001We call this special board meeting to order at 3:33 p.m. on August 28th, 2025. Get roll call, please. >> Meron here. >> Mask here. Agenda. Can you get a motion? >> I move. I'll second. >> Eric, any changes to the agenda? >> No, sir. We're good to go. Thank you. >> All right. >> Any public participation at this time? No. >> Not at this time. Thank you. >> Oh, sorry. We need to vote on the agenda. A little rough getting started again. >> Uh, may I? >> Tex on the I. >> Mask on. I. >> No public participation. No sir, not at this time. >> Thank you. >> I get a motion to adjourn to close session. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Call the question. >> May I? >> Tony I. >> Mask
002on I. We adjourn to close session at 3:34 Yeah. All right, we reconvene this special board meeting at 4:30 p.m. >> Yolanda, would you lead us in the flag? >> Yeah. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America. The republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Rihanna, would you read the civility statement, please? >> I sure will. The civility statement states, "Communicate clearly and concisely with respect for others time. Listen objectively, carefully considering the opinions of others. Understand the counterproductive effects of disruptive, demeaning, and intimidating behaviors. Understand and respect district policies and procedures. Respect the district's rich history and the efforts of others who have served in the past. Thank you. Close session. There was action taken in close session tonight.
003The board unanimously approved the leave of absence for employee number 64161. The board unanimously approved the staff's recommendation to accept the settlement agreement for student number 4001840. Item six, public comments, recognitions, and reports. Uh, President Mascone, at this time we have one uh comment card, possibly two. Thank you, >> Miss Ruthie Brook. Hey, I'm I'm Ruthie Brock and I'm the director of Actton Takes Action. Um I'm leading the community opposition against three battery energy storage projects, also known as BES. Um they're the humidor, the Matai, and the Prairie Song. The Humidor has been approved by LA County and we're challenging that in superior court at this time. The same developer is proposing a second project called Matai, which has a target online date of 2033. The Prairie Song is a huge project and will store
0041,150 megawws of energy. It will utilize fireprone and toxic lithium iron phosphate batteries in 2,35 shipping size containers, spreading over 70 acres and over one mile in length. This project is in the CEC opt-in approval process which has community benefit requirement for all applicants. This requirement calls for one or more legally binding and executed agreements with a qualifying recipient from within the community the project will be cited. Over a week ago, I made a major effort to forewarn the community groups throughout social media outreach and direct emails. I'd like to thank President Lester Musone for his personal reply to the developers outreach email. Thank you for showing how informed you were on the subject of battery energy storage and for stating why our community does not support the project. Appreciate that. I feel like a
005proud mama. Um I don't believe the board has taken an official position on the subject of community benefits. We would like to welcome the opportunity to sit down and speak with you about our and our superintendent to further explain what this project could mean for the community, but also what your opportunities might be with regards to community benefits. We believe these battery energy storage projects would bring great harm to our community with health and safety risks, negatively affecting our property values and threatening our rural lifestyle by industrializing the entire eastern portion of Actton. We are trying our best to stop them from developing here, but if we are not successful, we want to make sure that these potential community benefits are appropriately directed to provide the most benefit to our community with our school district
006being at the top of that list. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you very much, >> Miss Jackie. >> Hi. Yes. Thank you very much uh for having this chance to talk to you. First of all, I want to thank the school district and Yoland in particular for helping arrange the meeting that we had last night uh dealing with Edison's PSPS events. Um, as you may know or may not know, the act and town council I'm speaking today on behalf of the town council. the town council um is deciding whether to file a complaint with the public utilities commission regarding the um PSPS events of last January because we've compiled a significant amount of evidence showing that what they did was unreasonable as that term is defined in the public utilities code because they
007cut power and they admitted it last night when winds did not exceed the thresholds that they're legally bound to comply with per their own wildfire management plan as well as several commission uh decisions. So that was the point of last night for at least the town council and the community was to decide if we can get answers that were good enough to um make a decision on whether we move forward. So I want I really appreciate the school district providing the facility and you know the expertise for the the a equipment and everything. So thank you very much. Another thing is that we are submitting a letter to the California Energy Commission regarding the Angelino project that Ruthie was just talking about. And we have asked, we pointed out that we understand a a a
