001calling a meeting to order. Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. I would like to invite student board member Noel Loff to lead us in the black salute. Following the flag salute, please remain standing for a moment of silence for former employees Deanna Hill and Dan Dutinson. Please stand. Place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Deanna Hill was an English teacher who served across various school sites. She started her career in our district in 1968 at LOL High School and and when that school closed in 1980, she moved to La Harbor High School. Deanna also worked at both Fullerton Union
002High School, Buena Park High School until 1996. She finished her career at Sunny Hills High School where she served from 1996 until her retirement in 2004. Over more than three decades, Deanna inspired generations of students with love of language and learning. Her passion for teaching and deep dedication to education left a lasting mark on our school and in the hearts of those who knew her. Dan Duncinson, a cherished former member of our school community who recently passed away at the age of 73. Dan served at Lo Sierra School faithfully since uh 2013 as a teachers aid and a campus supervisor, dedicating years of care, guidance, and support to our students and staff. He retired in May 2020, but his presence brought warmth, patience, and steady commitment to helping others thrive both in and out of
003the classroom. Prior to joining the district as a campus supervisor and instructional aid, Dan served for many years at a varsity assistant football coach at Sunny Hills High School. Dan's infectious enthusiasm and love of the game made him a favorite among his fellow coaches and players alike. Sympathy and support are offered to the families and friends of Deanna Hill and Dan Duncinson. You may be seated. Board members met in close session discuss the following. Student expulsion, employee discipline, confidential pupil matters and discipline, public employee evaluation, conference and labor negotiation. Board members discuss student expulsion declaration of finding and recommendation of confidential pupil uh expulsion report 2425 number 11. Is there a motion to approve the student expulsion deliberation of finding recommendation of a confidential pupil expuls expulsion report 2425 on 11. Any discussion? Call for
004vote. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed 5. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of April 8th, 2025 board meeting? Second. Any discussion? Noel, would you like to cast a preferential vote? I approve. All those in favor say I. I. I 50 Z do board members correspondence they would like to share student board member I would like to invite Noel to give her final school student board member report. Following your report I would like to invite you up to the podium for a special recognition as you finish your tenure as student board member. Thank you. Good evening superintendent Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, members of the board, and distinguished guests. This will be my student board member report for the month of May. It's hard to believe school year is already
005coming to an end, and with it time as student board members. Serving in this role has been an amazing experience, and I've been able to see firsthand the impactful work you all do as educators, leaders, and advocates for students. With that being said, I want to thank all the dedicated teachers, staff, administration, classified employees, and more for your commitment to our students in our district. As the year winds down, AP season is slowly wrapping up and graduation festivities are right around the corner. Our very last student advisory council meeting was held on April 9th at Fullerton High School, where we celebrated both our incoming and outgoing ASB executive boards and wrapped up our year-long SACE theme of together. Our student advisor council council also interviewed and selected our incoming student board member and SACE vice
006chairman who I'm very excited to introduce later on this evening. Now for our school reports. La Habra has been busy with end of the year festivities for next year's ASB class. They've recently hosted fundraisers such as soak a staff member and held a three-day college commitment celebration to honor senior seniors heading to heading to universities, trade schools, and more. Family, friends, and Highlander faculty loveing their class of 2025. La Habra is also launching an event called Highlander Highlights to recognize outstanding athletic achievements. Fullton is up for graduation with senior sunset, senior awards nights, and other fun events. Their ASB celebrated teacher appreciation week by personally delivering goodie bags to every single teacher on their campus. Their commitment week had over a 100 participating students and they are ending their year with their Fullerton Festival and
007final assembly battle of the classes featuring water games out on the football fields with over 120 student participants. Sunny Hills is finishing up their year strong with an end of the year this Friday with free food trucks, bounce houses, arcade games, music, and more. The Lancers boys tennis team advanced to the quarterfinals and their boys swim team broke a school record at their last meet. ASV partnered with the Sunny Hills thrifting club to host a show in their quad promoting sustainability and they just celebrated collegebound athletes on signing day. This month Sierra Le Vista held their 1920s prom on May 2nd. Their ASV honored staff, teachers, bus drivers, and campus police officers with handmade appreciation posters. a field trip to Disneyland where they attended an imaging campus master class on teamwork. To wrap up the
008year, L Vista is celebrating their senior graduates with senior countdown posters, breakfast, and more. Over to the Raiders, Sonora is finishing strong with an end of the year day featuring games, food trucks, and food trucks for their to celebrate the year. Over 45 seniors took part in their college signing day and one of their newer events, spring fiesta, was a where Sonora's ASB partnered with the language department and Hispanic Heritage Club to host dance that made ESL students feel especially seen and included. Next, our Troy Warriors kicked off month by celebrating teacher appreciation week where their students made over 115 posters for every teacher and staff member. They also hosted a mental health awareness week. Their ASB passed out small gifts with kind handwritten affirmations. Their ASB organized a milk and cookies giveaway to encourage
009their activity in the five-star app and will wrap up their year with the annual lip dub battle and a series of exciting seniors. Last but not least, Buena Park wrapped up their school year spring sports assembly and recently held new event called Quadella featuring performances by their band orchestra and their ASB celebrated a wide range of appreciation taking the time to thank the food service workers, faculty, and more. Next, Buena Park will be celebrating their senior's very last week of school with a fun spirit week to close out year. Thank you. And this concludes my May and my final student board member report. Thank you. Can you proceed to the Thank you. Well, thank you, President Calhoun, member of the board, and Dr. As you are all aware now, this is Noel's final student board
010member meeting. So, I have a few words and a few gifts uh regarding Noel. Is with great pride and admiration that we recognize our except Noel Lyoff for her outstanding accomplishments this year. First, Noel has done a remarkable job academically and artistically. She has been accepted into the prestigious music school both USC and UCLA and is going to neither. Noel will be attending Lipkcom University in Nashville, Tennessee where she has been awarded a full ride scholarship. There she pursue a double major in songwriting and music industry. A true testament to her passion, dedication, and her talent. Noel was also selected as a college scholarship recipient by both the KM Legacy Foundation and the Assistant League of Fullerton, organizations that rec students with exceptional promise and character. You can stand a little. We're recognizing you. In
011addition to her academic and musical pursuits, Noel recently received a nomination for the J Ray Theater Awards as a candidate for the Broadway Actors Alliance Scholarship for her captivating performance as Donna and Mama Mia. Noel, we are incredibly proud of your achievements and grateful for your service as student board member. Your talent, drive, and leadership are truly inspiring, and we look forward to the incredible things you will accomplish in the future. Let's give a round of applause for [Applause] Noel. Few gifts. First, there is a plaque that is displayed in our boardroom with all house student board members. Noel's name has been added to the plaque. You can see here it will be hanging on this wall over. You don't have to keep it, but you can look at it. We also want to formally
012recognize you and the work you've accomplished as the 2425 student board member and the board, the superintendent. I will present with a proclamation. This you get to keep. Thank you. I'll take that. This proclamation expresses our appreciation for the student insight you have provided to the board and your positive leader of the student leaders throughout the district. We also have a certificate of recognition from the county of Orange from the office of Jud Chaffy Board of Supervisors fourth district. This is for you. You're welcome. Your hands are getting full. And in this bag, Noel, are a few things. There are some cards from some folks who wanted to write a personal message to you. We also have a sweatshirt. Have Would you like me to hold that? Lip scum. Yes. Like Oh my gosh, that
013is so and a stole. Oh my goodness. That you will wear. I am so excited. Yes, you have with your hands full. There's your bag that you can put your stuff in. Um, so let's give Noah a round of applause for all her great work. Oh my god, I'm so excited for you. The board and I send our best wishes with you as you continue your education to Lipk University, right? We hope we hope have a we hope we have special memories of your time with us. We certainly have special memories of you and your contribution to Thank you so much, Noel. I just want to say, you know, a singer, so you go rock, you go rock them. It's going to be so much fun. Just time because it goes super super fast. So,
014just go and go rock Tennessee. Board me, would you like to say a few words? Go ahead. Well, certainly, Noel, uh we wish you all the all the best in your future in college. My son and my granddaughter are in Nashville right now. They should go visit your college if they I thought to tell them. Anyway, I you've been a wonderful student board member and I understand you've put in place with the superintendent some wonderful things moving ahead for the future members of the and I love seeing you perform. I think Mama Mia was like the highlight of my year. You were you were amazing. So, thank you and the best. Thank you. So Noel, I just want to say congratulations again and next to you and it was fun to hear about your plans
015and also your accomplishments that you've already had and uh you guys should check her out on because she's already quite accomplished and that's just the beginning. So it is super exciting that you were able to spend some time with for our students and your idea has been know greatly appreciated by this board. So again, thank you so much and congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, echoing what everybody said, Noel, um really uh appreciate your input, uh your enthusiasm. As everyone said, each student board member gets a chance to leave a mark, not just on the plaque on the wall, um but throughout the year. And uh in the last few uh months, Noel has been working with Dr. Zener and I. So I'm going to tease something up because most of you will probably leave it break.
