March 2026 Meeting of the Board of Trustees

March 5, 2026 YUSD Board Meeting Live Stream

1 nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all item agenda um before we do that we assume that has um which order that we can establish previously so we were going to see it back 20 minutes public comment before the reports section so if everyone is okay with that change our discussion about that all right motion to approve the agenda second all those in favor closed session sure so in closed session the board approved the Personnel list and that included uh for certificated management 1 resignation and 1 temporary new hire for certificated staff 1 retirement uh for classified management and 1 resignation and for classified staff 1 resignation and that was a motion by Bernie seconded by Andy closed session on the 50 secondly in closed session the board ratified a settlement agreement or oh case number 2025120632 and that was on a motion by broke and the second by motion by writing motion by Brooke second pipe Bernie and on a 50 vote um you know student presentation just trying to find them they say they're here oh it's right there I was like where are you I was like where is he all right um good evening board um super junior back um thank you for inviting us here to talk about sometimes your focus so bad your focus is our new class that is to give our students skills to go on to the West High School as well as on into the future in this class we work on Research skills skills active and support and in the end we studied our College and Career Unit this class is broken into 6 main rules to start with students wrote a letter to their future selves so everyone of our freshmen right now they can use to reflect on how they entered high school and then how that course went as they wrote the letter then you talked about saying sources we did an essay project where students crafted argument is 1 of how to support it annotated documents and notes um decided in a sources were reliable or unreliable and it didn't finish with the content for unit that included research and trade schools community colleges and universities in the end students would build a resume as well as our final which was mock interviews conducted by myself and colleagues here on campus these units are based around feedback from veteran teachers this is my first year here at yhs so coming in I didn't know what students needed in those supports and talking to our veteran teachers they focused a lot on Research skills writing and so these lessons serve the purpose to preach things that other teachers would end up teaching later on that way in those classes and rather than doing a brand new topic they're able to reflect so I gave evidence from talking to 1 of my colleagues um Mr Garcia who is our ninth grade English teacher to see how these impacted our students in the classroom and he found when he was ing citing sources and Essay structures that students were reflecting rather than having to learn from scratch being we had already talked about in my class how to cite sources so with this evidence I also my 1 of our freshmen Maryland and she would like to talk about our College and Career review I'm going to talk about the college and career in it um in this unit we research the jobs you want to do I learned I wish to be a children's care system I grew up and that to do that I must get into a good college the college to go to is UCLA because I've heard it has a good reputation over the we also learned to build resumes so that in or out of high school we can get employed this is my resume as an example um you learn to add professional and personal resources as well as our education and and work histories and other such sources um we also did a mock interview where we pretended we were getting interviewed for a job it was very nerve-wracking at first but then when you actually get to talking about that um they asked us about our goals are and our strengths and our weaknesses very good thank you thank you thank you thank you valuable skills you want to share real quick that so every single freshman go through this course this is just a need that we saw that students were entering High School in the very beginning and so just more able to fit into the master schedule to make this happen for all our freshman students we were able to get just a Pixlr to come and join our our district and he loves it here right yeah yeah so it's all of our freshmen now get these skills that they just talked about that Marilyn I referred to and so far it looks like it's been a really good um addition to our master schedule so thank you it's showing a better what we wanted to know the good work of our high school team making this happen so thank you guys comment you have I'm the interview nerve-wracking part it never goes away I think part of the task of an interview is to feed your vacuum because you feel like you're kind of under the microscope a little bit and sometimes there's you're talking to and so the better job you can do free paying for the interview and kind of anticipating the questions they may ask the more calm and collected and happy people come across and those are quality you did a great job or did you like me I never got hired so I just went into business for myself barely I had a son that went to UCLA so great all right we'll move on to the public phone wow today was the last day of 2 days of community service projects uh tomorrow's graduation I have never been so happy to be at this point I am exhausted I am exhausted I am exhausted and at the same time very very happy about the support we've got from the community from the Board of Trustees from the district from Workforce board um just to recap the valley Bill uh cohort um true with 20 uh we have 18 graduates tomorrow uh 1 uh made a bad decision the first week of school and uh we'll just say uh living in a County facility at this point uh like I said we have 1 uh 1 of our students that had some uh health challenges and that having to drop at 18 out of the 20 uh not going to check this for 90% success rate uh the students uh students came uh and had exposure to 9 different trade unions uh uh got certified uh in OSHA 30 has whopper 48 CPR first aid forklift and scissor lift certification uh scaffold scaffolding uh at 7 these young men and women are going out of the Work World um with some skills and knowledge and part of that is mock interviews and uh no what they may or may not want to pursue we had a lot of 15 minutes that I want to do that and then they went nope I want to do that uh so was an amazing amazing thing the 2 community service projects that considered uh it was very interesting and I had to do a disclaimer at the beginning uh before we went out um big self-segregated okay and I said do not make any complaints on Title 9 I did not do this you decided all of the women 8 Women decided they wanted to stay together and work on a project and they spent 2 days at Fresno Flats we uh helping to uh rehab have the care uh the caregivers quarters they evidently have lived in the golden for 30 years they were heavy smokers uh so we'll just say there was a lot of kills being painted uh they completely stripped out uh the cabinets etc etc um have an unbelievable time their camaraderie Etc uh the gentleman uh we're working on re-signing woodpecker Central aka the wall of the CTE or the fire building uh they discovered lots and lots of acorns and a couple of woodpecker nests I'm happy to say that the district provided some Hardie board cement board so we're going to have some frustrated woodpeckers I look forward to you guys seeing many of your faces and thank you for the support next 1 starts April 20th I will be sleeping between time now and you tell me a comment appreciate all you do for the for the Youth okay hi thank you for inviting me back up within 30 seconds um so uh on behalf of you uh thank you for the support uh that we get from not only the administration but also the board itself is we know you guys talking tonight okay uh we know that this time the reason I asked that question we know that this time is in very very uh difficult time or uh school boards across uh across the state and we we have to wrestle those uh budgetary constraints concerns Etc uh for those of you well knowing of this board knows my full story um in my career I probably been non-release 10 times because I was in a grant-funded position in it required of that and so I've been through these trials and tribulation uh 2013 I was ripped reduction in force uh when uh they cut the emergency medicine program devastating devastating devastating but I know clearly that the Florida trustee is the administration doesn't do these without considerations and a lot of Heartache I talked to a board member from another District uh about this and it's difficult and um people have asked when I retire am I going to run for school board the answer is  no uh because although I have the heart I don't know if I have the heart um to do that so thank you for being uh strategic thank you for uh considering the best ways to do this to move forward we have amazing amazing programs that are moving forward and um I know some of the other items have matching funds to continue for technical uh education programs my heart my soul my passion and thank you thank you thank you thank you John president hi guys the good evening my name is Sheree bmer and I'm your new csca president I started working here nearly a decade ago I've had the privilege of serving 3 years as the executive board Treasurer 3 years as a vice president my negotiations team experience includes 5 years and I have 20 years in real estate negotiations I am I am committed to this cause because I believe in the Union's greatest strength is in solidarity and and the dedication of its members including bus drivers Food Service workers secretaries registrars esas m workers custodians paraprofessionals Media Tech and clerical staff we make our schools safe clean and welcoming for all the students that we care about I am proud of all of our members for coming out to vote in the new election we had a huge turnout like 90% of course goals um I'm excited to start going to work for our members we have an amazing executive board and a strong negotiation team I would like to mention their names to thank them on the executive board it's Lisa Woodworth um she's our vice president and she is a Saba at at Ops Jeff Woodworth he's a he's our treasure and he a mechanic Desiree Misa she's a registar um and she's our secretary Lane Tomkins he's here tonight and he's our Communications person job description I'm sorry text text specialist Jason's team it's myself Lisa Woodward Desiree Nyssa Stephanie Romero and Danielle k their Native Americans years um that being said we've all been hard at work working on the layoffs and we are proud to say that everybody has worked hard this week and we're close to resolved on layoffs so I want thank everybody that has helped work on that it was it was I really appreciate the work that was done today especially um I think that it's going to work out great for the kids and great for staff and I have the least contact possible so thank you that's it oh okay congratulations on the new seed awesome very cool you're not congratulating me for not having to be president right stepping down thank you guys for that and then we'll go ahead and move on to administrative staff so you guys find it out I went first I will go first um it's a little different showing after I don't know what he's gonna say I will try not to uh repeat what I think he's gonna say um know it's going to be all the good stuff that he's going to say um so we are in the middle of sadhus week uh sure he will talk about that it's been a lot of