008somebody who works for a company called Better World or One World or something like that has been contacting individuals in the community about how they can align the Angelino project with the priorities of organizations. And so we are asking the CEC to please um or to we're pointing out that that's not the effective way to uh to secure community or have community discussions on community benefits. It's divisive. It's fertive. Don't have one-on-one backroom meetings with certain people. So we have asked them to please convene a public meeting where all groups, community based organizations, school district, other groups can come and talk about talk to them about what their plan is, you know, what their budget is. So we as a community can have input, you know, holistically and not like be fighting each other for
009resources. And I I agree with Ruthie that school should be a big part of that. And hopefully, you know, whatever if if this project goes through, and I'm not saying that that's something I want or the town council wants, but you know, if it does go through, we want to make sure that the benefits acrew to the community and important organizations. So, for example, in their application, they have said that for their community benefits, they're going to be uh um entering into a long-term contracts with um um labor unions who are out of Orange County and Los Angeles County and their headquarters are in the city of LA. They it's called the LA OC labor union. And we have said very clearly that's not a local organization. And the stat AB205 says very clearly you
010have to enter into binding contracts with CBOS for that benefit that that represent the interests of the community. So, there's a lot of grist for the mill. And I I I'm hoping this community will be able to come together and and talk to the developer about these things so that we can all sort of holistically decide what would be best based on their budget and their timing and everything because we're they're they've said they're going to spend their money on advancing county priorities and advancing anal uh valley priorities because they have said because Actton is not a city, they're just going to make sure the county benefits. So, we're digging in our heels very very stubbornly and saying no, no, has to be here in this town. So, um I'm hoping that the school district
011if that we can get that meeting together, school district participate or in the alternative if you know uh town council and Ruth's organization maybe can sit down and talk with some of you. I know not all of you because that would be more than a quorum, but anyway, we would really appreciate that. So if you could agendaize something like that, we we'll be here to support it. So thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Oh yeah, >> I'll make it brief, but I just wanted to thank you too. Um, Ruthie, I see you all over Facebook and social media, and it's really, really nice to see you in person. It's nice to meet you. Um, from the bottom of my heart from from me and from our whole community, thank you so much for
012the work that you're doing. And um personally, if something ever came to a vote here on the school board, my vote would be to absolutely back your what you guys have going on because you have just worked so much and on behalf of our community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um and Jackie, thank you too. You are have been for years, I mean, I've told you before, for years and years, you've just been a force in our community. So these two women are just absolutely incredible for our community. So thank you so much for all you do. >> Yeah. Thank you for the education on it for sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. Item seven, correspondence, proposals and reports. Add a representative No CSEA representative. No student representative yet. What's the status on that?
013>> Um the status for the student rep. Um our wonderful Dr. Smith, I know that she's taking applications. She's put that out there to the student body and I think in the next week or two, we might, you know, garner a final candidate for the student rep position maybe for September 11th board meeting. So, keeping fingers crossed. Thank you, Dr. Smith. Uh, superintendent report. >> Thank you. All right. Uh, tonight I'll be focusing on goal one, student achievement, as well as goal two, effective instruction and leadership. Starting with goal one, student achievement. A formal welcome back. Seems like months ago, but it was only couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago, give or take. Welcome back to our students, parents, and staff to the 2526 school year. Hope summer
014was a time for rest and recharging for us all. We kicked off the year with hardworking staff and eager, smiling students. The AAD USC now proudly operates four sites plus a robust district-wide virtual academy via Aselis. I'm thrilled to share our enrollment numbers keep going up for the past four years. We are at 1,120. That's 60 plus students since early June when we concluded our 2425 school year. So that's always a cause for celebration. Goal two, effective instruction and leadership. District office team has been very busy putting pieces together for the opening of schools clearly. So thank you to everyone involved. Um early August, August 6, we held our new staff orientation. Thank you to Miss Erdri and team. Introductions were made at the district office um level along alongside with our principles sharing out
