001All right. Good evening. We will now convene into open session this meeting of the Bumont Unified School District Board of Trustees at 6:17 p.m. Okay, let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Um, Michael Griffin, would you mind leading us? Thank you. I aliance 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. Okay. Public testimony. Item number 8.0. 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 matter jurisdiction of the board. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each
002agenda item or non-aggenda item. Uh we only we have one one uh public comment this evening and so we won't have to worry about limiting it um as far as having many people speak. Um okay. So I think the rest of that we're good and Mr. Arthur Congo Try again. Try again. Nope, it's not on. Hello. Okay, great. Okay, there you go. Um, good evening. My name is Arthur Congo. I'm the director of local advocacy uh with the California Charter Schools Association here in Southern California. Uh, just speaking in support of the renewal for Highland Academy Charter School um by the board. Uh, I sent a letter of support out to the superintendent and to all the board members yesterday um just to pull out a couple of items in that um letter of support.
003Uh, according to the California school dashboard, Highland saw improvement to its English language arts scores by 4.4 points and math scores by 7.7 points over the prior year. And looking at the staff report, um, Highland is fully capable of implementing its educational program successfully and in compliance with all applicable laws and requirements with fiscal reserves projected well above the 15% threshold. Um, so just here speaking in support of Highland and urge the board to take that action. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Congo. We appreciate that one. Okay. And there's no further public public comment. So, we'll move on to item number 9.0. Uh 9.1 approve the recommended action on request for readmission of expelled pupils pursuant to education codes section education code sections 48916 and 35146 for student discipline cases 202324-19 and 202 324-25. Do
004I have a motion? I move the recommended action. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Maybe I already voted. You need help? You already voted. Oh, he he voted already. No, I didn't vote at all, but it the system is saying I did. Oh, he said he and the rest of you haven't. I'll let the expert come forward. Oh, we just wanted to give you a chance to show your stuff. Mike, maybe this laptop is realizing it says it's last night. Sad. It's Mike's first meeting, so we're initiating. My friend just the silence. Sorry. Here you go. Thank you. You passed the test, Mike. Okay. And motion carries after much anticipation. Okay. 9.2. Approve the recommended action for student discipline cases 202425-19, 2024-20, and 202425-21. Do I have
005a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Lance. Any dis any discussion. Okay, let's call for a vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number 10.0, oral reports. Uh we do not have do we don't have a report out of close session today. So, moving on to 10.2. will receive a report from our student board member, Bin Satley. Thank you. Good evening, board members, cabinet, and community members. I'm excited to share about our elementary school sites great events, activities, and accomplishments. The Anahas PTA sponsored a Pirate Cove themed spring event. Hundreds of teachers, students, and their families joined in. Students had a blast with bubble run. It was a culminating event for the school fundraiser. TK um TK classes enjoyed egg hunts and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Fourth graders saw history come
006to life at Riley's Farm. While it's not pictured, all Anah students in grades 3 through 5 have been diligently preparing for the upcoming CASP assessments. Additionally, Anahos had their first ever CASP parent night. Brookside Elementary completed its annual career day. The school principal thanks all the community members who helped this helped to make this event possible and for teaching these students about all the various career opportunities available to them. Brookside fifth grade students toured Mountain View Middle School and Sangronia Middle School to make their transition easier this coming fall. At Palm Innovation Academy, fourth grade students attended the Herupa Mountain Discovery Center. The Easter Bunny made a special visit to the school to see the TK and kindergarten students. All students who attended the four-week long Saturday cask workshops were invited to play in the
007game truck. Staff versus fifth grade students basketball game for March Madness ended in another win for staff. Dia de los nunos was celebrated with many special house activities, dancing, piñatas, games, and more. At Starlight Elementary, the Starlight Striders completed their first 5K run. They celebrated student achievements during the trimester 2 student awards assemblies. Read Across America was a blast. Starlight dedicated a day to reading and hosted the annual literacy fair where the Starlight superstars had the wonderful opportunity to perform. Starlight fifth graders showcased their creativity and knowledge in their wax museum, bringing historical figures to life in an unforgettable way. And to top it all off, it even snowed, making the school day magical. At Sundance Elementary, third graders brought history to life at the Wax Museum event. They performed in front of families and
008peers. Congratulations to Miss Hill's class for winning first place in their category at the annual film festival. 17 students joined Miss Hill to receive the special award. Thank you to Chef W and the Bulmont High School culinary team for showing students how to make homemade Play-Doh. Classrooms with the best attendance were invited to participate at Three Rings Ranch. Students saved at their musting books and spent them on duct taping Mr. Kaiser to a pole. Shout out to librarian Rosal uh Rosa Gonzalez on National School Librarian Day. The staff won the annual staff versus student basketball game during March Madness. Three Rings Ranch is so proud of all the AVID standouts. Fifth grade students had a great time at a science camp in my high pines. Fifth grade students at Tournament Hills Elementary brought their uh
009brought their competition in the staff versus fifth grade March Madness basketball tournament. School principal Miss Roman, a former college basketball star, had to dial it back a bit, but the competition was still fun. Thanks to all grade levels for organizing standardsbased field trips that support student learning beyond the classroom. Recently, the TK students visited the local Stater Brothers where they learned about grocery store operations, customer service, and how food is sourced and prepared. Oh my gosh, that's so cute. Congratulations to the Tournament Hills Film Festival winners. They won first in every film category. Thanks to all the grade levels for hosting performances and inviting families to their open house events throughout the year. Third grade held a glow-in-the-dark open house showcasing students artwork in a fun and creative way. They would also like to thank
010Prop 28 for providing the supplies that made it all possible. Tournament Hills proudly celebrated all the students who achieved their reading goals during the readathon challenge. Summer trails elementary school TK students hosted their first performance of the year. They showcased community helpers such as firefighters, police, construction workers, and more. During the performance, math intervention teacher Miss Edmonson and the junior national honor society students hosted a wonderful Pi Day math night. Students and their families came to the Summerman Trails Elementary School and played math games. And yes, there was lots of pie. Summer trails TK students took a trip to Greenspot Farms in Menon. They learned about different kinds of animals and spent quality time together. The kindergarten team kept busy with the Kiy 500 event. Students were super creative and made cars that they paraded
011around for the whole school. First grade students hosted an at school field trip with a live animal show that included different animals like ferrets and reptiles. As always, thank you to all of our parents, family, students, and staff. This concludes the presentation on events and activities taking place at our elementary school sites. Thank you so much, Bin. Okay. 10.3. Receive a report from our superintendent and review the district calendar for the months of April and May 2025. Good evening everyone. Good evening. I want to start by highlighting our film festival award night. We hosted the annual film festival award night on April 10th and Dr. Lens, Dr. Lston, Sylvester, and Jeff Brown, members of our board of trustees, were in attendance. A total of 59 students and employees, filmmakers, competed for top place in five
012categories. The competition is designed to challenge students in various subjects like literacy and technology. And I would like to thank all of the sponsors um and give them special thanks. Alura Credit Union, Canes, Chicken Fingers, uh HCN Bank, Skin Solutions, and Sports Clips. And you can see more information about the film festival, um and that night activities, and the list of all the winners on our website. I do want to highlight that two students from Mountain View Middle School named Ella Kas and Elena Alva submitted the winning entry titled Wear Your Helmet in the PSA category. Their film message about the importance of wearing helmet is so important uh that it was featured in the Riverside Record Gazette. And I encourage you to read the article. So, we're going to put a a link for
013the article in the presentation. So, if you if you access it later and it'll be in the board highlights also. But I'd like to play the film right now. if we can um just see it. It's a cute film that if you haven't attended the film festival, you'll um get the message. This is a helmet. You should be wearing one of these every single time you ride a bike. Now, I want to do the difference [Music] between you see and is. And some people might be asking public. It's important because of two reasons. One is safety and the other is a lot of doctors agree that helmets keep you safe. It's a lot in the state of California for anyone under [Music] I mean imagine our students. Yes. um have such talent really and all
014of the films were so amazing. I wish I can um again play them all here but you have access to them in the link that is provided. And on to more great news for our district. California Department of Education recognized Palm Innovation Academy and Straight um Starlight Elementary School for their remarkable improvements. The award is given to elementary schools who show excellence in growth in academics um academic achievement and ensuring a positive school climate at the same time. The schools will be formally recognized on May 30th in Anaheim, California. And we can't wait to celebrate with all of you and we are so proud of you. Thanks for putting Bumont on the board of California. So another round of applause for both of them. The principal of the year for the Western Riverside County Association
015of School Managers was Adali Lopez, which is leading one of our distinguished schools, um, Palm Innovation Academy. And she accepted the award on Tuesday, April 1st in Paris, California. Rexom is a chapter in Association of California School Administrators. That's the umbrella organization for California. And as far as upcoming um I'm missing a piece, but we'll talk about this. Um Riverside County Student Academic Awards um also was celebrated on April 17th and thank you Mr. Sanchez for attending. Um and we recognize actually five students. These are the ones that we have some highlights with u on the stage. Um, and we're proud of all of our students and one I think was uh given the e uh excellence in academics award on top of their recognition. So, we're so proud of all of our students. On
016to calendar highlights. Um, I do want to just recognize that a lot of our sites right now are in testing mode. So, if you are visiting one of our sites, just do the sh if you are visiting anybody with testing um because we do a lot of visits. I know all of our staff are all over the place. And um it'll be the season probably for the rest of April and part of May. The other um really highlight that I'd like to bring to your attention in the calendar is the Adams Family Musical. It's going to open on Thursday uh on April 24th. I am so looking forward to attending. um the opening night, but I would encourage all of you to attend because it's going to be on for the full weekend. Um tickets
017are available for purchase online on the stage.com uh or at the box box office. Students and staff of the districts are eligible for a discount and then the Adams family will continue to actually be presented on May 1st through the 4th of May. So we have multiple opportunities there. Our next board meeting will be on May 13th. Um, and all of our schools will be closed on Monday the 26th and will be followed on Tuesday with another second board meeting for May. And that's it for the calendar highlight, Madam President. Thank you. Okay, moving on to 11 um consent agenda. uh 11.1 um actions prepared for the 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
018discussion 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. Is there anyone that would like to pull an item from the consent agenda? I would like to pull 11.8. And in 11.8, I would like to pull the brisk AI for discussion. Okay. Anyone else? Okay. So, do we have a motion to approve items 11.1 through 11.7 and 11? That's it. 11.1 through 11.7. Do I have a motion? I'll move as amended. Second. Okay. Any Okay. Call for a vote. Okay, motion carries. And now we'll move to our new agenda item 12.1, which was 11.8. I'm getting some feedback up here. Me, too. Uh so uh Mr. Brown um All right.
