001Love it. >> T minus one, y'all. Right. >> That's amazing. >> All right. Welcome. Love seeing all the yellow coats out there. Uh thank you guys for joining us tonight. We're uh reconvening into our open session and just real quickly have a few things to report out um from close session. So item 3.2.1 stipulated expulsion 0411C 25 through 26. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Duncan. All in favor say I. >> I. I oppose. Oop, sorry. Student board members, you do not vote on close session items. Thank you. You're okay. You're perfect. Motion carries unanimously. 3.2.2 readmission of expelled student 10902324. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty
002Duncan. >> Second by Trustee Lake. All in favor say I. >> I. Motion car. Um, all oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 3.2 2.3 readmission of expelled student 0609 DO 24 to 25. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> First by trusty Duncan. >> Second by trustee Underwood. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 3.2.4 readmission of expelled students 071P 24 to 25. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> Second. First by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Duncan. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 3.2.5 readmission of expelled student 0809 DO 24 to2. Do I have a motion? >> We have a first by trusty Underwood. >> Second. >> Ty goes to the runner. Second by trustee Lake. All
003in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Last but not least, 3.2.6 readmission of expelled student 0910F 24 to2. Do I have a motion? >> Approve. >> We have a first by trustee Underwood. Second by trustee Lake. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. >> Hearing none. Motion carries. 50. Regarding I item 3.3 public employee employment discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section regarding that item we have a u a specific report out here for you. We had a first by Trustee Jeff and a second by Trustee Lake. And the board unanimously voted to take action to approve a voluntary resignation agreement and release of all claims between the district and employee number 7154. Item 3.5, conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation pursuant
004to government code 54956.9 subdivision D2. We had four cases. Report out on uh case one was there was just a discussion. No direction was given. >> Kirk Duncan. >> All right. Uh item five, uh conference with legal council regarding anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 549 56.9. uh board uh the uh board provided direction to staff and council to take action and specifically on one item the board also took action and voted on releasing the Hawkins report and the board the board voted 3 to one to release the report. Yay, Jeff, Lake, and Duncan. Nay, Underwood. >> And with all else remaining, that was the rest for our close session, although the board will uh reconvene back to close session after our open session, just for those who will be tracking this meeting tonight.
005All right. Uh, last but not least, item five, our organization, welcome and pledge of allegiance. Will you please lead us in the pledge? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Welcome. Welcome. Our last board meeting of 2025. Hallelujah. Everyone is ready for a nice holiday break. Um, I just want to make a couple general housekeeping. Um, if you need to use the restroom during our meeting across the hallway, um, you may use, uh, the the restrooms over there. And also, um, this meeting is being video and audio recorded. Okay. Item 5.2, approval of the agenda. >> Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. We have a
006first by trustee Duncan. >> I >> and a second by trustee Underwood. Any questions or comments on the approval of the agenda? >> I have agenda item I'd like to table. >> Okay, >> that is 8.11 >> 8 >> board member electronic communications >> one [snorts] to table. Uh there's been some confusion on which version of that policy that we're going to be looking at tonight. So I'd like to table that. >> Okay. Great. With that amendment, uh do I have a new motion to to carry on with the agenda as written aside from tableabling item 8.11. >> Motion to approve. >> First by Trustee Duncan. >> Second. Second by trustee Jeff to approve our agenda with tableabling of item 8.11. Any questions or further comments hearing? None. Starting with the student board. All in
007favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Item six, reports and communications. We are starting with our superintendent showcase and community recognition tonight for Forest Hill High School. And I think that that's why we've got a beautiful full house. So, welcome. Hello. Hello. So, Maddiey's going to help me out here as our student board rep when we hand off the good stuff. >> Would [snorts] you like to come up and join us at this point or you can wait? We'll we'll all do a picture together at the end. >> It's up to you. [laughter] >> All right. So, good evening everyone. When we were asked to select an individual or organization to recognize for outstanding support of our school, there was truly no question who it
008should be. The Forest Hill Lions Club has become an irreplaceable partner to our students, our staff, and our entire school community. I know I will forget some of the many highlights and ways they contribute because they do so much so often, but a few of those highlights speak for themselves. The Lions coordinate and mentor our new Forest Hill High School Leo's Club, helping our students grow as leaders and community servants. They provide our football chain gang each fall, always showing up ready to support our athletes. They participate in our culminating senior activity, preparing students for life beyond high school. They prepare lunches for our staff, reminding us that we are valued. They provide financial support individually to students through scholarships and to our school as a whole. And they take the behind-the-scenes work that often
009goes unnoticed, like manning the parking lots for our cross country invitational and graduation ceremonies. And the truly the list goes on and on. The Lions Club embodies service. They step up wherever there is a need. and they do it with generosity, humility, and genuine care for our school. On behalf of the Forest Hill High School students, staff, and families, thank you all and those who maybe aren't here tonight for your continued partnership and unwavering support of Forest Hill High School. We are grateful for you and we are proud to recognize the Forest Hill Lions Club this evening. [applause] all the way. >> Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Okay, get together. >> Squeeze together there. >> All right. One, two, three. Another one for good measure. >> And one more. Awesome. Thank you. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Thank
010you so much. >> Oh, you're welcome. Thank you guys. Thank you for everything you do. >> Is there any chance I could have a coffee? >> Here, take this one. >> Thank you. And I'll send it out to all the members. >> Oh, terrific. >> Thank you for getting us. >> Yes. Yes. >> They're running to the dinner now. >> Okay. Enjoy for us. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you guys for making adjustments. Um, the Lions Club is now off to their Christmas party. >> Probably a little more exciting than a board school board meeting. [laughter] So, I was going to try to count how many of these I've done because for a while I was doing three a year, two a year. Um, quite a few. And not to look poorly on any
011of the past presentations, but I actually can honestly say I'm probably most excited for this presentation. Um, as you can see on the first slide, it's uh small school, big opportunities. And I think you'll see why as we progress through the slides. [snorts] So, our charge was to look at um the board expectations and pick a couple of them to highlight. So, for um our first highlight is the prepared for life. And I emphasized every student will be ready to thrive in college, pursue meaningful careers, and lead fulfilling lives. So, a little bit of um kind of data points for uh Forest Hill as we progress in this slide presentation. We have the highest SED rate, socioeconomically disadvantaged, of any of the comprehensives in the district. We also have the highest percent of students with
012um disabilities, both IEPs and 504s. And this picture up in the upper right, um I give Jeff Walters credit. He brought in a um senior signing day, which is honestly one of my favorite days of the year. It's so cool to see every student sit behind their sign of what their future holds. And it's a gamut. You can see one student there going to get a pilot's license, Sierra College. Um I think we had a Cal Berkeley in there, Sak State. And then I will give our counselor a ton of credit throughout this, but um she does a great job of we had a college career fair the last two years on our campus. We get kids off campus, on campus to expose them to all sorts of future life opportunities for them. So, this
013one's a little bit a lot, but hopefully it'll make sense when I explain it. So, basically what I wanted to do was take a look at our feeder data and do some comparables. So, if you look at California is in blue at the bottom, the first chunk of um the columns, it's the English language arts, the middle is math, and the far right is science. So, California is in blue. Um our feeder school is in gold, Forest Hill High School is in red. And then as a comparable, I looked at the um Lumis Union School District which is in kind of that gold brown and then black is Deloro. So I think just kind of taking a look at it and you'll see the kind of picture in the upper right corner. It's Forest Hill
014climbing the mountain. >> Our students come to us um pretty below prepared at least ELA. It's not too far off and science isn't but math is is definitely well below. So, as you can see the capabilities there in ELA, we went from 43% to 72%. Now, keep in mind that 43 would be our this year's freshman and 72 is this year's seniors. So, those are the last two that so it's not apples to apples, but we looked at past data and it's pretty comparable that they come to us below standard and in some instances we're able to get them above and others we still have a ways to go. Next slide. So, this one is probably my favorite slide. Um, I don't know if we'll ever see one like this again, but uh, in comparison
015to our comprehensives, um, CCI, which is college career indicator data, pulls from a lot of different data points. Our A to G rates, which are our collegegoing um, students meeting all of those course requirements to transfer directly to a 4-year um, CSU or UC. And then the last one is A to G plus completing a CTE pathway. We've done a lot in the last few years in adding courses. We added DE courses. We've reconfigured some things, added new CTE pathways. Um, but I really, really want to emphasize that a huge chunk of this data is Annie Cardullo, our counselor, who busts her tail, and she's from Philadelphia and I tease her all the time. She's got the Philly fire and she uses it with our students and she makes sure they know what those expectations
016are and where they need to be and how they can strive for better. So as you can see the blue it's the um state averages kind of in our all column and then 95% uh for CCI 83 85 and then for the A to GCTE 5759. I think probably one of the things I'm most proud of and most excited for our entire school is our SED numbers socioeconomically disadvantaged outpaced our general student population and all but CCI which we were even in. And we also were the highest of all the schools in our district >> for our little old school. >> So I comparing to our own schools is hard because we're all so good. So I decided to do an out of PHSD comparison and picked um Golden Sierra. And as you can see,
017I'm not going to go through all the data points, but if you look at kind of just our demographics, we're very similar similar in size. Our SED is really close 38 to 43. our math is right at 23, which for both of us we could do better. Um, but if you look at all the other data point areas, um, our A to GRCCI pathway, graduation, um, we're higher than they are in all of those categories as well. So, we're doing some things right. Um, we still have some definite areas to focus on and to continue growth. Um, I know Annie, when I was showing her all this, she was like, "Oh my gosh, I don't know if we're going to be able to beat it." So we're we're going to relish in what we have
018and continue to at least try to strive to stay there or get better. Next slide. So this just shows kind of for the college career indicator and our A to GS that it's it's been a path that we've been charging ahead on. And you can see the growth over the last three years in both of those two areas. And that's a picture of our amazing counselor Annie Cardullo with one of our students who has benefited greatly from Miss Cardullo's support. and she's been offered uh or been accepted to a number of schools and now she just has to figure out financially and everything else what's going to be the best fit. Next slide. So the second area is the comprehensive education. Um I'm not going to read the through high quality but that's the the
019goal. My emphasis here is that we have nine full-time teachers, two part-time teachers, and even with that we're able to offer six CTE pathways. We have two up and coming in the future. 23 DE course options and I do have to highlight that Maidu is a part big part of those 23. Um we have new five new honors options. We don't have the sections to be able to offer a honors section, but we've been very creative with allowing students the opportunity to get into a class and the teacher works with the student to determine, you know what, I think your honors quality and we make some adjustments to the course um code and the student meets the expectations of an honors class and they get the grade bump and they get the honors designation on
020their transcript. We also have a lot of uh clubs and social groups uh including eight new ones this year. And I give a huge shout out to our teachers for their willingness to take on a variety of different um clubs to give students opportunities for things outside of academics. >> Next slide. So, um, I was busy working on this in my office one day and a former Plaster teacher, uh, Shannon Spears, who now teaches at Plaster High, I mean, now teaches at Sierra College, um, I heard her in the office and she was saying amazingly positive things about our school. So, I ran out and I introduced myself and can I take some quotes from you? So, um, couple of things, I won't read it all, but she basically said FHS is one of the
021best. Um, she said every time she comes to our school, she feels it has a great culture. Oops. Thanks. Um, has a great culture and vibe. Students appear happy, comfortable, they seem like they feel good about being at FHS. She said she regularly observes confident and engaged students when visiting our school. And then last but not least, um, I pulled some of the data from our California Healthy Kid survey. We don't have this year's data yet, but just in the last four years, some of those key areas of academic motivation, caring adult, high expectations, and school connectedness have all gone up, except high expectations stayed the same, but that's 67. So, pretty darn good. So, with that, you'll see some pictures of just our engagement, and I I will point out the the shaving cream
022pie face, but our custodian is in the bottom right. And that was when we were all dressed as zombies for Halloween and she was part of the um not parade but we did a a rally and she was driving around on her Zamboni. So with that uh thank you for the opportunity to share some of the great things that we have going at Forest Hill High School. [applause] >> Thank you so much. The the numbers are so impressive and specifically around SED. I love that that was your highlight. Um so often we don't see that or we see differing numbers at other at other schools and and so thank you for your hard work and leaning in. No excuses there ours and and your uplifting everyone and I so truly appreciate your leadership and everything
023happening at Forest Hill. For sure. >> I just have a quick question. What do you think attributed to the the culture change? Because obviously when you came in was it trending that way and you just >> jumped on board or was there something significant you feel that changed the started to begin to change the culture? >> I think I think there's a lot to it. I think there was some leadership change. You know there had been some consistency and then a little blip in there. Um I think I've now been there for four years. So um the consistency there I think is big. Um, I think each of our two assistant principles we've had have brought a different flare to um, what they've promoted. I think really giving, leaning into our students to have voice,
024not just the student voice that comes through from the district, but our leadership. Um, and we've had some changes in our leadership teacher, three I think in four years. Um, and I'm super excited about our current leadership teacher and some of we heard some things at voice and Maddie did an amazing job of providing some suggestions and they had a great conversation and helping us guide that direction. So, I just I think our our athletics um the fire pit we have going it's it's really kind of taken on a life of its own and we've got roles for the different students during basketball, during football. So, I just think, you know, again, we're we're present. We're out there and we want to hear from students and try to make Forest Hill the best place it
025can be for every student from the one who is barely coming to school to the one who might go off to one of the top colleges. >> I wanted to share too to that point is uh I have a feedback form around the Deloro campus and one of the most frequent things I see is bring back Mr. Castle who came to Forest Hill [laughter] and um I just think you guys have amazing staff and you do a great job managing them because I know um many students were like Mr. Castle is a great part of our culture and to see that he's over there with you and I saw him on your slideshow. I mean that's >> that's awesome. >> He's willing to get up in a lift. You wouldn't get me up there running
026the scoreboard that wasn't working right because we couldn't have a cord be too far away. So yes, we're happy to have him and sorry you guys can't have him back. But with that, I will say a big testament is to our teachers because they we have teachers that have multiple courses within a single block. Um, like I said, just the ability to our FFA teacher, the amount of time, effort, and energy she puts in. Um, they just have to wear a lot of hats and so I think that's a big part of it, too, is everybody's really invested. >> Thank you. >> Well, thank you guys. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much. >> All right, we're going to go ahead and move into board reports. Do I have any volunteers? >> Just Underwood. >>
027I have a few things I can share. >> Great. >> The first thing is I'm so excited and yet so so uh disappointed in a way that Plaster High School is going to be losing maybe the greatest and instructor and David Lauren. >> I mean, he is phenomenal. He really is. Uh the Festival of Lights, uh seeing our marching band, big smiles, excited. Um I'm really kind of in awe of his energy, I'll be honest with you, and his professionalism. and and maybe more than to add to that is the excitement of the kids when they are engaged. So, I'm going to miss him. You know, he's my hiking buddy I see occasionally in the canyon. I'm going to miss him. But, uh his legacy is there and it's going to continue because he's phenomenal.
028He really is. Sometimes band is is not appreciated as much as it should be in my opinion. the arts and band, but I he he stands above. He's he's great. Um student voice is always interesting and and uh to listen to and to see the kids engaged at all of our different sites. Um and how they take such great passion really in their culture, how they love their culture, you know, and they uh it's like it becomes a a transcendent thing. We are it. This is phenomenal. we, you know, we are, you know, uh, committed and engaged and we just love being here. And it's maybe one of the greatest attributes this culture, this district's always had is the culture at all of our sites. And, uh, that's always exciting for me. Um especially since
029I live so close to Placer, I'm always have my eyes and ears uh open and it's exciting to see and to speak about Placer from my academic background from teaching. Um, often I think there's too many kids that kind of to me too many. It's really not too many, but some kids that just don't engage or achieve the success that we know that that they all can. And that's probably why I was so committed and still am philosophically to Glasser's approach to quality education because all kids can succeed. They really can't. you know, they might have to have a different format or a different learning style, but they really can. And so Placer High School's doing something that made my eyes get wide because it kind of took me back to my days in teaching,
030which is really focusing on those kids that might be borderline or might not be success uh succeeding as much as they can. And that's this semester they're doing prep for success. And I think that's really really cool. And those steps, if I can kind of share, uh, making sure the kids are prepared and they're coming to school, you know, they have their their assignments, they have their pen, pencil, whatever is needed in whatever classroom there is, but but they're ready to engage. And that's the the very first step. But I kind of when I read through these and looked at these, I I smiled and said, "Yeah, how often do I remember, you know, in the classroom where you'll have three or four kids maybe that just don't have their uh preparation there to engage."
031And so that focus of keeping that message out there is really critical. I think I I really do. Um so for those few kids maybe that might not have come prepared hearing that message you know will really impact them I think. And the second thing is is uh reading is critical and sometimes uh people don't read fully the directions or they don't really fully look at what's being expected thinking they might know but really didn't get the uh understanding. And so I really kind of like that second step. And the third step is uh the engagement. And of course that's critical. That that's where you're actually engaging in the uh material that's being presented, making sure that you now are understanding because you've already read through um asking for maybe support if you need it
032and following through to that completion date. That that's critical. You know, I have to say Plaster High School staff, this this is wonderful. I think it's really going to impact many kids that might have kind of fallen away through the cracks. And then the fourth one is uh uh persevere and realize that education is an ongoing process. There's always challenges that are there and once you master one step, there's going to be other uh steps to follow. So, uh, I take my hat off to you guys. I think it's excellent. I really do. Uh, from my background as a teacher and, uh, continuing the work and I know it's going to have an impact. Thank you. [snorts] >> Thank you so much, Trusty Jeff. >> All right. So, I think it was two weeks ago,
033um, I had the opportunity to attend the California School Boards Association annual education conference uh, in Sacramento with several of the board members and some of the student board members as well. Um that was a great opportunity. Uh they had a you know for those of you that that don't know what I'm talking about there it's kind of a workshop kind of thing where they have all these different courses that you can um um you can attend and learn about different things. I think I took I sat in on four different sessions on on AI for example. Um which I feel like this is something that this board is going to have to deal with sooner rather than later. Um still seems kind of scary to me because I don't even know where where to
034begin with that um that topic. But um there was it was really interesting though and kind of eye opening and and it was nice to see too um hearing back from other board members and superintendents and that kind of thing. Um what they they have going on in their school districts um getting getting ideas stuff is there as well um was was kind of interesting. Um, on the more personal side, so I had the opportunity to attend um, a couple of weeks ago my daughter's uh, you know, end of the season tennis uh, recognition dinner and that was really kind of a cool event to go to uh, to see all the girls that participate in uh, Delo uh, girls tennis there. Um, you know, seeing the slideshow and them telling stories about what, you
035know, what they did over the um, the course of the season and the the memories that they brought back with them. Uh, and then right afterward, my my daughter started um, wrestling for the first time. So, I've had the opportunity to to attend a couple of wrestling events and um you know, although you know, both with tennis and wrestling really my my daughter's not super athletic, but uh if for me it's not really about her, you know, winning and losing, it's about her connecting with other kids and you know, and and making those um those social connections and and friendships and and that kind of those kind of growing memories and and also equally important from my from my perspective is the idea of perseverance and like, you know, even if you you lost that
036last match, you know, you got the next one coming and you can work harder and and get better at it. Um I feel feel like um you know not enough emphasis I think is put on um how important sports can be for some of our kids. So uh I think I just wanted to point out that I feel like that's a really important thing for us in this in the district. So >> thank you so much Trusty Lake. >> Yes. >> Hi everyone. It's good to be here tonight. Um, I also got to attend the uh the the annual education conference and um there were some good some good takeaways for me. It was actually exciting to walk into a room with like over several thousand uh other board trustees from all over the state.
