Board of Education — December 13, 2022

I'd like to call this meeting to order. Thank you for coming tonight. Board members, welcome. Before we do the Pledge of Allegiance, we're going to have a moment of silence immediately following the pledge. So I would like Mrs. Holohan to please read a statement of the reason that we're going to have that moment of silence.

Lorraine Valdez. Lorraine worked as an attendance clerk at Redlands High School for 15 years. She was someone that was full of energy all the time. She was fun to be around and definitely the life of any gathering. Her sense of humor would always keep you laughing. You never knew what she was going to say next, but at the same time, you couldn't wait to hear it. Family was her number one priority. She was their rock. Her loving heart, her kindness, and beautiful smile blessed all that knew her. She will be truly missed. She was also my cousin.

You stand and join me in the pledge. Right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.

with liberty and justice for all.

Just a moment of silence please. Thank you very much. You may be seated. And now for the roll call. Mrs. Holohan. Present. Mrs. Yalacantaro.

Present.

Mr. Vara.

Present.

Mrs. Renner.

Present.

And Mr. O'Neill is me and I'm here. I will have a motion to approve the minutes from October 25th, 2022 and November 15th, 2022 of the Board of Education regular meeting, as well as the minutes of the December 6th, 2022 Board of Education special board meeting workshop. I moved. I second. Wow, there we go. Well, we know who got second. So, Mr. Vara, we'll give it to you. Alex, go ahead. Yeah, all right. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye, so approved. All right, our item number seven, organization of the board. We have some things that we need to accomplish here at this meeting. So the first one is going to be our oath of office for our two elected board members, Patty Holahan and Michelle Renler. So I would ask you to stand and join. Let's have you both down there and we'll do one at a time. Mrs. Houlihan, would you like to go first? So Mrs. Houlihan will be sworn in. by Superintendent of Business Services Jason Hill, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Ken Wagner, and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Sabine Robertson Phillips are going to be a trio and sing. No, they're not going to be singing. They will recite the swearing in. Michelle Redler will be sworn in by Assistant Superintendent of Ed Services, Dr. Ken Wagner. I believe Trustee Holahan would like to make a comment.

I'd like to thank everyone here tonight. Thank my family and friends, RTA, RESPA, the Redlands Firefighters Association, supporters and voters for giving me the opportunity to continue serving on the Redlands School Board. I will continue my path to providing a safe and secure learning environment for all students. I look forward to working alongside my fellow board members here in attaining that goal. Please know how truly grateful I am that you have entrusted me to serve another four years. Thank you, thank you once again.

Thank you. It is both an honor and a responsibility to serve our RUSD communities. Although I ran unopposed, I am thankful for all the support that I've received throughout my service as a trustee on the Board of Education. To the many wonderful families, community members, and staff within the Redlands Unified School District, I'm truly grateful for your trust and faith in me as I strive to do what is in the best interest of all students. I also want to thank my wonderful husband, Dan, our children, their spouses, and all our grandchildren. Your support means the world to me and has made it possible for me to help our RUSD students, including many of you here, and our schools for the last 32 years. As a board member, I have actively listened to parents, students, teachers, and our community and worked hard to support policies that include your concerns, ideas, while remaining focused on our students receiving a sound foundational education. My top priorities continue to be the health, well-being, and safety of all students, teachers, and support staff, as well as the advancement of a robust and rigorous curriculum that leverages technology to enhance student learning. I remain committed to finding innovative ways for all students to continue their education, leading them on a path to college or career readiness, helping them pursue their dreams and fulfill their ambitions. It's important now more than ever that we provide our students with a safe, secure, and inclusive learning environment, incorporating high academic standards and respect for the diversity of our community. Lastly, thank you to my colleagues Patty, Jim, Melissa, and Alex for your service. I look forward to the next four years as we all continue to work together implementing the vision for RUSD 2025 so we can reach excellence in education for all students. Thank you so much.

So next we need to elect a president of the Board of Education. So we're on item B, elect the president of the Board of Education for a one year term to fill the expired term of Jim O'Neill in accordance with education codes 35022 and 35143.

I'd like to make a motion for Melissa Yala Quintero to be board president.

I'll second.

I would have seconded that too, but you got it, Patty. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Welcome, Madam President.

Wow, the view's a little different here. Thank you. All right, up next is the election of Vice President.

I'd like to nominate, read it, I'm sorry.

Is there, I'm sorry, election of Vice President, elect the Vice President of the Board of Education for a one year term to fill the expired term of Alex Vara. Is there a nomination?

I'd like to nominate. I know that he's really busy this year and maybe things will be better for him next year, so I nominate Alex Vara to remain Vice President. Second?

This has been a first and second. Is there any discussion? All right, seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next is the election of the clerk. Elect the clerk of Board of Education for a one year term to fill the expired term of Melissa Yala Quintero in accordance with the education codes 35121 and 35143. Is there a nomination? I'd actually like to nominate Patty Holohan.

Second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next, we are reaffirming the Secretary of the Board. Reaffirm Mauricio Arellano, Superintendent of Schools, as Secretary of the Board in accordance with Education Codes 35025 and 35035. Is there a nomination?

I move, excuse me, I'd like to nominate Mauricio. Second?

Discussion?

Well, he is here, right? Are you there, Mauricio? Okay, we're not going to elect a video or an animatronic.

We are not electing a monitor today. All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next is the election of the regional occupational program. I'd like to one member of the Board of Education as representative to Colton, Redlands, Yucaipa, Calamesa, Regional Occupational Program, CRIROP, governing board for a two year term to fill the expired term of Jim O'Neill. Is there a nomination for the expired term of Mr. O'Neill?

I'd like to nominate Melissa.

Second. All right, any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Everyone's aye and sorted. Reaffirm Patty Holohan, member of the Board of Education, as representative of Colton's Redlands Yucaipa Calimeso Regional Occupational Program, CRIROP, governing board for year two of a two-year term. Is there a motion?

I'll move to reaffirm and we can have a discussion, I think. Yes.

Second? I'll second. Discussion?

So I know last year, Alex, you wanted to take my position on that, so that's fine if you're interested in doing that. They will have a meeting this Friday. Normally they meet the second Wednesday of the month at 5 PM. The only time is the organizational meeting, which is this Friday at 9 AM.

I think I can make it, but you'd be my alternate if I can't make it at all.

I think that has to be a separate motion on a different one. You can't do two in one, but I'm happy to be an alternate since I've sat on this board for 16 years.

I'll try it, but if I can't, I know there's going to be an alternate in.

Okay, can I get a second motion for Alex Vara to be a member of the Board of Education representative for CRIBOP?

So moved.

Second. I think we can, even though it says reaffirm, and the other one's elect, so granted that it's okay.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Our vote's aye and so ordered. Elect one member of the Board of Education as a voting alternate to the Colton-Redlands-Yucaipa-Calamesa Regional Occupational Program Governing Board to serve for a one year term as a voting member when a regular representative is unable to attend to fill the expired term of Alex Vara.

So I move that we elect Patty to be the alternate for Cri-Rob. Second.

Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next is election of representative to county committee on school district organization. Elect one representative who shall have one vote for each member to be elected to the county committee of school district organization for a one year term to fill the expire term of Michelle Renler in accordance with education codes 4005, 35023, and 72403. Is there a nomination?

Nominate Michelle if she's willing to take that position again. Thanks.

Any discussion? All righty, all those in favor say aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Elect an alternate to attend the meeting if the elected representative is unable to attend, who shall have one vote for each member to be elected to the county committee on school district organization to fill the expired term of Melissa Yala-Quintero in accordance with education codes 4005, 35023, and 72403. This is our nomination.

You willing to serve? I am willing to serve as an alternate.

I'll nominate you then.

And I'll second.

All right, discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered.

Next is appointments to committees and commissions. Appoint board members to the following committees and commissions. Redlands Compact, currently Michelle Renler. Mrs. Renler, you served on this last year. Are you still interested? I'd love to stay on.

Unless somebody else wants it.

Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation, REP. I served on this committee last year. I am actually wondering if Michelle would be interested in switching as you are my alternate. So Michelle Renner would be interested in that position.

And if it's all right, I will be your alternate.

Sorry, Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation Alternate.

Mrs. Renner, would you mind if I, yeah. Sorry.

Next up, City of Redlands Cultural Arts Committee. Currently Jim O'Neill. Mr. O'Neill, you served on this last year, are you still interested?

It's every other month. I'm glad to continue serving if it's the will of the board.

Okay. Number five, City of Redlands Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee. Currently, Michelle Renler. Mrs. Renler, you served on this last year. Are you still interested? Unless there's somebody who would like to be on this one. Okay. Sandabs, currently, Alex Vara. Mr. Vara, have you served on this?

No, it was Patty.

That was Patty.

Currently, in the minutes for some reason, it had Alex on there, but I serve on Sandabs.

And I'd like to- They get elected, right?

Pardon?

You have to be elected.

You have to be elected. And I was just elected. So if it's okay with everyone, I'll go ahead and stay with Sandabs.

All righty.

Is that a one-year term or a two-year term? It's two. Two-year term.

Number seven, CSBA Regional 16 Delegate Assembly. Currently Jim O'Neill and Mr. O'Neill, you served on this last year. Are you still interested?

Well, that's also a two year term and I've got my second year coming up, so I'll finish up this next year and then somebody else can have a turn.

Okay, thank you. Number eight, Coalition to Support RUSD in the Completion of a Rev Athletic Stadium. Mr. O'Neill?

Well, it's in my area, area five, so it makes sense that I'm on that. Anybody else is certainly welcome to join me.

I have a motion to accept the representatives as discussed. So moved.

Second.

