001[Music] all right I would like to call the March 10th 2025 regular board meeting to order mcoe um I did read that the president is supposed to be announcing that the meeting is live and recorded so I will be announcing that it is live and recorded before I ask you all to stand for the FL congratulations to the flag of the United States of America stands one nation indivisible withy andice for all thank you item 1.2 approval adoption of our agenda have a motion make a motion approve all in [Music] favor item 1.3 approval and adoption our meeting February 102 do I have a motion make a motion that we approve item 1.4 approval and Adoption of the minutes of our February 20th meeting a motion I'll make a motion that we approve the February
00220th minutes second thank you all in favor I item 1.5 do we have any problem participation to share screen okay no correspondence and no consent agenda moving on to item 4.1 our second read and approval of our board bylaws and Exhibits everybody had a chance to go through those have a motion to approve these as a package I thank you all in favor item 4.2 our resolution 2.3.1 sh prevention mon this and the next uh one are ones that we um recognize there are lots of there's lots of um agencies or programs or causes that have a month and these are two that we think are um related to the work that we do so we want to bring them to you as we do every year and then there will be various activities that
003MC and our schools do in recognition of these months Wonder thank you do we have a motion to approve all in favor so approve item 4.3 resolution 2.3.2 National Autism Awareness Month had a chance to read that one do I have a motion to approve second thank you all in favor fine so approved item 4 that wasn't supposed to be aoll call was I no okay um item 4.4 review and approve the second intern budget report you've got such a nice room going we kind of hate to slow it but we have um some information that's quite um pertinent and Suzanne stey our director of internal fiscal um will present welcome good morning okay so I'm going to go over the second interim budget today but first I wanted to um before I dive into
004the second interim I wanted to explain the budget cycle for schools and county offices um there I think you all have a copy um the next slide is this is a graph of graphic for our budget cycle we have three budgets during the year the first one is a June adopted budget then we have first in and then second in I included closing the books in this graphic because that um has a bearing on the inter budgets the next um page is explaining the budget cycle a little bit further the purpose of the budget is to allocate resources meet goals and ensure that public funds are spent responsibly interum budgets are developed so that we can monitor and adjust the different budget components according to the goals of the County office the Tim timeline for
005budget and fiscal work for the year begins the June adopted budget this is developed during the Spring of each year and it must be adopted and submitted to California Department of Education by June 30th before we are begin our work on interim budgets we have to close the books and we close a prior Year's books during the summer and early fall each year the result of closing the books are a set of documents called unaudited actuals and those are due to the Department of Education by October 15th the next budget in the cycle is first interim the first interim budget is significant because it's developed after we close the books so we can more accurately project our revenues and expenditures for the Year this is due by December 15th to Califoria k b the final
006budget in the cycle is second interim and that's developed in February each year and it's due March 15 and it includes actual revenues and expenses through January 31st and then we project the budget for the remainder of the year the second in budget will be presented today and um everything looks great on this budget and it presents a positive Financial outlook for the year the county school service fund is our general fund and this graphic here is a snapshot of the major components of the budget um The Columns labeled 2425 second ter and difference will be reviewed the difference column are changes from the first interim budget so you can see that we have projected beginning fund balance of 29.690510 [Music] million which is a $561,000 increase the net increase or decrease to fund balance
007is a decrease of a little over $5 million and then our ending fund balance is 24.6 million which is an increase of 117,000 so this next one is also a snapshot of the budget but it's more detail and it um gives more detail on the different Revenue sources and expenditure types this is incl in your budget book um where it's probably easier to read and this is what I'll go over in more detail so the first major component of the budget is the beginning fund balance our beginning fund balance is 2969 million the actual beginning fund balance is known once we close the prior Year's books and have determined the ending fund balances the prior year ending fund balance becomes the current year beginning fund balance said that right ending fund balance includes amounts equal
008to restricted reserves commitments assignments an amount designated for economic uncertainty and an unappropriated amount the beginning fund balance includes funding that may have been received in Prior years but not spent in those years when Revenue that has been received but not fully spent and the and the resource allows for an ining fund balance those amounts become part of the ending fund balance and then in turn the beginning fund balance of the subsequent year rather than being shown in the revenue accounts These funds are available to spend so you'll see the budgeted expenses in the budget but not the uh revenues because it's all in the being fund balance next major component of the budget are revenues and revenues consist of federal state state and local sources the projected revenues are $26.4 million which is an
009increase of $679,000 federal revenues decreased 141,000 our local assistance entitlement which is the federal education um funding decreased in the portion that passed through to MC from Sela um all social education revenues are allocated to Sela and then there are several off the top expenses on the self's budget some of those expenses off the toop expenses are pass through passrs to mcoe to run our special ed programs special education Ida ARP funding was removed as it's no longer available and that was $50,000 there was an increase to supportive inclusive practices of 27,000 State revenues increased 56,000 and that's to workability increase of $122,000 um that's student wages paid and we're reimbursed for those wages paid so that's why the the expense went up but also the revenue went up the alternative education student support an