015their vision, mission, and scope of work for the school year. Our fantastic IT team was able to take care of new staff and their technology needs as usual. Also, a bus tour to all three three sites and our community was arranged for staff, new staff. So, we're thrilled to welcome amazing professionals and educators to our district. August 7th and 8th, we had our professional development, district-wide professional development. Some of the topics covered was I Ready, a review of the California dashboard, mindfulness tools, verbal deescalation strategies, and more. You see in the pictures, everybody was very engaged. So, thank you PD Council for your efforts in ensuring our teachers and staff receive what they need to be successful. Our annual welcome back breakfast was held on Tuesday, August 12th. We formally introduced new staff, took the
016opportunity for my team and I to share all of the behind the scenes work which took place over summer to get ready for school's opening and time to share our focus and vision for the new school year, concluding with a very robust team building activity as you see there. That same night, Metallark and Little Owls held their back to school night which was an absolute success. Ran standing room only in the classroom. So kudos to Metal Arc team and here's to to a successful wonderful safe school year for 2526. Congratulations all for a good opening of schools. Thank you. >> Thank you Dr. Saki. >> Sure. Facilities and finance subcommittee report. Uh we met this week with the facilities and finance subcommittee um where we received an update on summer projects. Uh it's quite an
017extensive list, so we'll be asking uh Ernesto to provide a formal update at the next board meeting so everybody can see where we're at and how that's going. Good news is they've realized a lot of cost savings along the way and uh looks like they'll get all the projects done at least before the end of this calendar year. We revisited the update on enrollment, which is great because that uh will hopefully close some of the budget gap that we have um which maybe take a little bit of pressure off of our cost savings measures, cost cutting measures. Uh we will be looking forward at the next facility and finance subcommittee meeting to getting a forecast on well potentially that one or the following one an updated forecast on where we'll be where we think we'll
018be with the end of this uh fiscal year uh based on the additional headcount and some of the cost savings we've already experienced. So if you're uh interested in facilities and finance, join us at the next meeting. Education subcommittee report. >> Um Dr. De Jesus and I did the education subcommittee meeting along with um Paula Chamberlain. Um on August 19th, we talked about our instructional community plan. Um Paula's still working on on that. So she did give an update and um we talked about dialing down that plan. So the instructional community plan is a broad plan on um and it's uh required by law now, right? Is okay. Um just wanted to make sure I wasn't misspeaking. um required by law for them to turn in um the instructional community plan. And we are also
019working on dialing it down to um be kind of a road map of when our power goes out, when we have a flood, when um something happens to where we can't open a school for a day or two. If we can't open Vasquez, what are we going to do? If we can't open High Desert, but the other two schools are open, what are we going to do? um just so our community, our students, our families, our staff all knows um our plan ahead of time and we're not scrambling to find a plan if the power is out at Vasquez again while High Desert and Metallark are still on how how are our kids going to be serviced? Um so we are still working on that. It's not definitely not an overnight thing. So, I do
020want to thank Paula for diligent work on on getting that together. And it is what we talked about in the ED subcommittee meeting is the next steps are to talk to um the unions, the teacher union, the teachers union and also um admin and really get everybody's opinion and everybody's take on it before any you know plans are made. So, thank you so much for putting all that together. Um, she also gave us an update on uh the attendance recovery plan and Saturday school. It was a really good conversation. I know those meetings are recorded. So, if you have um an interest in that, definitely go back and watch that cuz it was a really good um conversation and there's some good plans to start attendance recovery in Saturday school and what the difference is
021in that. So, uh, our next meeting is September 19th. Um, I've asked for future agenda items, um, to be virtual academy program and kind of an update and which kids are in that and how many kids we're servicing and the full-time and the part-time and how many kids have come back, that kind of thing, and and what our virtual academy looks like, how our students learning, that kind of thing. So, just um a detailed update of what our virtual academy program is because I think a lot of people don't exactly know what what our students are doing on virtual academy and then also um an update of our CTE programs. I know that they're growing and changing and um just where we're at with our CTE programs through our district. >> That's the end of
022that. >> Thank you. Um, do you think that a presentation could be given to the whole board at a board meeting on kind of, you know, what the virtual academy looks like, uh, what a normal day looks like for a student, that sort of thing. >> I think that would be cool. Paul is saying yes. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Thank you. Uh, we don't have anybody from the policy and management subcommittee, but did they meet Dr. Sakian? Are you aware? >> Um, I want to say they are meeting uh right before the September 11th meeting at 5:00 pm. So, if anybody's interested, it's a public meeting. Come on by. >> Submissions. >> No submissions for this evening. Thank you. >> Item eight, consent agenda. I get a motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Dr.
