0015. Let me go ahead and uh 6.1 call to order. The board of trustees are hereby reconvening the open session at 5:34 p.m. 6.2 roll call. Trustees identify themselves by first name to formally establish quorum. Diana Randlin, trustee area 2. Scott Craft, trustee area four. Cindy Gardner, trustee area three. Jordan Zerati, trustee area five. Ryan Springs Lake Green. Dr. William Millinger, trustee area 1. 6.3 pledge of allegiance. Mrs. Army, will you please uh lead us? Stand right on your heart. Ready? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for its one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 7.0 Z close session report. 7.1 Announcement of reportable actions taken during close session. There were none. 8.0 public testimony. 8.1 public comment period for items listed on this
002agenda and non-aggenda items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the governing board. The public comment period is administered by state law and is the point in the meeting set aside for members of the public to share their opinions with the board. Open meeting laws laws do not permit the board to engage in dialogue or answer questions. Though it may not take action on non-aggenda issues raised at the public comment period, the board, for example, may refer any matter to the superintendent for review or take action to direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. No person is granted any privilege by the governing board to make statements which may be considered defamatory or otherwise actionable by other persons including district officers and employees. Protocols for speakers. Any person who wishes to
003address the governing board on agenda and non-aggenda items within the subject matter of their jurisdiction must complete a speaker form and submit it to the executive secretary to the superintendent before the meeting is called to order. Individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda item. The board limits the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. Speakers who have complaints against board members or staff are encouraged to seek resolution to those complaints by using the Rim of the World Unified School District written complaint procedure rather than orally addressing them at a meeting. The board will not respond to such complaints until the applicable complaint procedure BPR1312.1 has been followed and has reached the board level. Where a complaint concerns a district employee identified by name, position, or
004other facts, the board cannot respond until proper written notice has been given to the employee pursu pursuant to government code section 54957. The quorum, the governing board is interested in the ideas and opinions of all stakeholders and endeavors to incorporate community views into its deliberations and decisions. At the same time, it must be able to conduct its business in an organized and efficient manner free from material disruption. Therefore, in accordance with board bylaw 9323 and government code section 54957.9, audience members may not disturb, excuse me, disrupt, disturb, or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting. Open meeting laws do not confer any privilege or protection for expression beyond that otherwise provided by law. The public's understanding and cooperation are appreciated. So, um 8.2 too. With that said, I'd like to ask Carla Vidy to
005come up. Um, and I lost your she. Hold on just a sec. Thanks, Scott. So, Carla Vidy representing special education topic potential reduction. You have three minutes. Hi, good afternoon school board members. Can you please actually hit the button so the red light comes on and then the speaker? So, the ready. Okay. Thank you. Um, I would like to express a concern shared by my colleague, Mr. Gerorado. Um, I know some of you have received a letter from him regarding potential reductions in elective course options for our students in moderate to severe special education program. These potential reductions um will impact elective classes that have consistently provided inclusive meaningful learning experiences for our students. Electives such as leadership, drama, choir, etc. offer far more than just curriculum content. These environments are inherently more flexible, accepting
006and conducive to our students diverse needs. For example, students who are non-verbal but make vocalizations are accepted and supported without stigma. The structure of these courses often allows for creative expression, sensory engagement, and movement which are vital to the students development and well-being. Additionally, these elective classes foster vital peer interactions. Our students are given valuable opportunities to learn alongside their general education peers, forming connections that go both ways. These inclusive settings promote social growth, empathy, and understanding. Our students benefit tremendously from being surrounded by role models, and we've seen firsthand that limiting access to these courses not only narrows the educational experience for our students, but also risks isolating them further. As educators committed to conclus to inclusion, we must ensure that all students, regardless of ability, have access to environments that support their growth
007in the fullest sense. Some might suggest that students in our program can simply repeat the same limited electives year after year, but doing so strips them of opportunities for new learning, exploration, and joy. Restricting access to varied courses confines their growth and denies them the experiences that others take for granted. The benefits of inclusion go beyond academics. A few years ago, one of our students was crowned homecoming king, voted by his general education peers. Recently, two were nominated from the for the prom court where they were voted prom prince and princess. These aren't just the all good stories. They're powerful examples of what inclusion looks like when it's done right. After all, ed code does support inclusion of special needs students. It also emphasizes that all students, including those with disabilities, are first and foremost
008general education students. Are they not? I strongly urge you to consider and expand elective opportunities for us moderate to severe students. I invite you to come and visit our classrooms, meet our students, witness the incredible potential that shines when they're given the chance to participate fully in the school community. Please let us work together to let to ensure that our most vulnerable students are not left behind. I need it. Thank you. Thank you. So 8.3 um REM teachers association RTA representative Calgary School employee association CSEA representative. Do I have Okay, Miss Miss McCook if you can come up I'd appreciate it. rather stay back. All right. First of all, I want to apologize for my colorful appearance. Um, we uh, sorry, we did a wall mural today on the kindergarten and TK playground. It was
009very fun, but very, very messy, as you can imagine. Um, all right. My name is Sydney Makook. I'm here to represent RTA today. I am our secretary. All right, here we go. What a year it has been. We kick things off with a wildfire wildfire in our backyard followed by rolling power outages, emergency closers closures, and for a dramatic effect, a hail storm on Tuesday. Um, at this point, we're not sure if we're in a school district or starring in a disaster movie. One thing is clear, normal packed its bags and left a long time ago. But here's the thing. The universe clearly underestimated us. We are rim and we are rim strong. You can't shake us. You can't break us. And you definitely can't outlast us. Um RTA is excited to officially welcome this
010coming school year's executive um RTA board. Taking the helm is going to be Nick Nicholas as president. Uh joined by Amanda Marovich as vice president. They just did an OCD. Uh Gigi Dosi and I will continue in our roles as treasurer and secretary. Um, we're confident this continuity will strengthen the respectful and productive relationship we've built with the district while still holding firm when it comes to advocating for our students and educators need. Um, speaking of advocacy, our last negotiation section uh session took place yesterday. What a room full of talent. Um, I am positive we can solve any problem that comes our way. We're hopeful next year brings less contention and we hope both sides put working together to solve the problem and attacking the problem. Uh we hope that's at the forefront. We
011hope that together we can make RIM the best it can be. Uh but let's be clear as a union we are united, informed, and ready to stand up for our membership if the need arises. And speaking of needs, I'm a broken record, but let's talk about class size. Um we said it before and we'll keep saying it louder. Smaller class sizes change everything. Fewer students per classroom means more one-on-one support, stronger relationships, fewer behavior disruptions, and better outcomes for everyone. It's not magic, it's nah. Um, thank you. Pretty laugh. Um, you want to boost test scores, lower class sizes. You want to retain great teachers, lower class sizes. You want to stop teachers from daydreaming about quitting midyear, lower class sizes. Um, but class sizes alone won't fix everything. We also need to talk about
012salary. Sorry. Um, we're losing good teachers and staff, not because they don't love the job, but because they simply can't afford to stay. Educators and staff are being poached by neighboring districts. We have one in the room. Offering higher pay. And if you want to remain in competitive and attract and retain quality professionals our students deserve, we need salaries that reflect the reality of today's economy and the demands of this profession. Regardless of the way schools are funded, I have written many letters to state and country leaders. I encourage everyone else to do so as well. Um, teachers aren't asking for yachts or private jets. We're asking you to not have to work a second job, rely on siphons a decent wage, or worry if they're one paycheck paycheck away from financial ruin. This is
013about professional respect and basic sustainability. And while we're on smart investments, let's use our PD days and our welcome back day wisely. Give us relevant, practical training that actually improves instruction. Let teachers lead. Let collaboration be authentic, not performative. And I wanted to thank um Jen Whiteside for collaborating with RTA this year and starting the discussion. Um in closing, here's the bottom line. If we want real progress, if we want our schools to be places where kids flourish and educators stay, we need to prioritize class size reduction, raise salaries to remain competitive, and make thoughtful use of our time and resources. Now, to end this on the fun note, um I want to remind us all in this room why we're all here, the students. And what better way than with a couple vignettes of
014the TK and kindergarten world. Just put your open. All right. All right. This story comes from Mrs. Dosey. So, after a recess, a little boy comes up to her and says, "Another child called me the eword." She racks her brain thinking, "What is he talking about? Eword, eword, what?" Um, she asks him to whisper the word into her ear, but instead very loudly whale, "He called me an idiot." All right. Oh, good. My husband didn't laugh that hard. Good job, guys. All right. A story for my classroom. So, some of you might not be aware, but TKs believe teachers actually live at the school and that we don't have jobs. Um, so here's I'm going to set the stage. My son was in my class. Um, his name's Charles. And we were having a circle
015time discussion about our best thing that happened over winter break. So, one child, who's brighter than most, looks at me, looks at my son Charles, looks at me, looks at Charles. Um, he with a very worried and confused face, he asks, "So, does Santa come here and leave presents for Charles? Because I noticed that you don't actually have a chimney here." Um, another story from Miss Endman's class. So, they're doing a crab shaped hat craft and they can make it have any expression they want. So, she walks over to a little girl whose crab is very sad with tears running down its crabby face. And when she asked why the crab was sad, she said, "Well, the crab is all out of nacho cheese." And this one is from Mrs. Holly. So, at a performance,
016um, I might cry. Um the first graders did this adorable performance for TK's kinders and their parents and they were singing all these beautiful songs and he's they're singing How Sweet It Is To Be Loved by You. And this kiddo was Mrs. Holly's special friend. Um very needs lots of love. And he loudly and sweetly points to her tearing up and he says it seems just beautiful gusto. I love you. It was just so sweet. All right. I hope everyone out there has a great last three days of school where the Wi-Fi always works, the students always listen. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer. I want to congratulate our graduating seniors on a job well done. I want to thank all teachers and staff that are retiring and I plead that you
017take me with me, take me with you just for a couple days. And I wish a quiet walkie-talkie for all the admins out there. Thank you for your time. Thank you. So, we did have a change in our agenda. So, um we did not have an 8.3 before, now we do. So, 8.4 personal services, our retirement celebration. So, this is an opportunity for us to recognize um the wonderful service put together by um our retirees. Let me go ahead and read this. We would like to honor all of the employees who have retired during the 2024 2020 what was Oh, I did not. I'm so sorry. Is there a CSA public um here to be able to speak for CSA CSA? I did not think I saw Okay. Thank you for checking. Oh, okay. Okay.