016come back and watch later um because Noel is going to be presenting um some some items for the board to consider that will transform really how student board members are seen in the district uh how they're might be compensated uh and as well as how we're going to be onboarding and shephering them in in new ways. And so um for me a true uh uh mark of a leader is what sustains when you're gone. um and a absent of their name on the wall. Uh there could be a legacy moment uh pending board approval um in a few weeks u but really exceptional work. Congratulations as a USC grad. It's okay. Um follow your dream and take the money and run. So uh thanks for all your work, Noel. All right. Thank you. Noel, would
017you like to say a few words and introduce your family? Yes. Um thank you for all of those kind words. Those really um meant a lot. Uh, and I just want to take a moment to say thank you to every single one of you that I've worked with this year. It has truly been experience to represent student voice at this level and I would say it's been one of the best experiences of my past four years of high school. So, um, it's just really been inspiring to see your dedication to students and to education. Um, and it's just really inspiring to me. And I want to say some thank yous to Dr. Zener. He has been a huge cheerleader and support of mine throughout this whole year. He's been the backbone to almost everything that
018I've done. And so to you, Dr. Mclofflin, for um really listening to my ideas these past few months and really supporting me in that. It has been really encouraging. Um, and I'm really excited for the presentation tonight. And just to the board, uh it's been really great to uh sit at the table with you guys this year and you have been so encouraging and sweet to me and I have really loved every moment that I get to see you every month. Um and to Oscar back there, Oscar, I have to say thank you to you. He's my partner in crime. Um it's really just been amazing to work with you and he has been my support throughout this whole year. So, thank you to all those people. And I will introduce my family. My whole
019family is here tonight. My dad is here. My mom is here. Um, my younger brother Ethan is here. And my older brother Braden is also here. And my boyfriend Lincoln is also here. Wave. There we go. Um, so thank you all for being here. Um, and just yes, I'm very grateful for every single one of you and I will miss seeing you all every month at these meetings. So, thank you. [Applause] You know, Noah, we broadcast these so when you go to college, you can watch it once a month so you don't have to miss them. We're still online. Perfect. I will. Okay. Yay. Oscar. Oscar served as our 2425 SACE vice chair and worked along our student board member Noel to help coordinate meetings and active advisory council. Oscar also finished the year as
020the ASB executive treasurer at Troy High School where he saw the campus improvement project he began last year come to life, benefiting countless students. Some of his proudest moments this year include competing in a new wrestling league with his best friends and organizing. Hold this up. Oscar Fresh Drexel [Music] and you get a cord down. So, if we could give Oscar a round of applause, please. He's been an exceptional SACE chair. I want to thank both Noel and Oscar for their incredible leadership. They are quite the team. They've been a positive influence throughout the year. Their energy, their insight, and their leadership have elevated our student voice across our district, and we are grateful for their time and heart they and heart they have devoted to this work. And now it is time to meet
021their replacements. So, as we know, we have about 12,000 students in this district. and we had 25 applicants and then we got it down to 10 students we interviewed and as always these were incredibly competitive and difficult decision in the end and to introduce the new student board member for 2526 I'd like to bring Noel back up to introduce our new student okay so our new student board member I we all obviously were extremely impressed with her and I'm super excited for her next year. She will be the uh executive ASB president at Sonora and she is currently on the varsity volleyball team also at Sonora. So, let's welcome up Ariana [Applause] Machado. I'd like to sincerely thank my mom and dad for their unwavering support in my life. I would also want to give
022thanks to the teachers and administration at Sonora High School for their guidance and also a special thank you to Noel for her outstanding leadership and mentorship this year. I'm really excited and honored to be working alongside the district board of trustees, superintendent, and district administration. Mostly I'm proud to represent all the students of our district. Thank you and have a lovely night. Congratulations, Ariana. And now I'd like to bring Oscar to the podium to introduce our new SACE vice chair. Hi. Thank you. Um, this person is someone I got to know this year as Fullerton's ASB president and I'm very glad to say that she'll be returning to Fullerton as her as their vice president. And she was also on uh varsity cheer, but she will also be returning to Fullerton this year as the
023Fullerton Joint Union High School District's SEC vice chair. So, please give a warm welcome to Audrina Gomez. [Applause] Hello everyone. I'm Audrina. Um, I'm super honored to, um, hold this position next year and I'm super excited to be a voice for all seven campuses in our district. Um, tonight with me, I have my family, uh, my friends, as well as my boyfriend. Um, they are truly my biggest supporters, and I would not be here without them. I'm looking forward to next school year, and I'm so excited to work alongside all of you guys, as well as Ariana. Um, so yeah, thank you, and I'm super excited for the next school year. [Applause] I would like to welcome Ariana and Adrina, now known as double A, and state that they will both be sworn in as
024the 25 at the 2526 August board meeting and Ariana will give her first school report at the September board meeting. If we give these four wonderful people a round of applause and we'll take a picture. [Applause] switched right. Okay. Um Steve pres uh would you like to call on I would like to call on stu um the superintendent to introduce the principles to give their school report. Thank you Dr. Calhoun members of the board. Um let's start start with uh La Habar High School sitting in for Mr. Garcia who had a a personal uh event to support his own children tonight. So we have recent new doctor uh congratulations Mr. MSAS Dr. MS assistant principal Dr. Msas. Thank you Dr. Mclofflin President Calhoun and members of the board. Last week, we had the privilege of
025celebrating teacher appreciation week, honoring our exceptional staff for their dedication and impact. Thanks to the thoughtful e efforts of NHS and ASB, our teachers were treated to an unforgettable week that included a breakfast bread, taco lunch, ice cream, and a candy buffet, as well as heartfelt cards and notes from our students and families. It was a powerful reminder of the deep appreciation our community holds for its educators. Academically, we are incredibly proud of our top 25 graduating seniors who have collectively earned over 250 college acceptances and been awarded more than $2 million in scholarships and grants. Among them, Casey Epalito has been We also celebrated 16 student athletes who signed letters of intent to compete at the collegiate level. An outstanding accomplishment that reflects years of dedication and hard work. In athletics, we applaud our
026boys tennis and boys golf teams who qualify service, community colleges, Cal State universities, UC's, private colleges, and out of state universities with over 100 students participating joined by their family, staff, and peers. It was a moving celebration filled for the future. Special thanks to Ashley Forroso and Marina Raina, our outstanding guidance technicians for their planning and coordination. Our high arts academy continues to shine. This past weekend, our dance program delivered two stunning performances titled Pure Love, marking the final shows of Mrs. Ross's incredible 37-year career as our beloved dance teacher. We thank her for her unwavering commitment to our students and the arts. This week, High Arts will host its annual Spring Vision Arts Showcase, and our choir will take the stage with their concert, Blooming Ballads, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in our performing
027arts center. We invite you to join us for one more night of student excellence in the performing arts. As we approach the end of the school year, our seniors are in the final stretch, completing AP exams, preparing for finals, and looking forward to yearbook distribution. Their last few weeks are filled with celebration, including lunch food trucks, grad night at Universal Studios, and of course, the ultimate milestone graduation happening on Wednesday, May 28th. Thank you. And this concludes my report. Thank you, Dr. MSAS. From L Vista Liiera Schools, Mrs. Leyona. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, members of the board. This has been a month for recognitions in the Lions Pride starting with the Lev Vista Lassiiera employees of the year, Frank Malara, Isa Ramirez, Stefan Flores, and Kate later in the meeting. Other recognitions include
028Le Vista receiving the model continuation high school award at the California Continuation Education Association celebration aboard the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier in San Diego two weeks ago. Also at this event, La Vista Data Techch, Maria Azoretta was named the Continuation High School classified employee of the year for region 1 in celebration of her 25 years of amazing service at La Vista High School. Next, on April 23rd, adult transition teacher and department chair Charlotte Dobbins was honored as the Selpa Awards at the Selpa Awards as a 2025 rising star in honor of her transformational adult transition leadership in Orange County and the success of her class's micro business cafe TP. Then last week, L Vista math teacher Dr. Dr. Al Rabanera was selected as the 2025 outstanding STEM educator on behalf of the Orange County Department
029of Education's OC STEM initiative. He was recognized for his personal characteristics as an educator as well as his science, technology, engineering, art, and math contribution to the students at L Vista La Sierra. And finally, we were that we are receiving a $46,000 Phelps grant for our sports program. And I want to express my gratitude for the tremendous support Le Vista Lassier has received from the Phelps Foundation over the years. For all these reasons and more, I am incredibly proud to be a part of this pride. Thank you. And that concludes our report. Thank you, Mrs. Leyona from Troy High School. Dr. Minster. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, and members of the board. Currently, Troy High School is in full swing with the external measurements of student achievement with our Cambridge IB and AP exams.
030The bulk of the exams will be done by May 23rd with 4,100 AP exams making up the majority, but we still have some Cambridge IB and makeup AP exams to wrap up after that. Last week was teacher appreciation week as our student board member mentioned earlier. Um, Wednesday and Thursday, our ASB created and delivered more than 115 individualized posters for our teachers. Our ASB also had posters in quad and celebrating our teachers. Um, also on Thursday were our PTSA working with admin and principal secretary Miss Williams to decorate the staff lounge and create one of the most amazing Portos Bakery and coffeefueled break times ever for teacher appreciation week. Last but not least, every teachers box. In every teacher's box was a Troy Warriors t-shirt courtesy of our PTSA. Yesterday, we also received some great
031news regarding making our city street safer for everyone. Two Troy students, Maline I and Katie Chen, were recognized for their film submissions within LA County in the Streets, Arts, and Safe Film Competition. Maddie and Katie both won Orange County Regional Awards for their public service announcements projects in the following categories: best silver PSA, a working life by Maline I. Best Bronze PSA, Distracted to Destruction by Katie Chen. Best research and accuracy of stats and/or facts, a working life by Maline I. and then best pedestrian safety, distracted to destruction by Katie Chen. I'll include links to their award-winning projects in Friday's Warrior Weekly. Lastly, our class of 2025 is that much closer to graduation, and we are in final preparation for our graduation celebration ceremony on May 29th. This is a great graduating class and they
032will have a lot to celebrate as we reflect upon their accomplishments and bright future. Thank you. And this concludes my report. Thank you, Dr. Minister. From Sunny Hills High School, Mr. Wenrich. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin. Good evening, President Calhoun and members of the board. Let me begin by congratulating Noel and her time here as the student board member and wish her nothing but the best next year at Lipkcom. As we entered into May, we've been celebrating our Lancers in many different ways. First, we recognized our validictorians for not be more proud of all of their accomplishments here on the hills. Their futures are very bright. Then, we recognized our academic excellence award winners who are students who achieved an overall 4.0 0 GPA in a blend of honors and college prep classes. Next, our second
033annual reclassification ceremony sponsored by our amazing ELAC and Hispanic parent outreach parents was a huge success as we celebrated several students for being reclassified this year. Then our PTSA held their fir their final exceptional effort and engagement award ceremony of the year for over 40 students who were recognized by staff members for their pursuit of knowledge, creativity, and innovation and their community building efforts. Tomorrow night will be our annual Lancer Awards ceremony, followed by our annual conservatory of the fine arts laurate ceremony on Thursday night honoring all of our senior visual and performing arts students. Lastly, with the help of our PTSA parents, we had an outstanding time celebrating our amazing teaching staff for teacher appreciation week with empanadas, a taco cart, and many other goodies. Thank you to all of our amazing Lancer teachers
034for a great school year. Next stop, graduation. On the athletics front, uh the Lancer spring sports seasons have almost completed, but there have been many highlights for our teams. This spring saw boys golf, boys volleyball, girls track, and girls swim all take league championships, giving Sunny Hills the most league championships in the entire Century Conference this year. What an amazing accomplishment for our athletic programs to maintain this kind of success as we transition to our new conference. In CIF, boys volleyball lost a tough first round matchup with Mission Viejo, while boys tennis made it all the way to the third round before falling to a tough team from Kate. Individually though, several of our athletes also were able to set new school records this year. In track, this included Mia Gonzalez and Maline Sudter, Mo
035Ibraham, and Joseph Hudac, as well as our girls 4x100 relay team. In swim, the girls 200 freestyle relay team and boys 200 relay uh medley team also set new records at CIF finals, while Evelyn Granis qualified for the CIF state competition in the 500. The boys swim team also finished fourth overall in division three. Finally, in boys golf, as our team moved into the central regional CIF finals, both Caleb Kim and Cole Kim qualified for CIF individual championships. What a year it's been for Lancer athletics. Finally, I want to congratulate all of our Lancer retirees this year. Bob Bradburn, Regina Brody, Myra Dyster, Veronica Deutsch, Jeff Gordon, Greg Del Carrenelli, Tommy Lee, Terresa Mccardi, and Chris Peoples. They have left such a lasting legacy on all of the Lancers that they taught over the years
036and will be greatly missed on the hills. Thank you. And this concludes the Lancer report. Thank you, Mr. Widenrich from Fullerton High School, Mr. Caffrey. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin. Good evening, President Calhoun and members of the board. As we wrap up the 2425 school year, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on a year filled with growth and achievement. As this was my first year serving as principal at Fullerton Union High School, I'm especially grateful to my fellow principles across the district to work alongside uh such dedicated leaders. Our students and staff have completed a great deal this year. One highlight from our agriculture program is junior Sophia Sosa who was chosen as orange section s FFA reporter a respect developing her leadership through FFA. As we close out the year we're preparing for
