PUHSD Board Meeting 5.20.25

001We're going to go ahead and start uh reconvene item four in our open session. And before we continue on, we're going to go ahead and review the items from close session 3.2.1 stipulated expulsion0511 DO24-25. Do I have a motion? I move. We have a motion by trustee Underwood. Yes. Second. Second by trustee Duncan. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 3.2.2 stipulated expulsion 06924-25. Do I have a motion? I move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Underwood, uh, Trusty Underwood, and a second by Trusty Duncan. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 3.3, uh, public employee discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957. The board approved an unpaid leave request per collective bargaining agreement. The board may grant additional

002leaves to unit members for special circumstances or needs upon application by the unit member on a district supplied form. Item 3.4 conference with labor negotiator pursuant to government code section 54947.6. The board provided unanimous direction to staff. Item 3.5, public employee appointment pursuant to government code 54957, subdivision B1 for the title of superintendent the board uh appointed uh Mr. Thomas Ali. The motion was made by Trusty Jeff, second by trustee Duncan and the vote was unanimous. Item 3.6 conference with labor negotiator pursuant to government code section 54947.6. six subdivision A. No action was taken and item 3.7 conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. The board approved the agreement uh OAH case number 2025010135 agreement unanimously and that is all. That was a long closed and we made it out early. So we're we're already

003ahead of the game tonight. All right, we're going to go ahead and carry forward to item five, organization. Welcome and pledge of allegiance. Uh, Trustee Jeff, 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. So, welcome. We're so happy again that you guys are here with us. And we obviously just made an important uh appointment for our district. And Mr. Omali is here with us uh this evening up against the wall. So, if you didn't know that that was him, he's here. Thank you for making your way um out this way. and we are excited to have you officially join our team uh

004July 1st which we'll talk about contract later on in this uh session. So with that being said uh this meeting uh will be audio and video recorded and I'm assuming that we've been good to go from the beginning. Thank you Carlos. We'll go ahead and move to item 5.2 approval of the agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda? Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion by trustee Duncan and a second by trustee Jeff. Any questions? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Board. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Now, now you're here for the good part. Um, for item six, superintendent showcase, I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to acting superintendent Dr. Steve Camdetti. Perfect. Thank you

005and welcome everybody. We have a lot of celebrations tonight and we are going to kick it off first with our student board members. Um, thank you guys for a wonderful year. It probably feels like a long time ago when you were standing and swearing in um, and your training day and December CSBA conference and here we are with a few days till graduation. So, thank you so much for your efforts and everything that you've done for your campuses. Um, we're gonna call you forward and Miss Atkins has a certificate and an apple for you. Don't eat it. Um, and we'll get a photo here with President Spade. And in case you didn't know, you're receiving a $1,250 um dollar scholarship. Plast Junior High School District is grateful and a better place because of each of

006you young ladies. So, thank you. So Ava Khan is going to UC Santa Barbara and gonna major in financial mathematics and statistics. Claire Delaney. [Applause] Claire's going to go to Welsley College and major neuroscience and Spanish. [Applause] Zoe Ordway attending the University of Nebraska Lincoln and majoring in agricultural economics. Last but not least, Ruby Muscle Kfax going to UC San Diego majoring molecular biology and political science. I'm sure we'll hear more of your updates during your report outs. Um, so thank you again. Uh, and now I'm going to hand it over to Alen Del Falvaro and assistant superintendent of human resources to facilitate our employee recognition, which is why most of you are all here tonight. Uh, it is an amazing evening and it can't be pulled off without lots of hands. our HR department

007over there, Rhonda Black and Nora and Vanessa and Sarah and Elena and everybody else that puts their hands into this. So, thank you. I was a little worried I was going to have to use my glasses, but Sarah um made them big enough for me to be able to speak to this. But before we get started, we are going to watch this great video that she makes. She makes amazing videos. So right after that we'll have the whole process. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] pass shoulders. Now it's [Music] steady should [Music] Morners, coaches, cooks, staff. Each of you Congrats. [Applause] That is an amazing amount of years that we just saw up there. 332 something. You guys all deserve another round of applause. I am wondering Sarah, those that were point8s and points, do they need

008to still work until they get to a round number? Just checking. All right. What we would like you to do, we're going to call you up. We're going to take a group picture at the end. So, please stay up here once your name's called. Um, we're looking at the years of recognition service and 10 years of service. David Austin, Malia Baruso, Katie Gingler, Sarah Rat, [Applause] Bill Sherman, Scott Barry, [Applause] Dustin Fee, Don Isabel, Michelle Raymond. [Applause] Go see Vanessa first. Just like the regular days when you want to come on and be hired here, you got to see Vanessa first. Same thing. Uh, Don Isabel. Oh, wait. Sorry. Maria Sylvester, Tina Bass, uh, Craig Garcia, Donna Pero. Oh, I have it right. Probio. Donna, there you are. Sabrina [Applause] Reyes, Masado, Yosha. All right.

009Big round of applause for 10 years of service. All right, we're going to our 15 years of service. Joel Ad Matt Hayden, Candace Bailey, Ember Nagel, [Applause] Ben Duncan, Natalie Smith, [Applause] All right. 15 years of [Applause] service. All right. for our 20 years of service recipients. Darren Bellis, CindyRatis, Greg Robinson, Sonia Bodic, Christy Dyer, Estelle clear Kathleen Long. All right. 20 [Applause] years for 25 years of service to the district. Tad Ikeman, Stan Synindell, I knew some Jim Hurley, Mark Schilling, [Applause] All right. 30 years of service. Jason Campbell, Mike Reer, Dean Petra, Monaco, Donna Silva, Keith Powers, Mike York. All right. All right. So, we're moving on to our next group of uh recipients, employees of the year. Tina Bass for clerical and administrative services. I did not see her. Randall [Applause] Fee,

010Vicky Wilkkey. Thank you for food and nutrition services. Jenny Serrano, Health and Student Services. Hyper Park House prayer professional services and I know he's here. Jimmy Jordan. Yeah, I'm getting there for skilled trade services. I know he keeps our air conditioners going, you guys. I just want Sarah Valdez, security [Applause] services. Annie Cardu Cardullo, counselor of the year. Caitlyn Jenkins, teacher of the year. And we're going to recognize our administrators of the year, Dr. Kristen Miller for CT and vocational. And somebody needs to take over Sarah's phone because Sarah Wrath for classified leader What a great group. Thank you for all you do. No, we have our retirees. It's our our kind of sadder part of the the meeting. Happy for them though. All right. Terry Barker, Deloro High School. Tina Bates, district office. She

011makes sure you guys buy the right benefits. All right. Jeff Broyals. Jeff, you were one of those point8 people, so I think you have to stay until August. Lisa Foscia, district office. Dan Galloway, Plaster High School. Shereice Gray, District Office. Besides doing all those other amazing things, she always is the one that coordinates those welcome back days and those inservice days. So there you go. Cindy and Sensio Plaster High School, Jeff Leno, Deloro High School, Laura Owens, She is one of our amazing school psychologists and she will be sadly missed. Mike Paul Del High School and I am leaning for speech. I'm leaning up against a product of his this this railing right here. his students, but he has to supervise, right? Charlie Pierce, Forest Hill High School. Kathleen Rollins Kramer, Plaster High School, Pauliana

012Redmond, MVCA. Way to go, Mike. Lisa Smith, District Office. [Applause] Jesse Weinberger, Deloro High School. All right, this concludes our employee recognition portion. For those of you who would like to stay for the remainder of meeting, you feel free to do that. or we won't be offended. Thank you for coming. All righty. I love the main meeting. I love a good celebration. We'll let them do their thing on the way out here. I can't compete with people celebrating. Good for them. Yeah. I've heard great bags. Excellent. And as the crowd winds down for the ex the extra exciting part of the night. All right. Beautiful. We're going to go ahead and move to item seven, reports and communication. Starting with item 7.1, board reports. This is the time allotted for our board members to conduct

013discussions on events in which they have participated in correspond uh correspondents related to district programs programs they wish to share. Do I have a volunteer to go first? Trustees, not it. Is that the game we're going to play tonight? Thank you. All right. So, for my board report out, um it's been a lot going on over the last month. Um one of the things that um that I did, I can't remember how long ago it was now, two weeks ago, I think. Um we did the student voices meeting at Kfax High School. Um and we had a really good turnout. I think it was probably about 50 students or so. Um does that sound about right? Uh Trusty Spade was there as well. Um some got some really interesting feedback from the students about what's

014uh kinds of things they liked about uh KFax High and some things that were um some concerns that they had. Um I thought it was interesting that some of the concerns that were brought up by those students are some of some of the same concerns that were brought up by by uh the staff um when I met with them two days later. Um and I did some dropins with some with some staff uh two days after that. Um, and that was all around kind of the facilities. The facilities at KFax High Schools cons continues to be a serious issue. Um, until that day, uh, that Friday, whenever that was two weeks ago or whatever, um, when I actually had staff pointing out like what the actual problems are, I remember specifically in Mr. Kinsley's room

015and Mr. Wade's room, um, they were both pointing out multiple places where their roof leaks every time it rains. Uh and they both both of the gentlemen uh point out um areas where equipment had been damaged and that kind of stuff because of that. Um so that still seems to be a significant issue. We need to figure out um what we can do to to fix those facilities at KFax. I know this is going to be a tough couple years with the budget, but um but we got to figure something out. Um, additionally, um, a few weeks ago or maybe two or three weeks ago, uh, the board, myself included, um, received a number a number of concerns. I think it was, uh, 16 concerns that came from some students and some staff, um, regarding

016scheduling, um, the master scheduling at Deloro. Um and Trusty Spade and I uh sat down with uh the Delaware administration and some district staff um and and kind of walked through that process um to see you know what can be done if anything um with respect to the concerns that were brought up um in this case it was particularly about the Spanish 4 class uh not being taught in person but um you know master scheduling is a very difficult thing um but um it's my understanding that that that the administration is uh still kind of trying to figure out if there's anything that can be done there and and looking at that they they understand what the concerns are uh that were brought up by the students and staff and parents. Um so that is

017uh that's something that that I want to make sure everybody's aware that you know we're on it. We're we're aware of what's going on um and we're doing our best to try to to solve that problem um as best we can. Um I guess that's it. Thank you very much, Trusty Duncan. Okay. Thank you. Um, let's see. Lots of fun stuff going on. Um, grading committee, uh, Trusty Jeff and I, uh, spent time, uh, and I see that we have at least one of our moderators here tonight in Jacob, uh, is helping with the grading committee. Uh and uh uh it's been a fantastic opportunity to listen to the community, to listen to administrators and teachers, all different categories of folks that uh are coming together to voice uh what they feel what good looks

