Board of Education — September 10, 2024

Okay, I'd like to call this meeting to order at 6 p.m. Thank you for coming. Let's get started with the Pledge of Allegiance. Ethan, will you lead us in the pledge?

Please rise and remove your caps. 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

Thank you, Ethan. Is there a motion to approve the agenda with flexibility?

Second.

Okay. Did you get that? Okay. Discussion? Student preferential vote? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, is there a motion to approve the minutes of August 20, 2024 Board of Education regular meeting and August 27, 2024 Special Board of Education meeting?

I'll move. Second.

Discussion? Student preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, in regard to public employee appointment part of the agenda, I would like to report the following. During closed session, the board unanimously took action to accept the superintendent's recommendation to appoint Carrie Ann Macklemore-Covey to the position of risk management benefits manager effective September 11th, 2024 at step two of the management team salary schedule. Is Carrie Ann here? Carrie Ann, will you please step up to the podium and say a few words regarding risk management issues?

Well, I want to say my mom is here to celebrate and my husband Doug. I think my two daughters are watching online and my son's running behind, but I'm very, very excited to start this new chapter and hopefully I do a really good job.

We're excited for you and we're going to miss you.

Mr. Navarro either I missed it roll call or we didn't do roll call.

Oh Yeah, no, I didn't do a roll call. All right, let's go back to D and take roll call Jim All right, Patty present Michelle Melissa I am here and I am here. Oh Okay, so now we'll go back to moving on to public participation. In 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'd like to acknowledge that the board has received e-mail comments from the following people which will be reflected in the published minutes. Tony Wang, Richardson, Justin Montes, Marisol Guevara, Khalid White, Arnisha Arnold. Are there any cards? All right. So then let's move on to public hearing. Oh, hold on. Community input. Oh, we don't need to read that. Okay. So, public hearing. All right. Public hearing regarding resolution number 9, 2024-2025, statement of assurance, pupil textbook, and instructional materials compliance for the 2024-2025 fiscal year TK through 12. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone that would like to comment? Nope. Okay, hearing's now closed. Okay, student trustee report. Ethan, let us know what's happening in...

Nothing. As I'm sure you know, we were supposed to have our first student trustee meeting yesterday. That didn't happen. So I don't know when we will, but eventually I will meet our new people. You have Alina and I coming back from last year, and besides that, the rest of us are very excited to get to work. You heard from Alina last week with her very small report from her and I. I will say, My thoughts and prayers are still with our East Valley family that is currently under evacuation orders in our mountain communities. We are home to Forest Falls and Angeles Oak students. I know many of them and that's a very scary time for them so I appreciate the district actually prioritizing student safety. I think it's one thing to say and it's a whole other thing to do so I appreciate that consideration. Crazy time. I also appreciate our school site admin who in the span of an hour after fine after they announced that we would be closed for the whole week managed to reschedule our entire homecoming plans. It's now on my birthday, but I will let that slide.

Just a bigger party for you.

Absolutely. I have to watch football on my birthday. But we'll be okay. I will survive. We'll recover from this. So it's also Arts and Education Week, which we're talking about later. It seems kind of silly to mention that when there's a fire, but I have to talk about something. Celebrate theater it's early but October 23rd is our evening of the Arts if you want to throw it in your calendars Only other event I know of is College Fest on the 17th just because it's at Rev and not RHS doesn't mean you can skip it so Come by have fun That's all for me Thank you Thank You Ethan

You know what Ethan I just have to comment on on your comment Thank you for recognizing that one of the things that the reasons we make the decisions that we make is for the safety of our students So that's I mean you being a young man and recognizing that I you know, I applaud you Okay Association reports Redlands Teacher Association Stephen

All right, good evening, everyone. School board members and Mr. Cabral. I just want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for all the hard work that the firefighters, police officers, sheriffs, and other emergency personnel have given our community during this emergency. These men and women's hard work, dedication, and sacrifice serve as a shining example for all of us. From my home, I observed the brave firefighters fighting to protect our homes from destruction. I saw them do this on the land and the air, and it was an inspiring sight. I would also like to further thank the district administration and the board for their crucial decision to close schools during this crisis. This decision, which was never made lightly, underscores the paramount importance of the safety of our students and staff and is deeply appreciated. Our TA would also like to express its sympathies to all the families affected by this fire. As we recover, I encourage us all to remember the impacts that evacuations have on families, both financially and emotionally, and to do everything within our power to assist those in need. For example, RTA and CTA are currently helping members through disaster relief grants and zero interest loans. We will continue to do anything that we can do to support our members at the local and state levels. Thank you for this time.

