001session uh the Board of Trustees of the Bowmont Unified School District um on March 4th and it is 609 p.m. um so item number 6.2 um Miss Susie Laura would you mind leading Us in the pledge this [Music] evening hand over your heart ready get I pled aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and J okay thank you uh moving on to item number 7.0 and we do have public comment this evening 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 matter jurisdiction of the board regular
002meetings only individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes speakers may not yield or donate any of their speaking time to another speaker with board consent the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for Public Presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard the president may take the to take a poll of speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional person speak only if they have something new to add and so uh we will start with um sha Kels uh here to speak about um D Pac thank you good evening board member staff and Community my name is shik
003Hills and I'm a bont unified school district teacher and a parent and I'm addressing the board tonight because I want to publicly thank the members of The District's African-American advisory Council specifically our president and vice president Mr and Mrs Lawrence and Brittney Hardy for their contributions to having an active Committee in the district they're passionate dedicated and Visionary in two in 2022 parents teachers administrators Dr Judy White who is the former Riverside County Office of Education superintendent develop action rle appoints to form the first Buc datac committee to celebrate Black Culture as well as listen to the concerns of the community following a series of appalling racial incidents in our schools one of the main goals of DPAC is to improve educational opportunities communication understanding and cre shared experiences for our African-American students and families
004on February 13th Dak hosted their second annual African-American celebration for Black History Month at the high school theater the production was written by Britney Hardy choreographed and performed by students parents and teachers we invited all students to participate and students from anah hos Brickside Starlight tournament Hills uh sangoro and BHS acted did spoken word poetry dance sing and had a drum line and they also had a professional narrator Who provided knowledge about black history there are a few of us teachers who also performed uh one from Palm and myself as students and we had a lot of fun doing that we were the naughty kids learning about um black history that we were not taught in school at the end of the event we had a phenomenal speaker named Aaron white who talked about the
005commonalities that we all share with music and time and how together we're all connected I'm very proud to participate in this event every year and I know that there are many others that feel the same way I would like the parents who brought their children to the practice teachers who participated the theater department and District staff who attended we would also like to thank Dr Gray bu usd's parent engagement coordinator for her support additionally I'd like to say d pack would appreciate continued support so that we can uh continue to remove barriers for our children when I first began teaching in bont in 2006 I was one of maybe five or six teachers of color in the entire District when you're the only one it can be difficult to navigate a system I can speak
006on this because I have daughters who are products of BD schools when graduated from BHS in 2020 and my youngest is a sophomore at the high school my oldest was directly influenced by events in her bont career to become a a high school counselor so she graduated from UC Santa Barbara recently and is now working on her master's degree at Cal State Long Beach um in High School counseling because in her words students need a counselor who cares can identify with their struggles and help remove barriers that prevent them from achieving greatness although we're really proud of these uh successful events we know as a parent committee that there's still much work to be done to improve communication remove barriers and increase access to support students as they matriculate through bont USD but we're looking
007forward to contining to work with the district to realize the shared goals of deac and bont Unified School District thank you very much thank you thank you okay Sonia yeah U I did put down two comments to different topics will it all be in included in one okay all right good evening um board members I'm here again tonight um in kind of in similar um request as last time um the last board meeting I did speak about the comments that um Mr Sanchez made on social media um and as many of us have already heard his comment um was we need a day without a half breed can't get more American than that for me as a parent who's been involved in the district in many capacities with different um committees and have always been
008kind of involved in the different um activities that happen here um and we've come to the board for many different situations um it hasn't been just about one comment with Mr Sanchez it's been multiple and it was just uh disappointing to see that um your comments made that that U after that last board meeting Mr Sanchez it was a a public apology to the board there's never really been even a public apology to um your parents your families here at this District or in Banning where you teach I mean there was a cut and paste comment that was made on social media but not everybody's made on social media these comments are not to be dismissed being in um the I think tense climate that many fames are in right now there's a lot of
009people concerned with immigration there's a lot of people concerned just in general fear and safety and it's just irresponsible of you to make comments um that are going to um harm the community that we live in um another important thing that's happening tonight I know that you will be voting to elect delegates for the 2025 California School Board Association um and I did see that Mr Sanchez is on that ballot and I'm also asking the board not to vote for him um I think you have like nine delegates to vote for I don't think he's fit to represent us here in this District locally but I don't really don't think he's fit to represent us at the state level um as I mentioned before Mr Sanchez I don't know if it's just that you've taken