018like. And uh and we documented uh all of that and uh Trusty Jeff and I have been working now taking that and consolidating that information. Uh and uh our plan is to uh bring this to the board next. So, um, but I just I love the opportunity to hear some of the students show up, uh, and it's courageous to sit in a room full of a ton of adults, uh, who are your teachers, your principles, uh, and still have a a very big voice. Uh, and so I appreciated that, uh, which was which was heartwarming to see because that's something that that's not easy to do. So, but I appreciate everyone's collaboration there and we look forward to reporting out uh once we get close. Uh we also took a field trip to Rockland High

019School uh which was great and to get perspective from some of the other districts out there and what and what they do. Um so what else? Uh district athletics. I think there's been a lot of challenges um with uh with athletics throughout the district. Uh and uh I've heard from a lot of folks in the community uh and I've been working very closely with Alina uh and uh Kim uh on some district policies and things we can do to continue to improve and I appreciate that partnership. Uh and so you know I just want I want the community to know that we're we're listening um and everybody's on on on uh uh is is kind of have arms around to to work to get things better for the students. uh and for our our athletes

020out there and for the coaches. Uh and so I look forward to continuing to dig in and and help with uh um some of those challenges. Uh I got an opportunity to go to Deloro and visit some classrooms. Uh Mr. Hul, I appreciate him uh inviting me. Uh I went and spent some time in his classroom, not with the students, but just got a little bit of time to get to listen to uh you know uh his thoughts on the grading system, his thoughts on how things uh have been good and the challenges associated with it and just asked a ton of questions about class. Um my daughter was very scared that I was going to sit in on one of the classes because she takes freshman English with Mr. Hul and I did not.

021I spared her from that. So, but I did go and sit in uh with uh Joel Ag's class uh and it was great because I got to hear the class talk about Lord of the Rings, which is one of my favorites. Uh and so it was just great uh to hear the collaboration in the class and the kids again um having a voice and uh it was very easy for him to he didn't have to call in anyone. Everyone was raising their hand ready to participate which was great. and then Miss Luchi's class for chemistry. Um, and we spent a lot of time talking about how she's adapted the proficiency scales based on the needs of the class. Uh, and that's been that's been a ton that that was really informal to to listen to.

022And uh, yeah, looking forward to the upcoming graduations. And that's it. Thank you so much, Trusty Lake. Sure, I can go. Um it's good to be here. Uh this past month has been a very busy one. U going through the the hiring process of uh Mr. Ali and uh that experience. It's one I will never forget just because of u just the the unexpected um nature being new to the to the process. Uh but I want you know everyone who cares about these meetings to know that uh it was a uh very thoughtful process and um and we had you know a lot of very good uh candidates apply I don't know how many hundreds of letters of recommendation that we went through as a uh as a board but um it was uh we

023narrowed it down and we we conducted interviews And um we're just I don't I hope you guys will uh get a sense over the next couple of months uh why we're so excited for uh for Mr. Ali to to to join the team. And uh and I think um I want to I want to give a big uh shout out to Steve Camonetti also for being uh so gracious and um for really holding it down for the district these past six months. It's uh you know you you've uh you've really helped me as a as a new uh board trustee. Um, and I just I appreciate your leadership and and um I'm grateful for that. Um, anyway, we I've also had uh math on my mind. I've been thinking a lot about math ever since

024my first board meeting. Um, I think I shared I love math and it's uh and I and I recognize the challenges um with math as my son is a sophomore at Deloro, my daughter's in eighth grade. And um you know I'm I'm fascinated by this idea of the students that love math and the students that hate math. And I'm convinced that the students that that hate math, I don't think that they u have seen the light. I don't think they have seen or appreciated how much math touches our lives and with with all of us. I mean, it's it's it it touches so many things that we do and you're so much better off gaining an appreciation of it. So, uh, I've had the, uh, the opportunity to meet with different math math teachers in

025the district, in particular at Forest Hill and Kfax, and I', I'm u still planning to meet with the math department at, uh, Deloro and, uh, and Placer. But, um, I've I've I'm gaining this perspective because I've seen like this, uh, like this dichotomy of how classrooms can be run. Uh, and there's different challenges. No, no question that um different groups of students pose different challenges and it and it depends on um you know there's a lot of variables. Um but in particular I want to uh talk a little bit about uh Jerry Jackson who uh you know shared a lot about what he has been able to accomplish using u the Alex system you know since I've taken this position and met with uh the different student groups and I've and I've listened to feedback

026and and talked to teachers about Alex and its pros and cons. You know, I had a pretty negative impression of it, but uh in uh spending a couple hours with Jerry, it's pretty uh impressive what what he's been able to uh on his own accord. I think he he's over near 150 hours of uh of diving in to really understand the capability of Alex. And um so that's a resource there for the district to uh to find out how he's been able to to make it to make it work on a level that's like made teaching easier for him. Um it's it's it's it's pretty impressive, I have to say. Um and then I spent some time with uh with Chris I won't say his last name wrong. Seibles. He's awesome. He's been teaching math

027for 28 years and uh and very different style. uh and he has a a great command over over his um over his classrooms where um I think it's a you know it's it's something that has developed over over years and decades where teachers develop a reputation and um and there's an expectation that uh that has to be met you know to to participate these classes and I and I just was really um really impressed um with with his efforts and uh as well as u uh Jonno Schwarz had a good conversation with him and he's been he's been doing this for a long time and he's gone above and beyond with his efforts uh with the YouTube channel that he does. Um I really think that in particular with math it's u it's a unique

028discipline because it uh it's it's it's very um it's very developmental. It helps our brains to to develop and to become critical thinkers to become problem solvers and uh and it can become exciting if you're able to build upon the blocks of mathematics but it's very challenging if you get left behind or if you if you miss a step all of a sudden it can become very frustrating and and students can check out. So, with that in mind, um I am uh I'm in favor of uh of doing a test trial with a it's an AI tutor, a mathematics. It's it's there's others uh disciplines that can be involved, but in particular with mathematics. Uh I don't know if you've ever heard of the Khan Academy. Um started in uh you know around 2008. It

029touches over 150 million registered students uh throughout the world translated in over you know 30 to 40 languages. Anyway, their their mission is a free education uh worldwide, but a world-class education. And they've developed this this AI tutor because believe it or not, I don't know for the parents out there or or whoever is interested to know, our students are already using AI to solve their math problems. They download apps on their phones, they take pictures of problems, and these apps are kind of helping them through the steps of learning math because you don't always have a tutor at your fingertips. you don't always have access to to teachers to to to be over your shoulder to to to hold your hand because it it is like a it's a it's a process. Um but

030the feedback of this of this uh AI tutoring is 70% of students are are giving it a four or five out of five and uh and teachers are also uh equally as impressed. Well, they offer a a free trial for uh you know, so we we're going to be looking I want to talk about this further with the board, but uh we're looking for 10 teachers who who have interest in uh in exploring the potential our our existing Chromebooks have the capacity to run this uh this tutoring u this AI and um and I think that it's worth looking into and Um, it's it's promising. So, I'm excited about that. Um, other than that, I uh I think that's it. Sorry to be long-winded. No, that's awesome. I appreciate all your feedback and working with

031everybody on that. It's it's it's an exciting time. Um, and I and I look forward to us having some more conversations about math and what we're going to do to support our kids. Trusty Underwood. You know, it's it's always a pleasure for me when I think of Foster High School, uh, having spent so many years there on the campus, and I have was so impressed with with the, uh, my visitation in which I was able to see uh, a wonderful debate that went on in an English classroom. It was great, but I was a little disturbed because the class sizes are too big. They they really are there there's like people were standing and and uh there there really wasn't enough room. Uh there was a feeling of being cramped. And I think for me

032uh class sizes of 37 if you that's what the district average is just too big. And I hope at some point we can figure out a way to uh alleviate that a little bit. and and uh too many kids get lost in a big classroom regardless of how excellent the teacher is. So that was one observation that I had and uh I'm so impressed with the work that David Lordson is doing in band. He is spectacular. One of the hardest working individuals, so excited about instruction. Sometimes I go out and just watch the band come out to the football field because I live so close, you know, and the kids are excited. And sometimes I think the arts and music do not get as much attention as sports and what he does in uh the

033pep band and concert band, jazz band, and concerts for the community. It's amazing. And of course, they do so well in competition. So I just want a lot of people to realize the excellence that's going on there because it is outstanding. To me, a highlight for this last month was the process we went through in selecting our new superintendent. And uh Thomas, I think, will be an outstanding and excellent educator uh and lead us and bring us much closer together. He's he's a special man. He really is. And I really have to take my hat off to the Plaster County Office of Education. They did a great job. There was some extremely qualified people that were there. Uh they gave us the help that we needed professionally. Uh it was a I really like the

034way this process ran, the transparency of it all, you know, the community input. We looked at everything, you know, and we came up with it with a an incredible selection. I'm really happy about that. And we had a special board meeting on the budget and it real this is really really upsetting to me when you take a look at that our our deficit that we have per year that we're having to take out of our savings fund is about $3 million, you know, to try to pay our bills that we currently have. And um hopefully, you know, we're going to get an increased cola or the state, which I'm fingers crossed are going to come through. But um it's it's worse. This is the worst I have seen a budget in my all of my

035years at Plaster High School, what we have right now, I've never seen a budget like this, you know, uh and so I'm really concerned about that. So, we had a special board meeting and Elena did a wonderful job of of educating us and and letting us see all the different aspects that that are going on. And for all the teachers that that might be hearing me speak right now, I would love to see you guys get a raise. Believe me, more than anything, but the money is just not there. It's it's not there. And uh I'm hoping uh it's there can be some type of resolution the state can come through. Um we have a great district. We really do. We have some outstanding uh teachers and staff and uh it's a blessing. It really

036is uh in my opinion for our community to be able to send their kids to our sites that we have because we do provide them with a wonderful opportunity and education. And the one word that I think is is critical in education if and I think we're doing it is empowering students to succeed. And I think that's exactly what's going on. So, I'm excited uh for our new superintendent and and all the hard work that's being done by our staff in our district. Thank you, Trusty Jeff. You said you'd forgotten something you'd like to share. Uh thank you, Trusty Underwood for reminding me. Um so, Miss MGO would kill me if I forgot. Uh so, um two weeks ago, I think it was, um I attended the choir performance at Deloro that Miss MGO put