018Sorry. Okay. Um so, we're good. Okay. So, can I'm going to repeat this. We would like to honor all of the employees who have retired during the 2024 2025 school year. Some retired months ago and others are still with us until the end of the year. Most of our retirees have notified us that unfortunately they could not make it tonight, but we would still like to recognize their dedication and service to the district. So I have a list here in no particular order. And I'm going to go ahead and leave these f read these names off. Um so Carrie Castillo, risk manager, district office for 15 years service. Tina West, teacher at M PH, 36 years of service. Mario Luna, bus driver for maintenance um um operations and transportation, six years of service. Shane Mlen,
019grounds, 10 years of service. John Willford, campus security for four years of service. Ellen Monica Ortega, teacher at CHE for 10 years of service. And Mrs. Armalini is here. Shelley Armalini, teacher, chich, 26 years of service. Um, Peter Ferrara or Pete Ferrara, CTE teacher, RHS, 25 years of service. Rolina Rowena Mareno, teacher and PH, 25 years of service. Timothy Gman, bus driver with MOT as well, eight years of service. Also here is Judy Purrington, instructional assistant special ed, 29 years of service. And then Sharon Damon, instructional assistance, sped MPH, 29 years of service. So I would like us to take a actually Sharon if you want to go ahead and speak a little bit. Yeah, thank you. Um before we get started, Mr. Gomes would like to come up and say a couple things about
020his uh M retired uh retirees and we can have you come on up and I'll get you. And then Miss Arminine, I'm going to say a couple words about you after that. and Mr. Ro on TV. It's not very do that right there. Well, Sharon, you are on this side of my papers. We're going to start with you. We're going to close together as a whole. Um, you've had an incredible impact on student and your consistent presence of students and your consistent presence of support for student success has been impactful to thousands of students over your 29 years. You have helped shape and hold young people to be successful students. By your kind words and helping hands, have empowered students and helped them find their voice. You have positive relationships among staff and it is
021a pleasure to watch you just circle campus and you frame with everybody. Side note, when Sharon decided to tell me she was retiring, she came in my office, sat down very seriously. She said, "Dar, I'm retiring. The canvas is very dirty. You remember that? Yes, I do. And I went and told people to make it clean. Thank you. It's all good. Said it was for the best for kids as you always do. Well, about Karen. Um, I just met her husband for the first time yesterday. I don't want to relay any private information, but Sharon for the last couple years had had some serious worries on her hand. And Perry, I want you to know that your wife held it down at NPH and didn't bring all that to work. You'd be very proud of
022her. Mrs. parenting. Thank you for all your time spent at MPH. Want to stand up real quick and please sword. I'll look it up. You have been a steady and I can't It is as tight as it Yeah. Sit down. Thanks. No, no, you have been a a rocket at the steady and a consistent presence and you have been so willing to take on different assignments um from inclusion to emotionally disabled to all all the classes. You've been there for for all of our kids and you have been there for the the thick and thin with all of our students and you have helped shape and and mold young people's lives and you've created a culture of care and respect. As somebody who works with the school as a family member, you won't want to
023be risked by all the students and faculty. I know there's somebody in the audience that may quite very possibly miss being there with you as well. You've had a positive impact on thousands of students as well in your 29 years. Uh her commitment to the job was evident last year in the 24 23 24 school year. Towards the end of the year, she says, "Hey, I'm going to be retiring, but I want to go on a vacation. Will you approve that?" And yes, it was pretty that vacation didn't work out. I wonder both Sharon and Judy on behalf of the entire school community. Thank you both for your unwavering dedication in your gymnast heart and the legacy you leave behind. You will always be part of our story. Congratulations on both your retirements. [Music] I
024have I'll go over here. Oh, you guys can't No, you can't go. All right, Michelle. Um, this is from your colleagues. Um, yes, 27 26 years in a rim. An amazing teacher that teaches students to be the absolute best at everything. She cares immensely about standards and making sure students are given the highest standards to meet. And she does just that. The students are held to responsibility, kindness, and making sure that making sure the high expectations she requires are met. She has given timelessly. She has given timelessly time, effort, and again getting them ready for the structured future. Yay, Shelly. Happy retirement. Um, and she did come. You worked at LE Grand View and CHE. One more thing that I wanted to share with you. She has a love she has loved with students at
025LE and um Grand View since 2015. We've been at CHE since 2015. She has planted a garden in in all of our lives, including an incredible child garden, child center garden at our school site. has become part of the education each day and the seeds they sew are leading to bigger things in their future. Congratulations and good luck to you. You want to come up and take pictures? Come on up. Take a picture. [Music] Stand behind. Stand back here. Whatever you want to do behind us. Stand behind. Ready? One, two, three. Perfect. So, we're going to take a five take a five minute recess um from the meeting. I do want to just mention that there was over 200 years of service that was listed among our retirees. Just wanted to throw that out there.
026It's quite incredible. But yeah, I'll just go ahead and take five minutes off. There's cupcakes and drinks in the back. So, let's go and celebrate our retirees. hearing procedures for public hearing. Public hearings are required on specific items such as the local control accountability plan and budgets. Actually, before I post a head, Mark, are you okay with me moving ahead or jump? Okay. Um, do I need to start over? Okay. Um, persons who wish to address the governing board on a matter set for a public hearing must complete a speakers form which submitted to the executive secretary to the superintendent before the meeting is called to order. Once the board president opens the public hearing, individual speakers are then permitted up to 5 minutes. To support opposed or otherwise offer an opinion on the issue,
027the board limits the total time for public input to 20 minutes. When public input has concluded, the board president will close the public hearing. forum. The governing board is interested in the ideas and opinions of the stakeholders and endeavors to incorporate community views into its deliberations and decisions. At the same time, it must be able to conduct its business in an organized and efficient manner free from material disruption. Therefore, in accordance with board law, board bylaw 9323 and government code section 54957.9, audience members may not disrupt, disturb, or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting. Open meeting laws do not confer privilege or protection for expression beyond that otherwise provided by law. The public's understanding and cooperation are appreciated. 9.1 Educational Services Presentation and public hearing to allow public input on the 2025 2026
028local control and accountability plan LCAP on point. A call all hearing to order. So move second [Music] Scott. Any discussion? Calling for a vote. All in favor? I I all oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Sorry, let me go ahead and introduce uh our director of instruction and curriculum, Mrs. Whites size. Good evening, trustees, superintendent, and cabinet. Thank you for the opportunity to share with you our 2526 LCA order. Um, what time was the public hearing called ordered? 610 6 610 Thank you so much. All right, so getting us started here. You can see uh our rim of the world, if you will. Got a nice uh presentation slide there for you. And it's so important that as we start off talking about the ELFAP, we think about our educational gardens and hence rim of the world
029and incorporating all of our educational gardens as the room terms. That's the ring. I think Ah, there we are. There we are. All right. So, that first slide, I love this picture. Um, if you Google room of the world unified, you will see this image. It's one of the beautiful pictures of our our high school. And so I thought I would use that picture to again share our demographics. Seven wonderful schools, 200 2,917 students, 360 staff. Again, congratulations to all of our staff who have retired. Um we appreciate their service and all that they have done for our students and our schools and our community. You can see the breakdown and demographics of our district listed there. But then as again we talk about educational partners, we look at the number of meetings that we
030um engage in and that's a portion of your LCAP where we talk about um you know getting that insight, getting those surveys, meeting with our educational partners, meeting with our student focus group. Um getting that consultation with EB Salo, making sure we're talking about what does inclusion look like and how are we supporting that as a district. Um also looking at our professional development days and our TLC days. Uh two professional development days. one we know was impacted by a little bit of weather. So you do see that referenced in the ELAP at different locations for that action item. But then PLC days, 25 wonderful PLC days with that opportunity for that guaranteed and viable curriculum, that GDC alignment um and that support and that great work that our teachers are doing. Let's do it.
031Okay, thank you. Um this slide is just a reminder to you that our dashboard is um really associated with our state measures and our local measures. And so as you look on the next slide, you'll see how each goal of the LCAP aligns to those measures. We're going to talk local indicators at the next board meeting, but for today's purposes, I'd give you that review of the state and local measures. Nope. Um so you're familiar with goal one, two, and three. And you can see the state priorities that are identified for each of those goals. Again, goal one, that increasing um student learning and that support for professional development. Goal two, facilitating that safe uh and positive school climate. Goal three, engaging families and community. But one you have not seen before, which is new
032to you here. And I think it even if you click again, it says what's new, right? Points you to goal four. Um goal four is an equity multiplier goal and it's considered a focus goal as opposed to a broad goal. Um the addition of the focus goal is one of our schools, Mountain High School, was identified as an equity multiplier. Um and so I'll talk a little bit more about what that means and the actions and the metrics associated with the equity multiplier in another slide, but just wanted to point out you've got that additional goal um added on which is a focus goal, not a broad goal. So only applying to one school at this point. There we are. So one of the components of looking at um the LCAP and our progress with
033our metrics and our actions is there's four prompts in the LCAP that look at effectiveness implementation and where we were with that goal this year. So the goal one update uh during 2425 we made substantial progress toward goal one. uh we implemented 89% of our planned actions that includes the uh strategic use of our PLC days, structured teacher collaboration, the professional development um and all of those supporting the guaranteed and viable curriculum and development of common assessments. Um we're continuing that work. Um in this section we also talk about despite some of the challenges of school closures like the line fire, inclement weather, u power, you know, the different things that have been mentioned that we're all aware of. um whether these the actions are delayed, halted or not implemented as planned is what we
034have to reference in this section of the LCAP. So for example, sharing that um our PD days, one of our actions in goal one, you know, there's two days, one of those two days wasn't impacted by weather. Um the great thing is is that as we look at the gains that we have seen across our district with ELA and math, we're continuing to see growth. We're already, and I can't share too much, we're already looking at preliminary growth for the 25 scores. Um, and really taking a look at how uh our impact from our professional development, things like the Orton Gillingham training that our elementary and middle school teachers were able to attend to support literacy and the science of reading. um when we look at our our multilingual network um collaboration with San Marino
035County Superintendent of Schools and supporting our our students receiving English learner supports um and how all of this collective cohesion including also like our inclusion steering committee how we are supporting our students across the board to also reduce the the DF rate. So the investments in the development of formative assessments which are continuing to grow uh the high impact tutoring we are able to uh implement um as well as English learner supports at least further contributed to the instructional coherence and success uh laying that strong foundation as we go into 2526. So essentially your your main goal update for goal one is looking at you know mostly your impacts of anything that may not have been fully implemented which may have been there like mine fire or closure. All right goal two um we largely
036implemented go 2 actions as planned with strong implementation across MTSS and TVIS. Um and so as we look at that, we see that each one of our school sites developed their own MTSS plan this year and are moving in the direction of those interventions and supports both with um that support like principles round table as our principles come together and talk about their NTSS as a whole site. Um what commonality we see across that as well as the site meetings for MTSS. So it can be more specific to the elementary, middle school, high school continuation or virtual environments. Um so also in book two you'll see like um universal meals, transportation, things like that um that are continuing in our in our our planning. Um again with those delays, Saturday school started a little bit
037later than than we had hoped as did um our high impact tutoring. But once both of those got going, we saw some substantial gains in those some really great programs like our crosscurricular tutoring or our crossstage tutoring that you saw some of our NH students supporting the elementary. Um in terms of the tutoring um we're continuing to utilize that that uh Keros Solace initiative. Um we did see um u uh that positive impact with Keros Solace uh this year. We're we do keep those numbers and you'll see those in the metrics. Um how the need actually reduced and we're looking at how the need reduction is also associated with a strong MTSS foundation. Um so overall despite some of those challenges um from fire, weather, power outage, whatever it might be, we're still seeing um
038a very positive impact across our district. Uh for goal three, we made meaningful progress in engaging families and community. Um something that you really, I'm sure, felt this year was that community impact, right? the partnerships that we have with supporting attendance incentives and and working with Sky Park to support positive attendance or to work with some of our um our families and encouraging ELAC participation in our English learner advisory council being part of PTA growing a lot of those activities that bring our families in and make them feel part of the process. Um so parent engagement surveys and workshops were successfully um uh implemented and they demonstrated favorable results and that's based on what we see on our Kelvin. So again as you see the little dog pop up in in your Chromebook for the
039students or when our families get that parent square in that email that has been a real favorable response there. We did see an increase um in the favorable component. You'll see that again in the metrics about 2% increase there for the parents. Um regular communication has been very um uh positive as well. We have been working with our community outreach coordinator who's been sending out our parents squares and keeping our uh families and community a breast of everything that's going on. One action in goal three that we didn't quite get off the ground that you'll you'll see is something that we're continuing to focus on is the support for our families of students receiving special services. We're working on a handbook and we've already partnered with EV Sulka to get that off the ground in
0402526 with sample handbooks that um are in neighboring districts within our county. Um so we're looking forward to continuing that um uh great work with our special services director and um going into 2526. Then this slide I just uh chose to give you a little bit more information about goal four. Um the prompts that you would have seen for goal one, two, three and four or for one, two, and three when we talk about implementation and was it fully executed don't exist yet for goal four because this is the first year of goal four. So next year you'll get the update based on those four pumps. Um but goal four essentially is that equity multiplier. Um and that's when you are at a minimum of 75% um uh for the um title one you know