Good evening to our board and Superintendent Cabral. Thank you for this opportunity to share on behalf of RAPA. First off, we would like to extend our heartfelt prayers and support for our colleagues, staff members, students, families, and our community members who have been impacted by the line fire. Our firefighters and community service agencies and first responders have our deepest gratitude for their unwavering efforts in keeping our community safe. We also want to thank our board and our superintendent for their support during this difficult time. In Rapa News, our schools have collectively finished our back to school nights in elementary, middle, and high school with great success. We saw increased attendance this year with families coming out to meet teachers, hear about curriculum, and visit our campuses, which was great. It's always a great night as an administrator to go and visit classrooms and watch teachers shine and meet and see our community members and families on our campuses. We very much appreciate the home-school partnership that Back to School Night brings and the support from our families who joined us across our district. Our admin team is currently focusing on classroom walkthroughs and ensuring safety requirements are being met across our district. We also have a couple upcoming events that we'd like to share. September 26th, RAPA is sponsoring a management breakfast here in the boardroom at 7 a.m. Thank you. A huge thank you and shout out to our CNS. for partnering with us on this as well to offer breakfast and to Dr. Nicole Howard from the University of Redlands who's going to be speaking to our management team on social media and the impact that it has on our students. We will also be collecting Halloween costumes to donate back to the students in our schools at that RAPA event. Our management team will also be putting together a team for the Believe Walk, so we're looking forward to participating in that walk on Sunday, October 6th. And then our management team members are also being invited to attend our Regional Women's Leadership Network Day on October 19th from 9 to 1130 in Harupa. The focus for this day will be on wellness, gathering, focusing on mind, body and spirit, so we hope several of our management team members will be able to participate in this free event that's open to all members in Region 12 and Region 19. And that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you, Kim. Okay, board committee reports. Does anyone have any updates?

No?

All righty. Okay, board comments. We'll start off with Jim. Okay, then you want me to skip start with Melissa? Okay, that's fine. That's fine. Go ahead, Jim. You always have the most to say.

No, I have no comments tonight. All right, thank you.

Just want to say that prayers and everyone for our families and our students and our staff that are going through a lot right now that we are here and We will be here Be safe everyone and thank you to wrap up for doing the believe walk as a cancer Survivor, I appreciate that.

That's it for tonight Thank You Michelle

Good evening everyone. My prayers and well wishes go out to all those affected by the fires, including those who have been evacuated, our firefighters, police, first responders from all agencies, and all the friends, neighbors, and loved ones who are supporting our communities in many different ways. I'm glad that I was able to get to so many back to school nights. I went to our middle schools and high schools. I'm so impressed always by how polite our USD students are. It's amazing to me how polite these middle school and high school students are. Parents and guardians, you should be very proud of your kids. And to all of our teachers and classified, wow, you continue to amaze me with your creativity and how you run your classrooms and how the campuses look. I love our schools. Thank you for what you do for our students every day. I attended the first annual carnival at Clement a few weeks ago. Thank you to Principal Natalie Johnson for walking around with me and playing Candyland with me. And we also did face painting. It was really fun. A couple of Fridays ago, I stopped by Citrus Valley to hear two of Mrs. Ayana's choir classes come together in one class and sing a song. It was beautiful. And I'm hoping that the song that they sang, which I can't remember the name of it, but I hope it'll be featured at graduation because it was amazing. And I also went into the culinary arts CG pathways class, the criminal justice class, and the EMT class, and Citrus Valley is killing it on these CG pathway classes. Very impressive. It kind of makes me wish that I was still in high school. Um, Saturday morning I attended RHS's varsity football game at Chaffey High School. Congratulations to RHS on a win. It was a nine o'clock game and at nine o'clock it was already like a hundred degrees. It was crazy. Um, so again, just sending out prayers to everybody affected by the fires and hope you all have a good night. Thank you.

Melissa.

