001Okay. I'd like to go ahead and call the regular meeting of the board of education for Martinez Unified School District to order. It is May 18th, 2026 and it's 5:45. Do we have any public comment for close session? No. Okay. Then we will adjourn to close session. meeting to open session. I have a three things to report out. Okay. First, in close session, the board considered the recommendation for an expulsion for student number 2025-26-2. And there was a motion to approve the expulsion. The motion was made by Courtney um seconded by Logan and it was unanimous. In closed session, the board consider the recommendation for a readmission for student number 2024-25-05. And the motion was approved with a stipulation to be readmitted to Vicente Martinez High School. Motion was made by Logan Campbell, seconded by
002Brenda Leal, and it was unanimous. And then in closed session, the board considered the recommendation for a suspended expulsion for student number 2025-26-01. And there was a motion to approve that expulsion, the suspended expulsion. Motion was made by myself. It was seconded by Brenda Leal and it was unanimous. Matthew, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please? Are there any changes to the agenda? >> There are no changes. Do I have a motion to approve the >> second? >> Student rep >> I. >> All those in favor? I so moved. First item up, we have highlights and recognition. Our outgoing student rep, Matthew Schik. On behalf of the board, I want to take a moment to recognize and thank our student representative, Matthew Schik, for his service and contributions during his time with
003us. Your voice has brought an important student perspective to our discussions and decisions, and we truly appreciate the thoughtfulness, leadership, and dedication you've shown throughout your term. You have represented your fellow students with professionalism and maturity, and your input has made a meaningful difference to this board and our district. As this is your final meeting with us, we wanted to express our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you've given in service to our schools and community. We are excited to see all that lies ahead for you as you begin your next chapter at UCLA. We know that you will continue to great things there and we wish you every success in your studies and future endeavors. We have a small gift as a token of our appreciation and thanks for your outgoing service. And
004again, thank you, Matthew. Congratulations on all you've accomplished and best wishes at UCLA. [applause] So Brenda made you cookies. They're even warm still, just so you know. You should get a picture. >> [applause] >> And I did want to say I heard that uh today that you were very upset you did not get a UCLA flag. There was one of the teachers that's retiring had a bunch of flags and you're the only student going to UCLA and you didn't get your flag. So I will buy you a flag and I will get it to you. It'll be like you have one. Okay. Because I heard you were very sad about that. Okay. All right. So, open your little bag. At least there's just two things in there. And there is an Amazon gift card in
005the card by the way. It's not in there. It's in the card. But yeah, so again, congratulations and we will miss you. [applause] And then we have highlights and recognition. We have the incoming student representatives. So, um Janelle, do you want to introduce our new representative? >> Yes. Um hopefully he's in the there he is. Um if you want to come forward um and introduce yourself, we have our new incoming student rep, Olm Walls. [laughter] [applause] And M is um currently a a student at Alhhamra High School. He'll be taking Matthew's seat next year. And so he's here um for our next couple meetings um to learn the ropes and we'll be taking his seat as student when we resume in August. Well, congratulations. Thank you very much. Welcome. [applause] Then we have highlights and
006recognition for MUSD retirees. Janelle Ayat. Okay, it is my pleasure tonight to uh recognize 15 different retirees from our certificated and classified unit who um total years of service is almost 350 years which is in just incredible when you think about the amount of time that these individuals have each dedicated to the service of our students and our community here in Martinez. So, we are very proud to recognize each of them. And first is Carol Sullivan. And Carol is a special education teacher at Alhhamra High School. Here we go. 17 years of service. Is that right? >> Plus, plus >> I was here and then I left. >> Oh, well, [laughter] congratulations. [applause] And then Denise Brown, [applause] 10 years of service. Congratulations. [applause] Marilyn Bruette, 33 years. [applause] Congratulations, [applause] >> Steve and Brushy.
007And Steve missed his uh classified employee of the year recognition, so we have two acknowledgements for you. We have this one and then your retiree gift. Thank you. [applause] Steve had 19 years of service. And then Sarah Klugden, registar at the junior high, [applause and cheering] 19 years. Congratulations, uh, Kathy Gregory, 36 years. [applause] Congratulations. and Miriam Flores, 41 years of service to our special education students. [applause] Congratulations, Miriam. Tom Azido, [applause] 36 years. Hey, congratulations [applause and cheering] Charelle 35 years. [applause and cheering] Congratulations. [applause] And Annie Cabraw, [applause] three years. Congratulations. And I think Pardon? Oh, three years. [laughter] Okay. Um, so we have five additional people who weren't able to be with us tonight. Anne Rose Cray, Jane Pippen, Steve Cornell, Lisa Mendoza, and Veronica Ruan. So, we want to acknowledge them
008as well. We'll make sure they get their recognition. If we can invite everyone up for one photo, that would be great. Before everyone departs, And again, congratulations to all the retirees and thank you for all your years of service, whether it's three years or 41 years. Um, we really appreciate everything you've done for the district. So, thank you and good luck on your next chapter. Next up, we have highlights and recognition Martinez Junior High Slam students. Janelle, >> um I would like to invite Miss Cusack up um and her students that she has with her tonight who will be sharing information about um the SLAM program at Martinez Junior High School. Yeah, I think everybody heard I our students and our work is going to speak for itself. Um I'm just honored to be one
009of the adviserss along with Shannon Gravier. Um we meet every other week. Um and the students have put in a lot of work um that they are excited to to share with you. Um, thank you. >> How about while we wait for to get access, how about we skip to introduction and why don't you guys can up here. >> Okay. Hello. We are from the middle school and SLAM school is to educate people on how to be anti-racist, celebrate diversity, and to be a safe place to talk about things. First, we're going to share our favorite memories from SLAM or something we've learned this year. I'll go first. My name is B. Herado. U pronounced they them. And my favorite thing about Slam is that I get to go every other week into a room
010full of people like-minded and they're just wonderful people I've met. Hi, my name is uh K Scott and she and my favorite memory for from Slam was going to the Slam Fam Jam which is our um yearly field trip and getting to play a song a song I wrote about anti-racism. Hello, my name is Paisley Oxford. Pronouns she, her. And my favorite thing about Slam is just how kind everyone is and how everyone is just able to be together and be nice and there's no hatred or racism obviously or homophobia. >> Hi y'all. I'm Nina Gron. Pronoun she her. And my favorite part about SLAM is just everybody getting together to fight racism and like kind of working together to have our school the way that we want it because if we don't do it
011like it's not going to happen. >> Hi, my name is Julian Mossa. My pronouns are he, him, and my favorite thing about Slam was personally the wonderful teachers who made it because they were really encouraging and supportive throughout the year and I thought it was really smart of them to like make a club to try to stop racism. Well, probably like not for good, but like for not trying to be rude or anything, but like for like you know trying to prevent it from happening as much around the whole school because you know our school better yet the world it would be a lot better place without it. Yeah. >> My name is JLo Del Rio. It's my first year in Slam and this year I've learned that being part of Slam is a space
