Board of Education — June 11, 2024

I would like to call this meeting to order at 7.01. Oh, I mean 6.01, I'm sorry. 6.01. Thank you for coming tonight. We'll start with our student trustee, Alina Jost, leading us off in the pledge.

You stand. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Alina. Is there a motion to approve the agenda with flexibility?

So moved.

Second? Second. Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion on that? Student trustee, preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? The chair votes aye and so ordered. OK, we're going to take roll. Jim O'Neill? Patty Holohan? Present. Melissa Ayala-Quintero? Present. And Alex Vara is absent, and I am present. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the May 7, 2024 Board of Education regular meeting and the May 21, 2024 Board of Education regular meeting?

I'll move.

Second.

Thank you, Melissa, and thank you, Patty. Any discussion on the minutes? Student Trustee, do you have a preferential vote on? Aye. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The Chair votes aye and so ordered. In regards to the public employment part of the agenda, I would like to report the following from closed session. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Ne'Shea Thompson to the position of coordinator three, diversity and equity, effective July 1st at step one of the management team salary schedule. Ne'Shea, are you here? Did you bring any family members with you? Oh, welcome, welcome. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Natalie Johnson to the position of principal, Clement Middle School, effective July 1st, 2024, step four of the management team salary schedule. Natalie, stand up. Did you bring anybody with you tonight? Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, Natalie. Welcome. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Marissa Beamer to the position of high school assistant principal, effective July 1, 2024, at step to be determined of the management team salary schedule. Melissa, are you here? Oh, Marissa. I'm sorry. Marissa. Welcome. Did you bring anybody with you? Oh, good. Well, welcome. Welcome. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Andrew Christopherson to the position of assistant principal, Cope Middle School, effective July 1, 2024, at step to be determined of the management team's salary schedule. Andrew, are you here? Yes. Did you bring anybody with you? Hi, welcome, and welcome to Redlands. Thanks. Oh, I missed one. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Elisa Beal to the position of assistant principal, Orangewood High School, effective July 1st, 2024, at step two of the management team's salary schedule. Elisa, are you here? Not here. Oh, yes, that's right. Okay. Well, welcome, everybody, to the Redlands. Oh, we have some more. Let's do all these. Oh, sorry. Okay. So classified management. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Haley Kampa to the position of school occupational therapist, effective July 1, 2024, at step five of the management team salary schedule. Haley, are you here? Hi, Haley. Did you bring anybody with you tonight? Did you bring anybody with you tonight? No. Oh, okay. Well, welcome. Welcome. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Nicole Fung-Burris to the position of school occupational therapist, effective July 1, 2024, as step one of the management team's salary schedule. And she was unable to be here tonight. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to point Sarah Herbert to the position of school occupational therapist, effective July 1, 2024, as stepped to be announced of the management team's salary schedule. Sarah, are you here? Hi, Sarah. Did you bring anybody with you? Hi, welcome. Welcome to Redlands. And one more. In closed session, the board unanimously took action to appoint Jessica Nathania to the position of school occupational therapist, effective July 1, 2024, step to be announced of the management team's salary schedule. Jessica, are you here? Hi, Jessica. Welcome. Did you bring anybody with you tonight? Hi. All right. Well, welcome, everybody. We will now continue with public participation. Oh, this one. In regards to the public employee discipline dismissal release part of the agenda, I would like to report the following. During closed session, the board unanimously took action to accept the resignation of classified employee 2023-24-06, effective June 7, 2024, and to approve the settlement release agreement in connection therewith. We will now continue with public participation. This section of the agenda is meant for any member of the public to address the board on anything that falls under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education. Before we start public participation, I would like to acknowledge that the board received one comment email from Ashley Rodriguez, which will be reflected in the published minutes. Yeah. All right. 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 address the board form to the clerk of the board or 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 microphone 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 majority of the board determines that a different limit is appropriate. And we have three. The first is Neil Wehner.

Board Chair Rendler, Trustees, Superintendent Cabral, it is my pleasure to be here with you tonight. My name is Neil Wainer. I live on Golden West Drive in Redlands. I won't need all three minutes. RUSD is one of six stops that I'm making because you are one of six school districts covered by Area E for the San Bernardino County School Board. And for 13 years, I sat up there where you are. And eight of those 13 years, my father was on the County School Board, Dr. Al Wainer. And so this fall, I'm going to be running for his old seat on the county school board. And so that's why I'm going out to six school districts, including Rutland Unified, just to say hello and introduce myself. You have a little bit of familiarity with me and vice versa, but I hope you will be comfortable reaching out to me when you want to. I will support you as I can. I will stay out of your way, as I should. This is your school district, and it's really a pleasure to be here tonight and see all of you and be back in a very familiar room. Thank you.

Thank you. Lawrence Hebron.

Good evening, my name is Lawrence Hebron and I live in area three of the Redlands Unified School District. I notice that once again the school board has designated June to be Gay Pride Month. Well, good for you. I'm just wondering though, and this is probably my fault, I guess I just missed it, wasn't paying close enough attention. When was Straight Pride Month? I know you'd have a concern for that because you're dedicated to equity. I mean, equity is a concept that's even painted on the wall of the building out here. He just appointed a director of equity. And just to make sure I didn't have a misunderstanding of this, I looked up equity in a real dictionary, Merriam-Webster, and it said, among other things, freedom from bias or favoritism. So if we're going to designate a month for one particular sexual group, why not all the others? That certainly seems like favoritism. So hopefully we'll do something about that. And maybe this just should be something that we leave to the families. Let them decide. I would definitely recommend a neutral policy on all of these things because once you open that can of worms, it gets really troublesome. If you're really concerned about some sexual issue, how about sexual safety? Unfortunately, the Redlands Unified School District once again has been called on the carpet by both the federal government and the state government for failing to provide safety, sexual safety for our students, and then covering up when sexual abuse takes place. Basically, both of those levels of government have put the Redlands Unified School District on, in effect, a five-year probation period for doing such a poor job in this area. So how about before we start getting into all of these extracurricular issues, let's pay attention to the basics. Let's provide a good rock solid education, which according to the report you made a few months back, we're not doing very well considering how few students are performing at grade level. So let's provide a good rock solid education in the basics and let's keep the kids safe so they can enjoy their childhood and be prepared for a future. Thank you.

Thank you. Joshua Hull.

I'm going to say the same thing that I said to you guys that I said to the Redwood City Council last week or the week before. The LGBTQ plus community is claiming that they're marginalized and oppressed and discriminated against, but I don't see how they can claim victimhood status when just about every month of the calendar, the national calendar, is dedicated to recognizing the LGBTQ plus community in some way. June is Pride Month, October is LGBTQ plus History Month, and the rest are dedicated to recognizing LGBTQ issues such as HIV and other sexual diseases and recognizing people from sub-ethnic communities, you know, Asian Pacific Americans, Hispanic Latinos, Native Americans, et cetera, who belong to the community. So just about every month is dedicated to LGBTQ plus community in some way. Also, they always... have straw man allegations of being oppressed, but they never provide the who, the what, the where, the when. They never provide locations, times, or dates. We're just supposed to take them at their word that they're being assaulted, but they never provide any evidence of such. And school is not the place to teach sexuality issues. I don't want schools even teaching traditional sexuality until the students have gone through puberty. That's when they taught sexual relations to me. I was taught that stuff in the ninth grade. I don't think students should learn that stuff until they're in puberty. And they shouldn't learn LGBTQ stuff until they are at the age of consent.