I don't have much. I wanted to comment on how these last couple of weeks have been a little interesting. We've been dealing with a lot of threats at our school sites and now fire. It's been a pretty stressful time, but I will say that I just in the last few days have seen a tremendous amount of support from the community. And I have a group chat that I'm in and of friends that we were just talking about, you know, who's near an evacuation area, who's under an order. And to see everybody is so willing to come together and to help people move family members that are bed bound and don't have transportation. And it was very heartwarming to see how we just, everybody band together. It's really nice to see. I know we're going into our election season and it gets pretty stressful out there, but to see that we are all still a community, we are all still a district is really fantastic. So I want to thank everybody for that. I also want to thank our administration for being so willing to drop everything and come together so we can make decisions about what's the best for our students. So all our management, all our administration, thank you too because I know some of you are in evacuation orders yourself and you still manage to come together for the betterment of our students. And if you are going to be outside, even if you don't see Ash, it's still there. So if you're going to be outside, please wear a mask wherever you're going. Stay indoors, change your filters. Yeah, everybody stay safe out there. And if you need help or you know someone that needs help, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Ethan.

I don't have anything else to say, but I will brag that I only have 100 days until I have graduated high school.

All right.

Thanks for reminding us. I'll go ahead and go now, Mr. President. OK, go ahead, Jim.

All right.

I wanted other people to be able to share it and good comments from everybody so I don't have to say, repeat some of my comments. But I will say that I did attend the back to school nights at REV in Citrus Valley. I managed to get both of them in. It was a foot race last week. Saw a lot of parents, a lot of students were there, talked to everybody that I could about their school year and their hopes and dreams and goals and all the rest of it. And there was definitely an exciting energy I felt on both campuses. I know that once we get past this week and these fire emergencies, they won't miss a beat. They'll be able to pick up right where they left off. Also, Ethan, I wanted to make a comment about the student trustee meeting. We have a full slate of trustees. We have not had that first meeting yet. I felt like this week would probably not, we wouldn't ask you to want to have to come to a meeting. But the superintendent was also ready to join us in that initial meeting, and he's made a commitment to to get together and so I'm looking forward to working with, well we all look forward to working with you, you are the experienced one. You, yes, and Alina, so we're excited about the fact that We're having that two-year cycle now. That's unprecedented. So I'm looking forward to it. It makes sense. Take that experience and move forward with it. So we're just sorry to see you cut out a half year early, but we're very, very happy for you to be able to do that. So congratulations. Are you dual enrolling as well?

Yes. I'm currently dual enrolled, but they limit how many classes we can take. So that's part of why I'm graduating early.

Very good. I wanted you to be able to say that, so thank you for that.

I tore my crone down again.

Yes, good job. Alright, that's it, Mr. President.

Okay, I'm going to keep mine short. I just want to thank Jason and Juan for doing an outstanding job of making sure that our parents are notified about the safety measures that we're taking to ensure that everybody's home and can make decisions since we're shutting down schools for the rest of the week. Great job on, you know, making that decision quick. Superintendent's report.

Yes, thank you. I just want to just send my thoughts to everyone who's been impacted this week In some way everybody has especially with the decision to not have school which is is not an easy one and that came with a lot of thought and a lot of assessment not only in the area of Highland but we did travel to every part of the school district to assess not just the air quality but also inside of our classrooms and what they would feel like and And we just felt it was the safest decision to remain closed Surrounding districts are making similar decisions as as we speak And it's just an unfortunate time But really what we are thinking foremost about is all of our families and our students and their safety and the safety of everyone So we thank everybody for everybody's help and cooperation and understanding this week A couple of things. I do want to say a special thank you to some of our folks who have come into work this week and some folks that will continue to come in. It is always something outstanding to see that some of our folks who have our safety officers here, for example, And we have our payroll department who works very hard and still has deadlines Even if there is a fire and they're going to be coming in to make sure which is important to everybody because everybody wants to get paid and It is is hugely important for payroll to do that. And so we very much appreciate that from everybody Um, I did go to some back to school nights very excited to see our families. Um, it's always really a fun event I invite everybody to come out to rhs next week for our superintendents awards. It is our first One for this year. We'll be recognizing our top students from every school And this year we added recognizing some of our top employees from each site. So we're pretty excited to celebrate everyone and so you're invited to come out RHS Tuesday evening. And if you want to stick around afterwards, hopefully we will have a full athletics program continued next week. That is the hope that everything is good to go. Flag football is supposed to play at RHS at the stadium. And so after the awards, have it all planned for you. Go to McDonald's. Come to the awards. Then afterwards, you can go see some flag football. So I hope to see everybody out there. Thank you so much, everybody.

All righty, thank you. Okay, Jason's going to do the audited actuals presentation.