037And uh so this was a a first-time experience for me and to to listen to some of the keynotes and to attend some of the workshops. Uh I'm also very interested in in AI and uh education as I've uh commented in the past um and how important it is and one of the takeaways is is for teachers to become literate to become uh you know if you're not using it to uh to use it. And um but with caution and um I'll share a quick experience. my daughter's in college and uh the professor warned them at the beginning of the course saying hey be very careful with your use of AI because we will be doing an audit at some point during the semester and um if you're shown to have used you know or
038not sourced properly the you know using AI to write your your assignments then uh you're going to be you're going to be called out and um and uh she happens to not be a fan of AI she's kind of against it. And uh so we have interesting conversations, but uh sure enough towards the end of the of the term, everybody was called out. She's I think the professor said there was only like two or three that hadn't used uh AI and that everybody else should uh divulge what they did and and and kind of confess. And um so anyway, it is something that has uh it has entered into education into public education and uh it's actually an exciting frontier used properly and um and so I I'm excited to to see what the future
039holds and um how it's going to impact education. Um I have two kids at Deloro right now and they've been working really hard through finals and uh you know it's commendable to see these uh not just my kids but interacting with these other students who are who are working hard and uh you know really trying to achieve their best and uh I think it's it's exciting and uh I love this time of year. Um [clears throat] I'm grateful. I just want to express some gratitude for for our board. Uh, I know that we're putting in many many hours to to understand um how to become better board trustees and how to understand um the nuances of board policy and um there's a lot and I just u want to thank everybody for their effort and
040for the the time that they're they're putting into to this position. Um, and um, you know, those are just some thoughts I have. Um, all I got. Thanks. >> Thank you so much, Clerk Duncan. >> All right. Okay. So, a few things. Um, most recent, I got to go to Delore yesterday and hang out with Nick and Liz and Matt uh, and get a tour of, uh, the locker rooms. It's been a long time since, uh, I've been in the locker rooms. Uh, and I appreciate Nick. He actually reached out to to Emerson and I and um there had been reports of vandalism occurring. There were some community concerns um and uh and taking a look at the locker rooms. It was wasn't surprised, but it was eye opening uh to see how the kids
041don't keep their stuff. Not not the whole, right? But there was a few lockers that were wide open and there was an opportunity >> to uh uh to take things and so uh it was just interesting. Uh and and look, kids are going to kids are going to do that. I know I've got six of them that that don't keep care of their stuff very much. But I think it's a great life lesson to remember to to take care of your stuff. Now, there is going to be vandalism whether uh your stuff is locked or not, and that's unfortunate. Uh this is something that's not um uh immune to Deloro. It happens all over the place. Uh but I just I appreciate the community's concerns, but I also appreciate the proactiveness of of Nick reaching
042out to Emerson and I and saying, "Come on down, take a look and any ideas that we could come up with and help with." But you know, we have cameras up outside of the locker rooms, not inside obviously. Uh and uh and I think we're doing what we can right now. Uh and uh um but lock up your stuff. [laughter] So, thanks Nick. Appreciate that. Um uh the on the sports piece, uh Delo Girls golf banquet occurred uh last month uh for uh uh for golf and um just a shout out to Coach Sherman and Coach Kellogg. They're awesome. Uh Kenny Kellogg especially uh just does what he should as a coach to uh drive confidence into these girls uh and uh bring the best out of them but and teach them about competition and
043discipline and how to have fun and uh he does it really well. So I I really appreciate that. Uh I also got to chaperone in the girls basketball tournament. Ninda uh they took third place. Um and then I also went to CSBA. I only was able to go for a day. Um, I chose uh to go to a math class because I knew I'd get a report out on AI from everyone else. [laughter] Um, and uh, you know, I I left the math class. It was a really good debate and no one had a great answer. [laughter] Um, and I didn't expect a great answer, but you know, it's it's to be discussed and and we're going to continue to find out how we can improve. And you know, when I was at Delore yesterday,
044I asked Nick because I'm super interested. he had a has a great idea on bringing tutors in and um and I'm excited to see where we can do some more grassroot things like that to to improve um uh our our math competency. So looking forward to that. So that's it. >> All right. Also attended CSBA. Um it's such a great time to to learn and to gather with with people from across the state and there's not many items that somebody hasn't dealt with in that room. And so I think the collaboration in the classes are so critical and and important um maybe just to hear it a little bit different way um but also to connect and ask questions of how how um others are operating throughout the state. It's it's fascinating which um is
045also one of my pleasures and joys to serve on CSBA's delegate assembly because similarly we're we're digging into things and collaborating and providing feedback on the materials that CSBA provides to all of its members. Um, but overall, and I I attended Student Voice. I love being with the kids. Uh, Cooper, you did a phenomenal job. Um, those of you reporting out, you also did a wonderful job, but I got to see Cooper do his thing. There's a lot going on in that room at one time. And, uh, everybody facilitates a little bit differently, but Cooper was able to pull out the information when a lot was happening and disseminate it well. You did, you did a good job, Cooper. And uh yesterday I also attended Plaster School for Adults uh jail graduation. And I believe
046that's my fourth graduation at the jail. I could be my fifth. I don't know. I'm losing track. Which I I love. Um because it's it's a wonderful thing. And I'll say it and I'll say it again. I've said it for sure. Um some of these people never thought they were going to graduate. And there were actually for the first time in my understanding in plaster school for adult history inside of the jail there were more high school diplomas uh that we presented than GEDs and it's usually always the other way around. So massive kudos to that staff. They are working super super hard um with students who sometimes are only engaging to you know work off some time which kudos to them too. Um, and uh, it's very humbling to to get to witness that
047um, and their growth. But overall today, I just wanted to share a massive thank you to this board [snorts] for the hours that you guys are putting in. We have obviously three brand new board members as of one year, 12 months. Actually, you're you're still not you're shy of your oneyear birthday, Emerson. Um, for the massive year that we've had as a district, we have had significant change and challenges and meaningful growth and hard conversations. Um, we've addressed concerns from our staff. We have addressed concern from our families and students, um, from our community members. And I can say, um, that it's been very humbling being in the seat for the first time navigating that. I thank you for your patience um as I have learned how to be in this role. I want to
048thank Steve Camonetti who who rode out for for over six months, seven months as as inim did a phenomenal job uh guiding us through uh an appointment of a new trustee. None of us had ever been through that before or I hadn't. Had you been through that in your former board, Jeremy? Okay. So, all of us had never been through that process before. um obviously the hiring of our new superintendent, Superintendent Omali, um and and so many changes throughout the district. And I can tell you that day in and day out, um as a school board president, I had I received more calls than I've ever received as a trustee before. There's so much going on every day at our campus. It is not Groundhog Day at Plazer Union High School District. There is something
049exciting or challenging nearly every hour of every day at every campus. There is so much going on. I just want to thank our staff who works so hard to make this happen. I want to thank our coaches. I want to thank our our teachers, our confidential, our maintenance workers who are busting it, who never I think really receive enough love who make our campuses so beautiful. And when people visit our schools, I always hear feedback about how how wonderful and beautiful our schools are. Um academically, there's obviously growth um that we're we're seeing. Forest Hill is a great example of that tonight. Um, but I'm just really proud of where we're heading. We've we've taken some steps. We've taken some heat. Um, and I'm okay with that. We're here. We're here to serve and it's
050been a true honor and a privilege to serve um with you and thank you for trusting me in this role this year. So, with that, I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to our ad hoc committee updates. Uh, Trusty Jeff, would you like to do a quick report out on our board policy audit committee? >> Sure. So for the board policy audit committee uh we did not have the opportunity to meet over the last month partly because of the CSBA conference that took those the several days and as the holidays and some other personal commitments. Um however on tonight's agenda you'll see some of the policies that we have looked at previously and made some uh tweaks and adjustments to previously. We'll be we'll be looking at those individually. Um and we'll be
051meeting again next month um to continue that process. Um, we've got probably at least a few more months worth of time going through the policies. The 4,000 series is going to be a lot. Um, so we'll we'll have some we'll have some work still ahead of us, but we're we're on it. >> Thank you. Item 6.4, student board member reports. And we are a board member, a student student board member down right now who is playing at a soccer game. Are you about to roll out of here? >> No, no, I have I have >> Oh, you have his. But but good news, Cooper has um Adam's report. So we'll go ahead and take it away. >> You guys want to start? >> Yes, I'm happy to start. Thank you, Cooper. Um hi everybody. Uh
052I had probably the best month out of my student board career within this last month. The CSBA conference was an absolute highlight. Um, I loved getting to hear from the gubernatorial candidates, the state, uh, the SPI, so the state superintendent of public instruction candidates, hearing all those forums. Uh, I got to attend sessions about communication, AI, and I think that the best one was the conversations uh, that Trusty Price and the Rocklin Unified High School District gave. They gave an awesome report on math. Um they have a stellar math program and it was so incredible to be able to hear from them. Um especially as our one of our board's focuses this year is math. Um they had a great point on building thinking classrooms and data analysis on all the all the things that
053they've tried and it was so awesome to hear. It was great to connect with their other board trustees as well to hear more about their math program. They're doing a great job and it's right in our backyard too which is cool. I attended the student board program at CSBA. I uh also recently did our student voice meeting and our highlights we spoke on school spirit, sports, athletics, scheduling, and academics. They were kind of all all all hot topics. Um I'm going to get I'm going to get all of our feedback first uh and then I'll end it on a good note. But students uh wanted a better master schedule this year. They said that sometimes they feel like classes are more towards the end of the day right now. They're hard academic classes and it's
054easier for most students to focus during the morning. Um especially with sports. So sports students are getting checked out of their fifth blocks and they're missing a lot of instruction. They're like, I know I could do better in this class and it's killing me that I'm missing class. Um I had a conversation with Deputy Superintendent Camiti and Superintendent Omali. Um, and my first initial thought was to move our flexi schedule block to the end of the day where students can then be checked out during a block that's more intervention support than an actual direct instruction. Um, and then they all students also uh wanted more recognition for athletics that's not just um basketball and football as those get a lot of attention which is incredible. I love it. But at the same time, they want
055some more attention to some of those other sports and having more leadership recognition there. Same with uh more conversations and better dynamics when it comes to discipline. Students that they sometimes feel blamed rather than heard and checked in on later later on. Um Miss Barry did an amazing example of what an ideal conversation would be um from an administrator to a student and uh students really would like, oh that if that happened, that would be incredible. So, that kind of goes into best practices, but there was probably a 30-minute conversation on that one. Uh, students also had concerns about closed bathrooms. Now, the good stuff about student voice. Um, our teachers are incredible. Our teachers are so incredible. I heard so many testimonies about how incredible our teachers are, the difference that they've made in
056our students lives, but also the engaging lessons that they've had. Um, one of our Spanish teachers, Senora Matthews, does a scavenger hunt around Deloro and you have to define all the Elimnasio and all that. Um, that was brought up. I mean, just such such awesome such awesome teachers we have in our district. Same with we our black hole was highlighted and our homecoming week was highlighted. Um, if you guys haven't checked out our homecoming week or black hole, I feel like no one does it better than Dio. It's pretty it's a pretty fun time. As academics as academics go, it's finals week. pretty much sums it all up. Students are definitely working hard on their finals and um to the point on math and going back to grassroots um is I absolutely agree with that
057and Mrs. Miller who is a teacher within she teaches integrated math 2, integrated math 3 and pre-calculus has a program where she puts a strong student at each table and um I know that we mentioned tutors. So they are like the tutors in class. So there's it's all balanced out. There's one like a student at each table. They help with the class and Mrs. Miller um gives us time to work in class so we could always ask questions as well as our direct instruction. Um so I invite you guys if you guys want to see kind of a grassroot um math class, I invite you to always join me. Fifth block pre-cal. I'll be there and I'm happy to show you around as activities go. They had we had the Satie Hawkins dance Thanksgiving break
058which was an amazing break for so many students. They were like, "Highlight this." We we loved the break because it's a long break this year. So, um it wasn't just the three days. It was our full week and students loved that. Uh the Make a Wish rally where uh Principal Zuras kissed a pig. So, um if you uh there are there are video there are videos. So, if you guys didn't get to see it in person, which I did not. I was unfortunate at CSBA, but Principal Zeros did kiss a pig and um >> on the nose or >> I I don't know. I I feel like he probably >> was not into it. Yeah, the pig was kind of running away. He did not want to be kissed by Principal Zurwas, but it was
059pretty awesome. Um, and then again was not at CSBA, but the two students that I shared at the previous board meeting who had a desire for a staff member to get a wedding ring. Unfortunately, that wish was not granted. Um, so there was a little disappointment from um, a particular class at our site, but besides that, all of our other wishes were granted and pretty amazing as far as I know. Um, and then our dance show happened recently which was uh always a hit. Our dance show, we have an incredible dance program, incredible choir, incredible, we have such a good visual performing arts program, such amazing teachers, Mrs. MGO, Mrs. Freed, they do it amazingly. Um, and then recognitions for finals were sent out this week from our leadership team. Ending it on a light-hearted
060note is therapy dogs joined us today at school. So, there were um four dogs sitting um by the office comforting students for finals week. And I just thought that that was so cool. I was walking by the office and they're like, "Do you want to come say hi to a dog?" I'm like, "A dog?" Like, "All right." Like, it was great. There are four dogs, bunch of student interest. Um, it's just so cool to see that. So, thank you guys. Happy holidays, merry Christmas, happiest Hanukkah, whatever you celebrate. It's definitely the most wonderful time of the year. So, thank you guys. >> Thank you, Justin. Maddie. >> Oh, okay. Um, so to start off, uh, I a highlight from the CSBA conference was definitely the student board member portion of the event for me. I
061found it really helpful to just kind of like see the perspectives of a bunch of different student board members in their districts and how they're doing things. And I thought all the insight was really helpful. um looking at student voice. Um a lot of our sort of like things that people brought up ended on a leadership level, but I found that the meeting started sort of slow and once students started talking, it was just like everyone was super engaged and I absolutely loved it. It was definitely one of the best student voice meetings I've ever attended, I think. And I think that students started to realize like, hey, people actually want to hear what we have to say and they're going to listen. And I thought that was really cool. Um our sports are kicking
062off. Our only winter sport is basketball and we had our wildfire classic happening. Um, and the girls hosted their very first wildfire classic and we hosted a team from Australia. Uh, forestry had their very first forestry challenge where they were packing mules. Heard that went pretty well. Um, leadership made a winter wonderland hallway in our giant main hallway, which it is, it's actually really pretty and very impressive cuz if you've ever been to Forsill's campus, you know how big those hallways are. Um, they also took a field trip to the senior center today. I thought it was really cool to just get a different perspective on people and it really just made you think about like how you want to impact your community. And um we've been working to set up our winter dance, which
063is snowco for next semester. Uh the English class is running a mock trial following Shakespeare's Hamlet, which I thought was really cool. And to shout out, a recent student article written by Amy Saxelby. Forest Hill recent recently received a STEM grant for wildland fire and emergency medical response classes. And we'd like to say thank you to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Placa County Navy League, and Navy League STEM Institute for this grant. And that is all I have to report. >> Thank you, Maddie Cooper. >> Is Is this thing audio? Okay. >> Okay. So, I got double trouble tonight because Adam is off at a soccer meeting. But, um, yeah. So, with student voice, um, I'm actually kind of glad I got to hear you guys' thoughts because I somehow managed to like mute the
064voice meeting on the screen, so I didn't hear you guys. Um, so yeah, I just like turned it back on and superintendent was Molly was like, "Cooper, Cooper, are you going to record? Hello, hello, hello." So, nice to hear you guys' thoughts. Um, I actually have a couple suggestions from student voice. one specific to plaster just because we have open campus and kids go you know everywhere and anywhere for lunch. It is like quite hard to get kids who I know would be interested and want to you know pitch their voice in those voice meetings but it is it is hard to get especially upper classmen to come to a voice meeting over in like it's tough. So, I mean, maybe if we could do an intervention or some other time where it wasn't lunch,
065um I think that would be, you know, bring a lot more interested kids to the meeting. Um I think it would help for student voice. Um and then for the topic, school culture, I think it got a lot of kids talking about a lot of different things and it was it was a really broad topic. It was hard to like, you know, it was like, oh, now we're talking about this, now we're talking about this, now we're talking about this. I think like AI was really great and it was specific. all everybody was talking about was AI, but this was like kind of all over the place. So maybe a little bit more specific um topic next time would be my recommendation. Um it was a little bit tough for me to kind of keep
066everybody like, okay, this is a lot. But um there was kind of one main theme. Um students felt like um this kind of was across the board. Um, but they feel like academic standards have been lowered over the past, you know, their their time being here and what their teachers have kind of received, I guess, too. And they feel like that they're not able to like challenge themselves as much as they can. Um, like we don't have enough advanced classes. And I do understand like it's a it's a tough balance with teachers and stuff, but that was their main concern. Um, on to CSBA. Um, I thought it was a cool experience. I um was very priv privileged to be on the panel with a bunch of or two very cool um people. One was
067a student board member, one was a lobbyist um in the capital which was great. He had a really cool story to share. Um it was a little you know a little [snorts] freaky being a huge room of like hundreds of student board members and I'm like why why am I on this panel? Like [laughter] I mean why' they choose me? But you know it was it was a cool experience and I I know I grew from it just kind of you know off the top. I'm like, "Oo, what what what about this question?" So, it was it was a good experience for me to grow. So, I do appreciate that and it was cool to I feel like the main thing I got out of it was just networking, just meeting all these other people
068um hearing their experience as a student board member and there's people from SoCal NorCal from actually where superintendent Molly was. I'm like, "Oh, where's that?" You know, but that was cool. So, yeah, just hearing their experience, hearing the different issues that, you know, it's not just unique to us. It's, you know, it's a state thing. It's a nation thing. So, that was cool as well. So, over to Maidu. Um, their charter school was just officially renewed for another 5-year term. So, great news over there. And they also have this cool movie theater ad that they're premiering at these two movie studios, the the studio movie grill in Rockland and the IMAX Theater and Sack. So, if you ever want to go to the movies over the break, maybe that's the place to go. You'll see
069my ad. Um and then at Confluence um they have my my interpretation how their internship works it's like a bare it's like a six week minimum um for their internships. So many of them are just ending now and they had lots of successful ones. They also have um people that work in our district too which was news to me. I didn't know we had that. Um they have a couple you know local businesses. Auburn Gymnastics, Bagel Junction, Bagel Junction, um Auburn Toyota, and then we have someone working in our IT department at Placer. There's an electrician, and there's a painter for the district. So, that was cool. Um a few sports at Placer. Um both the boys and girls basketball teams won their first tournament of the year, so they're off to a great start.