012where you could speak with the truth and not get judged. >> Hello, my name is Jacob Egan and my favorite part about SLAM is probably getting to meet a bunch of unique people. Hello, my name is Cameron Ule and my favorite part about Slam is the Slam Fam Jam. It was so fun. We just we get to we have lunch. That the lunch was the best part 100%. But that's not only like the best part. It's also the fact that we all get to meet up and talk about being anti-racist. >> My name is Charlie Shrivever and uh everything Cameron said. Um, hi. My name is Isabelle Johnson and my favorite part about SLAM is that we are actively trying to stop racism, which is something that a lot of people don't do. So, I'm
013glad that we have a club for it. >> Hi, I'm Eley Jensen. I use she her pronouns. And my favorite part of SLAM this year was making videos from the home room slides with my friends. >> Hi, my name is Kinley Egan. And my favorite part from this year was probably going on the Slam Fam field trip cuz I got to meet a lot of other people who have the same beliefs as me. This year um we were starting our club with significantly less members due to people going on and moving to the high school. So, we started off our year with a lot of recruiting. So, we made a lot of recruiting videos to um make people interested in Slim and like make them wonder if they want to join and help stop racism
014cuz, you know, racism is really bad. That was weird. >> Do you want to make a positive change at MJHS? Help make >> our school anti >> racist join slam. >> Yay. [screaming] >> You're so [cheering] All right, bull pups. What's up? I'm Eley. And I'm Kinley. And we're going to tell you a little bit about SLAM. >> First thing about SLAM is it's an anti-racism club that does not support bullying and supports anti-racism instead. >> Oh, get out of here. Um, and the second thing you need to know is you'll be seeing a lot more slam stuff in the home slides. >> Bye. >> Hello, it's me again. Um, [clears throat] so as you saw in the end of that first recruitment video, there was this like black ball covered in caution tape. Um,
015in our first year of this program, um, we came up with the idea of the racism wrecking ball, which is basically just um, a term that we use of how we like break down racism at our school. And we also created another like marketing technique um, which is our new hashtag called stand with Slam. As you noticed, we were all standing in the back. That was on purpose. And it's just um all of our um techniques that we use to um really just get this program out there because it is a really important thing to all of us and honestly a lot of people to like go to school because of it and it just makes us all really happy. Um these slideshows are some of the home room slide materials. These are the things
016we put in our home room slides. Our school hosts a home room slide ho hosts the home room slides for the first 10 minutes each every every single morning. So it's a good way to reach all and every student in any class. These slides have personally been such a help because first a lot of middle schoolers are pretty forgetful. So, this constant reminder is a good way to show not to be racist and just remember not to be racist. Also, it gets people communicating about difficult topics because this show is kind of like an icebreaker. I know guys, I'm back. Um, another thing we did was a lot of poster campaigning. Um, so during our like lunch meetings every other week on Thursdays during first and second lunch, our students would make posters and we
017would hang them up in the walls um just to like show about racism. And here are some examples. Some things we did to help people uh to recruit people for slam is hosting lunchtime activities. One of the things we had was a spinny wheel where you could answer questions such as like what can you say if somebody says a slur and when they answered guess what they got candy. Uh we had information posters. We did cup stacking. We had giant jump ropes when we had kids sign a poster about ways to be anti-racist. The map at the map our roots activity was an activity we did at lunch where people put a sticker on where their ancestors came from. It helped people see we are almost all from somewhere else. We have some plans to
018keep Slam going without Dr. Watson because we had a three-year grant and sadly this is the end of the third year. We've been talking about ways to keep Slam going and to keep it from slowing down without Dr. Watson or our son, Manurs. We are hoping to find a way to somehow get Dr. Watson to join us at least one time per year. I have been creating a new slam member training and some of our other plans are to join with the leadership class for activities. We also want to present at the elementary schools and work with the high school to see if we can better connect between all of our schools. All three years at the end of the year, we have attended the Slam Fam Jam with all the other schools in the
019area that have has that have slam clubs. We are hoping to host this next year as one of the veteran schools of the program and other schools have asked that we do so um to the strength of the program. I've had the idea to try and help with the or try to work with the elementary schools to try and see if we can expand our Slam fam members. In the future, I want to maybe hold assemblies or presentations at some elementary schools to help spread the word about Slam. Jayla, one of our members, is working with her sister from an elementary school to try to tell everyone we can about SLAM and if they may be able to join it. I think this is a great idea cuz I think it would be really fun
020to help spread the word about Slam and everybody will be able to help and just expand the community. [applause] Thank you very much for your wonderful presentation. Board members, do you have questions, comments? Have any of you been a member all three years? Very cool. Awesome. So, those of you going to the high school, you're going to join at the high school when you get there. Cool. All right. Thank you. Matthew, anybody else comments, questions? No. Um, how many when you did your recruiting posters, did you get a lot of new members? >> That's awesome. Do you know how many members you got? A big amount. That's awesome. Okay. >> Okay. >> That's great. >> Because the people who are really committed to the cause were definitely present. Like I said, we met every other
021week on a Thursday, myself and Miss Shannon. Um first lunch and second lunch. So we had our two groups and then we would come together to like for example organize this. So so much effort and um dedication. The kids did a great job. >> Wonderful. Well, congratulations everyone and good luck to you continuing that. We'll have to hear back from you next year and see how well it continues, but I'm sure it will with your motivation and your wonderful attitude. So, thank you again. [applause] Okay, next up we have Workforce Housing Andy Cannon. >> I'll give it just a second here. >> Absolutely. They were very quiet, so I thought maybe they were going to stay for the board meeting, but All right. Good evening board and superintendent and community. Uh tonight I'm bringing forward
022a short and brief update on our education workforce housing program. Um, as you might recall, um, last year, uh, Michael Cass from the city, uh, Helen Rossi, Annie, u, and myself all attended the CSBA, um, program. Um, and in that workshop, we had an opportunity to, um, learn about the training process, how we would go about, um, implementing a workforce housing program, and we also looked at various different homes and apartments, um, in the Bay Area and even in Southern California. We were also able to work with an architect to look at that design and that all culminated into a report that Superintendent Rossi provided to the board in June of 2025. So, we've done substantial work and I want to kind of look at what those next steps are again and refresh everyone on
023what we're looking to do. Um, what we're looking to do um as we move forward in this project. Um, the next steps and this was part of the presentation at the time is to conduct a staff survey. Um, we do want to make sure that that is timely and timely means when we start looking at actually implementing the project. Uh, we want to be careful not to do a staff survey for example now because the people that we survey may not be the same folks in two years, three years, four years depending on the timeline of when we would actually implement the program. So, we want to be really mindful of that. Um but once we start doing the staff surveys, we're going to start a chain reaction um which would go into the community
024informational meetings, finding out more from them. Um that is if staff actually want the programs. Um and so we would do the next domino um which would follow with the feasibility study. Um so not only do we want to know from our staff it's something that they'd be interested in, we want to talk to the community about their thoughts. Then we'd look at can we actually do the project like we thought we did through the workshop because the workshop was a great example. We think we got really far, but there are other factors that need to come into place. You know, zoning, um, working with the city even more deeply, what the project would look like, any change in rules that may happen in the meantime. Um, we also have a big one um that
