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Good evening and welcome to the Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. This meeting is now called to order at 7.35 PM. Thank you all for joining us tonight.

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Clerk living will now read a civility warning and report out any action taking during close session.

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Thank you to ensure this meeting is conducted in an orderly and efficient manner and to safeguard the rights of those members of the public who wish to address the board.

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We would like to remind the public of the need to maintain order in the board room and refrain from the

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disruptive conduct.

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Any individual who continues to interrupt or cause a disturbance will be removed from the meeting.

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Now I will report action coming out of closed session on a motion by myself, second by

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Barbara Woodrup.

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The Board took action in closed session on a risk management settlement for Aden Smith, case

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Number GL 23, 0630, 93, 48 by a roll call vote of six to one as follows.

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Cassaris I, Davis I, Jonathan Rosas, nay, Thomas I, which rip I myself, I, East,

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plus I.

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On a motion by Board Member Davis, second by Board Member Thomas,

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the Board to action and close session on a risk management settlement.

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For Dulce, tell us Ramirez and Wana Francisco Ramirez.

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For case number GL24092512850 by a roll call vote of 7-0 as follows.

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Gassara's I, Davis, I, Johnson, Roses, I, Thomas, I, Wichra, I, myself, I, East last

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I.

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On a motion by board member, Johnson, Roses, seconded by board member, Thomas.

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The board took action in close sessions, deny minor, claim GL19090118247 by a roll call

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load of 7 is 0 as follows.

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Cassaris i, Davis i, Jonathan Roses i, Thomas i,

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Wittrop i, myself i, and East less i.

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On a motion by Boardenberg Cassaris, second by Boardenberg Davis,

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the Board took action in closed session to deny minor claim.

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Number GL 26, 0301, 17238, by a roll call

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load of 7 is 0 as follows.

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Cassaris i, Davis i, Jonathan Roses i, Thomas i,

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which of I myself, I e slash I,

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on a motion by board member e slash,

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second by board member Jonathan Rosas,

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the board took action and closed session

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to deny minor claim GL26062218154

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by a roll call vote of seven is zero as follows.

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Casaris I, Davis I, Jonathan Rosas,

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I, Thomas I, which of I myself, I e slash I,

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on a motion by board member Casaris,

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seconded by board member Whitrup,

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The Board took action and closed session to deny Tainisha Greer.

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Claim number GL26021118255 by a roll call vote of 7-0 as follows.

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Cassaris I, Davis I, Jonas Enrosis I, Thomas I,

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Whitrip I myself, I, East last I.

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On Emotion by Board Member Whitrip, seconded by Board Member Kassaris.

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The Board took action and closed session to deny minor.

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Claim GL26020217121 by a roll called vote of six to zero to one as follows.

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Cassara's I, Davis I, Jonathan Rossis, I, Thomas abstain, which are of I myself, I, East

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last I, on a motion by board member Davis, seconded by board member Cassara's, the board

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of action in closed session to deny minor claim GL26012018231 by a roll call vote of 6 to 0 to 0 to 0 to 0 to 1 as follows.

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Cassaris I, Davis I, Jonathan Rosas I, Thomas Absent, which rip I, myself I, East

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last I. And finally, on a motion by Bourbon, Bourbon, Bourbon, Bourbon, Bracassaris, the Board

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the action in closed session to deny Jose Ricardo de Jesús Negredi, claim number GL260222018179 by a

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roll call vote of 60001 as follows, Cassaris, I, Davis, I, Jonathan Rossus, I, Thomas,

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Absent, which rip I myself, I and East last I.

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Now, clerk living will read the board's share agreements.

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As a reminder, these jointly established shared agreements are one element of our governance efforts to focus on student outcomes.

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The shared agreements are as follows. Respect and civility on our shared agreements, be honest and honorable,

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honor my word, do not lie, deflect or disparage others, honor the process in the time limits, honor confidentiality, be prepared and on time,

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be on time, read materials, or share questions ahead of time, share as early as possible

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if I will be late or mis-committment, and finally represent all students do not represent

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solely my region or area.

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We will now move to the conference and discussion agenda.

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We will begin with item V1 to discuss and approve the 2025 Unordated Actual Financial Reports.

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The 2025-26 year end budget revision and a top resolution number 20706, again, appropriation limit.

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And we have Patrick Jensen, who will present this agenda item.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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We're present in east, last members of the board, deputy in the superintendent, Drottie.

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This evening, we're going to be talking about our unaudited year end financial report.

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So, just kind of as a signpost and at any time during the year we can be in two to three different fiscal years as far as action items that we're considering.

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So, really we are now in the second to last item regarding last year's budget, so the 25-26 school year, and the board will be seeing the final audit of our books in December.

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So what this is really a representation of is, when we come to the board in May and June with the budget for the forthcoming year, and we're making estimations as far as what the end year of end balance is going to be on June 30, those figures aren't finalized yet, we go through process called year and closing at the end of June and into July.

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And so these are going to be we're going to be updating the board briefly on how the fund balance and other numbers have changed since we discussed those during the budget.

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The short news is there's been a very little change, but we're going to walk through that now.

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So effectively, there've been we were anticipating an ending fund balance of $176 million as far at the budget time.

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We ended up within ending fund balance of 182.65 million.

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This is a combination of restricted unassigned balances and assigned balances in the unrestricted general fund.

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We'll talk a little bit about those major changes from what we anticipated during the end of the year.

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Our LCFF revenue went down slightly about $200,000.

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We received slightly more state lottery funds, about $600,000.

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We received some one-time additional monies from what we call the MAW program in the Chibi program, which are programs.

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Tied to the State Medical Program, and because interest rates are high right now, we had about $2.2 million in additional interest rate income.

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Offsetting that, athletic, special education extended your contracts. We actually had a really good participation in special education, ESY, and we had excellent participation in our summer programs.

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On the downside of that, is that obviously increased our costs.

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We staffed to ensure that we had full coverage for all of those programs, so we had additional costs there.

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We had additional legal expenses that were unexpected.

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We had additional fuel costs, as you know, the war in the Middle East is driving up fuel prices.

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We tried to buy it, get all of our fuel contracts in advance, but still we are not fully immune to rising oil and gas prices.

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So as you can see, like I think at our my local gas station, I think diesel was over $7 a gallon today.

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So you're seeing that in additional expenses in fuel for our buses in our white fleet.

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And then we did have offsetting that $1.2 million in utility savings.

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As we get better and better at, you know, a lot of the HFAC improvements that the board made during COVID with one time dollars.

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A lot of the systems are a lot more advanced and we have a lot more control over the programming of those.

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And so I think you're going to see continued utility savings as we have more of a efficient

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aid track systems.

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This is just sort of a pie chart that explains how the assigned and committed fund balances

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are set up.

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We still have a chunk of pandemic and recovery money that we're actively spending down and

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will be spent down by the end of the year.

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We have our textbook adoption fund and then the other fund is primarily the FDA support fund,

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the $30 million fund that for FTA student supports.

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That still has $24 million of unspent funds, as well as some carryover

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summary modeling expenses.

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And then just a part mental carryover on expenses that didn't close out at

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the end of the school year and some last-minute donations that the district

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received prior to our budget cycle or after our budget cycle.

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This is the graph that we've seen previously, so you can see

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What the trend is for the ending fund balance, so you can see the 2526 unordated and then the 2627 where we're estimating right now, you can see the continued reduction in the pandemic.

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The key trend here is the reduction in the funds available for the pandemic recovery funds, those funds are being spent, those funds are exhausted.

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And so you're seeing that blue bar shrink down and so that you will those funds were primarily spent and exhausted in twenty five twenty six.

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And so what you're seeing then is the unrestricted balance in the pink and then you're seeing some prop twenty eight in ELOP carry over in the light green.

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But the overall trend is the fund balances decreasing. So this is something we're watching very carefully to make sure that we're maintaining our required state minimum.

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and that are not deficit spending to a very high degree.

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Some of our other things that we do as part of this,

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we always look at our central admin ratio,

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and this is a measure to determine,

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it's a measure that is determined by the state

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and looks at certain resource codes

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to determine kind of what our central office ratio is.

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We try to keep this at approximately 5%.

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it peaked in 2001-2002 at 5 and a quarter percent, it was at 5 percent last year, for 2425.

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It went down to 4.99 for 2526, but we think this will drop off significantly next year

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because we had a major software conversion for our human resources and payroll software that

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impacting that significantly, kind of for comparison purposes, central unified, the last

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figure is 5.4% and Clovisus was 4.95%. So we're in a pretty normal range for our districts

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in the local area. This is our internal services fund. This is our general liability fund that

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we fund based on actual analysis,

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this is for projected general liability and we fund our funding

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this currently at 100%.

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We have our workers compensation fund, we're anticipating being able to fund that at about

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83% for the 2627 school year, we're currently at 95% and our board target is a range between

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70 and 90 percent. So we'll be funding that slightly less next year, but still within the board's targeted range.

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Internal services fund reserve. This is what we call the IBNP. This is effectively in the health fund.

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These are costs incurred, but not paid. So this would be the time between when someone goes to the doctor and when that the plan actually pays for that service.

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And so that's been steadily increasing as costs and health fund have gone up, but that is 100% funded.

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Another thing you're going to see is the Unencumbered Reserve.

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We have a guideline of two months worth of expenses.

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That is the recommended balance for the reserves for the health fund.

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That's the blue bar.

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The green represents additional funds within the health fund above those recommended reserves.

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So, the positive is that we have additional funds over the reserves.

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The negative is you can see that that green bar has been dropping rapidly, as healthcare costs have been increasing lately.

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And so that's something that obviously that the gym bee has been looking at very closely and considering ways to reverse that trend and stabilize the fund balance.

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This is effectively, the feature unfunded liabilities for pension and health care commimates the district has for retirees.

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We've actually had fairly good investment performance lately on this, although the bar is still substantively read.

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You can see that, very steadily and slowly from 2019-20.

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We've gone from 5% funding to 13% funding, so the funded amount has more than doubled.

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But it's something that we are constantly chipping away for, and this is really represents

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the funding for a point in time when we feel when the actual area allows us to say that

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we're going to have maximum health care costs.

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when the number of retirees is going to be at its peak

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while the number of active employees is at its minimum.

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This forms a reserve to help pay for those expenses

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when it may not be possible for the expense

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to be paid by contributions by ongoing employees.

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With that, in the back up, we have all our schedules

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for unrestricted contributions to restricted programs

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and in committed and assigned restricted

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and path on balances, reserve levels for under other funds,

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and all of the year and data for all of the charter schools is also included in our backup.

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So, where our recommendation is that the board approve the 2526 unordid and actual financial report,

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the 2526.

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526 year in budget revision and resolution 2706 again appropriation limit.

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And with that, we stand ready for questions.

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Thank you. We'll first defer to the public and then we will turn back to our trustees for question.

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We do have three individuals who wish to address the board on this item. Each speaker will have three minutes and click living will read the names.

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Thank you. Our first speaker will be Alina Cortez followed by Brenda Kisbe.

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Do you want to hear

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some?

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Do you want to hear some?

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Do you want to hear some?

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Good evening. My name is Brenda. My daughter will not speak.

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So I'm here to talk about

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on I think it's under expenditures and contributions for the

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FDA Student Support. I believe this falls under the field trips. So I'm just trying

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to get a better understanding because it's been a lot. I believe it was budgeted.

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Fifties?

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But, I don't wanna go.

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Hmm, hmm.

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Because for, you know, in your original, people were,

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it said that it was budget for and then all of a sudden,

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you know, disappeared.

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So I'm just trying to get better understanding what happened there.

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And I'm grateful you know that the foundation,

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and which missiest part of and other leaders they decided to fully fund it for this year, I believe.

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But it's not certain for the following years, and I know, for a Ryan remember there's going to be like a committee or something of community parents students.

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I'm really excited for that, that's great.

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But I do want more, like, a little bit of work.

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A little bit of what could happen for field trips because that's so important, just different ways for schools to be able to sustain like, you know, we have great TTAs, PTOs, so just different things like that teaming up, you know, what parent university and trying to figure out, okay, how can we support school sites, so they're empowered.

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But it's really important that we really have these discussions with our students, our parents, our educators.

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Because we do, we need to definitely change how we go about field trips.

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Maybe what we've been doing hasn't been working.

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We need to figure out, okay, what can we do?

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should we bring field trips to the school sites

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because the cost of bus is so expensive,

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just to bring our different ways.

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So I'm really excited for this community

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to get to work and seeing what other districts

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are doing, that'd be great.

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And then I also want to talk about legal costs

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because it's my understanding that it

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it increased, right?

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The legal expense increased to 1.2 million.

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And one of them is going to one of the board members.

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Ms. Thomas, wait for me.

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So it is concerning the whole, how that's going about, I know it's just

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gesturing close session, but honestly I don't even know what item was, if it's

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going to continue to be covered by us, you know, the community, or if it's

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something it's going to be a personal cost because of everything that happened,

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I feel like that really is important that people take accountability.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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I know that there is at least one of the topics that came up that we will not be able to address.

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But I want to invite Patrick Jensen to respond to the field trips.

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There has been a lot of misinformation about this.

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And so I just do want this corrected for the record.

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Yes, thank you. We're President East last for the opportunity.

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So on field trips, there's schools have always been allocated money for food field trips.

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That's been the case for decades.

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One of the things that this district chose to do starting in 2016 with full LCFF funding and then increasing right after COVID was to provide an additional district office fund to provide additional field trips.

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To basically guarantee field trips at every single school.

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One of the things that happened this past year is we did reduce the central office funding for field trips by about 50%.

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that did not impact school budgets or their field trip funny money, it was the sort of the central

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office support for field trips. And as far as the question where the money go, this one's really

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kind of hard, but the money isn't there anymore. We're funded based on the number of students that we

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have in the district. We lost 900 students last year. We lost 1800 students this year.

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So we have

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We have less money, that's where we have to make really, really hard choices and really hard

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reductions.

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So, the money didn't go anywhere, it's just that the money doesn't exist anymore.

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So we want to respect the time of the public.

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I know Trissie Gosset has a brief question that she would like to make.

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I think the question on where do the money go is that last year for this year's budget,

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we approved money for field trips at Sandalcy FF, and then there was a miscommunication

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is representation of that money doesn't exist anymore, did exist and if you could just clarify

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there was money approving our budget for field trips, where is that in our budget and

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just make sure that I didn't go anywhere? The money that was approved for budgets in our

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field trip. Sure, if you look at the LCAP, if you look at last year's LCAP and you look

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at this year's LCAP, you will see money allocated in both years. The amount of money was

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reduced from, I think, around $5.6 million to around $2.3 million, but all those funds were

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allocated to all of the school sites and are part of their budgets and have been available

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for the sites to spend since their budgets opened on July 1st.

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Thank you.

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We'll turn back now to the questions from the public.

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Thank you.

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Our next speaker will be Brenda Kiespef, followed by,

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I'm sorry, was that Speaker Brenda?

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So, Alina Cortez.

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Excuse me, I'm sorry. So, okay, so our final speaker will be, I'll lean, Jane Giron.

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I want to ask you not only the filter. I'm seeing a lot of things that you're doing right now. You say we don't have funded money for filter, right? Why are we doing a lot of renovation like the school side and the president unit, obviously? I just see right now we are doing renovation and you keep on saying we don't have money.

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for funds, for fund, for field trip, for whatever you want to tell it.

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Second of all, why you have to tell the social media,

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not to tell the parents from the school side, to come out from the field trip.

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The communication is not really good.

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When we hear it, no filter for the kids.

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If the kids is important to you, all of you who are sitting here,

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as a board of trustees that we elected of you,

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you're supposed to be listening to the parents who's coming.

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And sometimes you never, no, not something all the time you never listen to what we are telling.

