001be into opening session at 6 Any action taken in schedule. You wouldn't mind stand ready. again. Thank you. Report We got 54K through 8th grade and 289 TK for a total of 13,837 which is a% student increase from the last report. found that we've got 654 homeless and foster. Thank you. The chairman of teachers association of my cash school district initial joint proposal for contract negotiation. Yeah. Um Gina sends her apologies actually at professional development tonight. So um she as we speak propos we did sign a joint agreement and so we're looking forward to working together to come to a smooth and agreement soon review of California school employees association referred to as CEA it's chapter number 297 initial contract proposal to the Lancaster school district for successor contract negotiation Good evening board. I just
002wanted to let you know my name is Maria Yishu. I'm the vice president. I couldn't uh make it today, but for the uh initial proposal, yes, um we've been able to turn it in. So, we're hoping that by this Friday, we can go ahead and um you know, get with the district and find fine-tune those um language um for each of the um the um parts of the contract and we can go ahead and and uh talk about that this Friday and we look forward to it. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Sunshine review by Lancaster School District's initial excuse me initial contract report with California School Employees Association CSA as well. It's me um we look forward to as MissU said we we look forward to meeting with them on Friday. We are
003just going to talk about language um with contractors. We're going cover to cover with both both contracts. So it should be very beneficial. Thank you. Request reports are um actually resolution number two um number 2025 to enter into a lease lease back agreement with Nancy Corey Elementary School modernization and construction project include by second in favor. >> I motion passes 30. >> Approval of amendment number one to the agreement of construction services, [Music] Inc. for the Nancy Cory Elementary School modernization construction project. Second by passion. Individual action items. Human resources approval of provisional township permit for 2025 2026. Second two. All in favor? I could allow us to fill immediate staffing need. So your teachers credentials, but they're in the process of getting addressing the board. Individuals who wish to address the board may complete
004a speaker card presented and any supporting documents to the superintendent's assistant or other district official prior to the start of the meeting. personal information such as a student, parent, guardian's name, address, phone number, date of alert, email address, and other directory information as defined in education code may be excluded from the minutes of the meeting by submitting a written request to the superintendent. Board members shall recognize individuals who wish to speak. Individuals wishing to present testimony to the board concerning specific items on the agenda may do so once that item has been moved. Seconded is on a floor for discussion. Time limits of three minutes per person and 20 minutes per item shall be allowed. Board bylaws 9322. Board members may ask questions for clarification purposes. However, no action may be taken and no discussion
005may take place on an item not on the proposed or not on the posted agenda act comments from PTA. Welcome. >> Good evening again. Um I'm Maria Hu. Um, Christina couldn't make it again. Um, she's just dealing with some things right now, but um, our the rest of our eboard is here. I just wanted to let you guys know, just like what I said before, um, we're going to be looking at the initial proposal. Um, tomorrow, Christina Riley and as as well as our treasur is going to be meeting with, um, with Maria and her team. Um and so we're going to get that conversation going uh to look over some budget items um or you know to help with the CSA um because we heard that last board meeting Fal had an um opportunity
006to meet up with um Maria's department as well. So thank you so much for the opportunity to get together with her department to talk about um the budget. Um we're hoping that we can come up with solutions um especially as it relates to um this Friday's first meeting with the district for um our contract um and our language and so we really look forward to that. Um we do have a couple other meetings um going with um Dr. Maretti. And so we appreciate all the times that um that we've met with him um prior um before this meeting. Um and we look forward to more meetings with him. Um we do want to mention that um yes, we do still have some members um and they've showed up today. They're going to go ahead and
007say some of their concerns and they're going to continue to do that until um we feel that you know the classified staff has been heard and uh we hope that this negotiations team um and with the district we could get you know um something that could actually help all of classified. um we've been really hoping that we could talk about um fixing the salary um across the board and so we look forward to those um conversations. Thank you so much. Thank you. The audience. Yes, we have two comments. Um, first one is Kia Monserat. >> Good evening honorable members of the board and esteemed members of the public. My name is Kia and I am a bilingual par educator with the Lancaster School District. I come before you this evening not only as an individual
