001We areing we are reconvening to open session at 5:35. Um in close session the board took action to issue a notice of nonreelection andor release one temporary teacher pursuant to code section 4492921 and 4494 effective at the end of the 242 school year and directed the superintendent to send out appropriate legal notices. The roll call vote was followust. Trustyman Iusty Iusty. was made by a motion of for action on student discipline cases number 50 51 52 and 53. So moved. Is there a second? Second call for the vote. Let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. Is there a motion for the approval of the agenda? So moved. Is there a second? Moving on to general public comment period. The meeting is recorded. Individuals addressing the board are asked to fill out a speaker card located
002in the back of the room. Complete a blue card to speak to an item not not on the agenda and a yellow card to speak to an item on the agenda. Please return the to the administrative secretary of the governing board. Individuals addressing the board shall be limited to three minutes each with no more than 20 minutes per topic. During this portion of the agenda, the public is invited to comment on items which are not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of trustees. The board will take no action at this time but may refer the issue for further consideration. Individuals who wish to comment on agenda items shall be provided an opportunity to comment after the staff report and before the board's consideration of that item. Individuals who
003cannot wait to address the board when the agenda item is addressed may make their comments at this time. I have um one card. Um I have come to this Good evening board members, cabinet superintendent thanking the two positions that had been taken when first opened. My name is Ruben. I have proudly served as Golden Valley High School for nearly 20 years. Tonight I come before you with a heavy heart and a deep sense of urgency. In my two decades of service, I have never felt as unsafe on a campus as I do right now. The are tasked with carrying radios to be the communication bridge from the outside in along with monitoring student entry, checking IDs and ensuring that Only our enrolled students are on campus. However, at this time, we have no control over
004any of our gates. This is largely due to the lack of administrative presence and support during critical times like morning, arrival, breaks, and lunch. I want to thank Superintendent Peterson for the email that you following our discussion about concerns at Golden Valley. Unfortunately, despite your acknowledgement, we have seen no meaningful change changes. The gates remain unmanaged and supported and support is still, excuse me, support is still absent during key times of the day. Let me share just a few examples. On January 14th, 2025, There was an armed hold up at CVS on Parson's near our school. No lockown was called. Students were allowed to leave campus for lunch even while the suspect was reportedly in the immediate area. In fact, the suspect made it all the way to the yellow gates in the parking lot.
005Still no lockown. In another incident, a student brought a firearm onto campus. The The only reason we discovered it was because another student told their parent who then came to campus and reported it. This incident, as you may know, was covered in the media. I encourage you speak with the teachers of the class. They have a story to tell that we all need to hear. These are not isolated events. We are seeing a trend of growing disorder and lack of accountability. Many staff feel unsafe, unsupported. There is a sense that students are running the campus. If that's my time, there will be an email to follow. I appreciate your time. Thank you. So we move on to reports of local indicator results. All right, good evening board members. Janette McCauley, Ed services, and I am
006back this week to talk about our local indicators. Um this is one of the things that changed last year with the state of California that we are to present the local indicators the day that the LCAP is put as an action item. Um our local indicators um are part of the LCAP already and they are pulled from data typically from our own systems which I'll talk about here. There'll still be some state data throughout and this helps us guide us as we write the LCAP and helps assist us when we do our goals or actions for the LCAP. So throughout the state, there's actually 10. The last two are for the county. And today for the presentation, we're only going to be talking about the ones that state local next to them. State and local
007are again um in our LCAP. And again, we're reflecting about last year's data to help us prepare for the 2526 LCAP. So some of the new things that changed um again is that number two where we have to uh shows the result results, excuse me, as a non-consent item at our public meeting. This is an annual measure for our progress for our LCFF. And um later this summer, Mrs. Ballinger and I will actually update the California State dashboard with our results also. So, we're going to get right into it. Our first one is basic conditions for learning. And we measure this by appropriately assigned teachers, access to curriculum aligned instructional materials and also safe, clean and functional functional school facilities. And so we look at our teachers who are fully credentialed and without a full
008credential. That includes our teachers who are on internships, emergency permits, and waiverss. Um this year we had 79 teachers teaching out of the credential area. And typically that's our coaches, our athletic coaches. that last period of a day does still count against us. This actually was reduced from last year where we had 105 teachers teaching out of their area. Um all students across our district have their own copies or excuse me that have access to their own copies of curricular materials and our fit report measures our facilities and good repair and we also increased on that 8.52% from last year to 98.5. So, MUHSD has met local control federal funding priority number one. Number two is our implementation of state standards and this is a little different. So, we have to kind of take our
009feedback throughout the year. So, throughout the LCAP process, we take educational partner feedback. Throughout the year, we also take uh surveys. And so we use our results here from our staff surveys and our educational partners that include students, families and community partners along with staff um as we measure these. And so again providing professional learning with our academic standards and curriculum framework, we have between initial and then full implementation sustainability. So, these are two different ones and that's mainly because um we just adopted our new curriculum in science and then with our history and social studies, we're developing the curriculum guides to help us guide through the assessments. So, that's why we're kind of at the initial stages with those two core areas. And then with math and ELA, we're at the full full implementation
010sustainability um with our continual collaborations and our benchmarks that are going. Um our next one, how we're between fullation and sustainability for our instructional materials with our academic standards. Um this goes again with our social studies and sciences that will be meeting more to collaborate and make sure they have their curriculum aligned with the standards and the curriculum that we have adopted. And so throughout our professional learning um we are always focused on our academic standards. And so throughout this MUHSD has met priority number two. parent engagement. Here we also brought in our California healthy kids survey on top of everything we received in our partner educational partner feedback. Um so our educa um our California healthy kids survey right now helps us gather information just one survey. Um we sent out another parent survey
011this last month you know so we help plan for next year. In August, we reach out to parents again um with more surveys and sites are doing their own surveys. And so again, we could only pull from so many surveys as we did this. Um but from the California Healthy Kids survey, we have increased with parents agreeing or strongly agreeing that schools allow input and welcomes parent contribution up to 71%. Parents are rating communication meaningful and beneficial. That also increased 7% to 68%. and we increased all the way up to 91% for schools providing information to parents. So again, we're doing a great job getting the message out there. And we know as we continue to work together that's bringing them really find out what their needs are to help support their child and their
