Regular Meeting - Martinez Unified School Board - 9/8/2025

001the uh regular meeting of the board of education to order. Today is September 8th, 2025. And do we have any public comment for close session? Okay, then we will adjourn to close session. Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the uh regular meeting of the board of education for Martinez Unified School District to order for September 8th, 2025 at 5:15. Do we have any public comment >> for close session? Nope. Okay, then we will adjourn to close session. Okay, we're reconvening to the regular board meeting. Um, report out for close session in regards to the conference with legal counsel council existing litigation for case number 9462654707. On the motion of member Courtourtney Marcales O'Brien, seconded by member Logan Campbell, the board in closed session voted three to zero to approve deny a confidential settlement

002agreement in the matter of Martinez Unified School District versus a student to resolve a special education dispute and demand for certain educationally related costs, including attorney's fees, where the district received waiverss and releases of claims in exchange. We had three eyes. uh one abstension and one member is absent. The board of education met in close session earlier to discuss confidential matters um as per permitted under the Brown Act for um the liability claim. And regarding the claim number 659684, the board voted to reject the claim. The vote was the motion was made by Loganel Campbell. This I seconded by Tanya Buger and the board member votes um Buger I. Horak Martin was absent. Campbell I. Trustee Lal I and Trustee Marcel O'Brien also I and there were no other reportable actions taken during close session.

003Matthew, would you like to join us or start us in the pledge of allegiance? Do we have any changes to the agenda? >> Do I have a motion? >> I move that we pro approve the agenda. >> Second. >> Student vote. >> I. >> All those in favor? >> I so moved. Next we have highlights and recognition. Dr. Patrick. Light's not on. I thought it was on. Okay. So, we want to recognize our Alhamra High School marching band who is here to present uh to the board this evening. Welcome. All right. Hello everyone. Um, we are here representing the Alhamra High School marching band. >> Hi, I'm Landon Poston. I am one of the drum majors at Alhambor High School. I have been in our band for four years and I am My name is

004>> Hi. My name is Shri. I am one of the guard captains. >> I've been on guard for four years now. Um, captain for two and I participated on Conquered High's winter guard team for two years. >> Hello, my name is Brenny Bern. I am the other color guard captain at Alhhamra. I have been on guard for all four of my high school years and I have been captain for three of them. >> Okay. So, we're here to talk to you today about some homecoming traditions and we're going to start off with our night rally. So, a couple years ago, we decided to switch to doing our homecoming rally instead of the Friday of homecoming to the Thursday before. Um, so it's in the evening. We did this for a number of reasons, but um

005the main reason is so we can have our community participate in our rally. Uh we do this so our alumni can come, which if we did it during the closed school day, then our alumni wouldn't be able to attend our um our rally with us and share the fun. We also at this rally we um announce the homecoming royalty and we do like a whole homecoming court ceremony which is announcing everyone like their why they're at homecoming court like and it's just it's a lot of fun. Um we also do this so staff members from other schools who would would have been in a session of their own schools can attend. Um so they can also be a part of our rally and activities for homecoming and also so the families of not only the

006homecoming port but any other students who are participating in the rally such as our marching band students so their parents can come and watch them perform and have a lot of fun. So we do this um at night so our community so our community can participate with us and everyone can share the love. Um our second homecoming tradition is our parade. It's really well loved throughout our community. It kind of welcomes our alumni into the school for our homecoming game. Um every every small business school, middle school, elementary school, we all get to participate in this. We have clubs that walk. We have um the marching band walks as well as our middle school marching band and our elementary schools get to make floats, too. So, it's a really big source of community. Um and

007it's a really big tradition. I don't remember a time where we didn't have our homecoming parade throughout Main Street. Uh it's just super fun memories. We leave school typically around 2:30. >> 255 >> 2:55 and the parade starts officially at 3. So, one of the other things is the football game. It's our like the homecoming football game has been going on for years. We really help the community like the community comes in and participates in the game, watches the game. We obviously have um competitive nature with the other schools through our homecoming game. We actually also play at other schools homecoming games, but we this is also a chance to recognize the homecoming court in front of everybody else that wasn't able to come to the rally. We also have the float showcase where all

008four floats from each class come and participate together to try and see who made the best float. Yeah, besides the float showcases and the community coming, we have the school pride and our competitive spirit. Our school pride, we show how much we love our team by wearing our colors. Especially for this homecoming, our theme is movies that made us for the whole week. But specifically for the football game, it's a blackout Top Gun, like Top Gun Maverick. So, anyone who comes in the outfits of Top Gun will be recognized. >> What are the other classes? >> Jurassic Park. >> So, the freshman is Jurassic Park. >> The sophomores are Avatar, the juniors are Rio, and the seniors are Jaws. And our competitive spirit is also meant to be there, not just to be supporting our

009football players, but also supporting Alhhamra High School itself. Because any or anyone here in Martinez, families can come and watch our team play the hardest if we can win. >> Um, so that's all we have for you today. And at the end of homecoming, we actually have our dance for all of our high school students at Alhhamra and anyone 21 years or younger with a guest pass. Yes, I was getting there. But yeah, that's like a fun little wrap up for a nice little um for a community event. It's at the end of the day, it's for community and I don't remember a time without homecoming. And I think everyone else can agree with that statement. It's just it's really fun and it brings our community together and it allows the alumni to come back

010and celebrate their high school. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much. Um, I had a couple questions. Don't don't sit down yet. Don't sit down. You're not getting off that easy. Um, so I love your spirit. I love that you guys changed the rally to Thursday. I think that's awesome. Um, so couple questions. Do you guys have food trucks at your um rally on on Thursday? You get fundraiser? I'm >> No, you don't do it on there. Okay. >> Okay. Awesome. >> Last year, as we were waiting for the parade step up, we did have a hot dog cart. So, that was >> Okay. Awesome. >> That was fun. I think we also have Mr. Salt. He's coming to our home. >> Oh, yes. Our our dance, we have food, too. So, that is

011fun. >> Right. Well, I was just thinking for community members, if you had food there for sale, people might buy it. But that's awesome. And um great job marching band. So, you guys are going to be um very busy that weekend, it sounds like. >> Oh, yeah. >> That's awesome. I was hoping you guys were going to be in here playing doing something. Um so, next time bring your >> So, Friday night at the football game this Friday, I don't >> That's an away game, right? >> Oh, that is here. Okay. >> So, we have two games in a row. So, Friday, September 12th against Danza. We will actually bring the party a half an hour before kickoff um where we perform the color guard in the band plays and performs. Um and then we

012go up into the stands for the rest of the game. And then again the week laterally, we'll be at the rally in the parade and then sorry. Okay. So, I know the crowd can hear us. Um, so yes, th Friday, September 12th, we have a home game against Danza. So the band will be there half an hour beforehand before the varsity game to bring the party to the crowd. And then um we'll be in there in the stands the rest of the game. And then the and actually eighth graders are coming to play with us as well from the Martinez Junior High Band. So I think about a dozen eighth graders are going to come join us that night. Then the following week, Thursday night with the rally at 7 PM, we'll be there um

013performing. And then again on Friday at the parade, I think we'll be closing the parade. Yeah, it's hot. Um and then um I know the junior high marching band will also be closer to the beginning of the parade. We usually close out the parade and then again at the game and then a week later we at Conquered High School at Battle of the Bands, all sorts of fun stuff because bandtober has spilled over into September. So it's bandtember and bantober for us. So a lot of exciting things coming up. That's why I wanted to bring the kids just to talk about the awesome tradition of homecoming in Martinez and and what like homecoming through the kids' eyes and through the marching band and what we get to do in Martinez. Just it's one of the

014best. I mean that homecoming parade shuts down downtown. It's so amazing and it's like my favorite part of the year. Just absolute favorite part of the year. So really special. That's awesome. Congratulations to everyone who's participating. Any other board questions, comments? >> Just want to say thank you so much for bringing uh your enthusiasm. I can't wait. I love the marching band. I love the color guard. Um and I was an Alham grad, so I just can't wait to go to homecoming and relive it. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. And now comments from Matthew Shik. >> Los Hunus' ELAC informational meeting was greatly attended. Mil gracias to all of the parents who participated. Loses had their fun run this past Friday on September 5th and it was a wonderful success.

015This is their biggest fundraiser of the year and they couldn't do it without the support of our wonderful community. Thank you to all of the parents who attended the first PTA meeting. They are working on this year's homecoming float. Please join us for Las's first dine and donate at Red Robin on September 13th. There is an ELAC meeting coming up on September 16th at 9:00 a.m. There was also an SSC meeting on September 18th at 3 p.m. John Mir Elementary is participating in the Otis Spunkmeer fundraiser. John Mir students were able to participate in a fun-filled assembly to learn about the awesome prizes they have to offer. The first and fourth grade students are meeting as buddies to to complete activities and read books together. The TKers had fun all week completing all about me

016activities and exploring color mixing. The John Mir Elementary ELAC meeting is on Monday, September 15th, and the John Mir Elementary SSC meeting is on Thursday, September 18th. The family math night is on Wednesday, September 24th. John Sweat celebrated their first student of the month for their responsible and courageous kids. Upper grade students went through training with New Leaf to become members of the green team in the JSE cafeteria. The John Sweat PTA has a meeting on September 9th at 7 p.m. and the John Sweat Road Runner Dash is on September 12th at 8:30 a.m. At Melo Park on Tuesday, students will be engaging in an assembly run by Diablo Street Smarts to teach them traffic safety, including bicycle and pedestrian safety. On Wednesday, Mel Park has their family bike to school night in which students