070Um and soccer and wrestling are just starting their first league matches, so we're excited about them. And now over to Adam's Report. See if I can find it. It's a different font. That's the only way I can tell it apart. >> Okay. All right. Adam says, "CSBA was an amazing experience and it was very valuable to hear from other students and their perspective." Um, as for student voice, um, you know, they, as we know, the topic was school culture. Um, and KFax or at KFax, they interpreted as what excited students to come to school. Um, they said the main highlights were elective classes and sports um, and both engaging students. Um but the stu teacher student relationships and the student feeling genuine interest from the teacher um was the most important part to them. Um
071let's see for school they said 65 kids are going to take the IB test this spring um which is great. That's a lot of kids. Um some students already finishing up their classes um with their finals today and tomorrow. Um, as for sports, they've got wrestling, boys and girls soccer, basketball, basketball teams, um, having success in the preeason. Um, they said their younger wrestlers have, um, seen some individual success and show lots of potential. Um, the basketball teams are off to a great start, um, with the, uh, the boys at 9 and one and the girls at three and three after lots of difficult opponents. And the girls soccer team is going strong, five- one. and the the ski teams and all the snow teams are still waiting for snow. [snorts] So, yeah, a little
072bit rough. Um, some upcoming and past events. Um, after 34 years, Mr. Wilkinson put on his final winter concert last Thursday. Um, so hopefully it was a good one. Um, I'm sure it was. Um, and the art gallery this week is showcasing lots of unique pieces made by their students up at KFax. So, that is plaster and KFax for this week. Thank you. Thank you so much and thank you Cooper for your willingness. When Chris Norwood, a trustee from Militus, he and I became friends a couple years ago through CSBA and he's been wanting um members of our our student board members to be involved um in his training. And so, thank you for for stepping up and for representing Plaster Union High School District so well. We appreciate it. Yeah. And remember, if you're
073comfortable, you're not growing. So, it's good to get uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. With that being said, 6.5 superintendent report to the board. >> All right. First off, apologies to Trusty Jeff. I think somehow in the the board bylaws, I got crossed up and sent the wrong one to to Miss Atkins. So, we'll get it on next month. So, my bad on that after you did all that work. So, um CSBA, I think a lot's been said. Kind of the the fun part, I think, for Dr. Dr. Camdi and I, we got to take the kids down. And I don't know if you guys realized we were just listening to you cuz we just wanted you to talk and forget we were there, but anyway, that was our plan. And we learned a ton.
074So, there was a point where I said to them, I think, no apense to to the people up in Modoc County that are watching this, but um I said, "You guys need to to Modoc High School and take a look and see what it's all about." And I think they were all on board with that. And I said, "That's not going to happen." But I I thought it might be kind of fun for them, but I'll circle back to why I bring that up. Um, student voice had a great time up at KFax watching Adam do his thing. Uh, wonderful conversations. Excuse me. Um, we had a Google meet with the student board Monday. It was Miss Atkins idea that we do like a pre-board meeting kind of a workshop. I was pretty slam. We
075didn't have a lot of time, so we just did it Monday morning, but it was good good for me to go through the agenda, and I think the kids got stuff out of it. So, I think that was a good deal. Um, Trusty Jeff asked me to circle back on grading and just where we're at with that. Um, overall, I mean, I think we're in a pretty good place. So, um, Mr. Wilson put a survey out. We had a decent response. I'd like to have seen more, but I think it was a good sample space, sample size, I'm sorry. Um, but the vast majority of the staff is comfortable with creating ELO's where you're seeing most of the discomfort is around basically Aries grade book and how to set that thing up and the D's
076and the eyes and so Dr. Caminiti has a meeting with the grading committee on the 22nd and you know we'll start working to hammer some of that stuff out. I think we have 18 >> 20 now. So up to so 20 staff will be involved in those conversations. We'll continue to work on PLC's. Um going back through and looking at all the agendas from the sites for PLC's in the minimum days. There's been a lot of opportunity and a lot of time uh dedicated to working on this grading policy and you know I met with um ATP president Lamelly the other day and just the teachers really want to get it right. So, we'll make sure we free up the time and give them support so they can, you know, roll this out in the
077in the fall of 26 all ready to go. But there's still work to be done. >> Question. Is there a alternative to Aries? Is there a software that's >> I think all of California is fully integrated with that and I think and Trent, jump in where you want or whoever, but um Cowpads drives that. So, we have so much information we have to upload. We have to use it. >> Aries is the one who's most synced with Calpads. I last I heard I think it was 70% of the districts in California use Aries. I >> I don't know how many use them, but uh you know learning a new I think every system has a flaw somewhere uh Aries is used for so many things to learn one other system. We're already paying for it.
078Um there's a number of reasons why we wouldn't want to get away from it. I wish we could change it uh and modify it on our based on our needs. It's a little hard uh to do to do some of that. Um but uh it is is complicated because um it is our student information system. It also is connected with parent square. All all so many things are ingrained into that system that it's hard to you know buy a standalone grade book for it. >> Just a quick point of order. Great question. But with I don't want to risk us starting a a discussion on a non-aggendaized item, so carry on. No, thank you. Um, I've gotten some concerns just about the the workshop on the 24th. So, I'm going to have further conversations with
079President Spade about what we do with that as far as, you know, we need to get everybody there and maybe we make that look a little bit different or something else. Um, attended the music concert up at Placer and the art show and then, uh, Mr. Wilkinson's final concert up there in Kfax and circling back to taking you guys up to up to Modoc High School. Um I I drag my wife to some of these events and she gladly goes. But we were leaving Kfax and just driving out of town and my wife says, "Do you think these kids realize how blessed they are?" >> And I'm not making this up to you have have a wonderful moment and to make everybody feel good. She actually said that and she's like, "We never had anything
080like this when I was in high school and our kids didn't have anything like this." Like this is amazing. So kudos to everyone again and um that's what I have. >> Great. Thank you. Um master schedule, I heard it brought up by a couple of our student board members. Um our principles met last week as they are in I would say the season of master scheduling between now and the end of the year. I would encourage student board members to make a time to meet with your your principal. It is a um art and a science to do the master schedule. There's um nobody really you don't go to school to do master schedule when you become an administrator. Um it is the biggest puzzle I think of of a principal's job on top of
081the other things that they they're dealing with. um with the sole point of making the school comprehensive um meeting student outcomes that we're supposed to be meeting with CCI, A to G, all of those um data points that our community and the state holds us accountable to. Um meeting student interest and desire of academic rigor. I think we can see from what's happened at at Forest Hill that was a student initiative over the last several years that Principal Davenport worked with students in order to get certain classes that weren't offered. All of our classes have have had opportunities where there's been student feedback. Um and and with that said, you can't you can't meet everybody's needs. um a longer discussion I think maybe for the you know the February if there's a workshop but just
082you know 30 to 40 minutes on master schedule with the board I think would be really helpful um to understand what what conflicts are and and why though it would be great to not offer math last period of the day that's just impossible um because then someone it's got to be offered somewhere right in someone's students schedule and so we're we're limited by some of those conflicts and it's it's not something our princip principles um aren't trying um to always figure out the perfect master schedule. No such thing exists. Um you get a conflict report in May and June and you are excited when it says, "Oh, I'm 70% right and you look at your like that's that's a a C minus or whatever grade it is." Um and that's and that's good. And so
083um they're working really hard. Um what I appreciate about this group last week was just their overall commitment to meeting student outcomes um and working together as a team of realizing you know what are the best practice and each of our schools has a has a challenge. You think of a a big school like Deloro, you know, they have the most sections out of out of everybody, so they must have the most options. All sorts of different challenges with that. And your smallest school have limited tiles and limited sections and they have their own problems. And so it there's there's not a perfect solution, but they're working really hard on it. Um, so keep those conversations going. I know they'd love to talk about them. Um, I'm sure Lennena is going to just congratulate our
084our retirees on the certificated and classified reports today. They'll be honored more in May um at our end of the year celebration that I can't wait to see the number of years um this group's going to pull together, but it's it's going to be really high. Um our grading committee on January 22nd and we'll provide some more um input to the board through Friday facts after that meeting. and [snorts] uh hope everybody has a wonderful, safe and restful holiday. That's all I have. >> Thank you so much. Item 6.6, Associated Teachers of Plaster, CTA, NEATP, President's Report. >> We have no report. >> Well, thank you for that Christmas gift. >> That's a joy. That's a gift on our time tonight. Now, we always want to hear from you, but thank you. All right. Item
085seven, consent agenda items. Do we have any changes to our consent agenda? >> I would like to pull 7.3. >> Pulling 7.3. Any other items? Board hearing. None. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Have a first by trustee Duncan. >> Second by trustee Lake. Any questions, further comments and considerations. Uh starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. >> I. I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Let's start with item 7.3. District issued warrants. Trusty Jeff. >> All right. So, I had a couple of questions regarding some of the pay warrants there. Um, three actually. Uh, the first one was for the 1125 pay warrant. Um, and I wanted to confirm that, um, Lozano Smith, that law firm, is this is going to be hopefully the last payment that
086we make to them. Um, and I believe that's correct, right, Peter? >> Yeah. In fact, I had a phone call emailed to him. I have to follow up. They're not supposed to. Anymore? Um, I do know that we have completed the trademark process. >> Sorry, quick, uh, point of order. Is that microphone on? >> N, there he goes. Um I have confirmed with them that we've completed the trademark process. But of course when we received that last email a couple weeks ago, give the certificates saying that they've been published and so forth. Of course they emailed the two lawyers. So we got Yeah. So I need to make sure that they know that we are no longer if they get an email from them. They need to email the trademark people say, "Hey, we're no
087longer working with them. Please leave us off the list." And so I will take care of that. We are we are complete with that. >> Sure. Thank you. And on the 1119 pay warrant, I had two questions. There was one um line item there for 293130 if I'm reading my tot consulting. [clears throat] >> Yes. So we've used NTC in the past for mostly asbesus testing and things like that. Um in checking with um my director of budget accounting that was a stale data check that they had we had to reissue to them. >> Okay. And my last question is on that same pay warrant. Um, there was a 263 $2,637.30 back to P from PHSD back to PHSD. And I know I know I've asked this question before in previous meetings, but I I'm
088assuming it's has something to do with moving money in different accounts, but can you clarify? >> No, it was it was again reissuing of a stale dated payroll check. >> Oh, okay. >> And so people don't cash their checks on time and they become stale and then we have to reissue it again. >> Oh, okay. Understood. Thank you. >> No, good questions. >> I had also a question on that one. Um, I don't remember what number. I also had the question that um, Trusty Jeff asked about Lozano Smith. So, I appreciate you answering that one, too. Um, I had a question on the 12/3 um, with the payment made to Ava Con for $7.14. This is previously looking uh, I was reviewing our old uh, board member meetings and district issued warrants and she was
089paid $14.28 28 for her mileage made to the Plaster Union High School District. So that means divided by two this is a one-way mileage. Um while I understand it is very little $7.14 that definitely adds up and I was wondering what that payment was there. >> I'd have to go back and look get back to you on that one reimbursement was for. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> Any other questions on item 7.3 hearing? None. Do I have a motion? Move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trustee Jeff and a second by Trustee Duncan to approve item 7.3 districts issued warrants. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I'd like to abstain because my name is on it. >> Okay.
090Thank you. Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Our student board member um one of our student board members abstained. Okay, moving to action. We're moving, y'all. Okay, action item 8.1, certificated personnel report number 525 through 26. >> Yes, Madame President, and yes, Deputy Superintendent Camonetti, I would agree that we will be shocked when the numbers come out for the amount of years that we will be recognizing for our certificate and classified. When Sarah was quizzing me on it, I did not get anywhere close to the number, but that will be told to you guys at another time, but it was way more than I had um calculated in my head very quickly. But on the uh certificated personnel report, we have a number of, you know, additional people who have
091been subbing for some leaves. We always appreciate all the extra work that people have done. But yes, the big piece is our resignation retirees and a big portion of that comes from our participation in PARS. Um it is with heartfelt thanks and appreciation that we ask we thank the teachers for their service and their time to our students, their years of teaching excellence and um they will be missed and so um I do want to make sure that people are aware that they're being recognized and we are very appreciative of their time in our district. So on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the certificate of personnel report. >> A first by trustee Underwood and a second by trustee Duncan. Any questions or comments? >> Um yeah, I've got a a
092couple questions. So actually comment first is uh there are several teachers on this list that are going to be retiring that um are longtime, you know, CTE teachers that developed great programs and it's going to be really difficult to replace them. Um, and I just hope that we have a plan to do so so that those programs don't falter. Um, for example, Mr. Dominy's culinary program has been a, you know, a mainstay at Delaware High School for many, many, many years. Um, and I don't I'd hate to see that program, you know, falter at all. Um, my question is on the, if you go a little higher on that report, um, you'll see some, uh, teachers here, uh, looks like they are getting, you know, curriculum development positions or like what what is this exactly?
093Uh we had a emergency situation where a teacher went out on leave um from Mighty Virtual Charter Academy and some of our um current teachers that are dual enrollment um approved took over. But because it is a different type of um process for teaching, there was a bit of hours provided to them to catch them up to speed to get ready to grade those students at the end of a term. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Any further questions or comments? I'd just like to say thank you to all these teachers for sure. Um, I think that our PARS is a great way to honor these teachers and their time. Um, I know there's so many great teachers on here. I personally know Mr. Gardetto, Mrs. Gardetto, and Senora Adams. And it's going to
094be hard for our district. I definitely think so. But I think it's going to have a five-year payoff and we're going to be in a better place. And I'm grateful to these teachers for all their years of service. So, thank you. >> I agree wholeheartedly. All right. With that being said, all in favor starting with the student board. >> I >> board. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Item 8.2, classified personnel report number 525 through 26. >> Yes, madame president. Um, again, we're hiring some substitutes. We really appreciate all this time. We have athletics going on, so that is always a big portion. We appreciate the individuals that give their time as well as all the volunteers that give their time to our students in participating in these activities. But once again, the recognition
095for some very long-term classified employees that will be missed have taken leadership roles in our district provided a, you know, services to those pieces that you talked about in the sense of the of our campuses and supporting them working. I I know for a fact that Trinid Trinidad Garcia tells me every time I meet with him about how many hours he spent um fixing the plumbing in our district and he will be missed and so um so will all of these people. I personally have worked with a number of them over the years and um including Desiree who will be very missed by me. She's she was there when I started in this district and she's been here all the way through. And so all these individuals, Sarah has been my okay, it's really sad
096when my administrative assistants who used to be my administrative assistants are leaving me. But anyways, on that note, there's a number of people on this list that I would love to recognize and we are so excited in May. Please do join us when we do recognize them in their retirement. Um it is at the board meeting in the May in the May board meeting. So on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the um classified personnel report. >> Thank you very much. >> I just had a quick question. Uh what's the difference between a specialist and an and an assistant coach? >> Um we there it's on the salary schedule. um they are seen um as an assistant coach, but there's only very specific coaching positions that are identified that are paid
097um by the district and so many of them for each site. And so it is a lower level than an assistant coach, but they're an assistant on on the coaching team. >> They're just getting paid a different rate. >> Yeah. Doesn't mean that they're any less of a of an assistant. >> I think in a hierarchy pay does equal in a hierarchy. the more you get because an assistant coach gets paid more than a specialist does >> or if someone was willing to take a lower price low lower doesn't mean they have any less experience >> it it could and it could not it just depends and there is longevity with it built into those um specialist positions as well so yes experience level can play a part in it but it doesn't mean it's
098the full thing I mean we have a number of specialists on our football team I mean football coaches staff a number of them that [laughter] I'm sure that because we can't give the assistant um position to we don't ha we don't have the funding to do that nor did and so those are pieces of it yes >> makes sense thank you >> do I have a motion >> move to approve >> we have a first by trusty Duncan >> second by trusty lake to approve item 8.2 2 classified personnel report number 525 through 26. Any further questions or comments? >> With that being said, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Item 8.3, teaching outside the credential pursuant to education
099code section 44258.3. >> Yes, Madam President. Um I do keep promising that this will probably be the last one, but we do just to piggyback on um deputy superintendent's comment about the master schedule and having to be flexible and change when you have nine teachers versus um you know uh 60 or 70 teachers that adds a whole another realm to it. So, we are appreciative of when a teacher who is willing to um volunteer that have the experience and has been approved by a committee on their school site to do um a local board authorization to teach outside of their authorized area. And in this case, Mr. Castle has um been approved uh by the site team to do that and is willing to do this and take on uh PE weight training. So on
100the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend the local board authorization for that to occur. I do think I might have one more coming up though, just to let you know, next month. >> All right. Thank you. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Underwood, a second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 8.3, teaching outside our credential pursuant to education code section 44258.3. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 8.4 resolution number 1325 through 26 accounting of annual developer fee report and 5-year findings for 2024 through 25. >> Uh yes, Madam President. Um this is an item that is required by law to be presented to the
101board. Um asking for approval of this report. As you know, developer fees is our fund 25. It's money that we collect from the community when they are building either residential or commercial properties um up to over above 500 square feet, mostly residential homes, new developments, things like that. Uh the idea is that those homes will bring in students which will cause an impact to the school sites and allow us to either modify or create new buildings to accommodate that growth or the impact of current programs that we have. Um in that report you'll see um items that have been funded. This is for 2425. So it does not include money that's been taken in from July 1 till now. It talks about things that were paid and completed in July 2425. And so you'll think
102things like the rest of the district office. You'll see the Forest Hill snack bar being completed, things like that. You'll also see a graph on there. The two big projects we still have outstanding with our developer fees are the Kfax track and field project and the Delaware Boington parking lot which are ongoing. The Kfax uh track and field not quite finished. There's still a couple of runways and things to finish. The track and field itself are complete but there's some u outlying areas that need to get done. So that project's still open and the parking lot is still in its infancy in terms of development. We're still waiting to get in with a meeting with DSA so we can show them the plans we want and get them moving before we go out to bid.
