001[clears throat] [cough] [clears throat] [clears throat and cough] [laughter] [snorts] >> All right, are we all in? Okay. Thank you. Sorry. Technical difficulties happen all the time to everyone. So. All right, so the Board of Trustees will reconvene into open session and we will recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Ken Mueller, will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? >> [cough] >> Please stand. Put your hand over your heart. Ready to begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Ken. >> All right. So, item 8.1, public testimony. During meetings of the Board of Trustees, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on items that appear
002on the agenda or items [snorts] that do not appear on agenda, but on the agenda, but are within the subject [clears throat] matter jurisdiction of the board. Individual speakers shall be allowed 3 minutes to dis- to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item. The board shall limit the total public input on each item to 20 minutes. Speakers may not All right. Uh Edgar Garcia, please. >> [snorts] >> Good evening. My name is Edgar Garcia. I'm a parent in the district. I also work for the district. I also serve as the city council member for the city of Calimesa. I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and share that I plan to attend meetings regularly as an engaged parent to the community meetings and as a member as well, too. Strong institutions
003are built on transparency, communication, and accountability. Like many parents, I believe our schools should always be places where students feel safe, respected, and supportive. When concerns related to student safety arise, family deserves transparency, accountability, and timely responses. I look forward to staying engaged in supporting our culture where a safety and the well-being of every student remains the highest priority at the Beaumont Unified School District. Thank you. Thank you, Edgar. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Item 9.1 uh approve the recommended action for student discipline. Uh student discipline case number 202526-12. I move approval. I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. >> [clears throat] >> And the motion carries. Item 10.1 uh report out of closed session. There are no [clears throat] items to report out of closed session today. Item 10.2 receiver
004report from our student board member Cayden Alderson. Thank you very much. Um good evening, everyone. I'm excited to share our secondary school sites uh great events, activities, and accomplishments. Starting off with Mountain View Middle School. The Mountain View Middle School students, Cougar Steppers, made their debut at the Black History Celebration on February 25th. Mountain View Middle School's eighth-grade students attended the STEM conference at the University of Redlands. Mountain View Middle School eighth-grade students kicked off science camp on Catalina Island. Mountain View Middle School AVID students visited Azusa Pacific University. Congratulations to the Cougars uh district spelling bee participant. A special congratulations to Jaime for earning second place at the district level and serving as the alternate at the Riverside County Office of Education Spelling Bee. Mountain View Middle School music students enjoyed a trip to
005Riverside Community College to see Shrek. Moving on to San Gorgonio Middle School. San Gorgonio Middle School is proud to attend the California League of Middle School conference on March 5th to be recognized as a re-designated school to watch. The school was originally designated in 2016 and received a re-designation in 2019, 2022, and now 2026. The school hosted the first annual San Gorgonio Middle School talent show in February. This was a fun event that attracted many students and families. Ezequiel Camarillo took first place at the Beaumont USD Spelling Bee and will move on to represent San Gorgonio Middle School at the Riverside County Spelling Bee. Keep it up Ezequiel. Seventh grade students visited Ocean Institute in Dana Point to learn about biodiversity, food webs, water conditions, and track dolphins in the ocean. Next, moving on to
006Somonauk School. Congratulations to the amazing Somonauk School team on their CAST recognition. Shout out to the middle school team for earning the highest growth in ELA, math, and science. SDS Amazing Shake finalists took part in all-day trip top district top 20 competition. Congratulations to Ethan Moitoso for earning second place. He will attend the Ron Clark Global Amazing Shake in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations to the students at Somonauk School middle school on their first quarter honor roll award ceremony. Keep aiming high, trailblazers. Next, on to Beaumont High School. The Academic Decathlon team won the Riverside County competition and will attend the state competition in Santa Clara this month. Students and teachers enjoyed delicious food from the culinary program as part of the monthly student recognition lunch last week. The Advanced Placement Environmental Science students had a great
007time learning about nuclear energy at San Onofre Generation Station. Winter sports concluded over the break with girls water polo making it to the semi-finals at CIF and Matthew Cassis making it to the Steve wrestling meet. Next on to Glenview High School. Glenview students with positive attendance for the month of January were rewarded with an Art Barn painting activity. The boys basketball team is currently in the playoffs. They won their first playoff game. Students and staff thank Ms. Susan Aguilar Martinez for bringing 12 community partners to the campus to conduct mock interviews as a way to build career ready skills. Next on the 21st Century Learning Institute. 21st Century Learning 21st Century Learning Institute students had a great time participating in the district spelling bee. Congratulations to Maximus Goodwin for earning the third place trophy. High
008school students are learning and competing with each other with our virtual chess club. Special thanks to the to Dr. Melissa Brown, the club advisor, for making this club possible. 21st Century Learning Institute would like to thank the Best Foundation for grant funding to support STEM activities during social clubs. Next on to Bomont Middle College High School. Bomont Middle College High School avid sophomores participated participated in a field trip to University of Redlands to learn more about higher education opportunities. Seniors participated in the CSU admission day at Cal State San at Cal State University San Marcos. High school is excited High school is excited about that the application window is now open for students interested in enrollment in fall. And that will be all. That will be concluding our uh our secondary student board member report.
009Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Cayden. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Moving on to the district calendar. We will receive a report from Superintendent Maze Kakesh and review the district calendar for the month of March. Good evening everyone. Thank you Kaden for all of these exciting events, but I'm sorry that I'm having to repeat some of them because they're just district accomplishments at the same time. So, just reiterating. So, we'll start with highlighting um the fact that our district annual film festival will be on Thursday, March 26th. Now, the voting for the viewers' choice award closes on March 9th. So, please vote so they can actually um announce that on March 26th. And if um you're looking for the link for the voting, after every board meeting, our PIO
010will send a newsletter about the board highlights and in that uh newsletter, there will be a link to vote on the film festival. And you can see all of the other film. And then, on to the Black [clears throat] History Month. Uh Chana, it was amazing. And I came back saying that the next Taylor Swift and the next, you know, best rock star will be from Banning Unified. They did an awesome job, you know, highlighting the history, but also um the talent, dancing, the singing. It was just um really the best um so far. So, thank you for the committee uh for working on this and highlighting that. And thank you for Banning High School for hosting it at um their theater. And then, we've received information about our recognition of the Air Force Junior
011ROTC. And they've received the highest score possible as it as it relates to them adhering to the law, policies, and other standards by US Air Force. So, that was uh such an accomplishment. And they will have their military ball this Saturday. And so, I'm looking forward to participating in that with them. They always have throw a really nice event. And I do want to acknowledge our best um of ACSA winners this year are coming from Beaumont Unified School District. So, we have Dr. Evan Brown, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Support Services, Jennifer Castillo, Assistant Superintendent of HR, and Gabby Toledo, Director of Special Education, are being recognized as Administrator of the Year for their respective area at our Association and Administrators Day. So proud of our staff. Um and I also saw a former board
012member that um he remembers how um he was always uh encouraging everyone of us to actually participate and be active in the association and to highlight the staff. And for him to see three being um winners this year uh from Beaumont Unified just filled his bucket. Yeah. And um and it fills my bucket. So, congratulations to all of you. I know that you're all in the audience. And then I also want to uh let the board know and the audience at the same time Beaumont Unified School District sent 12 students to the Regional Amazing Shake Competition. Um placement in 7th through 8th grade division Tony Olowabusie um and Aubrey uh uh Zuniga and Sophia Tandoc. That tells you of our diversity in our district, right? Um placed um placed first and uh placement in 5th
013through 6th grade division, Madison Sweeney from San Gorgonio Middle School. So, all of them we are so proud of them and this is like a unique first time event at the regional level and hosted by San Bernardino County Office of Education. So, I anticipate that this event will just grow further at more counties and hopefully at the state level. So cool. As for the calendar, we have to highlight DLI showcase will be the 20 year celebration on March 12th. And then best first fundraiser event. I call it a gala. She doesn't want me to say a a gala and stress everybody about the attire of the event, but I consider it you know, a great event to attend to support our students. All of the funds go for scholarships for our students and grants for
014our teachers to implement in their school / classrooms. So, the event will be on the 19th and if you need any more information, reach out to me or April to give you information. District literacy fair is on March 21st and that will be here at the ESF. March 30th through March to April 3rd, we will have our schools closed for spring break. And [snorts] that is it for my report, Mr. President. Thank you, Ms. Kekish. Uh that moves us on to item 11.1, approve the consent agenda. Items prepared for the consent agenda are items consistent with adopted and approved policies of the district and are deemed routine in nature. They will be acted upon in one single motion without discussion unless any member of the Board of Trustees requests an item be removed from the