019So my question is if we're going to be signing a contract with an AI company, is there going to be a board policy regarding AI usage on the agendas coming up soon? Are we going to start having uh higher level sort of oversight on what what can AI what should AI be used for in the district? Um, I know other districts are doing board policies around and they're amending their um acceptable use agreements for students and um staff as to how AI can and cannot be used and what functions in what like what essential job functions AI can't be used to cover for and how students can and cannot use it. So, are we going to be seeing something like that coming forward? If we're going to be buying an AI solution this is working
020the light works. Um, yeah. So, I'll um just briefly and maybe Lanny or Michael, you can jump in here. Um the the particular software that is on the contract tonight, uh Brisk, um our teachers and our coordinator of instructional technology have been piloting several different AI um tools for teachers and Brisk was the one that they actually um like the best. um had had the most support in terms of creating lessons, um standardsbased lessons based on their grade level, um creating presentations, uh lesson plans, all these different tools for teachers. Um so that's what's on tonight, and that's a uh what we're proposing is a three-year contract with them. Um the in terms of the board policy, I know that we are um we've been working on on a board policy and there was some
021guidance that we got from the county and Lanny, maybe you can jump in and remind us. Um there was I know that there's been some some county work groups or something like that and they were recommending us to wait until CSPA. Was that the It was my understanding that James Sharp did create board policy and uh that was during this last summer in June June and July and and I distin I kind of remembered something about that. So and we did bring that board policy that was added into our technology acceptable use for student and staff. That's right. So, I what I can do is I can um maybe we can send that out uh what was developed and see if that's sufficient um for what we're what we're looking to do and if we
022need to add to it or um we can bring that back in July and modify that. And and it's a moving target. So, I think maybe if we review what we've already uh come up with, it might need updating based on all of the new information that um that we're learning. Also, as soon as I turn it on, I get feedback on Yeah, maybe we need to shut off ours. Yeah. Um the um I have a lot of concerns about any like student facing content creation that isn't done by the actual teachers. I understand that they hopefully read it before they present it. Um, but any time someone is using something that's not themselves to do an essential function of the job we're paying them to do, it it makes me very nervous. But, um,
023I I just wanted to express my concerns. Yeah. And I would say right now student um different AI sites um and access is is limited uh completely from our devices. Um so another like this Bris tool can it be used for grading like will can you feed um student submissions into it to and it'll essentially give you like a recommended grade. I I haven't seen the tool. I don't really know what I'm uh Yeah. So, it is a teacher efficiency tool and you can it it's it's a extension. So, it's embedded within all of our G Suite tools. Um for example, a student could open up or a teacher could open up a doc of a paper that they wrote and then they would put in their specific rubric based on the specific skills and
024things that they're teaching the student. And then it can give feedback on where they feel the student is. Um but the teacher has all capability of changing that reading that we have provided all of our teachers I would say about 75 to 80% of teachers have all gone through AI training and talking about what the acceptable use policies are um and how we need to review all work um and so teachers have received that training as well. Um but if you would like us to come back and kind of give you a demonstration of the tool that's something we can also provide. I'm I'm not I'm not trying to hold up the the the the process. I'm just trying to understand it better. So, um I appreciate everybody's feedback. Well, I I just want to
025say I agree with you. I hadn't thought of it before. So, I wouldn't mind if you Is this something that needs to be done today or can we bring it back and have something at our next meeting to give us more information about it? Yeah, we can definitely bring it back and we can do a presentation on what the tool does and what it looks like if that's something that if the rest of the board wants to do that. So, I mean that's just Jeff and I. I don't know. I I know our team Yes, but let me you can approach the um you can, but let me just say that our team is going to be attending a cohort at the county level for um the AI training. We're also implementing our own cohort
026here in the in the district as leaders to be trained on AI first um as a cohort before we roll out the tool that we would like to use in our district. Um and so all of that is in the works and go ahead and yeah I just want to say I uh attended uh Mrs. Gauntlet's training on AI. I was very impressed. I um and I wanted to tell you that the conversations in the room with the other instructure instructors I was with were very thoughtful. Um, of course, right, I agree with and there definitely is a lot of concerns about AI and I think it is wise to look at board policy and other things like that um, moving forward. But I I do want to say that um, I know that our
027staff is aware of it. They were very thoughtful in their implementation. This was a a tool that was demonstrated um, at that thing. It was a very cool tool. It definitely was one that there was plenty of um, uh, double make sure you double check. don't just you know throw it in there. Um but it was a very interesting very cool um teacher efficiency tool. Um and it was like I said trained properly on I in my opinion and I I know that there is plans to be followed up and as as Miss Kakish said um things. So it is my preferred that you do not hold it up at this time and we continue to evaluate and move forward with board policies later because I do think this is a useful tool for teachers
028moving forward. That's my two cents on the issue. But I I do appreciate where we are going on AI and I would say that we're uh so far that I've seen we're being very thoughtful with it and I do appreciate the district staff um looking at that and I I think we do board policy and that is appropriate. Thank you. So something that as a followup for either Dr. Brown or Miss Gauntlet um in order to receive access to this tool, do you have to have completed the training? Yes. So it's not turned on for everybody. It's only turned on for the people who have received the training. There is a free version that everyone has access to, but for the premium version, uh yes, we would be providing training for all teachers that are
029be going to be using that. Almost all AI tools have a free version. And I and I will say that all of the teachers um again the mandatory teacher training for AI um that was one of the tools that we've shown. And so every teacher that has attended that has gone through the training and we show how to use it based on um acceptable use policy. Okay. Um I I I only emailed Jeff and our superintendent Makish. Um I don't want to violate a Brown Active. So but CSBA has a task force that was already developed for AI and recommendations for the schools. So that link I forward to Jeff and uh May. So if you want to send it to the rest of the board, I believe was that through Maze would be appropriate.
