001will reconvene into open session. Welcome everyone. And if we could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. All right. Item 7 on this one. Sorry. Item 7.1, public testimony. During meetings of the board of trustees, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on items that appear on the agenda 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 agenda or non-aggenda item. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20
002minutes. Speakers may not yield or donate time to their any of their speaking time to another speaker. The 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 a poll of the speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. The board shall not prohibit public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the district or the or of acts or omissions of the board. Speakers are informed that the opportunity to address the board does not confer any privilege or protection for expression beyond that provided by the law. All right. And so I would like to invite Mr. Doug
003Slay to the podium, please. >> Doug, did I say it wrong? Story. >> Sorry. >> Yeah, that's all right. That that T looks like an L. >> I don't have nice teacher writing, so I apologize. I apologize. >> Thank you very much. Uh my name is Doug Story and I am the director of community services for the city of Bowmont and I wanted to come before the board tonight and just extend my appreciation uh for the great partnership that we've had. Tonight you'll be considering uh anou uh for our use of the pool uh for our summer swim program. And this swim lesson program has been going on uh for a few years. This will be our third summer. uh has become a very uh successful program for our community and we greatly appreciate the
004use of uh your pool up at the high school. Uh your staff in helping coordinate this process with all the funou things and insurance and all that great stuff with Anna and uh Jacob up at the high school have been fantastic uh to work with and I just really appreciate uh the the benefit to our community that um is through this partnership. Uh through this partnership, we've been able to have numerous families in our community uh be able to learn to swim uh which is a important skill uh not just for its fun nature uh but really for its safety uh and it's something that our uh department and our city uh really stand behind and we're really proud to offer it and it wouldn't be possible uh without this partnership with you. And so
005I just wanted to come and extend my gratitude and my appreciation to the board uh to the staff and to everybody. Uh and we're looking forward to another great summer. So thank you so much. >> Thank you. So I'd like to add that my son was involved in the summer swim program for three years and it was instrumental and so I think it's an amazing thing for our community. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. All right. So item 8.1 approve the recommended action for student discipline cases 202526-15 206526-16 two I'm sorry 202526-15 202526-16 202526-17 >> Uh do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Hearing none. Call for the vote. Shorty. And the motion carries. Item 9.1, uh, report out of close session, Mr. Sanchez. >> We did have action in
006close session. It was moved by myself, David Sanchez, and seconded by Melissa Williamson to reject the claim number 202526-23. The vote was unanimous. Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. And item 9.2, we will receive a report from our student board member, Kaden Elderson. >> Good evening everyone. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening everyone. Oh, >> good evening everyone. I'm excited to share our secondary school sites great events, activities, and accomplishments. Starting off with Mountain View Middle School, the Mountain View Middle School counseling team opened a staff pop-up wellness center and the new student wellness center for staff appreciation week. The Cougar Marching Band, color guard, and cheer squad marched from it uh small world down Main Street at Disneyland. The Cougar Yearbook team spent the day at Universal Studios celebrating the completion of the 2025 through 26
007yearbook. The school team celebrated staff appreciation week with principal Shawn Dickinson putting his grilling skills to use for the entire staff to enjoy lunch. The school celebrated the hard work, dedication, and teamwork of the athletes on San Gonio. It is award season and the San Gorgonio Middle School had lots to celebrate. Team members Leo maybe an AMA and Amanda Cassetta were recognized at the Riverside County Office of Education celebrating educators lunchon lunch on May 6th. Team member Elva Paz was recognized as the best as the best bilingual educator succeeding together teacher of the year by the Riverside County Office of Education. On April 24th, AVID students Alicia Flores and Reneia Lagante were recognized at UC Riverside as AVID standout students. Erica Rivera along with other Bulmont Unified School District staff members were recognized at the
008Riverside County Special Education Local Plan Area Awards for the contributions to special education. A new school mural is underway thanks to a collaboration with artist Tyson Knight, the student art club, and ASB students. Special thanks to the expanded learning department, and Michael Griffin for supporting this after school opportunity. The school recently hosted an AVID family night. Avid um AVID students served family dinners and walked them through a curated exhibit of college and career research projects. On to Bulma High School. Congratulations to the Bulma High School color guard for finishing in second place out of 22 schools in their first season. Students in the engineering program built an 8x12 shed in accordance with the Cal OSHA OSHA and Union Carpenter standards as part of a design and building competition. Students took part in every 15-minute program
009which showed the impact of students who drive under the influence. Students from Summerland Trails School visited the high school to watch the musical Hairspray and participated in a meet in a meet and greet with the cast and crew. This year high school this year's high school prom was an extraordinarily fun event held at Palm Springs Air Museum. Lastly, congratulations to the boys volleyball team for winning another citrus belt title after 130 in league games. On to Glen View High School. Glen View High School's Joshua Betron was recently honored by the Riverside County Bar Association as a recipient of the prestigious Good Citizenship Award for his character and service to others. In athletics, Coyote soccer was in full swing during the fourth quarter. A special thank you to Coach Romero for her incredible dedication and work
010with the team. Glen View High School has officially received the California Model Continuation High School award. Thank you to board member Melissa Williamson for being with the team to celebrate this wonderful milestone. Finally, committed Coyotes were recognized for the outstanding third quarter achievements in academics, behavior, and attendance. Congratulations to all of Glen View's dedicated students on the 21st Century Learning Institute student Evan Sterling. Oh, 21st Century uh Learning Institute student Evan Sterling has received the prestigious Good Citizenship Award from the Riverside County Bar Association, honoring exemplary leadership and community spirit. Senior Kate Hernandez has been named this year's Bowmont Alternative Education Student of the Year. Kate was selected for her incredible resilience and perseverance in overcoming obstacles throughout her academic journey. 21st Century continues to foster engagement through monthly in-person steam activities hosted by the
011social club for elementary and middle school students. Lastly, seniors senior students recently participated in this college signing day event, proudly sharing the colleges and universities they have committed to attending. A special thank you to counselor Mrs. Kelly Bman for organizing this memorable this memorable event for our seniors on Bmont Middle College. Bmont Middle College High School has been officially honored with the California Distinguished School Award. Special thanks to board president Jeff Brown, Superintendent Maize Kakkesh, and several cabinet members and staff for celebrating this significant milestone with us. The Phoenix History Bowl team traveled to Washington DC to compete against top high school students from across the country, proudly representing for both their school and the district. Nana Nichols received the good citizenship award from the Riverside County Bar Association in honor of recognizing her exemplary
012character and leadership. Lastly, the school along alongside 21st Century Institute in Glen View High School held their senior awards night celebrating the class of 2026. Special recognition to counselor Kelly Bowman for organizing the event. Five seniors will be graduating with one or more associates degree from Mount Saninto College. And additionally, um I will be graduating from College of the Desert with my with two of my associates degrees as well. Uh moving on to Bulma Adult School. The Bulmont Adult School Adult Transition staff and uh students attended Captain X, a regional autism event selling coffee from the Bulmont Bean and handmade uh beaded lanyards, keychains, and pens. Vocational nursing classes 39 and 41 participated in disaster day, a large scale sim simulation designed to practice emergency response protocols and clinical interventions during real life disaster scenarios,
013blood and all. To encourage students to continue their education, students enrolled in the high school diploma in English as a second language programs toward uh Craftman Hills Community College. And uh as always, thank you to all of our parents, families, and staff. This concludes the presentation on events and activities taking place at our secondary school sites. >> Thank you, Kayen. Item 9.3, receive a report from the superintendent and review the district calendar for the months of May and June 2026. >> Good evening everyone. If we can uh move to the next slide. So I want to start by acknowledging the advocacy trip coast to coast which is a combined effort by AXA the association of school administrators in California and CSBA um California school boards association. Um the trip was uh successful. We were able
014to have legislators hear our uh concerns and needs in the areas of CTE, online safety and artificial intelligence AI. We've also actually continued the effort from previous years regarding special education funding. And then this is the month of celebrations. So we had our retirement recognition dinner and that is an annual event. Now people look forward for um this event and our human resources staff and the committee do a great job of setting up for that and to honor and value all of our employees. The theme was Western as you can see and then we've recognized retirees um years of service for employees and employees of the year board member I'm sorry board president Jeff Brown, vice president Dr. Sylvester and board member Susie Lara were in presence. And then at uh student of the year
015dinner, it's an annual event kind of the cumulative um event of student of the month that we have uh throughout the months of the year. We had uh two students, Bulmont High School senior Adrienne Wilson and 21st Century Learning Institute senior Kate Hernandez received the scholarship for student of the year. Um Danu Dan Hughes scholarship recipient was Noah Pinto from Bulmont High School. Graduation honor cords were distributed at the event and in attendance was board president Jeff Brown, board clerk David Sanchez, um board member Mrs. uh Williamson, and all cabinet members. Oops. I'm sorry. G um sorry I lost my space um for scholarship awards t this is an event that's actually hosted by Kamisa Chamber of Commerce and they uh we had the honor of having five of the seven recipients uh come from
016Bulma High School and you see their names on the slide. Congratulations to all of our students that were honored. And then also um our alternative high schools senior award night. We had um 21st century learning institute, Glen View High School and Bulmont Middle College High School participate in this event. Graduation honor cords tolls and scholarships were distributed and our president, our clerk, and Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. Lara were in attendance. Congratulations to all of the recipients. Bulman High School senior award nights was on May 21st and graduation honor coord scholarships were distributed and uh Mrs. Lara represented the board at that event. Congratulations to all of the seniors. There's so many to celebrate. As for the calendar updates, I just want to highlight that tomorrow we have a uh ribbon cutting for the kitchen and