fun with all the different dress up days that are going on um but here at the so we have been super focused on funding for next year so we are building out the master schedule of kids are choosing classes each careers um other school sites the new incoming freshmen have already selected their courses I have about a locked up schedule for the master schedule and starting next week the um writing seniors will start selecting their classes so we were we've been preparing um and 1 thing and this was in your guys's uh probably in your that over the weekend but um we're very happy we're really solidifying all the courses and the pathways that we have and making sure everything is very accurate within our system um but we were able to move up um you will have about 14 AP courses um and 5 and I think you just added a 6 for sophomores which is huge compared to that is classes that they can desperate GP up so um that's way more than we've ever had uh for for starting in California um so that'll be good and we'll also be able to offer to possibly 3 to 1 courses for more likely our seniors the Juniors and seniors next year um that we will have on books um we will have a 7 content areas for CTE Pathways um and 14 Pathways within that that has moved from 4 content areas up to 7 and from 7 Pathways up to 14 so that is double or doubling so when we're looking at our indicator and everything when 1 of those if it's also meeting a to G you have to meet another area which is usually an AP and IB test completion taking the jet core and also a CTE completion um a lot of students we were not capturing where students that were in our parts department within drama music and um art and we now have created those Pathways so we'll be able to capture them so hopefully getting a year out will be able to see that increase on a CCI indicator um so that is something so I'm very proud that we were able and we're really doubling with a no classes that we already offered these aren't new courses these are just classes that we have and being able to maximize what our current schedules so this isn't like oh you're going to see all these new and oh we added these they're literally courses we offer other than surroundings that's coming next month don't worry about that but um all these other courses or courses that we have are have already offered um and so we're really really proud about that um we've been reviewing our surveys um making some changes um we have looked at a um intervention period um on our block schedule days for next year and I think we're going to be informed about that we're very excited to be able to offer intervention um and tutoring support during the actual School school day and not just have to have kids today at the school um and that will be built in it's called like a flex schedule call it when um so we're very excited for that um we had our um our PLC day for the high school was last week um we met and we are working on unpacking the standards and um starting tomorrow our teachers will on podcast standard but moving forward they will be making sure creating the units um for those courses with the standards that they select um so we are moving right along um with that working with the county um and that is that is ordering now over in edops we already have the I think Stuart said I have 3 graduates this so it's been a complete Thank you Lisa I know he's telling me I'm like it's coming at me um we are moving um aani is has like a complete shift even from last year kids are on track they're moving along and they're graduating and has graduating early where I'm having to pump the brakes a little bit to make sure we stay with on Ag and we got them down the right path but they are doing very very well and in attendance has improved what how much 25% about 25% yes it alone yes and we're still working on that and actually still might go up because we are still fixing some issues that we had graduated we still have to exit them out so that'll bring some up also yeah so Improvement yes it's been a it's been a massive and even in Evergreen being able to monitor how we do their attendance um we'll also increase because it's weird how they like graduate early but then it looks like we have no so um there's been Mass um emphasis there and 1 thing that they have been working diligently on is uh they wanted more elective options for their students they did not want to talk about decreasing the amount of credits for their school sites especially at Evergreen um and so they've been working on uh courses that we currently have that we can offer and they're getting the course outlines if we offer them currently they didn't have them I'll have those and then you might you will see a few new elective option courses possibly approved in for me so that team has been working diligently to get me um those courses um and Tony I already said everything about what's going on over the Delta and it looks like we're going to run another hopefully it's going to come for approval next month but another ground hotel we built this year so yeah why not this school year starting April 20th and it'll end on June 12th it'll be fine can the old man handle it or so yeah so um yeah that's good so far yes we're trying to funnel a lot of our marijuana is your way too yeah oh yeah oh we need 1 of them the adulted like our other programs not just to a Delta to finish just the new programs oh yeah that's what the program is not say the best for us everybody um so I'm going to keep mine kind of short and sweet the things that right now I forgot that I gave them to Lucas and all the fun stuff so let him do the The Good the good stuff um moving right along the course called making a lot of progress um um attendance has improved significantly we are sitting right around our lull of um happened he hasn't cut it in half which is really exciting um I'm giving that um giant props to um s meth um she is like I brought this up before she's amazing um doesn't let kids slip through the cracks kids are absent she's on top of it figuring out how we can increase in extra attendance um we try to hold it as Saturday school last week and didn't have enough students interests so we'll offer that up here again next month again as well um on Tuesday we had our math academy and of Jason talked about it as well um had a gentleman from UCR said um we've invited I believe 40 students from fourth and fifth grade From My Sight to this program and we had about 15 parents and family show up which was really great um 4 sign up a spot I'm sorry 5 sign up on the spot and it's going to be I believe 5 consecutive Saturdays where they get to go actually cheese to your Center so you guys are all aware of this um but I was really excited about it and that opportunity for our students um have been meeting with the Chauncey um mental health advisor um they've started reaching out to us and trying to get some Pathways and some support set up for some of our Native American students that we know they need and so that's been really exciting um to have those conversations taking place consistently and how we can support those kids we met with um Dr for and I met with um Kirk from Madera County last week and again that's our area of red worth our differentiate assistance um we're still really need to look at our Native American students or Indian students and how we can support them both in academics attendance and behavior so that really is a push for us this year PLC teams uh were meeting almost every Wednesday depending upon um attendance I'm not sure if all of you heard but I've got 2 I have 3 teachers that were up for jury duty all this week and 2 of them were selected for the same jury and they are both doing my sped teachers so that's going to be great um they're going to be at least till the 18th it sounds like so that throws a monkey wrench in my Wednesday afternoon plans when they're supposed to meet and so my teams are kind of doing the best they can with the time that they've got um but we're really Junior High team I've got a new team member on there uh Colby just measuring is my new PLC team leader Megan Coalition team leader I'm trying to get my acronyms right and uh right I mean you know every anyway um and it's he's done a great job and so my Junior High um is kicking butt they're working on extension times we're going to start to win um intervention next year as we're going to change our acronyms so that um whatever our students need to the academic support they're going to get whether it's above grade level or below grade level um and then right now we're working on a left is for next trimester trying to figure out what those are going to look like with our Junior High kids and about it like that any questions um in the conversations with the um Native American Mental Health Specialists um is there anything that came out of that conversation seems like it might be promising as far as helping affect change in that area so yeah uh 1 of the 1 of the biggest concerns and 1 of the biggest issues is the massive amounts of turnover with their program and the people that I've been meeting with most recently seemed to be in it for the long haul so that that's promising a lot of them have either had students that are either at my site or have gone through my site or for our locals which is huge because then they've got that connectedness to the um to our to our school um nothing is set in stone I believe they're working on getting getting some meetings together with um with Mr Beck and I'm trying to set up some really concrete supports we've talked about when I was up here we had talked about having um students that were getting in trouble for you know getting in fights or suspensions and things like that um I'll try to placements for them where they would get supports from the tribe and so that was part of our conversation that we had of what would that what would that look like right now at my site maybe it's they're bringing somebody down from their Mental Health Organization on my site once a week to support those kinds of things so nothing is set and so right now it's all trying to you know kind of feel each other out some of these are new people that I've never met before and so you know you got to build that trust with them and they need to realize that you know we're here for the kids and that's the most important thing so I'm hoping and you know I know it helped but um planning moving forward is really important so our title 6 committee meetings once a month you're all invited to attend their life changing um but those are really important it's an opportunity for us to talk with families and parents and community members about how we're going to support our neighbors population thank you um they are scheduled for the first Monday of every month at 6:00 at core School and on the side note about being ripped I was ripped 3 times within the district so just saying 30 year in or 3 years in a row I can start with the title 6 meetings on our we clean and then if you have anything that you want to add to it or think you know convers they would love to have oh you guys are you me good evening tomorrow we will be finishing up our second trimester at school um teachers and students are finishing strong and our school students are in the process of picking picking new electives for the uh 35 minutes or on Monday night we had almost 30 families attend our math um parent recruitment night um and at this point we have 10 that turned in your applications and so far so we get 40 students total fourth and fifth graders so 20 from each grade level um we giving them the opportunity to attend the math uh Camp there's 5 Saturdays 4 at present Pacific and the other at UC Merced um in addition to that we have 3 high school students um