030That's a policy or what is that? It it it takes this issue that boards are dealing with now and going through what CSBA has already put into play and recommendations because even within our bargaining units there they're still uh concerned about uh negotiating changing change in working conditions. So my question would be if we maize do we have a policy on this right now? on AI. No, we we have according to our staff, Miss uh James had done a policy last summer. So, we will review that, send it in a Friday moment to the board and then I'm sure it's going to need updating by now. So, we will it's um this contract on here, is that going to be um compliance with the policy that we have currently? Mike, I I believe so. Lenny,
031the question is, does this contract and the use of this contract complies with the policy that James had drafted? Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. And it's it's BP [Music] 6163.4 and we can send that out. Okay. Okay. So, some direction from the board on how to move forward with this item. I think there's so many various questions that's going to be ongoing with AI. I think if as long as it's compliant, we should go ahead and move forward. Okay. Well, what does everybody else think? Well, you need to make a motion. Do you want to make a motion to approve it or what do you want to do? Well, are we making a motion to just put it back with the others and Well, we would just make a motion to approve item 12.1. No, 12.1, right?
032The cons. So, I make that motion and that would be in in its entirety. Okay. So, moved by Lance, seconded by Okay. I just I'm not I'm I'm unsure. Okay. I'm just unsure. That's why I was wanting to see if there was any more discussion. So what's before you is the tool that um teachers have been trained on to use and it is in compliance with the policy. So it's a contract. So if we delay the contract, we just delay implementing um that tool, but I I totally understand the the board needing more information with regards to the policy. And so um but is the question a question of understanding policy or is it a question of the contract right now it's the contract on the on well what Jeff was bringing up is the
033issue of implementation of the AI and I I mean personally I'm not sure I'm not versed in it but I'm not sure if that's going to be settled in even understanding the policy if it's if it's compliant with the policy I I don't understand the holdup. So, as we understand it is compliant with the current policy, but what it seems like is that the board needs some clarification on the parameters of AI and making sure that there's things in place because we haven't really had any kind of discussion as a board about AI. So, could we could we uh move to approve 11.8 8 as it is and then um request a um presentation at a future board meeting. What are the negatives if we postpone this contract till the next meeting? I I I
034think I'm going to ask our instructional coordinator. [Music] The negatives would be the teachers would not have this tool to be able to use in the way that um they feel would help them be more efficient and be able to reach more students and um differentiate instruction to a better degree. Um and that would just prolong that. Um that would be the main but we only have one month left of school. Exactly. Yeah. I I will tell you that I've had about 10 teachers reach out and ask me when it's going through. So people are very excited about the tool. Um but yes, you're right. There's only one more month. So if we postponed two weeks, uh would we still have the possibility of implementation at the beginning of the school year? Absolutely. I I
035have a a question. Previously, we' heard that it was being used by a large group of people who had been trained on it. Are those people going to lose at like who has access and who doesn't? Like that's right. I'm I'm confused about the different things I'm hearing right now. It's the free version that is available. Um, this is to go forward with a premium license for districtwide for teachers. Um, and so anyone has access to the free version of Brisk? Um, so by going through with this contract, it would allow them to have um more bells and whistles uh within the tool. Is Brisk an approved website or approved program through the district already? Yes. Yes, for the free version, we do have a data agreement with Brisk as well. Okay. So, it's it's
036something we're already using at some capacity. Yes. Okay. So, what you're also saying is that using the free version is open to even individuals that haven't been trained on it. Yes. Yes. Yes. But that that is the same with any sort of tool out there that's on the internet unless we block every single specific tool. Um, and okay, I'll leave it. I I just I don't know. It seems like the concerns are with the overall concerns are with not this is just my understanding, but not particularly with this program, but wanting to make sure we're safe with AI and like just a simplifying What what if we decided as far as what we're how we're going to use AI as a district? That that's the the issue for me is okay, what is this going
037to start if we do this? Um do we just randomly throw things out there at some point in time for um administrators and students and just what how are we going to roll this out? So um without guard rails in place, that's kind of what I'm concerned about. So, are we putting the cart before the horse right now? We're not. But I don't know, Evan, do you want to just talk just a little bit of us maybe big picture? I just can't be quiet. if you can talk big picture um information about AI and how it's really inevitable to to stop that momentum right now. Yeah, it's it's basically in everything that we purchase today. Um everywhere and everything. So um all our materials have digital versions and in the digital version is AI. Um
038we we also have um software that is so like no red ink is a software that the high school uses that's all AI. It determines um it scans papers. Um we also have another one uh turn it in is all AI that scans student work to see if they've used AI. So it's using AI to detect AI. Um it's all it's in everything. And um and so what we're doing uh with this in particular is we're we're trying to be very methodical and thoughtful on what we're using and to make sure that it meets our needs. And so Lanny um had had conducted it was like a four-month pilot, something like that, with um a large group of teachers to explore these different tools um and this was the one they came upon. So, we're
039we're um in terms of leadership, we've had a um an outside expert in AI come to our last three leadership team meetings and train leaders on the power of AI, where it's headed, where it's going. Um this particular person has like more of a global view of AI and and what's coming out and what's being developed. Um and it can be scary, that's for sure. uh if it's not used correctly and and if it's not vetted and if and if it's not programmed correctly, which is where the the human touch needs to come in. Um and so we have been talking and we're we're just now actually this week engaging in a 25 um license pilot for administrators on the Google AI, which is Google Gemini. Um, and so that is a uh a paid
040version pilot and it's everything you can access for free. Um, you can access it at home on on on any device. Uh, but this uh actually when we're looking at purchasing these things, we're looking at it being a lot more manageable because we have to have data agreements. Um, we don't want them using open-source AI, meaning that all of our data is shared with everybody else. Um it is a closed source system. So um it uses our current tools, it uses our firewalls, it uses all those different things to manage our own environment within our environment and not out with the outside world. Um which is what they get when they use the free versions. All the free versions are all open- source materials, open data. um and exposes us a lot more than than
041you know being very thoughtful on on closing our environment so that it only uses our information. Um so that's where we are right now with just a few tools but there are hundreds and hundreds of tool if not thousands of tools out there that students are using um on a daily basis. My own kids use it all the time every day uh for homework for different things. Um but as as the board continues to make decisions with regards to this topic, I think we can schedule I know the next month is impacted um with meetings, but we can schedule one late June or in July for just a study session by itself without a board meeting and uh bring an expert that can do an overview but also answer a lot of questions at the
042board and governance level. uh because there's several people that that became experts around um California but also in the nation to kind of give advice to board members as far as governance with that environment. So it seems like um I feel I feel confident in your confidence but I feel like maybe we're we're a little behind. Yeah, exactly. Um, and so in order to bring us up to where we can be confident in it as well and in the direction that we're giving, I think that that would be a good next step if the board we'll work with the president on what is the the right time for that study session. All right. Well, I'll second Lance's motion so we can move forward on this item. You all know what our concerns are and you
043know how we we feel. So, I think we'll be okay just to start off, but we definitely as a board I think I agree we're behind. We need and it's changing so fast rapidly every day. I mean it is but I mean we we have not discussed AI not one time as a board right at all. Right. And so um I'm glad Jeff caught this because I just didn't really I mean I I don't know computer stuff. I mean I'm just you know I'm getting old. What can I say? one of those I have to ask my kids but um so it just it's you know we have to grasp it ourselves you know if we don't have that knowledge right now so we have to understand what you guys are using it for and
044I never really thought about uh the reading ready no ready no ready yeah I didn't realize that was AI I mean I guess I never really thought about it before but so I'm like okay that makes sense so I I just that's my feeling I'm just I'm like I'm a little nervous about I just want to make sure that we're as the board prepared. Yeah. Right. Well, one of our I guess one of my top priorities is safety and that's not just phys safety but um in all aspects. So I think that's a good idea. Yeah, part of this discussion brought up another question that I I have is um so um Miss Gauntlet, you mentioned that um even if we because we do not operate our um Google extensions in what would typically be
045referred to as a walled garden, we allow at least staff members to use any extensions that they deem appropriate um even when using their staff accounts. which are signed into Aries. Um what about students? Do students operate in a walled garden or students completely open to all extensions available through all of Google as well? It's blocked. Um and so that would only be a case- by case basis. And I do know we have specific extensions for um adults the adults as well blocked. Um we have certain extensions. So the wall garden is typically referred to as something where it's you don't block things, you approve things. Yes. And that's how it is for the students. So for the students, it's everything is blocked except what we've approved. Yes. But for staff, it's everything is approved
046except what we've blocked. I do believe there are specific extensions that we've added to the block list um prior to my coming in as interimm director and then stepping down to extra instructional technology coordinator. Uh and that's been on a case by case basis. Okay. Um and I've even you know I was reading an article a week or two ago about how AI like you were saying AI is everywhere. Um, uh, apparently you can feed a write me a five paragraph essay prompt into the cars.com carfinding AI because it's basically chat GPT and it will spit out in a response a five paragraphed essay for you that you can copy and paste. So, I mean, there isn't really a method. I get it. There isn't really an accurate method to block this. It's literally everywhere.
