001open session at uh 6:13 p.m. And we will now have a presentation of the uh colors and pledge of allegiance. If we can all rise, please [Music] present. Ready, begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. color. Left, right, face arch. Present arms. Order arms. Return. Right. Face forward. Arch. Thank you. It's always nice to have our junior ROC come and present the the colors. Item number 9.0 is public testimony. Um, during meetings of the board of trustees, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on items that appear on the agenda, regular or special meetings, or items that do not appear on the agenda, but are within the subject
002matter jurisdiction of the board. Individuals shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-aggenda item. Um we have one public uh speaker this evening so we do not have to worry about sharing time. Um so at this point in time um can we have Marine come forward and tell me your last name. Oh Falls Halls. Okay. Okay. I I didn't obviously didn't read it correctly. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Oh, you said no time. So, no clock or anything. No, you'll you'll have your three minutes. Sorry, I didn't read through the whole thing, but it it just says that time cannot be shared if there's a certain amount of people on the same But you're the only one. So, you'll have your you do have your three minutes. I should
003have read the whole thing. I apologize. I was waiting for that to change. So, that's fine. Thank you. You're good. Um, okay. So good evening members of the board. I would like to begin by expressing my sincere appreciation for the district's quick and thorough response through parent square regarding before and after school programs as well as as out of school care during extended breaks. The clarity and detail in that communication demonstrated not only the district's commitment to transparency but also your dedication to supporting working families. I'm also especially grateful for the creation of the Kinder Club program. This initiative with its thoughtful inclusion of transportation for transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students along with afterchool care at centralized location is a tremendous benefit for families with their youngest learners. I'm sure the school board is already
004aware that the city of Bowmont has a population of approximately 61,000 residents with a median household income of $105,000 a year. There are approximately 12,000 students enrolled in Bumont Unified with the average parent traveling 36 minutes to work each day. My concern remains for parents and students who are still on the wait list for afterchool care as we are now entering the fifth full week of school with no updates for the families. Finally, I hope the expanded learning program and the Boys and Girls Club continue to collaborate to implement full day programs for all families during extended extended school breaks. Programs like these reflect the district's understanding of the real challenges uh families face and they show how strong partnerships between schools and families can make a meaningful diff difference. Excuse me. Thank you for
005your responsiveness, your forwardinking planning and your continued support of both students and parents. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. And so the remainder of the the the paragraph that I didn't read was talking about how if there is more than one speaker, time cannot be yielded or shared. So usually I read through that whole thing, but I didn't this evening um we only had one speaker. So okay. So uh thank you for that. Moving moving on to item number 10.0 pupil personnel. Uh item number 10.1 approve the recommended action for student discipline cases. Number 202526-1 number 202526-2 number 202526-4 and 202526- uh 05. Do we have a motion on this item? I'll move all items listed with a correction on O2. I'll second that. And the correction was just So there's a correction on item
006number um on -02 and that was moved by David, seconded by Susie. Um and that was there any any further discussion on that? No. Okay. Call for a vote. You want us to hold discussion? I think so. Uh there was a motion to approve by David and a second by Susie. And the only discussion was about the date on-02. And so now we're ready for the vote. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. And uh motion carries, one absence, and then one abstension. Okay. 11.0 oral reports. We do not have anything to report out of close session. Um so 11.2 would be our report from student board member Petra Rathfelder. her debut presentation. Okay. Good evening everyone. I'm excited to share our secondary school sites great events, activities, and accomplishments. On the first day of school, Mountain View
007Middle School rolled out the blue carpet to welcome students back to the new academic year. The school year is excited to announce that Miss Don Brandon has joined our administration team as a new assistant principal. Our sixth grade math and science teachers recognized their students for their hard work and growth shown on this year's California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, also known as the CASP test. Sixth to eighth grade students had a house reveal event. All of the students received their house shirts to wear on House Spirit shirt days. The house system is a unique way schools encourage positive behavior through friendly competition. The Associated School body students and Miss Shaver rep represented the Mountain View middle school at the welcome back to school event. The school employees had their first dress up day
008and the theme was Hawaiian. San Gregorian Middle School over the summer hosted the season of success summer camp with 50 students. The 30-day camp focused on leadership development. The school's welcome back days with staff was an exciting time for professional development and collaboration. The school is happy to have assistant principal Ricardo V Viala. He is a new addition to the team and is a great fit. Camp Hurricane held on July 31st was a great time for incoming sixth graders to collaborate, meet staff and students, and learn about our school program. Our associated school body, student leaders, and staff worked hard to put on a fun and engaging day for our new incoming students. We had over 300 students participate. Special thanks to Expended Learning for the support. We want to celebrate Miss Terry Sheeni for
009being an extremely dedicated and fun crossing guard. She's dedicated to the kids and does a great job managing traffic. Our newest members of the National Junior Honor Society were inducted on August 19th. This year we have 40 members led by Miss Carbah Jennifer Carbajal. This is a high performing group of students dedicated to academic excellence, personal growth, and community service. Summerwind Trails Middle School kicked off the year with a great back to school night. The associated school body students came prepared to sell some snacks for the families for the first fundraiser of the year. This allowed the ASB team to work together and make a successful fundraiser. The leadership students gave tours to the new families of Summerwind Trails, showing them classrooms and common areas with information of the campus. The first day of school