012children um go through our high schools. And so again, MUHSD has met priority number three, school climate, we jump to number six. and again our state indicators but we of course we want to highlight these that our suspension rate and our expulsion rates have dropped and decreased. Um again that was presented last week and for the local indicators again pulling our own data um students are rating school safety is 49%. Again we see that as kind of a midle but that is an increase from last year and so it's great to see a 4% increase and that school connectedness at 50% which is a 3% increase. And again, um, when we do the California Healthy Kids survey, it's only our ninth graders and our 11th graders taking that survey. And so, it's this one day
013snapshot that these kids have multiple questions that they answer. Um, and so this kind of just gives us one view of how they're viewing um, their campus. And here we have met that's MHSD does provide safe school environments. Our last one here is priority number seven. access to a broad course of study. So, this is kind of a big one when we're talking about high school, right? In this master schedule planning, kids have the opportunity to take seven periods. And again, adding that extra seventh period has had the chance to really open the chances our students could take within their school uh calendar, excuse me, school year and their four years at the high school. And again, we are measuring um their access through ARIES um to making sure that we're tracking everything that we
014need to know for our students. But we also have adopted different programs like Parseek Go and Panorama to help measure um well Parseek Go helps us provide data to us and to making sure that we have clean data in areas to make sure we are supporting our families, our students and our staff the best we can. And then Panorama is a survey given multiple times a year to our students gauging where they are not only academically academically but also social emotional um to help us through that. And so throughout all this, MUHSD does provide our students with access to a broad course of study. That ends our local indicators presentation. Any questions? Question. Question, Miss McCauley. Yes. On the surveys, what is your participation uh rate? Do you have a lot of uh people responding
015to it? So, our panorama rate is well high with our students that we get multiple times a year. That's above 95%. Um, our California healthy kids survey, and I don't have it in front of me, so I'm going to get back to you. Um, but typically we are pretty high in getting every ninth and 11th grader to take that survey. We actually do it in their classes, so it's a part of their lessons that day. So, we have typically that great turnout. Um, when we send out the California surveys to our parents, and do not quote me on that this year, um, the last couple years were about 500 to 700 survey responses that we get back across the district. Um, you know, you know, when we're all kind of sending out surveys, it's a
016mix um to say how many we get. So, a lot of times, just as much as a survey, it's just just as important that we go and have those face-to-face conversations with our parents. And between a lot of our family engagement meetings that we have on campus and our student meetings, we're also getting that information from those parents to help us guide where we want to go. Thank you, Good evening. Um, tonight I wanted to bring a update on all of our superintendent goals. Um, remember our our superintendent goals start in January. So, this will be six months into this cycle of goals. Some of them are on their second year. Um, so we're a little bit farther along on those. But I wanted to start off with a reminder about our vision that every
017student walk off the graduation stage with a diploma in one hand and CTE certification and proficiency in the other along with college credit on their transcript. And we really, I think, do a good job using our vision to drive our goals. So, I wanted to share that. I wanted to share also that we I have some preliminary information for you on the scoreboard. And if you've been on the websites, you've probably seen the scoreboard. And this is only preliminary because we don't have all of our data back in yet. But for certifications, we have 1412 seniors who have earned 6,035 certifications so far. Um, that's compared to last year 1327 seniors earned certifications. So, we are up there and all of those haven't even been put in yet. So, that should grow also. And then
018for college credit, we have 677 seniors in this class who earn some sort of college credit. That one's probably going to grow by a lot because our dual enrollment um grades weren't in yet. So we didn't have that to run. So that should grow a lot. Last year we had um 730 earning credits. So I think we should surpass that once we get the dual the dual mold classes in there. So our first superintendent goal centered around instruction and this was the one with D being observed at level two plus 80% of the time and planning at level three plus for 20% of the time. And I'll share some data with with you on that in a second. But the second part is that we were going to provide professional development to increase DO. So
019I wanted to talk about that one actually first. Um so moving forward we we're going to continue to proide provide PD but this year um I feel like the deeper learning got implemented across the district. Um we do have nine deeper learning strategies that all teachers have been trained in and um they've tried them out in the spring using them. They set their own goals to use them. For next year we're going to add one more deeper learning strategy. It'll be a total of 10 as we move forward that teachers can pick and choose from to use in their classes and lessons. And that's a big thank you to our instructional coaches, our instructional men, mentors, TNLs at the sites, and then also our um ed services team on that work. For the data piece,
020um this is for the highest level of DO that our administrators are seeing in classrooms. Um so it's a pie chart there. You can see the different levels. Our goal is to be um at the okay level two plus 80% of the time. Semester one we saw 55.6% of the time. And then in um semester 2 59.7% of the time we saw growth. Um I'm not sure that walkthroughs are the best way to measure that, but that's really the only way we have to measure that. Um because you're only seeing a snapshot of a lesson during that time. So you may not see them get to a higher level do or that day that lesson just may not get there. But we still saw growth there. So that tells me that our teachers are at
021least thinking about it and trying to to plan for that. And really where we see that as the second part of that goal where it was that um we'll be um level three plus with evidence of planning for 20% of the time. And that when we are meeting that goal and growing where we're starting to see that evidence and a lot of times we see that in the objective on the board. We might be able to see where they're going to get later in the lesson. So maybe we didn't see it while we were in there but we can tell where it's going. We often have a follow-up question when we don't see that. We ask, "Hey, what is the plan to get to higher level DO?" So then that allows um the administrator to
022say, "Okay, I know that they're going to get to that higher level." So that part of the goal I think we're doing a really good job on. Of course, we want to keep growing there, but um we're doing much better there. Um our next goal is on social studies. Um we started off this goal with the freshman seminar piece um which I think we that was implemented this year um along with the health class. The second part of the goal is the social studies department as a whole where they're reviewing content and literacy standards and creating district assessments. So they just um worked on those. The first ones were given here at the end of the school year. So for this goal, the new freshman seminar curriculum was implemented in fall of 2024 and that
023did include the CTE tours. So students got to experience the different pathways on their campus so that they could make a more informed decision when they registered for classes for next year. Um we implement a new health curriculum this spring. Um our next steps we do need to create assessments in health and so those the health teachers will get together in the fall to help create some common assessments. our world history, US history, history, government, and a government. They collaborated this year and they created some unit guides with content and literacy standards and common pacing. Um, it was really good for them to to look at those literacy standards. That's not something that content teachers do a lot. So, they really spent some time digging into those literacy standards. And their common assessment for semester