047Um, but I I get very concerned about, like I said, about people doing the very fundamental basic functions of their job kind of feeding over to AI. And I think that that should make the people doing those jobs very nervous, too, not just me. Um, so I I just I wanted to express those concerns. Thank you. Okay. So, we have a motion to want to say something. Sorry. If I may. Um, is there a way we could postpone this point specifically for the next meeting and then, you know, have presentations or or do research on the AI [Music] um, not the requirements, but like um, the policies that Yeah, that is an option. We can um we have you have to vote it down now that we Okay. Yes. So there's a motion on the
048table to approve as is. Another option would be to approve with the exception of that and bring that back. So that's up to the will of the board. So So right now we have a motion to approve item 12.1 which was 11.8 as is and it's been seconded. Okay. So, do you want to say something to Dr. Rob? No, I'm trying to turn it off. And we and we want to move forward with AI and we we need a lesson on the microphones first as as information. Um, we won't be able to give any information to the board other than literature in Friday memo between now and the next board meeting. Um, because of the fact that there's no other opportunity to meet unless we schedule a special meeting, which we could do next week.
049I'm sure our staff can can have a presentation ready next week. We can't do it next week. So, there's nothing that's going to change as far as this contract between now and next week or next the next couple of weeks until the next board meeting. Um, so it's up to the board to to right now with a motion and second to to not have a vote or have a I'm sorry. Right. So there's a motion on the table. I think everybody's aware that we would like more information on AI. Okay. In the future. So we do have a motion. It is seconded to approve 12 the 12.1 as is. So I'll call for a vote. Okay. So, we have a motion pass. Motion pass. Motion pass. So, motion pass. Okay. So motion carries with a
050uh three as a yes and two as a no and and brin as well as um no. Just for audience information, our student board member is an advisory vote. It's not a um a vote that can change the motion. Opposed, that was the word. I could not find that word. I'm so sorry. We don't do that out often. I'm just trying to make Eban feel better. Okay. So, moving on. All right. So, that motion carries. Thank you all for the good discussion on that. It's discussion that needed to be had. So, all right. So, we'll move on to item 13.0. And thank you to our staff for spending the time to uh answer all those questions. I appreciate it. Uh so, 13.0 0 13.1 adopt resolution uh 2024-25-30 uh and approve the Highland Academy Charter
051School petition for renewal for the 202526 through 2029 30 academic years and the license agreement for the use of real property. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion on this? Okay, second. So, we have a motion by Susie, seconded by Lance. Call for a vote and a unanimous approval. Thank you guys for being here tonight. Good to see you again. Thanks. You're welcome to stay. It's been riveting thus far. Okay. 13.2. Approve the appointments of Keith Bacon as member at large uh representative and John Ly as the business organization member for a third term on the measure Z citizens over oversight committee. And do I have a motion? So moved. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion on that? Moved by Mr. Sanchez. David, you got it. Okay. All right. Call for a vote.
052All right. Motion carries. God bless you. Item 13.3. It's this is an information item. Uh the the board of trustees of the Bumont Unified School District has entered into a fully signed settlement agreement with the county of Riverside register of voters regarding measure E. Um, pursuant to authority delegated by the board of trustees to the superintendent at the March 25th, 2025 board meeting, the district has entered into a settlement agreement with Riverside County to settle any and all issues between the district and the county relating to the district's school bond measure included in the November 2024 general presidential election, known as measure E. A copy of the settlement agreement is available upon request. Item number 14.0, instructional and support services. Uh 14.1, accept the California Department of Education grant award notification for the career technical
053education incentive grant. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Any discussion? Moved by Lance, second in by David. Okay. Call for a vote. Okay. Motion carries. Um, item number 14.2, approve the quarterly report on Williams uniform complaints for the third quarter of the 202425 school year. Do I have a motion? So moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries. Item number 14.3 is also anformational item. Um, receive a report of the formal complaints filed in the district for the third quarter of the 202425 school year. And um the information was included in the agenda. Anybody have any comments on that or Okay. 15.0 human resources 15.1 adopt resolution 2024-25-24 proclaiming May 14, 2025 as California Day of the Teacher. Do I have a motion?
054I'll move approval and any discussion. I'll second. Okay. Sorry. Right past the We're all We all love this one. Um Okay. Moved by Susie, seconded by Jeff. Um discussion. This is a This is obviously a great idea. Call for a vote. Yeah. Motion carries. Uh 15.2 adopt resolution 2024-25-25 proclaiming the week of May 18th through 24th 2025 as week of the classified school employees. Do I have a motion? I'll move. Second. Moved by Jeff, seconded by Lance. Any discussion? David. David. David. David. Thank you. Any discussion? That was Jeff and David. Okay. All right. Call for a vote. A motion carries. Um, okay. 15.3. Approve the certificated personnel assignment order listed on the report dated April 22nd, 2025. Do I have a motion? So moved as reported. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Lance. Any
055discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries. 15.4. Approve the classified personnel assignment order listed on the report dated April 22nd, 2025. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? Call for a vote. Bless you. Bless you. It's spring. [Music] A motion carries. 15.5. approved the administrative and confidential personnel assignment order listed on the report dated April 22nd, 2025. Do I have a motion? So moved as reported. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Lance. Does any discussion? Call for a vote and motion carries. Moving on to business services. 16.1 receive an update on the district's capital uh facilities program. This is an information item. Thank you. Good evening, President [Music] Williams, director of facilities planning, and I'm here to give you an update on projects that have
056been completed, projects that are currently in construction, and projects that are going to be going into construction. So, on the agenda, we have six projects. Uh, we have the district-wide heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, and controls upgrades project, which we've referred to as the HVAC project. We have the Summerwind Trail School rollup doors, the Starllight Elementary School library overhang, Glen View High School new classroom building, the Educational Support Facilities new portables project, and the Palm Innovation Academy new kitchen building. So here, the district-wide HBC and controls projects upgrades. Um, this project consisted of replacing or adding new HBAC units uh to five schools. Control upgrades district-wide upgrading fire alarms as necessary. Schools with HBC replacements and additions were Glen View High School, uh Mountain View Middle School, Palm Innovation Academy, Sangonia Middle School, Three Rings
057Ranch Elementary School, and of course controls upgrades districtwide. Again, the bidding and award for this project took place June 2023 through September 2023. Construction took place October 2023 through August of 2024. And the architect of record was PCH Architects. construction manager was a Desmond Meyer and this was a 16.1 uh million dollar project. The photos you see here are uh units being craned onto the rooftop of buildings, a unit that was set on a new curb on the rooftop of a building, units that were ripped off our old buildings, and then new units that were mounted onto the backside of MA buildings. And then of course on thermostats being replaced. So this is just a couple examples. The next project, summer wind trails rollup doors. Uh this project consisted of adding rollup doors to an
058existing lunch shelter, path of trouble upgrades, and landscape upgrades. The bidding and award for this project was from February 2024 through April of 2024. And construction took place April 2024 through August of 24. The architect of record was DLR Architects and the CM was Leedzma Meyer. And this was a $1 million project. Uh the top photo shows you the 8ft uh rollup door. And some of the bottom photos, you can see um the guardrails that we added for ADA path of travel improvements and safety. On the far left, you see the uh footings that were dug up to so to add the frames to supported the rollup doors. And then on the very far right, you can see just a shot from the inside of the lunch shelter um with the framing for the roll-up
059doors. The next project, Starlight Elementary School Library overhang. This project consists of installing an overhang over the libraries um exterior doors due to um rainy seasoning intrusion or water intrusion into the building. And so this project was bidding an award December 2024 through February of 25 and it started last month and it's scheduled to be completed the end of this month. Uh the architect of record is RCA architects CM was Lesman Meyer is Lesman Meyer and the budget is $300,000. in the photos here just show you the scaffolding that was added just to start the framing um for this project. The next project, Glen View High School, new classroom building. This uh project consists of adding four new classrooms, uh staff and student restrooms, data and electrical rooms, landscaping, electrical upgrades, and ADA path of
060travel. The bidding and award for this project took place June 2024 through September 2024. construction is started September of 24 and is slated to be completed this August. Um the architect of record is RCA architects. Construction manager is Leman Meyer and this is an $8 million project and this rendering just shows you kind of the location of the building itself. Um this is a 5,000 foot building. The next photos show you the framing and uh the are the roofing that's currently ongoing. Down at the bottom you can see the curve that were in recently installed for the HBAC units and some of the duck work that was also recently installed inside the buildings. The next project is the ESF um new portables project. You probably have seen the um equipment out in the back. Uh