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Because I'm seeing what's going on and I'm watching you even though I'm not coming here.

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And I'm trying to get an address for this one.

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And I don't know where this is our superintendent right now.

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Because a lot of parents are really upset that day.

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And it's the community member never come out to show the moral power that we have.

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You're not going to be listening.

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I know, we have money, we have located money, we have savings money that we are putting somewhere

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and we are wasting the money that they are being used in budgeting correctly.

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So if we don't have those funds for the filter, why we are supposed to be renovating schools?

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Or the school that we were renovated is good.

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But now I'm seeing outside renovating this building again and you can say there's no cost money.

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But I think about it before you allocate the money.

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Can we also just for our point of clarity so that there's clarity about the dollars that are being used right now.

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Patrick, do you mind addressing this?

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Good evening again.

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So school renovations are funded under a separate fund from the general fund.

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Those are funded by bonds dollars.

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So effectively the school board issues bonds.

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those bonds are sold, and creates a pool of money, and that is then repaid in the former property taxes.

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Those funds are completely separate from the general fund, and can only be spent on construction and renovation of buildings.

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We cannot use those funds for general operating expenses.

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Some of the funds for this building renovation are coming from the general fund.

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They're doing a spestis abatement, which is something that's required.

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And, you know, the thing about this building is not to go too tangential, but it's 100.

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It's nearly 100 years old, it was built in 1939, under the, uh,

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the, um, uh,

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didn't, uh, work's project, uh, administration, uh, just prior to World War II.

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Um, it's a great building, it's free, um, but it's also almost 100 years old.

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So the HVAC systems, the electrical systems, the water pipes, everything like that, is nearly 100 years old.

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So the structural integrity of the building is really good.

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It's still reinforced concrete and block.

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It'll live forever, but all the systems are aging.

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And so it's significantly less expensive

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to the district to renovate this building periodically.

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Then it would be to rent a class A office space downtown.

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And so that's what they're doing a lot of,

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they're doing a lot of electrical upgrades.

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The painting is occurring because we had chunks

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of the building falling off.

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and so that's, you know, I'm not going to suggest that spending $1.8 million dollars is insignificant,

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but it's certainly less expensive for us to maintain this building and keep it in good condition

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than it would be for us to lease office space downtown. Thank you, Patrick. We'll now turn to

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my board colleagues for any questions or comments,

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and we'll start with Trustee Elizabeth

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Janice and Roses?

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Thank you.

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I just wanted to make sure that we know that this was last year

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and that this year's picture is,

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that's not what we're looking at for this year.

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This year's picture is looking a little less rosy.

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And I also wanted to see, since we have a lot of people

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that are in the audience that are obviously

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interested in the subject matter,

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talk a little bit about the next week's workshop.

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Yeah, actually, thank you for that opportunity.

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So, one of the things is this presentation is really reflective of the end of last year.

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We do projections every year on the number of students we're going to have and that gives us

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projections on revenues and expenses.

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Coming into this year we're projecting the loss of about 1100 students.

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We are actually now on track to lose around 1875 students.

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So, about the equivalent of three elementary schools worth of students.

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So for folks who are interested in the budget,

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for folks who are interested about how we fund programs,

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and what that's about, and how attendance and enrollment matter,

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we're going to be having a board workshop here.

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Next Wednesday, open session starts at, I believe, 5.30.

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5 o'clock.

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And so these are the things, when folks say they want to understand

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how the budget works and where the money goes,

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that presentation is the start

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about everything that is going to occur for next for this coming budget cycle is going to start

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in that board workshop on attendance and enrollment so anyone who's interested in the subject

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of highly encouraging you to come because this enrollment and attendance are critical to the

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funding of our district.

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Just if we can preview for a second those extra 700 students that we thought we were going to

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get this year that we did not.

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What does that mean for, as we look to maybe

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do any revisions in December, what does that look like?

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Yeah, so at the end of the day, we get nearly $17,000 per student.

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So if we have seven or an additional 700 students,

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we are looking at $11,900,000.

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That we need to cut.

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that we need, that we don't have.

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And that's with nothing else changing.

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And that's with nothing else changing.

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And what else could potentially change?

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And we could have, you know, we were projecting

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in currently projecting enrollment that could go down

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in future years, right?

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We have tons of inflation in our system right now.

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We're paying more for everything from parts

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for our laptops to fuel.

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Our expenses are going up constantly.

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So there's an in our federal funding scenario is is not favorable as far as what we think we're going to be getting from the federal government up in the next couple of years so

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That's kind of the economic reality that we're underpinning the district right now.

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So, even this year, we might be looking at cutting an additional at least 11 million.

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I would say that would be, would be conservative, yes.

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Okay, thank you.

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I don't see anybody else in queue, but I did have some questions, so if there aren't any other of my colleagues.

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So, Patrick, I'd like to turn to page 5 in specifically the table relating to charter schools.

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because I want to understand what this table is telling us.

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So I see that there is a beginning,

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but it's at the bottom of page five of the report that was included.

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Thank you.

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Sorry.

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Not the presentation.

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The back of the material.

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The back of the material.

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Thank you.

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So we can see a beginning, a fun balance,

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the net change, and the ending fun balance.

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But can you help elaborate about what that means to us?

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Sure, so there's a couple things.

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One is we are the overseeing entity of these charters.

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So we have a financial responsibility to review their finances

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at the same rate that our board reviews our finances.

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So we review their finances multiple times a year.

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And so what we are checking is for basic financial stability and really at the end of the day that they can exist as an ongoing concern for the next school year to ensure that they can maintain their presence.

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So we're looking for steep drops in funded balances and or unrealistic projections around revenue or expenses.

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And then also that's also representative of obviously if those are Fresno unified students

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that's that's the revenue in those columns would be potentially

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Fresno unified revenue if those students were within our district.

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Yes.

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So thank you that specific last point was something that I did want to stress.

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So when I'm looking at this if you can correct me if we're looking at it correctly

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let's start at the top with Aspen.

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The beginning fund balance.

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The net change was an increase.

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right? So their ending fund balance is much larger than what they started. That's correct.

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If we dropped down to the first negative, which would be golden charter academy,

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they started with 1.8 million. The net change was 1.3 and so they're one of the smallest

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ending fund balances that we have. So does that mean that they're starting off sort of at a deficit

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that we need to be worried about?

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So yeah, they do have a relatively low ending fund balance.

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Our team was in constant communication with them.

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And they've had some increased costs due to some construction.

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But they're, we feel that they're financial projections for next year are sound.

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And we did sign off on, we've signed off on all their financial statements

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with a positive certification.

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OK, thank you.

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So that was the extent of my questions and again, I just wanted to one last call before we move from this item.

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It doesn't look like there's anybody else, so I will need a motion and a second to approve the 2025, an audited actual, so moved.

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We have a motion, is there a second?

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Second.

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We have a motion and a second roll call, please.

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Member Cassadis.

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All right.

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Member Davis?

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Aye.

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Member Jonas and Roses?

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Member Thomas?

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member Woodtrap. I clerk Libby, President Isles. I.

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motion carries. Thank you.

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We'll now move on to agenda item B2 to discuss and approve the initial

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2627 reopening proposal from the California School Employees Association.

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Chapter 125 to Fresno Unified School District number have a David

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Chavez who will present.

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So we have a motion in a second, on this item, can we have a roll call vote please?

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Member Cussett?

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Member Davis?

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Aye.

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Member Jonas on Roses?

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Member Thomas?

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Aye.

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Member Whitrup?

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Clear living?

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Aye.

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President Islas?

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motion carries.

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With no further action on this agenda item, we will now move to agenda item B3.

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Item B3 is to discuss and approve the 2627 initial reopening proposal from Fresno Unified

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School District to the California School Employee Association Chapter 125.

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And we have David Chavez ready to present.

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So moved.

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Second.

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We have a motion in a second, or are there any members of the public wishing to speak on this item?

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Okay.

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Since there are no members of the public signed up to speak on this agenda item, and we have a motion in a second.

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Can we have a roll call vote?

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Member Cassad is?

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Member Davis?

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Member Jonathan Rosas?

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Aye.

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Member Thomas?

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Member Wood Trump?

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Clerk Libby?

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Aye.

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President Isla?

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Motion carries.

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With no further discussion on this agenda item, we will now move to the consent agenda.

450
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All consent agenda items are considered routine by the Board of Education, and will be enacted by the Board of Education.

451
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one motion. There will be no separate discussion of items unless a board member requests

452
00:35:44,740 --> 00:35:48,720
in which event the items will be considered following approval of the consent agenda.

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00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:55,140
We now have the opportunity for public comment on the consent agenda. We do have a list

454
00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:57,440
of speakers that is coming before us.

455
00:36:10,020 --> 00:36:14,200
So we will have four members who are wanting to speak.

456
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:20,440
I do see that some of them are interested in speaking in specific agenda items. So you will

457
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:25,540
have three minutes each to speak and trusty Levine will call up your name.

458
00:36:27,540 --> 00:36:31,900
Thank you. Our first speaker will be Trisha Olson, followed by Riley Talford.

459
00:36:44,370 --> 00:36:45,030
Press the button.

460
00:36:47,910 --> 00:36:51,990
I've never done this before. Here we go. I'm pretty big voice. I didn't know I needed that.

461
00:36:52,150 --> 00:36:58,390
I'm Trisha Olson and I'm an FUSD parent and I'm speaking on consent agenda item C5, C6 and C8.

462
00:36:58,690 --> 00:37:03,410
On C5, the board quarterly report shows 0% of its public meeting time,

463
00:37:03,410 --> 00:37:09,310
student and family engagement and zero percent under community engagement. I know that doesn't include

464
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every conversation outside these meetings, but seeing zero and both should still make a stop and

465
00:37:14,610 --> 00:37:19,430
take a look at that. I understand the district is planning a community budget advisory group

466
00:37:19,430 --> 00:37:24,430
and I think that's wonderful. Nevertheless, meaningful participation has to be more than a community,

467
00:37:24,470 --> 00:37:29,970
a committee, or a three-minute feel on a mic. Parents need clear information before the vote.

468
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,960
What it costs, who it affects, and what to expect, or what we expect it to accomplish.

469
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:42,800
If we only understand it after the decision is made, that's not participation, my friend, that is notification.

470
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:53,920
On C6 more than 211,000 ELOP and general fund money is being used for subleasing the career in college readiness center.

471
00:37:53,920 --> 00:38:00,380
I want to know how much of that building is being used for eligible ELOP programs, how that

472
00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:05,800
share was determined, how many students benefit, and what other options were considered

473
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,580
before deciding this was the best use of the funds.

474
00:38:08,940 --> 00:38:15,240
Access matters to in 2023 and the summer of 2023 camps reached about 1 in 10 students district

475
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:15,520
wide.

476
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:22,120
It's 2026, parents still are relying on three-year-old numbers to know what these programs

477
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,300
were reaching.

478
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:29,220
On C-8, we're looking at three-year agreement, totally more than 900,000.

479
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:31,240
The proposal has measurable goals.

480
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,640
How will the results be reported to the board and the public?

481
00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:37,640
And what happens to those goals if they're not met?

482
00:38:38,020 --> 00:38:43,840
And the really biggest issue I have, we keep hearing resources are limited, while seeing cuts

483
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,020
that directly affect students and classrooms.

484
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,960
Before we spend more, we should know, are we fully using what we already paid?

485
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:59,360
Is it being used the right way the way it was supposed to be with the training tools and resources needed to make it work?

486
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,700
Are we paying for things that are overlapping and does the data show it's working?

487
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:09,780
I'm not asking you to blindly cut programs, but please don't blindly approve them either.

488
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:16,500
Parents should have to become, shouldn't parents shouldn't have to become amateur auditors just to understand where the money is going.

489
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:23,020
I'm asking the trustee to pull C5, C6 and C8 for separate discussion before the vote.

490
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:30,380
Explain the student impacted how success will be measured and give parents a real chance to be heard before these decisions are made.

491
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:31,460
Thank you.

492
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,140
Thank you.

493
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:38,760
Next, we'll have Riley Talford, followed by Christina Holmes McIntyre.

494
00:39:43,330 --> 00:39:47,690
Good evening, boy president, trustee, superintendent, staff, family, students.

495
00:39:47,690 --> 00:39:52,850
My name is Riley Talford, and as a candidate for Fresno Unified School District Trustee,

496
00:39:52,870 --> 00:39:57,330
I believe our budget should reflect a highest obligation, protecting supporting students.

497
00:39:58,110 --> 00:40:02,910
Our urge for Fresno Unified to reconsider spending approximately $5 million per year to

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00:40:02,910 --> 00:40:07,090
place Fresno Police Department officers on district campuses while the district faces

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00:40:07,090 --> 00:40:08,470
serious budget pressure.

500
00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:11,610
This is not a question of whether safety matters.

501
00:40:11,970 --> 00:40:13,230
Safety matters deeply.

502
00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:19,090
The question is whether this is the best use of scarce education dollars when student-facing

503
00:40:19,090 --> 00:40:20,550
supports are being reduced.

504
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:27,690
President-unified students and counselors, psychologists, mental health services, foster use

505
00:40:27,690 --> 00:40:33,370
supports, attendance interventions, classroom staff, and trusted campus staff.

506
00:40:34,330 --> 00:40:38,870
Those are the supports that prevent conflict, improve attendance, and keep young people

507
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to school. Spending $5 million a year on police contracts is a values decision.

508
00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:51,970
It chooses enforcement capacity over prevention capacity. That same investment could

509
00:40:51,970 --> 00:40:57,270
protect counseling time, expand mental health support, strengthen restorative practices,

510
00:40:58,090 --> 00:41:03,970
improve attendance outreach, support special education, or higher trusted adults who

511
00:41:03,970 --> 00:41:06,890
So relationship shows before problems become emergencies.

512
00:41:08,490 --> 00:41:12,510
Students do not thrive simply on an officer that an officer is nearby.

513
00:41:13,330 --> 00:41:17,510
They thrive when they are known, supported, challenged, and treated with dignity.

514
00:41:18,550 --> 00:41:23,050
Police involvement may be appropriate for immediate threats, weapons, credible violence,

515
00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:29,610
serious criminal conduct, or emergency response, but it should not be the default response

516
00:41:29,610 --> 00:41:36,890
to routine discipline, tardiness, disruption, conflict, or mental health needs that trained educators

517
00:41:36,890 --> 00:41:38,570
and support staff can address.

518
00:41:39,650 --> 00:41:42,050
I am asking the board to adopt a limited use model.

519
00:41:42,710 --> 00:41:47,050
Paul offers only for clear safety threats of legal emergencies, defined those situations

520
00:41:47,050 --> 00:41:52,290
in writing, make the rules public to the families and students, report how often police

521
00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:55,370
are used, why they are called, and what happens afterwards.

522
00:41:55,370 --> 00:42:02,050
Consider using reserve police officers as significantly reduced cost for eliminate circumstances when police presence is necessary.

523
00:42:02,950 --> 00:42:06,570
And review the contract annually before committing millions again.

524
00:42:07,210 --> 00:42:13,610
In the declining fiscal budget, every dollar must be measured against what students lose when that dollar is spent elsewhere.

525
00:42:14,430 --> 00:42:18,230
If students safety includes emotional safety, academic stability, mental,

526
00:42:34,060 --> 00:42:36,900
tomorrow and more student center path for Fresno Unified.

527
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:38,340
Thank you.

528
00:42:38,340 --> 00:42:44,700
Thank you. Next we'll have Christina Holmes McIntyre followed by Smiley.