010enrichment decrease $10,000 and that's because there was a slight 8 in uh decrease at V1 we added infant discretionary funding of $16,000 the funding was removed first interim because we thought that we were no longer going to be allocated that but then it was restored for second interim and then we added the community uh School partnership funding of 57,500 local revenues increased $764,000 um inter agency Services expenses increased 21,000 so the amounts that are paid by those agencies for those Services um increas well title three incre increased $20,000 because we new a board the special education allocation from selfa to MCO increased $40,000 early start allocation increased 25,000 early start is our infant program we added a few new funding sources the 21st century regional academy for uh 57,000 we added technical assistance for the
011California community School Grant of 120,000 we added a donation from minnes County Juvenile Justice for homeless student um snack packs and that was $50,000 and then we added the healthcare career pathway funding $322,000 and that's for a new CNA program that we're going to run next year um for through our adult education um program expenditures are also a major component of the budget expenses include salaries benefits supplies equipment Services utilities and our total projected expenditures are 31.4 million which is an increase of $561,000 total salaries are 15.1 million and that's a decrease an increase I'm sorry of 212,000 for first inter we added salaries per the new funding sources that I previously mentioned there were also um slight increases due to substitutes for staff out on leave and supplemental hours things like that and then
012the major um component of this increase is $100,000 that was um contributed to self program specialist costs from our educator Effectiveness funds so we move those expenses from Sela to our educator Effectiveness resource total benefits are $6.5 million which is an increase of 29,000 from first inum and those benefits just increased in conjunction with salary increases our benefit cost to salaries is 43.61 it's been hovering around 43% for the last couple of [Applause] years materials and supplies is $1.1 million and that's an increase of 153,000 these increases are in conjunction with new or increased funding sources most notably the snackpack donation healthc care um career pathway K12 Redwood initiative and a 21st centur century regional academy we also made adjustments to Department budgets for the actual expenditures to date traveling conferences is 98,000 and that's
013an increase of $233,000 and again those are because of those increase or new Awards rentals leases repairs is $148,000 that's a slight increase of $22,000 but it's mainly due to a Master lease agreement with Enterprise where we're going to start leasing vehicles for hard fet rather than purchasing them it'll be a cost savings overall professional and Consulting Services is $4.8 million which is a decrease of 102,000 some of our projected expenses move to other expenditures per our actual so when I'm developing the budget I I look and see what our actuals to dat are and project out what they might be through the end of the year and if we're um over spending or under spending we need may need to move um expenses between other types of expenses so from supplies to Services vice
014versa the next major component component of the budget is the increase or decrease the fund balance the result of revenues less expenditures is either a surplus or deficit a surplus means there are more revenues than expenditures and a deficit me there are more expenditures than revenues the second inter projects deficit spending as many expenses are covered by the beginning fund balance rather than Revenue as previously explained prior year revenues that were received received and not spent in that year are included in the beginning fund balance to cover the EXP expenses and subsequent years we have a substantial beginning fund balance to cover our deficit our second interim projected deficit is less than the first in projection the final component of the budget is ending fund balance County School service fund our general fund ending fund
015balance is $24.6 million which is increase of 117,000 ending fund balance is calculated by taking the beginning fund balance adding revenues and subtracting expenses and then this amount offsets the deficit our ending fund balance is comprised of various types of reserves according to their function restriced programs are 1.09 million restricted balances are related to Grants and can only be used for specific purposes commitments are $5.9 million those these are amounts committed by the board for specific purposes and our commitments are facilities upgrades technology upgrades District loans and stir and Pur increases our assignments are $715,000 these are unrestricted balances and those are in unrestricted resources such as lottery or the medical administrative activities then we have a reserve for economic uncertainty and that is $4.7 million this equals approximately 15% are our total general fund
016expenditures and this would cover a few months of essential expenses during times of fiscal instability we've never had to use that unappropriated or unassigned is $12.1 million and that's up from first interim 28,000 this is not reserved for any specific purpose this is the amount remaining after all of the other expenses and components of any fund balance have been determined and this amount can be used to cover deficit spending or other emergent contingencies that occur during the year so in summary our beginning balance is healthy at 29.6 million and a large portion of this is spending down onetime funds and carryover from multi-year Grants our Revenue projections have increased to $26 million our expenditures have also increased in conjunction with funding changes and they are 31 million there's a net decrease to fund balance of
017five 5 million and deficit spending is projected as previous explained however we have a healthy beginning balance to cover this our ending fund balance is projected to be 24.6 million unappropriated ending balance is also up from first interim at $12 million MCO is in a good position for fiscal year 2425 and we will be able to meet our financial obligations for the current year and two subsequent Years thank you so much right any questions I have so it looks like we're spending a little bit more than we put in leftover funds will cover that that's not going to come out of our that is correct yes so there we always um have that little bit of a of a deficit spending because there are always amounts in Prior years that we've received have not spent