041unduplicated account and then you are 25% non-stability rate so we have students coming in and out um and so mountain was identified as an equity multiplier school um and that focus is to improve graduation and suspension rates by 2027 so with Mountain High School also being in comprehensive school improvement we are focusing the academ MIC efforts with the CSI support and the CSI funding there. Um for equity multiplier, we really wanted to focus on that competence, motivation, and social emotional support for our students at Mountain. Um and we worked with um the county as well as some of our neighboring districts to talk about how they're utilizing academic multiplier, especially in the continuation setting. Um so we are working with Mountain Counseling and Training to develop a wellness center at Mountain High School. Um and
042so that contract you'll see there in that action um for the full school year at $45,000 and then 15,000 for social emotional professional development. Um and that's really to put that effort towards supporting our students with that confidence, that growth, that emotional support on campus as they're also um working with CSI to you know access the academic supports. Right. So what are the successes we're seeing across our district? Um from the uh 24 data that we uh look at and analyze as part of our needs assessment um in ELA we had significant improvement. No student groups in the red performance level across our district in 2024. Our English learners and students with disabilities move out of the red at the district level. We worked with Orton Gillingham Science of Reading to increase our literacy training
043and support. And we also have been using that training with our um uh ER core beers who are developing an articulation of language acquisition um that is grade level specific. So again, you've heard from Mr. Neias at our last presentation. He's working really hard on that articulation and using the the morphology um and the the Greek and Latin root words to identify language acquisition. Another key piece with English language arts you'll also see in math is um our GDC standards and curriculum alignment by grade level. Um again we continue that great work with our instructional coaches this year aligning grade level and department teams to really build out their standards alignment but not just standards alignment. looking at those standards and the learning progressions is you need to understand the learning progressions to be able
044to develop um essential interventions right or enrichment to support the family the the students and the their performance. Um, so again, a great kudos to our instructional coaches and the work that they've been doing with the GDC and that we're going to continue into 2526 bringing back, you may have heard before, we used to use the term curriculum council or the instructional support team. That'll be the next layer is bringing that team together that represents departments and grade levels across our district to continue that effort with our GBC and really get our assessments off the ground. math here um pure students in red only the long-term uh English learners and we are working on our professional development for that for the 2526 all student groups um improved from red in 2023. Um and then we've
045continued our efforts with math conferences. We had representatives from every secondary school who are the CMC South I believe I'm saying that correctly um this uh past fall. And then we're continuing our work with the county on um building our capacity around the new math framework that was released in 2023. Um the instructional coaches and I will be attending the the very first math uh release for the new publisher materials. Just so happens to be the first day of school. Um it's August 12th and 13th. Um but so we'll be uh joining the county for that because we want to be ahead of the game on the new math materials that are coming out. Uh so for college and career readiness, we've been partnering with CCGI or the California Colleg's guidance initiative with a stop
046roll out. We went live in November of 24 and we're doing a full roll out with articulation from grades 6 through 12. Um and you've heard us chat a little bit about that in the past, but we're excited for that roll out in the fall. We're working with CalState Sanino on dual credit opportunities for the fall of 2025. We have a several courses that are prepared. We're in that process of submitting the syllabus to calcate San Bernardino. Um, and again continuing that A throughG alignment product absenteeism. We're working on a Saturday academy participation as you've seen that has grown significantly and we got to give a great kudos to our teachers and our site administrators across our district for really building that momentum and creating exciting and engaging activities in our Saturday academy. um continuing
047with monthly attendance incentives and our partnerships with community members as we've shared and then with suspension rate continuing our MTSS site plans across our district and that professional development is really key to supporting the the positive environment under goal. So success is districtwide. We're continuing to focus on closing that learning gap. Um really focusing in on that tier one instruction as you heard me share. We're continuing with IST going into the 25 26 school year. Um when it comes to technology, we are um 2 to one grades 6 through 12 and moving to grades 3 through 12 into next school year. Again, a huge thank you to our tech team, Mr. Malone, Miss Fischer, Mr. Pentington for helping us out with that Chromebook uh roll out for third through fifth grades. So, expanding that 2:1
048access down to third grade in the 2526 school year. Uh and of course continuing that daily transportation, universal meals and offerings. So our greatest areas of need that we're working on moving into um the 2526 school year as we talked about closing that achievement gap, continuing our great work with GDC. Um and you see that in both English and in math. You've heard us talk about the systems of support training that's coming specifically for our students with uh receiving EL services as well as our students receiving special services with that extension training. Wrapping those all up, getting those ready to go. Here we go. Um and then again, chronic absenteeism and engagement. We're continuing those efforts. Saturday school, this is essentially a repeat of what I kind of shared in the last slide. Um the
049CCGI with polishing career readiness. And then specifically in the next couple of slides, I'll just share with you the areas for that we're doing in terms of differentiated assistance, CSI for Mountain High School, ATSI or TSI for NH and what those look like as we continue those those supports. I think ever those. So differentiated assistance, we're continuing um again the systems of support plan. Um, we've got our dates solidified and the exciting thing is is the county will be coming in and meeting with our site administrators between every training to make sure that each training was truly what was best supporting our teachers in the, you know, in the field with their teams. Um, and our our partners from EVA will be doing the same, zooming in with our teachers and our principles to make
050sure that they are meeting the needs based on the requests that we've received. So, that's how we're continuing DA. Um for Mountain High School, you can see their plan there for CSI uh supporting our counselor um continuing our solution tree contract uh both for the academic growth as well as for to support our uh administrator. We are adding a CTE elective for Mountain High School which will be an expansion of CTD offering and then continuing professional development and instructional resources for MH. uh we have uh the remaining 2425 funds that we're going to carry into August um since that fiscal deadline is in September and they're going to have another eight days um of support with that um and that'll give them one I'm sorry two days for each course subject area in August checker
051to continue their work on their um instructional alignment for learning for ATSI um CH has exited um but they are continuing to participate in our GBC release time. Um, for MH, as we just shared, they've got that plan for August and September. And then for the equity multiplier, we shared that with both for where they'll be working on that wellness center as well as the professional development for social emotional learning um to support our team. So, the last few slides here again break down each action by dollar amount. And I know that uh Jenny will be sharing the budget here shortly. So, um I'm just going to give you a couple of moments to do an overview. Um based on our last LCAP update, those numbers are just slightly adjusted for the increase for 256.
052Um so, in terms of goal one, um goal two, three, and four, I think you've seen those dollar amounts that they haven't as well. Good question. Absolutely. Uh for arts, music's athletics, uh electives, is that inclusive of Prop 28 funds? that is inclusive of media. Yeah, that is Oh, sorry. Yes, thank you. Sorry. Yeah, great question. And you have your prop 28 lines today as well. So, question actually regarding the toas. I know historically when we started having to that was from title one. Is that continuing to be the case or is this definitely from RLCF? That's a great question. Um so two of our toes are paid for out of title one and the third was out of learning recovery block grant. So what you'll see in the LCAP is for the first round
053of learning recovery block grant we identified that that's fully expended. However, in that action, um what was recommended by the county is that we indicate that, you know, should we receive that second round of learning recovery block grant contingent upon that funding that would uh continue to fund that third? Speaking of that, what is the potential receive funds? From our understanding, it's pretty strong. This is where Jenny and I keep looking at each other as we've had a lot of conversations around this because that's going to affect high impact tutoring. Correct. Well, and high impact tutoring is not currently allocated. As you can see, it has a $0 amount currently because that those dollars were fully expended for 2425. However, it is included in the LCAP as a potential um uh option once that money
054is there. The county guidance let us know that um it was better, you had two options basically. it was better to put in the action that should you receive the funding which is a high likelihood that you already have a plan in place so you don't have to wait for the mid-year update to to do those expenditures. So we opted for that option to go ahead and put it in the action that should those we receive that second round of funding that we would move forward with those actions specifically. So go one, two, and three there. And then of course four, we just reviewed those. Next steps are your consideration for LCAP board adoption at our next June meeting. And this is the part for questions. Jen, could could I make the suggestion that in
055the future that under the goal updates at least have them in green rather than red? Absolutely. I like green better. Right. That's a good choice. I like that. I think this came with a pre-made. I didn't make the the world turn on these lovely slides. It was uh it's prefabricated and I think they chose the red. Um but and also just in terms of all your paperwork, you do have the um you know the sites used to call it the sits at a glance. Well, this is your laptop at a glance. You can choose the 176 page version or the shorter one. It just gets you the metrics, the goals, and the uh actions. Thank you. Thank you. So, actually um Is there any further discussion? Then 1B call public hearing to close. So no,
056we don't have any. So move. Scott, any further discussion? Calling for a vote. All in favor? I vote. Motion P passes unanimously. I would now like to uh at 6:33. Thank you. Trusty assistant. Um would like to now entertain us. Um how to go about this procedurally, but I'd like to recommend that we um make a change in the order of our agenda. Pulling up the um student representative report 10.2 to occur now delaying the um business services um presentation. Could I move motion bill? Second. Scott, any discussion? So, calling for a vote making that change. All in favor? I I All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. So, now I'm going to go ahead and have I'm going to call it um um 10.2 happening now and then we'll hop back to um 9.2 if you
057would like to go ahead. So we don't keep you any further. All right. We proudly concluded our third trimester with all school award with an all school awards assembly. Student achievement was celebrated across all grade levels with a particularly impressive number of honor roll recipients and perfect attendance awards. Many students achieved perfect attendance thanks to their participation in Saturday Saturday school which provided them opportunities to make up Miss Days the same day. Our TK kindergarten and first grade students are wrapping up the year with joyful end of year performances. These celebrations showcase their developing confidence and creativity especially through songs and practice. Families were invited to enjoy these performances which also helped build a strong homeschool connection. the wonders of music. That was me. Um, moving on to C. Uh, upper grade students proudly displayed
058their talents for years, parents, and community members built their hit show, CH's Got Talent. We had a record number of participants that filled the cafeteria into capacity. We were so proud to see the growing see the growing self-confidence of our students shining. The TK classes are hosting their annual spring sing on June 9th. They they will perform songs be today. Uh they will perform uh they will perform songs for their family and friends and enjoy a picnic in the garden afterwards. We will be holding our third trimester end of the year awards assembly June 5th and 6th. We are so proud of our students and their accomplishments. The winner of the smoke smoky poster contest will be leading the assembly on a fire engine for a ride to see their poster displayed in running springs.
059This year, our perfect attendance recipients more than doubled as a result of our s Saturday academy program. We wish our students and families a wonderful summer. Moving on from elementary schools to MH open house was a total hit. Parents strolled through classrooms, connected with teachers, and felt the vibrant pulse of our growing school community. We reclassification ceremony. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us at NPH for the district's reclassification ceremony. It was a beautiful evening celebrating our multilingual records and their achievements. Aloha High School eighth graders celebrated the end of their middle school journey with a luau themed celebration at the beautiful Lake Arrowhead Resort. Music, laughter, and lakefront vibes made it a promotion promotion party to remember. Fifth grade takeover. Future Mountain Lions from CH LE and VO visited MPH for their
060orientation. Our leadership students were top-notch sport guides showing them around campus playing games and serving up our legendary barbecue pops. Huge kudos to Mrs. Pete's for her masterful coordination. Celebrating excellence. We held awards ceremonies for seven for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades on June on June 4th to honor outstanding exceptional and exceptional attendance honoral and principles honoral and our first ever CASP attendance award. We had 67 proud recipients. Wait. Yes, we had 67 proud recipients. The students were spinning with joy, literally as they received spin board prizes for their efforts. Our final award of the day was the citizenship, you know, the American Legion Award, a special recognition that honors students who demonstrate good citizenship, citizenship, leadership, patriotism, and service. We are proud to present this prestigious award to deserve students. I apologize, I don't
061have a anymore, so I can't really read it really close enough. Oh, moving on to Mountain High School. Yes, we are thrilled to announce that Mountain High School proudly boasts a 94% graduation rate for the class of 20.5 with 31 outstanding students ready to take their next steps into the future. Our recent field trip to Scott Park was a huge success, providing our senior class with an unforgettable day of fun and bond alongside dedicated teachers who helped make the experience the experience even more. Additionally, Friday will be an amazing day as both juniors and seniors come together to join in graduation preparations and activities, fostering a sense of camaraderie that will carry through our school's traditions for years to come. Yeah. uh RVA virtual academy virtual academy is equally excited to announce that all 12
062grade seniors are on track to graduate yielding a projected 100% graduation rate for the class of 2025. This incredible achievement is a testament to the hard work, dedication and resilience of our students throughout their academic journey. Moreover, it reflects the unwavering support from our faculty and staff who have provided guidance and resources to help each student reach this important milestone in their education. Prom was a fantastic turnout and I'm thankful for RHS hosting at the Victoria Country Club. Um, Snow Valley Snow Valley. All right. Lastly, RV uh is that I think that's supposed to mention the Snow Valley graduation pictures that are happening tomorrow. Not sure. Yeah. All right. Next, tomorrow evening there will be graduation pictures at Snow Valley. Lastly, RVA looks forward to graduation next Tuesday with Rim High School at 5:00 p.m.