017shade structure renovation at Palm. >> Um and then adult school graduation will be on the 29th. As for June, we have an alternative high school graduation on June 2nd. June 3rd, we will be distributing um graduation tickets for Bowman High School. And June 4th is Bowman High School graduation. >> What time tomorrow? >> I'm sorry. >> What time tomorrow? >> Um 8:30. 8:30 in the morning. >> And on July 7, June 8th through July 17th, we will have I just want to highlight that we'll have the free summer meal service. It's something that we really uh are doing a joint effort with Banning to publish all of these locations uh for our community to be able to access meals all throughout the summer. June 8th through June 3rd, we have an extended school year for
018um our students with special needs and all throughout our district. June 9th through the 2nd, we have the summer program for TK grades, Bulmont High School, Summer School, and Career Explorer Labs. On June 9th, we will have our next board meeting. And that concludes the report, Mr. President. >> Thank you, Miss Kakich. Item 10.1, the board of trustees for Bumont Unified School District will recognize Petra Rathfelder and Kaden Alderson for their service to the district as student board members for the 2526 school year. We'll go down then. >> Yes, please. It doesn't read that so much for your service to >> Thank you. Thank you so much for your service. >> Congratulations. Thank you so much for your service. Should we do to Rose and we can go on? Thank you. >> Want to stand
019in the back? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. That looks nice. Let's actually coordinate this. We'll have you stand up. >> That's a little too. >> Okay. Perfect. Ready? One, two, three. One, two, three. Perfect. You guys look great. Thank you. >> Thank you. get used to her. >> So, I want to thank the families, too. I know you guys are heading out in the back, but thank you so much for all of the commitment of the entire families for coming and participating and just being involved for your students. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Mr. President, >> seven year. >> Can I just say a word to Kaden? >> Yes, ma'am. So this was my first time down this way on the dis and it was so fun being with you
020down here and seeing you grow and um you building your confidence and it's been it's made my time very enjoyable. So uh congratulations on your not one but two um associate degrees and uh thanks for spending time with me down here. >> Thank you. Moving on. Item 11.1 receive a presentation on the district English language advisory committee DAC for 202526. >> Right. Good evening, Superintendent Kakkesh, President Brown, and board of trustees members. Thank you so much for giving us the time to update you on the work of the Bulmont USD district English learner advisory committee. We have our DAC members here tonight and we will be presenting along with our staff members who support our English language learner programs. Our DAC members are Ava Romero, Maria Trin, Anna Maria Via Seenor, Anna Monroy and Gustavo
021Mongia. We also have instructional coaches Olivia Rosco and Mariah Marie Ferguson in attendance. and I'm Matt Barnett, the director of TK to2 programs. Everything we do is aligned to our district's mission statement. Specifically, we work to have to create high-quality educational opportunities for all of our students through a shared commitment. Our learning target for this presentation is for you to be able to explain our actions to support English learners and involve parents. The dilak is a community that is designed to advise district official on English learner programs and services. Parents are the most important part of our da. We also have district staff members and other community members that attend our meetings. We have three delect meetings au. At each meeting, we review the language census which shows that we have six languages spoken in
022Bowmont. We also review the importance of attendance and have reports from from the district's schools. This year, we updated our reclassification criteria for our students in middle school. This change was in response to the middle school students taking the STAR reading test as a universal screener. Middle school students must have at least an 835 Lexile score to be reclassified. The DACA gave an input about the local accountability plan. The presentation during the meeting discussed what the LCAP is and how it is created. DACA participate participants gave an input to suggest actions for the LCAP. Parents, teachers, and educators had the opportunity to go to a training event on May 12th uh presented by the California Association for Bilingual Education. This event called Gab One Day Regional Conference was in informative to all that attended. This
023was the first year the B US Bulma Unified School District presented at CAB. Olivia and Em and Marie led a presentation about designated and integrated EL a duty of DLA. Sorry for my voice. I lost it. A duty of duck is to review the annual parent notification for Bulma USD. Specifically, we review the parent program notification and the DLI program request at anal additional school to deal learn about the reclassification celebration that took place on January 28th. We celebrated the 112 students that were reclassified from May 2025th to January 2026. The deal learned about the needs of Bowman Bowman USD as the district grows. The duck learned that the project build out in 1520 years will have the district grow to over 20,000 students. The duck also learned that the district has a few different
024founding options for building the additional facilities to support PMO's growth in the next 15 20 years. The DAC learned about the bilingual educators succeeding together celebration on April the 24th. Bowman had multiple awards winner with Elvapas being recognized as Bowman's representative for best teacher of the year. Also, Brandon Arogante, a DLI student at Bulmo High School, won a $1,000 scholarship. We also recognized Eva Romero as our parent volunteer of the year. The district also had several nominees for the best awards. The DAC meetings have been scheduled for the 202627 school year. We invite you to come and participate in one of our meetings. We hope you learned about the DAC that it is designed to give parents input for our ELAC program e programs that we support our students through learning opportunities, curriculum, and input
025into our programs and funding priorities. We thank you for the opportunity to present to you tonight. >> Thank you very much for having us. >> Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Barnett, and thank you to the whole committee. >> Thank you for all your time and effort you put into the DACA committee. >> Thank you. >> Item 12.1, approve the consent agenda. Items prepared for the consent agenda are consistent with adopted approved policies of the district and are deemed routine in nature. They will be acted upon in a single motion without discussion unless a member of the board of trustees requested an item be removed from consent agenda. In that event, it will be taken up in the order indicated on the main agenda. Uh is would anyone like to remove something? Is there a motion?
026Move >> approval. Second. All right. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Sorry, let me get caught up now. Item 14.1, receive a presentation on the 2026 27 local control and accountability plan in conjunction with the budget overview for parents. Good evening, President Brown, um board members, pres superintendent Kakish, um cabinet members, colleagues, families, and friends. Um tonight, I'm going to present an overview of the LCAP for the next school year. And so we're going to go over what that looks like um and what our current up um percentage is. um an overview of the the budget overview for parents. Um we'll review some state priorities that we've done before. Um go over the plan summary, our explain our engaging um educational partner process, go over the goals, actions, any key changes, and then
027um the LCAP budget overall. And so just as a refresher, the LCAP is a three-year cycle and next year will be the third year of that three-year cycle. This um school year 2526 on census day, which is October 1st this year, um our eels were at 6.6% of our student um population. Our lowincome socioeconomically disadvantaged students or SED was at 70.2%. Our foster youth is 7%. So that's a total of 71.4% of undup unduplicated pupil percentage. This is the budget overview for the um parents. Um if you look at it, you see the district's um entire budget and then the LCAP portion which is roughly about 14% of it. The LCFF supplemental and concentration. And so the LCAP is tied um to the state priorities and goals. And so the eight state priorities that the
028districts go by are these. And and I know these are not first time for you. Um we've gone over this many times but basic necessities implementation of state standards access to courses is the condition of learning. Um we have student achievement other student outcomes um being part of student outcome. And then we have school climate student engagement and parental involvement being part of engagement. And so when we reflect on this current year, we have many successes and I I believe you are very familiar with the academic successes that we've um enjoyed um from the hard labor of all stakeholders. Um we had the huge growth in the CASP. Um we had graduation rate um and high AP passage rate as well as a high um involvement in dual enrollment. Um, we also were able to
029reduce the DNF rate for the sixth and the seventh through 10th grade by targeting those classes. We also had high success with wellness and organizational culture. Um, as listed here on this slide, social emotional growth, parental trust, teacher culture dedication. 97% of teachers report their work is meaningful. um and 100% schoolside council um compliance. And then in attendance and student engagement, we continue to improve. Um chronic absenteeism has decreased by 10.9% overall. And that's huge. Suspension rate has decreased.9%. Keep in mind is huge when we're talking about low percentages to begin with. And then college and career indicator overall of 4.5%. Um chronic absenteeism indicator um and suspension rate also has shown huge um growth. Um but keep in mind that we continue to work on these groups and because it's a three-year cycle, the
030data that we created the three-year cycle was from 2223. So information on this slide is as it was in 2223 because again it's a three-year cycle. So next year we're going to work on the brand new threeear cycle and so next year's data is what's going to stick with us as the needs for the next three years. Um so equity multiplier school was something new that I had presented last year. So this continues to be applied to us. We have two schools with greater than 25% non-stability rate because of the students coming in and out and then 70% um SED rate is the other factor that um these are two are the criteria for the equity multiplier schools. So the two schools are 21st Century which has 54.5% non-stability rate and 72% SED and then
031Glen View High School 69% um non-stability rate and then 75.4% SED. And what that means is the state provides additional dollars specifically to these two schools to apply for their students with the greatest needs. In terms of engaging educational partners, um we gathered information from the students through surveys, focus um group interviews. Parents, families, communities were engaged through various committees as well as survey as well as groups um um commi committees through the outcap process. Um we had staff um input through various levels. Um external partners and mo specific uh meetings were held at equity multiplier school. So I was out there um joining their um groups as well because that's one of the requirements. Um and then how we engaged them. For example, LCAP advisory committee. We went over the data. We gathered input.