025is what funding source will we get with the project and right now we do not have a funding source in mind. That's something that we'll have to figure out whether that's through a developer and a lease back. There's multiple different options um and we have time to figure that out. But funding is going to be an absolute monster of a domino to fall in our favor. If we were to secure um funding for the project, we would look at doing an RFP um a request for proposal from developers and architects so that they would do the project. And then if all of that goes really well, we will have a construction timeline. So that's if we move forward with it. But there are some critical things that we have to um figure out. And so
026next slide we'll show that um we started this presentation um that we went to June thinking that the 600 ft property which is the Martinez adult education would be the best fit for the location to the main kind of city area the thoroughfare on Alhamra Avenue the space that we have there and the idea that we are going to rebuild the adult education building through measure O it made sense so that's where our focus was um but we also need to make sure that we have enough funds for the adult education program. Right now, that's earmarked for about $20 million. And the assumption is is that in order to have enough space to run an adequate workforce housing um program, we would need to move the adult education um building down to Susanna. So, right
027now, currently in the facility master plan, we have two options. One is that it would stay put where it is. The other one would move down here. Workforce housing would all but make us have to make that move occur. Um so what we want to be very um you know knowledgeable about is as we work through the other measure projects on the high school and the junior high um we are trying to make sure that we have $20 million left over. If that all fits in I think we can continue down this uh pathway. >> Thank you very much. I'm sorry. Sorry. >> So the summary slide >> sorry [laughter] >> you're okay. Um, so what was great about that workshop and and I'll let Annie if she wants to speak about it um also
028if she may have some insights that I haven't shared here is that it really gave us that initial guidance for how we're going to go about this gave us many different resources and contacts within CSBA and other housing departments. Um, some of the really fun insights is when we actually talked to the properties and we found like little things if if we remember we talked about washing machines whether in the apartments or not in the apartments and that was one of some of those small details you think don't matter until you start listening to people and you go wow that is absolutely critical to figure out something as what we think is simple as that. What we know is that in order to implement this, we are going to have to have our financial resources,
029our strategic planning, and a lot of support and input from the community. Um, and that's all part of the next steps process. Um, but ultimately before we can move forward, we have to make some more headway on our Measure O projects. We need to continue to get done at the high school because that's been the focal point of the early planning process. We need to get that done. we need to get the junior high done. Once we know what our cash um ending balance is or projected ending balance with measure O, we can start working on the adult education program and then through that process. Now, mind you, that's what um I see as I've gone through this process. That's what I look at when we're doing the rest of the construction work. Um based
030on direction from the board, we can look at doing something differently. Um but this is kind of the pathway that we've laid out that we think makes the greatest sense at the moment. Um, and that is the end of our short presentation. I am open to any questions from the board. >> Thank you very much. Sorry that I cut you off there earlier. >> I wasn't looking at my slides. >> Uh, so I did have a question for you. Um, and the reason we brought this back so everyone knows is that we want to make sure that um, you know, we're not going to lose sight of this. This is still something out there, but it's still really too early to um, kind of make any decisions or anything. Um, but you were saying that
031the adult center would have to move. You would not be able to as an option of just having it splitting part of the property. I'm just curious about that because I know that I thought that was something we talked about when I was on the facilities committee still. >> We did as we went through it. One of the key considerations that we found was the amount of parking spaces. Then in order to have enough parking spaces for the adult ed to have their facilities in place for the housing and also to have enough housing to be able to kind of afford the lower rent aspect, we think we have to move. And so what I mean by the lower housing aspect is if we want to have let's say 40 different below market housing units,
032we would need to have 60 to 100 at market. Otherwise, we're not going to be able to attract a housing developer who would make enough money that they can kind of balance out that process because we have to know that whoever is going to do that work because the district will not manage the property. They will own it and they will have a management firm, but it has to be attractive toward that development to actually make money off of it. Otherwise, it's not there. So, they are going to make money off of all the tenants. We are going to be able to provide lowcost housing. And so that's kind of the the give and take. If there's a potential for doing both down there, we can explore it. It just doesn't look optimum at this
033point. >> Tanya, do you mind if I >> while you're on that question? >> So is that So where's the corpard in all this? I mean, would that move as well, uh, you know, the maintenance yard or would that make up if you moved that across the street, would that make up that parking space at all or is that already >> I I think there's potential there. We didn't explore the option of moving that space. Um, I think you would have to we don't know yet, but we'd look at the cost consideration of what does it cost to do all of those pieces, what would be more feasible, and we haven't quite got to that point. And have you talked to Michael Cass about their corpard? I mean, currently they're leasing, so maybe that's an
034opportunity for additional income if we're going to be potentially moving it or keeping in the same place. And then also, um, if we did end up moving it, how much of a hit are we going to take from the rent that we're currently getting from across the street? Um, so we with Michael Cass from the city, we he mentioned that in through the process, but we never got far enough down the road to where we would make an actual plan to have that happen, but it was something that he suggested that may be mutually beneficial to both of us um with the rent across the street. So, what we're talking about is the lower campus is now housing a non-public school environment and we are about $70,000 a year off the top of my head
035of rent that we do each year. Um, so we would have to look for another venue for them potentially or we would lose that revenue. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Other questions? Annie, do you have any comments? >> Yeah, I'll just add um I unless it changed, I think we were the last group that CSBA did this workshop in this same format. They've been doing it kind of differently because they lost their funding sources. It was completely free to us. we applied and it was it was really I think a valuable experience. But we do continue to get updates from them um in particular around state advocacy. So CSBA has done I think a really good job of continuing to work with legislators in terms of mostly like streamlining the process because school districts or
036anyone else building workforce housing the prim our primary role is not housing. So, we don't really know what we're doing, which is also why we brought Michael Cass in because we wanted to make that a really smooth process for us. But, I guess I just want the public to know that we continue to do that. They recently had us um sign. So, any kind anytime there's any um sort of lobbying efforts that that we see as a valuable thing mostly for like clearing the way, paving the way for districts all over the state to just make this a reality. we have been continuing to do that work and CSBA has been a really good partner in that. So, um I guess I should just anytime we get an update I'll let you know on that.