063Gates open at 3:30. And lastly, rim high school. Last month, Spitty and Mr. Dorado took uh took engaged their amazing students in rocket launching. This was an amazing experience led by our very own sub, Mr. Anastas, apologies, who took the students through lessons, helped them build the rockets and launch them into the students. It was an amazing experience for our students. May 19th was scholarship night. Thank you to our amazing community. 85. Thanks to our amazing community, 85 seniors received 172 scholarships totaling over $150,000. It was an amazing night recognizing our amazing students. Tomorrow is our senior wall. Our soon we graduates will return to their elementary school and MBH to see their teachers and walk the halls. We won last time. Prom was last month and was a huge success. It was held at
064Victoria Country Hunter Puff and 250 students attended. Congratulations to Victoriao and Antonio Munas for the prom game in green. Tomorrow afternoon, Snow Valley will host RHS seniors for our annual grad photos. Students and their families will will ride to the top of chair one to get some amazing shots this special time. Finally, graduation is next Tuesday. At 5, we will celebrate the amazing seniors of RHS. And that is the end of the June school. Thank you so much, Ethan. And I'd like to take a moment um speak to the board and thanking you for your presentation, for being here, and for doing such an amazing job. I do have from the school district aka of our appreciation actually. So, Cindy, Cindy, can you take it out? No, you're the Ethan, come on. This is very
065um what's the word? Endure. This is very endearing. And I just and I also want to mention um the seamless presentation with a couple of gaps in that he just in terms of being able to just kind of think on his feet has been present all the way through this school year and appreciating that sharpness and the ability to kind of go with it. So, thank you so much. And here you have a beautiful um let's say something on your desk to take with you. and appreciation of Ethan Smith. Thank you for your dedication. camera. Sorry, guys. I wish I wasn't in my That's great. It's great. Good advertise. [Music] Uh I intern at Skyark through the uh CTE internship program. The reason I'm wearing this uniform today is because I am part of the
066CT internship program between high school and some businesses in our local community. I intern I'm a marketing intern. I make advertisements and videos and other such things mostly for Instagram and um I'm posting some some not. A lot of my stuff has been posted already. If you go on their Sky Park Instagram, uh you will see some advertis advertisements for their skate nights and their tunes and trees events. And all of those were designed by your group. All right. I also want to mention that uh Ethan was the recipient of the school board's $500 um scholarship and was awarded that on the scholarship night that he mentioned earlier back to 9.2. 2 business business services presentation and public hearing on the proposed 2025 2026 budget. Um Jav if I can ask you to go to
067the podium. Thank you. And can you go ahead and call the public hearing to order 2. A public hearing to order. Do I have a motion? Bill, that was Oh, that was Jordan. Second, Scott. Um, we'll go ahead and take a vote on being able to call this to order at 6:46. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Jenny, Jenny, if I can let me go ahead and gabble in what they said. So, call to order. It's 6:46. Go ahead, Jenny. Okay, thank you very much. Um, as part of the develop um the budget development process um per ED code, we need to have a a budget hearing along with the LCAP hearing. Um, you know, uh, at a different board meeting than budget adoption or LCAP adoption and the LCAP actually must
068come first before the budget on the agenda items both at the hearing and at the adoption um, and per code. So um part of the reason why we're here today is to talk about the proposed 2526 budget um as um as we are in compliance with um the statutory budget inspections period. The draft a draft of the budget has been um up at the front desk since last Friday. Um and then um we we since we played, but we've made a couple minor changes um which is the printed budget um um is was different than what we put out there because every time, you know, we looked at it, we're just fine-tuning it, but we'll fine-tune it and add some of those supplemental documents up until budget adoption, which will be on the June 26th.
069So what you have um in front of you is you have the budget in um the state software form um which has uh it's called the stack software and what we do is we really um that's just an export from our financial system into the state software. So, there is a lot of information in the PowerPoint and I'm not going to go slide by slide um and there's a lot that you can read and email or call me or text me um if you have questions and um but most of the beginning of the presentation is really about why and how we build a budget um and that the the mechanics behind that. So, um, you know, why do we have to have a budget hearing and and and what's the oversight is, um, that
070our county school's office is our fiscal, um, oversight agent. Um, we have to include multi-year projections and they have to include a variety of supplemental information. Okay. There will there will be three types of budget approval or not. Um, an approved, conditionally approved or disapproved budget. We are anticipating an approved budget. Okay. And where are we in our budget cycle? We are um month of June. The year went by fast. And at this point, the good the district had our budget adoption um in June. The LCAP adoption and the state um and and the state budget will be adopted and signed by our governor. Um, we hope I don't I think now that they tied their paychecks um and the legislators to to having an on-time budget um you know they definitely meet their timelines
071and and put everything else in a trailer bill that they couldn't get done. So we are here we're in June. Okay. And the budget is built on I'm not going to go this a slide um if you went to the school services conference with me you saw this slide. we were here looking watching it on Zoom at the district office. I stole some of their slides um because they had it nice and compact. So um the majority of the budget for the LCFF purposes and other state funding purposes is built on the governor's may revision. So that is a time where the governor revises his budget for the next fiscal year 2526. And there's um a variety of assumptions um and and now we're in kind of the midst of the legislators and the governor
072um negotiating um on what items from the governor's proposal to what will land in the budget and there's some give and take that happens um at the state level and um that will you know some things are high risk and some things are low risk and what you've asked Mrs. white side is with the learning recovery block grant that it's in by coincidence I had made some uh notes to self in preparing for today on some little risk and high risk um components of the budget and the learning recovery block grant although it's not um a very large amount of money there is a low risk that that wouldn't be funded um would it be able to fund all of the components that we've identified in the LCAP we don't anticipate pay full funding for
073all of those, but we would anticipate some funding. And so those were those are like the the that's a low risk to um be eliminated after the governor um has proposed it. And the reason with the learning recovery block grant having low risk is because it was already aortioned in last year's budget, the 2425. So and the governor withheld some of those funds. So, this is already a portioned funding that are due to schools. Um, there is some risks in the governor's budget and we've talked a lot about that. The state is at a deficit um in in its own budget. Um, Prop 98, which is the minimum guarantee for schools, the floor amount that schools are funded, that overall has um, you know, is mostly funded. There's some maneuvers that the governor um has
074tried before and he's trying again to underortion um the school districts. So that will pro have it stay in court if that um comes um to fruition. And we would anticipate um the the advocacy groups who are um which we're part of of that um which would be behind that lawsuit being successful because it is against the um unconstitutional few of the items that the governor is proposing. So there is um some global risks in the state's budget um largely around the big three taxes on um the wildfires um and and not know you know having an extension if you're in LA County having some extensions to file your taxes and how will those taxes come about um and what's happening at the federal level um with the state. So there's some items out of
075the states and our control that are um have some risks um associated to the overall California state budget. So we must work within those guidelines. So um I I already talked a little bit about this um just on what's happening between the state and federal. Again this is a school services slide.io but that's there you can um have it in your packet. Okay. So what how does the budget and the action tables and the LCAP support each other? So the um in in a perfect world the LCAP would be guiding the budget and when you're in a declining enrollment deficit spending district there is a little bit of forcing a budget into the LCAP um and the and the priorities like Mrs. Bites said you know we've been working a lot um with many hours
076together over the last month. um her heavy is definitely with that LCAP. Um and so and there's a lot to it, but identifying um the components of the LCAP and where they are in the budget when the LCAP's up for adoption and you um go through the 170 something pages, you'll be able to identify under an action if it's LCFF funding, federal funding, or other states. So when you have some of those questions, you'll be able to see on what go right in the middle where the budget is and you can if you're curious on what type of fund is funding that whether it's title one that would be federal give either one of us a call and we can walk you through that also. Um and because we do have to identify what is
077federal funds, state funds, local funds and LCFF funds and of the LCFF funds, what is supplemental concentration which um 100% of our supplemental concentration um projected amounts have to be represented in the ELF. So that's when Jen and I are definitely working together. Okay. Um the next several slides, oops, is just building the budget. You know, what do you do? I won't go um page by page because I think we've talked about this a lot, but as you build the budget, revenues, expenditures, fund balance, um what's the the different components of funding largely LCFF um is our biggest component of of the budget. And then um just uh where we get the information and who we rely on for some of those um uh estimates and and planning factors. We rely on the county office
078um groups like school services, capital advisors, PMAT, CDE itself, um other uh groups that may donate money or programs that we are in. So we're building it. it it's kind of piece by piece as we compile all of the different funding sources and associated expenditures. Again, part of the budget, you know, we include things like higher um increases to our health and welfare, the second column that our um our employees receive on on the salary schedule, any known increases to it to the budget. So we go through those and there are certain um items that we we double check that we we have any settlements we we've had what utilities look like. It's really becomes like a line by line analysis um of of making sure we capture all of those costs. Our budget in
079um includes a three-year multi u multi-year projection. We do submit a five-year to our counting office because they are our oversight and that is what they would like to see. Um they'd like to um that doesn't go up to the state. That's more of an in-house um as they monitor our fiscal solveny. Um but you can read some of this on your own. It's you know we get aortionment notices. We have estimates for title one and lot and lottery and mandated cost grants. Um and any one-time we do eliminate the one-time monies that we fully expended like a learning recovery grant or and by this time of course all of the co funds. Okay. The biggest part of um identifying our total LCFF budget is we really need to start with enrollment because our enrollment
080drives our ADA and then projecting that over the next five years and then that with that that ADA amount and then what percent of our students are an unduplicated student which is an unduplicated is an English learner, lowincome, foster, homeless, migrant. um military and so um identifying those are the um basics of calculating the total LCF dollars. So having a handle on where we are are with our enrollment and then projecting that enrollment over the next five years on um normal metriculation with by grade level. Um, you know, we do watch some of our higher um grade, you know, as a high uh uh graduating class exit or maybe a um a high, you know, eighth graders going into nth grade, fifth graders going into sixth grade. When we have different types of of staffing
081ratios by grade, um enrollment then not only guides our total LCFF, it guides what our staffing should look like for um the majority of our programs. And you can see here our actual CBEDs, which is our census day, and then projected CBEDs, which we do have to um include in our um LCFF calculator that's get submitted with the budget. I see you're projecting a slight increase with the next there. There is some how I if we project flat funding I mean I'm sorry flat enrollment. There is a natural increase with projected incoming GK. Okay. Okay. We also have an average um uh um increase to our ninth grade um group um from students who leave our school district and and come back in the ninth grade. So we do we are looking at those it's
082mostly those two components that are creating um a tiny um bit higher enrollment because our senior class is a little bit larger isn't it? But you know, I didn't bring u I didn't bring that, but we've talked about it several times. I can verify. I don't want to give raw information from a memory. So, but you probably have it uh more clear than I do right now. A lot of numbers in my head. So, thanks. Um just want to confirm also as far as numbers, adult ed will not be included onment. No, preschool or adult ed is not included in any of our enrollment or ADA. Okay. that we don't get um ADA on even our current preschool now or adult head is funded differently. Okay, these are this is our um last audited attendance
083month, month 10 um for the whole district. You can see that um bottom cluster there um and the and the red line that's a little bit higher than everyone else is um is where our current enrollment is. And so what we're really will be looking at over the next five years and we've talked about this um many times is what will kind of a postcoid trend become up here because we really don't know you know we had such a fluctuation and a decline then a bounce back and our um our attendance rates you know maintain stayed very low. What will our enrollment look like? So, we're um have a modest decline projected, but relatively flat, but I think it's noteworthy looking at all the years that are listed that this school year we're projected to
084end the year with more students than we started and I don't know if that's ever happened. Um I have to go back and you know, way back way back in 27 year history, we could ask. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. This millennium, this fiveyear cycle, yeah. And the corresponding attendance rate and you can or attendance ADA you can see has been flat all year also where that has usually tapered down from December to June that maintained flat. Um we can credit probably some um the Saturday school to that. Um and also we we did have the fire and then and then the um and then the weather. We did apply for a waiver for those days. So we had a shorter time period that of you know of the attendance. So one of the things
085I'd like to talk about though and this is another school services slide just on a county level and state level. I got this even though they didn't include Santa um San Bernardino um you can see the the districts that they um uh included in their slideshow when at their conference you can see of the districts who um the projected decline um for each one and really depending on where you're at and one of the thoughts in October we usually have an economist come and talk to the CBOS um and that's always a really interesting um uh that presentation is as families move east right where there the housing is more affordable is it totally affordable I don't think so at all I mean there's still a problem there um but as as districts move east
086you know there could be some districts that have a very large decline and some districts that actually grow um because of that like um there's expecting growth in the high desert um and they're actually building new schools. So, um that's probably an exciting place to be in where the f where the families are moving to. One of the things I'd like to touch on because it is a one of the major components that's a pressure on our on our budget. There's several is the um our ADA rate. We ended the year at a 91.65. Well, we're almost done. We have, you know, a couple more weeks, but that average isn't going to change, but a 91.65 district-wide attendance rate. So, that's K to TK through 12th. Um, and what would our increase in funding be
087as if we could um increase that attendance rate? So, getting even up to a 94.65, which is below a 90, you know, our what our prior goals were. um you know that would in you know that we're you're looking at $1.2 million increase and that's ongoing funding. So an area that's um I would consider um a high pressure on the budget is our attendance rate and there's probably many factors. We are not alone. We are right there where most districts are in the state. Um, so that statewide average used to be about 93 and a half to 95 95 and a half bouncing between there and now the statewide average is right around where we're at. So, um, districts aren't seeing, you know, a a a big jump from the COVID low attendance rates. So,
088um, that's an area of focus. It's mentioned in the LCAP. Um, and as we move forward, I would I would consider it a concern for the budget. In your professional opinion, how much were we impacted by um various um school days, line, fire, the power outages, all that didn't affect this grade at all because we applied for a waiver. And so what the waiver does is the waiver just reduces those days and and gives you credit as if they happened. So it it reduces your denominator in the calculation. So your cumulative days instead of having 180 days, if we had a waiver for 15, it would be 165 days. So you still have that accumulative um attendance for all the days the students were in um attendance um divided by a lower denominator. Understood? So
089we did so um so and we was affected in terms of lack of opportunity for Saturday schools earlier on but in terms of and we were able to already incorporate probably disrupted our flow and our planning and our getting things going as you can see in pro in many different areas. It also um yeah we do look at um we can um file a material decrease waiver for any day that um is below the the 90% but um with changes to the J13 it's now a little bit harder because you have to have that um uh where where you are. So um it's not 100 to 90 and if you're at 88 you can you can do that. So, we looked at that. We thought we can get maybe squeak in one or two ADA.