010was very successful with the leadership and ASB students helping to welcome back all the students. They made signs and cheered students when they came in the gate. The first big event that Summerwin celebrated was the house sorting day. Each new student was sorted into houses during a whole school event. This house system helps to welcome students and encourage team participation during their time at Summerwind Trails. Bulmont High School hosted our first ever freshman only rally. Link Crew did an amazing job making our ninth graders feel welcome. Athletics is off to a great start with volleyball, football, football, and girls flag volley football football. They are all starting off their seasons with strong records. Moving into league play, Bowmont High School inducted its inaugural athletics hall of fame class uh 95 including Brandon Tedro, Jessica Granados,
011Honas Lu Luiz, Shelazy Ruffin, Cameron Hebenton, Amanda Hendy, and the 1967 football team. Glen View High School students and staff are excited for the new school and kicked it off with the Coyote families coming out for back to school night. Volleyball season has started. Thank you to Sang Gagorio High School and Bowmont High School for the use of their facilities. Glen View students and staff have been encouraging in school activity engaging in school activities including but not limit to playing chess. 21st Century Learning Institute students are excited for the new school year. Families particip participated in our back- tochool meet and greet where they were able to interact with their teachers in person. Many 21st century students had fun at the first social and gaming club activity held this year. Bumont Middle College High School
012held their annual Phoenix Family Breakfast on the first day of school so new and returning students and their families could meet students on campus. Bulmont Middle College had a great turn out for back- tochool night where families were able to meet the staff and learn more about their students classes. Middle College students enjoyed participating and volunteering at the district welcome back rally. Thank you to Dr. Chang and Dr. Gray for the opportunity. Bowman Adult School had its first high school diploma graduate Brienne Salceto. She is planning to go to college and in cons is considering a career in social services. Bowman Adult School welcomed their newest medical assisting cohort and are already learning about the digestive system using clay and a mannequin. Vocational nursing class 40, the newest cohort, has been honing crucial fundamental skills
013such as vital signs as they prepare to go out and practice at their clinical facilities. As always, thank you for our parents, families, and staff. This concludes the presentation on events and activities taking place at our secondary school sites. All right, good job. Thank you. All right. At 11.3, receive a report from superintendent from the superintendent and review the district calendar for the month of September 2025. Good evening everyone. I think Petra did a great job covering a lot of events um and for her first report. Yeah, let's stop and she makes my job easier. So my report is so much smaller and so I just want to highlight the district. welcome back to school event and as stated on this slide hundreds of community members showed up to our ESF which is um our
014district office here to celebrate the start of the school year. The event were organ was organized by the parent committee face family and community engagement committee. Um it was so great to see also support from our board members uh board president and vice president attended the event and we were so happy to have them here. Dozens of vendors from the community were present to provide resources and I I do want to reiterate what Petra said and thank Dr. Gray for her leadership in the parent engagement um department under the umbrella of research learning and data department. to thank you all for the director and the coordinator and everyone that participated in the organization and of course um the chairpersons of the face committee. As far as the upcoming event on our calendar um this month
015we will share messages about the importance of attendance and mental health in honor of National Attendance Awareness and Suicide Prevention Month. On September 10th, members of our board and our staff will be attending the state of the city to learn about important happenings in our community. And uh mark your calendar for September 30th when college and career expo will occur at Bulmont High School gymnasium. We will also see you here again for the next board meeting on September 23rd. And lastly, um I will be presenting to the Chamber of Commerce on October 1st um with an update on facilities and uh planning for the future growth and also on our student achievement. We're so proud of all of our schools and what they have done with our students in the last year. So look forward
016and if you're available, please attend that breakfast. And that's it, Madame President. All right. Thank you. Uh 12.0 consent agenda. Actions prepared for consent agenda items are consistent with adopted and approved policies of the district and are deemed routine in nature. They will be acted upon in one motion without discussion unless any member of the board of trustees requests that an item be removed from the consent agenda. In that event, it will be taken up in the order indicated on the main agenda. Would any board member like to pull an item from the consent agenda? Okay. In that case, do I have a motion to approve items 12.1 to 12.8? So moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Call for a vote. Yeah. On the motion. Motion carries. Item number 14.0 is anformational
017item and we will now receive a rep presentation on the expanded learning opportunities program. Good evening. Perfect. All right. Well, good evening, board president Williamson, distinguished board members, Superintendent Kich. Uh, thank you for having me here tonight to share about the expanded learning department. In tonight's presentation, I hope to highlight our current expanded learning programs. Two, review our summer programs that we just wrapped up this past summer. Three, share the go the growth that has occurred over the last few years. And four, share the future, what the future holds for the expanded learning and where that growth is taking us. Expanded learning falls into kind of two sections in my mind. We have a before school after school programs that we offer that happen 180 days a year. We also have programs that happen outside
018the normal school day. And those things are like inter sessions and weekends and summer programs. Um in our afterchool before school programs, these programs are like impact incredible minds opportunities clinics. Outside of the regular school programs, we have intercession camps. We have expanded learning opportunity camps, summer programs and experiences. Impact uh is in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of the Sanggonio Pass. Our impact program provides free daily before and after school care for students at our elementary, middle, and K8 schools. The program supports students academic success by providing dedicated time for homework, and it also enriches their lives with recreation and fine arts activities. The program is open daily until 6 p.m. Additionally, all students receive a snack and supper each day from our child nutrition supports department. The plarity of this and
019demand of this program has continued to grow with over,00 students participating daily this year. Incredible Minds is also an afterchool program. The Incredible Minds is an after-school academic program for students in grades 2 through eight available at all of our elementary, middle, and K8 schools. They're led by Bowmont USD employees. The program is designed to identify and address individual learning gaps. Students can be referred by teachers, administrators, or parents, and they receive personalized support for about two hours a day. Online assessments are used to create custom learning plans helping students strengthen specific skills in mathematics, English language arts. Also in our after school program, uh we have something that we call opportunities. Um opportunities are after school enrichment clubs. They're led by our certificated staff, our teachers at the school sites. These highinterest activities run