0242 actually was completely based on using the literacy standards. Um, the next steps would be to review that semester 2 assessment because the first time they're giving it. I'm sure there are questions that need to be revised there and then they're going to create a semester one assessment. Also, as part of the school, something I wanted to share with you is um we've been working with Merced College on a dual enrollment project for that will happen in our health class. And I kind of talked about this earlier in the year, but we actually piloted it this spring. Um Atwater High School and Golden Valley teacher Golden Valley High School had a teacher at each school who were willing to pilot it. Um it's a course and it's embedded in their health curriculum. So, it's part
025of the curriculum they're already supposed to learn in health, but they're going to do it through Merced College in their platform. So, we actually had 117 students receive credit in the pilot. So, big thank you to Mr. Foy and Mr. Wooding for helping out with that. Our next step there is to gather their feedback, make some changes, and we're going to have an implementation plan for next spring where all of our our health classes will be um have the opportunity to be dual enrolled in that. our data analysis goal. Um we just this is a new one for us that we just made in January. Um we actually have been doing a lot of thinking about this one and planning. Um so I'm excited for the fall to get going on this one. Yesterday we
026actually had a solution tree consultant come and work with all administrators in the district. They work the morning with ed services department and then the afternoon with all of us um to talk about um assessment and data, how we can use data, how to create goals around data to really help us take all that mountains of data that we have and figure out what's important and what we want to use to move forward. So it I think that yesterday was a really great day and our consultant Eric did a really great job with us. So I look forward to what our teams come up with. When I talked with them yesterday, they all were pretty excited about the planning that they were doing. grow your own. This has kind of been an ongoing goal for
027us. So, um the first and the last one kind of go with HR. Um so, that was the one for our classified and certificated staff and then also hiring graduates from NUHSD each year and tracking that. Um so, they provided a we have a number of opportunities for our staff. One of the things this year that I I saw more people take advantage of were the leaves and out of out of class ification opportunities. Um we had I know several classified staff members who took a leave to do their counseling intern hours. So then they went and they were actually finished those hours to be able to get their PPS. Um we also had opportunities for classified staff to learn different areas. Um another was cornerstones which is for our new administrators. Um we work
028with them throughout the year and kind of just give them the basics of what it's like to work in MUHSD. Um we had some our final lunchon with them today. um they all said they really appreciated the the work that we did with them in cornerstones. The other part of that goal is more student based and so that's on increasing our internship opportunities and then also principles meeting with students who might be good for careers in education or they're interested in careers in education. Our internship opportunities um we definitely expanded our number of offerings this year. So I'm very excited about that that we have added the education and healthare one um actually high school did they did one before school was out and the 12 students who participated in that internship they got paid
029through the outdoor grant and they actually put on a family appreciation night where families got to come and enjoy different activities um that those students put together um our worknet summer internships and our UCR said cal teach education ones we offered last year um very exciting opportunities worknet we are kind of at the mercy of what they have left to give us in a grant. So this year we're not able to have as many students work on that one. Um it's only 50 to 76 where last year we had like 130. Um and they can only work in Merced and they have to live in Merced. So we're kind of at the mercy of what Worknet has to give us and what to offer. So that's why I'm excited that we opened up a diversity
030of opportunities for kids. Um we also are exploring um registered pre-apprenticeships and that might be a better pathway for us to go because those won't be so um at the mercy of funding and we'll be able to offer those all the time. So that would might be a good way to get students some work-based learning also. And then for our principles meeting um each of the principles held a session where they invited students. They got them you've been seeing that picture at high school. got them some pizza and then had lunch with them and kind of talked about the different careers that they could have in education. So, there was good interest at all of our schools in that. So, kind of that true idea of growing your own. Um, our communication and customer service
031um goal, this one also spans multiple departments. So, I'll kind of take those department by department. So, the first one was to create the communication map. So, our communications department is working on this. um this is what they have as part of their action plan which it'll get implemented in the fall. Um it'll you should see it in our on our website in the fall. So they'll be working through that to make sure we have the the graphic available on who they need to go to for different things. Um there'll be a resource page for them. There'll be the informative video and then also they're going to integrate that into social media. And so it'll be sent out multiple times of during the year to redirect parents back to that web page so that they
032can um learn about the communications Another part of that goal was on FAFSA completion. Um so our FAFSA completion rates did go up. Um the state submission rate is 64% for this year and we actually were at 66% so we were above the state. Um and that's also an 8% increase over where we were last year. So you can see at our different sites, everybody except Golden Valley, they increased um pretty significantly at some sites in their FAFSA completion. Um, this next slide here, it has some just other ways to look at that data. So, you can kind of see how we've increased. The goal is about submitting it because the completion then has that parent step that while we can help direct them, we can't necessarily control that. But although our completed rate is
033pretty good, too. And then the last part of that goal is on the customer service. Um and so we have partnered with Merced College to provide some customer service training in the fall. Um the focus is going to be on the skills to provide excellent customer service also those effective communication strategies. Um and everybody who participates will learn hands-on tools during that that um class. rates. What did we do specifically to increase our social rates? Um so this year the cow soap tutors they helped us with that. Um I think it's just the we're seeing more help in the classroom. So for next year our government teachers they actually proposed um in one of the collaborations for social studies they proposed switching government to the fall and the econ to the spring. So then they
034actually help their students with with FAFSA in the spring. So, their awareness I think also helped. While we didn't make that switch this year, I think that does help a little bit. Our counselors do a wonderful job helping get our students in there. I think just the increased awareness this year has helped um get those numbers up. When we switch to personal finance, when that graduation requirement comes in, then that will be in the spring with so then they'll definitely have time to build that into their curriculum. So, I'm hoping that we'll continue on that upward. earlier. Yeah. Yes. So they their goal when we had this discussion was that would be the first part of second semester. So in January they'd come back from break and they'd start off with FA. Thank you very
035much. Good evening. I'm here tonight to share a progress update on our school counseling program. Our multi-tered, multi-dommain system of support is improving student outcomes, building long-term sustainability, and most importantly, increasing equitable access to the three domains of counseling, academics, college, career, and social emotional. This aligns with the American School Counseling Association's national model which we adopted during our work with hatching results. As good as this sounds, change is hard. It takes years to see results and be comfortable with change. In addition to adopting a new counseling model, we also changed council responsibilities from grade level to alpha. By moving to alpha case loads, teams had to have trust and collaboration, a commitment to implementation, and they had to hold each other accountable. Atwater High School was a model for this, and they are seeing