090It wouldn't have been much, but with the new J13 um rules, we didn't qualify for any material um decrease days, but like I wanted to include um this slide because we've talked about it at the attendance committees. We've talked about it before. Um and there's so much of the budget that's out of our control that that there is, you know, a piece that we can we can focus on. Yeah. Make sure you're all the chain together. So much blood. Okay. So there's the basil chain. So I can repeat your question for so Yeah. And this could be for for Jen one of you. Have we actually looked at the statistics from Saturday school to see how much that's a affecting our overall I've actually asked um uh my account my senior accountant Scott in my
091office to um run that data for us. I don't know if you looked at it yet, but I did ask Scott because um we can pull those days of kids who have recouped an absence in Aries and we can apply it to then the daily rate and um I you know we've been talking about that. We don't have it here for tonight but um it is that has been on our mind too because we want to know are we breaking even? Are we are we generating revenue? We know it's good for kids. So um but is it a break even or is it a a a funding is it generating funding? Perhaps report sometimes there's so perhaps perhaps sometime in the future report on what the Saturday schools have accomplished for speed. I'm I'm glad
092you br this up here because I remember back before CO we always had those campaigns strive for 95 but we were so close to getting 95 and this clearly shows the budget hit that's happened as a result of that. So thank you for that. All right. And um we go in and out of of including this slide because um we do give a date what a day what a day generates attendance and um I there there's two pieces of of this slide. Um we I would never want someone to think we just want a student to attend for the the funding alone. But what it can turn into is if you look at it per day, but then if you look at it at a um districtwide, it can say, well, look what we can
093provide if we had this um additional funding um and what we can do for students. So, and turning that around to not um to not look so negative that that's kind of hard to do and we've talked about that before without having a negative um light on well you you know you just want us here for the money. that's not true. It's what the money can then bring um to a district budget that which is then providing services to students kind of how to shape that future conversation. Um as we dive into strategies to improve attendance talking about shaping that though one of the things that I think co has done to our society in general is really made people think twice about bullying to things when they aren't feeling well when they're sick. Absolutely.
094So, so that strive for 95 is really trying to encourage you show up period. And so I wonder whether it might be a Sacramento issue that we're funded on butts and seats, but in in actuality we should maybe look at that differently because we don't want to have people showing up when they're and I think we've all been placed and we've been going like, "Darn it, why did they show up? Now we're all gonna feel sick tomorrow." Um but yes, so that same thought is we don't want someone to come to school and spread um a flu bug or stomach virus to um 100 students and staff. So on that note, I made a note to myself when we talk advocacy possibly to have that be something that we we we discuss as I would
095say it is it is you're right at the state level that forces that negative light you know that we're looking at it from the lens of uh you know steam central per day. Um that's the reality of how the state has decided to fund districts. But part of our advocacy platform which is full and fair funding talks about shifting away from you know funding based on um attendance and moving more to an enrollment based model so that we don't have to look at every child that shows up or doesn't show up as potentially a dollar amount per day. Um so hopefully we can shift the light and I think too with all the um improve not improvements or the opportunities we've had with universal meals which I think has been very successful in our state
096um you know also um raising the conversation of what do you miss if you don't come to school um and you miss some great meals that you know that that that our kitchen is cooking you know opportunities for the extra um activities and class and and all those fun things that happen. So, you know, about what someone's missing instead about what what we're not getting. So, um especially since uh you know, we've made I think a lot of improvement in some of those items that um are, you know, um a positive when you're at school. Maybe there's another advocacy piece to it and that is is that our our educators are all doing extra work for students that don't attend. So if a student is sick, you're having to do extra work to get them
097back on to get them followup information and all. And so there is another adacy piece there that there ought to be some percentage of expectation from the state that honors that too. So you're saying go ahead and fund it based on ADA, but if a student doesn't show up, pay us extra. If you're going to continue to fund us on a ADA, recognize that educators still have a responsibility to work with students who have missed. And so give some kind of recognition for that. Right. The next uh this is just our history of stirs and purses. We had a tiny bit of relief this year. Um, didn't make much impact onto the budget on PERS and stewers is relatively flat and projected to be flat. This is our summary of our LCFF dollars. One of
098the things I'd like to um um highlight is is some of the growth in LCFF um based on what the state is projecting FOLA to be, but also to look at the year-over-year change and and and that related percentage. So, if you go into let's just say 2425, we had a 1 um uh we had a 1.07% 07% pull up, but the actual change in funding from 2324 to 2425 was actually a negative. So kind of turning the um into a do dollars, not necessarily percentage. You can see where our LCFF trends are. Going into 2526, the makeup of property taxes and state aid. One of the things that um we've talked before about our district is that we are um a higher tax um uh district. So that means we're not as reliant on
099um state aid. So you can see the percentage of of the budget what is state aid and property taxes where that helps us. We don't get any more money. We could have 100% of that being taxes and we're not going to get any more money for that. But um we it is when they do things like deferrals and the deferrals are in the state budget. But that means the state is paying us 24 $25 in 25 26 25 26 in 26 27. We could not account for our funding that way. You know that's more of a cash basis than approval basis. But um we are not as reliant. We're not even going to feel that money move at this point because um um you know we're we have sufficient cash and and um delaying one
100payment from the state to us by two weeks. it. You know, we're not having to worry about getting um loans or other financing options that when back in 201, you know, 10, 11, 12 when they were deferring 60% of your funding, districts were having to go out finance just to make payroll. So, we're not in a situation even though the I'd rather have a deferral at the state than a budget cut at the state because one is just cash basis, one is um fits your budget. Okay, that's just our our history of pulas since uh 20134 when LCF came about. And this next slide is just what of our total LCF what pieces are um for what purpose or for what kind of tag would they have at the state level? And you can see
101our our base grant is really that's for regular operations. our supplemental concentration. Um though that's the dollar amount that must be um reflected in the LCAP and that should be the focus for our unduplicated students. Then we have the L uh the add-ons which are transportation funding um so that the TK um add uh add-on to support the um the 12:1 or the 10:1 and then um some targeted assistance. So, so those are the components that make up our total LCFF funds. And one of the things I'd like to share about the TK add-on, we budgeted the TK add-on at the um 3,148 um amount. The governor had in his May revised to fund that at the 5,000 um 545, which would help us with the extra aid support in that classroom. regardless of if
102he funds at 31 or 45. What we're hearing now is that 10 to1 is going to be in effect um going into next year. That could change that there's negotiating right right now and um because that higher dollar amount would be one that would be considered a high-risk um uh budget item um it is not included in the budget. So if in the trailer bills or if the budget adoption that will be part of our revision that would um be an increase if that materializes. Right now we have the extra aid support in the budget but without the extra funding. 3148 is actually a little bit higher than 2425. So um in the governor's eyes he did add funding to TK. Therefore it's 10 to1. So but it's just not what at the dollar amount
103that um they had hoped. But we'll see. I mean, there's, you know, what June 15th until we know. Okay. This is a very I condense the multi-year projection. Um, you can you have some um a print out of the more detail, but just kind of a one pager um instead of that tiny, you can barely see it up on the screen. Um and you can see our 25 26 unrestricted unrestricted totals, our contributions to our um our our special programs on the re on the restricted side of the budget. Um we are projected to um to spend um more than we're bringing in for 2526. That is that has been our trend. Um and um you can see our beginning balance reserves was 15,199 350. So um you by cutting into that uh reserve amount
104by that deficit spending um but we'll see if we have a 45day revision required or just incorporate these in the September unodudited actuals which I would anticipate. So any changes to this um will be if if we don't have to do a 45day official budget um revision, it'll be incorporated in the September, I believe September 18th board meeting with the unodited actuals. I just wanted to note that you know for one of your earlier slides fold up might be 2.3 for LCFF but the actual increase in dollars is 1.6 six that you're saying if you look at our expenditures for LCFF our expenditures are increasing over twice that three we're not almost 4% uh are increasing next year so if you actually look at the scenario we're worse off from the state because our expenditures
105faster than the cola a cola only environment for any school district especially a low cola is is really a cut I mean so when the when the um when the governor funds minimum guarantee and only the cola that um I mean districts for the most part need to um look at that. Yes, maybe you're going to get um additional funding, but you need to think about that as a cut because it won't cover and column health and welfare utilities um different unfunded mandates. So, a cola only environment um is uh really not um additional funding for schools. And I don't mean to be really down on our state right now, but it it's not it's not extra money for schools. It's just not so. And I think that they're trying to change um or or
106call people out when they say, you know, we've increased funding to schools, but you didn't when you've cons when you've looked at these other items. Okay. Um this is also a condensed version. Um just um we I think my prior slides it's all the different categories of classified or all the different categories of certificated um but it was I was trying to not have the powerpoints look so busy and um I'm like okay let's just be the meat of the um the the information. Okay. The components of our ending fund balance. So we do have um going into 2526 we would have after our um revenues minus expenditures we would have a reserve balance of of 9.5 million and change our 3% reserve for um unc uncertainties. We have our revolving cash check of reserve
107for stores. We have the other items that are in our um assigned balances right now. that is when we bought off the plane for Grand View, our prior uh fund 14 um such as a medical our technology reserves from when we sold the district building um and in blue J and some other items that we've been um uh building. Um and you can see we're ending our proposed budget. Okay, it's a point in time. A lot can change. Our proposed budget would have um a ending reserve balance of 9.49. But as you can see, the deficit spending going um if everything were to stay the same and funding were to stay the same. Um you know, you can see how much we're deficit spending each year. In our thirdyear budget, which will be submitted with
108our um our our um proposed budget, we are um eliminating all of that ex excess reserves to maintain a positive ending fund balance. So then um in our third year, we will only have a 3% um reserve. I'm still um submitting a positive ending fund balance at the end of our third year in this budget. And what's important for that is that um you know we anticipate full county approval. Um and then any changes or savings we want to we have the time to work on that together this year. Um and then uh we'll see what as first interim second interim um depending on what the county oversight would add. um you know, is there going to be um other items that they request? I don't know, but I would anticipate uh yes to that.