037our FFA awards banquet to honor 30 agriculture academy completers. Additionally, 45 students will be participating in the OC Fair Livestock Show this summer. School grounds revitalizing key areas. The Garden Guild has brought staff together, strengthened school pride, and helped build a greener, more vibrant environment for all. We're excited to continue and expand this work in the 2526 school year. We are also proud to recognize our AVID senior standout, Janet Alberto Ramirez. Janet is a remarkable student and leader serving as co-president of both AVID and FirstG Club. She has helped organize meaningful events like donation drives and college smarty day. A first generation collegebound student, Janet balances school, family responsibilities, and service with grace with a 4.3 GPA, over 20 hours of and AP classes, and more than 90 hours of community um service. Janet plans
038to pursue pharmaceutical sciences or biochemistry at Chapman University. Athletics at FUHS has had a banner year in boys golf. Bryce Shehammer was named Empire League MVP and individual champion, followed by teammates Pascal, Dufus, Duffus, excuse me, Brody Jones, and Jack Arnold. Congratulations to Coach Guzman and the team on a championship, first one they've won since 1928. So, that was quite an accomplishment. Our stunt team made the playoffs and lost a close battle. Certainly proud of coach and their progress and all of our girls. Our softball team made history, winning both the final freeway league title last year and the first Empire League championship this year. Baseball brought home its fourth consecutive league championship under coach Hill. Boys tennis claimed the Empire League Todd title since 1988, and Ben Villa Lobos was named MVP. In swim,
039six FUHS athletes qualified for the playoffs and five advanced to the finals. We had seven league champions at the Empire League finals, including standout performances from Sydney Cruz, Abby Guavvara, Lily Guavara, and Sha Kennedy. Our track and field team also excelled with eight individual league titles and 13 athletes qualifying for CIF. Finally, congratulations to Noel on completing your year as student board member. It was an honor to work alongside you, get to know you, and watch you chase your dreams along the way. Uh, Fullerton Union High School is certainly proud of you. This concludes my board report. Thank you, Mr. Caffrey from Buener Park High School. Dr. Burke. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, and members of the board. We've had so many amazing moments just in this past month. So, here's a highlight of
040a few. A bunch of first for BP and some programs hitting new levels. And that pun was intended. So, you'll see why in a bit. Starting with our girls track team who not only won league this year, but that was the first time in decades that they've done that. They also had numerous individual league champions and CIF qualifiers. They joined numerous boys track qualifiers, which was another first in many, many years where both programs had a multitude of athletes compete in CIF. Uh they were joined by two of our girls beach volleyball players who in their inaugural year qualified for a CIF birth and they were one of only 64 pairs to make it to the tournament for beach volleyball which was exciting. They even secured a victory in their first match until unfortunately an
041injury ended the tournament for them, but one's a freshman and one's a junior, so they'll be back next year. Um, but that's not all. For the first time maybe ever, we had a boys golfer win league and he'll be competing in CIF this week. He won by 12 strokes. And if you know golf, you'll you know that that's an amazing feat. Uh he's already got offers from multiple highle D1 programs and he's only a junior, so he's got another year with us, which will be exciting. Um then as if that wasn't enough, just last week our girls softball program won league for the first time. They are led by D1 commit Mia Gonzalez who is leading the county in strikeouts. She has about 265 in counting and she's uh b also batting over 600 with
042a dozen home runs. So she is a stud, but it's a team sport and so there are many studs on that team. So we are really excited about how far they can go in CIF. Uh and these teams join our undefeated league champion uh girls water polo and girls basketball is the most league champions in one season BPHs has ever seen. Then lastly, I'd like to recognize another first as Gloria Barrera, a Vanguard commit and 2000 point scorer from our girls basketball team was recognized as part of the California all-state team. So, we are excited uh for her future. And then as we finish up the year, I'd like to thank the board and district staff for their support throughout the year. Uh and then I'd especially like to thank my staff at Buena Park
043who have pushed the school to new heights in so many different areas. Our focus onics and academic destination school is realized more and more each year. Uh and in the month of certificated and classified appreciation, I'd like to recognize their hard work in making Buena Park a wonderful learning environment for all students. So thank you. And this concludes my May report. Thank you Dr. Burke. Finally from Sonor High School, Mr. Kazars. Thank you Dr. Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, members of the board. As we turn the corner into the final stretch of the school year, there is a sense of excitement and celebration on the Sonora High School campus. We are thrilled to recognize and honor our senior class as they approach the end of their high school journey. With commencement just around the corner, the
044end of the year activities have begun and our campus is buzzing with anticipation as we prepare to send off the class of 2025 with pride and purpose. One of the highlights of the past month was our commitment day ceremony where we celebrated the postsecary plans of over 130 students. Whether heading into military service, community college, universities across the country, or trade schools, our students choices reflect the values of dedication, ambition, and resilience. The event was not only inspiring for the students and families in attendance, but also for our underassmen and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead. Last week, we celebrated staff appreciation week, a time to recognize the incredible contributions of our certificated and classified employees. Our staff go above and beyond every day to support students academically, emotionally, and socially, and it was an
045honor to celebrate their commitment. We are especially grateful to our ASB who provided heartfelt handmade messages of encouragement to the staff, to our PTSA who generously offered snacks throughout the week and hosted a wonderful staff lunchon. And to our moms and prayer group who team with another delic delicious lunch. These acts of appreciation created a meaningful and uplifting week for all. Our spring athletic season is wrapping up with much to celebrate. Boys volleyball earned a CIF playoff birth and battled on the road against a strong UKIPA team. Softball will host Villa Park this Thursday in the first round of the CIF playoffs. Baseball is traveling to Lynfield Christian for their CIF matchup. A special shout out goes to junior Robbie Blaine who set a school record for strikeouts in a season with 109 and counting,
046including a stunning 14 strikeouts in his final appearance of the regular season. In the pool, our student athletes made a splash at CIF as well. Senior Mayu Joerger is the division 3 CIF champion in the 200 meter individual medley and runner up in the 500 meter freestyle. Freshman Cassandra Espinosa was CIF runner up in both the 100 meter butterfly and 200 meter freestyle. A remarkable achievement and a sign of even greater things to come. On the track, our boys team earned their third consecutive league championship under the steady leadership of Paul Coyote. The season was highlighted by senior Isaac Hamson, who set a new school record in the 1600 meter with a with a time of 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Isaac has qualified for the division 3 CI finals this Saturday in Moore Park
047and is currently ranked among the top nine division. We are incredibly proud of his hard work and will we will be cheering him on this weekend. As always, I want to thank our community, our staff, our students, and our families for their continued support and partnership. Together, we are building a legacy of excellence, spirit, and unity at Sonor High School. Let's finish the year strong and continue to celebrate all that makes us proud to be Raiders. Thank you. And that concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Kazarus. Dr. Do any board members have any comments they would like to share? I do. I just want to say thank you to each and every one of you. I got to go out to each school and every every school was fantastic over at Fullerton. I got to
048hang out with your librarian. I got to hang out in the ASB where there was so much spirit going on. The culinary where we got to eat. You know, I like to eat. I just really do. And and Dr. Berg over there, you know, we got to see all the livestock. We got the florist. Um we, you know, they have where you can fix people's legs up in the medical program trainers out there and the training and medical department. And uh Dr. uh Kazarus, I thank you. I got to hang out with all the special ed students as well as your medical program. You guys just do a fantastic job over in La Harbor. automotive. Oh my god, I saw girls out there with tires. It was just it was phenomenal. And I and the
049dance team was off. It was off the charts. Miss Leon Lyanna, I just want to say thank you for your service here for all these years. You have just been wonderful. And I just want to say your online program over there at La Vista last year. I don't think people really understand how much goes into that and keeping students engaged and I appreciate that. And also the printing. They brought they printed me a shirt with all the special ed kids on it and their little faces. I loved it. God, you guys, the robotic team over there is fantastic. You guys are just phenomenal. And then up there on the sunny sunny hill. I'm telling you, you guys have the best cinema department up there. The film I I and all the people that go to
050our school, I hope you enjoyed this year. I I know I did. I just watching you guys grow. Thank you. All right, it's time for me to stop. Okay. Okay. I would like to invite FSTO President Angie Sinc to the podium to give us an update. [Applause] I pay them to do that. Good evening, President Calhoun. trustees and Dr. Mclofflin. Well, we've made it. Only 11 more instructional days are left in the 202425 school year. And I am sure so many of us are eagerly awaiting May 30th. I know I am. Many of our certificated staff will be teaching this summer during the six weeks and we thank them for doing so and allowing our students the opportunity to complete classes they may not have time for in the fall or spring semesters. This has
051been a very busy year for FSTTO. We are just now completing the work we started in the 2324 school year, working with our new educators and providing support on each of our campuses to our new educators. Our mentor teachers provided support, guidance, and structure when working with our probationary teachers. FSTTO was excited when our number of non-reelectives year was the lowest that we've seen in so many years. Thank you to our mentors for all of their hard work and dedication to their mentees and to our principles on our campuses who help support this process. This project was funded by a grant from the National Education Association and we hope to continue the work with NEA and the district office. Our executive board and rep council members met last week for the final time during the
05220242 school year. We look forward to working together this summer to begin preparations for the 2025 26 school year. Before we know it, we will be hosting the new educator lunchon in August and meeting the newest FJUHSD certificated me employees. Stay tuned for information regarding our plans for next year. In June, Amanda Geyser, Magdalena Valba, and I will be attending the final state council of education session for this fiscal year. We are continuing to work on the dual enrollment parameters in the state along with other business that will be addressed this session. Representative Assembly. And speaking of the NEA RA, Amanda Geyser, Nolina Beichchum, Magdalena Viba, and I will be traveling to Portland, Oregon in July to attend the largest sitting legislative body in the world, the RA, which hosts between 6,000 and 8,000 elected
053de state and the District of Columbia. It's a great opportunity to meet with delegates and teachers from other states and discuss educational issues that we all face. We look forward to reporting about the work that we've completed this summer at the board meeting in July. This weekend, California Teachers Association will be participating in the fight for schools campaign which is taking place throughout the state of California. CTA members, families, and anyone interested in speaking out about public education contact me directly. Yesterday, we celebrated our certificated staff members who have declared their retirement from the district for this year. Thank you, Dr. Atkinson and Mr. Miller, for creating a memorable afternoon for our teachers, counselors, administrators, and other certificated staff members who will be leaving us at the end of this school year, and will begin
054the next phase of their lives. We will miss them, and we wish them all the best. Our FSTTO's negotiating team and the district's negotiating team have been meeting since late February to work on a new collective bargaining agreement, and I'm happy to report that we have a tenative agreement. and we will be voting on the TA in the coming weeks. A huge thank you to the district's team. Dr. Ed Atkinson, assistant superintendent of human resources, Mark Miller, director of human resources, Ruben Hernandez, assistant superintendent of business services, Steve Kazaris, principal at Sonora High School, and Katie Wright, educational services coordinator, college and career readiness. Our meetings were professional, light-hearted, and dare I say, a lot of fun, especially those snacks. We had a great time learning more about the negotiation process and finally realizing this
055work that this work doesn't always need to be adversarial. We can have fun. Thank you to Thank you to FSTTO's Is that my phone? Thank you to FSTTO's team, our negotiating chair, Mike Reid from Troy High School, Joe Dilia from Sonora High School, Becky Viegas from Lassier High School, Magdalena Viabo from Fullerton High School, and Jim Rogers who is our CTA Uniserve staff member and guides us and directs us, especially when we get off course. We added adjunct members to our team this year, and we wish to thank them for their services. Anna Lopez, counselor at Sonora High School. Joel Carile, social net Johnson, nurse at Buena Park and Sunny Hills high schools, and Dave Finster maker, ASB director at Sunny Hills High School. We thank them for their support and their knowledge and especially
056in their willingness to do all a lot of the hard work in helping us to create the new [Applause] contract. I would like to invite Cavern Joanie Bass to the podium to give an update. Hello, Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, and members of the board. I want to express how truly heartwarming and overwhelming the classified retiree event was last Monday, both as president and as a retiree. It was incredibly moving to see so many dedicated classified employees who have given so many years of service to the district. Each and every one of them will be deeply missed. Classified school employees week is coming up next week. Chapter 82's executive board is excited to recognize and celebrate all classified employees with a small token of appreciation for their hard work and dedication. Last month, I shared CSA's
05799th annual conference will be held July 25 through the 28th in Reno. I'm happy to announce that five CSCA members have been nominated and accepted the opportunity to attend. A few of them this will be their first time participating in the conference, making it especially valuable and an enriching experience. On May 4th, Rosie Whitaker, which joined me tonight, was honored by CSCA area H as chapter 82 unsung hero. Rosie has been a dedicated and integral part of chapter 82 and the executive board for approximately 29 years. Over the years, she's held multiple roles within Fullerton High Chapter 82, including secretary and treasurer and has served as a valued member of the negotiating committee. And in addition to her official duties, Rosie has been an active site rep, consistently advocating for her members rights and working