Dale Broom?

Thank you, Superintendent Cabral and Redlands School Board. I emailed each of you this last week about how Redlands Unified School District is promoting Gay Pride Month. in the month of June. For several years now, the RUSD has been promoting Pride Month on social media in June by using the gay pride flag, the transgender flag, gay pride rainbow. I requested that this item be placed on the next school board agenda because many parents and citizens have expressed concern that RUSD is in fact endorsing these sexual lifestyles and gender identity choices to our students. Here are some legitimate questions I think you need to think about and be prepared to explain this to the public. What is the purpose of having a Pride Month? What is the educational value of having Pride Month? What is the purpose behind using LGBTQ pride symbols and flags on a Pride Month social media post? Do these symbols not promote homosexuality and transgenderism to our students or their parents? Why should taxpayer dollars be used to promote these behaviors? Why should RUSD students have to take pride in homosexual and transgender behavior during the month of June? If the goal is to promote school pride or diversity, equity, inclusion, why can't this be achieved without a partisan divisive symbol such as a gay pride flag and gay pride rainbow? And couldn't you have it in a different month than homosexual holy month of June? Has the school board even voted on this issue? These are some questions I think the public would like some answers for. Yes, we want our schools to be inclusive of all students. And I applaud that message. But when the RUSD expressly endorses one special interest group over another by use of its flags and symbols, this only creates division. That is why Awaken Redlands urged the dais to adopt a flag policy. The only unifying flags that we should be using are the American and California flags. Let's be clear, the gay pride flag is not symbolic of all students, despite what the LGBT community may tell you. It has always stood as a symbol for homosexual, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer community. Homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender behavior are sinful behaviors according to the doctrines of the Holy Bible and the Koran. And such promotional materials are offensive to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. True believers of these faiths do not want to be cajoled or forced to celebrate or affirm their sexual immorality. And are you aware that in 2022, the United States Supreme Court, in Shurtleff v. City of Boston, dealt with this very issue regarding a city council. that agreed to fly a gay pride flag. And they were basically told by the Supreme Court that if you allow one group, one special interest group, to have their flag flown, you're going to have to allow other special interest groups to have their flag flown as well. So it is possible for the school board to abandon using these gay pride flags and symbols in their social media posts. We can be tolerant and we can be non-discriminatory, but we don't need to be affirming of one behavior or one group's interest over another. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll now move on to the public hearings. We will start with the EPA public hearing. Public hearing on Redlands Unified School District's 2024-2025 Education Protection Account. known as EPA requirements. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. Public hearing regarding the consideration and adoption of a statutory school fee increase in accordance with the state allocation board statuary school fee increase for new residential and commercial industrial construction. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. Public hearing on the initial proposal of the Redlands Teachers Association, RTA, to the Board of Education for the 2024-2025 negotiation cycle. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. Oh, sorry. I did that backwards. Public hearing on the initial proposal of the Redlands Education Support Professionals Association, RESPA, to the Board of Education for the 2024-2025 negotiation cycle. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. We'll go on to our student trustee report. Our student trustee tonight is Alina Jost from Citrus Valley High School. Alina, do you have anything for us tonight?

Yes, thank you. So I will be starting off with E-Academy. E-Academy's graduation took place on Monday, June 3rd. The small yet bold graduating class celebrated with a grad night trip to Disneyland on Wednesday, June 5th to end their high school experience with lots of fun and enjoyment. Orangewood seniors also graduated on Monday, June 3rd. During the event, a touching moment took place when each student gave a rose to the person that helped them and impacted them the most throughout their time in high school. With this ceremony, the class of 2024 Dragons was able to show their appreciation to the people that supported them as they graduated high school. Moving on to RHS, the Terrier Esports team did great in their national competition, and graduation for the Class of 2024 Terriers took place on Tuesday, June 4th. Citrus Valley's advanced ensembles went to San Francisco to perform at a clinic hosted by the College of San Mateo. Our wind ensemble won first place. And our chamber strings and advanced jazz ensembles won second place for their respective performances. I personally went on this trip to perform as a part of the Chamber Strings Ensemble. We received thorough feedback from the professors who judged us at the clinic, and it was a fun trip filled with peer bonding. After the Blackhawk seniors' last day of school on Monday, the senior breakfast took place on Tuesday, June 4th, and graduation took place after on Wednesday, June 5th. Also, graduation for the senior Wildcats from REV took place on Thursday, June 6th, and was especially made possible by the REV PTSA and generous chaperones who worked hard to make grad night and graduation memorable for the seniors. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we'll have an association report from RTA, Mrs. Zapt.

Good evening, school board trustees, superintendent Cabral, cabinet, staff, and community. The last month of school has been a roller coaster of emotions for all of us. While we're thrilled to celebrate the success of our students, it's also a time to say goodbye as we move them forward, either to the next grade or onto the big world. Last week, our USD saw five high school graduations, one adult school graduation, four middle school promotions, and 17 elementary promotions. And I know most of our school board trustees were there for as many as they possibly could. We appreciate your stamina there. We also got to celebrate our first and second year educators as they shared all they have learned in their profession at their colloquium hosted by our Redlands Instructional Coaches under the leadership of Kelly Botrys. I'm always humbled by how amazing our new educators are and how much they bring to the education profession. I especially appreciate how easily they integrate technology into all they do. and how they're always willing to share their expertise with some of us more veteran educators. Remember, I am older than Google. Tomorrow night is the second of two retirement dinners that RTA is hosting for our educators. We had to move to two evenings because we have 86 retirees this year. This is about three times the normal number we have, which is why we had to do the two different events. The retirees will be greatly missed, but we are very excited for the next chapter in their lives. And this evening was a chance for the community to review RTA's initial contract proposal for the 24-25 school year. It was presented to RUSD in May by our new negotiating chair, James Verhoeven. This proposal starts the negotiations process. RTA and RUSD are committed to working together respectively, responsibly, and collaboratively through the process. And this year, we are opening two contract articles that shows RTA is committed Sorry, I lost my spot. To a collaborative working environment with shared leadership, a desire to value instructional and contractual time. There's also an emphasis on better following our RUSD board policy on cell phone usage. And RTA also has a focus on school student and staff safety. All this is aimed to provide the best learning environments for our students and working conditions to meet the district's goal of retaining and attracting the very best educators. As we move into summer, I want to remind the community that this is not necessarily a time of vacation for educators. Most people think of the three R's, rest, relax, and recharge. We think of reflect, revise, and rearrange. We reflect on our best practices from the previous year and those things we want to change. We revise our lesson plans and our teaching practices. I myself will be attending a week-long seminar next week put on by the Department of Education on the science of reading. And we'll be going to three different conferences. And then we arrange and rearrange and rearrange our learning environment so that when school starts in August, our schools are ready for our students. Along with this, we do try to catch up on some sleep and family time, as well as tackle a few of those projects that we keep putting off. And yes, we do try to rest, relax, and recharge as well. Finally, I want to say it's been a pleasure to represent the amazing RUSD educators as their president for the past three years. As you're aware, I've chosen to return back to the kindergarten classroom. Not that I haven't enjoyed working with all the wonderful adults. It's just that working with students just fills me with joy. And you are all welcome to drop in at Smiley and see the super kindergarten students at work. It will fill you with joy too. And I also want to thank our USD educators for their faith in my leadership. However, it's been a big job and I did not do it alone. Luckily, RTA has an amazing executive board and a representative council with some of the smartest, most dedicated and innovative educators I've ever had the privilege of working with. One of those is here with me tonight, Steven Caperton. former RTA vice president and the new RTA president. I know he will take the next steps of working with RUSD to the betterment of our district and our community. I'd like to take just a minute to ask him to come up and say hello to you all.