010your seat for granted after all of these years but I also want to put the um burden on the rest of the board I mean was there any reprimand done on Mr Sanchez for the statements that he's made um and the actions that he's taken or is any kind of suspension or anything being done um I Heard have heard that there can also be a curement that's all ways heavy on the rest of the board here I think your um silence speaks volumes by not really saying anything to me that says that you stand behind what he says and so if we are looking at him and shame as a representative of this board then I guess we see it the same for the rest of the board members who don't speak out against this
011either thank you thank you Sonia thank you thank you sorry I didn't speak very clearly um Pat Wayne hi my name is uh Pat Wayne and I've been a voter in bont Unified School District for 10 years I am also so retired from education I worked at the state level with the California Department of Education for many years and I'm currently on a Consulting contract with the Riverside County Office of Education I also worked with your staff and faculty uh prior to co to win a $2.3 million Grant from the state for Arts education and steam bont UniFi got the second highest Grant in the state from that work I am I'm trying to think of the right word I guess I'll use the word appalled at the post by Mr Sanchez this was not
012an off-hand comment that he made this is a designed out graphic a meme and as a parent I just feel he should be kept far away from making any decisions regarding our children in your bio on your website you state that you enjoy watching students acknowledge their self-worth and happiness in what world does what he wrote build a child's self-worth it is com completely demeaning and insulting to to every parent grandparent and student um I was at a meeting with uh 97 other seniors where this was shared and many retired Educators and everyone had the same reaction that I did we all live in Bowmont um I really feel that he's betrayed the trust of the education community and it's incumbent upon you superintendent and the rest of the board to ask for his voluntary
013resignation otherwise we can't help but assume that you are all in agreement with what he wrote we haven't seen any statement to the contrary an apology is simply not enough and I see that this has damaged the district's relationship with the community um and I think you need to take steps to repair that we have over a thousand signatures now on petitions so we are well positioned if we have to look at doing a recall and I've seen that done in many school districts and I I think you want to avoid that thank you thank you Pat Cindy hello I want to thank you the board to allow me to speak today here at bont Unified District we have a mission and vision statement with organizational goals for that I want to highlight on a
014few of them one of them all people should be treated with dignity and respect I don't think David Sanchez treated people with dignity or respect when he posted the meme on social media another one that I want to highlight all people should act with Integrity perform at exemplary levels and should be accountable for results he did not act with Integrity or perform with exemplary level he had time to resign and did not do the right thing The Next Step would be to go the route of recalling him he has a title as the board of trustee he has lost the trust from the community thank you thank you [Applause] Cindy okay our final comment tonight is uh for Mo Modesto Razzo uh good evening uh board members uh community and cabinet uh there are a
015few things I do want to discuss one is special education I heard the meeting from the pre the last month it sounds to me that your special education teachers are need uh what is it going to take for you to realize the drowning the the challenges that the the special education teachers have from writing from needing to have time to write IEPs to planning lesson plans to get all these things done without appropriate supports if you are to help your students in this District it is really important to include everybody and there's a part here in that it's on the board I know people mention the goals and whatnot that the district claims that it recognizes that students learn in different ways and at different rates and it will provide for these differences but I
016ask you what is truly being done to help these very people who you serve in the special education population who do just this teachers always ask to remember their why I think it's time for the district to do some refle reflection and asks itself to remember their why and bring that to the bargaining table the other subject I do want to bring up is the the comments of course it's been hashed out several times between the last meeting and this meeting with Mr Sanchez and yes I've seen the comments on Facebook because I'm part of this community and I want to be involved as much as I can can and so from what I see is is that you have someone that is not being held accountable you have someone who has said some comments
017who then he said no was about me and then he made some other comments that like sounded like jat chat gbt generated some kind of apology but as mentioned earlier I think that apology should be under the public not on Facebook but in front of some kind of Declaration to the people and I think that the board should also hold them accountable this is your legacy this is your time to shine this is your time to do the right thing for not only your the board itself but for the community and of course with the with the people uh the group back here that are saying no to for him to be on the csba I also highly encourage you to take that into consideration please do the right thing people are looking to you