018so those fall out to the ending balance which become the beginning balance so those are already included in that beginning balance so rather than it's showing in a in a revenue um Source it's showing in the beginning balance it's good I like seeing a little reserv yes me [Laughter] too okay any other questions that was my question as well I didn't quite understand how we were in a healthy position I wasn't sure whether I should ask because it's in Heather's report as well shows the five million deficit how can that how can we be in a healthy position okay and when we close the books it's always a better we trust you okay question you going to I know I just saw Heather's you she just all okay just curious if you were G to
019speak up [Music] too okay all in favor thank you moving on to item 4.5 you approve of 2025 Ford goals hey so what's attached there is what Incorporated the changes that the board made uh at the Friday meeting is that correct verica correct so as you'll recall there's not a lot of changes there um Veronica where where changes um the changes were made in um second to the last second to the last bullet and the one um under so yes second to the last bullet the board will explore our changings to educational educating Local District governing boards on employee housing options and the board works for for use of their property and then there was one other one you guys did which was I believe I don't I know it was only on Friday but
020it seems like I thought I had my piece of right I don't think there was another addition I think we had two Chang we we did um so one thing that we struck was um uhe commun communting with Community leaders and then in the first bullet um the uh calendar yeah there had been language in the first or second buet about giving you um a year um a a an activity calendar or something like that yeah that'll come which we we actually have a calendar a list to give you that that was taken out for the sake of the public that might be listening because information doesn't all come at one time it's just ongoing information to the board so we didn't want to make it sound like you get a oneandone sort of document
021that that's really ongoing communication about events that board members can go to all right any more questions on item 4.5 for our board goals ation to approve I'll second so moved moving on to item 4.6 the official cspa 2025 delegate assembly ballot this comes to you I think it's is this annual I think it um at any rate there's only one person Michael Greer who is the current representative and he's only the only person on the ballot this time as well no he's all right any questions need a motion to approve our ass I move to approve our delegate assembly um representative thank you can I get thank you all in favor item 4.7 our prospective Bo M intr and appointments sort of took a turn this weekend it did um so we had two
022applicants both have withdrawn um since then we've heard a couple of other people that may be interested but we have Frank zoder from school and college here um so that we the board can discuss um potential next steps and if there are any questions we wanted to make sure that there was legal council here available to get those questions answered um uh the this position has to be filled by March 28th otherwise we need to go to an election and so one idea that the board may consider is opening it up again and then setting we had set the the deadline based on having the interviews in a regular board meeting um we certainly can schedule a special board meeting just to interview applicants and closer to the 28th yeah and so reopen it and
023still try to go through the appointment method because it is much cheaper um we don't want to spend taxpayer many when we don't need to um so that would be one option but um if that is an option we may want to revisit some of the questions that we asked on the application because as I recall on Friday there was some questions some concerns that maybe one of our questions um was not appropriate um regarding do you have children in school so anyway that's kind of where we're at um and the board um we wanted to reopen it up Frank I believe they would need to take an um move make a motion to extend the application deadline for candidates is that right correct yeah okay so we can do that so can um so
024we can do we have to have a motion on the floor before we discuss the details fre that's not necessary you can discuss it and then somebody can make a motion based on the prior discussion I have a question reading through one of the applications of the uh candidates um they did mention that they were unavailable this day would it be a possibility to reschedule the interview um without opening up he has s that he this yeah I don't think that was yeah yeah he mentioned that in his application but when we I spoke to him I was worried about that on Friday and I called him and I left the message and as soon as I left the message he emailed me and said that he was withdrawing his application and it was for
025purposes other than just un just um after considering it he didn't he didn't say why I I made it really clear that we could have the zoom Tim in if we needed to do interview so it wasn't because of that yeah that was my next question for Frank was if we do need to make it on a work day after five can we all attend you zo you you can if you have enough speed time to do it according to the um I think traditional teleconferencing is the only way that you can everybody can zoom in um the the one that allowed everybody to zoom under the pandemic that's defunct right now because it's there but it's only available if there's a public health emergency and then the other one there's the two new Provisions
026that allow at least till the end of this year legisl keeps extending these out like a year at a time um the just cause and the emergency circumstances that one does require that there be a quum in the same room basically uh under traditional teleconference say excuse me everyone can be on Zoom but you have to then publicize where you're calling in from public has the right to attend at each end of those meetings at least a forum has to be in the territory which would be somewhere within the county basically so um because we've had people obviously zooming in from out of state and so forth um but um they still do have to have a forum in the territory but in theory again if you have all the other requirements such as a