you're welcome you guys go to Jessica told me that we'll be accompanying our kids down there and tutoring and helping out and pouring into them so I think there's that making that connection right with our sites in our high school which is um it's it's going to be crucial moving forward especially a really good site um keeping those 8 players in our district and so I have some ideas about that and I've talked to Jessica in a really in a lean into that moving forward and we'll work together on making sure every single eighth grader goes to why why you why HS excuse me our PLC team attended a 2 day training on Monday and Tuesday at exhaust uh the speaker was Regina Owens and it was it was very very just not informative it wasn't somebody just speaking at us about the PLC process um we had a lot of opportunities in those 2 things to work as a guiding Coalition so my guiding Coalition members went I went and so um she would speak and she would give us a topic and then she would let us work as a team and so it was really really really good um we took a lot of stuff back to our sites and we could use as we build up the PLC process so I was blown away and it was just it as a leader it was um sometimes you go to those trainings you just don't quite know but it was really really good so really inspirational as well uh before the February break our seventh grade class in a field trip to the modern Bay Monterey Bay which is a big deal with our students cross-country started last week and we have almost 80 students that are participating and going to practice twice a week and a few days and Thursdays our talent show was last Thursday night we had a total of would ask that before and that was very well attended by our community looking forward we have our uh Swan math Creator on campus next Wednesday to both model lessons to provide teacher support and last but not least we will have a number of our students uh turning the Peaks Blossom Festival at my Fresno State on March 19th all right next up is skipping right over the superintendent report now Mark continued I'm starting to wonder is there anyone I don't answer um I did you know you're probably you should be and you are hearing some things with our principles right I think you heard Jessica and Mindy both talked about when I wanted to disable that means so all of our schools are working on building in time in the school day to get students what they need so when stands for what I need I am so the idea is that um you know throughout the week our teachers are identifying students who need interventions students who need enrichment students who need this students who need that and then they'll actually be deployed to go get the help that they need during the day um so you know it's 1 thing to have things after school and that can be affected kids it's another thing to have it during the day where every kid's there you have a captive audience and teach and their teachers are there with them and and the classified staff who support kids all day long so that's what win is you'll hear more about that they're really in the early stages of high school is a little further along was it really in the early stages of developing whether it's going to look like but that's where we're headed and that's a result of the PLC process you're going to see other great results for kids as part of the PLC process over these over these 3 years that we're involved in developing it another theme that you should hear that I think you've heard in here and he was talking about it um is our focus on Native American students that's clearly the area in our data dashboard that tells us those students are missing school at a higher rate than any other student they're getting in trouble at a higher rate than any other student I could even make achievement is lower than any other student and you know on average in our district and so um we should be you know excited and refreshed that we're hearing some new things that we're working with the Tryon some new things that we've worked out with CSEA to really change the model of how we're serving kids we've been serving those students the same way for 6 years and we should not have the we've got to change things up so that's the thing the third thing you should be hearing from our principles is to focus on math because if you start to look at where our achievement is that's where that's where our treatment is the lowest so you heard him say a lot of times we have Swan math coming and doing some coaching and some modeling they talk about the math academy that we're beginning to put students in so um what I hope we hear in the audience and as a board is that when we ident identify areas that that we need to focus on and I need help we jump in and we go forward and we do things for for those um I also I want to acknowledge that tonight's agenda it includes you know the budget reporting for second interim which is not a real pretty picture but also has resolutions for Staffing reductions and those reductions are classified staff certificated staff and management staff um unfortunately school districts across our state across California are faced with these similar challenges we all have our own context and our own unique communities but everyone is facing these same challenges there's articles every day that talks about you know reduction of the stuff I think had like 600 employees laying off fast Lake had you know everyone everyone's there but when you look at kind of the landscape and where we're at there's really 3 primary reasons why this is happening to school districts 1 is that the expert that the co era funds the things that allowed us to do you know big things for a short amount of time they're all expiring they're expiring and we used a lot of those funds to bring in people to help kids and now the funding is not there and we don't have the money you can't with the people right um secondly is that our state has given us minimal funding increases the last couple years it looks like it's going to continue for a while and so while we appreciate the funding increases and the cola it doesn't keep up with the rising operational cost and the cost of personnel right like you get you get 2% well your propane bill is going up 15% you know you got all these things happening um and so just the amount of funding we get from the state does not match the costs that go up so I would call on you know UDA and CSEA and and the parent the parent people of like you know let's kind of put a maybe our internal differences aside and let's talk about how do we join forces and really go to the source of our problem which is our schools aren't funded at a at a high enough rate like let's let's get together and let's let's really um get that message out as as school districts and as and as a labor Partners if that's really the source of the issue we want to do a lot more we got to be able to afford it and then the third reason I would say you know we're experiencing this to a much smaller degree than most places but many districts are facing declining enrollment there's lower birth rates across our nation um you know our particular Community people are are moving out of town because they can't afford to live here for economic reasons and so there's all there's there's these 3 factors that are really um um that are really contributing to this and so I want us to really consider that that nobody wants to cut budget nobody wants to reduce staff right but we we got to we have to stay fiscally solvent right if we don't say fiscally solvent all 200 employees in this District don't have a job because this school district doesn't exist so we have to make sure that we keep all those things in mind with that being said we poured over so many possibilities to make this budget work um with the ultimate goal we need to have the least amount of impact to students the secondary goal we need to have the least amount of impact to our staff right in that work um but in tonight's resolutions you'll see that we're making where you know we're making reductions we're making some other fiscal moves which reduces about to the overall Budget Inn about 300,000 um of that our savings to the general funds in order to to to keep us contract to be um to have a positively certified budget when we move into next year fortunately we were able to do this with impact to very few employees and I really appreciate the collaborative effort with UDA and with CSEA um to really get this time and and to do I think in the end we ended up with a with a product and a model that's going to be better for kids and doesn't have near the amount of impact on employees that we're seeing in many other places so thank you guys for for really engaging and working on this right place um on another note I want to thank the board for the engagement at our special board meeting last week around the bond we'll continue to give you more information so that we can make an official decision within the next couple months so we'll have the board will be taken official action 1 way the next couple of months of whether we're going to pursue a facilities Bond or not and do this get this place to face it um and then we heard our principles mentioned a math academy and I think many said I'm sure you guys know all about it well they don't um but here's here's what the Academy is we partnered with with UC Merced and we're we're continuing to strengthen that partnership but really deepen it they're doing some work with our counselors they're doing some work with teachers or doing some work around math with us but um we've invited our fourth and fifth grade students targeted students but it's most of our fourth and fifth grade students of course building the world they have the opportunity to participate in a math academy for 5 Saturdays and um we basically put them on a bus together for 4 of those Saturdays and go to Fresno Pacific and for 1 of those Sundays and go to UC Merced and they're going to be engaged all day in that um with with teachers who that's really their specialty that's what they do they do they do math right our teachers are awesome our elementary teachers are awesome but they're not math experts right their Experts of a lot of things but these folks are just focused on on that the other opportunity here is um they want to actually employ some of our teachers in these programs to teach because they can then teach alongside those who have good math expertise and become better math on themselves and as you heard Jay say and Jessica be very proud of they also hired some of our high school students to be there and Tudor some of the elementary students it's not just us we're engaged there with other districts um across the Central Valley I know parlay is there McFarland's there now there's there's 4 or 5 others so our kids will be exposed to good math there'll be exposed to a college experience and then be exposed to other kids who are in their peer groups the valley so it's just it's a it's a really cool thing they started on March 21st and they go for 5 Saturdays in the room and then just lastly I look forward to the valley build graduation tomorrow and it's going to be a really nice advantage and Chauncey and we're going to see some people exiting our adult schools some schools so all right all right uh we'll start off with the river gold um big congratulations to our girls basketball team on winning the all Mountain Area tournament Championship on February 13th if somebody in high school also River Gold has a strong participation Athletics is Susan with over 80 students from grades 1 through 8 sign up for cross country this first meet will take place this Friday wasuma last lastly also this month on March 22nd we will take break class will travel to Catalina