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Broadcast of the Lancaster School District Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Lancaster School District
Date
2025-08-20
Location
Los Angeles County, CA
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,250 words · about 7 min
Collected
2026-06-09

Transcript

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001[Music] We're going to reconvene to open session 605. And first we are going to report on a vote of four to zero with a motion by Giles and a second by board voted to approve the rejection of claim for damages on behalf of student number 7103 item 51 us to move the pledge of allegiance. Is that over your heart? The United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation stand. Thank you. Next, we have the additional items report. Okay. For the first five days of the 256 school year, we have a total of 13,18 students and 290 early education students. for total students of 13,473 which is an increase of 77 last year. Fantastic. Thank you. Uh there are none uh presentations, requests or reports. That brings us to item

00211, individual action items business resolution number 20 resolution of the board of trustees for Lancaster School District special for this school year 2526 and community facilities district number 2004-1. Have a motion. This is useless. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I I motion carries 4 Z. Item B, approval of amendment number one to agreement for TSC Alliance services with Universal Engineering Sciences for the Monavista Elementary Construction modernization project by Mr. Giles by Miss Houston. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion carries 4 Z. Number 12, individual action items. Human resources approval of the management salary schedule and job description. Executive director of fiscal services. We have a motion. Second by Charles. discussion. We changed the position to make it more commensurate with the job and with other districts. Um I'm going to ballpark that increase

003around 5%. Yes, I can give you that later on though specifically. All in favor I post motion carries. Item 13 addressing the board. Individuals who wish to address the board may complete a speaker card supporting documents to receive other district prior to the start of the meeting. personal information such as name, address, phone number, date of birth, email address, or other directory information as defined in code 49061 may be excluded from the minutes of the meeting by submitting a written request to the superintendent. President 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. Second is on the floor for discussion. Time limits of three minutes per person and 20 minutes per item shall be

004allowed. According to board bylaws 922 and board members may ask questions for clarification purposes. However, no action may no discussion may take place on an item not on the agenda. Do we have any comments from PTA, ESCA or town? Any comments from the audience? No comments from the audience. That brings us to consent agenda item superintendent support 14 A to 14 C have a motion motion by ML by Mrs. Any discussion? You have motion by Mr. Williams, second by Mrs. Usler. All in favor? >> I motion carries four or zero. Item 15, consent agenda items, business items 15 A to 15 S. We have a motion to move by Mrs. Usler. Any discussion? I'd just like to say congratulations. all the work. Thank you, Mr. Wayne. And I know that they are looking fantastic. A

005lot of new paint jobs at our school sites and they're looking really good. Uh thank you for all the work that's been done over the summer. All in favor? I post. Motion carries 4. Item 16, consent agenda items and services. Item 16A through 16 L. We have a motion by Mr. Wayne, second by Mrs. Any discussion? She was here last year and so this is come back strategies to I just have a question that we're hiring. Are they help to back to us with their findings or are we see the results. >> That's a great question. So, so this particular equity department last year asked her more. That's why she wanted the same for contract that the board approved last board session where we collect data and they go to some schools and a number

006of different to show effectiveness bring it back. So where some go back to schools there are some contract. Great questions. Uh with that all in favor I motion 4. That brings us to item 17 consent agenda sourcing services 178 to 17. A motion moved. Oops. By Mrs. Usler discussion. Are these all uh SDA changes? No. No. These are these are changes. We were written by um human resources in conjunction with CSEA. >> The job descriptions are a little old and jobs have changes and they're opinion they're all appropriate job descriptions and then also some reclassification. We'll see H classification. So was I >> just curious a lot of times they get and kind of rolled into the contract with the next >> if we choose to put them into the contract we negotiate that some

007go in and some stay on depending upon what is usually we're looking out for the fiscal interest of the district. So, so the the Mus are only solid for a year and we have a at the end of the year we have to make a decision if they go away or if we um change the contract the negotiation process and some of these are brought to our attention by CSA the union these are brought to their attention by us so it's just working in partnership with the union and make sure that uh people are doing this the job it says they're doing on their job description and making sure that uh that we have a good strong relationship with our union and we're we're looking for for the interest of the district employees. Thank you

008very much. With that all in favor motion carries 4. That brings us to item 18ent agenda items student and family services items 18A to 18B motion by Mr. Giles any discussion say uh has there been any concern about on our we are required as even myself who has a contract with the fairgrounds for the yellow belly our Lancaster high robotics team being asked to work till 11:00 or midnight and you know how that would go for parents of uh students from high school. Yes, we're uh we're we're working with the fair to try to have a presence there uh for our community, but um not beholden to being there till midnight or 11:00 because really the people we want to reach are going to be coming to the fair during the day and there's really

009no need for us to be there in the evenings um especially that late and we don't want to burden our employees with being out at the fair date. So, we're going to try to come and bring in the fair. I do want to say that last year the Lancaster school district had fantastic attendance people from Lan and the amount of information given away fantastic. So it's important just awfully late. Okay. Um with that all in favor I most motion carries 4 Z item 19 legislative and policy discussion. Any discussions on any of those items? brings us to comments from the board and superintendent starting with um Mr. Giles. >> Okay. Well, thank you guys for coming out on your uh first week of school to visit us. Thank you very much in school. They do

010look really nice. Uh they all look all freshly painted and the grounds look good. The grasses looks good. All the ones I've seen look nice. I appreciate that. Looks good for our community. Uh my kids are enjoying school so far. They're uh you know moving ahead doing their stuff. So everybody's getting in a groove. Uh I just uh welcome back everybody. Thank you, Mr. Charles. next. >> But he said, "Welcome back." Um, I guess it's good. But I know the parents and the kids are happy. So, um, welcome back. Lots of good stuff going on. I enjoyed reading through things and congratulations to see that. Welcome. Thank you very much. And Mr. W to the welcome back to the administration to the uh teachers to students who can't do without to uh yellow and the

011work they're doing. See people wearing yellow shirts. they come in late for the portion of the uh day. Um the thing I've seen a lot of are umbrellas. I'm so happy just to see the uh the uh aids teachers, anyone that's walking the campuses the afternoon when it's 102 that are wear that have umbrellas covering their head. Smart. That's why I guess we're such a good district. We have smart people. Anyway, that's all I have. You Mr. and Dr. Betty, >> I just want to um congratulate all Lancaster community on wonderful beginning to the new year. But just want to um commend all the hard work all of our departments did, all of our classified employees and registering students and and um preparing your classes uh to receive children last week. just going around all

012the classrooms and all the schools um last week and this week and just seeing all the kids just smiling and happy to be back at school. I really feel like um we're prepared for another school year and uh look forward to the year to come. Thank you very much. And I just want to welcome everyone back to another exciting school year. And u also welcome our new um uh staff members and teachers and and everyone else in our district. And uh we're off to a great start and also our uh thank you to our maintenance and everything for all the work they did over the summer. Great week. for the next meeting and we're going to journ at 6:24. We have a motion second. This is second by Mr. Giles. All in favor zero. Night

013everyone.

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