529
00:42:52,550 --> 00:42:57,270
Hi, good evening board. My name is Christina Holmes McIntyre. I am one of the co-founders

530
00:42:57,270 --> 00:43:03,670
of Fresno Community Parent Coalition. I'm also here to speak about the SRO contract. I want

531
00:43:03,670 --> 00:43:10,170
to speak from a parent perspective. As a parent who has had SRO summons don't them twice at two

532
00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:15,610
campuses, what I think is important for the board to know is that these SROs are actually used

533
00:43:15,610 --> 00:43:18,130
as weaponized against parents, right?

534
00:43:18,370 --> 00:43:19,550
I was not a threat.

535
00:43:20,170 --> 00:43:21,050
I was not yelling.

536
00:43:21,210 --> 00:43:22,430
I was not cursing at anyone,

537
00:43:22,670 --> 00:43:24,830
but I was being very direct and very demanding

538
00:43:24,830 --> 00:43:26,670
in what I expected from my child.

539
00:43:27,190 --> 00:43:29,550
On two different occasions at two different schools

540
00:43:29,550 --> 00:43:32,770
and I won't say their names, SROs were called on me.

541
00:43:33,210 --> 00:43:35,230
It is also important to point out

542
00:43:35,230 --> 00:43:38,830
that the DOJ has several different research reports

543
00:43:38,830 --> 00:43:41,990
that shows that the presence of SROs or campuses

544
00:43:42,610 --> 00:43:44,130
do not increase safety.

545
00:43:44,130 --> 00:43:49,250
As a matter of fact, one of my neighbors is a police officer and when I told him I was coming

546
00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:55,650
to talk on this topic, what he told me to tell to you is that if there is an active

547
00:43:55,650 --> 00:44:00,990
shooter on campus and there's only one SRO, they cannot engage.

548
00:44:01,650 --> 00:44:07,530
They cannot engage because their protocol is that they wait for backup to respond.

549
00:44:08,170 --> 00:44:11,070
So what I want to ask the board is, what are we prioritizing here?

550
00:44:11,070 --> 00:44:17,210
When I look at the board materials and I see SROs that are making $200,000, I see

551
00:44:17,210 --> 00:44:22,550
sergeants that are making $230,000, why are we funding the sergeants?

552
00:44:23,210 --> 00:44:27,650
Why are we subsidizing for the city using education dollars?

553
00:44:27,990 --> 00:44:30,110
That is a huge problem for me.

554
00:44:30,490 --> 00:44:37,510
I think that this is a contract that we need to review, why are we paying $95 per cent?

555
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:44,870
I'm in favor of cutting the contract completely, but if we have teachers and administrators that will

556
00:44:44,870 --> 00:44:49,810
feel safer with police on campus, let's talk to the city.

557
00:44:50,370 --> 00:44:52,850
Let's see if we can do equal share on that, right?

558
00:44:52,950 --> 00:44:59,190
Because what I know is apparent is that these SROs do not make the kids feel safer.

559
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:17,540
The daughter had an assembly at McClain High School. She came home and she had several questions, because in that assembly, the SRO explained to her different circumstances that would cause her to be handcuffed on campus, that would cause her to be given a citation on campus.

560
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:23,880
Why are we policing our children like this? Right? I think that's a huge problem.

561
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:33,020
We need to show our kids how to make sound decisions not over the threat of fear, but over the threat of what is right and what it is that we're

562
00:45:33,020 --> 00:45:38,240
instilling in them based on their values. Please reconsider this contract.

563
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:40,480
Thank you.

564
00:45:41,660 --> 00:45:45,380
Next we'll have Smiley followed by Sandra Saladone.

565
00:45:56,250 --> 00:45:57,550
Ellie will invite you up to speak.

566
00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:09,110
Thank you all for being here and thank you for this forum to talk about these important issues for our children.

567
00:46:09,130 --> 00:46:10,210
My name is Smiley.

568
00:46:10,290 --> 00:46:12,040
I live in here in District 7.

569
00:46:13,230 --> 00:46:16,630
I'm an educator and a journalist with the Community Alliance newspaper.

570
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,300
I came here to talk about the SRO, which is an acronym I just learned,

571
00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:31,840
I don't know what that meant, but before I do that, since I have three minutes or two and a half now,

572
00:46:32,740 --> 00:46:37,080
I do want to address the whole filter situation.

573
00:46:40,780 --> 00:46:43,220
First of all, I hope that now that we've found the funds

574
00:46:43,220 --> 00:46:50,740
for this, that we are not disenfranchising other employees, I hope we are not going to be cutting jobs

575
00:46:50,740 --> 00:47:06,580
So that we could make this PR campaign look good because that's what it was, I mean, really, like when the decision was made to remove the field trips, whether or not they're important, the parents showed you that it is important.

576
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,100
It's important for the families.

577
00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:19,020
So then, and I see the response as well, we don't have the money, it's because we don't

578
00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:24,680
have the students, right? That makes sense. We don't have the students. So then my question

579
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:30,140
is, why don't we have the students? Why are we losing the students? Fresno is growing,

580
00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:37,260
everyone knows this. It's the fifth degree in California, it's growing. And there will be

581
00:47:37,260 --> 00:47:43,300
students. If Fresno is not getting their market share of students, what are we doing Fresno?

582
00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:47,460
Why are we losing the students? Maybe this is the reason. We're cutting things like

583
00:47:47,460 --> 00:47:56,540
field trips. How does that help the market brand when other competing districts will offer?

584
00:47:56,740 --> 00:48:02,000
Something as simple as a field trip. It changes our perception.

585
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:08,880
So, cutting the field trips was not a smart idea, especially when we're increasing salaries

586
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,120
of people that are not even teaching.

587
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:12,580
You feel me?

588
00:48:13,540 --> 00:48:13,980
All right.

589
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,500
About the SRO's, like I know, I have 50 seconds.

590
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,700
I didn't know what that acronym meant until one of my friends told me that's an officer

591
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:22,520
as an officer.

592
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:26,480
Why are we putting officers in our schools?

593
00:48:27,740 --> 00:48:35,100
I mean, there is a racist pipeline to prison for people of color, whether you believe it or not.

594
00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:40,700
And you're going to start it with officers, no offense, man.

595
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:48,800
I mean, but you stare me when I look at you because I have memories of such that maybe you all don't have memories of.

596
00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:55,600
And until you live that experience, you're not going to know that you're terrifying our kids,

597
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:02,220
I'm walking around with the gun and you're solving things with this kind of force reminding

598
00:49:02,220 --> 00:49:06,780
us brown people that if you mess up, this is where you're going to go.

599
00:49:07,420 --> 00:49:13,440
What we need are resources for mental health and to fix the problems, not officers.

600
00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:14,700
You feel me.

601
00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:16,120
Thank you.

602
00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:17,800
Thank you.

603
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:23,360
Next we'll have Sandra Cedon, followed by our final speaker, will be Eileen Jane Turel.

604
00:49:26,140 --> 00:49:26,820
Good evening.

605
00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:33,320
My name is Sandra Saladona. I'm here as a parent today, and I really want to urge you to

606
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:39,100
completely eliminate the $5.6 million that you are allocating from education dollars

607
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:44,980
to subsidize the Fresno Police Department. I want to remind you that the Fresno Police Department is fully funded by

608
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:51,020
general dollars that we already pay as constituents and taxpayers in the city of Fresno.

609
00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:58,040
And so as parents and as taxpayers, we should not be doubly taxed for services that are already

610
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,420
provided and are already paid for.

611
00:50:00,860 --> 00:50:08,040
As a parent, I have a problem with your agreement, which states that you are paying $5.6 million

612
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,820
to perform regular duty law enforcement services.

613
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:18,840
And if that is what you are paying for, then I am paying doubly for the same services that

614
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:26,500
I'm actually already paying under $308 million under the City of Fresno, which also pays for

615
00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:32,860
the same police officers to provide the same services that you're actually asking these officers

616
00:50:32,860 --> 00:50:39,360
to provide under exhibit A, which is around helping to reduce crime and address safety issues

617
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,320
and build relationships with our students.

618
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:48,380
That is already addressed under the President-Police Department policy manual policy for 13,

619
00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:56,120
which actually speaks to school safety, which is about making sure that police, neighborhood

620
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,620
resource officers respond to these very issues.

621
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:05,860
That there are already assigned to do that under their regular duties, which are already paid

622
00:51:05,860 --> 00:51:09,080
for by tax dollars under the City of Fresno Budget,

623
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,000
which 47% of that general fund dollars

624
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,300
that are allocated under the City of Fresno,

625
00:51:15,620 --> 00:51:16,660
pay for these services.

626
00:51:16,980 --> 00:51:20,540
So I have a problem as a parent with education dollars

627
00:51:20,540 --> 00:51:24,500
being utilized to subsidize Fresno police officers.

628
00:51:24,980 --> 00:51:28,100
And I also have a problem with education dollars

629
00:51:28,100 --> 00:51:30,900
being utilized to subsidize vehicles.

630
00:51:31,780 --> 00:51:34,240
If these officers are stationed in schools,

631
00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:44,240
Why are vehicles being subsidized at 100%, they don't need vehicles to drive within schools if they're actually stationed at our schools and engaging with students?

632
00:51:44,940 --> 00:51:59,440
So that is a not a good job of doing and conducting your number one duty as elected trustees, which is to watch over our dollars, to ensure that you're a conditioning duty to our students.

633
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:05,780
That dollars are actually used to advance the success of our students and my child, who's a senior.

634
00:52:06,620 --> 00:52:14,200
And I want to make sure that you also recognize that we're actually not getting what you're stating that we're getting under this contract.

635
00:52:14,860 --> 00:52:22,000
And 2024, which is the latest report that the President Police Department has posted on their website under their SRO unit,

636
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:29,980
they reported only 178 students, interactions under their cumulative...

637
00:52:30,140 --> 00:52:43,220
They had four programs that they reported. Their first responder camp, summer program, their pal basketball summer program, their hero camp, fall program, and their pal flag football program.

638
00:52:43,860 --> 00:52:51,760
Those were all programs that were subsidized, not just by Fresno unified, but also by central unified and singering unified.

639
00:52:52,780 --> 00:52:59,420
5.6 million dollars. Just from Fresno unified, I didn't have time to look up the other two school districts.

640
00:52:59,420 --> 00:53:02,820
but only a 178 students were served.

641
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,220
I'm sorry, but that's not a good use of $5.6 million.

642
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,580
What I would like those $5.6 million to serve

643
00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:10,840
is our special at students.

644
00:53:11,420 --> 00:53:12,960
There's only $11 million gap.

645
00:53:13,340 --> 00:53:15,820
You cut seven nurses this year.

646
00:53:16,100 --> 00:53:19,340
Inside colleges and program managers and office support,

647
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,160
you cut 15 custodial positions this year,

648
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,960
and I'm going to wrap up because I see their clerk giving me the time limit.

649
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:31,360
I also saw 14 child and welfare attendance specialist being cut this year.

650
00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:34,700
So there is a better use of those 5.6 million dollars.

651
00:53:34,980 --> 00:53:37,920
There is no reason for us to subsidize the Fresno Police Department.

652
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,120
Thank you.

653
00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:43,080
The next speaker will be Eileen Jane Duran.

654
00:53:49,690 --> 00:53:50,970
Is Eileen in the room?

655
00:53:51,030 --> 00:53:51,810
There's there she is.

656
00:54:02,770 --> 00:54:05,570
I hear that we are renewing the budget for police.

657
00:54:06,890 --> 00:54:08,150
And I'm a tabby with that one.

658
00:54:10,190 --> 00:54:12,230
Second of all, there's a happening in my school

659
00:54:12,230 --> 00:54:19,990
that you are put at temporary SRO, almost got hit my kids, my spectrum kids, and my

660
00:54:19,990 --> 00:54:31,080
two eyes. How you hiring an SRO, and training them to put in the shoes they are safe

661
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:41,180
the officer, but why are not known how to do their job? Because my kids got almost hit

662
00:54:43,580 --> 00:54:48,820
And you're going to renew a budget for this one for Fresno, please.

663
00:54:49,380 --> 00:54:53,320
Kids doesn't need a police school need to be safety.

664
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,540
It's a heaven for kids.

665
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,460
We're losing kids in school.

666
00:54:59,140 --> 00:55:00,280
Do you know why?

667
00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:03,260
Because Fresno unified, they're not doing nothing.

668
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:09,060
They say we're the third largest school in California.

669
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,360
But where I'm losing my school, I lost kids.

670
00:55:13,900 --> 00:55:16,500
I'll go down for $500 only.

671
00:55:17,020 --> 00:55:18,440
In other schools, you want me to say to you,

672
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,780
how many kids in every school, elementary and high school,

673
00:55:20,860 --> 00:55:25,080
in every school, I can give you the status and the states and the states.

674
00:55:26,660 --> 00:55:29,080
But if I do that, it's not going to be your job.

675
00:55:29,260 --> 00:55:30,720
No more. It's going to be mine.

676
00:55:33,350 --> 00:55:34,390
I don't know, really.

677
00:55:34,930 --> 00:55:38,870
You're throwing money for other things that you're not thinking

678
00:55:38,870 --> 00:55:43,410
for the kids safety. If you put the Annets are a police officer in the school, they need

679
00:55:43,410 --> 00:55:48,050
to do their job. They're not need to be terrified of the kids. Oscar at any kids in the

680
00:55:48,050 --> 00:55:48,270
school.

681
00:55:54,220 --> 00:55:57,500
Thank you. Are there any more speakers? Sign up to speak.

682
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:00,560
Thank you.

683
00:56:00,780 --> 00:56:01,120
Great.

684
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:09,000
There are agenda items that board members would like to pull for further discussion. Those

685
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,820
items are C6, C8, C11, and C13.

686
00:56:14,820 --> 00:56:21,780
We will start with item C6 and invite Trustee Davis to make her remarks.

687
00:56:23,660 --> 00:56:24,240
Thank you.

688
00:56:24,660 --> 00:56:31,240
I spoke to our Chief of Staff earlier, but my questions are on number six.

689
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:38,020
At the College in the Career Readiness Center, I remember that there's a, let me call

690
00:56:38,020 --> 00:56:40,380
that a warehouse or something in the back.

691
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,020
And there was some renovations that were happening with it.

692
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,380
So can you tell me what our plans are?

693
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,700
Yeah, good evening, Board President Eastless.

694
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,080
Members of the Board, W.J. President, J. Rady.

695
00:56:52,420 --> 00:56:55,380
Yes, we currently have the College of Career and Department

696
00:56:55,380 --> 00:56:58,680
is located on Millbrook and Shields.

697
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,940
The part of the building and the original acquisition

698
00:57:01,940 --> 00:57:05,640
of the building for least was for us to have a center

699
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,600
the back for students to continue as we're trying to expand paid internships, internships,

700
00:57:11,060 --> 00:57:15,020
certifications for our students. One of them is that project, that was one of the reasons

701
00:57:15,020 --> 00:57:19,700
to lease. So that way through the lease agreement, we're able to make these renovations. We've

702
00:57:19,700 --> 00:57:23,800
done some, but we still need to do the line share of the renovation that the rest of the building

703
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:30,740
is up and running for the most part. We were supposed to have some people from the industry work

704
00:57:30,740 --> 00:57:38,200
with our students like some of the PLAs and I was wondering how many of our union members

705
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:44,980
we're working with some of our job students in like the Constructions at Fresno High

706
00:57:44,980 --> 00:57:48,560
or at the different CTE programs.

707
00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:53,260
Yeah, I'm on my assistant superintendent, Ward to give you some of the details on

708
00:57:53,260 --> 00:57:54,360
on to both placements.