037Um I had another question. So, I know we're a ways out, but when you do kind of get enough put together for a survey, would you mind if we see it and potentially give some feedback on that? >> Well, I'll leave that to the direction of the superintendent, but absolutely we would involve lots of folks in what that is. I know that CSBA has a template of questions that they put together. So, at the time when we were looking at it, we could glean a lot of questions from that, but I think it would be a it would make sense to me that we would go through a process, whether that would be a committee of sorts that we would look at those questions, identify those, tailor them specifically to our community and our staff,
038and then use those for that purpose. >> Right. And u you know ultimately I mean I would love to see this uh the adult school stay where it's at but again I'm open to the ideal goal as uh Annie mentioned were not in housing but it'd be a great opportunity for a lot of our uh future teachers and uh staff. So whatever makes the most sense to get the most benefit out of that that also attracts someone that's going to bring funds to it then all the better. >> Again I'll just interject for Andy. um we asked him for this presentation. We know it's we're really far out still. So, um we don't really have answers. He doesn't have answers. We're just we wanted to make sure that everybody knew that it was still on
039the radar, but um we have to do the high school first obviously and then the adult center and then we'll go on it. So, we'll periodically do little updates. Um but I think it's um too soon to really make any of those kind of requests and stuff. Any other questions or comments? Thank you very much, Andy. Appreciate that. Do we have anybody from MEA? No. Do we have anybody from CSEA? No comments. Comments from the PTA? No. Okay. Comments from the student representative. Down here. Okay, here we go. Las Huntus had their annual annual carnival this past Friday, May 15th. Thank you to the hardworking PTA for the amazing work they did. And thank you to the ELAC moms for sharing goodies. And also, thank you to John Mir's PTA for sharing your time to
040support Losas Elementary. Each of the third grade classes at Los Huntus took their field trip to the Martinez Marina with Kids for the Bay to learn about the environmental impacts to our local marina. Los Hunter's first and second graders wowed everyone with their music show Wing It on May 8th. Thank you to everyone who came to watch. TK will host their annual alphabet fashion show on Wednesday, May 27th. Las Huntes's second volunteer appreciation breakfast to honor all of the amazing parent volunteers will be held on May 29th at 8:30 a.m. The field day will be held on Wednesday, June 3rd, and the fifth grade promotion is on June 4th at 8:45 a.m. John Mureer Elementary second graders had their annual music concert. This year's theme was on the farm. In celebration of diversity and inclusion,
041John Mir enjoyed an interactive wheelchair assembly. John Mir also had the end of the year PBIS assembly. Students were given the opportunity to recognize their peers for showing all the character counts. Caring, responsible, trustworthy citizenship, respect, and fairness. John Mir's annual PTA volunteer breakfast is on Thursday, May 21st. John Mir's second self-care night is on Wednesday, May 20th, and they there will be a Chinese lion and dragon dance assembly on Tuesday, May 19th. John Sweat's third grade class has chicken eggs incubating for their oolology unit. They have been learning the structures of the egg and observing the development of chicks with a candler. Fourth graders visited the Mount View sanitation plant. They gained hands-on experiences and learned about the importance and delicacy of our local environment. Fourth graders are currently getting ready for their fourth
042grade performances of the musical Gold Dust or Bust. Performances are next week on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday at 1:40 in the John Sweat cafeteria if anyone wants to come see the somewhat historically accurate retelling of the California Gold Rush. Mela Park fourth and fifth graders are rehearsing their lines for their upcoming plays. Fourth grade participated in Walk through California, where they learned all about California state history in a fun way by acting out important events. And now that state testing is complete, there are lots of end of the year field trips happening. Already fourth grade visited the marina for kids for the bay and TK visited Smith Family Farms. The Mela Park fourth grade play is on Tuesday, May 19th. The TKABS fashion show is on Thursday, May 28th, and the fifth grade promotion is
043on June 4th. And then I just want to add a little bit um because it's not the secondary schools today, but Mr. Alhhamra um is going to be tomorrow night in the PAB. I'm in it. So, be there. Okay. And then here is my little speech. Okay. Good evening, everyone. As I look back on the last year of meetings, I find this position has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my high school career. I've learned so much about being in being in a position of relative authority, being a voice for countless others, and even about myself, like how how I will never be pursuing a political career in the future. >> [laughter] >> It's been a challenging experience and I've definitely pushed myself out of my comfort zone in the process. Even running
044for election for this position was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. Uh but honestly looking back I think that's the right feeling. This position while mainly ceremonial in its powers is important. Around school people expect me to be up to date on board matters. While this is difficult considering student reps aren't allowed to be in closed session, I still find myself regularly providing critical information to my peers fairly frequently. Whether it be construction, changes in leadership, or any other major district happenings, students should take this role seriously. I truly believe that the principal job of the student board rep should be to inform those they represent. Too few people know anything about the board at all. I'm very happy to find that my successor is someone who is qualified to keep doing
045the important work of this position. My message to everyone on the board and in the community for the years to come is to remember who this is all for, the students. While some of the bureaucracy of the board can be boring, trust me, I'm familiar. Students should be made aware of what's going on. And as I thought about what to say, I found myself thinking about the recent events that have rocked the board and as a result, the community and the input I've heard from several people over the last month. I felt I'd be remiss not to provide at least a cursory mention of the deeper political commentary that goes along with being a public-f facing figure. I truly believe that being on the school board should be one of the least political work experiences
046one can have. Being a board member means wanting the most for the community, prioritizing the needs of others, and being a voice of authority and reassurance for everyone else affected by the board's decisions. All of those things should be apolitical, empathy is apolitical, care is apolitical. While political issues do creep in, a side effect of the broader context of society, the board as a whole should strive to do what is the best decision for students as a whole, not in the context of political ideology. And yet existing in society is not apolitical. Living as someone in a marginalized group, as more than half of MUSD students are, is inherently political. Whether it's via unconscious bias or pure vitriol, society makes living as a member of one of these groups difficult. As an openly gay man,
047I've faced hateful comments behind my back and to my face about my sexuality, and I'm definitely one of the more privileged people in those communities. I think hearing these perspective is is an extremely important part of the job. While I believe diversity makes hearing these perspectives much easier, I don't believe that you must be part of a group to advocate for one. I believe that the board should represent all students and their families. I hear the concerns of the community when they see the lack of diversity on the board. However, I truly believe that every board member has the best interest of the community in mind. If you wish to see change on the board, vote for those who you feel will best represent your interests. Campaign for your candidate. Talk to others in in
048your community to determine what they want or maybe even run yourself. While institutional barriers to office for minorities and marginalized groups still exist, the best way to break those down is to build a movement. I want to end the speech by thanking everyone who's helped me get here today. Thank you to my friends who helped me campaign, community members who gave me ideas on what needed to change, my parents for raising me with a robust set of morals, and thank you to the board members who taught me so many lessons along the way. That's all. >> [applause] >> Thank you very much, Matthew. That was very well said. And weren't you Mr. um Alhamra last year? >> Weren't you Mr. Alhamra last year? >> I've actually never been to one of them. >> I thought
049I saw you there. >> No. Okay. Interesting. Okay. >> Totally blind. So, >> all right. Okay. Well, I'll be there tomorrow night, so we're rooting for you. Uh let's see. Superintendent report is next. Thank you. Uh today marks the beginning of classified school employees week and I would like to recognize the staff who support the seamless operations of our school, maintain safe and clean campuses, prepare and serve meals and assist students and families across our district. May is also mental health awareness month. The theme for this year is more good days together. And our mental health counselors have facilitated activities all month such as mindful Wednesdays, a self-care fair for students and families, and classroom community circles with elementary peacekeepers. I was able to attend the Alasutes Elementary PTA annual carnival with President Buger and