061so this project consists of two new office buildings, one conference room, multi-purpose building, restroom building, storage area, landscaping and ADA path of travel upgrades. So the bidding and award for this project was from January 2025 through March of 25 and construction just started uh this month and it's slated to be completed August. The architect is PBK construction manager is Nef Construction and this is a $6.9 million project. Um we don't have a lot of upgraded but as we progress we will bring an update to the board. The next project Palm Innovation Academy new kitchen building. This one is slated to start next month. So this project consists of new a new kitchen building, new kitchen equipment, a lunch shelter, landscaping, ADA path of travel uh and a parking lot reconfiguration. So the bidding and award
062uh was January 2025 through March of 2025. Construction will start next month uh and it will be completed April of next year. The architect of record is RCA architects and the CM is Lesma Meyer. This budget is three $7.3 million. And this is an approximate 1,600 square foot kitchen building. Um, and this one just gives you like a larger photo visual of the kitchen location. And then to the right you have a uh logistics plan of the interior of the building. So it shows you the speed lines, the um kitchen equipment, the uh dry area, the dry storage area, the uh restrooms, and then also um the office for the administrator in there. And that concludes my presentation unless you have questions. I have a question. Sure. Sorry. Can we go back to Glen View,
063please? Here. Uh the next slide was the buildings. Yes. So when we talked about Glen View 14 15 months ago, does that sound about right? Um, I thought these were going to be um like portables like the ones we did at the high school. These look like standard frame construction. Did something change? This is a stickuilt building. Um, in the past we've done an assessment of what the cost would be between portable buildings and stick built. And so for this assessment that we did, we figured that the cost would be similar to a modular building. So, we went ahead and built a stick build, which is a permanent building essentially. Um, okay. I'm just But this wasn't what was presented to us in the original plan, was it? Uh, I believe it's always been stick
064bill. I Well, I think at one point we talked about having modular buildings and again when we did the assessment, a stick build was what we ended up with. Uh, yes, Mr. Brown. Originally, this we were looking at during that time when we presented to the board, we were exploring different options of types of construction. And one of them was portable buildings. The second one was modular buildings that would be on a on a on a permanent slab concrete which would look like a permanent building. But when staff started looking at embedding the project, um it was more beneficial and costefficient to just go with a with a stick built like this uh building. I think at the time it was the presentation through the master plan, but when we brought the bidding, the bidding
065was for this construction. Okay. when we Well, it's funny because I had the same question last meeting and I asked I thought these were going to be portables. So, and then I'm like, well, well, I thought they were going to be the same sort of like permanent modular portables that we used at the high school because I had a lot of questions at the time about how this was going to be built. And so, when I saw these pictures, I'm like, this isn't anything like the questions I had when we first got started on this. So, I mean, it's good, but but I think because we didn't do the facilities um presentation, um that would have been beneficial to update you through that process and we'll go ahead and do that for every project that
066there's any change for efficiency that's material enough. We'll make sure that we update the board on that design. I mean, I prefer this type of construction. It feels more permanent and more portable. Sorry, Lance, I didn't mean to throw a pen at you. Um, but uh I just This isn't what I expected to see. Well, I took a walk one day and and went, "Well, where did that come from?" Thought we were do. So, I had to go back and look and do some homework and I'm like, "Yeah, we did approve buildings." But, um, all right. Thank you, Susie, for confirming that I'm You're not crazy. So, I I appreciate about the fact you're pretty crazy. Not about this. I'm not crazy. No, I I appreciate the fact that you're doing a facilities report because
067we were doing these forever and then all of a sudden we weren't because we weren't really having anything going on. So, it's just good to have these kind of reports for us so that when we are out and about and somebody says, "What's going on over there?" You know, we can say. So, that's all. So, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. How often will we have these? You might have mentioned that. Monthly. Okay. So, if there is one board meeting a month, we'll have it in that board meeting, but if there is two, we'll have it in the second meeting. Nice. Yeah, I like that as well. Thank you. Excuse me. We'll have it as often as a board as we want. That's the answer. How often would you like to have these, David?
068It's It's just the proposal, Mr. Sanchez. Absolutely. You can have it anytime. We can have a special meeting for the facilities report. Oh, if one board member wants a special meeting, that doesn't make make it a thing, though. Are you sure? I'm sure. You have to count to three. Just kidding. Okay, thank you. Any other comments or questions? Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Okay, so 16.2 Two is uh to conduct a public hearing. Uh to receive comments on the school facilities needs analysis and to consider, respond to and approve all comments received by the district if any related there to and to adopt alternative school facility fees. And so I will um open this public hearing at 7:21 p.m. And good evening, Madame President, Superintendent Kishian, board of trustees. Uh the purpose of
069this uh evening's public hearing is to finalize our 2025 school facilities needs analysis report. This is for level two fees. Currently our district is collecting level one fees are which are really known as statutory fees or impact fees developer fees um which uh are they're directly related to commercial industrial new construction uh residential additions and also new new construction for residential housing uh with level two fees. It changes that a little bit through the provisions of Senate Bill 50 which authorizes the districts to collect level two fees which they're a bit higher than level one fees. Um but however, in order to uh adopt level two fees or levy level two fees, the district must prepare this type of report. And uh tonight we're bringing that summary just a quick summary of that report. And
070with us who's going to present that is Mr. Justin Jorgan. He's with special district financing and administration. He's going to give us a brief summary u and highlights of the report. Also with us in the audience is our legal counsel, Miss Nicole Falses. She's with Atinson Anderson Loyal Root and Romo. And she's here to answer any specific questions that the board may have related to level two fees. And with that, if Mr. Jordan's here. Thank you. And you got the clicker. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. Uh my name is Justin Borggan. Um I know the presentation says Steven Gold, but I'm pitching for him tonight, but I work with special district financing and administration as well as key analytics. And as u Mr. San Martin um notified that I will be discussing
071the school facilities needs analysis which justifies the imposition of alternative school fees otherwise known as level two fees. Currently the school district imposes a statutory school fee otherwise known as a level one fee on all new development in the school district. The level one fee is currently $5.17 for residential development and 84 cents for commercial industrial development. These fees are calculated by the stat the state allocation board every even year. So 2024 would have been the last update and the board improved this for this fee increase in November of 2024. As stated the uh school facilities needs analysis helps the school district impose a level two fee which is higher than the level one fee. But in order to impose this fee the school district has to um follow some certain criteria. Um there's four
072criteria that our um school district have to qualify for. Two of the four need to be um approved. So of the two, the first one is the school district placed a general obligation bond on the ballot in the last 5 years that garnered at least 50% approval. The school district did that last November. The other criteria the school district satisfies is the incurred or debt or obligation of um exceeding a certain percentage of bonding capacity. Based on the school district's current bonding capacity, the the school district exceeds the threshold amount. The two criteria the school district doesn't satisfy are um having substantial enrollment which is defined as multi-tracked year-round enrollment are 20% of teaching stations in relocatable classrooms. The school facilities needs analysis would also approve a alternative level three fee which would be twice
073the amount of the level two fee. Um and the level two, this level three fee could only be imposed by the school district if the state allocation board stopped aortioning funding for school facilities. Uh we would not anticipate that happening. So we do not anticipate imposing the level three fee, but it is part of the calculation. Generally speaking, the school fee funding formula is the projected unhoused students generated in the next five years multiplied by the per pupil amount as determined by the state allocation board plus the portion of school site costs less any local funding and that would include general obligation bonds, our melo bonds or developer fees divided by the projected square foot of all residential development housing expected to be generated over over the next 5 years. Based on this calculation, the
074proposed level two fee would be $553, which is currently 36 cents higher than the level one fee that the school district currently charges. Um, this fee will not completely satisfy the development impact costs based on future enrollment. However, it will help close the gap. So, the funding formula is um restricted by the cost allocated by the state allocation board. It doesn't reflect true costs. So, this fee will only get us to a portion of the impact fees. And I would be happy to answer any questions if there are any. Does this affect the commercial at all or this is just residential? This is just new residential development. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And so we will close the public um hearing at 7:26 p.m. Okay. 16.3 adopt res. Do we have to adopt this?