709
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,700
Good evening, President East less members of the board and Deputy Superintendent

710
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:06,360
So, as a part of our project labor agreement with the Union, we have all of our trades-related

711
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:12,920
programs, CT pathway programs. They are obligated to come, which they do, obligated to come and

712
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:17,780
present about career opportunities, job-showning opportunities, and where there are internship

713
00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:22,460
opportunities. So that includes programs at Dunkin Polytechnical High School, Sunnyside High School,

714
00:58:22,580 --> 00:58:26,380
Fresno High School, Hoover High School, Indian High School that has like construction-themed

715
00:58:26,380 --> 00:58:27,680
credits related programs.

716
00:58:28,180 --> 00:58:33,680
As well as Farber with the certificate for the, moving the, you call those, those four

717
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:34,660
good things.

718
00:58:34,940 --> 00:58:35,520
That's correct.

719
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:36,260
The logistics.

720
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:42,080
So, at the end of our school year, what, what are the average number of students that get

721
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,360
the certificate throughout the district?

722
00:58:45,380 --> 00:58:46,840
I wish I had those numbers in front of me.

723
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:51,480
I can tell you that there are thousands of students that earn industry-based certifications

724
00:58:52,060 --> 00:58:52,500
annually.

725
00:58:53,140 --> 00:58:54,600
And I'd be happy to provide that for you.

726
00:58:54,600 --> 00:59:02,100
and they range in all forms of industry from digital media to construction to health.

727
00:59:03,100 --> 00:59:08,700
Most of our pathways have some form of industry-recognized certification attached to it.

728
00:59:08,900 --> 00:59:10,420
Fabulous. Thank you.

729
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:11,560
Move for approval.

730
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:13,820
I'm off second.

731
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,720
So we will open up our questions.

732
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,860
I just failed to approve the other items.

733
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,580
So can we do that very quickly and then we'll come back to this one?

734
00:59:22,580 --> 00:59:26,700
So, aside from the items that I read, again, which we're seeing,

735
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:32,440
six, seven, eight, I'm sorry.

736
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:36,840
Six, eight, eleven, and thirteen, can we get a motion to approve the remaining?

737
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:37,660
So, move.

738
00:59:38,140 --> 00:59:38,360
Second.

739
00:59:39,540 --> 00:59:40,380
Will couple please?

740
00:59:43,740 --> 00:59:44,580
Member Cossettis?

741
00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:45,440
Aye.

742
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:46,040
Member Davis?

743
00:59:46,340 --> 00:59:46,480
Aye.

744
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:47,900
Member Jonathan Rosas?

745
00:59:48,020 --> 00:59:48,400
Aye.

746
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:49,300
Member Thomas?

747
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:50,940
Member Whitrup?

748
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:51,600
Aye.

749
00:59:51,860 --> 00:59:52,460
Clerk Levine?

750
00:59:52,460 --> 00:59:53,080
All right.

751
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,660
President Islas, I motion carries great.

752
00:59:56,500 --> 00:59:59,860
Now we do have a motion on the floor in a second to approve.

753
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,200
Item 6, Trustee Cassette has had a question.

754
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:13,260
Yes, earlier in public comment, there was a question for one of our parents that mentioned this contract in this site.

755
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:23,200
So, if you could just explain briefly what the site's main purpose is and whether or not we're occupying most of it, part of it, what percentage of it.

756
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:26,780
And what its future use will be as well, just briefly.

757
01:00:26,780 --> 01:00:30,420
For sure, there's two main purposes for this site.

758
01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:35,860
The first one was to more adequately house the college and career readiness department.

759
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:41,340
Formally located at 4-2, I'm not going to get the address correct, we've gone too long.

760
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:48,080
On 1st street, we have 56 employees within the department and the conditions within the

761
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:49,580
building were, we'll see limited.

762
01:00:51,060 --> 01:00:55,520
So priority number one was to be able to provide adequate housing for the employees to be able

763
01:00:55,520 --> 01:01:03,720
working space, part of number two was to expand and really create an innovative work-based learning

764
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:09,200
environment for students to come and have access to internships, simulated work-based learning

765
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:15,040
student-led enterprise because finding these opportunities while we have thousands of students

766
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:22,800
that participate within our district and outside job site locations, we have many students

767
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,620
within our district and finding opportunities to get them to these opportunities is it's difficult.

768
01:01:28,540 --> 01:01:34,520
Transportation, everything else, and so the vision is that we will be able to provide

769
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:38,400
meaningful work based on opportunities which is now recognized by the State of California

770
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,480
on the CCI dashboard within this center.

771
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,960
Within the facility that Trustee Davis was talking about within the warehouse

772
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:50,700
facility. There's three primary industries that will be focused on that with that facility.

773
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:56,640
The first one is IT. I'm happy to share that during this school year, that center will open.

774
01:01:56,860 --> 01:02:01,800
We'll be able to have well over 100 students that will be accessing that center, earning certifications,

775
01:02:02,620 --> 01:02:09,100
and actually doing the work within IT to re-image, refresh, and re-screen our own student laptops.

776
01:02:10,340 --> 01:02:14,260
The second two industries are logistics and distribution and then manufacturer.

777
01:02:14,260 --> 01:02:20,400
So that is the work-based learning experiences that will be taking place in there when I say manufacturing I mean

778
01:02:20,780 --> 01:02:21,760
Advanced manufacturing

779
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,880
Training within CNC mills lays and advanced machine.

780
01:02:32,310 --> 01:02:34,450
So we have a motion in a second. Can we get a roll?

781
01:02:34,610 --> 01:02:35,790
I have one more thing.

782
01:02:36,510 --> 01:02:47,770
Can you kind of go into just some light detail about our first responder pathway in which our police officers are included in and then to add to that

783
01:02:47,770 --> 01:02:53,370
Dr. Castillo, can you add their parameters about what there's the post to do on campuses?

784
01:02:54,110 --> 01:02:56,430
Please, and thank you. We're still on item

785
01:02:57,190 --> 01:03:02,090
C6. Yeah, okay. I'll come back to you Dr. Castillo, but C6 has to do with pathways

786
01:03:03,230 --> 01:03:04,850
So we have

787
01:03:05,430 --> 01:03:05,950
Public

788
01:03:06,870 --> 01:03:14,570
Service public safety pathways that exist within several of our high schools. One of them happens to be with in the Edison high school region

789
01:03:15,370 --> 01:03:44,450
We are building and expanding that pathway out, as we currently speak, and that pathway program this past year actually launched with opportunities within the elementary schools of Edison High School for police officers to come to those schools and teach lessons around resiliency and the value of education and striving to continue as life gets,

790
01:03:44,450 --> 01:03:49,150
as life becomes difficult so the program is called pivot and there's lessons that were developed

791
01:03:49,150 --> 01:03:53,790
between the Fresno Flight School District and Fresno Police Department. Those were delivered

792
01:03:53,790 --> 01:03:57,630
last year to fifth grade students in the Edison Region. Those were delivered by law enforcement

793
01:03:57,630 --> 01:04:04,330
officers and the purpose and design of that was to be able to have positive interactions and

794
01:04:04,330 --> 01:04:09,490
positive lessons being given by law enforcement officers to students in a very safe environment.

795
01:04:09,490 --> 01:04:12,610
And can you remember the outcomes from the presentation?

796
01:04:13,810 --> 01:04:14,510
Oh, there are several.

797
01:04:15,270 --> 01:04:17,530
Some of them had to do with a student's comfort

798
01:04:17,530 --> 01:04:18,930
around law enforcement officers.

799
01:04:19,830 --> 01:04:26,390
Some of them had to do with their own self-perceptions of their personal resiliency,

800
01:04:26,390 --> 01:04:29,730
and how they viewed education and educational opportunities.

801
01:04:30,550 --> 01:04:33,530
And they all favored better from the start of the experience

802
01:04:33,530 --> 01:04:36,650
to the end of the experience, all students demonstrated

803
01:04:36,650 --> 01:04:39,450
or a remark that they grew in those areas?

804
01:04:39,930 --> 01:04:40,590
Thank you, sir.

805
01:04:43,660 --> 01:04:50,640
I just have more of a comment because I know as we have declined enrollment in free-up space at schools,

806
01:04:50,860 --> 01:04:58,300
I want us to think creatively of how we utilize our existing space instead of having to do additional lease agreements,

807
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,400
and this is a kind of a different situation.

808
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:08,020
but as space becomes available at school sites or school sites get consolidated,

809
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:14,460
using that space that we are young instead of having to run would be a big priority of mine.

810
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:15,500
I think it's a really good suggestion.

811
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:19,200
I have a question.

812
01:05:20,140 --> 01:05:22,680
So we do have a motion in a second roll call.

813
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,160
Vote please to approve item C6.

814
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:28,760
Member Cousin?

815
01:05:29,580 --> 01:05:30,400
Member Davis?

816
01:05:30,660 --> 01:05:30,880
Aye.

817
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:32,480
Member Gianna Soto Suss?

818
01:05:33,140 --> 01:05:33,860
Member Thomas?

819
01:05:33,860 --> 01:05:43,280
I remember with Trump I clerk Levine President Isla I motion carries we'll turn now to item

820
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:47,320
C8 and invite Trustee Caseras to make her remarks

821
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:56,880
thank you

822
01:06:00,210 --> 01:06:04,250
I submitted a question and it was it was well-answered

823
01:06:04,250 --> 01:06:06,470
But I have a few follow-up questions

824
01:06:07,570 --> 01:06:15,170
My question was how long has the district had a coaching contract for portrait of a learner and how many more years?

825
01:06:15,190 --> 01:06:21,230
should we expect this to be necessary. It is a high price. I know it's a very important

826
01:06:22,230 --> 01:06:29,390
program and it's tied to our goals. And I don't want to diminish that at all. But I am

827
01:06:29,390 --> 01:06:37,070
scrutinizing as my colleagues are all of our costs to consultants. And just wondering, when will

828
01:06:37,070 --> 01:06:43,130
our staff have the capacity to do this work for ourselves? Absolutely. Great question. So the first

829
01:06:43,130 --> 01:06:48,170
question, this is the first year for the professional earnings piece. We did have smaller contracts

830
01:06:48,170 --> 01:06:52,570
in the past that let us up to this point. One of the things we didn't want to do with a portrait,

831
01:06:53,290 --> 01:06:56,970
work, was we wanted to make sure that we didn't do it with four people in an office,

832
01:06:57,250 --> 01:07:00,530
and create a poster, and they put it out there, and then no one really understands what it was about.

833
01:07:00,990 --> 01:07:06,550
So to do that, we enlisted the help of teachers and site principles and district leaders that

834
01:07:06,550 --> 01:07:11,270
have been part of this group that actually helped me with to pick this next piece, which is on

835
01:07:11,270 --> 01:07:16,370
learning. So this contract is really, it's a trainer of trainer models. We did hear from

836
01:07:16,370 --> 01:07:21,850
our teachers in terms of them wanting to be able to do a lot of the training, but we also heard,

837
01:07:22,070 --> 01:07:26,790
we want to learn some things too. So this for us is really a combination of those two concepts

838
01:07:26,790 --> 01:07:29,970
where we're going to bring in PBL works that does business.

839
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,880
The bucket is too, which is very credible around project-based learning, which is really the deeper learning

840
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:40,560
part of the life skills goal that we want to accomplish for our students. The piece here is to

841
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:46,000
really train trainers of trainers, so that we are teachers and our administrators become those trainers

842
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:51,980
of trainers, and that's really the goal here. But we will definitely every year. We'll look to make sure

843
01:07:51,980 --> 01:08:00,280
we're getting the return and the faster we can implement to turn it over to us is that's how

844
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:05,320
fast we'll do it. To your question the reason we pick bug gets to two is one is the most

845
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:11,340
credible one in the country but also their design is specifically to do what you're asking which is

846
01:08:11,340 --> 01:08:17,520
to turn it over to districts so districts don't have to continuously depend on a consultant the

847
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,300
information becomes ours and that's part of the logic model in the backup material where it shows

848
01:08:21,300 --> 01:08:25,340
is the gradual release from the book to our district?

849
01:08:27,670 --> 01:08:27,850
I don't know.

850
01:08:28,030 --> 01:08:29,490
It wasn't that evident to me.

851
01:08:29,590 --> 01:08:30,950
I'll look back at it.

852
01:08:31,170 --> 01:08:37,450
But I think that if we're going to invest this much money every year,

853
01:08:37,910 --> 01:08:43,870
we have to have a very sustainable plan that our staff takes over the capacity

854
01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:47,330
and takes over this training and it actually becomes ours.

855
01:08:47,670 --> 01:08:51,430
Because as long as we just keep hiring consultants every year,

856
01:08:51,430 --> 01:08:57,150
It doesn't really have the stain power that we need to make the transformations that are needed.

857
01:08:57,750 --> 01:09:04,170
So I'll be looking for the end of this when we can actually sustain it.

858
01:09:04,310 --> 01:09:04,610
Absolutely.

859
01:09:05,190 --> 01:09:05,690
Thank you.

860
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,460
And my comments are more around.

861
01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:13,660
I'm feedback from staff regarding consulting contracts.

862
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:21,900
In general, when there's been contracts for train or professional learning, a lot of our staff asked,

863
01:09:21,940 --> 01:09:22,880
why don't you ask us?

864
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:26,340
I mean, we've been here, you know, 26 plus years, 30 plus years.

865
01:09:26,660 --> 01:09:27,960
We're the experts on our students

866
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,000
and we're the experts on what our students should be doing

867
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,060
as our neighbors and our future leaders.

868
01:09:34,220 --> 01:09:36,520
And so I'm a little bit more concerned about that

869
01:09:37,900 --> 01:09:43,020
and how this contract looks in terms of the budget

870
01:09:43,020 --> 01:09:47,240
that we're trying to cut some more programs from.

871
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,980
Additionally, I know this is related to the goals

872
01:09:49,980 --> 01:09:52,240
that we said a year and a half to almost two years ago.

873
01:09:52,240 --> 01:10:02,600
But it was meant that the formation of that goal is meant to include our staff in building

874
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,360
the portrait of a learner and not somebody from St. Raphael who probably doesn't want to

875
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:10,120
think about the San Joaquin Valley. So, you know, I'm just not in favor of this consultant

876
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:10,620
contract.

877
01:10:11,220 --> 01:10:12,560
Thank you.

878
01:10:22,970 --> 01:10:29,370
There are no board members wishing to speak on this item, CA. We need a motion in a second

879
01:10:29,370 --> 01:10:31,870
in order to move this forward.

880
01:10:32,310 --> 01:10:36,290
So move, so we have a motion in a second.

881
01:10:36,470 --> 01:10:37,150
Roll call, please.

882
01:10:39,730 --> 01:10:40,390
Member Cassidy?

883
01:10:40,750 --> 01:10:41,090
No.

884
01:10:42,470 --> 01:10:43,170
Member Davis?

885
01:10:43,430 --> 01:10:43,790
Aye.

886
01:10:44,250 --> 01:10:45,090
Join us in roses?

887
01:10:45,830 --> 01:10:46,030
No.

888
01:10:47,690 --> 01:10:48,430
Member Thomas?

889
01:10:48,730 --> 01:10:49,030
Aye.

890
01:10:49,210 --> 01:10:50,210
Member with Trump?

891
01:10:51,650 --> 01:10:52,290
Clerk living?

892
01:10:53,410 --> 01:10:54,250
President Isla?

893
01:10:54,390 --> 01:10:54,730
Aye.

894
01:10:55,010 --> 01:10:55,690
Motion carries.

895
01:10:56,330 --> 01:10:57,310
Thank you.

896
01:10:58,750 --> 01:11:05,210
We have a few different board members who have pulled the next item, which is C11, I was among them.

897
01:11:05,570 --> 01:11:11,210
And I'm going to take a point of privilege to begin the remarks on item C11.

898
01:11:12,010 --> 01:11:20,230
So first, what I would like to comment on is that I think it is a very reasonable concern for our parents.