036positive results. Three years ago, we began intentionally redesigning our school counseling programs to address a district-wide concern. Our tier three services were overburdened across all domains. Counselors are spending the majority of their time providing intensive individualized support by managing academic crisis, coordinating mental health responses, and assisting students who are significantly behind in college or career readiness. This reactive structure left little room for prevention and equitable access. Students who would have been supported earlier through tier one or tier 2 services often received little intervention. This led to inequities. Students with emerging needs went unnoticed and access to services was inconsistent. The photos on this slide reflect the those conditions. A high volume of urgent needs, limited capacity for prevention, and an overwhelmed tier three. These conditions led us to formalize and invest in a model designed
037to provide proactive, equitable, and developmentally appropriate support to every student across all three domains. I'm joined tonight by Caitlyn Mayo, program administrator, who has helped lead this work. Also joining me tonight are Daniela Rodriguez, head counselor at Atwater High School, and Miguel Pledo, who serves as a counselor at both Atwater and Back Colony. Our foundational work began with our partnership with hatching results. Their coaching helped us assess our existing systems and identify key structural shifts needed to align with the national best practices and the ASA model. One of the first changes we made was transitioning from grade level case loads as shared to alpha case loads. Alpha case loads allow counselors to maintain family connections across siblings, develop stronger uh family dynamics and understanding which can impact student success and take on specialty roles across
038academic, postsecary and social and emotional uh health domains. This model also helped reduce the counselor to student ratio across the district increasing direct access for students and families. Alongside this shift, we implemented shared calendars, tiered protocols, and documentation tools to promote consistency in how services are delivered. Finally, school counseling was formally embedded into our MTSS structure, ensuring full alignment across academics, behavior, and social emotional health supports. When our contract with hatching results concluded, we entered year one of independent implementation with a framework shared counseling vision and mission, which was aligned to our district and vision and structures in place that allow for ongoing refinement. This year, we've continued to see our grow our work come to life across all schools. Counselors have significantly increased the delivery of tier one lessons, ensuring that all students receive
039instruction on topics like academic planning, college eligibility, stress management, and financial aid. These lessons are preventative in nature and help normalize helpseeking behaviors and planning. Tier 2 interventions have also expanded across sites. These services are designed and facilitated by counselors in response to data and student needs. They include small groupoup counseling, check-in systems, academic support workshops, and conflict resolution groups. These interventions allow us to support students earlier and reduce the pressure on tier three. The on this slide reflects an indicator of growth. The number of student support team meetings held in 2021 2022 school year. Just 104 SSTs were documented districtwide. By comparison, we've already held upwards of 750 SSTs or follow-up SSTs across this school year with many students receiving ongoing team-based support over multiple quarters. SSTs are a key part of addressing the
040appropriate tier and domain while also ensuring provider coordination. These meetings bring together staff, families, and students to review the needs of students collaboratively to determine the right interventions whether they fall under the academic, social, emotional, health, or post-secondary domains. Counselors play a central role in coordinating these meetings, manage cases, documenting interventions, and monitoring progress. Other sign of progress include counselors have stepped into collaborative leadership roles across domains, sharing expertise on post-secondary tools, intervention strategies, and mental health referral processes. That collaboration has increased consistency, reduced duplication of efforts, and improved equity of service delivery across schools. Uh today every MUHSD school counseling program is implementing tier one, tier 2, and tier three services within the MTMDSS framework. Tier one includes um universal school counseling curriculum, individualized student planning in areas, that's academic plan, and schoolwide um
041events or prevention efforts. Tier two includes supports for targeted students who are identified um using panorama um in atrisisk areas in academic, college, career or emotional domains. These are typically delivered through small groups um structured check-ins or progress monitoring. Tier three provides individualized intervention including ongoing case management for credit recovery, post-secondary coaching for students off track um or and coordinated mental health services for high need students. A strong tier one and tier two system preserves the ability to provide the right students tier three supports. Um matching the most intensive needs with appropriate levels of support across campus. Again, tools like Panorama allow us to identify students more quickly and match them to the right intervention uh by domain and progress monitor them over time. As we move forward, we are focused on improving the fidelity
042of tier one and tier two, I'm sorry, of tier two and tier three. um developing sight specific leadership um and supporting schools who wish to pursue ramp certification. Um this is a national benchmark of a comprehensive school counseling program that's data driven. Um one of the most important outcomes of this work is improve student access with lower with lower counselor case loads and structured tiers of support. Students are more likely to connect with counselor before their needs escalate, whether they need academic guidance, emotional support, or post-secary planning. This change is also driving equity. Students who have historically face barriers to support are now more regularly identified and served. A strong tier one and tier system uh preserves tier three for students who really need it. I lost. Sorry. really need that sustained support. Uh the
043shift to tier one and tier two is really central. Um they help us identify students proactively, reduce the stigma around seeking help and prevent issues from becoming crisises. Again, it's about turning that pyramid upside down. Um we're still in the very early years of systemwide implementation, but we are building the infrastructure to ensure that every student at every school receives high quality development developmentally appropriate school counseling support. To guide our next steps, we conducted a districtwide counselor need survey this spring. Counselor shared a desire for further professional development in tier 2 and tier three service delivery, especially related to our SST process, crisis response as well as postsecondary planning and alignment. They also identified the need for support with data platforms like Panorama and expressed interest in improving outcome tracking and documentation systems. In response
044to this, our next steps include targeted PD that are going to align to those identified needs, strengthening our documentation and our data tools, examples of which are on this slide. uh collecting student and family input to refine service delivery and then to support our site teams in pursuing RAMP which as Daniel Della shared is a measure of systemic strength and alignment by national standards. We will also continue to focus on improving our college and career counseling systems ensuring that they align with MUSC's broader postsecary readiness initiatives. We appreciate the support for our counseling shift at the district. The work began with the guidance of hatching results and taken root. What we once saw as a fragmented system is becoming a unified equitydriven program and we're proud of the progress and commitment to the continued growth
045in service for our students. At this time, we will take any questions. Um so M Rodriguez and Mr. Pledo I um thank you for the invitation to come and um participate in the council counseling showcase. I really enjoyed the information that you all shared and I really hope that you'll um if you haven't already shared the best practices across other schools and I really look forward to seeing you know what could be implemented in other schools as well. Thank you for that. Thank you also for the invitation. I wasn't able But um you mentioned the success that you're having at water and then um there was something in here about um you know scaling this across the site. So how much of that scaling has occurred? So we focused because of the showcase and because