Island for a 3-day educational trip while their students will participate in activities such as scuba diving hiking kayaking and learning about the marine life thank River Gold uh moving on to coarse gold course gold recently celebrated Dr Sue stress of week which included special visitors such as cat and the hat played by a parent and the Laura explained by es ESA it was funny that brought a lot of excitement to campus across the country program is seeing strong participation as well uh looking ahead several field trips are coming up fifth graders will be traveling Sacramento next week and seventh and is students will be going to Sonora in 2 weeks course Global also be hosting in Spring Carnival on March 27th which is always a great event for students and Families uh the pathan team will be competing in the super quiz Saturday we wish them best of luck as they represent Corps School and Mindy's last minute little note um 8th grade leadership at core school is coming to the yhs uh sadhus rally tomorrow and uh tomorrow for that rally for the 8th graders I talked with the ASB team we're going to hopefully have them all come down with us on the floor and you know just give them that experience of what ASV is actually like in high school because it is a little different uh from Junior High to high school so we'll give him a special experience there uh moving on to Evergreen Evergreen is currently in the early stages of its wasp accreditation process and looks forward to the opportunity for reflection growth the first 6 week grading period has recently concluded and students have been working hard while maintaining positive attitudes in their classes in addition to academics there's an evergreen continues to encourage School engagement and friendly competition students are once again participating in the March Middle menus tournament organized by 70 High School science teacher of Mr Eric Ervin and I have left with a little note uh from the entire Evergreen Community and I quote in superintendent back while we certainly admire the confidence behind your bracket submission Evergreen has its sight set on the championship trophy this year we look forward to a great competition and may the best mammal with Bring It On this week is Sage week oh sorry I'll move on to 70 so this week is sad week at 7 High School uh today was surfer surfs up day and I think yesterday was twin day the day before Biker's day and uh the first day what was the first day uh so uh students will also participate in the black light rally tomorrow uh followed by the city's dance on March 7 also why chess will host its student showcase night on March 11th students and programs will be highlighted for the community in addition students in the culinary program will compete in the upcoming culinary to Roop Showdown showcasing their cooking and Hospitality skills against other schools uh as the community Awards deadline approaches many seniors are working hard to complete their applications before they are due also our interact Club will be heading to the Sugar Pine rail road later this month for community service event and finally the main event um upcoming in this upcoming week is the donkey basketball tournament oh yes taking place uh March 10th at 7 pm I encourage you all to show up and watch uh from what I heard Brooke is participating in the event and he has a few tricks up his sleeve so that that's all I got right call this motorcycle all right thank you okay board members thank you Mark and this is my 4 here seeing it all from this angle and we've heard about these budget cuts coming I run I operate and Run 2 companies uh in the private sector and um this is the hardest part you know I take everything personal everything I'm very proud to be able to make these Cuts with with the most care in working with CSEA and you to you know it's this is difficult but for everybody to be okay with the direction is what is what makes me proud you know um it's pretty impressive that we get to continue to increase and add electives and add programs this is the power of of what we have here with everybody collaborative and being on the same team and being Superstars being more effective with less um I absolutely agree with Brian now is the time to not let this get between us and cause division but to to to come together and stand up and all of us in unison not just our school but other school and we can all look at where the money's coming from and be like put the pressure on them they're supposed to be serving us not telling us what we what we're supposed to be doing they know that they know the cost of living and everything is getting higher it's time that our schools get funded properly and if we all stopped fighting amongst each other and start looking at where the money comes from this is how this is how we push and and get what we need to be able to educate these kids because that's what we're all here for moving on I'm gonna talk a little bit about Lucas here he he is uh unaccepted to what Boulder now he's he's applying all over it's pretty amazing you know the the even you know when I went here and and it's for such a small school every year we produce amazing young folks that go to some of the best colleges and universities and always have right what's even more amazing is programs that like Tony himself and everybody else is working to increase those at the bottom of the list I take uh a lot of time to be part of of the adult ed I get a lot of personal uh rewards from this I've seen so many so many young folk who didn't really have a chance statistically speaking we're going nowhere to see them be enlightened and you know honestly this is only the first step for them is the valley build and the forest core and and you know Ahwahnee but it's a step in the right direction and without that step in the right direction most hope is lost that's what I'm really proud of is not just producing amazing young folk but bolstering up and and making the bottom of the list better you know it's just the same thing our weakest link we're only as strong as our weakest link we need to strengthen all of our links you know what we are what we are doing now already is producing the next generation of Heroes and Builders of the world right now it is so difficult for me to find Qualified technicians that can step into the role and do stuff I have been on my end I have been participating at the high school auto shop to help increase technicians because everybody drives cars right and every shop in town here and in every another town that I know of so the people that I talked to so hard to find Qualified skilled employees and um the the level of skill that our youth come out of school with is what sets up our future we had we've been letting our kids down for a long time and it's so amazing to be part of something to where we are going in the right direction we are producing better young folk for a better healthier community in the future and uh just makes me so proud I to see this and to have it all happen on our watch encouraging encouraging and I really I really you know it's everybody here and everybody all the teachers in the district and the CSEA or the classified staff so many acronyms um we we all make it happen as a team and without everybody pushing so hard we would be lost I'm so I'm just so I can't say it enough bunch of superstars here winning we're we're actually waiting so I just want to thank you guys all so much thank you you don't follow the order that you write it down I know not at all I was I was still cheating on I'm watching their if you jump around yeah um I accidentally inconsistent know that was It was kind of cool how you did that I was watching it um Brooke thank you and Tony in the valley buildings is so cool and it's awesome and uh broke again you know every time I turn around you're doing carbon a chair with a chainsaw the other day I mean how can any board members compete with what you do around here but I'm I'm proud to be um associate even if it's just sitting next to you on the board that's cool I I'm very proud of what you guys do and brag about it even though I really have nothing to I contribute I don't carve anything to change so um but I brag about it all the time so appreciate you guys Sheree welcome I'm sure Lisa's relieved to not be have to do that anymore um all of shareaza kids work for me some for longer than others still miss ceara kind of you know I know she's a new mom but that beautiful granddaughter you know yeah so when she's pulling her hair out maybe she can come back and thank you great the not accepted into Berkeley the law school all right I know so her son's going to take over my law practice he's been told that so and he got into Berkeley which is number 1 Public Law School World congratulations thank you um that is hard to do and I didn't know that so that just made my day student yeah no he's the second yeah and he's gonna he's gonna be molder and B you got to get him back here we need him um speaking of that I was just kind of off the cuff you know AI I've been playing with it in my own work trying to figure it out so my clients have been people like clients have been using it and just making a mess of things and but I'm starting to see what I articles I read it's going to replace some of the jobs that's going to wipe some of the end I'm starting to understand how powerful it is it's not really useful to me yet um because I've been doing what I do for so long but it impresses me that um it's it is thinking the stuff we use is thinking like a lawyer writing like a lawyer and it kind of I'm not freaked out by it but I think it's something we all have to start paying more attention to um already replaced replacing a lot of jobs and it's hard for any of us to know whether where that's going to go and um so we need to and I know Brian talks about this a lot we need to and Brooke was kind of on this same theme a minute ago we have to we need kids we need to give kids everything we can for them to be ready to adapt so the kids who are collegebound also need to Career Tech skills the tech skills kids need academic skills we need to give them everything so that they can go any Direction they need want to but may need to because we're just not sure where this is headed that the AI is a very powerful I try not to get you know be prone to hyperbole but I know that some of the people who are have created and are in charge of it are using very dramatic terms to describe what's coming and I'm starting to sense that I think we all are how powerful this thing is so we need I hope we all um just keep that in mind that students that we see now are going to be dealing with things that the rest of us really never have to worry about as far as entering a field or entering a career and what the opportunities were and what the skills were in order to do that so we we're all going to have to be adapted um Tony I hope that I think redheaded woodpeckers are protected species I hope on that wall there that uh we're not going to get some no EPA finds for the district because we are on a Razor's Edge with our budget that we cannot afford that so um be gentle with those nests please or if you're not gentle I don't know don't mention it publicly and uh I think I have 1 more thing I wanted to say uh these all the student presentations they left I thought that was nice and I did not catch what that class is called add your focus okay all right and the teacher's name again I did not been kids miller kids miller okay I don't I've never he's brand new okay that makes me feel a little better he is only a freshman level teacher right now so Luke has never had him okay so you probably have not very very much about him if it was I was caught off guard I was like so yeah okay