Board of Education — June 14, 2022

Good evening, everybody. I would like to call this Board of Education meeting to order. Today is June 14th. This is our open session. I don't want to scare people out in the audience today, but we're looking at two volumes of agendas tonight, so settle in. I would ask Mrs. Rendler if she will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.

Please stand. And before we begin, I just want to wish everybody a happy flag day. Put your hand over your heart and ready to begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. I'll take a motion to approve the minutes of May 17th and May 24th, a regular meeting.

So moved. Second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, so approved. Oh, I've been reminded that I skipped B, the roll call, but I believe, we'll start with Mrs. Holihan since she pointed out that I forgot to do the roll call, so go ahead. Present.

We need this for the minutes. That's so.

Yeah, I know. That's no problem. Mrs. Ayala Quintero.

Present. Thank you.

Mr. Varra.

Present.

Mrs. Randler. Present. Mr. O'Neill. Present. I'm here. So I am now ready to go to part six of our agenda, community input. for agendized items. This is the time that any member of the public may address the board on any agenda item before or during the board's consideration of the item, provided the person submits a registration card. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized, step up to the podium or microphone, announce his or her name and trustee area if they know it. I will in the interest of facilitating the business of the board limit the amount of time which a member of the public may use in addressing the board to three minutes unless the chairperson or majority of the board determines that a different time limit is appropriate. Mr. Paul Blatchley has requested to talk to us about an agenda item. Welcome, Mr. Blatchley. Good evening, board members, superintendent, cabinet,

My name is Paul Blatch and I live in trustee area five. I was just curious about you have an agenda item under ed services where you're creating a new elective course about training the musical theater artist. I'm just wondering if that's going to be offered at all the high schools, and are you going to be hiring somebody to teach that course at all of the high schools, someone to teach it at each individual high school, or are you going to be relying on the existing theater arts or drama staff to teach that class. The class looks very interesting. I have a student in the district that's very interested in musical theater. My concern is that I don't know that every teacher teaching drama at all of the high schools are qualified to teach that class. I'm just wondering if you're gonna hire somebody, and if you're gonna offer it at all the high schools, and if you aren't gonna offer it at all the high schools, where do I have to send my daughter to attend it? Thank you.

Okay, that's found in item 13, letter D. Have you talked to anybody at the district office? Mr. Blatchley, Ed Services, Dr. Wagner would be the person probably to talk to, or actually, who is it? Oh, Julie Swan, sorry about that. And Julie just happens to be here tonight. How wonderful. So Mr. Blatchley, I would love for you to talk to Mrs. Swan, who's here tonight, and I think you'll get the answers to those questions specifically. So how nice that worked out. Save you some time. Thank you. All right, let's move on to a special announcement, actually. We're gonna move, with the permission of the board, or consensus of the board, I would like to move our announcements that occurred in closed session. So can I have consensus of the board to move that item from the end of the meeting to right now? We can just insert it in this agenda? No problem? Okay. Thank you. So, I have a great many human resources announcements to make, very excited to make these tonight. Our first one, in closed session, the board took action to appoint Rachel Malatesta to the position of Director II, Behavioral and Mental Health Services, effective July 1st, 2022, at year five of the management team's salary schedule with the following vote, Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Rendler, Vara, all voting aye. So congratulations to Rachel. Well, let's move on to the next one. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Apolonio del Toro to the position of director one transportation effective July 1st, 2022 at the year four of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Rendler, Vara, all voting aye. And I'm wondering if Mr. Del Toro is here tonight. Please, there he is, right there. Congratulations, and I see a special guest sitting next to you. Would you like to introduce her? You're welcome, thank you. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Christine Hubbard to the position of Coordinator IV, Categorical Programs and Educational Support, effective July 1, 2022, at year five of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Renner, Vara, all voting aye. Kristen, are you here tonight?

Yay!

Congratulations. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Devlin Clinton to the position of Coordinator for Instructional Technology and Student Data Systems, effective July 1, 2022, at the year four of the management team salary schedule, with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Renner, Lara, all voting aye. So Devlin, where are you? Congratulations. In another item on closed session, the board took action to appoint Troy Martinez to the position of principal alternative program and adult education, effective July 1, 2022, year four of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Renner, Vara, all voting aye. So Troy, you're in the back row there. There you are. And you have somebody next to you there. Would you like to share who that is? Congratulations. Thank you. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Natalie Johnson of the position of assistant principal, Clement Middle School. Effective July 1, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Renler, Vara, all voting aye. So Natalie. Welcome. Welcome. Nice to see you. Thank you. And oh, she has some guests too. Do you have guests with you? You know what, we're gonna make him stand up and take a bow. That's all right, yes. Nice to meet you. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Todd Harris in the position of assistant principal, Moore Middle School, effective to be determined at year five of the management team salary schedule with the following vote, Ayala Quintero-Hollihan, O'Neill Randler-Vara voting And Todd, it's hard to see with these lights, but there you are. Welcome. So you are sitting by yourself, so I guess you're not going to introduce anybody, right? Oh, go right ahead. It's just Tamika. Yeah. It's just Tamika. The person you were going to be working with. No?

It's just Tamika.

I might start rumors that way. Okay. Very, very good. Moore is just down the street from me, so Tamika, I'll need his cell phone number if that's okay. Yes, of course. Thank you. Just kidding. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Jeffrey M. to the position of Assistant Principal Brimmar Middle, no, it's not a middle school, Brimmar Elementary School, effective June 1st, 2022, year five of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holahan, O'Neill, Renoir, Vara, all voting aye. That's right, Dr. Robertson-Phillips, we haven't made Bryn Mawr a middle school yet, right? It's still an elementary school, is that correct? It says middle school here on my notes, I just wanted to make sure that. something we didn't know happened before starting, you know, people are listening to this, they're like, whoa, okay. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Blake Hardeman to the position of assistant principal, Crafton Elementary School, effective July 1st, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Everybody wanna say it with me? Ayala Quintero, Holohan O'Neill, Renler-Vara, voting aye. And I think Blake's here tonight. Welcome. Oh, she's with Jenny?

Oh.

Welcome, Jenny. Okay.

It's really hard for me to see anything out there.

I'm sorry. All right. Well, let's see. Let's go on to this one. In closed session, the board took action to appoint. Oh, dear. Michael, is it Lava? Lava, hmm, thank you, Mr. Lava, to the position of assistant principal, Highland Grove Elementary School, effective July 1st, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holahan O'Neill, Ren-Lorvaro, all voting aye. Welcome, Michael. That's our principal. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Christine Reynolds to the position of assistant principal to Judson Brown Elementary School, effective July 1, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan O'Neill, Renler, Vara, all voting aye. And I don't believe Christine was able to be here tonight. but congratulations nonetheless. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Christopher McClung to the position of Assistant Principal, Mission Elementary School, effective July 1st, 2022, at year three of the management team salary schedule with the following vote, the a la Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Ren-Lorara, voting aye. And I believe Christopher is here. Congratulations. Turn around, wave, there we are. Okay, there you go. Excellent, thank you so much. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Robin Rivera to the position of assistant principal, Smiley School, effective July 1st, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holahan, O'Neill, Renler, Vara, all voting aye. And Robin, I think, is here. Yes, hi Robin. How do you do?

Welcome.

Do you always have to hit him on top of the head to get his attention? Is that what you do? Okay. Whatever works. That's great. I get that treatment at home, too. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Cameron Yes, to the position of assistant principal, Citrus Valley High School, effective to be determined at year one of the management team salary schedule with the following voting. All voting aye. Vara, that's who I left off. Okay. There he is. Welcome. That's great. Congratulations and welcome. We'll try to get you the more expensive seats next time you can sit closer. Okay, there you go. All right, Dr. Robertson Phillips, did I miss anybody? Did I get them all? Let's give all our people that have been approved for new positions and welcome many to our district for the first time. Let's give them another big round of applause. Thank you. And if you are a newbie, you're not required to stay for the whole board meeting, okay? Just so you know. But it's always nice to see you. Let's see. Let's go to public hearing. We have two public hearings on the docket today. I'd like to call the first one to order. Public hearing on the initial proposal of the Redlands Teachers Association, RTA, to the Board of Education for the 2022-23 negotiations. Is there anyone who would like to address the board on this matter?

Hello, my name is Paul Blatchard, I live in trustee area five. I've been to a lot of these board meetings and you have these public hearings and you gather them in and you gather them out and nothing is ever said. I'm just wondering from a public standpoint as a constituent of the district, what is the information that you have around this item that the public could react to? Is there any written information, is there anything that could have been provided in the agenda at attachment, or something that would allow the public to either come in pro or against this public hearing item?

This is a time for input to this topic. Is there anybody else who has any input? Seeing none, I'll close this public hearing and open public hearing number two. Is there anybody wishing to address the board to provide any input on public hearing on Redlands Unified School District's 2223 balances in excess of minimum reserve requirements?

I live in trustee area five. Same comment regarding the first item, but in this case you did have an attachment. The problem that I have with the attachment is that it doesn't really explain what it is that's going on, what is the board doing. I know at some point during the school year, you move all of the money into one sort of consolidated spot. And then I'm assuming that you're allocating it back out as part of this item. So again, just from a public standpoint, either pro or against, what's some information I could have that would let me provide you guys some input from a constituent?

Any other public input? A little bit of this hearing is now closed. So Mr. Blashley, stay tuned for my comments at the end of the meeting, if you can, or you can go home and watch it on stream and I'll make a comment about what you just said, okay? We have some presentations tonight. So it gives me pleasure to introduce our Assistant Superintendent Jason Hill to discuss the Redlands Unified School District's annual budget for 2022-23. Mr. Hill.