032We looked at um each of the actions and then provided feedback based on what the data said about the actions. Um we continued that process um at all different levels including um stakeholders as well as with various directors, principal, site staff um all of the surveys and that's all brought together in this process and it takes the whole year. And so here are some examples where there the feedback provided by the engaged um educational partners impacted actual outcomes and changes to the actions. These are the five goals. Um they're they're pretty much the same. Um first three are identical. The fourth one and fifth one were fine-tuned because unlike the LCAP equity multiplier is an annual goal and not a three years goal. And so based on their data we have we take whatever um
033the lowest performing group is and we focus on those. Um so here I listed key changes. These are not every change, it's key changes. And so for goal one 1.3 uh we moved one of the student support services for example um to create a separate goal specifically to support foster youth. And so you might see that in multiple um areas because we took different parts and pulled it together so that we could have a focused support for foster youth because that continues to be an area of need. And so here is a um a summary of each of the actions in goal one. Continuing with goal one and 1.9 for example is an area where we're seeing a lot of success with student engagement. It's where we have the athletics program support at the middle
034schools and the alternative high schools. So for goal two, these are the major um key changes. And if you look at 2.21, 2.22 and 2.23 and 2.24, they are new. You'll also notice 2.20 are discontinued. Um we are not required to discontinue or add new goals and actions every year. We're required to reflect on it every three years. However, in the process, when we see that something's not working, we're not going to continue. And so 2.2 is um the partnership we had with Harmony Haven, for example, and we are not seeing it working at all. And so we made those changes right away. However, there is 2.22 that now will support foster youth. And so here's a summary of 2.1 through 2.8, 8 2.9 through 2.16. And because goal two is heavy on the academics,
035um really the chunk of what we're trying to do, we have the most actions here. And then goal three is about the learning environment. And here are some of the major changes that we have including 3.10 10 where we added a compliance and resolution coordinator. And so here's 3.1 to 3.7. 3.7 supplemental software continues to be an increasing um budget item because not only do the contracts go up, but we're getting more um softwares that didn't exist before because of the AI and all the upcoming um technology advancements. And then as I mentioned, goal four is equity multiplier focus goal for 21st century. And what's new for this one is 4.2 where we are adding an additional high school teacher to lower the class size. Um again funded by the equity multiplier budget um grant.
036And then here goal five is for Glen View High School. And what's new here is we're trying to expand the CT program and so providing funds to support a teacher and some equipment. And so here's a um summary overview so that you can see over the three years past three years what the budget has been. We have the LCFF base grant which is the big chunk that comes to the district and then outcap funds which is um SNC and so you can see um for 2627 it's roughly 35 million and and then in the green is the total of those two lines but each year as we increase in ADA um and other fund adjustments are made. We do have um carryover and so we have a carryover of 1.736. Keep in mind the budget's
037still being processed and there's um a lot of these numbers maybe um at the end of April I believe were the numbers. Um and so our total planned although we have 35 million coming planned is 36 because of the surplus or the carryover I should say carryover that we have. All right. Do you have any questions? >> Good. >> Appreciate the report. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Senator. >> All right. Mhm. >> Item 14.2, conduct a public hearing on the 2026 27 local control and accountability plan in conjunction with the budget overview for parents. And I will open this meeting at 6:45. and discussion. >> Anybody? Anybody? >> Thank you again, Sunna, for all the work. Thank your whole team for us. We know that it's a team effort and and
038a lot of people are involved in putting that together. So, we appreciate it very much. >> And I will adjourn the meeting at 6:46. All right. Item 14.3, receive a presentation on the 20 26 27 preliminary budget. Is this thing working? Yeah. Cool. Good evening, Superintendent Kich, President Brown, members of the board, cabinet, colleagues, and community. My name is Nathan Chimera and I serve as the director of fiscal services here at Bumont Unified. And today we will be presenting our 2627 preliminary budget for next school year here at Bowmont Unified. Uh so with budget, it's always a uh it's very cyclical, right? So our fiscal year runs from July to June. Uh so with our 2627 budget, we are back at the beginning starting with our uh July 1st date. And as always, anytime that
039we're budgeting, it always starts with a series of assumptions. Our assumptions will drive our revenues. They will also drive our costs. Uh on this slide here, this has our assumptions used for the 2627 preliminary budget. Um and one thing I would like to just point out throughout our slide here, a lot of these assumptions are using the uh January's governor's budget proposal. There was the May revision that just occurred uh just about a week ago which will be incorporated into the adopted budget that we bring back to the board on June 9th. Uh the biggest thing that changed in the May revise is the uh cost of living allowance or COLA. Uh our preliminary budget shows 2.87 and 2.87 that is the statutory cola for 2627. The May revise has an augmented additional cola of
040uh I believe it's 1.44. So that brings the total cola to 4.31. Uh one interesting thing with the additional cola from the May revise is that the additional augmented cola should be used for uh rising costs and a new liability of pregnancy disability leave. Um but we'll we'll bring forth an updated budget with the new cola. But I just wanted to put that out there on our assumptions slide here. Um so looking at 2526 and 2627 you can see the cola um starting there at the top. This drives our revenue. Uh we can also see that our district enrollment is increasing between our current year and next year. Our assumption is that enrollment continues to increase by approximately 2% each year. And then also what drives our revenue is our ADA that is our attendance.
041So our attendance compared to our enrollment that's hovering around 93.7% and that remains the assumption moving forward. looking at unduplicated pupils. I know we just had our LCAP presentation. So you can see that our unduplicated pupils drive our LCAP revenue. Uh current year was about um 71.4% unduplicated pupils and we are assuming that maintains throughout our uh throughout our multi-year projection. Uh the last piece of our slide here is our uh retirement percentages. You can see that our state teachers retirement remains flat and then PERS is actually dipping a little bit from 2526 to 2627. Our next slide here is our general fund summary and you can see that in 2526 we are projecting to end the year with about $44.6 million. And uh our ending fund balance is made up of different components. You
042can see that they're broken out there starting with revolving cash restricted funds. Those are restricted to certain grants for certain purposes. Our reserves that that is our reserve for economic uncertainty and then we also have our commitments and assignments that are locally designated. Uh so with our budget there's two sides of the equation. There's revenues and expenditures. Uh starting with revenues you can see that our our 2526 revenues were 235.7 million. Going into next year, uh, we're projecting an increase from 235.7 to 245.8 million of revenue. That's primarily driven by our LCFF revenue. And again, what's driving that is our, uh, 2% increase enrollment combined with our COLA. And then this slide here, uh, just more detail on revenue adjustments. You can see again 2% projected enrollment growth combined with 2.87% COLA. Uh some other
043changes to our revenue is our federal revenue has a decrease there. Uh here at Bulmont with our medical revenue, uh we add that to the budget as we receive it. So we're taking a dip here out of our adopted budget, but that can grow as medical revenue comes to the district. Additionally, in the state revenue, we're projecting an increase due to one-time funds, primarily the uh learning recovery emergency block grant and the student support discretionary block grant. So one time um restricted money coming to the district and on the other side of our equation is our expenditures and then you can see between 2526 and 2627 that we have a projected increase for our our expenditures. Our biggest increase there is our capital outlay. That remains to be our expanded learning opportunities. Um our project
044that we ha that we started in 2526 carrying forward into 2627. Um so our next slide here will um have that note. So we through the expanded learning opportunities program. This is a restricted grant from the state uh for before and after school programs that we offer here at Bulmont Unified. Uh so capital outlay what we are doing using those grant dollars is adding portable construction to offer more access to our students throughout the district. Additionally salary and benefits we have uh projected salary and benefit increases also driven by additional positions. We heard some in the LCAP but also additional positions for expanded learning opportunities as that program grows. Um and then books and supplies. We just have carryover funds. LCAP had about a $1.7 million carryover. So, one-time carryover into next year. Um, and
045we also have a - project that is a one-time expense next year. Moving from revenues and expenditures uh over to contributions from the unrestricted general fund. So, this is from our unrestricted dollars to our restricted dollars. Uh, our biggest one here is our special education contribution. We do receive money from the state for special education expenditures, but the money that we receive from the state is not enough to cover the cost of the program. So to make up the difference, a contribution is made from unrestricted dollars to cover our special education expenditures. Additionally, we are required to contribute 3% of our total budget to routine restricted maintenance. And the last piece is our transportation uh transfer. For transportation, we get about a 60% reimbursement from the state for our home to school transportation, but the
046remainder has to be made up by the general fund. So, moving to the next section of the slideshow, we're going to start talking about components of the ending fund balance. Um, and starting with restricted, these are uh restricted dollars that are restricted for certain purposes. You can see our biggest change here is the expanded learning opportunities program. Again, that's driven by our uh portable construction project that's going to continue through till next year. And also, we have the student support and professional development discretionary block grant which is being uh expensed next year um in in its entirety. Um and then also we have our lottery restricted which is restricted for curriculum. Moving to the next slide here, this is continuing on restricted funds. more changes that you can see here is our equity multiplier dollars