018for leadership and for the high expectations that you have for your teachers and staff to be able to serve students and serve the public because the way I see it is had a teacher in your school district said the same thing that Mr Sanchez said there would be an up that teacher will probably be put on leave something would happen to that teacher and we're asking for somebody who who sitting at a dasy who obviously right now he can't comment and and I hope that he does at some point and does apologize but I look you to the board the superintendent make sure that you hold each other accountable this is a group effort this is a team we're all one we're all we're all one community so when one when one fails we all
019fail so let's keep him accountable and say no to him as far as this csba thank you thank you okay thank you all uh item number 8.0 pupil Personnel um approve the recommend approve recommended action for student discipline case number 202 425- 1A do I have a motion I'll move the recommended action second moved by D David seconded by Lance um any discussion okay call for a vote okay motion carries um item number 90 oral reports um we don't have anything to report out of V session um so we'll receive a a report from student board member uh Bren sapple thank you um oh okay there we go good evening board members cabinet and community members I'm excited to share about our Elementary School sit's Great events activities and accomplishments anah hos Elementary was represented
020at the district level amazing Shake competition by Sophie Luna who competed in the top 20 participants teacher Gabriella starbu led a before school science class to teach students to think like scientists students celebrated the 100th day of school with base 10 math activities led by math support teacher Valerie SEO and dressing like they were 100 years old teacher Devon Montes supported anah hos elementary students Eli Gilmer coradino and Belle Martinez at The District spelling be Brookside Elementary School students competed in the district amazing shap competition at bont high school the school is very proud of their accomplishments three Brookside students competed in the districtwide uh spelling be competition all the students did an amazing job Burk side also held his annual 101st day of school where students dressed like they were either 101 years old
021or a Dalmatian um Palm innovation academy would like to recognize Lori Johnson who will be retiring this month after serving the district for 28 years she will be sincerely missed by the staff and students Palm innovation academy is very proud to have sent two students to the district's Belling be Nadia agular and Hunter olivon another fantastic HTH day of school was celebrated last month kindness challenge week was full of school spirit and students enjoyed dress up days and lunchtime activities Palm Innovation Academy's Hall Halls walls and doorways were decorated for Black History Month the contest winners won a pizza party Starlight Elementary School celebrated the 100th day of school and the great kindness challenge week with fun spirit days great job to the Starlight owls that participated in the districtwide amazing Shake special congratulations to
022gelle Reyes and John Randle Diaz for making it to the top 20 Starlight kicked off Black History Month by wearing black red and green to celebrate congratulations to ardar Aria and Ace for their outstanding participation in The District spelling be special recognition to Adara Sharma for playing placing ninth finally The Starlight T TK students showcased their friendship performance on Valentine's Day at Sundance Elementary three students participated in the District spelling be they did a great job representing the school staff and students enjoyed special activities for kindness week and dressing up on the 100th day of school the districtwide amazing Shake was a great experience for students Elementary's top 20 site winners they are eager to participate again next year as middle schoolers thanks to Mrs gasbar for organizing the event at three rings Ranch Elementary
023Mustang students were able to explore a hot air balloon basket during career day the second graders had their annual presidents performance the Mustang singers performed multiple songs for their Valentine's Day performance congratulations to annaya for placing third in The District spelling be Mrs Melly received the staff shout out for the week thank you for going above and beyond congratulations to tournament Hill Elementary's uh tournament Hills Elementary's fourth grade student ryer Gardner who won the District spelling be tournament Hills had their sweetheart dance they had music tacos chos and a photo booth and more tournament Hills Elementary also has well over 90 students participating in the band this year the summer when trell's PTA hosted the first dance of the year the students and their parents enjoyed dancing eating snacks and taking photos at the photo
024booth the PTA did a great job hosting this event it was a great success the 3rd through e8th grade students participated in the districtwide spelling be summer Trails fourth grade student Edmund cyar placed fourth summer Trail's house incentives have ramped up in the past month the student store opened for students to spend their house points house on Raa was the winner for the first semester and went to the Fox Theater for the reward this event was a great way for the students to spend time with their fellow housemates as always thank you to all our parents families students and staff this concludes the presentation on events and activities Place taking place at our elementary school sites okay thank you Bren moving on to 9.3 receive a report from the superintendent and review the district calendar
025for the month of March five good evening everyone I want to start by um acknowledging on February 12th the Bowmont um Library groundbreaking took uh took place and board members Susie Lara and Dr lanston Sylvester attended the grounds breaking thank you for representing the expansion and renovation project will nearly double the size of the library the project incl includ uh study rooms teen center children's rooms and family space I'm thrilled to welcome these changes as part of our community's commitment to education also on February 12th the district African-American parent committee hosted the second annual black history celebration event the event showcased the story of black workers and professionals throughout the whole history it is always amazing to see the diverse Talent of our students parents and employees thank you for everyone that participated in that