015consent agenda. In that [clears throat] event, it will be taken up in the order indicated on the main agenda. Uh do I have a motion? So moved. I'll second. Would anyone like to remove an item? Discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. Oh, I'm sorry. Lance and David. Lance and David. I think I'm good on this one. Oh, sure. And the motion carries. Item 13.1, receiver presentation and certify the 25-26 second interim report. Welcome. Thank you very much. All righty. Good evening, Superintendent Kakesh, President Brown, members of the board, cabinet colleagues, and community. My name is Nathan Camarena, and I serve as the director of fiscal services here for Beaumont Unified. You want to raise that, you can. You look a little uncomfortable. >> [laughter] >> Just make sure you're comfortable. I think I'm good.
016I think I'm okay. Okay. And I'm I'm here today to present the 25-26 second interim budget report. Um so, we'll go ahead and we'll jump right in. So, our first slide here is just our budget cycle. Um so, in December, we brought forth our first interim, which was our first checkpoint of the 25-26 uh school year. And today, we are bringing forth our second interim. So, as we move through our presentation, a lot of our data will compare to what we brought to the board last time. Uh and anytime that we're starting with the budget, we always start with a series of assumptions and a series of criteria and standards that drive our revenues and our expenditures. Uh this slide here uh just has our assumptions compared from first interim to second interim. There's There
017hasn't been much change in our assumptions. The only thing that you that you'll note here is that our uh district enrollment number, uh that is our certified CBEDS. So, we certified CBEDS in December. Um so, in first interim, that was our October. So, there was a a decrease [snorts] of two students there. But, our enrollment to ADA ratio, that remains the same as what was projected at first interim. We'll continue to monitor that throughout the year. Um and then at first interim, we had an increase to our unduplicated pupils, which is our foster youth, our socioeconomically disadvantaged, and our English learners. Uh so, you can see that our unduplicated pupil percentage for a single year is about 71% and that drives our LCAP revenues. Uh and then at the bottom of the slide, you can
018see that our state teachers retirement, our STRS, and then our public employee, that's our classified retirement. No change in those assumptions there. And then as we move to our next slide here, this is the uh combined general fund summary. In the left column, you can see that there is first interim and on the right uh there's our second interim. To just jump to the ending fund balance, you can see that at first interim, we were projecting an ending fund balance of $36 million. And and at second interim, our projected ending fund balance is $36.9 million uh uh for a local education agency, our uh our funds and our fund balance are comprised of different uh different funds, right? So, we have our restricted dollars, which are restricted for a certain program or a grant. We
019also have our reserves for economic uncertainties. Our commitments, uh those are locally what we've decided as a board what's a commit, and then our assignments that that's primarily our health and welfare pools and our vacation liability. And then we'll jump into each section in our presentation. Our next slide here is uh revenues. So, again comparing first interim to second interim, you can see that our total revenues at first interim were 229.6 million and at second interim our projection is 231 .1 million dollars at second interim. Um and then our next slide is going to break down what has changed between our two reporting periods. Um just at our local control funding formula, you can see that we had a change to our enrollment using certified uh using certified CBEDS. That's impacting our LCAP dollars. Um
020federally, uh we're seeing additional dollars for both of our Medi-Cal programs. We have a restricted Medi-Cal program that is the Medi-Cal LEA BOP. And then we have an unrestricted Medi-Cal program that is the administrative activities. But for both of our Medi-Cal programs, we are anticipating additional revenues than what was projected at first interim. Lastly in the federal category, we have our Title IV revenues, which is uh Title IV that's student support and enrichment. Uh there's about a hundred thousand dollar additional allocation there to our Title IV dollars. Moving into our state dollars, uh the largest change there was to our early intervention our preschool grant, and that's restricted for special education. Locally, uh we're seeing an increase for our redevelopment um revenues and our low incidence that again that's another special education grant. Um and