Hello to the board, Mr. Wan, everybody else here today. I just wanted to say real quickly that first I want to thank Susan for her great leadership for these last three years. I've been on the board for five years now, and the last three years have been the most rewarding in my experience with the Brothers Association and the great collaborative work we've managed to conduct with the district over these last several years. um has been really inspiring and i look forward to continuing that great work and to continue that collaborative environment that has helped this district grow and i really appreciate her leadership thank you thank you

And finally, I want to say, please don't worry about missing me. I will continue to advocate for our TN Redlands so that we have the best schools, not just in the Inland Empire, but within the state. So thank you, and for all our Redlands families, please enjoy your summer with your children. It is less than two months before we're back in school.

Thank you all.

We don't have anybody here from RESPA tonight, nor do we have anybody from RAPA, so we will move on to our presentations. Ms. Hubbard, would you like to begin with the LCAP recognition?

Good evening, thank you, Vice President Rendler, Superintendent Cabral, distinguished board trustees, cabinet, and guests for this opportunity to recognize the commitment and contributions of this year's LCAP Advisory Committee. I've had the pleasure and privilege of leading this committee throughout the year. We have met five times between January and April. During those meetings, the committee has taken the time to review and understand the current plan, analyze new and current data, consider input from community, students, and district administrators, all to be able to make recommendations based on the needs of the students that are supported by the LCAP. The contributions of the committee were especially important this year. The plan that you'll be voting on later this evening, it begins our new three year LCAP cycle. The members of the committee are representative of the diverse populations that make up Redlands Unified School District. And I'd like to recognize and thank each member now. Committee members, if you can make your way over here, and then as I call your name, you can come forward for a certificate. There we go. Jessica Callender, Susie Cho, Lindsey Cortez, Angela Horner, Tarun Jaiswal, Angel Jones, Jennifer Kim, Cecilia Luke, Anthony Morrow, Paul Norwood, Sarah Oliveros, Karen Pineda, Denise Samano, Umang Sharma.

Sorry, wrong one.

I knew this would happen. I'd put them in the right order and they would just not be the right way that I was saying it. There we go. Curtis Dyson. Kevin Horan. Brianna Juden-Pytel. Michelle Muse. Jennifer Moore. Stephanie Pallad. Daniel Ibarra. So the people that I've just called represent our parent and community groups. And now I'm going to move on to our staff representation. Liz Brewster, Peter Castellanos, Lorena Garcia, Gladys Kershaw, Rebecca Maschak. Michelle Moore Padilla. Jessica Pooley. Yvonne Chopetta. Susan Abt. Amy Aument. Krista McKee. Emil Radoy. Shannon Rooney. Rosalba Schussler. Lisa Sigmund. Amber Underwood. Wendy Caress. David Monaco. Molly O'Day and Jennifer Petty.

Rebecca, you belong here.

Committee, please accept my sincere appreciation and gratitude. This work could not have been completed without you. I value your insights and contributions. Thank you.

I'm going to get everybody who has a certificate just to squish in a little bit.

Make sure everybody's on the same line.

Yep, sideways is perfect. With my middle, you're actually going to face the other way.

Perfect.

Okay. You guys can pick, but everybody should be the same. Probably close the question and your name will be on it. Melissa, if you'll just take a little tiny step that way for me. Perfect. And then Patty, just a little bit in as well.

Perfect. Everybody ready? One, two, three.

Thank you to everybody that was on that committee. As a former member of five years on that committee, I know all the work that that takes. So thank you so much.

Let me do a shout-out, too. We have a couple of student reps out here, our trustees that were also on that committee. Christian, you out there? Stand up. And where's Ethan Morrison? Thanks for your service on that.

Thank you, Ms. Hubbard. Does anybody have any questions? Next up, we have Mr. Quartz here to go over the local indicators for the 2023-2024 school year. Jamie Quartz.