026and former NFL player Dwayne Wallace spoke at Bowman High School on February 24th about pursuing your dreams despite personal challenges attendees included Foster youth unhoused teens and athletes Mr Wallace was also a foster child himself I would like to thank assistant principal Don Brandon school counselor reisha waren and principal Jer for for all of their effort in bringing uh Wallace to our district and for their ongoing effort for our student body and their Wellness on February 25th Brookside Elementary School held their annual used book fair I'm sorry used book book fair did I a book okay yeah you did um over 4,000 books were donated from the local community with 100% of the proceeds going towards purchasing new books for the library I want to thank Brookside library media technician Megan Cooper principal Joel hudek
027and the Brookside parent Teachers Association uh for their uh efforts in putting on this event and our own College and Career Readiness coordinator Susan agular Martinez has been named as 25 2025 balmont Chamber of Commerce citizens of the Year agular Martinez was nominated by Len Baldi director Emeritus at the Bowmont Chamber of Commerce congratulations Susan we're so proud of you and lucky to have you and this is a great achievement and today the California School Board Association this morning I should say uh president Betty Lusk and board member from uh Riverside County Office of Education Bruce Dennis toured Starlight Elementary School uh csba shares policy resources and training to nearly 1,000 educational agencies Statewide the tour focused on the success of the school uh dual language emerging program and how it's implemented throughout all of
028our district and before I go to the calendar events I wanted to say congratulations to our own Melissa Williamson for her graduation with an MBA um congratulations thank you so sweet that happened this weekend in Arizona so we're so proud of you thank you and as far as the calendar events really the the two I want to highlight is that our next uh board meeting is on March 25th and uh scholar on vacation Camp will be March 31st through April 1 4th and that is our spring break as you know and thank you madam president thank you and thank you for highlighting that um okay so uh moving on to item number 10.0 uh the consent agenda would anyone like to pull any items from the con consent agenda no okay um so I would
029like to mention that actions prepared on the consent agenda are items are consistent with adopted and approved policies of the district and are deemed routine in nature uh they will be acted upon in one motion without discussion unless any member of the Board of Trustees uh requests that an item be removed from the consent agenda in that event which we've heard there isn't anybody that wants to remove any items so do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda so so moved second okay let's call for a vote okay motion carries item number 12.0 special legal and discussion items um at this point we will receive a presentation um and um motion to certify the 2024 25 second interim report good evening president Williamson superintendent kakish board members cabinet and guests tonight we are
030presenting the 20242 second interim report and we will highlight the adjustments from what we presented in December which was the first interim so the second interim has to be certified and submitted to the county by March 15th and that's what we're seeking here tonight starting with the assumptions comparing them to the first interum there's no changes in the cola the district enrollment has increased based on our um seabeds number certified seabeds numbers the Ada we have not made any adjustments to Ada um because we are um the Ada is trending at about 93.2 4 we projected a 94% we will have the actual amount at the P2 which is uh submitted to the state in April so if that number changes from the 93.2 4 it'll be adjusted at our estimated actuals that we present
031with the budget as far as the unduplicated pupil percentage we have built this budget on a 68.3 2% which is slightly lower than what we projected at the first interum um since we have completed the second interm we have um received confirmation from the state that we're able to establish a base year which means that whatever our unduplicated rate is this year we'll be able to use it for three years out so that is not reflected in the second interim as of right now but it will be reflected in the estimated actual ual and for the retirement system percentages there is no changes from what we projected at first to what we reported at this on this report so moving on to the actual budget um our ending balance is projected to be slightly higher
032than what we had um at the first and that is based on an increase in revenue and then also a slight increase in expenditures so the net of those two things resulted in an increase of about $500,000 to our ending balance and again the ending balance is made up of the restricted reserve for economic uncertainties the commitments and the assignments that amount is $48 million so changes in Revenue um Revenue has increase by about 100 um $1.4 million and those changes are made up on the federal object it's a $600,000 increase and that is due to the medicalal programs state revenue increased by approximately 132,000 that's due to the mandated cost programs and then local Revenue increased by about 700,000 which includes increases to interest and Redevelopment funds funds on the expenditure side our expenditures
033have increased by approximately $900,000 there was a decrease in the unemp I'm sorry the benefits which is Health and Welfare and then an increase to our special ad contracts and the net of those two things was an approximate increase of about 900 moving on to the contributions from the and restricted general fund so for special ed the increase uh in contribution again is due to our special ed contracts routine restricted maintenance is 3% of our total expenditures that amount equates to 6.6 million and then we had a slight increase in our transportation revenue and that resulted in a slight decrease to the contribution so so um for the components of the ending fund balance we start with the restricted the restricted um components of the ending fund balance have to do with pots of money