021that's for deaf and hard of hearing students low incidence disabilities. Uh Uh, moving to the next side of our uh, budget is our expenditures here. Uh, you can see that our expenditures at first interim were $251.7 million and at second interim we have $252.2 million and then our next slide we'll get into our changes as well. So, for expenditures between the first and second interim, what we're seeing is an increase for substitutes and extra duty um, and an increase for fixed costs in paying those additional salaries. Between first and second interim, we've also posted the projected uh, impact to our health and welfare pools, which will be reflected in our assignments. Um, and then moving to books and supplies, overall we're seeing a decrease to books and supplies for a reallocation really to services and
022other operating expenditures. In that category, we have an increase for insurance, uh, repairs, software, legal fees and professional services driving our our services category. Lastly, on this slide we have our uh, ELO construction. Uh, at first interim uh, we added a budget to ELO to add access uh, to our uh, elementary schools throughout the district. Uh, with ELO, that is a restricted state program and what changed in this year is how the state is funding that. Um, so what the district is seeing is an increase to ELO dollars, but what comes with the increase to that revenue is the need to require is to provide access to students to the ELO program. Um, and then at second interim, we are just adjusting the construction costs because this is the budget through June 30th, 2026. So,
023the project will carry past July 1st, 2026. Our next slide here, this is contributions from the unrestricted general fund to the restricted general fund. Between first and second interim, uh we can see that the special education contribution has increased from about 33.3 to 34.9. That's being driven by an an increase in extra duty sub costs and contracts for special education. Um and then just below that, our routine restricted maintenance has a small increase. Our routine restricted maintenance, that is 3% of our total budget and as our total budget has increased, uh the contribution to routine has increased a small amount there. The next section of the slideshow we'll get into the components of the ending fund balance and we are starting with our restricted uh programs here first. You can see at on this slide,
024uh there's an increase to the expanded learning opportunities program. What we are projecting to end the year with, again, because we decreased our construction cost for our current year. So, we're dropping that to the ending fund balance and we will carry that to next year to continue the construction project. Um and then also you can see that our early intervention uh special education, what we are expecting to carry over, uh has increased between our two reporting periods. And then this slide here is continuing our restricted balances. You can see at first interim, our restricted balances were $14.7 million and that has grown to $18.3 million. Uh that's kind of being led by the ELO uh ELO dollars in addition to you can see redevelopment there and the uh Medi-Cal program. Now, this slide here is
025covering the reserve for economic uncertainties and commitments. You can see that on our left column first interim, our top section is the reserve for economic uncertainties and you can see that there has been a little bit of a decrease in our reserve. Again, that's due to pressures on the unrestricted general fund that is decreasing that reserve between our two reporting periods. Moving to committed funds, our textbooks curriculum remains the same at $1.3 million, but you can see there's a small change to LCAP again going back to that certified C-beds. Uh lastly, our last component of the ending fund balance is our assignments here and you can see at first interim we had total assignments of $4.4 million and at second interim we have assignments of about $2.8 million. Um And then this next slide here