027handicap accessible place where people could attend if they wanted to at remote locations then yes I mean of course Fort Brag there is a police station has a zoom room they sometimes let people use okay yeah so yeah I mean there'd be ways to set it up so it wouldn't have to be in a private home necessarily it just be someplace where people can in um and then if you meet all those requirements then everybody can zoom in and uh but you still have designate some places kind of we helping from that and similar to what we did uh for that very short special board meeting that we had um uh earlier um in February and we just made uh it available to the public here available to the public on the coast and then
028anyone that wanted to zoom in from their home posted their that their office was posted in the um the agenda so um that if we if we did that it seems quite accessible and probably we could find a day that would work for this bodies since it wouldn't require you to come in so that's great news so my next question is how do we go about changing um The Fill date for March 28th do we have to well I think we just need to repost it um and uh we can advertise again change on our website and change um a time change the deadline I think if we want to extend that if the board wants to extend that then I think the first step is to figure out what date we can have a
029special board meeting and then we would would make the deadline probably um at we would need to post the Agenda 24 hours in advance so we would make the deadline probably 48 hours in advance so that staff has time to make sure that everybody meets the criteria and all that stuff so um I think the first step would be to find that the date that would work for this board to convene and that is the me to a point the meeting to the point so and the meeting can take place on the 28th that is the deadline so if we could the same thing that happens we're right up against it so my recommendation would be that we try to move at least a week before maybe the 21st oh that's a crazy day for
030me but um like that week of the 17th through the 21st that way we have another week in case we have applicants cancel again just to I have a question I know we just did a first read and it was included in one of the policies that we had the first read on but is there a a time one that is that how long this has to be posted 24 hours as a if it's a special boarding it has to be no not but the the opening like no it's just and again if you have family or friends that you know of who might be interested it's always good to put the arm on them too I actually had to answer a question for K12 District about whether or not they they have to advertise
031for an interim superintendent and somebody thought that there was a legal requirement for that and I said no it's the same I was using the example of appointing somebody under the 509s to put somebody on a school board that if you have um a friend or someone who's expressed an interest in the past you can simply appoint that person without any particular process it's really just you know how much effort and time and money do you want to put into advertising and seeking candes so but you know other means are certainly available take advantage of and I think superintendent just indicated that there are people who yeah I think there's a couple people that are interested in it I think that the timeline snuck up on them or you know okay so we could probably
032we have to have the position posted for a certain okay thank you and then reach out to those folks make sure this off what if what if the recommendation was to extend it to our next board meeting and then you'd have an extra two weeks of but we don't we have to have it filled by March 28th I think you can extend that date that no it's 60 days yeah by by code that's 60 days and I'm not really sure who you know would be the police out there to enforce that but I guess somebody could then come along and try to challenge the appointment later the person were appointed after the 60 days um so if we um okay that's my question was yeah so it it's that's it and then after 6 60
033days we have to go yeah those code sections unfortunately are very unforgiving they said these deadlines which which I'm not really sure realistic but that's what the legislature decided to S us with but then we we host an election nobody if I just had this very thing and nobody filed yeah problem so they end up that yeah so I think I think that's what they did yeah they did it's kind of silly that we have 60 days that's that's the problem the school election I have availability on the 17th and on the 19th to have a meeting in the morning at 10 o' well we can also do um an um something after after hours because that right hours okay or like right at 4:45 or something know the last 15 minutes I'm a lot
034less um I could do Monday the 17th I could I could do Thursday the 20th Friday what about Monday the 24th that's I think Michelle has point of trying to do it sooner but I I Mondays kind of work better often and that would still give us plenty of time to review the applicants I can't do okay because the timeline for the applicants you know if we're opening it up it does if this is not well I do think we have some people that are going to get applications we open it but so if we do it on the 17th we have to have those applications in otherwise we resed right right which means that we're posting it for a handful of days I I think that's pretty tight I would recommend later at the
035week um I was hoping to come to the science that's this Saturday that's too soon yeah there is actually nothing preventing us from doing on a weekend though um at night well just evening y shall we do is the 20th three more days yeah 20 did you say 4:45 yeah here right yeah uh well we would post it here Fort Brag and remote if if anybody wants to attend remote so we could do all those things great although I don't March 20th at 44 here or Fort BR which would so when we Brank um when we want to go via Zoom our home I have to be ad compliant and I have to have wheelchair access but I have stairs yeah you wouldn't be able to use that unless you had some kind of like
036an outside like I could be outside in my does every spot have to be Ada compl every place that is listed as a meeting location remote but using traditional teleconference yeah we've even recommended to people when they're zooming in say from New York or from you know a different state or something that or different country that they they at least nominally nobody ever shows up obviously you know 3,000 miles away but just to be consonant with the rules that they should like hold in a meeting room like this as opposed to hotel room or their car just so that that way there's no argument later they violated that I could I could go down I'm just not waiting you must live like South Coast maybe or no I'm in dearwood but we have a hilly