017can bike to school to practice their route, engage in a bicycle obstacle course on the black top, and have their bike helmets checked. On Friday, upper grade students will engage in training to become to become members of the green team at Mel Park learning about recycling and sustainability. The ice cream social in tie-dye is on Thursday, September 18th at 4:30 p.m. The family bike to school night is on Wednesday, September 10th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Coffee with the principal will be on Friday, September 26th. The MJHs girls volleyball team started off the season with great spirit and two great games. MJHS students and staff are looking forward to their continued success on the court and on their next home game tomorrow, September 9th. The MJHS Slam Club had a table out at lunch on

018Friday to share information and invite new members into the club. As students engaged with the club, they were invited to provide ideas and examples to the prompt of how to interrupt racist language and actions. They now have two large posters with many good examples for their student body. Congratulations to the 30 Bullpups who earned August Bullpup of the Month. Each was nominated by a staff member for their stellar example of what it means to rise each day at M at MJHS. Next week is MJHS's spirit week. On Tuesday, September 16th, there is a Title One meeting at 5:30 p.m. and a PTSA meeting at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, September 17th, there is a makeup picture day. On Thursday, September 18th, there is a school site council meeting at 3:15 p.m. And on Friday, September 19th,

019there is an ELAC meeting at 8:45 a.m. On Friday, August 29th, the Alhamra JV and varsity football teams each opened up their seasons with wins versus Hercules High School. The games were well attended, and there was a very positive atmosphere. Alhamra's initial ELAC meeting was held on August 28th. The meeting was well attended and the conversation centered around expanding participation and advising the site council. Over the coming weeks, Alhamra is initiating a recruitment drive to increase representation from their freshman and sophomore parents. On Tuesday, September 2nd, Oregon State visited AHS and set up a table at lunch to provide their students info on admissions and fields of study. OSU is part of the WU program which offers reduced outofstate tuition fees for California students. There is a Common App workshop on September 11th and the

020Alhhamra homecoming night rally is on September 18th at 7 p.m. in the gym. The homecoming parade is on September 19th at 3 p.m. and the homecoming game is at night at 7 p.m. The homecoming dance is on September 20th at 7 p.m. at Vicenteian Bion's Lindsay Wild Museum is working with their school counselor Miss Jessica and science teacher Mr. Harrison to present to to present students with information about their program and career lean learning opportunities. DBC is coordinating with the counseling office to set up fall dates to assist both Vicente and Brion students with applications and exploring programs. The psychology club podcast is beginning this week with mental health providers as guests and will share the podcast with all sites. Brionis has had a great start to the school year with all students continuing to

021be on target or ahead in their courses. Many Brion students are staying on campus to enjoy lunch and lunchtime activities. At Martinez Adult Education, fall quarter is off to a great start. Classes started on Tuesday, August 26th after after a successful and fun welcome back to our staff on Monday, August 25th. The PD started with their theme of the day, boots on the ground. And yes, they all learned a they all learned line dances as part of the welcome back. And yes, they all had fun. The day continued with group work on goals for the year which included increasing their IET integrated education and training offerings which supports their multilingual learner learners with career training especially in healthcare careers and increasing persistence amongst all students. Staff worked in teams across all departments to brainstorm strategies

022to support this work. The pharmacy technician training program starts this evening. This 16week pro training program followed by a 130 hour externship will result in students becoming licensed pharmacy technicians. Diablo Valley College will present the benefits of college to Martinez adult education students on Wednesday, September 10th at 10 a.m. in the multi-use room. On Friday, September 19th from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. there is high set testing or high school equivalency testing in room 1. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Anything else you want to add? Yeah, I'd just like to say uh I was in another election just recently for homecoming court and I was delighted to be on the court this year. So, I'm super excited for the parade, for the you know, for the game. I'm really excited, especially the parade

023being in the car, you know, I'm really very excited for that. Doing my little wave. And then also, I'm super excited for the dance obviously. So, yeah, I'm just so so excited. >> Awesome. Great. Thank you very much. >> Congratulations. Okay. Employee organization reports. Do we have any anybody here from MEA? I don't think so. No. Do we have anybody here from California School Employees Association? No. Okay. Comments from the PTA. No. Okay. Staff reports. We will start. Whoops. Oh, we do have someone. Sorry. Sorry. >> My name is Janet Seenrock. Thank you. And since I'm here from supporting the the band and the color guard, as my daughter's one of the captains, I'll seize the moment and say the PTA council's off to a great start. We have a dynamic leader um in in

024Jenny Celestri this year. And I'm so excited that she chose to run and she is our council president. We're having our first ever dine and donate to raise money for the council that's coming up. Gosh, in when is it? I think it's October. It's a little ways out, but also at Rev Robin. And here we are at the council level. We don't get a lot of funds in like the the grade schools do and the and the high school and what have you. So, we were fleeing a little bit with our funding. And so, lo and behold, we're doing fundraising at the council level. I'm so excited. So, anyways, it's going to be a wonderful, wonderful year. Thank you for all of your support and for these great kids being here. Have a good evening.

025>> Thank you very much. Yeah, you should definitely get an email out about the PTA fundraiser. >> Yes, mark our calendars. >> Yeah, Red Robin's a great place, too. So, good job. >> Next, we have staff reports. Superintendent's report first. >> Yes. Thank you, Trusty President. Um, I have just I want to highlight something that I think is extremely important for the district. So, I'm going to read a statement. Um, so I'd like to start by saying that as the new superintendent of MUSD, I am excited to embrace this longstanding event. It's inspiring to see strong support from our community that gives to our schools through the MRC and MEF run for education. The commitment of families, students, and local partners makes a real impact in our classrooms. This year, the MEF run is scheduled

026to take place on Sunday morning, September 28th, 2025 at 7 a.m. It will be at I said I meant to add that to my note. It will be at is it in the downtown Martinez Plaza area? Okay. Thank you to our faithful trustees who know all that special information. Um, it's going to be a really special event because our Alhhamra marching band and drill team will perform and participants will receive medals for their participation. Um, I'm speaking to this now because at present we have a low number of adult volunteers. So, we are really asking for adults to please sign up um as soon as possible. and you were all giving uh given an individual card which provides all the specific information. So, we know that we're going to have a really big turnout. We

027know that this is a very special event for our community and I I know that MEF they they really highlight the support of the school district but I just want to say that they typically give well over $100,000 $200,000 um annually to the school district and and you know that's a lot of money and we really appreciate all the support they provide. So, I'm really hoping that our community will come out and participate in this wonderful event. So, thank you. >> Great. Thank you. Board reports. Anyone have anything they want to >> uh just that I attended the back to school night at Los Elementary and it's always a pleasure to attend that school. It's a beautiful school, great teachers, great staff. um uh the principal um did her presentation in English and in Spanish

028which I thought was really nice that she um did both and um I always look forward to it. So uh hopefully I can attend again next year. Great. I was at several back- to-school nights as well and I really appreciated um all of the organization that went into uh preparing the presentations and also how well attended they were um by our community, our parents um and I really don't take lightly um the co the trust that is put into um our school district to take care of our students. So it was a wonderful event. It it uh it was I guess that's all I have to say. I'm sorry. >> I'll just echo what the first two trustes said. Um the only school I unfortunately didn't get to make it to was Mel Park. Um

029but yeah, a lot of uh great uh good information. Got to sit in on a few different teachers and uh got to speak with them afterwards. So it was great to see all you all there and see all the support that they had. Great. Yeah, I also attended um a number of back- tochool events and u was very well organized, very well attended and it's always uh fun to see everybody excited and the teacher presentations on you know what's going on and um especially the high school too was was always really interesting with what they teach. Um, also, um, and I know that I'm not the only one, but we had a number of, um, trustees that attended the teacher of the year awards banquet, and that was really nice. And we had recognition for

030our teacher of the year. Um, uh, and thank you. You say that name because I don't want to butcher the name. Um, as I always butcher names, but yeah, it was really nice and it was well attended, so that was that was really nice. And Dr. Patrick was also there. Um, so yeah, it was it was a great event and so it was a really busy um busy since the last board meeting. Did you have anything you wanted to add? I I thought the trustees would mention that they we participated in a really wonderful governance training session and um so maybe someone might want to highlight something because it really was for the board but I I got to be a participant and a very privileged one. I it was a really great um experience.

031So >> that's right. There were so many things going on that I forgot about that. How could I? It was a Friday night, five hours, and a Saturday, four hours. So, um it was great. It was I think um we had one back in February, but this one seemed um the facilitator um did a great job and we really got a lot of um things worked out. And in fact, you're going to hear um we're going to try to change up a couple things just to be more um efficient uh run our meetings more efficiently. So, we definitely got a lot out of it. Did anyone else have comments they wanted to make? >> Um, no. I just will echo what you said and I think, you know, it was it was Labor Day weekend.