020in three cycles throughout the year, fall, winter, and spring, allowing teachers to create engaging clubs based on their own passions and student interests. Some of the diverse clubs we've offered have included everything from a book club, crocheting, pickle ball, golf, and even a hair braiding club last year. These programs give students a chance to explore new activities, build skills, and connect with their teachers and schools in a fun, positive environment. This week actually marks the first week of the fall cycle. Um, and currently we have about 47 opportunities happening across the district over the next eight weeks and we're expecting right right around 700 students participate across the district. The next thing that we do in our after school program, uh, these happen on Mondays and Fridays. The opportunities that I just mentioned were our
021Tuesday, Thursday programs, but Monday, Fridays is our clinics. And this is something that we're really excited about. It's in partnership with the Bowmont High School. Our clinics program is an afterchool initiative that brings high school athletes to our middle and elementary schools to provide hands-on instruction in various sports. The program runs again in three cycles, fall, winter, and spring with each clinic taking place for about an hour and a half on Mondays and Fridays. Like I said, this unique opportunity allows our young students to learn and be inspired by our athlete high school athletes, excuse me, while also giving our older students a chance to serve as mentors and give back to the community and build up the next gener. Some of the fun things that we've seen, you can see on the bottom corner
022there, we've done soccer, basketball, track, flag football, water polo, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, tennis, and mountain biking. You can see some of the pictures from mountain biking and and basketball there on the picture. We again this our first week of the cycle. We have 59 total clinics scheduled for this first cycle and we should be serving about 1,400 students in the next eight weeks through our clinics. The next programs are kind of our outside the normal day programs. These happen on weekends, inter sessions, um holidays, any of those types of things. Um the first one I want to talk about is our experiences. These are after school and weekend trips that are designed to give students unique learning opportunities that they wouldn't normally get during a day in the regular school day. Uh we base these
023in these events on interest from and the needs of the school. So our school principles will contact us about things that they would like to provide for their students and then we will work with them to fund and do those different things. Some of the few things that we've done um there plenty we've done um Catalina Island science camps. We've done Idaho silence camps. Um, we've done the mural paintings at Sangonio Middle School. I think we have another one that's coming up at Palm soon. Um, we've had mariachi bands. We've had Bluco um college field trips and we also provide kind of uh enrichment opportunities for families at the school sites and we've done some movie nights like that. Again, these are in partnership with our school principles and helping them any way that they
024can provide opportunities that students wouldn't normally get during their six and a half hours here every day. The other thing that we do is outside that's outside the school day is we are required by the state to provide a 30 additional days of learning. So our summer programs and our scholars on vacations is initiative um that goes beyond those 30 days over the last few years. Um we actually last year provided 40 days of of extra learning and this year we'll be providing 44. So we we provide any basically when the school uh is not in session we are in session. Um and so we offer lots of different opportunities. We finished up in July. We ran two weeks in July. And then you can see the list of the dates that we've planned to
025operate this year. Um so that wraps up our afterchool programs, our before school programs, and kind of what we do on the outside of the normal school programs. I want to review kind of a little bit what happened this summer. Starting in June. Uh this summer we had our elementary summer programs. They ran at Anahos Elementary and Brookside Elementary. These programs are offered to students in TK through 6th grade and they ran from June 10th to the 27th. Uh this summer students in our program experience a new kind of learning through our quest in curriculum. Uh it's designed to spark curiosity, engagement. Uh we've had 30 uh dedicated Bulmont Unified teachers transform their classrooms into exciting adventures using game-based learning and a dynamic approach that combines game storytelling and collaboration. uh it really pushes students
026to work collaboratively and and really tackle some of those problems in a fun kind of futuristic type of environment. You can see some pictures from that. Um we had 13 days of programming and it was a success. This is a similar program that we've ran the last few years and so we were on episode three this year. So every year there's a new episode and kids get farther and farther down on the venture which is kind of fun. Another interesting thing that we did here, we added this year we had a middle school specific summer program. We partnered with uh Dr. Brier and the college and career team to create the first ever middle school CTE camp. Uh we housed this at Sanono Middle School and it was for grades 6 through 8 and again
027it ran from June 10th through the 27th. Um students from all three middle schools spent four weeks engaging in career technical education. Uh these activities were led by our eight of our district CTE instructors. Um career and pathways included culinary arts, patient care, manufacturing and engineering, theater, arts, media and entertainment, digital media, and game design. Uh this allowed students to get an exposure to what the high school offers and those pathways. Uh we really wanted to dedicate some time to make sure that students got a chance to experience what what the high school has to offer. Um we had about a hundred students participate for our first year which was pretty successful in our opinion. Um students came back super excited. Our teachers, our CTE teachers were really excited and so it's one of those
028things that I think it was a a we were testing the waters and it seemed to come out pretty well. So students had you can see the pictures here. Students had a great time learning in the different skills. Students had about three days in each CTE pathway. So if you were a student you got to experience every single one. So it's pretty cool. Yeah. The other summer program that we had this summer was Bulma High School and then summer school that goes on there. Um they ran from June 10th to July 2nd. We had about 1300 a little over 1300 course enrollments. These are separate classes or students that uh signed up for a class during summer with a 91% pass rate. Uh we also had six summer graduates which we got to celebrate earlier