026is a summary of all funds. Up to this point we've been discussing the general fund. The general fund serves as the primary operating fund of the school district. And you can see that the general fund has a projected ending fund balance of $36.9 million as of June 30th, 2026. Beaumont Unified operates a total budget across all funds of $296.3 million. And you can see across all funds we are projecting to end the year with $114.5 million. The last section of my slideshow will cover the multi-year projection and again anytime that we're talking about a budget, we always start with a series of assumptions. So these are our criteria and standards that are being used for the multi-year. You can see just starting from the top, we have our cost of living allowance and right here
027School Services of California, SSC, I just wanted to point to the 27-28 budget year. You can see that the 3.06% COLA is projected by SSC, but locally here at Beaumont Unified, we do not include COLA in the 27-28 fiscal year. One other thing that has changed from first interim to second interim is actually the COLA in the 26-27 fiscal year. At first interim, our COLA was 3.02 for next year, and the governor's proposed budget decreases COLA to 2.41. So, a loss of about 0.6% COLA, but you can see that we are still projecting continued growth at the district of about 2% annually. While we are maintaining the enrollment to ADA ratio, and then you can see that there's a small decrease to the PERS rate in 26-27. This slide here is a combined multi-year projection,
028and you can see at second interim, there's our $36.9 million that we are projecting to end the year with. There is a deficit that exists in the budget, and you can see how that 36.9 becomes 29.3, and then that becomes 26.8. This slide here again is combined. This slide here is the unrestricted portion only, and you can see of the 39.6 that we are projecting at second interim, 18.6 of that lives in the unrestricted fund, and you can see how the deficit in unrestricted continues between It's continues through 27-28, but the district still meets its 3% required reserve in 27-28. Lastly, this is our restricted multi-year projection, and you can see that we are projecting to end the year with 18.3 million restricted and then that 18.3 decreases to 14.5. And what that is is
029that's the continued ELO construction in addition to transferring costs from the unrestricted side of the house against restricted dollars to free up our general fund. Um so you can see that we have a deficit in 26-27. That is intentional and then in 27-28, the surplus returns again led by ELO. Um and that concludes our second interim presentation and I'm open for questions. I'm actually good. Can you go back about five or six slides? >> Absolutely. Keep going. Right there. Yes. Cool. What caused the 14 million dollar difference between the first and the second interim? Yes, so at first interim, we were projecting to end our with our restricted dollars, we were projecting to end the year with 14.7 million dollars. Now at second interim, we are projecting to end the year with 18.3. So our
030restricted funds are growing. What's leading the growth in the restricted funds is that our expanded learning opportunity dollars. Those were budgeted for construction costs. But those construction costs won't be completed before the end of this fiscal year. So what we've done is we've reduced the budget for the construction costs, increased what we will carry over to next year. So that way next year we can take from what was carried over to continue to pay that project. Uh so for restricted, ELO really leads that charge. Uh we have at first interim we had a $4 million of construction costs to add portable buildings throughout the throughout the district. But at second interim we've decreased the budget from $4 million to $1 million. So that's why we're seeing additional funds carried over. And did I hear you
031say we had an increase in the federal funding but a decrease in the state funding? So we have an increase. Let me go back. So what we're seeing is we're we're seeing an increase across all revenue categories. Primarily I have the number here in federal. So overall our total revenue growth is $1.4 million. Of that $1.4 million I want to say it's $700,000. I have it here. Yes, so $1.4 million is the increase in revenue. Let me back it up here to you. So there's our revenue slide. So we have a $1.4 million increase in all of our revenues, but all categories are growing. Our largest category of growth there is our federal dollars. And that's about a $725,000 increase federally. We do have an increase in our state dollars too. Our state dollars are