103And so so far the money we're bringing in is marking with what we've expected. We collect anywhere between 500,000 to maybe a million a year in a good year. We don't lot a lot of growth happening in our area compared to say a Roseville, but monies that have been well earned and well spent within our district. um as is evidenced by projects presented during other uh facility master plan reports and in this report itself. And on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> Thank you very much. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trusty Duncan. Did I hear you have a question? Trusty Duncan. >> Any questions or comments? >> Yes, a question. So, Peter, can you clarify
104for us what these developer fees can and cannot be used for? So they cannot be used for maintenance, but they can be used to upgrade or take care of facilities because of impact of programs. So the fields as an example, it's not really maintenance when you put in a whole new field because it's of the impact of the just the programs itself. When we moved soccer to the winter, you need synthetic turf. Okay. A parking lot that's never been taken care of before. Um the parking lot at Delo are redoing that because there used to be a pool there and creating new spaces for students. We might have seen a lot of growth technically but just the impact of what happens to our campuses and don't forget it's not just the students it's the community
105use as well. I mean Deloro is what 247 some people joke of people being there and so forth and so when I remind people those developer fees are not just helping the school per se it's the community use of the campus itself because even though we do get rental fees it's not a lot of money compared to what other places can charge and that's based off law. We can't just say I want to charge this much. Um, and so that's a whole another conversation regarding facility rental, but that's kind of the basis. We can't use it to replace air conditioners. That's maintenance. But if we were building something new and put air condition, we can do it that way. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions, please? Um, so just to clarify the use
106of the developer fees, it can be used to for things that are like needed by the school, but can it also be used for beautifification of the school or is it just practical usage? >> No, not not beautifification, not like just adding foilage and things like that that would come from a different county. This is more of um structural capital outlay type projects things that I'm not going to say beautifification doesn't bring a value but uh when we added the concession stands that added value to your campus monetarily >> beautifification kind of makes it look pretty that I'm not trying to be mean about that's kind of the best way to put it. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> I also have a question on that one. Um if you uh review action item 8.9 that
107uses Should I ask that on 8.9 or should I ask it on this? They're both connected. >> If you have a question specifically related to the resolution, ask that now. If there's a separate one for um 8.9. >> Perfect. >> Okay, great. >> Any other questions or comments? Thank you. >> Okay, we have a first and a second on item 8.9, our resolution number 1325 through 26, accounting and annual developer fee report and five-year findings for 2425. This is a resolution. Superintendent Omali, take it away. Student board members. [clears throat] >> Um, it was said 8.9. This is 8.4. >> Oh, excuse me. >> Sorry. >> Look at me. I I I went right to your 8.9. 8.4. Thank you. >> Trusty Underwood. >> Hi. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Hi, >> President Spade. >> Hi.
108>> Trusty Duncan. >> Hi, >> Trusty Lake. [clears throat] >> Motion carries. My bad. >> Thank you. Item 8.5 [snorts] consider 2025 to 26 first interim budget report and accompanying certification first of two interim financial reports for the 2025 to 26 school year pursuant to education code section 42130. Thank you Susan. Welcome. >> Good evening president Spade trustees superintendent Ali school board. I'm here to um present the first interim uh one of two for this year for the 2526 school year. Uh we're going to start on the first slide. Here's where we show our general fund revenues projected for the year about 64.8 and you can see how it's broken out. Our local control funding is 78% of our funding. Um we have some federal restricted um and some state and there's some one-time state
109dollars that we're receiving this year and some other local funding. The next slide shows our expenditures. Our expenditures are projected to be about $69.7 million. Um as you can see our classified and certificated uh salaries and benefits make up about 82% of those expenditures. And then they're broken out in other things, books and supplies, capital outlay, services and operating expenditures, and other outgoes. Our next slide here, we're showing what our contributions are. This is where we have to contribute to other programs because the allocations for those programs either by the state or the federal do not cover the full program. So here you can see where our special education um we're projecting about a four almost $5 million contribution from our general fund to cover that program. Um our routine maintenance um which is um
110restricted. We have we have a required state contribution of 3% of our expenditures. That comes to about 1.9 million. And then we have some miscellaneous um site and Chromebook um protection plans that happen every year which nets to about $9,000. So total we're looking almost um $6.9 million contributing out of the general fund this year. We do have some transfers in this year which helps offset some of that. Um we have our transfer from fund 25 for the yearly administrative fee that we can charge the developer fee program for running running the developer fees. We have our tech endowment um that we bring in from fund 17. Uh this year we're projecting um because of our deficit spending uh we have to transfer in some from fund 17 about 1.3 million. We did transfer we
111had the sale of the land off Highway 49. So we're able to transfer into 1.1 million which helped offset the transfer to our restricted maintenance account. We also had some prior contributions actually was from back from like 1718 that we had made to fund 40 that we were able to pull back because fund 40 is very healthy right now of 250,000. So we were able to bring back in to the general fund about 2.8 million. On the next slide you'll see what our components of our ending fund balances. So once we do the revenues, the expenditures and the transfers in out comes down to as you can see our beginning balance was 7.7 um we have our revenues and our expenditures which this is where our deficit spending comes in about 4.9 million. However, we
112had those transfers in and offset the contributions. So that reduced it about 2.7. So our net decrease in our fund balance is going to be about 2.2 2 million leaving our ending balance about 5.4 and of that 5.4 you have components that you have to assign. Um as you can see we usually always have a rec revolving cash um about $5,800 a restricted balance which are the restricted programs of about 1.9. We assign the uh some for deficit spending in the outy years because as you will see in our multi-year projection we are continued to deficit spend of about 1.4 for and are reserved for economic uncertainties of 3% which is required. Next I'll talk about Maidu um fund 09 they're doing pretty well. They are projected to bring in revenues of about 2.1 expenditures
113about 2.3. So they are reducing their their fund balance a little bit because I know they are upping their programs and their exposure out to the public. So they are spending a little bit more um on the students as well as advertising and things like that. So as you can see it breaks it down their LCFF, you know, they're they make up about 80% of their funding as well. Here's a just a brief glimpse of our other funds. We have our ASB fund. Um I don't do a whole lot of changes on that because it really doesn't occur till the end of the year. It stays pretty stable that way. We have our adult education program. Um it is decreasing a little bit. It's going to have an ending balance of about 765,000. They've been
114doing a lot of work over there. They've been doing some upgrades, too. Um the cafeteria fund, um they're going down their deficit spending a little bit. They're decreasing about 334,000 of their fund balance. That's usually just due to mainly it's due to their food cost. I mean, the costs have just gone up dramatically for for the food and the cost of food. Um, we have our deferred maintenance fund, which is fund 14. We've been slowly using that. This is all that's left in here. So, Don's been really good about deciding what can be spent out of there versus the restricted maintenance account. So, she's been really good about deciphering which to use, which funds to use for what type of projects. So, we're projected still to have about a $32,000 balance at the end of
115this year, but that could change at second interm if she wants to spend it. Here's our fund 17. This is our special reserve fund. This is kind of where our savings fund is. This is where we're have to pull money to what I talked about that one transfer. So, right now we're projecting with the tech endowment um assignment there's going to be about 3.7 million left. The state uncertainty reserve that's where I'm pulling that big chunk of changes to cover this year. So, it'll be about 34,000 left. And then our purse um stir stabil stabilization trust will have about $98,000 left in it. our building fund. Hopefully, we're going to be done with these. Peter's working on it really hard, but we do plan to spend down all the bonds this year. There's been a
116lot of projects out there, as you can see on the on the board report. So, we're looking at finishing up measure D and measure um measure G this year with the remaining projects. Again, here's some other funds. Here's our fund 19. That's our scholarship fund. It's always doing well. um our capital facilities fund as Peter spoke about the different projects we're doing. So that's going to bring down the balance a little bit getting done with the KFax and the and the um Deloro. Um and then our fund 40 that's projects are starting to work in there as well. Um so we're going to be spending a little bit about that and again it's just as the years go on it's going to be when Peter brings his facilities up to you guys is when going
117to decide what we're going to spend. And then we have the retirey benefit fund which is out there 551,000. And we get into our multi-year projections. This is kind of where the fund begins for me. These are again these are assumptions and they're based on what is provided to us at the time from school services as far as the cola um you know your step and column all the different the CPI what is involved in how we're going to project out what our funding what our funding is for the next year. So these are some of the highlights I use some of the the projections I use to do our outyear outyear um dollar amounts. So for our LCFF, as you can see, it is going up a little bit and that's, you know, due
118mainly to the COLA going up a little bit. However, our enrollment is still decreasing. We're projected to lose about 25 next year and then 63 the outy year. Um, and our ratio, as you can see, it was 37 to1. We're going it up 37.75. our federal and state onetime grant expenditures. This is really important because we've had so much onetime money that we've been using. Um, as you can see, this current year, we had to move about $225,000 back to the general fund that was used for some onetime grants that are no longer there. So the re next year now that we have our educator effectiveness, we have the learning recovery emergency block grant, we have that other new one um for the professional development student support services. That money, that $2 million next year
119is going to have to come back to the general fund because we are using it this year. All of it this year, that's what it's projected to be. Um so again then you can see below there's our transfers for fund 17 in the outy years 1.3 this year about 2.8 next year and a 1.4 transfer out. Um so we will be almost exhausting our fund 17 two years out. And so here's our projections beginning fund balance or ending fund balance. So, our decrease as you can see in the in the fund balance going down in the outy years as best we can. Um, we've been working with the the budget action group and all kinds of things to help what we can do in the out years to help further cut because the last place
120you want to go is the classroom obviously. And then you can see our components of of fund balance. So, we are pretty much borrowing to make sure that we have a reserve um to help cover those deficits. So, here's our, again, this is a slide I've used before with you guys, the deficit spending concerns. Um, you know, we're continue to deficit spend. We're looking at maybe possibly using 5.8 million to offset our reserves in the out years. Um, but, you know, like I said, we're constantly looking at positions. When people leave positions, does it need to be filled? How can it be filled? Or if they're coming in, some of them are coming in at a lower rate because the experienced person left. Um, we have revenue loss. We have declining enrollment. We have a
121state budget deficit of quite a bit of money. So, we're still working with our budget advisory group. Um, I think we have a meeting in January. Peter, is that when the next meeting is? >> It's been really productive. It's it's I think it's been educational for the folks that show up of kind of how it works in our in our district. So, that's been um that's been really nice to see and see. There's been a lot of people there. It's been a good turnout. Um, so what's next for us? Well, we'll be attending the governor's budget workshop in January. They are looking at an $18 billion deficit. It's funny, an article came out right before I came here about a super cola. >> So, they get you all excited, right? And then it at the
122end it says it's doubtful there'll be one. It's like, well, no kidding. We're having a $18 billion deficit. So, I I think it was just a catchy thing to say. But, um, also the LAO is predicting a COLA. We're projected at 3.0. Um, they're looking at possibly a 2.5. So that'll that'll be adjusted accordingly. Um again, you know, we're going to continue to work with the bud budget advisory group to see what and also, you know, our governor January is going to be a telltale sign of really what is what is ahead. There's a lot of talk out there. They're going to pay us back what they owe from the LCFF. They're going to do some more one-time dollars. Um so it's going to be interesting to hear what they have to say. and and
123again in our multi-year projections, you know, with the PARs and with everything that's all included in that. I have put those savings in there. Um, and so we're we have to look we have to continue to look and see, you know, where where we can make changes if any to keep what we have here going. So on that note, we are positive. We are meeting our obligations first year and two years out. So, we recommend that the board certify this as a positive first interim budget report. And again, I want to thank um my staff. They're incredible. They work so hard to help me put this report together. They work so hard to make sure the the sites are staying on top of what they need to stay um stay up on. And um I
124just really want to thank them. They really helped out this this past couple months. So, >> thank you so much. This is a lot to digest um for anyone. Um you always want to see the numbers moving in a in a different direction and unfortunately that's not the scenario here. Although we're lucky in Plaster County, we do have some school neighboring school districts who are growing. Um some of the very few throughout the state of California, but that's not our [laughter] prerogative right now. So, um I appreciate the work that's been going on. I've been receiving updates through Superintendent Omali as well. Um, and you guys kind of trying to figure out where where some of that restricted money could potentially um, >> you know, be be offsetting. >> Spend the restricted first. >> Yeah.
125Yeah. And so I I appreciate the the meticulous work that's going on trying to find ways to be creative um, obviously staying within the law uh, to [snorts] address some of these issues. Um, and I appreciate all of your time on that. >> Susan, give a shout out. Who's your staff that you work with? >> Oh, please. [laughter] Rhonda Kimble, Nicole Lynch. >> Um, so they've been really helping me. And Ann Walsh, she's she she overlooks everything. She helps check stuff. So yeah, th those two the two accountants are the ones who are doing that daily grind and making sure things are getting done and are put in the right place. And >> yeah. >> Oh, thank [applause] you. >> Susan, question for you. Can we go back to slide six? Uh, is that the
126one? Is it that one? Yeah. Components. >> I'm sorry. Maybe maybe slide five that transfers in. >> Uh, there was two accounts that I was trying to figure out what the difference between the two of them was, whether they were restricted or not. Maybe slide seven. I'm sorry. Um, all right. Okay, never mind. [laughter] I'll figure it out and I'll find out. But >> yeah, just Yeah, if you have any other questions. Yeah, I mean all our all the funds are there. So, there's restricted programs in our general fund. So, like your title one, your special education, your RMA, but the funds, but then you have your other funds. You have fundo 8, fund 09, fund 11. Those are totally completely different and they have their own restricted and unrestricted involved in each of those
127funds as well. >> Okay. >> Yeah, they have parameters on how they can spend their dollars for those funds. >> The state loves to keep it very simple [laughter] >> for staff and we appreciate that. >> All righty. Thank you so much. Um, any other questions while Susan's up here? All right. Do I have a motion to approve our first interim budget item 8.5 >> by trustee Underwood? A second by Trustee Lake. Any further questions, comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you for your hard work on this. >> And if you noticed too, there was a different little narrative thanks to >> I know. I so appreci Thank you for bringing that up. [laughter] >> I
128hope you enjoyed that piece of it. >> Thoroughly enjoyed it. Um >> has [clears throat] a good explanation in there. But >> yeah, this is this is new to our district, Superintendent Ali, just cuz it's there and and I think it's a much more digestible document for the community to understand our budget and this was um inspired by you. Do you want to just explain it a little bit? >> Yeah, like excuse me. [clears throat] Like I told Sue, it was like putting on an old pair of shoes for me. It felt really [laughter] good. Um just trying to create that basically put a story behind the budget so you can kind of actually read and and it and it should explain like I said tell a story of how we got to where we
129are all these different funds little explanations about them and if you have tweaks or whatever please let me know because this is your your guys' first time seeing this and you know it needs to meet your needs but just instead of just you know seeing numbers and slides trying to give you that story of of how these funds are generated, how we can spend them and and where we're all heading with those. So hopefully it had value for you because if not, I'm sure the ladies would like to not do it. I've had them create numerous spreadsheets for me multi-year for all the different account strings. They've been working very hard and I appreciate them. >> Thank you. >> I'm new. >> Yeah. Awesome. All right. Moving to item 8.6, resolution number 1425 through 26,
130amending the 2025 budget to reflect changes in revenue and expenditures. Take it away. >> Yeah. And here is another condensed version of how things have changed since budget development. And again, it's kind of in your narrative as well. Um, this is how it was presented before. Um, so if you have any questions on that, you can usually find it in the narrative that I provided in that. But if you have any other questions, it just talks about the changes that were made [clears throat] >> from budget to first interim. I always like to say when when discussing school finances, which are extraordinarily complicated, like our staff might as well be psychics because to really know what's coming in. Yeah. You have to be and so typically there are adjustments because the state >> Yeah. It's
131it's it's difficult. We don't have a >> Yeah, it's it's tough right now. >> Yeah. [snorts] All righty. Uh do we have a motion for item 8.6? >> Move approval. >> Second. We have a first by Trusty Underwood, a second by Trustee Duncan to approve item 8.6 resolution number 1425-26 amending the 2025 through 26 budget to reflect changes in revenue and expenditures. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, this is a resolution. Superintendent Omali, take it away. >> Student board members. >> I Trusty Underwood. >> Hi. >> Trusty Jeff. Hi. >> President Spade. Hi. >> Trusty Duncan. Hi. >> Trusty Lake. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Thank you very much. All right, we have another resolution item 8.7. It is resolution number 1525 through 26, intention to convey an easement to end uh to
132and enter into an easement modification agreement with PG&E for undergrounding of electric energy lines and equipment monitoring purposes on Kfax High School campus property. Peter, >> Madame President, um so we did one of these uh a while ago with um the property we used to have at 49. They wanted to put um a box on on a driveway that we shared with other people there because they're doing their undergrounding project, so a little bit simpler. This one became a little bit more entailed. They actually approached me a year ago. >> Mhm. >> And because of the back and forth of what they were requesting that I felt would not fly um with us or the board um we went um again back and forth with a map of where they're going to do the undergrounding,
133what they're impacting. Um essentially they're looking at undergrounding some lines that go on the outskirts of the border behind the soccer field and the baseball field of KFax. and there's some lines they want underground that currently go across property that's right along the first entrance of Kfax. Well, I'm assuming that those people don't want their backyards dug up. So, now they're asking to come into our driveway. Um, and so, um, after again going back and forth with them, um, right now this is just the intent to convey the easement. That meeting in January is when you actually do the conveyance. This is also letting the public know if they want to come talk about it in January, they can come and do that. Um, there were a couple things on there we wanted to make
134sure. Um, and I I got a little bit of this from you. Um, President Spade, we did this before with them and they offered 500, we offer a little bit more. Well, we asked for 10,000. So, they're approving 10,000 plus our legal fees, which up to about 20 grand right now. So, no cost to us except people time that we've spent and spent a lot of time working with our attorneys from DWK according to information uh Don and myself meeting with people out at KFax to look at what they exactly want to do. Um there's a two-year warranty on the work they do just in case they do dig up the asphalt. They say they're going to bore underneath. Um it does involve putting one of those green boxes um in an area that doesn't
135impact the school, but that aspect will be there. Um one of the things that we had to them change, they had some wording in there that could be taken as they could cut down any tree they wanted on the campus with no questions asked. And we basically said that's not going to fly with us. >> If it's a tree that's in the area of the easement, that makes sense. But not just walk on the campus and say, "I don't like that tree." Um they made a comment like, "Well, that'll never happen." I said, "Yeah, but it's worded that way." That's what the attorney was pushing. And that took several months to get back and forth with them because they kept saying, 'Well, that's just our protocol. I'm like, I don't know what to tell you.