047at the top being spent in uh our LCAP goal four and LCAP goal five and also our learning recovery emergency block grant that's onetime money coming to the district. Uh so all in all for our restricted funds uh we have about 23.8 and 2526 which will be reduced to $10.4 million in 2627. Sticking with the components of the ending fund balance now we are looking at the reserve for economic uncertainties and our commitments. Uh so at the top of the slide here you can see that our total reserve for economic uncertainties we meet our district required 3% and we also have an amount for an additional reserve. You can see between 2526 and 2627 that that decreases from 14.6 million to 13.8 million. Additionally, on top of our reserve for economic uncertainties, we also commit
048funds locally. Uh locally, we commit $1.3 million for textbook curriculum and then we also commit any carryover amount from our LCAP. And you can see that's our $1.7 million number. >> Question, of course. >> Are are we u meeting our was it 11% in our reserves? >> Yes. Uh >> with for the the one the resolution that passed way back when? >> Yes, that's a great question. And uh to answer that question, the district is not at 11.33% at adopted. It's around 5.3 which will be in a couple slides that I will um point out as well. So it's 3% that we are meeting and then about like a 2.3% above that 3% for a total of 5.3 because the intent of that resolution as you said way back when was to have to have
049one month's worth of salary. So is that 5% will that cover one month's worth of salary? >> Yes. So um we will be able to cover 1 month worth of salary where the 8.33% is what the calculation what that's coming from is that's 8.33% of the total combined general fund to get to 8.33 uh it is just one 12th of the total expenditures. So we would be able to meet one month of payroll but to meet one one month of all expenditures that would include utilities, insurance, everything. Um we we I can say we are not at 11.33. >> Is this something we should be concerned about? I mean this sounds very serious. So, I'm always of the opinion that if you're balancing the budget for three years and you still have 3% reserve at
050the third year, you should not be concerned. Um, ideally, you should have that as a reserve, which is the 8.33, not the 11.33, 3% plus the 8.33. And we usually have it and we will have it after the May revision additional revenue. Um, we knew that this is very conservative at the state and there will be additional revenue. They were just underestimating the revenue and we didn't want to just shortch change all of our support services or cut anything until we find out from the state if there's additional revenue. And sure enough, there's a higher cola, super cola they call it. Um, and so that will cover a lot of what we're concerned about as a lower funding balance. Um, but I'm not concerned because ideally in a budget if you stay within your revenues
051and your expenditures, you should be okay. It's when you're spending more than you should and it's ongoing expenditures, not just for capital projects or buildings and one-time things, that's when there's a concern. That's called a structural deficit. And we're nowhere close to a structural deficit. We actually balance it. um down to the 3% reserve in the the third year too. So that means we're staying within our means. >> Okay. So because we're not deficit spending, we're okay to have the 3%. >> Mandated at 3% >> mandated. >> But yeah, but I mean that's the minimum. >> It is the minimum at the third year. We've always had the 3% down to the 3% in the third year. Um and so if you would like we can talk about that and reduce expenditures to get to
052the 8.33 uh which would increase the fund balance in the current year. Um I think our policy recommends the 8.33 and recommends cuts if it doesn't if it does go under 5%. And right now, um, we are a little bit above 5% and with the revenue from the mayor revision, we're going to be a lot higher than 5%. So I >> But we're we're we're safer though because we're not deficit spending. >> Yes, our deficit spending is for onetime things, capital outlay, spending, funding, ending fund balance, and and all of that. >> Okay. Do you >> And we will monitor. We always have 12 months of planning in the event we don't meet the third the 3% reserve in the third year. Okay. I'm sorry, Dr. Sylvester, you were saying. >> No, I was just
053you said we at 5 point a little above five. What are we when we when you said we do the May revisions and get that amount, what will we be at at that time? >> Not sure if if Nathan calculated that, but we we'll get to that when you get the multi-year projections. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Sorry, that's a slide. >> That's okay. Great questions. Yeah, but some of our questions I think I'll I'll be able to answer some of them when we get to the multi-year. >> And I just want to go on record, every time you ask a business person, are we concerned if we're not, of course, he's going to say yes. So, I don't blame him for saying yes. >> It's his job to say yes. >> Okay. So, uh,
054remaining on the topic of the components of the ending fund balance, uh, what we're looking at here is the, this is our assignments locally here at Bumont Unified, included in our assignments are, uh, a few things, but primarily our health and welfare pools and our vacation liability. And you can see that in 2526, the assignments are 3.1. At the end of 2627, our assignments are projected to be 2.3. Uh this slide here is a summary of all funds. So up to this point we've been discussing the general fund or the operational fund of the school district, but you can see that there are several funds here at Bowmont Unified. Our total budget across all funds for 2627 is $312 million for 2627. Uh and we are beginning the year with $131.9 million and ending the
055year with about $83.8 million again across all funds. Uh moving to the last piece of our slideshow here. This is our multi-year projection. Um so as as with anything in budget, we always start with our assumptions drives your revenues and your expenditures. Um so here in 2627 uh you can see that uh at the top we have cost of living allowance broken out two times. The top line is school services of California and what the uh cola was at uh just a couple weeks ago. So 2.87 87 in 2627, 3.06 in 2728, and 3.34 in 2829. Just below the school services of California COLA is the Bumont Unified COLA that's used in our assumption. Uh you can see that we have 2.87 and 2627, 3.06, and 2728. But locally, we do not use the COLA
056in year three in our multi-year projection. Uh what's also driving our revenues across a multi-year period is our projected enrollment growth which remains at 2%. Um and then you can see that's our district enrollment increasing at 2% each year along with the average daily attendance for each fiscal year that remains at the 93.7% ADA to enrollment ratio. And then you can also see that the unduplicated pupil percentage the 71.4 is assumed across the multi-year projection. uh California uh state teachers retirement or stirs remains flat while PERS kind of has a fluctuation going up and then back down. >> So before you leave this slide I want to just mention and the second row cost of living adjustment is not budgeted in the third year and so when you see the numbers for the third year
057um I'll point that out in the next slide. >> Yeah. So this slide here is the multi-year projection in a combined format. So this is unrestricted and restricted. And then at the very bottom of the slide, you can see that there is a reserve for economic uncertainties of 5.3% in 2627 at the time of the adopted budget. That decreases to 4.34 and 3.26 in year 3 or 2829. Um, you can see that we have a uh a large deficit in 2627 of $16 million and that is intentional with one-time spending, one-time projects. Um, and then just our next couple slides will break out our combined multi-year to unrestricted and restricted. And you can see starting with our unrestricted, this is where our reserve for economic uncertainties lives. You can see that uh in 2627 there
058is a decrease to our unrestricted um funds of $2.63 million 3.61 in 2728 and 2.72 in 2829. The big difference in 2627 compared to other years is that we are using our restricted dollars first to preserve our reserve for economic uncertainties. Uh so if I jump to our restricted side, remember we have one-time restricted dollars coming in in 2627, which is why our restricted expenditures are higher in 2627 than they are in our other future years because we are spending our most restrictive dollars first. Um and then you can see so that we have a deficit in our restricted dollars. That's how we're spending from 24 million of our restricted funds down to $10 million. And then you can see that $13 million deficit in 2627 changes to a $2 million deficit and then it
059turns into a surplus in 2829 of about $220,000. And what's driving our restricted dollars are expanded learning opportunities uh prop 28 those are our big restricted pots of funds that we are getting here at the district. Um and with that I believe that concludes my presentation. >> So go back to slide 17 I think >> 17 >> the revenue. >> Uh this is the >> combined combined. >> Yes. So slide 16. >> Yes. >> So let's just go over off the top of your head may revision additional revenue just in numbers in dollars. >> Mhm. >> Approximately I would say approximately like 2 million in in terms of dollars. uh in in revenue >> for cola >> and then >> grants and >> yes yeah and then to clarify to on the cola remember that
060cola is applied to the LCFF calculator but that also generates our LCAP so when I say it's $2 million it's not $2 million of unrestricted money it's $2 million and of that $2 million 500,000 is LCAP >> yeah I'm not I don't want to go through the detail I just want you to give an idea add all of the dollars from revision that will be added which which um so we can give the confidence to the budget >> of course. Yes. So for COLA probably about $2 million. Uh what what is also proposed is a change to our special education revenue uh a much needed change uh in January that uh special education has its own base grant driven by ADA. Um the May revision is also proposing about uh like a 30% increase to
061that base grant which may be another $2 million. Uh so from those two at least $4 million in current year revenue. But uh the good thing with COLA is that once it's in your uh LCFF that will carry into your uh future years. So the four the 2 million becomes 6 million over the three years and the 2 million for support for special ed reduces the obligation for general fund becomes another 6 million. So all of a sudden we have 12 million in the fund balance and the reason why I'm going over this is to give you confidence there's 12 million that's not in the budget right now will be updated to for the adopted but then how much is the cola that we are not using in third year. >> Yeah I do have
062that it's approximate. So the COLA in the third year um I can just go back to the slide here. So COLA in the third year that's 2829. School services of California um was projecting a 3.34% cola. Uh locally here at Bulmont Unified we do not include COLA in that third year. Um so another 3% in year three may be approximately I don't know maybe 4 million in that >> four million of dollars that will be ongoing for the future too. So when you ask me if I'm concerned, I'm not concerned, but a business person will be concerned with all of this additional revenue not yet in the budget. So >> just wanted to go make sure that we have that content because I saw your nervousness about the fund balance and I want to make
063sure >> that we feel comfortable with this budget. >> How is this super cool being accounted for? >> How's it being accounted for? >> Yeah. Or not yet. >> So at the preliminary it's not being accounted for yet. uh because at the time this presentation was created, the super cola hadn't been presented from the May revision. Uh how will it be presented? Uh when we bring I'll go back to the beginning of our slide here just really quickly. Um the biggest driver it's going to have is going to be to our LCFF revenue. Um so right now in 2627 the projected number is about $181.5 million. Uh I think the number in my head of how that cola will impact that number in particular I think I think it's another 2 million. So that 181.5