899
01:11:20,230 --> 01:11:35,130
To call to question about the use of a very large contract, the use of many for this very large contract in particular, when we are at a budget deficit and we are struggling to make ends meet.

900
01:11:35,810 --> 01:11:44,430
While we got a reprieve in terms of the field trips this year, there is no guarantee of those dollars being made available again.

901
01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:49,570
And so I think the community has spoken about their priorities and

902
01:11:49,570 --> 01:11:52,330
relation to wanting to preserve the field trips.

903
01:11:53,130 --> 01:11:57,750
So what I wanted to do was share with you sort of some rough

904
01:11:57,750 --> 01:12:01,930
math of part of the challenge that I have with this contract.

905
01:12:02,810 --> 01:12:07,790
And that is that if we were to calculate 52 weeks in a year with five

906
01:12:07,790 --> 01:12:13,730
working days, there would be a possible 260 work days.

907
01:12:14,870 --> 01:12:19,510
For the school board, there are actually 180 school days in a year.

908
01:12:20,250 --> 01:12:26,190
And even if we added the five by back days, that we would get 285 days.

909
01:12:27,150 --> 01:12:35,130
So we're paying full time, the 260 days out of a potential 185 days that they would work on our campus.

910
01:12:35,130 --> 01:12:45,270
And even if we rounded this number up, it's about 72% that they are actually spending in terms of a full time equivalent on our campus.

911
01:12:46,030 --> 01:12:54,150
I do not find it reasonable that we are paying 95% of their time that we are paying for vehicles that we will never own.

912
01:12:54,590 --> 01:12:59,610
That we are paying for our sergeants that are supervising them that will never set foot on our campus, right?

913
01:12:59,610 --> 01:13:02,370
So there is just for me always been this question.

914
01:13:02,370 --> 01:13:09,770
We have across the board been reducing our contracts in a letterly in a number of areas.

915
01:13:09,790 --> 01:13:14,950
I don't think this is one that should not also be commensarily.

916
01:13:15,710 --> 01:13:21,970
I do think that there is a lot of information that we want to have addressed before we

917
01:13:21,970 --> 01:13:24,150
would adopt this budget.

918
01:13:24,710 --> 01:13:31,610
So I would like to make a motion that we table this item for our next meeting where we can

919
01:13:31,610 --> 01:13:39,070
more of our questions answered before we take a vote on this. So that is my motion.

920
01:13:40,730 --> 01:13:44,930
I have comments, but I'll second that motion as well. Okay. So we have a motion in a second,

921
01:13:45,170 --> 01:13:51,550
and we will turn to discussion with our fellow colleagues. And so I will

922
01:13:52,930 --> 01:13:55,730
call up a trustee or click live in first.

923
01:13:56,390 --> 01:14:03,750
Thank you. Thanks for pulling this item for discussion and for your comments. I'll echo a lot of them.

924
01:14:04,110 --> 01:14:11,650
Just not as eloquently, eloquently, but I want to start by saying I think we can all agree on the status

925
01:14:11,650 --> 01:14:16,790
for all of our parents, for all of our students, this is why that safety is of the utmost importance and concern.

926
01:14:16,790 --> 01:14:24,730
I think the disconnect or the disagreement potentially comes in of the constant equating of safety

927
01:14:24,730 --> 01:14:25,610
with policing.

928
01:14:26,770 --> 01:14:31,690
When there are, we know there are proven strategies, interventions, resources and programs that

929
01:14:31,690 --> 01:14:35,430
are just as effective if not more effective in providing and ensuring safety on campuses.

930
01:14:35,810 --> 01:14:40,270
And we also know that, as has come a couple of times tonight, that the presence of policing

931
01:14:40,270 --> 01:14:46,270
and police officers on campus can oftentimes have the opposite effect of instilling

932
01:14:46,270 --> 01:14:50,090
confidence and safety in our students depending on interactions and experiences.

933
01:14:51,350 --> 01:14:56,070
And so I think that's where the disagreement comes in just as importantly as it has

934
01:14:56,070 --> 01:14:59,910
also come up several times tonight, this is an agenda item, this is a contract.

935
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,820
For almost $6 million, which is a significant amount of money, and we've heard tonight. And throughout

936
01:15:07,820 --> 01:15:14,860
really the last several weeks and months, as we are in a very serious and stressful budget situation

937
01:15:14,860 --> 01:15:19,220
with declining revenues and resources. As we have, we heard tonight, even further declining

938
01:15:19,220 --> 01:15:24,780
student enrollment to the two- and almost 2,000, it looks like fewer students enroll this

939
01:15:24,780 --> 01:15:31,500
school year, then the previous school year, which equates to it sounds like at the minimum and

940
01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:36,440
likely larger, at least $10 million additional dollars in cuts will have to find this year.

941
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:41,520
And so $6 million in that context is in my mind very significant.

942
01:15:42,440 --> 01:15:46,980
And so I'm in full support if there's support from others of tableliness that we have some

943
01:15:46,980 --> 01:15:53,260
more time to ask more questions to really scrutinize this and to make sure this is an effective

944
01:15:53,260 --> 01:15:58,320
in responsible use of our limited resources, I'll put my questions out there in the meantime

945
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:04,060
whether they're in a couple of weeks or for tonight, but just with that with my reservations

946
01:16:04,060 --> 01:16:09,860
and concerns in mind, I would be curious to know, when this came up a couple of years ago,

947
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:15,060
I think we were just starting to really be more intentional about investing in alternative

948
01:16:15,060 --> 01:16:21,200
supports and programs around violence prevention, around student safety, around really protecting

949
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,780
and supporting students that need that most direct intervention.

950
01:16:25,100 --> 01:16:29,460
And I think we've made some significant steps in last couple of years to invest in some

951
01:16:29,460 --> 01:16:33,220
of those alternatives and proven practices and programs.

952
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:38,380
So I'd be curious to know what that all entails, what supports and investments and resources

953
01:16:38,380 --> 01:16:44,380
we have put in place that are alternatives to policing and SROs on campus, that, again,

954
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:45,700
are investments in safety.

955
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:50,680
This is not a question of whether we have investments in safety and safety for our students

956
01:16:50,680 --> 01:17:00,720
It's a question of whether police officers are the right investment and strategy for that policing, so curious to know now or in two weeks what the full list of

957
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:04,860
investments and programs entails that we've invested in in the last couple of years.

958
01:17:05,980 --> 01:17:15,680
I know we have previous data, but I would want to have the most recent data around SRO interactions with students, voluntary and involuntary and

959
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:20,940
specifically looking at the breakdown around student demographics, racial demographics and

960
01:17:20,940 --> 01:17:26,340
otherwise, and ensuring or making sure that we do not have this proportionality around

961
01:17:26,340 --> 01:17:32,760
students that are interacting again voluntarily and involuntarily with police officers and

962
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:37,820
potentially the presence of SROs on campus having detrimental and negative consequences

963
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:38,740
in effect on them.

964
01:17:40,140 --> 01:17:44,120
And then finally, I know we are just in the process in this beginning of the school year of

965
01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:48,760
our student advisory board back together will have I think in two weeks our student trustees

966
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:55,660
here for the first time would want to know and hopefully ensure that we have taken more

967
01:17:55,660 --> 01:18:03,520
recent steps to listen to and ask our students through our SAP and otherwise what their thoughts

968
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:10,380
are on the effectiveness of having SROs on campus and whether it's having the intended effect

969
01:18:10,380 --> 01:18:16,400
or potentially, in many cases, for our students having a negative consequence and if students

970
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,600
are concerned about having the presence of SROS on campus?

971
01:18:22,810 --> 01:18:28,290
Yes, so in terms of collecting the data, you provide, I think, maybe the next time when we come

972
01:18:28,290 --> 01:18:34,230
to discuss, we can certainly do it then, but if there's some specific questions about what the police

973
01:18:34,230 --> 01:18:37,390
officers are doing right now, we can certainly answer those today.

974
01:18:37,870 --> 01:18:38,810
Thank you.

975
01:18:40,050 --> 01:18:47,310
Okay, I do want to call up to other colleagues first who did ask to pull this item, so we'll

976
01:18:47,310 --> 01:18:49,010
start with Trustee Woodrup.

977
01:18:49,890 --> 01:18:51,010
Thank you.

978
01:18:53,090 --> 01:18:58,950
Having worked in our schools for 37 years, I really appreciate the police when they were

979
01:18:58,950 --> 01:19:01,490
on campus and they saved my life several times.

980
01:19:01,610 --> 01:19:07,590
So I will just say that, but I am very concerned with the deal we made with Fresno PD.

981
01:19:07,590 --> 01:19:16,010
I don't know that we're getting our monies worth because trusty or President Eastless mentioned,

982
01:19:16,790 --> 01:19:19,770
they have possible 260 work days.

983
01:19:20,470 --> 01:19:29,830
We have 180, let's say 185, and we're paying 95% of their salaries at a 471% of their

984
01:19:29,830 --> 01:19:31,670
time, plus the vehicles.

985
01:19:31,670 --> 01:19:41,950
So, I mean, who's making this deal, it doesn't seem like it doesn't feel right.

986
01:19:42,770 --> 01:19:47,990
It's a lot of money and we're paying more than we should.

987
01:19:48,350 --> 01:19:51,090
I'm not sure if you're the person to answer that.

988
01:19:51,430 --> 01:19:52,550
Good evening.

989
01:19:53,750 --> 01:19:55,010
I can absolutely answer that.

990
01:19:55,530 --> 01:19:59,270
So this is a contract that we've had with the Police Department for several years.

991
01:19:59,270 --> 01:20:09,870
The proposal was for a one-year contract to give us time to go back with the PD, to look at our priorities and renegotiate the contract with them.

992
01:20:10,270 --> 01:20:21,670
So the idea of the one-year contract was to allow services to continue as they are while we renegotiate this contract and look at what better meets the needs of our district than priorities of our district.

993
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:41,320
Is that correct, though, as this math correct, that they have, you know, that we're paying 95% of their salary, but only receiving 71 to 72% of their time plus the car?

994
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:49,320
I mean, and their supervisors, that was a new one I heard too, it doesn't feel like we're getting a very good deal on this.

995
01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:54,640
who is doing the negotiating, and is this is something that we really need to look at.

996
01:20:54,860 --> 01:20:57,940
It's a lot of money at a time when we don't have a lot of money.

997
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:01,660
It agreed, and that is why it was proposed for a one-year contract.

998
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,100
So that gave us time to go back, meet with Fresno PD,

999
01:21:04,500 --> 01:21:08,080
figure out what the priorities of our district were and renegotiate that.

1000
01:21:08,100 --> 01:21:11,620
To your point about the amount of time that we use our SROs,

1001
01:21:11,860 --> 01:21:16,040
so they are currently used during summer school, during summer camps, during summer bridge.

1002
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:23,400
So we are using them 95% of the time currently, but that is something we could absolutely re-examine and that's something that we plan to re-examine

1003
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,460
I want, yeah, I wonder if we need them all that time

1004
01:21:26,460 --> 01:21:32,700
I mean those are things we really need to look at closely. We should have been looking at closely last school year

1005
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:41,980
So I'm disappointed to be getting it now and it not being the very best deal that we could make in this time

1006
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:44,740
And thank you, that's all I have it.

1007
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,020
We'll turn to Trustee Thomas next.

1008
01:21:53,140 --> 01:21:53,600
You work.

1009
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:55,760
Trustee Thomas was the other person who pulled it.

1010
01:21:55,900 --> 01:21:56,560
That's why I'm calling her.

1011
01:21:58,220 --> 01:22:00,960
So can you talk about the parameters of their work?

1012
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:03,040
If we're using them 95% of the time,

1013
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,300
and we owe them 95% of the money, that's just that.

1014
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:06,940
It's pure and simple math.

1015
01:22:07,340 --> 01:22:12,000
But can you talk about the parameters around their work?

1016
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:13,580
Because it's not the police kids.

1017
01:22:14,420 --> 01:22:16,120
And we made that very clear in the training.

1018
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,800
So, can you just please talk about the parameters?

1019
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:19,900
Yeah, absolutely.

1020
01:22:20,340 --> 01:22:25,720
So, obviously, our SRAs are on our campuses to help protect our campuses and for student safety, right?

1021
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:29,920
That is a paramount duty of theirs, but they are also there to make.

1022
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:38,240
Positive impact with our students. They are there. Many of our SRO's serve as athletic coaches. Many of our SRO's

1023
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:45,820
serve as club advisors. They serve as role models on their campus. They are there to support

1024
01:22:45,820 --> 01:22:50,600
as Assistant Superintendent Ward mentioned our CTE learning or work-based learning opportunities.

1025
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:56,780
So currently in the Hoover Roosevelt Bullard and Edison regions, our SRO's are supporting those,

1026
01:22:59,340 --> 01:22:59,980
learning

1027
01:22:59,980 --> 01:23:05,100
He mentioned the pivot program, which is going on in the Edison region, and currently

1028
01:23:05,100 --> 01:23:05,960
are schools.

1029
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:11,400
We have about 21,000 students that are served by our SROs under the current contract.

1030
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:15,630
Trustee Davis?

1031
01:23:15,970 --> 01:23:21,410
Yeah, that's some of the data I'd like to be like to know, because we are in an urban city

1032
01:23:22,090 --> 01:23:26,590
with an anniversary of 9-11 coming up on us.

1033
01:23:26,930 --> 01:23:31,510
And we have moved our policemen to football games, basketball games, soccer games, baseball

1034
01:23:31,510 --> 01:23:34,250
games with metal detectors and now clear,

1035
01:23:34,250 --> 01:23:37,890
purses and bags in our facilities and even when you came

1036
01:23:37,890 --> 01:23:41,310
in this evening, yeah, I would like to see the data.

1037
01:23:41,830 --> 01:23:45,210
Because I know they work more than just the boxing

1038
01:23:45,210 --> 01:23:47,790
that they have for the pal, because I sit on the board

1039
01:23:47,790 --> 01:23:51,050
for pal, the girls and boys club, basketball,

1040
01:23:52,090 --> 01:23:55,390
and romaine boxing with girls and boys, basketball

1041
01:23:55,390 --> 01:24:00,690
camps, and soccer, and baseball, and bike riding camps.

1042
01:24:00,690 --> 01:24:10,410
I know I'm aware of, along with the shopping at Macy's at Christmas and $300 per child for every child that goes to the Roman playground.

1043
01:24:10,790 --> 01:24:25,990
So I'd like to see all those numbers, you know, and in our 26 of 109 schools, how important they are to student staff community in this urban city.

1044
01:24:26,710 --> 01:24:27,810
Thank you.

1045
01:24:27,810 --> 01:24:29,730
Trustee Jonathan Russes?

1046
01:24:30,990 --> 01:24:36,890
Thank you, and I know we've talked about this periodically over the years quite a bit.

1047
01:24:36,950 --> 01:24:42,390
So I'm not going to talk about the philosophical stance, but I will talk about a little

1048
01:24:42,390 --> 01:24:50,110
frustration with this agreement and not having addressed some of the issues that I was

1049
01:24:50,110 --> 01:24:52,310
three years ago that we were talking about this.

1050
01:24:52,310 --> 01:25:21,070
We had some of the very same issues with the cars, the sergeants, the percentage, three years ago, and at the time, okay, well, the contract expired, but we're going to negotiate, we're going to sit at the table, we're going to do all this, and now none of that happened in those three years. That's frustrating, especially since, and I don't know if those things have changed with our neighboring school districts, but our neighboring school districts have a better deal.

1051
01:25:21,070 --> 01:25:24,570
and they're not paying for what we're paying for.

1052
01:25:25,030 --> 01:25:29,890
And so, I think my frustration is more

1053
01:25:29,890 --> 01:25:32,970
that we did not address or staff did not address

1054
01:25:32,970 --> 01:25:37,610
the issues that this board had from three years ago

1055
01:25:37,610 --> 01:25:40,030
in bringing this back in the exact same manner.