well that because Badger focus is teared with ethnic studies so they should go the second half of the semester so it's really just a question of class gotcha okay anyway please anybody sees and the student um I forget the student's name but Marilyn Marilyn that was a really good presentation so so for me thank you thank you so um pretty sure practice but I'm gonna go out on Bold land predict bulmer and the goldrick that's what it takes that's what we'll do and I think you're right AI um is gonna evolution is everything I think that I heard it said this way the other day that um AI compared to the Industrial Revolution it will be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution in 1 tenth of the time wow it's going to change everything and I don't think AI is going to displace people but I think that people with AI skills will replace people who don't have ai skills um they you're right we can everything we can do to infuse Ai and adopt it into our teaching practices and and help people learn how to use it um honestly as a tool as a resource and promote critical thinking skills is good um the chair my Uncle Andy whose birthday was um 98th birthday was a few days ago he commented on your chair photographer was that Brian's chair chair and table I took the picture but you said have the table turned out you'll see my comment on the picture anyway oh yeah my 98 year old grandfather commenting on your caring table for that um yeah sure thing uh congratulations thank you um I attended a budget committee meeting earlier this week and I was impressed in 2 ways first uh by Bernie depth of knowledge and recall of really um facts um that relate to history of of fiscal developments here and uh as he as monitored the progress of budget um status and in our gradual Improvement in uh ending fund balance and addressing fiscal uh you know the deficit spending pattern I think goes really impressed by that so thank you for sharing your thoughts during that meeting I can't remember when the cop is going to be 29 230 230 okay 2930 here every year and then I also want to um compliment Charlotte and her team uh you guys really are putting a lot of effort into addressing future youth fiscal distress this goal deficit spending really searching for new funding sources and for ways to move expense out of unrestricted into other funding sources so that you relieve pressure off of the pending fund for the unrestricted and that's going to make big differences you know the projection you made 1 year ago looked very Bleak it adjustments you've made over the course of the last year are going to improve that picture so in 2 or 3 years time we'll all look back and say well projection didn't turn out to be accurate at all but truth is a year ago it was spot-on Act but the tiny adjustments you make all year long lead to relieving some of that pressure and and allowing us to be to be able to make some of the negotiated agreements that we come to over the course of of the past year and speaking with that just lastly um very impressed by the cseas willingness to work with Administration find sources find um combinations of pattern of teaching and and ways to fund that uh to the benefit of the academic progress and people's jobs it was a combination effort collaboration is wonderful very much appreciate it thank you thank you Mark oh okay well um I don't know if all school boards are like this this feels more like a fireside chat have a blame up here on the TV I spend to other school board meetings and it doesn't feel like this but we have like laughter we have tears we have it all so I like tears in a good happy things are happy um so and I'd like to start with since this is um this week is read Across America week I'd like to start with the more that you read the more things you will know the more that you learn the more Places You'll Go Dr Seuss 1 of my favorites so um I just I'm so excited we do things like you know we've got sadhus week and we've got Seuss um we it's so cool to watch how our our schools and our teachers put together programs and you know make it fun to be here and I know it's good to get the attendance but it's also just great that have a place to go where it's it's fun and it's interactive it's exciting and there's something new so I appreciate that so much um always great to see the student presentation and they're always gone before I get to tell them about it but um what a great program and I could use some of those research skills like I forgotten I don't even I didn't even know we still did it that way it seems like you know the Dewey Decimal System is gone so I didn't know if that was still done but it's so great that they're learning how to do all that um uh also congratulations Sheree thank you that's so great so exciting um and the food kids that are mutual friends too we yeah our kids went to school together so um so uh the food is excellent so it's always nice to see you know the culinary and what they're doing we're so lucky to have these CTE programs and and everybody that works so hard and I know that doesn't happen in all schools either you know this is something that's been those kind of programs are being faded out they're usually the first ones to to cut and and I'm glad that we appreciate those and keep those um going I spend some time reviewing the um Benchmark data and um was really excited to see the growth that was happening it was really encouraging um our especially our high school seniors performing really well so they're getting close to graduation you're shocking me those seniors they're supposed to have been I was like where yes they just they're yes they're doing really well on those benchmarks yeah that was exciting and it's really good that The Benchmark data also highlights the areas that we want to continue focusing on like the literacy and the and the upper and the Elementary grades and uh English Learners so it's just nice to be able to get the data and see where we're focusing and I love seeing where where things are coming together that we're doing well it's um the things that that you shared Brian you know the what we're doing with math I mean we have identified that that's an area we need to improve and then everybody thanks to these the PLC I think is making a huge difference in that where you know we're not individually te we're creating teams that are looking at everything and really coming together to put in systems that are making a difference and you know you can see that with things that we're talking about the math um the win is exciting so I love seeing that problems that are being identified are so fast to be addressed and the teams that are coming together and our commitments to the kids and to see the things that are happening um it sounds like I'm hearing really great feedback about the professional learning communities um that the teachers you know the time spending working together I can see the climate change between when it first was introduced and now like visiting schools and talking to teachers now it's like they're really starting to engage more and and seeing more benefit and getting more excited about it the collaboration and the teamwork is amazing and I really think that that strengthens just the teaching and learning across the board um the transition from IB to he that's you know been a lot of work but I love that there's so many AP courses coming up that's exciting um specifically for you know our school size the dual enrollment opportunities is really great and um sophomores having access to college level coursework that's so that's so great to see by the time they're seniors you're going to be extra extra proud of them um and the CTE I've talked about that um I mean that it's doubled the number of available courses yes and seeing what Tony's been doing with the the valley build and um just for providing something this school which is important you know we're considering that this Bond and everything but I think I think that if people in the community if it can really be communicated to them these these things that make our school districts so special that um that people will see I mean such a gem that we have this school district and what we put together for the benefit of you know even the adult education and the different programs offers so unique um so I had the opportunity to attend the yhs production of Little Women last month so great especially you know that's what I love to do and and high school we are so glad to have that theater facility and I'm excited to go to the art uh show on the 11th and do something I sat by this guy he was talking to the whole thing but and share that together um so the lastly uh you know the whole budget Financial thing everybody's addressed it so well um and I know teacher and staff really feel the pressure we all feel the pressure there's so many things happening in you know financially now with the cost of living and and our budget cuts it's it's really hard but I love that the you know people keep showing going up to the table like you know it's hard and it's not working for this person or not looking for this group or not working for the whole District but people keep they don't throw their hands up they keep coming keep coming to the table um there's something about when you can work together when you will give up on the communication and the collaboration that makes things work I know that the administrators and the leadership are working very hard through complex budget decisions that I will never wrap my mind around but I appreciate those so much you you do um and uh everybody's just truly committed to reducing the impact to the classroom and making it work because we know know that what works best is what works best for our students so um thank you all for what you do and um I'm just so proud to be here thank you right well had the whole thing prepared but I'm going to give a micro version of it um just wanted to say for the CSC and EA team um Brian Charlotte me everyone else that was involved in that whole process of collaboration I was following what was happening there closely and asking questions to Brian see how that's developing and stuff so to see where it landed was a better place in my city hope for so I'm just really um probably with how that transpired so um thank you for everybody involved with that um like I said event version but I know I have a reputation for being the horn it doesn't really speak a lot um part of that is because I don't really feel the need to speak sometime unless I have something to add to the conversation and working with such amazing board members and staff and administration and the people presenting things like that it makes it really easy everybody's great at communication this information is being presented very clearly there's very few clarifying questions that need to be asked um number 2 is that I'm usually pretty prepared ahead of time when I come to these meetings so I just don't want we perceived as apathy but more just kind of like a prepared confidence um and what happens here so when I come here I pretty much know what I'm going to say or how I'm going to vote on something unless I hear something different in my discussion with the board members during that time I hear something different from the presenters or something from public comment is really going to make me reconsider and step back and um go through that critical thinking process again so I just want to just instill confidence in everybody that there's there's deep consideration given to everything that's going on here behind the table here and you've heard it from my fellow board members in the same level of um care is given when um deliberating on these topics so I just wanted to thank everyone for putting through