032We were here Friday night and Saturday morning, which um I think everybody will forgive me for saying it's not an ideal time to do a governance training. However, it went fast. It was interesting. It kept us engaged. So, I have no complaints. I thought it was very uh very productive. >> It really was. So, I forgot all about how could I forget? I really didn't forget, but it was so much going on. So, yes. Next, we have the board self evaluation report. So, um, we've been doing this now for a couple of years. And actually, um, we only had four B board members, uh, rate on this one because it was happened in, I think, May, so it was before the special election. And, um, I think the board as a whole, um, we've improved

033in almost every area. We just have, um, green and blue, which was really nice. You can go to the second page. Let's see. Oh, is it working for my computer? No, you're scrolling. Okay. Um, so some of the things that um I think the roles and responsibilities we um we had uh board members, you know, agree on the role and responsibilities of the board and superintendent. I think that is really important because um sometimes, you know, we only have one employee and that's the superintendent and we try not to get in her lane and she tries not to get in our lane. Um, so I think that was um I think that's an important one that we're all kind of on the same page with and it was an almost always and an often. And

034um let's see, scroll down some more. We just overall I think we did well. And I think um it's too bad we didn't have one with all five, but I think the governance training we did kind of went over all these areas. So um I am very hopeful that the next one will be even better. And I think we really um got an idea of how well we work together and our different personality types. Uh so it was really um so yeah so I think we'll we'll get even better. But um you know we orient new new board members and if anyone has any questions you can public comment or anything about the report or does any board member have any questions public comments on that? No. Okay. So yeah it was just um we

035we did well and we're working better as a board than in prior years. Next, we have enrollment update from Janelle Ayat. Good evening, um board. It's my pleasure tonight to bring to you um as I do at this time every year a brief summary and update on our current enrollment. Um so just to give you a little bit of background information um when we're talking about enrollment um we have um a few different types of students who enroll in our schools. We of course have our resident students who reside within our district attendance boundaries. Um we also um go through a process called intrad district transfers and these are students who are resident students who wish to attend um an elementary school other than their school of residence and so their families may submit an

036application for a transfer to another school. And then of course we also have an interd district transfer process and these are non-resident students who are released from their home district um and who are approved to attend school in Martinez Unified. Um and so our numbers that I will be sharing tonight will reflect um enrollment for all of our students. Um our enrollment process begins very early. So, we began enrolling um students for this school year in December of last year um is when we open enrollment um for our resident students. And then um following that process, we have our intra district transfer window open and that opens in January. Um and we place students um for the intra district transfer process through a lottery. Um and that is based on um space. We do give

037priority to um our employees um of the schools that they're requesting their child to attend as well as priority for um children who have um siblings at the school that they're requesting. And then um following that we do a interd district transfer process and that begins in February and we are continuing to process those as that window is open until October 15th. Um although our secondary students can apply for second semester as well. Um and we have a process for renewals. Um so those are returning students and um new students each year. So as we begin um discussing our enrollment, I want to give you a brief reminder about um transitional kindergarten. Um if you've been with us a while, you know that we have been on a journey. um along with the California Department

038of Education to expand eligibility for our transitional kindergarten students. So, this was a five-year process and this year is the first year of full implementation of transitional kindergarten. And what that means is that students who are four years old um on or before September 1st are eligible for TK and students who are five hon or before September 1st are eligible for kindergarten. And we do follow um those age eligibility um standards set by CDE. So that being said, um here is just some history um of our TK kinder enrollment and we are in year five of the five-year implementation of K TK and you can see how significantly our enrollment has increased in the five years of implementation. Um whereas this year um in year five we have 215 TK students enrolled um and 230

039um kindergarten students enrolled. And we'll we expect to see those numbers stabilize going forward now that the age eligibility will no longer be changing. Um and um so hopefully that will help us with our projections going forward. This is an overall summary of our elementary general education um enrollment by grade. Um the I have a note at the bottom that the total number does not include our students who are enrolled in full day special day classes. That would be an additional 68 students just for your reference. But you can see we are um our enrollment is fairly tight at some grade levels and in other grade levels we do have quite a bit of space um particularly at the kindergarten level. Um and so we will be um looking at these numbers and projections into

040next year as we make to make adjustments. Um as you saw on the previous slide um with the enrollment space, we do um as students do enroll when they enroll into a school and grade level that does not have space for them. We go through what's called an overload process. And this is just some information for you to see kind of where we've been most impacted, at what grade levels um at and by what school. Um so currently we have um through this enrollment period with 63 students were overloaded. Um 28 of those have been resolved. So, when students are overloaded, we tell families that unfortunately that we do not have space at their home um school and they're placed at a school um within our district that does have space at the requested grade

041level and they remain on a list that um once does open, we contact the family and ask them if they would like to return. They also do have the right to stay where they've been overloaded. And many families do choose to stay um and they remain there through um fifth grade. So this is some data regarding our interd district transfers at the elementary level. Um this number is significantly higher than last year which is great. Um uh last year we had um 37 interd district transfers um granted out of 57 applicants. So we have a growth of 20 students. Um and this year um we had 70 total elementary um interd district transfer applicants and 57 were granted. So um a significant increase in the number of transfer requests for us at the elementary level.

042And um we grant those again as I said earlier based on space. Um we're um we try to honor the family's requested um school. We are not always able to do that, but um we do offer space um where available at the secondary level. This is an overall summary. Um as compared to enrollment at this time last year, our enrollment is up about 40 students at the junior high school. um slightly lower at the at Alhhamra by 17 students and enrollment is up um a bit at Vicente and stable at Bionis. And then just a brief look at the um interd district transfers at the secondary level. Um this year uh we had um 16 more uh transfer requests than we did last year and we were we were able to grant um 61 out

043of the 81 applicants that we had. Um as Dr. Patrick had mentioned um at a previous board meeting we are full in seventh, 8th and 9th grade which really did limit our ability to accept transfers at those grade levels. Um we do keep students um on lists. However, um for transfer requests and so if space does open, as things stabilize over time, we do contact families if they um would like us to to let them know that there's space and that they can enroll their child. And then finally, just an overall district-wide um enrollment summary. Um we are currently enrolled around uh 38 um 29 and which is a slight increase from last year at this time. Um are we the increase of course is um reflective of the growth we've seen in um our

044transitional kindergarten and our junior high school um as compared to last year. And I can answer any questions that the board might have. >> Thank you very much. very informative report. Any questions? >> Um I believe you said that once a student is overloaded then they're they're able to stay at that school for the rest of their elementary career. Is that right? So we're not moving people backward. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Do we have any public comment on this? Right. Next up, um, construction planning, Merllo Park Elementary and El Hambor High School. Andy Cannon. >> Uh, good evening everyone. I appreciate the opportunity to address the board on the construction projects. Uh, tonight we will be reviewing the current and upcoming projects at both the high school and at Mela

045Park Elementary. We'll also touch a little bit on planning milestones, timelines, and future initiatives under measure O, which is the $90 million general obligation bond that was passed um just a little while ago. Um so we'll begin with a snapshot. Um on this slide, you can see, go back one, please, um that we're working on a new auxiliary gym. And I think uh principal Bey said auxiliary gym in an email to me, and I just kind of liked it, so I've I'm kind of going with it. I don't know if it'll catch fire or not. Um, who knows what we'll label it afterwards, but for right now, I'm going to say auxiliary gym. Um, we're also going to have upgrades to the track and field. We'll renovate the tennis courts. We're going to see lots

046of HVAC improvement across the entire campus, but immediate planning is on uh building J at the elementary school. We're adding two new transitional kindergarten classrooms. As you can see from our enrollment data that um that Miss Ayet uh showed us this evening, we are in need of additional classroom space for those uh for those students and also with bathrooms. So, we'll show you what that looks like. Um and then there's also going to be some modernization of a playground that was once the city's playground when we took it over and now we're going to have three TK classrooms. Now, we need to expand that access because we could have potentially 60 students, TK kids out there running around. Should be a lot of fun. Um, but these all these projects are in various stages of

047development and in coordination and I'm going to go through that with you in the next few slides. As a bit of a background, our master plan was updated and approved by this board on June 9th. From that time period, we've been working with um staff, our architect teams and with the construction team to kind of develop more from that master plan to actually the architectural plan and the drawings of what's going to be taking place and what those buildings will look like. Uh right now we have initiated an RFQ process, a request for qualifications for the MLA Park TK and the gymnasium. What does that mean? We've actually sent it out to various different builders to see are they qualified and would they like to potentially bid on the project? So, this is just preparation

048to see who's out there and what are the possibilities. Our next step is going to be issuing an RFP. And right now, we have a tenative release of tomorrow, but it looks like that's going to be pushed back a week or two because we're still waiting on the architect to finalize um some of the plans that we're having here. Um but what an RFP does is it allows builders to make a formal bid. Once they make that formal bid and we close it, then they go through the next planning stage of the design build model. And for those you don't know the design build model, what we do is we put out a bridging document, which is kind of a summary of all of the different components that we want in the project. Um, then

049the builder actually takes that and puts it into play, creates the thing, and we work with them throughout the whole process to make sure that what they provide us matches that bridging document that gets created. So I want to show you some pictures. So we'll go to um this slide. This is the auxiliary gymnasium. In the upper leftand corner you're going to see the southern elevation which is the front. So those glass doors on the bottom would be the entry from the back parking lot. So as you enter and you could see the larger picture on the bottom right. Um as you enter from the parking lot you've got various different access points. The main one is going to be across the sidewalk upstairs in the middle and right into those glass doors again at

050the top left kind of as an elevation look. There is an elevation. The parking lot does rise from right to left. So you're going to see the building will be flat, but the parking lot goes from right to left and that'll be our entry point. No windows on the front. There will be windows on the back. We do not want windows windows on the on the west and the east because we don't want sun getting there and affecting people as they're playing sports and other activities. Um, the fun part of the floor plan is in the top right. We have designed a space that will have a main basketball court. And just for illustration purposes, you only see the lines for basketball. Um, the design is going to be for basketball and volleyball. Volleyball will

051have um, uh, grommets in the floor, so you can have courts as a main court or you'd have two side courts. We're also going to have a roll down screen. So that roll down screen will come right across the half court line and it will separate those two spaces. So two basketball courts or two volleyball courts. Wrestling and cheerleading will also be using this space. So you see a wrestling uh mat lift that's on the left corner. So that would actually come down. Wrestlers can unroll mats. We'll also have some special wrestling lighting. So we'll have big pendant lighting that'll come down in the middle. Make it nice and moody for the wrestlers. Should be a really great experience uh for them. Um, we'll have shot clocks, we'll have scoreboards, we'll have all sorts of

052really cool things. Uh, we are planning on having a projector that's going to be on one of the walls and face across so we can use it as a larger classroom space, as an event space um for the kids, too. At least that's in the planning still phases right now. We've really worked hard with feedback from our site folks about providing ample storage. So, you see a large storage room where cheerleading mats can go, wrestling mats, PE equipment, basketball equipment, volleyball equipment, lots of things. Uh the stands, we have uh scheduled just tentatively right now. It's looking like we can accommodate about 320 folks in the stands. So, a nice little group. Not enough to do large events. Um we'll still need our main gym for that, but this will be a great space where

053we can run various different tournaments. You can do class um rallies. All sorts of things can be through here. Um so, we're really looking at that. Another highlight of this is that you have bathrooms that are accessible for students from the exterior and also the interior. This is going to help out a lot with our softball, track, and fields and for anybody that's on that outer asphalt area. And speaking of that asphalt area, if you look again at the picture on the bottom right, you're going to see that currently it's designed as two basketball courts. It could be basketball. It'll also act as overflow parking when there are large events and you need more parking space. And recently we just talked with the site and they were talking about can we do pickle ball lines?