037on. Um, and it was just absolutely amazing. It's it's such so great to see at our comprehensive high schools especially how many pro different programs that we have out there to get our kids connected to school. Um, and you know that choir group group of kids, they they were so dedicated u and they did such an incredible job with that performance. Um, so I just wanted to put a shout out there for Miss Margo. Awesome. I love it. Speaking of my heart talked music, that's my favorite. And by the way, people who uh read music, perform music, increases your IQ, and I'm sure it would help everyone in math. It music, playing music is math, for the record. Um, so I attended the delegate assembly this past weekend. Um, as you guys know, I was

038elected to a second term with the delegate assembly and so I was down in uh downtown Sacramento this past weekend and just wanted to kind of give you a couple um highlights. Um CSBA sponsored a bill in 2024 uh regarding the drowning in documents and I I think I shared that last year around this time. Um but in followup to that bill because the CDE provided um I'll just say a week uh letter in response to that they were required to pro uh provide some feedback by March 1st regarding the amount of documents and recommendations for consolidation or or uh elimination and uh they did not do that. And so with that being said, uh, new legislation has been drafted. SB374 will be used to implement recommendations pursuant to the last year's CSBA sponsored bill,

039um, SB 1315, which is the reports on reports. And that initial report was filed by the CDE at the beginning of March, which I mentioned, and um, they apparently are going to be updating that in the next few months. However, CDA is still in the process of reviewing all of those reports. Um, which is the joke, right? how many reports do we turn in and who really reads them? Um, and that those ELEAs must file um to determine which could be eliminated and consolidated. With all of that being said, most of the amendments to SB374 will be made in the assembly over the summer. It's already made it, I believe, through the first round and um it's looking promising and and uh CSBA is going to be continuing to provide some more feedback on that.

040If you guys don't know what that that document was, I don't know I and I and I don't have it in front of me. Our school district on an annual basis does an incredible amount of reports where they are required by the state or the federal government and it is just frankly wasting our district's precious time which is money and and some of those are not even being utilized. And so the hope was that, you know, if we could eliminate some of these that our staff would have their their time freed up to be able to spend more time with our students and focus on things to help our students achieve. And so I'm I'm excited to see where that goes. Um it's promising and I love that they're following it up immediately. Um, also,

041uh, for those of you tracking the budget, uh, the budget maneuver number two, more manipulation of Prop 98, um, with this new budget, the governor proposed to hold back 1.6 billion in Proposition 98 funding. Um, that's never a great feeling. Um, and it's certainly a concern across the state with all of our school districts, ours as well as we're in declining enrollment and the budget is tightening. state schools will get more money at a later time if it's determined that the schools were owed money and Prop 98 does not allow for the money to be held back. And so it's kind of like it's an interesting situation. Um there's more on that and reinterpretation, but a lawsuit was filed um that they believed that the funding from maneuver from last year was unconstitutional and uh

042that this next one, if they continue to do so, would also be. Um, so more on that. Um, and more will be explained in the trailer bill language, but just so you know, we're tracking it. CSBA is tracking it. And then, uh, CSBA delegate assembly is going to be held in Sacramento this December, which is kind of a unique opportunity potentially for our students, speaking of music, to be featured. And so there are calls for talent submissions for the our annual education conference. and um those who are interested, so bands, choirs, performers, dancers um can file video submissions. They're required by I believe June 25th and I shared that with um Dr. Camonetti. And so hopefully I'm really crossing my fingers this would be a really cool opportunity for our kids soloists. I mean there's

043there's nobody that's left out anyone and all are welcome to submit and and I really hope that our district selected so that they could be featured on that stage. For those who have attended um uh CSBA's AEC, it's kind of a cool thing. Um and it would be a really wonderful time to celebrate our district so close to home and without a lot of travel expense, right? Because it's right here. Um and then we also had a presentation by Fickmat. I shared this um the CEO of FICMAT, Michael Fine, presented on Saturday at their lunchon. He had some very interesting data regarding enrollment and the impacts on um most of the districts across the state of California and what that looks like in terms of um our cola but also the same percentage. It it

044it's not great. Let me just say it's not great. So when you're in declining enrollment, if our COLA is at 2% we'll say um and we're in declining enrollment at 2% the math isn't mathing. Speaking of math, we're in trouble. And at that rate, um the cola is right around the t the percentage that we are declining, which poses some interesting obstacles for us. I attended lots of events. This is the new December. May is the new December. It's been a It's a busy time of year. Um so many wonderful special meetings. We had five or special me I say meetings because I feel like that's where I've been so much lately. Uh we had five special board meetings between our last regular meeting, most of which were um due to our superintendent search and

045interviews, but we also had another meeting regarding finances and collective bargaining. Um but throughout this past month, I have met with numerous teachers at uh multiple sites regarding master schedules and uh feedback regarding grading and what they're doing in classes. I also was in a in an English class at Deloro and and something I feel like I haven't seen in a long time is the students were writing essays with pencil and paper and I loved it. It's so good. They they want to make sure that AI is not writing their essays and kudos to the teachers for tracking it and they have to show um their their amended versions, their drafts and um and and they're going to become better uh writers because of it. So, I appreciate our our staff holding our students accountable

046and making uh their course rigorous for them um so they continue to grow. Um also, KFAC student engagement. I spoke at a local um event in Auburn and uh participated in PCOE's governance institute. Side note, not a part of my duties as a trustee, but I did attend a field trip with my little boy to Burnhard, which was amazing. Uh we live in the coolest place. There's just so many wonderful um you know things that we get to enjoy in this area and so that was a total treat. I was in the laundry station and let me tell you that's the kids' favorite station. We had a blast all day. Um also attended Deluro Senior Money night and I was so proud. It makes me emotional. I mean the the scholarships, the way our community

047shows up to support these kids is really absolutely incredible. There's so many memorial scholarships, too, which is just an incredible way to continue to celebrate and honor um family members um that have passed and and pay that forward to an incredible group of kids. Um we had, you know, we have had students at different sites being accepted into militarymies, including West Point. I'm so proud um to be a part of this district and the incredible work that's being done here. I had um a great meeting with Trusty Lake who did all of his homework and and at some point maybe we'll talk about it, maybe we won't. But I am you can see by the reports this board is doing so much good work. They they are showing up at school. They are meeting with

048students and staff. You know, we're collaborating with one another. Um we went through a really kind of bonding process through the superintendent search and I can tell you that, you know, there's like miracles happening. Um, and I don't say that lightly. And um, you know, it was I was told by PCOE, who again did an incredible job with our search, that that this could be a very bonding time for a board and and our board's been through a lot and we have a a green board. we have a new board and at the end of all of it and we had selected Tom and we came to this decision and it felt amazing and we ran around the table and not to have a kumbaya but we had a kumbaya moment um hugged each other

049David hugged me and thanked me for my leadership and I said miracles can happen you know we've come a long way you know we've come a long way um and got to make that phone call that night uh to Tom and the boys told me to set him um so that he thought that he wasn't getting it and and I did and I did a good job. I really thanked him and told him how many wonderful candidates there were and it was a very tough decision and we thanked him for his time and yeah I paused and and uh then we revealed that it was him and he's like I thought I didn't get it like he was totally shocked. Um but uh but we had a great time and it it's been a wonderful

050journey and we look forward to uh working with him. had county committee meetings. Um, obviously our next regular board meeting is only two weeks away. Huge congratulations to all of our seniors, to our student board members who have done a phenomenal job this year. Thank you for your dedication for being here when you weren't even at the dis to to share your reports and to provide such great insight for us as board members. Your voice matters. We care and and I thank you for for sacrificing this time um and and showing up for the kids in your school. So, I have another son graduating in two weeks. Can't believe it. And um it's a very wonderful time of year. So, with that being said, lots of reports, lots of things to celebrate. And we're going

051to keep on keeping on item 7.2 ad hoc committees. I will kick it off because there's nothing much to say about our board policy committee. It's been too busy to have a meeting about our board policies, but we will get there. Um and I have followed up with with um with CSBA, and there will be more on that later. Anybody want to report out on the CVE grading committee? Okay. So, Trustee um Duncan already talked a little bit about um kind of what we've been doing with the grading practices um committee. Um so, we have had, as you guys know, because we reported this out again that the previous uh regular meeting. Um we've had three sessions now, committee sessions. We've met with uh some administrators and some staff at Rockland High School. We've talked

052to dozens and dozens and dozens of students and parents and staff members um getting their thoughts and opinions and advice and concerns and uh hearing all of that um with respect to grades and grading. And I think we are very close to having a uh a draft policy to to be uh ready to present to this board I think on June 3rd hopefully. Uh keep your fingers crossed but um it's going to be you know that'll be an interesting conversation that the board will have um when we start kind of go breaking that down. Um we try to do our best to try to take everybody's uh concerns into into mind and um and think about what you know what's truly best for our students. Um but also what the stakeholders believe is is uh

053is best for them. So and that's you know equally as important. So um so yeah I think June 3rd I think that'll be the big day I think. So awesome. Thank you guys for your hard work on that and thank you to all the community and uh participants who've showed up to participate to to provide that feedback for us. Student board member 7.3, take it away. The final reports. Okay. Um hi everyone. Things are wrapping up for the year at Forest Hill. We recently had our night of excellence event which went well. I was able to add up the total value of all of the scholarships that our senior class received and our class made over $460,000 in scholarships to use for education over the next four years. We also incorporated new awards at our

054event this year which reflect our portrait of a graduate characteristics. Awards were given to students who showed exemplary traits in the categories of engagement, critical thinking, social emotional awareness, communication, ownership, and resilience. We had our senior signing day last Friday, May 16th, which was a neat event for everyone to celebrate our graduating class and allow current students to see everyone's future plans. We were also able to have our incoming freshman class be present at the event. And afterwards, the future wildfires were able to meet with their spark leaders or their upperassman mentors to eat lunch and learn about our school. In terms of sports, our track team just ended their season with one student who made it to section finals. And our girls softball team won their first ever SJS section championship and they will