032just led primarily by that preschool grant. Yeah, so Okay. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. At 13.2 elect delegates to the 2026 California School Board Association delegates. I'm sorry did I miss something? Does it need to be approved? Oh, we need we need budget That's that's an action item. Yes, it is. It's information and action. I'll move approval. >> [laughter] >> I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. Thank you, Susie. You're welcome. I think I'm out of sync somehow. Ah, there it goes. Finally. And the motion carries. Item 13.2 part two Elect delegates to the 2026 California School Board Association Delegate Assembly Subregion 18A. There are a total of nine candidates for the CSBA Delegate Assembly
033Subregion six vacancies and the Board of Trustees may vote for up to the six candidates represented. I'd like to make the recommendation for the incumbents Ben Johnson Linda Parra Melissa Williamson Cynthia Cynthia Navarro and Heidi Dodd. But that still leaves one more. Yes, I'd like to recommend Joseph Kamroski from Temecula Temecula Temecula Valley USD as the sixth. Did you just say you second that? I said I'm good with that. Okay. So, are you making a motion to What are you Are you making a motion to put all these people on here? Mhm. I'll second your motion along with Melissa's addition. Is it along with Melissa's addition? >> [laughter] >> All right. So, one [clears throat] more time, we got Ben Johnson, Linda Porras, >> Linda Porras, Melissa Williamson, >> Melissa Williamson, Cynthia Navarro, Cynthia Navarro,
034Heidi Dodd, Joseph Komrosky. >> Heidi Dodd and Joseph Komrosky. >> Basically all the incumbents plus Joseph. Okay. So, I got a motion and a second? Motion and second. Discussion? I have just um one comment [snorts] on this. So, uh we actually There was actually a mistake. CSBA actually left me off of the ballot and um I just wanted to publicly thank April for her um immaculate record keeping and um because they we we were able to prove that we did our part and they fixed it. So, thank you April. I appreciate that and thank you CSBA for fixing it. All right. No other discussion? February 16th will go down in infamy. >> [laughter] >> I wish I wasn't the one under discussion, but I'm glad I'm on the ballot. All right. Let's call for the
035vote. And the motion carries. All right. Item 14.1, approve the attendance incentives for Beaumont High School. I'll move approval. I'll second. Okay, moved by Susie, seconded by Melissa. Um, any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 15.1 approve the certificated personnel order listed on the report dated March 3rd, 2026. Do I hear a motion? I'll move approval. Second, David. >> [laughter] >> Moved by Melissa, seconded by David. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 15.2 approve the classified personnel assignment order listed on the report dated March 3rd, 2026. >> I'll move approval. Sorry, Lance. Lance. >> And Susie second. Susie seconded, okay. And discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 15.3 approve the administrative and confidential personnel assignment order
036listed on the date on the report dated March 3rd, 2026. Do I hear a motion? >> I'll move approval. Second, David. All right, Susie and David. Uh, discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. Item 15.4, adopt a resolution adopt resolution 2025-26-25, elimination and discontinuation of one administrative classified position for the 2026-2027 school year. So moved. Moved by Lance. Second, David. Seconded by David. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 16.1, receive an update on the district's capital facilities program. Here comes Anna. See, this one's just information. Mhm. Good evening, President Brown, board members, Superintendent Kakish. I'm Anna Gonzalez, here to give you a quick update on our capital outlay projects. On the agenda, we have Palm Innovation Academy new kitchen, Sanger Unified Middle School portables, and the Mountain View
037Middle School portables. Um and as mentioned in the past, our kitchen includes uh kitchen equipment, lunch shelter, landscaping, ADA path of travel, uh parking uh lot upgrades, and we have been in construction uh since May of last year, and are expected still to be completed April of this year. Our architect of record is RCA, uh construction manager Lionet Design Meyer, and the budget for this project is still 7.3 million. On this slide, you can see epoxy on the kitchen that's already have been completed. Our walking cooler installation is currently in progress. And currently, we are also in progress for the site work and planters. So, this project is moving fairly quickly. Next here is the San Gorgonio portables. Uh this one's been in construction since September of last of last year and still on schedule
