001Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the regular meeting of the board of education for Martinez Unified School District to order. It is August 18th and it's 5:30. Do we have any public comments related to close session? No public comments. >> Okay. Seeing none, we will adjourn to close session. Thank you. to the regular meeting of the board of education. I have nothing to report out for close session. Will you please join me in the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of to the stands indivisible. >> Do we have any changes to the agenda? >> There are no changes to the agenda. I have a motion. >> Move to approve the agenda. >> Second. All in favor? I I so moved. >> Okay. Next we have organization of the board procedural item. Dr.
002GG Patrick. Okay. So this evening we have um several committees that do not have a board member attached to the committee primarily because we just filled our new um board member seat and we have trustee Brenda Le here. And so while you will typically see that there are several committees, for the purpose of tonight's goals, we will only be focusing on those committees that have an open seat. And right now we have the DAC committee which has an open seat and the diversity, equity, inclusion committee which has an open seat. We will return to committee design designations this December when we do our organizational process. >> So Brend is you're okay with those? >> Yes. Um I will want to be on other committees um in December, but uh there's only a couple of months
003between now and then. So I will be asking to be on other committees at that time. >> Great. Okay. >> All right. Thank you, Trusty Li. We appreciate your commitment to this district. >> Um, okay. Next, we have >> I don't think so. This is It's a superintendent report on the committ. Okay. >> All right. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve the committees as amended. All second. >> All in favor? >> I. So moved. >> Next, we have the oath of office for our new student board member. Will you join me up at the podium, please? important unit of California. >> Against all enemies, Constitution United States >> United States of >> I will Congratulations. It's okay. >> It's okay. All right. Ready? One, two, three. One more. One, two, three.
004Thank you. [Applause] Next we have um adoption of resolution 2026-01 authorizing the 2025 2026 student board member Matthew Schik of Alhamra High School to make motions that may be acted upon by the board of trustees except on matters dealing with employer employee relations and close session items. Do I have a motion? >> Like to make a motion to approve resolution 2026-01. >> Seconded. All in favor? >> I so moved. Now you can start uh voting when we do motions. Um, and next we have comments from our student representative. >> There we go. Okay. Lasus Elementary started off the 2025 to 26 school year off right with all smiles, welcoming our students and families while our PTA provided parents coffee and goodies. Loses Elementary teachers and staff spent the spent the past Monday and Tuesday working
005hard in PD and setting up in their gorgeous classrooms. Lasis Elementary welcomed two TK kids classes this year and we enjoyed meeting our newest bull pups at our TK booth this year. Lasis Elementary picture day is this upcoming Tuesday, August 19th. Our first SSC meeting is on the 21st of August and our first ELAC meeting is on the 26th of August. Lasus Elementary officially kicks off their fun run this Monday on the 25th. Let's get ready to support Lasfus Elementary. The students at John Mir Elementary were excited about being back at school. We welcomed one new TK class. New kinder parents joined their students during the walk and talk and all the John Mir Elementary teachers greeted the students as they walked on campus. We kicked off the first day of school with our annual
006PBIS/c character counts assembly where the students learned about school behavior expectations and the character trait of the month, kindness. We are excited to offer new and returning afterchool enrichment classes starting in September. Glee Club, soccer stars, mathnasium, chess club, and sparkology. John Mir Elementary Picture Day is the 28th of August. Back to school night is also the 28th of August at 5:30 p.m. The John Mir Title One meeting is again this Thursday at 5:00 PM. Uh, the John Mir School site council meeting is on Thursday, August 21st at 3 p.m. The ELAC meeting is on Thursday, August 25th at 3 PM. Road Runners at John Sweat had an awesome first day of school, entering through giant blowup arches and enjoying their new classrooms. Third graders were engaged in some juicy fun with their watermelon math
007project on Friday. Back to school barbecue for John Elementary is on August 21st and the booster roadrunner dash kicks off on September 4th. At Mela Park, students who had the students had the opportunity to meet their new music teacher, Marilyn Bruette, who has already began teaching students about drumming. Our teachers spent our professional development before the school year learning about evidence-based writing instruction and gearing up for a great year while we all try out new ways to explore how to write in all subject areas. On Monday, the 18th of August, Mel Park had our first assembly where we highlighted all of our school's rules, expectations, and positive behavior rewards that students can earn for themselves and their class. The first PTA meeting for Melo Park will be on Tuesday the 19th of August at 7