046we knew we were going to do this we really focused on Atwater because they have been the model in the district. Um and I can tell you that success we measured it by the number of alled ed referrals that they have that has um decreased the number of SSTs I think is a direct correlation. we're putting the supports in place for students. So, we will begin that work with all sites next year. Thank you. I just want to point out that um it is rare that a group of employees invite me um and the board members to listen to a presentation about doing something that is new, not fully refined yet. And um I know that Daniela and I just want to say how much I appreciate that initiative and that uh that is seen
047and heard and we're very thankful for that level of professionalism from your entire question one last question. Um so it seems like you know you all pro Um, is there any con to going, you know, changing to alpha versus what we have before? Change takes time. Um, and it's really about having um an open mindset and almost relearning how to do your job. Um, so when I came I this is my 10th year in the school district. Um, so I had mastered my craft. Um, say with confidence that I knew what I was doing. Um, but when you have grade level, you have an expertise. You are an expert at that grade level needs. And as you can imagine, right, everybody in the audience has children or has worked with children. A 14-year-old needs are
048very different from an 18-year-old needs. Where they are at developmentally, um, when you think about the domains, you heard them over and over, academic, college, career, social, emotional, their needs when they're 14 and they're 18 are very different. So what you're focused on when your grade level, it's an expertise. It's a developmental stage and although you have a variety, right, 500 students, um it's a specific area of need. And so you become an expert at grade level things. When we went alpha, now you're an expert at all the things that are specific to grade level. And you're providing services uh developmentally to a 14-year-old, to an 18-year-old, sometimes 19-year-old. And so the shift is huge and it takes time. And so I think the biggest con there is it takes a lot of work internally
049um and professionally to get to the point where you allow yourself to make mistakes, you're okay with um not getting to everything because it's a shift. And so, um, although I hear and receive the compliment specifically to me about our showcase, it's really about the teamwork and collaboration that we have established at Water High, leveraging each other's strengths, um, building each other up, um, and identifying what our areas of growth are and supporting them. So, the con is that it's hard, it takes time, but we also have less students. I mean, I have the biggest case load, but we went from about 540, 560 because we're the biggest comp site to between 320 and 350. So, you get to more students. And more than anything, we're turning that pyramid upside down because now we're able
050to provide services to more students. Before, I guarantee you most counselors spent most of their time with tier three kids. Those were students that ended up in alted. You didn't see them through your four years. A lot of times I would um purge my files and I didn't have half of the kids that I spent the most amount of time with freshman and sophomore year because they leave. Uh a lot of student families in our area move for different reasons and then there's all dead and then there's expulsions. And so when we have a smaller case load, we're able to develop a program that supports all students and it's more equitable. Um before, you know, if you would ask a student who was in the middle or in the top, do you see your counselor?
051Probably not. Um now they see us more because we have less students and we're able to provide that tier one support that everybody gets. We're in the classrooms, they see us at Atwater, we're doing student engagement and so we are out there um making ourselves aware and accessible to all children or all adolescence I guess. So cons you have to know everything, be on your toes all the time. Um but again, you you get to see more and do more. So um professionally that's very rewarding. So, Miss Rodriguez, so you feel that this this way is going to work out best for the students. I can't speak to all counselors, but it is the best for students because we have smaller case list and we're able to do more. Um, I think it's going to
052take a shift um in everybody's way of operating. Um, you know, if they come in and they change your assignments as board members, your roles, it's a shift, right? It takes time. Um, but if you're better in another area, then let's do that. If you want to stay in your area, then let's help you grow. So, I think it's really supporting counselors with the shift um and being able to identify what is the area of concern um and how do we support you moving forward. Yeah, I think I think what when we brought this up I don't know few years ago whenever it was the concern about the counseling I think this is where we were trying to go. So, I think we we want to try and make sure we we talk to all
053the students and I think this this is working out better than the uh grade level one at Atwater. Our team opinion is that yes, we like Hela. Um I will say that although there's a lot of chatter about the case load assignments, um again since I started to now, we've also added positions um that support the work that counselors do um in an empty in a MTMDSS model. So, Before my team was four, now my team is five and a half. Um, but we also have an intervention coordinator that supports um students in tier two and three. We also have our student support managers um who provide the mental health services at tier three. We also have Sierra Vista, again, another mental health provider at tier three. Um 504s came off our plate. So the
054504 coordinators do a lot of that piece. Um so those are all positions that were added to support the work that previously counselors were doing. And so it's a it's a complete shift in just my time here. Well, it sounds like we're we're going the right direction. Like, and I thank you all for for what you're doing and and for being the uh the model for it. Yeah, I'm going to use a different word, but that's a better word. Thank you all. Moving on to um employee association comment period. Do we have any representatives from the DTA or the CSA? We do not. All right. So, moving on to the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Is there a second? Second trustee, would you like to acknowledge the
055donations? Yes. The board would like to thank the following for their donations. Atwater Rotary Foundation, Merced River A Booster Association, Live Life Like Tyler Foundation, Merced River A Booster Association, again Always Towing, Best Choice Heating and Air, US Army Special Forces Association, Golden Gate Chapter 23, um, Caras Incorporated, Merced Women's Club, American Red Cross, Ed Yanos, class of 1976 from Merced High, Merced High class of 1972. And uh that's it. Thank you all for your donations. Are there any questions? passes unanimously. Now that we've made it official, I'd like to introduce the newest AP. Welcome and we're happy to have you. Dana comes to us. All right. Hello. Dana comes to us from Welcome aboard. Congratulations. With that we move on to the action agenda. Good evening again. Um the local control accountability plan describes
056the goals, actions, services, metrics, and expenditures to support positive student outcomes that address state and local priorities. Miss McCauley gave us a presentation last week on it, and so tonight we have it as an action item to approve it. Um I did want to point out that um last week, Mrs. Bennett came and spoke and gave some suggestions during the public hearing. So we did make some changes to the LCAP, the finalized version that you have tonight. Um that included that in goal 1.2. We added some language because she had some comments about CTE. So we added language that all students should be placed in their path in the pathway of their choice at their site with an emphasis on atrisisk students. She also had some comments about outreach specialists. So in goal 2.3 we