034that we receive for specific purposes we've already received These funds they're just not earmarked for specific expenditures so therefore they carry over from year to year until they're spent there's not a lot of significant changes on this page the overall increase to um to the restricted ending fund balance is $8.9 million which is slightly higher than what we projected at the first interum and that's due to receiving additional money in the Arts and Music block grant I'm sorry the Arts and Music Grant the medical um Lea option and then the reg Development Fund the next component is a reserve for economic uncertainties in our district we have an 11.33% Reserve and that amount equates to $25.8 million and then the committed funds equate to 10 million the final component of the ending fund balance is
035the assignments and this is part of the general fund that is again aark for specific purpose and that Reserve is about 3.3 million summary of all of the district's fund so that this District district operates a 268 million budget and of that amount we're projecting to carry over about 72.5 million moving on to the multi-year projections so the the First Column shows what we just went over as far as the current budget the 25 26 school year and we're not projecting or we have not included the Cola in this budget um the enrollment is stay Remains the Same at a projected increase of 2.5% in enrollment the Ada is projected to be at 94% from that enrollment number the unduplicated pupil percentage again will be adjusted uh at for estimated actuals to reflect our base
036uh percentage and then uh no changes to the stir and purs rates and the final slide shows where we are projected to be in the third year so again we're projected to end this year at $4.1 million next year at 34.4 and then the final year is uh 20.5 and I would like to point out that when we published the presentation on Friday there was an error in the third column the third column shows that there was a ending balance of 13 million I believe this slide shows the corrected amount and all three years we meet the un uh the requirement of our reserve of 3% and with that are there any questions yes for all three years do we also meet the requirement that was established by the board for the additional Reserve um
037previously for the for the current year we do 11.3 33% the next the second year it's 9.77 and then the third third year it's one so we do not meet the 11.33% but we are over the 3% of the requirement so we don't meet it for the third year is that what you're saying if if I can um add more information to that requirement the at the time Board of Trustees um approved the policy to have an 8.33% Reserve in addition to the state required reserve of 3% for the district our size was to mitigate any surprises from the state and usually something to be classified as surprises it would happen within the year that you're in so it would be a mid-year cut or some changes to the projected um assumptions in the budget
038so there was no intent ever to continue to have that level reserve for 3 years in advance because at that point it's not a surprise if it's 3 years uh from now uh district has ample time to plan and accordingly so okay um it's kind of nice to have if we want to have a good solid cushion as an additional uh fund balance but the intent was to mitigate surprises within the budget year within the current year okay understood thank you any other questions from the board okay thank you good thank you Carmen thank you so do we have a motion to certify item number 12.1 so move second moved by Lance seconded by David and uh any further discussion no uh call for a vote okay motion carries item number 12.2 uh elect delegates
039to the 2025 California Schoolboard Association delegate assembly sub region 18. a we have any suggestions for nominations and I'll um nominate Douglas Corona Madonna Terell Cleveland Johnson David Sanchez Steven Schwarz and Nancy Young um do I have a motion to accept delegates as proposed no motion so somebody else want to do a nomination well cuz you you suggested them so you can't move she can oh I'll move she can move it okay I'll move it um any discussion on this we need a second right any okay discussion second sorry second okay moved by Susie seconded by Lance thank you very much for that assist um any discussion okay call for a vote no I think we should have discussion oh okay don't sorry I didn't hear I didn't hear um how do you feel I
040I'm I continue to appreciate the the position that the board has put me in these uh last couple uh of terms within the delegate assembly um Bruce Dennis is the director of of the district 18a um he he looks towards my support and moving moving legislation um I'm I'm also honored to have Melissa under my wing that I was able to uh introduce her to the committee as well which she has been appointed now and in the future you'll see her running as a delegate the two individuals that are not incumbents on the list um they are good strong even killed individuals um there are some Representatives on that list that are very uh that are not that have not been recommended by uh Susie that are from Tula that uh have caused the schools
041with throughout the the state to also have some issues um so the the list is is appropriate and for myself again I I did apologize to the administration and to the board because at yesterday's or last a month ago now oh my goodness um I knew that as a team I uh tarnished our reputation and I did make a public apology and the the speakers were correct it was a response on social media that I made my public uh apology and again I I will make it verbally as well I do apologize to the community for the inappropriate term that I used uh in a very Hasty Manner and I take full responsibility and will continue take full responsibility and then I do appreciate the support that I have gotten from the board and also