023talking. >> Um, there are no changes to the consent agenda. If there's any questions from the board regarding any one of the items, um, items A through Bear with me. I um, my team and I are happy to respond. Comment call the question. Mai, >> Brianna I, >> mask on. Item nine, personnel report. Get a motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Hakim. >> There are no changes to the PAR report for this evening. Thank you. >> Comment. Call the question. >> Mesa. >> Tony. I >> mascot. Subject B. Approval memorandum of understanding between Alliant International University Incorporated and AADUSD. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Saka. >> Thank you. So, if the MOU is approved this evening by our trustees, this will allow uh teacher candidates uh school psychologists, school
024counselors to provide their for us to provide their fieldwork experience here at our district um in return for their support in the classrooms or in the offices. in um in line with our our goals for our students if approved. Thank you. >> Discussion. >> Call the question. >> Ma, >> Brianna Tony I. >> Mask on I. Subject C. Actuad teachers association proposal for the 2425 negotiations for collective bargaining agreement. Sunshine. >> Yes. Thank you. So on August 18th, ADA notified the board of trustees of their intention to reopen negotiations for the uh fiscal year with salary and benefits as the automatic reopeners. Subject D acts unified school district proposal for the 2024 2025 negotiations for collective bargaining agreement sunshine. Dr. >> Yes. In return, the district presented their successor proposal uh to ADA, our teachers
025union, with the same automatic reopeners of salary and benefits. Thank you. >> Discussion. >> Item 10, student and education services instructional continuity plan. I get a motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Saki. So, our vice president did a really nice job of summarizing the ICP instructional continuity plan. Thank you, Miss Briana. Um, and thank you, Dr. Chamberlain. I know that Dr. Chamberlain presented seems like a while ago now back in June uh before recess for summer, the instructional continuity plan. And like Miss Tony mentioned, it's a live document um with updates, changes, and edits. Um but we have it as a file attachment of the draft continuity plan for an action item. this evening. >> Discussion. >> Thank you for all your work on that. I know it's a I know it's
026a lot. Thank you. >> I I didn't do anything. Call. >> We just listened. >> Uh call the question. >> M I >> Brianna Tony I. >> Maskon I. Item B. LA County Arts and Culture Advancement Grant Program agreement not to exceed 16,300. You get a motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. So, the LA County Arts Culture provides support in arts education um to districts in LA County and we are LA County, part of LA County. And so, this grant amount for 16,300 would be for this academic calendar to be to be implemented um to support our arts education plan. discussion. >> So, this isn't from the general fund. This is a grant that we went out and got. >> That's correct. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah. Well done. >> Call the question. >>
027Ma, >> Brianna Tony I. >> Mask on I. Subject C public hearing sufficiency of instructional material. We can open this hearing at 16:54 p.m. Dr. >> Thank you. So the public hearing for sufficiency of instructional materials and item D resolution 2526.02 sufficiency of instructional materials. It's a resolution that provides language that the district provides sufficient textbook and instructional materials to all students. That includes our English learners which are all aligned to academic content standards. Um this includes the subject areas of math, science, history as well as English language arts. Thank you. >> We close this here now. Okay. We close this hearing at 16:55 p.m. There's no action item on that. Yeah. Okay. Uh, subject D, resolution number 2025-2602, sufficiency of instructional materials. Get a motion. >> I'll motion. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Saki.
028>> Thank you. So the resolution does indicate the subject areas in terms of s sufficient materials and instruction materials for all of our students. Like I said earlier that includes our English language learners. This is the subject areas of math, science, history as well as well as English >> discussion. Call the question. >> Brianna Tony I. Mask on. I number 11. Business services approval. Member Caribbean contribution Keenan Associate Serma 2 not to exceed $29,251. Get a motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Dr. Sakin. >> Thank you. I'll go ahead and defer to um our assistant superintendent, Mr. to review the Surma uh Keenan Associates and the contract. Thank you. >> Thank you, Chuck Sakin. Um this is a district annual renewal that covers property and liability for the 2526 school year. It covers anywhere
029from property damage from natural disaster to civil lawsuits. I'm asking the board to approve contract. >> Discussion. >> Is this an increase from the prior year or is it uh >> It's a It is an increase. Yes. Every year is it goes up. >> Do we know how much of an increase it is? >> It's about 2.5%. >> Call the question. >> Amazing. >> Brianna text on the eye. >> Mask on. I subject B. Amended expanded learning opportunities program school year 25 2025 2026 Sansar Incorporated not to exceed 433,500. Get a motion. I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Suck. >> Thank you. So, with the increase of students to our district, we had to amend the contract with Sansar um doing business as Sunny Days and this is coming through ELOP funds. I'll defer
030to Mr. Newent to talk about the contract amendment. >> Right. So, we had um an increase in enrollment and then also an increase in afterchool services. Originally we were going to be after school services up to 70 students but we we have additional um students want to enroll in after school. So we increased it to 90 students. So the increase is from $68,000 more and so it equates to be $433,500 from the original contract of 4 $365,000. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Discussion. >> Call the question. >> M I >> Brianna Tony I. >> Subject C. Oh mask on. I I was looking. Subject C approval agreement for consultant services social worker Alandre de la Cruz. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Saki. >> Thank you. So through the mental health demonstration
031grant US department of education we had written in into the scope of work uh to uh recruit uh social work interns. They're called MSW interns masters of social work interns from local colleges. We haveus with both California State University Northridge as well as USC University of Southern California. And so we have a fieldwork student coming to us and through this grant we provide them a stipend of per semester of 2000 for their time being spent here to provide additional services of mental health supports to our students. And this if approved would provide that $2,000 stipen coming to the candidate and that 2,000 comes out sorry 1,500 uh comes out from the mental health demonstration grant and not from general funds. Thank you. >> Thank you. Discussion. Call the question. >> Ma, >> Brianna Tony I.