Alrighty. I think we have a presentation coming down for you. It's going to be in front of you, so. All right, tonight I'd like to present for your guys' recommendation our 2022-2023 annual budget. I think some of the questions that Mr. Blatchley might have might be answered in this presentation. First, I'd like to thank my team. I couldn't do any of this really without them. They're the ones that do the bulk of the work, and specifically Brian Gugasberg, Sherry Gross, and Fernanda Navas. So I want to thank them. Next slide. Most of this budget is based upon the LEA's, we have to use the May revision notes. And so if you understand the budget cycle of the state of California, the governor will come out in January, give a proposed budget, and then he comes back in May and gives a revision. So this budget is based upon that revision. At the exact same time right now, the legislature is agreeing on their proposed budget, which I think was signed yesterday. I'm out of time. So now the governor and the legislature will have to come and reach an agreement, and they have 14 days for the governor to respond. So everything you see today is going to be based on the governor's May revision. Next slide. Some of the funding we're going to be using this particular budget year in terms of LCFF. The budget is built using assumptions from the Governor's May revision, which had several changes from January's proposal. The LCFF COLA. is currently set at 6.56%. So the budget we're using for this budget is, COLA we're using for this budget is 6.65% for 22-23. There's a proposed amount of an additional 3.2%. There's two competing amounts between the legislature and the governor on raising it beyond the 6.56%. But for this presentation, we're using the 6.56. We also have in here, which has a part to the reserves that we saw in one of our public hearing, is there's an additional amount of money, about $8 billion for the state of California, but it's a discretionary one-time funding. And so the governor has proposed giving each school district $1,500 per average daily attendance to be funded through LCFF. Total for about us is approximately $27 million. So you're going to see a $27 million kind of amount in this budget that we're moving around. And so I'll explain that in future slides. Next slide. Some major assumptions for this year's budget. We have an enrollment that we're projecting at 19,820 students. It's about 100 student decrease from last year. Our ADA, so the difference between enrollment is the amount of students who actually enrolled in the district. ADA is how many of those students show up to school each day. So we're expecting an ADA of about $18,983 for about 95.5% attendance. We have an unduplicated amount moving into next year at 69.85%. We're looking at about $12,456 for every one of those students who are attending school. We have a step in column increase of about $2.3 million that's built into the budget. We're going to see this reflected $1,500 per ADA one-time discretionary money. And then negotiations for the 22, 23 years are still open. The fact that they're open is going to see some effects on our budget for the 22 and the multi-year budget. So as we push out into those out years, you're going to see how the lack of a negotiation settlement yet will affect those out years. There's also a reserve cap that's in place for the 22, 23 years. So under Prop 98, when the state revenues exceed their expectation, we are limited to under 10% for a reserve cap. So you'll see over prior years, our reserve goes up and down. Moving into next year, it has to be below 10%. And our out years also have to be below 10%. Currently in this budget, you're gonna notice only the first year, next year is out, is under 10%. The following two years are not. So the public hearing was me presenting that our out years are not going to fall under that 10% cap. But we have a plan for that. So let's move on to the next slide. Moving into the out years, so we're talking 23-24 and 24-25. Implied COLAs for 23-24 are 5.38%, and for 23-24 is 4.02%. The prior two years have gone up based on those proposed amounts, but those are what's proposed at this point. LCF funding is COLA only, which means the only increase that we're preparing for are based on those COLAs above. 88 percentage remaining flat, but we have an enrollment decrease set for 23, 24, and 24, 25, which follows the trend of our average attendance. Everything moving into those out years are expenditure assumptions. We are guessing of what we're gonna spend based upon historical evidence in prior years. We're estimating step and column increase, what, 1.4%, which is the same that we're estimating 22 and 23. STRS compounding employer contribution for 23, 24, and 24, 25 right now has no change. So we don't see any increase in STRS in our out years. We do see a decrease in our PERS contributions in our out years, which is always a good thing. 35% increase for property and liability insurance and 5% increase in utility costs. We tend to see our insurance go up every year, about 35%. This particular year, the hardest insurance we have is cyber liability. It has skyrocketed the cost to protect ourselves against cyber threats, to see our greatest increase. And again, these out years do not include any bargained agreements. So we have no bargained agreement moving in our out years yet. Next slide. Here's our multi-year, so we have our 21-22 estimated budget. So as we finish this year, we're looking back on the year we're just completing. We had a beginning balance of a little over 81 million. We have revenues of a little over 323 million. Expenditures at 324 million with an ending fund balance closing out this year at 79,485,496. Our 22-23 budget, which is what we're looking at today, we're starting with that same ending fund balance. Our revenues, you'll notice, will increase. Our expenditures increase slightly. And our ending fund balance, you see the greatest amount falling into our ending fund balance, at a little over 107 million. As we move into 23-24, our ending fund balance is brought back up to the top. Our revenues are $303 million. I want to make a note, the difference between that $358 million in the 22-23 and the 23-24 is that discretionary one-time funding. That $1,500 per kid is coming in around $27 million for us. That's one time it's coming in this year. And then we don't get it in our out year. So you'll notice that our revenues will drop significantly as we move into the 23-24 and 24-25. Our expenditures will drop too. And then you'll notice those ending fund balances increasing to 119 million in 23-24 and about 135 million in 24-25. A couple things to note here is that $27 million that we're going to get next year has not been settled yet by the legislature. The governor proposed it in May. The legislature has a different proposal that they're proposing, so that is significantly more, but it comes in in a different direction. Our county has asked us that we at least put in the May revise amount at the 27 million, so that 27 million is reflected in our revenues, but we have not spent it yet because we haven't got it yet. So those have no expenditures that fall as of yet. So all of that 27 million falls into the ending fund balance. So that's unusual for this year. Normally we don't get such a large amount of money that just sits there. So you're gonna notice one of our resolutions tonight is committing money. What I'm gonna be asking the board is to commit that $27 million, which will remove it from our reserve cap. And then at a later point, once we actually receive the money, you can decide what to do with it. Next slide. As we talk about this particular budget, I want to go down unrestricted, which is the money that we don't have strings tied to it. We're looking at about $50,000 in non-spendable. We have about $2 million in revolving cash and prepaids. I like to remind the board that the revolving cash and prepaids have to do with the amount of money that we have in our stores, our warehouses. And our prepaids are our multi-year contracts. Whenever we sign any type of agreement, often we're given discounts if we purchase those agreements in multiple years. we have to hold the entire amount as prepaid. So that sits in that two million. As we move it down into committed, we have a committed balance of 48 million. Your 27 million I keep referring to as sitting in that committed fund balance. Our assigned is about four million. Our 3% reserve for economic uncertainty is sitting at about 9.9 million, unassigned at 15 million. Unassigned means we have no expenditures against it. Total about $79 million. As we move into the restricted pot, we're talking about money that comes in that has strings tied to it, a little over $28 million, and then you can see the totals to the right. So if you move down into the bottom, you'll see that ending fund balance of $107 million, 967. So that's that same number that you saw in the previous slide. Next slide, please. As we talk about that ending fund balance, these are signed items. So these are items that we have designated for specific purposes, but they have not been committed by the board. Donations that come in, so as we receive donations, those donations come into sites. We're about 783,000. Remaining SSP budgets across all of our school sites at 1.4 million. ETAC about 200,000, furniture and equipment allocation 500,000. We still have a remaining amount in the AQMD bus grant. We set aside about $100,000 for security costs. And then our non-textbook adoption lottery, it's about 958,000. So a total of $4 million sitting in assigned items, which means the district has use for that money to spend on these items here. Next slide. This is really our committed amount. I probably should have wrote committed at the top. But as we talk about the amount of money that you guys have committed to set aside for a specific purpose, I've split these adoptions up. K-12 science lottery you've seen in prior budget presentations. We have about $2.5 million sitting specifically for our K-12 science adoption. We're in the process of that now. Social studies is a prior adoption. Since it's committed, we can't spend it on anything other than social studies. So right now, we have 135,000 left in that budget. The math adoption and the English adoption are new. You're going to be asked tonight in one of your action items to do a few things. The first thing we're asking you to do is to uncommit $14 million from innovation and technology. You'll notice in last year's budget that innovation and technology was much larger. We're asking you to uncommit that money from innovation and technology and then recommit it for ongoing textbook adoptions. So we're estimating each one of those adoptions to sit about seven million. So the action item is to uncommit 14 million from innovation technology and then recommit seven million to each math and English adoption. So basically what you're saying is that you're taking money, setting aside specifically for these adoptions. The one-time board discretionary M.A. revised money you'll see is sitting at about $27.5 million. That's that $1,500 per child that's coming in this year. Because we have no expenditures against it and we're required to have our reserve cap underneath 10%, I needed to move that money somewhere because we don't have it to spend it, but I have to reflect it in our budget. So, I'm asking you to commit that $27.5 million until we have reason to use it. Innovation technology sits remaining at $2.9 million, and then we have a world language adoption that we have remaining in there at $1 million. So, total committed amount in this year's budget will be $48 million, $136.5 million. Next slide. And then the key components of our ending fund balance that's restricted, these are all items, special ed mental health, mental health services. These are all monies that have come in through state or federal grants that have very specific reasons to spend it. Each one of those items on the left show you the reason the money came in, and then the amount on the right is the amount of money we have remaining in those amounts. So this is all restricted funds. We have to use it only on these items, and we'll continue to use them on these items until we either don't get the money anymore or we've spent it all. Total amount of restricted items sits at $28,460,113. Next slide. So I know that was quick, a lot of information, but you have your, the entire budget analysis sitting in front of you. I didn't know if any of you had any questions. I apologize for moving quickly, but you're going to notice a few other action items in here that all pertain to this particular budget moving into next school year.

Yeah.

All right, Mr. Barra, go ahead.

Okay, I have two questions. What are the restrictions when it comes to spending the one time funds that we're receiving from them?

Right now there are no restrictions. What the money was given to us for was to maintain current staffing, social and emotional health, ongoing district costs. So that's what they've given it to us for and to offset the STRS increase this year and the PERS increase this year. So they threw a lot of taglines on it, but it will come in unrestricted through LCFF. Unless the legislature have a different proposal and the governor and the legislature agree on something else. The 27 million that you see reflected is based on the governor's recommendation for his May revise. And he's given it to us for those five reasons. So basically staff, facilities, insurance costs, One of the things that what he's recognizing is that districts all over the state have purchased a lot of things and got things started through COVID money. And once that COVID money dries up, they're not going to be able to maintain any of those services. So part of this money was to maintain those services.

And then my other question is, since we're moving the innovation and technology funds into textbooks, when we do the textbooks adoption, I think it would be a good idea for us to ensure that we look at textbook adoption where the students are going to access through technology, not necessarily having books, books. to minimize the cost, and now since we're going, we're, you know, into the 21st century of learning, I think it would be the best way to go. Yeah.

That was it. Thank you. Mrs. Renner, any questions?

Yeah, good.

Well, we certainly look forward to the superintendent's and the staff's recommendations for for this money, when and if, right? It's a when and if situation. But it's certainly encouraging and exciting to receive monies to really, enough money, significant amounts of money to really make an impact. So that's exciting.

I'm sorry, one other question. Sure. When we receive those 27 million one-time funds, is there a timeline? or do we get to keep it and use it as needed for the next several years?

There are no specifics to it yet. It's just a proposal. I have a feeling there will not be a time limit to it. We'll be able to use it as we see fit. Thank you.

Great, thank you. All right, we're on to presentation number two, Report of Redlands Unified School District's Local Indicators for 2021-22 School Year. Director Jamie Port's Accountability and Instructional Technology. You have the stage. We're back to observing, right?