029this summer. I think we had two or three that were here. Uh the courses that were offered biology, chemistry, PE, English 9 and 10. You can see there uh a wide plethora of opportunities for students to make up credits and get ahead if necessary. Um again, it was a great success. We had 16 days um there at the high school and our our principles there did a fantastic job and so always appreciative of them. Um as you can tell by all these things listed um expanded learning is always changing. We're always evolving and some of those things have led to with new bills that have been passed. So for one instance, we've had some funding changes this year. So Assembly Bill 121 passed uh this past year and it changed how the rates of funding
030happened for us. Uh we went from a rate two to a rate one. Um what that means for us, expanded learning has been in existence for the last 3 years. This is our fourth year of existence. Uh the early funding model was a tiered system like I mentioned where you were rate one or rate two and it was based off your upp percentage. um that up percentage is low-income English learner and foster youth students in the number that we have. Um some of the problems with this early funding method uh created unstable funding districts with upper received a lower rate that can fluctuate annually making it long-term financial planning difficult. Historically, we have been in rate two. We are just below the the cap of 75% for our UP students. And so each year after
031the rate one funding is given to the rest of California, whatever is left over gets divvied up amongst rate two. So as you can imagine, it's always a little difficult to predict your budget when it's fluctuating. Um this past year due to assembly bill 121 has changed the threshold uh for the 2526 school year. Uh and it's lowered the up rate down to 55%. So that qualifies for the rate one funding uh which is at a higher level than what rate two is. And what that does, it allows us uh increase access for students. This changes and allows school districts to qualify for for higher and more stable funding rates. Um they provide a hold harmless list in there that allows us to catch up to the regulations that are required with rate two because
032those rules change once you go from rate two to rate one. Um and it allows us to service a much wider range of students. Just for an example, the the the difference in funding from rate one to run rate two is about $1,200 per student. So it is a significant amount. So with all that growth and these funding changes, I wanted to show you a little bit of what it's looked like in expanding learning over the last three years and including 2526. So you can look over in the first column at 22 23 the very first year of ELO's existence. Uh we had about 680 students in our after school program about 262 students in our in tutoring and then a lot of those other things didn't exist. So all those things that I went
033through, those additional items that we do for students, they didn't exist at all. As you work your way across, you can see the exponential growth year after year after year. So just three years ago from going from 680 students in our after school program to this year right at 1100. And in our credible minds, we started with we had 262 and this year trimester 1, we're already at 28. And so that program allows students to come in and out of it. And then as you can see, the opportunities, the clinics, and the experiences. So we expect again just exponential growth where uh if we don't double we may triple some of the numbers that we had in some of our clinics and ex and opportunities. Um so just to give you an idea of kind
034of the numbers that we're talking about. So for 78 clinics when we do our clinics we average about 25 students per clinic. We serviced about 2,000 students last year in clinics and with our opportunities we serviced about 1,900 students through opportunities. that number should grow double if not triple this year with all the things that we're doing. So just a a little visual on what it looks like as we have grown and expanded and tried to keep up with the the growth and the need of the community here in Bowmont. Some of the future goals that we have in expanded learning as like I said we're always changing we're adapting and trying to catch up to the times and the needs of the community. Um we are already looking ahead at 2627 with the transitional
035kinder and kindergarten halfday expand expanded learning options. Um this is a pro this is a plan and and a and something that we are working towards diligently. Uh some of the things that are on that list of what we're trying to accomplish is develop a program to offset the childare needs for families with students in the amm uh TK and kinder programs at all elementary and K8 sites. Um these programs would happen in correspondence with the other day programs that are going. We are looking to add additional portable buildings where possible at school sites to offset the space limitations that we're experiencing here in Bumont. We're working with schools to identify available rooms and existing buildings when adding portables is not possible. We're creating new district positions and hiring staff to fill those positions. And
036we're developing a curriculum and learning plan for those students that are going to be in the program. This is a long-term pro project that we will it will take us all year to do, but we're diligently working towards finding a solution to this problem as we continue to experience the growth and the um the the growth pains that we're going through now currently as a district. Um this is probably our main priority this year as we prepare for 2627. I know that's wild to say that we're not even into we're just into September. We're already planning 2627, but you know how that goes when we have to work ahead. The other things that we're working on this year, just so you're you're aware of what's on the deck for 2526, is updating board policy to
037better align with the needs of the community. Uh in October, the expanded learning opportunities program will bring a three-year plan uh that will be presented. We're exploring options to increase after school growth. Uh we're growing the partnership with Bulmont High School. We're looking to add um future Cougar field trips, that's hard to say, to tour and and watch athletic events. So, we're pretty excited about that partnership as it grows with our clinics. And then we're collaborating with stakeholders and departments to research the effects of better aligning school start times to support the 9-h hour program as we look forward and as the the school district continues to grow. So, as you can see, it's been a busy time here in expanded learning. Um, this is a little bit of what I mentioned. Did I turn
038it off? Can you forward for me? Thank you. um some of the new projects when we talked about the 2627 the TKK uh options that we're looking one of the things that we're doing is we're exploring uh new portable buildings uh expanded learning buildings uh it's a proposal that we're looking over the next three years uh looking to add one or two classrooms at designated sites possibly with restrooms uh we're currently under the analysis planning site designation and feasibility design and discussions right now we uh we're planning to bring back a proposal once we have a little more information on where we actually think that can happen. Uh we've identified four schools that we're wanting to explore. Uh these schools are impacted based on uh student um student impact. So Sundance, Starlight, Tournament, and Brooks