037area and we have stairs everywhere oh but our parking lots FL H as long as I have internet access I going to say perhaps do it here too yeah oh I'm close enough to come here right yeah so um I think then um if um um I think that if we if the board wants to do that then we need a motion to extend it um extend the timeline and I think that if we're having a meeting on the 20th we would extend the timeline to uh say 5:00 P pm on the 18th which I don't think the board has to decide the deadline um that just for your information I think that's when we would close it so we have have sufficient time to go through them and prepare them and post them um
0384:45 on the 20th so I think the Board needs to make a motion to um extend the period and to hold um a special board meeting on 20th at 445 and I think that that can be all the same motion am I correct Frank it can be all the same motion I'll I'll make the motion that we extend the open Bo seat um and hold the um interview on people favor yeah okay all right um I think one thing that um Frank since you're here um there was some question about one question that we have on the application is um do you do you have children or grandchildren in the school something along those lines um and the board was a little bit uncomfortable with that and I I I understand that is that a
039question that we should not ask should we rephrase it to what connection do you have with schools is do you have some recommendation there I think something a little more General like that because again you know it's kind of the classic thing about why do you want this job basically it's kind of the position you know what or what connection do you have to the schools that gives you an interest in this oring something like that so doesn't have to be so specific about because again having children is certainly not a requirement sure and in job applications of course you're prohibited from asking about whether they have a family so right and I think now you have a little more discretion when you're appointing a public official but I think you can make it just
040it's kind of unseen sure thank all right okay thank you Frank for being here one more question on so if if worst case scenario we get applicants they cancel again what is our backup plan because we have eight days at that point um should we should we just look at our calendars and free up potential other day um should we make sure we roll the 28th open just in case I'm just uh we could agend we could um we could when we post that special board meeting um we could agendize a backup at that board meeting okay I would recommend we do that just and as board members just be thinking because it can happen well even if they all apply and the board doesn't feel comfortable with a selection or there's not a majority
041vote right then we would still have some question question to answer so that's a good point do need to make a motion to change that no that's just a suggestion for us okay okay all right more questions for Frank thank you Frank thank you I'm moving on to item 5.1 press release our 39 Menino County science and engineering Fair our steam Expo yes you might have seen that our wonderful yes done doing some great work on that if you've probably seen that in the paper or in some of the news um online news sources so that's coming up this Saturday and if you can come it'd be great it's fun to watch if you even if you just drop by and if you can't we understand but um it's the an event that the um
042MCA puts on a lot of events um this is the one that involves the most MC staff by a long shot so it's a fun one to come and if you can come the it's an all day thing pretty much the prime time to come would be between 2:30 and 4 um four o'clock is when we'll do um Awards um 2:30 you'll be able to it's the the exhibits will be open to the public prior to that um students will be presenting to judges and whatnot but at 2:30 the public can just walk through and see the um presentations thanks all right moving on item 6.1 into school reports and student enrollment reports so this comes every month and you can kind of see the numbers there I don't know if you have any questions
043everything pretty status any concerns or questions moving on to item 6.2 MC HR our February Personnel report we' got some new hes uh do you have any questions about it I just accidentally closed My AG so I'm reopening it right now straight forward moving on to IM 6.3 our ed services Report with Dr Nicole so a lot of good things going on in ed services I just want to call out a few things for you um first of all you already know about the science fair that's coming up for the past two week weekends has been very busy we had um playing practice from our Early Education and Care they had a a large number of people here this past weekend and the prior weekend before that we had um our expanded learning team was
044doing a conference that they helped uh set up in somoma County so our staff has been putting on large conferences and have been attending a lot of trainings I want to call out our Foster and homeless supports um many of you may know that there was a fire on Lovers Lane in ukay um where several um individuals lost their home or they are not able to get back in because things are shut down and our Foster and homeless have been um connecting our families there with support so I want to call out their efforts and make sure that you know that um couple things coming up we are going to cab which is the California Association for bilingual educators conference it is in Long Beach this year and usually there's anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000
045bilingual Educators or educators of English Learners um we have a large team going and we have several of our districts going we have a team from Brown Valley we have individual from lonville Willet team Fort Brag um trying and then us and then Manchester so we have about between 20 and 25 of us all going um to experience the conference and we are all looking forward to that and supporting our English Learners moving forward so we're very excited about that and then we have been doing our differentiated assistance meetings with our districts and we have those almost complete and it's been a great experience to collaborate with them and hear what their needs are and how we might fulfill those uh as we move forward and Jennifer Bailey and jennif M has been doing a