1056
01:25:40,230 --> 01:25:41,770
And now we're gonna, and there's no assurances

1057
01:25:41,770 --> 01:25:43,410
that we extended for a year

1058
01:25:43,410 --> 01:25:46,310
and that we get anything that we wanted either.

1059
01:25:46,310 --> 01:25:46,890
So,

1060
01:25:48,970 --> 01:25:51,190
that's where I sit.

1061
01:25:51,310 --> 01:25:53,150
Again, I want to address the philosophical,

1062
01:25:53,490 --> 01:25:56,870
but I'm just really, just I guess annoyed

1063
01:25:58,190 --> 01:26:00,810
that I guess we were ignored as a board.

1064
01:26:03,890 --> 01:26:04,470
Thank you.

1065
01:26:04,870 --> 01:26:05,470
Trustee Katheles?

1066
01:26:06,130 --> 01:26:08,550
I'll echo Trustee Jonas and Rose's comments.

1067
01:26:09,310 --> 01:26:11,750
And I don't think that they were the first time we made them

1068
01:26:11,750 --> 01:26:13,750
three years ago, I think we made them three years before that

1069
01:26:13,750 --> 01:26:15,230
and three years before that as well.

1070
01:26:15,230 --> 01:26:25,070
So I do want to I am a contract person so I do want to say to clarify for clarification we are running without a contract right now then because this takes us back to July 1st.

1071
01:26:25,150 --> 01:26:34,790
That is correct. Okay, so having said that I am more leaning towards bringing this back another day if we that gives us some time to answer some of these questions.

1072
01:26:34,790 --> 01:26:41,350
I, again, not philosophical, we've heard, last three years ago, we heard from teachers that

1073
01:26:41,350 --> 01:26:46,770
were in support of the program, but I do want clarification on what the trustees have

1074
01:26:46,770 --> 01:26:47,090
asked.

1075
01:26:47,610 --> 01:26:51,590
I also had a question that I wrote down from one of our parents that I think is very important

1076
01:26:52,090 --> 01:26:57,810
is we don't have, I don't think we have somebody here from city admin or city PD, that

1077
01:26:57,810 --> 01:27:03,470
could have answered the question of, I'm paying taxes to the city P.D.

1078
01:27:04,030 --> 01:27:08,370
Why I'm also having to pay them $5.7 million to put to all the schools, right?

1079
01:27:08,730 --> 01:27:13,550
So I would have loved to have somebody here to clarify that and maybe identify how,

1080
01:27:13,550 --> 01:27:14,790
that's a different if it is.

1081
01:27:15,110 --> 01:27:15,910
It's fun to different.

1082
01:27:16,730 --> 01:27:21,470
It's a really easy question to be able to answer if the numbers of the math

1083
01:27:21,470 --> 01:27:21,870
maths.

1084
01:27:22,310 --> 01:27:23,790
Having said that, you do want to read something.

1085
01:27:23,790 --> 01:27:26,790
I was sent from a student.

1086
01:27:30,090 --> 01:27:32,090
SROs never intimidate me or my friends.

1087
01:27:32,350 --> 01:27:35,250
They have been at rallies, classes, class meetings,

1088
01:27:35,910 --> 01:27:38,090
where they express how they are expected to do their job.

1089
01:27:38,230 --> 01:27:40,210
But I have no reason to be worried scared or intimidated

1090
01:27:40,210 --> 01:27:41,810
if I didn't break the law.

1091
01:27:42,110 --> 01:27:44,230
These officers are here to serve and protect.

1092
01:27:44,410 --> 01:27:46,430
And when I talk to them, they have amazing personalities.

1093
01:27:47,250 --> 01:27:50,790
It's one of the ways some of our students view our SROs.

1094
01:27:50,790 --> 01:27:59,290
But we also have students that have negative interactions with them, so having said that we want to make sure we're getting the best services out of this contract that we can get.

1095
01:28:01,100 --> 01:28:04,760
We do have Lieutenant, do we hear if you wanted to see if he's willing to address your concern?

1096
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:13,680
We have a motion and a second that we're entertaining in relation to this.

1097
01:28:14,480 --> 01:28:20,900
I do think there's an opportunity to hear from PD when we bring this back if the motion passes.

1098
01:28:20,900 --> 01:28:29,940
But I just want to address a couple of comments that that were made and one is that if we did

1099
01:28:30,460 --> 01:28:41,580
If we did significantly reduce the contract there are millions of dollars in savings that could be redirected to the field trips to our other needs and that's that's what I would really want us to explore

1100
01:28:43,460 --> 01:28:48,620
And the other thing is there was a comment about them working over the summer.

1101
01:28:48,620 --> 01:28:56,740
We do not have all of our campuses open in the summer and so there is a reduction there just by virtue of the number of sites that we have so again

1102
01:28:56,740 --> 01:29:12,900
I don't feel that there is sufficient reason to for us to continue to pay 95% of their time and yes, the cars the sergeants their retirement, which is also part of the budget, it's very excessive

1103
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:20,260
And lastly, what I just wanted to say is, and mention to our sporting events, is that those

1104
01:29:20,260 --> 01:29:22,740
are actually times where we pay more because it's over time.

1105
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:28,680
And so I think that also has to be reflected about, is that the best use is there are other

1106
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:36,700
resources that we might be able to maximize in terms of offering the same services during that

1107
01:29:36,700 --> 01:29:36,980
time.

1108
01:29:36,980 --> 01:29:39,720
So we do have a motion in a second.

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01:29:39,740 --> 01:29:43,100
So I'd like to do a roll call vote in terms of tableling this.

1110
01:29:44,440 --> 01:29:47,100
And I want to make sure that staff captures all the questions,

1111
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,480
because I would like those questions either coming back

1112
01:29:49,480 --> 01:29:53,240
to us before the next meeting in a BC or making sure

1113
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,600
that they're going to be addressed at the meeting itself.

1114
01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:59,800
So let's take the motion and the roll call vote.

1115
01:30:01,300 --> 01:30:17,780
Member casters? Aye. Member Davis? Aye. Member Jonathan Rosas? Aye. Member Thomas? Aye. Member Wittrep? Aye. Clerk Levine? Aye. President Islas? Aye.

1116
01:30:17,860 --> 01:30:21,100
Motion carries. Thank you. We will be bringing this back for further discussion.

1117
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:30,760
Now we will turn to our last item that was pulled, which is a C-13.

1118
01:30:32,930 --> 01:30:37,850
Thank you, agenda item C-13 and tonight's consent agenda includes purchasorters between

1119
01:30:37,850 --> 01:30:42,370
Fresno unified school district and CSUF Fresno and the CSUF Downing Planetarium.

1120
01:30:42,850 --> 01:30:46,110
I did not participate in the making of the purchasorters related to the agenda item, however,

1121
01:30:46,370 --> 01:30:50,450
because of my employment for Fresno State, I have a remote financial interest in the purchasorters.

1122
01:30:50,630 --> 01:30:53,970
Therefore, the interest of full transparency and I'm standing from this vote for suing

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01:30:53,970 --> 01:30:55,410
to board by a lot of 9270.

1124
01:30:56,370 --> 01:30:57,130
Move for approval.

1125
01:30:57,730 --> 01:30:59,130
Second, roll call, please.

1126
01:31:00,630 --> 01:31:01,270
Member casters?

1127
01:31:01,270 --> 01:31:07,330
I remember Davis. I remember Jonathan process. I remember Thomas. I remember which one.

1128
01:31:07,950 --> 01:31:14,150
I clearly mean President East less. I motion carries. Thank you. With no further action,

1129
01:31:14,310 --> 01:31:21,430
we will now move to end scheduled oral communications. Individuals who wish to address the board on topics within the Board's subject matter jurisdiction,

1130
01:31:21,670 --> 01:31:28,280
but not listed on the agenda. Me do so at this time. The board recognizes that individuals may ask the board to answer questions or

1131
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:32,620
response to statements made during unscheduled oral communications, and in accordance with

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01:31:32,620 --> 01:31:38,160
Board by Land 9323, the Board shall take no action or discussion on any item not appearing

1133
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:43,680
on the postage agenda, except as authorized by law. While trustees will generally not respond,

1134
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:48,680
I ask that staff members follow up directly in the days following the meeting. The Board would

1135
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:53,280
like to remind the public of the need to maintain order in the boardroom and refrain from

1136
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:58,120
disruptive conduct. Any individuals who continue to interrupt or cause a disturbance will be

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01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:02,000
move from this meeting. Clerk Levine will now read a statement regarding the Brown Act.

1138
01:32:03,020 --> 01:32:06,160
The Brown Act requires the public to be given an opportunity to speak on matters related

1139
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:09,920
to school district business during the board meetings and this board welcomes public comment

1140
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:14,360
as it designated on the agenda. The board expects all speakers to respect the rights of others

1141
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:19,340
by conducting themselves in a civil and courteous manner at all times. Our goal is to ensure the right of the

1142
01:32:19,340 --> 01:32:24,160
public comment is safeguarded without compromising the efficiency and effectiveness of board meetings.

1143
01:32:27,110 --> 01:32:33,530
We have 10 individuals who wish to address the board during unscheduled oral communications.

1144
01:32:33,830 --> 01:32:37,010
Each speaker will have two minutes.

1145
01:32:37,750 --> 01:32:38,010
Thank you.

1146
01:32:38,390 --> 01:32:42,670
First and secondly, Gregor E. Guyardo, followed by Angela Barrett.

1147
01:32:58,100 --> 01:32:58,640
Press the button.

1148
01:33:03,970 --> 01:33:05,210
Good afternoon, members of the board.

1149
01:33:05,270 --> 01:33:05,750
Superintendent.

1150
01:33:05,970 --> 01:33:07,210
My name is Greg Glardo.

1151
01:33:07,930 --> 01:33:14,050
I am standing here before you today to address serious, procedural, serious violations regarding

1152
01:33:14,050 --> 01:33:21,560
transparency and due process and the collective bargaining agreements under our union agreement.

1153
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:30,240
At the last meeting on August 26th, 2026, I submitted a letter of intent to speak in an open

1154
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:38,660
discussion. However, due to severe lack of transparency from HR directions, Carlos A and David

1155
01:33:39,620 --> 01:33:48,100
I was not given the time for the meeting or informed about proper procedure, like speaker cards, etc.

1156
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:54,540
Even more concerning is the complete violation of my right to representation.

1157
01:33:56,020 --> 01:34:05,620
Under the CSEA Chapter 125, I'm explicitly protected by my collective bargaining agreement.

1158
01:34:05,620 --> 01:34:06,620
Okay,

1159
01:34:09,730 --> 01:34:16,270
the meeting on July 27th, 2020, eight days prior to the meeting, I formally notified

1160
01:34:17,630 --> 01:34:26,210
FSUFUSD legal counsel via email that my CSEA union rep would be on vacation and requested

1161
01:34:26,210 --> 01:34:28,090
the meeting to be rescheduled.

1162
01:34:28,490 --> 01:34:33,630
Despite having eight days of notice, they still still did the meetings, which is a violation

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01:34:33,630 --> 01:34:35,470
of the Wine Guard Act.

1164
01:34:37,790 --> 01:34:43,610
Okay, anyway, proceeding with our representation without notice has been properly given

1165
01:34:43,610 --> 01:34:48,730
directly undermines due process and basic bargaining rights.

1166
01:34:51,250 --> 01:34:51,490
Okay.

1167
01:34:52,110 --> 01:34:53,830
I am asking the board.

1168
01:34:54,150 --> 01:34:55,910
All of you, the board.

1169
01:34:55,910 --> 01:35:05,810
to address these FUSD HR and Union Procedures directly, the district must represent employee

1170
01:35:05,810 --> 01:35:11,950
rights under the CSEA 125 and upheld Procedure Procedure Fairness.

1171
01:35:12,290 --> 01:35:13,170
Thank you.

1172
01:35:13,310 --> 01:35:13,950
Is that it?

1173
01:35:14,990 --> 01:35:15,150
Okay.

1174
01:35:15,310 --> 01:35:16,290
Thank you.

1175
01:35:16,530 --> 01:35:16,910
Thank you.

1176
01:35:16,910 --> 01:35:16,990
Thank you.

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01:35:17,490 --> 01:35:17,550
Thank you.

1178
01:35:17,550 --> 01:35:17,750
Thank you.

1179
01:35:18,350 --> 01:35:20,090
Thank you.

1180
01:35:20,090 --> 01:35:21,390
Why you are raised?

1181
01:35:21,770 --> 01:35:22,790
Please consider.

1182
01:35:26,690 --> 01:35:27,330
Please consider.

1183
01:35:35,170 --> 01:35:36,790
All right, my name is Angela Barrett.

1184
01:35:37,410 --> 01:35:39,770
I do want to start by saying that the absence

1185
01:35:39,770 --> 01:35:41,430
of mischief her speaks volumes.

1186
01:35:42,810 --> 01:35:43,270
She's ill.

1187
01:35:43,530 --> 01:35:44,050
She's ill.

1188
01:35:44,770 --> 01:35:45,570
I'm sure.

1189
01:35:46,470 --> 01:35:49,490
Yeah, I mean, you know, she knows that we're all here

1190
01:35:49,490 --> 01:35:53,210
to face her and we'll all have to come back to the next meeting.

1191
01:35:54,630 --> 01:35:58,570
For years, students and parents have been forced to accept

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01:35:58,570 --> 01:36:06,030
last due to budget cuts. Now we have a literacy crisis and a decade long decline in

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01:36:06,030 --> 01:36:13,870
foundational skills. Instead of cutting or combining positions at the school level, we should

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01:36:13,870 --> 01:36:20,930
be pouring into our schools. Our teachers and our support staff, they are the ones that work tirelessly

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01:36:20,930 --> 01:36:27,510
alongside parents and children. The cuts should start at the executive level and executive

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01:36:27,510 --> 01:36:31,290
staff should take on more. They're certainly getting paid more.

1197
01:36:33,850 --> 01:36:36,250
They should reduce their staff and share

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01:36:36,250 --> 01:36:43,150
resources and put a freeze on their raises and focus on serving our students.

1199
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:47,160
So what I've

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01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:52,000
heard tonight I had questions about, you know, the $2.2 million dollars and now I've heard okay,

1201
01:36:52,180 --> 01:36:57,980
it was in the budget but we've spent all our money or we lost students. Does that include students

1202
01:36:57,980 --> 01:37:04,660
who have graduated, are they dropouts and where's the data of the birth rates, who's coming

1203
01:37:04,660 --> 01:37:10,200
in, how do you determine, like the kindergarten students that are coming in?

1204
01:37:10,440 --> 01:37:13,540
I'll give him a minute to get that information.

1205
01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:23,100
Anyway, what resources are being cut from the foundation in order to subsidize these field

1206
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:28,220
Because from what I understand, it's meant for

1207
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:36,900
Sorry, I've been sitting there for a long time, mental health services for students and it's not.

1208
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:42,040
Okay, according to the website it is, of end scholarships, yes.

1209
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,940
So, yeah, we just want answers.

1210
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:49,600
Thank you.

1211
01:37:52,810 --> 01:37:54,130
Thanks for inviting me.

1212
01:37:54,130 --> 01:37:56,450
Rays followed by Katie Adams?

1213
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:00,520
Good evening.

1214
01:38:01,100 --> 01:38:02,240
My name is Dilat.

1215
01:38:03,380 --> 01:38:06,600
I am an early child development student.

1216
01:38:06,780 --> 01:38:07,880
I am a future teacher.

1217
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:10,540
I appreciate the filters have been restored

1218
01:38:10,540 --> 01:38:11,400
for this school year.