042the support that I've gotten from the community as well thank you thank you any other discussion okay call for a vote okay okay so we have um motion carries um four um yeses one exstension and one um no okay thank you um moving on to 13.0 um Human Resources uh approve the certificated Personnel assignment order listed on the report dated March 4th 2025 do I have a motion so moved I'll second moved by David seconded by Susie any discussion call for a vote okay and motion carries 13.2 approve the classified Personnel assignment order listed on report on the report dated March 4th 202 five um do we have a motion move approval second moved by David seconded by Lance any discussion call for a vote and motion carries item number 13.3 approve the administrative Personnel
043assignment order listed on the report dated March 4th 2025 uh do I have a motion so moved second moved by Susie seconded by David um discussion we have a do we have a um okay we have okay uh any discussion okay call for a vote we always get twisted around on that one I don't know why but thanks for their yes thank you okay um motion carries and um M Jennifer Castile president Williamson members of the board superintendent kakish cabinet colleagues and guests we are happy to announce the appointment of Bianca Zubia to the position of program specialist Mrs Zubia is joining the Bowmont team from the Ontario Montclair School District where she is currently an instructional coach Bianca started her career in education in 2013 and has held the positions of Education specialist and
044teacher Bianca earned both her Bachelor of Science and sociology and her master of arts in special education from California State University Los Angeles and her doctor of Education in educational leadership from California State University San Bernardino please join us in welcoming Dr Zubia to her new position as program specialist good evening president Williamson members of the board superintendent kakish cabinet colleagues and Community thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight I am truly honored and excited to be part of a team that is deeply committed to the success of students staff and this community I also want to take the time to thank my family who I brought with me tonight um for their love and support as I transition into this new role as both an educator and a mom my family and I
045are grateful to be part of a district that values collaboration growth and Student Success again I appreciate this opportunity and I look forward to working alongside each and every one of you thank you thank you and before you before you step away we would love to you to introduce your uh family to us if you don't mind yes so I have my husband joanni my daughter violet my cheerleader and my son Brandon well thank you for coming to support your mom thank you all right and welcome thank you welcome a so cute okay um all right so item number 13.4 uh adopt a resolution adopt resolution 2024 25- 18 authorizing the layoff and reduction of classified positions due to lack of work in or funds um do we have a motion so moved second moved
046by Susie seconded by um David um I would feel um comfortable Maize if you could just give a brief explanation of that because when you see layoff on the agenda could seem a little bit negative but there's a good explanation of that if you don't mind sorry um Jennifer I will refer to our assistant superintendent of HR um so as far as the position goes there's a lack of work um it is in the CNS department and when we went to Universal lunch um this Universal feeding Universal feeding um we stopped using that position and the way that it was intended to be used initially it was used to contact parents um in the past when it wasn't Universal feeding so that we could um make sure that all our students that needed free lunches
047we getting those or um at low cost free lunches so um yeah and then it's my understanding that the person that was in that position is now in another position right yes that person will still continue to be employed by The District in a position that is in her same classification okay I just felt like that was important to um to identify be like I said cuz when you see layoff it sounds it can sound um scary for lack of better words any other um discussion on that from the board okay thank you Jennifer I appreciate that call for a vote okay motion carries uh item number 14.0 reports uh 14.1 receive a report from the California School Employees Association and it's chapter 351 do we have anybody here from cssea no okay 14.2 receive
048a report from bont Teachers Association Chase good evening super J Kish uh board president Williamson board members cabinet colleague communities uh I want to thank you very much uh for listening to our teachers and staff last uh last board meeting um I feel like the wheels are turning things are are moving now and I really appreciate that um and I know that that's um you know a work of a lot of discussions and work and on our part of our superintendent and our staff um and we do feel heard and and we're looking forward for to moving forward we're not done yet but um it's a good start so far so thank you very much um we really appreciate your work in that regard um I do want to point out to you tonight on
049the certificated Personnel assignment order that you approved right there were 14 I believe permanent uh positions or a couple Subs in there too out of those 14 that people either were released or resigned um seven of them were special ed right seven seven were special ed right that's way out of proportion right so regardless of individual reasons for individual people right something's not working correct there right we're either not getting them enough support the positions are too demanding for what we're asking of them something needs to be fixed right I think that it just is a one Daya point right on this kind of systemic problem and that's what we're looking to try and resolve with some of our uh reforms and I know that the district wants to help us do that so we
050can attract and retain uh the best Educators and provide the best Services uh for our students so I just wanted to point that out um I also want to uh make a point tonight on proposition 28 funding this is the art and music education funding um currently we're using a large amount of that um to provide uh a contracted service that comes in um ELO I think it's called um I've got a lot of complaints about this service um as far as uh you know they're not fully credential teachers and stuff and this money is supposed to be used for Staffing so I want to encourage the board to uh look for ways where we can have full-time art and music uh instructors in our schools that are bont employees that can provide this service