Good evening, board members, Superintendent Cabral, Mr. Hill, guests, and welcome and congratulations to all the new managers in this district. I'm excited to work with you all. So the purpose of this report is the annual Redlands Unified School District Local Indicator Report. So it's important for everybody to know that there are many data points that are public, that everybody can see publicly. Some of those data points are called state indicators. Academics, suspension rates, EL progress, graduation rates, college and career indicator, and chronic absenteeism. So basically anything that can be collected by an assessment or on a spreadsheet, those are quantitative results, and that's collected by the state of California. However, there are some things that we collect locally via just walking around. For example, the facilities inspection report. We actually have to walk and inspect facilities. And we do surveys of our own students, parents, and staff. So those are considered local indicators. In a second, you're going to see a whole bunch of numbers, percentages, and so forth. It's important for the board to understand and the public to understand that the California Department of Education, there's not a level that you need to achieve for local indicators. To be compliant by the state of California, you need to do three things. Number one, you need to collect the information locally, which we did. Number two, you need to present the information publicly, which we're doing today. And number three, we need to enter it into the California school dashboard by a certain date, which we will be doing in the next couple weeks. So if we do all three of those things, we are considered to be incompliant for our local indicators. So what are the local indicators? There are several. Basic services, implementation of academic standards, that's done on a survey, parent engagement, that's also done on a survey, school climate, and access to broad course of study. So those are the things that I'm going to be going over for you today. I included this slide just so the public understands that this is what you see if you go to the California school dashboard website. This is what you're going to see. You're going to see the state indicators, and those are indicated by the dial. The college and career, that was a cell phone bar. That's going to be a dial this year. But the local indicators are after that. And you're going to see it says standard met, standard met, standard met. And that's what we're doing today is we're making sure that those are in compliant, OK? So the first one that we're going to go over is basic services. There are three things that the state of California asks. Number one, are there any misassignment or vacant teacher positions? And there are zero in the school district. Are there any students without access to standards-aligned materials? And that's based on Williams. And there are zero in the school district. And as I mentioned earlier for the facilities inspection report, we do that every year. And there are zero instances of facilities not meeting good repair status in the school district. So requirement met for basic services. The second one is basically a survey of all administrators on the implementation of state standards. So we have a five-point scale where administrators are asked what our progress is in providing professional learning for teachers to California state standards. And you'll see, obviously, that ELA and math are the highest, followed by history and social sciences and next generation science standards. So this is a five-point scale, and if it's not 100% or even in the 80s or 90s, a lot of people answered three, which is we're in progress or making progress toward these things. This is pretty much similar to what we've seen in the past years. History and social sciences and next generation science standards have moved up through the years on the perception of these areas. This next one is quite interesting. It's parent engagement. We sent out a survey via ARIES communication several times and CITES also sent the survey out to parents. There's five categories of parent engagement that are looked at. The first one is welcoming all families into the school community. The second one is communicating effectively. Then you have supporting student success, speaking up for every child, sharing power, collaborating with community. So again, this was a five point scale. So 74% of the parents agreed or strongly disagreed. Or agreed or strongly agreed. So that was a four or a five. We didn't include the three in this measurement. A three would be sort of a neutral response. So I'm going to dig a little deeper into this. The first category is welcoming all families into the school community. Here are the questions that were asked on this category. When I walk into the school, I feel the school is inviting and that it is a place where parents are welcome. The school policies and programs reflect, respect, and value the diversity of the families in the community. And students at the school are treated fairly, no matter what their race or cultural background. And I feel welcomed into the PTA or PTO organization group meetings. So those are the questions in totality that make up the category for welcoming all families into the school community. The next category is communicating effectively. So here are the questions that we asked there. The school keeps all families informed about important issues and events. The school makes it easy for families to communicate with teachers. The school communicates with families in multiple ways. So you can see the schools are very strong in these areas. Kudos to schools and staff on that. I can talk to the school principal when I need to. My child's teacher communicates with me on a regular basis, and it's easy to get a translator if I need one. So this is why I mentioned this is a five-point scale, because a lot of folks don't need that, so they responded with an indifferent response on that. So 34% responded with a four or five in that area. The next category is supporting student success. My child's teacher helps me, keeps me well informed about how my child is doing in school. I understand the academic standards my child is supposed to meet and how the curriculum is linked to those standards. My child's teacher and the school give me useful information about how to improve my child's progress and all students are challenged to do their best. Next category is actually our highest of the different sections for this survey. The school keeps me informed about community resources and services that are available to me. I understand the rules and requirements for student dress, language, and behavior. At the beginning of the year, I am provided my parental rights, and I can find them at the district website. And I feel empowered to advocate for my own child and other children's success at school. Sharing power is the school provides opportunities for me to be involved in important decisions, and the school provides opportunities for families to develop relationships and raise concerns with school leaders, public officials, business and community leaders. And finally, collaborating with community is the school connects students, families, and staff to expanding learning opportunities, community service, and community improvement initiatives. So that was the category for parent engagement. The next category is school climate. That's priority six. So in this one, we gave a survey to the actual students themselves, and they responded in five categories. Physical safety, discipline, academic goals, behavioral support, school climate, and culture. So what questions make up the category for physical safety? They're questions like this. I feel safe on my school campus. I know how to get help with homework assignments that I don't understand. What I'm learning in school will help me in the future. My school clearly communicates the rules and expectations for student behavior, and my school rewards student good behavior. The next category is this. I feel like I belong and included in activities. I am encouraged and recognized when I make positive choices at school. Adults at my school take my problems seriously. My school effectively addresses teasing and or bullying. And students at my school treat each other with respect. So we took that for the elementary, so you can see cute little elementary kid. We aggregated that between elementary and secondary so you can see the results for the same question for secondary students. So getting help, feeling safe, and so forth. So you see the same responses for our secondary students, sixth grade through 12th grade. Okay, and the last priority, which is priority seven, which is students in our school district have access to a broad course of study. A broad course of study is defined grades one through six as instruction in English, math, social science, science, visual and performing arts, health, and PE. A broad course of study as defined for secondary is instruction in ELA, math, social science, science, VAPA, foreign language, applied arts, CTE, and PE. So when our district leadership, this was district managers and site leadership were given this survey, elementary responded with 71.2%, responded with agree or strongly agree. And you can see that three in a five-point scale. There's a lot of people who kind of respond with that three or sort of on the fence or not sure. And secondary reported at a 69.7%. So if you break that down by student group, You can kind of see where the questions or uncertainties kind of fall in. So for elementary, you see some reds for students with disabilities disagree. There's some that strongly disagree, and also ED, and in some cases, our English learners. But in secondary, you can see a bigger gap in terms of our student groups. You can see more reds and blues for disagrees and strongly disagrees for some of our student groups. So we asked the staff, what are some of the barriers to providing a broad course of study to all of these student groups? And here's what they said. We need more support for EL newcomers. More time, and that's a common statement by teachers, is we need more time to address all these needs. More paraprofessional supports. More modern curriculum. More counseling, and so forth. So this is all the sort of local, anecdotal information that we're able to collect to help guide our educational program. So the question is, what do we do with all of this information? That's a ton of information that comes in at the end of the year in terms of surveys and reports like that. So the next step is to analyze the results. So we've already done that as directors internally at the school district level. So then we're going to bring it to principals and principals to sites. Analyze current programs that are designed to assist these or focus on these specifically. Work with stakeholders to dig into the root cause analysis to why are some of these not higher? Or what can we do to really affect change in these areas? Professional development and goal setting. So with that, that's my report. Are there any questions?

Hi, Jim.

Thank you, Jamie. I have just a couple of quick questions. So when you disaggregate the data, you're going to probably do that in your next step, right? I'd be interested in, and you probably will already have this or already do have this, in seeing your four and fives stacked together, so we see that one, but I'd like to see those ones and twos as well, because the three is kind of like you said, it's sort of a throwaway statistic, right? But I'd like to see the results of the surveys of kids who Marked 01 said, man, I don't feel safe at school. I'd like to find out why they would feel that way. So I'm looking forward to that, if that's possible.

Yeah, I'll comment on that. The school climate survey is taken by the Kelvin. It's a third-party data collection program. And I think I've mentioned Kelvin before. For the students, they know it's when the little dog pops up, and you do that regularly. Wow. So students take that. The neat thing about that, Mr. O'Neill, is that we can actually get massive data with that and aggregate it pretty much in any which way you have. And we do report that to principals with student names and so forth and student groups to those specific questions. So they can actually follow up on those things.

And you can correlate that with what parents are saying as well. Right. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Jamie. That was great. When you do the elementary, at what grade level are you starting?

For the school climate, I believe that's fourth grade. Okay, that's fourth grade for elementary.

Okay, thank you.

Thanks.

I just have one comment. I don't know if I just read this wrong or what. On your fourth slide, the priority basic services. The last number, it says instances of facilities meeting good repair status. Did that mean not? Did I miss that?

When I spoke it, I said not. But when I read it, I was like, yeah, it doesn't say that.

I think I didn't hear that. And I was like, uh-oh, we're in trouble.

Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.

I just have, it's actually less for you, Jamie, and more for Juan. Going back to the school community, where it says, I feel welcome at PTA parent group meetings, and it's only 66%. Will the opportunity for that information be shared with our Redlands PTA? So that, I mean, just because I feel like that, there's a good number of parents out there who still want to be a part of our school community, our parent community, and maybe, I know the PTA is always hurting for parents, and maybe there's just a disconnect somewhere, so maybe that's something we can look into so that we can serve both.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jamie. Thank you very much. Okay, now we have Mrs. Pat Kohlmeyer and Mrs. Chris Rivera here to provide us an update on the Redlands Scholarship Foundation. Hello.

Good evening, as Vice President Rendler said, I'm Christina Rivera, and with me presenting tonight is Pat Kohlmeyer. And we represent the Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation, along with several board members who are with us tonight. Caroline McAllister, Barbara Krause, Sue Fawcett, Mr. Larry Munns, and our coordinator, Tiffany Cameron. President Vara, excuse me, he's not here tonight, Vice President Rendler, board members and Superintendent Cabral, thank you for allowing us to provide you with an update on the Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation. As you can see from our mission statement, the Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation is about generosity and partnerships that work together to support the Redlands Unified students. Our purpose is to solicit, manage, and disperse funds to Redlands Unified School District graduates to financially support their dreams of higher education.