039are the four schools that we've highlighted. The other schools we believe that we're able to maybe carve out some space in the existing infrastructure to have a classroom in those spaces. So, all in all, uh, as you can tell, like I said, expanded learning is a busy, busy place. There's lots of things going on. We're excited about the growth and the opportunities that we have to provide for our families here in Bulmont. Are there any questions that I could help answer? I have a comment. Yes, ma'am. It's kind of mind-blowing when you look at the numbers that of the students enrolled in the ELL programs. If you're talking,00 kids, that would be like entire Sani with being completely full for after school. And sometimes I don't think we we can picture that in our mind
040as far as the after school program. You think of small groups here and there in your school site, but you're talking about staff for an entire school site for a couple hours after school. Yeah. At many of our sites, we're looking at 15 to 17% of the population of that each school are in the after school program. So that's just it's it's a lot. And I just thank you for everything that you're doing and trying to fill the gaps and all those things because it is a lot bigger I think than we when we stop and think about it like how big it is. Yeah. So yeah. So thank you. No problem. with the collaboration between the Boys and Girls Club and the district. You have their staff and then the district facilities and policies
041and all of that is I'm I'm sure they go through like a training to make sure that they're aware of all the district systems and like how do you bridge that gap so there's that cohesiveness? Yeah. So, we've worked really hard over the last few years to to strengthen that process. um all of their employees go through an onboarding process that they do in-house for themselves. Uh we also utilize our teachers on assignment who go in and do training with them monthly to work on, you know, district situational type awareness type stuff or even trainings on uh dealing with students with special needs and whatnot. So, uh it's a it's a handinhand effort to make sure that we're getting our staff trained up as quickly as we possibly can. Um and we've identified certain ways
042to do that. It's been a growth process for us. I I would say this year is probably the best it's been as far as just having a a dedicated structure and time to actually address those concerns. Right. And the plan is to eventually have them as district employees, right? Or you mentioned hiring employees. Was is are those the frontline employees or those what? So we've we we were constantly communication about hiring. We've their their expectation is that they will continue to hire throughout the year. We have weight lists like I've been mentioned tonight and so our our goal is to get as many students off the wait list as as fast as possible. Um these are entry- level positions and so oftentimes they are difficult to fill and keep filled. Uh and so they are
043they're aware of that they are hiring people uh weekly uh to fill those positions. Uh and it's unfortunately sometimes it's a it's a plus and minus each way. So by the time we hire one we lose one. So uh it's it's one of those difficulties that we experience and then we work our way through. We do have our own personal staff that we employ through our incredible minds programs. Um, and we work to keep those staffed as well. Uh, but yeah, it's a it's a we work out on both ends trying to get that and is a plan to always have that dynamic or will the frontline impact staff eventually be district employees? It's been a discussion in the past when we used to be ACES, it was all district employees. with the exponential growth
044that we've experienced with the district. Um if you think about the 1100 students in the after school program and the amount of employees that would have to move over it's it would be a process and so it wouldn't be anything that could be done in one fail swoop. Uh but it is something that we we look to hire whether they're hired directly with Bont Unified or through the Boys and Girls Club to hire the most qualified people that we can and then and then backwards train them as best as best we can. Right. And I understand the turnover. It's one of those positions that's like a stop through because you're usually there because you want to be somewhere else, you know, which is which could be good for the district if they want to be
045somewhere else in the district. You know, we're essentially training staff to move up into other positions. Absolutely. Um so, well, thank you for all the work that you do. It's a very valuable program. Much needed. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Thank you. Okay. So 15.0 special legal and discussion and discussion items. Uh 15.1 is to conduct a second reading and adopt Bumont Unified School District's board policy and administrative regulation regarding students um which is 5,000 as listed in the summary. So, do we have a motion to approve um BP5131.8 and AR5148.2? I move to adopt. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. And the motion carries. 15.2. Conduct a second reading and adopt Bulma Unified School District's board policy and administrative regulation regarding business and non-instructional
046operations, which is 3000 as listed in the summary. We have a motion to adopt BP 3523 and AR 3523. Move to adopt. Second reading. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? I'm sorry, but I just don't I'm I'm getting older and so I don't like these kind of changes. But that's all I have to say about that. I need to keep going. So, opposition noted. It's just it's uncomfortable to have all these electronic signatures on important documents, but you know, I got to catch up with the times. Well, thank you for that, Susie. I appreciate that. Um, okay. Let's call for a vote. I agree with you. And motion carries. 15.3 adopt resolution 2025-26-12 for the GN aortionments limit calculations for 2025-26 move approval second moved by Jeff seconded by David any
047discussion call for a vote and motion carries. Uh 15.4 approve the 202425 unodudited actuals for all fund funds. Do we have a motion? Presentation first. Okay. You want to do the presentation first? I guess. All done. You can go now. I already read it. Yes. Thank you. So, and it's undedited. It's done. Let me see. Okay. Good evening. Good evening, President Williamson, Superintendent Kakkesh, members of the board, cabinet, colleagues, and community. My name is Nathan Chimera, and I'm serving as the director of fiscal services for Bumont Unified. Um and tonight I'll be presenting the 2425 un audited actuals report. So to start us off uh starting with our budget cycle um in May we brought forth the estimated actuals which was our projected uh ending fund balances our projected revenues and our projected expenditures. uh
048today in September, we're bringing forth our unodited actuals, which is where we actually end it. So when budgeting, we always start with a series of assumptions. Uh those assumptions include our cost of living allowance or COLA, district enrollment, our ADA, our enrollment to ADA ratio, our unduplicated pupils, and our stirs pers. So our assumptions that those kind of build our revenue projections and our expenditure projections. Uh there wasn't much change between estimated actuals and unodudited actuals just a small dip to our ADA. And on this slide what we're presenting is a combined summary of our general fund. So this is restricted and unrestricted. Looking at this slide, you can see at a glance that we were projecting to end at $50 million for our ending fund balance. Uh, and we actually closed at 58 million.