Any discussion? All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next up is item one, adopt board policies. Adopt all existing board policies, bylaws, and administrative regulations effective December 13th, 2022. So moved. Second.

Discussion?

All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed?

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next up is item J, designate regular board meeting meeting dates. Designate the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, or as otherwise approved by the board, 7 PM at the board room, 25 West Lagonia as the regular board meeting dates and locations. Is there a motion? Move.

Second. That second. Michelle moved that.

And who was that second? I'm sorry. Alex. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. We are now moving on to public participation. 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 completed registration card to address the board form to the clerk of the board and his or her designee prior to the time the chairperson calls the item for the board's consideration. This is not meant to be a debating period. Complaints and problems relating to policy matters will be referred to the superintendent. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized by the chairperson of the board, step up to the podium and announce his or her name. The chairperson shall, 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 a majority of the board determines a different time limit is appropriate. All right, first up we have Tricia Keeling. I'm sorry, Miss Keeling, this is in regards to the approving of the annual and five-year reportable fees report for the fiscal year 2021-22. We'll move your comment card to the appropriate section. Up next we have Samantha Trad. Up next would be Felipe Albertal. All righty. Is there any other public comment on the public hearing? All right, seeing none. Public hearing regarding resolution number 19, 2022-2023, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District approving the annual and five year reportable fees report for the fiscal year 2021-2022 in compliance with the government code section 6606 and 66001. Hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? Hearing is now closed. Next we have two presentations tonight. First up, Mr. Hill, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services is here to present the first interim financial report. Mr. Hill.

Thank you President Ayala Quintero and board members. This time of the year we're giving our first interim financial report. First I want to thank my team for their dedicated hard work Brian, Sherry and I have to say especially Fernanda this time went above and beyond to kind of get this work done for you. This is going to settle everything up through October 31st of 2022. Next slide. I don't have, over here. Alrighty, so I'm required to present this report for board approval by December 15th, which we're doing today on December 13th. I'm gonna identify any changes to the projected budget since our unaudited actuals in September and now. We identify all restricted and unrestricted expenditures through October 31st of 2022. A little bit about this. Hold on a second. Right now. There we go. A little bit about how we're funded. All of our money that comes in through the state comes in through the local control funding formula. We have three portions of that funding. Our base grant, which we get for all students attending our schools. We get supplemental grant. We get an additional amount of money for districts for students who are free and reduced lunch, foster youth, EL learners. We call those unduplicated students. Then we received a concentration portion, which is an additional percentage given to students. Each of those spans above 55%. When we talk about LCAP, usually that plan is governing and planning the money around the supplemental and concentration portions of that grant. I want to highlight something that you're going to notice tonight is the current budget does not account for any costs associated with the recently completed negotiations with our association. So we settled negotiations with both of our bargaining units and they're not reflected in this budget as of yet. So you're going to see some numbers that are quite high compared to normal. Recent state economic news concerning current year revenue and inflation should impact the governor's January budget presentation. We're referring to a potential downturn in our economy. We'll see that reflected most likely in January when the governor gives his budget to us. So reflected in this budget is an augmented COLA of 13.26% increase in our funding. That's broken up into two pieces. 6.56% was our cost of living adjustment and then they added an additional 6.7% of investment into our LCFF. Those are reflected in this budget. Actual funding allocations for the current year have been based on state adopted budgets passed in June. All of this is plugged into something called a FCMAT calculator. And then the budgets will be presented here tonight. I want to highlight, I'm going to kind of talk about this in a few places in this presentation, about our enrollment and ADA. Remember, all of our base grant is based on our average daily attendance, which is a percentage of enrolled students who actually attend school. And I want you to notice just kind of a trend from 2017 to 2022. The green highlights the enrollment of students within the district and the red represents the average daily tenant. So the amount of students who are enrolled that are actually attending school. And you'll notice there is a decrease that is moving down in that enrollment. And how that affects us is in that base grant. I'm going to give you some rough numbers now, but 13 percent increase in our LCFF should yield about, you know, you're talking 12 or 13 million. And we're only getting about half that. We're getting half that because the students attending our schools are not coming. So that's reflected in this budget. We have a beginning balance starting on the left at our revised budget of a little over 80 million. of money that's in our beginning balance, you'll notice actuals as of this point, 80,488. So our net change from our budget to now in our beginning balance is zero. Revenues in our budget were a little over $358 million. Our current revenues coming into the district are about $347 million. So we're receiving about $11 million less in revenue as of this point in the year. Expenditures, these are expected expenditures throughout the year. We expected in our budget to spend a little over $340 million. And the way we are headed trending now through the end of the year, we're going to spend about $354 million. So we've increased our spending at around $14 million. So we have less revenue and we have more expenditures. So you're going to see a deficit in our current budget of about $25 million. And you'll see a reduction in our ending fund balance expected this year at about $25 million. I do want to highlight here, we have not included the two negotiated raises at this point. So you're going to see a drastic decrease in our ending fund balance by second interim. When we talk about the ending fund balance, I want to talk about what's in it. We have revolving cash, about $50,000. Our stores inventory is what we have in our warehouses. About 600,000 prepaids are annual contracts that we renewed over multiple years, and so we have to prepay those amounts on the future years, and we set that money aside. Our committed funds, those are board committed items at about 17 million, which I'll go into in more detail. Legally restricted, our money that comes into us with strings, we can only spend it on those items. Our reserve for economic uncertainty is the amount we're required to save in case something goes wrong with the economy. We have assigned items at about $6 million and our unappropriated dollar amount is sitting at around $11 million. So all of those added together give you that $73 million of ending fund balance that we are expecting to have at the end of the school year. Components of those assigned items are donations that are made to our schools and fundraisers. We keep those aside for the specific purposes that we donated and fundraised for. SSP, our site budgets that have not been spent yet. The next few are items that we have remaining in grants or accounts that we have not spent yet. And we'll notice lotteries sitting at a little over two and a half million that we'll end up spending on books. Committed items, so these are items that the board has committed, set aside for a specific purpose. We originally had you set, asked you to commit about seven million towards English and math adoptions in the June budget. That was around seven million in each one of those line items. We pulled money out of there after doing some research on the cost of those adoptions, and you rolled that remaining amount into REV stadium phase two. Social studies, world language, our remaining amounts in prior adoptions that we haven't spent yet, and innovation and technology is our money that we've set aside for computers and technology that we intend to spend. So that makes up the $17 million for the committed items that the board has set aside. In order to spend this money in any other fashion, you would have to de-commit that as a board. Before I get to the multi-year, I want to go over some assumptions we make. We have built into the multi-year for next year a COLA increase at 538. step and column increases in additional cost of about five to eight percent for utilities, 30 percent increase in property and liability insurance, and then programmatical changes that we anticipate. In 24-25, I'm building in a 4.02 increase in COLA, step and column, five percent, eight to eight percent utilities, 30 percent property and liability. So those are the items that we've planned in for the multi-year that you'll see in a minute. Here is that multi-year. You'll notice starting in the second column is where we're at today. We have about $80 million sitting in our beginning balance. As you recall from an earlier slide, we are currently in a deficit of about 20, so that deficit's reflected in the projected budget for next year, and then we slide back up in 24-25 due to those increased COLAs. Revenues, you'll notice that we have a reduction in revenues moving into the out years from 347 million down to 316 and 319. Those are most likely as a direct result of the expected reduction in ADA. So of course if more students enroll and more students attend our schools, those revenues would go up. So those are things that we work on hard with ed services with. Expenditures, we'll notice that we have a high level of expenditures this year compared to our out years. That has a lot to do with a lot of the one-time monies that we've been receiving from the state and the government. So that one-time money does expire in certain increments. And so as that money expires, you'll see our expenditures start to fall. And you'll notice our ending fund balance jumps up dramatically. I do want to remind you at this point that we have not built in the negotiation settlements here. And if I were to do just a rough number to illustrate this, if we had a $10 million settlement in the first interim, That means next year that is a 20 million dollar because it's 10 million this year, another 10 million next year plus next year is 10 million and then on the third year it's 30 million. So collectively that's 60 million out of that pot. So any time that we negotiate an item it is compounded each year by that amount. So we do see a high projected 24-25 ending balance. But you'll notice by second interim, which will settle everything up through January 31st. Once those settlements are in there, you'll notice that anything fund rounds drop. This slide illustrates that same piece I just told you. You'll notice that we have a decrease. The blue line is our ending fund balance. It's slowly steady, starts to drop in our first interim, and then it jumps dramatically through the 24-25 budget. Our reserve for uneconomic uncertainty is the light blue line that is staying relatively steady, but I can guarantee you without any uncertainty that by my next presentation with you, you'll notice that line headed in the other direction. At this point, we have three possible certifications after first interim. We have positive, qualified, and negative. Positive means we can meet our obligations for this year and the next two years. Qualified means we may not meet those qualifications. And negative means we will not meet those qualifications. So based on this current multi-year analysis, I'm going to submit to the county that we are gonna recommend a positive certification. Even though we do have a deficit in our current year, we do show growth in our out years at this point, so our recommendation is for a positive certification. Any questions? I know that was a quick overview. You have the details of the entire budget within your board book there, as well as the entire budget, as well as the narrative sitting in front of you.

Thank you, Mr. Hill. Do we have any? All right, Mr. O'Neill.

Can you go back to slide five, please?

I'm not counting, so tell me when to stop. Well, it's the seabed's enrollment.

Okay, there you go. Yep.

So if I'm reading this right, we're down about pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, we're down about a thousand kids. But you made a statement that they're not coming to school. So when you said that, I want to make sure I understood what that meant, is that the absenteeism is dramatically higher than it has been pre-pandemic?