050trustees Leel and Campbell on Friday evening and it was a wonderful community event featuring the Martinez Junior High School and Alhamra High School bands, food trucks, face painting and games. And I want to thank the Los PTA for hosting the event in support of our bullpups. And finally, this Wednesday is the final concert of the Alhhamra High School instrumental music music program featuring the concert band, Orchestra, and Jazz Band. The concert is free and starts at 6:30 in the PAB. >> Thank you very much. Next up is public comments. The public may address the board regarding any item within the jurisdiction of the board of education of Martinez Unified School District. For items on the agenda, the public may comment at the time the board considers the agenda item. For items not on the agenda,
051the public may comment under public comment. These comments are limited to three minutes each. 20 minutes have been allocated for this portion of the agenda. Additional time is allowed at the end of the meeting if there was not enough time to speak during public comments. To comply with the Brown Act, the board may listen to comments from speakers, but can neither discuss nor take action on items presented. Members of the board are very limited in their response to statements or questions by persons commenting on items not on the agenda. Looks like I have one public comment and it is Craig Lazeretti. >> Thank you. Good evening board. I want to make a few comments on the workforce housing presentation tonight. Uh, good timing for this because May is also affordable housing month and a couple
052weeks ago the city council actually issued a proclamation for affordable housing month and I was honored to be asked to receive the proclamation at the city council meeting because of my advocacy of this critically important issue. And I'll start my comments by reading the first whereas clause because I think it really hits home why this is such an important issue for this district um to embark on. Whereas access to safe, stable, and affordable housing, including workforce housing for teachers, first responders, health care workers, and other essential members of the labor force, is critical to the economic vitality and high quality of life in Martinez. And I would go further than that and say it's also critical to the fiscal health and academic success of our students in this school district. We know that part of
053our financial difficulties in the school district and our ongoing budget crisis has to do with the affordable housing crisis. Lack of enrollment or dropping enrollment has hurt our ADA funding. We know families have left the district because of the high cost of living. Our struggle to retain and recruit and retain qualified educators uh who also represent the diversity of our community has also been hampered by the lack of affordable housing in our community. We've talked about the issue of representation in this room before and the lack of representation we have among our educator staff um in relation to the ethnic diversity of our community. And we know that there's an equity component with affordable housing because one of the reasons uh we see l a lack of representation in our educator workforce and in our
054workforce in general among working families is that uh the issue of generational wealth has made it much easier for white people, people of privilege and background to afford stable housing and people who are not from those backgrounds struggle uh much more with those things. These are all issues that this body, this district has the opportunity to address headon in a way that will could profoundly change the trajectory of our community and our school district, but it will take urgency. It will take a level of urgency that was not evident in the comments tonight about we're still far off. I think this should be priority number one because my argument is in two, three, four, five years, your budget problems are going to get worse and worse and worse. You're not going to be able to
055build enrollment. You're not going to be able to keep and recruit and keep qualified, passionate young teachers. Almost all of our affordable housing growth in Martinez in the last two years has be has come in the realm of ADUs. ADUs are great, but how many of the teachers you recruit to come work here want to live in an ADU? What if they have a family? An ADU is not going to work out for them. And that's the only area we've been able to make real progress on. Now, it's not going to be easy, but I know I've had a lot of discussions with Michael Cass, and he believes the Alhammer corridor is a prime location for major affordable housing growth. This district can knock down the first domino, but you must act with urgency. Thank
056you. >> No other public comments. Oh, there's another public comment. My name is Molly Byer and I'm a graduate of Alhamra High School and I live in the neighborhood. And a couple of weeks ago, I got in my mail slot uh a notice that the district is planning to purchase a diesel generator. And I was puzzled by that because there's this large array of solar panels out here. And I'm wondering why are they purchasing a generator uh when they could add battery storage to the to the solar panels here. So uh I I did send in an email with some thoughts and I'm not sure whether it it made it through. Uh I had an internet connection problem this afternoon. Um, but uh I I would like to urge you to consider uh a a
057solar battery storage system. Not only because you're threequarters of the way there having the panels already. Uh they would replenish uh the batteries, you know, during the day if you happen to need uh the generator uh uh to run things in an emergency. Um I have concerns about the particulate matter. This is this neighborhood is is full of schools obviously. Um it the diesel generator model that has has been um proposed is only 88 to 92% efficient and that means that uh maybe as much as 12% of the energy is simply lost into particulate matter into the air and what goes up must come down. Um, so, uh, from a health standpoint, I I would urge you to to re to consider, uh, solar panels instead. And also from a reliability standpoint, um, diesel, uh,
058fuel hit $7.31 a gallon this past week. And, uh, we may be running off stock piles that may run out before the straight of Hormuz is open. And so, that's something to consider. Uh if you purchase a diesel generator, will you have a a storage tank here? Uh how will that storage tank be uh refilled? If if it becomes empty in a in a crisis, who will do that? Who is going to maintain this machine? It it requires specialized servicing in order to for it to be reliable every year. Um and finally, if you really really want something that is not solar powered, uh have you considered natural gas? because natural gas is available in pipelines in the city of Martinez. Um, and you don't have to have somebody bring diesel fuel in a truck
059uh to to power your generator. So, I have questions. I know you're not able to tell me much, but I I am curious and and hope that whoever's in charge of this project will will uh we'll look into that. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Um, I'll pass your information along to our um, interim superintendent and she can have someone get back to you. I've got your phone number on here. If you want an email address, you can add that. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Do we have any changes to the consent calendar? >> No, we do not. >> Did want to acknowledge the um gift donations from the Kuanas Club. Um, $300 was given to four sites, so that was a total of $1,200. So, thank you to the Kuanas Club
060of Martinez. Uh, do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> Second. >> Student rep. >> I. >> All those in favor? >> I. So moved. Okay. The first item up under discussion is superintendent search process. Since we are close to the end of the school year, it will be difficult to complete a comprehensive superintendent search in time for a July 1 transition. Rushing the process could limit the quality and depth of the candidate pool. Accordingly, I would like to recommend that at the next board meeting, the board considers and votes on a new contract for Janelle Ayat to serve as interim superintendent from July 1st through December 31st, 2026. Um I have spoken with Janelle and she has stated that she is
061interested in the interimm position. She has also done a um great job um in the interimm so far. The extension would provide continuity and stability for the district as we begin the new school year while also allowing the board sufficient time to conduct a deliberate and transparent superintendent search. In addition, I would like the board to consider conducting the superintendent search in-house rather than utilizing an outside search firm. Many districts have successfully managed their own search process and doing so could provide greater board ownership, increase transparency and potential cost savings for the district. This would also ensure that the board remains directly involved in all aspects throughout the process. Uh my goal is to ensure that we take the time necessary to select the right long-term leader for our district while maintaining stability and focus
062on student success during the transition. So, I'll open this up to um board questions. >> I don't have any questions, but I agree with everything you said. >> I'm sorry. What' you say? >> I I didn't have any questions. I just agree with everything you said. >> Oh, okay. Thank you. >> I like the idea. I I I I don't I definitely don't think we should rush. Um we spent a lot of time on this last year. Um and that's, you know, it deserves a lot of time. Are you proposing that we bring this back in December and at that point decide what the next step is? >> So, I'm open to discussing what the board was looking at, but um I think uh most people are already in contracts as of July 1st. So,