109Um a graph of our difference between our revenues and our expenditures. You can see our revenues are lower than expenditures. That's why we're spending um our unallocated defund balance. a school services slide and it's it's for the average school district in California. I have in the past spent the time to create this just for RAM. It does take a long a bit of time with door closed um uh in your office, but it really that when we calculate it specific to RAM versus the average um school district, the story is really the same. Um, and if you look at the year-over-year growth in LCFF and um, how we just talked about what uh, colo only or and flats is is really a cut is you can see, you know, what costs um, come up each
110year um, that take that um, additional funding first. Okay. think I've talked about this. Um I uh I haven't um called out a some specific programs, but um pressures and and and concerns on the budget. Um rising special education costs um um is a concern in the budget. Um, a lot of times there's there's uh, you know, we must service our students and there's not a lot there's not a lot in our control, but for the district to be aware, it's probably doubled in the last two years um, as of what the um, off the contribution from our LCFF base um, to the program. um there is no significant funding increases on the state or federal side, but the costs continue to to rise. So to see our um contribution from our base dollar LCFF
111to um different programs, special edges being one, um is a pressure on the budget because it takes away from the other areas of the budget that will um you really have the cuts first. low attendance rates we talked about. We have had a need for increased staffing, although not a lot of increased enrollment or ADA. Um, some of it is just where students fell this year. Um, and our staffing ratios um and and so needing another stu teacher not without necessarily um you know 30 more kids. Um we kind of found ourselves in this um on the elementary side it was about three FTE work. um you know we have different program um changes um that are are creating a need for staff and not necessarily increasing that revenue behind it. Um and another item
112is the 8218 assessments um and hire workers um our workers comp personally to RIM has gone down. So, we actually had uh the last three years we've had our Xbox for property liability and workers comp um slightly go down each each year. So, we've done but overall the state is seeing a trend of higher um uh higher worker comps, right? So if that will eventually um kind of catch up to RAM, we don't know. But the state seeing that 8218 we've talked about before and that is the sexual assault and molestation um claims and new legislation um that pretty much opened up a look back and a um virtually no um statute of limitations for that. and districts are seeing um be called before nuclear um settlements uh and not saying that um will probably
113I mean if the child gets hurt you know I mean that's probably the least that a district can do and juries are saying that so but what they're doing to districts like ours I'm just going to go to one next street um street slide is the special assessments for rim started in 2122 2. You can see that it started at like 60,000, then the next year was 127, then the next year was 210. This year, last board meeting, the agenda item, um was that you approved our our fourth assessment. Um and to be honest, we were kind of going like, we've never brought TE's to board before because, you know, we just have to pay them. They're part of insurance. Then we're like, oh, we better start, you know, that needs to go to board.
114And so, um, so we haven't really, you know, we talked about it, but to see, you know, will there be a fit? And just to get clarification here, this isn't from our districts having their claims within our district. This is because we're part of a JPA, right? This is part of our our JPA, which is pulled group of districts and the excess insurance company. So we are pulled uh we have a a limit with our pool of um districts. Then we have excess insurance carrier which is um through self and self is that excess layer and then um after self is would be again district. So we have these different layers of um excess insurance and this is the statewide um excess insurance um program. That's self that's self What's really sad is I sat
115in the room and we talked about 218 and there's legislation trying to not uh revictimize the victims of sexual assault and all stationation. But there are there's a case that literally is is now being processed claim in 1940 something and there's many cases that are being brought forward from the 70s from the 60s and no one is around or even alive over some of these facilities. No one is there there isn't anything. And so it becomes how do you defend how does a district defend itself when they get the proper stats from the case that came from so long ago? And that is the the I guess the balance of making sure that that victims are compensated for what what happened to them, but at the same time they have protections in place where districts
116can defend themselves from from cases that happened so long ago that even the insurance companies are no longer the insurance companies. Right. And so that is um there's a lot of um discussion at the state level um and there's a lot of discussions with groups like map you probably heard um on on what to do. One of the um hopefully this will make its way in through the legislature is that um if if a district becomes insolvent based on a AB 218 claim but wouldn't have without it does that state intervention besides just helping financially can that change to to stay the board stay the cabinet you know maintain operations um because if if there was um only due to an AB218, but to have that um what's in the um Fed code for the
117state had to come in and give an emergency loan um to have a distinction of it's all you know troubles because of this or just troubles because of of um you know other items. So, um, that's going on. Um, and and one of the big problems, too, is when, uh, we've, we've talked about this with other items. When bills get pushed through legislature, they're um, they they can be tagged as a no fiscal impact. And where's that vetting happening at the state level? Because this bill was tagged as a no fiscal impact. And the thought at the time was, well, insurance companies are deep pockets and they'll just pay for it, not knowing that public agencies like ours are self self-insured JPA pools for the most part. So to have, you know, something that was
118um not vetted and then became, you know, such a fiscal impact um to school districts, I don't think was the intention. Um but it's reality now to undo some of that legislation. our um you know our officials will um who wants to now vote against a bill that was there to protect kids. So it I mean I I think that there is this is a really tough one for the state to get through but no these aren't because of any claims that have been on written. these are to um to beat up the poolled like our share of that pool of funds. Okay, I think we kind of talked about everything in different areas. Um but you know just our our risks in in the budget. Um we have facilities that we have more need
119than what measure E will um you know can fund. So, keeping up on our deferred maintenance, health costs, um you know, the trend at the state to um the one time to put so many restrictions on some of our one-time monies. So where instead of you saying here's one time money, here's money for the state local control, you your board decide what is best to to to be in this, you know, categorical type world and what was supposed to be local control world, you know, where's that give and take there. So, um, you know, like with the learning recovery block grant, that was fairly flexible and we were able to sweep some of that and it g gave us some budget relief and and we were able to use that um to to work um
120on on some negotiated items. But they, you know, other one-time monies um you know, advocating for that flexibility of the funds is something else I think districts need. um that and because each dis each district is um you know has their own challenges. So that's another area of you know going back to what LCFF um was intended um was that to have each board um and stakeholders uh look at what is important to them and and needed in their community. We're different. We need, you know, chains on our buses and and special mountain packages and we need uh skip loaders and, you know, pallets assault. I mean, we we have needs that other districts don't. So, um just kind of our um our next steps, summer work, um closing the books, budget revisions as they
121come in, and um we'll start over again in August. Any questions? I I did talk longer than I planned, so I apologize for that. No, thanks for this. I I want to thank you for being conservative in though your budget estimates that you're not expecting those funds to automatically be there that could come but might not come. So I appreciate the fact that you're trying to balance things even in a conservative way. So thank you. I especially with that TK I'd rather come back and say oh we have a little budget relief than we're in a worse situation. So I do if if that come material we'll we'll talk we'll present that in September any changes there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So 9.2B call public hearing to close. Um it's accept at 7:37.
122So move second. Scott. Is there any further discussion? Calling for the vote. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. Oh, that's I tried. Skipping ahead to 10.3 governing board members. Um, so our so it's going to be our comments. Do I have anybody to start us start us off? I will. Bill, go for it. So, again, I want to give congratulations to all of our graduating seniors and a special thank you to all of our staff at all grade levels who uh equipped our students to be lifelong learners and are sending them on to the next grade or to the next place in their life. I also want to give really big loud thank you, however you want to do it, to Jessica Mazakus and everyone who contributed to our um community health
123and um resource fair at at REM High School just a couple weeks ago. Um Jessica is an exceptional lady who is giving much beyond her school work in order to make a difference in our community. So big big big big kudos to Jessica Mosis. Um and every year we say goodbye to some exceptional people. People who we met tonight again were reminded of tonight. Um thank you Terry for um those who are entering retirement who get to start a new chapter a different chapter in their lives. And uh I just want to say a big thank you to all those. Yeah, a cupcake and a plaque isn't enough and probably thank you is not enough either. But hopefully those times like those kindergarteners who came up and said I love you have somehow inspired every
124one of those staff who are retiring and they'll have memories like that. I feel a little bit like Tevier from Fiddler on the Roof. On the one hand um we're deficit spending. We got to do something about that. But on the other hand, we have this staff that we need to really uh bless and help and give more to. So how do you balance that one out? Well, on the one hand, the state did their projections for income for the year at the worst possible time when the when tariffs were changing what the stock market was doing. But on the other hand, we expect federal cuts in education and we don't know what those are going to be. So I I'm concerned on both both those different levels and and it's like how do you
125balance that? How do how do you balance what what our staff needs and we would wish that we could give them but balance that with the fact that we're deficit spending in the millions of dollars not hundreds not thousands but millions. So thank you again Jenny for making it all work but that can't continue. So how how do you work through that? Um I also on a on a different note um I've been privileged to be a part of a lot of the inclusion discussions this year and there's a big celebration 50 years of SULPA that's on Friday night and and and we we're honored you might remember that some of us got to represent uh our district in a statewide meeting for SULPA and thank you Jen thank you Dr. Seviano. Um, but I
126I need to say that I have requested a report on the progress that we're making on inclusion throughout um the high school. I'd like to see what um classes um are being listed that are already um including um students of special needs and and and and that would include um moderate to severe students. I' I'd like to see that that information and I know that we have been working towards this and in a lot of ways really are a leader in in inclusion but it would be helpful to see exactly what are those classes that um are available and we have both Brian are here tonight so but but it would be helpful just to to see and know be able to see the the details of what what specific classes are actually already uh
127open to inclusion electives and and other needs and things like that. And so um where are we in the process of becoming inclusive for all of our students and I know that we're continuing to work at that at all great levels and appreciate the work that self has done for us and appreciate the work that the inclusion committee has done but it would be helpful to see some of that information. I I also have to say thank you Dr. Saviano for the work that you and Jan and others have done so that we can have the dual enrollment opportunities. Uh I'm also pleased uh really thrilled one of the things when I came on the board I was like why aren't we doing adult education and we are we are getting back into the business
128so to speak of adult education and that that pleases me and and by the way um I want to see more green or more blue I should say on on the We're okay. Thank you, Jim. And um and I'm glad that we've been able to do some things and I appreciate all the work that's been done by our students in the various extracurricular activities. That's not just athletics, but that includes our music and arts. So, thank you to uh everyone who has worked for a great year. That's all I got. Thank you, Bill. Um, Jordan, would you be willing to go next, please? Well, I won't take up too much time. Just want to say congratulations on end of year making it to summer. Uh, congratulations to all the retirees. I hope everyone has a
129wonderful summer ahead of them. Uh, we'll still be meeting we've been working uh throughout. Um, but uh hopefully everyone gets a good break. Uh, we'll continue our advocacy. It'll be very interesting. Um, as Jenny mentioned, we expect that the budget will be adopted on time, but uh there will be most likely a mid-year revision. So, uh, we'll see what uh that turns into and maybe negotiate some of the trailer lang bill some of the trailer bill language. Um, I'm looking forward I'll save my advocacy stuff for our advocacy report. So, that's where both of my updates are. Wonderful going to the open houses that I can attend. Um and um some thank you Jordan Cindy. Yes, I made every open house except Mountain. Sorry, Mountain. But um enjoyed all of them. I I it's great
130to walk the classrooms and it's great to see teachers that used to teach at Graham. It makes me sad, but I I love it. Including Mrs. Armine. Um, also want to say that Mr. Lumi think the validictorians and saludiatorans know what who we are, right? They do. Okay. So, I just wanted just on Tuesday will get real interesting. Yeah. I just want to congratulate the High School Valley Victorians Shelby Gross and Ava Holtzen and the saludiatorans Ally Bolson and Ry Simmons. Silence. um just that's so much hard work and I'm really excited even though Shelby Gross is going to UCLA now as an enemy the fight on Trojans but that's okay I I wish her all the best and all of them just will have great futures also want to give a shout out to
131Diego Gana Romero who's the egllettorian of Mountain High School I thought that was a really cool word so um congratulations to all the hard I do want to give a really huge shout out to Mountain High School to have 31 students 91% to go from several years ago to a 20 from 20% graduation rate and now this is what we're looking at. That is a huge jump and so not normal for continuation high school. So, I love the fact that we have made such a huge jump and then and just shout outs to the teachers and the and the staff at at Mount School. There's truly those connections to um students that somehow some are really facing some difficult situations and challenges and those connections with between the teachers and the students and the staff