046lot of work on those so I want to mention those two staff members are there any questions thank you one TI old okay yeah well I've been having problems with my auto correct too and I can see how odd would be old moving on to item 6.4 does Services report with r yeah good morning I will um highlight just a few things as well um in our internal fiscal Services was Suzanne you just heard her second interim budget presentation um there's a lot that goes into it just such an excellent job so I wanted to commend her for that um her team is also preparing um to and do some training um in our agency around um requisitions and kind of some of our fiscal practices and we've hired a new account Tech 2 which
047is the MC payroll um and she started a couple weeks ago her name is Bethany so we're excited to have her part of our team um we also have a new um person helping with our AP review of districts um her name Mich Michelle De la Rosa and so we're also excited to have her we filled the fiscal um advice their position and that person will be coming to us from one of our districts in the county um and we'll be starting on July 1st um our fiscal teams are very excited about science fair they love getting involved in that and helping in any way they can so they're um you know working on some of those things um and under our risk manager she is working on the comprehensive school safety plan which you'll
048see next month um for review um we're also uh gearing up for open enrollment for health insurance that that and that typically is around April or May we don't have the date set yet but we're um working on getting that prepared um it is working on feels like it's like never ever like never kind of finishing up But continuing continuing work on e-at submissions and helping districts with that um they're also um working to do some of the installs four of the districts in the county um and then we're going to be working on some of the microphone issues that we've had um in this room so that we're hoping we'll be um ready for the next board meeting in maintenance and operations um we are we've been seeking applications for um EV Chargers and
049kind of like getting the infrastructure so we've submitted an applications for Grants um it does look like we're going to be given six um e charters so we're excited about that um it still requires infrastructure and other things to get into place so um that's where those grants will come into place um and then uh let's see Suzanne mentioned that we have contracted with Enterprise to leas some over Vehicles we did a cost analysis of that um and looking at purchasing Vehicles over time you know there's a l some up front and then when as we're putting money into it it just wasn't as cost effective as leasing some of our our vehicle so we are leasing um three Toyota Camry rap 4S which are all well drives um and we expect those to be
050arriving around May and then a Toyota R 4 um which will be here around September so we're really excited about that I think staff there's been such a need for it too um so they're I think also very excited about it and I think that is all I have at this time most questions I a couple questions I the Ed charg you pretty much answered that do we have a a spot or are we just looking at spots that they might go um we have an idea of where we would like them to go um which is on in the main parking lot but on the other end um but with that there are some 8 compliance um and half of travel requirements that we have to look into see if that would be possible
051so we might have to split it up a little bit uh but we'll be will be working with those vendors to to the appropriate and um question on the Vehicles we're purchasing for ML do they share those are they specific vehicles for people can use or do they stay here and that's a good question we have um because we have the two School sites we have the fleet that's here and then we have the coast office so we are going to be designating um some of these vehicles are replacing some of those aging ones um and then we're adding two additional one for the coast and one for our River Campus um but those are available like if somebody from a school wants to be able to utilize those they would be able to reserve
052that as well um and then we do have more School site specific vehicles for like student transportation like that I just imagine maintenance was being more of a pickup truck not a yeah so it was just are you referring to maintenance Vehicles though well it was under M that's because that's the department that manages our vehicles oh okay yeah okay like they're not for okay no they're for people whatever yeah what else do I I think that it that's great St need I mean it's important have crazy roads that we drive have good gas mileage is great too yeah yeah they do have great it looks like the the vehicles that will be least will be hybrids yes they're all hybrids and all drive as well so they'll get approximately 51 miles per gallon which
053is great it's more efficient than I vehicles that we and I think we recognized our um ukay team for mock trials the last meeting as well it's just so we're so used to them winning but I have a little bit in my report on okay that was in here too um any other questions or comments besides mine I was a good all righty moving right along to item 6.5 our superintendence report with yes I'll start with the mock trial so February 8 was the Mino County Mock Trial Competition um apparently there's a a wild card draw that draws a county that gets if there's an odd number of teams going to the state champions um more than one count more than one team can go from a particular County so in our County Yukaya unified
054or High School um won the mock trial lonville came in second and since we had a wild card draw they get to go to state as well so that is very exciting and they had they both had excellent teams so that's um I'm I'm really glad to see that there's so much work that goes into it and since we're a smaller County our competition is all done in one day where in larger counties they might go multiple times over a period of a week or two weeks um so it's it's great for the lonville team and the ukai high school team that they get to continue with their work can go to um the state which the state competition which is held March 14th through the 16th in Los Angeles so we are um proud
055of them and excited for them um this last well last since since question tra yeah um so seems like we have the same schools that compete year after year is there um any uh effort or method to try to get more schools actually there there has been and um this year we uh we had a new a school that was going to have a team and then um that didn't work out due to numbers but we are trying to get more teams because we it's better for it's better for everyone if there's more teams yes yeah and we had some fantastic middle school teams this year as well correct so they'll be up yes from different districts or you know I don't remember y Charter Schools I think that they were uh it was a