064would be closer to like 183.5. Um and then that compounds year-over-year. The only thing with the multi-year projection um that it's dependent on is continued growth in the district, right? Continued uh enrollment and revenue growth um to keep pace with our rising expenditures. Those are the big assumptions in the multi-year. >> On the sped ed side, uh the million-doll increase in program cost. >> Yes. >> What's driving that? >> Of course. Yes, that's a great question. Now, with special education, what's really driving that um is we have proposed uh compensation increases across the entire district. Right. So the proposed compensation increase impact to special education is going to require an additional comp uh contribution from the general fund to support the increased costs in that bucket of money. Is that >> in addition to the
065increase in enrollment for >> but this doesn't show the increase that we just heard a second ago about the 30% increase in >> yes that'll okay >> that'll reduce yes um and more background on that. This presentation was created using the January proposed budget. Um at January the governor was proposing an increase to the special education base rate. It was probably I want to say maybe 5 to 10% increase. So that has been incorporated but past that there's another proposed increase of it's about uh the rate that we're using is about $1,000 per ADA. Uh but that is proposed to change to from 1,000 per ADA to 1340 per ADA. So with the additional special education revenue, hopefully that can absorb some of the special education program costs. >> Okay. And Dr. Sylvester and I
066as well as uh Mrs. Kich, we when we were in uh DC, there was a commitment to maintain the 8% federal funding level. Is >> Yes. Yeah. for the federal special education dollars. Those are being maintained for next year. Um, so there is uh no reduction to our federal special education dollars. When we're talking federal dollars, the only changes that are still in the pipeline are like title three English learner uh immigrant funds. That's kind of what's being talked about at >> that budget gets wrapped up around September 31st. >> Yes. Yeah. The federal uh budget that runs from October to uh September. So, they're on a different fiscal year than us at a school district. Fun fact. >> Thank you. >> Of course. >> Have a question about the medical building. >> I don't
067am I honor? >> No. >> Okay. The light was on. >> Okay, cool. Um, has that change has the way that medical we've been doing medical billing, did that change this year? >> Uh, that hasn't changed this year. There there are a lot of changes proposed with with medical billing. Uh one of the words that you'll hear tied to medical is just is an acronym. It's called CYBHI. I'm not famili I'm not sure if you guys are very familiar with that, but that is a new program with uh with medical. So medical has a couple of there's two different branches really. There's the special education which is what Bulmont has been building under uh historically, right? And then they're com they're bringing um it's called CB. Child Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. Um, and what that
068is is it uses medical as a platform to allow school districts to bill against private insurance. It's not a cost to private insurance. Uh, not families or parents, but to the private insurance carriers. Uh, that's new. Um, and we'll see kind of how that program grows. >> Is there plans to implement that? >> Yes, great question. Yeah. So with CYBHI, what's what's driving kind of the implementation of this? Um it kind of lives in our student services department. They have a great team. Uh but what they were using to as the foundation was uh there were a lot of mental health grants like school-based mental health or specialty mental health. A lot of those came from the federal government and they've pulled those back. Um but what our team here at Bowmont is doing is
069they are uh bringing together all of our practitioners to see what kind of services can we offer to generate additional revenue for the district locally. Uh so that's new with medical, but the special education piece remains the same. They're just making it much more difficult for districts to get medical money because at the state level, the medical budget at the state level is very very um very tight. about one in three people in California are on medical. So from the state perspective, they're trying to limit their expenditures. >> So that revenue is is showing a decrease. Can you explain that again? >> Yeah, of course. Yes. So the reason why we want to recognize medical as we receive it is because with the and I'm talking about the special education medical, this is LEA BOP
070billing option program. Um, the reason why we want to recognize it when we receive it is because the state will give us advanced payments, but then that goes through an audit and until it's audited, it's not our money. Uh, so that's why we're a little bit conservative in terms of how we recognize the funds. Does that answer your question? >> Right. So, there was a decrease because it was recognized in last year's budget, but it's not recognized this year. >> Correct. >> Right. Okay. So looking at our federal revenue because we're comparing now the end of the end of a year to the beginning of a year. So in 2526 we've recognized all of the receipts and in 2627 we just haven't recognized it yet. So during our interim periods as we receive those dollars
071we will update our budget presentation and you'll you'll see medical move upwards throughout the facility. >> That makes sense. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Of course. Any other questions that I can answer for you guys? >> Cool. And uh that concludes my presentation. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. Item 14.4. Conduct a public hearing on the 2026 27 preliminary budget. I will open the hearing at uh 7:15. Is there any discussion? Come on. It's going to be a really long 11 seconds. >> Nobody wants to say anything. We're not the public. >> Yeah, we're >> public >> discussion >> time >> like oh no >> and we will close the hearing at 7:16. Item 14.5, adopt emergency resolution 2025-26-44 to approve the contract to repair the roof leaks abatement and to perform related
072work services at Brookside Elementary School. >> I'll move approval. >> Second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. 14.6. Conduct a second reading and adopt the Bumont Unified School District's administrative regulation regarding business and non-instructional operations in the 3000s as listed in the summary. >> So moved. >> Second. And close. All right. Um, discussion. >> Yes. Just thank you for the changes made on that. I feel much more comfortable with approving this. >> Me, too. >> Uh, so yeah, thank you for looking into that and >> for making those changes. >> Yeah, this one was definitely a work in progress. So, I'd like to thank the whole board for the feedback and >> yeah, >> and and getting this to where the community needs it to be. >> So,
073thank you. >> All right. No additional discussions. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 14.7. Conduct a first reading of Bumont Unified School District administrative regulation regarding students in the 5000s as listed in the summary and adopt if a second reading is not necessary. We hear a motion. >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> All right. Discussion. >> Yeah. Just thank you for keeping up with the all ever changing state regulations and and for taking the time to explain them ahead of time. I appreciate it. All right. Would we like to bring this back for a second reading? >> We already took a motion in a second. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. >> That's all right. >> I don't think it's necessary. >> All right. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item
07415.1, approve the revised 202627 secondary school plans for student achievement and affirm the operation of the schoolwide title one program at each Bont Unified School District SE secondary school site to receive these funds. >> Move approval. >> Okay, >> I'll second. All right. Discussion. >> Just thank you for all the work you did on those. >> Yes. Thank you to all of you for that's a lot of work. So, um, >> appreciate it. >> All right. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 15.2. Approve a request for Bumont Middle College High School student to take additional classes for the 202627 school year. >> I'll move approval. >> I'll second. >> Discussion. >> Yes. I love it when we get these. I just think it's so cool that somebody would ask to take more
075classes and so I'm just impressed every time. Well, that kind of goes along with what happened at the senior awards night for 21st century Glenu and all them. >> So cool. >> Middle college >> with six students getting an AA. One has three AAS, four of them have two, one has one. >> It's crazy. >> Yeah, that's amazing. >> That's amazing. >> Incredible. >> So incredible. So, thank you very much. And yes, these are awesome to approve. There are way worse things for us to have to approve than a kid who wants to take >> more more credits and more college classes. This is this is awesome. So, call for the vote, please. And the motion carries. Item 15.3, accept a grant from the Gene Hos Foundation to support Bumont Unified School District students enrolled
076in the machinistbased training and or engineering programs. Do I hear a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> So I come from a family of machinists. Um my grandpa on both sides were both machinists. Um tool and die and drop forge machinists. And my uncle is a machinist even still today at almost 80. He's still a he still works in a machine shop cuz he doesn't know what else to do with his day. Um so it is it for a lot of years it was a dying trade and I think it's absolutely amazing that we have a a machine shopbased CTE program. I mean, it's kind of a family tradition for my family. I grew up until I was about 12 in my grandpa's machine shop. And besides the fact that you have
077to wear safety glasses and hearing protection, I don't really know anything about machine shops. So, which is a little embarrassing considering my family heritage, but I do absolutely appreciate our machine program and all of our CT program. So, yes. Thank you. No other discussion. We'll call for the vote and the motion carries. Item 16.1 adopt a resolution for the spending determination of the 202627 Education Protection Act fund. the other EPA. >> Uh, do I hear a motion? >> So move. >> Second. >> Discussion hearing. None. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 16.2, Two, accept the California Department of Education grant award notification for the 2025 kitchen infrastructure training grant. Do I hear? >> I'll move approval. >> I'll second. >> Susie. >> Discussion. Hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion
078carries. Item 16.3, approve a memorandum of understanding with the city of Bumont for the shared use of Bowont High School Pool during the summer 2026. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion hearing? None. Call for the vote. Item 16.4 approve Straddling Yoka Carlson and Ralph LLP to provide bond council services for the pending election and potential authorization of general obligation bonds. >> I'll move approval. Second, >> dude. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 16.5, approve a contract with 5M Contracting to provide immediate repair and abatement of and related services at Brookside Elementary School due to a severe roof leak and water damage, including the delegation of contracting authority to the superintendent or design. >> So move. >> Second. >> Was that Lance and Melissa?