055be moving on to the NorCal regional championships at the beginning of June. We are so proud of all of our athletes. We recently had a student voice meeting at the end of April and the topic was math. At Forest Hill, we discussed the question of if you were in charge of redesigning how math is taught in the district, what would be some changes you would make? Some of the main points that were brought up were that students would not use the online Alex math course as the main way to that math is taught and they would instead increase in-person instruction. While they believe that Alex could be used to supplement when students are learning difficult subjects, uh many students disagree with the use of it as the sole teacher of a math course and would

056like more teacherto student instruction. With this increase in in-person instruction, students would want more hands-on visual learning opportunities for every unit. This could be structured in a way where a teacher could lecture and provide an introduction to unit. Then the students could participate in a hands-on learning activity to help them visualize and better understand the concept. Examples of these kinds of activities could include making a catapult and measuring the angle of the object that is launched or dropping a bouncy ball and measuring how high it bounces each time. Uh to speak a little bit about our upcoming graduation, everyone is super excited for the end of the school year and the seniors are working at working to finish up their classes and finalize their plans before they graduate. The students are also looking forward to

057the celebration parade that the community holds for graduates following the formal graduation ceremony. This event is put on entirely by community members who want to honor Forest Hill's graduating seniors. Lastly, I would like to express how grateful I am that I have been able to serve in the student board member role this year. This has been an amazing opportunity and experience to not only represent and be a voice for the students at Forestville High School, but also to learn about our district and schools as a whole. I am so thankful for the district for having this opportunity available to students. And I know that each and every student who has chosen to fill this position will be able to gain so many skills and knowledge to use throughout their lives. I would like to thank

058everyone for supporting me and allowing me to serve in this role. I have truly enjoyed it. And that is all for for stills. Thank you so much. All right. Um so everyone is very excited for graduation to say the least and also just the end of the school year as well. Um so to start we had our student voice meeting and our student engagement which was fun to have that backtoback. Um but yeah so for our student voice meeting to start off um we sort of talked about some of our problems and then solutions and then our main question was what would an ideal math class look like? So for some of the problems we said that the fast-paced learning style doesn't really work for everyone. Um the blocks system really inhibits a lot of

059students, especially if they have like integrated one in the fall term of their freshman year and then integrated two in the spring term of their sophomore year. Just having that gap is really difficult, especially because they don't go into that second math class with those same fundamental skills that they learned, you know, all the way back in freshman year. Um and then um there's not a lot of congruency with a lot of the lower level math classes. So from um integrated 1 through integrated 3, they feel like they're relearning a lot of stuff in integrated 2 or if like in integrated one they didn't learn all of the key subjects and then in integrated 2 they're just sort of like going straight into it and you know they don't have a lot of those fundamental

060skills um just because they weren't able to get through everything because maybe their class was a little bit slower paced just because of the students that were in there. Um the higher math courses don't really face this problem as much because we have the same teacher um for pre-calc and calculus. So this allows for a lot more congruency throughout that course. Um and then also Alex is something that does not help students. Um just it adds more work onto them and doesn't really foster a lot of learning because they can just sort of go online and cheat and it's just like another thing that they have to do for that class as opposed to actually like doing problems like on a piece of paper which um fosters a little bit more um learning for them.

061And then for solutions that we came up with as well um having more flex time dedicated to um the subject. So, I know that for IB biology, for example, our teacher, Miss Dedric, she has like certain flexes that are just for that class. So, making sure that either um students can get help whether it's, you know, notes that they missed or if they have to make up a test, it's just dedicated for that as opposed to, you know, just having a flex open for everyone. Um and then also having more collaboration within the math department. So students being able to talk to their teachers a little bit more, whether it's in meetings or whether it's just talking to um their teachers one-on-one, just being able to sort of have more congruency within the math department

062as a whole as opposed to just having like different classes in terms of like where they're going next. Um and then sort of like to answer the question of what a good math class looked like um at KFax, we said that a real life application is something that they really love. So, like we had a couple students in that voice meeting that were in physics currently. I'm one of them as well, which I love physics. Um, but the real life application really helps out because it sort of makes a lot more sense on like why we're learning this. And that was another thing that came up as well as more reasons to really care about math class. So, um, why these are important things to learn and just engaging students a little bit more on

063like why we want to understand this. And then, um, having more goals and incentives for learning as well. Um, and then working in table groups too was a really big one. So, in some of our math classes where like, you know, in like diagonal rows or something like that and just being able to talk to students more um one-on-one, it just helps out a little bit because then, you know, you feel like you're able to converse more with um each other as opposed to just with your teacher. Um, and then for our student engagement, we talked about the positives and negatives at KFAX. So, for positives, um, definitely culture was our big one. You know, we are a smaller campus, not as small as Forest Hill. Um but you know we still are a little

064bit smaller so we're able to be really interconnected with each other. Um we have really great student support as well as a teaching staff which is a big highlight that came out of that as well. And then our IB courses and CTE classes too are something that a lot of students really loved. Being able to take higher level courses and you know whether they're in the IB diploma program or they just want to take those classes on the side. Um being able to have both of those options is really great. And then for negatives facilities um as Mr. Jeffrey's pointed out, um, that's something that's been really struggling at KFAX and something that a lot of students want to see fixed. And then transportation as well. I know that, you know, our budget obviously isn't

065the biggest, but um, having like an option for sports because having to carpool all the time, like if you have a game that's really far away, it's really difficult for a lot of students. Um, especially because, you know, rides get filled and some students get left behind. So being able to sort of figure that out within the district would be something that students would really look forward to. And then for spring sports, we've had a lot that have made it to playoffs um in masters. Um so our tennis team made it to the section final, but then we had to forfeit um because of IB testing, so we couldn't reschedule a day, which was kind of sad because that could have been our first section title. But it's okay. Maybe next year they'll probably get

066it. But um our softball and baseball team also made playoffs. And then the track team had a lot of different students make it to masters from events like pole vault and the 800 meter and a lot more as well. And then we also had our spring concert which was the last one of the year. A lot of alumni came as well. So that was a lot of fun to be able to see familiar faces from seniors um last year and a couple years previous as well. We also had our scholarship night where we were able to celebrate so many different students. It felt like so many names were read off. It was kind of crazy. Um, our Gibbs scholarship, we had, oh gosh, we had so many students for that. Um, but you know, the

067stage got pretty filled, so that was really cool. Um, and then also last week we just wrapped up IB testing, which was awesome. Um, we had 24 hours in total of testing, so that was pretty brutal. Um, so I'm very happy to be done with that. Um, and then some of the end of the year celebrations that we're really looking forward to. Um, so our senior culminating event is tomorrow. That's where um, a lot of seniors get to present um, whether it's a portfolio, doing a TED talk, um, or just a one-on-one interview as well. So, they're able to sort of exit high school with a lot more skills and just reflecting on what they've learned as well. Um, our unification assembly and senior awards is on Thursday and then our senior picnic will follow

068that, which a lot of our seniors are excited for. We got a snow cone machine and a cotton candy machine in leadership last week. So, that was cool to see that we'll have that for the event. Um, and then we also have the Rosie Bowl, which is, um, Powderpuff, um, this Friday, and then senior sunset will follow. And then, um, to sort of close out, um, my time as a student board member has been so incredibly fun, and I'm grateful to have met and worked alongside all of you for the past year. Being able to represent KFAX has been so much fun, and I've truly been able to connect with so many different students at our school, and especially our teachers as well. uh within this position, whether it was during very very very long

069nights here or meetings um that have just been a lot of fun to be a part of or even the incredible Disneyland trip that we went on. Um it's been so much fun to be able to be a part of this program. I've had a lot of fun memories during this year and I'm thankful for each and every one of you for making it special. Um I've been able to learn a lot in this position and in college I plan to take on more advocacy and leadership roles as well that I hope emulate the experience I've had here. So, thank you all. It's been a pleasure to work with you. Thank you, Ruby. Hi. Okay, so for my report for the last voice meeting, we were also talking about math, but I wasn't able to

070make it to that meeting, so Justin took these notes for me. So, thank you, Justin. Um, and most of the students were in favor of paperwork and tests as opposed to computer options. Um, especially for math, which makes sense. Um, I tutor for math. And one thing that I've heard a lot of kids say was um computers won't accept like different versions of answers. So it makes it really hard to tell if you actually got it wrong or if it's just the computer telling you got it wrong. So that's one thing they were talking about. And then there is also continued support for replacements and retries like retries on essential skills. But there is pretty little support for the four-point scale and mostly in support of the 100 points in math classes which I think

071is what most of the math department is doing. And then um there was also a strong support for teacher made materials as opposed to the Alex program that is not popular among uh students or among tutors. And then as far as the sports, we're having a really good run of it right now. Um for starting off with our girls swim, we had four girls go to state this week and they competed in the 200 free relay. And um five school records were broken by that team and one league record. And at state they place second in the 400 free relay, third in the 200 free relay, and seventh overall. So that's pretty crazy. And there's a whole bunch of boys who also make it to sectionals and other girls that also make it to sectionals.