058to recruit new members. She also led the effort to update chapter 82's constitution and bylaws, ensuring they remain current and effective. Ros's dedication extends beyond the workplace. She has volunteered her time to do phone banking, precinct walking, always stepping up to support CSA's mission. Her passion for helping other is evident in everything she does. She never hesitates to lend a hand no matter the matter of task. Although Rosie will be retiring to the organization, her legacy of service, leadership, and advocacy truly makes her a deserving unsung hero of Chapter 82. Now, with my retirement effective June 30th, Chapter 82 is to discuss important matters and straighten this partnership. This ends my report. Thank you for your time and enjoy your evening. Thank you, Zoney. full of PTA um families and students. Um thank you for
059giving me this opportunity to speak about uh PTA. I don't really have any uh real major news specifically about La Habra Council. We're like everybody else almost at the end of the school year. Um however, I would like to share a recent experience I had. I have my notes here um so I don't go off on some crazy tangent. and I'll talk quickly, I promise. Um, I've never considered myself to be crazy passionate about PTA, like not over-the-top passionate. I just believe it's an important component for schools. Uh, without PTA, most elementary schools wouldn't have the funding to take students on field trips or bring more than maybe one enrichment assembly to their school. But I see how much PTA membership falls at the middle school and high school levels. and I want to see
060that not happen in our local districts. Um, I've been a PTA member, meaning I've purchased a membership every year since my boys started kindergarten. I have one son that is graduating from La Habra High School this year and one that has two more years to go. Almost there. I can see the light. Um, I've I vowed to be an active part of their schooling until they graduate from high school. And one of the simplest ways that I do that is by supporting the PTA at whatever school they were at, whether it was at their elementary, middle school, and now high school. Um, even though there are boosters for all the things, sports, clubs, even the various pathways, I also purchase a PTA membership every year. For 128 years, PTA has advocated for all children, not
061just the littles, at the elementary level. and the purchase of a membership continues to help fund that important work. Um, in addition to that advocacy element, memberships help fund grants and scholarships. So, each year that you purchase a membership, you're helping to make scholarships possible to be offered by local school units, PTA councils, district PTAs, California state PTA, all the way up to the national PTA level. I think that's a pretty big bang for your buck. Um, memberships also make grants for teachers and other school staff and local PTA units possible, helping to further their education and training. And your membership makes you a collective part of an organization of hundreds of thousands of people. And that certainly carries a lot of weight for a group that wants the best things for all children. We're
062at the end of the school year. Everyone's tired. Everyone's ready for a little break. May is one of the busiest months of the year for many of us, right? Well, that's when California State PTA holds its annual convention. I almost didn't go. I'm tired. I'm like ready to be done. It's a two and a half It's a Sorry, it's two and a half days of workshops and trainings, meetings, and speakers. But I decided to attend one of the days and I am so glad I did. The speaker at the event on the day I went was Aaron Gruell. She is the teacher that the movie Freedom Writers, that's Wii T-R, is based on. She was a teacher at a high school in Long Beach, right down the street from us. Um, she told her story
063about being a brand new teacher and wanting to give her class of difficult freshman students some opport. One of the sources she found for that help was the PTA unit at her school. They helped her fund a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance, somewhere her students had never been, and they learned and they experienced and they were affected. She spoke of all the things in between that field trip and other methods she found to reach her students. Her story is truly inspiring. And throughout her talk, she kept coming back to share ways that the PTA unit at her school helped her. She was so gracious and appreciative to the PTA, sorry, to PTA for all the help she reaching. She was this incredible teacher doing superhero things, but she kept thanking PTA. And even
064though I operate over here in Whittier, La Habra, Fullerton area and it's 30 plus years since her first year of teaching, I felt inspired by her story, specifically the parts about how the PTA unit at her school helped shape her experience as a new teacher and touch the lives of students who thought they weren't going anywhere. In my 12 or so years of being a PTA member and volunteering at my kids' schools and now at the council level, Aaron's story was the first time I really saw how far PTA can reach. Maybe because such an amazing story came from a school in a city so close by. Maybe because she spoke with such enthusiasm and appreciation for PTA. I don't know. But I was affected. It made me feel grateful to be part of something
065that did so much good. I hope that as you go on, you'll consider continuing to support your local PTA, wherever that may be. To those of you graduating, I wish you the best future and life. And to everyone here, I hope you have a wonderful summer break and I hope to see you again when we return for this opportunity. And that includes my sorry concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to invite Fullerton Council PTA to the podium to give an update. Good evening, Dr. Mclofflin, President and Dr. Calhoun, and members of the board. I'm Nivi Jaw, and I'm the executive vice president of Fullerton Council PTA. May is finally here. We are counting down the days until summer, as I'm sure you all are as well. It is truly a time
066of transition as multiple executive boards from this year are happily handing over the reigns, procedure books, and Google drives to next year's executive boards. Transition meetings should be taking place throughout all of your school sites. And just so you know, the official starting point for any of our new PTSA boards is July 1st. Fourth district PTA will be supporting our boards during this transition by offering spring training for multiple different board and committee positions on June 7th. Anyone is welcome to attend and signups will be on the fourth district website. We at Fullerton Council will also be offering support as needed to our individual units. We look forward to smooth transitions throughout our school sites. Council membership has grown yet again. We now have 4,72 wonderful PTA members across our entire Fullerton Council. We would
067like to take this opportunity to thank absolutely everyone for their participation and enthusiasm in making this an incredible membership year. Please know that starting on July 1st, you can resign up your PTA membership and it will count for the next school year. If you've joined online via totem, you should receive an email requesting you to rejoin the units that you joined this year. Let's start early and surpass our membership numbers from this year. A reminder again that next year's reflections theme is I belong. Please help us to spread the word so our high school students can use this summer to create their projects. We are hoping that early advertisement will help generate more interest among our high school students, especially since they are so overloaded during the school year. We also remind our PTSA pre
068presidents to reach out to their individual school sites and art performance teachers to help with messaging and advertisement prior to summer break. The California State PTA convention on May 2nd through the 4th was a hit. Our council had numerous representatives attend and we even had the opportunity to celebrate Troy PTSA who won a spotlight award at the convention for student involvement. Next year the convention will be in Fresno. So that promises to be a fun and adventurous time. We want to thank those of you who attended our Fullerton Council end of the year lunchon. We had an awesome time spending quality time with all of you celebrating and surprising our honorary service award winners and acknowledging our incredible scholarship students. In addition, we were able to raise money with our silent auction baskets and we
069are thrilled that we will be able to put that directly towards scholarships for next year's seniors. Thanks to all who bid and participated. With that, on behalf of Fullerton Council, I would like to thank each and every one of you for allowing us to have a voice here at your meetings and for all that you do to support your local PTSA units. This collaborative partnership is truly and uniquely special and is such an asset in FSD and FJU HSD. We also want to take this opportunity to wish our seniors, including you, Noel, and our senior parents, all the best as they finish out this chapter of their life journey. We wish them all much success as they move forward. And we look forward to hearing about their amazing adventures and how they will leave their
070mark on our world. We wish you all a relaxing, productive, peaceful, and rejuvenating summer. And we look forward to a strong return in the fall with exciting new things to report to you all. Thank you all so much for your attention and I wish you a wonderful rest of your evening and that concludes my report. Thank you. I would like to invite assistant superintendent administrative services Dr. Carl Zenner to the podium to introduce the honores and lead the recognitions. Well, thank you President Calhoun, members of the board and Dr. Mclofflin. Tonight, we are proud to honor the recipients of the FSTTO scholarships and school employees of the year. These students and staff members exemplify excellence, demonstrating outstanding academic and professional achievements. Their dedication and hard work inspire our community and reinforce our belief that FJUHSD
071truly is the place to succeed. To begin, I would like to introduce our FSTTO president, Angie Senak, who will introduce each student and who will receive an FF FSTTO scholarship. Could I please have our scholarship recipients come up and join us up front? This isn't working. This isn't working. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. On behalf of FSTTO, I am so proud that every year our FSTTO members are uh get to present six scholarships for senior students who are planning on a career in education. This year we had 13 scholarship applicants and we had a really really rough time bringing it down to our six that that are going to receive the scholarship this year. And I'm just so thankful that I'm not one of the ones who has to choose because
072we had some amazing amazing applicants this year. First up, we have Sua Chai from Sunny Hills High School. Sua is a Sunny Hills cheer captain. She's the co-president of the Circle of Friends Club at Sunny Hills High School, the head art coordinator at Cal Give. Congrat. She worked during summer break at Leaders Academy teaching second and third grade students math and English and dance and art during their free time. Sua will attend Cal State Long Beach. Go Beach. Majoring in long in liberal studies with the goal of becoming an elementary school teacher, said AP Calculus teacher Summer Ing. Sua is not only dependable and hardworking, she's also deeply kind. She has a natural gift for making those around her feel safe, heard, and encouraged. Sua's own words encouraged me for our future leaders. I've committed
073myself to creating inclusive and welcoming communities throughout high school as cheer captain and club's experiences taught me how to lead with empathy, encourage teamwork, and advocate for others. Skills I plan to bring into my future classroom. [Applause] Our next recipient is Salma Galindo from La Habra High School. Salma is a transfer student who began attending La Habra High School in her junior year. She is a member of the National Honors Society and participated in school clubs such as Fellow Christian Athletes Club, Link Crew, and Child Development. She volunteers at her church and is a member of the media team and kids ministry. Head athlete head athletic trainer at La Habara High School said of Selma, "She approaches teaching not just as a profession but as a calling. She is deeply passionate about shaping the next
074generation of learners and empowering them to reach their full potential. Selma will attend Fullerton College in the fall and transfer to a university afterwards to complete her goal of being a first grade teacher. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Salma's favorite words by Mahatma Gandhi. She believes these highlight the importance of contribution and impact and and will impact one that can have a change in the world. There is no doubt in my mind that she will be the change she wishes to see in the world. [Applause] Next up, we have Elise Zuleta from Fullerton Union High School. Elise is an avid student. All four years she attended Fullerton High School. She is a member of the first ever girls varsity flag football team at Fullerton High School and was a team
075captain, leading them to the CIF Southern Section Semi-finals. Elise started her own baking business at the age of 10, EZ Bakes. This has allowed her to contribute to her family's finances all while maintaining an impressive 4.1 gradepoint average. AVID coordinator Priscilla Bravo Fulman says of Elise, "Her ability to balance academic success, family obligations, and entrepreneurial pursuits is a testament to her strong work, work ethic, and her dedication. Elise will be the first in her family to attend college, and she has been accepted to Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Long Beach. you know, my choice where she will major in English and will also earn her teaching credential there. Hopefully, she will come back to us in Fullerton Joint Union High School District when she is ready for her first assignment. Thank [Applause] you. Why
076can't I get this to work? There we go. It's great. Our next uh root scholarship recipient is Ariana Garcia Praau from Sonora High School. Ariana is an avid student member all four years. Oh, I'm at Sonora High School. She was a link crew leader where she mentored and guided students throughout their high school journey and found success in the classroom and beyond. She was a best buddies mentor where she spent one-on-one time with special needs students and helped foster connections with and for them on campus. Ariana knew from a young age that she wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and even taught her younger brother and sister, her younger brothers, assigning them work to complete and even grading what they submitted. Good girl. She believes that a teacher a teacher should be dedicated to their
077students, help overcome any obstacle that a student might face, and be passionate about what they teach. She credits her two kindergarten teachers, Mrs. Miller and her own mom, for her showing her how much she how much she loves learning. She says of her mom's teaching, "She taught me how to write my name, the ABCs, and everything you need to know in order to become a great kindergarten student." Sonora High School social science teacher Joe Dilia says of Ariana, "Even as a sophomore, Ariana knew she wanted to become a teacher, and she's never strayed from that path. Some people want to be teachers, and others are meant to be teachers. Ariana is definitely meant to be a teacher. She will be attending Cal State Fullerton in the fall, majoring in liberal studies with an emphasis in
078elementary education. She is also planning on earning her master's degree in the near future and no doubt will be an amazing elementary school [Applause] teacher. And from Sonora High School, Alina Santana. At Sonora High School, Alina participated in JV and Varsity Cheerleading, National Honor Society, Key Club, Book Club, and Meta. She also participated in the sister support program where the focus is on supporting women in her community and preparing care packages for those in need. Alina is an international bucket diploma candidate and has maintained a 4.0 grade point average all through high school. Sonara High School teacher Brian Booth says of Alina, "Her passion for serving her community is evident in her volunteer work as a junior cheer coach for the Whittier Redskins, and in her commitment to local programs, including Bandini Elementary School's face