057added language to support the communications department with MUHSD will enhance communication by showcasing site and district activities and programs. Um along with that same um comment and suggestion in goal 2.4 we added that NUHSD will collaborate with feeder schools for truency absenteeism and family community outreach. And then in 3.3 we added Merced Union High School District will strengthen relationships with feeder schools to enhance vertical alignment and data collection to support incoming nth graders including site visits prior to high school enrollment. So with that, the superintendent recommends um the MUHSD board of trustees approve the local control accountability plan for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Are there any questions? Call for the vote. Motion passes on 12.02 education protection account and public hearing. So
058the education protection act is part of the budgetary process. There's a special tax that was used and set aside that needed to be for instruction. So every year we have to pass a resolution that We are going to use that particular amount of money for instructional purposes. We use all of it for teacher salt resolution. So superintendent recommends the board of trustees adopt resolution 1524 for the education protection act. Moving on to public hearing. It is now 6:30 and I hear you have any comments. Given that there are no public comments, I hereby Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Are there any questions? motion passes unanimously. On to 12.03 proposed 2526 budget. There are no changes from last week's presentation. So unless you really really want me to,
059I won't go through the slides one more time. We do have a few updates that I can give you at the state level. So, we did have our bond rating meeting with Moody's and so we did receive actually an upgrade to our bond rating and so hopefully that will help us get a little bit more money out of our bonds when we go to the next. So, that was good news for us. They did cite our fiscal management and fiscal position as a partial reason did pass a budget yesterday agreed to a framework yesterday. They will pass by the end of the week the budget. It will not match what the governor had in the May reise and so they have until July 1 to get on the same page. But they will pass their
060budget this week. so that they can get paid. So they will pass that but then there'll be some tweets back and forth between July 1. Um there are several things where there are agreement and so we do have a little bit in the legislation governor. So that's pretty much negotiations on that. The one thing that will probably impact us is the governor was proposing about two funds about billion dollar in one time monies which would have been roughly million we would have been receiving from those legislators cut that down to 500 million so million probably down to 900 there might be some negotiations back 2.3. So that's the update from yesterday. One other interesting thing that we probably will have to take into account, but it's just kind of a fun fact. The federal government
061has received its last set of penny blanks. So they will no longer be printing any more pennies after they finish they currently have because it basically cost them three cents to make one penny. So they will be stopping that. And while there will be no official getting rid of the penny, it will slowly go out of circulation over the next 10 to 20 years. At some point we will need to round everything up to the nearest cent. If there are no questions to the budget from last last week, superintendent recommends the board adopt the 2025 26 budget and discrimination. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Is there a second? Are there any questions? Mr. Wymer, the 3 million that's going down to 79, what was that money going towards? It's discretionary money. So,
062we weren't sure. So, it's not in the budget. So, we're not losing anything that's currently in the budget. Once we do actually have the allocation and we know what it is, then we can come up with the vote. passes.2 agreement for special services between Merced High School District and City of Merced. Tonight I bring to you the for the city of Merced and the Merced Union High School District School Resource Officers program for the school years of 2526, 2627, and 2728. M D agrees to pay the city an amount not to exceed 801713,44 cents for operational costs of the services of four SRO's provided under thisou to cover the total cost of the SRO for Merced High School Capitan and East Campus. MUHSD also agreed to purchase one police vehicle not to exceed 91,479.77. The
063superintendent recommends that the board approve the the agreement with Merced for the school resource officers at Merced High, Golden Valley, East Campus, and El Capitan for 25 through 28 years. Do I have a motion to approve? Is there a second? Any questions for a second? I'll second. But I do have some questions. Um, so the 800,000 that's over the three years. That's the total that's per year for three years. So 800, you know, 90ome,000 when you put in the cost of the vehicle. How does that compare to what we're paying the sheriff? It's pretty close, but keep in mind that the sheriff salary is less than city. I didn't realize we're doing three years. I thought we were going to do a year and then we evaluate services. Can evaluate services. We can get out
064of the contract. Contract's always for three years. There's a clause. There is a clause. Yes. Yes. And then what is the plan for the vehicle? So, we're purchasing a vehicle. So, who's going to own the vehicle after the contract? They will own it. The sheriff does something similar. We don't purchase the vehicle, but we pay the mileage, but we're buying the vehicle and then giving them the vehicle after three years. They're buying it where you can modify that or something that we get out of it. We're basically going on a car. It's 91,000 equipped. Yes. And if we don't do that, then the option is that they would have to put a give us cars that don't they aren't marked as police vehicles. And they prefer that they have police vehicles at our sites. They
065buy it back from us at a percentage of the purchasing price. you know, at some point, you know, some type of of, you know, graduated percentage. If we do decide to terminate our services after a year, it's this percent, year two, this percentage, year three, this percent, not essentially giving a car away. So my question is, well, first of all, like city of Lon just about a vehicle for 65,000 less. This is pretty expensive vehicle and that's with all the I think they got it like for 45 plus all the you know police uh equipment on it. It's a lot for a vehicle for a police vehicle. They got it at Rosari. So just questioning why that vehicle is so much and also I I I thought that you uh Mr. Peterson preferred to go
066with the sheriff's department. Is that changed? The sheriff's department's not able to staff or have that conversation next year. They believe we also have to keep in mind that the sheriff doesn't have jurisdiction over all of our students within the city limits. So when we have things that happen in the middle of the night, had threats. Um we've had um accusations of weapons. Merrced has been very responsive. They go to the homes of our students and they take care of that for us right away. But what do you mean by the sheriff has no jurisdiction? So depending on where you live is who has jurisdiction in who responds. So county. Yes. But within the city of Merced Merrced police has to respond to that. And so they have worked very well with us over the
067last few years of responding to things outside of the school day when we really need them. And so one perhous,000 The sirens interceptor are they getting that as well or they know I would just like to see us get something back because we dominate services after we have the option right. So can we put something in this and maybe bring it back next week that we get something percentage of the assessed value something like that after two years. Yeah. Bringing it back next week and negotiate that it's going to have to be negotiated. So that's That's going to take time. If you do not pass this tonight, Christie, what will that do to prep next year? I don't know if we have to start. So, I would not advise that. I would prefer that you
068trust us to this issue tonight. Yeah, you're right. You would have approved it and we'll do the best we can with your concern. Come back. Then we would still have the option to turn I mean I wouldn't make a decision based on that but yes we always have that option the right to so right so after that year if we don't continue with Was there any talk? Um, so we could technically start in August and terminate in October. No, I understand. She's saying theoretically. Yes. Yes. I mean, was there any discussion about in the negotiations? So, the sheriff with the sheriff's department, we gave them mileage. What What u what does that account for? How much money does it cost for mileage? Do we know that? I Not off top. Would it be about the