1219
01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:13,160
However, I am asking for clarification

1220
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:16,460
about how the funding and the original decision worked.

1221
01:38:17,220 --> 01:38:22,100
The approved 2026 LCAP showed approximately $2.35 million

1222
01:38:22,100 --> 01:38:25,140
for district funding educational enrichment trips.

1223
01:38:25,140 --> 01:38:34,640
We were later told approximately $2.2 million in centralized TK to six field trips, funded, funding, were eliminated.

1224
01:38:35,780 --> 01:38:42,840
Now the foundation for Fresno-Infite students is contributing $1.5 million dollars to help restore the trips.

1225
01:38:43,140 --> 01:38:53,640
My first question, can the district clearly explain how these three amounts relate and what happened to the original 2.35 million identified in the LCAP?

1226
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:59,720
Second, was the original 2.2 million reductions specifically approved by the Board in the public

1227
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:03,980
vote, if so, at what meeting and under what agenda item.

1228
01:39:04,420 --> 01:39:08,900
If a separate board vote was not required who had the authority, the authority to make that

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01:39:08,900 --> 01:39:09,300
decision.

1230
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:17,120
I am also concerned about the future since the foundation contribution is for this school year.

1231
01:39:17,360 --> 01:39:23,620
What is Fresno Unified's plan to make sure these educational opportunities continue to

1232
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:31,720
as a future educator, I believe students should have access to meaningful learning experiences

1233
01:39:31,720 --> 01:39:35,440
regardless of how much money their individual school community can raise.

1234
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:40,120
I'm not here to accuse anyone. I'm asking for transparency and clarification

1235
01:39:40,120 --> 01:39:46,680
so parents, educators in the community can better understand how decisions affecting our students

1236
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:49,620
are made. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

1237
01:39:51,340 --> 01:39:53,960
Katie Adams, followed by Grace pitcher?

1238
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:01,680
Good evening.

1239
01:40:01,880 --> 01:40:02,520
Members of the board.

1240
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:03,700
My name is Katie Adams.

1241
01:40:03,740 --> 01:40:06,100
And I am here representing Synthet Elementary PTA.

1242
01:40:06,620 --> 01:40:10,980
We would like to express our dismay about the loss of guaranteed funding for field trips in elementary schools.

1243
01:40:11,460 --> 01:40:14,140
I know the superintendent recently sent out a letter addressing this issue,

1244
01:40:14,260 --> 01:40:16,800
and apologizing for not making those budget decisions clear,

1245
01:40:17,240 --> 01:40:19,740
or communicating in with schools and parents in a timely manner.

1246
01:40:20,300 --> 01:40:23,520
The letter also implied that the field trip funding would not be coming back,

1247
01:40:23,640 --> 01:40:25,120
regardless of community input.

1248
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:29,340
While this grade at the foundation will cover the cost of this current school year, it seems

1249
01:40:29,340 --> 01:40:31,900
there are no plans to continue that fundraising beyond this year.

1250
01:40:32,440 --> 01:40:34,980
The Sunset PTA does not feel that this is acceptable.

1251
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:38,260
We have seen the tremendous educational value of field trips.

1252
01:40:38,420 --> 01:40:41,840
The level of excitement and engagement they create is difficult to replicate in the classroom

1253
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:42,320
alone.

1254
01:40:42,860 --> 01:40:45,880
Field trips truly make a difference for our elementary students and we believe that they should

1255
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:49,940
be considered part of the curriculum and something teachers can count on being funded as

1256
01:40:49,940 --> 01:40:50,960
they plan year to year.

1257
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:56,120
I know the district is facing significant budget concerns, but we firmly believe the funding can be found,

1258
01:40:56,720 --> 01:41:00,220
and priorities can be adjusted to ensure students have the best education possible.

1259
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:04,920
In the end, all of our decisions should come down to one question. What is best for our students?

1260
01:41:05,820 --> 01:41:08,360
And field trips is what is best for our students at sunset elementary.

1261
01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:13,980
So we need to find a way to make that happen because that is the duty of the school board and the school district to serve the students.

1262
01:41:14,820 --> 01:41:19,360
And while we appreciate the superintendent's acknowledgement that the communication about the budget was not properly handled,

1263
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:23,540
We want to emphasize that in the future we expect to be notified of any such changes to

1264
01:41:23,540 --> 01:41:27,420
central programs or any kind of change and funding effect in curriculum such as this

1265
01:41:27,420 --> 01:41:31,700
before it happens, so that we have an opportunity to address it and fix it before it

1266
01:41:31,700 --> 01:41:35,620
is too late. We already asked so much of our teachers and lastly we want to do

1267
01:41:35,620 --> 01:41:39,300
us ask them to fundraise because we know that they are going to continue fundraising

1268
01:41:39,300 --> 01:41:43,360
to support field trips and that is not a valuable use of teacher time.

1269
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:49,820
And teachers should be able to plan for those field trip regardless of the PTA bake sales

1270
01:41:49,820 --> 01:41:50,440
success.

1271
01:41:50,860 --> 01:41:53,800
They should be able to count on it as part of the curriculum and not hold off planning

1272
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,640
until enough doughnuts are sold or raffle tickets or cookie dough.

1273
01:41:57,180 --> 01:42:00,120
Teachers and parents should be able to count on the school district to fund the programs

1274
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:03,760
that are essential parts of the curriculum instead of relying on fundraisers and the

1275
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:06,640
hard work of teachers and parents who are already giving so much.

1276
01:42:06,780 --> 01:42:08,060
Thank you.

1277
01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:13,180
Grace pitcher, followed by Mirna Garcia.

1278
01:42:17,900 --> 01:42:20,720
Good evening, President, board members, and superintendent.

1279
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:30,460
My name is Grace Pitcher and I'm here to speak on behalf of students, teachers, and families who are directly affected by several district decisions that deserve immediate attention.

1280
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,700
I am not only a teacher but also a parent of a person unified student.

1281
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:38,720
Firstly, I want to address the reduction in elimination of funding for school field trips.

1282
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:42,540
I know this has been a broad topic today and the last few weeks.

1283
01:42:42,540 --> 01:42:44,000
The bill trips are not extras.

1284
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:45,220
They are not awards.

1285
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:48,040
They are a central part of a well-rounded education.

1286
01:42:48,620 --> 01:42:50,780
Educational research consistently shows

1287
01:42:50,780 --> 01:42:52,620
a field trips increase student engagement

1288
01:42:52,620 --> 01:42:56,720
and improve content retention, build, critical thinking skills,

1289
01:42:56,960 --> 01:42:59,660
and provide real world context in classroom learning.

1290
01:43:00,220 --> 01:43:03,560
Student to participate in educational field trip experiences

1291
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:06,280
often demonstrate increased cultural awareness,

1292
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:09,060
stronger social skills, and greater enthusiasm from learning.

1293
01:43:09,060 --> 01:43:15,960
When funding for field trips is students lose access to valuable educational opportunities, teachers

1294
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:21,320
also lose one of the most effective tools they make they have for making learning meaningful

1295
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:27,340
engaging. At this time, when we are working to improve attendance, increase student engagement

1296
01:43:27,340 --> 01:43:32,620
and close achievement gaps eliminated access to hands-on learning experiences, moves us in

1297
01:43:32,620 --> 01:43:37,140
the wrong directions. Second, I would like to address an ongoing issue of overage teachers

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01:43:37,140 --> 01:43:39,700
who remain without permanent assignments.

1299
01:43:40,240 --> 01:43:42,980
Currently, there are more than 10 teachers in this district

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01:43:42,980 --> 01:43:46,400
who have been overage and still do not have

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01:43:47,240 --> 01:43:49,680
any permanent placements inside of a classroom.

1302
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:51,820
Rather than this training, these educators

1303
01:43:51,820 --> 01:43:54,980
are stable teaching position when they can build relationships

1304
01:43:54,980 --> 01:43:56,840
and contribute meaningful, meaningfully

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01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:59,100
to school communities, they have been asked

1306
01:43:59,100 --> 01:44:02,280
for, meaning miscellaneous duties at their original school

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01:44:02,280 --> 01:44:02,640
sites.

1308
01:44:03,340 --> 01:44:04,520
At Story Elementary, for example,

1309
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:08,540
the teacher who currently has no placement is being assigned to push into classrooms

1310
01:44:08,540 --> 01:44:14,240
to provide small group and spectrum across grade levels that that teacher is unfamiliar with.

1311
01:44:14,580 --> 01:44:18,760
Well, this may seem like a simple staff and adjustment the ripple effects have been significant.

1312
01:44:19,420 --> 01:44:24,060
Not three grade level classrooms and one three third grade classrooms and one fourth grade

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01:44:24,060 --> 01:44:28,540
classroom have been impacted. Thank you.

1314
01:44:30,530 --> 01:44:34,430
My name is Mirna Garcia, followed by Christina Gutierrez.

1315
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:53,640
My name is Mirna Garcia, and I appreciate you taking the time to listen to all of us here that are parents of children in Fresno Unified and concerned community members.

1316
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:59,900
So I wanted to let you know, I went over the financials as best I could. There's 390 something.

1317
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,980
Pageance, outrageous. For someone who has a background in accounting, in that is not my profession. I struggled. I can't imagine what your typical person who works nine to five is how to do to try and figure out where the issue is to resolve the financial crisis that we're looking at. So I wanted to go over a few things with you. I just picked up top five. The health funds, the report acknowledges a four-million

1318
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:33,400
and accounting air, the funds recorded in the wrong year.

1319
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:35,560
This is not a small mistake, right?

1320
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:37,980
This seems to break down internal controls

1321
01:45:38,620 --> 01:45:41,160
in our community needs assurance and financial oversight

1322
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:43,020
to be strained and not weakened.

1323
01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:45,760
The other item that I was looking at

1324
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:47,720
is workers compensation fund is negative

1325
01:45:48,130 --> 01:45:50,520
over 1.6 million in the red.

1326
01:45:51,340 --> 01:45:53,300
El Sulphinsurance fund operating below zero

1327
01:45:53,300 --> 01:45:54,620
is a structural risk.

1328
01:45:55,020 --> 01:45:58,620
It means claims exceed reserves and failure bailouts.

1329
01:45:58,620 --> 01:46:04,100
future bailouts will come from the general fund. That's an issue. The other one is restricted

1330
01:46:04,100 --> 01:46:12,280
general fund dropped 216 million to 148 million. That's a 31% decrease. There's a time and

1331
01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:16,940
funds meant to support students directly. In decline in this steep demands, a clearer explanation

1332
01:46:16,940 --> 01:46:21,640
of how restricted dollars are being managed and whether programs are being stretched beyond their

1333
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:29,300
funding. We have issues, right? And if you want us as a community and parents to help, we need

1334
01:46:29,300 --> 01:46:32,960
to be able to look at these financials at understand it so we can contribute back.

1335
01:46:33,900 --> 01:46:40,120
The other one is legal expenses. I have increased by 1.2 million. Multiple act of lawsuits.

1336
01:46:41,900 --> 01:46:46,900
The other one is several charter schools. Golden charter academy in Sierra Charter.

1337
01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:50,480
I will respect hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thank you so much for your time.

1338
01:46:50,480 --> 01:46:51,480
Thank you.

1339
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:54,880
Christina Gutierrez, it's she's here.

1340
01:46:56,440 --> 01:46:59,560
If not, we'll move on to the next speaker, I'll lean Jane Jero,

1341
01:47:02,670 --> 01:47:03,910
and she'll leave.

1342
01:47:08,300 --> 01:47:12,740
Then we'll move on to Risfot Bellard, followed by Christina Holmes McIntyre.

1343
01:47:17,730 --> 01:47:18,770
Good evening, Board members.

1344
01:47:19,070 --> 01:47:20,250
Dr. Droddy, how you doing?

1345
01:47:21,010 --> 01:47:22,330
Again, my name is Risfot Bellard.

1346
01:47:22,510 --> 01:47:25,070
I'm a community member and a neighbor and Southwest Fresno.

1347
01:47:25,970 --> 01:47:30,110
Today, I just want to address two quick pain points that I think everybody is filling in our district.

1348
01:47:30,110 --> 01:47:32,450
And I know I've limited time, so I'll make it quick.

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01:47:33,230 --> 01:47:38,050
The first students and seats being a former revenue, and then when that number is not

1350
01:47:38,050 --> 01:47:41,450
met or that revenue number is not met, we talk about how strapped we are for cash.

1351
01:47:42,270 --> 01:47:46,690
I think there needs to be a reframe and thought around why don't parents and students want

1352
01:47:46,690 --> 01:47:47,730
to come to Fresno unified.

1353
01:47:48,210 --> 01:47:49,970
Why are we not attractive enough?

1354
01:47:51,030 --> 01:47:54,830
Why are the schools not attractive enough for students to come into instead of saying we

1355
01:47:54,830 --> 01:47:57,750
have limited dollars every year, we're losing money every year because we don't happen

1356
01:47:57,750 --> 01:48:00,790
of students in the seats because we are losing students in our seats.

1357
01:48:01,810 --> 01:48:03,650
I mean, I've been this up in the district for about three years.

1358
01:48:03,770 --> 01:48:05,050
I teach agriculture in the district.

1359
01:48:05,550 --> 01:48:10,010
The amount of educational programs and gym that we have in our school district, students should

1360
01:48:10,010 --> 01:48:14,170
be flocking to our schools from dual immersion at dual immersion programs at Sunset and

1361
01:48:14,170 --> 01:48:19,050
Vain Powell, the medical pathways at Edison and Duncan, the entrepreneurship program at

1362
01:48:19,050 --> 01:48:22,830
Pateneo, dual enrollment all across the district to go to, you know, J.C.

1363
01:48:22,830 --> 01:48:27,970
Why aren't students coming into the schools, right, and that begs me to a question, are we going

1364
01:48:27,970 --> 01:48:29,930
on to the campuses to ask those questions?

1365
01:48:30,130 --> 01:48:31,830
What are the likes and dislikes of our schools?

1366
01:48:32,150 --> 01:48:34,190
Are we going into the communities to ask those questions?

1367
01:48:34,490 --> 01:48:36,210
What do you like and don't like around our school?

1368
01:48:36,530 --> 01:48:37,750
Or are we not going on campus?

1369
01:48:38,150 --> 01:48:39,270
Are we not going into community?

1370
01:48:39,610 --> 01:48:40,970
Are we not speaking to our constituents?

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01:48:41,970 --> 01:48:44,170
And then my second point, before my phone dies.

1372
01:48:45,310 --> 01:48:47,290
Transparency, I think that's a big issue tonight.

1373
01:48:47,730 --> 01:48:49,690
Transparency, the dollars are making sense.

1374
01:48:49,690 --> 01:48:56,950
And so when the budget when the LCAP that is publicized to the public says one thing and then the district does something else in the middle of the school year

1375
01:48:56,950 --> 01:49:01,870
It doesn't add up. That's a pain point, and that's hard and then when you try to tell us one thing

1376
01:49:01,870 --> 01:49:06,150
But the LCAP is still public and it still says that there's funding for field trips in this case

1377
01:49:06,150 --> 01:49:13,690
Where is the money at if it's not there if the LCAP should be changed so the public can read that and be well informed and then lastly in my nine seconds

1378
01:49:13,690 --> 01:49:19,750
suggestion for the SRO, look into community organizations, reallocate funds to support community organizations like

1379
01:49:19,750 --> 01:49:23,790
Buddy Osonee, those in breath of evolution, who are in community with our students who are in crisis.

1380
01:49:24,250 --> 01:49:26,810
I think that would be a better use of $5.9 million.

1381
01:49:27,330 --> 01:49:27,890
Thank you.

1382
01:49:28,410 --> 01:49:28,850
Thank you.

1383
01:49:29,570 --> 01:49:32,150
Christina Holmes, McIntyre, followed by Sandra Siddleton.