132and the students really makes a huge difference. It really does. It's that one-on-one. So, I'm really excited about bringing the additional sorry wellness center component to it. It's going to be super exciting to see. I have sinus issues and I took sinus medicine a while ago and it's wearing off and yeah, I'm feeling really stellar right now. Sorry. I did go to CSVA delegate assembly. Um got updates on all these pieces of legislation, but of course that always changes. So we have the we got latest updates just this week on where the bills are. Um we h we had policy uh pullers that we break out into my policy puller that I am in involved with is um improving this the conditions of students. So that was an interesting one. It focused on cell phone
133policy. Didn't realize that there are districts out there that do not have cell phone policy yet. Super interesting. I said that overall we've been super successful. such the teachers themselves been so so grateful to have a policy um to increase student engagement in the classes and reduce behavioral issues. So um anyways I got to report out our success and our roll out. So that was interesting. Um just I think I'm going to leave it there because I'm feeling a little subdued today right now. So I'm just saying yeah I know Dr. Son is really happy about that. So anyways just excited for graduation on Monday, graduation on Tuesday. I I love graduation and it makes me feel so warm inside that to know that TK through 12 from R the World Unified High School I
134mean Unified School District is embedded in every single kid that's walking across the stage. So makes me makes me proud and happy almost like a mama. Thanks, Cindy. I would like to also thank, you know, seeing the open houses that the teachers and staff, it's amazing what they do, especially with the lack of funds that we do have. And it's it's neat to see the hands-on stuff that they're doing every single day in the classrooms. And congratulate the students for moving on and graduating and everything that they're moving on to. But also, I'd like to thank the community and their involvement. Um, it's it really takes the whole mountain to make things happen. And the community, what was it? $153,000 in scholarships to the the that's just an amazing amount of money. And it just
135keeps going up and up every single year in S. um a central thing that I saw happening and I'm I'm friends with Bill and Michelle, but it's just amazing their involvement with every single school from Mountain High School to MPH. MPH I think the the students got perfect attendance. They got four season passes, which is amazing. I mean, they're just so giving. So, it's amazing to see our community do things like that for our students and our teachers as well and our staff. Um, I love that and it's it's going to be neat to see how we can improve upon that and the attendance through getting the community involved a little bit more because I think attendance is the biggest thing that we can tackle right now to help improve funding for our schools. Um,
136so I just congratulate everybody and I wish you a great summer. Thanks for all you do. Thank you Scott and then I'll try to make my comments. Congratulations everybody to our very successful school year. Lots of hard work by staff and students and a lot to be proud of. Um we're going to revisit some of the things that have been mentioned already. Um Bill mentioned the Mountain Health and Resource Fair. Do want to um give an added shout out to all of the volunteers who participated. I believe 123 student physicals for athletes were completed on that day and volunteered medical professionals came to complete that and I think that's just absolutely phenomenal. Um dental screenings, dental exams, um cabinets were given away and so um and then earlier in the day, wellness Wednesday occurred and
137James Steinson organized that and that was a very successful event. I want to give a shout out to my my planking partner BK. We we we killed it with uh even beating some of the students with a planking challenge and uh so um my my abs will continue to remember that. Um that was fantastic. Um I wish I attended all the open houses and saw just fantastic, fun, colorful, wonderful things happening in classrooms. Um let me see here. Um Saturday schools. I just want to express appreciation to staff who are coming in and making very creating very engaging Saturday schools that students are loving shown by the increasing number of students who are attending. Um I think this has been our most successful year when it comes to Saturday schools. I think we've really gotten
138our our our stuff together there and great things are happening and I'm looking forward to next year. Um, let me see. Went and saw on Capital Advisor's presentation on the May revise for the budget. Something I found a little bit disturbing that was discussed was the potential of there being some funny business with revenue this year with money being put aside for next year. So, um, and this is a non-political statement that was just being given in a I think a rather rather unbiased way that potentially this revenue is being put aside for Newsome who might be looking at a national, you know, presidential bid. So to be able to make sure that he has money to play with for his last year of being governor before he turns out, we might be looking at
139less revenue this coming school year or this year in general in terms of funding the state to be able to make sure that there's more money available for the next year. So that was very frustrating to hear. We need the money now. Um some additional things. Thank you um BW for sending the spreadsheet earlier today. with all sorts of great information regarding um courses that are available to students um with needs. And then um finally, I do want to give a shout out to one of our retirees daughters. Um Amber Almolini is a 2019 graduate program, product of um K through 12. She has been accepted to medical school is going to study to become a doctor probably in um neurology and she is an amazing amazing individual. should be going to University of Maryland
140and um just saying that our rim grads are really doing amazing things out in out in the world and will continue to and there's a lot to be proud of there. So, as we look at the end of this school year, do realize that your hard work continues to to to grow and build and so just expressing my continuation and hope for you to have a restful, wonderful, fantastic summer. Thank you. Going on to number see here 10.4. Superintendent Dr. Paul Saviano. Hello everybody. As we wrap up another remarkable school year, we want to take a moment to celebrate and express our gratitude to our many community partners and businesses whose generosity and collaboration helped us make an impact on our students. Throughout the year, we have been fortunate to work alongside dedicated organizations including
141RIMED Foundation, the RI family services, Mountain Counseling, Arts and Lives, Afro and Rotary Club, and many more. These partners have supported our student well-being, mental health resources, enrichment activities, and academic achievement. We also want to extend our appreciation to our CTE employers who and the various businesses who supported our students to provide real world and mentorship programs for our students and paid interns. So, and thank you Stephanie Gold for your working in that area. Florida has inspired empowered our next generation of leaders, workers, and bankers. Special thanks go out to many local restaurants, eeries that collaborate with our schools on fundraising efforts. Your contributions with spirit nights, benefit dinners, and a host of other events really has enhanced our school programs, events, and classroom needs. Together, your partnerships have helped shape a stronger, more connected
142ed educational environments. And we recognize that student success is not in isolation. It is a community effort. And we are thankful to every individual and organization that helped us achieve our goals. As we look forward to the next school year, we remain committed to strengthening these partnerships and our relationships and student success. Thank you for your continued support and generosity and belief in our students and our students. Thank you. 11.0 Z discussion action items 11.1 superintendent legislative inefficacy report fiscal impact none have a motion Jordan second [Music] Scott let's go ahead and open up that discussion okay so I sent you guys a an update on where some of the bills are from capital advisors um A couple bills that we've talked about that are concern is AB65, which is the 14 weeks of fully
143paid pregnancy related leave. That's on top of what they already have. Um the cost of this is tremendous. And despite our fiscal environment right now, um and how much this would cost, um the the bill went forward and I'm sure Shannon's really happy about that. And it just letting you know this is very costly. It's not a judgment on the merit of the bill and the intention of the bill. It's the cost in this kind of environment. So that's of concern. Then um AB 1230 which we're going to be voting on tonight. Um the the bill passed without any amendments which is unfortunate. This is the one that when a student um it is expelled, you have to create a rehabilitation plan. Look at Shannon's already tearing his hair out. You have to create a
144rehabilitation plan um for uh re-entry back into your district. And you the student would have to complete the requirements. This would be a meeting with the parent. the student, the the district, what resources, put together the resources and making sure that the student has access to those resources to complete the rehabilitation plan. And so the issue is this almost becomes like an IEP for behavior and for re-entry from um by an expelled student. What happens if somehow all the eyes are dot are not dotted and te's crossed? Does this open up districts reliability? It has the potential to do so if if you cannot get that rehabilitation plan in place and the student doesn't have the uh access to the resources. So there's again great intentions but but the I just see unintended consequences with
145this bill and and so is sharing. That's why he tore his hair out. The last of it, right? The last of its gone. Um then a bill you guys talk about the um the LCFF and increasing funding targets. Uh so AB477 would do that. It would increase the um LCFF base grant targets um for K TK it's the K through 12 grade spans all of that um it it would be for for subsequent years but also preceding years interesting a lot of money attached to this and the interesting part is that there would be it almost becomes categorical the way they're phrasing it because they want this extra money to go towards a very very very very worthy cause of increasing school site staff salaries at school districts, county offices and and COE's. Um, however,
146it needs to be fully funded fully and and all of that money needs to go into Prop 98 fully funded so that you're not stealing from Peter to pay Paul. that that's just the whole thing is that you don't want to be stuck with good intentions but with unintended consequences. And I think I'm going to just stay there on it. Those are some of the big ones that we were kind of looking at. And you guys have this report already. I sent it to you. Sands is next Wednesday. And then these next CSVA legislative action I mean legislative committee day is the same day as our retreat but I do get a report. So at the last meeting of the month I can give the update where we'll be heading. Some of the bills have
147crossed over like Senator Cho votes um SB745 which is the American civics um making that a mandatory class. It did cross over. It's in the assembly. Um there are conversations. I know there's a push like what I talked about is it's a great idea. Let's embed it in government instead of making it an additional standalone class. Our master schedule's already fully impacted. What are you going to take away from kids their their visual performing arts pathway? Is it their CTE pathway? What is it that's going to come off the table to in order to have this happen? Because something has to give in tightly impacted master schedules. That's it. And Cindia, did we want to discuss anything on the draft advocacy platform? I thought it was brilliant. say um first read through I need to
148spend more time on it. So far there was everything in there that I wanted to see and so I'm very happy. I appreciate you putting the time and effort into it. Jordan, are we going to actually vote on that plan? Is that going to be part of a worship workshop discussion? part of our retreat. Okay. Then a point of order. We have a motion on the floor. What is that motion? It does not appear to be relevant. There is no that I have a note to myself because we have discussion and we have action items under this. I believe that when we're having a discussion item, we don't need to have the motion. But I'm following the the the template here. But at the same time, I think for discussion items, I think the motion
149should be rejected because there's nothing we're taking action on. We're hitting receiving a report. That's appreciated, but we're not taking action on it at this moment. No need to reject. I'll withdraw my motion. Okay. Seconded. Um, so no, I believe at the discussion item, we have no need for that. Point of order taken. Thank you. Is there any further discussion on this item? U this note that uh yeah I'll look forward to discussing the platform in a workshop but um yeah if you have changes or revisions in mind please feel free to come with those so we can discuss them all and I appreciate that we have somebody on the inside of Sandabs and that's getting us information on on things that are coming up. So, thank you so much, Cindy. I don't know if
150Shannon, she's right here. You guys have this. She's right in the E. I found I'll be happy to share mine with you. Okay. Um, moving ahead to 11.2. Superintendent approval to reopen the RIM adult education program for the 2025 2026 school year. from the World Unified School District was approved for $97,8170 from the Inland Adult Education Consort Consortium AEC to fund three adult education courses of the higher school operations staff. These courses include a diploma based program course for adults needing a high school diploma August 2025, an English as a second language course January 2026, and a CTE career technical education pharmacy tech course August 2026. Fiscal impact 97,817 funding from Inland Adult Education Consortium IAC. So good bill. Second Scott discussion. I love the fact that this is not going to impact our our
151um general fund whatsoever. I appreciate the work that's gone into this. I notice on the list that we are among we are the lowest recipient of the grant funding, but hopefully I'm we're also the newest bre recipient. Hopefully we can continue to grow that and have a successful adult bed program. And we got more than we asked for, didn't we, Dr. Seviano? That is correct. We just asked for some seed money and they granted us more than that. Also express appreciation that Dr. Seviano has uh participated in the county board on adult education putting himself in the position to be able to bring men's toys to the table there. So again, fantastic. Any more discussion? Calling for the vote. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 11.3 Educational Services approve approval of the
152agreement between the California Foundation for History Education CF CFH and room for the World Unified School District ROUSD for financial literacy training during the 20252026 school year. Fiscal impact $45,000 cents budget source educator effective effectiveness grant motion Scott second Jordan [Music] discussion so I curious I just want to be able to just clarify as far as the educator effectiveness grants that there is limited areas in which we can spend this money. That's correct. And this is coming from um the remaining dollars that was set aside for ethnic studies uh in a similar fund. So we had about 90,000 set aside for a fivewe period. We used to 45,000 45,000 for financial. I believe we're using the same consultants too. Is that we are Yeah. And then it says it's for financial literacy training. And so
153the a consultant proposal that you'll see in your board documents indicates um the number of days that it starts with a process very similar that we did with ethnic studies where we'll bring together a committee that's going to include educational partners, parents, family members, um board members, um staff members who are going to be teaching the course. Um and it go we go through a process of learning the requirements that are set aside, the 13 areas and topics that are required. Kind of like with ethnic studies, we looked at the eight units that were required. Um and then uh as we go through that process, there's also the writing institute or the bridge developed by our own teachers. So it goes beyond just it goes beyond training and it's multiple days. Calling for the vote.
