shared their reasons for leaving. Uh, it's disheartening to lose educators who poured so much into the community, into our students. Uh, my daughters have uh been with some of the teachers who left. So, it really impacts uh me personally. So, I want to thank you for that. Your voices of course your your contributions will have a lasting impact and your absence will of course be deeply felt. Um, I
104especially want to thank Natalie for her dedication to the students in this district. Uh, your service and your heart for education have not gone unnoticed and I wish you the very best in your future endeavors. And as we end getting good into the summer, I hope that everyone has a safe and uh, enjoyful summer, easy break, and we'll see you in August. That's it. Here's your mic back. Thanks, pal. That works. um I don't have anything prepared and I usually write notes through the um through the meeting and I said all of my end of the year um have a great summer thank you to staff at our last meeting. Um so I won't repeat that. So Natalie, I'm just going to miss seeing you over there. So, I hope the next person really brings
105that that special touch. Um, every student board member that we've had since I've been on the board has been so dynamic in their own special way and you really brought it this year. So, just thank you and I am definitely going to miss you. Um, and that's that's it. That's all I got. I gave Natalie uh definitely be missed. So, um, you can hold classes for the next representative. Listen, if it's my brother, I wish you all good luck because he has never smiled a day in his life. So, I you soak it up now because he's a broody one, but he's he's a great kid. He's a great kid and he loves he loves my job. He loves my job. Sit next to me by then. were kin for a little while and they
106all my brother knows him my brother they love to bully me they love to they love to bully me I swear anyway so uh everyone who uh came tonight thank you for attending I think normally this is uh the last meeting of the year is absolutely zero attendance so um and it goes pretty quick so thank you for coming I know you have all have your reasons for being here and I think uh keep sharing your voice. I think it will always be heard. We're all here for a reason. Each and every one of us has kids either currently in these schools or they've been through these schools. So, nobody pays us to do this. This is a volunteer position. You've got uh Mr. Fzgrap who works uh very prestigious city down near LA. Uh
107Mr. Maze, which runs a huge construction company out of LA. Uh Dr. Deus, LAPD, and then uh Miss Briana Taxony, which is uh she grew up here. She's done every job here. Um and then myself. So, I think we all care deeply. Uh we donate a lot of time to try to do this and we all do our very best to make the best decisions possible. uh with the information that we get and we're very involved in all that. So nothing goes by easily. No decision is lightly made. It really is u something we care deeply about. He said I live just down the street. My kids are in two of the schools. So it's not like this isn't personal for all of it. And I believe in this school district more than you could
108ever know. And I I mean it when I say that without it, like I've lived in communities that don't have local schools in the area. They really are just bedroom communities for whatever major city there is. We're extremely fortunate that we have this and we've got to hold on to it and do our very best with it. We have to participate in it. I know people talk about I'm pulling my kids out because I'm unhappy. If that's the decision you make, then that's the one that you should make. But hurting the community is not the right decision by getting rid of pulling your kids from the district. I think you got to stick with it. You have to try every day and what you can do to try to improve it. It's possible. You guys,
109your voices are very important here. That's all I have. Thank you. Item 13, calendar. So, when are we meeting next? August 14th. So, there's a bit of a break. I believe two of the subcommittees will be in recess during that time. The facilities and finance subcommittee will continue as we have projects that we're working through. If you're interested um and you want to hear what we're doing, then please attend. What is this the school start date? Okay, so this will be the second day of school. Future agend agenda items. Well, this will be populated soon enough. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Oh, Jesus. Well, that's why you should call. Ready? Get it. It's green, Jelly Bean. Keep it green, Jelly Bean. Could we have a budget discussion, an information item about what happens when we
110put our kids on the bus when this district no longer exists and they go to Palmdale? Can we talk about what the implications are to the property taxes here given the average property size due to in comparison to partial taxes and what happens where they have five school districts over there with five sets of superintendent, five sets of support staff, five sets of everything. Santa Clarita does the same thing while Long Beach and LA Unified, they got more people. But you don't have five sets of a mass that they're all running bonds because if we don't have our school district here, you need to get out of here. You're living a dangerous life there. June bug insect order koloptra. By the way, if you don't have a school district here, your property will be assessed
111a partial size tax for every bond that they pass over there. Could we have the I guess it's the facilities and finance subcommittee do a brief presentation about what the fiscal impact on your property taxes would be if we lose our school district. I think you'll notice very quickly they pass a bond almost every few years. So anyway, I need people to know if there's something that will bring them to bring it together. Let's join some of the part parcel people or the uh charter people and make it about greed if there's nothing else. Thank you. One final note, one final note. And now they're getting and they won't go to anybody because they witnessed that from the person that was using the school. She has done it in front of my kids. They have
112witnessed her doing that. What about that? You're worried about Yes, we are pulling our kids out because of her. We're going to adjourn the meeting now. I will move to adjourn the meeting. Second. Call the question. The Jillian eye. Raise up. Rihanna Tony. I Mas I. We journ at 9:22