1384
01:49:40,710 --> 01:49:40,730
Hi.

1385
01:49:41,490 --> 01:49:43,550
Thank you for letting me come up again to speak.

1386
01:49:44,210 --> 01:49:47,950
So I want to start with kind of where Rissville left off, which was what's happening.

1387
01:49:48,210 --> 01:49:50,150
Why don't parents want to bring their kids to prison?

1388
01:49:50,910 --> 01:49:58,250
We have to be honest and one of the things that we do with our organization is we raise the political understanding of our parents.

1389
01:49:58,870 --> 01:50:06,990
One of the issues is you have FTA, the Fresno Teachers Association, who consistently gives out misinformation to parents.

1390
01:50:07,550 --> 01:50:17,170
I have listened to several parents come up here today and I don't think it's their fault that they continue to message the wrong misinformation that's being put out by FTA.

1391
01:50:17,170 --> 01:50:22,370
I think it's surprising to hear that we have a candidate that is also echoing that information,

1392
01:50:22,970 --> 01:50:30,110
especially as we just heard staff talk about what was budgeted last year, what was budgeted

1393
01:50:30,110 --> 01:50:34,190
this year, what's been spent this year, right? So I think that's part of the issue.

1394
01:50:34,510 --> 01:50:39,810
It's parents aren't coming to Fresno Unified School District because there is too much negative

1395
01:50:39,810 --> 01:50:46,370
misinformation. Fresno Unified School District has enough issues without us needing to make up stuff.

1396
01:50:46,370 --> 01:50:54,770
The second thing that I want to address as a parent is with Miss Keisha Thomas kept wanting to make a point of which is that

1397
01:50:54,770 --> 01:50:59,510
Officer is something that what they're doing is helping kids to feel comfortable around police.

1398
01:50:59,810 --> 01:51:09,310
I'm sorry, that is not the school's responsibility. As a mother with a black child, I actually don't want my children to feel absolutely 100% comfortable around police.

1399
01:51:09,310 --> 01:51:16,390
Why? Because in Edison region where those young black kids are stopped on a regular basis by police,

1400
01:51:16,790 --> 01:51:20,850
they're not being spoken to like they are SROs in a school campus.

1401
01:51:21,350 --> 01:51:28,130
So as black parents, we have conversations with our kids about how to respond when you are encountering the police.

1402
01:51:28,490 --> 01:51:35,010
The school district does not have the right to undo that safety and protection that black parents

1403
01:51:35,010 --> 01:51:40,090
that deal with police brutality on a regular basis are instilling in their kids.

1404
01:51:40,170 --> 01:51:41,650
I think I've been to that.

1405
01:51:42,370 --> 01:51:47,010
You don't have the right to re- indoctrinate our kids with your own concepts.

1406
01:51:47,490 --> 01:51:51,970
It's important for our kids to understand how to engage with police,

1407
01:51:52,170 --> 01:51:55,390
and it's not how you deal with them as RROs on campus.

1408
01:51:56,070 --> 01:51:56,830
Thank you.

1409
01:51:57,430 --> 01:51:59,350
Our final speaker will be Senator Saladone.

1410
01:51:59,350 --> 01:52:00,090
It's

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01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:14,060
good evening. I think I mentioned earlier that my son is a senior this year, so I've actually been reflecting a lot about his experience since he started in T.K.

1412
01:52:14,860 --> 01:52:21,860
So I just wanted to mention I just wanted to start to end my comments tonight by seeing that not everything is negative in the district.

1413
01:52:21,980 --> 01:52:29,680
There's actually been some really good progress that I wanted to think all of the district staff and the board for helping to achieve. I was looking at

1414
01:52:29,680 --> 01:52:29,960
And...

1415
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:44,580
The latest LCAP data earlier about and just noticed there's actually some improvement that's happening in our district that I really wanted to appreciate, that there's been improvement in our SPAC scores.

1416
01:52:45,460 --> 01:52:58,960
I think both in math and in English the district actually had an increase of almost 10 points, but a couple of things that actually stood out for me and specifically around long-term English learners and foster youth.

1417
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:04,440
English learners had almost an 18-point jump in English

1418
01:53:04,440 --> 01:53:11,480
scores, and foster youth had an almost 18-point jump in math scores if I

1419
01:53:11,480 --> 01:53:15,180
remember with the data correctly, and we've also had an increase in

1420
01:53:15,180 --> 01:53:19,520
graduation rates. I think it was about a five-point jump. So I just wanted to

1421
01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:24,380
say that that is, that is great progress, and that I think that we need to

1422
01:53:24,380 --> 01:53:28,580
make sure that our budget aligns to continue that momentum. That, like, yes,

1423
01:53:28,580 --> 01:53:34,920
areas still gaps, specifically around making sure that our young folks are prepared to continue

1424
01:53:34,920 --> 01:53:39,680
to pursue higher education. And so, of course, there's always room for growth. And there's

1425
01:53:39,680 --> 01:53:43,800
always room for improvement, but I don't want to lose sight of the fact that even since

1426
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:50,840
I graduated from Roosevelt many years ago, that there has been progress at Fresno Unified. And

1427
01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:58,740
just want to just end the night by saying thank you for that work. And I also just wanted to

1428
01:54:00,040 --> 01:54:06,240
highlight the fact that there's also been improvements in our facilities and that I recognize

1429
01:54:06,240 --> 01:54:12,520
the importance of field trips, which many folks have mentioned tonight, but that our young folks spend

1430
01:54:12,520 --> 01:54:18,440
most of their day in our facilities. And, you know, my son went to Yosemite, middle school, and when

1431
01:54:18,440 --> 01:54:24,620
He was at Yosemite Midosquan, fortunately, they didn't have a functioning AC unit in their gym.

1432
01:54:25,660 --> 01:54:31,820
But thankfully, the kids going to Yosemite now do, and so those are some of the improvements

1433
01:54:31,820 --> 01:54:37,160
that we've been able to see in our facilities, and so I'm just grateful for that, and then

1434
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:42,200
I'm also grateful for his experience at Design Science, and he's had a wonderful last four

1435
01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:46,520
years, and so I just wanted to end the night by saying that I am grateful for the progress

1436
01:54:46,520 --> 01:54:50,400
that we've been making and recognize the fact that we have a long way to go, but thank you

1437
01:54:50,400 --> 01:54:51,900
for that. Thank you.

1438
01:54:56,640 --> 01:55:02,220
Yeah, maybe because I heard some comments about where why I'm sitting here

1439
01:55:02,220 --> 01:55:08,480
and not superintendent her, you know, a killer for not being here today, but she fell ill over the weekend

1440
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:14,820
and as as late as four o'clock today, still still still, she was still about to try to come in.

1441
01:55:14,940 --> 01:55:19,830
So we convinced her to go ahead and stay home to rest up because we need her energy for

1442
01:55:19,830 --> 01:55:23,770
for the future, so that's what I wanted to make sure I clarify that.

1443
01:55:24,150 --> 01:55:25,190
Thank you, Ben.

1444
01:55:26,530 --> 01:55:31,710
Now I would like to invite my fellow trustees to share a reflection related to our shared commitments.

1445
01:55:36,460 --> 01:55:38,580
We'll call up a trustee with you.

1446
01:55:38,580 --> 01:55:39,860
Thank you.

1447
01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:48,080
I just wanted to talk a little bit more about the board policy for the death of a child.

1448
01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:52,540
if it happens, if that were to happen, well, a child was in our care.

1449
01:55:53,320 --> 01:56:01,540
And I sent an email to the Board by law committee this week asking for some specific components

1450
01:56:01,540 --> 01:56:09,460
to be in that board policy, such as any time that a child dies well under our care, which

1451
01:56:09,460 --> 01:56:16,740
has happened a couple of times now, it would trigger an immediate independent investigation

1452
01:56:16,740 --> 01:56:25,060
into what happened before the incident, a timeline of actions and behaviors taken when that

1453
01:56:25,060 --> 01:56:30,220
emergency happened, and what happened afterwards by an independent investigator who answers

1454
01:56:30,220 --> 01:56:39,320
to the board. And the purpose for that would be to be protective to make sure that we are

1455
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:44,560
strengthening our protection and our care for our students, that if we have training that

1456
01:56:44,560 --> 01:56:56,340
was missed that we're doing that, that we are debriefing to explore anything that might negatively impact a child in our care.

1457
01:56:57,020 --> 01:56:58,740
And so I just wanted to share that.

1458
01:56:58,740 --> 01:57:04,040
And I do look forward to seeing a draft for us to look at and to adopt.

1459
01:57:04,740 --> 01:57:05,840
Thank you.

1460
01:57:06,780 --> 01:57:08,660
We'll turn next to Trustee Cassettis.

1461
01:57:08,940 --> 01:57:10,580
Thank you.

1462
01:57:10,580 --> 01:57:17,860
I also wanted to share that one of the positive outcomes of the Fresno Fiscal District

1463
01:57:17,860 --> 01:57:23,120
is our new automatic admissions program with UC Merced.

1464
01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:30,380
And I want to congratulate Esther and senior in the audience tonight that has received an

1465
01:57:30,380 --> 01:57:37,120
email from Duncan congratulating you for being eligible for the automatic admissions program

1466
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:38,060
to UC Merced.

1467
01:57:43,050 --> 01:57:46,850
But that really is a testament, that really is a testament to staff.

1468
01:57:47,910 --> 01:57:50,850
We as parents try our best, but he's here most of the day with staff.

1469
01:57:51,610 --> 01:57:54,130
So thank you to his students and his counselors and his principles.

1470
01:57:54,330 --> 01:57:55,270
He's had over the years.

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01:57:56,150 --> 01:58:08,070
I also wanted to share a little bit about the echoing the concerns for the policies for what

1472
01:58:08,070 --> 01:58:10,150
We do after a tragic death at one of our students,

1473
01:58:10,350 --> 01:58:12,050
I'm also concerned with that and would like to follow up

1474
01:58:12,050 --> 01:58:14,330
and be an evenier assistance to that as well.

1475
01:58:14,570 --> 01:58:16,090
Thank you.

1476
01:58:16,090 --> 01:58:16,690
Thank you.

1477
01:58:16,770 --> 01:58:17,890
Trustee Jonathan Roses.

1478
01:58:19,550 --> 01:58:21,690
So just two plugs.

1479
01:58:22,330 --> 01:58:25,050
One is for our workshop next week.

1480
01:58:25,710 --> 01:58:28,630
I appreciate people being very interested in our budget

1481
01:58:28,630 --> 01:58:31,370
and our attendance and how all that gets calculated.

1482
01:58:31,670 --> 01:58:35,090
Really, we'll have a lot more in depth conversation next week,

1483
01:58:35,090 --> 01:58:39,770
a same time, same place, would love to have view all there.

1484
01:58:40,590 --> 01:58:46,230
And then we'll also be having, they're open to the community, please correct me if I'm wrong,

1485
01:58:46,950 --> 01:58:53,950
but some additional training for people that are seeking to be on the sport, but also just

1486
01:58:53,950 --> 01:59:00,550
the community in general on what we're doing in terms of outcomes-focused governments.

1487
01:59:01,810 --> 01:59:07,510
and that'll be our goals in guardrails and the new process and how we're conducting

1488
01:59:07,510 --> 01:59:08,690
ourselves a support.

1489
01:59:09,150 --> 01:59:12,770
Thank you, Trustee Cossett, for really taking the lead on that, but I also encourage

1490
01:59:12,770 --> 01:59:16,410
people who really want to get more involved to come to those.

1491
01:59:16,510 --> 01:59:17,790
We have a couple of sessions.

1492
01:59:18,230 --> 01:59:19,370
Where are they, public?

1493
01:59:19,670 --> 01:59:23,950
Because there is one that is meant for our public and our parents and teachers that

1494
01:59:23,950 --> 01:59:25,970
have an anybody who's wanting to join us.

1495
01:59:25,970 --> 01:59:35,530
It is Thursday, September 17th from 5 to 8 p.m. Location, the location for that session is

1496
01:59:35,530 --> 01:59:41,250
actually in the border. Thank you. Yeah, and so there will be diving deeper and can answer

1497
01:59:41,250 --> 01:59:48,150
questions specifically as to this model of governance that we've undertaken these past couple of years.

1498
01:59:48,750 --> 01:59:49,630
So, welcome to the public.

1499
01:59:53,050 --> 01:59:57,870
Thank you. So, I do have a couple of announcements as well.

1500
01:59:58,370 --> 01:59:59,970
Thank you for reminding about the...

1501
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:28,880
Board workshop. I really want to encourage people to come next week. That will be here at 5 p.m. We do have a couple of listening sessions. So earlier, there was a comment about, do we ever listen? Do we ever go out and do we ask questions? And the responses, yes, we do. We had a series of listening sessions last year. There are a number of listening sessions. I know, Trustee, General Center also says conducted a few. So there will be one next Tuesday. It will be at Bernie Elementary.

1502
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:33,380
and you're welcome to attend that at 5.30 pm.

1503
02:00:34,020 --> 02:00:36,560
We also will have a special listening session.

1504
02:00:37,120 --> 02:00:39,380
It will be on a Saturday on October 3rd

1505
02:00:39,380 --> 02:00:40,720
at the Betty Rodriguez Library.

1506
02:00:40,880 --> 02:00:43,240
We're also going to have a featured book reading

1507
02:00:43,240 --> 02:00:47,020
by Adamita Esminos on that night.

1508
02:00:47,200 --> 02:00:48,760
So we're excited for that.

1509
02:00:50,200 --> 02:00:53,600
The other thing that I did want to mention tonight

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02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:57,640
is that today was a spectacular day for a number of reasons.

1511
02:00:57,640 --> 02:01:04,180
And I was so proud to attend today's official launch of the Yes on S campaign.

1512
02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:11,040
This is what we are now calling better road safer streets and this board did take

1513
02:01:11,040 --> 02:01:13,800
a vote to support this.

1514
02:01:14,640 --> 02:01:19,680
So to my colleagues, thank you all for endorsing this measure to our students.

1515
02:01:19,940 --> 02:01:21,440
This is about you.

1516
02:01:21,460 --> 02:01:26,160
Measure S will ensure that you are safe walking, biking, driving or rolling to and from

1517
02:01:26,840 --> 02:01:37,180
Additionally, measure S will provide free transit for every student making it easier for our students to get to our schools and colleges, which also helps raise our educational achievement goals.

1518
02:01:37,580 --> 02:01:44,200
This measure will also help address the very budget challenges we face today by providing free transit to our students.

1519
02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:54,200
Lastly, it requires us to partner with the cities and counties to ensure that we are investing in the most important infrastructure projects needed to ensure safe routes to school.

1520
02:01:54,200 --> 02:02:00,500
So I hope that you will be willing to join me in supporting this effort and keeping our students safe.

1521
02:02:01,880 --> 02:02:05,060
Trustee Thomas did jump in, so go ahead.

1522
02:02:05,260 --> 02:02:09,200
So I just wanted to give a shout out to my new principal over at Edison.

1523
02:02:10,260 --> 02:02:13,600
She's amazing, this Blanco is amazing, an amazing principal.

1524
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:23,180
And today the Williams Act, Williams Act people were there and they shared how impressed they were with the amount of instruction

1525
02:02:23,180 --> 02:02:26,360
and that was happening in all of the classrooms around the whole campus.

1526
02:02:27,180 --> 02:02:33,460
So I just want to tell her congratulations on a great start to a school year, and I'm very proud

1527
02:02:33,460 --> 02:02:35,120
of my teachers that are there.

1528
02:02:38,140 --> 02:02:39,000
Thank you.

1529
02:02:40,660 --> 02:02:45,220
With no further business for the sport this meeting stands adjourned at 937 PM.