001Good evening. It's 5:00 p.m. And I would like to call the April 8th, 2026 Board of Education meeting of the Inglewood Unified School District to order. And I'd like to ask Patrick Cruz to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Cruz. You may be Let's stand, please. All right, put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance 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. You may be seated. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cruz. Next, I will ask Ms. Zambrano to call the roll. Ms. Zambrano, please. Board President Dr. Carlos McGee. Present. Board Vice President Mr. Brandon Myers. Board Member Ms. Joyce Randall. Present. Board Member Ms. Margaret Turner Evans. Present.
002Board Member Mr. Ernesto Castillo. Present. Student Board Member Amaya Hazard. Dr. James Morris. Present. Dr. Brian Coffee. Present. Mr. Rafael Guzman. Present. Dr. Daniel Goolsby sitting in for Dr. Lucas. Present. Thank you. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. Thank Thank you very much, Ms. Zambrano. Uh moving on to approval of the agenda. I hereby approve the agenda with no modifications. Moving on to report out of closed session actions. In closed session this evening, the county administrator took action to approve the following settlement cases. OAH case number 2026020913. OAH case number 20261110432. OAH case number 2026021032. Additionally, the county administrator took action to reject A-skip claim numbers 2514462, 2414472, 2414473. And now we'll transition to reports and presentations. Our first presentation this evening will be our own Board President Dr.
003Carlos McGee giving us an Inglewood Educational Foundation report. Dr. McGee. Thank you, Dr. Morris. It's a very um brief report, and this report is from December to where we are currently now in terms of revenue that has been um disseminated among certain programs. One is our HBCU, the um for our dinner, and we also purchased the HBCU sweatshirts that the students will be wearing uh and chaperones will be wearing Sunday when we leave to go to Atlanta and Alabama. We are have provided the funding for the girls golf program at Parent um Middle School. It's been in session now for um 3 weeks. It will culminate in um June of this year. The Reading Academy is ongoing. The Farmers Market that is currently at the CDC and Woodworth-Monroe, it's still going and thriving, and it'll
004be there through June. That concludes my report in terms [clears throat] of what the foundation has been responsible for in terms of funding. Thank you. Thank Thank you very much, Dr. McGee. Board um President McGee, I'll turn it over to you for any board member questions or comments on the report. Margaret. I thank you for that report. I just want to know if the farmers market is every weekend or just once a month? How often are they there? It's never on the weekend. It's during the week, and I believe it's currently it's either on a Wednesday or Thursday. Oh. Okay. But it's every week? No. Once a month? Mhm. Okay. Thank you. And I um I think it's the uh third week of each month. And so um families from Monroe, Woodworth, Morningside, and the
005um Children's Development um Center, they all um can take part in it, and the community as well. Do we have any more questions? All right, thank you. All right, thank Thank you, Dr. McGee. And now Mr. Rafael Guzman has a presentation on district facilities maintenance progress report. Uh Mr. Guzman is our Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, Chief Business Official. And Mr. Guzman, we're going to turn it over to you. Thank you, Dr. Morris, and uh good evening uh Board President Dr. McGee, uh our board members, our public here today. Uh we're just really excited to give an update on our facilities. Just want to keep saying, you know, Inglewood Unified is doing great things as it pertains to facilities. There's a lot of projects that are ongoing. Um we're going to give you some updates
006on some future projects. We'll talk a little bit about the cash flow, um and just how excited we are about everything that's going on, you know, um so we'll go ahead and continue here. One of the uh very exciting things that uh we're going to talk about in regards to completed projects are uh just recently we uh renovated all of our special education furniture, and um we did some updates for City Honors, so I'll I'll go ahead and get into that. So, um this project, you know, one of the issues that we saw as we toured some of our classrooms was some of our furniture is is out was out of date, especially as it pertains to special education. So, we were able to um set up some model classrooms. Um uh some of our
007teachers toured those classrooms, gave their input, gave their feedback, uh principals as well, and some administrators. And we finally came up with an actual layout for uh renovated furniture for all of our special education classrooms. So, every single classroom um in Inglewood Unified School District has a renovated that's for special education has renovated furniture uh that's designed for their particular needs. Um and so we're really excited to announce that. It's being put into each one of the classrooms over spring break, so uh they're hard at work. Our team is hard at work to put these uh furniture pieces up and and get it running so that by the time our our children get back to the classroom, they're going to have brand new furniture. So, that's about a $1.5 million project, and we're really excited
008about uh the product of that. Um the other project that was recently completed was uh the City Honors um renovation of the existing library into a state-of-the-art media center uh with uh in conjunction with the IYC uh program. Um so, we're really excited about that. We completed those improvements, um and so that cost about $170,000. It's beautiful. If you haven't gone there, I would strongly suggest you visit. It's just It's an amazing uh it's state-of-the-art. It looks beautiful there. Um so, going towards the cash flow, um I know it's kind of hard to see here, but as of March of 2026, the district had $246 million remaining for its facilities program. Just to clarify, all of these funds have been allocated to existing projects. I do want to clarify because I've heard things out there
009uh that, you know, we don't have enough funds or whatever, but No, that's absolutely categorically not true. Uh every single one of our projects that we currently have, we have enough funds to complete those projects along with the contingencies associated with that, and that does include Inglewood High School. Uh the remaining funds are comprised of Measure I bond proceeds, which is the majority of what we have remaining, state funding programs, and developer fees. Um to talk a little bit about the projected revenues, we have a kind of a map here of how we anticipate those revenues to come in. We anticipate about $20 million more for our facility programs uh to come in from now through the '28-'29 school year. And we're also always searching for additional funds. This is something that's new for the
010district you know, we're looking for additional funds as much as we can in any sort of program that's out there. Um so, we're conservatively planning to have about $266 million through '28-'29. All of those are already kind of determined for expenses. Um all of our projects currently within the program include uh these types of expenditures, either under construction, under design, being procured, or are defined in the district's deferred maintenance plan. Um we currently have a reserve of about $315,000 in cash uh when it's all said and done, when all of the projects are done. That may seem like a small number considering the the bigger 200 and plus 200 plus million dollars that we were anticipating earlier, but just so that you know, we've designed each one of our projects to have contingency funds. So,
011each project has a contingency uh in case there's an unforeseen condition in the project. Um so, that's something that we've uh been able to materialize and so we're trying to really spend as much of our funds as we can, but we're also projecting for any sort of unforeseen conditions there. So we have a reserve or contingency. Here's just I know it's hard to see if you have a paper copy you can probably see it a little bit better, but it kind of shows you all of the projected expenses for the bond, which is really exciting and we'll get into that here in the next few slides. But one thing I do want to talk about is state aid applications. This is something that we're really excited about as well because we're a school district we're
012able to apply for what's called modernization eligibility funds. And so in the time frame in this short time frame since June of 2025 we have submitted five applications to OPSC, the office of public school construction, for reimbursement for completed projects for a total of 12.5 million. This is reimbursement for projects we already completed way back in the way back when that was you know that we had all the work that we needed to. So this is part of us looking for funds. And so we were able to identify about 12.5 million that we can now bring into our into our coffers for construction. In addition the district is working on OPSC funding applications for Englewood High School reconstruction project. Don't want to get ahead of that number yet because I don't know exactly what that
013is, but we are applying for hardship funding so that we anticipate that to be at least in the tens of millions. So that's that's going to be another source of revenue that comes in to the district. So we're always searching for additional funds and evidence of that is is what you're seeing here on the screen. We don't anticipate receiving those funds in the 29-30. Usually it's about five years for us once we submit an application for us to see it. With the exception of Englewood High School for any if we're approved for hardship funding for Englewood High School we should see that sooner. But again I don't want to you know put a number out there if I don't have the exact number yet. So once I get that we'll definitely share that with you.