136I'm not going to go to the school board and say that's the P Gen protocol. Um so, that being said, um we finally got to an agreement and that's what you have in front of you right now, letting you know about the $10,000 paying for legal fees. Um you see what the easement is. Um and then in January, we'll be coming with that and allowing the public to speak to it. and um proposing that for recommendation for approval and so on behalf of the superintendent we recommen approval this of this resolution. >> Thank you very much. >> I do want to say I'm I'm going to speak for the whole district but obviously we agree with the undergrounding. We want to be good partners with P Gen, but we also want to protect the district
137as well. So that's why it took so long. >> Peter, is the 10,000 just like for the inconvenience >> basically? Yes. Yeah. And it's going to be set aside in that for that driveway. They say there's a 2-year warranty, but you never know. >> So, the idea is to set aside some of that just in case of other things that we may want to take care of. >> I want to thank you for all the work you did in this. It sounds like it was months long and it sounds like you had the district's best intentions in mind, especially, you know, as Maddie mentioned, you know, foilage earlier and um you're looking out for that and you're protecting that and I appreciate that. So, thank you. >> Well, the one thing I've learned is when
138the public's upset, they can't come and and yell about a PG person. They'll just talk about the person who was presenting, which is me. Um, it was funny because we already got reached out by they want to do undergrounding at Forest Hill >> and we already pushed back a little bit because they literally want to dig up the front driveway to put their underground box like right there of all places right in the driveway where they're going to exit the school. So, we're that's in early stages, but you'll I'm assuming you'll be seeing that months from now, too. But same kind of routine. >> Thank you very much. >> Do we have a motion for item 8.7? >> Move to approve. First by Trusty Duncan, >> second by Trustee Jeff. Any further questions or comments?
139We have a first and second on item 8.7, resolution number 1525 through 26, intention to convey an easement uh to enter into an easement modification agreement with PG& for undergrounding of electric energy lines and equipment monitoring purposes on KFax High School campus property. It's a resolution. Superintendent Omali, take it away. Student board members, >> I >> Trusty Underwood. >> Hi, >> Trusty Jeff. >> Hi, >> President Spade. >> Hi, >> Trusty Duncan. >> Hi, >> Trusty Lake. >> Hi. >> Motion carries 50. >> Thank you so much. Item 8.8, Astroturf Field Replacement Warranty Agreement and Forest Hill Track Resurface. Peter. >> Yes, Madam President. So, this is this is kind of um exciting to be honest with you. Um, I never thought that I'd have to be replacing our turf fields in the tenure I
140had here cuz one of the first things I was involved with back in 2019. Uh, but apparently about a year ago, we were approached by Astro Turf. They found that there might be a warranty issue with the both fields at Plaster and Deloro. Nothing was really showing itself until last spring. Um, at Plaster for those who've been playing on the field. Um, the best example is it looks like dried bubble gum is popping up through the turf. If you go to Delos, it looks nice from afar, but if you go closer, you notice the grass is all laying straight down because the sticky enough is causing the grass not to stay fluffed up. So, after months of going back and forth and negotiations um and and of course having our attorneys involved, um we feel
141that this is a great uh compromise with them. Um you have the paperwork in front of you. Um they are going to replace the turf, both fields, each one at $225,000. Normally, it' be anywhere from $800 to a million dollars to replace. It's coming with a 10-year warranty, not an 8-year warranty. It's coming with one of those service plans where they'll come out twice a year and basically super fluff up your field and take care of things more than what we normally do already when the guys go through with their little machine and kind of fluff up the fields. Um, it also um reduces the cost. As you know, I've I've gone to the board asking for $250,000 to re uh surface the track at Forest Hill. They're going to do the basic refill for
142100. So saving us money there basically. So for the amount that we have on there, $550,000, we're going to get two new fields and a resurfaced track at Forestdale High School. Um been working with the site principles and athletic directors. Uh some of the caveats, they are not changing any of the shop drawings. You'll notice the fields are the same. Um there was a couple small little changes. The DO actually interlocks differently and so they have amended that. And then on plaster it says home of the helmet. It's saying something else now. I can't remember. I think home of the I forget what who's here. Do you remember what it says? No, >> I have it. >> Yeah. Well, [laughter] >> I know. But what was funny is right there. Yeah. Welcome to the hill.
143And as Mike Savens pointed out, it's the same exact number of letters. >> Um, and so if you notice, if you looked at the field, that's exactly the way it looks. Now, where it says welcome to the hill, that's actually going to look like where it says Miller Johnson Field. It just didn't show up. If you were to go to a different page, it would show you the gold coloring, but both the ads and principles have seen that. The intent is to have this done during spring break so that we're ready to go. It should not take as long as before. Remember, they're just replacing the turf. Um, if you notice also in the contract, it talks about making sure everything is asis or better than before. So, obviously, if they damage anything underneath, they
144have to fix that because, you know, if you're familiar with it, the grass that turf doesn't just go on top of anything. There's sand and there's layers and and Trent will make fun of me because we went through this many years ago when we had a presentation about how they actually do the layering. >> Yeah. [laughter] So, >> what's a warranty like >> it's a 10-year warranty. So, very similar to what they're doing now, they'll replace fix things like they're doing. Um, this one right now, I think that we reached a compromise because I'll be honest with you, if we told them no, we want zero, they would have fought it. And in talking with different people in the industry, they said we're getting a very good deal. We're not the only ones. There are
145several places across the state um all doing the same things. Um other couple we talked to are all facing the same stuff and no one's getting zero. They're all paying a little bit something. >> Peter, >> have they has technology improved in the last seven, eight years where they're are they still filling it with the little rubber pellets? >> So here here's here's what I've learned Emerson and I'm sure some people in the public may disagree with me, but if you look at some of the fields like right now this technology, the infill is more like an oval shape. Um, and it's not it's more of a bio not biodegradable, more of a I'm going to say organic type material. The best material for turf to hold it to to use it right now is
146what they've been using years ago, which is that cutup rubber. And nowadays, they actually cut it up and they coat it in a green thing, but it's still that rubber >> and that still freaks people out. >> And so, we're not recommending using that infill. It is a little cheaper, but we didn't use that same infill before because of the ideas of cancer and plastic. and so forth. >> So, we don't do that. I think colleges maybe the pros probably do, but we're not recommending that because we're just I don't want to go down that path. This is more of a nice organic um I forget what they call the if you look at there was a warranty attached what they call that guardian infill. Describes what it is. It's green so it matches the
147grass. We had samples brought in so the ads could take a look at it. I think they use this stuff at what's called Fresno State used the same infill. Um, it will not. It's supposed to with withstand heat of hund several hundreds degrees, so it won't go through the same thing that happened before. >> But that's what they're guaranteeing for 10 years, >> correct? >> Interesting. [clears throat and snorts] >> All right. >> In the 10-year maintenance p the 10-year maintenance package. >> All right. >> So, on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> First by Trusty Underwood. >> Second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 8.8 eight astroturf field replacement warranty agreement and the forest hill track resurface. Any other questions or comments? This has been a long time coming and a lot
148of people involved in this. I just I appreciate all the work that went into this project and I kind of cross my fingers it all goes down on spring break like beautifully and perfectly while everyone's out and it doesn't hold anything up for >> well and the part I didn't you know I forgot to mention you know these fields are good for 10 maybe 12 years depending on you. So if you go with say 10 years, we're in year six. >> Yeah. >> So four years from now, maybe a little less or a little bit more if they didn't do this that you'd be looking at a couple million dollars to replace these. And so we're getting it for less than half a million. >> And that'll last for another 10 years. So not in
149the grand scheme of things, I think in my mind a pretty good deal. >> Yeah, definitely a win. All right, we have a first and a second. Uh if there's no further questions or comments, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Item 8.9, Deloro High School 500 building refresh of the west corridor and theater foyer. >> If I may, I'm going to have Don Manning, our director of facilities maintenance operations, come up and and talk about the next two items. >> Perfect. Welcome, Don. Good evening. Um the this item is to put a new surface on the uh arts corridor and theater foyer at Delo High School. The current surface is a wall vinyl wallpaper which has been
150damaged from the risers and props and everything coming in and out of the theater, the band room, etc. Uh it's the paint has been chipping, the wallpaper's tearing, and this is to refresh that with a hard uh for Michaelike surface that will not be damaged in the same way, nor can it be uh vandalized in the same way. >> We have a motion on item >> Do we have a motion on item 8.9? >> Motion to approve. >> First by Trusty Lake. >> Second by Trusty Duncan. Any questions or comments? >> Yes, I have a question. Um, this is using our um pro or our bond funding. Yes, >> correct. >> And then uh so what can our bond funding be put towards? >> Well, it was if I had the list with me, there
151was a bond project list that was created back when the bond was passed in 2018. And so a lot of it was replacing portables, uh, building new classrooms that you have at Deloro, any other kind of infrastructure work. This was an item that's been on the bond list for several years. Um, as we went through the list, we added things because we found that we had money left over and when we finished a project that didn't cost as much, the money would follow the bottom line. We also earned interest, you know, um, right within the first several months, we issued the bonds. And so within maybe six months, we had 80 over $80 million sitting in the bank. And we didn't spend it right away because when contractors come in, you know, they take payments
152monthly. And so that money earned some seriously good interest. And that's what also helped have this money. This original project was never on the original list. It was added by the board later on following the bomb project list that was approved by the voters in terms of using it to basically enhance, refurbish, modernize aspects of the campus. Um, if we were going back to the bond project list, we couldn't use it to do things like build a new gym. Um, and we asked the voters to pass for this. This was to actually increase [clears throat] get rid of the portables. Um, and do a lot of infrastructure work. We did new plumbing. Um, we did we didn't use the bond for the cameras or the PA systems and things like that. Um, and the refurbishment
153of this hallway was a long time in coming. Um, it was it's a beautiful building, but then again, the walls, as as Miss Manning said, >> just drywall. They didn't really put nice um, kid-proof walls, if I can put it that way. >> Durable. And was uh was this a goal by the old board or new board? >> Well, I mean a little bit of both to be honest with you. It's been presented to the new board once it was going on. The new board approved when I did my facility master plan presentations. >> Okay. And then um my last question is why was this money used and not the money that was discussed in action item 8.4 under that fund? um if our bond has a little bit more flexibility in what we can
154spend it on, why is it coming out of our bond rather than our um >> because we need we need to deplete the bond because we need to be finished with it and right now we want to get to zero because then we we have to do an auditor to report next December and people don't like you keeping we had this money since 2019. We need to we need to close it out. >> And then uh this is my last one, but um as uh Clerk Duncan brought up with the concern of the locker rooms and that's something that I've heard of too. Could this money if chosen be used to fix or >> Yes, >> we did that with the Cody gym. >> I mean, not the Cody gym. We used it for the
155girls locker. Remember, we refurbished the girls locker bought new lockers. That was from the bond. >> Okay. >> So, it could be used for that. >> Okay. Thank you. >> If there's money left over and we'll know more about that in January, February because once this money is getting down, there might be some more money left because of interest, but I'll be reporting that back later. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah, in my eyes, I don't think that this is one of the like huge problems affecting Delura right now. Um, this building to me is not used by as many uh students and at the same time it's a little bit more of a beautifification when we have, as Clerk Duncan mentioned, like locker rooms that should, I believe, be looked at a little bit further.
156>> I think the people in the band program would disagree with you. [laughter] >> Yes, that is definitely possible. >> Always beat up. >> I'm sure that they I'm sure the people always disagree with me. I'm sure that they might. >> Great questions. Great questions. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Hearing none. We already have a first and a second on item 8.9. All in favor starting with the student board say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. >> I. >> Motion carries nearly unanimously with one student board member. Uh Justin voting no. All right. item 8.10. >> So 8.10 the Deloro school high school um Bonner gym relighting the lighting that's currently in there is failing. It's a very specialized system. We can no longer get parts for
157that system. So we are having to go in and relight the entire gym to maintain an even [clears throat] playable surface. >> Sense. >> Yeah. [clears throat] board >> move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Underwood. Any questions or comments on item 8.10? >> How long are these new lights expected to last? >> They're all LED lighting, so we're they have a life expectancy of 10 years with a 5year warranty on them. >> Any other questions? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. Uh board I >> I >> all oppose hearing none. We have a trustee absent from the dis at this time. So motion carries with the board 40 uh with both student board members also in support.
158We are tableabling item 8.11 and moving to item 8.12. This is board bylaw 9030 direction regarding complaints against board members. This is a new bylaw. Trustee Duncan. >> Yeah. Um, one sec. Okay. Before we go into the bylaw, I just want to uh read a statement on behalf of the board. [clears throat] Over the course of the last year, this board has been reviewing what the board now believes were a series of improper and unnecessary investigations by the district inquiring into trustee Jessica Spade. It is unfortunate that time and legal resources were wasted by both parties as a result of these investigations. After reviewing the facts, this board concluded that the allegations and actions against trustee Jessica Spade were not warranted. Although the these events took place under a prior board and administration, this board
159would like to sincerely apologize to board president Spade for the prior actions. Trustee Spade, President Spade is a vital part of this board and we would like to commend her for all the time and effort she continues to make to support our students, staff, and community. Jessica, [clears throat] we appreciate you. We appreciate all you do to make this district better. Thank you. in an effort to ensure that going forward any investigation involving a current board member of uh current member of the board is proper and approved by the board. We are introducing bylaw board bylaw 9030 direction regarding complaints against board members and I'll read it. If a complaint is made against an individual current member of the board alleging a violation of law or board policy, the district superintendent or designate shall consult
160with the district legal council, gather details of the complaint if necessary to determine how to proceed to how to process the complaint and inform the board of the allegations and the recommended course of action. The board will then provide direction to the superintendent and or district legal counsel as necessary as to further action. The board will consider its legal obligation as well as obligation to the district community, the complaint, and the respondent when providing direction. Unless authorized by the board, no investigation shall be conducted, and no district resources shall be expended as to a complaint against an individual current member of the board. If an if an investigation is directed by the board and a violation of law or district policy is determined to have occurred, the board in conjunction with the district legal council
161will determine how this violation will be addressed. Policy does not apply to complaints against the district or complaints regarding decisions made or action taken by the board. Is there any discussion or questions? >> Yeah, I'd uh I'd like to know if this is final. Oh, sorry. >> It looks like we have some public comment. Do we want to take public comments and then we have our conversation board? >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right, I'm going to give you kind of a heads up who which order we're going to go in here. Let's start with uh Edward Coons followed by Daniela Zimmerman and we'll take it to that point. >> Welcome. >> I'd like to Mr. Doug comments. Um, I um made a request for documents to the district almost a year ago and I
162had 90 pages of the complaints lodged against Miss Spade and the results of the investigations and in at least four maybe five instances she was found to have violated board policies or uh bylaws. Now, I I will admit that some of the allegations were kind of lame and probably should not have been brought, but um to to say that the investigations were wholly unwarranted, I think is is wrong. It's a mistake. It's not true. Anyway, but let's talk about the current proposed bylaw. And this is not personal to current president or current clerk, but this is a bylaw that's going to be in effect for some period of time if you pass it. And it could be a totally different set of of personalities. But I think the uh the bylaw as proposed uh grants
163too much power to the board president and and I'm and possibly there was a change in the wording of the of the bylaws because in the second paragraph my version says the board president or clerk may conduct or authorize a preliminary administrative review. That should be shall because may is merely permissive. And if it's May, then the board president can basically say, "No, I'm not going to refer it to anybody." And the only the only check on that would be at some point and later in the proposed ordinance, the the board president would be required to disclose to the board that a complaint had been made, but but uh would not have been required to have actually made the admin the preliminary administrative review. So that should be shall >> [clears throat and cough] >>
164Um [sighs and gasps] the uh also the original draft of the bylaws had a provision that said uh this policy does not apply to complaints against the district or complaints regarding decisions made or actions taken by the board. and that that language has now disappeared. And it so it's not clear to me whether this ordinance is intended to address a situation where a complaint is made uh to more than one board member or against the entire board for an action they've taken. I think that just needs to be cleaned up. Um, also, you know, um, the the the ordinance does not dis determine uh or give guidance as to who's going to make the factual decisions as to whether a board uh member has uh has violated a policy or procedure or law. Uh, is
165is it the district's uh legal counsel? Is it the superintendent, an outside investigator, or the board itself? Who's going to be the finder of fact? And also many of these cases involve legal interpretation. Who is going to make that legal interpretation? Presumably council, but I don't know. I I think >> no border. Can we our three minutes? >> I'm up. Is my [clears throat] time up? >> It is. Thank you. You you brought up a lot of um >> and and finally, I think the the provision >> I'm so sorry. Your time is up. Thank you so much. Uh you know, I think it's >> I'm so sorry. Your time is up. Thank I think you insult the superintendent with that last provision about putting him in jail because it's violated the law. >> You
166are beyond your time. Thank you. >> All right. Following Mr. Coons, we have Daniela and then Sharon Veriken. >> Good even pronouncing it correctly. >> I'm sorry. >> Daniela Zimmerman. Yes. Um retired uh educator. Um both my kids graduated from Placer. Um I I am concerned that by taking the professionals that are administrators and educators out of this um process of reviewing um complaints that it is as Mr. Coons um said putting too heavy of a weight in favor of this board to be policing itself. um when you are an elected representative and official of a public entity um you are going to be under scrutiny and you should be and if that's not comfortable for you then maybe this isn't the right place for you um as a member of the public if all
167of these things are happening behind closed doors and the board is deciding itself as to whether it's you know committed any any errors that is not in the interest of transparency which this board has stated is one of its expectations of itself. All right. Um so I don't think it's best practice. I think keeping board members above board means keeping the public informed, keeping the professional administrators and educators in the loop with this. Thank you >> Sharon. And then last on this item with as far as blue cards are concerned is Wendy Beal. >> Hi >> Sharon. Welcome. >> Hi. Thank you. Um my first question was what is the why behind this? And you explained what had gone on with uh President Spade and it's troublesome to me. It's very worrisome to me and
168I want you to know I was worried about this already when I saw it in the agenda and I have since been contacted by a wide swath of community members. So I don't know who you're tapping into. It's certainly a legitimate part of the community but I represent probably a different part. You need to know the community is generally not in support of this. Um also my question um is in addition to the why behind this is why did you remove all of this from the second paragraph? I need to know more about that because you're removing steps of oversight um that I think seem important. Um one thing is I you know I was trying to imagine what the arguments might be for this. Maybe you're saying it'll save on legal fees. That could
169be a pennywise dollar foolish kind of approach. So I would think carefully about that. Um here are some other concerns that I have. The potential for bias. So maybe you all feel that you are vindicated. I don't know really what the process has been, but maybe you feel that you were um incorrectly found the findings were that you had violated these several policies and you didn't. So the board all agrees with that. What if our next board is maybe not trustworthy or maybe all biased in a different direction? I think this is really problematic and it's good to have another step in this process, at least one. Um, also it could be unwieldy. I don't know how many complaints you get, but to have it be just you doing this first step determining the process.