049Uh, so looking at this slide here to at a glance, you can see that our revenue increased by about 5 million and our expenditures decreased by about 3 million. So included in our fund balance uh includes our revolving cash, our restricted resources, our reserves, commitments, assignments, and our prepaid expenditures. Starting with revenues, um our district receives revenues from a variety of sources. Uh that includes our LCFF, our federal revenue, our state revenue, and our local revenue, and also transfers in from other funds. And then you can see that we were projecting $27 million and we collected $212. So a few adjustments have have been made between our projections and our actuals. Starting with our LCFF, I mentioned that there was a small dip to our ADA. Uh so a small dip to our LCFF uh
050revenue and and that's due to a revised attendance report. Federally, we're seeing an increase to our federal revenues, primarily to our medical reimbursements. So, we received more than what we were projecting. On the state revenue side, uh Dr. Griffin was up here talking about expanded learning opportunities. So, we closed the year with more revenue than what was projected at estimated actuals. And we also received more lottery funds. Uh could you go back one slide, please? And then locally, uh, we saw an increase to our interest revenue as our interest rates have held relatively steady. And then we saw a small a small increase to our redevelopment funds. Cool. So, now that we've discussed our revenues, uh, we're going to talk about the other side of the equation, which is our expenditures. So, estimated actuals, we
051were projecting $227.7 million. And at an audited actuals, our total expenditures were $224.8 million. So you can see there's a there's a difference of about a $3 million decrease in our expenditures. Uh go ahead. So some some of our changes that we saw at year end uh was p it was due to our salary and benefits. So we saw a higher salary and benefit cost than what was projected. That's primarily due to certificated subs and certificated extra duty. Regarding our books and supplies and our services and other operating expenditures, we saw a decrease compared to what was projected at estimated actuals and that's due to items that are transferred to the following fiscal year uh and services that will be completed in 2526. Uh, additionally, our capital outlay saw a small decrease u for projects
052that will be transferred to the 2526 school year. Uh notable ones there are the expanded learning opportunities construction project which we do have a ribbon cutting on September 29th and also our child nutrition onetime funds uh project that will also be completed in 2526. So now that we discussed revenue and expenditures we're going to start getting into the components of the ending fund balance. So this slide here is starting us with our restricted balances. Um and some notable restricted balances that I wanted to point out. As you can see again expanded learning opportunities program has a increase compared to what was projected again due to an increase uh increase in revenue. Um let me see. And then another notable uh amount here on this slide is the uh child nutrition kitchen infrastructure and training. You
053see that we were projecting to fully exhaust that but that project will be completed in 25 26. Continuing with our restricted fund balances you can see that our total projected ending fund balance for our restricted resources was 12.8 million and we closed the year with 17.4 million. On this slide some notable amounts are the uh routine restricted maintenance account. uh that is due to services that will be completed in 2526 um and also an increase to the medical lea option program due to an increased revenue than what was projected. So moving from restricted and onto our reserves. So a district of our size is required by state law to set aside 3%. Uh, additionally, we also have a local resolution that requires us to set aside 8.33%. So, you can see by this slide that
054the district is not only meeting but exceeding both of those uh reserves. And in addition to our reserves, we also have committed funds. You can see that we have committed funds for our textbook curriculum and also supplemental and concentration grant dollars which will be carried over to the next school year. And then the remainder, you can see that's set aside for deficit spending. So moving from reserves and on to assignments. Now assignments unlike restricted funds, these aren't required by outside agencies but reflect local decisions that we've made here as an LEA. So on this slide you can see that we have amounts set aside for our health and welfare pools and our uh vacation liability. In addition to that, on this slide, you can see that we have a amount in ADA incentive which will
055be carried over to the 2526 school year and also the Delta dental program incentive. So, a total of about a $700,000 increase to our assignments from what was projected. So, moving from the fund balance, now we're on to the contributions. Now, these are contributions from unrestricted dollars to restricted dollars. Our our most notable contribution is our contribution to special education. While state and federal dollars do support special education costs, it is not enough to cover the cost of providing those services to our students. So to bridge this gap locally, we we transfer unrestricted dollars to special education to fund that cost. Uh so that's the most notable contribution here at Bowont Unified. In addition to that contribution, we also have a routine restricted maintenance contribution and a transportation contribution. So up to this point, we've