032>> Mask on I. >> Subject D. Approval agreement for transportation consultant services Lisa Patterson not to exceed 30,000. A motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Dr. Hakin. >> Thank you. Um Kai, would you like to take this one? >> Thank you. Yes. Um, this is a contract renov. In addition to that, she also train new potential employees that are interested in becoming a bus driver as well. I don't for she charges $75 an hour. So, I don't foresee us going up to 30,000 and maybe 10,000. Gives us flexibility to um we're going to train new employees to become bus drivers. >> Thank you, Mr. Win. >> Thank you. Discussion. >> Call the question. >> Maze. >> Brianna Tony. I >> mask on I. >> Subject E. Approval of the contract with the Los Angeles
033County Office at Education Best Advantage and HRS system. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Sakin. >> Thank you. So the 80 81 school districts that LEGO supports throughout LA County is move have have been moving um in succession to a new platform for payroll and HR purposes and this is request for um approval for the contract with LEO for best advantage and HRS systems. Mr. W. Yes, this is the annual subscription where LEO provides our financial system, human resource system as well as our position control as well as our legacy system. HRS is an is a system that they manage our financial and human resources >> discussion. >> Is this replacing a different contract since we're moving to a new or is this in addition to anything? This is the same contract that
034we renew every single year. So, it's really no difference. They just added the um HCM, position control, human resources, and um the financial piece. >> Yes. >> So, the system's new, but the contract is not >> correct. >> The payment's not cool. >> Call the question. May I >> Brianna Tony? I >> mask on I. Subject F. Purchase of combi oven, steam oven and installation of electrical circuit. >> Motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Hawin. >> Thank you. This will be for our Metallark Elementary site uh funding coming through our cafeteria fund. Mr. Win. >> Yes. Thank you, Chalkin. Um this is to purchase the Cumbi oven for me elementary school so that they can do scratch cooking so they could warm up their food. It's $35,511 for the Comi oven. and
035then $6,000 to install a new electrical circuit for the Comi oven. >> Discussion. >> So, this is just an oven, not a cooktop. Just >> isn't Yeah, >> that's an oven. Okay. So, it doesn't need any kind of hood vent systems or No. Okay. >> Call the question. Mi Brianna Mask on. Subject D, purchase of Chromebooks. Get a motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. Dr. Hawking. >> Thank you. So, the culprit's actually sitting in the back, Mr. Hosia, for this expansive district. Kidding. Levity side. Uh, but I need to thank it um and Mr. Wen in terms of keeping tabs with the influx of students that have come our way to the district, which is a positive thing. Along with that comes additional equipment that's needed, and that includes our Chromebooks. Mr. win. >>
036Thank you, Jeff Sak. And um yeah, this with the increase of like what Dr. Dr. Sakin mentioned, with the increase in number of new students that we have and the end of life of the Chromebooks that we have, we just need to do a refresh cycle of the new of the Chromebooks. >> Understood discussion. How many is that going to be? >> So the cost the total cost for 100 Chromebooks >> 100. >> Yes, sir. I think it was before you got there, but we actually reviewed um their replacement cycles within the >> Yeah, the number out there. >> So, it's good that they're on a nice cycle to replace instead of trying to do one every do them all every or do them all at once. So, that's good. Uh call the question. >>
037Ma, >> Brianna, Tony, I >> mask on. I subject H. Consideration of adopting resolution 2025 26.01. 01 temporary interfund cash borrowing for fiscal year 2025 2020 or motion. >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Dr. Sakin. >> Thank you. Uh I'll defer to Mr. to explain >> this is normal practice for a lot of school districts where it allows us to borrow or transfer funds from fund 17 to fund one fund one to fund 17. Um I don't we're not going to be using it but in the event where we do then it allows us the flexibility to borrow funds if we need to >> discuss. Will you notify us when that happens? >> Oh for sure. Yes. >> Call the question. Ma >> Brianna Tony I. >> Mask on I. Item 12, board policies
038and administrative regulations. Subject A, board policy and administrative regulation for district residency, new BP511.1 and updated AR5111.1 first read. >> Thank you. Um, bear with me. There's quite a bit of notes here that I have, so I'm just going to read it verbatim. So for the board policy and administrative regs for district residency, the recommended language updated provided by CSBA includes additional language of establishing district residency requirements for enrollment purposes, additional language regarding residency based on parent guardian guardian employment. Once a student establishes res residency based on the criterias outlined, they are not required to reapply for enrollment in the following years. Additional language for acceptable documentation such as student residency in in the home of a caregiver. An affidavit executed by the caregiver is sufficient documentation to verify residency. In addition, if a parent