008p.m. The back to school night will be on Thursday the 28th of August at 5:00 p.m. There's a minimum day on Friday the 29th of August and coffee with the principal again on the 29th of August at 8:30 a.m. and Labor Day is off so there's no school on the 1st of September. Now at Martinez Junior High, a hu huge shout out to all our web leaders who hosted a successful and welcoming sixth grade orientation for all of our newest bull pups before the opening of school. A special thank you to Mrs. Peeper and Mr. Lame for organizing and training our new leaders, all our staff who supported the event and the students who brought the MJHS spirit. Our first week of school was bustling with new students enjoying their classes and getting to know
009their teachers as well as taking their 25 to 26 school picture. Mrs. Flansbomb and her bull pups got an amazing surprise as the new music room was ready to move in just in time for the school year. Thank you to our maintenance, custodial, and bond team for their work in making this happen. And a special thank you to our Martinez community for supporting measure O. Now at MJHS, back to school night is on Tuesday the 26th of August at Alhhamra. On Tuesday, Alhamra staff participated in professional development centering around our multilingual learners. Mrs. Yadira Zapata did a wonderful job leading our staff through an overview of the ELLL process and assessment in our first section and the EL roadmap EL standards in the second section. On Wednesday, Alhamra High School began the school year with
010a day of welcome. Students attended three sessions throughout the school day where they had a class meeting, a college and career fair, and a fun rally. Students and staff had the opportunity to build positive relationships and set clear expectations for the new school year. On Friday, Alhhamra High School had senior sunrise on the historic Nollesfield picture day and the fall DVC dual enrollment workshop. The Alhhamra School site council meeting will be held on Thursday the 21st of August at 4 p.m. Student Congress at Alhhamra will be meeting on Wednesday the 27th of August at 11:40 a.m. Back to school night at Alhhamra is on Wednesday the 27th of August at 6 p.m. And our first football game, Hercules versus Alhamra, is on Friday, August 29th at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Go Dogs. >> Thank you
011very much. Anything else you wanted to add? Yes. Well, hello everyone. I'm so excited to be serving as this year's school board representative. I'm excited for all the progress we're going to make as a district with our new superintendent, Dr. Patrick, and our new principal at Alhhamra. I'd first like to give some quick thanks. First to my friends Luna, Ella, Anna, and Jenna, who were all so supportive and helped me organize campaign materials, drafted ideas, and cheered me on through all of campaigning. I'd also like to thank the members um of the Alhambor Cross country team for supporting me and for everyone else here tonight. Um I'd like to thank Lizzie McCauley, our previous schoolboard representative who always gave me great advice and showed me how we can make a change in this district. And
012lastly, I'd like to thank my parents, my mom's here tonight, because without their encouragement and support, I wouldn't be able to do half the things I do today. Thank you all so much. And to the members of the school board, I can't wait to be spending this next year with you. >> Great. Okay. Well, we're excited that you're on the board as well. >> Thank you. >> You know what? I just realized we didn't get a picture with you and your mom. Should we do that? Come on. Let's get Come on, mom. Come on up. We need a picture of you as well. >> Very important. One more. >> Ready. That was fun. Okay. Uh, next, do we have any employee organizational reports from MEA? Seeing none. Uh, do we have any organizational reports from
013um, CSA? No. Okay. Do we have any comments from the PTA? >> Hello. Good evening. Congrats, Matthew. That was a great speech. Excited to have you. Uh my name is Jenny Celestri. I'm president of the Council of PTAs. Um I just want to give a huge thank you to everyone who joined. Thank you for whoever posted our poster in the hallway. Um we are at 740 members as of today. Um and the Martinez Junior High has the highest at 212. So they win the um RAR this week. So, good job. Um, a quick announcement for Alhhamra PTSA. They are working closely with Principal Bead on aligning goals and strategies and ways that the PTSA can support this year. Um, and then at the elementary sites, as Matthew mentioned, um, we're going to be doing runs
014for every elementary school over the next couple of months. These are fundraisers to res raise funds for the sites. Um, Lasis is first on September 5th. John Sweat is on September 12th, John Mir October 17th, and Mel is in November. Um, we raised funds for field trips, classroom supplies, assemblies, and more at each of the sites. I didn't know this until today, but all four of the elementary sites purchase spiritware for every student. So that way, if someone couldn't afford one, they all have uh something to wear to show school spirit. And they also wear those at the runs and then um on field trips. So, super cool. Um, if you have a business or you want to sponsor, um, we are working on our website. Um, but if you email martiniscounselgmail.com, uh, we can