069same cost as buying the car or I would imagine so. Can we Is there a way that we can get that information? Sorry. And uh are we looking to do this with all the cities or just Merced? go to the local police departments instead of the sheriff for Atwater Livingston. Yeah, I we have not made that decision. I mean, that's an ongoing evaluation. You're well aware of various our various concerns with the city police department. We want someone there every day. It's a service they provide us versus a person from their perspective, right? That's where we get frustrated for this service to have our schools every day and you have to have the manower to be able to do sheriff's department issues without falling down. not opposed to working with NPD. It's not that it's
070and they should have the same coverage as the other sites. Um it's just Yeah. You're saying if you want it if you want it if it does not go full term three years you want it in one year. Yeah. Just so we not gifting the car. You're looking for a a buyback clause. Something like that. So we're not I was uh Miss Johnson. I was looking at the contract. I don't find anything here. Are we We're not going to pay them mileage. We don't pay mileage like we do the sheriff. So this is about 200,000 per officer includes all their benefits retirement and what is it right now? Includes overtime that that includes overtime. I thought it was separate set amount of overtime which we always So because there is going to be addition cost
071and how does how does this compare to the sheriff's contract? Were they were they 189 or what was their a little bit cheaper? But the main point here is the sheriff cannot provide coverage. So, we need to use Merced PD for the Merced schools. And then your concern is just the car. And that's why I'm asking is it comparable to how much we're paying for mileage to the sheriff's department, then it might not be a big deal. But if if it's not close, then yeah, I agree with you. Yeah. But I I think the point is if the contract ends early, there needs to be that that's So only if it ends early but yeah that's totally you're talking about till the day not not just if it ends early right after three years it's
072two years it's percent if we're going to talk to them anyways can you guys find out about how much we pay for mileage. Maybe it's not a big deal. Maybe it's not as bad as we think. They're not interested in let's say money. Are we okay? If you were to contract early, the last thing they're going to want to do is give us a check if we were to set the contract. But if we were to say if we end the contract early, the car comes back to us, then we could use it in our public service. Just question again. So we are voting on it. However, we're we will look into this and come back. We're going to try to contract whatever. And if they say no, we want the car period. All right.
073Motion passes unanimously. Moving on to 120. So we do have the request for CTE facility CTE programs at each site to have a light duty truck. The agricultural departments have them at most of the sites right now. The other CTE department would like to have access to something as well. So these are being paid for out of CTE funds and CT grant funds did go out to bid and the bid is included. Superintendent recommends the award of the request for bid of eight new Light 4x2 pickup trucks living and there motion to approve. So move. Is there a second? Are there any questions? motion passes unanimously. Moving on to item 1206. So this is a additional CTE grant funded request. Livingston High School's public service academy does have the get access to a fire truck
074and so we do need to be able to house the fire truck. So using CTE grant funds this would be the shed project that service superintendent recommends that the board approve the award to the responsib Is there a motion to approve? Is there a second? Second. Are there any questions? Questions for the vote. Motion passes unanimously. Moving on to 12.07 purchase of new buses. So we again did have an opportunity arise. We have waivers and delays within the guidelines for fleets. And so we are seeing that occasionally diesel buses are coming up available. We do have a few older ones that we would like to get rid of. And so we do have the ability to go out and purchase those. There are five that we think are going to be available. Two are available
075right now. So the recommendation is that we do the potential for all five knowing that we're going to get two right now and the other. So we do superintendent does recommend that the board authorize purchase up to five new transportation buses up to five. We can't guarantee that it's going to be five. Only two are available right now, but we're pretty sure three more purpose. That's purpose. And this is money that's set aside transport. Is there a motion to approve? Is there a second? Second. Any other questions? Yeah. Um, we would still be considering the purchase of diesel if we have any of the bottom of our fleet, our current fleet gets to any point where we no longer feel comfortable having those on the road or using those because We do have points in
076time for every one of those on the trip. So if we have a smaller fleet or we have partial fleet then we wouldn't be able to do those high. We are expecting to be able to be putting some infrastructure in with the business park out there charging stations in the next at least a couple of buses just to be able to try them out used to them and see what kind of extracurricular is expansion of the fleet which also includes park and it willclude pretty significant retraining of employees. We have nobody right now who knows how to work on EV to work on all of that. So we would probably see the beginning of that within two years that we would have a couple where we start to go down that road again until we
077have any type of charging infrastructure across the state. We would be hoping to have at least one if not two charging stations at every campus. Those are not hard to get grants and we are going to run into some requirements in that realm because even if there's a fight between the state and the federal government over whether or not they have the right gas, they still have other requirements that they can do. So to be able to repave and repaint a parking lot, we would have to put in char. So they're going to get you one way or the other. So yes, we will start putting those in because we want to do those things. That's part of passes item 12.08. So another CTE purchase uh for this evening out of CTE grant funds we
078did have three months ago was the April board meeting where we actually had to pull from the agenda because the vendors would no longer guarantee that they could meet the price that they had. We have been able to get bids now a little bit in trade wars and so they are more comfortable now at a set price. So we do have it back on agenda here to be able to purchase the laptops laptops and regular towers laptops and towers high school information. So the superintendent recommends the board approve the purchase of desktop towers, monitors, laptops, power supplies, keyboards, and mice for Golden Valley High School information technology CT pathway labs from CDWG by use of pig contract. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Any questions? Do you purchase
079um any tracking for these like tracking software to help with track inventory way? assets tower. Any discussion? Good evening. Tonight I bring before you salary schedule approval for 2526. So effective July 1st, 2025, the district seeks approval for salary schedules with COLA increases for all labor groups. The governing board's approval of salary schedules ensures alignment with negotiated agreements and the board approved salary schedules are also required for calers and calers compliance. So the superintendent recommends the board of trustees approve the salary schedules for the 256 motion to approve. So move second. Are there any questions? Before you take the vote, we would like to have you modify the motion on the certificated management salary schedule. There is one error that needs to be fixed for executive director. It says 247. It should be 207. So
080if you could modify the on step two I retract my comment. Come on. That was for me. Any questions or discussion? Call for the vote. motion passes unanimously. Item 12.10. Right. Tonight I also bring the annual declaration of need for fully qualified educators. So state law requires school school districts to file an annual declaration of need for fully qualified educators. on teacher credentiing. The purpose of this declaration is to identify those projected positions difficult to fill with fully credentialed individuals and anticipate there will be a need to grant current teachers with emergency credentials. So the superintendent recommends the board approve the declaration of need for fully qualified teachers for the 2025 2026. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Any questions or discussion? Call for a vote.