072And then as far as softball, um they took home the league champion title. They were seated number one in the state and 15th nationally. And they're actually playing their sectional game tonight. And as Oh, they won. Okay, perfect. 120. Nice. 120. Great. And then um boys volleyball um took home the D2 section championship title and they're playing their NorCal game tonight. And for track and field um the girls 4x8 team competed competed last week at sectionals and the girls 4x boys 4x1 competed uh last week at sectionals and took second place. And then they and the 4x4 team are headed to Masters. And uh baseball beat the number one seed which was Jesuit and last week and they're and now they're also headed to sectionals. And um our last year's section championship for boys tennis,

073Bowden Willis, is section champion again for his second year. So that's pretty impressive. And then another big thing recently on our campus has been AP testing. Uh we have it now on our campus instead of at the church where we used to have it. And we had 354 exams administered to 248 students. And um yeah, so one of the big changes to the testing this year was we had a lot of digital and hybrid exams, which is something new that the College Board is rolling out. previous they were all on paper and we yeah we don't go to Staint Peter and Paul which is where we used to have it and um I just did some quick math so this might be wrong but I just did a little bit of like back back in

074the bathroom nap for math for this and I think this means that 20% of the sophomores juniors and seniors are taking at least one AP test every year and the largest cohort of test takers are sophomores that's 98 students and then we had 86 juniors and 64 seniors and our most popular exam was AP bio with 92 students sitting for that exam And I think one reason for that is our bio teacher, Mr. Hardy, does a kind of like the year-long class. We have honors bio in the fall and then AP bio in the spring. And there's lots of supports of that and it just encourages people to take the exam. So if we wanted more AP exam takers, I think that's how you would do it. And then as far as events, it's packed

075wall to wall in May. Um we had our last chance dance this past Friday. We had our f future freshman night, which is our chance to welcome the newest members of our DO community and see how scared all the freshmen are. Um, and then for the more elderly members of the DO community, we have our senior sunset on the 27th, our senior picnic on the 23rd. We had senior awards last week where we had $105,000 in local scholarships alone. And then we also had our athlete commit day this um past Monday for I think seven uh senior signing colleges this spring. And then over at Confluence West, we had eight families served throughout through the landscaping business this spring. Um, which is pretty impressive because they just started it. And they also have their graduation

076celebration on the 28th of May from 6:00 to 8 if you wanted to attend. And then um, their students will also walk in um, like our joint Delaware Confluence graduation at the end of the year. And then I also just wanted to say thank you for allowing me to be a part of this board and process over the last year. And I'm so grateful to get to represent a school and community that I love. and has definitely given me a front row seat to the behind the scenes of education and local governance and has impacted me and my career goals for years to come. And this was an incredible opportunity and the level of dedication from everyone in this district has to incorporating the student perspective into governance is truly inspiring. So for the last

077time, thank [Applause] you. Um hello and good evening. So there has been a lot going on at Placer this last month. to start about 30 students had the opportunity to participate in the plaster student engagement hosted by Dr. Camonetti. Um the turnout truly could not have been better and the group of students that attended were definitely a lively bunch that had a lot of great feedback. Um during the students or during the session students discussed how respect is a priority at Blaster and how the interactions between students to students and teachers to students can be improved for the betterment of everyone. Students also expressed a desire for more competitive classes, specifically for AP classes, and overall more support for students who wanted to attend four-year universities. Students also discussed how there needs to be more

078equity for all of the amazing things happening at Plaster, including our drama, band, choir, clubs, and sports that often go unrecognized. I also had the opportunity to host my last student voice meeting where we asked students the question, "What do you wish more student what do you wish more teachers understood about how students experienced math?" The overall conclusion was that students experience with math relied a lot on the relationship they held with their teacher and the classroom environment. Students felt that they learned better when they were in a supportive environment where they are not afraid to ask questions. Resources like individualized instruction during intervention proved to make a difference for many students. Students also expressed that platforms such as Alex are helpful but should not be used in place of teacher instruction. Students also advocated

079for more collaboration in their math classes and for making learning more hands-on. During the student voice meeting, I was also able to have seven confluence students present to share their experience with math. They offered a unique perspective as their math classes look slightly different than ours. One class they spoke particularly fond of was their construction math class they take at Confluence where they have the opportunity to apply their learning to real world situations and projects. They said this type of learning truly shaped their approach to math classes and made them see the value of it more. Um, another amazing thing at Plaster I have the chance to help lead out and participate in is the student advisory council. A few of you were able to attend our end of the year celebration, which truly was

080just scratching the surface of the things that we have accomplished and the hard conversations we have as a group. I'm confident that these students and student advisory council will continue to prioritize the importance of addressing the problems at Placer, which are alive and real. As a group, we emphasize the importance of creating an environment where all students are seen, supported, and valued, and that there's no place for racism or any type of discrimination on campus. I also wanted to highlight all the fun end of the year events that are going on. To list a few, we had our Asian-American Pacific Islander event, Pooa Night of Excellent, Junior and Senior Prom, and just last night, our scholarship night for all graduating seniors. I also want to shout out our track and girls softball teams who are

081both continuing their advancement into playoffs and beyond. Um, and with graduation in the end of the year, right around the corner, students are super busy with all the stuff happening. And then as for Confluence, like I mentioned earlier, they had the opportunity to attend the student voice meeting and were awesome contributors. Some amazing things they have going on include their plant sale where students sold items including clay pot holders, plant tags, and more and was a fundraiser to raise money for the projects they are constantly going on. Um, students also have had the opportunity to use plaster's greenhouse which has been really fun and have really enjoyed tending to the plants and going on many leaf to learn field trips to make this project possible. Um, and as the year comes to a close, students

082are also partaking in their end of the year exhibitions where they present a reflective slideshow that focuses on what they have learned, their experiences, and how they will take this on into the future. This is a very special event where parents of the students are invited to attend and support the students in their growth and journey at Confluence. I'm also excited to share some important updates happening over at Maidu. Earlier this month, Maidu completed its WASK midcycle visit and the feedback from Wasque chair was extremely positive. The school received a very complimentary report which confirmed their three-year midcycle renewal. Additionally, this year, Maidu also experienced a record level of growth, welcoming 140 new students. That's a huge milestone for the school and shows just how many families are seeing the value of a flexible virtual

083learning model. And then one of the most exciting developments happening at Maidu is the early college program, which officially launches this August. Thanks to increased outreach and awareness efforts, about 10 current students have already completed enough sir college coursework to qualify for the program. Another 15 students are preparing to begin in the fall, some even starting early cla early early with summer classes. Mighty is aiming for a cohort of up to 40 students by August 2025 and they've already filled about 63% of those spots. With more targeted marketing planned for next school year, there's a lot of excitement around what this program could become and expanded opportunities they offer students. That's all the updates I have for now. I wanted to share that my experience as a student board member has been one that I

084am so appreciative of. Having the ability to connect with students I may have never gotten to speak with prior to this has been so rewarding and has taught me so many valuable lessons in knowing that we all have different experiences but are so connected as a whole. Having the ability to work on bridging the gap between confluence and plaster has been my greatest joy and I'm hopeful that these efforts will continue to next year and beyond. Thank you. [Applause] Our futures are safe in the hands of our student board members. you have again just done such an exceptional exceptional job and to highlight just Ava um I don't think we've ever had and we've had wonderful board members since I've been on here but I I don't believe we've had a board member from Placer

085that went more out of their way to make sure that Confluence was was highlighted and their reports and involved in in um the culture at Placer and um I I can see that the work that you've done has really made an impact this year and I just wanted to thank you for that. Okay. Uh, superintendent's report 7.4. Thank you. Um, Mr. Melly, make a note that you should never be following the student board members after they share. You should always go before. Um, thank you ladies. Well done. Um, exceptional um year and I've appreciated being a part of watching you guys lead and and and bringing as many voices as possible. Um, I won't go through all the activities and repeat things that we've already heard, but June 2nd is the budget revision with capital

086adviserss down at PCOE. Uh, President Spade has already signed up. There's room for another um trustee if you'd like to attend. Um, it's going to go through the the May revise that's happening on June 2nd. Um, with with some more feedback and a question to answer. I would encourage anybody that's interested in going uh let myself or Dez know. Um, in your uh folders as well are all of the copies of the site student engagement notes uh for each of our sites. Our principles also have those as well for conversations. Um so feel free to check through those. Congratulations for our Wasque folks um Deloro and Plaster for their their successful um six year and Maidu as well for their midyear cycle. That's always a relief to be done with um you know every event

087that we've been a part of and um lead team has had to um split up our events because there's so many and making sure we can get to as many as possible. Each of them have just been unique and special to the communities of which they represent. And again, echoing um President Spade, our communities in each of our school communities are so so generous with the local scholarships. It is it is a special time of of of the year. Um and then just to see the outstanding work of our our senior class every year just gets better and better and so many unique and and um successful students heading to to college and careers and the military. Just just outstanding. So, um, speaking of that, uh, upcoming events with graduations, hope you have you your

088calendar handy, uh, because there's a lot going on. So, 521, um, we are PSA at 700 p.m. over off of, um, near the Elmac there. 529 is, uh, a two-parter. It's Maidu at 5:00 p.m. and then Confluence graduation at Plaster High School at 6:30 at Plaster High School, not Plaster High, graduating. Uh, 5:31. our comprehensive site graduations. Uh please connect with uh us or or the principal. Uh they could be at 8 a.m. um I believe 8 a.m. at Delora and Placer. Yes. And then 9:00 a.m. at KFax and Forest Hill. So um each of you are have already signed up to go to one of those. Um and the details they'll be able to share with you in terms of where you sit and handshakes and photos and get ready to have a sore

089face from smiling in photos. Um, thank you to Crystal and your team for the social today. It was wonderful. The food was delicious. Thank you. And and Sarah Wrath for just the organization of all the flowers and the details. It was just a beautiful event. So, thank you for that. And I think that concludes my report for tonight. Thank you so much. Do we have a report from our ATP? Item 7.5, Associated Teachers of Plaster, CTA, NEA. Not. Thank you for asking. They do not have a report. All right. You're very welcome. All right. We're going to go ahead and move to the uh consent agenda item number eight. Do we have any changes to the consent agenda? I do. We're going to go ahead and move item 8.2 to our first action item. Any

090further changes? Hearing none. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. I'll second. We have a motion by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff. Any questions, comments? All in favor? Starting with the student board. I board. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item 8.2. I noted and this is this is um partly, you know, this is my fault. So, um, April 30th minutes were were incorrect, um, because I updated them after I, um, I sent them to Dez. We had a shared document, but all trustees um, and Dez already made this change, but all trustees attended that meeting. So, we added you, Trusty Duncan, and your arrival time um, on item C.1 of that agenda. And our motion to adjurnn was a 50 because Duncan was there. So, with that change, do I have

091a motion or are there any other questions or comments on minutes? Motion to approve. We have a motion by Trusty Duncan. I'll second. Second by Trusty Jeff. Starting with the student board, all in favor say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Let's go ahead and move to item nine, action items. Item 9.1, certificated personnel report number 10 24 through 25. Thank you, Madam President. So, um, just as we are ending a year, we're already gearing up and we have a lot of things going on this summer and in the fall as well. So, um, as you can see, we have quite a few changes that have happened, including, um, getting ready for our summer ESY, extended school year, the bridge programs, all those different activities. We do have a few recognition

092uh uh re resignations and retirements um that we would also just want to thank those individuals for the time and their um serving of our students and our communities. So on the behalf of the super acting superintendent, I would recommend the approval of the certificate of personnel order. All right. I move approval. We have a motion by trusty Underwood. Second second by trusty Duncan. Do we have any questions or comments? Question. So if we can pull that back up the certificated personnel report. So my question is with the uh assistant principal position at PSA. Looks like we're going from um one or.5 FTE to one FTE. Um and that was from a temporary position. Um, so it looks like we're basically going from a half vice principal to a full-time vice principal. So there's two

093different things going on there. Um, one of the things is that the funding has changed for plaster school for adults. They used to be a grant funded. So we were able to temp employ those certificated personnel individuals. Um with the change in funding um they are no longer they're they have a different mechanism. So those employees are being changed to probationary employees. With the assistant principal they um have the funding available. It was reviewed with the business department to um indicate the funding um source that they have that it would cover for instead of having a halftime um uh CNI and assistant principal, they changed it to one FTE assistant principal. This is our assistant principal that is up covering Nevada County and um the north part of Tahoe Truckucky and all of those areas.