079I'm sorry. Yes. Okay. All right. Discussion hearing. None. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 17.1, approve the declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 202627 school year. Do I hear a motion? >> Yes. I move to approve. >> Second. All right. Any discussion? >> Hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 17.2. to approve the disclosure of collective bargaining agreement between the Bumont Unified School District and the Bumont Teachers Association as required by AB12000. Do we hear a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. Bless you. >> Question. And the motion carries. Item 17.3, approve a tenative agreement between Bumont Unified School District and the Bowont Teachers Association. Do I hear a motion? >> Yes. I move for approval. >>
080I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> Hearing none, call for the vote. Item 17.4 approve the disclosure of the collective bargaining agreement between Bumont Unified School District and the California School Employee Association and its Bumont Chapter 351 as required by AB12000. Do I hear a motion? >> Some move. >> Second. >> All right. Discussion hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Almost read that one again. Item 17.5, approve a tenative agreement between Bowont Unified School District and the California School Employees Association and its Bumont Chapter 351. >> Move approval. Second >> discussion hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 17.6, approve a revision to the classified substitute salary schedule. >> So move. >> Lance. >> I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the
081motion carries. >> Item 17.7, consider and approve the proposed total compensation package for the Bumont adult school certificated employees. Do I hear a motion? >> Yes, I move approval. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. I just want to say I should have said it earlier, but I'm so proud that as a district we compensate our adult ed teachers in line with the collective bargaining agreement for the certificated >> because that that's not a requirement and not a standard practice in other districts. Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. Item 17.8, consider and approve the POS proposed salary schedule for unrepresented employee groups to include the Bulmont administrator, confidential and management employees, assistant superintendent, chief business official, and district superintendent. Do I hear a motion? >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing
082none, call for the vote and the motion carries. Item 17.9. Miss Castillo, do you need to before we go or Okay, please. Miss Castillo, >> President Brown, members of the board, Superintendent Kakkesh, cabinet, colleagues, and guests. Government Code section 54953C3 requires an oral report of the financial terms of any contract or contract amendment for local agency executives. The proposed amendment includes a one-year extension to the current contracts for all cabinet members, extending the contracts for the assistant superintendent and chief business official through 2029 and the superintendent contract through 2030. In addition, the amendment incorporates the previously board approved 2% salary schedule increase and the 0.5% increase to health and welfare benefits. >> Thank you. >> Taking one at a time. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Castillo. All right. Item 17.9, consider and approve the
083amendment to the employment contract for the district superintendent. >> So moved. >> I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 1710, consider and approve an amendment to the employment contract for the assistant superintendent of human resources. Do I hear a motion? >> So moved. >> I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 17.11, consider and approve an amendment to the employment contract for the assistant superintendent of instructional support services. Is there a motion? >> I move approval. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> Are you sure? >> 100%. >> Hearing none, call for the vote. Okay, sorry. Item 17.12, approve, consider and approve an amendment to deployment contract for the chief business official. >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Any
084discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And motion carries. >> Mr. President, I just wanted to go on record and thank the full board for their support for all of our employee units. This is um at a time that everything is rising and inflation, it doesn't go unnoticed. The support from this board to our employees to continue to retain net income that can make make it a affordable for them to live in in our town. So that is um very appreciated for all employee units including um on behalf of cabinet. Thank you Miss Kakich. Item 17.13, adopt resolution 2025-26-45 to establish the maximum monthly compensation for regular board members at $2,000 effective May 1st, 2026 as authorized by ED code 35120 as amended by AB1390. Do I hear a motion? >> So moved. I'll second.
085>> Any discussion? >> Yes. Can um can we get an explanation of why we're doing this because this is out of the ordinary. This is not something that we do every year and um it's a lot more than what we've done in the past. So, can we get an explanation to why we're doing this so everybody understands? >> Yeah. Thank you, Susan. Would you like me to explain AB 1390? >> Um, and so this is a new law that came into place that allows board members to increase the compensation that has not been touched in years. Um, as you know, there is a threshold for um, school districts based on um, enrollment in the district. And so for our district the size of about 13,000 students, we fit into a stipend of approximately $400 per
086month. Um that has been established for years, hasn't been touched for um to my knowledge for over 30 years. And so it has gotten increases that are allowed previously under that same uh law of 5% a year. this board for the long longest time did not exercise that. So, uh the stipen did not increase as much as the other school districts that have exercised it regularly on an annual basis. And so, this law has passed to kind of catch up for all of them and given the opportunity to do it at once. Um and it it allows for that number to be updated from over the years. So, that's kind of the explanation that we've had received of why this was advocated for at the state level. Okay. >> And being a member on this
087delegate for CSBA, CSBA, which stands for California School Board Association, which is in layman's term, it's it's like the union for school board members, just like AXA is the union for principles and CTA is the union for for teachers. the association lobbyed the legislature the legislature to uh to change the remuneration package because again like Mr. Kish brought up it hasn't changed since 1984 and again for myself reflecting on this it was not easy because I'm with Mrs. Laura, this is a this is a big jump. But then I had to put myself back in 1984, $400. In 1984, I was working at McDonald's at $3 an hour and I was paying 59 cents a gallon for gas. So I I can I can see why that's there. Um it's it and it was probably
088just as big a pill to swallow back in 1984 as it is now. I'm not saying this is people get in this position for the remuneration package, but for people that are going to precede me and other board members that have been around a while, um this this this should help compensate for parents of students, for daycare, for the amount of time that they're going to be uh separated from their families, and also employment. that again back in 1984 those same considerations were probably taken that created the benchmark and we're at that point in time where a new benchmark is being established across the state. So like I said I I I'm justifi I can understand the the rationale. So I'm I I'd just like to ask is so the it's the maximum is 2,000.
089Um, can if if we don't if we don't do 2,000, can we eventually get to to the 2,000 or do we have to go straight to the 2,000? >> The board has um the authorization to increase it to any amount up to 2,000. >> Okay. Because there's only a certain time frame that we can do this. Is that correct? >> No. No, you could do it at any time. >> Oh, okay. Um >> I'm trying to understand the reticence >> the what >> the the the concern or the push back. >> Oh well um for someone new as myself I'll give you a practical or anecdotal. So we ca I came in and said you get $400 a month cuz nobody here ran for any money. >> Right. Then they said you have health benefits.