Currently our absenteeism rate is Well, our average daily attendance, let's word it that way, our average daily attendance at this point is lower than normal, which means that we have more students who are not attending school. We still have the remaining part of the year to work on that. We still have a lot of students that, you know, due to COVID, districts haven't fully recovered. There are still a lot of families that are afraid to come to school, so we do our best to kind of reach them through our short-term independent study. So we still have a really high amount of independent study that's being offered through our district to kind of regain some of those attendance numbers. Independent study, as you know, requires that work be completed to a certain extent. So we have some struggles with getting some of that work completed, but I assure you that the ed services team and working with principals are doing their absolute best to kind of recoup some of that. And so we're having to get our heads together and try to put some measures in place to increase average daily attendance. Our enrollment drop, you'll notice in the green line, is not much we can do to increase enrollment. We have a lot of transitional families within the city that are coming and going and we do our best to kind of chase kids down and get them back enrolled and if they're sitting out we try to get them back but we're still reeling a little bit from post-pandemic. The state and another reason why you see that drop is we are on average three-year average now for ADA and so we had some high years pre-COVID And then there was a hold harmless moving into COVID. That hold harmless is now gone. And so our average and our out years start to fall. So it doesn't mean we can't recoup them. But remember what I'm showing you in the 22-23 is an estimated amount based on attendance and enrollment today.

How do we compare like with other districts? I know at the conference they were all talking about it as an issue for for public schools but are we in the average group in terms of 80?

Yeah it's hard to make direct comparisons because there are districts that we've always been higher than and even with our drop we are still higher than. So we're really not changing in comparison to other districts. I think districts in totality are moving up or down, but we're not really falling behind or catching up on districts that we have normally compared to.

Thank you. I have a question in regards to the attendance as well. The hold harmless, is there any talk for them to extend that or open it back up? Because, I mean, attendance everywhere throughout the United States is atrocious at the K-12 system.

Yeah. I don't want to get into politics, but we talk about appetite. And the legislature's appetite for holding harmless. Last year, there was not a lot of sympathy at the state level to keep holding harmless. They really felt we just needed to kind of cut that whole harmless tie and then we'll just deal, we'll let districts kind of settle where they are and then we'll fix it later. They ended up passing that average. Prior to this year, we've always been the greater of this year, we always chose this year or last year versus ADA. It was always the greater of the two. So if we had a poor, if we had bad attendance this year, and we had better attendance last year, we can choose last year. If we had better attendance this year, we can choose this year. This year, they added a three-year average, so we can choose this year, last year, or a three-year average. We don't choose that. That's automatically chosen by the LCFF calculator that I mentioned earlier. We're automatically in the three-year average because it helps us the most. But they did stop, the hold harmless is gone. What they did allow you to do in that 21-22 year that you see that drop there, they will allow us at a one time to move the 19-20 year over to the 21-22. You could call that a hold harmless, but the state didn't. They didn't call it a hold harmless. What they did is they said you could replace the 19-20 year with the 21-22. They are really afraid at this point to use the term hold harmless. But it really depends as we approach Election times, it depends on the pressure that the legislatures and the community puts on the Capitol to make any changes here. So, yeah.

Any other comments? All right. Thank you, Mr. Hill. Up next, we have a presentation from Mr. Quartz, Director III, Innovation Technology and Accountability. Mr. Quartz will be sharing an innovation update.

Mr. Quartz.

All right. Good evening board members cabinet and guests. If you remember in October we did an innovation update on the distribution of over 900 new line boards in every single classroom in the entire school district. We also gave a report on the anatomized tables in the high schools. I also mentioned at that time that there were so many innovative projects that we wanted to distribute the report among multiple board meetings instead of having a two-hour report at one board meeting. So today we're gonna feature ArcGIS and GIS Day, and also the Garner Holt Golden Bell, both in direct support of RUSD 2025. So I couldn't be more proud to introduce Jen Vadnay, star tech coach and one of the original ed tech coaches in our school district and she's going to be talking a little bit about ArcGIS and GIS day.

Hello everyone. Very happy to be here and happy to talk about ArcGIS. Our project is introducing ArcGIS technology to Redland students and teachers and identifying ways that ArcGIS can be incorporated into core curriculum. Last year I had the pleasure of working with several classes and last spring I put together a video highlighting some of the projects that the students worked on.

Have you ever looked at a map and wondered what it represents? Maps help people around the world by helping them expand out of their little bubble into the earth-sized bubble so that they can learn about different countries, regions, and cultures from all over the globe.

ArcGIS is a mapping software developed by the local Redlands company Esri. Through the collaborative partnership, Redlands Unified teachers and students have access to the various ArcGIS apps. Let's check out how these interactive tools enhance student learning.

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I used ArcGIS to map Lewis and Clark's journey across the land, including the Louisiana bridges. ArcGIS is very visual. There are times when a map can offer more of a description than a written word. Story Maps incorporates both the research and the map which produces a better presentation and a deeper understanding of the topic.

Have you ever wanted to travel to Tokyo, Japan? Well, here are a few places in and surrounding Tokyo that I would recommend.

There are a few features that I really like within ArcGIS. If I want to talk about a specific location on the map, I can zoom in into a pin and unlock more details. In a pin, you can add text and pictures about the events that happen at that location. The added information gives your audience a better understanding of the topic.

Maths are fun! Thank you.

Last month, in November, we celebrated GIS Day. GIS Day is an international day acknowledging geography and the process of displaying data spatially on a map. Dr. Don Wright, a chief ESRI scientist, presented to Mariposa students She presented her seven mile, historic seven mile dive into Challenger Deep to the fifth grade students over at Mariposa. And with the assistance of tech services, so a shout out to Dave, Dave Scott and Jose, and Christine Stevens, the event was live streamed to over 4,000 students across 20 schools and promoted publicly. Students are using the technology and teachers have to learn how to use the technology so they can support their students. Currently we have around 25 teachers that are learning all about ArcGIS and the different apps within their account. We have created 22 curriculum-based lessons that have positively enhanced the learning for over 1,800 students. Prior to the pandemic, all of these numbers were zero. So this is an emerging program that is gaining momentum quickly. Over the past two years, we've received lots of positive feedback from adults and teachers. They are excited about building a sustainable partnership with Esri. Students and teachers have acknowledged that maps are not limited to the dimensions of an image when they're using the dynamic maps found in ArcGIS. When you put a dynamic map in the hands of a child, they first find their home. So I've heard the comment, I found my home at least 100 times in the past two years. I overheard a conversation between two eighth grade students. One was absent and he was filling in the student about what he missed on the project the day before. And after the conversation, he looked at him and said, I told you it was lit. They were both engaged and enjoying creating a story map. I went into a fifth grade classroom and the students asked if they could make their own maps. And when I responded with a yes, about a third of the students screamed yes. And I often go into school classrooms. I provide in-class support that's a way of training both teachers and students, and oftentimes students are asking me when I come back. Because they like ArcGIS, they like the mapping software, they like the creativity it provides them, and they want to do more of it. In reflection, back to Redlands or RUSD 2025, students are definitely responding to the curriculum using multimedia tools when they are working with ArcGIS. And they are using a cutting edge technology. I'd like to acknowledge the fact that Redlands Unified School District is one of only a handful of districts in the country, in the country that is using ArcGIS in all three levels. Our elementary schools are using it, our middle schools using it, and our high school students are using this. And this is not a practice that is commonly used throughout the country. So I wanted to acknowledge that. And before I pass the clicker on to Jamie, my name is Jennifer Vadney. My office is across the hall in Annex D. And if you have any questions about this presentation or ArcGIS, please come knock on Annex D and ask me.

Thank you, Jen. And as all innovation goes, there's no roadmap or script for these things. It starts with a passion and determination, and that's what Jen brought to us. And because of her passion and determination, you see over 1,000, almost 2,000, and growing students are benefiting from this cutting edge technology, responding to their curricular needs. The second one is another one that we're very proud of in Redlands Unified School District. It's our partnership with Garner Holt. This is a college and career and STEAM experience for our students with the collaboration. And many know that we have this collaboration, but I don't think everybody knows that we received a Golden Bell Award our fourth in four years. And this award is for community partnerships. I asked our very own Christine Stevens to put together an unbelievable 60 second video that encapsulates the images and the life and the experience of everything happening in all four schools. getting you to ask more questions and thirst for more information, but still leaving you with a few more desires to see more at the very end. So I think she nailed that, so I'm gonna show that video. And this video really encapsulates what's happening in these schools, which again, helped us to receive this Golden Bell Award.

When I grow up, I want to be an inventor. I will build big, beautiful buildings. I will be a scientist who invents cures. When I grow up, I will be an artist.

A designer.

A scholar. I will be a nurse. A doctor.

A surgeon.

I'll be a teacher who inspires kids just like me. When I grow up, I will solve complex problems. I will help others. I will be a team player.

I'll be encouraging and I won't give up.

When I grow up, I can be anything I want to be. I am smart. I am talented. I am important.

I'm not going to call for a list of hands, but I'm wondering how many of you here had that experience when you were in third grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade. And I'm also wondering if you did have that experience, how it would have inspired you to be something amazing when you grew up. Thank you to staff and students from Beatty, Clement, and Franklin, and Victoria our partners from Garner Holt through education, imagination, business services for the creation of these amazing spaces, IT and EdTech for ongoing tech support, and especially our superintendent, whose vision, courage, and support got these programs off the ground. Without you, it couldn't have happened worse to you. With these programs and this award, students explore learning through coding, robotics, and engineering school-wide at these four schools. Students use cutting edge technology. That's undeniable by the video that was just shown. And resources will be committed to support 21st century. And that's thanks to our Board of Education. So I was really touched, Ms. Rendler, when you mentioned RUSD 25 and the innovations that are in the efforts that are going to support this vision. And hopefully with this report, you'll see a couple more programs that are supporting that. So I'd like to open it up to questions.