063maybe this is something we look at start looking at maybe even in in September. I just don't think I think right now is too early to look for the process. Um if we do an in-house search, you know, we need to make brochures and things like that. Um but in a you know, in a perfect world, um it it would happen very very quickly and efficiently. I mean, um it would give us six months before July 1st date would be in the following year if we started in December, January, the process. >> So if if potentially hiring somebody for the following school year, that's what you're saying. >> Correct. Yes. >> Okay. I'm I I'm okay with that. I definitely know that um interim superintendent has a lot on her plate and I think we
064need to talk to her about um because she had a a very big position she was doing in personnel in addition to this right now. And so, um, I'm sure that, um, both of those positions need attention and, um, whatever she needs to help her with that, I think we need to have that conversation as well. >> Yeah, absolutely. And I know with the budget, we're um the budget outlook is is much better. And I think we absolutely, and we've talked a little bit about um, hiring somebody uh, to help with the HR, especially when it gets down to negotiations and things like that. Um, so yeah, absolutely. We need to give her all the support she needs and she will keep us informed and let us know if when she needs somebody um and
065has that within her authority to get somebody. >> Um, I would also like to keep the possibility open that we won't need a search next year. We don't know. um this is be by having an interim who is qualified and working with us, it certainly could turn out that that feels like a good move for the district, for all parties involved. And so I certainly would want to be clear with the public, but I don't want there to be um I don't think at this point we know what the next step will be except that we it sounds like all of us don't really want to use an outside firm should we get to that point. But that doesn't I guess I guess I'm just saying it could go to where we don't need to
066do a search at all. And I want to be upfront about that just in case. >> Yeah. And I totally agree with that. And I think one of the reasons we're doing a six-month uh contract is so that if um everything, you know, goes wonderfully. Um that might be the best solution, but again, we're going to just have to wait and see. Um it does look like I do have a public comment on this, but well, okay. Yeah, I was going to I saw there's a public comment, so I was gonna have them first. >> Um add on that um to thank Janelle for stepping in and stepping up. And I do think it is a good idea to um spend the next six months um creating um creating, you know, um relationships and and
067um leading us forward. And I I do hope that we can um continue on with you leading us. Thank you. >> Totally agree. Um Craig Leseretti, you brought another public comment card, right, for this. Okay, you're up. >> Thank you. So, I want to start by putting this issue in a larger context. This school district is now on its fifth superintendent in the past six years. Previous to that, I think we had two superintendents over the previous 14 years. Regardless of what direction you decide to go here, I think you need to really reckon with why we've had so much instability in this position because you all obviously know things that none of us back here know. You know a lot more than that any of us back here knows. But what we do know
068is that things have not gone well with a number of our recent superintendent hires, particularly the superintendents we've hired from outside the district. Julie Senard was hired in 2020 to replace CJ Kamik. She has resigned after a year and a half. There were clearly performance issues. There were speculations swirling for months leading up to her departure. We all know what happened with Dr. Patrick. The question is why did these outside superintendent candidates who were hired and brought into this district perform either so poorly or just not be able to acclimate to this district? Why was that when by all appearances they were very successful in their previous roles in other districts or they would not have been hired. They were vetted extensively. They had succeeded in other places. Why could not they succeed in Martinez?
069Was the problem with their districts? Did their districts not have the right standards in place? Was the problem with with them when they got here? They couldn't adjust? Was the problem with our district in our community? I don't know the answer to that. Maybe it's a little of all the above, but I think you really need to explore that because if you if at some point you do need to go again and to hire an outside candidate, what confidence can anyone in this community have that that person will succeed given what has happened with the last two? I said in my comments a few weeks ago, I believe there is a toxic culture within this school district that seeks to undermine people from the outside. I don't have any evidence, but the patterns are very
070telling. So, [snorts] you basically decided to pay Superintendent Patrick $250,000 in severance amid a budget crisis. to just leave. That's how little you thought of her performance that you paid her this amount of money to just leave and go away. So, what is going on here? Thank you. Any more questions or comments? No. Okay. Uh, next up we have review of administrative regulations Janelle Ayat. >> Thank you, President Buger. Tonight I'm bringing forward uh for review two um separate administrative regulations. The first one 5117 relates to interd district transfers and this is a revision to current regulation um as when this pol when this regulation was updated in 2025 language that is specific to Martinez unified was um inadvertently omitted which is that we do give priority to our district employees in the interd district
071transfer process um such that their students um would not be bumped once the employees work year starts. So this um policy revision is returning that language to the regulation. The other one is regulation 5131.6 and that is the regulation related to alcohol and other drugs. Um, this policy has been extensively revised to reflect a focus on prevention and intervention. Um, in addition to instruction on to students on the dangers of using drugs and alcohol and specifically the requirements in law related to um, including um, instruction around the dangers associated with fenol use. So there's extension re extensive revisions to language in that administrative regulation and it will be brought back next time for uh approval. >> Thank you. Board questions. I just think that having comprehensive education on drugs is really important. I don't know
072if I actually ever received any. I know I I got the usual sex ed, but I don't think I got anything about fentinil. Um, so I think that it's good that we're making sure that we educate every kid about drugs because any kid can do drugs. >> I just want to say thank you for bringing back both of these items. Um, I think they're we definitely needed to look at them again and uh make adjustments where needed. So, thank you. I was just going to say that um a few years ago there was a fentanyl seminar at the high school and parents as well as um students could attend and I think we did it actually twice. I know we did it at least once but I think we did it twice. Is that something
073that we can do again? Yes. Um it is something that we did the last two years at both the junior high and the high school. We offered it to um families and students as well um through partnership with the district attorney's office. Um director Espinosa has been in communication with principal Bey around um offering something like that next year again. Um there's also some additional um intervention and instructional supports that she's exploring to bring into the health um course which is um taught through our biology course um next year. >> Great. Thank you. And yeah, it was really nice the fentanyl um class because they also gave you the um I forgot what it was called, Narcan. Um they trained you how to do it and you actually got some when you left. So it
074was very educational and it was really um the pe the speakers they had uh were very well educated and very um it was it was interesting and the kids liked it as well as the parents and it was very informative. So um thank you. I'm glad you're doing that. Um any >> I I I yeah I agree too and I think I mean I think that's something that needs to be during the school day and not voluntary. Um and I'm really surprised to hear we don't have anything like that already. So I hope that we can get that into place pretty soon. It's a really big problem in our society right now. Um you know I'm 46 years old and pretty much every adult that I Well, I won't say pretty much. I know a
075lot of adults that are my age or younger that either vape marijuana or tobacco or nicotine or like it's just very prevalent and that is not it's not um it's not escaping our kids either. Like it's everywhere. Our city put a dispensary across the street from our high school. Um, and so the fact that society is not also educating at the same level, we're we're providing the things to kids, but we're not educating them about why it's bad. So, um, I'm really glad that we're making this change to our to our regulation. I wish we had done it a couple of years ago, but better late than never. And hopefully we can step up the education piece very soon, too. >> Yeah, I think that would be nice to have something in the classes. Do
076they because the presenters were from law enforcement but they were they were actually with drugs and they showed how a little bit impacts people and it was just really I think it was two hours the presentation the whole thing so I don't know if there's something we can do to add that to the classes >> we can explore that >> that would be great. >> So I think we had the meds coalition was one of them but you've been at the district long enough. Do you recall H&I ever coming in hospitals and institutions? >> No. Um, we've partnered through the Contracasta County Office of Education, the TUPE office, which is the tobacco use prevention education grant, and we've received that grant for a number of years, and we have used student leaders at our high