051um to our student and also we can use those people creatively we had a proposal uh last year um where we could um give elementary teachers more prep time why they were receiving Arts you know the students were receiving Arts and Music um education in the classroom um we weren't able to quite get to an agreement on that um but that still can happen um and right now the teacher cannot leave the classroom because not a credential person um with the way we're currently doing that so um we look forward to um having fully credentialed people and and and bont employees uh teach ARG music where we can invest in these folks and they stick around a long time so uh thank you very much for your time tonight I appreciate your efforts thank you
052Chase and 14.3 receive a report from the Bowmont administrator's confidential management employees group good evening president Williamson superintendent kakish board members cabinet colleagues and Community uh lots of celebrations tonight uh first off I want to celebrate uh our very own superintendent who was recognized uh or who was it was announced that she was recognized as the superintendent of the year for the association of California school administrators Region 19 so that is Riverside County um and that is an award recognized by her peers nominated by bont unified sta staff and and selected by her peers and so an incredible accomplishment that we are being led with legitimately the best superintendent in the county agreed agreed we we all knew it but it's always nice when it's publicly celebrated as well uh as as noted earlier today
053by superintendent Kish I also want to recognize Susan agular Martinez uh our career Readiness coordinator who was celebrated as the bulon Chamber of Commerce citizen of the year uh Susan's work ethic is absolutely tremendous and the connections that she makes with community members throughout bont uh really facilitates opportunities for our students that would not be possible um and so definitely want to recognize Susan as well um of course I want to recognize president Williamson for completing her uh master and business administration always incredible to see people uh improving themselves through education and so uh the example that that sets for everybody is is awesome also want to welcome our newest member to the backne team Dr bianc Kia as our special education program specialist um super excited to have you on the team and then
054also want to wish uh best of luck to jilan stake as she moves on to a new professional opportunities so thank you very much okay thank you uh 14 point for receive a report from board member Susie Laura okay I'm going to start off tonight tonight um I I wasn't going to do this but um I'm I I feel like I'm going to be putting a Target on my back either way so um in the reason that I uh nominated Mr Sanchez for the csba position is because Mr Sanchez made a mistake and do I agree with the mistake that he made absolutely not but is that how we are going to be judged is by one comment that we make I think that we need to have Grace for people and let people learn
055from their mistakes and I feel that David has done that I've known David a long time and a racist is something I would never describe him as and so um it's unfortunate that people would like for him to resign or step down from the board for making one mistake in 20 some years um I don't want to be known for one comment I want want to be known for all the good that was done while I was here and so um I would just ask our community to show some Grace um he apologized I don't know what else he needs to do I don't think you can say that it was it was insincere we were not the ones that wrote it he was sincere when he wrote it and that he meant it so
056um it it's it's a tough spot to be in as a board member because he's an El Ed official and it is not my place to say um David you need to resign or you need to quit you were elected and so we don't have any um right to do anything to you basically not that I would CU you've already addressed the issue and like I said do I agree with what you said no but you know you learned and we all learn from this mistake I mean we all say dumb things at certain times so um he just happened to say in public unfortunately so um with that I'm going to go on to better things um congratulations Melissa on your degree um also I just had the most exciting morning today and I'm
057just going to read this this was after I got home from Starlight Elementary this morning and um what a what a good visit um Starlight Elementary was visited by the csba board president to check out our dual language program um it's not often a board member gets to show off a School site but today I was able to do just that I was beaming so um when I left I was filled with so much pride and Dr Lusk who was the president of C SBA was very impressed with our program and she kept saying to me you must be so proud I can see why you're you must be so proud and I'm like oh I am I am I just can't even believe how could this district is so um it was so excited
058so I was so excited to see her excitement um and I really am and I was so excited when I left and it just brought me back to my y um that was actually brought up tonight um by somebody and it's we are all up here for the kids and we want to do what's best for them and so there isn't anybody up here that doesn't want to do that so I know the staff and everybody in this District have that Focus um there's so many distractions and the mundane things that need to be dealt with but at the end of the day we are here for the kids to see them be successful and learning eagerly engaged in their classrooms was watching the teachers being so enthusiastic and classified staff so helpful in so