054And so we're looking at what if we do pickle ball out there too. It's it's very uh it's a little bit easier to teach and for kids to interact with than tennis courts. And so that's kind of on the planning phases. We've got some time to figure that out, but that was some feedback from the site. Um overall we think it's a it's a nice little design. Um it includes a security fencing um that will completely encompass the whole area. That means that kids as they come up from the current gymnasium in the locker room which is in the the basement of the gym. As they walk up, they'll be behind the gate, they'll be able to access the gym without exiting the property. And they'll even be able to run have their running path.

055So they kind of have a cross-country running path that goes from the gym all the way to the service road that goes up to the top of the hill for softball and then comes back around the softball field and the fire lane. And so I learned that they do a kind of a whole warm-up track there which is really nice as we go on other projects that we're looking at for the high school and and I think most people are very aware of this but I just want to make sure that we that the community and the board knows that we are contining to progress forward. Um, in fact, we just received uh a DSA exemption for our building JH HVAC, which means that now we can go to the next step of looking at

056potentially an RFQ or even to the point of an RFP for the work that'll be done there, replacing those air conditioning units, uh, tennis courts and track and field. We are just about to pass the planning stages where we have a contractor that gives us the whole design and creates our bridging documents. So, we'll be moving fairly quickly on that. And when I say fairly quickly, I mean two years. U so construction takes a long time, but we will speed it along at every chance that we can with that. Um so with this all of these projects, we're kind of tentatively looking at the August 2027 timeline, but if things can move a little bit quicker, we certainly will push that along. Um Mel Park. So, uh, for those of you who aren't familiar with,

057um, where we're putting this new TK classroom, that's going to be the bottom right picture. Uh, so this is the parking lot loop. As you go around before you make the big turn off to the right, we have the current TK, which is that purple or lavender color, and we have the concession, the light brown is it kind of color in the back. Those are the the two different play areas. Currently, they have like the rubberized mat and couple different play structures on there. So, I'll start with that kind of first because that's the thing I think that might be the most exciting and the most fun um to see in terms of transformation for the kids is we will end up on the left. It's almost looks like a like an amoeba, like a

058little biology picture of a cell. So, the one on the left, we're actually going to put a brand new play structure in there that's going to match with what we have at the other kindergarten playground area. So, these kids will have two climbing structures, slides, um all sorts of sensory different play things, the drums, the balance beams, the little lily pad jump areas. It's going to be really fun for them. And then they'll have the second, which is the existing there. So, we're going to have 60 kids just running all over each bouncing off each other um in a safe way. And we will make it with our turf area. So, it'll be nice soft little landing area. It should be a lot of fun. There's great trees there that provides ample shade. Um, we'll

059look at putting a small little picnic area for kids to be there in a shed that we can do some outdoor storage. Potentially adding in um outdoor garden spaces um the metal trough areas where they can grow things down in that area. So, it's going to be really nice space that's tucked away behind the buildings for kids to play in. For the actual building itself, I'll draw your attention to the upper right. That's going to be the floor plan. Uh, a couple things we know we needed to do and deficiencies we currently have is we wanted a dedicated staff bathroom space. Right now they're using the um concession bathrooms which were redone but they are shared bathrooms. It's either that the staff have to walk to the main building. So here that we will have

060a single um staff restroom. So this will be for the three teachers and the instructional aids the pair of professionals that are there. We also have a small group office which will essentially be storage for the TK classroom there. And then we have a conference room area. It's currently labeled as office um but it's going to be used as a conference. So we can do IEPs, other meetings with parents in a space that doesn't have to be in the classroom there. And all three of those teachers will have access to that in the classroom yourself. It's going to uh mirror a lot of what you see in our new construction. Large classroom space um for the kids. It's going to have built-in um cabinets, tall cabinets and countertops with the sink in it. And it's

061going to have a bathroom space for the kids inside. Um there will be all the technology that we have in the classrooms. The large viewboard on the wall, which is kind of the straight line on the left and the right wall of the classrooms there. Um HVAC doors will open up complete 180 degrees. the on the the rendering that shows the floor plan, the bottom doors, if you roll your eyes over to the left, that's what that aspect looks like. So on the top left, the rendering that shows the facade of the building. The left will show classroom one. Then you see the next door will be classroom two. And then the third door without any windows is the staff bathroom. Um, wanted to give you an update besides new construction in the project we're

062working on. Um, we are in and have completed the music room at the junior high school. So, I wanted to see the what it looks like when you tear things apart view which is on the left. U, you'll see insulation and all sorts of things on the floor. You'll see a wall, metal stud wall that we tore down. This is what separated the former um, uh, lab space for wood shop from the the computer lab space that was there. So, we took that whole wall out and you have this really massive room where I I didn't know it was possible, but yes, 60 kids will fill that space. There's plenty of room to do there. Look at all those instruments that are still there. And the sound is great and the teacher is loving it

063right now. We do have a couple small items that we want to do. We have a little platform that we're building that isn't in there quite yet. Um, but that'll be shortly. And we have a couple of furniture items that will help out that should be delivered I think beginning of next week. Um, but they have been in that space since the first day of school and uh and and Miss Fland's mom says that she's really enjoying it. It's a great time so far. And we'll we'll help her organize because I think anytime you get a new teacher in, they got to feel out the space, move around. So, she's still working on those details. But right now, this was the aspect of her podium where she stands to address all the kids where they

064play instruments. Future Measure O projects that we have coming up, we are working on the design of the single point of entry at the junior high school. So that's the A building as you walk in. Right now we're looking at a glass enclosed doorway that sits inside um before you reach the main hallway. It will have video capability. It'll have a window from the office that appears out and it'll have the ability to let people in and out through a camera system as well. So, it'll have a a a system where you can push a button essentially and it'll open the door for people that are coming in. So, now we will with that project and when we get that done, which right now will be next summer, then we will be able to secure

065that campus where there's only one point of entry and that's the main office. Um, just like the high school, we plan on doing modernization at the junior high. So, we're going to have all new carpet, paint, blinds, and lighting. So, it'll look really great when we're done. Um, at the high school, uh, building F replacement, that's down the road. That's taking down old building F and building a new one with 17 classrooms. We have that in the master plan. Um, and then the adult education will be one of the last projects we do. And so, there's lots of things still coming, but I wanted to let the board know in the community that we are actively working on all of them. They will take time. Um, we will be going through this probably a total

066of five years before we finish the last project which is adult education. And with that, I am happy to answer any questions the board may have about what we're doing with the construction. >> Are you currently working you are working on the construction at the auxiliary gym as well at the high school? And >> yes, so that is the current RFQ that just sunshined um and finished and then we will have that RFP out. So, um, on the board agenda, you're going to see the larger schematics that are there, and those are going to be used for the next step, which is the contractor. Once we get the RFQ, the bidder gets selected, then we'll go through that. And then I'm also remiss I do have uh John Navaro with the Cummings Group, so he's

067here also, and he can answer the really fine detailed questions if I'm not able to to respond accurately. >> Thank you. Um, no. I was curious, how many um RFQS did you get back so far since the deadline was September? >> So, it closed. We had two responsive um uh biders for the RFQ process and so we're still working through um looking at those and judging them. >> Have we used them in the past? >> Were they new? >> One of them is >> Yeah. Uh the two that we received so far uh one uh did the Losantis and John Swed campus and the other one did Vicente Brionis and building K at the high school. >> Great. Just wanted to know if we had any history with them. Um >> good history. >> Yeah.

068Okay. Great. >> Might as well stay there if there can be other questions. We give you a couple minutes if you don't mind. Oh, easy. So, when you're doing the auxiliary gym, you said once you get the RFP back, are you looking to start that construction this school year still or? >> Well, there's a long process that goes through because once we get the the renderings and that design, then we have to go through all of DSA. And John, you want to kind of mention what that looks like? Yeah, it's going to be predicated on the DSA approval process and getting it in. But the the goal is to start next summer. Uh with at least the preliminary stuff of setting up the construction, fencing, mobilizing. Um most times they do it in two phases.