038actually we're actually done already. Uh so, it was uh completed last week. Uh On this slide, you can see some of the ADA stalls being done and the concrete being poured. Uh this is about a week and a half ago, but as of this week the site has been punched by the principal actually today and is going to be occupied next week. So, we are on schedule. That's awesome. Next portable uh the next project is Mountain View. Again, we've been in construction since September. We are we were scheduled to be completed February. We did have a little with this project because of the rain uh during President's Week. Uh we are scheduled to be completed this Friday, punching next week, and soon after we'll be occupying. So, you can see here carpet's been completed, the
039ramps for the restrooms have been completed, and right now the only thing that we're missing is the uh railings for the portables which were again completing this week. And some railing up at the front of the school for ADA path of travel, and at that point we will be punching. And that is my update unless anyone has questions. Thank you. That's all good news. That's good. Thank you, Anna. Item 16.2 approve the purchase of three buses for student transportation within Beaumont Unified School District. Do I hear a motion? I'll move approval. I'll second, Lance. David. >> [laughter] >> Lance. All right, discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> All right, item 17.1, receiver report from the California School Employees Association and it's Beaumont Chapter 351. Is
040there any representative here? You know, Frank stopped by today and apologized for not being here today. Thank you, Mayes. Uh receiver report from the Beaumont Teachers Association. Is there any representative here today? Ah. Good evening, President Brown, members of the board, Superintendent Kakish, and cabinet members. Uh my name is Tim Chao. For those of you who haven't met me, I'm the first vice president of BTA and I'm here in lieu of Mr. Martinez tonight. He couldn't be here and he sends his apologies. To update you, BTA attended the LCAP Advisory Committee meeting on February 11th and our participation included the reflection and evaluation of the goals and actions of the LCAP. We also attended the Superintendent's Town Hall uh last week and uh negotiations team met with the district on February 12th. Our next meeting
041is scheduled for March 20th and at that time we will be discussing the BTA's proposal for compensation and benefits. BTA recently attended the SEBA board member meeting on the 27th and at that time the SEBA board voted to increase Blue Shield rates by 13% and the Kaiser rate by approximately 9%. BTA is currently evaluating the impact of this increase to our members. Finally, BTA would like to give a shout-out to students and staff who participated in the career technical education showcase recently hosted at Beaumont High School. Uh our thanks to Dr. Bryer for his presentation and that this program offers a career readiness to students who are seeking these diverse pathways. And a thank you also finally to the local businesses who have part- partnered with the district to provide work-based opportunities. Thank you. Do
042you mind reading that uh that was you said 13% in Sceva for Blue? Yes, Sceva voted for a 13% increase in Blue Shield rates and a 9% rate for Kaiser. Thank you. You're welcome. Well, Kaiser's fully funded. That's the big number. Thank you, Mr. Chao. All right. So, item 17.3, receiver report from Beaumont administration confidential management employee group. Um I understand Dr. Bryer is not here tonight. Um item 17.4, receiver report from board member David Sanchez. No comment tonight. All right. Item 17.5, receiver report from board member Dr. Lamston Sylvester. Good evening, President Brown, Superintendent Kekish, cabinet members, board members. Good evening to everyone. Just very quickly, um want to thank our Is it Shauna? Shauna Kills. It's Kills. Thank you once again. Uh Some of the events I have not been to um because
043I'm still in recovery phase. I have two more surgeries, but I promise that once I'm full that I will be at these events. Secondly, the aspect of I'm not sure of the protocol that of how we respond. I was trying to ascertain what was being said in the public comments by is it Mr. Edgar? And I was trying to understand if it was coming across that the students are not safe or you feel the students are not safe. I was trying to understand. So Staff will follow up with him in on more detail. >> Okay. Okay. So I I was just trying to get the gist of what was being said and and the spirit in which it was being said. Other than that, thank you once again and look forward to moving Bomart forward.