014But overall we're looking for funds as much as we can. And so that's about it for the cash flow. A lot of exciting projects. I think if you look at our previous presentation we had a lot more of the other completed projects. This one just focused on what we've done since that presentation. But to talk about our ongoing project I'm going to ask our executive director of construction Mr. Jordan Miles to come up and present the rest of this which is we're very excited about. Thank you so much Mr. Guzman. Good evening members of the board, members of cabinet, members of community. Excited to provide you just a succinct overview of all those projects that as Mr. Guzman mentioned are currently under construction or will be upcoming. So here's a here's a list of the
015major projects we have ongoing right now. Couple of photos from Bennett Kew and from our new Child Development Center projects as well. So this past winter break we began painting both the interior and exterior of the City Honors IYC campus. Been working closely with Dr. Ryan and Ms. Williams on the schedule for that project to minimize the number of moves we have on site during during the school year. You can see some progress photos here. So that's that's building A so the administration building in the new color scheme and then we have a building F there the auditorium that's currently being being painted during spring break. Um this this project will be completed by the summer. So when students come back in August we'll have a fully completed freshly painted campus. That was a $350,000
016project. City Honors this summer will also receive a new roofing project. We'll be adding a sealant coating to the entire campus except for the auditorium. The auditorium roof was wasn't good enough condition where it didn't need that sort of improvement. Additionally we that that work will primarily happen over summer. This spring break we started a similar project over at the continuation campus on the two-story building adding that sealant coating that you'll see at City Honors. And then this past week we started a full re-roof of the locker room here at Coleman Field. That project will wrap up next week. The continuation project will also wrap up next week. And all in that that these three roofing projects are going to cost about 1.5 million dollars. Over at the Child Development Center again we are fully
017reconstructing this project. We're receiving funds from Harridge Developers as a part of our long-term lease agreement with that entity. You can see here that the scope of the the project as well. Again we're just relocating just to the north of the existing campus. You can see a lot of the excavation work that's that's been ongoing since I reported out to you last. This is a total of 15 million dollars. Again 4 million is coming from Harridge the rest is coming from our Measure I. And within that 15 million dollars like Mr. Guzman had mentioned that's where we have additional contingencies and reserves and allowances in case something in the field uh arises. For example during this excavation point you can see there in the upper left-hand picture they identified some transit pipe that was unforeseen
018unidentified in some of the survey work. It took a little while to dig that out a little extra cost for the for the abatement work, but that does not impact our overall program. That does not impact our program reserve because that project has its own reserve and contingency built in. So this project is a modular construction. So we will see Bennett Kew looks like it's farther along because with CDC and with Oak Street that I'll get to you later the construction of those buildings is happening offsite. Those classrooms are being prefabricated and then will be placed on permanent foundations when those are built. So by the end of May you should see brand new classrooms here at CDC. And again this is a 15 million dollar project. We expect for our CDC staff and students
019to move in over the summer. Once that move happens then we'll begin demolishing the existing campus and building the new parking lot. So again Bennett Kew started around the same time and is around the same schedule as CDC. It just looks significantly farther along because this is more of your traditional build where everything is being constructed on site. You can see how much framing is going on here on on campus. This project is running quite smoothly. Very happy with this this contractor. Again the the foundations have been fully poured. The framing is ongoing. We're in conversation with a district sorry with site staff about the furniture that will be added to the site as well. And we are well on our way to having this project complete by July of 2026. And you can see
020that the budget here 11.5 million dollars and that again includes that project reserve and contingency. Inglewood High School again the one of the largest projects that our district has has ever undertaken. 53 classrooms. You can see the entire scope there in terms of new construction as well as the modernization efforts at the gym and the auditorium. Since we filed the final environmental impact report in February about six weeks ago monumental efforts have been taken undertaken on site with demolishing the campus the existing campus. We held a tour earlier this afternoon. I know a couple of the board members were able to attend. You can see just how much work has happened in the last six weeks. At this point the majority of buildings have either been fully or partially demolished as you can see here
021in these photos. Um this this demolition work will continue through the spring. Once that work is fully done we'll start the excavation work like you saw at Bennett Kew and CDC. And that that work will continue throughout the summer. And then as a brief overview here again the demolition work is underway. That guaranteed maximum price with Balfour Beatty that GMP was approved at our last board meeting. Package one we expect to which is again is in blue here on in the photo. We expect to receive DSA or state approval for that design work shortly. Package two which is again the CTE buildings there in pink. That was submitted to the to DSA at the end of February. We'll begin that bid process shortly for that construction work. And then package three which is the modernization
022of the gym and auditorium so in red in the photo. And then package four all of the site development there in green. We have DSA approval for that work already. So again all of our design work for this project has been either approved at the state or has been finalized and is at the state for for review. Then as a look ahead of of upcoming projects we have recently complete completed the bid process for the early education complex project at Oak Street. So again in less than a year from now all of the 10 portable buildings there in the center of Oak will be removed and in their place we'll have 10 new modular classrooms so similar to the classrooms that we're constructing at at CDC. So we have seven classrooms there on the far
023west side kind of the existing grass green space on campus. Those will be those are designed for preschool TK and K instruction. Then we'll in the place of the portable buildings we'll have a new artificial turf similar to what was constructed over at Kelso. And then just south of the existing shade structure we'll have three new general purpose classrooms as well. We completed the bid process so the GMP similar to what we had for Englewood High School that was finalized and is ready for approval this evening. Once we have approval of that GMP we can begin our construction activities on site. And again we all in we're looking at about an 18 million dollar budget for this project. Again there's contingency allowance built in there that includes 5.4 million dollars from the office of public
024school construction as well. So last summer we provided improvements at Kelso and Centinela. We're going to be providing those similar improvements at Bennett Kew to complement the middle school classroom building that's being built now. So, when students arrive in August, uh the existing campus will be will have a full uh paint uh new paint on the interior of the campus, full new floors, new whiteboards and tack boards. The entire campus will also have new furniture. And we'll also have additional site site uh development improvements. Uh we completed the bid uh today. We opened those bids. Uh so, the selected contractor uh we're we're expecting an agreement to come forward at our next board meeting in May. Uh we have about a $1.5 million budget for for all of these improvements here. And we expect that
025work to be done uh by the end of summer. We've been working uh closely and diligently with our maintenance and operations team on a new grand uh sorry, great grand master uh key system for our entire campus. Uh we have we're finalizing our quotes uh so, we can replace our core. So, every campus will have a very similar new secure more sorry, more secure more efficient key system. Uh that work can be completed for all of our campuses uh this summer. Uh so, that's something that you can expect to see between June and August of all of our all 13 of our sites will have uh be fully re-keyed. Also, with the district office relocating uh since since we last provided a presentation to you, uh the old Warren Lane campus uh there on uh
0268th and and Arborvitae uh has been vacated uh from the um from the charter school. So, now we can begin our site assessments. We've been working uh with our uh architect of record for this project nearly daily at this point on the space planning. So, which program or which department goes in which classroom? And we're also getting our cost estimates for the additional site improvements such as parking, uh exterior lighting, uh what uh pavement will be replaced. Uh so, we're we're finalizing that. We've been meeting with each department as well. So, that way we say in special projects, this is how the your expected layout in your classrooms. Making sure that it really fits the needs of each of our programs. So, again, that that work started this past January when the the site became
027vacant. And we do expect for this this transition to be completed by the end of this calendar year. At our January special board meeting, uh we did approve of a pool of firms that can provide design-build services for solar projects throughout the district. Uh since that time we've been meeting with each of those firms uh that's a part of our bench so, we can they can provide us quotes on how much it would cost to provide a solar system uh solar system, if you will, at each of our sites. You can see some renderings here just a conceptual layout of how the space it would take to generate about 50 to 70% of the um energy needs of that that campus. And so, we'll be working closely throughout this spring with these firms to to
028order uh the the the solar panels that are needed to take advantage of federal uh federal funding. Um there's uh the investment tax credit where we'd be able to uh safe harbor or get significantly reduced pricing at the federal level if we place our orders by July 3rd. So, we're going to be working over the next couple of months closely with these firms so, we can take advantage of that federal funding. And then lastly, again, we we present more than just here at the board meeting. Uh we held a meeting with our citizens bond oversight committee uh in January. We'll be meeting again next week on the 16th. Uh at those meetings, we've been talking about how all of our bond measures from both GG and I have been spent. And we also receive annual
029audits. For the third year in a row, we've received an audit uh report that shows that no findings have been identified. So, again, uh the showing the accountability uh of the district with with our with our bond funds. On top of our CBOC, uh we also have our facilities advisory committee. We met in early February. We'll be meeting again in in May over there. And we'll be talking about how uh we can implement future pro uh projects uh in our program when additional funding becomes available. And then lastly, in terms of communication out to the district, uh you you can see that we've resurrected our facilities at a glance newsletter. We'll be having another one published uh later this month. Uh and in that newsletter, we'll also talk about the groundbreaking ceremony that we'll have
030for Oak Street uh later this month uh to commemorate that project. And then uh again, we'll we'll come to you on a regular basis to provide you updates on construction and design activities, about funding that's available either at the state level, federal funding opportunities, updates from the state uh in terms of Inglewood High School or other projects. Uh continue to meet with our committees and our community uh about uh about our projects. Uh we'll provide updates on groundbreaking, ribbon-cutting ceremonies that are coming up as well. Thank you so much for your time and attention. Thank you, Mr. Miles. I'll turn it over to President McGee. Uh thank you. And can we all do a applause for you and Mr. Guzman? Dr. McGee. Thank you so much. I'm going to start with uh Ms. Evans, if
031you have any um comments. Um Mr. Miles, you've been busy. And it it shows after that tour that we took today. And I've been driving up and down Manchester and trying to see but you can't really see through the fence to see what's really going on. But it was quite interesting to see the work with the demolition, what's going on. And I'm thinking, "Oh, I remember that building. I remember that building." It was it was something to see the work that's being done there. And I appreciated having that tour today. Thank you very much. But are the kids still at Bennett Kew and CDC, are they still going to school in their old buildings? Are they still there now while they're working on the new buildings? >> Great question, Ms. Evans. Uh yes to for
032both of those campuses. So, the project at the Child Development Center is on a raw tract of land. And so, it it's not impacting um the instruction. Granted, we did have to make some minor adjustments in terms of where our staffing is cuz we we did have to demolish part of the existing office space. So, we did move the office from the northern part of campus to the southern part of campus. So, access to the existing campus had to change for this construction project. But the classrooms remain intact. Once we have completed the new campus, we'll move everyone over. It'll probably take a weekend to do that. Then once everyone is fully in the new campus, that then we can demolish and then [snorts] build that new parking lot. So, so the CDC will not
033be impacted. There's no need for interim housing for that project. And then same thing with with Bennett Kew. Uh granted, that there has been some sacrifices needed to be made on campus. We've taken up a lot of their blacktop space to make room for this this new building. Uh but all the classrooms have been able to be uh used uh during during construction. Okay. That's all I needed to know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to um see if Ms. Randall has any um questions or comments at this time. Well, I'm just quite thrilled that all the building is going on. Thank you so much, Mr. Miles. I'm just very very happy to be a part of the Inglewood Unified School District board during this exciting time of building and renovation. Thank you
034so much. Thank you, Ms. Randall. Um Mr. Castillo, do you have any comments? Thank you, Madam Board President. I also was on that tour today of the demolished Inglewood High School. It's clear that the demolition of that the demolition of that high school has caught a lot of eyes and attention to Inglewood Unified um questions as to what's going to happen there. And for some who find out what's going to happen there, excitement about what's about to happen there. Um so, I'm really interested in playing a bigger role in sharing information with the community so, they know what's coming to Inglewood Unified. And I'm really excited it's coming to Inglewood Unified because our students deserve these buildings. They deserve these classrooms. They deserve new um opportunities that these buildings will provide our students. So, I
035really appreciate the work that you've done to incorporate the parents' voices, the students' voices, and staff voices. Um not just Inglewood High School, but Oak Street, uh the CDC, uh the IYC City Honors Library, which there's no library like that library. And I I can put money on that. Um it's an amazing uh work you have done there. And you collaborated with the right people. So, I really appreciate you making sure you do that because it's not just the students who deserve it. It's our staff. They have been working so hard to make our students feel special, to make sure that they feel like they belong here in this district. And they've done that uh with sometimes limited resources. So, this building is definitely for them so, they know that they commitments and their sacrifices
036to be part of this district it's is not in vain. And they get the opportunity to do what they do best is educate our students in these brand new uh classrooms in these brand new spaces. So, I'm very excited for them. And it's coming very very soon. Uh because our students should not feel like they're taking a sacrifice to be in this district. They should be excited to be part of Inglewood Unified. You know, whenever they get the letter that they're not enrolled in that charter school or they get that letter that they didn't get the permit to go to that one district, they should not feel like their uh education has been limited because of that decision. They should feel like they're happy to be here at Inglewood Unified. And I think these buildings
037are a big big step towards that goal. Um I just have one question for you, Mr. Guzman. Uh I know you you said it, but I want you to repeat it cuz I know there's misinformation going out there. Do we have money for the Inglewood Unified project? I mean, Inglewood High School project. Yes. Yes, it's completely budgeted. It's fully covered. Um you know, I'm not sure why why that's come up, but um I'm happy to meet with um whomever would like to meet. And we could go over the budget. And we could explain exactly how it's all broken out. Uh but it's it's very exciting. Um we've planned it very well. Um and that's why you have those GMP packages coming up. But yes, it's been fully budgeted. Um and we're excited for that to
038be come to fruition in December of 2027. Thank you for that generous offer and thank you again, Mr. Miles and Mr. Guzman for that presentation and thank you, Board President, for allowing me to ask those questions. That was not a question, just so you know. I I thought I did ask you a question. >> No, that was a monologue. But moving forward, Mr. Myers. Thank you, Madam President. And a welcome to my board members. And I just want to share that your presentation I just want to echo what the rest of my board members have mentioned about just your expertise and your preciseness and just the enthusiasm about, you know, what we have going on in our district. I have think I have a question. Madam President, I think. So, just a bit of back
039history. I know Balfour Beatty offers a lot of, you know, community benefits pertaining to maintenance and some sort of, you know, facility improvements. Has that been, um, I guess ventured in into for perhaps the Coleman roof? And I'm just looking at minimal projects that cost particularly under 2 million. We're looking at Binocues needing some indoor painting, it it said, and some flooring and asphalt. Was there any discussions about having them utilize those community benefits that they're offering to support these areas? I I Thank you for your question, Mr. Myers. I absolutely agree with you. We should leave no funding stone or funding opportunity unturned. What what we can do going forward is meet with our contractors of projects, see what sort of additional opportunities they might have if they want to, say, increase their optics
040if they're trying to, you know, work with other districts in the South Bay where they can say, "Look at what we did for Inglewood on top of the projects we were contractually obligated to." And see what sort of additional opportunities there there are with them. That's a that's a great idea. Thank you. Thank you. And and just to clarify, also just one quick thing there. They have reached out to us to start, you know, those conversations to, you know, with Balfour Beatty. So, they have started reaching out to us about that. Thank you. Thank you. I want to thank Mr. Guzman and I want to thank you, Mr. Miles. I do have a question. Um, I First of all, I think that the report was absolutely on point. This is what the community wants to
041hear and I echo my fellow board members because I think this is definitely what our students deserve. But I also would like to know what's happening with Coleman Field. Um, in terms of the asphalt. We have several activities planned. Um, the kids are using it on a daily basis and as you know, um, it um, it's in it's in desperate, um, repair. So, yes, Dr. McGee, that's a excellent point. I believe you addressed that a couple of board meetings ago as well. Um, so we have incorporated that into our budget. Um, so we've already started getting quotes uh to be able to replace the track because I think what happened before was we didn't there was an overlay done, which it would probably should have just been replaced. Um, so we're actually going getting the
042quotes we need for our full replacement of the track. Um, we're also speaking out to some architects uh that have some expertise in this because we just we wanted to just take care of the track. The field's good, it's just the track area. Um, and so that's that's what we're doing currently. We've reached out to I think four architects at this point and so we should have a more concrete answer by the next board meeting, but we have set aside money in the budget. So, that uh request has been budgeted and we are going to move forward with corrections. And just to piggyback off that, Dr. McGee, uh that that larger table that shows all of our projects, >> Uh-huh. the the Coleman Field, we call it Coleman Field phase two, uh we included a
043budget for that track replacement in there. The reason we don't have a specific slide uh to talk about that project yet is simply because of how conceptual it is yet uh still. Once we have an architect on board, uh once we've made progress, we'll be able to provide a more in-depth update to you. Okay, then when you say you set money aside, we are getting the money from the um company that um should have put it down right the first time, right? So, that's where the money's coming from? Sort of? Maybe? We we will look into that. >> Okay. Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much for your report, Dr. Morris. And thank you, Dr. McGee. Our final presentation this evening will be the cash flow update presented by Rafael Guzman, Assistant Superintendent
044of Business Services and Chief Business Official. Mr. Guzman. Thank you, Dr. Morris, and again, good evening, everyone. Good evening to our Board President, our Vice President, as well as our board members, our community. Um, now this is the cash flow of the district's general fund. So, this is no longer We're not talking about the bond anymore. We're talking about the district general fund. So, this is something you always want to look at as a public agency and as a school district. You want to make sure that you're looking at your cash flow, making sure that you have enough funds to complete uh and your payroll, to pay your vendors, and all sorts of items. Um, it's different from budget, right? Budget is like overall, but you also have to make sure that you have enough
045cash at any given moment. Um, so the cash flow is impacted by transactions that occur throughout the year. Um, and each month the district does pay expenses, does pay, you know, their employees and vendors. And so we have to make sure that we have sufficient cash set aside for any point in time. Our main source of revenue, just so that you know, recapping for our community, in case you haven't heard about LCFF, the Local Control Funding Formula, our main sources of revenue come from local revenues, meaning property taxes, EPA funds, which is the Education Protection Account, and state aid. Those are the three main pots of money that the district receives throughout time. And so we have to make sure we're monitoring the cash flow. Here is a chart of kind of where we are
046with cash so far, and I'll point you to the ending balance. This is kind of what we want to look at, this last line here. And as you can see, we have the actuals through February. Um, and the reason why, you know, we're talking about February and April is because February just closed and March has not closed yet. So, we have actuals through February, but we ended February at about 146 million dollars in cash. Um, and so if we look at the rest of the fiscal year, we should be okay with cash as the year goes on. Um, here is a more detailed breakdown of how that cash flow looks. Uh on this upper corner here are our revenues. That's revenue that's coming in. So, in the month of February, we had about 6 million
047dollars come in. And then expenses are disbursements like certificated salaries, classified salaries, employee benefits, all of these. You can see that we spent about 13.8 uh you know, um uh million dollars there. Uh and again, when you look at the total, we ended at about 146 million dollars. And if you look at the rest of the trend line here, we end in the month of June with a positive 128 million dollars there. So, that's kind of where we are with cash. We're in a good place. Um, as we start spending down our reserves, though, this will become a very pivotal thing that we have to pay very close attention to. Right now our reserve level is good, um, but as we start spending that down, cash flow becomes an issue. So, we have to make
048sure we keep track of that in our multi-year cash flow projections. Again, uh this is something like the thick mat slide, the cash is king. It's critical for operations and although, you know, we have a balance sheet that may include other assets, we have to make sure that we have sufficient cash at any point of time. And that's about it. Uh I don't have Do you have any questions? Turning back to you. Thank you. Thank you and Dr. McGee. I'm going to start with Mr. Myers. Do you have any questions? He's gone. I'm going to That's why I started with him. Um, Ms. Randall, do you have any questions? I have no questions. Thank you, Rafael, for such an outstanding report. Thank you so much. Okay, um, Ms. Evans. I just want you to go
049over one more thing again about how much money we have. That's as Ernesto brought up. The public has been saying, you know, they're not doing all the buildings at Inglewood High because they ran out of money. Just I want you to make it clear of why we're not doing all the buildings at Inglewood High. So, when the project ran out of money, Yeah, no, when the project was was put together, um, the scope, right? It's like you design a scope. That's what you're going to do, right? The original scope of the project did not include the auditorium or the gym. It just included minor touch-ups on the auditorium and the gym. So, um, those buildings are not included. Everything else is included. So, it's it's I think that's really important to know. So, when when
050they say you ran out of money, the inference is that it was included in the project and it was not. Um, so we have sufficient funds to do all of our projects for Inglewood High School, which is all the buildings that Mr. Miles was speaking about. Um, so we're really excited about that. And yeah, as far as just general fund purposes, we're also in good shape now, but again, as I presented at the second interim, our reserves are being depleted in the out years. So, we have to make sure we make those adjustments. I'm going to conclude with you, Mr. Castillo. You have 2 minutes. Thank you. No, I don't need 2 minutes. No no monologue this time. And no questions. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Guzman. I really wanted to comment on
051the fact that when we draw down a bond, when they're submitted, they're guidelines. And we don't have the privilege or the opportunity to go outside of those guidelines. So, I'm especially appreciative of the fact that you, um, really enumerated where the money is being spent and how it can be spent. So, when we pass a bond, one of the ways you're able to pass it is that you have to give clear understanding about what you're going to do with that money before that bond is being passed. So, thank you so much and that's one of the reasons um you questioned the auditorium and the gym because that money was not included in that bond. So, we can't just go take money that's not there. But, I think we're going to find money and make it
052right. Um Mr. Myers, did you want to weigh in? Sure, thank you, Madam President. Um you know, I I Trust me, I reviewed this and I'm I'm totally aware of uh our deficit spending and um just to uh provide the community a bit of back history, um when was it? 2 weeks ago? I heard that. >> That I met with you guys just to kind of gather some financial information, right? Uh something I don't want to tell my boss that I did, but I but uh just there to kind of seek where we can find the cuts and support areas. And what I've come up with um is after looking at, you know, the spreadsheet that was provided, um we're spending way too many way too many dollars on consultants, which has been the known
053kind of thing that we've where we've all uh identified in our Thick Mat reports, as well as just looking at the budgets. So, what I've looked at is special education, totally up to 18 million dollars on the consultants. Um Ed Services consultants, 8 million 8.5, let's be correct. And then I looked at human resource consultants totaling up to 745,000. That's far too much money being diverted to consultants and making them rich and making our kids less smart. It's not your fault. I know that. And I appreciate you even being willing to willing to meet with me and provide this information to me so I'll be able to and the rest of my board members be able to know how to navigate through this budget situation. So, I think in a sense, it's not that hard
054of a problem, right? But, I think we have to have enough guts to do the cutting and trusting in our own staff to do the the work and support. And I'll digress right here. But, thank you for all that you do cuz you're a very brilliant man. You teach me a lot. So, thank you. Appreciate you. Well, I think we can let the brilliant man um go. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank Thank Thank you, Dr. McKee. And now we'll move on to public hearings on our agenda. This evening, we have three public hearings at this time. Members of the community who wish to address the county administrator and Board of Education may speak to any item now on the public hearing section of the agenda. Members of the public who wish to speak
055about an item on the public hearing agenda must indicate the item number on the public comment card. 3 minutes will be allotted to each speaker and a maximum of 30 minutes for public comment on the public hearing items. If public comment cards exceed 10 cards per section, the time allotted may be reduced to hear from more speakers. Speech or conduct that is disruptive, defamatory, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting is not allowed. Anyone who disturbs disrupts, or impedes the orderly conduct will be required to exit the meeting room. Guidelines for public comment are in accordance with board bylaw 9323 and the Brown Act does not allow the Board of Education or county administrator or cabinet members to respond to public comments. We'll now begin public comments for the public hearing items. The first
056item is Wilders Preparatory Charter Academy Elementary TK-5s school petition for renewal for the period July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2031. The petitioner will have 10 minutes to present. Following the presentation, we'll provide an additional 20 minutes for public comment. The public hearing for Wilders Academy Charter Elementary School is now open at 5:42 p.m. We'll begin with the petitioner. If you would come forward, you have 10 minutes to present. And if you would introduce yourself and then begin your presentation and then Ms. Zambrano will call on public speakers. Yes. Thank you. Um good evening, board members and public. Uh my name is Fenice Hurtado and I as serve as the director of school business at Wilders Preparatory Academy Charter School, which is the elementary as well as the middle school. I am here on behalf
057of uh our CEO, Ramona Wilder, who offers her sincerest apologies for not being here. She recently underwent surgery and is currently recovering. So, she asked me to express her deep appreciation for the opportunity to present before you and her regret that she could not be here to attend. Uh it is truly an honor to stand before you today as partners charged with educating and serving the beautiful Inglewood community. Our school began as a vision, one rooted in purpose, faith, and commitment to the community by the late Raymond D. Wilder and Dr. Carolyn R. Wilder. What started as a dream to continue his grandfather's vision to educate young minds became a reality with through perseverance and partnership in 2003 when that vision was realized and our charter was born in the as the first charter authorized
058by Inglewood Unified. The milestone uh is something that we did not take lightly and it represents both a legacy and a responsibility to continue and guide our work. Over the years, we have remained steadfast in our mission to provide a rigorous academic program while supporting the whole child academically, socially, and emotionally. We have taken strides to withstand the evolving landscape of education and continue to be reflective and innovative in our determination to meet the changing needs of our students and our families. We have worked to build a strong school culture grounded in high expectations, relationships, and meaningful engagement with families and the community that we proudly serve. As we come before you today with our charter petition, we do so with humility and with the continued commitment to partner with you all. We also promise
059to stay committed to serving our students with a high level of academic rigor and opportunities to feed their passions and get involved outside of the classroom. Serving our alumni with a place to call home where they can continue to come back and give the students who follow behind them knowledge and wisdom. Serving our families with resource to help them manage the everyday challenges of life and hear them when they advocate and carry a voice for their children. Serving our community by being an example of excellence and pride in this city. Serving our staff with equity, fairness, development, and opportunities professional for professional growth. We recognize the importance of accountability, transparency, and alignment with the district goals. And we are dedicated to ensuring that our school remains a positive and contributing member of this educational community.
060Constantly reflecting on your feedback from your annual visits, as well as guidance throughout the years, we look forward to partnering together in future years to come even stronger. We are proud of our history, grateful for the trust that was first extended to us in 2003, and excited about the opportunity to continue serving this community for the years to come. So, of course, in Wilders fashion, if everyone here for Wilders can stand up, please. Board members, we stand before you and say thank you for your time, your consideration, and your ongoing dedication to the students and families of our equal community. We appreciate you. Thank you. And thank you, Ms. Hurtado. That I It concludes your presentation, so we'll move on to public speakers, Ms. Zambrano. >> you. We do not have public comments for the
061Wilders Preparatory Elementary petition. Thank you. So, we'll move on to public Close up. Oh, I'm so sorry. Thank you, Ms. Zambrano. The public hearing on Wilders Elementary uh charter school is closed at 5:46 p.m. And then we'll move on to the petition renewal for Wilders Preparatory Academy Charter Middle School. We will also have the uh petitioner present for up to 10 minutes and then we will continue with the public hearing. The public hearing will open at 5:47 p.m. Ms. Hurtado, did you have additional comments on the middle school petition? No. Okay, then we will move on. Ms. Zambrano, if you have public speakers on the Wilders Middle School petition. Yes, we have one public comment for the child Wilders Middle School petition from Mr. Patrick Cruz. Mr. Cruz, please come to the podium. To provide
062your public comments on the petition for Wilders Middle School. You have 2 minutes. You may begin. All right. So, good afternoon, everyone. My name is Patrick Cruz and I stand before you today not simply as an alumni of Wilders Preparatory, but also a living proof of what can happen when when a child is believed in, poured into, and prepared for purpose. Wilders did not simply educate me, it shaped me. It molded me, it it redefined me, and it taught me perseverance when life became difficult, integrity when no one was watching, discipline when distractions arose, and all above service when others needed someone to step forward. In 2023 as an eighth-grade student, I had the honor of walking the stage as the first narrow student principal, a distinction not awarded in over 20 years. That movement
063taught me that leadership is not about recognition, it's about responsibility. Since leaving Wilders, I carried that responsibility into every room. I serve as the executive team leader of my school's district student advisory committee, leading a team of over 30-plus student leaders, and this year I founded the wellness club, one of the more one of the largest student-led organizations, serving over 50-plus student ambassadors and leaders. At the county level of of education, I represent over 2 million students on the superintendent's advisory council. Most recently, I was appointed as the first black student to be the stable director, leading the student advisory board in legislation and education, one of California's premier to statewide student leadership bodies under the California Association of Student Councils. Through this work, I support over 100,000 student leaders and impact more than 6
064million students across California. Now, this is just something personal for me. Though I am often misunderstood, I carry or what I call a divine burden of courage because when responsibility calls and no one and no one answers, those chosen must lead must step forward. So, one thing that I ask all of you, if one student shaped by the Wilders way can rise to influence millions, We will add one additional minute, Mr. Cruz, since it's just one public comment. Hold on, just a minute. So, it'll be three in total. Continue. Oh, that's one minute? >> [laughter] >> Okay, that's fine. Um Okay. Yet, with even all that I do, I often ask myself, who am I and why do I do this? And I remember the words of my fourth-grade teacher, Ms. Hawthorne, if you can
065please stand. Come on, Ms. Hawthorne. Stand, I got 30 seconds. Who is now the dean of instruction and curriculum. She reminded me that success is not measured by what you do, but what but what but what others gain and carry with them after your work is done. So, now, as I said before, if one student shaped by the Wilders way can rise to influence millions, imagine what the world could look like if every child were given the same foundation and belief in themselves. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> And Thank you, Mr. Cruz, and uh Ms. Zambrano, we're now close the Wilders Preparatory Charter Middle School public hearing at 5:51 p.m. And our final public hearing this evening will be from the Grace Hopper STEM Academy petition renewal for the period July 1st, 2026 through June
06630th, 2031. And again, the petitioner will have 10 minutes to present. Following the presentation, we'll provide 20 minutes for public comment, and the public hearing for Grace Hopper STEM Academy will open at 5:51 p.m. Good evening, IUSD board, esteemed president, Dr. McKee, and county administrator, Dr. Morris. I'm Benita Bradshaw. I'm Grace Hopper STEM Academy's principal. Uh within the next 10 minutes, I want to show you a little bit about Grace Hopper STEM Academy. So, I click or you? Yeah. There you go. For Grace Hopper STEM Academy, we're a charter school that began in 2013 with our uh authorizer uh Hold on, let me exhale. I'm nervous, and I'm usually not. All right. Anyway, we opened in 2013 under your authorization, and Grace Hopper STEM Academy was named for Grace Hopper herself, who was a United
067States Navy Rear Admiral. She also was responsible for one of the first desktop computers and discovering the COBOL language for computers that's still used today. When we opened up, we've been through several renewals with you, happily, and we are a typical site-based instruction charter school. We're an independent charter school. Right now, our student body enrollment is 80, and these are our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders, totaling 19 sixth graders, 33 seventh, and 28 eighth graders. Those 80 students we're still recovering from the pandemic, but our parents are proving to be the best recruiters ever, and our numbers are growing annually. When we opened up, our education plan was to work with the whole child in 2013. We've constantly been supported by our parents, which I just mentioned as much they've been through this journey and
068supported us as much as we've supported them. After the pandemic, our parents have become instrumental in helping us back on our feet as an institution and charter school. We began this journey as a gender-specific school. We actually, just before the pandemic, had two sites, one at Faithful Central, and the second one here on Grace Avenue. And since that time, we practice gender-specific classrooms as much as we can, but being moved now to one building, that is we are probably 50/50%. With our CBOs, Grace Hopper's students could not have grown socially, emotionally, or academically. We have a well of CBOs that we work with. Our CBOs, first and long-standing is Neighborhood Youth Achievers out of the Watts area, the Links Incorporated from Beverly Hills, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and they help even today. We've
069been working with them for several years. Uh the LA City Care Los Angeles, as now we've been approved to open a health clinic for our students on campus. The Hidden Genius Project out of Inglewood, Black Administrators in Child Welfare, that's a national organization, and We All We Got, which is a new organization and CBO for us, coming out of Watts. United We Stand from Los Angeles, the Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center, uh Alpha G and Associates, Project Lead the Way, Swinterton Construction Company. They provide awesome classes for our STEM school. And the Council of Community Clubs Los Angeles. Our administrative team at Grace Hopper is awesome, in my opinion, because we represent some of the stellar universities in the United States. This team of five represents Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, and Berkeley. Our education plan.
070You know, we offer a WASC accredited comprehensive curriculum in humanities, ELA, mathematics, science, and social science. We also offer our regular required health and PE classes, but as a STEM school, we also offer Computer Science 101, we offer Coding 123, and we also offer Project Lead the Way Engineering classes. We've grown with the Project Lead the Way. We now offer Design and Modeling 1, Design and Modeling 2, and now Flight and Space that we opened this year. Grace Hopper students are given a choice to pick electives on what we call elective Wednesday. Our regular courses are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and on Wednesdays, which is a minimum day, is full of electives for the kids. They get to choose from electives like art, painting, uh cooking, introduction to Mexican music. There are plethora of electives
071made available to them. They choose four. Now, there is a stipulation, and it kind of goes like this. If a student earns a one in their core classes, all their required classes, they can no longer continue that elective. They have to go to an intervention course during that elective time in the course they received a one for. And our staff helps them intervene and get them on track for the required classes. So, you got to do well in your required classes in order to go have fun and play. These are just some of the electives. They change annually. This also gives our staff an opportunity to teach other classes that they like. Arts and Crafts, Sketching, Intro to Cooking, Financial Literacy, the Passagarium Theory, Braiding, Jazz Dance, Bodybuilding, Basketball, Pen and Puzzles, and more. We
072implement a full spectrum holistic school based model that meets nationally recognized standards for care and providing quality mental health services that are evidence based, culturally relevant, socially and emotionally aware, and academically supportive for the student and parents overall physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Grace Hopper's clinical service program is intended to encourage academic success by promoting healthy social emotional learning opportunities for all of our families and staff. Students are seen individually or in small groups and we even do classroom circles. Our discipline is a little bit different at Grace Hopper. In 2016, we intentionally moved and shifted away from punitive discipline like we know it, like discipline for detention or suspensions. We moved toward a restorative instructional approach that aligns with CDE's emphasis on positive behavior interventions and support, which you know as PBIS, and multi-tiered
073systems, MTSS, in replacement of suspension and detention. So, our discipline philosophy centers on teaching expected behaviors, teaching the six pillars of character, addressing harm rather than addressing blame, supporting students in developing social emotional and conflict resolution skills, and keeping students better engaged in learning whenever possible. This discipline is viewed as an opportunity for learning, reflection, and growth, and not simply as a consequence. ILS is what we use for it's for independent learning sessions. So, this is in replacement of suspension. Students work independently in a supervised environment. The components they work independently on classroom assignments, they reflect on their behaviors, and complete a behavior improvement plan, and have limited social interaction and privileges for the day. In replacement of detention, we have ELO, extended learning opportunities. Those components are structured reflection assignments, the conflict resolution instruction,
074written or verbal apologies when appropriate, repair and replacement plans and peer mediation, and facilitated restorative conversations. We also have reward room. So, our reward room is filled with wow, school supplies, clothing, toiletries, knickknacks, sundries, um that are all donated to the school at no cost to us. Students earn what we call hopper bucks when they exemplify the six pillars of character. We do not allow students to earn a hopper buck buck for a grade. We expect them to excel academically. So, as we promote the six pillars of character, hopper bucks are earned and once a week students can go to the reward room and purchase niceties. We also have what's called an invite uninvite system, and that is once a month the school holds some type of school event, activity, or trip, and if a
075student gets one discipline note in their student information system, it's considered a warning. If they get two discipline negative notes in their student information system, they uninvite themselves to our event. Principal Bradshaw, if you could do 30 seconds to wrap up because the 10 minutes is up. >> Absolutely, I will. Okay. Um maintenance and facilities is important in the education plan because as we have had four to five visits uh reviews for maintenance and operations, we've passed all with exemplary or good. With our formative assessments, we're most proud this year. We have improved our scores. We went from I came aboard last year school year, and we made some major changes in the way we implement education, instruction, our strategies, best practices. And our students last year improved their test scores 23, I believe. Let
076me Let me go to the end. It's We overall as a school increased 7% in ELA, and then 10.48% increase in math. And we went from being a low performing middle school to a middle performing middle school. We're most proud of that. Uh on the school dashboard, we improved 27% in ELA and 35% in math. So, we're looking to continue our strategies, and in closing, it's clear that the partnership between Grace Hopper and Inglewood Unified has built a strong foundation for student success these last 13 years. Seeing six out of nine of our students are now enrolled in City Honors. Of those six, they're all on the honor roll. And so, we're very proud of what we've been able to provide for Inglewood Unified, and we look forward to enjoying the next five years with
077this partnership with you. Thank you. Thank Thank you, Principal Bradshaw. Thank you for that extra time. And And now we'll move on to public speakers, Ms. Zambrano. Yes. We have two public speakers for um the petition for Grace Hopper. The first public speaker is from Jacqueline Jackson. Ms. Jackson, please come to the podium to address your public comments on the public hearing for Grace Hopper. I'd say good evening to everyone. I am a grandparent of Grace Hopper Middle School. This is my third generation of children at uh grandsons at Grace Hopper. I would know what to do without Grace Hopper. It has done everything, and I also have a grandson that was on the spectrum of autism. And Ms. Tamika Jones, I can stand up here and cry right now. She helped him so much.
078He has improved so much cuz we didn't know, you know, when your child has autism, you don't know which way they're going to go, you know? But coming to Grace Hopper from day one, it was just just beautiful. Just just beautiful. And Ms. Bradshaw, Ms. Margo, Ms. Clemens, Ms. Leslie, everybody is just fantastic. And I just like I said, I wouldn't know what to do without Grace Hopper. And I also have a grandson that's graduating from the Wish Academy that's speaking at the uh graduation at Grace Hopper. He loved Grace Hopper so much, it took him a year to stop coming every day. And then he refused to eat the school the school lunch for being at Grace Hopper. So, I just want to say I'm just so pleased with Grace Hopper. I wouldn't know
079what to do if if And for this new facility, you have to give it to them. You have to cuz they they they're just so great. I just I just can't say enough about it. It's just like a family. It's like the the uh it's camaraderie. It's It's just I'm up there every day. So, I'm going to close with that. Thank you. Thank you. And our second public comment is from Bonita Bradshaw. Ms. Bradshaw, please come to the podium. I just finished Your uh Okay, so that concludes our public comments. Tha- Thank you very much, Ms. Zambrano. So, the public hearing for Grace Hopper STEM Academy petition renewal is closed at 6:06 p.m. And now we'll move on on the agenda to public comments on agendized and non-agendized items. Uh we're now going to have
080public comment. The county administrator and Board of Education will hear public comments. A public comment card must be completed prior to the commencement of the public comment period and submitted to the safety assistant at the back of the room. Members of the public who wish to speak about an item on the posted agenda must indicate the item number on the public comment card. Three minutes will be allotted to each speaker and a maximum of 30 minutes for public comment on agenda items and 30 minutes for non-agenda items. If the public comment cards exceed 10 items per section, the time may be reduced to hear from more speakers. Speech or conduct that is disruptive, defamatory, or impede the orderly conduct of the meeting is not allowed. The guidelines for public comments are will be followed according
081to board bylaw 9323, and just a reminder, the Brown Act does not allow responses from the Board of Education, county administrator, or cabinet members to public comments. Ms. Zambrano, we'll turn it over to you for public comments on agendized and non-agendized items. Thank you, Dr. Marks. We're going to start with public comments on agenda items. The first public comment is from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Thank you. Uh thank you to everyone assembled, including the community. Uh let me first begin by um just uh alerting everyone that we did ask for this meeting to take place outside of spring break so we could have more participation and there was no legal reason why that couldn't take
082place but we understand that it was a choice to have this meeting at this time. And having said that I would just like to say that on behalf of the Inglewood Teachers Association we are asking for a fair process and a fair contract. That means focusing on compensation and working conditions not distractions. And we are ready to bargain. I have asked my team to bargain in good faith with integrity and transparency. Um and we expect the district to meet that same standard. That is our expectation moving forward. As terms of the agenda item on the certificated roster we see that there is a number of leaves that have taken place and we feel that that's tied to the environment. Um we have members that are not coming to work and we would like to create
083the environment that's conducive for their return. And that's going to take a lot of work, a lot of soul searching. We look at the environment and we have to look at what we call loyalty versus royalty and we say loyalty is is what our members demonstrate. They demonstrate that by showing up to work by keeping our students first by making that the priority. Now royalty is something different. That's when people are expected to bow to a king. And I say that because we had a no kings protest a few weeks ago where 8 million people showed up across the country and saying no to kings but we have to look at Inglewood as well Inglewood Unified as well. And that's demonstrated when you have absolute power. And which is why I always advocate for local
084control and collaboration because you cannot have individuals making decisions that have major impact on the lives of this community and it's a transitory position. That should never take place so we say no kings in Inglewood as well. We say that that needs to be a collaborative process and we don't think that that process has been respected by the um the decisions that are made and then the accountability for those decisions must take place because if you're not held accountable for your decisions the community has no voice and right now we don't but we will cuz it's our choice. Thank you. Thank you. Our second public comment is from Max Garcia. Mr. Garcia please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Good evening members
085of the board. My name is Max Garcia and I'm here today to speak on behalf of my former principal excuse me Dr. Collins. As a former student of Inglewood I had the unique experience of attending the school under two different principals. During my early time here I often felt more like an academic robot than a valued individual. The environment while structured lacked the sense of connection and encouragement that students truly need to thrive. However that changed when Dr. Collins became principal. From the very beginning I noticed a significant and positive shift in the school's atmosphere. He brought a renewed sense of energy support and opportunity especially within the band program. Under his leadership we were given more chances to grow to perform and to believe in our abilities. More importantly Dr. Collins helped build the
086confidence in his students. He made us feel seen heard and valued. Because of his influence I graduated not only with the education but with a stronger sense of self-respect and personal pride. Dr. Collins was more than just a principal to me. He was a mentor, a leader and a role model. He is someone I will always look up to and I'm grateful for the impact he had on my life. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Our third public comment is from Dawn Burks. Please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. I love that. Thank you. Good evening everyone. My name is already been said but I'm going to say it again because I'm practiced and that's what I do. My
087name is Dawn Burks. I am a mother at Inglewood High School. Um I'm a band mom at Inglewood High School. I am a volunteer at Inglewood High School. And I come here today because I know I can't get an answer from you but I've heard some things happening um as far as Dr. Collins' contract is concerned and in my line of work is hearsay until I hear it for myself and I just would like the board to think about transparency as things go forward because it would make sense to give people a chance not only um give people a chance to speak to that but I'm going to speak to it a little bit now. My daughter's sophomore year at the school, no her freshman year at the school I heard a student stand up
088at graduation and say that Dr. Collins had done more for her in 6 months in his first 6 months than anyone had done for her the entire 4 years she had been in that school. That made my head snap up. I am not new to education. I am true to it. I come from a family where I am the only one that walked away from that call of education. My mother was a superintendent. My father was my high school principal. My sister was director of education for the county and so on and so forth. My cousin Lee has been teacher of the year so many times that they took her out of the running. It's now named after her. >> [laughter] >> So I know this and one thing I noticed from them growing up
089within that is that transparency was key. And I just would like to remind people of that and to think of the whole student. Yes it takes a while for test scores to come up. They have come up not in every way we would want them to, not in every way we would like them to. There's a lot of absenteeism of teachers and not only not only students but teachers and that concerns me and it's something that with another principal I may not have been able to get to them to even bring that up but with Dr. Collins his door has always been open to the parents, to the ones, to the kids who are in this room. Who's with me here tonight? Stand up please. These these are kids who care about These are kids
090and parents who care about leave the school. They want to talk about it and we would encourage you to come amongst the kids to find out how their school how their lives at the school have changed and how the parents feel more engaged because of the openness. Something that I wish that administrators and the board would dabble in just a little bit on this matter. Just be open to us and talk with us. Thank you for your time. I appreciate you all. Thank you. And our fourth public comment is from Jose Reyes. Mr. Reyes please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Good evening everybody. Mr. Myers you beat me to the punch. I was going to talk about all the consultants. Last
091time I talked and and in this I mean and when you gave that number I'm thinking okay I have to go back to my mom's no longer here but when when her boys used to say things that were goofy or that didn't make sense she would say "Ay Dios mio." I'm going to say that to you guys. Ay Dios mio. What's happening? We're spending all this money on consultants but yet we don't have money for the people that are in in the trenches. So you know like there must be something going on. I appreciate your presentation but I noticed that we don't know how much we have like in reserves. I noticed that that money cuz who knows we can have 5 million, we can have 20 million, we can have 30 million. We don't
092know how much we have. We have money again for consultants. We have money to pay for buildings but we don't have money to pay for the poor, the people that keep the schools running. So again you need to think about your priorities and to me get them straight. Okay. Next thing that I want to talk about is I appreciate your service Mr. Guzman. I I see that you're leaving and that somebody's already been hired and it seems like the person that got hired is a trainee because they're going to have you as their coach. So you're paying somebody $220,000 that cannot do the job properly without a coach. Ay Dios mio. There it is again. I don't know what's happening. I mean you know on on one hand we're saying that we don't have money.
093I have no money. I have no money. It's like my friends like when I would say "Hey, you owe me a thousand dollars. Hey, when I get my taxes I'll pay you back." They never get anything from taxes so they never pay me back. So I mean I don't know what's going on in the district. We have to take like you say fiscal responsibility. It's It's fine that we're going to have a nice building for Inglewood High School. But, for what? For 3 400 students? What is that What is that going to uh be worth? It's going to be like we're spending what? 10 million per student? That makes absolutely no sense. So, um I I do appreciate you're going to get your your little consultant fee, well, coaching fee. Uh I was going to
094ask, do I need How do I call myself a consultant so I can get some of that pie? Cuz there's a lot of us that would like to get some of that pie as consultants, too. So, just tell me what I need to do. Do I need to join a sorority? Do I need to join a fraternity? Do I need to get my doctorate? You know, even though I don't have my doctorate, I still know how to read. That's how I read the agenda. That's how I was able to read everything that's on the agenda. So, I'm just going to say, um I'm going to be coming to these meetings, you know, like you you kind of opened a can and now there's going to be a lot of people that are going to be
095coming to these meetings. That's all I have to say. Thank you. We will now proceed with public comments on non-agenda items. Our first public comment is from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Uh thank you. Um When we look at um the priorities, cuz that's what a budget is. It's a priority on spending. Um just as the last speaker said, it's it's mind-boggling, but it goes to what I spoke to about the decisions. The decisions are Are they based on merit? We heard a lot of uh comments about the caring of the um principal at Inglewood High School. And we talk about the different experience, mostly the band experience, which is which is great, but we have
096to look overall what's happening in this district, what's happening to all students, what's happening to the the student that may not play an instrument or or um make an athletics team, and we start there. So, we're obligated for all students. Um and not the ones that just have, you know, these uh extracurricular experience. We have to We have to look at all students and the decisions that are made. And if you're spending money at the rate that we're spending on consulting without a plan to wean this district off of consultants and put people in place, to me that's a misuse of taxpayers' funds. That is a public gift of taxpayer funds because you are not doing anything to change the structure. I asked it a thousand times at this podium. If you're doing the same
097thing the same way, how do you expect different results and call it deficit spending? No, it's not that. It's The deficit is in the decision-making. That's where the deficit lies. You have to change that. You have to stop that. You have to have people in place that's capable to perform the duty that they are being paid [clears throat] to do. If they're not doing that, that is a gift of public funds. Make no mistake about that. So, we're here as the workers in the street, as the classified and the certificated that do our due diligence every day because if we don't, children suffer, families suffer, community suffers. But at the same time, we will no longer accept money being given away to consultants and the practice of elitism. We came to the table ready and
098willing to provide solutions, solutions to these problems. And what did we get? Snubbed. Blown off. Because fundraising uh breakfasts is or whatever else is more important than coming to a concrete agreement on what is fair for this soci- this uh community. It has to change. Thank you. Thank you. Our second public comment is from Brian Ready. Please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the board and in the audience. Uh I am a teacher at Kelso Elementary School. I teach middle school math. Uh throughout the course of the school year, I've observed that many of the people who work in this building lack respect for the teachers in our schools. And in some cases, I have observed
099outright disrespect from some of the people who work in this building for the teachers in our schools. Some, too many, of the folks who work in this building say the right words to and about our teachers, but they don't consistently back up those words with their actions. The business of the district hinges on teachers. The business of the people in this building is to provide the logistical support that teachers need so we can teach. The business of the people in this building is to meet the material needs of our teachers so that we can meet the educational needs of our students. When ITA tells the bargaining committee, those who bargain on behalf of the district, what we need, those people need, excuse me, those people either refuse to really hear what we're saying or downplay
100it. As if we don't know what we need. Those bargaining on behalf of the district need to know and believe what ITA is presenting as the needs of our teachers. They need to know it as fact and believe it as gospel. Furthermore, if the people in this building are good at their jobs, they will provide for those needs. If they're good at their jobs, they'll figure it out and they'll make it happen. Telling me something is impossible shows me a deficiency of imagination, creativity, or critical thought. Or, alternatively, it shows me a lack of desire. In this case, I don't know which it is. Do you? Thank you. Our third public comment is from Mr. Aguirre. Mr. Aguirre, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-agenda items. You have 3 minutes.