079program, the Whittier ACS food bank, and the Regency Retirement Home. She teaches the young, serves the elderly, and collects food for the hungry, says Alina of her high school of her school experiences. I was blessed with amazing teachers who greeted me with a warming smile and a welcoming personality every single morning as I walk through the doors of my elementary school. My number one goal in life is to be that outlet and sense of love and warmth to every student whom I'm whom I will encounter as my time as a teacher. She will attend San Diego State University in the fall, majoring in early elementary education, and she will be an elementary school teacher in the very near f near future. And our last scholarship recipient could not be with us tonight because she is
080accepting an award at another event this evening and she is Caitlyn Epford from Sonora High School. She's been a member of the Sonora High School volleyball team all four years, playing at the varsity level her senior year. She is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on campus and became one of six leaders during her junior year where she planned, organized, and led FCA meetings. She's also a member of Best Buddies and the Junior Statesmen of America, where the club meets and debates current events and controversial topics. I need to meet her. She is currently a brown belt in karate and plans to get her black belt in November. Caitlyn has maintained a grade point average above 4.0 throughout her high school career, says social science teacher Tim Roach. Caitlyn Epford is already living
081out the qualities of an educator, leading by example, pouring into the lives of young people, and using every opportunity to serve. Caitlyn will be attending Biola University in the fall, and she will pursue a degree in liberal studies. She plans on being an elementary school teacher and hopes to make an impact in the lives of children. Those are our 2024 25 scholarship recipients. I would now like to bring to the podium for our employees of the year, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Dr. Atinson. [Applause] Thank you. Tonight it is my privilege to recognize the district's 2024-25 districts classified and in certificated employees of the year. That includes both the site and district employees of the year. And I would like to begin by recognizing our classified employees. I'd like to, as I call your name,
082please come to the podium so that you can be recognized. I'd like to begin with Buen Park High School uh classified employee Paulina [Applause] Luggo. Paulina uh was hired in October 2021 as a senior records clerk uh in the activities office. Uh she has a welcoming serviceoriented demeanor and she's an asset to their department. Uh she always goes above and beyond. Next we have David Bach from Fullerton High [Applause] School. David is a campus supervisor and aquatic coach. Uh he's been with Fullerton for 19 years. From La Habra, we have Alexander Lovetchenko. Alexander's a site technician at the at La Habra High School. He's been at the school since 2021. He's serviceoriented and is in deared himself to their staff. He also loves camping. Francisco Malara, Lassiier High School. Francisco is an in Francisco is
083an instructional aid with our adult transition program for the past 16 years. He's creative, a genius behind the Calat program and he is the ATP Instagram content creator. Isaiah Ramirez from Le Vista High School. Isas is a campus supervisor. He's uh supports the ABC program there. Has a positive relationship with our students and basically he works with our special needs students and staff and he is a great team player. [Applause] Randall Avalos from Sonora High School or Sunny Hills High School, I'm sorry. Randall Randy is a campus supervisor liaison at Sunny Hills. He's been with Sunny Hills since November of 2022. Katie Flores, Troy High School. [Applause] Katie's been with the district for 19 years. She's been at La Sierra in Troy and for 10 years she's been an instructional aid. Nine years as a
084senior records clerk. Thank you. She looks uh looks uh I'm sorry. She holds a master's degree in special education and she loves working with her colleagues and spending time uh with them in and the face students. [Applause] Yeah. Yep. If we get a get a picture, if you would like to take pictures, please feel free to come forward. All right, if we could have one more round of applause for our classified employees of the year. I would now like to recognize our certificated employees of the year, beginning with David Macintosh, counselor from Fullerton High School. Thank you. David, as I said, is a counselor. He's also CSF advisor. He's served as uh AP coordinator for several years and he's been with the district for 29 years. Next, we have Steven Flores, Lassier High School. [Applause]
085Steve is a special education teacher in the adult transition program. He is an SEAL committee member, ATP department chair starting next year and he is a student f focused educator. Katherine Gibson, Le Vista High School. [Applause] Katherine's a geoysical science teacher and a department chair. She's the founder of the pride time intervention program. She's science and board game club advisor and she is a strong teacher leader on the campus. Nicholas Bar Nicholas Baron, Sonora High School. Nicholas creates meaningful learning experiences for all of his students. He has strong leadership uh his strong leadership rooted in student success and he is innovative innovative and collaborative. That's wonderful. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Alexander Hugh. [Applause] Alex is a science department chair at Sunny Hills and he teaches chemistry and honors chemistry. He's been at Sunny Hills
086since August of 2016. And Alex uh heads up the science Olympiad team and helps coach the esports program. Next we have Glenn Madrid from Troy High School. Glenn has been in the district for 30 years. He is a social science instructor at Troy. Also for 30 years he's coached various sports and he has advised many clubs on the campus. Glenn has a daughter and son who also attend Troy High School. Hello Glenn. Congratulations. [Applause] And finally, I'd like to recognize our district employees of the year, both classified and certificated. These were individuals who were recognized at their sites as the employee of the year and then through a process with a selection committee were selected as the district employees of the year. And I'd like to begin with our classified and I would like to
087apologize. We have an omission in the slide but we are fortunate to have uh Marlene Godz here with us tonight. if she could please come forward. Marlene was the EC classified employee of the year. She's administrative secretary in business services. Congratulations. [Applause] District teacher of the year. One of two is Maroon Nahhemi from Bua Park High School. In 2020, Maroon started the uh his career in at Buena Park High School as a math teacher. He's director of the advanced robotics and uh mechatronics program at Buena Park. And Maroon is an individual who has made an impact on the lives of his students. And he's an integral leader on their campus. Also, district teacher of the year or certificated employee of the year, Caroline Cardinus from La Habra High School. [Applause] Welcome. Caroline's a transformational leader
088at La Habra High School. Um, she is the sped department chair and is a PLC uh coalition member. She's district-wide impact and a mentorship uh program and she is champion of student well-being and best buddies. And from Sonora High School, classified employee of the year, district employee of the year, we have um Teresa Zambrano from Sonora High School. [Applause] Teresa has served the district in Sonora High School for 27 years. She's been the heart of the front office and she embodies the values um of commitment, kindness, and professionalism. Thank [Laughter] He was trying trying to run away. All right. It is with immense pride and profound gratitude that I stand before you tonight to recognize a truly exceptional leader. Uh someone who has served the Fullerton Joint Union High School District with unwavering commitment, quiet
089strength, and enduring integrity. This one's not going to be short, Ed. This evening, we honor Dr. Ed Atkinson as the administrator of the year. Dr. Dr. Atkinson's legacy in the district spans decades. From his early days as a classroom teacher, and I'm really disappointed because I had that photo up there and somebody took it down. To his current role as assistant superintendent of human resources, Ed has served in nearly every capacity with dignity, uh, steadiness, and humility throughout. This year alone, his leadership has been instrumental in guiding critical negotiations, implementing the early retirement incentive, and reimagining our staffing model to meet the needs of a changing educational landscape. These responsibilities demand strategic foresight, empathy, and trust. All qualities that Ed exemplifies daily. I want to close by personally thanking Ed for hiring me, um, but
090also for his mentor and guidance. It has truly meant a lot, Ed. Thank you. Um, and thank you, Ed, for your extraordinary service and your enduring example and for your steadfast leadership. And congratulations on this well-deserved honor. You are without question the administrator of the year and your whose legacy will inspire the district for years to come. Thank [Applause] you. Awesome. [Applause] Do the board members have any comments they would like to share? Okay. Well, I want to say congratulations to everyone. Yes. That came up for a um a certificate of recognition. Thank you for your fantastic work and um looking forward to working with all of you. Does a super Oh, I'll say something. Okay. I've never made a comment before, so it's my first and my last, I guess. Um, yes, I just
091wanted to say, um, congratulations, uh, to everyone who had a recognition tonight. Um, and again, thank you to all of you. Um, it's amazing to see all of you here tonight. And also, I wanted to again say congratulations to Audrina and Ari. I'm super proud of you guys and really excited to work with you this summer. We're going to get to to know each other. um even better. And so just congratulations to everybody and thank you. Does the superintendent have any comments he would like to share? Okay, we're going to take a 10-minute recess. We're coming back to order. Hi. Um, we've got a special announcement from Ed. I think we got someone in that's going to come up from the certificated program. Yes. A classified classified employee of the year. Yes. And I want
092to uh take this opportunity and I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to recognize him earlier, but I'd like to call the uh district service center classified employee of the year uh general maintenance technician at uh at the service center, been with us for 24 years, Manuel Olivaris. [Applause] Can we get some pictures? Congratulations. [Music] I got an award. All right. All right. Thank you. Okay. At this time, we will call for public comments for its um for items that are not on the agenda. Dr. Hen, there's one public comment card tonight. Okay. Jensen Hollstrom, please come to the podium. Individuals who filled out the speaker request form will be invited to the podium um when their name is read. Public comments are limited to three minutes per person and 30 minutes per topic. Please
093proceed. Good evening. My name is Jensen Holstrom. I've grown up in Fullerton and I am a Fullerton High School alumnist. I would like to direct everybody's attention towards the uh significance of mature trees on many of these school campuses. And um over at Fullerton High School, there is uh currently a uh project that has been in place called Oak Commons. Uh the namesake for the project, which is a historic Cork Oak, Corkus Suber, which is the uh last surviving uh tree from the 1927 uh landscape architect plans for the front of the uh the high school uh which were actually drawn up by Ralph B. Cornell. a very prestigious and uh significant landscape architect, Southern California history. And this cork oak um is also the largest of its species within Fullerton. And um unfortunately through
094the progress of this uh project, there had been a lot of root disturbance to this tree that had resulted in a unfortunate uh near complete defoliation of the canopy. Uh this is uh reflected by the uh soil compaction from the uh heavy vehicles and also a good deal of uh decomposed granite which was used um and unfortunately uh an arborist was clearly not consulted from the planning stage of this project um which had resulted in that uh unfortunate uh oversight. But I think uh now since thankfully um I had uh expressed my concerns that uh decomposed granite which I believe there was about 6 in uh depth of that granite um nearly uh from the root zone of the tree. Uh but there's still more that is needed to be done to ensure its uh
095conservation. I actually think that the board should consider um looking into creating an urban forest management plan for all school campuses. I think it's very important as we've been losing mature trees on all of our campuses. Um over over the years, there's been uh plenty of mature trees. Uh even when I was a a senior at Florison High School, there is a one of the old fus trees uh in the front lawn facing Chapman that had actually completely uprooted uh due to uh improper irrigation practices that contributed to root rot. And unfortunately, a lot of uh trees on these campuses are still experiencing issues such as improper irrigation, sprinklers overspraying onto trunks night after night, creating conditions for root rot. So, hope that we can uh look at some of these issues. Thank you. Thank
096you. Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Non-aggenda items may not be acted on during this meeting nor discussed by the board. If you would like further information, please contact us contact us through the district website or contact staff members who will be happy to talk to you and follow up on the information. Does the superintendent have any uh information he would like to share? Not at this time. I would like to call up assistant superintendent of business stu uh services Ruben Hernandez and the senior director of facilities and Mott Vince Madson to provide a facilities update on constructing on construction delivery methods. Thank you Dr. Coh, members of the board, Dr. Mclofflin. Tonight we're going to do a facilities update um in regards to next steps for uh measure I and measure L. And so
097for tonight's um presentation, we will second. Oh, there we go. um our expected outcomes is to uh circle back around to the construction delivery methods and we're going to call this part two of our um learning phase and uh take a look at um uh some of the updates from our last board meeting back in on April April 8th. And then we're also going to take a look at projects our most effective and efficient delivery methods. Uh we're going to be focusing on that conversation around our hard bid projects and lease leaseback projects. We're good. It looks like it's working. Sorry. Okay, here I think. What happened? Okay. So uh so tonight's construction project delivery methods will be a a quick rehash on the main topics that we discussed last time on trying to create
098um uh delivery methods that would be best suited for projects as we identify uh future projects coming out of measure I finalizing that project um dollars as well as measure out. And so as we discussed um back in our April board meeting we focused around these three different types of of designs or delivery options. Um one of them was around design bid build. Um this in this particular delivery method um we can do we can do it in three different ways. One is a hard bid which is the lowest compliant bid. Um the second one was construction management where we do it in a multi-prime approach and then construction management with an agency um as far as the uh um services supported in the design build bid build process. Um secondarily we talked about design
099build um using one entity um in uh in that approach. And then lastly was the lease lease back um which is the best value selection process. And so with that um those were the topics that we discussed in part one of our our learning phase. And in part two we're going to dive deeper into what those projects are um uh as far as the delivery options that we've selected. And I'm going to have Mr. Van Mr. Matson walk us through those on this next uh few slides here. Thank you. Yeah. So, basically, as we've been looking at our projects and developing the designs and everything, um, we've basically kind of come down to the two delivery methods that we feel are going to really work for the first series A projects that we're rolling out.