All right, thank you, Mr. Quartz and Jen Matney, sorry, excuse me, for that. I think that was wonderful. That was very inspiring. I would like to know how we can get, where it says we have more than 1,800 students and 25 teacher users, how do we get five board members on that list?

Very easily.

All right, does anybody else have any comments?

When the kids are working using the ArcGIS software, do we by any chance have any partnerships like with the city so that the students develop something or use the mapping software to help the city solve a problem?

I love that question. Jamie and I call that call to action projects, and currently that's not happening, but I don't want to say it's in the works, but that's the idea that we want to go with this. We've had some small groups of students create a project. For example, during the pandemic, one student got his class to clean local parks and we mapped it and we had a heat map representing all the different places that his class went to clean up using trash or wipe down the park equipment. I will be working with three high school classes in that capacity. They do wanna do a call to action project. So we gotta start something in the second semester. And the goal is to bring it to the public to share. And then possibly bring it, if it is a city related project, bring it to the city to share. And once students get the hang of what they're doing with the ArcGIS technology, partner with cities. It would be wonderful. I know I was at Orangewood about a week ago, and I was showing them the GIS hub that Redlands has, and one of the maps is greenery trees, and the trees outside that line, Orangewood, are not named. Yeah, like that species has not been entered into the database, and they kind of threw it out to the AVR class. Like this would be a fun project to figure out what these trees are that are lining your school and then present that information to the city so the city could then update their maps. So I would love to build that partnership between students and cities using this technology.

I just have a comment as well. I think it's amazing because six years ago, the partnership that we had with ESRRI was non-existent like it is today. And I think it's amazing. We have a billion dollar company in our neighborhood. It's in our backyard? Exactly, in our backyard, and we're finally able to do some amazing things. We can do so much with that mapping information and students can learn so much and sky's the limit on what we can do. So thank you for doing that and building those partnerships.

Thank you. I have one quick story to share, if that's okay. I had one student over at Orangewood, she asked, what are some of the things that people map? Like, what am I missing? You're so excited about this project. What am I missing about it? And that's when we were able to go to the Redlands Hub and show all the different types of maps. And they really like the one of the hometown heroes where it shows the signs of military members from the local community and they're lining the highways. And so when they saw that, they're like, wow, you can map almost anything. And their ideas started to swirl.

Well, thank you, Mr. O'Neill. Just want to reiterate what our board member Farah said. Just to have the partnership that we do with Esri, who is an international world class employer that you can go anywhere. So to getting our young kids in there inspiring is awesome. And I was very proud to be there at CSB when we received the award that Mr. O'Neill did. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Great presentation. You see the kids are so engaged and that's really important. I was only slightly offended when you said, you know, when you were a first grader or a third grader, what did you experience, you know? My job was to light the candles and clean the erasers. Yeah, you know, bang them together. So thanks a lot for that reminder. But when I see, you know, we have to have this innovation because that's the world that we're in and these kids are growing up in that world. It's not new to them, you know. We're obligated to make sure that they have access to all these cutting-edge things that are going on, and so they can keep up with the world. Probably too late for me, but never too late. Yeah, okay, thank you for that, Jen. So thanks again, and yeah, our partnerships are amazing, even with Garter Holt. That's an amazing endeavor as well. And Esri is an amazing company and I'm certainly glad that we've been able to partner with them and our superintendents made those connections and you're keeping those strong. So well done, thank you very much.

Thank you so much, I appreciate that. Next on item nine is our student trustee report, but we do not have a student trustee report tonight, so we'll move on to board committee reports. First up we have CRIROP.

We are not meeting until this Friday, so I have no report for you this evening.

Yeah, the club officers and advisors met with the steering committee on December 6th. The next compact mixer will be February 16th at 530 at the Orton Center at the U of R. So you're all invited to come and get interviewed by students. It's $40 for adults and $25 for the students to come. If any of you are interested in networking and being interviewed by the students, please let me know and I'll pass your name on to the advisors at each school. RHS Club made cards for Plymouth Village and put together a Thanksgiving food basket for family services. Any seniors who wish to attain the gold certification this year are required to do job shadowing. And the steering committee is looking for people who would like to have a student job shadow them. We could have one of them come sit here even or in district office if you guys are willing to do that. mock interviews are going to be January 17th, 18th, and 18th, and the 24th and 25th. So I think, Jim, you said you might want to sit on one of those interviews. Absolutely, yes. So I will get all that information to you if any of you are interested. I can send that. I'll just send an email with it all. And Mr. Maupin is going to put on his seminar called The Inside Secrets of How to Become a Millionaire for any students in the clubs that are interested at the high schools. And I said, can I go? I want to know. He said, no, it's only for the students. So the next officer's meeting is on January 10th, and the next steering committee will be on the 12th. They had a Christmas block party put on by the RPD. It was at the community center. It was a big success this past Saturday. There were about a dozen compact students there helping with the different events, crafts and games and things. And that's all I have this time. Thanks.

Thank you. I actually do not have a report for Redlands Educational Partnership, and so we'll move on to Mr. O'Neill for Redlands Cultural Arts Commission.

Well, back up to Rep. I did hear that they had like a record-breaking turkey trot. Did you hear anything about that?

I have not actually. Haven't heard about that.

Well, I just heard rumors that it was really successful, so good for them. Nothing from Cultural Arts.

Parks and Rec? The meeting was cancelled because there was not a quorum and the next meeting is January 12th in the new year 2023.

We meet tomorrow.

SBA?

Nothing at this time.

Coalition to support RUSD.

I hope they haven't met, but they're very excited because the field is done. It's marked, it's painted, it's a grid iron.

Comments I'm getting, people are amazed. How'd they get that done so fast? I'm like, well, it's a long time coming.

And they're starting on the track. So I will fly this week another drone so we can get an update from the air. Of course, following all FAA rules and regulations and below the- Absolutely. Yes. Put that on record. Can I ask Michelle a question real quick? So the job sharing thing- Job shadowing. Job shadowing thing. I wanted to make a note on that or I could talk to you later about it actually but is that something that they've done before or?

Only very few students had done it and they're trying to get more kids to do job shadowing in the city you know trying to see different careers and in the hospital and the banks and you know everywhere just to see different careers.

I know we have the civics day too that's the optimist club that does that or yeah okay maybe they can tie it in with something like that. Well, anyway, I'll talk to you later. Thank you.

All right, item 11, we get to our superintendent's report.

All right, thank you. Just making sure everybody can hear me out in the audience. You're good.

You can.