The foundation is a nonprofit that was founded in 1966 in response to a desire to create a memorial scholarship for a beloved RUSD assistant superintendent. Our founding board members were the leading civic, business, and education leaders at the time, who saw a need for the community to support graduates, and by extension, the quality and vibrancy of the community. And I'd like to point out that the school board at that time played a major role. They were the driver of creating this organization. And according to our records, they enlisted Kiwanis to help them put together the foundation. I did not know that until recently. The first RCSF board president was Horace Hinkley, RHS class of 25, who was a renowned water expert in town. You probably recognize his name. And the second board president was Frank Moore, who was editor of the Redlands Daily Facts and RHS class of 1930. Board members included Paul Gerard of Gerard's Market, attorney and later Superior Court Judge Rex Cranmer, and the clerk of the Board of Education, Charles Stultz. The foundation has grown from providing one scholarship to a single comprehensive high school at the time, Redland Senior High School, to offering over 390 distinct scholarships to students from seven schools. In addition, the addition of two comprehensive high schools has dramatically increased the complexity, operational expense and workload of the foundation. Our oldest scholarship was established by the community in 1951 to honor and memorialize Frank Araujo, the first Redlands resident killed while serving in the Korean War. The scholarship and funds were managed by Redlands High School until it transferred to the foundation in the early 70s. We continue to honor the original criteria. which in the language of the 1950s was to award the scholarship to a Mexican American boy or girl to attend trade school or university. And we continue to award this scholarship today. One of our very first endowed scholarships was created by Redlands area citrus growers to honor and memorialize Quincy Brown, a 1920 RHS graduate from a pioneer family. The largest pass through scholarships each year, both in number and in dollars, are from the Rotary Club of Redlands and the Redlands Noon Kiwanis Club. We are so grateful for their generosity and strong partnership. I share all of this information to demonstrate the rich and impressive history of the foundation, the generosity of the community, and the importance of maintaining a strong presence in the community and bond with the school district.

Our scholarships and donors represent the fabric and the diversity in our community, ranging from businesses, churches, fraternal and service organizations, school groups, to individuals and families. We have provided you with a full list and brief descriptions of all our current scholarships. What we do is boil down to one simple concept, and that is service. The foundation provides an irreplaceable service to students, donors, and district schools by facilitating close to 400 individual scholarships. We also provide a tangible way for the community to support our USD students. We believe that all this adds to the prestige of the district within the community. The biggest impact to our service to students and our ongoing operating budget has been the adoption and implementation of the WiseHive software, which enables students to fill out just one single online application for as many RCSF scholarships as they wish or that they qualify for. As a former RHS principal, I cannot overstate the service the foundation provided to schools and how much I appreciated how much they did for our students. Without the foundation, managing this many scholarships at each school would be a monumental, very labor intensive, and maybe even impossible endeavor. My first year at RHS, I was blown away by the amount of scholarships that were offered at the school. And I kept saying, who are these people? Who's doing all this work? I didn't know. And over the years, I got to know that it was the foundation. And I decided at that time about my second or third year that I was going to be part of this foundation when I retired so that I could give back to all they had done for us over the years, decades in fact.

So for many donors, the tax deductibility of their contribution is a key part of their decision making. Our board also oversees approximately $1.5 million in donor restricted endowed funds that are managed professionally to exist and pay out scholarships in perpetuity. Another important service for our donors is the work we do to streamline and facilitate the student selection process, which is also online.

So, how do we accomplish all this? Through partnerships, leaderships, and technology. We also want to recognize the importance of our strong partnerships with the school sites for which we are extremely appreciative. We operate on a lean budget of less than 70,000 a year. Charity Navigator recommends that nonprofits spend no more than 30% of their program budget on overhead or administrative costs. And thankfully, we are just at 17.5%. The brevity of our presentation belies the hours and hours of labor intensive, highly detailed work put in by our board, and especially Tiffany Cameron, our foundation coordinator, and that makes it all happen. This is our most important slide. the student and family impact of the work we do. This year, 52% of the students who applied received an award. At last month's school award ceremonies, almost 400 scholarships were awarded at a value of just shy of $459,000, the largest dollar amount ever awarded in the single year. Over the last 12 years, we have awarded over $5 million in scholarships to RUSD students.

So as someone who used to sit in your chair, I understand how valuable your time is and how meetings can sometimes go long. So please accept our sincere thanks for allowing us to share our story of impact. with you this evening. We welcome any support and visibility that you can provide, and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have. And before I sign off, I want to acknowledge Mrs. Rendler, who is past president of this foundation, and Jim, who is President, current president of the Kiwanis Foundation, who provides just an enormous number of scholarships for a huge impact. So thank you, and if you have any questions, we'd be happy to answer them.

Anybody have any questions?

Thank you, ladies, and thank you, Board President Muntz, for coming in today, and thank you for your hard work. I was a recipient of the scholarships when I was at Redlands High School, so I thank you very much, and I appreciate everything that you do.

I also want to thank you all for all your hard work. My children have been recipients of scholarships in the past couple years, one this year and one two years ago. And it was such a help to us and our family because it helped them get ready for college and all the things that they needed. So I want to thank you all for all the hard work that you do, especially Tiffany. I don't know how you have time for anything else, but you managed to squeeze it all in. So very much appreciated. Thanks.

And, you know, you're not done yet. Where are you going? Thank you very much for all that you do for our students. It's amazing. And I know, like myself, being the president of the Kiwanis Scholarship Foundation, we couldn't do it without donations, without generous people wanting their dollars to go towards students and their goals and ambitions. So I would encourage... Anyone and everyone. It doesn't take a lot. If a lot of people give a little bit, it makes a big difference because like you, the need is far greater than the money that we have. We could give a lot more money if we had more money. It's a wonderful endeavor, and I thank you for it. And I just encourage people to, this is where your donation dollars, you can see right where they go, and they're helping our young people advance their hopes and dreams. So thank you.

I also want to thank you. Spending time on that board was just amazing. Seeing all the work that goes into it. The students really enjoy all those scholarships. I know my kids did. Even the small ones that the PTAs give are so important. It buys books. It helps with so many things. And like Jim was saying, everyone donate just a little. They can help make a big scholarship for somebody. So thank you very much for coming in to present to us.

Can I say thank you also? I just heard $500,000, almost half a million dollars was given this year. So thank you so much. And to everybody out there who's listening at home who gave a little bit, thank you so much. Our kids are going to need that this fall, and they're going to use it. And thank you so much for all your hard work. We really appreciate it. That was a wonderful presentation.

I don't want to be the last one to not give a thank you to you guys. So I know that especially myself as an incoming senior, I will definitely be applying to a lot of these scholarships. So thank you again for all your hard work.

All right, last but certainly not least, Mr. Hill. He's here to give us an update on the 2024-2025 annual budget.