069One's just to get on the site to get started and then once the building gets approved, they'll roll into that. So u uh we're our goal is to start next summer and finish it the following summer. >> Oh, you will finish it in one summer. >> Uh the following summer. So, okay. So, if we can start next summer, >> we're projecting like end of July of 2027. >> I guess my question is, um, how disruptive will it be for the students? Um, I know that construction, you know, is noisy and I'm just curious what the hours are in the high school. I think you have more kids kind of coming and going. Um, so I'm just curious what, um, are you going to have it not during the school hours? Are they going to come

070after school or um, >> No, it's going to be typical, uh, you know, construction working hours. Um, these two projects actually are are fairly confined and not as disruptive, not nearly as disruptive as anything we did in the past. Uh, the gym being up on the uh, uh, practice field is pretty well isolated, easy to segregate, and uh, even though we're building a building close at Mel, it's just a one classroom, so there's not a lot of activity going to that one room. And I saw the bathrooms at the auxiliary gym. Um Frank calls it. Um how many bathrooms are actually going to be there? How many stalls I guess are you doing for each bathroom? >> Uh it's a total of uh the women's I think it's three stalls and and then one stall

071and two urinals in the men's. >> Okay. >> And then there's a unisex staff restroom also. There's >> separate staff restroom. >> Okay. So the goal was uh you know there really is no facilities if anybody's using the upper field or the softball field. Uh they really have to go inside the campus. So um we figure having accommodations would be very desirable even if there is a little weight. It's nothing like what it would be to >> Oh no. It'll be great because especially for track and field and things like that. Yeah. >> Okay. And so the track and field you're looking at that's also going to be about two years. Andy was saying >> uh it it could start as early as next summer and then uh and trickle into the school year with

072that. So it typically goes a lot faster, you know, with the site projects as opposed to doing the building. So uh the goal again would be to start next summer and hopefully be done some sometime into the school year. >> Yeah. And the trick there is that we want to be able to organize that work around the least disruption for our athletics. um seasons. So, there's some timing there that if we meet certain timelines, we can make it work. Otherwise, we have to extend it. For example, we don't want to not have a track and field season. >> Well, but they can't they don't do any races there now as it is at the high school. They do everything at other high schools and we used to do like the Tim Brutder relays and we

073haven't been able to do that. So, there is kind of an urgency for the track and field people. >> Yes. Okay, board questions. >> Um, I don't really have any questions, but I'm wondering, can you just really briefly because we always use a lot of acronyms in these meetings. Can you tell people what DSA is just like super briefly? >> Yeah. DSA is the Department of the State Architect, and they're the ones that approve all the plans for construction. >> Okay. Thank you. And that's something we have to do because we're a school, right? >> Correct. Correct. Yeah, they're they're approving it. So, if you're working in a city, you would go to the city's building department. So if you're building a hospital, we go to OSH POD. So they're the uh approving agency for

074anything from TK through 14 grade level. >> Okay. Thank you. Um and I just wanted to say um this is really exciting. So thank you. Thank you to everybody that serves on our facilities committee and again to the voters that passed me O. >> Yeah, I had a couple questions especially about the auxiliary gym. I was just wondering is this like a So we're using this both for practice and for games. Is that kind of what's going on? >> Yeah. I what I've had conversations with the the high school staff is part of the operational usage of it is going to depend on how they kind of work it all out, right? Because there's going to be meetings between the athletic departments. Is this going to be more cheerleading or wrestling and at what time

075of seasons? When does basketball get it, not get it? Um, on our end, we're going to develop the space and make it functional and then the site's going to determine the usage similarly to do they what they do now except for they'll have more space. >> Okay, that makes sense because I'm a cross country runner. I often see like the cheerleaders down just on the field like on the grass and it would be really cool to have a space like that. And >> yeah, we just to speak on that um I did talk with the cheerleading coach several times. She put a long list of uh a wish list together and from what our last conversation she was very pleased with it because we wanted to be able to give um an opportunity for them

076to do competitions. So the idea was the tempor you know kind of the tenative ideas the auxiliary gym would be a warm-up space. It would be a competition space and then the main gym like on a Saturday would be the the main competition space. So we kind of created this flow for them where they could do it and so far she's excited about it. >> Yeah. I mean that sounds really exciting. So it's kind of just like it's not replacing the other gym obviously. It doesn't have the same seating but it's this like other practice space. >> And then also I know we have grade level assemblies in the PAB sometimes and then maybe we can move that to that gym or something. I'm just seeing like yes >> there's there's tons of uses for

077this thing. >> Yeah. and we talked with the student activities director and said it's also a space that can be used for ASB activities like you do with PAB. It can be split up. Um if you ever do like, you know, freshman incoming meetings, that's a great space to be able to do that as well. And that's why we were talking about the projection system because if you can shine a big projection across the wall, you can do lots of different kind of presentations to a class group. >> Yeah, that sounds really cool. And I also had a question about bathrooms. So, we usually like the bathrooms on campus are closed really early sometimes. So, I was just wondering if Cheer's going to have practice in there. I assume we're thinking leaving them open till

0785 or something and then I was wondering what the logistics are of like having a janitor come and close them then if we have people on campus then. >> Yeah, you have a janitor there until at least 10:00 and so that was one of their routines to close things. That would be an operational thing to work out with uh Mr. Bey and the custodians on which ones are open at what times. Okay, sounds great. And then I also had just one really quick question about the track. So, are they revamping like the whole entire thing or are we thinking like I know there's the grass like field in the center. Are we thinking putting something in there like a soccer field or something? >> That's exactly what we're thinking. So, we are going to um

079completely replace the track and so it'll have the same functionality, same number of lanes and then we're going to put a synthetic turf surface on the interior with the idea that that would be for soccer and lacrosse at least in terms of lining. It could be used multiple things, but at least you'll have lacrosse and soccer lines and there'll be less competition for the stadium and that usage with the other activities. >> Yeah, that sounds super great. I mean, I've been like on the cross country team for three years now, so I've kind of seen the track not deteriorate, but you know, it used to be in better condition and now there's like holes and stuff. So, it's really cool that we're getting a replacement. >> I agree. >> I just had a couple questions.

080So, um, there was a, I guess, a few open items left for the junior high's music room. Uh, when I toured it, I heard something about a sound wall. I didn't mention you, uh, hear you say anything about that, but is that part of it? >> Um, so why don't you go ahead and talk about what what it is? It's like >> Oh, about the techn panels. >> Yeah, techn Yeah, we were going to put some tectum panels strategically placed around the room. Uh, some for sound, some for aesthetics. >> So, those will be in >> Yes. Okay. Okay. >> Those have to be purchased and installed. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. >> And then um at the high school, you mentioned something about uh potentially putting some lines for pickle ball courts. >> So, >>

081yes. Um so, on the rendering, you Joe, would you mind bringing that back up for me? >> And this is all fresh because we just had this conversation um with one of the PE teachers on Friday. Uh so where you see the the asphalt basketball courts there >> on the bottom right the so we've we've kind of played with drawing pickle ball courts um across that too. So we could not do basketball and do potentially nine pickle ball courts in that area or we could do basketball with pickle pickle ball courts painted on and that would give us six there. Um so we we it really fresh but we're going to go back and talk with the site and see kind of what their preference is because we have some time there and it's striping.

082We we have a year easily to figure out what that's going to look like. >> And I'm assuming that's something that people could rent like our other facilities. >> Absolutely. >> But I will say look at the city because with their pickle ball courts, >> it's been a great attraction for the city, but there's also been some concerns around sound. So hopefully you'll be able to get together and kind of talk about that and >> Yes. And that's happening in many cities. I know the city that I live in, there's been city council meetings and they've focused on the time in which that is because it does create a a nice sound >> that can infect the neighbors. >> All right. Just want that to be thought about. And then um you said something about

083Mela Park uh there being a garden potentially put in. Is that for sure thing or is that a maybe or >> Well, it it's going to be based on what the teachers want there because we don't want to put anything in that's not going to be used. At our elementary sites, we've used um they look like big watering trough like watering troughs galvanized and we've put in soil and we've brought water to there and so it's an option by the site if teachers want to run a garden. So we've had preliminary talks about that but nothing definitive on what that's going to look like but we know it's an option that we can do. >> All right. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Any public comment? Nothing. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >>

084Thanks. Got it. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. >> Jen Bell, I teach at the high school, but I also have children in the district. Um, one question that I had that came up and I know we can't answer questions, but uh before there had been some discussion about having some safety fencing or something else like that at Alhhamra. Sorry, I'm short. Um, but I didn't I heard something about it real quick, but not fully. And so, we just wanted to know if that was something that was going to continue or not. You can answer that because the answer is yes, right? >> Yes. So, it's not in this presentation tonight, but it um a security fencing plan is in the master plan and it's something that we'll work through. We want to be very mindful

085that when we start closing off the campus and putting in gates, we want to go through DSA, the division of school architects, to verify that the ingress and egress will be correct and that we're covered by the design of that so there's no potential issues with doing it because we just want to make sure that people the right people can get in and the right people can get out and we protect the kids at all times. So, it will be coming um but it's just not in this presentation tonight. >> Perfect. Thank you. Um, so next is public comments, but I just want to read this little statement first. Um, during our governance training this past weekend, weekend and a half ago, um, it was discovered that we have been operating outside our agenda process.

086As we work towards more efficient governing board meetings, public comments will only occur during the section designated for public comments. Again, agenda items and non-aggenda item comments will occur during the public comments section as is outlined in the agenda. So, we appreciate your understanding and adherence to this change. We're obviously not implementing it today because you haven't been noticed. Um, but we are going to only have public comment in the beginning and then it's a standard time for everyone. Next, um, under government code 54954.3, members of the public have the right to address the board on any matter within the board's jurisdiction. However, the board may not take action on any non-aggenda item. Individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board. 20 minutes have been allocated for this portion of the agenda.