039is in a safe at home program and requires a substitute address to be used by the district, district shall comply and accept that substitute address for any and all correspondences to student, parent, guardian, caregiver. Thank you. >> Discussion. >> Is this a net new policy or is it an update to existing? >> Update to an existing Call the question. May I? >> Brianna Tony I. >> Mask on I. >> Oh, that was a first read. That was first read. >> Uh, board policy for attendance boundaries BP5116. First read. >> Thank you. Um, if there is a need to review school attendance boundaries, the superintendent shall consider the following items. school enrollment data, feeder patterns in terms of metriculation, the programs at each and every school site, student safety, and this is just to name a
040few. If we do change boundaries for schools, um that typically applies to if we have multiple middle schools, multiple elementary schools, and where they would feed from, if we have to redesate the boundaries and redraw the boundaries, but given our size, that doesn't nec necessarily apply to us. >> Discussion So >> this doesn't apply to our total boundaries. >> No, for >> within our own our current boundaries. >> Correct. >> Subject C. Board policy and administrative regulation for intrais intra district open enrollment BP5116.1 and AR50 5116.1. First read. >> Thank you. So we don't necessarily issue intradist permits. We issue interd district permits. Interd district permits um receive students districts receive students from neighboring school districts. Intra is movement from school site to school site within the same school uh school district. So that would
041apply if we had multiple elementary sites, multiple middle, multiple high. Um so that doesn't necessarily um apply to us. However, the updated uh language provided by CSBA provides additional parameters for enrollment of a student in in to another district school site. So they just outline additional parameters if a student will move from site to site within the same school district. >> Discussion item 13, board comments, Mr. Mayers. >> All right. Well, welcome everybody back to school. Um, welcome Ken. >> Ken, you're just in time for board comments. Would you would you like Uh, thank you ladies for coming and uh letting us know what's going on. Very much appreciate it. Um, I'm helping Heather with Active Fire Wise, so that'll be something that should help with this whole thing as well. So, thank you all.
042We'll roll back, >> Mr. Fkott. >> Thank you. Let record show whatever time I walked in the door. Um, three things. >> Um, first off, I'd like to thank the fire department who came in and mopped up Crown Valley or or Shannon Valley with whatever that fire was. Um, I found it really odd that they could schedule 747 tankers and god knows what and get that fire out before it jumped over the hill and into anniversar because there was six cars on a trailer that the name Los Angeles County Fire Department who could exercise that level expertise could not put out six battery fires on a car on a on a on a truck. That's amazing to me. There's a lot between the lines there. So, I'm not going to mess up this meeting. Next
043thing I went to the um Analopee Valley SAPA kickoff of the community action or community advisory committee community advisory committee meeting the other night. It was a kickoff where all kinds of people who offer all kinds of services for special education children ranging from birth identification uh regional center services. And if you are a special ed parent and you feel alone or overwhelmed, there is a a whole whole group. We have a fine CAC a district rep here. Um I believe everyone met the new direction team at the Analopee Valley SULPA in our meeting. They were here to show there's a lot in front of things before Elizabeth's mental health team uh steps in. And so from the time you're born in this community until the time you're ready to go out in the world
044and if you're never ready, that's okay, too. But they were there. Um, and I hope they show up at one of our campuses pretty soon. Maybe Little Owls or something and just have coffee with everybody. And um, okay, I'm going to be good. Uh last night I went to a meeting and it sounded like a violent confessional a little bit and I think people understood that when you are stuck in your office and you have all kinds of gadgets that tell you what the weather is going to be and um you can't just explain to people that when they put the power lines over the mountain up there in 1927 or whatever They didn't figure out that maybe we should come over the mountain here and split and then come down the hill and then
045come down the hill somewhere else and loop it together like you do with your sprinkler system in your yard just in case one valve go. I mean, this is stuff that our team does on the football field irrigation system. So, we can't do that. So, we have um some kind of sensor on the planet Pluto or something and that says And so then we shut the whole world down. And um my concern is that you know um I I like had to scold people for how to behave at a meeting. Think about that. Right. But I I think the community did really what good to say, hey, you know, we can't do nothing with rotten food. we can't run our businesses out of town. And there was just this weird distance. I'm a government employee,
046so I know what it what it's like to be responsible. But there was almost this dismissive thing about I don't care about your business. I don't care about your community. And I reminded them that we didn't need much resilience planning when we were mining the Red Rover mine in 1854. There was no signal or anything like that. But what I did want to stress to them is when we take and shut down our schools without warning and we have people and I went on a Title N speech if somebody recorded it. There's a certain group of people that look different than me and there's one of them up here or two and there's four that don't. It seems that that group gets punished because they're the ones that got to go pick up the kids.