056been talking about the district's general fund. So unrestricted and restricted, our operating fund. Uh this slide here has a summary of all of our funds. So looking at this slide, we can see that Bowont Unified has revenues of about $275 million across all funds and expenditures of about $252 million across all funds. Coming into the 2526 school year, Bowont Unified will be carrying a balance of about $139 million again across all funds. And that concludes our unodited actuals presentation. And I'm available for any questions. Yes. What is a fair market value tracking? Yes. So fair market value what that is is that's an audit requirement. So our cash is held at the county level and as the value of our cash fluctuates at the county level we are required to record that in in our
057books. So formerly what we would do is we would record it as part of our unrestricted fund balance. So at unodudited actuals this year what we did is we moved it outside of our uh unrestricted fund and we moved it so that it sticks out right so now we can monitor that closely. Okay. So it'll have its own code now. Yes. I just didn't know what it was. Of course. Thank you. I have a question. What is the Delta Dental program incentive? Of course. Yes. So the Delta Dental program incentive that that was a reimbursement from Delta Dental. So what the intention is with those funds is to reinvest them to offset the cost of district premiums for health and welfare. So I wanted to reflect that as its own item and then you'll see
058that offset costs in the 25 26 year. Um so more background be behind that is going back to co um Delta Dental didn't have claims so they issued reimbursements. So that's tracking what we've been reimbursed from Delta Dental so far. I believe there's maybe two more payments that could potentially come our way. Oh, okay. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Was it This was your first presentation for Bumont Unified. Yes. Good job. Nicely done. Thank you. Way to go. Thank you. And no other questions. I think that's it. Thank you. I appreciate them. Thank you. Okay. So now we can call for I'll call for a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Jeff. Any further discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries. Okay. 16.0 instructional um instruction and support
059services. Uh 16.1 is to conduct a public hearing to adopt resolution 2025-26-11 regarding the sufficiency or or insufficiency of instructional materials for the 202526 school year. So, I will I will open up the public hearing at um 7:08 p.m. Do we have any discussion from the public or anybody? One of these times I'm going to close the hearing at a different time than I You could start it, but it's not tonight. 35 more seconds. 35 seconds seems like a long time when you're up here. Closed at 7:08 p.m. Thank you. Um 16.2 adopt resolution 2025-26-11 regarding the sufficiency or or insufficiency of instructional materials for the 2025-26 school year. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? If so, you should have done it during the public
060hearing. Oh, I feel very overwhelmed by the comments during the public hearing. Go for a vote. And motion carries. Moving on to 16.3. Approve the 2025-26 consolidated application for funding cate categorical aid programs. Move approval. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? That sounded like it was really hard to say. It was It was hard harder to say than it should have been. Uh, okay. Call for a vote. Yeah, Jeff is not a hard word to say. One syllable. Okay, motion carries. Uh 16.4, accept the California Department of Education grant award notification for the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, also known as Perkins V. We have a motion for approval. I move acceptance. I'll second. Moved by Jeff, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Motion
061carries. 17.0, human resources. Item number 17.1, approve the certificated personnel assignment order listed on the report dated September 9th, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Okay, let's call for a vote. Motion carries. 17.2 approve the classified personnel assignment order listed on the report dated September 9th, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Motion carries. 17.3 adopt resolution 2026-26-13 authorizing teaching assignments for the school year. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? Okay, let's vote. And motion carries. 18.0 starts our business services section. 18.1 is to approve resolution 2025-26-14 granting authorization for the acceptance of the change order concerning the Palm
062Inn Innovation Academy Kitchen Building Project bid number 2024-25-08. We have a motion. So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Motion carries. 18.2. Approve the award of bid number 2025-26-01 for Sangargonio Middle School and Mountain View Middle School portables. We have a motion. So moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? And call for a vote. Motion carries. 18.3 approve Ledesma and Meyer Construction Company Incorporated to provide construction management services and general conditions for the Sangonial Middle School and Mountain View Middle School growth buildings projects. Do we have a motion? So moved. Moved by Susie. I'll second. Seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Motion carries. Okay. Reports 19.1. receive a report from the California School Employees Association and it's Bowmont Chapter 351.