All right, thank you. I see the head nods. All right, well, let me begin by just thanking technology for the accommodations today. I appreciate all you've done this evening to allow me to be part of the meeting. And a special thanks to Maintenance Operations, our school safety team, and our Redlands Police Department for your continued support and helping our meetings continue to be peaceful and safe and productive. Let me also begin by congratulating Mrs. Ayala Quintero, serving as our board president. Congratulations to Mr. Barra for serving as our vice president. And Mrs. Holihan, congratulations on serving as our clerk for the year. Thank you very much for that. Jason, Brian Guggenberg, Sherry Gross, thank you so much and to all your fiscal team for all the work and many hours that goes behind putting such a comprehensive report together for our budget. All of you have done a great job maintaining a positive budget, a fluid budget, and a budget that's serving our students well. So thank you all for all of your hard work and a great presentation today. And Jamie and Jen and all your colleagues in the Instructional Technology Department, again, wow. Thank you for all the work that you're doing as well. When we think back six years ago when we all started working together and the number one request from our community was to make sure that our schools started to have 21st century tools for our kids and exposure to innovation and to sit here five years later and to see all of our STEM and GIS and coding and programming camps for kids and the partnerships we have with UCR, University of Redlands, through our Lego Demonstration District now, our kids using STEM throughout all of our elementary schools, to our Gardner Holt Labs that are now award-winning programs and demonstration sites, and our C-STEM computer science math programs now, at the elementary, middle school and high school. Just outstanding work on behalf of everyone in the district for getting us this far forward. So I just wanna take a few minutes now and provide some highlights. And I think David's gonna support me with a few pictures there that you can see that I can't. So I'm hoping it's in front of you. So I wanna start off with a shout out to our Redlands High School Inspire Choir. Our brilliant and talented moderate and severe students at Redlands put together a wonderful choir. Their first performance was last night. Their annual fall concert included such songs as the Baila Esta Columbia, Lean on Me, Jump in the Line, and then student soloist Richard Gutierrez and Ali Hametala sang Here Comes the Sun and You've Got a Friend in Me. So special thanks to Ms. Cindy Van Horn, Ms. Sarah Austash and Mr. Paul Stewart for giving their students the opportunity to showcase their talents and abilities in front of family, friends, and staff members. So shout out to RHS Inspire Choir. Then the next picture should be a shout out to Assemblyman James Ramos, who always takes the time to come and support our students. He delivered a cultural presentation to Justin Brown Elementary School yesterday to commemorate last month's Native American Heritage Month. He led the fourth grade classes in songs and lessons on local vegetation and tribal history. So I'm very grateful Assemblyman Ramos for your continued support and for helping our kids learn. Our next picture up on the screen should be a picture of our RHS adult transition class and their Redlands High School Terrier ground coffee company. So as you see up there, the kids put together their cafe and they provided the district office the opportunity to buy delicious drinks and treats. And Mrs. Natalie King's transition class in this endeavor learned basic skills of operating a business, putting together creative drinks, how to take orders, and all the skills that come with customer service. So great job out there to our students at Reynolds High School and Ms. King's class. Then hopefully the next picture you see in front of you is a picture of our students this past weekend from the computer science education, well, in celebration of computer science education week on Saturday, our district held a coding camp that was done right there in the boardroom where you guys are all sitting there. And it was facilitated and taught by six of our own students at Citrus Valley High School and RHS. So I want to give a special thanks to Deepika Subastra who put this all together. And of course, our six facilitating students that did the teaching there for our students. So again, another example of our kids continuing to be involved in innovation and 21st century learning skills. Kind of transitioning away from the pictures now, just a few more items I'd like to share is I want to make the community aware in our Board of Education that we're about a year and a half into our eSports program. That's really taking off here in the Redlands Unified School District. Thanks to many people behind the scenes Jamie and Dwayne Coles and many of our employees who are serving as coaches to our esports team. And I'm proud to announce that our Redlands High School team just this past week coached by one of our employees, Nicholas Clodner. They went into the Western Regional competition as undefeated last week against Arcadia High School with the opportunity to move forward at the national level. Regretfully, they didn't win on that day, and they were disappointed. But I want them to know that we're all very proud that they are the pioneers of our esports program. And now that they've had that experience, I'm sure in years to come, RUSD will be a dominating force in esports as we have been in other levels across the district. So congratulations, Mr. Klassner, and to the RHS team for your advancement of our eSports program. I also want to share a special congratulations to our Citrus Valley High School mock trial team. Coach Debbie Muniz and Coach Kate Funkin-Stoker informed me that Citrus Valley High School is one of the four semifinalists for the mock trial county competition. So they are going into the semifinals with a 4-0 record and ranked second in the group. And on January 11th and 12th, they will compete against Oak Hills at San Bernardino Courthouse. So congratulations to our mock trial team at Citrus Valley High School, and good luck. And we will be there in person to cheer you on in those endeavors. I'm also very happy to announce that RUSD in conjunction with UC Davis We're going to once again host the 2023 C-STEM Computer Science Symposium on March 14, 2023 over at the Orton Center at the University of Redlands. Again, this is our endeavor to enhance our math learning for students through the use of computer science. So teachers from all over the state of California will be coming to this symposium to learn about the programs that we have here in place at the elementary, middle school, and high school, and some of our neighboring districts who also have the program, it'll be an opportunity to share some best practices so that hopefully this can become a systemic program across all districts in California, because we're seeing a big impact on students who take C-STEM courses in their math scores. There's a correlation, if you recall me mentioning that at the last board meeting. So we're very excited to co-host that, symposium. Excuse me one second. Thank you. And I want to conclude by also being very pleased to announce that the district has reached tentative agreements with both the Redlands Teachers Association known as RTA and the Redlands Education Support Professionals Association known as RESPA. I want to give a special thanks to RTA President Sue Apps RTA Negotiations Chair Shannon Rooney, RESPA President Gladys Kershaw, RESPA Negotiations Chair Michelle Moore Padilla, RUSD Lead Negotiators Sabine Robertson Phillips, and all of the members of all three of the bargaining team. For all the time that you invested and the hard work that you put forth to reach a tentative agreement that is fair, reasonable, good for our employees, and good for our school district. Negotiations was done with honest dialogue, with healthy debate, fluent exchange of information, and with a professional tone. So I want to thank all three parties for getting us to a tentative agreement. And I would be remiss if I didn't also thank the Board of Education for approving the two settlements that truly sends a message to all of our employees. One, they are valued. Two, that you recognize their hard work, and three, that you recognize that they are students first and the proof's in the pudding based on all the accolades and all the concrete examples of how well our kids and our district is doing. Certainly there's always more to do, but I think these two settlements really show that we value our employees. So thank you to the Board of Education. Thank you to the bargaining teams. Thank you to the union leaders. A job well done, everybody. And with that, I want to wish everybody there in the audience and to the board and all the staff and everybody across the community a very happy holidays. Hope it's a safe one. Hope it's a fun one. Happy New Year. And I hope that 2023 is a healthy one and a prosperous one for everybody in our community. Thank you very much.

All righty. Thank you, Mr. Arellano. Up next, we are moving on to superintendent's recommendations. First up, consent items under business and services. Mr. Hill, any changes or additions?

Thank you, President Aiely Quintero. I have no changes or additions tonight.

Okay, then we can take, approve all consent items as detailed in items 8B to 8AB. Is there a motion to approve item A, consent items 8B through AB? 8AB. Moved.

Second.

Any discussion?

Just one comment. I'm sure we've all been in a gymnasium in our district during the hot summer months and late in the year. So Jason, it's great to see the HVAC potential for those gymnasiums. There's always been a lot of complaints over the years about how hot those gyms get. So I think a lot of people will be happy to have some cool air blowing on them in those rallies and whatnot. Well done.

All right, all those in favor, say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Your vote's aye, and so ordered. Item 14, on to Businesses Services Action Items. Approve and certify the first interim financial report per Assembly Bill 1200 and Education Code 35035. So moved. Second. Discussion?

Thank you for your hard work, Jason and your team.

All righty, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Accept nominations for the California School Boards Association, CSBA 2023 Delegate Assembly Subregion 16B Delegate. Region 16B has eight vacancies. Each board may nominate as many individuals as it chooses.

We're region 16. I keep looking at this and I don't see any vacancies. So they said there's eight vacancies?

Must be the ones that are leaving the 2023 probably.

Probably.

One, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah, that's it, it's all the 2023. There's actually eight, so.

Okay.

That's who that would be.

Well, they're all incumbents. They all served. I don't mind just nominating them at that spin, and I don't know anybody else. Nobody's contacted me as wanting to be nominated, so.

And I sit with at least four of these on sand dabs, so. Okay.

Do you want to read them out? Yeah, you can read them out probably. Do you want to make a motion to nominate those people then?

Can I get a motion?

Yeah, I'll move. Second. And the motion is that we're going to nominate Tom Courtney, Gwen Dowdy-Rogers, Sherry McGaugh, Adam Perez, Gabriel Stein, Eric Swanson, Mondy Taylor, and Kathy Thompson.

Forgot Susan Patton.

Thank you. So Susan Patton's in area 16A.

That's right, we're B. Yeah, we're B.

My apologies. So the line Susan Patton.

All right, any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 19, 2022-23, resolution of the board of education of the residence unified school district approving the annual and five year reportable fees report for the fiscal year 2021-2022 in compliance with the government code section 66006 and 66001.

Move that we adopt the resolution number 19. Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 20. 2022-2023 resolution continuing authority to hold virtual meetings pursuant to AB 361. So moved. All those in any discussion, sorry. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Sorry Alex. Item 15, educational service consent items. Moving on to consent items under educational services. Dr. Wagner, any changes or additions? Excuse me.

Thank you, President Aiella-Cantara. No changes or additions.

All right. Can I get a motion to approve items A? Sorry. Item 15, consent items B through E. So moved. Second. Any discussion?

I have one question. Does anybody know who the student from RHS that's going to the CIC symposium, do we know who that is?

A student from Redlands High School, Varun. That's what I thought. He was invited to be the keynote presenter actually for the conference itself. Wow. So it's a pretty big deal. He was invited by, the county is the host this year of the CIS conference. And the county invited him to be one of the presenters. That's amazing.

That's the first person I thought of when I read it. I said, oh, I better make sure.

That's wonderful. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, and so ordered. OK, approve all consent items as detailed in items 15B through 15E.

So moved.

Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Item 17, human resources consent items. Dr. Robertson Phillips, any changes or additions?

I have no changes or additions this evening. Thank you.

Is there a motion to approve item A, consent items B through AF? So moved.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. We have no human resources action items tonight, but at this time I would like to read out from closed session. In regard to the public employee appointment part of the agenda, I would like to report the following. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Joseph Camarena to the position of supervisor maintenance and operations effective December 14th, 2022 at step one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Holohan, O'Neill, Renler, and Vara voting aye. Is Mr. Camarena here tonight? Welcome. Do you have any family here with you tonight to support you? Thank you, we welcome you. All right, we're up to item 19, discussion item, CSBA conference reflections. I know not everybody got to go, illnesses arose, and so the few of us that did get to go, now would be the time to reflect a little bit on that.

me to start? Absolutely. I'd be happy to reflect a little bit. Well, it was a great conference. They had very large attendance this year. I think they said 5,000 people, board members, superintendents, assistant superintendents. And I attended quite a few of the workshops. It seems like the workshop that I attended on equity, that we could have been doing that workshop. Because hearing what the panel was suggesting and recommending, I was just kind of going down the list, check, check, check, check. It was really kind of exciting to be able to do that. So I think having that as part of our RUSD 2025, it's visionary and it's long range planning and we're getting to it. We're well ahead of the pack in a lot of districts. It was a full room. So that meant that everybody was there to try to see, figure out where they need to be and what they need to be doing. So I was very proud of the fact that we're implementing student equity and equality strategies and we're working as a team looking at practices. I had also attended a panel of attorneys who work with legal cases, and they said that numerous public school cases were moving through the courts, and some ultimately ending up probably most likely at the Supreme Court level. There are the kinds of cases and decisions that affect equity again, gender, special education, sports, religious issues, and board policies. So I think we're going to be seeing a lot of guidance in that area and certainly legal ramifications as they go through the court systems. I attended sort of, we weren't able to sign up for it, but I kind of snuck into the session because we knew the person making the presentation. She was part of our workshops about five or six years ago from CSBA as our student trustees. They had a workshop for student trustees. And there were about 30 student trustees in the workshop. I complained that, you know, we have, We would have loved to have participated with our student trustees, but the logistics of taking students and going to a conference and staying overnight and doing all of that, we just couldn't get them worked out. And I said, if you might consider in the future doing like a webinar or a Zoom workshop or something. And she did one better than that. She says, I'll just come to your school district. So we might be able to really have some great training right here at our school district and we can invite the local school districts that do have a student trustee and maybe host a get together for our student trustees so that they can learn all the things that they need to know that'll make them better student trustees. So I was excited about that and having that conversation. Electric buses. They had a couple of electric buses there, which was kind of unusual to see, you know, but with the launching and high interest in having electric vehicles, EVs, buses are not exempt. So we looked at a few of those, and you know what? They had one there. It's hard to make a school bus look cool. But they had a school bus there that truly looked cool. Kids would probably clamor to drive that bus. It was just well designed. It didn't look like your typical school bus. So I don't know if that's something that we could look at down the line, Jason. But that was fun to see the innovation in terms of student transportation. The last thing that I brought back and something that we should talk about as a board, I would like to see us talk about it, is maybe have a more formal governance calendar. There was a group of people there that talked about providing a governance calendar that really helps with the planning and goal setting and due dates and transparency of what the board is doing. And probably the most important thing is It helps the public see what the board is doing. I mean, there are a lot of things that we do that aren't so public. So this is a way to really get that out there. People can see what we're meeting, when we're meeting, what we're talking about, what we're meeting about. and help us to really focus in, maybe laser focus on some things and have some of those things out there on a calendar. Helps us manage our year, too. So if that's something we could talk about, maybe at another time. I brought back some samples.

Okay, absolutely. Do you have anything?

I just thought this was the weakest one, in my opinion, of CSBA conferences that I've been through. I thought some of the workshops weren't the strongest ones because you just mentioned that we could have given that, and yes, we could have given that workshop. But the highlight is always attending and seeing your colleagues and see what everyone else is up to. And then, of course, receiving the Golden Ball award is always a highlight. So hopefully next year, maybe we, RUSD can present and go from there because I think that we have a lot to give on information. So thank you.

So I just wanted to make sure that Dr. Wagner got a shout out, even though he was introduced as Superintendent Arellano when we received the CSBA award. Mauricio was unable to attend, but we're grateful that you were there. And I just wanted to make sure that you knew that we knew who you were, and we thank you for your contributions in that area. So good job.

Thank you. I'll give my little spiel. I agree that it was not a very strong conference. There were a lot of things that, some sessions that I sat in on where I just thought, really? We're doing this already and we're far past this. There were a couple of things where I did take away. I attended a mental health supporting diverse student populations session and there were a few things that I thought were great information and one of the things that they do was use a request for assistance form filled out in conjunction with the parent so that staff is better equipped to understand how that specific student learns best and what services that they might need to identify academic, behavioral, and social-emotional areas of concern. So they did give an example, and I'll go ahead and share that with everybody when I can, but I just thought it was great that we bring everybody into the conversation when trying to help students, who knows our students better than their parents. And it is also filled out with the student so that they can identify any issues or areas of concern that they have. There was another aspect to that and that was staff support. How can we expect our teachers and staff to identify issues our students may have if they may not even be able to recognize them in themselves. Older generations might equate happiness to having a roof over your head, food on your table, and that just isn't true for a lot of our students anymore. They have different areas of concern, different issues. They have social media pressures that we didn't have growing up. And so if we are able to help our teachers and staff, I think that would be fantastic and instrumental in helping our students in the long run. So the main theme was compassion and understanding for everyone, so I thought that was fantastic to hear. This is probably an area we can look more into. We did have conversations on our own, and I think that's where more of the work was done during the conference. And there was something I did speak to Jim about was you know, during high school, you know, when kids are selecting their classes, foods is one of the first to go. And I thought it might be something we can do, maybe in conjunction with cry-rop, where we have our students maybe either earn credits or take a class, and we've had outreach from parents about maybe having them do food prep courses and things like that in the district. I even thought it might be fun if they, you know, did this and have, like, a Costco-style sampling for fresh foods and just different things that they can learn either to cook for themselves or their families, just different things like that. So I figured, you know, we could do something in conjunction with CNS. I don't know if we have the space for that or how we can figure that out, but I just thought it might be good. Thank you. I just thought it would be a nice way. I mean, there was a booth there that was serving this olive kind of tamponade on a cracker, and I didn't know what it was, but I ate it, and it was fantastic. I don't even like olives, but it tasted fantastic. And you know what? I thought sometimes our kids, you know, they're afraid of something new, but you know what? If you give them a little taste, if you give them a little sample, maybe they'll be into it. So I thought that was fantastic and something we can certainly look into and discuss in some point in the future.

We're going to enjoy being on the cryer out board. You're going to be excited about what they're doing in that area.

Okay, up next. Let's see, we are now at the public participation, excuse me. We are now at the community input portion of the agenda. This is the time that any member of the public may address the board on anything that falls under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education, provided the person submits a completed registration card to the clerk of the board or his or her designee prior to public participation. This is not meant to be a debating period. Complaints and problems relating to policy matters will be referred to the superintendent. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized by the chairperson of the board, step up to the podium and announce his or her name. The chairperson shall 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. All right, we'll do the email that has come in first. This is from Kimberly Henry. I'm writing to you concerning the traffic during more middle school hours. I live near Fifth Avenue and have a student who walks to school. I make her walk from Marion Street to the crosswalk at Dearborn for her safety getting across the street. Not all students do this and run across the street to the open gate on campus. I've seen multiple kids running from between cars where drivers cannot see them to cross the street. There are no blinking lights during school hours, no crosswalks near the Fifth Avenue gate. On Tuesday a car drove on the sidewalk and up into the orange groves and today a cyclist was fatally hit just shortly before after school starting. I'll be honest when I heard the fire truck my stomach dropped thinking it was my child being hit on her way to school. The street is extremely dangerous. People don't adhere to the posted speed limit which I believe is way too fast for a school zone. Can we address this problem before we see another death or injury on this road. We need a crosswalk or traffic light and slower speed limits during after school hours. Best Kim Henry. And onto our cards, first up we have Candy Olson.

Good evening, I'm Candy. On November 8th, social media boasted with RUSD HR Director, RUSD Board President, Teachers Union President, Patty Houlihan, and other dignitaries. shouting, fuck Aaron, Mary Bell for hire. We all saw that Patty paid Mary Bell $1,000, the exact dollar amount of the crime fine. What occurred was involvement in a third degree misdemeanor for actively conspiring to interfere with an election. Yet Patty was sworn in today. Sabine is widely rumored to have been caught actively shredding documents to cover up the Redland School sexual abuse, and yet she still sits here today. Jim violated the Brown Act twice, for which the penalty is $1,000 per violation and permanent removal from ever holding public office again, yet he still sits here today. I think the corruption in this district reeks and so does your content. Now I'm struggling to understand how you can hold a diversity statement workshop, but you cannot hold a workshop to figure out what committee allowed the filth into our libraries or to change the eight-step convoluted process. You paraded the rev school librarian at the pulpit pretending these books don't exist. Well, I'm going to read from a book called Tricks. Two copies are at her rev library. We can play this game at every meeting. I open the foil pouch, remove the thin latex protection. You ever seen a ramrod like Dan's? I shake my head as I roll the condom down over it. I close my eyes, fight not to gag at the taste of lubricant, not to choke on his thrust against my throat. He pulls me to his feet, to my feet, pulls behind me, drapes my back with his chest. The little boy likes that. He reaches down. between my thighs. Look how hard he is. His lips brush the back of my neck and still folding me into him, he moves me towards the bed, urges me face down. Down go my boxers, oh my, what a sweet little bottom. Dan's hands moving over my skin are soft and when he lowers himself over me, He presses up against me. I brace and he pauses. Do you think it will hurt? Let's see. He pushes, but only a little. A test. Oh yes, I'm afraid it might. And after Dan, nothing else will do. This is on page 485. It's in your library. I've passed out a social media post from the RHS library. This is the post, Beyond Magenta. And other books were encouraged to read, but only on the student app, not the parent app. And I can read to you from Beyond Magenta again if you don't remember the six-year-old boys performing oral sex on adult men. I am shocked to have to beg this board to clean it up. The sexual indoctrination in our schools is morally reprehensible and the integrity of the school board is bankrupt. I don't understand how you have time for all these other things and you can't clean this crap up or figure it out.

Thank you. Up next, Dorothy Lowen.

Hi. Hi, welcome. Children are amazing, aren't they? Little miracles from the start. Did you know their little minds are not fully developed until their 20s? For boys, it's around 27 and for girls, it's 25. We have to teach them absolutely everything when they are younger though. How to walk, talk, play, share, how to take care of themselves, how to get along with others. As they grow, we help them with conflict resolution, how to stay away from negative influences, how to manage money. How to judge character because character is the only thing that matters, not the color of someone's skin, nor their ethnicity, whether they're gay or they're straight. It's the character of a person and only the character that counts. We teach our children how to be kind and to stick up to anyone being bullied. We talk to our kids about decision making and nervously watch as they start to find their own way. We teach them to own their decisions and help them to celebrate their good ones and to talk about the bad ones. Kids are easily influenced though. They want to be popular, to fit in. They are easily influenced by fads, social media, by their peers, and by their teachers, which brings me to my point. Children should not be allowed to be influenced by the gender ideology of any teacher or group in a school setting or at a school sponsored event, period. Teachers should not have any flags, any rainbows, or any other ideological decoration up in the classroom, period. All sexually explicit books should immediately be removed from our schools and online libraries. the schools and please don't tell us to file complaints at an individual school. This is a district problem. You should care about all the kids, not the kids at one school. Sexually explicit books do not affirm anything. It will not prevent a single child from committing suicide like others may have you try and make you to believe. Any discussion of equity and inclusion should be banned from the classrooms altogether. The purpose of public school is to teach basic skills. Anything else is an abuse of power. It is not your job to influence my child's sexuality. It is not your job to influence my child's political bias. It is not your job to tell my children that they should feel guilty because of the color of their skin. And yes, that happened to my teenage daughter at Rev High School. How naive and cruel of that teacher to think that because my daughter has white skin that life has been a piece of cake for her. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and circumstances. My two younger children are adopted and to sit there and listen to a teacher tell my daughter that she should feel guilty because of the color of her skin when that teacher has no clue what my daughter's been through is asinine. Equity and inclusion criteria is based on a flawed theory. The color of your skin or your sexual preference has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Thank you.