015point you in the right direction. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay, next we have superintendence report. >> Thank you, uh, trustee president. Um, I before I begin, I just want to say I'm going to have to coordinate with Matthew because he eclipsed my report. I mean that was amazing. So I am just going going to highlight a few key things and then I'm we'll turn the floor back over to you trusty president. All right. So for the for the week of August the day of August 13, 2025, we had a successful launch of the 2526 school year. The site visits were conducted across all campuses and strong student and staff engagement was observed. Enrollment highlights. We this year we see an increased enrollment in our transition and transitional kindergarten TK classes. Um
016we're at full capacity in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade. And we basically believe that this increased enrollment reflects a strong community of trust and demand for our district. So that's a great thing. Um we saw students acclimating to acclimating to routines and procedures. There was positive energy and enthusiasm across all campuses and overall it was a great start to academic engagement. teachers uh worked with students to ensure they have necessary materials. Administrators and support staff finalized enrollment and our schools experienced safe and welcoming learning environments. We just heard from our wonderful PTA council president and so we have active strong community partners and uh to date I've met with the following ed partners who plan to support our school district and that is the PTA council, the Martinez Education Foundation and the Rotary Club. Each
017organization has made it really clear to me that their goal is to be an ed partner and advocate for students and support academic goals. So, what will continue to be a goal for me as the superintendent of uh this school district is to maintain strong present presence at school sites. Um engage with instructional teams, ensure that all students academic needs are met and to foster a culture of excellence and equity. And as we continue to move through this school year, I am looking ahead to continue site visits and classroom observations to strengthen community and staff collaboration, to monitor enrollment trends and instructional needs, and to celebrate early successes and build momentum. And my final comment on the opening of this school year is as we begin this new year, I want to express my appreciation
018to our students, families, staff, and community partners for their dedication and support. Together, we are building a learning environment where every student is seen, supported, and empowered to succeed. This concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. It was very informative. Do we have any board reports events you attended that you want to talk about quickly? Okay. Public comments are next. 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. Additional time is allowed at the end of the meeting if there was not enough time to speak during
019public comments. Do we have any public comments at this time? >> Okay. Uh next we have the consent calendar. Are there any changes to the consent calendar? No changes to the consent calendar. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the consent? Oh, I do want to say acceptance of gift donations. We have Yasmine Llamas, um, Martinez Mason's, um, Masonic Lodge, and Martinez Refining Company. Thank you for those donations. And then, do I have a motion? >> Make a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> Second. I second it. >> Student representative >> I. >> All those in favor I meant to say student representative you said I. All those rest in favor >> I >> motion or consent calendar is approved. Okay. Discussion information items. We have review of CSBA updates June 2025
020Dr. GI Patrick. So this is a first read for our updated board policies. We'll be bringing these items to you um probably um once a month for a cadence and and a review and approval. And so what we have listed are the following um policies. Do I need to read them, trusty president? Are we good? >> No. Okay. Um and so this again is the first read and they'll be voted on for approval in our next meeting. Um so if we have any questions of any of the presented items. >> I I have one question and Andy I apologize. So if you maybe you can answer this next time. um because I'm just bringing up now it's AR3512 has to do with equipment and the question is will the addition of the language about technology
021based equipment impact employees in terms of the use of district-owned personal computers that are used to work from home and does this increase employee liabilities for those devices? I'll I'll review it and then get back to you in the Friday board letter. >> I can shoot you an email too with that question. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I might want to tie in Joe. >> We'll do that. >> Yeah, you can contact me and Mr. Canon and I will work together on that. Get you an answer. >> Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions? All right, then I'll move on to the next item. >> Any public comment? No. Okay. Um, next we have review and adoption of resolution number 2026-02 authorizing the deposit or withdrawal of monies in the local agency investment fund.