087Additional time is allowed at the end of the meeting if there was not enough time to speak during public comments. Do we have any public comments? whichever you want. We can start that process now if you want if you want to go home early. So, >> okay. >> Good evening. My name is Megan. Um I have a daughter at John Mir Elementary. Um I wanted to speak about on the agenda. Um just the topic of overnight field trips. Um, I just saw that there was a request for one from John Sweat Elementary. And, um, one thing I've noticed is that John Mir does not, uh, provide an opportunity for their students to go overnight. Um, uh, my daughter's in second grade, so I hope maybe by the time she's older in fourth or fifth grade,

088she'll get the opportunity. So, my question is, um, I believe it's the PTA that funds this experience for John Sweat students. I'm not actually 100% sure about that. So, I don't want to misspeak, but I'm wondering um how as a district what the district's role could be in ensuring that all students get the same opportunity to go overnight and do this like really enriching experience. I know a lot of times it centers around like California history. I remember going as a kid and it was it was a good experience. Um, and so that's one thing I just kind of wanted to bring to the board's attention, especially maybe to you, Miss Patrick, because I know one thing that you've stated you value is equity across like curriculums and experiences for all the kids to kind

089of have access to the same things. Um, also just to share an experience. Um, a couple years ago at a a parent DEI interest meeting, I heard a parent share about an experience with their son on the John Sweat overnight field trip where their son was um harassed in a racial way and the n-word was used and it was very heartbreaking to hear this mother talk about that. And um I wonder what safety measures we have in place for chaperons. And if the district oversees the ratios of adults to kids that go on these trips. Um I think it's a big trust, right, to let your kid go on an overnight. We want to assume that everyone's um going to treat each other well and all those things, but um hearing that experience, I'll never

090forget um hearing that. And then the way that some of the parents in that meeting reacted was also disheartening. It was like, oh well that was handled at the site level, so we don't need to worry about that anymore. Um, so I just wanted to raise that uh issue up and make sure our kids are safe and that they all get the same opportunities. So that's what I'm here to advocate for as a parent and a community member. So thank you for hearing that. >> Thank you. Any other Oh, if you wouldn't mind filling out a form, that would be great. Um, any other public comments? Next, we have the consent calendar. >> Did you have a comment to make on the consent? >> I do have a comment to make. Um, I asked Tanya

091if I could read the gift donations because the first person on the list is Larry Lipo and um, he has been very generous over at least three plus decades. Um, and he made a very generous donation. Um, other people that also made generous donations were the Martinez Masons, the Blackbod Giving Fund, Martinez Junior High School PTSA, the Meadows family, and Karen Williams. So, thank you to all of those people that continue to support our schools. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. And I think there were no changes to the agenda. I saw Dr. Patrick nod. >> I actually have something I have to pull and I'm really sorry I didn't notice it before. On the August 18th minutes, it lists me as attending and I was not at that meeting. I was coming late and the

092meeting was so quick that I missed the meeting entirely. And I don't know if we need to change that or not. >> Thank you for pointing that out. We should change that >> on on the there's a portion there's a place where she's marked not present though >> there okay I'm looking at where it says attendance it says it differently somewhere else >> on the votes you're marked not present so >> and we think that that's sufficient we should be fine >> I just wanted to make sure thank you >> so do I have a motion to approve >> make a motion to approve the consent calendar >> I'll second it >> student rep >> I >> all those in favor >> I I so moved. All right. Next, we have discussion information items. Review

093of CSBA updates June 2025 board policies uh 0440 and 0441. Dr. Patrick. >> Yes. Uh thank you trustees. Um, so what you have before you are um several board policies that um you won't you are just were simply reviewing tonight and not taking action on. And I'm just going to take a few minutes to just quickly touch on them. Um for the first two that are listed under which is philosophy goals, objectives um and comprehensive plans. You have uh board policy 0440 which is the district technology plan and um the board policy 0441 which is um the new part of uh the technology plan which speaks specifically about artificial intelligence. Um this the district technology plan was um introduced primarily to um to the district as an option to um pull the plan just being

094fully transparent. Um the laws have changed around technology and at the time districts were required to have a technology plan primarily to receive funding for technology. Um so now it just happens without that. Um we opted to recommend for the board that we retain our technology plan um with a few modifications to it just to bring it up to you know current because technology has changed over the years and it had been several years since it was updated. So you won't see significant plans to the tech plan. Um but there are references to AI and a few updates as well as there is a new artificial intelligence um language or new language around artificial intelligence and we will bring you a presentation at our next board meeting uh before you take action on that item.

095So just just a heads up that's coming down the pipe. Um with regard to the most recent updates for August, um we have board policy and AR for um the 6000s which is instruction and that is policy 6141.2 two, which is recognition of religious beliefs and customs. And this policy um is primarily due to a law change by the Supreme Court which is the Mimmude versus Taylor decision which essentially um provides um the rights to parents that the district give a um that the district provide an opportunity for parents to opt out for elementary parents specifically if there are um special if they hold special religious beliefs and practices. And um we there are a couple of things that are taken into consideration. Uh the age of the child. So looking at the age of

096an elementary student versus a high school student. Um the context of exposure. Um, parents may or may not want their child exposed to specific information at a certain grade level. Um, and um, but I must emphasize that the California Department of Education and California law continue to promote a safe, fair, and welcoming learning environment um, for all students. And so we will be adhering to the law. We are going to be bringing more information as it relates um to this law. But for tonight um just preventing presenting very general um information on Mimmood as well as um the board will see that we updated language for sexual health, HIV, AIDS um and prevention instruction to include updated recommended language that was not included in our um original policy there. when you um see these policies,

097you will see that not a lot has changed. I was really pleased to see that we already had protections in place and we had a way for parents to address concerns if they had concerns about curriculum or items being presented. So, you will not see a drastic change, but we do want to be compliant with the law. So, um we have made some adjustments adjustments in board policy that reflect what is current legal um statute. The same applies to uh the district's uh board policy AR 6142.8, which is uh comprehensive health education. Again, just making updates to the district's current policy, not significant major changes, but updates to be compliant with current laws. Um, Janelle, did you want to speak to the board policy on the I mean the job description piece? >> Okay. I'm

098sorry. Did I move out of my item? >> No, no, no. We're so um was there any discussion on 15.1 >> um on those CSBA updates? >> Thank you. >> Any public comments? We're still taking them right now. >> No. Okay. And we'll see this back in two weeks. And then was there any um discussion or questions about 15.2? No. Okay. Any public comments? Nothing. We'll see that back. Um okay. So now we are on Janelle Ayat review of new Martinez adult education job description. >> Okay. Um tonight for your um review is a new job description that's been drafted um through the collaboration with Martinez Adult Education and the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative. Um this new job description will be supporting a new course at Martinez Adult Ed which um is a fantastic new

099addition to their offerings which is to help um adult learners prepare for the unit union apprenticeship um entrance exams. Um we know that some of our oops students have um struggled with passing those entrance exams. So um there will be a course now supporting them u particularly around the math skills. So this is um a job description that's being brought just for information tonight. It will come back in two weeks for your um for action. >> Thank you. I think this is definitely needed because I know people have asked for this and I guess that's the hardest part of um is passing the math. That's what they need to do. So great. Um any questions? >> Just a comment. Yeah, I think that's really exciting. And then um I'm hoping we do we put this

100out there to the community as a whole. Is there any plan to do that like or how >> this course um assuming it's going to be approved by the board on the 22nd will be opened immediately? Um so the teacher I think um Suzanne Murphy has someone in mind potentially to teach this course. And so once the um course is the job descriptions approved, we'll move for through the hiring process and um they will begin preparing immediately for the coursework and open the uh the the class for um students. >> Thank you so much. >> And they get still the same pay that they always do because they're um from the unions, right? >> Correct. It's a union set pay scale, right? Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> I'm just really excited about this, too.

101What do you think your enrollment is going to be? Do you have any >> Unfortunately, Brenda, I'm probably not the right person to ask that and I don't know. >> Sorry about that. >> Um, I certainly can get that information for you from Suzanne and give it back and send it to the board in a weekly update if you'd like. >> Just out of curiosity and it'll be full. >> I'm sure it'll be hearing about interest in this for quite some time. So, >> some way of a lottery to pick who gets the class or something, >> right? They'll be doing multiple offerings. Um great. Thank you for any public comment on that. >> So we will see that back um next board meeting. Okay. Now we're going to action items 16.1 adoption of CSBA

102updates for June 2025. Dr. Patrick. >> Yes. So um again as a part of the process for updating policies the board is being asked to adopt the board policies and the administrative regulations below which have been reviewed by staff and um I will do I need to state them president trustee or >> I think we we read them last time we saw them last time so okay I don't think so unless there's any questions >> any questions public comments comment. Okay. Do I have a motion? >> Make a motion approve the new board policies. >> Second. >> Student rep. >> I. >> All those in favor? >> I so moved. >> Thank you. >> Next is adoption of 2024 2025 unudited actuals. Andy Cannon. >> Uh good evening again. Tonight, I'll be presenting the unodudited

103actuals report for the 2024-25 fiscal year. This report provides a comprehensive look at our revenues, our expenditures, and the fund balances for the year ending as of June 30th of 2025. Uh these actuals are our district prepared year-end financial statements. Um and they help us to identify any unspent funds in reserves. um that will carry forward and we'll talk about all of these in several slides coming forward. Um the figures are used by our external auditors. So each year we're required to go through an audit process. So we submit these and they review them and tell us how well we did. Um tonight we're going to compare our estimated actuals. Those are the amounts that we when we presented the budget in June, we said this is what we think we're going to end the

104year with to the actuals, which is how we close the books and what those numbers really are. and we'll have a chance to look at our reserve balances, what we have left over. So, the first chart that we're going to look at tonight is our combined revenue. Overall, we came in within 1% of our estimates. You can see that top line, our LCFF sources were stable. Not much change there. Um, federal revenue did come in 7% lower, and I'll describe why in a slide in two slides. um while our other state and local revenues exceeded five and 7% respectively. To drill in a little bit more deeply, we're going to look at unrestricted and restricted for both revenues and expenditures. So, this slide is our unrestricted revenue, and you see that we were close to