Nice seeing you. I don't think I'm going to get any thank yous either, and I'm not here to give anybody any money. Let me just set that tone up front. I do my best, though. Thank you, Vice President Rindler and board. cabinet. Thank you. Like LCAP, I want to thank a few people. You know, this is our first round of my director making its way through, so it's his first budget. My other director in the department, her first budget. And so this whole new slide deck is three pages longer because of him, so thank you, everybody. But I think it's going to provide some valuable information to kind of talk about the status of where school budgets are. I'm going to start... With not so great news, and I'm not here to complain about the governor, but he did do a funky thing. So we'll talk about that. The budget you get here is based off May revision. Now that is the point in which the governor provides a revise to his January budget. But that revise comes to you in May, just a couple weeks before we have to have this budget to you. So it's all kind of crazy. And then by the end of the month, the governor and the legislature will agree to a permanent budget, then will cause us to have to change everything all over again. One of the maneuvers, so I'm going to talk about this even though it's already kind of switched. One of the things he was attempting to do was controversial by nature. And so I think the best way to explain it to people would be everybody gets a salary every year. And if I provide a raise, that raise is on top of that salary. So the salary that school districts get is always the base. And every time we have COLA, that COLA is on top of that salary. What the governor was attempting to do to make up for the shortfall in revenue for the state was go back two years and lower our salary. So that this COLA is on top of a lower salary. Does that make sense? So if I went in and decided to give you a raise and made everybody very happy, but then I went in and cut your salary first so that the raise isn't as high, that's kind of In a snapshot, what he was attempting to do, a lot of people threatened lawsuits. That has already changed. So he's not going to lower a prior year's budget. What he's going to do is probably, it hasn't come out yet, is provide deferrals. People who have been around a while understand how deferrals work. It's basically an IOU. So we get payments throughout every month for the money that we bring in from the local control funding formula. He will not pay us for a month and then pay us at a later date. Currently what's kind of squeezing out in the news is that for the next three or so years he won't pay us a June's payment and we'll get it in July. So as long as the district is able to financially afford the cash flow of salary, we really shouldn't see much of a hit. But those details are still yet to be worked out. Legislature still has to agree to everything. And the two governor and the legislature has to sit down and come up with an agreement. But what we do know is that he was a little over $8 billion short of funding Prop 98. and that's what we're talking about here and his goal was not to provide any cuts to programs he said i will not cut programs in school districts this year but how is he not going to cut programs when he has an eight billion dollar deficit that's where this maneuver was attempting to come in but all of our budget is based on this concept because this is the last public formal release of the budget Like Jamie likes to use numbers, we do too. So all of our funding is based on ADA. So enrollment is students who come to school, I mean who are enrolled in the school and ADA is those students who are enrolled that show up. So if I were just to kind of look across the top, I'm going to look in 21-22, just the first column. You'll notice that our enrollment was 19,916. And if we move over to 26-27, on the opposite side is 19,753. So what you'll see is that we have enrollment going down. 19,000. 19,000. I would too. So our enrollment's going down. It has been going down for a lot of years. However, I do want to note from 24-25, which is the budget we have today, you'll notice that the enrollment has increased from last year and that we have a steady increase for the next three years. So for the first time in probably 10-plus years, our enrollment is starting to turn around just a little bit. A lot of it has to do with the new construction and the building and the communities that you see around in the area. So we are predicting a slight increase in enrollment. You'll notice in 22-23, we had our lowest ADA, which means in the 22-23 year was the year attendance was our worst. uh i want you to kind of note that slow gradual increase in ada students are starting to come back to school post covid and we're doing a better at getting students to show up all of our funding is based on students showing up so if a student doesn't show up we don't get paid With that said, we have some unfortunate news. So next year we are predicting about a $4 million decrease over this year's base enrollment or base funding, which means just students coming to school. Our unduplicated student count, so we receive additional funding for students who qualify under certain criteria. Those supplemental and concentration portions are what the LCAP committee chooses to set a plan for. So the LCAP committee next year will be deciding what to do with fewer dollars than they did this year, if that makes sense. So you'll notice that we have a decrease of about $850,000 in supplemental and about $1.5 million in concentration. So next year's funding will be lower than this year's funding, which is just kind of the sign of the times that the state economy is in. Some of the highlights that we've built here is funded COLA. The governor did announce that he will fund a 1.07% COLA. We'll see what the legislature chooses to do, but for all intents and purposes, they'll agree to that. Special education contribution is expected to increase by 5.4 million. Contribution means the amount of money that's above and beyond what we receive for special education. If anybody's been in education for a while, the funding for special education is not adequate for the students that we have. And so we contribute from general fund towards special education that's called a contribution so we have about a 5.4 million dollar increase in that contribution we have more students being identified and the students that we do serve have more needs so that's the increase of funding we'll see over this year We have about an over $2 million decrease in supplement on the concentration funds, but we'll be able to meet our legally required 3% reserve balance. So these are kind of some highlights of the slides I'll talk about moving into the future. This is a familiar slide to you. It kind of talks about our ending fund balance. Revolving cash and non-spendables have to do with ongoing contracts and things that we pay ahead of time over the course of a couple years. We have to set that money aside, and so that is that piece there. Committed funds, which I'll get into a later slide, is what I'm going to be asking you to commit tonight in an action item. Legally restricted is the money that comes to us with some handcuffs. So the state says we'll give you these dollars, but you have to use them in a very specific way. That's about $37.5 million. A little over $10 million is our 3% reserve for economic uncertainty. It means we can't spend that. Signed items of $1.9 million, that is all lotteries. So restricted lottery. And prior, I've had small slides that go over a lot of restricted items. This year, it's just lottery, $1.9 million. Total unrestricted, $29.7 million. Restricted, $37.6 million with an ending fund balance of about $67.3 million. The items that I'm going to ask you to commit tonight are 8.5 million for offset of future deficits, which I'll get into in a second, and 6.2 million in future textbook and current textbook adoption. So we do have new English and math standards that will be coming out over the next two years. We need to set some money aside to pay for those adoptions. That's that piece that I'm asking you to set aside. And then the $8.5 million offset for future deficits. Let me back up a couple years. A year ago we received the learning recovery emergency block grant money. We received two large block grants a year ago. The learning recovery block grant money, our district was using it to lower class sizes. So we were using it to pay for salaries. We were going to use about six to seven million a year over the next four years, starting last year. the state faced a lawsuit, and then they came back and said, if you don't use any of that money by the end of this year, so as of July, starting next year, you have a lot of new rules, and you have to put it into LCAP. so we decided because we had already kind of chosen to use it on salaries that i would use all of our general fund to pay down or i mean i will use all of our salaries to pay down that learning recovery block grant money this year before so it was gone and then that created an offset of eight and a half million dollars that I need to use to pay to make our budget work over the next couple years. So that offset for future deficits will be used to pay salaries over the next couple years. We had a SERP this year, which encouraged people who could retire to retire, as well as we did reduce a lot of out of classroom positions. Hopefully those in combination will kind of free up some dollars in our budget that we don't have to utilize all that money. But we're kind of waiting to see how it goes. So that is the $14.7 million that I'll be asking you to commit tonight as a board for those two items. Our combined general fund MYP, this is the one I always summarize. So you'll notice we start on the first column with how we think we ended this year. That is the 23-24 estimated. The 24-25 projected is the budget you're approving tonight. So if I were to just look at the top two cells, our beginning balance as of last year was $108.6 million. The beginning balance this year is $96.6 million. The beginning balance the year after will be 67 million, and then in 26-27, you'll see is 57.8 million. So you're noticing that our beginning balance is going down. It's because the district will be operating in a deficit spending mode over the next couple years because our revenues are outpacing, I mean our expenditures are outpacing our revenues. You'll notice our revenues, 357, 330, 336, and 345. Those are a million. And then our expenditures at 369, 359, 346 million, and 349 million. You'll notice that our expenditures outweigh our revenue in all of our out years. So the next couple years are going to be difficult. time for for schools because across the board we're going to have to try to tighten our our belts a little bit and make some some changes that will hopefully avoid our educational programs Another new slide is our assumptions. So those out years are based on these assumptions. I'm not going to go over all of these. You do have the presentation in front of you, but you'll notice the COLA last year was 8.22%. This year, 1.07. The out two years are estimated to be 2.93 and 3.08. You'll notice our enrollment is increasing about 50 kids a year. We're expecting our ADA to increase. We do hold it steady, kind of moving out. We have step and column increases. There are UPP percentage, which is the part that guides LCAP and STRS and PERS estimations over the next couple years. So all of those numbers together are what we use to build our multi-year projections. Next steps. So the governor will approve the budget in June 15th. A deadline for the legislature budget is due to the governor by June 15th. And then on June 30th, the governor will sign the state budget. on or before August 15th. If the state budget changes dramatically off what we have now, we will provide you with a 45-day revision. If it comes out where we think it'll come out, then no revision will probably be necessary. And then on September 10th, I'll be asking you to approve our unaudited actuals, which is how we ended this year. So any questions?