100So, design bid build is the hard bid. Um, you know, kind of using the ranges and looking at different delivery methods. We kind of wanted to look at the project um at really kind of what's the dollar amount that we would really want to do. So hard bids are somewhere around the $12 million lease lease back starts to get to a higher dollar amount, you know, $10 to $60 million. So we've identified these projects and the Sonora Science Lab really the reason why the hard bid also works for that is that's how we delivered all of the other science labs throughout the district in Measure I. So this is that last Measure I project. The other projects that we're looking at for lease lease back are the two-story building, the athletic building that we're putting
101in at Fullerton. Um the seismic modernization that we're doing at Troy and the three track and fields um that are happening at Sunny Hill, Sonora, and Troy. And those will be combined as one project. So you're really looking at at a much higher um dollar amount here. The other thing that really makes the delivery methods work is how many projects that you're kind of doing at the same time. And so all of these projects, you can see the timeline here, is summer of 26 when we're starting it. So we're literally going to be starting all five of these projects at the same time. They'll have different deliver um ending dates based on the scope of work, but this first phase is $145 million worth of work. So we are we are hitting the ground running
102and we're going to be doing a lot of those projects. So again, summer 26, um, Sonora Science Labs are really the last labs throughout the district that we need to finish. And this is just the same slide that we we looked at the last time we were there um when we talked about it last month. And it's really the this was the delivery method that was done almost through the the entire Measure I program. And the timing of those projects were kind of sequenced where you really had about three to maybe four projects that were always in motion and it was just a factory of just doing a pool and then a gym and then a pack and and it was just kind of going, you know, just in a sequence. What we're delivering here
103in the first phase is we're just going to basically do all five projects and just go. And that's really the difference and why we're doing what we're doing. We had great success with measure I um in in how those hard bids worked, but because of the staggered approach, it really made it work and it was a great tool and it was very successful. So, as we look at the lease leaseback projects, um this is um the two-story building just kind of showing a couple concepts that the architects are sharing with us right now on what the building could look like. Um we've been having a lot of meetings with the staff really going through program and space. Um, so you really kind of see a traditional a lot of arches that looks like the front
104of the school. Um, and then the modern look was just to kind of tie it into what the gym looked like. Um, I believe everybody is is um all on board that we're going to go with the arches and make it look like the front of the school as we move forward. So, that'll be a fun project. Um, Troy is basically getting a seismic upgrade and we're going to modernize all the classrooms all at the same time. Um the next one is again we're combining all the track and fields. So the track and fields will be a full synthetic grass. It'll be the the rubber track. Um we're looking at bleachers, lights, and restroom and storage to be able to really help with the site. So this is just one of the architects concepts of
105what we're doing there. So again, the lease lease back, the reason why it's such a great vehicle is because of the early collaboration that we can bring contractors on while we're still designing and we're still working through it. We can we can really minimize decisions. We can really help make decisions early so that those change orders and those unforeseen issues can be more mitigated because we have everybody in the room while we're designing it and getting ready to take it to the state for approval. So we didn't really talk about the components of lease lease back much last last board meeting. We were just kind of talking about the delivery method. So what I want to do is just take some time to kind of walk through the components so you really understand more of
106the tools that are in that toolbox. So as you recall last last month you adopted the resolution that basically established the criteria on how we're going to hire the lease lease back contractors. the the the ranking scores um allows us to start the the the request for qualifications advertising and pre-qualifying all those lease lease back contractors. So that is really the start of it is that resolution that we did last month. Oops, let me go backwards. Sorry about this. So lease lease back has two elements where a hard bid you're basically opening up the bid. You have to take the low bid. That's the contractor you award if they're responsive and responsible and they meet all the requirements. What what this has is a best value piece which is really the least lease back contractor.
107And then when we're ready to bid out all of the work and the trades with electrical, plumbing, mechanical, that is more traditional. That's put out the the advertisement. That's still a hard bid delivery because we have to make sure that we're getting all of those bids, 16, 18, 20 packages of different trades. and it's the low bid that you have to do. So, you still have the public bidding requirement. We just can bring on the contractor early through a best value criteria and we're able to work really through the pre-construction before we start the hard construction. So, again, the the the criteria was in the board resolution that was approved. It tells us what they need to have, what the scores are on all the different elements that would be in their RFQP, the proposal
108that they're submitting to us. It's looking at experience. It's looking at staffing. It's looking at bondability. Um what their workload is, what their safety record is. There is a lot of criteria that they have to meet to be able to be a lease lease back contractor. And that's really the first piece that we're looking at right now. So the selection period the is really that same thing. You're we're bringing the first action to the board is a best value contractor to do a preliminary service agreement, pre-construction service, estimating, constructibility reviews, logistic planning on materials and site access and layown areas. All of that stuff is happening while the architect is designing and that's that first step. So, it's the preliminary service agreement. Then as the drawings get finalized and we're ready to submit them to
109the state, we've got all of our estimates, the budgets are looking good, everything's fine, then we can start the solicitation to get all of the trade packages going. And that's the hard bid stuff. We have to pre-qualify them as well. We have to do the advertisements. And it's an open book process where I'm working, we the team is working with the lease leaseback contractor. Do we have good coverage for all of those things? Are we getting all the biders in? Are we soliciting, you know, going out and soliciting more subcontractors, local trade, all the stuff that we can do as we're getting ready for that? Well, then once the state approves the drawing, then there's another board consideration and action where you're actually now finalizing the price of the work that we bid out. And
110that that action is the lease lease back contract, but inside of that the component also has the site lease, which we talked about a little bit last month, and then the facilities lease. And really what that is is again, we're we're leasing the a very small part of our school site, which is the project site behind the construction fences. That's what we lease to the contractor for a dollar a year. And the facilities lease is the 12-month period that we occupy the building and we start paying back that retention over a 12-month period, which is the time of the warranty. So, the contractor is still engaged. So, those are the components that are inside the action, which happens months after we get the lease lease back contractor on board to be able to walk through
111all of the pre-construction services. The very last piece that that is interesting about lease lease back is um the regulations have added in kind of that that union labor piece where we have to make sure that every trade contractor that is performing work on our site has 60% skilled journey persons doing that work. If they don't meet those requirements, they have to submit a plan to us as to how they're going to achieve those numbers to make sure that we have the right labor force working on our sites. So a hard bid doesn't require that. It they can be a non-union shop, a union shop, however they want to deliver that labor, but the lease lease back has a big component that we have to report to the DI, the Department of Internal Relations, which
112is all of that prevailing wage stuff. So that's really the last piece to the mechanisms of what lease lease back looks like. But the benefits of having our contractor in the room now totally outweighs um all of that extra burden that we might have to deal with. So talking about these two delivery methods and the projects that we talked about really the hard bid which is the Sonora project we need to finalize the drawings submit them to the state and we are targeting right now that we would bring that low bid contractor to the board for consideration and action hopefully February or March so that we can get everything going for a summer 26 start. Four simple actions here you see on the slide. We would pre pre-qualify them. we would get it taken care
113of and and go through the regular bidding process as a hard bid sealed envelope kind of bid opening. Um the difference here for lease lease back is there's an extra step that I talked about. So we still pro pre-qualify everybody. We're bringing in a board action for you to do the preliminary service agreement which we would like to do next month June 10th. So now we're our design is moving into the next phase. We bring in our lease lease back contractor and they now spend the next three or four months together really working out the drawings, all the front-end documents, our our our bid sections that we have to have in the documents. All of that's working together. We would then do all of the same bidding that we just talked about. And then in
114March or April, we would bring back that final guaranteed maximum price lease lease back contract. And that action basically gets in place again for us to be able to put shovels in the ground and start the work summer of 26. So there's two contracts for lease lease back that the board would need to consider in action. A hard bid is the one like you you're used to doing and you've been doing great through measure I. So the completion dates on this slide obviously each project is going to have a different delivery meth a different completion date based on the duration of the work. Um, the spring 2028 is most likely going to be the Troy seismic mod because of how much work we have to do and how many buildings we have to swing students
115around into interim housing. Um, the fields we're hoping is a spring, summer, fall install. And um, we we're we think right now without the contractor on board that we're probably 16, 18 months to build a two-story building. So with that kind of recapping where we're at and what we were doing and using our thresholds kind of as a model again what I talked about is that the way measure I was is there was a staggered approach of just churning out project after project and it just never really stopped. Here we are doing $145 million of work and it's all starting right there in spring and summer of 26. So that's just kind of recapping the the components of lease lease back and why we feel like we want to use both delivery methods for these
116first five projects. Thank you. Go back one there or there. I love this sticker. Okay. Does the board have does the board members have any questions? Um I Okay, let's start over there with Dr. T. Um, so my question is, um, on the final pricing that we're getting, um, is the material cost locked in or can can there be a variation of, um, coming back in saying that, hey, the material cost has gone up and we need to increase the bid. Once we have finalized that agreement and board has taken action, that price is it. It if things change, we don't have to pay those escalations. Now, we build in a 50% escalator depending on the length of the job, but the contractors can't come back to us after we've awarded their contract and change
117the pricing. Okay, great. Thank you. Hi, Miss Polly. If I understand it correctly, the lease lease back is almost like a hybrid. We start off with this collaborative contract with the contractor, the district, and the architects. Is that correct? And then later for the trades we go out to the hard bid. Is that right? That's correct. Yeah. So the lease lease back contractor administers bidding out all of those trade contracts. All of those numbers come together and you have we hold one contract with lease right. Got it. I mean we would vote on it, but they're the ones. Got it. Um I just lost my train of thought. Oh, this is just random. There's this ongoing rumor there going to be tennis courts on top of that building. Could you take a moment and address
118the fact that our master plan that was developed a year ago um had a parking structure concept with a tennis courts on top of a parking structure. The amount of money that we got for the bond um 284 um the cost of that parking structure. Um we are going to do everything we can to give him six tennis courts on that campus. Probably no parking structure and it definitely won't be on the roof. Got it. So that just had come to mind. Um and then um the seismic modernization you have to move students around. Y we will put on uh portable buildings, accessory buildings and then stage that around. I was on a campus we did a massive modernization and I do know that takes a tremendous amount of coordination and with the site. Um
119is that also something the contractor helps coordinate with the site? Is that us coordinating with the site? How does that work since it's a lease lease back? Yeah, all all of the above. So, the district would lease the portables and we would put the scope of work in the lease lease back contractors to plug in the power, pull the data, whatever we need to have those rooms ready to go. And it's been a big conversation with the site on where to put the portables, which buildings should be phase one and phase two. Um, the library is part of this, the admin buildings part of this scope. So where do we put all the players and and how all that works? So it is the plans that the architect will bring a contract to you for
120the architect to design the interim housing because that needs to be state approved as well, right? That'll be a standalone activity with the architect. But the plans and the concept that we've already shared with the site and they've kind of given us the area that we want to lay down, we would already be giving that to the lease lease back saying here's 32 portables or 36 portables. Here are the sizes. Here are the restroom connections. All of that, those conversations have already started so that we have that runway so when the contractor comes on, they can just start plugging in the costs, but we would hold the lease for those portables. Okay, got that was part of my followup like where did the lease kind of moves as the construction moves. All right. And then
121finally, I love the accelerated timeline and is that made possible because the lease lease back model? Yeah, I think when you're doing five big projects like this, having the lease lease back in that early collaboration takes a lot of the pressure off of our district staff. Sure. Um our district staff, we, you know, we had them and they were doing great stuff. We've had them all for eight years over the measure eye, but it's two or three projects kind of staggering. When you hit $145 million and say go, it really just helps with that collaboration. So we've got everybody in the room for a few months so that the surprises aren't going to really knock people over and and you really can do that. So it's really a volume challenge that we're we're able to
122solve with lease these back time. Yeah. There's other benefits, but that's the big one. Thank you very much. Hi Miss Klester. So um Mrs. Folly actually asked one of my questions. Um so I'll check that one off but I just want to make sure that I'm understanding this. So for like number one up there would be the hard bid. So the Sonora Science Labs and if I heard you correctly what you were saying is is that there's a 60% union trades requirement for the lease lease back but not for the hard bid because the hard bid we're required to take the lowest bid which may not be utilizing union tradesmen. Yeah. But we do have to pay prevailing wage which matches a union shop. So you're still paying all of that burden there. It's just