Felipe Alberto.

Thank you for the esteemed presentation. That was awesome. I'm Felipe Alberto and I am with Safe Redlands schools. I live in Redlands, trustee area five, and my son is a Redlands Unified student. As you are aware, many members of our group, including myself, were threatened with violence by extremists, like the ones you saw right now. They consistently use hate rhetoric. They bring weapons to school board meetings. and they welcome well-known domestic terrorists in our town. I came here tonight to highlight the incredible waste of money and resources that the school district incurs with extremists insisting to misuse this public comment forum to their own personal gain. Because of their threats of violence the city needs to take extra measures City and district employees must be paid overtime. The work-life balance is impacted by the need to stay long hours away from their families. These are resources that could have been instead used for our own kids' education. My message today is, if you, Redlands resident, think that these extremists don't affect you because you're not a member of the LGBTQ plus community, not a person of color, and not an immigrant, remember, you're still a taxpayer. If your child or grandchild is enrolled in our district, these extremists are not only terrorizing our town, but they are also directly impacting your kid's education. If you don't have a child or grandchild, I still ask you to consider how the bad publicity impacts the reputation of our city and our school district. It's your money too. I urge you all to consider that everyone is impacted by extremism and hate. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, Tricia Keeling.

Let's try this again. Thank you. Hello. My name is Tricia Keeling. I'm here with Safe Redlands Schools. We are a group of over 600 parents and community members here in the Redlands area. I was so proud of the community for standing up to hatred and homophobia at the 1025 school board meeting. I also wanted to thank the board for implementing a safety plan on October 25th. Leading up to this meeting I was concerned that members of far right extremist groups were invited to Redlands with the sole purpose seeming to be to disrupt the meeting. At that board meeting, many of these out-of-towners took to various forms of social media and live streaming to share their experiences in our town with their followers. We were shocked upon review of these social media channels to hear that more than one of these people admitted to having weapons with them that evening. But thanks to the safety measures taken, these weapons remained in their cars instead of entering the meeting. I will be following up this comment with an email to the board providing names and documentation to support this comment. I would also like to thank the board for doing their job in removing members of the audience who were disruptive at the 1025 school board meeting. Due to the clear and unfortunate need for these safety measures, I am here tonight to request that this level of security is kept at all future meetings in order to keep a safe place for the public to have the opportunity to speak to their school board on behalf of their own children. Thank you. Thank you.

Next we have Leah Rademacher.

Okay. Good evening, board members. I'm here to talk about a few things that I have observed watching a few of the last school board and city council meetings. First of all, I want to address the comments made about the inappropriate books that are available in the school libraries and the comments made by some of the parents. I've heard a lot say, just don't let your children check them out, because let's be honest, how many kids listen to their parents and what they want all the time? None. So if a child wanted to check something out that was not allowed by the parent, they could secretly do so. And yes, the parents can call and restrict the books from their child, but really, who has time to research every single book available both online and on site to do this? I sure don't. Bottom line is these books should not be made available in a public school. Children should not have access to this period. I don't understand what the problem is with parents not wanting this to be accessible by children. You want your children to read these books, buy them privately for them. Next, I want to address the gender ideology that we know all exists in our schools now. I want to ask at what point do we all come to an agreeable consensus and say, okay, this is a mental health issue. Now people can identify as ghosts, dirt, birds, et cetera? Why doesn't this sound ridiculous to everyone? So anyone can identify as anything they want now? Here's a fact. Nobody has pronouns. You can't have a pronoun any more than you can have a proposition or an adverb. The concept doesn't make any sense. Pronouns are not things you can own. They aren't pets or accessories. They are parts of speech. That's it. You don't get to customize them. I also saw yesterday that transgender Navy SEAL Chris Beck came out and stated he made a mistake and transitioning destroyed his life. In 10 years, how many children will be saying the same thing? Why is this ideology being pushed? Kids are very impressionable, and this ideology can easily confuse them. Ask yourself why 30 or even 20 years ago, transgender children were unheard of. Even transgender adults weren't common. Why the sudden increase? And lastly, I would like to know why the RUSD website is listing ItsBetter.org as a resource for children that contains queer, sex ed, and self-pleasure story videos along with the Trevor Project, which contains chat rooms that children can access without parental consent to speak to adults. No chat room between a child and adult should ever be advertised as a safe place for children. Have you ever even looked at the chat rooms in there? I suggest you do and remove this website as a resource. Thank you. Thank you.

Up next we have Nicole Persaud.

Before I get started, I would like to ask that I have about four minutes this evening. All it has to do with all the stuff I've been talking about.

Okay, well thank you.

Thank you. Just something I'd like to add is I noticed that we've seen the decrease and we see the decrease and it started with the two years of the pandemic. Folks are concerned with health and wellness and that's why I'm here today. I continue to stand at this podium to advocate for health and wellness. I'm here to ensure health and wellness is at the forefront of improvements to the school district's educational focus. Our health and wellness policies need to be updated. And a health and wellness committee is a non-negotiable if you want to ensure we make the best decisions for our children. I want to personally thank Mr. O'Neil and Mrs. Rendler for reaching out to me. Not only do they want to see this committee come to fruition, but they have encouraged me to continue to advocate at this meetings. I believe that you are both the kind of candidates we need at this board. Thank you. The most impressive thing I discussed with these two individuals was their interest in serving on this committee and insisting that I be a part of this health and wellness committee as well. Now I want to read something to you that you should be recognizable to this board, to you superintendent and the cabinet. Our students will be empowered with the knowledge and commitment necessary to confront the challenges of our changing world as they become levers of the 21st century. Our world has changed in the last two years, and instead of instilling fear in a virus both you and I know, I know educating kids on how to be safe is a more productive and healing tool. 75% of the people that died were over 65 and were living with more than one disease. The most important part of that mission statement and the reason why I'm here, knowledge and commitment necessary to confront the changes of our challenging world. This is a perfect statement that states why health and wellness should be a top priority. Health and behavior is immediately impacted by nutrients. Teachers and parents see this upon minutes of giving children candy, which explains why often teachers give candy for kids to take home after school. Also explains why kids at parties do pinatas, cake, and candy bags at the end of parties. But if you still are dismissive of both these scenarios, then let me give you another example. Women see and feel this nutrient deficiency when we are pregnant. Women have issues they have never experienced before growing a human in their life. When pregnant, all your nutrients go to your growing child first. So most women, for the first time ever, lose their hair, suffer from back pain, knee pain, swollen feet, acid reflux, hemorrhoids, mood swings, and depression. And I'm sure the women in this world could create a way longer list. These are all ways our bodies are speaking to us, telling us we are lacking specific nutrients that are necessary for health and a functioning body. This is the reason why women are told by doctors to take supplements. Nutrient deficiency is an equity issue. Our school district needs to address health and wellness to help kids in our school district who only have access to poor quality, overly processed foods. Nutrient deficiency will hinder development. In the acronym Excel, X stands for the excellent in academics. So if children don't have the nutrients to help the brain function, the chance of them being able to be a leader is severely compromised. This school drinks lacks focus and nutrients for our children because the government does not require one nutrient for brain function. As a direct result, we have lit scores The school lacks focus and nutrients for our children because the government does not require one nutrient for brain function. As a direct result, we have lit scores at 33 and math scores at 52. Let me ask you, what college course of 33 or 52 is a passing grade? This board cabinet and superintendent needs to recognize the government standards are too low and that that this is why we are seen as good but not a great school district. As it stands, in my kids' class of 15, with a lit score of 33, that means at least five kids are not literate. Now, when I spoke to my kids' teacher, that is exactly what they are seeing in real time. Not one nutrient is mandated by our government. In fact, highly processed cereal is distributed to our kids every morning. Most of you should be familiar with Lucky Charms. It's colorful, bright, and it appeals to kids. But I want you to read the ingredients here, because most of you probably won't. I'm sorry. Unfortunately, we gave you an extra minute.

I have three more sentences. OK, we'll allow it, but we've already got five minutes at this point.

The ingredients include whole grain oats, sugar, cornstarch, modified cornstarch, corn syrup, dextrose, salt, gelatin, trisodium, phosphate, red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, natural flavors, and artificial. These artificial flavors are made from petroleum and cause hyperactivity and can disrupt immune system. So let me tell you, do you still want to use a central kitchen as a storage facility? Change is possible if you join me. A health and wellness committee would show me that you value investing in our kids with the committee's focus on changes improving health and wellness. Thank you. Just leave me with one quote. Thank you. You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. Rosa Parks.

Up next, Olga Romero. No Olga? Okay. Samantha Trad?