101You may begin. Uh good evening, este uh Excuse me. Good evening, esteemed members of the school board, parents, teachers, and fellow community members. You know, I can perform, ironically, my instrument in front of thousands, but when I speak in such a small panel, I'm nervous, but got a few things to say. Today, I stand before you to address a matter that weighs heavily on my heart and the hearts of many within the Inglewood High School community. The decision to not renew Principal Dr. Collins' contract is one that I believe should be reconsidered. This is not merely a debate over a position, it's a discussion about the future of our students, our school, and the leadership that brought us to new heights. Dr. Collins is not just a leader, he's a passionate beacon of hope and
102connection within our school. His ability to foster relationships with students, parents, and staff alike is unparalleled. He does not simply oversee our school, he embodies the its spirit. Under his guidance, Inglewood High School has transformed into a nurturing environment where every student feels valued and heard. He takes the time to know each student and their story, demonstrating that education is not just about academics, but it's about building a supportive community. It is a It is critical to recognize the evidence of his successful leadership. During his tenure, of our academic scores have seen remarkable improvement, commun- uh culminating in our highest ever score during our WASP visit. This achievement is not a coincidence. It is a reflection of the dedication, strategy, and vision that Dr. Collins has installed in both our staff and our students. He
103has implemented innovative programs and encouraged a can-do attitude for all students and staff. Okay, teaching in an inner-city school comes with unique challenges that can often feel overwhelming. Many of our students face considerable obstacles, including unstable home environments, absent parents, and a pervasive lack of discipline. Dr. Collins understands these challenges deeply. Rather than resorting to a punitive measure, he com- uh he champions in a kinder, more compassionate approach. He recognizes that many students require more than just academic guidance. They require love and support. And I speak personally when I say there has been times where I I feel like I was going to burn out as a teacher or I was feeling overwhelmed, and he would just look at me and know what to say or what to do to make me feel better. You
104know, and when I think of Dr. Collins, I think of a comment that Dr. Morris said that he said that he was the best hire of his career. And honestly, in the in the last 5 years that I've been in this district, the amount of love and support that not only him, but his family provides for our students is unparalleled. And I think that in most of these students there is a lack of consistency and there's a lack of of this everyday norm and to take him out is just going to continue the issues that we already face and I think that him not coming back is a terrible mistake and I hope you reconsider. Thank you for your time. Thank you. And our last public comment is from Jose Reyes. Mr. Reyes, please come
105to the podium to address your public comments on non-agenda items. You have 3 minutes. You may begin. Thank you again. I got a couple of more ideal meals for you. So, sit keep buckling up in your seats. So, the first thing is I think that the district owes our union an apology because to me flighting out on a meeting, a very important meeting, is unacceptable. I know that if I didn't show up to a meeting, my face would be put on a milk carton by the district administrators and they'd be saying, "Have you seen this employee?" And that's for being late or for any reason. So, that's totally unacceptable. I think that our union deserves some types of apology for for that that discretion. Number two is again, when our union is messed with, you
106mess with our salaries. When you mess with our salaries, you mess with our emotions. When you mess with our emotions, then we have to take it to the next level. I don't know if you've seen in the in the papers, there's been quite a few districts that have settled with their employees. So, it's basically it's like 0 and 11 with the district versus the employees. So, we shouldn't make it like 0 and 12 or 0 and 13. You know, we should we should try to see what we can do. Okay? So, I just felt that I needed to say that and again, I truly feel that no joke that our union should be apologized for the lack of consideration at a very important meeting just for a photo Second thing I want to talk about,
107as you can see, a lot of people are talking about Dr. Collins about Inglewood. I heard that one of the reasons is that he couldn't control the environment at the school. Why is that his responsibility? The district knew, they were told by the community, they were told by parents, they were told by students and by the staff not to combine the schools. So, how are you going to blame the principal for a uprise in discipline when he has no control over that? Okay, so if he's going to leave, then that means that the people that made that decision should also leave. IS THAT NOT CORRECT? SO, WE NEED TO TAKE IN CONSIDERATION, you know, maybe maybe the decision was made already, but a lot of people are probably going to speak out some more. And
108I'm not just speaking about Dr. Collins. I'm talking also for all the administrators at my school. I stand behind them because they're handcuffed. You know, like, "Can we suspend this kid?" No. We got to give him a cracker and then let him go back to class. Can we do this to this student? Can we expel the student for doing a horrendous thing? And again, I'm a counselor and I believe in giving students as much rights as possible. But there's a certain time where you got to stop. And administrators at Inglewood were not given that consideration. They're being told, you know, like, "This is what you can do, what you can't do. Good luck." So, you know, like, two things. If the schools were combined and they were given support by the district. Thank you. That
109concludes our public comments for tonight. Thank you very much, Ms. Zambrano. We're now going to move on to approval of regular agenda items. Regular agenda There's one regular agenda item that is agenda agenda item 10A, which is the employment agreement for the assistant superintendent of business services. Dr. McKee, any questions or comments on the regular agenda item? Um We're at um the regular agenda items, which is item 10. Do you have any comments on that? Hearing none, it's approved. Thank you very much. Item 10A is approved and now we're going to move on to um approval of action items on the consent calendar. And just [snorts] as a reminder, we're going to call all of the items on the consent calendar, which are the human resources, educational services, business services, Measure I, and county administrators
110division. So, that's item 11A1 through 11E3. I'll turn it over to Dr. McKee for any questions or comments on the consent calendar items. Do you have any questions on the consent calendar at this time? There are none. Uh Mr. Myers. Thank you, Madam President. So, for the human resources and it it's very confusing when you merge all the consent items together, but for human resources, number seven, I'm very troubled by the language all the way at the bottom where it says a needs analysis will be conducted annually to evaluate the continuation of this position, which will depend on the funding and its organizational impact. But if you look at earlier during the description, it says it's one of Thick Mat's requirements. And I think this is hinting to what the community is mentioning. We are
111instilling I guess temporary positions, what it may appear to be a permanent position, but when you look at the language, the only thing this position was created for was to appease the Thick Mat standards. And then we're looking at later on that it might be a I guess terminated because of funding purposes. And I think we don't create I think we're actually doing the wrong thing by creating a position when we actually don't have the funds. And then if we merge all the items together, I want to go down to educational services division. It's it's just a lot of money being allocated. I think there's too many items. I can break it up and I don't want to kind of segregate or isolate any item or any person on here, but I just think that
112there's too many monies being diverted into unfounded areas of support and I'll digress right there. Thank you. Dr. Coffee, do you want to comment on human resources item number seven? Sure. Thank you, Dr. Morrison. Thank you, Mr. Myers for your question. That it's pretty standard inclusion in in job descriptions to have a disclosure that the the position is subject to continued funding. With respect to this agenda item, this was already an established position. So, we're not approving the position. We're just amending it to change it from a 6-hour to an 8-hour position. The same with item number six. And if I can add to that, Dr. Coffee, this position creating an 8-hour a day position as opposed to six will make the position more attractive to hire folks into the district and it will help
113us to reduce contracts, which is I think a shared commitment that we have because many in many special education cases, we end up hiring a consultant to come in and do behavior analysis because we don't have a position in-house for a person in-house to do that work. So, we we appreciate the the the the question and I think the intent is to be able to reduce contracted expenditures and bring in-house staff to do the to do the work. Thank you for the explanation, but I I think that's that's to my point. When we talk about Dr. Collins mitigating a lot of the behaviors and we're looking at a behavior analyst and to your point, if it's a revision of the contract, then what has this person technically been doing this this whole time as far
114as decreasing behaviors on campus? And that that's what I'm trying to gather at. If we're creating these positions and we're having them then the work should be done. We shouldn't see the effects happening on our campuses and that that's my what I'm trying to say. Are there any more questions? Moving forward. Dr. Goolsby, did you want to make Yeah, I just wanted to respond to Ed Services. You mentioned that there were a lot of contracts. These are all services and activities for our students. So, it's not random. It is all of these activities are um are are thought about in terms of with data at the school sites and these are the needs that the the sites have intended for their their students. So, they're not just random consultants. These are actually activities and services
115that are going directly to our kids based off of their school plans. All right, I can respond to that. So, I was just saying a lot one. Let's go to item 16. It's the approval agreement for Brandon and Frame Visionary Office to Black Man Can. Okay, are we at educational services? That's it. Okay, we're we're still on human resources division. No, she's on she's on education. She's representing education. So, item 16, Mhm. Uh, approval of the professional agreement for Brandon F. Rain, or excuse me, M. Rain, visionary officer of the Black Men Can Incorporated, to provide a keynote address to Inglewood Unified School District 9th through 12th grades, okay? So, again, this is somebody coming to uh, do a speech to our youth, okay? And then I'm looking at the amount that we're um, paying