105our projections here. Our notable increases include our lottery um increase of $32,000 and our interest income, which was an increase of $323,000. the interest is on our reserve. So if we have $5 million in the bank, there's an interest associated with that. So that's what's coming in here. And we did not project it to be as high as this. So this is good news for us. This is more money coming into the district. Um we did see that our rentals, and we talked about this at a June adopted budget, they did decrease by 51. So we didn't quite get what we wanted on facility rentals, but overall we see a good increase in unrestricted revenue. and then another of $46,000 of increase for restricted. Um, this is going to show us where that dip was,

106especially in our federal revenue. And this isn't a loss of money. This is unspent federal dollars that carries over to the next year. And this is because we we only get a portion of our federal dollars when we show that we've spent it. So it's an unearned revenue that's the federal government will give us that money after we show we spent it. So in this case we're not losing those dollars. They are carried over to the next year. So it looks like it's a 7% reduction. It's really a 0% reduction because we will claim that money in the 25 26 year. So when we get to the first interim you're going to see federal revenues increase slightly based on this carryover amount. The surprise really in this whole budget for me was or the unodudited

107actuals was our afterchool program funding. When we looked at what the state produced for us at P1, which is our first attendance window, we thought we were going to be at about $1.2 million for the afterchool program. That's what they published on the website. Since that time, they have added $420 per unduplicated pupil count. And so I'm still researching on why, but what I do know is that unspent dollars from previous years goes back into the pot and they reallocate it out to different school sites. So that looks like the culprit there. Um, and that was a great increase for us. It's restricted dollars, but it does come in at 30 almost $30,000 for after school program. Um, lottery was up a small amount, $50,000, and then our other local revenue was up $59,000. So

108again, we see a 2% increase in what we projected there. And now we get into expenditures. Um, so we saw a 1% increase in revenues. Now we see a 1% decrease in our estimate for combined expenditures. And the most significant variance there is books and supplies, which is a 22% difference. Um, and we'll talk about where that fits in. And also we saw services go down 6%. Again, we're going to look at the unrestricted and restricted amounts here. So, in the next slide, we'll see um unrestricted unspent site funds. So, these are funds that are given to the school sites that are outlined in their school plans for student achievement or SPSAS. And so, we saw $34,000 of unspent funds there, which supported our bottom line. And what was particularly um good news and we

109didn't anticipate this is our PG& bill in the last couple of months because we saw a little bit more moderate start to our summer and through that part we saw our PG& amounts dip by $131,000. And so what we do, we have had a spreadsheet that has tracked our P Gen cost going back um almost two decades. And so what we do every year is we look at what we um see in the last couple of months over the last three years. We average that out and that's what we project. So, we beat our projections based on historical trends. So, that was great news for us. Um, phone and internet or telecommunications, we saw a drop there of $36,000. Most of that was a one-time rebate from AT&T because our IT department has worked really

110well at getting rid of unused old phone lines and using voiceover IP. So, using our data lines instead of outside AT&T lines, which cost a lot more money for us. So, we see that onetime rebate and we've been able to reduce our cost. So that's great news for us especially with the IT department leading those efforts. So overall we see a 1% decrease in unrestricted. Now as we look at the restricted side of the expenditures. Uh next slide there. U books and supplies. We saved up money knowing that we need to be very good stewards of this and planning for future adoptions with books and supplies. So we saw a large reduction there. And what really impressed me also is special education contracts came in under $329,000. So overall, we're looking at um next slide.

111Oh, got ahead of myself. So we're going to talk about what that all adds up to and the benefit for the district. But before we do, we want to look at what our restricted fund balances are. So our uh expanded learning opportunities program, which I said had that big increase, we're now at $941,000 left over there. we were projecting to be closer to the 600,000 range and we were seeing that we're beginning to deficit spend there, but now we have this nice healthy balance. Our educator effectiveness block grant will end um at the end of this year. We will spend all those funds, but right now we started the year with almost $140,000. Lottery began with 171. We still have money in our antibbias um grant at $96,000. Um our arts music instruction materials block

112grant will will spent all of those funds by the end of this year, but we have $242,000 left. 6770 resource, that's our art music, which is Prop 28, not the same as the one I just talked about. That is an annual allocation to the school district split to each of the school sites. That's $340,000. The kitchen infrastructure training funds, we have spent all of that as of July. We finished with two dishwashers, one at the high school and one at the junior high. So, we've now gotten rid of those funds and we'll look for the next um grant opportunity this year. So, we'll apply for that and hopefully get more money. Um our dual enrollment opportunities grant. So, we're sitting at $75,000 the equity multiplier. Um we are not eligible for it this year, but

113that's a carryover amount of almost $11,000. Small amount in our A3G success grant. A lot of that was used for summer school. So that was partially used down in July. So I think we have about $11,000 left for this year with that. Our learning recovery emergency block grant about $440,000 that will be spent all throughout this year. Um and then other accounts there you can see small amounts with our other restricted local donations of $568,000 overall for fund 01. This is our main general fund. Um you'll see uh what those previous charts showed is that we have a 1% increase in revenue and a 1% decrease in expenditures. Both are good. Um our beginning balance is the same because we knew that starting out the year. But what has changed and is significant is our

114ending balance. That is our combined ending balance that you see on that line that increased by 17%. Now I want to make sure that it didn't increase 17%. It is 17% higher than what we projected. So we are seeing that our total ending balance is 9.1 almost 9.2%. The next line is significant. So although we see positive movement in what our bottom line is, we are still deficit spending. We are deficit spending in the tune of $3.3 million. That's much better than what we projected which is deficit spending of $4.8 million. These are really good things. Uh for unrestricted reserves, you see almost a million dollars increase from what we projected and that again goes back to the most significant things which were u a decrease in special education contracts. That was that $330,000. Um

115it was a decrease in expenditures like the PG& and also the increase in revenue which is the interest. So that all came up to almost a million dollars. um our restricted revenues, and I've mentioned this many times, we're going to continue to see that drop down as we um reduce our block grants. Um and then overall for economic uncertainty, this is our 3% reserve. And sometimes it looks strange when you see that it dropped down. The reason why it dropped is it's based on your expenditures. So you have to keep 3% of your expenditures as your reserve. So when you spend less, your reserve that you have to keep goes down a little bit. So that's natural. It's nothing strange about that. So what are the implications for our multi-year plan? Because this is something

116that the board and the superintendent and all of us as cabinet and this community are going to have to talk about. What does this mean for future spending? What can we afford? What programs um may we have to reduce or or get rid of. So overall we know that we increased our unrestricted reserves by 1 million. But we also know that deficit spending continues. So the end result of this presentation is that we have to make reductions but not nearly as sharp as we thought that we had to do which puts us in a great position as a district that we may be able to continue things that we thought may be lost in future years. But that discussion is going to be a very long process um and and we'll talk more about that

117in future board meetings. So, we've spent the most of this presentation talking about our general fund, fund 01. I also want to look at our other fund balances. So, our fund eight, our ASB account. Um, good balance there, $365,000. Adult education also has a large balance and they're working on how they're going to start spending down that amount throughout this year. Um, fund 13, our cafeteria, I'm always happy to report when we have no contributions to the cafeteria fund. So, that stayed healthy there. We did have a small deficit of about $50,000, but at that rate, we have more than a decade of that type of spending and we can still sustain it. So, the cafeteria fund looks very strong um for many years to come. Fund 14, we had a separate deferred maintenance fund

118when we had more dollars in the district. We have spent those funds down and we have not replenish that. Um mostly because we also have various different construction accounts that we can use like fund 21, fund 35 and so forth. Um, for fund 20, this is for our retirees. Um, we have $778,000 as a balance in that account. Our building fund, we are we have just a very small amount of measure O dollars or excuse me, measure R dollars left over. The $30 million reflects the new bond sale for measure O that we did the board approved in June and we received all those funds for the first round of $30 million. Um, fund 25 $860,000. our fund 35 account is nice and healthy. It will be able to help us to um to uh

119contribute to our measure O projects as we need to plus have enough left over to replace turf surfaces and do other projects that come up over the years. Um and then as you look down through there, we've got healthy balances in the next fund 40, fund 51, and in fund 73. And I want to I wanted to highlight this one because I I haven't really highlighted in the past. This is our scholarship accounts. These are all of those scholarship funds that all go into there that's built in and we maintain those as um trust funds and we have almost $400,000 in those trust funds and that is such a great thing for the community for our kids that we draw from each and every year at the high school um to be able to support

120them as they go on to second postsecary secondary postsecary education. Um I could have this slide in every presentation. I always want the community and the board to know what's coming up next. We are currently at the September 2025, the first one which is on audited actuals. Uh as soon as this is done, we'll already start working on the first interim report planning for what that looks like in December. Then we go to our second um report phase which is in March for second interim. And then before you know it, we will be in June and we will talking about the 26 27 budget always followed by the 45day revise if we need it. there's any substantial changes to the budget from the time of adoption to when the trailer bill comes out from the

121state. Uh and that is the presentation on audited actuals and I'm happy to answer any questions of the board. >> Thank you very much. Very good presentation questions. >> I have a very important question. How does it feel to finally be able to give us like a little bit of good news? Well, kind of funny is I look at your faces sometimes and I tell when I'm not giving very good news versus and this time I think it's good news because it's not bad news. So, I saw your faces and I feel like I I I feel like I did a better job presenting just because it was better news. So, thank you. Yes, it felt a lot better. >> Um, okay. Now to the not fun stuff. >> Okay. So looking at your I

122I really like how you give us like the timeline on every presentation of what's next. Where on this um timeline are are you going to recommend to us that we have to start talking about cuts? >> Um I think there's a larger discussion that needs to be happening with uh the superintendent to kind of go through this with your priorities in general. Um I've already started working on a concept of that but I've had to kind of shake it up because of the news of the reserve um increase that we see here. Uh I'm looking more at like October a lot of internal discussions on prepping for that with November. I would say generally the board would have to start having conversations about that leading to we would have to by February be prepared to