044Thank you, Dr. Sylvester. Receiver report from board member Melissa Williamson. No report tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Williamson. Item 17.7, receiver report from board member Susie Lara. Okay, actually I have quite a few things I want to talk about tonight. First I want to say shout out to Coach Breanna Morris, the girls wrestling coach. I received two emails from parents. I don't know if anybody else did. And so I just wanted to say shout out to her because that's awesome when you get those kind of emails when somebody's happy with someone. It's like, "Oh, that's nice." So also the spelling bee went really well. That was great, Dr. Barnett. Great spelling master over there. So that was a great event. It was two kids where they went through 12 rounds before they finally selected
045a winner. Yeah, just the two of them went through 12 rounds. So um yes. Also, um the Amazing Shake um results for the San Bernardino Regional, that is incredible. Queen Sweep by Beaumont. I'm like so so excited about that. You all know how I feel about the Amazing Shake, so I don't need to say any more on that. Um way to go to the um Air Force Junior ROTC team. And way to go to Evan, Jennifer, and Gabby for the AXA. Awesome. Yes. And happy birthday to Lance on the 15th. Happy birthday to Maze on the 21st. So. Um and with that, I have a one more thing. You can put on your life vest cuz I'm going to rock the boat a little bit. So, um >> [clears throat] >> I want to address
046the political walkouts that occurred by the high school middle school students. I am definitely not okay with students walking out without checking out. Uh I understand students have rights to demonstrate and exercise their free speech. However, there are no guardrails in place to make sure that parents are informed when their students leave campus for this purpose. So, I would like to um bring it back for the board to discuss to put in guardrails so that um we know where students are. Um if something were to happen to one of these students, we wouldn't know it. We would not be able to notify their parents if they were off campus. If the parent came to campus and came looking for them and they weren't there, we wouldn't have an answer for them. We would not know
047where they were. So, I've given this a lot of thought, and I understand that they have rights to a certain degree. But I think as a school district and being in charge of these um students, we have a responsibility to make sure that we know where they are if they come to school and then they leave. We know when a student leaves the high school for lunch because they have a lunch pass. So, why can't you just walk out for political protest? So, um it's just something that has really not set well with me at all, and I I had to say something because I know there are parents out there that are not happy about this, either. Um so, I just I would like for us to maybe put in a policy, put some
048practices into place because, um our uh handbook for the high school um says "For the purpose of a middle school or high school pupil engaging in a civic or political event as provided in subparagraph B, provided the public notifies the school ahead of the absence." So, um we were just allowing kids to walk off campus. Now, I know there was one at the high school, and then then another day there was a middle school. Both middle schools did that. And, um it is in my In my opinion, this is just my own personal opinion. I think that is way, way wrong. So, um we really need to put some guardrails in place because this really puts the students at risk, the school district at risk, the parents at risk. There's so many things that could
049happen during the school day, and we need to know where these kids are. So. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you, Susie. No reason to apologize. It's one of my little film nerves. All right. And item 17.8, receive a report from board member Jeff Brown. So, I wanted to take a minute real quick, and I wanted to thank all of the parents who get involved in all of our different extracurricular activities, all of our different committees, all of our different things. I know you're doing it for your kids, but you end up doing it for all of our kids. You do it for every single kid in the in the district. Uh, becoming involved with your own kids' activity, it doesn't just put you in involvement with your own kids' activity. When you support the high
050school football team, you end up supporting all of the players. And some of these people end up staying in support of these teams, and they keep volunteering even after their own kids graduate. This is a very selfless service. This is amazing. And I'm not just talking about the football team, I'm talking about all of the committees around the district, all of the um, all of the people. We obviously come and we don't and we and we give our time and we we we um, participate in community service, and we and we all do that. But I wanted to take a minute to recognize all the people who don't sit up here and still do all of this extra stuff. So, um, I just wanted to express some gratitude on my own part for that and
051for all that they do. I also wanted to take a minute at the same time to thank my whole board family for all of the time that you give to our district and to all of us. So, um, that was really all I wanted to focus on, but thank you. Thank I just wanted to be very grateful, and I wanted to express some gratitude for all of the time that people give to the kids of Beaumont. They Everybody's got something else they could do with their time. Um, so thank you for giving it to our kids. Thank you, Jeff. And so, with that, um, [snorts] we have no closed session items to adjourn to. Um, so, uh, I would like to move for the adjournment of the Board of Trustees meeting for Beaumont Unified School
052District at 7:06 p.m. So moved. Second. >> Thank you. Moved by Suzy, seconded by Lance. And any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. Sorry, more technical difficulties. >> [laughter] >> For yours. I really do want to vote, I promise. >> [laughter] >> There you go. There you go. Wow. >> [laughter] >> Can I just say I? >> [laughter] >> I got to rejoin the meeting. There we go. Lance is my witness. All right, the motion carries. Have a great night, everybody. Thank you so much again.