075Um that's the 16.3 from my understanding. Okay. It says it. Okay. Yeah. I I I had notes the wrong way as well. Yeah. So, um Okay. 16.3 is to adopt the resolution 2024-25-28 approving the school facilities needs analysis adopting alternative school facility fees and making related findings and determinations. So, it's related to the public hearing that we just had. Do we do I have a motion? So, moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion on this. Okay. Call for a vote. Motion carries. Okay. 16.4. Conduct a public hearing on the proposed Fairway Canyon TK through five school site relative to the evaluation of the school site selection standards as required by education code section 17211. And I'll open this public hearing at 7:28 p.m. Thank you. Have a good evening. 7:28. Okay.
076Good evening again. Um, this is an item that we're very excited to bring to our board. As you know, we're a growing district, the fastest growing district in Riverside County and perhaps even in California. Uh, with this growth also that our demand is to add more classroom and more capacity to our school district. Uh, staff is bringing and has been looking and investigating two potential school sites, two locations. Uh, one on the west side of town and one on the east side of town. Tonight we have two public hearings. The first one is for the the fair the Fairway Canyon School site location. Part of our due diligence is to bring and comply with the California Environmental Quality Act and our site selection process which is part of the title 5 that the state requires
077us to investigate potential new school sites. This public hearing is to go to complete and comply with that process. Um, this site, this first site that we're presenting to you is located within the fair fairway housing development, which is located north of Oak Valley Parkway and west of Tuckwet Canyon Parkway. This west of Morango Golf Club, north of the 60 freeway. Uh, this graphic illustrates a conceptual site plan of the proposed school site. The site is about 13 acres and um you can see that is very conceptual how the the the layout and the footprint of the buildings and the campus itself will fall within the the property that we're currently investigating. Um tonight with us is our consultant, our environmental consultant, Miss uh Christy Rosla. She's with Placeworks and she's our environmental consultant who's
078going to provide us with a presentation, a summary of the highlights of the environmental impact report addendum for specifically for this project and then for the second site too. We'll start with this one first and Christina is she here? Thank you. Good evening. I'm Christine Morosa with Policeworks. I am a representative of uh the SQUA consulting firm. Um and to reiterate what Sergio uh said, we conducted a addendum to the Fairway Canyon specific plan, formerly the Oak Valley and Southern California Professional Golf Association SPCGA specific plan and EIR. Um the previously certified EIR was uh heard before the county of Riverside Board of Supervisors on August 14th in 2001. Uh the E was prepared by LSA Associates and the CA County of Riverside was the lead agency. Um as I said, Place Works has prepared
079an addendum to the certified EIR for the Fairway Canyon School site on the behalf of the Bumont Unified School District. Uh the addendum to the certified EIR was prepared because the district's evaluation of the proposed project does not indicate any unusual or new circumstances requiring a subsequent or supplemental EIR. Uh so the purpose of the addendum was to evaluate the proposed project uh and if it would modify the approved project in a way that would result in new uh impacts or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant impacts or otherwise trigger um additional squa. The addendum analyzed uh the proposed projects impacts under 20 environmental topics. Several technical studies were prepared to substantiate the analysis in the EI addendum, including a geological and environmental hazards assessment or GIA and a pipeline safety
080hazard assessment which also aided in the title 5 site selection process. Um I want to quickly touch on the title 5 analysis which also includes a environmental checklist covering a wide range of topics. Uh specifically regarding air quality, uh the GH the GIHA assessed the site's proximity to freeways, busy traffic corridors, per permitted and non-permitted facilities, agricultural operations, and rail yards to evaluate potential air quality health risks for geology and soils. The GIHA analysis looked at the potential for liquefaction, landslides, expansive soils, and the presence of naturally occurring asbestous. And under the topic of hazards and hazardous materials, the GIHA investigated the presence of various types of pipelines, including water pipelines, above ground storage tanks, as well as proximity to agricultural uses and power line easements. The only issue identified in the GIHA requiring further
081analysis was a large volume water lines within 1500 ft of the proposed school site and in response uh a water pipeline safety hazard assessment was completed which as previously mentioned was also included in the EI addendum. The water pipeline safety hazard assessment concluded that even based on the worst case flood analysis which be would be a full rupture of a water line. No risk exists from the p pipelines as any break from the pipeline from a rupture would be fully contained by the adjacent curbs and ultimately the gutters and storm drain system and not reach the school site. And these uh analysis and findings were also included in the EIR addendum. The addendum for the Fairway Canyon uh project uh concluded that the proposed project would not result in any new environmental impacts or result
082in a more severe uh significant impacts already identified in the previous certified EI. and no substantial changes have occurred since the certification of the E that would require subsequent uh squa review. The impacts of the modified products are within the scope and analyzed in the certified EIR and no adoption of additional mitigation beyond those provided in the ER are required. So, in other words, the proposed project does not require new investigation to reduce new or more substantial changes uh or impacts, excuse me, impacts um than previously identified. The addendum indicated that the impacts of the proposed project have already been adequately addressed and identified and no major revisions are required and the conclusions and impacts identified in the certified ER are remain valid. So the next steps would be to adopt the addendum to the
083ER previously certified ER and the mitigation monitoring and reporting program. And that concludes the EI portion for this for this one. Yes. I just have I do have a question real quick. Um this is for key K5 school. Are we set with K5? Can if we determined we wanted to do a K8, would we still be able to do that? 128. I'm just I don't know. I'm just Yeah. 13. Absolutely. Right now this is just to meet the 1970s sequa process but as we move into a design committee and designing the project itself the project itself can change uh right now we're we we are identifying as a TK uh five school ele elementary school but if the board chooses during the design process to change this to a TK8 at that time we can
084review that and we can change the design but that would would that require squa again it wouldn't it wouldn't significantly change but we would double check with environmental environmental consultant in our in our legal council. Should any changes that are significant beyond what we've heard tonight, then that may require a supplemental and additional addendum, but uh for now um we we don't believe that that's the case. Okay. Thank you. Um philosophical question. I think I I called you today and asked you this question about fire fees and um so I in turn had a discussion with my husband about it. So I'm we collect school fees to pay for our new facilities. So we have to turn around and pay another agency for fac for the fire department for their facilities. Is that correct? I
085mean it I'm trying to work this in my mind. How does this work when we collect school fees? So, a portion of our school fees that we collect from developers is going to end up going to fire fees to another agency when we build a school. Correct. That that is correct. Uh board member Lara. Um unfortunately uh we are seen as a developer also. Um although the city does has no jurisdiction within the property lines of the project they do have jurisdiction offsite our property and since this our school will impact the offsite and and uh perhaps even if there is a fire we will require services from the fire department. So whenever there's a new development uh developers in this case the district would have to comply in following for services of the fire
086department utility companies to get their services their one-time fees that we would have to pay also not just the construction to connect those services but also as a starting service fee. Uh that's something that perhaps in the future we can uh work with other local agencies to wave those fees. Um, ultimately we're serving the same community and we're part of the community and we're not a developer. We're a state agency that uh is uh investing in our in our city. We're we're impacted by the development in the area. That's that's I guess why I'm frustrated because we're trying to collect fees for our to build our schools and then we got to turn around and collect fees for the fire department because now we're a developer because a developer moved into our community and created
087a bunch of houses and now we have to make schools for all those people in those houses and now the fire department needs a building. So the school has to help pay for the fire department. It just it doesn't it doesn't doesn't um compute for me. It just doesn't make sense why we're passing tax dollars around. So, sorry. I know that was a philosophical thing. I'm just whatever. Okay. Well, thank you. Any other any other discussion? Okay. So, I'll close this uh public hearing at 7:39 p.m. And item 16.5, adopt resolution 20224-25-27, adopting an addendum to the Fairway Canyon specific plan environmental impact report and certain related California environmental quality act findings relative to and approving the Fairway Canyon TK through5 school project as a responsible agency. Do I have a motion? So we'll second