170What if you get a bunch of complaints? You already work your butts off. It's just going to be more and more work for you. Um, also, could this dissuade people from coming forward having the process handled this way? I think that's really important. I have had staff members tell me, "I have concerns, but I'm not coming forward because I'm afraid of retaliation." So, that's something that I'd like to be considered as since this is draft form and Mr. Coons just pointed out some things. I hope you'll consider that as well. Um, and so I just I'm very concerned about this. I think it's very raw at this point and I think it needs a lot of refining. Thank you. >> Thank you. Wendy Beiel. Good evening, trustees. Superintendent Omali. My name is Wendy Beal, and
171I am here tonight because the Plaster Union High School District community deserves transparency, accountability, and honesty from its leadership. For nearly two years, Trustee Jessica Spade was subject to what her attorney has described backed by documentation as a coordinated campaign of retaliation, harassment, and lawfare intended to force her out of office. These actions did not stem from anonymous community complaints. They originated within the district from former board members and former superintendent and former district legal counsel. This retaliation began after Trusty Spade did exactly what she was elected to do, exercise her independent judgment. In January 2023, she voted against a secret arrangement to appoint Superintendent Jeffrey Tuker. From that moment on, she became a target. She was subjected to repeated investigations for conduct that was not misconduct, interacting with students, not being friendly enough, and
172other vague subjective accusations that would never justify formal investigations, let alone expenditures of thousands of taxpayer dollars. Even more troubling, state law requires complaints against elected trustees to be discussed publicly. Instead, these matters were repeatedly handled in closed sessions, shielding the process from public oversight while Trustee Spade was allegedly yelled at, pressured, and asked to resign. That is not governance. That is intimidation. When a third party investigator failed to substantiate the allegations, district legal counsel allegedly initiated and conducted additional investigations without proper board authorization. that is not only unethical, it is potential power, abuse of power. So tonight, I'm asking very direct questions on behalf of this community. How much taxpayer money was spent on these manufactured complaints? Who authorized the investigations beyond the scope of approved board? Why were legally required public discussions deliberated,
173kept behind closed doors? And most importantly, who will be held accountable? Passing a new B board policy to prevent this from happening again is a start but is not enough. Policies do not correct past misconduct. Transparency and account accountability only come when investigations, reports, and actions that already occurred are fully disclosed to the public. Former board members, the former superintendent and former district legal counsel must be not be insulated from responsibility simply because time has passed or elections have changed the makeup of this board. This district exists to serve students, not egos, not retaliation campaigns and not back door backroom power plays. The public is watching. Parents are watching and we expect this board to do the right thing by demanding transparency, restoring trust, ensuring this never happens to another elected trustee again. Thank you.
174>> May I ask a question to you, Ms. Beiel? Was that it? Be ask a question. >> You may ask a brief question. >> Thank you. Um what steps you mentioned that this is not enough. Um what would be those steps that you would like >> I think um somebody needs to be held accountable for the district funds. Um the elected officials that are still on this board. um elected officials that were on this board that clearly left because they knew that this was false and a narrative that was going to come out eventually. Old superintendent, I mean, they have taken money away from our children for this. And it's disgusting. It's really disgusting what happened to this trustee and I would hate to see this happen to anybody else. So, thank you for bringing
175this policy because something needs to start. But I also think somebody needs to be held accountable. >> Thank you. >> Maybe look at the legal counsel. I think you need to get your money back from them. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Jeff. >> Yeah, I'd like to make a couple of comments here. Um, first of all, I want to thank the people that came in to spoke on this matter. Um, and some of the comments that were made were exactly the reasons why this board policy is now in place. Um, without going into too much detail, I will say a few things. So, first of all, for most purposes, um, the five board members here that were elected or appointed, [clears throat] we are not employees of the district. For the purposes of complaints, uh,
176following personnel policy, you know, those kinds of things, we are not employees of the district. So, when you're talking about a complaint process that, you know, this is how it's addressed with the person with a a staff member, a personnel, an employee of the district, we are not employees of the district. We are responsible. We are 100% like every other governing body. we are responsible for governing ourselves. Um, one of the reasons that this board policy or the the main reason why this board policy was put in place was we had um, you know, a rogue individual that went out um, of of his own and started, you know, potentially started a series of investigations using taxpayer money, our district money. Um, and we want to make sure that doesn't happen again. One of the
177comments that Mrs. Zimmerman made or or maybe it was Miss Freak, I'm sorry. um was talking about, you know, in the future board, you know, board changes and that kind of stuff. That's exactly why we put this policy in place. We don't anticipate any of any problems like that ever happening with this current board. Um but, you know, who knows what's going to happen 5 years from now, 10 years from now. We want this policy to be in place. So, it's very clear what that process is. Uh and we want to make sure that if the district is going to be expending resources like legal fees, for example, you know, sometimes an exuberant amount of legal resources that this board has approved that, right? Because otherwise, say if if a rogue superintendent goes out and
178starts an investigation against a trustee, what is the purpose? That superintendent has no authority to do anything to provide any kind of discipline or anything like that to a board member. So, what would the purpose be other than to harass that board member or and waste, you know, district money? And that's kind of the point of what this policy is about. We want to make sure that does not happen again. Whether I agree with that trustee or don't agree with that trustee, it doesn't matter. As long as there's three members of that board that that you know vote are [clears throat] voting one way that they want this to happen or they want that investigation not to happen or whatever, that's the way it needs to be because we we police ourselves with the only
179exception really being um you know certain certain violations of law obviously like a Brown Act violation for example that would be investigated differently uh and and those those measures would be addressed differently if that was found to be the case. But um we want to make sure that that that putting this policy in place is exactly for the reasons of increasing transparency that some of these members just came up and spoke about. Um we want the the whole public to understand what's going on. And that's why also built into this policy is the idea that these these discussions would be happening in public. That's the way the way it should be. We are public officials. We are responding to the public and we are responsible to the public. So these kinds of conversations should be
180be happening in front of the public. Um, and we want to make sure that continues to happen. Um, yeah, and you know, it's it's all about, you know, transparency and in my mind, transparency, fair fairness, and fiscal responsibility. That's those are the three things that I that I'm thinking that this is policy is really all about. >> Thank you, David. You have any comments? >> No com? >> Yeah, I can tell you're ready. >> I'm ready, you guys. Um, one thing I'll always stand for is is transparency. I think it's what the students in our district deserve because students are so often disconnected from what's happening in our governance that they're not going to go search and do the due diligence that Mr. Coons did by pulling those 90 pages or documents. But students aren't
181going to do that. They're more likely to be here because of a government or economics class that's forced them to be at a board meeting and learn more about uh and learn more about what's happening to their school board. These are the future voters and um I absolutely think that this is a start and I think it needs to be a start because I think that whether the board is majority liberally, conservatively, moderately endorsed, it doesn't matter because these are human beings up here and they're elected officials and no act of retaliation should ever happen to them. Um, and I also appreciate that it's giving more power to the board members in their jurisdiction of complaints against them because sometimes, as Trusty Jeff mentioned, I echo that sometimes administrators can go rogue, right? And um,
182we're grateful for our administrators here, but at the same time, it's not going to be constant. And uh, I think that we need more. Um, I also agree with uh, Mr. Coons. When Mr. Coons said that the board president Kirk shall conduct or authorize a oh my goodness authorize. Thank you. Um I absolutely agree with Mr. Coons. I think that that should be a shall because I don't think that may I think that that while uh President Spade is awesome. I I I think it's still giving too much power to whoever is the board president, whether that's President Spade, President Brham, whoever it is, it should be a direct shall whenever a member of the board has that. Um, an additional idea that I don't think we uh would do tonight, but it is within
183this jurisdiction is uh amending it eventually to have one other person always be in contact receiving the preliminary administrative review and um and that's not the that's not the board member complaintant because then that is then that board member is in communication with an additional board me the board president is in is in communication with an additional board member. And at the CSBA conference, I talked to um a group of board members and they had one moderate, two conservatives, and two liberals. No majority anywhere. And then whoever that board president is, they can talk to any of those any any of those people. That's not the complaintant. I think that would be an interesting thing to look at in the future. But besides that, I do think that as I said, these people are humans.
184This is a good start. Um but it needs to continue. And I appreciate you guys bringing this forward. So thank you. Steve Jeff, you have to >> I'm so I'm so sorry. >> Can I just ask a question? I can't ask a question. >> Um >> if the board Yeah. If the board is okay with with um you coming forward to ask a question. >> Yeah, I wouldn't mind either. I just want to make sure everyone's okay with it. Come on. Come on down. >> Okay. I just am trying to understand your perspective and I only got as far as writing this board policy is about transparency, fiscal responsibility and you said one other thing, >> Fairness. Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Thank you all for commenting. Um this has been a uh a very
185a [clears throat] very interesting uh history to digest and um as a new board we inherited a uh a lot of investigations and um and the challenging part was as I understood as I understand the role of a of a school board is we're supposed to conduct the people's business in public but ultimately what ended up happening is uh decisions were made to keep these discussions and deliberations in close session outside of your view uh until a P was requested and uh like Mr. Coons pointed out how many pages were released? 90 something pages. Uh so you can go back and read the correspondence the way that this has been litigated and uh it's it's actually shocking to see the amount of time and effort and energy that has been put into some of the
186most trivial uh complaints um sometimes stated as anonymous uh where there is no written formal complaint. It was just somebody complained. So, who's to stop? Who's to stop? For example, if a superintendent were to just be his own source of a complaint and to initiate an investigation against a trustee that he maybe didn't agree with or didn't like, um, the way I understand it, and I like to I'd like to read this just briefly, uh, but it says, "State laws and regulations do not grant the superintendent independent investig investigatory power over the elected superiors. The relationship is based on a chain of command that flows from the public, the voters, to the board and then to the superintendent. If a superintendent becomes aware of potential misconduct or illegal activities by a board member, their role
187is to typically one report the concerns to the full governing board in an appropriate legal setting, often in closed session with legal counsel to discuss personnel or litigation matters or to the board president. Second, refer the matter to external independent authorities who have the proper jurisdiction to investigate elected officials. Again, superintendents don't have the right to investigate elected officials. We hire the superintendent to govern and carry out the affairs of the district. Uh so that is why and we announced earlier uh and those and and I understand this this is over the last couple of years. This has been this has been drug out for a very long time and it's refreshing and it's and it's and it feels good that finally uh the public can understand uh to a small degree what happened and
188um and you know feel free to make your own conclusions but uh you've read a summary of an investigation and that summary it it it just it comes across as u Um, I don't even need to say how it comes across. You can read it if you have that interest. But what we've done is we voted to release the original investigation. And I think you're going to find a a very stark contrast between the actual original investigation and the liberty that was taken by by uh by legal attorneys from the district um to paint a different picture to the public, which is actually misleading. Um, so, [clears throat] um, again, I think we all want to focus on education. We all want to focus on those things that matter most. And, and, and if you've
189attended and listened to this meeting, you'll find that the vast majority of all of our time and effort is spent on the most important things. But this is an important piece for the exact reason to protect future trustees from ever being because the likelihood that there's going to be new trustees that may have a different persuasion, a different political slant is very likely. No trustee should be treated uh unilaterally or you know um they deserve to be treated with with respect and um and we're basically appointed to to get along with people that we may not agree with. Um so anyway, that's all I got. Oh, and I I just want to say that I just feel terrible for what Trustee Spade had to put up with for over a year and a half. I've
190read I've read everything and it's man oh man if it was if the if it was switched around and I happened to be the unlucky person who uh was receiving this uh call it whatever you want. Um it takes a lot of grit and it takes a lot of uh you know most people I think would have buckled. Nobody wants to be investigated over and over and over again. I thought to myself, I wonder how many investigations prior to Trustee Spade have ever been initiated against a sitting trustee in the past 100 years of this district. How many do you think you could find? >> Probably none. [clears throat] So, the whole point of this whole policy change is that in the future, the board should be made aware of a complaint. We take complaints
191seriously. If it's a legitimate complaint, it is very serious. But I'll say it like this. The right thing to happen is that the entire board hears the complaint, has a deliberation, makes a decision if it justifies hiring an attorney and carrying out a very costly investigation that takes months and then having to go through appeal processes and all of this. Or can an elected board make a decision saying, "Hey, this doesn't this is not a substant this is not a u this doesn't meet a threshold for investigation like attending a meeting. I mean, go down the list. You guys can go back and read the history of this. It's in the public now, but it's just like it's mind-blowing the things that money that the public's money was spent on. So, I'm happy that we're
192here. I'm happy that we've been able to make some meaningful change. I'm happy that Trusty Spade uh stuck it out and that uh her heart's in the right place. And um I think these are positive changes. They're not perfect. I I I totally agree. I think things need to be finessed. I mean, we're we do honor the Brown Act. We don't like have conversations and talk about these things. we uh we need to like give this some thought and we'll probably revisit and and and and make changes but ultimately the power rest in the board to to on how to dispend the people's money not the other way around. So >> thanks Emerson. >> Yeah, >> that was great. Um I'll just say I'll be brief. Uh, you know, 20 plus years ago, I was
193I I helped start a company to make public meetings like this available so that parents could with a bunch of kids at home could still participate and watch uh and do public comment with some of the software. Uh and back then when we first started this uh this software run journey for us, we felt like we were doing something that was really important to bring transparency to a community. Uh and it it did and it's really cool when you have a job where you feel like you're making an impact. So I always worked with boards and now sitting on this side of the dis I get to see what it's like to sit in a closed session or as Emerson just mentioned like you know the Brown Act we're trying to make decisions here and
194it would be really nice if I could just get in a room with everybody and say let's get some things done and government is so slow it just pains me. [laughter] Ali hears it all the time on and and but I get it. I get it because of how sacred it is to sit here and because of the sins of the past and that was an important reason for us to make sure that other board members aren't put through what President Spade was put through. Uh, and Emerson said it great, but for to to have the wherewithal to stay in this position and fight um, makes it so that we have an amazing board today and we are trying to make some really cool decisions and I would love it to get past so many
195different things that are ailing this district and concentrate more on how we can improve things for the students. Um, but there's still stuff we need to get through. Uh, and this is a a good board to do it. So, I appreciate everyone here. So, thank you, Jessica. >> I do agree with Clerk Duncan, but I do think that this will benefit the students as well because, like I said, they're going to be at these meetings and they should know what the people that are that the people that are controlling their education. They should know what they're up against. They should know what the community thinks about them and they should know about complaints filed against them. So, I absolutely agree with your two points, but I do think that this is going to affect students