056Fort Brag charter school and oh I actually I think I have it here um oh no I didn't put it out but yeah Tree of Life had one yeah um since the last time I was here since I I missed the February um board meeting um but I wanted to let you know I've been um out and about I was at Menino high school and Yukaya High School I I did Cass presentations on very different subjects um um in those schools what Medico High School I was presenting to a social studies class on um legislation being elected official answering their questions um they were very engaged and then Yukaya High School um I got to present to some um CTE um students on resume writing and um uh finding jobs using AI for you know
057your application and for resume and you know in in an authentic way so that was that was a fun time as well um we had an all staff meeting on February 26 we have quarterly all staff meetings and we um one thing that we try to do in every all staff meeting is have a different program or Department present so that our staff can see some of the work we have some of our work is so spread out that um we want our staff to feel like a team and know how their work connects to other people's work so um this last month we had um Bessie glossinger present on her um she's our Extended Learning specialist coordinator I can't remember her title any she did she gave a great presentation and then we gave
058we talked about um impact with Federal mandates um this last Saturday or March 1st the teachers on teaching at Medico College they did their annual teachers on teaching conference it's a really unique and cool conference that they do where they have teachers come present on teaching so the practitioners from Lake men counties come and present to other practitioners um really really well done and the college does a great job with that um we had uh teachers from Yukaya and Potter Valley were both presenting I don't think we had any others this year um so it's a good time to see some of our professionals highlight some of their good work there was also a student panel in the morning that were um some college students um from uh Community College uh fouryear college and somebody
059in the master's program as well really talking about resiliency and Trauma and for practices and things that they wish Educators would have known about how they handled their own trauma in class really well done and the afternoon I wasn't able to stay but there was also a um a panel of high school students actually the morning panel also included a high school student so really well done that's the first time I've seen them include um panel student panelists in the teachers on teaching and they they did it really really well um I want to share with you some advocacy that I've been involved in um at our meeting on Friday I talked to you a little bit about a trip to Sacramento um in addition to that where where we met with legislators in addition
060to that um this last week I sent letters to Senator Adam Schiff Senator Alex B and representative Huffman to reauthorize a secure rural schools act um this is funding that comes to schools that has to be reauthorized which is It's seems like it has to be reauthorized um every time we turn around we're talking about all the time because it's um money that school that districts um um due to uh that have high Forest you know uh um what am I trying to say here National Forest yeah National Forest in their in their County or in their District get a certain amount of funds because that that Forest decreases their base for their their tax base so um this this advocacy um was through this uh small school district Association um who was in um
061their director was in Washington on Monday so he wanted to have letters in hand um when he met with with these Representatives also um a letter to assembly member U marsi um supporting assembly Bill 401 and this is regarding the Career Technical incentive grants um I I spoke a little bit to you about this on Friday um this this funding um there is a lot of funding that um gets the cola the cost of living adjustment this funding does not which means that that money is worth less and less that those grants are worth less and less every year so this bill does two things it um it would make the grant the be a four-year cycle rather than a one-year cycle and apply the cola to it the one-year cycle um makes it so
062long-term planning can be really difficult and Partnerships with like um colleges um and community colleges can be difficult because in building a partnership you want to know how long can we plan for so this is really important um legislation that I I think is getting um I I feel optimistic will pass and then also this uh last week a letter um in support of the county of men's US Forest Service Community Wildfire defense grant program um so that was a the county asked us for a letter of support and we were happy to give it and to close I want to encourage you as you leave today to go through the main building and in the entry way we have um Student Art up um their entries for the um science uh um Expo yeah
063the steam science technology education arts and Mathematics so it's the art one of the art components of the steam Expo so you can see um copies of them on display in the entryway there that is my report are there any questions I was wondering if I could see the letter that you wrot about Nation Forest sure I mean it's trouble not minute or anything I'm very I feel very bested in that as well sure are you talking about the fire defense yeah that's a different yeah no but I no but the other one was the forested area we get oh yeah yeah I can show you that yeah yeah that was my question any more questions okay um moving on to board member reports um let's just go down the line starting with Michelle all
064right thank you um well I want to invite the board to an opportunity at Willet middle school on Wednesday or Thursday sorry at 3:30 on it's the 13th um Beck Ro is having a ribbon cutting for site and um there's some big wigs from Blue zones LLC that are coming to visit um it's really exciting opportunity for be bro I know um principal Chris Kenny is very excited so to see and Chris Kenny sorry um to see uh County board members from Trill or any County Board me people I know it really excited um I also was it's the 13th I can send something out because I asked Chris if it's okay to extend to the board members and so I have something I was going to share with you later today and I so