all the hard work and the effort um in presenting all these different things and approaching and meeting and taking care of these situations um it doesn't go unnoticed it doesn't get lost it helps us to do and makes our job a lot easier um I say that because there there is tough things that we're voting on today there's tough things that we're going to be voting on in the future and some very difficult decisions that are going to have to be made so I just want you to know that we don't take that lightly and um us as board members our first and foremost elected officials that represent the community um and that is my only skin in this game um is to represent the community so when I'm going through this process part of that is considering how this is going to affect the community what the community is going to think how the community feels about this situation so all of that gets taken into consideration and my first and foremost job is to represent the community hold the school accountable for making sure that we're doing everything that we need to do first and foremost for the won't be able to survive so here so um with that we'll go ahead and move forward um next item is the consent agenda so I will need to approve so moved second second is there any discussion on the consent agenda all those in favor discussion item on the first reading is consideration number is 1235 policies will be removed in order for 2 different readings so this is the first reading for 5 different policies and bring these back next month questions along the way let me know all right so that moves us on to the action items so action item a so just reading the documents are 5 4 policies we have 16 policies here that the board considering for the last month and just as a reminder in all of our policies in 2023 we've been trying to stay on top of those and not get behind again so um if the board's comfortable with what they've seen these policies are ready to move forward I would just ask for your approval you need a motion to approve I want to approve second second Randy I can ask for a third and fourth because all right is there any discussion on the policies all those in favor for work or lack of funds the everybody we were asking the board to approve the resolution attached to your pockets for reduction of discontinuing the classified services we're asking for approval on this resolution to the lack of work or lack of funds for the 2627 School question so I need a motion to approve so moved second second any discussion about this item all those I say the 1 thing I'll say is that you know in your practice we had lots of discussions around this we know how about the decisions is and um and again if we could we could move forward without doing any of this we would but very proud of the work we've done together to make sure this has the least amount of impact on kids and staff so we arrived at the place we needed to arrive at um in the way we what's that that all those in favor all those bills service certified we are asking for the board to approve the resolution in your packets the reduction of particular kind of service for certificate set and once again these changes would go into look up for the 2627 English second all those in favor next item is the approval of the 2025 2026 second okay so second interim um that's what I'll be presenting tonight the district is required to submit 2 interim reports to the governing board each fiscal year and this is second interim this is going know things through January 31st um of this year um and compare it to the person from reporting this is where we take a look at the governor's budget and the things um I think we put that out to you know some of the things that they're projecting that may happen for the 2627 budget again just always going to be looking at this is the guiding principles or if somebody unified as well as our goals and these are the things that looking at when we're preparing the budget making sure that our money is aligned with our goals and our finding principles we are now at the second interim reporting so this is the budget cycle you can see um we are at the March 15th date second interim reporting and then in June that's where we'll have our estimated actuals and the proposed budget for 2627 so this is the last reporting period for the 2526 year that we bring until we close out the year that will come to you in September um the main goal of this reporting is to provide a transparent look at The District's Financial Health and the necessary steps to maintain solvency that's when we look at those multi-year projections that we've been talking about um the common message just came out from Basque which is the business and administration Services committee throughout the state of California so there was a couple of key takeaways in there that I just wanted to share that are going out to all school districts in California since you know we're all we all have our own individual needs and kind of quirks if you will but all schools are facing some of the same things so the key takeaways that they had are districts are to clearly distinguish between 1 time shortfalls and ongoing structural deficits so we talked about deficit spending and so that's 1 thing that they're looking at is that a 1-time thing or is that something that's structural that's happening to me happening each year deficit driven by the loss of 1 time Federal funding Federal funding and um declining enrollment um they're unsustainable and if you just continue to go forward it will erode the reserves if expenditure adjustments are not made that's another message that's going out Statewide um and the with the given risk that the associated with the that are associated with the state budget elevation exercise caution before budgeting for any increases included in the governor's budget other than the statutory Cola so that's 1 thing we've heard about different things coming out um they're talking about possibly a 20% increase for necessary small schools that would be great that would affect if some of the unified because we have 1 of those that's not something that we are now putting in the projection that comes to fruition that's something that would be in there but the statutory Cola is included in this so the it says that the increases especially the student support and professional development discretionary block grant we got a chunk of money last year with that 1 time funds they're talking about continuing that but it will really depend on what the state's Revenue looks like if that does not meet what they thought it was going to they say that's going to be the first thing that will probably go and so that could totally change before the final state budget is enacted so we continue to listen to our partners at the state and county office and what things should we include and which things should we wait and see until we absolutely know that they're going to happen to put in our projections so Revenue first income versus the second income reporting what you're going to find with a lot of what I have to say it is very close to what the same message it was at first in Trump so you can see here that the increase um in Revenue that we're showing between first interim and second interim is a difference of about $1,000 you can see on the side there the original budget line I don't think works on here so the First Column is the original budget that's adopted what we bring in June that we start off with board approved operating budget is the last budget that was brought to the board for approval which was first interim and you have your actual today that's money that has already gone out the door and then you've got your projected totals is what's the second in from and the difference is comparing um your board approved budget first income to uh projected your totals which is your second so so on there you can see um lcff that's our biggest source of unrestricted dollars it changed the whole 393 and we um calculator the federal revenue the biggest increase there was Title 1 we got our final location that increased we had some other that were very not Material changes um for some of the other title funding um we see them sometimes go up a little bit down a little bit that's why we're we we update all of this at our interim reporting to kind of keep in mind with the funding that we think we're going to be getting the state funding that increased the about 5,500 the biggest part of that again a couple other resources is very small changes but we had some literacy screening funding that came in and so that was added to the budget we also added the expenses to that and then in the local side that 98,000 that's mostly the sanwa Valley Air Pollution Control District um grants that you guys approved last month that was eighty thousand dollars for 4 golf carts or vehicles and we had some General Revenue that we um shown is bringing in which was things like we're getting some reimbursements through the county office for some traveling conference that we have to put in as Revenue but we also show the associated expenditures when we put that in so this little piece of the pie if you're looking at the different revenues this is all of our revenues in the general fund so unrestricted and restricted so you can see there that the lcff sources of all of those funds is about 68% if you go to just the unrestricted most of that is going to be your lcff and that is at about 95% that's 1 of the reasons again we focused so much on the calculator and our local control funding formula so then we look at expenses our expenses um having pretty by about 192,000 so pretty much in line with our Revenue a little bit more um that has to do with during those the Year we're filling positions we have vacancies we have different things that happen um the capital outlay increase have to do with that eighty thousand dollars for that Grant and then you've got some movement in between your services and supplies and a lot of those things are we have um the sites have access to their budgets and they may have a discretionary budget where it's in services and they decide nope what they need to do is they need to buy some supplies and then we have to move that between what you show as the fours and fives in your object code so not much difference here either so again if you look at this this is all all of our expenses unrestricted and restricted and how they um pieced out in the piece of the pie or people and operating and then if you go to the unrestricted that we're looking at that has not changed the unrestricted still at 72% is for Staffing and in the restricted funds um we are at 45% when I was at like 46% so really still spending the pot of money that we have in the same way that that we had brought to you at first in terms of for enrollment I went ahead and left the slide here that shows our 10-year enrollment perspective so you can see in 1617 we had um Peak enrollment at about 17 25 students our current enrollment for this year is 1354 so in the last decade we have lost approximately 21% and for 371 students over the last decade current gently we have our projected um Ada or average daily attendance at 12:32 and what I've got that is 91% so you can see at first income we were looking at about 90% having that stayed flat with the P1 reporting being around 93% historically P2 in a little bit lower so we've um put our projections in at 91% what this um will affect is your out years right now we are still higher at our previous year so we would take that whole harmless and being funded off of that and so you can see also that our unduplicated pupil count or UPC our single year and our 3 year Rolling average for both that 66% so you can see that we're not seeing a big change over that's really seeing flat with both of those being very close in our multi-year projections again you're also not going to see a huge change here um they will say looking at the third year out the 2728 years our third year right now that's at 3. 