196in a good way. >> I don't want to get emotional, but I'm feeling it coming. >> [cough and clears throat] >> I appreciate um your comments. I appreciate the hours that this board spent digging through thousands over I believe it was over a thousand pages of materials. Um I'm I don't want to make a statement on on everything that I went through. Um we're here today. Thank you. And as they mentioned, um yeah, we didn't get to have a conversation and workshop on this by law and I have a lot of feedback. So the amendments that I requested um to be attached to the agenda, the changes um were my changes, my recommended uh recommended changes. So I wanted to go through that really quickly. I but before I do so, I I want to
197uh thank the speakers who took the time to come and address the board tonight. I'm in agreement. Thank you, Ed. There were some some word changes that needed to happen. Um Daniela, your your whole public comment was about avoiding things from behind closed doors and the public has a right to see what's happening. That did not happen. And I actually I believe it wouldn't have happened in the open. In fact, I asked repeatedly to bring it to the front of the house and was denied. My attorney and I both requested numerous times to bring it to the front of the house so the people knew what was going on and I was it was denied. So, um I never want that to happen again to anybody. You guys should know what's going on. uh publicly
198elected officials do not have the same privacy rights as our students or our staff. Nor do we deserve it. You guys deserve to see what's going on. You deserve to see what kind of complaints are coming up. And you guys uh the court of public opinion is a strong one and you guys should be able to decipher that uh for yourself. Um which draws me into the changes that were made to this document because it didn't address any of that. It just addressed how how the complaints were going to be disseminated and there was some contradictions in the language about uh that no district resources shall be expended until the board provides direction but the paragraph above says that the superintendent's going to consult with legal that's expending district resources. Um I also don't think
199it's appropriate for the superintendent to be the arbiter or the the receiver of that complaint because the superintendent has no jurisdiction over us. Zero. Zero. And while the superintendent might have the authority to oversee every other investigation of his employees, his or her, we haven't had a lady, but we've got a his right now. Um, it's not his responsibility to to uh manage the board. It's ours. So, um, I'm going to take you into the If you would pull up Yeah, that's great. So you can just see where some of those changes were made. Some of the the strikeouts you'll see are are still there. They just were shifted into a different order. I want to take you through that. This is not perfect. I believe that we need to bring it back for a
200second review. I believe attorney um our council needs to look over this as well. Um, I wrote down the notes uh that you had suggested and um, but I felt like starting most of our policies start out with some kind of a statement that talks about what we believe in. And I felt like our expectation that the board had already agreed upon about the board leading with integrity was important to set the tone of why we need to to do this a certain way. And it says, "The board will lead with integrity utilizing sound governance and business practices while remaining open, transparent, and accountable to our community, which did not occur previously. If a complaint, obviously this was in the original, the reason why there's a strikeout in line one of the original text is
201because I wanted to avoid if a complaint was made and a trustee resigned, does that complaint go away with them, or are we still going to conduct an investigation if it's warranted?" We had a resignation. There was a complaint filed before the resignation and that board member is no longer here and I don't think it's appropriate to to pull that out. It was still an elected official and the community deserves to understand how that board was conducting itself. Um I struck out a a section of that. Um so now it would read if a complaint is made against an indual individual member of the board alleging a violation of law or board policy the complaint shall be submitted directly to the board president. If the board president is subject of the complaint or is unavailable,
202the complaint shall be submitted to the clerk. Ju just to pause for a moment. I don't think you're wrong. Um, student board member Petty. I think I would rather have two eyes on it. Like an ad hoc committee would I feel like is a little bit of a stronger unit. Um, we could figure out how to word smith that, but I I agree it shouldn't just be with one board member. Um, so we can talk about that. Carrying on, the board president or clerk shall I think you're right on that one, Mr. Coons, conduct and authorize a preliminary administrative review, including a consultation with district legal counsel solely for the purpose of determining the appropriate process for handling the complaint. That does not mean that an investigation is going to occur prior to bringing it
203to the board, which I will tell you happened multiple times. District resources were expended before the board even knew anything was happening. An investigation was conducted and decided before the board gave any direction multiple times. The the section below it is directly from part of the strikeout. It's just in a new order. So it reads, "The board will then provide direction to the superintendent and or district legal counsel as necessary as to further action. The board will consider its legal obligations as well as its obligations to the district community, the complainant, and the respondent when providing direction. Unless authorized by the board, no formal investigation. The preliminary administrative review, I don't believe, would constitute an investigation, but that's why I put formal in there. Shall be conducted and no district resources shall be expended beyond
204those necessary to complete the preliminary administrative review described above. As I stated before, there was a con contradicting statements in the bylaw. As to the complaint against an individual, strike out current board member of the board. Obviously, there's only one little change there. Um, I struck out a will. Oh, I struck out a will. Oh, I think I had an error there. I struck out will and put shall determine how the violations will be addressed. This whole next section, I think, is important to outline because of what happened. board president intake authority and maybe it should say board president and clerk intake authority just in case something comes through and one of us misses it at least there there could be two eyes on it. [snorts] Um and maybe we need to outline if it
205makes it its way to the district office or to the superintendent that immediately it would be sent to the board president and clerk. Um again we'll we can workshop that um and figure that out. The superintendent and district staff shall not participate in the intake, review, and processing of the complaint against a board member unless and until directed by the board president and or clerk, the board president's designate or the board conflict of interest. Um, I think it was important to outline I have recused from a number of close session meetings when uh the board has been uh receiving advice from council. I do think that it's important um that anyone involved in the process or if they're the subject of the complaint shouldn't be influencing the decision of the board. Um so again that
206speaks to that any individual responsible for receiving, reviewing or recommending action on a complaint under this policy shall recuse themselves if they are the subject of the complaint. Superintendent conflict of interest. The superintendent may not initiate an investigation unless the complaint is in writing. For those who requested documents, you didn't see many complaints, but there were many investigations with no complaints in writing. The superintendent may not expand, dismiss, or alter the investigation without receiving board approval in advance. If the superintendent has a conflict of interest, including but not limited to self-initiating the complaint, the superintendent shall not participate in any aspect of the complaint process, which means that if it's happening, they're not in close session either. That also occurred. If the superintendent violates any of these provisions, he or she shall be subject to
207immediate disciplinary procedures, including termination and referral to the appropriate authorities for abuse of authority and misuse of taxpayer resources. Complaints. When processing complaints, the board may only authorize and initiate an investigation into alleged misconduct, a violation of law or board policy, not for lawful or protected conduct. A complainant's expression of discomfort absent an adverse action do not meet the standard for retaliation and do not necessitate a formal investigation. Investigation and appeals. All complaints against board members shall be discussed in public. Obviously, none of these words were in the original bylaw and I disagree and it needed to be uh clearly delineated. All complaints will be discussed in an open session of a board meeting. All investigation reports and investigation summaries related to a complaint against a board member shall be released to the public. The
208board member who is the subject of the complaint shall have the right to appeal the investigation findings. The appeal shall be heard in open session of the board meeting. And I will tell you we requested it multiple times. Again, denied to have an appeal in open session. I thought it was important as I spoke to Superintendent Omali and as he informed me that assistant superintendent Elena Dalo uh touched that what if they land in other types of complaints and there are timelines associated with those complaints. So, I thought it was important to at least touch them that notwithstanding any provisions of this policy, complaints alleging discrimination, harassment, intimidation, retaliation, or sex-based mis misconduct shall be processed in accordance with Title 9 and/or the district's uniform complaint procedures as applicable. And I never want someone to
209believe that we're stonewalling. There should be a final line on the third page. If you would please scroll down. Board approval shall not delay or interfere with the district's legal obligations under Title 9 or a UCP. So, this is not perfect. This is the first time we're able to have a conversation about this in the open. Um, and I think it it probably needs a slight massage and some feedback from the board. Um, I know that was a lot of changes. I have a lot to say on this um because I lived it. So any uh comments or feedback on re the recommended proposed changes? >> I feel like these revisions are a good start. Um the only part that's somewhat confusing is the part about um you know having all the discussions in public
210and and that that kind of thing. Mhm. >> Um, you know, then there might be certain circumstances where where it might need to be in close session so we can consult with legal. So, I'm not sure how that how that weighs into it. I think, you know, we should probably have legal look at this and >> definitely >> and um provide some input and guidance on some of those kind of particular instances. >> Agreed. >> Yeah, that was on my radar, too. And I'm glad that you brought that up. I think it is important obviously if there's a threat or of anticipated litigation um things can fall within that but I think even if advice is given in closed as to a recommendation of how to proceed it would come out front and at least
211the community would know what we're up to and what what's going on and I think that that's the difference certainly a board has the right to consult legal um but when it pertains to us we don't have privacy or we shouldn't >> [clears throat] >> What about the point to our member of the public made about um our previous board members and superintendent? Is this policy or if re the recommended version would that be able to go back and and uh help you out in any way? I just being honest. >> Uh I don't know if it's about helping anyone out. this is just a the goal is just to prevent it from ever happening again and that that it never happens, you know, behind closed doors. Um you you legally you can't you can't
212do anything to somebody who's not here. We we could >> have discipline on each other or censure one another or you know removed from a committee or whatever, but but that obviously that doesn't happen with someone who's not here. And that's I for me that's not the goal. It it's um I believe in transparency. >> Um and that you had anything but that. >> So are we going to uh bring this back after we've been able to u give it some more thought? >> Yeah. >> And um agendaize it next >> Yeah. meeting. I who was the original ad hoc that worked on the clerk Duncan. So I I >> Oh no, I I'm >> on the bylaw. >> Yeah. >> So I would recommend keeping it with the same ad hoc committee um >>
213to take the feedback and and then work with legal to bring back an amended version based on >> the input. >> If I had some input, could I send it to Ali? Absolutely. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> So based on those comments, I would move to table. >> Yeah. >> Y >> I I'm in agreement. >> I second that. >> Okay. So, at this time, we're going to table item 8.12 to a future board meeting. Ad hoc committee uh comprised of uh clerk Duncan and trustee Jeff will continue to work on this with legal. Okay. Oh, deep breaths. That was a long one. Um let's go ahead and move to item 8.13. This is our uh county committee district voting representative selection for 2026. The board shall nominate and elect the voting representative who will
214vote for the elected members to the plaster county committee on school district organization. Currently, did you want to touch on this? You want me to just hit it? Okay. Currently, um I am I'm elected and serving on the plaster county committee for school district organ reorganization or organization. Um, and I am actually our voting member right now as well. I'm happy to continue to do uh to be our voting member unless someone else would like to participate. >> What do you exactly have to do for that? You just uh >> very little. >> There are no big meetings. um they will, you know, as as uh new members for that county committee, if someone terms out or um resigns for whatever reason, the representative would just, you know, submit a vote if they need to
215replace a member of that committee. So, when I say I'm elected to that committee, there was there was a body that voted in and that would be you. Um you would be a part of that that group. >> Does that mean you're interested? >> No, I was just [clears throat and laughter] I nominate uh President St. >> I was like I'm about to nominate Emerson. [laughter] >> You're good. >> I will accept your nomination unless um Trusty Lake >> You're good. >> Are you sure about that? >> Yeah, I'm sure about that. >> You could I'd be happy to for you to take it. >> Okay. >> Well, I accept that nomination. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. We have a first by trustee Duncan and a second by trustee Jeff to nominate
216me uh for the county committee district voting representative selection for 2026. Any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. All right. Item 8.14 calls for nominations for the CSBA delegate assembly. All right. So, we have some members turning out uh from our region 4 which is what we are a part of. So, you'll see all the 2026 there are four and um including Melissa Peters um Ali could speak to that. Uh Melissa serves as the representative for CSBA um for the CIF. Yeah, I've known Melissa for several years through the state federated council. She's very involved in her community. She's she's a good person. >> She's a wonderful trustee and I've served with her uh both my terms
217as a delegate. Um going down Greg Forest from Wheatland Union High School District also wonderful been involved in education for a very very long time. He's a lawyer, wonderful human being. I would also recommend uh keeping him in as well. Um then you'll see in subdivision subdivision 4D, Tiffany Sat is also terming out. She's also phenomenal. And then last for region for the county, David Patterson. Um Dr. Patterson is extremely knowledgeable um about education. He's a great asset, especially from the county level on that board. Um and he's doing great things. So, I I would recommend keeping all of the people who are terming out unless you guys have any other ideas for nominations. >> I have an idea. Um I don't know most of those people. I know um Trustee Sat, but uh are
218there are you allowed to have two board members from Rockland or from a certain district? >> You are. The only problem and I and I want to make sure I think I believe we can nominate for all of region four. Um and this that's why I'm hitting them or if I believe we can we can nominate all from from that region. But it if we are only to subdivision 4D then that would be no. Then we couldn't have sat in a second second person. if it's not. Um I mean I just feel like Rocklin is our next door neighbor. Um I don't really know any of the other ones and I do trust you guys, but um I think president uh now board president um Julie Hup of Rocklin is a good call. She's a
219member of the California Teachers Association. Um so she can bring that teacher um association um background to the role. She's board president. and she's been serving on that school board. Um, I don't know. I think that she'd be a good option for consideration. >> I I also think Julie is a wonderful human being. Um, she teaches in one of our feeder school districts. >> Yes. And she's a local Mumus teacher. >> Yeah, she's great. >> So, what are we taking action on? >> So, we are taking action on just our nomination. So, if you wouldn't mind pulling up the nomination sheet. I think that there's something in there. the memo. Where do we submit the Do we just submit the name or Yeah. Okay. A nomination form for each person submitted and must ensure the
220nominee has been has consented to being nominated. So, um I'm sure all of these trustees who are already there, um I just spoke to them at delegate assembly just a couple of weeks ago and and they're I believe they would accept the nomination. If I need to call them and verify, I definitely can. Okay. and and the final. Thanks for pulling that up. Nope, that's it. Okay, so if we're in agreement, technically we don't have to take action on this, I don't believe. [snorts] Nope. Requires a majority vote. I lied. Okay. Yes. Okay. So, we do need a vote. So, um I nominate um and would recommend uh Trusty Sat, Greg, Melissa, and uh Dr. David Patterson to continue serving in those roles. >> Do you want to continue to serve in this role? >>
221And >> Oh, I'm not on this one. >> You're not on it? Oh, you're not? >> I'm not tering out yet? Yeah. >> Oh, because it's a term out. Okay. >> Yeah, it's a term out. So, I I have another year on there. >> Makes sense. >> Yes. Good question, though. Thanks. [laughter] >> Do I have a second? >> Second. We have a second by trustee Duncan to nominate the four uh terming out members of the delegate assembly. Any questions or comments? Did we want to add Julie to that list? >> I would love to add >> Sure. >> I'd love to add We can have more than one person. >> Yeah, Trusty Hup is I believe um one of She's so involved in the community. I've I've seen her while I have attended events
222for this school board. I've seen her at um many events I've attended. I know her experience in CTA. I've talked to teachers within the Lumis Union School District who have um fully supported her site reps from their um teachers association. Uh the I' I've watched her videos on the Rockland School Board and I think that she would be an excellent candidate for this position. >> So, let's include her. Let's amend the motion to include um uh Julie Hup, but I will need to verify that she would accept the nomination. So, so pending her acceptance of the nomination, amend the motion to add Julie Hut. You second that. Still >> second. Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Any further questions or comments? >> Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I.