Well good evening board members, Superintendent Arellano, cabinet and guests. So I get to present data to you twice a year. Typically in the fall I'll give you information about student test scores, but in the spring that's when we talk about local indicators. This is data that we collect locally through surveys and perception data. So next slide please. There are five areas that we collect data on locally. The first area is basic services. Then we have the implementation of state academic standards, parent engagement, school climate, and also access to a broad course of study. During this presentation, I'll give you a brief overview of each indicator. I'll share with you the information that we collected, and at the end, I'll provide time for some questions. So the next slide. The best way I like to explain the difference between a state local indicator and a local indicator is that some things can be collected in basic numbers, such as the total percentage of students who are suspended, the total percentage of students who are absent, and also test scores. But some things can't be collected by the numbers alone. It's perception data. And the way we collect perception data is often by the means of surveys. Next slide, please. So what are our requirements according to the state? The first thing that we need to do is we need to measure progress on these areas locally. And again, I said that most of it is done by surveys. Secondly, next slide, please, We need to report the results to the LEA's local governing board at a regularly scheduled public meeting, and that's what this is right here. And finally, we need to upload these reports publicly through the dashboard. So after tonight and into the early fall, I'll be uploading all of this information to the dashboard so that it could be viewed publicly. So tonight you'll see what we're entering prior to it being officially loaded. Next slide, please. So the first area, priority one, is basic services. And these are the three questions that are asked on the dashboard that I actually upload. The first question is this. What is the number and percentage of misassignments of teachers of English learners, total teacher misassignments, and vacant teacher positions? In Redlands Unified School District for 21-22, there were zero misassignments. The number and percentage of students without access to their own copies of standards align instructional materials for use at school and at home. For Redlands Unified School District, that's zero. And the number of identified instances where facilities do not meet the good repair standard, including deficiencies and extreme deficiencies, was zero for 2021-22. Next slide please. So, on the dashboard you'll see a check requirement met. Next slide. Priority two is the implementation of standards. For this one, as mentioned, there's a measurement tool, and that's an actual survey. This survey is administered to educational services and site administrators. The question that is asked on this area is to rate the local education agency's progress in providing professional learning for teaching to the recently adopted academic standards and or curriculum framework identified. Next slide. So in these areas, you're gonna see quite the obvious. The areas such as English language arts and math, which have been established for quite a lot longer in terms of textbook adoption, are gonna rate higher in terms of full implementation. And then your sciences, histories in social sciences and NGSSs are gonna be lower in full implementation and more in process of being implementation, implemented as we're going through professional development and learning more about the adoptions. So you'll see ELA is at 91.3% perception data on the survey. History and social science is 69.5% full implementation. Next slide. You'll see math is at 86.9% full implementation. NGSS full implementation, 22.7%. To put that into context, these are about the same, if not better than previous years. So that shows that we're continuing to get better in terms of implementation of state standards. Next slide, please. So you'll see on the dashboard requirement met. Next slide. parent engagement. So this one is measured by the Kelvin Pulse surveys. On this survey, we had 5,700 respondents. To put that into context, prior to us going to the Kelvin survey tool, we were around 800 respondents. So this is a really big improvement on our ability to reach multiple parents multiple times of the year and get their input. So again, this is the Kelvin Pulse Survey. So in the next slide, there's 10 questions that this provides you data on, and you have this in your board packet. You'll see that it's ranked by the highest level of perception to the lowest. On this survey, for this parent engagement survey, you can see that the highest rated were the school uses multiple ways to communicate with families. I mean, they have to put yes because they got to help in the survey. The school keeps all families informed about important issues and events. So we're seeing a big improvement in communication. And this was a question when we were doing the thought exchange several years back. So you see a real big improvement in those areas. Next slide. The lower ones, you'll see that teachers keep parents well informed about how their student's progress is in school, so it's a different type of communication. And then parents have opportunities to be part of important decisions about the school through surveys and advisory groups. It's kind of funny because they're taking a survey right here. Again, this is perception data. At the end of this presentation, I'm gonna tell you what we do with this information. Next slide please. Another neat thing that we are able to get from the Kelvin reporting system is we can break this information down in what we call a heat map. This allows us to look at the data by grade level, by school, and even student group. So we really dig deep into the data because those numbers that you saw just earlier, it's a big broad number and it doesn't tell the full picture. Next slide. Requirement met. Priority six is going to be your school climate information. We broke this down in two ways. We have an elementary climate survey and we have a secondary climate survey. On this particular one, we had 7,826 respondents. That's huge. That's an enormous response group. Next slide these next two slides are going to be the student responses and again. This is their perception of How how things are going at their school? Again rated highest to lowest this first one is there's an adult at my school who helped me if I need it that was the highest at 84% for elementary students and I feel safe at my school, that's 84%. And then you have staff at my school to school, treat students with respect, and that's 80%. Next slide, please. Your lower ones are, I feel that student drug and alcohol use is a problem at my school. We want that one to be low. Actually, we want that one to be lower. That came in at 58%. And students at my school treat each other with respect. That came in low at 61%. Next slide. Moving on to secondary school. This is grades six through 12. There is an adult at my school who will help me if I need it. Again, that came in high for secondary students, and I feel safe at my school came in high as well, relatively speaking for secondary. Next slide. And then our lower ones are my students at my school treat each other with respect, and I feel that student drug and alcohol use is a problem at my school. We want that to be low again, right? We want fewer people to say that. in a response to the survey. So requirement met. I just want to remind folks that when you see requirement met, we don't achieve a requirement met based on how good or how poorly these results come in. The requirement is met by providing the survey, reporting it at a locally scheduled board meeting, and uploading it to the CDE. So again, when you see requirement met, we're not saying that 43% of whatever meets the requirements. We're just saying that we met the requirements of the state of California for local indicators. The final one is a broad course of study, and that's given by a survey to ed services, principals, and APs. Next slide. How is broad course of study defined? A broad course of study for grade one through six includes instruction beginning in grade one through grade six in ELA, math, social sciences, science, VAPA, health, and PE. So when we ask this question to the elementary educators, we're asking, are we providing this broad course of study to the students? For secondary, a broad course of study is defined as English, social science, foreign language, PE, science, math, VAPA, applied arts, and CTE. So when we ask this question to the secondary folks, we're asking if we're providing this broad course of study to their students. So how did this pan out? Next slide. So you're seeing at elementary, you're seeing that perception, the perception of those who responded to the survey is that 83.9% of them feel that we're providing a broad course of study in elementary, and 92.3% feel that we're providing a broad course of study in secondary. Further, next slide. We broke this down by student groups. So you see that although it's 80, 2% broad course of study. It does pan out differently when you look at it by student group, when you break it down by English learners, economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, African American students, and so forth. This is just a sampling of the student groups that we look at. We look at all the student groups across the board. And you can see how it pans out for seven through 12. English learners, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and African Americans. Next slide. You see that the requirement in that area is met. So next slide. So that's a lot of information. The question then is, what do we do with that information? Do we just look at it and say, yay, or that's great or not? No. So as mentioned, we analyze the results. When you see a broad sweeping number like 92% feel that teachers treat me well, That doesn't tell the full picture. What we do then is we dig deeper. We analyze it by school. Is this different by school, from school to school? We analyze it by grade level. We analyze it by student groups. So we dig really deep into this information. After we analyze it, we look at the programs that we have in place to help school climate. the programs that we have in place for parent communication, the programs that we have for broad course of study, so that we analyze our current programs. Then we work with our stakeholders, that might be grade levels, that might be schools, that might be the parent communities, and we get into the root cause analysis of what we can do to help improve those practices. In many cases, we provide professional development to our staff. And finally, we establish goals. And just so you know, we're doing this this Thursday at the Administrative Advance with our administrators. So this is something that we do systematically when we analyze this local indicator information. So with that being said, that's my final slide. Next slide, please. Thank you, and are there any questions that I can assist you with?

All right. So we'll start at this end. Mrs. Holahan, would you like to ask Amy anything?

Thank you for the thorough presentation.

Trustee Ayala, do you have anything?

Hi there. I just have a question. Is it possible or when do you think we might be able to get an updated survey from the students, three to 12, on the school climate? I'm just a little concerned that only 84% of our elementary students feel safe. I would imagine lately, with things that have been happening right now, that it would be a lot lower now. And my concern is, students treating each other with respect and the fact that it goes down quite a bit at the high school level, that's something that I really want to address. So is there a way to get another survey?

So yeah, we do this survey once a month, so obviously we won't be able to get this information again from our students until the fall, but we'll be happy to share that information with you as it comes forward. We try to put it into context from that period during the year. It was really hard for us to contextualize that to last year because it was completely different last year with students being at home and then just coming back. So we're really looking at this as a baseline year. Obviously, the perception ebbs and flows with things going on in the community and in the world. So I agree with you. I'd be curious to see, because this last one was in April, I'd be curious to see How was that in May? How was that now? And how will that be in the fall? So we'll definitely be able to share that with you. Also, again, as I mentioned, when you see that number, 62% or 68%, that's hard to contextualize because it's just a global number for all elementary students. We really wanna break it down by school. Some schools may be different. Grade levels might be different. Just getting into elementary school, you might feel safer and it might go down. So those types of things also come into play in our analysis as well.

On the surveys, can we find out a total number of students that took the survey?

Um, yeah, the, the one, um, I think it's in here somewhere for the students. It, it mentioned 7,000 some odd, I believe. Oh, okay. So that's, yeah, it's, it's in there and, and again, we give it every, um, every month. So that number ebbs and flows around seven or 8,000. We would really like to see that number go up though. So, um, that's part of what we do with our, with our sites in terms of showing the importance of this data. If I was a principal, I would really want more of my kids to be able to do this, because the more that respond to this, the more clear picture you have for your school.

Jamie, thank you so much for the presentation. I do have one question. I know you're analyzing, I mean I know you're doing these surveys monthly through the Kelvin surveys. How often is this data being analyzed monthly and you're compiling everything monthly and then setting goals or is it every three months?

So it really depends on the stakeholder group. We have counselors, it's sort of a counselor professional learning community that meets on a regular basis that looks at the school climate data, or like the parent involvement data, that doesn't come in monthly. That comes in at different intervals. So we look at that with different groups. So it really depends on the actual survey that's given and the group that analyzes it. But we really try to analyze it as close to right after it's administered as possible.

Thank you. for the parent engagement parents and families five thousand seven hundred and three responses that is not by household that's individual responses just I'm just saying when I take the survey I'm answering for three or three children so technically my household would be three of those responses oh yes I see what you're saying it's it's

you're one person that responded, so per person, right? So we don't factor it in by the one parent and that's four, or you know, the whole household, exactly. So that's, people responded to that survey. So that's actually pretty good.

We're good? Yeah, it's important for individual schools to know how they're doing in each one of those dashboard areas, and I'm glad that you're disaggregating the data and looking at it, digging deeper than just the surface. and hopefully they get together and discuss it, and maybe somebody's got some success going and changing those numbers, and the rest of them can learn from each other. So that's great. Thank you for that. All right, we're up to presentation number three, Universal Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program. Director Jean Joy from Elementary Ed. Hi, Jean.