059many ways so thank you to all of our staff we are a gem in Riverside County and now our district will be part of the annual education conference at csba because Dr Love wants to highlight our program doesn't get more exciting than that I was so excited I almost brought me to tears today so proud of you guys thank you thank you Susie uh 14.5 receive a report from board member David Sanchez I'm going to pass tonight okay 14.6 um Jeff is absent and we wish him that he feels better um he's not feeling well tonight so 14.7 receive a report from board member Dr lanston Sylvester good evening to superintendent kakish president Williamson fellow board members and cabinet to everyone that's here tonight um this is my third or fourth board meeting um so
060I guess I'm the new kid on the Block and um I want to begin by we enjoyed uh board member Lara and I at the uh Library groundbreaking and then the uh Chamber of Commerce uh Citizen Award uh we had a great time it is great to to see uh the community rallying around whether it's a business whether it's education um but I want to Echo because it does seem as though uh the board has been lumped uh to deal with this issue um I made comments at the last board meeting but um I guess someone that said they listened to the previous board I'm not sure if they heard everything correctly so I want to Echo again we're here to serve I ran for this position uh because I have students parents teachers um
061at heart and this Bowmont community at heart um I don't believe it is not my job to speak for any other board member but I don't believe there's any board member here that resonated or agreed with the comments of board member Sanchez with that said I've also had the privilege since I was elected of sitting in on meetings with each of the board members and can unambiguously and unequivocally state that everything that is discussed is for the benefit of the students the teachers and the parents of this community um it is not the it is not in the scope of this board to discipline another board member and that needs to be publicly known if there's anything that needs to be done it does need to come from those who elected us to this position
062but with that said while we may not agree or disagree on an action or words I haven't seen or experienced any position I could say that David Sanchez in our meetings is very competent brings a uh insight as an educator to uh various issues um that is needed and so uh with that with that said this is for those probably who are not here but those who say they listen to the meetings um uh it is unjust it is unfair to try to categorize this entire board based on one statement see what we do follow our actions look at our decisions and I think bont does have the best cabinet does have the best superintendent does have the best board and does have the best leaders leading this community and to that I yield thank
063you thank you okay so um it's the benefit of going last is that I can say that I couldn't say it better than what Susie and um Lance said but I will say that um I ALS I also do not agree with the statement um but I also know David's character and um I would never question that I have no reason to question it and um so I don't want to elaborate anymore because um Susie and Lance said it very well um but I do have a lot of other things um to say and Maize I mean Mae you are just an amazing woman um I have enjoyed my time here in Bowmont um and I just try to like glean as much as I can from you as a role model for me and
064hopefully what my career may look like at some point um and it has just been an honor the this recognition couldn't have gone to anybody better it is uh it is just amazing and I feel incredibly honored to be working with you and um and to be with this school district that is under your leadership um you're you're just I just I really enjoy it very much um I want to thank you Susie for being there today for the csba visit I wish sometimes I could clone myself but um I have a a full-time job during the day and and so I was so relieved when you were able to be there thank you for being there I'm glad you were encouraged by the visit and uh you know oftentimes smaller districts like bont get
065overlooked with these type of visits but uh recently we have really received a lot of support from Bruce um who is the what is he csba director he's the csba director for our region right um and uh he wanted to highlight our district and so I'm really I I mean I never would have thought it would have been anything but excellent but thank you for being there I appreciate it it was amazing go on and on yeah and and and thank you just well I mean she could have visited any of our sites and it would have been great for sure uh I have confident in that um I also wanted to uh thank my fellow board members for their support during the last meeting I actually showed up to the meeting and I was
066sent away out a which was much appreciated you know I I was able to spend some final moments with a loved one um instead of being here and not worry about what was going on here and um I I would have stayed unless I was really forcefully encouraged to leave and so I greatly appreciate that um it will it'll forever mean a lot to me so thank you um this is read Across America week and I have my necklaces on here that says reading is fun um so I hope that all the sites are really enjoying that and highlighting the importance of reading and uh and just having fun with that I would like to thank those uh that came for public comments today I think I've I've always said that I think that that's
067one good thing that really came out of covid is that um people became more aware of their of their right and ability to come to public meetings and share their concerns and I really appreciate that um it is heard and it is taken to heart um and I missed Thursday the the um Chamber of Commerce event uh we were packing my graduation was in Phoenix and I just could not squeeze it all in but I just can't again another amazing um woman Susan I had the opportunity of um going to Getty's with her and we shopped many shops together on our free time um and she's just I mean she's just immensely talented um she's kind um as Dr Brier said her work ethic is impeccable and it could not be a better um um
068recognition so congratulations Susan and welcome Dr Zubia we're happy to have you so on that note that is the end of my comments and um I would call for adjournment we we're not going into Clos session so I don't need to call for that we're just adjourned we are now adjourned at 7:16