2 6 lcff or local control funding formula remains stable the expiration date of 1-time State funds and federal grants is making a funding Gap and that's why many districts are looking at needing to realign um the Cola also have at the top at first interim those were a little bit higher they were at the second year at 2.51 and 3.7 both of those have been reduced in the projections again those aren't set numbers about the information we have right now so that's what's used in the calculator so those are all of the numbers that I use for our lcff funding which is highlighted in blue at the top which is our biggest source of money and then if you have in the 2627 year um the the reductions that you just voted on are included in this multi-year projection and then in the out-year for 2728 we also have some large um reductions you can see we're calling from 28 million in our total revenues and our expenditures being 33 this year but then 28 and then 26 million so you can see those expenditures coming down so not only the reductions that we're making for 627 we're looking at those being ongoing and continuing we also still have some large reductions in the 2627 year that we're projecting knowing that there are things that we need to plan for and decide what we're going to do or see if we get other funding in because at this like sometimes we find out about a new Grant I could find that out tomorrow we're talking about 2 years ahead of time and so I'm trying to look into a crystal ball but 1 of the reasons that some of that funding and we're showing that as less is we've got some of our facility projects wouldn't be included in there so we wouldn't have the revenue that we also wouldn't have the expense of some of the water grants the um amen block grant that's going away a3g Equity multiplier we do not put that into the budget until we find out if any schools are qualified for that then we put that back in um we had educator Effectiveness this is the last year of I think that was a 5-year Grant uh the community engagement initiative that will be going away we have a strong Workforce um program grant for both a and for culinary and that's really for like a year and a half so there's a lot of those funding sources that are restricted that are not in those out years because we don't have Grants awarded to us in the unrestricted side um we've talked about that links the reductions that are in the 2627 year in the 2728 year there is an additional 400000 that are kind of put into positions as reductions that we would need to look at or make other plans for to stay solvent and hit that 3% the 1 thing that I would say is that we all will need to remember that a as soon as we bring the adopted budget the 2627 year goes over to that first column and that is going to be our current year and then we will be looking at 2 years out so that's what we're going to really need to look at and to be able to show something that is reasonable that we're making plans for in order to show the county office and the state that we're making those plans and executing them to stay solvent so lastly um strategic priorities moving forward fiscal alignment we of course Incorporated the government oh we're going to incorporate the governor's May revise assumptions for the 2627 adopted budget they take the governor's budget in January legislature works together and then we have a better picture of what we're going to have for the state budget but we don't always know exactly we need to develop and Implement necessary projected budget reductions for stabilization um the adopted budget preparation what I'll be to work on now is sleeping any unstead funds and also reminding anyone who has funds that need to be spent by the end of the year to spend those so we don't return anything to the state um we also should be reviewing additional hours audit type in the approval process for extra Duty overtime hours um we definitely want to protect our positions over additional time our core things that that those staff go to long-term sustainability we need to move towards a no deficit spending and you can see each year that deficit spending is is being reduced and that's what we need to see um to hopefully at some point where we see that no red in there um Safeguard Reserve Implement early intervention strategies to prevent the projected re Reserve from dropping towards the statement or under or down to the 3% minimum uh 3% usually doesn't even cover 1 month of payroll costs for the District um and then future Readiness um act early to protect the stability for future years because again it is compounded things we do now and put in place if we keep those in place we start earlier that's going to have an effect on those years in the in the future here so does anyone have any questions for me I just I wanted to uh make a comment um I I appreciate you very much you're very good at your job and I um don't say that a lot I guess because you don't seem like a person that needs to hear it but I thought just in case and you have a tough job because it's 1 of um jobs where there's rarely praised right there everybody's pressuring you top down other directions and so it's hard to make everybody happy it's impossible to make your way up all the time but you you do a great job you handle the crazy take it very seriously too so I just wanted to give you some praise for that since I've been on your 5 and a half years and I probably don't say that about so thank you for everything that you do I'd like to reiterate that I worked at a lot of cbos and you are excellent really good I do have a question for you about the mechanics of Revenue and expense and and the resulting in ending fund balance we you see uh your ending fund balance went up at 3. 2 6 uh the as you just pointed out a couple of minutes ago the the deficit spending or the net increase decrease line which is currently read and I think it 9919 000 still in the second year out still red but we're talking about cutting 425,000 out of the 2627 budget some of which you've already started to make progress on which speaks to your compounding comment really great to get changes early so you mitigate some of the impact later great deal because of that but why if we're talking 425 in in the first projected year 302 project figure that we need to make Cuts but that's to arrive at ringing Us in for a gradual sort of gentle Landing just above our minimum reserve requirement but why are we not talking about that 918,000 and why are we not are we why are we not thinking in terms of of that longer term deficit spending pattern and how we're going to where we're going to be in should we be doing things now to help us by the so definitely so that that is very point on with the deficit spending what is very difficult is like I talked about 1 time money they're doing block grants so that's something where we most likely we're going to have a little bit of extra money in 2627 but it's going to be 1 time and so that's when we really have to look at how can we use that to help our bottom line which is really what got us through Co and got us through through here but during that time we also need to look at what can we do to where we're not deficit spending we we also have to look at what's reasonable if I could come in here and say we can't have any deficit spending and we need to cut another thousand dollars in that year but if I was to put that in projections for 2 years out where I'm going off the most conservative of where we think we got will be with our funding I would also have to list out the things that we're going to do during that time and if it would we be able to run things and so while this always looks like I'm saying the sky is falling I'm not because if I was to do that it would not be reasonable to the county and they would come back to us and probably reject our budget so that is 1 of the reasons is that right now that's what we can make but there's so many unknowns that we need to make plans and then we can pull back on those and not have to do everything if it turns out that makes sense you're you're not counting Revenue that's not in your hand you see opportunities but it's not reflected here those opportunities will come we hope correct and you're not counting it expenses that well in some cases you are you have built-in some expense expenditure reductions uh but you're not overestimating what those reductions will need to be but the I think I guess my takeaway that I'm gathering just personally here is that this is a long-term effort and we do want to see that net increase decrease line kind of level out eventually yeah okay yeah if we took exactly and then put it into the next year and said we're not doing anything different we would not be at 3% okay so you're right Andy and I think you know like that term you use software I mean because if you look at the net increase decrease line you see it goes from 4.3 to 2.4 a little less than a million right it's huge so yeah it's big and and that's the trajectory that we've got to be on and we're probably actually on a better trajectory than we've been in a long time in terms of like the amount we're decreasing each year but when at the bottom line and I'm looking 3.26 in 2728 like that's very uncomfortable and so um you know a lot of folks don't know the budget terms of you do I know of you know being positively certified and then being qualified and then be a negative like when you're at 3. 2 6 work 16-hour days most days but she's she's really you know trying to kind of sound an alarm here that like you know this as as tough as this round was and as hard as we had to work like this is kind of the beginning of of probably the next 4 or 5 years before we start to reach um no deficit spending unless our state turns things around and begins to fund schools at a higher rate that's that's because it's it's a math problem it's a math problem right you have this much money coming in and you got that much money going out and the money going out is more than the extra money coming in that's just the way it is and not only do we fill it in school districts we fill it at home right everybody everybody deals with the cost is going everywhere um and and and revenues are not so um appreciate the work you do um but we have a lot of work to do just as As Leaders of this District to to really get our our district in the right Financial State and I Echo another thing that Brian brought up is that like we all need to be on the same team to the state we were talking about that um at small school districts Association and just the fact that the state seems to keep saying hey we're we have this much you know this much money but we're going to go ahead and do it in 1 time funds and we're going to do these Maneuvers with your prop 98 for education and we really need to all be up there saying no we want that in the base of the lcff because then it's ongoing everything that they give to us in 1 time we're not going to turn it away but what we really need is the funding for the base and for the lcff to be funded and we need special ed funded at a rate that comparable to what we have to provide so that's my soap box if anybody's going to the state that's what I would like you to tell them the message yeah do you think that message is being heard I mean in the years I've been on the board at 1 point we participated in a Lobby I think maybe we still do we're kind of smaller rural schools have their own little Lobby to try to do Capital Advisors was on the call with us this morning