123have that presentation and approve those reductions so that they would go in if there's any u potential uh HR related things that have to come out before March 15th. So that that's the general that I can give you right now. The more specifics I think we'll have to determine. >> Okay. Thank you. I would prefer that the discussion on cuts come sooner rather than later. Um and also any information to um involvement of stakeholders and um that kind of consideration in terms of what cuts are made. Um I'm also interested in keeping things sustainable. So, as we look forward, I know maybe we can keep a program going this year, but we have to evaluate the sustainability and um how much that's going to impact um the budget in future years. So, those are all

124important to me when we talk about this again. So, first I want to thank the IT team for finding that savings. That's huge. Um, and then Andy, thank you so much. Great report. I'm glad to see that your projections, everything was a little bit under, so that's always nice. Um, I had a couple questions on the report. One was lease leases were down. Was there a big significant change there? >> U, no, they're still more than they were the previous year. And so when I talk about leases, I'm looking at the facility use. And so what we saw in the previous year is we saw this nice growth and then we projected that it would continue to grow in that amount and it didn't quite get there. The other aspect of it was is that

125the way in which we charge facility uses some of that money isn't collected until the next fiscal year. So there's a little bit of a gap there. Uh, and I think the other part of it is the board made a conscious and I think a good decision that we didn't raise rates so much that it impacted negatively our youth organizations and other groups that use that. So I think it's just a matter of kind of feeling out because using Facilitron is still fairly new for us. So we'll be able to get better trend data over the next couple of years. What I can say right now about facility use is we seem to be growing in this first part of the year from the summer to the fall. And so that's a that's a good

126But we did reduce our revenues for this year because we didn't want to, you know, overbudget it next time around. So I may continue to have good news, which is, hey, we we got more money for facility rentals next year is my hope. >> Now, under leases is facility rentals and the properties that the district owns, are those bunched together? >> Yes. And those aren't as flexible, right? Because those have a yearly contracted amount that we do. >> Okay. Um and then the interest income was up. Is that from those changes that we made putting that money into a different account? >> That is um no that is a that's a different because each fund has to have a different interest and it has to stay in this fund. So when we look at the

127reserve and what I showed you here is that we projected a $5 million unrestricted reserve. Those dollars earn interest when they're sitting in the bank. So it was part of that. When we started the year we were conservative and I did not adjust it throughout. So we were looking at about $100,000 for interest income when it came in at $423,000. So that was the $323,000 increase. So what I've done already this year is we've adjusted that. So right now we're we're having in our revenue, which you'll see in the first interim $300,000 for interest income, which is a conservative estimate because we know our reserves will fall throughout the year, but it's not the 400. So there may be some flexibility next year at this time when we're looking at unodudited actuals for the same

128category. Great. And I've asked this a few times um but I I know uh and kind of what um to touch on the feasibility of what uh Trustee Leel mentioned with our mental health funding. Wasn't some of that running out um some of the grants that we had for some of those counselors. Is that coming up this year? >> Yes. Currently most of our MTSS staff are funded through our learning recovery emergency school block grant and that's the one we have about $400,000 left. So we're projecting that that funding source will end. We also have a new block grant that's coming in. So that will be about a discussion of how we use those funds and that talks a little bit about sustainability and whether we reduce or we move around. Um the trouble is

129always going to be is when you use one-time grant funding, it ends. And so you have to either reduce or you have to embed it into something else. And then that has a domino effect of you only have so many dollars. So what else do you reduce if you value and prioritize that? Not that anything is less valuable, but your priorities have to come through with those decisions. >> Correct. >> That's it. Thank you. >> So, um, just to go to your point, um, Facilitron when they rent out the different stuff, as soon as our facilities start like even the track and field, and we get that addendum, that um, auxiliary gymnasium, I think those that income is going to go up dramatically because we've got some new things coming up. So, I think this

130year might be tough. this year, next year, but I think ultimately long term that's a really good investment also and more income coming from that um to your point and then also um Trusty Le um Leel sorry um we we are I know that um Dr. Patrick and I have talked about um we're going to do a better job this year of of um looking at what cuts what we need to do and what our priorities are and so we don't do what happened last time and just really talk about what's important to each each person and try to look at it and really make a good decision and and start that in October. So, we're looking at that as well. Um I wanted to say um first um great job Matthew um special ed

131329,000 better than expected. That's awesome. So keep up the good work. Um and yes I loved your presentation Andy. It was good news. Um I had a couple of questions um on the slide seven when we talked about expenditures unrestricted. Um I saw PG& went down and I think that's awesome. I don't think that's going to be sustainable or I guess my question because um you know um global warming they're talking about you know it's just we had a really not too hot of a year. So do you think P Gen will stay down because we're getting better HVAC systems or do you think that was just a fluke that one time? >> Well I mean we're we're kind of caught between a couple of different things. One, weather dictates a lot of the electricity

132consumption. um and also what we do with solar and then as we progress with more construction projects and replacement of these units we should get more efficient units and usage. So I think I think there's lots of different factors that come in here. This is mostly about weather is what we we saw um through this part. Uh but you know we may see we think that for example at the high school as we go through and moving off the main plant and putting these we think we'll see savings in that but we don't know exactly yet until we get through that. We have to do a lot of studies from the electrical engineering side to say what is the potential savings that we will have through this. But my hope is as we've done all

133the new elementary schools and we've closed in the buildings and done that work and replaced it that I think there's been some substantial savings over the last couple years. Okay, great. So hopefully it'll be sustainable. Yeah. Awesome. Um and then let's see, I have slide 10 you have oh um restricted fund balance. What is the um maybe you said this already? I don't think um the other restricted local the 568,000. What what is that for? Just curiosity. >> So those are donations. So there's going to be site funds and district funds. So each year um school sites will have donations that'll be given to them. So that's what we end at part of this like MEF and all of those things go into our donation accounts. >> So it's restricted in that >> it's going

134to a specific school site. >> Yes. >> For something or for grants for the teachers that they've applied for. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I think that is it for my questions. Any other any public comment? Any other questions? Okay. So, I believe this is an action item. So, do we have a motion? >> I will move to approve the unodited actuals. Second. >> Student rep. >> I. >> All those in favor? I. So moved. Next we have review and adoption of resolution number 2026-03 regarding GAN limit for 2025 2026 Andy Cannon. >> Um so I'm recommending that we approve resolution number 2026-03 for the GAN limit. This is part of our unodudited actuals presentation. The essence of this resolution is it establishes that we don't overspend. Um, back in the 70s there were spending

135limits that were put into place based on changes in funding for education. Um, and so we can't overspend and outdo inflation. And so this report, a part of the unodited actuals, establishes that we have not overspent. Um, and so I'm seeking approval of this resolution tonight. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Uh, yeah. It says at the very end, uh, board adopt the 2025 2026 scan limit. Is it are we making a motion on Is that the motion? >> I'm asking to approve the resolution which is the GAN limit. >> And this is something we do every year. >> I think so. >> Yes, >> we do. >> We're required to. >> I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution number 2026-03 regarding the GAN limit for 2025 through 2026. seconded. Student rep >>

136I. >> All those in favor? >> I so moved. >> And if I could just stress, I think what you're saying is that so this is based on last year. So we are approving it now based on our spending amounts as of last fiscal year. >> Oh, I knew that. I was just how to make >> how to word it. Okay. >> Yeah, exactly. Perfect. Next we have food services Wells Fargo account authorized access Andy Cannon. >> Um part of the changes to district staff requires us from time to time to change names on accounts and for this one um Helen's retirement is definitely need to be changed. And then we also found that another person a former staff member was still on the account at Wells Fargo. Um and this account is for um

137our parents and our staff who put money into to the food services system to buy additional food or lunches as a staff member. And so part of this um we want to be able to show Wells Fargo that we we are removing certain um parties and we are adding our new superintendent um Dr. Patrick and myself to that account so that we can manage it appropriately. So tonight we're asking for you to approve the changes that are reflected here in this summary. Um >> great. That is very standard in banking. So, um, any questions? Public comment. Do I have a motion? I move that we uh adopt or approve um changing the account, the Wells Fargo account to Andy and Dr. Patrick. >> Second. >> Student rep. >> I. >> All those in favor? I

138so moved. >> I don't think we needed additional comments from the public. So now we're going to go to comments. Why don't we start with um Matthew? >> Uh I don't know if I have anything else to say. Um yeah, I mean a little bit longer than last board meeting, but I was really excited and I'm I like that we're getting into the nitty-gritty now. >> Awesome. I like that you like it and I I always think that the students make such a great contribution and you um did so again tonight with your comments on the uh facilities. So, thank you and I don't have anything else to say other than that either. I'm just looking forward to um participating in the MEF run and I'm going to encourage everybody to sign up and um

139I'll be there. I'll be volunteering and possibly running. I don't know. We'll see. Uh, I'll echo what uh, Trustee Leo said. Uh, yeah, people can volunteer in a number of ways. Um, you could be helping with safety, uh, passing out shirts. Uh, I usually run, but this year I'll go ahead and volunteer and skip the the long run. Uh, but hope to see you all there in support. Um, I don't really have anything today. I just want to thank again the uh marching band for coming out. I always love it when the kids come and make presentations and I'd like to um echo that. It's always wonderful to see students and I look forward to seeing many more student presentations and I just want to thank my esteemed staff for their uh nice uh succinct

140and well thoughtout reports tonight and I'm just appreciating all of their hard work and their dedication to the district. And thank you to my wonderful trustees and my staff, Miss Nikki, who helps me um keep it moving forward. So, thank you so much. Great. Okay. And with that, we will adjourn at 8:28 M.