Hi, good evening. I also have a presentation. I get a lot of exercises. Good evening again President O'Neill and members of the board cabinet and community. I am very excited to be here tonight to share some of the changes to our early childhood programs here in Redlands Unified District as well as across the state. specifically the changes in how we implement universal transitional kindergarten. If you recall, in 2014, the Redlands Unified School District Board of Education adopted the implementation of transitional kindergarten, which allowed students who turned five years old between September 2nd and December 2nd the opportunity to have a whole year of school before starting kindergarten. And across the state, we've seen great gains in our students and less retention, meaning grade retention for students that have completed TK. So today I'm gonna talk to you about some new changes. So if you could change the slide, please. So Universal Transitional Kindergarten, or UTK, really falls under the umbrella of universal pre-K. And the plan that you have later this evening to vote really has that whole umbrella of early childhood programs. And I do want to say that I want to thank our state preschool teachers and staff and our TK teachers and kindergarten teachers for their input in volunteering some time to learn more and give input about what their program should look like, as well as Mary Piotano, who is not just the administrator at Elementary Rise and E Academy, but she did have duties this year. for coordinating early childhood programs, as well as RTA and Susan Act, a former TK teacher. I appreciate everybody's input in this process. You can go ahead and change the slide. So the umbrella of universal pre-K is all the programs in the state of California that address three and four-year-old children in our state. In Redlands Unified, we offer transitional kinder, which is in the purple side, state preschool at four of our sites, and special education preschool, or RC. We have just expanded our expanded learning opportunities. After having the grant this year, of course we offer ACES in the center green section, and some of the other programs are programs that are in the state, we just don't offer them in Redlands Unified at this time, which also includes licensed private childcare facilities. Okay, next slide. You know, just research shows that if we can have children in high quality activities that support their development, as well as their socialization, that better outcomes come not just in school but in life. So there's research behind offering early childhood programs. Next slide. There are specific new requirements for our early childhood programs, and tonight I'm mostly going to discuss the TK expansion. Really, there is a plan over the next three years to offer transitional kindergarten to more students, in fact, to our four-year-old students by the 25-26 school year, as well as the entire umbrella of universal pre-K being able to offer longer days as it relates to our after school programs, local community offerings, as well as our expanded learning offerings. Next slide. So this next slide after this is really our timeline that is really important for our TK students. So next slide. So in the white right now, all of our TK students that we have have turned five between September 2nd and December 2nd. And our class sizes are recommended at 24, although we can go up to 32 here in Redlands Unified. We do offer an early bird late bird with an overlap program. And that's what we've been offering since 2014 and We have a program at every elementary school and we even have offerings at the Academy and RISE. So next year we are extending the date to students who turn five September 2nd through February 2nd. So we're adding two months to that ratio or that timeline so students can start school August when we all come back, even if their birthday does not start until, or they don't turn five until September 2nd. There are some new requirements in that we have to have a ratio of one adult to every 12 students. Right now we have one adult for the 24 or up to 32 students in this overlap model. Starting next year, we will have one adult to every 12 students, and it's anticipated that we would have a certificated teacher and a paraprofessional supporting when we have higher than 12 students in the room. As we progress each year through all the way to 25, 26, we will be adding two more months to that age availability. So in the 23, 24 school year, we're gonna allow students that turn five between September 2nd and April 2nd the opportunity to attend TK for a full year. The next year we'll extend it even further to June 2nd to final full implementation is really for any four-year-old that will turn five between September 2nd and September 1st of the following year can be in universal TK. And you'll see at the 23-24 school year, school year, our ratios go down to one adult for every 10 students. As our age goes lower, we know that our students need more supervision, more assistance with a variety of developmentally appropriate activities, and so the ratios go down. And again, we look to serving our students through a certificated teacher and a paraprofessional. And then of course we do offer our state preschool programs, and our parents will be able to choose if the state preschool program is a better option for their four-year-old than the TK program, and those ratios are one to eight, one adult for every eight students. We currently have four state preschools that have an instructor and two paras. So this is the goal, is to get to this full implementation, and we've been working with, like I said, our teachers, our union, and parents on how to make this happen across the state of California and in Redlands Unified. Okay, next slide. So there are some funding opportunities and grants, and that's the portion that you will be voting on later tonight on the planning and implementation plan. Go ahead and... And... Basically, there's multiple parts to this specific grant, and then more grants coming our way. This first grant is just our base enrollment and supplemental grants, and you can see the breakdown of the allocations for Redlands Unified School District, and just last week, we were given our $341,636, and that is to be used on professional development, classroom resources and supplies, and any other costs for recruiting or hiring qualified teachers, which I'll talk about soon. Next slide. There are also competitive grants and the early education teacher development grant. We are partnering with our San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools as a consortium. We've applied for that grant and that will help further develop qualified teachers because there is the requirement that we have to have transitional kindergarten teachers who are qualified, meaning at least 24 early childhood units in their repertoire of certificate or degree. What we have done, actually we've been able to partner with our local community college, Crafton, and we already have 19 multiple subject teachers and two paraprofessionals in a cohort which started in March. They're taking asynchronous classes, and they're in their second class right now, and they will be fully qualified to teach TK if they so choose by next August of 2023, which is the requirement. We hope to be able to offer this type of cohort educational offering multiple times, and that is the part that we've partnered with San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools with. And next slide. Again, just the research shows if we have students that are connected to school early on that the outcomes are better for them in the long run and we are really proud of our TK and our state preschool programs as well as our RC programs and we look forward to expanding those in the upcoming years. And I think, I know we are prepared to do so and we're excited to see more students being able to participate in our awesome schools. Thank you. I'll take questions.

Thank you, Mrs. Joy. We'll start at the other end, Mrs. Randler.

I'll make this chair. Hi. Thank you, Jean. Just want to comment that my grandson was in the very first TK class in 2014, and it was wonderful. It gave him good advantages as he moved on, and I'm just happy to see that in the next few years we're going to be able to give this opportunity to every single student. Yeah, excellent.

Thank you. So, let me see. Right now we just have five... Five current TK teachers. So before the school year begins, each teacher needs, we have more than five?

We have 17 TK teachers, 16 at each of the elementary schools and one at the Academy and RISE. In the cohort of offerings, some of our TK teachers are fully qualified through their credential program. We have some that we've noticed needed a class or two or a set of classes. And so we have a cohort right now that has volunteered to take these classes. We are funding that for them. And so that was the breakdown of our program. Teachers that are in the cohort right now, so we're gonna need 17 paraprofessionals before the beginning of the school year As long as we are we need to maintain a ratio of 1 to 12 so we will make that right now What's the ratio across the board there isn't a ratio? It's one teacher for every TK classroom, which I know class sizes right now I Yeah, it varies. I'm gonna say the average is about 18 students in both at nine in the morning, nine in the afternoon.

So then we would need 17 paraprofessionals next year if we had the same type of enrollment.

Yes, for the time where there was more than 12 students. So right now we have an overlap time which would need to have an additional adult in the room if that TK classroom was over the 12th.

I just want to make a recommendation that we just have approximately 1,500 seniors graduate that we can probably pick from and get 17 students to become paraprofessionals. It's just an idea. But right now it's difficult to get people to cover positions at any job. But I'm glad that we are at the forefront and getting ahead of this. And I think we're doing an awesome job getting prepared because there's going to be a lot. of new students coming within the next six months, especially since they've made those changes. Dr. Robertson-Phillips, did you want to comment?

Yeah, I just wanted to let you know that we're trying to get out in front of that. We're actually having our first paraprofessional job fair, so the whole job fair is dedicated to paras, and we did advertise at all three high schools. All four high schools, actually. That's awesome.

Who wouldn't want to work with four-year-olds? Really? That'd be lined up around the block.

Well, this is certainly exciting considering we've been doing this now for quite a few years. And this is gonna be a time we're gonna need to hire a lot of new teachers, lots of opportunities. I like the partnership that we have with Crafton Hills College. That's great. And looking forward to seeing the progress that's gonna ease up for the parents who have daycare, some of those issues. But this is certainly exciting for the universal TK. I agree, thank you.

I've witnessed myself some of the programs and abilities and operations of our TK teachers in action, and it's amazing. You know, it's just the way that they nurture those kids and crowd those kids into doing what they need to do and the fun that they have with them and the learning experiences. It's very impressive, and so congratulations on all those programs, and to our teachers involved in that right now, and looking forward to the offerings for many more little ones. That's awesome.

I agree. Well done. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you. Presentation number 43, oh no, four. LCAP Committee Recognition, Dr. Ken Wagner, our Assistant Superintendent of Ed Services. Dr. Wagner.

Okay. Thank you very much, President O'Neill. And we're going to ask, give you a couple little bit directions real quick here. I'm going to ask Mr. Hill and Mr. Arellano to go on over to the other side of the room. There's a lot of LCAP committee members. However, you know, school's over, and so not a lot of them are here tonight. But we're going to recognize them anyways. We have certificates. We have cookies, things like that. We're going to call them up. Before I call names, if you are on our LCAP committee, if I could ask you to make your way over towards that TV screen over there on the side, and then as I call your name, then if you are here, then you'll come alongside the stanchion, barricade, whatever that's called over there, and then you'll come up on stage and stay up on stage. Okay, so we're going to start with our first group. Our first group is our management group, and our LCAP committee is made up of 48 members from various different groups. The first group is our management group. There's six managers in this group. I'm going to call all of them. If I call your name, though, come on up along the side and get your certificate and work your way across the stage.

I just want to make it fun and interesting. Thank you.

I appreciate that. Carly Norris, Greg Minton, Stephanie Locke, Jen Hoch, Marissa Butcher, and Christine Hubbard are our managers who sat on the OCAT committee this year. Thank you. We're going to move to our certificated staff group. We had eight members from our certificated staff. Nicole House, April Zanea, Kim Lott, Michelle Blumquist, Louise Chenour, Sue Apt, Jennifer Rodas, and Angel Jones. Looks like we have four of those here tonight. Okay, so far we're at 50%. 50% of our managers and 50% of our certificate here tonight. Good, good. We'll move on to our classified staff. We ended up with seven members of our classified staff. One didn't complete. So we'll read those. Gladys Kershaw, Tracy Cuevas, Candy Blanco, Marcus Dashoff, Casey Robertson, David Flores, and Fernanda Navas. Oh, one classified here tonight. Thank you for being here and representing the classified staff. CNS representing tonight. There you go. Our next group is our community member group. Eight representatives for our community members. We have Addie Romagnoli. I wanna Contreras, Travis Martinez, Sarah Stromwell, Shannon Bailey, Yesenia Jorgensen, Jennifer Brooksby, and Cherish Bowman. We got one of our community members. I know we had a second. She must have left. All right, our next group, this is one of our two big groups. There's 10 parents that sit on our OCAP committee from this group. Samantha Campos, Lizzie Antos, Lisa Ramirez, Melissa Albers, Dominic Woods, Singrid Sesmundo, Kristen Wilshire, Zach Tucker, Chad Rader, and Shannon Kelly make up our parent group. Thank you for coming tonight. And our last group, we have nine students in our last group. We're gonna read those. Frankie Russo, Emily Walters-Cook, Tora Bruck, Hugh Cockrum, Timothy Berry, Khanh Tran, Aisha Fordham, Varun Srivastava, and Jordan Dennert. And we have one student. So again, we want to thank our group of LCAP members that came tonight and those who were not able to come tonight who were participated in all of our zoom meetings this year. Next year, we're going to get LCAP back to in person again. But we have a big group and we appreciate it. Our LCAP committees, these individuals serve two year terms. Half of this group is finishing their second term and half of them just completed their first term and will move on to a second term. So we always ask for new members every year in dividing our LCAP committee up. So thank you again and gather here for picture. We're looking at Christine Stevens in the back there. Nice job, Alex. Thank you. Thank you. That was great. Thank you, Mr. Barra, for the superhero music.

Appreciate it. We are up to item seven. Well, first of all, any board members have any comments other than? Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Al Capstein.

All the time that you put in is much appreciated.

Yes, thank you.

All right, student representative report. Well, we don't have a student representative report, but what we do have is student trustees that have been selected by their high schools to represent them, and we are going to be meeting with them, and it's very exciting to have one of the very few student trustees in a school district. Probably can't count them on one hand. It's just not there, so I'm extremely honored and happy to read out the student trustees for the 2022-23 school year, and I'll read them by school. From Rev High School, Maria Norton, and the alternate is Frankie Russo. For E Academy, we have Olivia Johnson, and Reed Stair. For Citrus Valley, we have Haley Nagle, and alternate Jolene Bakalova. And then from Redlands High School, Aditi Patlola and Ariana Amada Stevens. And from Orangewood High School, Stephanie Schaab. So congratulations to our student trustees for the next school year. We will be working with them, listening to them, helping them, mentoring them, to be something that's unique among school districts and they will be participants and they will have a student voice for us to get to know exactly what it is that they're experiencing on their school campuses and things that they would like to see for their education. So we're all excited about it. Congratulations. Yeah. Absolutely. We were able to meet a few of them today, and they are all just very impressive young people, so it'd be great. We're up to item eight, board member committee reports. We'll go through them quickly. A, Kryra?

Because we had graduations last week, Our regular meeting was rescheduled and we will be meeting tomorrow.

Very good. Redlands Compact?

Compact will be meeting again when school starts.

Rep. Foundation?

All right, Repboard is very pleased with all they've accomplished this year and will spend time this summer planning for next year. AAA Academy Summer Enrichment Camp begins next week and there's still space available for incoming K through sixth graders. Information is available at AAAacademy.com. It's AAAacademy.com.

I'm writing those down. No, got them. Cultural Arts Commission has not met. Parks and Recreation.

Yes, the big talk this month is about the pump track, plans for the pump track for either skateboarders or BMX bikes or just regular road bikes, looking for possible spots. Sullivan Park is one of them. The company that does the pump tracks came out and did a presentation. It was pretty awesome. So look for that in the future. They're also talking about putting in some sort of a water splash pad type thing, but are also in talks with different organizations in town about using the pool for summer for parents to bring their kids and just families to come and enjoy some time to cool off. Rec Center will be open again this year as a cooling off center, so for those people who don't have air conditioning or who just really can't use their air conditioning because of cost, they can go to the Rec Center during the day and there will be games and things like that and then they'll have the air conditioning on so you can kind of spend a few hours in there. And also Redlands Community Services Recreation Guide is out for the summer. There are so many things in here to do with your kids, camps and just day trips and just different things. So go pick one up and have a great summer. And that's it.

Where do you pick those up?

At the community center.

At the community center.

And I'm pretty sure Chamber of Commerce might have them too.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Michelle. Sandabs?

The only thing I would like to mention with Sam Dabs is the governor did meet his June 15 deadline by signing for the budget, but we don't know more as Mr. Hill initiated earlier. So we'll keep tabs on that and then they will go dark for the summer starting in July.

And Delegate Assembly, they've been quiet, and I've also missed a meeting, so I have to catch up on what they're doing. Been too busy with our graduations and whatnot. Coalition to Support RUSD and the completion of RIV Athletic Stadium. Wow. We had a great groundbreaking. It was well attended. It was in the paper. It was exciting. And it's just an exciting time for the REV High School campus and all the students and staff involved. And I was quoted in the paper as, it was a silly quote, but I'll repeat it here because I don't mind being silly. It was a, going to, go ahead, Shelley, yeah. I can't remember what it was. No, it was turning a field of gophers into a field of dreams. I don't know why they caught that quote, but anyway, maybe there's some truth to it. All right, we're up to Section 9, Superintendent's Report. Thank you. Superintendent Arellano.

I'm going to ask Sabine to make a few statements and then I'll continue on with my report. Thank you.

Thank you. Tonight, the Redlands Education Support Professionals Association has presented their initial proposal for successor negotiations to the Redlands Unified School District Board of Education for the 22-23 school year. The public hearing on the association's proposal will be at our next board meeting, July 12, 2022. Also, we have presented the board's initial proposal for successor negotiations to the Redlands Teachers Association for the 22-23 school year. The public hearing for the board's proposal will also be at the July 12, 2022 Board of Education meeting. I also wanted to let the public know that any time we are in negotiations, we do sunshine all of the initial proposals in the local newspapers, and the local newspapers will then direct the public that they can look at the initial proposals, either at Smiley Library or they're welcome to come to the district office and the business services division and get a copy of those initial proposals in order to review prior to the public hearings of the board.

Thank you, Dr. Robertson-Phillips. Just as a footnote, we are considering a different date for not having a meeting on July 12th, but stay tuned. We might reschedule that board meeting following it, but we're gonna work that out.

Okay, well whenever we have the board meeting, we will sunshine those proposals.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I just knew that was getting out there and people might hear that and mark that on their calendars, but there's probably gonna be a change to that date.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Let me begin by thanking Jamie and Jean for your presentations today. I know that was a lot of work, but very informative for the community and for the members of the Board of Education, so thank you for your efforts. Thank you to HR, you see that they've been working hard and they've been working very quickly so that we can fill vacancies for the upcoming school year. And the working quickly isn't intended to be that we're lowering the standard. They worked very quick to be out ahead of all the other districts because good candidates have choices and so I really appreciate the work that HR has done. so that we could look for the best candidates available and have them land here in Redland. So thank you, HR, everybody's in the audience, and Sabine, appreciate that. And to Jason and his team of business services, putting together a school budget is a very complicated exercise. and it takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. So I want to thank your department, Jason, and everybody in your department for putting together a budget and for presenting it in such a clear manner. As you can see, it's even more complicated this year with the one-time funds and how we have to sign them, so we wanted to make sure that we were very transparent as to where those monies were being placed and that it's not a posturing position but a transparent position so that the members of the of the community and our union leader partners know exactly where the funds are being placed. So, Jason, thank you to you and your team for being very transparent with that. Appreciate it. As Member Hollyanne mentioned, we had a great week last week with the graduations that started with E Academy, Orange Wood High School, our three comprehensive high schools, then ending with adult ed on Friday. And ending with Adult Ed on Friday always leaves us with a great feel, right, on the weekend. There's always this great story. And on Friday, this young lady who told her story, she was very open about her story, suffering through alcoholism, depression, dropout, not feeling like she had hope, feeling, sitting in her bedroom, remembering sitting in her bedroom one night thinking that all was hopeless. And she got a card in the mail. And that card was the propaganda marketing document for adult ed. And she said, well, what the heck, I'll give it a try. And here she was graduating, graduating with distinction. She was the speaker of the ceremony, going to Crafton Hills so that she can finish her AA with a plan of going to UCLA to finish her psychology. And she seems very determined. So we have great programs in this district. The speeches that the children gave, the students gave during the graduations were man, were spot on, very, very intelligent, well written, and even well timed humor in a lot of that. And we need that in these days where there's so much tense and angst and anger. They did a great job modeling to the community. about what it is to be kind and be serious in a very professional manner. So congratulations to all of our programs and their graduations of last week. We had the opportunity to celebrate and honor all of our retired teachers and all of our retired classified employees. And that was a lot of fun and we had a nice dinner, we had a nice board presentation. And then last week we had the opportunity to recognize a few of our managers who are retiring. So I wanted to take a moment to publicly, I'll start with two now, then I'll end with a very special one at the end. I want to thank Jim Canales, assistant principal at Bryn Mawr, for 35 years of service to the Redlands Unified School District. Mr. Canales is a very nice man, done a great job working with kids, supporting teachers, and he's one heck of a basketball player too, right? Alex, he's part of a little basketball group. But Jim, we're going to miss you. Thank you so much for your many years of service. I also want to recognize Catherine Overgon, assistant principal at REV, who's done an outstanding job supporting the REV way, and she will be sorely missed. What a wonderful person, always has a smile on her face, very well versed in curriculum, always willing to jump in and help. Her presence is going to be missed. But in talking to Catherine, she has a lot of plans to spend time with her grandkids and her family. So Catherine, thank you so much for all of your years of service to the Redlands Unified School District. As President O'Neill mentioned, we had a wonderful groundbreaking ceremony at Reb Stadium. It was just so exciting just to be in that moment because we've had a lot of tough conversations over the years and we had to make a lot of difficult decisions and we had to make some compromises knowing that the decisions we were making was compromising some other potential issues. But I'm really proud, and I think I mentioned at the groundbreaking, the work that Jason Hill and his team have done to be creative with the redevelopment funds and some of those restricted funds to plan out the stages to build the stadium and get the community excited. It's just really good to be a part of that. And REV has been waiting a long, long time to build that stadium. So I'm very pleased that we're here all together to be part of those beginning stages of that stadium. So Jason, again, congratulations to your out-of-the-box thinking, and board, thank you for your commitment to making that happen. I do want to thank all the members of the LCAP committee that were here or couldn't make it here today. 40 members that came together from the community representing parents, classified employees, certificate employees, students, teachers, administrators, who come together and help us create an advisory to you, the Board of Education, on how to spend those funds for our students who need it the most. So I commend them for the time that they put in, volunteer every month on their own, to come and tell us what it is that we need, they analyze data along with the district, and then they provide an advisory statement document to the board, so I wanna thank them for their work, and as you saw, the folks over here, nice people, great people, hard workers, and just very caring for our district, so thank you. So I want to end with our last retiree that I want to speak to, Heidi MacKamal, who is tonight serving her last board meeting. And I tell you, it has been a true honor to work alongside Heidi. She has made my job here as a superintendent, when I first came into this moment, as easy as she could make it for me. She's been very caring for me, not only work related, but even emotionally on those tough days. She is a kind person. She is a loving person. She has worked so hard to make our lives easier, organized. She's always there when you need her. And I mean that in so many ways, not only just work-related, but sometimes you just need someone to cry with, you need someone to laugh with, you need someone to counsel with, you need someone to talk to. Thank you, Heidi. I know we're going to celebrate you more properly on Monday, but I tell you, you have been an angel to me, and I love you very much for everything that you've done for me, for the Board of Education, but more importantly, for this Redlands community here. You will be missed. Thank you. And that is the end of my report, President.

I've never known Heidi to forget something. She's always got everything prepared. Where's the Kleenex? Okay. Well, we better get this other business taken care of. We're up to item 11, business services consent items. Mr. Hill, any corrections, additions?

I have a correction clarification. If you look at item I, as regarding the inspection and testing for the soil at Redlands East Valley High School, for the track and field project, the stadium, it states $76,844.25 and zero zero cents. You just drop off the zero zero cents. So the amount is $76,844.25 without that additional zero zero. Okay.

So I'll take a motion to approve all consent items as detailed in items 11B to 11JJ.

So moved. Second.

Any discussions?

It's great to be able to approve summer camps, band camp, cheer camp, Catalina coming in the fall. It's just great to see that.

I just want to make a comment on if I'm glad that we're getting that gaggle safety management because it's imperative nowadays that teachers have access to see what the students are looking at as they're using the technology. So, great job on that.

What letter was that one?

That's F. F, okay.

Okay. I'm excited to see the renovation taking place for the pool at REV. I'm a swimmer so we gotta take care of our swimmers too. All right, any further discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so approved. Let's see here, hang on a second. There we go. So on business services action items, let's go through one by one here. Adopt resolution number 44-2021-2022, order of election and specifications of the election order pursuant to ED code 5302, 5304, 5320, and 5322. I need a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, so adopted. Letter B, adopt resolution number 45-2021-2022, resolution continuing authority to hold virtual meetings pertaining to AB 361. So moved.

Second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so adopted. Approve the 2022-23 local control and accountability plan, LCAP, Every Student Succeeds Act and Federal Addendum Appendix item. Okay.

Gladly approved.

It's huge, yes. You approve a second? Second. Amazing work on this document. It is the heart and soul of what we do for kids and so much appreciative of all the hard work and leadership that goes into that. Any other words? Yes.

Thank you once again to the LCAP committee, to Dr. Wagner and his group.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so approved. And letter D, approve. Adopt Redlands Unified School District's 2223 local control and accountability plan. This is the second part of that. Any discussion? First I'll take a motion. I'm gonna move to approve.

Second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so approved. We're up to letter E, adopt resolution number 46-20-21-22, acknowledgement of the due diligence for the purchase of textbook adoptions and authorization to commit one-time discretionary funds.

So moved.

Second. Any discussion? I think we discussed this earlier, so.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so adopted. The final resolution tonight is to adopt the annual proposed budget for 22-23, as it is for now.

I'll move. Second.

Comment, question, discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, so adopted. We're up to add services consent items. Dr. Wagner, any corrections or additions?

Thank you, President O'Neill. Actually, there are a couple of corrections on item B. We have two insert pages to replace page 452 and 465 of the UPK plan. One of them is a page that's adjusting the numbers on staffing allocation that will be down the line in years out. The other page is just removing a circled item that was probably not supposed to be circled in there. Page 452 and 465 are inserts that you have there to add to your agenda.

Okay. Thank you for that. So I would like to take the consent items 13B to 13M. Am I moved?

Second.

Discussion? Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so approved. We have one ed services action item. Approve the stipulated expulsion regarding student 2021-22-031. Expulsion through the remainder of the second semester of the 21-22 school year. So moved.

Second.

Moved and seconded. Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so approved. Dr. Robertson-Phillips, we're up to human resources consent items. Do you have any corrections or additions?

I have no corrections or additions tonight, thank you.

Every department, every one of our divisions has been very busy. We have a lot going on, we really appreciate it. All right, let's approve all consent items as detailed in items 15B to 15HH. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so approved. For human resources action items, we don't have any, but I would love to congratulate Jamie Quartz, Mary Anderson, and Sherry Gross on their new promotions, their promotions. Are they still here? There we are, congratulations. All right, we're up to item 17. This is our public participation for general community input. This is the time that any member of the public may address the board on any matter that is within the jurisdiction of the board, provided the person submits this registration card. This is not meant to be a debating period. Complaints or problems relating to policy matters will be referred to the superintendent. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized, step up to the podium microphone and announce your name and trustee area if you know it. In the interest of facilitating the business of the board, we will limit the time which a member of the public may use in addressing the board to three minutes, unless we all agree that a different time limit would be appropriate. So, first up, Ashley, can't make this out, is it Abra? D'Abra. D'Abra. Okay. Welcome, Ashley.

Good evening, Superintendent, Vice-Superintendent, and Board. My name is Ashley D'Ambra. As I mentioned at our last meeting, I'm a parent of a now second grader at Highland Grove, and I had a graduate from this school, actually. It was an amazing ceremony. Thank you, guys. At the last meeting, I mentioned that I would love and be willing to volunteer out on the playground during recess, as a lot of behavioral issues and sexual harassment occurs during this time. More eyes, more ears, we can help. However, I sort of feel like I was punished for this suggestion in a sense. Our principal is new, therefore she's learning. Well, after attending, she was informed that not only could I not volunteer on the playground, but I could not participate in any activities during school time that was outside. After school hours, not a problem. Due to this and my daughter's end of the year water day, my volunteer opportunity was shifted and I was told that I could only hand out snacks indoors. Now, my issue is why would I continue to offer my free time and my labor, but not be able to even interact with my own daughter? Selfishly, this is why I continue to show up and why I continue to volunteer. It's actually a running joke at our school that I should probably just work for the district for how many hours I spend there. This may seem like a silly example or complaint at this point, but my point of mentioning it is that some of the regulations and limitations just don't make sense as parents. Where our efforts are being shown doesn't add up. We're going to make a big deal out of this, and yet there's so many other things that need our attention. For example, Highland Grove desperately needs a crossing guard on Eucalyptus for the safety of our children, our staff, and our parents. You guys, somebody is gonna get hit by a car. This is something that has been going on for years and we get back and forth. The district says it's the city, the city says it's the district. I'm about ready to go get a neon shirt and direct traffic. It is horrible and it is dangerous. Sorry, I lost track. Another issue that is at our school is protocol is the entry to our school, and this is at many campuses. Although we must walk through a hallway to enter our school, it is not technically. You don't have to enter the office. I understand that we are a closed campus, but that only applies to law-abiding citizens. I recently have been to the district and I see that you guys are very secure and it should be. As are these meetings, metal detectors, Redlands PD, it's amazing, but yet we go to our campuses and people could just walk into Highland Grove and walk onto campus. Our staff is doing the best that they can, but if somebody isn't looking at that door every second of every day, they could literally walk right in. Simply, oh sorry. Furthermore, as a PTA, we are brainstorming ways to raise money to have more equipment on campus for safety. I wish that our biggest concerns were raising money. I'll wrap it up. Anyway, thank you guys.

How much more do you have to say? Well, we're talking about school safety. Go ahead.

I was just going to say that as a member of our PTA, our conversations are what can we raise money to bring more safety equipment onto our campus and how can we be involved. I want to be raising money for after school programs and for art and for things that are lacking in our schools now because money is tied up. There is a lot of jurisdictions. I don't want to be worrying about the safety of our children, whether they're crossing the street on the way home or they're sitting in their classrooms. I want our children to feel as safe as you guys feel sitting in this board meeting. So with that being said, that was the point of my story, and thank you guys for listening.

Thank you. That was 25 seconds, but that's okay. Nobody's counting. Thank you. No, it's a serious matter. Next up is Nicole Gilliam.

Hi, thank you so much for letting me speak tonight. My name is Nicole Gillum. I am a mother of two, also at Highland Grove Elementary. Sorry, I'm a little nervous. I have a soon to be second grader and first grader. I volunteer there every chance I am given, which is usually at least two times a week. I am a mom of two parents that show up continuously trying to make our school great. I have even helped in classrooms that my children don't belong to. A couple of parents and I have even started an after school art program. I am also an active member of our PTA and I am the treasurer elect for next year. The behavioral problems were out of control this year. I have emailed you about the complaints regarding bullying and sexual harassment that we hear from parents experiencing it first hand. My heart goes out to any student who has to endure any of these issues. I hope you as a district are doing everything you can to make next year better. I worry for the safety of our children. Safety should be a number one priority for our kids. We, being the Highland Grove PTA, have even discussed looking into purchasing safety equipment after hearing about the devastating shooting. We have also looked into, I think they call them sleeves for the teachers' doors so they can barricade themselves in. I want you to know I am there to help in any way I can. Speaking of safety, we really need to look into getting in crossing guard on eucalyptus. We, being parents and teachers, have expressed our concerns. A child or somebody is going to get hurt if we don't address drop off and pick up. I recommend we look into this immediately to avoid any accidents. A Royal Verde Elementary currently has a crossing guard, why not us? Again, I want you to know I am here to assist in any way possible. Please let me know how I can help. I am looking forward to working together to make our school great. Thank you.

Thank you. Good evening, thanks. Megan McClain.

My name is Megan McLean and I am a resident trustee. Minton Elementary sits 100 steps from the traffic signal at Minton Boulevard and Crafton Avenue. The latest Caltrans data shows that intersection sees 26,000 cars a day traveling east or westbound. That's 13,000 cars in one direction per day. Peak traffic in the morning rush is roughly 50 cars a minute. It is the only controlled entry in and out of the Boulevard for local residents, other than the light at Wabash, which is on the Redlands border. Local traffic, including semi-trucks and work trucks, skirt around the long lines of cars before and after school and zip through the flashing crosswalk that was just installed a couple of years ago. The school's signage actually guides most school traffic through that crosswalk to keep the traffic flow in front of the school, and the law-minded cars from those lines block the crosswalks at times. The flashing signal is routinely ignored by local traffic. Unfortunately, I'm a part of this congestion as I drive through the Crafton Avenue crosswalk twice there and back just to get my son to school as the traffic on the boulevard and repeated near misses walking my children the third of a mile of school is no longer an option as I cross the boulevard in Crofton Avenue. My children learn very early about cars not slowing down as they approach the turn or even considering foot traffic as they drove despite the yellow crosswalk lines and school zone signs. In the last couple months, I have spoken with several Redland School District officials, Yucaipa Sheriff, California Highway Patrol, several departments in San Bernardino County and Caltrans, including the Safe Routes to School program, trying to get crossing guards implemented or even just recommended. It is absurd that it would take that much work on my free time. and that much labor to get anyone to listen to our problem when the school district holds the contract with the crossing guard company and already pays for crossing guards in Highland, Redlands, and San Bernardino, renewing the contract without any analysis or reviewing concerns yearly. I know this because I spoke to risk assessment at the district about how often it was reviewed, and she told me no, they don't do it. Parents at our school fear that it will take an accident to take us seriously when we say we need crossing guards implemented at our school. So in honor of my brother's schoolmate, Ryan Kennedy, who was killed on his way home from school in 1995 walking on the boulevard from his bus, and out of necessity for the current student's safety, I am requesting the school district implement crossing guards at Manton Elementary before school resumes on August 9th. Thank you.

Elizabeth Antos. Good evening.

My name is Elizabeth Antos. I'm speaking as a parent of two students in RUSD. Today I ask that the board immediately directs the district to resume work towards the adoption of a comprehensive sex education curriculum. As you're likely aware, California enacted the Healthy Youth Act in January 2016. The law requires that school districts ensure that all students in grades 7 through 12 receive comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention education. Through conversations over email with Julie Swan, who's been very patient with me, and my numerous requests for information and updates, I've learned that progress toward adoption of sex education curriculum has stalled. She cited both the pandemic and the controversial nature of selecting materials as among the main reasons the board and the district have not acted. I'm here to say that it is well past time that the students in our USC receive what they are entitled to. I have learned that students at two of our four middle schools received no health, sex ed, or even hygiene education this year during the PE classes. where this information is supposed to be covered. I've learned that the health credit is no longer required at the high school level and nothing really has been done to replace it. So, despite the fact that the Healthy Youth Act mandates the districts provide this education at least one time in middle school and one time in At high school, it's not happening here at all. Teaching this curriculum is a central function of public education. Yes, some children will receive this information through their families, but many will not. Or they will receive wrong, incomplete, or worse, harmful information. This information is not only essential to the growth and well-being of children as they transition to adolescence, but it can be life-saving in some instances. In a district that touts its work in social-emotional learning and improved mental health services and outcomes for students, you would think that providing students access to comprehensive sex education would be more of a priority. This curriculum is paramount to our students' wellbeing. Why are we not moving forward with adopting materials and selecting curriculum? I know it's controversial. I know it will cause debate. None of that matters. What matters is providing students with the empowering knowledge that the state of California says that they are entitled to. Thank you.

Thank you. Nicole Prasad.

Hello, my name is of course Prasad. I'm the mother of two children in Redlands Unified School District. Natural selection is a process whereby organisms better adapt to their environment, tend to survive, and produce more offspring. If you do not adapt to better health, it is only natural that you will not survive. 78% of the people that died from COVID were obese. Did you ask a question like how many children die each year or how many kids we are going to save by closing schools, distant teaching and masking? Truth is SARS-CoV-2 has been around for over 100 years. Most that died from COVID were 65 and or obese. Our kids were not at risk. I'm here to remind you that. What did you actually do to increase our kids' health? Why are you only concerned with COVID deaths when in two years of the pandemic, 6,202 kids died? Only 63 of those deaths were from COVID. Do you not care about the other 6,139 kids that died? Wouldn't you rather try and prevent all kids' mortality? I'm here to hold you accountable and to create a healthier environment for all our kids. We need to focus on giving our kids better meals and add nutrients that will assist in better development and brain health. That happens three ways, showing kids how to grow foods, teaching kids how to make nutrient-dense meals, and preparing nutrient-dense meals at our schools. We could focus on foods that promote a robust immune system and mental health. There are foods that enhance immunity like ginger, garlic, turmeric, oregano, rosemary, and many more. There are also nutrients that help with knowledge retention, reduced depression, anxiety, obesity, cancer, and diabetes, all which are issues that we have with our kids. You are serving our kids processed packaged foods filled with imitation sugar that hurts our kids' health. I'm tired of moments of silence for kids that die when you can actually take action to prevent deaths. Mr. Vera and Mr. O'Neill, you asked if parents need or kids or teachers were struggling with issues they reach out to you. So I'm here standing in front of you. again asking that our kids get better meals with nutrients to help them be prepared for real world stress, anxiety, depression, diabetes, and cancer. We need to stop being the victims of COVID and use the knowledge we have to be the solution. I think it's time for more leaders on this board rather than pulses that say I and I second. I would like to see health solutions on this agenda. you're coming up short and more parents are pulling their kids from your schools because you want to mandate masks and vaccines for health rather than nutrients that will assist in health functioning body with all key nutrients consumed daily. On that, if you would give me a few more minutes, I would like to talk to you about actually the event I attended with Betty Crocker in regards to health, if I'm allowed to talk about it.

I would rather talk to you about that in a non-public format on the side after the meeting.

Okay. I mean, I think it'd be helpful and it's a positive thing for the whole board to hear.

Well, I'll ask the board.

I'd like to hear it.

Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Can you do it in a minute?

I probably can. Well, I attended a private event at Old Grove Farms and I learned about the .

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. Go right ahead. the investment you guys are looking to create, and I've talked to Peggy in great lengths, or Betty, I'm sorry, in great lengths about the programs, and I would like to just reinforce how important that is, and what she's doing, and her vision is on point. It is behind, and she knows that. She knows how hard it is to get through money and just all the loopholes that are controlling this board. But I want to let you know that there's other school districts that have already made that happen. So if there's anything you can do to advocate that and help her out, I think it's essential. And I was able to pick blackberries up there. And I met the Secretary of State. And there's a lot of good things that can come out of this. And it's going to help our kids from when they're young to when they grow up. They're going to see the benefits of those foods. And they're going to eat them. And they're not going to be scared of spinach and kale and things like that because they know it's going to benefit them. So I encourage you to keep on backing what she has going on, because it's going to create a pattern that you're going to be able to see for decades. Rather than us just saying there's a sickness, we'll be able to create food that's going to benefit and help them through those sicknesses, and not just say, you're sick. But we have effective tools that can help with that.

Thank you. That's okay. Mr. Blatchley, back up.

Good evening, I'm Paul Blatchley. I live in trustee area five. Number one, it's time to stop using the pandemic as an excuse for not implementing programs. And I also have had a student at Mentone Elementary and it is a mess to get in and out of. On your Kelvin survey. I would just say that you know students obviously are reluctant to call out a teacher So I'd expect the answers of those questions to be high but it's it's Disturbing to me as a parent of the students that regularly got picked on, that you got that score of people feeling like their students don't, the other students at the school don't treat them with respect. So I realized that the action was just to send out a survey, but you really ought to be taking action, some sort of action on that at the schools. I never, my high school students struggled at times, never had any outreach from a teacher about anything. So if you think teachers are outreaching to students, they aren't. at the beginning of the school year, don't confuse parents of high school students by telling them that there are texts available online if there aren't. So I got caught up in this where we got the messaging with that, oh, you can just opt to get online textbooks, but then it turned out that there were classes where there was no online textbook. And so kids were working out of the textbooks, the kids that had gotten them got them, and the kids who didn't get them were out of luck. So don't, I don't know if you're gonna go to online textbooks, but make sure it's an across the board thing. Don't have a parent send their student into school and not pick up a textbook that they're going to need for class. Sunshine in the local paper is good. I think that's way back in the day, like who reads a newspaper anymore? I mean, really, honestly. You got to put that information someplace else. That's easily accessible. I mean, it's one thing to have it in a location and you go and you visit it, but we ought to be doing more. I know you double down on this kind of this A through G education stuff. You'd be better off teaching kids technology for four years than English. English is old school, right? It's what we did back in the 70s. The education in terms of English is really not of value to a lot of students. Bring back driver training. Why not teach high school kids driver training? I don't know if that's like a state thing or whatever, but at some point it went away, and I don't know why you don't teach it.

All right? Thank you. Thank you. Ruth Cook.

Yes, my name is Ruth Cook. We've just, I'll be brief, we've just finished a year of really unprecedented disruption and stress to students and educators, fully aware of that. I work in the world of education and I know the challenges of it and I kind of think we all hoped it was going to be a more, an easier year, but it really wasn't. I have my last child finishing at Redlands High School, last of six. Redlands High School has been a great experience. I have a couple high school teachers, I have a computer science, and I have an almost educational psychology child, all coming out of Redlands High School. So I'm familiar with the school, and I'm familiar with high school, and I'm familiar with education, but my last kid, this has been the last, this has been the hardest year. And it's emotional for me, and it's caused a lot of stress. She has had immense depression, anxiety, exacerbated by the grading policies of the high school teachers. And it's been tough. The whole year's been hard, but this last semester particularly hard. So she came down with COVID along with the whole cheer squad in January. And we were like, oh, we're gonna be on top of this. But the reality of coming back from not feeling well, honestly not feeling well, and making up the last, the work. And I made the list of it and I was overwhelmed. She's never caught up. So finally we got down to the end of it and I'm constantly talking to her about it and talking to her about it. And she says she's got it. I said I'm going to email and she doesn't want me to do that because she knows that it's, you know, she says that it's going to bring attention in class and she doesn't want the attention from me emailing. So I don't email and I wait. So I wait about a month before the end of school and she's got about a 50% in English at that time. I email the English teacher and I ask, is there a way to pass the class? I'm not asking for an A, I'm not asking for a B, I'm not asking for a C, I'm asking for a D. Is there a way to go from a 50 to a 60 at the end of the year? He emails me back his late work policy. That's all he does. Which says that he doesn't accept late work. So I email back and say, is there some way out of this? Is there some way we can do this? I email him back two, three times. I tell him I'll meet with him. I'll talk to him. He does not. He again tells me he thinks the best idea is for her to go to two weeks of virtual summer school, as opposed to finishing any assignments that she might be able to finish, taking the final, doing the end of the year project, nothing. And then I finally email him again and say, so are you saying there's no way out of the class? He doesn't even respond. So I talked to the counselor, and we kind of were, you know, working through it. So anyway, she fails that class. And then, really, the summer school's not an option right now because she's, there's not enough teachers for it. So it's, you know, I think we need to examine all day work policy, and that's my request for you. Doug Reeves said, some commonly used grading policies threaten the emotional well-being of academic outcomes of our children. So, so true. If we don't change from the last two years as educators, we're in trouble. So please take a look at grading policies like LA Unified is and like San Diego Unified and do something different.

Thank you. Thank you. Mrs. Swan, have you talked to Mrs. Cook about that at all? Mrs. Cook? Mrs. Swan is in charge of secondary instruction. You guys have, okay. Just wanna make sure. Okay. I have a letter to read into the record. This is an email that was received for community input. Can you put the timer on for me? Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen of the RUSD board committee, I write with a heavy heart about the recent events taking place on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Evaldi, Texas. By now, this tragic and horrific event has been brought to the attention of every administrator in our school district. I am writing to offer hopeful suggestions that can and should be implemented to strengthen our safety measures for all schools. I write to you all as a parent whose child attends RUSD. I never would have imagined that part of a morning routine in preparation for school would include discussing with my preschooler what to do in the event of an emergency involving an intruder or bad guy. I suggest that the board hire retired or trained officers that are post-certified to be employed and positioned at every school site. Part of these requirements are for them to pass a mental health screening and allow for a concealed weapon. This suggestion by now probably has some if not all members of the public very concerned and alarmed at the suggestion. However, seeing as though there have been one too many active shooting events that which are taking place in school settings, I don't see this as overwhelming. In addition to new hire security personnel on campus, I highly recommend security cameras at every entry and exit securing the perimeter of each school site. Every school should have a security system in place due to irate parents and trespassers that are labeled as a threat. With anyone seeking entrance to a campus, must be manually buzzed by office personnel and curbside bulletproof, shatterproof windows in place for all guests to demonstrate proof of identification and be ran through the Raptor. My last and final suggestion is for teachers or staff that are willing to be trained in tactical assimilation. This does seem much, but again, as stated prior, recent events suggest otherwise in our preparation status for God forbid any active shooter event. I am aware of the drills that do take place on school sites to prepare staff and students. However, this is not enough to further persuade the board members. On December 2, 2015, two individuals that were on a chase pursuit by police officers sent every school within proximity at a lockdown. This event took place in San Bernardino and ended with two suspects dead within minutes of Victoria Elementary. Had these suspects gained access to the school, the question rises, could there have been possible fatalities due to lack of safety measures in place? My attempt is not to be political or implement policy change. My sincere attempt as a parent is security and safety for all school sites. Please look upon the suggestions for the upcoming school year. No one ever expects to kiss their loved ones and this being the last time. Let us prepare the mindset of our students and staff to be prepared in real life scenarios. Okay. That was signed, Kristalina Prado. All right, that concludes community input. We are up to item 18, board comments or reports, so why don't we start with Mrs. Pullahan.