123they don't have to be a union registered outfit lease lease back. You have to have your apprentices there. That's the difference. We're still paying prevailing wage. We always have. Um it's been around forever. Any job over $1,000, we are required in our contract documents to make sure they're paying those prevailing wages. Okay. Thank you for clarifying that for me. And um I think that takes care of my questions. Thank you. Uh Miss Puchi. Uh I'm kind of remembering what you talked about before and it and when you and my concept was is basically you we are leasing a part of a campus to the the entity that's handling it. Yep. Now, I can see that working for the fields, but I'm concerned a little bit about or I'm not concerned just have a question about
124Troy because this is a campuswide generally. I mean, it's not the whole campus, but what do you lease? So, the lease would basically be, let's just say phase one of that project is the 300 building. So, in the lease documents, phase one would start on this date and end on this date. and you would basically have a fence around the 300 building and that's what the lease is. Phase two terminates that part of the lease and goes to building three and 400 and that becomes a lease from duration of phases of construction. We're not leasing the whole site. So it's a lease on the physical project area project. But then that say building one whatever would involve portables. So what's the lease relationship? Yeah, the portables again, we're holding the lease on the portables. That's
125our space. It's our students. None of that is the contractor, okay? They're just the buildings. They're physically dismantling and rebuilding. That's the only part of the lease. There's lay down areas and things that we will share as a district and a contractor, but the lease literally is just the area of work portables that we're leasing to to house our students or classrooms. Okay. That's not that. Okay. Uh in that same vein, this leased area now is leased to this entity. Mhm. Who holds jurisdiction and security for that entity? The the construction document says they need to pay for security to protect their work. They would have a builder's risk policy. It's their job to protect that work and their insurance covers it. And if anyone would go into that leased area and there were damages
126and and things would happen, their insurance would cover that. Okay. And my last question is uh actually related to the fields because it's three different campuses and I'm hearing that you were going to do them all at the same time. No, our goal is to do a one of the fields in the spring, one of the fields during the summer, and then the first Okay. semester of school fall. We would do because I was worried about Yeah. the activities of the students because we're going to have to share. We don't have enough grass as it is. So, that would be tough. I think that was it. Thank you. Thank you. Just real quick, Mr. Madson, just from level of experience as uh Vince is relatively new to us. So, uh, several different districts. Um, you've
127worked with all of these models, correct? Oh, yes. Right. And so, just your level of experience handling, you know, a hard bid, a lease lease back, multiple projects, 144 million. Those are big numbers to us. So, just share a little bit uh if you would uh with the public and the board on on uh some some of your past experience around these projects. Yeah. So, I I started 25 years ago doing hard bid. Um we modernized uh four schools in a small elementary district. Um, but it was kind of that staggered approach like measure I was where you start a project, halfway through you're starting another project. Um, those dollar amounts. I mean, it's crazy because of escalation. I mean, that was probably 60 million total for that entire bond program. Um, I I went
128to a beach city and we did 16 sites. Um, that was a CM multi-prime delivery where we had a CM and we basically just mobilized the sites. We would do one or two at a time. Sometimes we combine schools together because they were the same architecture and made that a contract. Um, so that was the CM multi-prime. I built a high school using a CM at risk model. Um, and that was $160 million where we built a fourstory. We basically converted a commercial building and made it a high school DSA certified largest in the state of California. There's $ 160 million. Second phase was a big gym and a pool joint use with the city of Elsagundo. um and then went to um another district and it was CM agency where we basically just had
129three or four people sitting in the trailer and we were doing a lot of deferred maintenance and roofing and asphalt projects. Um and and then my last district was um 45 to$50 million middle schools all four of them at the same time lease lease back. So I pretty much done them all been there and seen it. They all have great things and and I just feel like where we're headed with $145 million, I think lease lease back with a little bit of hard bid is the sweet spot. Appreciate it. Yeah, I've been in a lot of conversations with Mr. Madson around his experience. I think as much for the public as anyone to say uh the recommendations are coming based on his past experience and and he's the he's the person to to help lead
130the way. So, thank you. Thank you. And I just want to say I was out at Troy and I know Ruben had kind of showed me exactly what was going to be happening and I know where we're going to put the portables out in the back field. So I'm very clear on what we're doing. I appreciate all your expertise and I'm I appreciate all of it. I know we got a big project coming up. So I thank you and I know Will is excited to get this done as well and I was out there Friday. So thank you very much. Here we go. I would like to call an assistant superintendent of business services, Rubert Hernandez, to present information on the bonover site committee, BOC, and supporting bond measure I and David McLoloid. Is that
131his name? Okay. To present the annual bond oversight report. Thank you. Thank you, President Calhoun, members of the board. Dr. Mclofflin. So tonight is our annual report um that we do in regards to our citizens bond oversight committee um uh work that we do or that is required. Um and so tonight we'll review uh measure I the compliance of uh the reason for the compliance around citizens bond oversight committee the role that they play in that process. Um we'll talk about our meetings um and review those and then we'll I'll ask our chairperson David Mloud to come up and and discuss the annual report. And so again, as measure I continues to move forward, this will be the last annual report we do regarding Measure I, the next time we come here in front of
132the board in May, it'll be a Measure I and L update until Measure I is fully exhausted. Um, which means that won't happen until we completely close the project on Sonora Science Labs. Um, so this will definitely be the last just Measure I annual report. And again, um this just to remind our community was the 75word ballot statement that went on back in the November 2014 ballot um that was successfully passed and thank you to our community for that. This has allowed us to um identify $175 million worth of projects. Um on top of that has allowed us to um uh do some state matching dollars which I believe got us above a little two a little over $200 million as we were navigating measure I and continue to do so. And so Prop 39
133is a requirement. Um, in that requirement, it it requires us to do an annual independent audit. So the board typically sees that around January or February of every year. They see that with the district's general fund audit. Simultaneously, we do a measure I audit as well. Um, Prop 39 also requires us to establish a citizen a citizens bond oversight committee to oversee those dollars and how they're spent um based on the bond ballot language that was approved by the by the community. And so really again, like I mentioned, the role of the CBOC is to is to take a look at the um projects that we're doing and and those dollars that are being spent on those projects to make sure that it it hits all those points within the bond ballot language. Um and
134a big thank you to our community members. Um we have listed up here. We have our chairperson with us today, Devon M David Mclody. We have Katherine Gawker, one of our members, Drew Pasalqua, James Bobbit, uh Karen Allen, and Isaac Alplanar. they um they are uh play instrument in regards to keeping us compliant as we move through the measure I progress. And so what I want to do is just kind of let the board know um the the status of these particular meetings that we've had. This year the the bylaws only require us to host one meeting a year. We typically do three to four. This past year we've only done two as measure I is coming to the tail end of those dollars. The projects become less and less. Um so we met back
135in September 20 uh September 2024 and then the last meeting we had was in January 20 uh 2025 and in that meeting we had our auditors come to that meeting uh give an update as far as the audit performance that took place um which were uh glowing remarks from auditors as we as we've seen on an annual basis. Um and and in every one of these meetings we we go through the financials and we go through projects and typically we land at a site where there's a project happening. Um, and I believe the last one we were at was at Fullerton and we we got to see the whole um whole project go through its through its uh beginning phase and closing phase. Uh, which was a really good experience for our members to go
136our committee members to go see. Um, and again I like I mentioned we are at the tail end of the bond. We've issued all of the series associated with those dollars that allowed us to the bond capacity of $175 million. uh we spent close to 166.7 of that million of those dollars leaving us about a little over $8 million left which is what is going to cost us about to finish this uh Sonora Science Labs with a with one final project um as well at Troy High School. We did a a measure eye upgrade of the gym at Troy High School. Um but we're circling back around to finish the the final touches around the acoustics to um create better sound quality control within the gym. um as our campus is being used on those
137events where the noise can get quite loud sometimes. Um and so with that, I'd like to invite our chairperson up to the podium and kind of talk through the annual report. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Hern Hernandez. I'll uh keep it brief, but I am pleased on behalf of the CBOC to present the 2024 annual report. If you can read it up on the screen, it's been distributed ahead of time to right. uh report on the progress of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District facilities and construction projects funded by Measure I dollars. Uh the purpose of the CBOC is to ensure that all Measure I bond revenues are expended only for projects listed in the bond measure as well as to ensure that bond funds are only used for specific facilities staff members hired to
138facilitate the bond projects. In addition, no bond monies are to be spent on any other school operating expenses. Uh CBOC is tasked with reporting uh to uh you all esteemed a board of trustees and the general public an annual report concerning the expenditures of bond revenues and CBOC activities over the past year which Mr. Hernandez has covered in detail. And we're pleased to report that all expenditures are within the requirements of the measure I campaign. All right. And so for us, the next steps is to um get back into our cycle of of our of our annual meetings. And so this is what we'll typically see um throughout the upcoming years as we navigate measure I measure dollars. Uh so we'll do a summer a summer where we will uh summer meeting where we will
139do site visits um take a look at the projects that are happening. And then in the winter we will do the audit report and and in both these meetings there will be project updates and as well as financial updates. And then we'll be back here typically in the spring to do our annual report. Um on a on a on a cyclical basis we'll typically see these uh meetings take place. And with that that concludes our presentation on the annual report. Thank you. Does it does the board have any questions? Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for your service. Thank you. I would like to call on assistant superintendent administrative services Dr. Carl Xener and student board member Noel to present information on the student board member annual review and recommendation. Well, thank you,
140President Calhoun, members of the board and Dr. Mclofflin. If we didn't know was Noel's night before, we sure do now. She's back here. Um, we we often give some updates throughout the year. You hear what our student board member does. You hear her monthly report. You hear me mention some things in my communications report. However, to my knowledge, we have never had a full update from our student board member at her last board meeting where she reviews what she's done and provides some recommendations to enhance the position. So, very excited to hear from Noel this evening. An overview of what you're going to hear about from Noel. She's going to provide a recap of the past school year, make some recommended enhancements, uh, including some trainings for our next student board member, as well as
141possible compensation model. So, I'm going to step aside and let our expert take over. Here's Noel. Thank you. Um, I'm really excited to give my first presentation to you guys and I'm really excited to give you guys my insight on this year and I'm also excited because as Dr. Zener said, we've decided to make this annual and so every uh student board member in the future will have this opportunity to give um a recap of their year and so I'm really excited about that. But I wanted to start out with uh just outlining our the student board member role in our district. And so firstly uh one of the main responsibilities of a student board member comes in attending monthly meetings. You guys know uh the board meetings. Um, we also have our student advisory
142council meetings which are once a month and I uh lead and organize these uh monthly events for uh ASB representatives and I get to create a space for all of us to communicate and collaborate which is really cool. We have our ASB curriculum meetings which are also once a month with Dr. Zener, our APSAS and our activities directors. And this these are more administrative meetings and we get to talk about um how uh our decisions are impacting um students across our district. Um but outside of these meetings uh it's the responsibility of a student board member to uh stay in regular communication with each campus. That's what I do partly with my board reports every month. Um and also to coordinate for these SACE meetings and SACE events. The student board member also uh leads
143district-wide events including symposium and our community service activities which I will go more into depth about a little bit later in the presentation. And overall a student board member should represent student voice and engage with student bodies. So I wanted to talk a little bit about my personal journey as the student board member. So as soon as I got the job in May, we jumped right into planning for next year um specifically for SACE and symposium and as a student board member who had not been a part of ASB previously. I hadn't really attended any of the events that I was um supposed to plan. So I had to do a lot of learning uh really quick. Uh but it was an amazing experience learning how to lead our SACE meetings through the help of
144Dr. Zener in our summer planning meetings where we came up with the year-long theme of together. Um, and that has been a part of almost all of the activities we do throughout the year with our student advisory council. And so SACE meetings a little bit more in depth. They are monthly. There are about 40 student attendees and they rotate. So each high school gets to host uh a meeting one time and then the high school that the student board member is from gets to host two times. And these meetings really bring the together theme to life. And we also have our symposium event um in September which is right off the bat. So we spend a lot of time in the summer planning for that. For that event, I organized the schedule, figured out catering,
145planned work days, and MCE the actual event, which was a lot of fun and a lot of work, but it was a really great experience. And in December, I attended the CSBA conference, which I will talk a little bit about on the next slide. Um, and lastly, our SACE community service project. This year I had all of our ASBs uh coordinate to support ReadAcross America Day and attend uh the their local elementary schools and read to read children's books to their students which was really a really special experience. Um and so you've heard my year-long journey and I wanted to highlight the CSBA conference. This was kind of a really cool moment for me. Uh these are all the friends that I met there and the other student board members from across California. Um it
146was really amazing to learn about what they do. And what I realized by going is I saw all these unique opportunities that these student board members um had created and I wish that I had that in the beginning of my term. And so some of the things that I learned was some student some districts have a handbook for their uh student board members to really outline the role. Um, I learned that some student board members receive compensation and I also learned about some additional ways that the student board members are reaching out to their campuses through like going to campuses and uh, holding hearings for their students which was really cool. So now um, I'm going to look at the specific enhancements that I'm proposing and we I have worked with Dr. Zener and Dr.