154All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 11.4 for educational services. Approval of the proposition 28 arts and music grant for Charles Hoffman Lake here arrowhead and valley of enchantment elementary schools. Rim virtual academy Mary Pton Hank Intermediate Rim High School and Mountain High School for the 2025 2026 school year fiscal impact $434,31 budget source proposition 28. So move seconded Jordan discussion. Just a curious question really on a general level. Um I noticed this amount of funding slightly lower than what we received last year. Um how does the state calculate prop 28? Maybe that's a who brought a question. I'm just curious. we actually will get an estimate of Prop 28 um along with multiple other programs and that number actually won't be screwed up until next April. So it's part of the aortionment
155um a portionate summary which includes some mental health some prop 48 lawf um they they start the initial allocation with an estimate based on prior year and then what the u and then at P1 um they which is our first attendance reporting um they will kind of true that number up again we'll get a new aortionment notice and then at P2 it's true up again and then any revisions during closing. So after the year is done, we'll kind of true that number. Oh, sorry. We'll true that number up again. So it's an estimate based on attendance. Thank you. Thank you. And I apologize for not asking this question over, but I read through the documentation. I'm not sure I understand how Rim Virtual Academy or Mountains High School are making use of these funds. And
156I did notice there's something in each of those that even talked about the band auxiliary and I was trying to understand that as well. Right. Two that's two questions. Absolutely. So looking at the aortionment that's funded because they're smaller and it's and it is a portion based on attendance. Um we looked at a partnership with other sites. Right. So Ren High um is taking a portion of the the mountain high and the RBA funds to provide sections at the high school that mountain high school students can attend or RBA students take advantage of. The same process goes for the elementary schools. Um so a portion of RBA's funding goes towards the uh itinerate positions for the elementary school so that any student that's going to RBA can take advantage of the opportunities that are available
157at the elementary school. Um and then the the band auxiliary is a support. So it's not quite a booster but Mr. Ms. could probably explain that a little bit better. You want to jump over here? Um but like that's where you'll see um like the band uniforms that we were talking about. some of the instructional resources at the 20% of the total allocation that it can afford. So 80% goes to staffing and then the 20% 1% of that being ad processing instructional resources. So the band auxiliary Mr. I didn't know either. The study came to me and she had to spend it all me. All right. So we have the band. They're the ones that play the instruments, right? They're adding an auxiliary unit where they hold flags. They march with the band. Right. So
158it will be what we're able to do and the reason why we're structuring it that way in the prop 28 funds is we have to show that we're expanding the arts in some way. So Miss Stepping for example needing her new uniforms. We weren't able to purchase the new uniforms out of Prop 28 because that's an existing program. That's where she did her fundraising campaign. We are purchasing the uniforms for this auxiliary unit which is the primary cost which they don't twirl the flags. I learned that they hold the flags. It's a whole thing. And there's it it adds to their competition and makes them, you know, enhances the band a little bit. So it'll be the be an additional unit added on to the band that we already have. So they're not going to
159do the flag whirling stuff, but they No, that's a different thing. The auxiliary unit holds and marches and it's part of the formation as opposed to like a color guard flag that twirls and b two different things. So twirling's bad. Twirling's great. We're just not gonna have it. Swirling's fantastic. There'll just be no swirling ever. I'm just confused. It sounded like it was bad. I was like, why is it bad? So, auxiliary just folded. Correct. Correct. That's a color guard. This is an auxiliary unit to the ban, which is an expansion of the arts program, which is why it's under 28. Thank you for the clarification, Mr. WMC. And just to clarify the other piece of it, so students at RVA can actually go to if they're in elementary school to a local elementary school
160and participate in a band program, for example. And the same thing with mountains. Correct. So we have um periods one and two um our backup programs are open to the mountain high school students, which is an expansion of mountains back program. And we have the same thing periods five and six for RDA nth students. So beginning of the day and the end of the day they come on campus they can take the courses at the high school and that way they have the access to our full complement of that both opportunities instead of just the small amount they get from their prop 28 fun and the prop 28 funds gave us opportunity to practice the the support with in terms of making the periods work to where now we're expanding with CSI the CTE uh
161section as well. So you tested that out and that will help us to extend the CT as well. Interesting because that was going to be a question later. So thank you. Quick question while we've got you. I know in our ELAP we mentioned that we work with um our arts organizations on the mountain like arts association and mountain tops that we talk to them continually or regularly about art programs. We meet with them pretty frequently. Um, in fact, they're up in it services quite a bit, quite a bit. Um, and there were some different opportunities that they were looking at supporting us with specifically in elementary. Um, in 45, they were looking at supporting us with some some additional band support. Um, they were trying to help us find a teacher. And so, unfortunately, it
162it didn't quite work out, but they continue to partner with us and provide us opportunities that they're willing to support like they've done in the past. So, we keep that door open and appreciate their ongoing support. Great. Thank you. Any other further discussion? Calling for a vote. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 11.5 Business Services approval of the res of resolution number 24/25-32 regarding the education protection account. Fiscal impact budgeted budget source total local control funding formula allocation. So move Scott. Any discussion? Any discussion? Calling for the vote. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. 12.0 consent calendar. I do want to note that we do have some edits that were made um prior to close session. So for 12.2 it is not Senate bill. It should read as assembly
163bill. For 12.3 um it should be assembly bill number 772. for 12.5. Um note that um Senate Bill 1315 was already approved by the 2324 session was signed by the governor and I believe that was the extent of the edits that were made to um the consent calendar. Okay. So, if you want to take a moment to look over and see if you want to have any of them pull number four, please. important. It would seem to me that in light of the changes that have taken place with the agenda and because there are requests for eyes and names that it would be helpful to take those three and and well all three they will be individual. Okay. 12.2 Two, two, three, and four. Two, three, and five. Two, three, and five. Sorry. Four. Yes.
164So, two, five. Additional. Any addition additional ones? Okay. Then um we can go ahead and ask for a motion for 12.1 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.7 12.11 12.13 124 12.15 12.6 16 12.17 12.18 12.1 12.20 12.21 12.22.23 12.24 12.25 12.26 and 12.7 27 So move second Scott. Any discussion on these? And calling for the vote. All in favor? I all oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Moving on to 13 items removed from the consent calendar and take them in order. First go with item number two. Do I have a motion? Cindy. Do I have a second? Second. Bill. So looking at item number two regarding assembly bill 1230 public discipline. Is there any discussion? I we already talked about it and we're getting Shen's head. That's all that needs to be said. Yeah, we don't we don't
165be going and just clarify we have enough responsibility or the staff has enough responsibility. We don't have to be trying to monitor that as well. Question. Um then I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote. All in favor? I I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. For item number three, do I have a motion? So moved. Second. discussion. This is the one where a student um doing cyber bullying texts and behaviors off campus off not during school hours. Still the school district would be responsible for the discipline. Any further discussion? Okay. So all in favor I I all opposed. Motion passes unanimously. Item number four. Do I have a motion? So move Cindy. Second. Scott discussion. Yeah. This one uh it was supposed to we were supposed to bridge forward opposing SD 745 which
166was the American civics not AB745 which is the electricity infrastructure. So we never spoke about this bill. I don't know if anybody really wants to move forward with it, but I'm proposing that we pull this from the agenda and then we can reintroduce SB745 via CHO vote. Yeah. Is that a motion? Yes. Shall I make a motion to pull this 12.4 from the agenda? I second. Second. Okay. So, in terms of then um any further discussion as far as John pulling it, I was curious about this. Um yeah, I was curious about just reading it, but I mean it seemed tangental to us underground. So, um yeah, discuss it. So, if you I just maybe it was me not clarifying very well. Don't respond to that mistake. So, in terms of voting on the second
167motion to have this item pulled and to be able to off, but I'm going to go ahead and call for a vote. All in favor? I. All oppose. That motion passes unanimously. And then item number five. Do I have a motion? So moved. Cindy. Second. Jordan. Discussion. I think this uh resolution needs some reworking. Um so I would recommend pulling this and bringing it back at a later date. The item description talks about uh SP 1315 and the subsequent report from the small school districts association. Um but the resolution does not mention the small school district's report or anything of that sort. It's it's more framed as we support this bill that pass. Um so I would recommend we pull in repeat the language, bring it back. That would be my recommendation. Okay. So I
168make a motion 12.5. Jordan, did you second that? Okay. Then in that case is call um calling for the vote on the second motion. Um all in favor I I I. All opposed. Okay. That motion passes unanimously. Madam President, just a point of information when there is a se separate motion. It's a new motion. There's not requirement that previous second person says a second. Anyone can say a second to a new motion. And so when Cindy made a motion to remove that's a new motion. Well, as a motion, even a motion to the table doesn't require that. So, I think we're trying to fall into a pattern that always says the person who made the second on the original motion has to make the second on the new motion. That's not the case. You don't
169understand. I'll repeat myself later. I understand. I've got lovely worlds Robert's rules at home. So, it was something that probably changed. So, I will visit that. So, okay. Thank you for your point of order. 13.0 governance team future agenda items planning 14.1 times allotted for the board of trustees to request agenda items for future meetings. to see if we can bring SB745 the actual bell back and then when we were setting the agenda for the sport retreat um just something that's that's in the news a lot and I know that we had a PD day from our fellow Trojan that didn't happen on AI. I was wondering do we want to have some kind of of focus and discussion on AI? It's you know how how what the policy the the challenges the post do
170we want to have that kind of like board education piece on AI and AI in the classroom and how it how it can be utilized since I don't know I'm just throwing it out there just because um you know CSVA created a task force they made it before received in the news all the time we went to some workshops at the DC and I I really wanted to go to the the AI presentation by the uh at the last PD meetings. Uh so I don't know just throwing it out there. We are bringing back the AI presenter at the back. So that's an opportunity there for everybody. Okay, great. That's fine. So does that satisfy do you want to have it as something that we discuss as well? No, let's do the presentation and then
171let's uh kind of just stay and then bring it back for discussion and looking at policy and um practice practice in the classroom. Is there anything else? Well, I just want to make sure that we are doing our advocacy plan at my that is that is something that we have that we've already identified that that was something that was already listed and it seems like it might be helpful to ensure that we bring back this I think I think there was some value in even speaking towards is it Senate Bill 1315? Yes. then speaking towards that because I think there's still some things that are being developed because of that bill that might be helpful for us to take position. I've been the whole thing is that the way that things are working, we want
172to push for that to be fully realized instead of diluted because that's kind of what happens. So I agree with you just making sure that we are in strong favor for action. Yes. Not just oh let's do a study and see what kind of reports we do. No, let's have action to consolidate because I think that next piece the action part though is is you know kind of in response. I agree and that's why I think we should be saying something speaking up and I also think that the SBA ought to be speaking up too. Uh they are Oh yeah, Eric. This is [Music] Eric. My ears hurt so bad right now that I am, you know, I want to take a pen and just start pushing it in there. So, just for clarification, as
173far as future agenda items, um we're looking at um SB745 and then also making sure that we have a revised resolution or some sort of something around SB1315 related to making sure that there's action. Yeah. Okay. Um anything else? 15.0 zero future meeting dates board retreat June 2025 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 24740 Sanway California 92325 and regular board meeting June 26 2025 4:00 p.m. Post session 5:30 p.m. open session 24740 St. way, California 2325 and regular board meeting August 14th, 2025 4:00 p.m. close session 5:30 p.m. Open session 24740 San Ritz Wayline, California 9325 We do not need to recess to close session 17.0 adjournment 17.1 adjourn meeting. Please God Cindy moves to meeting second. Okay. Um, do I have a time? I watch that. 8:29. The meeting was adjourned at Actually, go ahead.
174I have a motion. I have it seconded. Um, calling for a vote. I do I have Okay. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously.