June 16, 2022: Budget, LCAP, the 2022 Election Order and a $39.2 Million Preserve School Site

The Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education adopted the 2022/2023 budget and Local Control and Accountability Plan, ordered the November 2022 board election, and approved the land purchase for Preserve School #2, each on a motion by James Na seconded by Don Bridge 1234. The packet put the land price at $39,210,000 5.

About the record. The archive holds no minutes PDF for this meeting. The record used here is this meeting's draft minutes, which the district printed in the July 21, 2022 agenda packet, pages 67 to 73 1. On July 21 the board approved those minutes on the consent calendar 6, and none of the changes read into the record that evening concerned them 6. Names, motions and outcomes here come from that draft; item details and figures come from this meeting's agenda packet.

🔒 Closed session and appointments

President Christina Gagnier called the meeting to order at 4:30 p.m.; Na arrived at 4:35 p.m. and Andrew Cruz at 4:57 p.m. 1. The board met in closed session from 4:30 to 5:05 p.m. on student discipline matters, administrative appointments and the superintendent's performance evaluation, then reconvened at 6:00 p.m. 1.

The board reported these appointments 17:

• JuliAnn Lopez, principal of Rolling Ridge Elementary, effective July 11, 2022.
• Monica Hyland, principal of Country Springs Elementary, effective July 11, 2022.
• William Cary, director of transportation, effective July 1, 2022.
• Willa McReynolds, director of special education, effective July 1, 2022.
• Jeanette Kwon, assistant principal of Butterfield Ranch Elementary, effective July 18, 2022.

🤝 Employee representatives

Barbara Bearden, president of CHAMP, congratulated the newly appointed administrators, extended retirement wishes to Dr. Johnson, director of health services, and to Paula Thomas, principal of Rolling Ridge Elementary, and wished everyone a good summer 1. In the recording she credited Dr. Johnson with "introducing schools to the mtss framework" 7.

📣 Public comment

The draft minutes list three people who addressed the board on items not on the agenda: Jim Gallagher, to announce a Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce event; Agnes Mazur, regarding mental health efforts; and Misty, regarding special education student needs 1. Each subject belongs to one named speaker, so this page does not summarize the remarks beyond the minutes' subjects.

✅ Action items

All five action items were moved by Na and seconded by Bridge 12.

• 2022 election order. The board adopted Resolution 2021/2022-83, the order of election for governing board members whose terms expire December 9, 2022 13. The resolution sets an election of two governing board members on November 8, 2022, its cost to be billed after the election 88.
• Budget. The board adopted the 2022/2023 budget for all funds and authorized the superintendent or designee to sign the district's certification of budget adoption 23. The memo, prepared by Associate Superintendent Sandra H. Chen and Fiscal Services Director Liz Pensick, says the general fund budget meets the minimum statutory reserve through 2024/2025; the public hearing was held June 2 910.
• LCAP. The board adopted the 2022/2023 Local Control and Accountability Plan 23. The packet lists its cost as $48,548,032 and its effective date as July 1, 2022 10.
• Title I. The board approved the Title I schoolwide programs waiver and the recommendation for schoolwide programs as the best way to serve students at Cattle Elementary and Briggs K-8 23. The memo says both schools qualify because at least 25 percent of their students are low income 11.
• Preserve School #2. The board approved the land purchases for Preserve School #2 24. A memo from Assistant Superintendent Gregory J. Stachura says that under the July 15, 2021 purchase agreement with Chino Holding Company, doing business as Lewis Development, a neutral third-party appraiser on May 20, 2022 sided with Lewis's appraisal of $39,210,000 5. A June 2021 CEQA notice on the state's CEQAnet database describes the project as acquiring a 12-acre lot on East Preserve Loop, between Market and Academy streets, for a K-8 campus 12.

Joe Schaffer left the meeting at 6:17 p.m., after the action items 2.

📋 Consent calendar

President Gagnier pulled item III.D.2, agreements for contractor and consultant services, for separate action. The board then approved the remaining consent items on a motion by Na, seconded by Bridge 24. Among them:

• The June 2 minutes, and Resolution 2021/2022-84, board compensation for James Na for the June 2 meeting he missed 2.
• Five student expulsion cases, and payments for legal services to Margaret A. Chidester & Associates and Tao Rossini, APC 2.
• A resolution allowing district-wide waste handling to be procured without competitive bidding, and the solid waste disposal and recycling contract with USA Waste of California, Inc., dba Waste Management 13. The packet says the current hauler had no compliance strategy yet for the state's organic-waste law, that two companies proposed, and that the district wanted the hauler Chino, Chino Hills and Ontario use 1415. The proposal memo estimates the cost at $665,415 a year 15.
• Two bids to Wakeco, Inc.: the warehouse refrigerator and freezer replacement and the Allegiance STEAM Academy portable project 13. The packet lists Wakeco's bids as $248,000, the lowest of three, and $540,000 for three classroom portables, to be reimbursed by Allegiance STEAM Academy 1516.
• Personnel items and a new job description for School Community Liaison/Bilingual-Mandarin 13.

On item III.D.2, again moved by Na and seconded by Bridge, the board approved and ratified the agreements, and the draft minutes record that Gagnier recused herself 134. In the recording the reason given for pulling the item was a conflict of interest 4.

ℹ️ Information items

The board received the report on Local Indicators for the California School Dashboard and the A-G Completion Improvement Grant Plan for information 13. The dashboard memo reports the district met the standard on all five local indicators 17.

🏛️ Board communications

Don Bridge extended well wishes for the summer and the approaching Fourth of July weekend 13.

James Na asked that a coordinator or supervisor from the special education department meet with the parent who had addressed the board on special education 13. He spoke about meeting students' social and emotional needs and about inter-district transfers, asked for support for site principals, teachers and support staff to build a good culture, and spoke about politicians from Sacramento hurting public education for past decades 13. In the recording he said "i would say no to low quality politicians from sacramento" 18. He thanked parents for attending meetings, acknowledged parent Sonja Shaw, and said one of his most delightful moments as a board member was attending special education dances 13.

Andrew Cruz spoke about the importance of social-emotional learning and school counselors, said it is important to be proactive to lessen the emotional strain he said was coming, acknowledged Associate Superintendent Sandra Chen of business services for a job consistently well done, and spoke about divisiveness 19.

He read part of SB 1273 and questioned how the bill supports safety 19. In the recording he said the bill "removes mandatory reporting" 20 of "school threats to law enforcement" 20, and asked to be corrected at the next board meeting if he had it wrong 20. WitnessLA reported in May 2022 that under the bill educators would decide whether to report a student who attacks or threatens a school employee, while firearm reporting would stay mandatory 21. ACLU California Action's bill page lists the bill's status as failed 22.

He listed the 10 deadliest cities in the United States and said the common factor is Democratic mayors 19; in the recording, "their mayors are democrats" 23. He spoke about the term Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) in healthy young people, which the minutes say has baffled doctors, and about the push for mandatory vaccinations of students; said it is important to have people doing what is best for kids; and spoke about evictions and the homes people lost in 2008 19. In April 2022 the CSBA Blog had reported that the state's student COVID-19 vaccine requirement would come no sooner than July 1, 2023 24.

Superintendent Norm Enfield made no comment 19.

President Christina Gagnier asked for a recommendation from Dr. Enfield and the cabinet on adding further school safety supports on junior high school campuses, and on what can be done to enhance those supports 19. In the recording the request covers "our junior high and high school campuses" 25; the draft minutes name junior high campuses only. She said the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce has its grand reopening on June 30, and announced that the district's online one-stop shop for mental health resources launches on July 1 19. She adjourned the meeting at 6:33 p.m. 19.

An independent, community-maintained summary of public records, not affiliated with Chino Valley Unified School District. Names, motions and outcomes come from the approved draft minutes; item details and figures come from the agenda packet; quotations come from the recording's captions.