is there any movement are there any state legislators that are taking up the cause for us some there's a lot of talk of you know we we've had lcff now for we're going on about a decade or more this is about the time they're going to decide to completely change school funding they have looked doing it by enrollment um they're looking at some different things so I I would assume they're probably going to do something different in the next couple of years with just the way that schools are funded but again there's only so much money at the state to go around and we have to to see a Lobby for the parameters they put in and if that makes us winners or losers just like LC I think the lobbying does make a difference because we get updates all the time I'm in a county office meetings all the time and we have the lobbyists actually come and talk to sometimes we actually have legislators come and legislators come and talk and tell us you know what they're what they're deliberating and you know we're seeing for the first time in a while we're seeing a a pretty well we may see a pretty decent increase in spending none of this is finally yet but doesn't hearing from these folks and there's a big Lobby that's going on for special ed funding it's a it's a huge effort um you know elab which has been kind of our Governor's baby is just 1 of the things that he's really really promoted but I think you know folks being out there and talking about the benefit to kids that that this brings helps the legislators you know say oh this seems like it's a winning program out there for people in the field so well it hasn't necessarily resulted in increased funding and the numbers that we need to run our schools I think that it has salvage some programs police kept us at a point where we can survive so I do I do think it's beneficial and I think we need to not only continue it but even up the pressure okay 1 last thing I I think it's pretty precarious this accounting act that you're really bringing us in again on that gradual soft landing and I just want to express my gratitude for all the long hours you're putting in I hope friends joking about the 16th but I don't doubt it I think it is happening and now we're we're losing uh 1 of your key staff members too so I hope that that bacon seems to be filling relatively soon I know she was here at 6 oclock last Friday because that's when I left Brian's office thank you Charlie have a really fun Friday night thank you so we would be asking for a critical of the second to improve second any discussion other questions those in favor okay next item the reputation of green with Baker chili Advisory Group um so you guys have gotten some information information on this the um under the inflation reduction act the IRA the IRS now allows public school districts to receive Direct Cash payment and an elective pay for qualifying clean energy investment so we talked about this when we were going through the Solar Energy Efficiency project that it is something that we would be able to go after for those credits to be able to have a direct pay to The District in order to do that we have to rely on some tax professionals and this agreement is um we're asking for ratification in order to be able to go after that tax credit which will far outweigh the amount that we're paying um and then we'll probably be putting that towards um either the debt from the Energy Efficiency project or will be bringing that to the board we had some time constraints so that's why we're bringing it for ratification move to approve the ratification second can you just I wasn't G I know everybody gets tired and she just said something I got asked about do we have the a for some reason I thought we had to apply that to the energy loan we did we will have the option of what we we have an option okay I didn't realize that and yeah the plan and part of all of the um budget that they put together was if it was applied to that debt but the debt had to happen first and then the direct pay comes to the okay so the projections we've seen on the debt assumed that I assume credit that we get here would go towards that yes okay thank you second second Mark second oh he asked for a second okay um any other discussion all those in favor all right thank you okay next Pro of the assembly food District transportation for you so we are bringing to you our annual yearly uh train station plan this is for 2026 2027 approval question I have a general wondering I've been getting a lot of emails about about plus changes and schedules daily right because do the staff know we've had a lot of fluidity changes that's all Staffing related yeah okay playing field trips and you stopped being out sick and just those things it definitely included because we have just many routes that we have drivers at the moment so we're working we're working on that motion to approve second all those in favor zero emission Landscaping so we are asking for approval on resolution to allow me to apply for a new Grant um this 1 will be for last week we did this 1 last year and we ended up with writing mower new hand tools stuff like that so it's a trade-in program electric so we did this last year so it's a trade in progress but it requires us to turn in some gas powered lawn equipment to get those other ones and even using the electronic equipment for this entire year yes um staff lovely equipment they 99% of the time okay you will see them out with the electric stuff and not the gas that um riding mower when I moved it from the high school to riverville high school was actually upset because they go it knows quicker and faster than our diesel lowers and the battery keeps up things battery on that mower I believe was set to run about 4 or 5 hours we never you know exactly that long we ever run it that long so it's never never had an issue um yes it is a trade-in so any of our broken stuff as we break things we say because that's what we trained in all they have to do is put a scrapyard the scrapyard has the designate model serial the net the match you know leaked over the leaf blower lower from lower that's all it takes it doesn't matter if it runs as long as it's a 1 piece so does it is it hinder us from being able to purchase any other gas equipment yeah um they did pass that law 3 years ago it is now kind of petered out that was starting to hinder somebody buying some small equipment we're still able to get it somebody getting this grant that doesn't preclude you from buying some es solar gas power if you wanted to okay we have to keep these in service look I think it's like 5 years for most of this stuff before you can dissolve it resolve it or trade it in on something else but it doesn't hinder us from buying anything else um personally I'm trying to use this as a way to get our staff newer nicer equipment without a cost in the desert I think we put in an extra of 5 or 6 thousand dollars last year on top of what they did to get the next higher model of those data that we knew was going to be better for our district than what the grant did and I appreciate the work being put in I'm I'm just asking so personally have familiarity with using battery powered equipment versus gas powered equipment and the difference is astronomical but it sounds like the equipment is working out well so Brands make a big difference there's junk out there and there's that you you get what you pay for I found with this type of equipment so we finally tried a couple different things we've demoed a lot it makes a difference on which purchases you need a big old mower Mark at home know I've got a leak blower and it's a Milwaukee battery powered leaf blower like does my front walkway and half down the driveway and then for the rest of the 2 Acres you pull out the gasket what do you recommend any Commercial Business apply for this after we get approved it's good yeah the the the commercial battery powered stuff is really really good you know um I my analogy of it all is in 1969 when Captain Kirk was treading off the bridge of the Starship Enterprise to the is automatically opened well there is no such thing as automated doors then there's a guy with a stick attached to the door uh and then of course the flip communicators you know Lieutenant Hera and her earpiece um it's only a matter of time before we we discovered that the only team Crystal which Powers the Starship Enterprises was was that once the Battery Technology gets better then I'll be able to have a truck that will tow all day long but it is lacking but but it is good equipment is better you have electric change on it I think the beam York 14 of them 14 electric chainsaw 4 of the electric blowers but of course you know the batteries are 3 times the size of the Milwaukee batteries so I am excited to hear this people complain about you know the technology of electric isn't as good especially the people who have just run gas their whole life but I do know that uh running a leaf blower a gas powered leaf below are for 1 hour the emissions are equivalent to a car driving for 1,000 miles so I'm willing to invest in going through the crafty stuff until we get to the good stuff because I know it's going to make a huge difference so I'm excited that we're doing this yeah stuff like that's really nice because they're actually quieter than the gospel so kids are in classes there is some benefits just for the students on top of the staff it's good for everybody motion to approve so moved all those in favor adoption of resolution for public benefit programs to purchase vehicles so this same thing we're asking you to approve the resolution in order for me to apply for a grant again that we've been doing for quite a few years now that we get a golf cart with and we're also trying to take part of it and put towards lowering the cost of some of our EV um White Fleet that we've been purchasing for the last few years asking for approval on that questions are do we still have gas powered golf carts or are they know so this is all gone right yeah the nice thing with this this isn't it yeah we were all like this isn't a trade-in all we have to do for this 1 is show hey we just bought if we if we didn't get this we would be buying this gas version of it and we're asking for this electric version of I see so so it's not like for like this time yeah it got like the equipment went okay this is just a straight across 20 2000 per vehicle Grant to buy electric instead of buying them gas an incentive program second all those in favor I missed that Bernie and who am I that's a good example of our staff like a mini just looking for ways to get some grant funding in here do things reducing the budget nice work all right approval of sunshine initial bargaining proposal from the telephone School Police Association this has been on the board agenda last month I was just kind of sunshine and making public um what CSEA plans to bargain at the table with the district and so it's now back to the board for approval and monthly approve these 2 items and we'll be getting a negotiating process on tax move to approve second second all those with our discussion all those in favor the flip side yeah item J is the same thing it's just the district making public what we plan to negotiate after so once these 2 things are approved we're negotiating or we got some dates on the calendar want to approve motion to proof sorry all in favor all right that we got the move on to information items just looking platform for all learning I don't even know where to go I can see I can see I can see the discipline report and we are down 128 days of suspension over the course of the Year good job by our students so moving on no need for a second closed session correct okay so next board meeting is gonna be amazing I would never do such a