077school through the public health course um where they've um done a lot of um studentled work on our campus around um alcohol and drug prevention and education. Um and we can certainly explore additional um the fentanyl use education in in particular um offering those types of activities um during the school day. >> Great. Thank you. >> I just wanted to add I do know a lot of people like several people um personally that have done gone through the fentanyl like all the info. Um, just like wanted to add that like me specifically, I haven't, but I've definitely heard during instructional time, during classes, I think it's maybe because of like the science classes I took were different than a usual like sophomore. Um, but I I just think it's really important we do it in
078every for every kid. >> Absolutely. I agree. >> And I just want to add, you know, there's a lot of value in like what the meds coalition and the fenol uh uh thing through uh the office of education offers. Uh but I feel like part of prevention is harm reduction, but there's not enough of a focus on where where would you go for help afterwards, right? Or if you were already in that situation. So organizations like H&I through multiple 12step programs. I know they go into other schools. Um so it just be a something to look at and see if that's something that would fit in with our students. Okay. >> You may. Yes. >> I wasn't planning to, but this topic interest me. Uh, so I'm actually a member of the Contraosta County uh,
079youth cannabis prevention task force and we were actually had a meeting a couple weeks ago where we went over some of the trends among youth cannabis use. And uh just so you know that the task force um is really interested in building more relationships with school districts and community leaders. So I can be a leazison on there in that regard. But as far as what um Trustee Basil O'Brien said um about adult use of you know vaping, marijuana tap, that was a theme that came up was how many the people that are working with kids on these issues are hearing that how common it is to see their [clears throat] parents using with them in the in the home. And it show goes to the point of the normalization of of different substances. Uh especially
080with marijuana has become very normalized since it became legal and normalizing it um for a lot of people um implies harmless you know and it's not harmless. More and more studies are coming out all the time showing that there are can be serious and significant uh dangers to brain development particularly with children with youth, teenagers, psychosis, uh depression and the normalization as we saw in our own community with the embark and actually to show you how history repeats itself. The same people, the the MBAR company that put our the dispensary next to our high school just a few months ago got permission to put a new dispensary in San Pablo next to Contraosta College where there is a high school campus on that college and it was rejected by the planning commission in San Pablo
081and embarked at the same thing in San Pablo they did here in Martinez. They flexed their political muscle. They got the powers that be to show up and the city council overrode the city council recommendation and is allowing them now to put another dispensary near children. And if some of us remember in 2000 at that city council meeting how angry and upset and frustrated parents were, I was told at that cannabis task force meeting that 95% of the public comments in the San Pablo City Council meeting were against that location and they still went ahead and approved it. Doesn't that show you how messy politics gets in our society? Isn't that sad? And I remember here in Martinez, the entire school board was against it. CJ Kamik, our superintendent, said, "I beg you." That's what
082he said to the city council members. "I beg you, don't do this." And they did it. And how many kids walk past that dispensary going to and from Alhambor High School every day and are led to believe that that's normal and that's safe? So, we have to get into the classroom and tell them the truth about these things. We have to take the initiative because there's studies that have come out that have shown that dispensaries near kids leads to more use by kids. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Are we done with this topic for now? Okay. Um next we have review of new job description physical therapist Janelle Ayat. >> Tonight I'm bringing forward a new job description for physical therapist position. Um the district and CSEA have negotiated and agreed through theou
083process that a new physical job physical therapist job description be created and this position will support our ability to provide services to students with um with district staff rather than relying on contracted service providers. So we believe that this will ultimately result in a cost savings to the district and um improve services to our students. >> Thank you. I love that we're trying to get more stuff in house. So, thank you for putting that together. Um, do you have any questions? Public comment. And so, we'll see that back next time. Uh, next we have an action item adoption of CSBA updates BP419.24, BP4219.24, BP4319.24, 24 and bylaw 9322 and bylaw 9323. Janelle Ayat. >> Thank you. Um if you recall, we've had multiple discussions about these um policies and board bylaws previously, but they're being
084brought forward um tonight for action. Again, just as a reminder, the board policy 4,000 series, um there was some conversation previously with the board and some community members regarding these. These are new required policies. um based on California state legislation related to student safety. Um we're seeing a lot of new legislation come um from the state level um in support of student safety, including the volunteer process information that we just went over regarding um or a couple weeks ago regarding fingerprinting. This is similar um and also comes from that same legislation in that um we want to ensure that individuals, the adults who are working with our students are behaving in a manner that's acceptable and appropriate. And so the 4,000 um policies, the 4,100 applies to uh certificated employees, the 4,200 applies to uh
085uh classified and the 4,300 is administrators. And the um question had been or discussion had been related to um situations where parents are also employees and how does that impact um that individual's interactions with students. And so I just want to clarify that our policies inform and limit um the behavior of our employees um in this case not not our parents and employees who are contacting their own children during the workday um regarding matters of their own family um should not be using district devices. They should be using personal devices to have that communication with their children and again should be doing that during um non-duty time. So these but these policies themselves would relate to employees who are contacting students um related to district related matters um and we want to ensure that there
086are appropriate policies guiding and directing um those behaviors. So, that's that update. And then the board bylaws, the um 40 uh excuse me, the 9322 is related to procedures for um adding um uh items to the agenda and the 9323 is uh board conduct and um meeting conduct. and we've clarified that the meetings would be operated according to Robert's rules and how um the public is able to make comments on items. >> Thank you very much. That was very um informative and easy to understand. Any questions? >> No, I just appreciate all the time it took to kind of untangle all of that and I'm very happy with the way they read right now. So, thank you. >> Any public comment regarding this? No. Okay. Okay. Do we have a motion? >> I make a
087motion adoption of the CSBA updates BP4119.24, BP 4219.24, BP 4319.24, bylaw 9322, and bylaw 9323. >> I'll second it. >> Student rep >> I. >> All those in favor? >> I so moved. Next up, we have approval of school calendars for the school years 2728, 2829, and 2930. Janelle Ayat, >> thank you. This item is being brought forward for action tonight. Um, I do want to point out that in the packet you have on the dis. There is a correction to the 2029-30 calendar, we discovered um a typo in some of the text in regards to the dates. There is no change in the actual dates of when the school was to be recessed. However, it was a typo um in December um regarding when the minimum day um would be um taken which is
088on December 21st and then on January um the work day being January um 8th. So, uh the text has been corrected. Um there are corrected copies in the back as well for the public who is here and it's been corrected um on the attachment um on our board board agenda online as well. So I wanted to point that out that uh correction to the board before you take action tonight. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Any questions? Yeah, you'll have to forgive me because I wasn't here for when this was discussion, but I was looking at the calendar and then in June of every year after school gets out, it still has like all the boxes as white and not like the gray for when there's no school. And I know that in July when you
089look at the beginning, they're all gray cuz summer break. So, I was just wondering if that's like intentional, if there's something about like the district being open later, um or if it's supposed to be gray instead of white. no school. >> Um, I would say it's an uh unintentionally left gray. Matthew, [laughter] >> great catch. >> And it's on all three years from what I can tell. So, >> I was like, "Wow, we're really adding an extra three weeks of [clears throat] three weeks." >> You can see in the text it does show when the last day is on every calendar. So, um, the last day is accurate and in the final copy of what we post online, we certainly can gray out the remaining dates and >> Okay, wonderful. So, all the all the