081Motion passes unanimously. Superintendent report. First, I want to talk about student feedback from all of our sites. There were two major themes um this year. Obviously, there's local concerns and comments at every site. Um something I heard across the board was monitor our restrooms more closely and that was on the needs improvement side of things and a positive that was unprompted. I didn't even ask a question about it. It came up in three different sites and that was they notice the level of instruction and they've noticed the change um in that over the last couple of years. I really appreciate that and for students to be able to articulate that with someone they really don't know. It was really a good good visit. All of those visits well worth our time. Always enjoy. Um I'm
082very happy with our progress on the superintendent. Thank you all tonight for your presentations. I feel like we were able to quickly yet thoughtfully make solid gains across the board this year. Scott, thank you for your leadership on all things financial. Um, we have obviously proven ourselves with regard to financial stability with the bond rating comment. That doesn't happen to everyone. you all see what's happening in districts in our region and in our state and we don't have those problems. So that's the guy to thank for that. Um Mandy, thank you for your leadership in ED services. Um our D initiative is moving ahead of schedule in my opinion and that's evidence by students and for all theundred things that you do every week. Christie, thank you for our progress in counseling as evidenced tonight.
083Again, that was one of the best meetings or presentations I've been a part of. agree with that along with all you do and student services. Brett, thank you for an outstanding year in HR. There is never a lack of business and you always handle it in a thorough and professional manner and we've had our share of challenges this year. Excellent. Thank you for your leadership in tech, keeping us safe with your endless emails and education that annoy some but they are needed. And um and even more than that uh thank you for developing and your emphasis on the star program that is a huge addition uh for enrichment activities for our students and staff and they're taking advantage of it and thank you for your leadership. ship in communications and um we can't clone clone
084you but we can add to your department uh which we are doing and that's really because of your leadership and your vision and you've changed um perceptions. You you've helped explain things that sometimes can be difficult and just created the sense of around communications. I think people appreciate that. And Amy, thank you for all of your work um in CTE and our recent saludator valid Victorian conversation and the many many other things that you and I think we have had a excellent year of board meetings. Uh most meetings are efficient and quickly and we are out of here and we're going to be home before the end of the game tonight which is a good thing. So I thank you all for a great year. Communications. Yeah. I want to say first of all thank
085you to my fellow board members. It's been a great year working with all of you. I appreciate that. time that you all give to the the district. Uh Dana Reyes, congratulations. Dana and I go back to the days of N Valley. Um I I want to make sure that we we we uh we heard Rubenado tonight and kind of start thinking again ties into the SRO, our safety with our students and staff, our community. We've had some preliminary conversations about that. Don't want to forget that in the next month and a half. It's great to go to the state volleyball finals. Mrs. Pickle was there. Mr. Peterson was my chauffeur. I appreciate that day. It was great to be able to congratulate our actually congratulate the athletes. Oh, and Mrs. Ballinger, I apologize, was there
086as well. It was great to see everyone there. It was really fun to give opportunity congratulate those athletes. That was great. That's it. Have a great summer. Can I butt back in real quick? I made a major error. The uh one uh person that deserves probably the most thanks this year in cabinet is Torren Johnson and Torren stepped up to the plate when he was needed. He brought stability to Back which we appreciate, they appreciate and set them up well for the future. keeping an eye on MTSS and his intervention program and monitoring administrators which he will be getting back into next year. So, thank you for um also enjoyed the volleyball game. um they should be very proud of their performance and um how far they went uh that season and I hope they
087are. Um attended Atwater High's graduation um which was awesome and would like to thank everyone for all of you all staff um for your work this year and also thank Mrs. Warlock for everything you do and what you do for us and uh wish you all a wonderful summer. Hope you get some time off. So, um, also had the same comments that you got when I went to the exit interviews. A lot a lot of students were concerned with the restrooms and that we closed a lot of them because of the vaping. They want to see something done about that where there's more restrooms available. of our LCAP goal is to have safe facilities for the students. So maybe we can look into that. Um also um Ruben Herado's concerns maybe we want to look
088into that. I know that we don't have control over or maybe we do lockdowns. I don't know if it's us or the police department that that uh asks us to lock down. Who's who would who does that call? Who makes that call? Well MPD would make the call at Golden Valley if there's a ource officer there usually but all of our administrators that I'm well aware okay thank you um Mr. Dana Reas and wife welcome to our district and um hopefully you'll enjoy working here and uh Mr. Wymer I Well, I want to say great job to everyone, but with what uh Mr. Peterson said, I mean, this district has been financially strong forever for as far as I've been here. So, thank you and your team because I know it's you, but you have
089a team. So, your whole team and of course everyone else, thank you for everything you do. Uh Melissa Miller, I know you're in charge of all the facilities. There's been a lot of construction going on, so you two and everyone. I mean everyone I think we mostly hear um concerns but we never hear you know thank you for doing a great job. So you all do, Vivana, everyone here, I mean um I you know your um minutes uh videos, they u they're awesome. And I mean the last one with the graduations, thank you. You I don't I I was trying to figure out how you're everywhere uh to take all the pictures from all the graduations and everything. So I'm sure you have help out there, but great job. No, she actually is everywhere. So
090you are there you go. You just drive right. Well well good job again. Everybody everybody I think is is is doing a great job for our district. So even um you know whoever's not here but I always thank everyone who stays here till the end and Allan you as well. Great job. I know that sometimes we don't um we don't uh but we have concerns, but I you're I know you're still doing what's best for the district and a great job most of the time. That's much appreciated. And you guys as well. I think we've been working well the board um this year so far. I've been behaving All right. Um, so graduation was fun. Always. Um, nice to see all those young faces graduating onto the big big bad world. Um, the final performance
091of our high school district orchestra was beautiful. I'm so happy to see that the numbers are increasing. Um, there was just a handful and now we're back to precoid numbers it seems like and they did a beautiful performance. Um, again, huge shout out to counseling. I really was impressed. I meant to send a note right after, but I had it written in my head and it never transferred over to so I'm glad I got to say it today. Um, summer's here and I wanted to say thank you to Superintendent Peterson for his leadership and then to the cabinet and all your teams for just another amazing year. You all do a lot of hard work behind the scenes and for that we appreciate you. And then to my trustees, thank you for not only, you
092know, your thoughtful input at board meetings, but for also showing up for all our district events as much as we possibly could because I think it's important that we're out there and that um the students and parents see us. And I do well at it. So, with that, um have a great summer everyone and I hope you get some rest. See you next year.