063Do we have anybody from CSA to report? Oh. Oh. A man. Oh, darn. He got up just at that time. Come on up. I was like, a no. That was okay. Oh, okay. I didn't I didn't put it together in Okay. 19.2 to receive a report from Bumont from the Bumont Teachers Association. You get me. Yay. Hey, good evening board president Williamson and board members, um, Superintendent Kich and cabinet. Uh Julie Martinez here, BTA president with a very brief report for September 9th, uh 2025. Really, I should have Petra do this here. A lot more interesting to hear than I am. Um BT attended the district welcome back event that was organized by the family and community engagement committee. Uh it was well organized. It was very enjoyable. Um it was really nice to see
064the parents and um students interacting with the uh with everybody here. Um, I enjoyed interacting with the parents and students as well. Um, we really like to see the different sites that were here as well. And of course, the mascots really stole the show. So, I can't beat that. Um, September starts our regular meeting schedule. I have usual monthly meetings with the superintendent, um, CFO Martin and Assistant Superintendent Brown and Castillo. Um, the BTA executive board will meet with cabinet on Monday. our negotiations team will sunshine this year's contract um proposals this um this Friday I believe is that correct Friday time's flying uh I do have a few general topics of discussion that I will be um focusing on though during this month's meetings uh we do have concerns in the u areas of
065TK and kinder uh class safety red rover uh planning collaboration and prep time special ed and of course some facility issues that we'll be discussing. So stay tuned for my updates during my next report. Right. Thank you. 19.3 receive a report from the Bulmont Administrators, Confidential Management Employees Group. Good evening, President Williamson, Superintendent Kish, board members, cabinet, colleagues, community. Uh also want to echo uh everybody's gratitude for the work that Dr. Gray, Dr. ing um and all of the Bulmont Unified staff put into the amazing welcome back event um that the event has is has grown over the years um and I'm sure that that next year will be even better. Um also looking forward to the the back board meeting with cabinet for the first time coming up this month. U it's been an
066amazing start to the year and just want to thank everybody for the hard work that it's taken to uh to get everybody going in the right direction. So thank you very much. Thank you. receive a report from board member Jeff Brown. I'm going to make this very brief. Um, I want to thank everybody for um the kickoff to the school year again and uh uh call it an evening. Thank you, Madam President. Welcome. Uh 19.5 receive a report from board member Susie Laura. Yeah, I just want to say that um we're missing Lance tonight. He's has some health issues. So I just I look forward to seeing him return as soon as possible. Yeah. So that's it. Thank you, Susie. Yeah. And um yes, thank you for mentioning Lance. We do hope he returns soon.
067So, appreciate you mentioning that. Uh 19.7 receive a report from board member David Sanchez. Wanted to report on some positive uh feedback from our pass area student of the month group. Um as some know I work in a school that we have 80 students and there's only four teachers. So, our bond with the kids is is is intense. And these are normally seniors with a a salt and peppering of of juniors and so young adults as you would say. But at uh breakfast, one of our students this morning uh arrived late after pretty much the the show was done, but there was the the child still came up and spoke. But after she spoke, the community, the civic leaders that we have in the room, all gathered around to help this child out because of
068because of all the stories. It's it's it's a very unique situation um and very heartbreaking as well, but um pretty much this young lady will be on her own um within a month and uh and we'll have nothing. and the community just at that student of the month came around to help support her. Even though all four of the teachers would love to be there, we just can't because when one of us is gone, we you're you're already picking up all the slack and your administrator is gone. So you it's just a unique situation. So we just all can't be there. Um, but to watch the community come around, this child who was seriously going to need need support structures as a young adult came through and I am just so proud of our community
069for that and uh I want to thank Benny and Bulmont for what they do and supporting it. Yeah, we even right now my voice is just kind of wanting to crack and um and uh I guess it's Catholic guilt. But at this moment, I wanted to apologize to everybody because this board did not get my full attention at the very beginning of the meeting because I have two daughters. I have three children, but two of my daughters decide to have issues at the very beginning of this meeting and um they don't they have separate lives. But it was just amazing that they right now had issues. And I'm sitting here going as a father going, "H, okay, what do we do?" And I will tell you what those issues are because we heard about Ma's
070grandchild that's in on the way. And one daughter just bought a trailer and she doesn't know what to do with it because they left a Lake Arrowhead and doesn't know how to get it up there. What? Well, why are you buying a trailer? And the other one, uh, power has gone out and they're up in Running Springs. And, um, I'm at Costco right now. Which generator should I buy? [Laughter] Uh, you have a brother. Call him. But I wonder that just I'm just a little off off off the beaten path. But I want again, I was very very heartwarming on what happened today at at the student of the month for the pass area. And thank you again. Both communities. Well, I checked with my dad the last time I needed tires. So, you know,
071what do you do? Um, okay. I I just wanted to, you know, the u this year was the first year that I went to the back to school event. Well, I think last year was the first year, right? Yes. Yeah. Well, I didn't get to go last year and I went this year and I didn't really know what to expect and man, it was just really, really amazing. All the different um booths. Um I got to try some of the sour raisins from the nutrition department. Those are outstanding. Um but just, you know, the food vendors, the community partnerships, um it just well exceeded what I thought. Um I I don't know what I thought, but I was very pleasantly surprised. And so I do appreciate the fact at the fact that those things take
072um a lot of coordination and work ahead of time. And so thanks again to Dr. Gray and Dr. Chang for that. And we the board did receive a study session today on facilities and some um um future planning for the district. And so I want to thank the um Sergio and your team um for doing that and Michael and um Nathan as well for the time that you uh spent tonight giving us information on um the afterchool programs and impact and um all of that and then um the budget. And so um just excited about the beginning of the school year and want to thank all of you that are here tonight. Um, and we will now adjourn back into close session. So, if any of you want to wait for the report out afterwards,
073we will be here. Will we have a report out? We won't have a report out, but No. Yeah. Yeah. We won't have a report out. So, don't wait. And what what item numbers um we need to say? No. HR So, we will be going back into close session for 6.7 and 6.8. And I would say 6.9 and 6.9. Okay. I move that we go into close session on those items. All right. So, we have a motion from Susie to go into close session for 6.7, 6.8, and 6.9. Second. Second by David. So call for a vote. How was it? Okay, motion carries. We will now uh go back into close session. [Music] Right on. Good job. Good job. Yep. She did good, huh? So good. Suck.