Good evening, Chairwoman, School Board. My name is Samantha Trad. I am a parent. I am also a product of Redlands Unified School District. Many of you know my dad. He graduated from Redlands High School in 1970. I grew up here. I left and I came back to raise my kids here. I have a child at Smiley Elementary and a child at Cope. And I'm here tonight just to thank you. so much for doing this job. I've been watching the meetings. I work full time and I travel for work. I watched the last big meeting when there were so many people here. And I just, I'm so grateful for all of you for the work that you do, for listening to people who are radical extremists who come here, who talk about things that aren't even logical. And I just, I want you to know that what you are doing matters. When the pandemic hit, we like everybody else was so worried about what would happen with our kids. My son was in first grade, my daughter was in fifth grade, and I thought you handled it incredibly well. Thank you so much for putting our students first for making Redlands Unified School District what it is. When you start to get down because of some of the just outrageous negative comments and people who have made it a career to come give public comment, please remember that they are not the voice of Redlands. The majority of parents like me are just, we just can't make it. I really should be home, honestly, with my kids and my husband tonight. But if you can be here, I thought at least one time I could show up in person and just say thank you so much. You are making a difference for the people who work and live and whose children go to these schools. And I also just wanted to give a quick shout out to the principal at Smiley Elementary School because I think she's absolutely amazing. And thank you all again.

It is time for board member comments. How about we start with Mrs. Rindler?

I want to thank everyone for coming and attending our final board meeting of 2022. I appreciate everyone who has the courage to come and speak, what's on their mind, whether it's a concern, a compliment, or a criticism. Please continue to talk about issues that are important to you. By truly listening and trying to understand different points of view, we will become a better school district. Thank you, Jason Hill and your team, for always making the finances easy to understand. And Jamie Quartz, thank you. I always love your innovation and technology reports. It amazes me how many students now benefit from all these programs. And I look forward to your next. Thank you, Jen, for igniting your passion in the students in RUSD. I appreciate it. Christine, I loved your little mini video. That was really cute. I want to congratulate Mr. Camarena on his new assignment. Congratulations. I hope you all watched or attended the Redlands Christmas Parade with our own president, Jim O'Neill, as one of the announcers. Thanks to the Kiwanis Club for putting together a wonderful night full of good cheer. I was able to ride on the RUSD Respa RTA float along with Alex and many teachers and support professionals. It was a really fun night. That was the first time I'd been on a float in probably 10 or 15 years. It was really fun. I attended the RHS First Inspire Choir Fall Concert. It was great. It had everybody in tears. It was a really nice program. And then last week I attended the Inspire Choir Holiday Concert at REV. Tomorrow night there's one at CV, so if anybody has a chance to get over there, it's a tearjerker all the way around. And the paraprofessionals there, they do a fabulous job helping Cindy Van Horn with these choirs at our schools. So I want to thank Cindy personally for a great performance. She did a great job. and tomorrow at the CV concert, Moore, the group from Moore will be there singing as guest speakers. Oh, and I forgot to say that at Kimberly, I mean at Rev, Kimberly's students were there. It was very cute. So, also just want to say whatever traditions and however you celebrate during the next few weeks, I hope you have the love of your family and friends with you. From the bottom of my heart, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and Happy New Year. I hope you have a wonderful winter break, and we will see you in the new year in 2023. Thank you, Mrs. Rundler.

Mr. Barra?

Good morning. In my program specialist office, I see a quote that he has hanging on a poster from Dr. Martin Luther King, and it says, darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. And I think it's important for us to understand it and live by it. And as an educator, it's important for me to be able to love all of the students And if they're needing something, then we need to figure out how to fix it and how to take care of them. I just also want to make a comment for all of our teachers and classified staff. I know that your jobs have not been the same after the pandemic. We're still dealing with unprecedented times. And unfortunately, we cannot press a pause button to fix things and reorganize and catch up. However, I'd like for all our USD staff, if there is something that we need to do, that we need to change or that we need to assist with due to our post-pandemic difficulties, please email us so that way we are aware. And I just wanna let everybody know that we appreciate everything that you continuously do on a daily basis to address the needs of our students. And I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and enjoy this winter break with friends and family. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Barra. Ms. Holahan?

Okay.

I just want to say I'm sorry I missed the parade. I was pretty sick, but I look forward to next year. What a great combination of everyone getting together. And then also, just briefly, just wishing everyone a wonderful holiday that you may be safe and staff get some rest and enjoy time with your family and have a wonderful 2023 and hope it's a healthy one. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. O'Neill?

Thank you very much. Well, yes, the Christmas parade was amazing, and I had the advantage of seeing the whole parade because I was one of the video announcers. But if you were writing in the parade, you didn't get to see anything but the person in front of you and the float behind you, right? So I can tell you that our bands were superstars out there. We had middle school bands, high school bands, and the elementary bands. Yes. RHS was particularly dazzling with their new uniforms. They look pretty sharp coming down the road. So congratulations to our directors. The elementary band is amazing because they They fill up the whole block. It's just a huge group, you know, and they're coming down, so it's pretty good to see. Yeah, the orange shirts, yes. It's a great scene. I was also able to attend some holiday concerts this last week, There was an RHS choir on their holiday concert. Jesse Diaz is the director out there, and they're always top-notch, really great clock auditorium. It's a grand old venue, and it was a packed house. And then a couple days later, it was the RHS band and orchestra's turn, and Brendan Hansen is the director there, and again, it was stellar. It was unbelievable. It was a great show. And then I was able to, I saw Mr. Vara at the Citrus Valley High School Winter Extravaganza, where their whole theater arts and music departments put on a joint performance. What did you think?

It was exceptional.

Oh, it was exceptional, yeah. And there was something for everybody. There was choir music, band music, orchestra music. Theater arts, acting, yeah, it was all there. It was a great evening. And our very own student trustee, Haley was one of the stars in the theater group, and she was awesome. It's a story of lamprey pie. Yeah, it was good. I wanted to do a shout out thank you to Juanita Watkins and our superintendent and certainly our consultant Nicole Anderson for their continued guidance and assistance in helping us as a board. not only draft our Board of Ed equity statements but, you know, future policies that will guide our equity and equality through equity. It helps us keep our laser focus on doing what's necessary and right by our students. And so thanks to them and thanks to my colleagues for all the work on that. I was hoping, oh, I also was in a meeting today, Orangewood High School. They're in the running again. They're gonna probably renew their model school ranking. I was out there with Principal Norris and Julie Swan was also there. And revisiting Orangewood High School, I hadn't been there for a little while. They deserve being a model alternative high school for anyone who has an alternative high school. So I just love the work that Orange Wood and their staff, she has amazing teachers and staff out there, and her leadership is certainly noticeable. And she told me that they're nearing full enrollment, which it's been down. So that's fantastic to be able to provide that alternative for high school students that need it. So that's great. And then as a side note, Madam President, maybe you can help with this as a goal maybe or something. I've been thinking that maybe what we could use on our Board of Education tab, and certainly we could talk to Dr. Wagner and the cabinet and Superintendent Arellano about it, We could have a section under our Board of Ed tab that might be used to sort of distribute and provide accurate information, include links that would give backgrounds, details, laws, policies, procedures and so forth that would fill in the blanks for not only our public, for a lot of people though that want to know about some of those things and would aid in understanding and clarity. and help guide some of the public comment to be more specific in certain areas. And also give a background and give more information out there. So maybe we could put that as a future thing and that way people would have that information at their fingertips and make it an easy, fine spot, okay? And I too wish to... wish to wish, everyone. A wonderful winter break for our community, our learning community, to you, each one of my fellow colleagues here on the board, and certainly the staff. Have a wonderful break. Well-deserved. Enjoy your time off.

Thank you. Alrighty, first off, I want to thank my colleagues for the honor and confidence in being your board president. I'll do my best to make you proud. Can't promise I won't mess up here and there, but I'll try. It has certainly been a rough year filled with passion and engagement from all over the community. I hope this holiday season that we remember to put our differences aside and spend our time appreciating our loved ones for as long as we have them and as long as they have us. Any students out there? Good luck on any remaining finals. And I hope everyone has a restful rest of 2022. And we'll see you again in 2023. Thank you. As we adjourn this meeting, I just want you to know that there is a second meeting that follows this meeting. Once a year, we have a school facilities corporation meeting. It is a very short meeting. We'll only take a few minutes. This meeting is adjourned at 9 16. Thank you. I would like to reconvene for the school facilities corporation meeting. Let the minute show for the roll call that we are all present and accounted for. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the December 13, 2021 school facilities corporation meeting. discussion all those in favor say aye aye opposed chair votes aye and so ordered

Read.

Okay, public participation, is there anyone who would like to be heard regarding the school facilities meeting? Yeah, okay, up next, Mr. Hill, would you like to report on the status of the projects?

I would. On March 27th, 2001, the Redlands Unified School District established the Community Facilities District's 2001-1 in the city of Highland for mitigation of enrollment growth due to residential construction. As of June 30th, 2022, 835 of the 1,141 permits have been issued within that CFD. On November 14th, 2006, the CFD number 2006-1 was established in the City of Highland. As of June 30th, 2022, 203 of the 203 permits were issued within the CFD and no bonds have been issued as of yet. On September 13th, 2016, CFD number 2016-1 was established in the city of Highland, Loma Linda, and Redlands. As of June 30th, 2022, 729 of the 988 permits were issued within the CFD and no bonds have been issued at this point. On May 11th, 2021, the CFD number 2021-1 was established in the city of Highland, Loma Linda, and Redlands. As of June 30th, 2022, 178 permits were issued within this CFD and no bonds have been issued. Financial activity from all the CFDs is recorded in the capital projects facility fund of the district. The ending fund balance of the capital project fund as of June 30th, 2022 was $6,356,925. The financial activity on the debt service of the facilities corporation. As of June 30, 2021, the principal balance of the CFD was $25,440,000. Principal payment was made on that in September 2021 for $775,000. And the new balance as of June 30, 2022 is $24,665,000. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Hill. Any questions?

All righty, and that's it. We will adjourn this meeting at 919. Thank you everyone for coming out.