090So if you opt out of the health benefits, you get $200, which put it at $600, but you can't get more than $400. So you couldn't opt out of the health benefits. You following me? So it actually made no sense because the stipen was so low. Uh, so I have no push back to this. >> Okay. Well, I I just I I do internally have an internal struggle with it all. So, um, I this is just a very difficult one for me because I have my reasons and I I'm not trying to be different than the rest of the board, but this one just makes me uncomfortable. So if we could do $1,000 a me board meeting. So let's say we have one board meeting a month instead of two. Then we only get a
091thousand because it's only one meeting a month. So >> that way that way it would it's going to be most of the time it's going to be 2,000. But then if you're out on vacation, you shouldn't get it. And you shouldn't get it if you're don't come to a board meeting unless you're sick or something. >> I think that's the current law right now. If you are absent, you have to have to submit an excuse for the board to approve. If there's a full month that a board member doesn't um attend and that's already available for the board. U what had happened in the past is most of the absences have been justified for sickness or for um an unforeseen circumstance. So, the board has been gracious enough to allow this statement to happen. >>
092But are we being compensated just for the board meeting because we do so much more? >> No, it's really just for the board meeting. Doesn't matter how much more you do. >> Okay. Yeah, it's it's it's uh board bylaw 9 9250 and there's there's an attachment of a resolution within that board bylaw that uh allows for remuneration to occur with board resolution if for a certain number of reasons to uh to justify the full amount if it was an excuse if it was excused. Also, in that board bylaw, it's it's designed for a a percentage of of of if you have two meetings a month, you would get 50%. If if there's one meeting that month, you get 100%. But if you miss that one meeting a month, yeah, you got zero. So, language >>
093unless the board waves that and authorizes it, right? >> Through resolution. >> Yeah. Just just so it's just conflict. Me personally, there's that's it. I think it's just it's really difficult talking about your own salary. It's it would be um much at least for me it would be much easier if somebody else you know >> well I take solace in that a majority of the board is going to be up for election and uh there's a potential I think it takes away that conflict of interest for for three of you or two of you or three of you who plan on running. So, >> and and that's really the thing. We're not this is not personal or paying ourselves. This is even for future uh uh board members. >> Yeah. I think too part of
094the um discussion was this was the uh study that was done countywide. Was it county or surrounding districts? Yeah, they did a countywide the cabinet provided a countywide study for us and the >> you can continue. >> Uh the consensus for most districts if not all was >> most I mean there's several districts that have already adopted it to the max. Some chose under um and there's many that are planning to do it. It was just about the timing. This is a topic that has been um heavily discussed and um so yes. >> Is there any further discussion by the board? I think just one thing too that um came up came up in discussion was the inflation which David you that was what you were explaining right? Yeah. >> Yeah. This this this number
095hasn't been changed since 1984. Um and it it um many boards have and have made increases significantly more increases than we have over the years, but this is a a very stagnant stale number. And so the assembly decided to bring it up to a more modern number. Um, not exactly equivalent to what $400 was in 1984, but closer. >> Um, >> close. >> So, if there is no further discussion, I will call for the vote. And the motion carries. >> Item 17.14, approve the certificated personnel assignment order listed on the report dated May 26, 2026. >> Yes, I move approval. >> Second. Any discussion hearing? None. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 17.15, approve the classified personnel assignment order listed on the report dated May 26, 2026. >> Move approval. I have
096to recuse myself. So, >> needs a second. >> A second. >> You just got to say that, Susan. >> Just I have to recuse myself. So, >> all right. Any discussion? Hearing none, call for the vote. And the motion carries. Approve the administrative and confel confidential personnel assignment order listed on the report dated May 26, 2026. Do I hear a motion? >> Yes, I move approval. >> A second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Call for the vote. And the motion carries. Item 18.1. >> Oh, we have a intro. >> Oh, sorry. We have an introduction. My fault. >> Sorry. President B, President Brown, members of the board, Superintendent Kakkesh, cabinet, colleagues, and guests. We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Wesley Dans as the new elementary assistant principal at Palm Innovation Academy. Mr. Dans
097is joining our district from the San Bernino City Unified School District where he is currently the MTSS TOSA teacher on special assignment. Wesley started his career in education in 2016 and has held the position of special education teacher. Mr. Dans earned his Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from California State University, Long Beach, and his Master of Arts and Education with a concentration in special education from Isuza Pacific University. Please join us in welcoming Mr. Wesley Dans to his new position of elementary assistant principal at Palm Innovation Academy. All right, President Brown, members of the board, Superintendent Kich, cabinet, uh, colleagues, community, Miss Lopez, and to my amazing wife and kids. Thank you so much for this incredible opportunity. Standing here today, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude, not just as an educator, but
098as a member of the Bumont community and a proud parent within this district. My own children walk the halls at Palm Innovation Academy. To now serve as assistant principal at the very school my kids belong to is a privilege that I am beyond grateful for. I am eager to dive in and build meaningful relationships with our students, support our dedicated Panther staff, collaborate with our site leadership, and strengthen the bridge between our campus and the broader Bowmont community. My commitment is simple, to bring my best self to work every single day to ensure every child, mine and yours, has the environment they need to learn, grow, and thrive. Thank you again for your trust and for this warm welcome. I look forward to the journey ahead. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can I just
099say you're you're I love when when we do these I watch the family and it just makes me so like so excited for you and proud that you have the your family with you. And I just now saw your daughter. I didn't even see her the whole meeting. I mean, your kids are just they were so well behaved. and you were here so long because we did this at the tail end of the meeting and so I just want to say good job. You're you have a beautiful family and we're so we're so happy to have you here. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Item 18.1 receive a report from the California School Employees Association and at Fulmont chapter 351. There's no one present. Receive a report from the Bumont Teachers
100Association. Good evening, President Brown, board members, Superintendent Kish, Cabinet. Julio Martinez here with our BTA report for May 26, 2026. Well, we've had uh we're almost there, the end of the 2526 school year. It's been a prosperous year, but it's been a challenging one as well. Uh based on the feedback from our members, as well as the discussion at some of our rep council meetings, um I'd like to outline five major areas of concern that uh the BTA has identified as possible focal points maybe for the 2627 school year. Uh the first one has to do with classroom safety. Uh VTA is concerned with the aggressive nature of some of the students at um all of the grade levels really across many of our sites targeting both students and staff. Uh some of these in
101incidents have required medical attention and workers comp filings for staff members. Uh we're increasingly concerned about the followup with the corrective measures in many of these cases as well as the documentation process. I'll be attending the workplace violence prevention plan review meeting this Thursday where I'll comment on possible improvements and students and staff, you know, really entitled to learn and work in a violent-free environment. So, we'll be addressing those as we come up to the new school year. Uh second, uh PLC and curriculum. There have been some sites that have voiced their frustration with the lack of communication between site or district admin and the site staff concerning the implementation of meaningful and equitable PLC time and the implementation of the curriculum. So, we look forward to being a part of the communication process with
102Drs. Barnett and Gray so that the curriculum roll out itself is not overly burdening uh is consistent and has room for flexibility in the event that the modification is necessary. We also hope that PLC agendas will always have staff input. Next, for site conditions, though the sites with the mold concerns are being addressed, uh there are still concerns about uh other sites that have worsening facility conditions, including leaky roofs, internal water damage, and poorly functioning HVAC units. So VTA will continue to work with CBO San Martin and Director Mueller on addressing these ongoing concerns so that safe and comfortable environment for learning and working is maintained. Next, the AMM TKK. So BTA fully understands that switching to an all AM model presents some challenges. Uh we're hopeful that during our negotiations meeting this Friday, the
103district will listen to our concerns and address them in anou. Anou is absolutely necessary to clarify, outline, and define those areas that can be ambiguous and confusing. And lastly, for the special education, BTA is concerned about the excessive amount of time it takes to evaluate students to uh through this cumbersome process of getting to that point of evaluation. Uh we're also concerned about the proper placement of the students as well as staff having the necessary resources to address the identified needs. So I plan to invite Miss Toledo next year to attend our BTA special education committee zoom meeting so that our special education teachers can have an open communication with Miss Toledo much like Dr. Barnett did with our TKK committee. Uh this is a part of my drive to improve the communication between the
104district and our members so that everyone hears the same message. To conclude my report, I want to congratulate all the individual award recipients this school year, including classified, certificated, administrative. We've had accomplished a lot this year. We've made great improvements in assessment scores. Uh we've had received uh distinguished school awards. We had a principal that received the prestigious and distinguished educator award. Student accomplishments are vast, including our spelling be winners and our academic decathlon winners. So, I just want to say that this truly has been a prosperous year and this concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Julio. Uh, item 18.4, receive a report from board member David Sanchez. >> No. >> From Michael Brier, short timer. >> No. >> Sorry. >> Yeah. >> Back me. >> Oh, back me. Sorry. I already crossed
105you off. I don't know. But you're already got me already. You already said your goodbyes last time. >> Good evening, Board President Brown. Superintendent Kish, board members, cabinet college community. Uh I I just have a lot of thank yous and celebrations. Uh first off, uh thank you for your continued support of back membership and and all of the employees of Bowmont Unified School District. Uh it's been a long-standing priority in Bumont to recruit and retain the best educators in all roles. uh and the approval of the compensation package and the salary schedules for backne members in alignment with compensation packages for the two bargaining units is a sign of that continued commitment. So I I sincerely on behalf of back me thank you for that. Uh thank you Petra Rathfelder and Kaden Elderson for their