Thank you, President O'Neill. As a parent of two Redlands High School graduates, The passion that you have for your children, I deeply understand. So I appreciate you staying here throughout the meeting and voicing your opinions and your comments. And I'm sure they will be addressed one way or another. And thank you and don't ever stop the passion that you have for your kids. I attended Angel's Closet Open House. The inventory is pretty full, it's awesome. There's a lot on there and it was so organized. I want to thank Angels Closet for continuing their dedication to students. What a great job and what a great opportunity for our students on there. If you haven't had a chance to go, visit Angels Closet. I attended the RTA dinner with my colleagues. We said goodbye to some veteran teachers. I want to thank them for all their dedication to RUSD and for their hard work every and each day. I wish them all a happy and healthy retirement It was a lovely evening to show our appreciation. Thank you, RTA, for an excellent event. I attended the Redlands Symphony Gala, where the monies raised will help cover some of the costs for our fourth graders to attend a concert. And sometimes this is the only opportunity that our children will have to experience the arts and see a pure symphony. So I'm glad I was able to support that, and the Redlands Symphony does an outstanding job. What a week for graduations, as our superintendent mentioned. Yes, we started with E Academy, and we ended with Redlands Adult School. And in between, we had OHS, REV, RHS, and CV. They were all beautiful ceremonies with their own added touch, and I enjoyed every niche in one of them. Congratulations to our graduates, our class of 2022. May they all be well and healthy. The road groundbreaking that I shared with my colleagues, it was nice to meet the architects. You know, you don't get to see the behind the scenes, so it was great to chit chat with some of the architects. Mr. Clary, you did a great job, and Rev did a nice job, especially having so many of our students present, and I think that's what made everything so perfect is that our students are gonna be able to participate in it, and they'll be able to use the facilities firsthand. So it was great, the band was awesome, the cheerleaders, The mascot, it was 100 degrees, and the poor mascot sitting there with this full-on cat outfit. It was really hard, I felt bad, but it was great. To Jim Canales, retirement of 35 years. Congratulations to Jim, we'll miss you, and thank you for all the years that you've given us. I wanna thank Stephanie Locke for the invite to participate in the meet and greet for the new AP principals at COPE, Mr. Aguilera and Mr. Juan Ortiz. It was nice to see so many staff there, and I hope we have some subs lined up, Beany, excuse me, Dr. Robertson Phillips, because there's quite a few teachers that are expecting. So there must have been about five, and I'm looking, we better have some teachers lined up ready to go in, but how great is that? Just to know that they're gonna be starting, and congrats to the mom used to be, it was really nice to see. I want to share with you that on July 28th, we're going to have Redlands Unified School District Redlands Bowl Night, where we're going to have the musical be the opening night for Little Mermaid. And I'm hoping that we will get a great participation from RESPA, from RTA, from our staff. There will be a little reception prior to that, and then we'll be able to see musical Little Mermaid at no cost. This is the only, we are hitting our 99th year for the Redlands Bowl, if you can believe that. And this will be, you know, it's the only place that we have here locally that we don't charge an admission. So I hope to see all of you there. I want to welcome our new APs. We go down the line, Todd Harris at Moore, Natalie Johnson at Clement, Robin Vere at Smiley, Christopher McLuhan's already here mission. And then we're also for Michael Laba, Highland Grove, Christine Reynolds, Castro, Judson Brown, Black, Hardeman, Crafton, Congrats to Devlin Clinton and Kristen Hubbard on the new coordinator positions. And welcome to Polo del Toro for the Director of Transportation joining our great team here at USD. And finally, I just want to give a big huge thank you for Heidi. It's your last board meeting tonight. I'm sure you're counting the times. You have been so helpful to me these past 16 years. I am deeply grateful for everything you have done to assist me as a board member and when I was board president. I will truly miss you, but will see you at our annual birthday get-togethers that we do every year in September. So I thank you. Thank you for everything you've done. God bless. That's my report tonight.

Excellent report. Thank you very much.

I actually have something this month. I just want to say what an honor it was to attend all of our graduations this year. It's been a rough couple of years. and it was so worth it to see all our smiling graduates who persevered through, ooh, sorry, I had one, who persevered through a very, very tough time. I know we all had students who suffered with loneliness and depression, and I want to applaud the parents, too, that helped them get through that, because personally, I understand it, it was a battle, and you are all so amazing for helping them get through that, so thank you. To all our retirees who won't be rejoining us next year, your years of dedication have certainly made an impact on those students as well. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that. Thank you to Principal Clary for hosting the groundbreaking. It was very fun. It was an experience for sure. And I'm so excited to see the first phase of the stadium and the ground is a lot firmer than it looked. I tried really hard to dig down deep and it was not happening. It wasn't as eventful as I had built it up in my head. Earlier tonight, we got to meet some of our new student trustees, so I want to thank Maria, Frankie, Haley, Ariana, and Stephanie. I hope I got all those names correct. Jim talks fast, so sometimes I miss things. It was a pleasure to meet you guys tonight, and I am so eager to hear your voices and what you will bring to the Board of Trustees. With all of the end of year events going on, it's hard to find the time to appreciate and reflect on everything as it's happening. And I will be taking time to spend with my family and remember how fortunate we are. And never forgetting those who have had tragedies happen to them and thinking how I can do my part to ensure this doesn't happen again. Lastly, Heidi, I'm sorry. I'm gonna do this to you. Ditto to what Mauricio said, but I don't think you understand what an impact you've had on not only my life, but all of our lives. And I don't know that this job would have been as easy or as rewarding as it is if it weren't for you. So I love you and I will miss you greatly. That's it for me. I'll stop crying.

I just appreciate the parents that are coming in and talking to us about student safety, because one of the most important things as a board is that we need to ensure our students are safe. And I know with the issues that have been occurring and the shootings at different schools, it's something that weighs heavy on all of us that are in education, and as you as well as parents, I appreciate you coming and letting us know about the crossing guards. And then maybe if we can get a report, just find out how many schools have crossing guards, how many schools are missing crossing guards. And one of the things maybe what we can do to increase our safety with our security officers is right now, I know many of them just have regular bikes. Maybe we can get electric bikes so they can get faster from one location to the next. I know some schools are close together, like let's say for example, Clement is right across the street from Lagonia. If they ever needed security officers, they can just zoom you know, right away to a system if anything ever occurred. But I just think allowing our security officers to have electric bikes nowadays to get from point A to point B would be extremely beneficial. And just to let the parents know that I don't know at how many schools, but there has been some training. And this is unfortunate, the type of training that we have to provide teachers. But there's intruder on campus training that we provide our staffs with. And unfortunately, these are the three major things that teachers have to remember when there's an intruder on campus. You run away from the situation, then you hide. And if you can't run and you can't hide, then you have to fight. So it's a sad situation, but it's a reality, but it's something that's taught. We take safety extremely serious, and we continue to do our very best to ensure that all of the schools have safe environments, and we're going to continue to look into ensuring that we maintain our students and staff safe. With that, I want to make a comment about Heidi as well. I want to congratulate you, Heidi. I am so jealous that you're retiring and you're not waiting for us to leave together. I too am very appreciative of everything you've done. And during closed session meetings, Oh, I wish I could know exactly what's on your mind whenever any heated discussion would come up. I always turn to you to see if you had any facial reaction, but you had a poker face. And I didn't know whether or not you were deciding or thinking anything, but I really appreciate everything that you've done for us. And I'm going to miss you. Thank you for everything that you've done.

I don't think you violated any closed session information there. I think you're okay. Yes, Mrs. Randler.

Just congratulations to all our new hires. Wow, we have a lot of new people coming in our district. Next year's gonna be really fun. The groundbreaking at Rev Stadium, that was pretty fun. If anybody knows me, I don't do dirt, and I actually got some dirt up in the air. It was pretty cool. I actually got in a picture with dirt in the air. It was fun. I even got more dirt than Patty did. So, that was very fun. I'm glad to see the van being donated to RHS Auto Shop because they can use that. I was happy to see instead of just getting rid of it. And I was really honored to be able to attend all six graduations this year. It felt really good to be kind of back to normal. Every graduation was unique, and being at each one just showed a little bit different flavor of RUSD. I also want to thank everybody on the LCAP committee. I served on that from the very beginning in 2014 until 2019, and I know the time and energy it takes to be on that committee. So thank you so much for all your help on that. And again, I want to tell everyone happy flag day. Also, I went to Lagonia. They had a pep rally and the Malone family book distribution that they do every year. This family donates a book to every child. It's a hardback book, not just a little paperback. A hardback current book is donated to every child so that each child can read over the summer. It was a great program. Let's see. I think that's all I have. Thank you.

So yeah, reflecting on graduations, just very quickly, very briefly, because my colleagues here have done a really good job of sharing out all the accolades and recognitions that we've had in the past couple of weeks. But I need to do a shout out to all the organizers of those graduations. I mean, I read some pretty alarming headlines from around the country of things that happened at graduations, and it was really nice to have our graduations. They were all very professional, the students, the staff, the speeches, and everybody was well-behaved, and it was very uplifting. So much appreciation goes out to the people that organizes those. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, and a lot of participation, so well done. The presentations tonight, again, were stellar, very informative. I just really need to compliment how thorough they are, and so thank you so much for all those presentations tonight. Boy, we had a lot of HR activity. Looks like we've hired a lot of great people. and a lot of great people have been promoted and seeing new assignments next year. So congratulations to all of them and certainly our retirees who have dedicated their lives and made commitments to our school district and given us excellence in whatever endeavors they've done. It's amazing to me how the time bandit can just It's gone, just like that. I've already been retired 10 years, which just is amazing to me to think about that. Mr. Blashley, you hurt my feelings a little bit tonight when you said that nobody reads the newspaper, but I want you to know that that newspaper, it's online, so that kind of counts. It's not really a newspaper if it's online. I wanted to make sure that you knew that I've been participating with the news and writing a series of articles talking about what we do as board members in our district. And the next articles are going to be coming out about school budgets, which are complicated things. And so I would encourage you to look at those and give me a call, too. I'd be happy to talk to you about some of these things. But working with these people, these four other trustees up here, it's been an amazing year so far. And I'm really looking forward to continuing down the path of normalization, if we could call it that, although I don't think we're ever going to be back to pre-pandemic. It's a new normal. But the thing that really excites me and comforts me is to know that our superintendent and his staff and teachers and everybody involved in our district classified, they put out a quality product and they're doing their best to do best by our kids. And so for that, I'm very much appreciative. And of course, safety has already been mentioned. Of course, it's a priority. It's our number one priority is we've gotta have everybody safe, staff, students. parents, anybody who's at our schools or sites. And I know that the superintendent and his staff have done a lot to raise that safety meter. Can we do more? Absolutely. We're never going to be satisfied, never going to be done looking at different ways. And I really appreciate people coming in and making their concerns known, because we don't always see where there might be a breach in safety, so we have to know those things to be able to act on it, so appreciate all the work that you've done so far, and it's been a lot, and the staff, of course, and we continue down that path, and if there's gaps in our safety protocols or anything, I know the staff will look at those and get those plugged up. Heidi, oh boy, take a deep breath. You have been a foundational fixture for the Board of Trustees and I think three superintendents. No, four, see, I was short-sighted there. It's amazing because, you know what, I've known you many years. I've known you before I knew you. I mean, in San Bernardino, you were one of those people that were working in the business office. And I can tell you that your competency, your energy, your support has been exemplary, always exemplary. And it exceeds all of our expectations every time. You've never wavered from excellence in accomplishing the countless behind-the-scenes tasks that contribute to the smooth operation of this board. And I just listed a few things, just thought off the top of my head, here's a few, preparing agendas, making meeting location arrangements, setting up, taking down your hospitality tasks, meals and snacks, department coordination, public notices, processing emails, sending out critical, trusty information, helping me keep my job when I was a principal. Calendaring, preparing countless documents, note-taking, minutes, I mean, it could go on and on and on. But here's the thing about you, is this is all behind the scenes. You do this job behind the scenes and you probably, Well, I know, don't get the credit that you certainly deserve. And what that means is your work has been flawless and no one thinks about what's going on because it just gets done. And we don't think about all that it takes for you to get that done. At least until now. Because this thankless job that you've had, we really appreciate it and we thank you so much. of my colleagues here, and I'm sure on behalf of everybody else that works with you, including, you know, Mauricio and staff, know that we love you, we honor you, we will miss you. Sorry, I have a little something, then my third little tickle. And we certainly thank you so very much for all that you've done to help us serve the students in this district. We couldn't do it without you. So put that in mind. Keep the moment alive. And with that, This meeting is adjourned.