090like numbers are fine. >> All the numbers are correct. >> Isn't really an issue then. >> It's not an issue. >> Thank you. >> But still good catch. Um, any other questions? Do we have public comment? Okay. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the school calendars for school years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-2030. And I'll second that. Student rep >> I. >> All those in favor? I. So moved. >> Next up, we have review and adoption of resolution 2026 27 reaffirming the Tivon Scholarship Trust Fund and confirming the respective roles of the county and district Andy Cannon. I could have made it longer, but in respect to you, I made it as short as I could. >> Thank you. >> Um, this scholarship is something that we've had in this district
091when it was still the Alhamra Union High School District. Um, so it's been around since when we were working with the uh county um treasurer. Um, we found that we don't have on file with them the resolution from when this um scholarship came into existence. So part of the housekeeping that we do from time to time when we don't have these documents when we're notified is to go through a process of reaffirming. And we're reaffirming this because um Joe did a great job of scouring the archives. We could not come across the original. Um so the process that you're doing tonight if approved is to reaffirm this resolution which establishes um the rationale and the scholarship amounts for the Tavon scholarship. and then we can post that with the county treasurer and we'll just keep
092on giving out scholarships to kids at the school there. So hopefully tonight the board will um take action to approve this resolution. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions? Any public comment? Do I have a motion? >> Last one. Um, I'll move to uh adopt resolution 2026-27 reaffirming the Tavon Scholarship Trust Fund and confirming the respective roles of the county and district. >> I'll second. >> Student rep. >> All those in favor? >> I. So moved. >> Next we have board reports and we will start with um Courtney. Um I don't do we have a meeting the week of graduation or is it after? Is our next meeting? >> We have it the Monday after. So the 8th June 8th June >> then that's why I'm going to say um congratulations to all the graduates all
093those promoting all the parents um and all of the teachers I hope and all of the staff. I hope everybody has a great summer. Um and I'm looking forward to the end of the year festivities. It's always very busy. Uh, Matthew, it's been a pleasure to work with you. Um, I'm sorry we've turned you off from running for elected office. Uh, maybe you'll change your mind one day. I hope that you do continue on in public service, whether it's through an elected role, a volunteer role, and or something in the law. Um, because you are great at it. and the words you gave us earlier just uh illustrated my point. So, um I know you're going to be successful in whatever you decide to do and I hope you uh keep us surprised along the
094way. >> Thank you. Same here, Matthew. You've been great and um congratulations and I know you're going to do great at UCLA. So wonderful. Um over the past uh two weeks, my fellow board members and I have had the opportunity to attend events across our district from fundraising events where yes, I did get another amazing slice of cake. Thank you for your ad addition so that we could get that and um also uh music, theatrical performances. We went to a law class at Alhhamra. Thank you. And the carnival at Lasutes. Um, but what stood out was just the dedication to our students and also the engagement. And as I was at the um at the music performance last week, I think it was last week at the junior high, um it was really great to
095see how it started with almost like a boy band. They had electric guitars and they were playing and there was the drums in the back and that was the whole first third of it. and to see that their teacher had been flexible and allowed them to be creative. I think there were I I'm guessing close to a hundred kids there at that um that particular performance. Um and uh the other the other things that I've been to, it's all been about our kids and about engaging our community and engaging our kids. And I just want to say how important it is that we continue that. I know that we engage our kids through music, through the arts, through performances, but also athletics. And we cannot forget that when kids are engaged, they come to school,
096they do well in school, it does a lot for them in terms of their, you know, feeling of belongingness and having friendships. It's all really, really important. Um, so I I Oh, and I want to give a shout out uh to Mr. Gangler, who was at most of these uh events working the lights and the sound effects and everything. So, couldn't do it without you. Um, and uh I think I think I'm just checking real quick and seeing if there's anything else. I did attend the DAC meeting as well. Um, and the parents shared thoughtful PE feedback about the kinds of supports and resources they value and uh would like to see continue next year. and it's a great reminder of how engaged and invested our families are in their children's education. So, um it's
097just been great. And next week is filled, this week is filled, and then of course we have graduation. So, there's no uh rest for the weary. Um it's just going to be run run for the next three weeks. Thank you. >> Well, I don't know if this is true or not, but I don't think anyone can fact check me. We had tonight the incoming, the current, and earlier the previous uh student representative. So, uh hopefully we'll get an update from you next year and maybe one from Lizzie as well. Uh love to see how you guys are progressing and you know, all the amazing things that you've done. Uh and again, I want to thank all the parents, the teachers, I mean really everyone that put these events together. Uh, as Trusty Leel had mentioned,
098um, a bunch of attended the carnival at Los Hunas and to see John Mir and other PTAs come together to help raise money. It's much needed. Um, and if you didn't get to make it, don't worry. You can donate money 365 days out of the year. So, I'm sure they'll take donations. Um, but it's really just uh it's a great feeling to see uh to see all those people come together and really dedicate tons of time. And I know next year there's a couple that won't be serving in the role. At least that's what they've said. So I encourage anybody that wants to get involved um to start asking questions and how you can participate in that, make it better. Thank you. Yeah, my highlight was also at Miss Fennel's um law class which I
099got to go visit last year, last week and see um student presentations. I don't know if anyone else on this deis feels the same, but it's been a it's been a six weeks. It's been a lot. And um it was really wonderful to get into a classroom and see the reason that we do this. And the students were so they were presenting they made proposals for new laws and they were so well spoken and the thing that I was Brenda and I were talking about this after the thing that was to me the most impressive was how the classmates were asking questions and addressing each other and getting clarifying information and it is what public discourse should be and often is not and so I think it's just a it's wonderful to see the real
100work is happening in our classrooms. And so to Matthew your earlier point about keeping the focus on this is this is why we do this. Um and so it's really wonderful to see that happening. And I think it's really easy in this moment to feel hopeless opening up literally any news app. Um but I don't feel hopeless when I see our our kids because I think they are going to solve the problems that we have not figured out how to. So, um, so I I'm going to stop there because I have graduation season and I cry at all of them. So, I'm going to, um, save all my emotions for the next couple of weeks. But, um, congrats to all the graduates and thank you to all the dedicated staff and parents and students for
101another successful year. >> Great. Um, I also went to, um, I think Janelle had mentioned it, the Lasus carnival, and that was very, um, it was a lot of fun. It was it was nice to see a number of people out there and the PTAs and I also attended Jen Fennel's uh law class um the same time Logan did. Um I think we did it on the 7th and you guys did it on the on the 14th, but um it was great to see and um stuff like that I love. So please feel free to invite us if you um have stuff like that. We we love to see it and I know the next couple weeks are going to be crazy busy. um graduations also, but um got the wonderful music performance on Wednesday.
102Obviously, Mr. Alhamra tomorrow. Um it seems like there's something every um every day for the next two and a half weeks. Scholarship night. Yeah. Be there as well. Yeah, that's next week. >> Yeah. And then we've got sporting things also recognition. So, yeah, a lot of stuff going on. And I did want to um just kind of give a shout out to um MRC which is Martinez refining company. Um they provided their clubhouse, you know, free of charge for Alhamra High PTSA um John Mir Elementary, AHS Lacrosse, Mel Park, and they also provided the food at the John Mir Elementary PTA fundraiser. And so the purchase price really was all to the PTA. And I know we um always acknowledge people that donate directly to the school. And so um that's not directly to the
103school but the PTAs give back to the schools. So I just wanted to um acknowledge them and thank them for their contribution. Um they are you know good business partners um in the community. So I just want to thank them for that. And also I wanted to um say again congratulations to all the graduates. We're looking forward to seeing you. And um yeah I can't believe two and a half more weeks and summer's here and it's just crazy crazy. But um we're looking forward to everything and so enjoy the last couple of weeks of school and then let's see we don't need to have we don't have additional comments from the public and we don't have to go back to the close session. So, we are adjourning at 8:09 p.m. Good night.