106service to Bowman Unified School District as student board members. Uh also want to thank Dr. Chang and her team for all the work they put into the LCAP. Uh not just the presentation tonight but all of the work throughout the year. Uh Dr. Dr. Chain did a phenomenal job connecting with educational partners to make this a truly collaborative process while also spending countless hours personally working to ensure the document was clear, aligned, and most importantly that it prioritized students. Uh thank you to Nathan Kamar and the fiscal services team uh for all the work that they put into not just the budget presentation tonight, but all of the work done behind the scenes to ensure everyone has the resources they need to meet the needs of our students and staff. Uh congratulations and welcome to
107the newest member of the back team. Wesley Dans is the new assistant principal at Palm Innovation Academy. Uh thank you also to the secondary teams for the work that they put into their SIPs and for Dr. Chen's leadership in that process. Um and last but certainly not least had the opportunity to celebrate with a number of you at senior awards nights last week. Uh those are huge community endeavors and I want to make sure that although they are not vacuuming members, they are recognized. Allison Alt and Kelly Bowman, the counselors that lead those programs through for both Bowman High School and the alternative ed sites. A ton of work goes into it. So that I want to celebrate the community event and the people that lead it. So thank you very much. >> Thank you,
108Dr. Brier. >> Shorttimer. >> All right, item 18.4 for again receive a report from board member David Sanchez. >> Oh, Dr. Brier did an excellent job there. >> Oh my gosh, Dr. Brier, you are going to be missed. I still remember running over to your site because there was some promotion going on and banning for pinball machines. Somebody got a warehouse and had 30,000 pinball machines in it and he went to the superintendent and banning and wanted some special publicity and my superintendent came to me and said, "Push this, Dave." And I said, "Oh." And uh I called you up and you said, "Yeah, I'll take some of the flyers." And I really always appreciate that. Um but I did get a report back from my superintendent saying, "Yeah, Bulmont's helping me out." Um, for
109classroom safety, I I hear you 100%. I think the whole district hears you about classroom st safety. Um, Julio, it's just the laws keep changing and sometimes I wish CTA would focus more on classroom safety and what happens in the classroom instead of people's personal lives and the protocols that are being passed at at in in Sacramento. Um, I think CTA needs to get back to focusing on what's what's good for a teacher in a classroom and safe in a classroom, but I'm 100% with you there. Um, but I'm also I I do want BTA to push that when a child does assault a teacher, they need to file charges and not back away because it it's it's our it's in our nature to be forgiving. And when an officer standing there taking a report
110and looks at you and said, "Do you want to file charges against this child?" most nine times out of 10 10 out of 10 times we say no we just because we we're forgiving we're forgiving that way but I think if the state's not going to do it for us we have to kind of do it ourselves and and support that and and then and again I'm sure there's principles out there that also wish teachers would have filed a com a complaint and followed through with the citation that an officer has given them or has recommended for PLC's again that I I always assume that there was a standardized practice and There should be a standardized practice so that there's equal uh treatment and uh equitable workload when there's a professional learning community put together
111as um other than that the other items that that I heard from BTA that those seem a little bit more negotiable on those. It's again we're coming to an end. We'll see everybody really soon. I have graduation ceremonies Wednesday night. No, >> Tuesday. Wednesday. >> Today's Tuesday. Oh my gosh. No, Thursday night. Thursday I have graduation and I'm the speaker. So I'm glad I just thought about that right now. >> Go ahead. And with that, I'm going to Oh, I do want to make a recommendation to our board president who does with in concurrence with our superintendent to to bring for discussion and I'm not no pressure when um board bylaw 9005 this has to do with our governance and I I want to have discussion on that about uh masters in governance training. um
112that might be the appropriate place to put it. CSBA has virtual models now that are timed throughout the year. Um and we have not talked about that in in a very long time as a board. I think it might be appropriate there and I think it should also be addressed in to reflect our new remuneration policies so that uh we as board members are held accountable. to knowing our job. So that's my recommendation and my little input there. >> Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. Um we will look into that. Noted um literally. All right. Item 18.5 receive a report from board member Dr. Lansston Sylvester. Thank you, President Brown, Superintendent Kakkesh, uh, cabinet, board members, public, Dr. Brier, uh, appreciate you. Uh, I spoke with Dr. Brier and he shared uh I don't want to divulge
113too much but it you know anytime you make a decision that's best for your family and he shared with me how his daughters reacted to him being back in the county and uh so I wish you much success uh in your new role closer to home. Um doc thank you Dr. Nathan, Dr. Chang for the reports. Um, I want to highlight, they're not here, but uh, Petra and Kaden, uh, our school representatives, student representatives, but I want to highlight their parents and, uh, it's really representative of, uh, a student's success when it's school, uh, community, and home that work together. And so if they can hear I want to congratulate the parents on their job well done with their their ch their child their children and uh Bulmont is better. We have a great team
114here and every success, you know, we hear a lot of the negatives. We hear a lot of the uh uh concerns, the issues, but um I I just want to highlight the success of our team here and you all actually make our work easier here as board members. So, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Sylvester. Um, item 18.6, received a report from board member Melissa Williamson. >> Yes, thank you. Um, so not this last weekend, but the weekend before, um, David and I had the opportunity to, um, go to Sacramento to serve for the delegate assembly, um, that we're a part of and we were elected to. And at delegate assembly, the um, delegates I don't know if I'm on if everybody could. Okay, there we go. Um, we have the opportunity to learn about new
115legislation, um, and learn which legislation CSBA is recommending to approve or opposes. And then we also have the opportunity to each serve on a policy pillar committee and make recommend recommendations for that specific policy pillar. And the policy pillars are to strengthen local government governance which I I think is the one that David is on. Um secure fair funding, improve conditions of children and ensure achievement for all which is the one that I serve on. And uh so I just wanted to highlight that because uh we are doing work more at the state level and hoping to um you know just bring forth some of the priorities for Bowmont and represent Bumont but also um cumulatively for the state for improvement for our students and our districts. So that's always um that's always fun. I
116like that kind of stuff. Fun, not trivial, but just enjoyable. I guess I should say enjoyable. Bulmont has extra representation. >> We do >> and other we do. We have two delegates which is uh which is really impressive. >> Yeah, we have two. >> Yeah. So um also I won't be here next meeting um looking forward to the graduation but I just want to say have a wonderful end of the year. I'll be uh finally having my rotator cuff repaired and so it's not advisable for me to come to the board meeting the next day. Although I thought it might be might be fun >> might be fun but it's not advisable. So um I just want to thank you all for all of your hard work this year. Um, I love seeing the principles
117in the audience and I know I know the exhaustion at this time of year and uh so hang in there and I'm just proud to be part of this district. I really am and I see the work that all of our different departments are doing. Um, Gabby and special ed. Um, I know I know your job is difficult and I appreciate it very much and um, I've only been on the board for about four years now, but it just seems to me like the um, like the LCAP reports and the budget reports are just getting better each year. Um, I love how they're presented and the care that you take to make sure that it's just easily understandable for those of us who aren't experts like you are. And so I really appreciate that I
118see you all and I'm just so proud of Bulmont. Looking forward to seeing you all at graduation as well. Um yeah. So thank you. >> Thank you Melissa. Dr. Sylvester wanted to add something. I just failed to mention uh want to congratulate assistant superintendent of HR Jennifer Castillo on the retirement dinner. Um it was a western theme and first time I'm I dawned a cowboy hat, cowboy outfit. >> He was looking snazzy. >> But uh it was well done. Excellent time. and uh for you and your team uh uh you you know how to put things together. So, I want to just congratulate you on a job well done. >> Item 18.7, receive a report from board member Susie Laura. >> Okay. Well, I'm not going to repeat some of the things. Dr. Brier said
119amazing things that I 100% agree with. So, if you you need to go back and listen to what he said because he said it great. Speaking of how he said it, um, we're going to lose our local DJ. I'm so disappointed he's got that DJ voice. I was sitting at Senior Awards the other night and somebody said something about your DJ voice. That's what I always say. So, um, that's going to be missed by a lot of people. So, um, but anyways, I'm looking forward to graduation. Um, it's always a fun time of the year. Lots of things happening and we're getting down to the wire. So, um, yeah, that's I think all I'm going to say because it's all all good things tonight. That's good. All right. Item 18.8, receive a report from board
120member Jeff Brown. So, um, we're getting close to wrapping up the year. We're, um, graduations are next week. Uh it is a emotional time of year for a lot of parents, myself included. Um and um I want to thank all of the staff at all of the sites who have done so much work to get our kids ready for the next phase of life. Um, one of the things that I uh, one of the sayings that I I've said so many times is that every phase of life is put in front of you to prepare you for the next phase of life. So, everybody in Bowont Unified School District, our job is to assist the parents of Bumont in creating the next generation of adults. And so as we get closer to graduation, that's kind
121of where my focus is is like, okay, so how are we creating the next generation of adults and how are we making responsible choices so that we create responsible adults? Um, I've never been a fan of the phrase, um, I'm raising children because nobody should be raising children that you should end the phrase with the goal, I'm raising adults. You know, the uh they're kids now and and and and I I don't want to take away from that, but the the purpose of the task is to raise functional adults for tomorrow um for our tomorrow, for our future. So, I want to thank everyone for all of your contributions and doing that and getting us ready for graduation and all of that other stuff. I also want to thank all of the board members for
122all of the work that we put in this year and cabinet and all of Bumont. So, with that, um, can I get a motion to adjurnn to close session? >> So, moved. >> I'll second. I I let me clarify. We're going to look at items um 5.25 5.6 7 and 8. Right. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> All right. And discussion vote >> hearing none. Call for the vote. Yes. And the motion carries and we are adjourned to close session. >> Sorry. >> Are we coming back here? Can we close? Yes. I don't care.