094So with all of the movement and the development of those programs up there, they needed that administrative support. Now, does the funding for that position that's separate from our like our general fund kind of funding? Okay, that's the only question I had. Any others? With that being said, we have a first and a second on item 9.1, certificated personnel report number 10, 24 through 25. All in favor starting with the student board. I board I I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.2 classified personnel report number 10 24 through 25. Alena. Yes. Madam President. Um again we are gearing up for our fall um and summer. We have a ton of summer activities going on. um we have to cover all the graduations and make sure we have pictures available for all of you guys

095while you're um handing out those diplomas and all the different activities that go along with uh comprehensive high schools. We also have hired um summer tutors to work in the summermies with our um students and we do have a couple um a retirement and a resignation that we do want to acknowledge those individuals for the time that they have provided. Shereice has been a mainstay in the district office and supporting our everything from the development and of the LCAP to providing those organizing those in assisting with organizing those um different events for us inservice days welcome backs and so we want to thank her for her long service in the district. Um on the behalf of the acting superintendent I would recommend the approval of the classified personnel report. I move approval. Second. We have

096a motion by trusty Underwood and a second by Trusty Duncan. Do we have any questions or comments? Yes. So, uh my question is um is based on the fact that we've had a a lot of complaints, a lot of complaints that this board has received um regarding coaching issues. Um can you just walk us through Elena like what what it's like when you what's the process for bringing a a coach on board? So that's been something that we've been working on internally um throughout the last few months in developing a bet a little bit more consistent framework with our athletic directors. But this is a very sightbased activity. um our principles and athletic directors and assistant principles take the main role in um interviewing um and all those pieces after they've been hired, identified, then

097my office takes over with the onboarding of the individuals. They do have to do the reference calls. They um we advertise the positions. Typically our varsity head coaches get to pick their um their coaching staff and so sometimes there is some rollover with that. Our our coaches are hired um season to season. They um are not a a continuing employment. They are released at the end of the the season. Um am I covering what you're asking? Yeah, I think so. Okay. So from that perspective um a lot of um individual and so then they also have to be cleared. They all have fingerprinting. They all have training. They have not only the training that we require of them but the athletic directors have additional training that all coaches have to go through including concussion um

098CPR all those different things. So um we have spreadsheets, we have all those things to monitor, but it is a a a strong um sitebased activity. They're the ones supervising watching them. Um but we have developed a framework that our athletic directors, our principles, mi uh Mrs. Barry, u Mr. Wilson and myself participated in developing uh practice that throughout the district. Um Mr. Duncan participated with um the conversation. Mrs. Spade has as well. So, um, we are implementing that and putting those into practice as well. Is that a new onboarding process or not from an onboarding? It's from the start of us even advertising a position to um interview questions to um getting information from our different various sources, who to um help support the interview process. um we have lots of expertise within our

099um district. So if we're hiring a golf coach and there's nobody with that expertise on your school site, maybe you would reach out to a school site that has a longstanding golf coach. Um those types uh looking at receiving feedback from students, parents, um including uh maybe our feeder programs. Um there's a whole list of different people that they could communicate with and how do we um gain more um knowledge from each of our different communities on what they're looking for and how they'd like to support um the athletics that are going on. I'll just follow up. I think it's a really good start to uh just improving the process overall. Uh and uh so I appreciate the ability to to help out with that. And I think uh Jeremy to your question u you

100know some of the things that I've um suggested has been around tightening up the the hiring process but also the evaluation process to catch things to help coaches and support coaches uh along the way as well. So it's it's a start I think and we'll see what happens. Good questions. All righty. Any other questions or comments on the certificate or excuse, excuse me, the classified personal report? All right. Well, we've got a first and a second. So, all in favor starting with the board. I board. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.3, declaration of need. A declaration of need for fully credentialed educators is required by the California Commission on Teacher Credentiing to cover a situation if and when it has become necessary to hire a teacher who does not hold a CLA clad

101resource specialist, library, or single subject credential in a particular subject area pursuant to education code section 443000, California code of regulations, title 5, section 80026. Yes, Madam President. On this um the declaration of need, we always are looking at our retirement, our reg resignations, and then we estimate the possibility of other needs that we may have. Um the the ones listed are obviously very hard to fill positions. Um but they do even ask us like, you know, single subject um teachers. And what we have to do before we hire an intern credentialed individual, we need to make sure that we do a good faith of qualified teacher um search. And so this is just saying we're doing that. This is what we're looking at. And then we go through the process and the hiring process.

102And and um this year in our special education, we are putting forth two individuals. One of them was on tonight's I think the next one will be the next um intern student uh intern teachers for that are currently in the PCOE program. Um and we did do a full look at all available appi applicants who applied and um we're lucky to be getting these individuals too. So this is our declaration of need. Again, it is based on what we know, what we can see, and then we we add a couple because we do always have some late resignations, and so we try to make sure that it can cover our needs. Thank you so much. Do I have a motion? I move approval. I'll second. We have a motion by Trusty Underwood and a second

103by Trusty Jeff to approve item 9.3, declaration of need. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor starting with the student board. I I board I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.4. Kfax High School gym B locker rooms. Locker repairs and painting. The staff recommended repairing an electrostatic repainting of the lockers in the locker room for gym B at Kfax High School. Yes, Madam President. Um, so in looking at facility needs at KFax, which there are many, one of them was that came up over the years is the locker rooms, which are original to the campus from 1959. Staff is recommending U Carmag's locker magic. Um, they're the ones who did the lockers at the Cody Girls Gym to uh repair, replace a few brokens, and then paint them. And the electrostatic painting

104is a mechanism, I do believe, that magnetizes the paint to stick to the metal better. And so on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. Just to note that the money does come to deferred maintenance. There's no general fund money being used. This is money. It's allocated restricted money. Thank you. Do I have a motion? Move to approve. A second. We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Underwood to approve item 9.4, the Kfax High School Jim Blocker Rooms and Locker Repairs and Painting. Any questions or comments? Thank you for putting this together. I know that this has been one of many things on the list at KFax and I appreciate you getting this done. What's our timeline on this this summer? Yes, this summer. Perfect. Thank you. All righty. With

105that, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes and unanimously again. I love that. All right. Item 9.5. I know. I know. Somebody's got to vote no up here from time to time. No, you don't have to. 9.5 KFax and Placer installation of the ductless minlit cooling in IDF rooms and take it away. Yes. So, Madam President, before I go on, I just want to point out two things. You talk about being busy over the summer. Um, I want to commend um Don Manning and her team. They did a lot of work in the hundred wing at Deloro or excuse me, at KFax, and she'll be talking about that at her report in June. but also um the team at KFax have confirmed the design

106of the new track and field will be going in the summer. So, pretty exciting news there. So, please know we may not fix everything, but we're spending millions at KFax this summer. So, um that being said, this these are rooms um if if you could go back 20, 30 years when technology was coming out, you would realize that the little closet we were using was going to need to be at least five times bigger. You know, back when we first had internet, it was okay, we have some this, then we have Wi-Fi, and everybody wants Wi-Fi. And so, you're increasing, you have three or four, I call different highways for Wi-Fi in a campus. And then you have the Chromebooks and your Apple watches and your cell phones, and everybody wants to connect everything. And

107so, that increases demand of these little network rooms that some were old janitorial closets. Um, you know, if you look at some new buildings, we build the three new builds at at Deloro specifically came with network rooms. Well, our old buildings, our old campuses don't know what those are. Some of the network rooms were actually built inside of classrooms had enough space to create some walls as hence the photo lab at Plaster High School. With that being said, um staff is recommending the installation of what we call these mini split cooling units because um if you know anything about networking equipment, if it gets too hot, they shut down. Um so these rooms require actually air conditioning in their own separate unit because even creating enough air conditioning in the room to get there you

108have a very hot day it's not that room generate the the place itself generates heat. So, uh this is also coming some money from fund 40 capital outlay which again is restricted fund for um maintenance facility needs and then some money from the bond for measure G at Plaster High School. And on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. There'll be more coming too. This is just one set of them. There's numerous rooms that require. All right. Thank you so much. Do we have a motion on item 9.5? Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 9.5 KFax and Placer installation of ductless minlit cooling in the IDF rooms. Do we have any questions or comments? Yes. So, Peter, question. Yes. So, these

109mini split systems, um, I've installed one myself, so I they're they cost probably three3 to $5,000, right? For for a more expensive unit. Like why is it so expensive? Why are we looking at $27,000? Look at this. These are Yeah, these are not the simple little ones you buy at Home Depot. Um these are more of the industrial commercial type models. It's M BC2 and half ton. That's a pretty common Yeah. Well, size that that charger you're seeing is all the stuff they're putting refrigerant line and install um in the buildings. We don't do that. So this we are contracting out to do this work. This is not work that we do. Just seems really really expensive. And this was looking we had other quotes that were twice as much and we didn't go with

110them. So this is why I went with a different company called Airco instead of the train that we've used in the past. It's so tough as as somebody who um owns a construction company. It's mindblowing what you can do residentially or or even sometimes commercially. But when the government's involved, all of a sudden it's like times 10 or more. And it's I think it's criminal actually. Um it's very frustrating um knowing knowing how much money could be saved if if we didn't have to go through certain routes and they know that they can do it which is which is awful. Um anyway I hear you there. Peter Peter we get two bids for these. We I think it was was it just the two? I think we had Yes. Train and ERO. Was it involved

111um in the bids or selecting that as well? They're the ones who came to us with the need. Again, this is like I think a year and a half plan in progress of looking at these things. So, we actually have some of these rooms we're not even putting it in. Um there is a room at KFax that is right outside the library behind the drinking fountain right there in the foyer area that it was very cost prohibitive even doing that because to run the refrigerant lines to the extension part has to go through the library out to the outside of the building because as you know these mini splits you still require a condenser type unit right outside of it. Yeah. Well, where would you put that? There's no outside wall to that room. And

112so we have what's called a move and cool. It's literally a portable air conditioner that vents to the attic of that room. And because of cost, we're just going to leave that thing in there to be used when it gets too hot. Yeah. And two bids. We didn't require a third. No. Okay. Is that This is under the threshold. Yeah. What's that threshold again? Just under 200. It's Well, no, it's 60 for the normal bid. Under 200,000 for informal bidding. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And again, timeline for this would be this summer. What does this look like as well? Okay. Any other thoughts, questions? All right. All in favor starting with the student board. I I All oppose. Post. We've got a including the board, we have a 4-1. Um, we have a nay on

113item 9.5. Thank you for giving us an oppose tonight, keeping it interesting. All right, but motion passes. All right, item 9.6, Forest Hill High School stadium sod replacement. Yes, madam president. Um, as mentioned maybe um maybe in previous meetings um Forestl is not capable of having any kind of synthetic turf. That's the leech field for their septic system. So, you're not going to cover it with a synthetic turf. However, for those who are really into football know about fields over time, the field loses its crown. You get ruts in the dirt and so forth. And so, even though the grass may look good, it's not a nice playing surface. And so, we've went out and we have a bid from Delta Bluegrass. Um, they come out and if you read through um their quote, they

114come out and they do laser leveling of the field regrade. We're talking from sideline to sideline and end zone to end zone and then lay in some new turf. And the plan is to do that again this summer. Again, it is not coming from um money that's established in the general fund. It's a facility fund money. And then also um right after graduation. All righty. Thank you, Peter. Do we have a motion for item 9.6? Motion to approve. We have a motion by Trusty Lake. And I will second that. We got a motion by or a second by Trustee Spade. Any questions or comments? Yeah, this was interesting. I looked I looked this one up and um the prices really varied on this one and and so it looks like we got probably one of

115the better prices. Um were all the bids about the same? quotes. This was the lower bedroom. This was the lower one. Yeah. I saw the quotes could be up to like 200k. Yeah. So, yeah.$150 a foot. It's not. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty sure the tile in my bathroom was more expensive. So, thank you to the the company. All righty. Any other further comments or questions? All right. 9.6. Uh, we have a first and a second on item 9.6. All in favor starting with the student board say I. I. I. Board. I I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously yet again. 9.7 board bylaw 9240 board training update. Yes. Thank you. This is um just an update. Um the key significance here is as of office for board members starting January 1st, 2025 and completion January 1st, 2026.

116and every two years thereafter. Uh this is the board ethics training um and outlines other professional development that is in um according to um CSB language that we used. All righty. I know I did my ethics training in the fall pre January 1, but it counts for a couple years. It is an interesting training by the way. Um so all of you look forward to that. Any questions or comments on this? Or do I have a motion? Motion to approve. I'll second. We have a motion by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve the update item 9.7 of BB9240 board training. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item uh action item 9.8. The approval of our employment agreement with

117a new superintendent employment agreement with the superintendent is placed before the board for approval. And per the law, I get to read you something. So, as you pull that up, um, for those of you who have been reviewing this action item is clearly for the approval of our employment agreement with our new superintendent and now prior I'm sorry, I'm reading something real fast. Board presidents to announce prior to the board discussion and vote. So, here you go. This item is for approval of an employment agreement between the board and Mr. Thomas Omali to serve as superintendent of the district. Prior to discussion and voting on the agreement, government code section 54953 requires an oral summary of the recommended salary and compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits for a local agency executive. The law

118requires that the summary be provided during an open session of a regular meeting which we are at in which the final action is to be taken. Accordingly, the following is an oral summary of the recommended financial terms of the superintendent employment agreement. Number one, the employment agreement has a has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2025 and ending July 30th, 2028, unless extended or terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the agreement. Number two, the superintendent annual salary base is $270,000. This amount may be increased by 3% annually following an annual evaluation of satisfactory or higher. Number three, the district will contribute an amount equal to 5% of the superintendent salary to a tax deferred annuity. Number four, the superintendent will be a 12-month employee with a 225day work year. He shall not acrew vacation

119but shall acrew one sick leave day per month. He shall not be eligible for overtime pay or compensatory time off. Number five, the superintendent shall be eligible to participate and receive the same district offered health and welfare benefits on the same terms offered to the other district full-time certificated management employees and their dependents. Number six, the district shall reimburse the superintendent for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his duties and pay for his annual membership dues for AXA and community service clubs of his choosing. With that, I will open it up to the board for discussion or a motion. I move approval. We have a motion by Trusty Underwood. I second and a second by Trusty Duncan. Any further questions or comments? Yeah, I I I uh wanted to hold my comments

120uh to this point. Uh and just wanted to uh echo what was said here by the other board members that uh this was a a an awesome experience, a great bonding experience between our board to go through the process of choosing a superintendent and uh I uh am very excited for Tom to come aboard. uh he is someone that uh really fits our community uh and his background, his experience uh will uh will be appreciated. Uh and so I feel like as a board we did a really nice job of listening to our community. I love to see the uh the way the PCOE ran this uh and how we were able to hear the community's voice through this. uh and uh it was a great experience and I would also like to thank Steve

121for the work that he's done uh over the last 6 months uh to keep the ship afloat and he's done an admirable and tremendous job. So thank you Steve uh and again Tom not just because you have a great name but uh really happy to have you aboard. Can I say something please? So, one of the things that um Tom and I um heard a lot about uh when we were uh running for office um from our community um and our constituents was that uh they wanted to be involved in that process um of the superintendent unlike what what took kind of took place with our previous superintendent. So, um I was really happy to see how much involvement we got from our community. Um and it was really interesting to to you know to

122see how that process actually kind of played out. Um, and I think we made a really good decision. Um, I will say, you know, as a on a on a personal note, one of the things that I was really looking forward um to in the superintendent was to try to find someone that's going to be very much a people person that can kind of come in and start rebuilding some relationship relationships um and and kind of rebuilding the culture, so to speak, within the district. And I think uh Mr. Omali is the right guy for that job for sure. Um, so I'm very excited to see what he's going to be doing. Um, one comment that I agree totally with that Tom has mentioned and Jeremy has mentioned is we as a board looked very

123closely at every candidate. We really did. We had had very open discussions uh regarding uh all the potential nuances that could be there and the strengths that the candidates were presenting themselves with. And when it came to our second round of interviews with two candidates and both candidates had presented themselves and answered our questions, we as a board, there was no question. We as a board looked at each other uh kind of smiled and we totally agreed that Mr. Ali is the man to lead our district. So, as Tom said, uh I'm excited. I really am. I want to see this district begin where it's kind of moved away to begin to move together again. And I I know I feel it that you're the person that's going to be able to do that. So,

124I enthusiastically um made the motion to approve his contract, and I'm excited. Excellent. Um Thank you, David. you guys were talking about it and uh and it was it was a uh it was quite the experience. Just to give you a little uh insight into uh the character of Mr. Ali, you know, you're reading through these applicants. I think there were 18 applicants that applied for the position and you read through these applications and you start to form an idea um about these these people applying. you you look at their past work experience, their um you start to to gain an opinion on who you would like to see in an interview. Uh we went through the whole process, got to the got to the final day where we're making a decision. And it wasn't

125until after we we uh we chose Mr. Ali that we learned that he also received an award for superintendent of the year, a statewide award. wasn't even on his application. You'd think that you would kind of highlight that or at least make reference to it or something along those lines. It was just it was just so surprising that uh you know we kind of learn these things after the fact. Um it it it speaks to uh his character, his humility, and uh he's uh I got the sense that he was very introspective and and and and very self-aware of both his strengths and his weaknesses. and um you know he comes from a smaller district where he wore a lot of hats and had to do a uh you know played a lot of different

126roles and so one of the challenges will be to you know little delegation here and there. I don't know. It It's going to be It's going to be interesting, but I think um all of the the leadership in this district are going to uh uh find him um pleasant to work with and uh I think it's going to set a great great tone for the district. So, I'm very excited. So, thank you again, Mr. Mi. Awesome. Um, I just want to thank Trusty Duncan for be my being our uh my comrade uh to work on this contract and for our legal counsel who did a wonderful job and in a timely fashion, maybe not quite as timely. We were joking about that. It took a minute to get it over to Mr. Ali, but um

127to to put this together and um again, a wonderful process and I just wanted to again because the gentlemen have highlighted some things that stood out and we're here. So, um, you know, I I think that the community, you know, at large, we've got a lot of I call them Mayberries. We we've got a lot of little Mayberries, right? That's that's our district. You know, there's small town vibes in in Lumis and Auburn and Kfax and Forest Hill. They're unique and they're special and they have traditions and so much rich history. And so, you know, talking about, you know, who that next leader would be, you know, that that was really apparent, somebody who was going to understand that small town feel and and um not that we don't have some larger schools around here,

128but that that he would that would resonate with the community and that he'd be able to connect with them, but also um some of the stories that I heard about Thomas Ali and the way he navigated as a superintendent through the pandemic was remarkable that that u stood in contrast to some of the the ways that things were handled. um in our neck of the woods also during the pandemic it was difficult to find um some roles to fill in your district and I found out um you know that you jumped in the hot seat as a math teacher when you couldn't find a math teacher as a superintendent also teaching math in 2021. So you know he's not afraid to get his hands dirty and show up in the classroom and um and that

129was really apparent as well. so genuine um very kind, knowledgeable, enthusiastic um and uh those strong leadership qualities absolutely stood out and we are looking forward tremendously to work with alongside of you and I agree that he's going to be a wonderful team with our district. I also wanted to thank uh Dr. uh Camminiti again. I got a call from Tom shortly after the first time you guys spoke and said, "You want to know what Steve said?" The first thing that Steve said and I said, "What? Of course, I want to know what Steve said. And he goes, "I'm going to be the best right hand you've ever had and uh we are so lucky that you're in our district and you have done a remarkable job since joining this board. You are my third

130superintendent and I'm we're about to have my fourth superintendent since I've been on this board, which is crazy to think about. And uh and I have enjoyed my time with you thoroughly. So, with that being said, we have a motion and a second. Do we have um any public comment? Come on down. I could ruin the whole thing right here. There we go. Okay. The green button. I've been watching the videos. So, um there's a lot of things I say but I want to say but I won't. So, um I just want to thank the board for their selection and I understand the magnitude of that and um I'm I'm both honored and and humbled and again I I truly appreciate this opportunity. Um I tell my administrators back home that when they basically, you