008but as a representative of the many dedicated classified employees who play a vital role in the daily operations and success of the district. We are here to respectfully request your support and partnership in addressing longstanding concerns related to their compensation and equitable benefits. This issue directly impact the wellbeing of our staff and ultimately the quality of service provided to our students and community. As you know, classify employees have been advocating for improved wages and benefits for quite some time. While we understand the challenges on balancing district budgets and longterm financial planning, the reality remains that the current allocations of funds continue to place classified staff at the bottom of the priority list. This ongoing disparity does not reflect the district stated committed to equity. One of the most urgent concern, especially for part-time employees, is
009the cost of health insurance. For those working six hours shifts, it's not uncommon for premiums to consume 30 to 40% of a paycheck, leaving little left to cover the essential living expenses. This is simply not sustainable for individuals who are in general in the daily operations to our schools. Despite the obstacles, staff continue to meet and often exceed the expectations. We show up a state with professionalism right and commitment to our schools. I am proud to be a landscape but morale is increasingly affected by a growing sense of being under value. It becomes harder to justify going the extra mile when our efforts are not met with fair compensation and meaningful recognition. continue to face challenges with the current salary structure that can understandably lead to periods of discouragement and doing other. When your efforts
010go unrecognized, it not only affects us as professional but also in the students that we are committed to and the broader educational environment. We respectfully ask that our concerns be met with thoughtful consideration and meaningful actions. It is our hope that the conversation that we have during these meetings will lead to lasting progress beyond the discussion itself by working together to ensure compensational to equitable benefits and we can important and we can take important steps so we're building a stronger and more inclusive educational community for everyone. Thank you so much. You cl Uh, we have Mariah on Lancaster School District board members. My name is Maria Gaspin. I am a proud special education par educator and I am here today to express the deep love and commitment I have for my job and for students
011I've served in this district. However, it's disheartening to know that I could earn more flipping burgers at In and Out where the starting wage is $20 an hour. Could a fast food employee step into my role in the classroom and do what I do? I don't believe so. Yet, my current classification resource SDC par educator starts at a range of 19 with a wage of just $1809 an hour and caps out at $21.99. That's only 199 more than the starting wage at a fast food restaurant. This disparity is one of the reasons I believe our district struggles to retain PARA educators. It feels like there's a revolving door for these vital positions. While while we might not be the lowest paying district in the Analope Valley, we are certainly not the heights. And if we
012truly want to be the best, we need to invest in our people. The best districts compensates their employ employees fairly in order to retain them, support them, and make the system stronger. That's what I want for all of us to be better, to grow stronger, and to continue serving our students with excellence. Please help us make Lancaster School District the best it can be by compensating your classifi classified employees in a way that reflects the invaluable work we do. Show us that the backbone of the school district matters. Thank you for your time and thank you for listening. Agenda items 14 A to 14 G motion. So okay in favor passes three question a question on mobile communications this change what we Um G mobile communication Oh, it's the law that's going in effect um
013that board has to develop, adopt and update every 5 years policy to limit or prohibit students use of smartphones while at school sites. So this is where the state of California has gone back and forth and said um we absolutely have to allow students to have cell phones and then they've reversed and said well now we need to restrict students from having cell phon. So, you know, our policy is we we want to be able for our parents um to um know where their children are. We want um our parents to be able and our students to be able to communicate with their parents, but we also want to restrict their use of social media during school time, restrict their use of cameras during school time. And so it's kind of um a challenge for
014us to try to allow some freedom because we all have cell phones and it's very difficult for us to to adore them at times and children are no different than us. So trying to put in place policies which provide the students the ability to communicate with their parents while still restricting their use on campuses. That's been the jump for us and we we've used several ways to do that. asking them to put them away using the underbags and now using our truce app that we provide for parents at no cost to parents restrict that allow um them to be communication with their students but restricts the use of the social media accounts. >> Thank you. >> Agenda items business items 158 second All in favor >> questions. Motion passes 30. Second agenda items educational services
015J motion by Mr. 16 GS. Yes. Mr. Question agenda item human resource services item 17 A through 17E second >> motion by Mr. W second by All in favor consent agenda item student services items 18 through 18J second by student. All the faster history policy second we have comments from Jordan. >> Okay. Well, thank you all for coming out. Appreciate CSA CSA for out and about their concerns. Appreciate that. Um, appreciate the school getting off to a good start. I know my kids are having a pretty good time. They're all getting involved in dramas and ASB and all the good stuff. And uh, so far so good, you know, behaviorally. So we're doing, you know, we're we're we're uh counterless right now and uh then pass it on to the next. >> Yeah. Good evening.