065I can get you a link to the information on that I'm a total Beek for PBIS materials and I happen to be at the dollar store and they have the cutest little um kindness Bingo cards at the dollar store right now and they are completely appropriate for um like Elementary even Middle School teachers I thought um so here you go Dr ad um they're super cute they've got things like let someone have a turn before you you know tell a joke or make someone laugh read a book with another classmate smile at someone today they're just very cute little um kind of PBIS things that spread kindness so thought I'd share and uh I just really appreciated our workshop on Friday um it's nice to spend time with everyone yeah so thank you thank you
066um I'll go next I was going to talk about a workshop as well I was so impressed with the noo Harbor I've never been I haven't been there in probably 25 years I was there when it was just an old restaurant it was an excellent restaurant but it changed hands a lot back in these days it was really hard to keep it going I was amazed and I can't wait to go back there again I think we got a lot done um I want to talk I think that was it moving on to Dawn well you know I'm still on the housing committee and I read all those emails all times but I'm a little bit frustrated in terms of how do you really proceed in all that and so and of course it somewhere
067along the line the county hired someone may it was the School Board Association or something that was a housing Specialist of some sort csba did yeah yeah and so I'm looking for help there I well they assured us that they would be contacting us for a County Board of Education work group on housing that would that's yeah so I have not heard back I have reached out to them a couple times now and they have assured both times that they will be setting up that work group okay that's good yeah okay well again you know we talked about doing our our uh board workshop and that was really a great experience I liked how we got to get a little interactive with you know each other and Define what our leadership uh skills were like
068and that was I thought that was really fun and it gave us a chance to get to know people a little bit more um I remember doing the um New Bo of trust County Board of trustee workshop with csba and one of the things that they touched upon was the importance of building a positive board culture and I feel like that was something really important for us to come together and do I wish we would have had a new person installed um at that time because I think it would have been great to get to know um the new board of trustee uh but I thought that was great and I hope we get to do more things like that in the future we had some really good discussions too so that was definitely an
069afternoon spent um um and the other thing I guess to report is I more as a as a parent rather than just a community volunteer or in official capacity um was work at the safe and sober fundraiser for the class of 2025 for report brag and we had some great turnout um thank you for coming participating and supporting the class um but yeah it was a it was a great event you thank you for um was do that fun activity for us that was that was great okay I thought of one other thing know I read through all of our board I'm impressed they were really nice guidelines for board members in there and so many things but there was one thing that I think is missing and it's important to me because when I
070was teaching I did some very good teacher training with the c and I look at all of those goals and it's also kind of a good description job description of what the county does I don't remember see anything there about amount of training next year see well you know one thing that um we are trying to um that staff is trying to do better is um keep you in the loop on some of the stuff that we're doing um because the the there is so much training going on the training that I attended um this Saturday um put on by our Early Education and Care Group there were over a hundred um people involved in that and the the presenter is a local um a local educator and author and um it was so well
071done so we are doing a lot of that but I think you're often not in the loop on that so um not that we are going to be reporting every time we do a training because it you would stop paying attention because there's a lot of that but um I think the department updates that we do or the program updates where they talk about like the training that they do for staff we'll incorporate that um the the training component into the presentations that we do to make sure that you guys are in yeah and again it should be written up in the board RS because the boards give a good description of what the county is doing training there's a nice feature on our website I think it's the very first page you come to
072there is a section says upcoming events and professional learning calendar so I like checking that bring to see what up to there is a lot that's happening there's a lot I recognize it's a lot but it's not there in our board goals well that's an interesting thing I think maybe we should talk to um our presenter when we do the good Beginnings because um you know is is that a board goal or a superintendent goal because that is within I gave you a synopsis of the two goals that I have but those synopsis synops I don't know those those are in in the work that I'm doing I have those in a like a big document and within that is you know is is where the professional development of internal and external staff comes in
073um so I don't know if that is something that is a board goal or or an agency goal I the board can set their own goals that is for sure um with or without input from superintendent or others but I think that's definitely something that we should talk to him about um because I think the goals are great too and those every year kind of revisit them and adjust them but um kind of see what his thoughts are on that and I think on your 2025 goals as County Superintendent you do I mean it's not it doesn't list how you will support but it offers that you know will be support to all these different types yeah yeah because there the the training that MC does is a major part of what we do it's
074a big it's always it's always happening yes coms questions absolutely um moving on to item we don't have any close session we go to our closing items item 8.1 our next order meeting is Monday April 14th 2025 no that'll be our next regular goinge March 20 yeah yeah yes 20th yes andil okay 14 um and item moving on to item 8.2 our adjournment do we have the motion to [Music] adjourn thank you guys thank you