088moved by Lance, seconded by David. And any any further discussion on this? Okay, call for a vote. Motion carries. Item number 16.6, Six, uh, conduct a public hearing on the proposed Atwell TK through8 school site relative to the evaluation of school site selection standards as required by education code section 17211. I will open this public hearing at 7:40 p.m. And good evening again. Uh this is the second proposed site location for a new school that staff is investigating and looking at. Uh I just like to point out that this process that we're bringing to the board this evening with complying with the 1970 SQA requirements and the site selection process is an important process milestone for us to move forward to acquire uh uh the states that specifically the department of education site approval for
089a future new school. So this complies with that. will help us to to acquire that site approval final site approval from the state which is one of the requirements to seek state funding. Uh so um this this level of information that we're bringing with SQUA in this addendum uh will formalize that this is a formal project that the board has approved moving us again to site acquisition and uh negotiating and uh and moving to the next level which is the design and engineering of the project itself. So, with that, I'm going to ask um our consultant to come up again and just give us a a brief summary again of the highlights of the addendum. Good evening. Um thank you, Sergio. I'd like to um present the uh findings of the addendum here of for
090the Atwell TK through8 proposed project. Um it's located in the Buttersfield specific plan area um south of Landmark Way and west of Apex Street. Uh it's about approximately 20 acres and in the city of Banning. Uh so the addendum is to the Butterfield specific plan EIR that was certified by the city of Banning city council on March 27th, 2012. Uh the ER was prepared by RBF consulting and the city of Banning was the lead agency at the time. Again, place works prepared the addendum to the certified EIR, the Butterfield specific plan EIR for the Atwell School site on the behalf of the Bumont Unified School District. Again, the addendum to the certified ER was prepared because the district's evaluation of the proposed project did not indicate any unusual or new circumstances requiring a subsequent or
091supplemental EIR. The purpose of the addendum was to evaluate the proposed project and if it would modify the approved project in a way that would result in new impacts or more severe significant impacts previously identified in the certified EIR or otherwise trigger subsequent SQL review. The addendum analyzed the proposed project impacts under 20 environmental topics. Again, several technical studies were prepared to substantiate the analysis in the ER addendum, including a GIHA geological environmental hazards assessment and a pipeline safety hazard assessment, which aided in the title 5 selection process as well. Similarly to the fairway project, the uh title five has a series of environmental checklists as well. And the Guh specifically analyze impacts related to air quality which also uh assess the project site's proximity to freeways, basy traffic corridors, permitted and non-permitted facilities, agricultural
092operations and rail yards to evaluate potential air quality health risks for geology and soils. The Giha also analyzed the potential for liquefaction, landslides, pipelines, including water lines of above ground storage tanks as well as proximity to agricultural uses and power line easements. The only issue identified in the ghee requiring further analysis was the large volume water lines within 1500 ft of a school site. Again, a waterline pipeline safety ha hazard assessment was prepared um and concluded that based on the worst case flood analysis which would be a full rupture of a water line, no risks from the pro from the pipeline as any breaks in the line would from a rupture would be fully contained by the adjacent curbs and ultimately the gutters and storm drain systems and not reach the school site. Again, the
093addendum incorporated these findings from the PE from the pipeline hazard assessment and the GIHA into the ER addendum. The EI addendum determined that the proposed project would not result in any new impacts or result in a substantial increase in severe impacts already identified in the certified EIR. No substantial changes have occurred since the certified EIR was certified. um that would require subsequent SQA review. Impacts of the project are fully within the scope of analyzed in the certified EIR and no additional mitigation measures are required uh to reduce any new or more significant impacts as none occur. Uh the agenda indicated that the impacts of the proposed projects are adequately addressed and would not require major revisions of the certified EIR as the findings are remain valid. And the next steps would be to adopt the
094EI dendum to the Butterfield specific plan EIR and adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program for the EI dendum. Thank you. Any discussion on this one? Okay, thanks again and we'll close the public hearing at 7:47 p.m. Okay. Okay. Item number 16.7, adopt resolution 2024-25-26, adopting an addendum to the Butterfield specific plan environmental impact report and certain related California environmental quality act findings re relative to and approving the Atwell TK through8 school project as a responsible agency. Do I have a motion? So moved. I'll second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries. 16.8 approve an agreement for architectural services for the Mountain View serve, lost my place. middle school growth pro growth buildings project. Do I have a motion? So second. Moved by Lance. Second. Moved by
095Lance. Seconded by David. Um any discussion? Okay. Call for a vote. And motion carries. 16.9 Approve an agreement for architectural services for the San Gregio Middle School Growth Buildings Project. Do I have a motion? Second. Moved by Lance, seconded, seconded by David. Any discussion? Just for clarification, these are all portable projects, right, Jeff? Yeah, for portable projects. Okay, don't stay that way. I think was that a question or these these are for portable portable buildings, classroom build. Make sure we really clear this time. Okay, call for a vote. Yeah, exactly. Motion carries. Item number 16.10, approve an agreement for architectural services for the Summerwind Trail School Growth Buildings project, which are again modulars. Do I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Susie, seconded by Lance. Any discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries.
09616.11 approve the award of bid number 2024-25-08 Palm Innovation Academy Kitchen Building Edition for categories 3 4 7 9 11 13 18 19 and 22 as listed in the summary. I'll move approval. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Are you ready for um a year of construction? Yes. Okay. She says yes. Thumbs up. All right. We'll ask you in six months. All right. Call for a vote. And motion carries. Item number 16.12, adopt resolution 2024-25-29 to utilize the piggyback clause from the San Frernardino County Superintendent of Schools bid number 23-24-005 furniture for the purchase of furniture from Co Culver Nuland Incorporated and Office and ergonomic solutions incorporated. I have a motion. I'll move approval. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Call for a vote. A motion carries. 16.13 approve
097Ledesma and Meyer Construction Company Incorporated to provide construction management services and general conditions for the Palm Innovation Academy kitchen project. Have a motion. I'll move approval. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Call for a vote. A motion carries. Item number 16.14, approve the form J- 13 day [Laughter] J13A uh request for allowance of attendance due to emergency conditions. Do I have a motion? So move. I'll second. Moved by Lance, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. And motion carries. Okay, moving on to reports. Um, we'll start with do we is there a representative from CSEA here tonight? Okay. All right. Um, 17.2 receive a report from the Bulmont Teachers Association. Good evening. Uh, President William said, board members, Superintendent Kakkesh, cabinet, colleagues, community. Uh I want to thank you for
098approving that tool earlier. I know there's a lot of discussion uh about it. Um I think that tool became a little bit of a victim of the greater uh need and I agree with you that uh I hope you do get a report about AI and talk about it and implement appropriate policies going forward. I just want to reassure you that this this individual tool is is a great tool and and teachers are talking about it and our instructional uh coaches and partners and directors are all um definitely on it. So, I know that there has been a lot of discussion within the district and I'm glad to see that it's going to reach the governance body and make sure we do our due diligence on that. So, I just want to say I appreciate
099uh you uh having the confidence to approve it. This was something that was asked for by teachers and put forward as recommendation. So, we do appreciate that um as we move forward because it is a useful uh tool among many. Um I also want to say uh thank you. It looks like we're going to have a tenative agreement very very shortly here. We're just wrapping up just a couple of uh loose threads and paperwork parts of it, but um we are in agreement. Um we've done a lot of hard work this year um with our uh both both teams and I just want to say thank you to both of them. Thank you to the district uh for working with us. Um it's not everything we wanted. It's probably not everything district wanted always, but
100um we really appreciate you working with us. I know we can make more progress in the future. Um uh but it was a lot of hard work. There's a lot of great things in this deal and I look forward to sharing that with everybody as we go through our process to approve and ratify it and then it comes to you to for the final uh seal of approval. So, um we look forward to that. I just want to say thank you to both teams. Uh Mrs. Castillo, thank you very much for your hard work. Um especially today uh we really appreciate it. I know. Yeah, she did a really great job today. Um so, um thank you to both teams and um thank you to the board for um giving the direction and so we