016Um thank you for the great report. Glad to see we increased another. We're still a little last year, but are increasing. That has a lot to do with our history. Just all of the things that we care about, you care about each classified administration. It's very important for us. Thank you so much. What I wanted to say CSA is we are totally reliant on your comments through negotiations with uh Mr. Davis and Dr. Maretti. And we believe that if they strike a deal, we hope that it's in everyone's agreement. We want everyone to be happy and uh I hate the thought that you pay less than in an hour but that is a state banded job. Ours is not state demand but we hope to be there. Um so for CSEA keep your keep keep
017keep your uh opinions keep us board up to date on how you feel. Today I had an opportunity to talk with uh teachers bowl and also our students. Thank God. There were three sheriff through ambulances that came because somebody got hurt pretty bad. But the one nice thing I found out today was uh something Mr. Davis did years ago at VU and that was to keep people that are affecting could affect our students at least 400 ft from the school. So we are definitely going to have our SRO talk to these people because apparently they're there every single day and uh we don't want that. I know some of the uh cars are afraid to even walk down the street with the students because that so imagine what the students must feel. Um anyway, thank
018you very much. We will we will try to keep a hand on it. >> Thank you. Um first I do want to thank CSA for coming tonight. We're grateful for all of our classified staff. They are the backbone of our district and um I think you all you have to do is take a look around our facilities both here at Park View and and our 22 school sites to see um how well they look. I don't think our our sites have ever looked any better. And that's a directly related to our maintenance and operations staff that does such a wonderful job. Classified staff work diligently. They work directly with our students and parents. In many cases, they are our parents and um they are the face of Lancaster School District and obviously we could not
019operate or keep the doors open without our classified staff. That's why we work together with them collaboratively um over the past five years um through our negotiations and our meetings and we're proud of the work we've done together collaboratively. We're proud of the seven over 17% increase in wages over the past five years and we're proud of the 29% onetime bonuses that we provided um for all our staff members both classified as certificated over the past years. Um, so we're proud we're proud that Lancaster is um one of the higher paying districts in the Enlo Valley and we're proud of the work they all do and um we're going to continue to work collaboratively together and do our best um to serve our employees. Everyone said thank you CSA for coming down and voicing your
020your strong feelings about know how you feel position roles that you play in the district. I want you to know that, you know, I think collectively that we hear you and we are working very hard to try to solve. I know sometimes it may still feel like you know your concerns are calling out a lot of things that we're finding by often people don't understand see to see where we can make. It doesn't necessarily guarantee that you're going to get everything that we want. I want you to understand that we are working very hard to make sure you guys are getting rewarded for this opportunity. You're absolutely correct. You are very much value educified staff just like we cannot work without team here. We cannot work without our teachers, our custodial, everyone. So, you know,
021my motto, as you guys already know, teamwork makes your dream work. So, we're going to continue to do our best to make sure that she's somewhere, you know, that we can all meet in the middle hopefully cold, but there's no guarantees. And um but thank you so much for coming up and letting us know are you affiliate? I want you to continue to come express your concerns so that you all the work get those addressed. Um, other than that, I heard it's been a really good year thus far. So, uh, unfortunately I haven't been around very much fortunate accident, but I would like to thank everyone for all of your well wishes and all the signed cards from the district. I got beautiful flowers and how bought me lunch and it was really great. So,
022thank you so much for everyone reaching out and showing all the love and continuing to heal. Still going to be a while, but other than that, thank everybody for coming out and hope to see you next board meeting. With that, we will adjourn at 6:45 p.m. So moved. Second motion by Mr. Gio, second by Mr. All in favor. Good evening everyone.