047They're the ones that are not there when the kids are gone. So, I don't even want to go there. But I see it at work. Oh, you're not reliable. You're always out with your kids. And it starts there and then it turns into I can't go to work. I'm out. I'm out and acting. I I'm And it's just this disruptive thing that interrupts the continuum of our district. It interrupts the continuum of education. There are kids in the school district that need every every day reinforcement of something they've learned 10 days ago to get it. And when you get these gaps of two and three days, excuse me. And these people are left over here going, should we do it? Remember the board meeting we had with the with the the lantern? I did a
048YouTube video. It's awesome. But we did a lantern board meeting because there was no power. something. It's like if you're going to do all this resiliency planning, then put your money into putting generators in at the community center, at our community center, at the schools, and and make sure that the community has a place to go. I mean, when my daughter died, this whole community come on glued to make sure one person was okay. But don't sit up there and tell us about why it was justified that you turned our power off because of something that happened 47 miles from here. And when you finally drug up out of bed in the morning and got in your helicopter, you could figure out that, oh, it's not windy. We knew it was windy. And I don't
049think some of the people that were at that meeting that's lived here for 60 years, I think they know what windy means. So I would hope that the work that's been done by the subcommittee, the facilities and finance committee, this district has done its part. They talked about do we have the money to do a generator. I think you guys talked about that. I think you talked about where your budget is, all your projects, all the measurables that got done. And so when they're left to do nothing, then it gets handed over to Paula and her education subcommittee and they're trying to figure out how do we have a continuum of education because somebody can't call us and say, "Hey guys, the lights are going to go off." I think we've got uh presumptive and
050and uh I I don't know the word. I There's a couple words that come to mind, but I won't say them tonight. um just presumptive and dismissive. And sometimes we forget, you know, when we're running our program that there are people out there that actually suffer, people that don't get promoted because they're the ones that always have to take care of the kids. There's all that. So, um if if you're out there, um I reminded everyone that when you give away your power as a public agency and you start subcontracting things out, whether it's power or um tree trimming or whatever it is, you you come at the whim of the market and I want resiliency in this town. So, if someone could could we reach out and at least have those people talk to
051our subcommittee and understand what our subcommittee's goals are. But I do not want this to be some freeforall uh in this room where everybody's freaking out these people. So, all they have to do is say, "Well, rednecks in acting. All they want to do is be angry." No, we we don't want to be angry. We just want our kids to come out of this district and we want our parents to be employed and we want okay food in the fridge. We're pretty simple people. Thanks guys, >> Mr. Ton. >> Thank you. Um so first of all, welcome back to school. Um I think we've started off with a bang. Dr. Sahin, do you have our enrollment numbers? Yes. 1,120. >> And that's up from last year this time, right? >> That's correct. By 60. >>
052That's awesome. Um I did go to the Anal Valley Schoolboard Association um executive meeting this week and I believe that there's us and one other district in the valley that are up in enrollment. Everybody else is down. and um they were talking about trying to get information if we needed to close schools, if we needed to, you know, downsize employees and that sort of thing. And our district has been there in the past where we have had to have those hard discussions. Um and it was it felt really good to not be in that position. So, um, just kudos to every single person that's involved in bringing students in and retaining the students that we have. Um, and that comes from the top all the way all the way down. And that's having great students,
053great families to and you know, great programs to make people want to stay in our district and to make people want to come to our district. Um, so that was very cool. Um, we are having our AV SBA education summit. Um, so that's open to our board members to go. I will go. Um, and I would love for you guys to join me and Dr. Sakin. I would love for our whole board to show up. It would be very cool. It's at Lancaster High School. um on September 23rd, 6:00, we kind of get a state of the um like a state of the school board um presentation and also reps from CSBA, California Schoolboard Association will be there and we've kind of given them suggestions on the topics that we would like to hear. So
054they will be covering um a range of topics. Also the president of the California Schoolboard Association comes out for the day whether she stays at um the night before or comes out that morning. Um and they go on a bus tour. So our whole school board is welcome to join in on this bus tour. Um our state representatives will be there. They mentioned um I believe Susette Valaderas is a confirmed that she's going to go and then um the other ones uh Whitesides and Lackey and Katherine Barger and Juan Coreo have all said that they um they plan on attending but they're not set in stone. So um a lot of state representatives and um the CSBA president and representatives from all of our school boards across the valley will go on a bus tour.