101were able to move forward. we were at a bit of a standstill and I really appreciate your leadership in helping move that along and getting some of these things that we um feel are very important and we look forward to doing more in the future. So, thank you very much. Hope you have all a good night. Thank you. Okay. And no back me report this evening. So, um 17.4 receive a report from board member Jeff Brown. I wanted to thank Maize for playing the fun helmet video. Um uh I I do want to emphasize again uh my uh I I I I just feel like there's so much more we could do to encourage and enforce helmet usage. And I I I don't know I don't know how else to communicate that. But um uh
102when I'm driving around town, when I'm near the school sites, it is just it feels like there's a lot more kids without them on than there are with them on. Um and it feels like a huge issue for our school from a legal standpoint and from a ethical standpoint to not have something enforcable in place that we can deal with that. Um, most of what I've been told so far is that it's a Bumont Police Department issue. It's a some other issue, but somehow we don't let kids smoke on campus, but we still let them ride their bikes without helmets. So, I don't know how that works, but thanks everybody. Thank you, Jeff. Okay. and 17.5 receive a report from board member Dr. Lansston Sylvester. Good evening everyone. Superintendent Kakkesh, President Williamson, board members, cabinet
103members. Um I'll leave a little bit for Susie Lara. Uh we visited Summer Winds Trail. I was able to visit Summer Winds Trail. Um exciting time meeting the president, the principal and the vice print uh assistant principal and um getting a tour of the the grounds. See, listening to and hearing the dynamics of the elementary and middle school together. Um learn some things of what they have and what they do not have. Uh that uh we'll be discussing. uh looking forward to being able to assist them in trying to accomplish what will improve their uh goals. Uh also had a great time at the film festival. Uh got interviewed and got to spend time with the students and uh it was really great to see the students uh coming out dressed up. Thomas was there
104uh doing what he does. But um uh connecting with the community is always a good thing and connecting with the students is even more. Uh almost on a daily basis, Superintendent Kakeh sends the board members a message um updating us and keeping us a breast of things going on at the schools in the community. And one of the very discouraging things is hearing about second graders and third graders um threatening gun violence. I really don't know what we can do to fix it. I really don't cuz I don't know how we got here. But I know one of the things that um one of the reasons I got involved was because I was in interested and wanted to be a part of student safety. Um and before their actions they're words and we somehow we
105live in a we have developed a climate where being negative and using words to demean and and degrade and to devalue human life has become commonplace. And so I would just encourage us for where we are, for the sphere of influence that we are around to do our due diligence and our our best. Uh because our children catch what we say, they're caught more than they're taught. Um when we think they're not listening, they pick up on adults. And so I would like us to do our due diligence so that we can stem the tide uh if not with physical violence and guns at least without words. Thank you. Thank you. Uh moving on to a report from board member Susie Laura. Yes. So to go uh further with what Dr. Lansen Sylvester talked about
106at Summerwind Trails. What's that? yourself. Oh, okay. Well, you know, I had to read it, too. Oh, so, um, in Bren's report tonight, she had a picture from Summerwind Trails, and it showed the, um, the KDI 500, their little cars, and, um, so this is one of the things I really enjoy about the K8 school or TK8. So they had every classroom out and they had made a parade route with all the classes. All every class was out to watch the kindergarteners walk through doing a parade with their little cars. Um fantastic job on these cars and stuff. But it was just really very exciting to watch all these kids cheering on these little kindergarteners and their little cars and they were just they were so happy to be walking in their little parade and
107doing their little thing. It was very cute. So, um, that's that's just one of the really good things because I think, uh, middle schoolers, it's important for them to see littles like that and just to see, you know, how they behave and everything, too. So, because they have to, the little kids look up to them. So, um, puts a little pressure on them to behave. So, um, yeah. And then the following week, or was it last week, Maize and I went to Sundance and, uh, we got to have a visit over there. Always really good site to visit. I always love doing site visits. So, um that was a good thing to do. Also, um what was I going to say? Oh, the amazing shake. I I know I've talked about this before, but I
108I just kind of want to bring it up in public comments that um I still want to see about getting in contact with our COE about partnering for a regional amazing shake. So, uh, I want to really get that moving before too long so that we can start to get that implemented. Thank you. And how many days left of school, Bren? Um, 28 for seniors and 32 for everyone else. Getting close. We're not counting down. Thank you. Okay, Mr. David Sanchez. Well, the month of May is going to fly by for all of us and there's all kinds of awards and ceremonies that'll be happening. I'm thankful that Maize brought up that we were at the Riverside County student awards ceremony. That was a nice little shin gig of of talent that we were able
109to sit at the tables with and talk to our students. Um the project updates, um yeah, I'm just going to echo what Susie said earlier during the presentation. We've kind of missed those. um having those back in in in the rotation uh helps us as board members and to make sure we know what what's being stick built and what's not. [Laughter] Um the other nice thing that sometimes we forget about in our community if if you live in Bulmont is the kids that we've taught and educated and they they come back and they become part of our community. And I had the pleasure of meeting such an individual and it reminded and reminded me of uh the way that they were acting of the pillars of character that we we do or used to do.
110And uh they were an example of that because he was sharing uh a situation that occurred with in his family and he's a doctor now or a doctor of chiropractic. Uh Jason Dr. Jason Flores. He's over I'm giving him a shameless plug now at Healing Hands. But to He graduated in 20 I believe 2014. He played track and I think his girlfriend then was a cheerleader and they're still together. But but to see what we've developed and come back to the community and there's a lot of teachers, there's a lot of classified staff, the same thing. we kind of forget that what we produce and have produced over the years and coming back and still remembering some of the base philosophies on how to be a good person and uh it was it was rather
111rewarding to see that and then he went ahead and cracked my back and put me in pain but good pain. Thank you. All right. Okay. Thank you, David. Um, so many good things tonight. Um, it is the end of the year is just barreling towards us and it's uh I think the time of year at least in my experience where everybody gets a little riled up and it's uh busy and uh there's so much going on and so my encouragement is just to finish strong um keep keep stay strong and stay focused. Um, and I am so proud of Palm and Starlight as as distinguished schools. Way to go. Not surprised at all. Um, but just so proud to be part of a district with two schools that were recognized. Um, you know, it's not
112a just a lacadasical selection. It's uh very very much something to be proud of. So, congratulations on that. Um, and obviously for being principal of the year, Miss Lopez, you're a shining star and it um, I had an opportunity to spend more time with you last year and it was so enjoyable. I'm not surprised by either one of these, but congratulations. I hope it carries you through into next year as well, just being recognized for that. And we also um had Dr. Bobby Bernett and her team were recognized for the 2025 model school attendance review board award. And so I think oftent times our office end of it can get um we can overlook things on that end. Um but congratulations. That's way cool. and um you're you're such a good leader and an enthusiastic
113leader and uh so congratulations on that and thank you for all the work you do. Mhm. Should have been in my report. Sorry. And we work as a team. We're saving the best best for last. That's why um my uh I had the opportunity to visit San G over on my um spring break and so thank you um Eban and Chris Horton our principal there. Uh Sanji just is a school with so much character. I always love my visits there. Um it's a older school, yes, but I just find so much character in the older schools as well. Uh, and so that that was really cool. I love visiting the middle school students. Um, talking about character. I have one at home and I can't imagine a whole school full of them. So, it was
114a nice a nice visit. So many good things going on. I got to observe some of like the newer teachers and some of our more seasoned teachers and just differences in that, but goodness in all of it. And so, I just I love being on the school campuses. So, thank you for um making that possible. I'm looking forward to the LVN graduations on May um promote graduations on May 8th. Um I am talking about the community just in things that I've been doing in the community um like dinner and um and other things. I like just accidentally ran into two of our students in the LV LVN program. They mentioned our server. We were my husband and I were out to dinner and she was like, "I'm in school." And I said, "Where are you
115in school?" I'm in the LVN program. And I said, "Well, I'll be at your graduation." So, um, she's not graduating this time, but I ran into two two of our students in the last couple of weeks. And so, um, you know, I'm looking forward to May 8th and just reminding them of of the congratulating them of their accomplishments and reminding them of the legacy that they're starting by the work that they're doing. So, um, anyway, tonight was a a full night. I appreciate all the staff here and, um, I think that's about it for this evening. So, uh, we will adjourn this meeting at 8:10 p.m. Thank you. All right.