Thank you. Thank you for doing that. I know it's not easy. Anybody else have any questions? Thank you.

I actually have a question. Okay. So on the last slide, you had said that if the budget drastically changes, that you'd offer a 45-day budget revision. So what's the...

the limit to where the the revision will be offered meaning why would i come back with a budget revision meaning what like percentage there isn't really a set percentage is there a set percentage i don't think there is that's my budget guy okay so it's um courtesy of you guys to um yeah right okay it's it's about transparency right everything i do here is making sure that the public is hearing what i'm talking about that i'm asking the board to adopt a budget that's public i'm asking the board to commit dollars publicly that's kind of what this whole process is So a 45-day revision would really be, if I'm going to do something that's drastically different than what I presented with you today, based upon the legislature coming out with a total wackadoodle budget, I would be wise to do that publicly. and not do it kind of sly in the background. So that's kind of that 45-day revision. There was only once in the four years I've been here that we thought about doing that 45-day revision, and that was when all of that money was coming in through COVID for relief. It was offsetting our budgets and kind of doing some crazy things to our budgets. And so we kind of thought about doing a 45-day at that point. But I kind of spent each budget presentation talking about the effects of COVID. And so I kind of thought, well, I'll just do it then. Yeah.

Thank you. That answered my question.

Thank you, Mr. Hill. We're going to move on to board committee reports. Does anybody have anything they need to report? I have nothing because rep is meeting tomorrow. On to board comments. Jim, we'll start with you.

Earlier now, doesn't it? Well, I really enjoyed the scholarship presentation. That was awesome. I've worked very closely with Red List Community Scholarship Foundation through our foundation, and we had a luncheon for our scholarship recipients this year. The Kiwanis Club Foundation was able to award $70,500. to Redlands graduates this year, and we can't do that without RCSF's support and help. And it was amazing to meet those students, and they're a lot like our trustees, our student trustees. They're articulate, they're bright, they're motivated, they have goals. So we love giving money to students that have those kinds of aspirations to do things, and we wish we could give a lot more, but I hope people will support those scholarship foundations because the money really does help them. Gee, I'm hoping, well, I wanted to make a comment about Alina's question. So Alina, one of our responsibilities, one of our primary responsibilities is fiscal oversight. So tonight on the agenda, you know, we're going to approve budgets and we're going to be held liable if the district were to go broke. It's not Jason's fault. It really comes to our fault because we approved it. So we have a great fiscal team, as you can tell, and there's probably nothing more complicated and challenging than school finance. It's a very complex system. task to figure it all out. And I think Jason and his team do a marvelous job in making it crystal clear for the laymen who don't really work in that arena. And a lot of it is political, as you heard. So it comes out of the State Department. So Or the state. So anyway, great question. I'm glad you asked it. But we take that pretty seriously, and we have other discussions and workshops and things like that. He keeps us well informed and educated. Okay? Yeah, you can tell. Well, thank you for that. And I hope everybody has just a wonderful break from school, certainly, and safe and fun. Because school's going to start before we know it again. All right, thank you.

Alina, do you have anything you want to talk about?

Not really. I would like to say, though, even though summer is now here and school is over, there are some students that are still active at school with extracurricular activities. For me, for example, it's marching band. And I know that at Citrus Valley, as well as Rev and RHS, our marching bands are really active and getting started, getting the season started and preparing for band camp. So that's something exciting that's happening.

Thank you. Patty, do you have anything?

Sure. I'll be brief today. Just want to thank Jason and his team. Thank you for the presentation and all the hard work that goes behind that. So thank you. And congratulations to the class of 2024. We had some amazing graduations last week. And great job to all our schools on the graduations as well. I know all the time that goes into it, and it was surely a pleasure to see everyone, and that's what we do work all year is for that. So thank you very much. And then just to let you know that the Redlands Bowl opens up next Friday, believe it or not already, on June 21st. with an evening with Daniel Emmett and Amy Manfred. She was actually the Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera, so it should be pretty awesome. So I hope to see everyone at the Bowl, and have a great summer and get some rest, everyone. And Sue App, thank you for everything that you did these past three years. Appreciate everything, and look forward to working with you. Thank you.

All right, Melissa. Alina took a little bit of my report only because I wanted to acknowledge all those staff that we have and our students that even though the school year is over, it's just starting for them. I dropped off my daughter at ASB today, so for our ASB students and our ASB advisors, the school year is just getting started. But also our staff that are working on summer school and our CNS and everybody who is still actively working, I really appreciate all the time and energy you guys are putting into the school year. So early. As well as making sure I remind those students who are like, okay, I'm done. If you are taking advanced courses, if you are taking honors classes, you do have summer work. It's best to not put it off to the end of the summer. I know my children will. But please, at least glance at it. Give yourself a week. But please get started before it gets too late. Because there is summer reading as well. Okay. graduations as tiring as the week was it was so rewarding and I really appreciate all the time and energy and the hard work that goes into making sure our graduation ceremonies just are such a blast so amazing I I know I say this a lot but my favorite graduation really is the adult school graduation our oldest grad was 65 but it's really rewarding to see those lifelong dreams being accomplished And seeing them pursue beyond that, that's a wonderful feeling. And it makes all of this worth it. So thank you. And yeah, just hope everybody gets to sleep in a little bit. It's summer, but I know people are still working hard. And make sure your kids don't eat you out of house and home.