022Andy Cannon. >> Uh, good evening board. This is not a new program for us. This is something that we've been doing for quite some time. Um but our partners have asked us to u re reinstitute a resolution that affirms that the district does want to participate in the LEFE program. Um for us we take uh monies that we are not yet ready to spend um most of it is in our construction fund. So if we have $30 million in bond funds that we just sold our first bond um we may use six or seven million of it this year. So we set aside the other part into our investment account and then we earn interest on it. That interest then goes to help the construction projects that we are doing ongoing. So it's a way
023of being a good steward with our funds that we have now that we need to get started but we may not spend yet. Um so twofold this resolution one is going to renew with u with the state that we want to participate in this program and then secondarily it adds um Dr. Patrick's name to the list of people who are um in charge of making decisions on money flowing back and forth. So, tonight before you is resolution 2026-1, and staff is asking for approval. Oh, excuse me, -2. Pulled up the wrong one. I pulled up Matthews. >> Thank you. Um, any comments, questions from the board? Um, does the So, just out of curiosity, um, if the federal government decides to cancel a program or decides to want to take money, is this money insured
024or guaranteed to still belong to the school district? >> So, they can't take this money. Um, this is ours that we deposit actually within the state program. Um, so it's, yeah, it's all insured and protected. >> Okay. Just want to make sure for everybody that that's the case. Um, any public comments? Do I have a motion? >> I move to uh for the adoption of resolution number 20262 authorizing the deposit of withdrawal or withdrawal of monies in the local agency investment fund. >> Second. >> You can have it. >> Okay. Seconded. Um, student rep >> I. >> All those in favor? >> I so moved. My goodness, this is another short meeting. We are not going to have this in September going forward, guys. But, um, we don't need any additional comments from the public
025because we didn't have any other public comments. So, we can go to comments. Um, do you want to start us off, Matthew? I'm putting you on the spot. Do you want to be at the end? Okay. I'm sorry, Gigi. Um, Dr. Patrick, would you like to start? Well, again, I'd like to just take this opportunity to welcome Matthew um to our board meetings and to his new role. I'm very excited to work with you. And I was serious about coordinating our reports. So, uh look look to hear from me really soon so we can make sure we align our efforts. So excited. Thank you. I also just want to say a big welcome and congratulations for being on the school board, Matthew. We're looking forward to working with you and getting lots of great information,
026especially since you're in so many different um activities at school. You're probably mock trial again this year and your cross country. So, um we look forward to hearing all the exciting things going on. And uh just remind everyone we do have a uh governance training. It is open to the public. Um, but we have it at the end of this month on a Friday night and Saturday. So, we have nine hours of governance training coming along soon. And with that, Annie. >> Yeah, of course. Welcome, Matthew. We've had It's one of my favorite things that we have a student rep here and we've been very fortunate to have a lot of really wonderful student reps. So, I'm excited to hear your voice and your contributions over the course of the year. And, um, welcome back,
027of course, to families. And I hope everyone has had a really successful kickoff. I'm looking forward to attending at least one back to school night next week. Hopefully more. >> Again, welcome Matthew. Excited to have you here. Uh and looking forward to work with you. And I also want to thank uh Martinez PD for their increased patrols at our schools and making sure that everyone's safe. >> Yes. Welcome, Matthew. You're so um enthusiastic. I really love seeing that. Um, yeah, I'm really looking forward to next week as well and going to some of the back to school nights. I know people have been working hard on those and I love the energy level uh when you walk on campus. Um, we won't be back till after Labor Day. So, I hope everybody has a great
028Labor Day as well. Um, thank you. >> Well, again, I just like to say I'm so excited to be spending this year on the board. Um, thank Thank you all of you on the board and then Dr. Patrick as well. Uh I just like to add I attended our senior sunrise this year um on Friday and I just had the most wonderful time. It was great. Thank you to Alhambor Leadership for setting it up and I'm just so excited to kick off my senior year. >> Great. With that, we are adjourning our meeting at 7 pm.