131know, go home at night and go to bed that they need to look themselves in the mirror and realize that at the end of the day they've done everything they possibly can on behalf of our students. and I hold myself to that same um standard. So, I just want all of you all to know that um I'll show up every day and you're gonna get my absolute best and at the end of the day, I'll be looking in that mirror and knowing that I did the best I can on behalf of our kids and I'm I'm chomping at the bit bit to get in here. So, thank you again. I appreciate it and I'm looking forward to to working with you all and and serving. So, thank you. Thank you so much. For the record,

132I said you can't come if you if you drop y'all from your vocabulary. We like it too much. Keep it. Please keep it. All right. With that being said, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Item 10, public comment on non-aggendaized item. This is our opportunity for the public comment to be received by the board. This is the time for members of the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. Completing a blue public participation form is preferred but not mandatory. This form can be obtained at the meeting, but it is obviously not required. Thank you very much. Do we have any public comment? Speak now or forever. Hold your peace. We're moving on. Item 11, uh, board calendar coordinating

133announcements. Uh 11.1 Review the proposed 2025 2026 board meeting dates. We could pull those up, please, Sarah. Okay. So, we have our our proposed dates um up right now. And so, I'm not sure that we're not taking action on this. This is just a review of these dates for our board right now. And so, um, obviously like look at them deeply, make sure that you're going to be in town or if we, um, hopefully we don't have any conflicts on there. But I noticed a couple of things. So, in May, we're going to need to add a board workshop or a special meeting for superintendent evaluation, which doesn't current currently exist. And, um, we have not created um, our goals, expectations for this next school year. So, we actually need a special board meeting between

134now and the start of next school year. And I know we have two more in the next four weeks of regular meetings. So, I'm not sure what your availability is for July potentially or squeezing in another one in June, which would be difficult. So, we need to have a conversation about that right now. Do we have any conflicts in May? Um, in regards to uh superintendent uh a date for superintendent evaluation. Yes. Looking at calendars here. Typically when we do our um superintendent evaluation, we also review goals as a governance team. Um so we do the evaluation process and then talk about the next year's goals. Um the last time we did that that was facilitated by by Peggy Lynch. Um this past time our we've done board governance through Jessup um through Pete Constant.

135So that may need to be um coordinated with a facilitator as well. But anyway, something we're going to have to think about. There will definitely be something added. Are you traveling? Do you have no idea? No. The last two weeks. I'm I'm good. Last two weeks of July. Are you guys around in the last two weeks of July? I will only be available on a Wednesday. Wednesday. What? Any of the Wednesdays? Any of the Wednesdays? Okay. July 2nd. That's Wednesdays. Oh, is everybody around on July 2nd? Let me grab my mic. I would not sure about staff around July 2nd if um Great question. Excellent question. Um comment. Yeah. Special meeting. It's a special board meeting. So, um we're not taking action. We're just discussing goals and all of that. So, we don't need the

136full crew on hand. Maybe just keys to get in somewhere and a working dock that I will provide for you to you for minutes. Can't be the night that the 16th Wednesdays are your best. I would say daytime because this just workshop if that works. Does the daytime for everybody on the second? Yeah. Okay, let's say July 2nd uh for that. Uh do we Well, yeah, talk to me. Mhm. Right. Was the superintendent evaluation of that second one in May always on the calendar? No. Got it. Oh, okay. Well, noted. Duly noted. Okay. July 2nd. Let's just tenatively let's plan um workshop goals. Um let's say 10. How long does that I don't know, Steve? What do you think? Just depends on what the goal of the meeting is and how long the if you're

137a facilitator and yeah it could take a while. Maybe we should start it at 9. Uh when uh Wednesday July 2nd let's tentatively say nine. We won't add it to this calendar but just for our reference and I'm writing it down. and then we can worry about that May extra meeting down the line if we don't need to have it on this calendar. Cool. Okay. All right. With that being said, what else do we have here? Um item 11.2 CSBA annual education conference in for 2025. Again, this is in Sacramento. This is uh item is just kind of outlining what the costs um associated with this event are. Um, education and ongoing education is important in this role. I I say it over and over again um because they say it and it resonated with

138my soul that come walking into education um and learning all of this as a as a new governing um board member. It's like trying to drink through a fire hose. It's it's brutal sometimes and there's so much coming at you. You're just hoping you catch some of it because it's a lot. Um so I do think ongoing education is important. Um, and I do think that there's educational benefit at uh CSBA's AEC. Is everyone available at this time, December 3rd through the 5th? Yeah. Okay. I do think it could be a cool time to um have more bonding with the board and attend attend some trainings together. And it's here in town, so we don't have to pay for hotels because we can reasonably travel, which saves our district some money. We don't have flights

139to pay for. Um, so is that a first that they move moving out of San Diego? No. So it changes. It changes every year. So you usually they try to do it every other year, Northern California, Southern California, swapping out. So my first year was in San Diego, second was in San Francisco, this past year was in Anaheim, but I didn't um attend that one, but I did attend deleg or delegate assembly. So yeah. Okay. So mark your calendars, hold it firm. We will be there. Um along with our student new student board members, which we had two in the house at one point. I think we lost Cooper. Okay. But Cooper, shout out to him. He won section champs for the 800 meter. He's a fast runner. Um his mom has banners all over

140the Earl Crab Gym. She is the winner of all the things and they are my neighbors. So shout out to his mom, Lindsy Bar. They are an awesome family. Okay, continuing on. So sorry, please. Yeah. So we just um so we can register just so we have early bird rates that increase after August 12th. We do have the next board meeting to finalize, but I think we need um official numbers to get get it to dez so we can register. So, I it's a three-day conference. Yep. Three-day conference. If everyone is available to be there, let's get the early bird rate so that we save some money. And the student board members, that's a great question. Since it's so close to home, I would love for them to be able to participate. I know that

141it's not normal for them to miss four days of school, but we have exceptional students. So, it's three days. It's three only. But they have an early day, correct? As a student board member day. $500 per our our student board members. Yes. To go to the full conference. Yeah, that includes Okay. And then staff Dez would you'd be coming with them or who who we would determine staff. They need they need a cleared cleared chap. I was like, who's doing that? Or superintendent. Superintendent Ali, I think, is no longer. You might be. He might be. Okay. All righty. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And then I we've had cabinet um in the past our deputy typic Oh, he did in San Diego. Our former Oh, yes, he did. Peter, I was going to think something else.

142I was not referring to that question. You're nodding to something else that's going on in here. Okay. I think locally I think we'd have the disc depending on the budget. Yeah. And talking with new superintendent, we'd have to figure that. Yes. Right. I would like our deputy to come to the conference with us. If you are talked to my new boss. Okay. Not here yet. You are the boss right now, Steve. I just had to throw that in. All right. Yeah. I would like I would like our deputy to join us as well. Okay. How does the board feel about that? And do we need to bring it back for approval of that or we're good after this? Okay. All right. Um 11.3 board calendar. Uh tomorrow night kicks off our graduations. You kind of

143outlined what's going on, but just as a heads up. So tomorrow morning the senior culminating event at Kfax. Tomorrow night at Plaster School for adults that's held at the Gold Country Church. Uh no Nazarine Church right near next to the Elmech. Do they both They're both in there. Is Gold Country Church still there too? There's two churches there. I forgot what the other one's called. Yeah, I believe believe so. Right across from the pickle ball. Yep. Right across from pickle ball. Yep. And they'll make Parkside. Yeah. So many in the same building. Way to use it. You know, Stephen. Yes. Stephen, we're still at Parkside. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So, tomorrow night the the graduation tomorrow night is for Plaster School for adults at 700 p.m. Yep. So, right here in Auburn, not too far

144um away from here. And then um what was was on the 21st? Sorry, I wrote it down, but I didn't didn't make it to my list. 21st is PSA. That and then 29th is my day. That's what it is. Okay. Hello. I just had it on my calendar as 20. Why? Anyway, um also next Tuesday, um on the 27th, the day after Memorial Day is the PSA inmate education graduation at the Plaster County Main Jail at 100 p.m. Again, totally encourage you to go. It's it's a wonderful event. And actually, I think Principal Zurwas is going to be coming too. You have an interest in attending. It's um it's special. So, if you go go um the on May 28th, transition to an adult living aging out ceremony is at 10 a.m. I'm going to

145be attending that if you guys would like to go. They run an incredible program, the tall program and I've never been to their aging out ceremony, so I'm excited. KFA uh Confluence West end of year again their event 6 to 8 on the 28th as well. And then we kick off Maidu virtual charter on the 29th uh followed by Confluence at Plers's Auditorium beginning at 5. And what we do typically from Maidu through Confluence, we just arrive well they'll have reserved seating for us in the front. Come on down and then we'll hang out there. We'll have Mighty virtual charters and then um and then they'll exit the building and bring in confluence and we'll have two graduations back toback. Um, so as many trustes go PSA, sorry. Um, if you're going to be going

146to communicate with Michelle or you for clearance into the jail. Uh, I'm sure that that would be helpful. Okay. Uh, either way, they have they'll send somebody out to the front to, you know, grab whoever is attending. Um, and they'll give you instructions of what you must wear and what you must not take with you inside. Um, but it's a great event. Okay. And then again, yeah, that May revise um budget workshop. Um so if you guys if there's somebody else that would like to attend, I am scheduled to go right now. Um I am going to be traveling home that morning um from Reno. Anyway, long story. Hopefully I'm able to make it by 9:00. If there's two of you that are have a strong desire to go, one of the 2nd of of

147June, Monday at PCOE there in PCE if you want a good an in-depth look from the from the county version capital advisor. It's a pretty good presentation. It's at 9 9 to 11. It's at the county office, right? It's it's you know those there's a big one tomorrow that we go to as a business department a couple of us but this one is a little bit more it's all the local districts and so a little more flavor how it affects us easier to ask questions. Yes. So think about that and then um circle back. But I think that that is all for tonight unless you guys have anything else that I have missed potentially. Okay. All right. Item 12. Do I have a motion? Motion to adjurnn. We have a motion by Trusty Duncan and

148a second by Trustee Lake. Um any questions, comments? Thank you again, student board members. Phenomenal job and congratulations um for your future endeavors. All in favor say I. Starting with our student board. Last vote board. I all oppose. I Good night everybody. Thank you. 45 winning tonight.