223>> Board. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes. Okay. Alrighty. Staff reports. Um, do we need a stretch break? How's everybody doing at 8:30? You okay? Fantastic. Let's move. I like it. I like it. >> Mr. Robert Lemon's going to present our our dashboard. And I think there's more slides in there than he's going to be going to be covering. So, but I'll let him share that. >> Good evening, board president, board, and uh superintendent Thomas Ali. Um this is uh a work from our ED services um team uh led by Trent Wilson and Steve Caminiti. So, this is a look at all the data and metrics um that is made available to the public from the California State dashboard um from our last year's outcomes from our student groups. Um we know a
224lot happened last year and I'm hopeful um that what we get from this is that there's uh hopefully I'm bringing some good tidings uh to to the group. There's a lot of growth that did happen um in an eventful year last year. Gloat >> growth. >> Oh, growth. Growth. We can gloat about some of this, too. I am gonna gloat about a couple of our school sites and a couple of the work um that our school sites and our students did achieve. Uh this the first indicator um on the dashboard is the academic indicator. We know that there's some work um in some areas, but I really want to show um that there are some student groups that did make some very good progress. Um there's work on sites. Um you can see that um
225we had els, eels, Hispanic, homeless, two or more races. Um those student groups made doubledigit point increases um whether in math and or ELA. Um, so while we know that there are indicators um on our our math and and there's a dip in our ELA scores um for this year, there are some groups that really did perform excellently um with the work they did. you see at the very bottom um you'll see this consistently through um the presentation those color coding schemes um showing a combination of growth and status of those 14 student groups. Uh the California State dashboard tracks 14 student groups. Uh if you see the student groups that are in the gray category, um they have less than 30 students um that reported outcomes. Um and so they do not report those
226outcomes out. Graduation rate indicator. Uh there's some really good news. I we we know that um we pride ourselves our schools pride ourselves um on the work that we do in our system in graduating students and getting them um to receive their high school diploma. Um, our rate of 96.1 is something to absolutely gloat about when you see that how it's compared to the state. Um, and I do want to point out Confluence um, grad rate increased by 17.7%. Um, what that does uh, for Confluence is it gets it out of CSI. Um CSI was the comprehensive support and improvement plan. Um and it's a it's an average of grad rate and by confluence achieving and increasing their grad rate by 17.7%. Um that's a huge badge of honor um for them to get their
227students across the stage and to get that high school diploma. Another indicator um that we continue to pride ourselves on and that each site has had a a a piece in this is our college and career readiness indicator. Um and really what this points to is the work that our system has done from top to bottom. um from every single school site um from clerical staff to counselors to teachers um to particularly we've talked about the master schedule um and it's only achieved these these increases are only achieved um by the work of the entire system you see that when you see that Deloro Kfax socioeconomically disadvantaged students increased by 17.7% and 17% those are those are huge huge numbers. Uh Forestill um Aaron Davenport principal already already showed um how much socioeconomically disadvantaged students
228increased um and where their standing was. But just know that last year they increased by 8.8%. Um and when you see that every single um student category um student group is either in the green or the blue um that that's incredible. Uh the next slide really shows why and where where that comes from. Um and I want to highlight if you look on the left um those measures. This is where students will achieve or qualify for their college and career readiness um is through a CTE pathway completer smarter balance assessment. So all those on the left are ways in which students can be counted for being considered prepared for college and career. Uh you see the three highest 58.5% of our students qualified through completing a CTE pathway. 71.7% qualified through college credit courses. That's
229our dual enrollment. 81.8% 8% of our students who met college and career readiness did it through meeting UCCCSU requirements, A throughG requirements. So, just know that the work being done by all of our staff and our teachers that that teach those dual enrollment classes that collaborate with Sierra College to make sure that classes and options are available um for our students. um that's really making headway and all of our CTE classes and teachers that um are making sure that they have completers and that we're funneling students into those into those pathways that's really making a huge difference on our CCI and those are our three biggest areas. Um, and and you can also see if you start to look, if you really want to dive into the data, a really interesting look is to see
230where are some of our lower groups, some of our um what they would term uh some of our disadvantaged groups, how they're comparing to our largest group. um and looking at achievement gaps and and you'll actually see that some of our groups are outpacing um our larger number groups. Um and that's that's a testament to our counselors um and the work that our teachers are doing um of creating relationships and making sure that all of our students are finding a way to become prepared for college or career. And that's a really really impressive impressive feat. um our suspension rate indicator. Um there is one change um on this. I changed it in the slideshow, but um everything that's in the blue um you can cross off all those student groups at the blue. Um I
231had that as a placeholder. Um so those student those uh student groups are um in the orange, yellow, and green. So um everything that's in the blue there, we do not have a student group in the blue um for our suspension rate indicator. Uh on the positive side, um we did have some noticeable decreases in our suspension rates for some of our groups. Uh we had a great conversation at our last DAC meeting. Um and we showed that our long-term English language learners had a decrease of 3.1%. And it's why that is is because Placer High School has made a concerted effort um both by administration office and teachers to create relationships and get our long-term English language learners involved in clubs, extracurriculars, and sports because research shows that if you get kids involved in
232their school and connected to their community, um suspension rates plummet. So, we see that um by the work that's being done at our sites. Um this particular one um I'm actually very very proud of partly because um I I get to work with some of these fantastic teachers and some of our bilingual aids. Um and our English learner progress um has gone up dramatically. One of the one of the most interesting ones is that our ELTELS, our long-term English language learners, um they increased their progress by 10%. Meaning 10% of those long-term English language learners um made more progress than previously years. The average number of years, if you're interested, is our ELELS. What what constitutes a long-term English language learner? It's if you're in our system in the in the California system for longer
233than six years. Our average of our students are 10 years. What that means is that if we have a freshman that's identified as a long-term English language learner, that means they started as an English learner in kindergarten and they're still an English learner. So for us to make progress by 10%. for students who have shown historically that they have not exited the EEL program and they have continuously been in the Yale program. For us to be making progress when they're in high school is very good. Obviously, if you look at all the data, um it's not all rosy. We still have work to do. Um, if you look at our reclassified uh that data comparison of English learners in ELA and math, um, our reclassified English learners by state data should be a lot closer
234to our English only. They're showing there's a big discrepancy between our achievement of our reclassified students. So, basically, we're reclassifying them, not giving them services anymore, and they're still pretty far off from their Englishonly C um fellow students. So, there's definitely some work to do with our reclassified students and looking at that process. Uh, LTE, long-term English language learners. I hit on that already, but this is a new metric. Uh the state of California has required every single school district to track um LTEL progress um within their LCAP um within our big document. And so, uh, previously, um, we were looking at some data that showed that we may have needed to focus on possibly differentiated assistance or ATSI based on this group um, from the 2023 2024 data. Um but the work that our
235EL department did and the work at Plaster High School um in Deloro and even at KFax um you can see all those pluses all those pluses showed that our long-term English langu language learners um made very good progress. So, this this student group report um really the point of this is to try and track how many orange and how many red indicators you have for student groups. And this report really is used to def to decide whether or not you qualify. Our district qualifies for differentiated assistance um or assisted targeted assistance. Um, and I'll say in the 2024 student group report, we had 18 orange or red categories. 2025, we have 11. What this report shows is that we do not qualify for differentiated assistance, >> which is very positive. Absolutely. Um, we love to
236partner and collaborate with Plaster County Office of Education. Um but the amount of time and resources um spent on work that we are already doing um we are happy that we do not need to collaborate with them in this manner. Um and all that shows is that um our sites and our students have been achieving very well. So the next steps continue to support professional development intervention opportunities. Uh that second bolt is going to be important. You saw from all those retirees. We need to reinforce those systems to support all students for becoming prepared for college and career. Those top two um some of the top indicators uh to achieve CCI percentage was dual enrollment and CTE. If you look at the list of retirees, there's a lot of teachers that are teaching dual enrollment
237and CTE. So, we know that if we want our CCI to continue to be where it's at, um that intentional focus on strategizing, master scheduling, and hiring to reinforce those systems is going to be important. um supporting school sites continuously um if there is targeted support and improvement and um continue to align expectations of the board um with our district goals to make sure that uh our unduplicated student outcomes continue to uh maintain or grow. Um and that's going to be very important when we get to next year as we develop the new three-year cycle of the LCAP moving forward. So um this is all public information and I provided uh some wonderful lots of data after this that if you want to dive into um and if you have questions um I'm sure Trent
238Wilson will be able to answer all of them. Um, and I'd be happy to talk through data uh if if you have any questions um moving forward on our our data of our students and tracking our student groups. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> How do long >> does deserve a clap? I like I heard a clap. [applause] >> Is there examples of students who exit the long-term English language learner? Um yes. Um and we we track that within our LCAP. Um we have a specific metric that is LTEL reclassification rate. >> Something that has to be motivated by the student or is that a determination by >> So we have a we have a reclassification process. Um and there's several different categories that a student has to achieve. Um every EL student takes the
239LPAC which is the summitive English language proficiency um exam. um they have to achieve at least a two on the CASP or um a qualifying score on our district um ELA assessment. So there is a process and we do have um long-term English language learners that qualify for reclassification. What that shows is that when 10% of them made progress, that's tracking that LPAC, that summitive test. So 10% more than last year made progress on that meaning that more of them may qualify for reclassification. >> Is there any benefit either way to reclassify as far as you know money that's allocated for in the LCAP? >> No. Um actually there's >> I would say possibly you know um they can uh the student benefit to the student is they can take classes that are not >>
240ELD classes so it could open up their schedule kind of thing. >> Um and I also want to point out one of the challenges uh with uh for us and I mentioned this in prior meetings is that we're not a unified school district. So, uh, you know, that that sometimes we're, you know, we're picking up kids where, uh, whatever the the feeder district gave us and their systems and those kinds of things. So, um, it's that's always a challenge when they're you're losing that vertical sort of integration of that program from the time they enter a school, you know, at fourth grade, third grade or whatever to to make it all the way through to us. So, also a challenge. >> I have a question, too. Do you know how our feeder schools compare to
241how we're doing? Like if these people are in it for 10 years, um is there like is Lumis Union or Forest Hill Union, I don't know what that was called, you know, Auburn Union, right? Are uh are are they all are they all kind of going consistently with the trends that we're seeing or is it >> I think in there's a there's a graph in there that talks about the county schools. >> Yep. So, English learner progress is right there with every single school district and it'll show um who's making progress and who's not. >> Awesome. And then I had one more question. Um, so I was able to connect with a bunch of student board members from across the state over a month ago. And a problem that they're seeing in their communities, and
242I'm curious if it's here too, is a lot of the people that are in these English learner classes are either already speak English or they have never seen English before, even as high school students, because if their parents don't speak English at home and they're the ones that are filling out the form, they're clicking random boxes because they don't understand it. Um, is that something that we see where students are just like at totally like like someone might totally speak English and some because their parents might not or is are they very far behind or are they pretty at at at that level? >> This is the magic of what Christy Dyer does at Plaster High School. um what Alex and Par do at Plaster High School in bilingual aids um and what Violeta does
243um at Deloro and Kfax is they have literal newcomers, >> students who um have shown up in our community and they've been here for three weeks. >> Wow. >> And >> it's hard. We have students that are and those are level ones, >> brand newcomers, and um in the same ELD class, they've got students that are level threes and possibly level fours that have been in our system since they were in kindergarten. So, absolutely, it's a it's a huge huge gap and that is the magic of what they do. and uh try and imagine um our teachers teaching to all those levels >> a lot >> and they're still making progress. >> That's great. >> That's super impressive. >> And and multiple languages, not just not just one language, you know, there's so much going
244on. And I'm I'm seeing it obviously not in our we're talking our high schools, but I was at Plaster School for Adults and they're teaching lots of English classes over there as well. and um and yeah, there's a wide range of so many different languages going on at the same time. These teachers are incredible. Speaking of, [laughter] you know, trying to meet students where they're at, adults and and our our students in our high schools, it's it's pretty incredible. The data speaks for itself. We're definitely, you know, you guys are putting good systems in place. I have the same, you know, concerns, uh, worries around CTE and and some of these programs of why why the reflection of our data is so good right now and and who who's going to be coming in to
245step in and fill some very big shoes. Um, and so I look forward to the team unpacking that. I'm grateful that is not the gig I signed up for. Uh, we're going to let the experts handle that. Um, and we're cheering for you and and thank you for all the work that you're doing on this. Um, good things are happening in Plaster Union. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I was going to say thanks, Robert. He we we got lucky when we were able to pick him up, so very grateful. >> Amen. Amen. All right. With the conclusion of our staff reports 9.1, we will move to item 10, uh, public comment. This is our opportunity for public comments to be received by the board. This is the time allotted for board or for
246members of the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. Completing the blue public participation form is preferred but absolutely not mandatory. This form can be obtained at the meeting. I believe they're on the back desk up there just in case, but you don't have to fill it out if you feel compelled after the one that I have in my hand. Uh you may do so. In the interest of conducting a public meeting in a timely manner, uh, individual members will be allowed to to speak to us for three minutes to address the board with no more than 20 minutes per topic. This is a comment period only. The law California Education Code section section 35145.5 does not allow the board of trustees to take action on any item not explicitly posted
247on the agenda in advance. The board values public comment, and we do. I I hope you you see that um and believe that because we absolutely do. and wishes to convey that although the board members cannot take action on items that are not on the agenda, we listen carefully and we appreciate and value the input from our public. Roxy Rice, um I only have one um card Good evening board. >> Good evening. >> Glad to have you here. >> Thank you. Um, I'm here to comment kind of back to some comments that you've received over the summer and previously u from the NAACP and a father named Ben Dickerson who is the father of a student at KFax High School. I want to um in light of some media that has come out in the
248last week accusing both the district and other students of heinous crimes and allegations that have been proven again and again to be false. And it just continues. The nightmare continues. And I know that the board has done um what they can under California law and district law to investigate and react appropriately. But you literally have students and families being held hostage by one family and it's unacceptable and it has to end. I want to tell you some of the notes that I have here. I'm coming to you to publicly address an ongoing investigation where many of your KFax High School students and their families are being bullied, badgered, and harassed by a single student. His families, his family, and now members of the NAACP, and the media, Ben Dickerson and Garrett Lamills have both talked
249at your board meetings and have had an open mic. The district has actively investigated, interviewed, taken statements, reviewed data, reviewed videos, etc. In fact, after the original football camp allegation, 22 people were interviewed by the school investigators. I have pages and pages and pages of court documents of restraining orders that have gone back and forth um right here before me. And this is just a [snorts] little bit of it. This is just a sampling that I needed to refer to to be able to talk. These unfounded and ongoing allegations have caused untold emotional and financial distress to your students and their families. the school, the board, the DA's office, and even a Pler County judge has not found any substantiated evidence of any of the Dickerson claims despite exhaustive efforts to prove the validity of
250the claims in case anything was truth. Because of the Dickerson family and more recently LaMills Garrett um it may be Garrett Lamills of NAACP several students have painfully withstood for a year and a half wrongful allegations of criminal wrongdoings false allegations of >> your time is up. Thank you. >> Okay. that the ending is something's got to break >> and if this board settles with that family >> with our taxpayer dollars, it is an egregious crime on your part. >> Very sorry your time is up. Thank you. >> I just want to say thank you for your comments. >> Thank you. >> I agree. And possibly Superintendent, I can follow up with you, Miss Roxy, or is that not >> um We cannot have a board discussion on an item that is not on the
251agenda. >> Thank you. All righty. If there's no further public comment, please feel free. You were in it for the long haul tonight, girl. [laughter] >> Hello again. [clears throat] Um, my name is Daniela Zimmerman and I am an ally for the LGBTQ plus community. Some of you already know me. Um, congratulations on the student improvements in the report. That's really heartening. Um, I'm here because as Mr. Duncan said, the goal is to focus on what's best for students. It's now been almost 3 years since the landing spot, the lone support group for LGBTQ plus teens here in Pler County was unjustly maligned and subsequently uninvited um from the district and prohibited from providing support to students in need at the district's campuses. My question that I'd like you to ponder is what plans does
252the district have for correcting this situation? Students are in need and there is no support. If assistance is needed in how to strategize to provide some valuable support to LGBTQ plus students and their families, um you can reach out to P Flag Greater Plaster County, the landing spot itself, the Placer LGBTQ plus center, which I am board president of, and which just signed a lease on our first physical space in Roseville. Um when students needs are met for safety, belonging and support, attendance improves, social interactions on campus and campus culture improves, grades improve, learning improves, mental health improves. I would also like to reiterate the offer that I made to a previous board that if any of you are wanting to learn more and become more knowledgeable about what LGBTQ plus students and their families
253are facing in these difficult times, what it means to be transgender and that it's not anything that you need to be afraid of and it's not an opinion about whether transgender people exist. they do and they deserve equal treatment and access to education and support. Please reach out um to again any of those three organizations and um thank you for your your time and consideration. I appreciate it very much and again there are students in need. Please rise to the occasion. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Seeing none, going once, going twice. All right. Um, we're going to move to item 11, board calendar coordinating announcements. Congratulations, everyone. We're moving into a school recess [laughter] for the holidays. You guys deserve it. Uh, from 12:22 through 1226. So, we
254are excited. School resumes on January 5th. Our next regular board meeting is on uh January 20th. There I there's a lot going on over our uh you know holiday breaks and I know that there are tournaments like you know going on at Placer. There are events happening I believe throughout [laughter] our district and with our team. So uh best of luck to our teams. Thank you to all your coaches and families who support and make those things happen. Is there anything else that is not on my radar that needs to be touched potentially? Superintendent Mali? >> Yes, but right now I'm not sure. >> Perfect. [laughter] Well, if there's anything noteworthy, we will >> we will we will get it out there. All right, board members, anything else that you could think of? Okay, we're
255going to move to item 12. And I'm I see our board packing up. Just as a reminder, we have to go recess back to closed. Um but student board members, you're off the hook. So that's that's good news for you. Uh we're going to move to item 12. This is our annual organization of our board of trustees. This is this happens every year in December. Um obviously uh thank you for pulling up our um our board bylaw that kind of dictates how this goes. Uh but this is something that we we do annually. It has to be done by a certain date and we report this information to our Plaster County Office of Education. Grab the forms here. So, we will uh nominate and elect two uh well, two of our trustees to serve as
256either board president or clerk. And at this time, we will receive nominations for the office of president. >> I'll kick it off. Um, I think, uh, we're, as you said, we're coming up on a year, a little less for for some of us, uh, with with, uh, Emerson. Uh, but I think we're at a point now where consistency is going to be key as we continue to embark on on serving this district. And so, I nominate uh, President Spade. >> Thank you for the nomination. I will accept your nomination. I agree that uh consistency is important especially with a uh a new [clears throat] superintendent and uh I want to thank you Tom for uh you know handling with grace this it's like kind of choppy waters at times and it feels a little daunting
257but uh >> kind of >> that's what you signed up for >> slightly. [laughter] So, but uh no, we we appreciate you and um and your support staff. Steve, thank you. And Trent and uh Peter and Elellena uh and everybody else. Um it takes a village, honestly, to to to run a district. And I I uh I commend Jessica for her her efforts and um her organization and uh and the the the time and heart that she puts into this position. So, I uh I second that nomination. So, Thank you, Trusty Lake. >> Do we have any other nominations? >> Well, are we still talking about president or the other position? >> We're talking president and then we'll do our clerk separately. I'm looking at Yeah. So, we'll finish this and then and move to
258our clerk. >> Questions or comments? We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Lake to nominate myself as the next board president. Any comments? Further comments or questions hearing? None. Starting with the Do we have student board vote on the board presidency? Does Yeah. Okay. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Oh, so motion passes. It says on the form. Congratulations to nominee name. Congratulations to you. Thank [laughter] you. Thank you. I appreciate your guys' vote of confidence. All right. Electing a new board clerk. Uh trustees. Do I have any nominations for clerk? I think you were trying to speak. >> I was um I appreciate trustee Duncan mentioning consistency. >> So therefore, I nominate.
259[laughter] >> Amen. >> I nominate Trusty Duncan as clerk. Yeah, I will second that motion >> for a nomination for Oh, well, I guess you have to accept the nomination. >> Okay, I'll [laughter] I'll accept. >> I'll second that. >> All right. Well, you got double seconds over there. Okay, Jeff. I'm writing down notes. Okay. Questions, comments? Hearing none. All in favor say I. Starting with our student board. >> I. Uh board. I >> all oppose hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Congratulations, Clerk Duncan. Round two, my friend. >> I know you are very busy and I appreciate you taking the time to serve our district in this way. >> Thank you. >> Amen. >> Thank you. >> All right. With that being said, thank you for all being here. Uh we appreciate your time and
260we are going to recess back to closed. Thank you. All right. You should be like, "What day is it?" >> I know. [laughter] >> Alrighty. I call this meeting back to order at 11:15. uh our recess from closed session. We discussed item 3.3 public employee employment discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957. Um we had a discussion and provided uh unanimous direction to admin. With that being said, also we extended the meeting with one motion made by Trusty Jeff, a second by myself, unanimous to extend it to midnight. Worst case scenario, um, and obviously an unanimous vote there as well. Okay. Item 13, adjournment. Do I have a motion? >> Move to adjourn. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trusty Duncan to adjourn the meeting.
261All in favor say I. >> I. Uh Trusty Lake was with us but uh stepped out for a moment and now it is done. Thank you all. Uh and Trusty Underwood was not with us during our second close session. >> Great job. >> Thank you. Good night.