Good evening, everyone. Happy summer vacation to all of our families. Last month, I enjoyed attending the fifth grade essay contest winner's reception at the Burge Mansion. Jim was there and Juan was there. It was really a wonderful event. Our student writers It was fun celebrating them, and we celebrated America. Senior scholarship nights are always a great end to the school year. Thank you so much to the Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation Board for the countless hours that you all put in throughout the year to make these nights extra special, and thank you to Tiffany for making it all come together. I was excited to be invited again this year by Ms. Foster, who is now a teacher at Mission, to her rocket launch. Her father, Mr. Foster, who is a retired teacher from Beatty, comes and teaches the students about velocity and engineering design. They talk about speed. They do problem solving, and they hone in their writing skills, and then they do data analysis. And I would venture to say that STEAM is alive and well at Mission. I also saw STEAM in action at Mariposa. I stopped into the STEAM in through the states a few weeks ago. I want to thank Kira Gonzalez for the invitation. Job well done by some very talented students. I think they put it online if you'd like to see. With the help of our amazing teachers, they all picked different states and did different projects. They had robotics going on. They had digital stuff. Did you get over there, Juan? Did you get over to the STEAM in through the states? It was pretty neat. Also went to Mentone to celebrate career day. There were a lot of parents there and the students were really, really proud of their parents who were there showing off their careers. It was really, really fun. So I always like going to that. And so thank you to Todd Flowers and Molly O'Day for walking me around to the different stations. Also, I want to thank Kelly Beatrice. She's the instructional coach. I want to thank her and the team for allowing me the opportunity to attend and talk with the first and second year teachers at the end of the year event. The 98 teachers that were there all were learning from each other by doing many presentations, talking about best practices, things that worked, things that didn't work. It was really neat to see. I'm very excited to see what these new baby teachers do in the next 10 years here in Redlands. And as always, our graduations were amazing. As everybody said, they were very fun nights for all our students. Congratulations to all our students from the Adult Transitions Program, Anne Orangewood High School, Redland Z Academy, REV, RHS, and Adult School, which is one of my favorites also. Again, I hope you all have a very, very enjoyable summer break with your families and your friends, and stay safe. Okay, and now one.

Yes, good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. Graduation week is all-time favorite time of year for me. It really is what we are about, is making sure that our students not only walk across the stage and get their diploma, but that they're prepared for what happens the day after. And I feel very confident that we prepared our students and that they're going to be doing big things. We have one of our graduates, Christian, sitting in the audience. He's already doing big things. To put it in numbers, almost 2,000 graduates. I say it that way because we had adults almost a little over 100 on Friday. That was a wonderful ceremony. And I'm very proud of this board because every one of our graduates got to walk across the same stage, which is at the Redlands Bowl. And we had ceremonies for each of our schools. And that's a wonderful thing that we do. It's a wonderful experience for all of our graduates. And so I really love that we do that. I'll be celebrating with teachers tomorrow night, some of our retirees. Can't wait to see everybody. That's a wonderful event that I'm happy to attend tomorrow evening. So I'll see RTA there. Thank you to everybody on the LCAP committee. That is a lot of work. I know we recognized you. It's just a small recognition because we know you spend a lot of time, and we really appreciate it. It's important work. And to Mr. Quartz, wonderful presentation. I love that we met everything. And then, of course, our scholarships. That was a wonderful presentation. This meeting marks my one-year anniversary as the superintendent of Redlands Unified School District. Thank you. Yes, thank you. And I just want to say just a resounding thank you to everybody. It's been an excellent year, and it's really the people that make it so great to come to the community every day and to be here for our students. I look forward to many, many more. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Cabral. We'll now move on to superintendent's recommendations. Let's begin with business services consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 15A, consent items B through AB?

Approval items B through AB.

I'll second.

Thank you. Any discussion? Alina, student trustee preferential vote.

I actually have a question.

I'm sorry?

Okay. So for items K and O, it talks about providing student meals So item K talks about providing meals for Barbara Phelps County High School, and item O is for Fallsville Elementary School. I just have the question of the prices for meals looks different. So I was wondering why.

I'm going to allow Jason to take that one, if you will, Jason.

So the free meals and the lunch money that comes in through school districts goes to the districts that I'll say have the students enrolled. So we have an agreement with both Barbara Phelps, which is a county school, and then Fallsvale, which is a school within Bear Valley. to provide meals to those schools. So the difference in cost just is a difference in the agreement. For example, Falls Vale pays a lease fee as well as transportation fee plus food fee. So we negotiate those charges to kind of reimburse. There's also different meals provided. Some provide breakfast. Some do lunch. Some do. So all of those kind of in combination with the agreements is where those prices are set. So.

Makes sense. Thank you.

Any other discussion? All right, so all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? The chair votes aye, and so ordered. Moving on to business services action items. Approve, adopt the Redlands Unified School District 2024-2025 Local Control Accountability Plan. Is there a motion?

Move to approve.

Second.

Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion?

Thank you to the LCAP committee. It's a lot of time and work, and I'm glad that they were able to give the time, and we appreciate it.

Student trustee, preferential vote. Aye. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Chair votes aye, and so ordered. Approve, adopt the 2024-2025 Local Control Accountability Plan Every Student Succeeds Act federal addendum. Is there a motion?

Move to approve.

Second. The S of funds.

Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? Student trustee preferential vote?

Aye.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Approve, adopt the annual proposed budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

Second.

Thank you, Melissa. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? Student trustee, preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? The chair votes aye and so ordered. All right, adopt resolution number 32, 2023-2024, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District, approving an increase in statutory school fees imposed on new residential and commercial industrial construction pursuant to education code section 17620 and government code section 65995. Is there a motion? I'll move.

Second.

Second. Oh, Jim.

Go ahead. You can have it.

Thank you. No, that's fine. That's fine. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you, Jim. Any discussion? Student trustee, preferential vote?

Aye.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Chair votes aye, and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 33, 2023-2024, acknowledgement of due diligence and authorization to commit funds indicating there will be projected reserves available in the general fund as of June 30, 2024. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion? Student trustee preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 34, 2023-2024, the education protection account requirements and spending determinations. Is there a motion?

Move to approve, or adopt rather.

That's already approved. Melissa said approve. Sorry.

I think I spoke too soon. I didn't wait for her to finish talking. I was excited, apparently.

Any discussion?

Go for it.

Student trustee, preferential vote. Aye. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? The chair votes aye, and so ordered. Adopt Resolution Number 35, 2023-2024, Order of Election and Specifications of the Election Order Pursuant to Education Code 5302, 5304, 5320, and 5322. Is there a motion? I'll move.

Second.

Thank you, Melissa and Patty. Any discussion? Student Trustee, preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The chair votes aye, and so ordered. Approve, adopt Redlands Unified School District's 2024-2025 balance in excess of minimum reserve requirements. Is there a motion?

Move to approve.

I'll second.

Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion? Student trustee, trustee preferential vote. Aye. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? The chair votes aye and so ordered. Approve 2024-2025 Board of Education meeting dates.

So moved.

Second.

Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion on the dates? Student trustee preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? The chair votes aye and so ordered. All right, next we'll go to educational services consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 17A, consent items B through E?

Move. Second.

Melissa, thank you. Jim, any discussion?

Do they need chaperones at CV for the trip to New York?

He could be the tour guide.

Student Trustee, preferential vote. Aye. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? The Chair votes aye and so ordered. Moving on to Educational Services Action Items. We're going to go ahead and take all of the Ed Services action items together. Is there a motion to approve items 18A through 18G? I'm sorry, my bad.

Move approval.

Second.

Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Moving on to human resources consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 19A, consent items B through BG?

I'll move.

I'll second and I'm going to abstain on item number D as in David.

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

Aye.

Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. All right. We have no human resources action items today and no discussion items, so we will go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 745.