055Um they're talking about going to two of the special needs schools that houses um students from all of our districts. Um and then also visiting CTE. So I was going to email um Nancy Smith and let her know what CTE programs we have out here that differ from out there. I know we have the only culinary program. Um and also I was going to highlight our construction program. Um, so I didn't want to send that out until I got feedback from the board or Dr. Sahakian on what would be great to kind of push to get that bus to come out to our school. Not a promise of course because there's lots of schools, but um I think we have something great here to show off. So I would like to do that. Um, so
056anyway, if you guys want to go on the bus tour, let me know or let Nancy know. I can RSVP for you or that is on September 23rd. So, we don't have the time of the bus tour yet, but yeah, she comes out, she does a whole bus tour um of the valley, of different schools, and then we do the >> this campus reopening is a big deal. >> Okay. Shoot me a text and let me know how I can give me some pointers um so I can sell it. Um so, that is that. I would love for you guys to come and hang out. I'm always by myself, so when I go to these meetings, I just I just sit alone. So, come hang out with me. Um, our fall sports have kicked off
057football last week. Um, their home opener. I heard I missed a fantastic game. I'm so sad I missed it, but I had other stuff going on. So, um, hoping to get out to to all of the rest of our home games, but kudos to football and our football team and our coaches and our families. and they're playing right now right tonight. And then um so good luck to them and I know that our other fall sports have kicked off with a bang. Um kudos to our high desert sports cuz in the past year, two years, three years, our our Vasquez sports continue to build and we're winning more and we're getting more championships and there's so much excitement at Vasquez. Um, and I do think that's because our high desert sports are growing and growing
058and the effort that it takes to keep our junior high sports going. Um, is really showing now that all of the students at Vasquez had the opportunity to play in junior high. It's really it's paying off. So, um, I know High Desert is doing the extra effort to like volleyball. Silver League doesn't have the JV volleyball and High Desert High Desert is the only junior high that is continuing to have JV volleyball. Um, and they're they're playing in two different leagues essentially um just to be able to let our younger kids play. And I think that that is fantastic. They don't have to do that. We have our program, we have our silver league, and our varsity teams are playing, but they're just going above and beyond to let those JV players play. And that's
059huge. And they're the only ones in the valley that are doing that and really finding places and teams for them to play against and going down to Santa Clarita and that sort. And um just huge kudos to that whole campus and the sports teams and the families that are making those different drives. Um and that's that. Thank you. Yeah, I I couldn't agree with you more on the sports teams. They do so much for our kids. I can't tell you what it's done for my boys. Just giving them that outlet of something to do. And uh the football game at Beverly Hills didn't stand a chance against Vasquez. >> 51. We got a safety. This is 51. 21. This is last weekend. >> I don't remember unpleasant things. >> Um, so welcome back everyone and,
060uh, you know, as Briana noted to all our new families, uh, welcome aboard and welcome to the school district. Uh, we're thrilled that we've been able to accomplish this this year and hopefully there's just more to come. I think Dr. Sakin said he was going to do it every year. Yeah. Uh, one of the things that I got to see um, as I was leaving work, I came by and there was all these cars at the district office and it then it realized that this is a thriving campus again and there's traffic and there's people picking up their kids and all those things and it was just wonderful to see like the life in here. But it it made me want to ask a question. All the other campuses have a name. What was the
061name of this school when it was it was just Actton School? >> Actton School Longhorns. So, um it needs a name. It needs to be >> Well, we kept to the L, but we changed it to Little Owls. >> Is it the whole thing? Little L's. That's the name of the campus. >> Learning Owls Learning uh Little Owls Learning Center. Okay. >> L O LC. >> And that's for the whole for TK through >> TK through K. >> Okay. >> Mhm. All right. So what do we So it's Little Owls is the campus name. >> Yes. >> Kind of doesn't quite roll up. >> Little Owls. >> Yeah. Go for a campus name for the name of the the site. >> Oh, >> it's still like a district office. >> All right. >> I know.
062It's it's it's subjective. >> Yeah. >> Well, we call it the DO every time. So, is it >> Well, we're we're the DO. Sometimes we're running around like little owls or flying around like little owls. But that's l >> um but again welcome back everyone and uh thank you for all the effort that got us to this moment as does take every year and uh that's all I have. Thank you. Calendar we have an upcoming board meeting on >> September 11th. Any issues with that date for anyway? >> No. future agenda items. I think we'll have the uh information session on the virtual learning academy. That would be great. And with that uh can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll move. >> I'll second. >> Call the question. >> I may. >> Brianna
063Tony I. We adjourn the special board meeting at 5:28