116this individual, which is 7,500, which I get which is small. However, it's still money's that are being diverted towards this area, and then I want to see how effective we providing this opportunity to our kids. And I see, like, this is one example, but there's been numerous examples. So, when I'm looking at 28 items on the education services, how effective are these items? I get it, we can approve them, you know, and go through the motions, but I just with me coming up with $8 million, I just want to be intentional from now on about approving any money's that we have on our consent calendar. And I get it, they they may have, you know, you you may experience it individuals may understand the knowledge depth that may come with this program, but when I'm
117looking at this number, I want to make sure that we are intentional. Every time I sit down at this seat and we approve this calendar. That's it. I think that's fair, and I think, uh, and I can appreciate you really following up on this, and I think, um, I think it's fair, and I think it's necessary. So, with that being said, um, we can move on to the next item. >> Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. McGee. So, items 11A1 through 11E3 are approved, and we'll move on to approval of >> Oh, pardon me. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I saw you sitting over there in that box, and so I'm going to allow you to comment. Ms. Randolph, thank you. Yeah, I saw the cost of 7,500, but I also
118saw that we're going to be having giveaways of branded apparel, of leadership leadership centered materials, and selected books and resources. It wasn't just for him to come and speak. I think he was sharing that as an example, and more so to be intentional. But thank you for weighing in on that, because it wasn't just for his, um, um, speaking. The students are receiving something, um, you know, I don't call them giveaway, I call them swag bags. So, um, thank you for weighing in. Is there anyone else that would like to weigh in at this point? Okay. I won't forget about you, all right? You stay right over there, I see you. Th- Thank you so much, Dr. McGee. Moving on to approval, does the board member do the board members have any questions or comments
119regarding the minutes of the March 11th, 2026 Board of Education meeting? The minutes of the March 11th Does any board member, and I'm going to start with you, uh, Ms. Randolph, do you have any comments on the meeting minutes for March 11th? No, thank you so much. Okay. Um, we have none. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. McGee. The minutes of the March 11th meeting are approved, and now I'll turn it back to you, Dr. McGee, for board member remarks. Well, this time I'm going to start first, cuz, um, I just want to say thank you to board member, um, Evans, and I want to thank, um, Mr. Uh, Dr. Morris. We had a visitor from Coppin, um, State University to come and visit our students, uh, two Thursdays ago, I guess. And, um, it's always
120nice when students can have an actual interaction with a college president. And, um, they did an excellent job, um, the president of the university speaking to our students. And as a result, one of our students got the president's award, which is a full scholarship for 4 years to attend Coppin State University. >> [applause] >> And seven of our students were, um, accepted on the spot. So, with all that we have going on, there are some really, really positive things that we're doing, and I hope that we stay focused on what we need to do, but I also want us to stay focused on what we have done. And so, with that being said, that was just a highlight I wanted to, um, contribute to tonight's meeting. So, Mr. Myers, Sure. Thank you, Madam President. And
121I'll probably give, um, our Mr. Castillo his his comments, too, but I know he wanted to share some comments, uh, before he before he left, but he had to go. Um, but he's a hard worker, as well. But, um, one of our dads are in the house. Coach Hamilton, can you stand, please? So, Coach Hamilton is one of our, uh, previous Inglewood High well that, guess what, this past season, uh, Inglewood High United Basketball coaches. Uh, and I've really, you know, just grown close to Coach, uh, over the years uh, that that I've known him, but also, um, what's what's really been, I guess, um, powerful for me is seeing the example that he provides for his son. Uh, so if Chris, if uh, Junior, if if you can stand up, and ladies and gentlemen,
122please please give this young man a round of applause. >> [applause] >> He is, um, he is one of our Inglewood United Basketball players. Uh, this young man is not only, uh, our basketball player, but he's a student, and he's a student athlete, high student athlete at that. He's a 4.0 GPA holding student. And he's on our principal's honor roll, which is amazing. Um, Chris is of course he stays close to J2, of course, but this young man, when I see him around campus, and I see him just at his games warming up, he has a lot of character about him, humility, uh, which is unfounded in in our youth today. And I know Chris is, uh, venturing out to uh, seek, uh, alternative measures, such as, uh, law, uh, and other things that might
123be kind of, um, exposing to him in his career. So, I just want to wish you the best and let you know that Inglewood U- Unified is behind you, and we love you so much, and we're just rooting for you, okay? So, do your best. Thank you, man. And then I'll, um, I'll end with this. I just want to make a public statement that, um, yes, with the numbers being found and all the things being discussed tonight, um, Vinaque is trying to plan for their Washington, D.C. trip. And if we're thinking about equity, um, being equal, right, across the campus, um, I think that we need to revisit this trip, um, by taking the burden off of our parents. It's very taxing on our parents to support our kids that are traveling across the country
124to learn more about our country and our heritage and just our world in general. And I think we as a district, we owe this to our middle school, uh, students. So, I'll just digress right there, and I love you guys. Have a good night. Thank you so much, Mr. Myers, and, um, I'm not going to forget about Mrs. Randolph. I can see you, Ms. Evans, so I want to give Ms. Randolph an opportunity to weigh in on her comments. Oh, thank you so much, uh, ooh. So, what's going on? And Mr. district administrator, you are our eyes and our ears at the school site. We rely on you to give us the school culture, the school climate, and let us know what's going on in the schools and folks should feel safe. Not just the
125students, but staff, as well. Uh, there are challenges with the two schools being brought together, and those challenges have to be met, because our students deserve to be safe. The specialized services that are constant, uh, that provide support for our students to operate in excellence, yes, they are constant, and I agree with those. I don't agree with anything the sub plans, the permanent staff, and we hire substitutes to come in and do the work of the permanent staff that's part of building and maintenance, which is the custodial staff and the support staff. That's what I don't agree with. And according to the budget that, uh, Mr. Rafael and his department came up with, we had stopped that bullying. I haven't seen any of that, unless I don't uh, really know what I'm looking at, but
126I thought that we had stopped that bullying. Uh, parents and audience continue to come, so that we can be aware of what's really going on, and hear it firsthand from you. And finally, thank you, Dr. Lucas, for working on the what's the social carpentry union to become a pathway in the district. I saw uh, Marvin Ellis' picture. down at the Western Association of carpentry. She's gone to one of their technical schools and earned her certificate. So, it was very, very encouraging. I believe that is all I have to say for now. Oh, yeah, the Warner Academy getting renewal certification. It was one of the California stimulus schools. 293 out of 10,000. That was a very good accomplishment. In 2022 to 2024 over the scores in English and math. So, I was very, very happy to
127give them a 5-year certification. Um, and that's about it. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak. Thank you. Ms. Evans, you want to close out? I just want to close out with something that I received today. Um, a friend of mine sent me an email about Tennessee State University and um, Meharry Medical School. You know, a lot of our black doctors went to Meharry. Um, my doctor, my baby's doctor, you know, they all went to Meharry. And they have a program, a 7-year accelerated program. They're looking for black students. They said out of this program, they haven't had one black applicant to apply. And I can't believe that Meharry doesn't have a black student, a black person who wants to become a doctor. But, I have information and I sent this to Dr.
128Collins and Dr. O'Rhea today to let them know about this this program and to see if we can get some some black men to apply to Tennessee State and to Meharry Medical School. So, I have the information. If anybody is interested, you can contact me and I will share it with you. But, I've already taken it to my schools. I just wanted to let you know that. And thank you very much for inviting me to listen to the the the president of Coffin University. He was really impressive and if I had been looking for a college to go to, I might have signed up. But, thank you very much for bringing them to us and inviting me and including me in the program. And thank you for today's tour. Uh, that was really something to
129see. Thank you very much. And what board what board member Evans mentioned, that's not only for medical school, but that's also for students that are interested in getting their DDS um, for dental school. And it's a full ride. They will give a free full ride scholarship if anybody's interested. All right, um, we're going to turn it over to you Thank you. Dr. Morris. Thank you, Dr. McGee. And I do have one um, brief comment. Uh, earlier in the meeting today, Mr. Guzman gave a facilities program update. And then later, Dr. McGee mentioned our commitment to doing projects that are outlined in the bond when the bond is passed. We do have a citizens group, the citizens bond oversight committee, sometimes called the CBOC. And we do are posting an announcement on the district website because
130we have a couple of vacancies on the citizens bond oversight committee. Anybody in the audience who's interested in really learning about the bond program, being involved as a member of the public to make sure that we spend the public's money exactly as promised, we would welcome your application to join our citizens bond oversight committee. Um, and my final comment this evening is just to thank Dr. Danielle Goolsby, who is always a champion. Dr. um, Lucas is on a well-deserved uh, visit with her family and uh, we just want to acknowledge and thank Dr. Goolsby for sitting in for her. Um, and with that, I will say our next board meeting is scheduled for May the 6th, and the meeting is adjourned at 6:51 p.m.