147Mclofflin on these past few months. So firstly is a more enhanced onboarding process which is almost already started. We had our two incoming uh student board members and SACE vice chair attend a training on April 28th. It was the legacy transition planning. Um and so we're already starting to get them even more involved and we are trying to increase the amount of meetings we have with them throughout the summer to really help them hit the ground running in the fall. And we're also working on a handbook for our student board member really outlining their role like I mentioned and it's a working draft. So, uh it will be hopefully ready soon for you guys to see and look at. Um and another thing that we all talked about was having a CSBA training in the
148beginning of the year. So, we have been in communication with other local districts to see and CSBA to see if we can host a fall training for SoCal student board members so that they can get a little bit of that experience I had in December at the beginning of the year. So, oh, and also I uh am recommending student board member compensation, which leads me to my uh next slide, which is a more comp comprehensive uh outline of the time that I have put in and student board members put into their role. So, our monthly SACE meetings, there are eight throughout the whole year. And the this includes theme planning, um activity planning, uh creating slides, agendas, and things like this. Um and it says 12 meetings up there because I also included the four
149meetings Dr. Zener and I have throughout the summer um preparing for SACE. So, those are all four hours. So, we have 12 meetings times four hours. Um in our next slide we have the additional duties of a student board member and firstly the board meetings. We have 10 meetings per year and they're about four hours. We have calculated the curriculum meetings. There's also 10 per year and those are about 2 hours. Uh we look at student activities and which I've mentioned symposium and our community outreach project. The symposium day itself is about eight hours. Uh but including the prep time for both of those events, we calculated it to be about 12 hours of additional planning. And then additional events, we have student board member interviews which are about eight hours and additional support meetings
150with Dr. Mclofflin and Dr. Zener throughout the year. So all of this accumulates to our time totals. So we total totaled our meeting hours as 136 hours. And so why is this important? Well, in 2023, California passed a new uh assembly bill 275 that states that student board members can receive uh compensation. And so that is what we are going to be talking about. And so Dr. Zenner and I did some research about what districts are doing in California. And so I made this little table. I realized it's really small so you probably can't read it. I can't even read it. Um but uh it has uh an outline of what districts around us are doing and we found that out of the 28 uh schools we uh districts we reached out to about 36%
151of them are compensating their student board members and that number is only increasing. So we have a proposed model. So we have 34 oh here we go um 34 meetings per year as shown there. um the total number of hours spent which was 136 which we calculated uh650 is the student hourly rate within our district and this creates our annual student board member com uh compensation which is $2,244 annually and so I'm going to pass it back over to Dr. Zener to finish up the presentation. Great. Great job, Noel. Thank you so much. So what are our next steps and what does this all mean? So that was a lot of information. Uh this is presentation is for information only. Uh our second board meeting in June, I will pre be presenting our annual update
152on our board policies, our administrative regulations and our board bylaws and I will be presenting uh board bylaw 9150 and 9250 which would allow us to compensate our student board member. So this is for your consideration and then a recap. what does what does all this mean? So really want to thank again Noelle for not only a wonderful job this year but a great job I think encapsulating what does a student board member do in our district. We see her at board meetings we hear a little bit but to get into the details of the hard work the hours spent behind the scenes in planning all these events working having to put up with me and all of my demands. Uh really really appreciate that. So, we thank you for your time and listening to
153her her year, her journey, and our recommendations for for next year. And we'd be happy to take any questions. Now, I want to say that Nori did a fantastic presentation, very professional and fantastic job. Um, but I do have um couple questions in the um you know, the fantastic idea of the of the compensation for the student board member. Um definitely a lot of time was spent but during the from now to the next meeting would it be possible to look into if we were to compensate the student board member um would the student board member be treated as a employee that requires to have all the trainings like the board members that we hike and would the student board member need a work permit as well and will the work student members um hours
154um trigger in um benefits? all the things we'll we'll explore and and bring back more information. It's going to follow the model similar to our student worker program uh within our district. So, we should be able to get those answers pretty quickly. Thank you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Uh as everyone knows, I used to teach government and my main goal and um really happiness of doing that role was to see empowered, engaged students. And there's no better example of that than what you just presented to us. It is so wonderful. And not only are you leaving us with this new concept of this end of the year report, which is fantastic, but also paying it forward by creating a student handbook, looking at compensation. I used to be president of my local union, and
155I always say no one should work for free. So, I appreciate that you presented a very reasoned explanation for student board member compensation and thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Clyster. Um, I just want to commend you for that presentation. It was fantastic. It makes me so happy that my youngest son does not watch these meetings because I I feel like I'd be coming home to a presentation on hours spent taking care of dogs at my house and expected compensation. So, I'm really glad he's not watching. Um, but it was fantastic and your points were really um well taken. I I think that it's really great for us and for everybody out there to hear about the hours that you put in that we don't get to see. Um, and it really highlights the
156value of the student board member position and I think that um, no one should work for free. So, um, so thank you for everything you're doing to set this up for future student board members. Thank you, Miss Buchcci. Well, I'm not sure what I could add to what my colleague said except to ditto. What a nice presentation. And I I'm really very excited about the proposal because I think the handbook is amazing. I agree with you. CSBA conference is too late for you to be getting all that information and the compensation is a good idea too. You can always use I don't know if did are you proposing it be a lump sum like when they graduate to go to college? Yeah. Yes. Yes. So anyway, thank you so much for everything you've done and
157I did know all those things you do and I thank you once again for all your hard work. Thank you so much. Dr. Mclofflin, amazing to add. No, this time we got a little more work to do, but we'll bring it back. Nice job. Y Thank you. Thank you. I would like to call on assistant superintendent administrative services, Dr. Carl Zinger, to give a communication update. Um, this is for information only and non-action item. Thank you, President Calhoun, members of the board, Dr. Mclofflin. Our May newsletter themed Engaging Minds was delivered to over 35,000 subscribers. This month's edition featured a variety of employee awareness days, our graduation schedule, and tips along with important celebrations, recognitions, and helpful resources as we head into the end of the school year. If you have not had a chance
158to check out our newsletter, please visit our website and subscribe. Graduation for all our schools is coming beginning May 27th and our last day of school is May 29th. We are excited to celebrate with our graduates and their great accomplishments. This has been a month of honoring staff. As we celebrate this month of May, the district proudly recognizes many important groups including our certified appreciation week, our classified school employee week, and mental health awareness month. We extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our teachers, certificated staff, and classified employees. Your dedication, care, and hard work. Make a lasting impact on our students and schools every day. We're also proud to recognize for the month of May, Jewish American Heritage Month, School Principal Day, which was May 1st, School Lunch Hero Day, which was May
1592nd, National School Nurse Day May 7th, and upcoming is Speech Pathologist Day on May 18th. And finally, we are proud to share that our district was recently recognized in the Orange County Department of Education newsroom entitled OCDE's crisis response network support schools during their most difficult days real time support. The article highlights how OCD's crisis response network worked closely with our district following two separate critical incidents earlier this year and how we concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Dr. Preser. Um, do the board members have any questions or would like to share any comment? Okay. Are there any items board members would like to pull from the consent calendar? Are there any comments the board or superintendent would like to share with us? No. As as we come close to the end of the school
160year, I want to thank all of our teachers employees for the hard work they've done this year and there you go. All right, Mr. uh wonderful Steve Mclofflin. Thank you, Dr. Cahoo, members of the board. I'll mix it up a little bit. Uh just a quick shout out especially to our certificated staff members and certificate appreciation week and classified appreciation week. We we truly appreciate all you that you know, but excellent job this year. We really appreciate you. As we conclude tonight, um, with our early retirement incentive, uh, it also has stimulated, uh, uh, new positions. And so with Dr. Atinson's, uh, retirement, Mr. Miller being appointed to the assistant superintendent on, uh, July 1st, we now have a new director of human resources. So, I'm going to ask Dr. Atinson, uh, to the podium
161one last time tonight uh, so we can introduce our new director of human resources. Dang, that's awesome. Thank you, Dr. Mclofflin, President Calhoun, members of the board. Tonight, it's my privilege to introduce to you one of our newest members of the district administrative team. And I'd like to call Julie Gonzalez to the podium with [Applause] me. Julie comes to us with extensive experience in administration. She comes to us from the East Whittier City School District where for the past 13 years she has served as an administrator most recently as principal of is it series series elementary school since 2012. Uh during this time, she's also served as a mentor principal uh within the district for the past eight years and also served as a middle school assistant principal at Hill View Middle School before becoming
162an administrator also in the uh East Whittier City School District. Julie taught and uh spent time as a first grade transitional teacher and a kindergarten teacher. Those are real jobs. Those are uh those are uh one I could not handle. That is for sure. Uh she also served as a learning specialist at Evergreen Elementary School for seven years uh also in the East Whittier City School District. Julie has many uh accomplishments and recognitions and just to name a few she has been recognized as outstanding bilingual teacher in 2010 and 2012 administrator of the year in 2015 and under her leadership series elementary was named US News best elementary school in 2022 and 2024 top Los Angeles County Public School in 2019. 19 and 2020 and California Distinguished School in 2014 and 2018. We're very proud
163to have her join the district and human resources. If we could have a nice round of applause for her. [Applause] Would you like to say a few words? Just have to bring this down quite a bit. Uh thank you so much. I'm really excited to be here tonight. Um, I'm thankful for the opportunity especially to contribute to the hard work that's already taking place here. Um, also Noel, I'm already getting a text from my daughter here. She wants contributions for a lot of different things. Uh, but I am so grateful for the opportunity. I look forward to working alongside all the administrators, new staff. Thank you for the warm welcome. I've met a lot of staff already. And thank you to pleasure to meet you. Our Dr. Dr. Mclofflin of course for having me in
164the board.