All right, you know, on the stressful week, it's always appreciative that you call me up for, give a budget presentation. I know it alleviates the concerns and just brings joy to everybody's life. So, you want to advance it?

Okay, sounds good.

First, I'd like to thank my financial team. Kirtan Shah in the back is my director, actually builds this for me along with a couple other. Fernanda, who's another director in the department, and my entire department kind of puts this together. I'm here today to give you the required presented board approval or the presentation for unaudited actuals. Unaudited actuals is actually last year's budget. So basically where we start at the beginning of the year, where we end at the end of the year. And then there's a lot of work that happens between the end of the year and today that we kind of write our books from last year. So basically that's what I'm giving you today. I'm going to explain and identify the actual restricted and unrestricted carryover balances so the amount of money we're carrying over from last year to this year. And everything I give you today has not been checked by auditors yet. So basically, it's our numbers. We're hoping that we're accurate, but we're going to have some auditors check this still. So next slide. Some information about our state budget. So we do that back in June. It was passed on time. As a reminder, COLA. or actually cost of living adjustment for the 23-24 year was 8.22 percent. That is what the state funded us at. The cost of living adjustment in terms of the federal was 1.07. We still see a decline in enrollment and attendance and special education costs continue to rise beyond the funded amount. So, I just kind of mention that for the overall. In these columns right here, I'm going to summarize because nobody really cares about the numbers. You look at 2324 estimated actuals, that's column B. That's where we thought we were going to enter a year back when we made our budget. So the budget that you approved in June is based on those estimated actuals. What I'm giving you today is the unaudited actuals, the amount that we actually ended up with. So you'll notice between column B and column C, our beginning balance of the year was the same. That should be. Revenues, we actually saw an increase of revenues, a little over almost $6 million in increased revenue. So we brought in more money than we estimated. Our expenditures, we actually spent about $8.5 million less last year than we had planned on. in our ending balance went up by about 14 and a half million. That's actually the 6 million dollars and the 8 and a half million dollars added together. If you're trying to do quick math, it doesn't work because the way you subtract column B from column C makes it look a little wonky.

Next slide.

All righty, so now we're looking at the actual revenue that's coming in, LCFF revenue. We actually received a little less at 632,000. Our federal revenue, we received about $560,000 more. Other state revenue, we're up about 4 million. Local revenue, we're up about 2 million. Overall, our revenue went up at $5.9 million. When we look at our expenditures, salaries went up 3.8 million. Books and supplies, we did not spend as much as we thought last year at about 2.6 million. That always kind of concerns me when I see that we spent less on books and supplies than we thought. So I dig a little harder. That was Chromebooks. So basically we had expected to spend money on Chromebooks out of general fund. As ESSER 3 money was kind of running out, we pushed some of those Chromebook purchases into ESSER 3, which is why you don't see that being spent out of General Fund. Services, we spent about $1.7 million less. Equipment, which means overall equipment, we didn't need to spend as much, about $8 million. Outgoing transfers went up about $42,000. Total amount, we spent about $8.5 million less last year than we had estimated. Next slide. When you look at our ending fund balance, that's the balance that's left over between our revenue and our expenses. We have revolving cash. That is the money that rolls from year to year. Um, we have stores, inventory, prepaid expenses. Those are all, um, operational management features that we kind of stick aside. We have about $55 million in legally restricted dollars. I usually for that is spotted out dollars. That's money that comes in that we have to spend in a certain way. We have a committed balance that's the amount the board commits and I'll go over that in a minute at a little over 40 million dollars. The 10.8 million dollars is our required 3 percent restricted. We have to save that back for, you know, if I use the state's terms, we call it rainy day fund, basically it's the amount we need to hold to stay fiscally solvent. We have about 2.7 million in lottery funds, total unrestricted ending fund balance $56 million with 55 in restricted. So our ending fund balance is $111 million. This is that committed balance. So future and current textbook adoptions, we have $6.2 million that we've set aside that were used for English and math adoptions. The reason why we haven't had that, and you've seen that year after year, is because the state still is developing framework for both of those. And until they develop framework, there's no textbook publishers printing, but we're kind of set aside dollars to pay for that. Rev Stadium Phase 2. I know if you go to Rev, you will see bleachers going in, but we haven't spent that money yet because they're not in. So once that project is complete, you're going to see that $6 million from the Rev Stadium Phase 2 disappear. That's really close. The bleachers for your own are being constructed in Texas and should be here, we hope, in October. And then they'll be constructed. You should see some construction with the pillars on the home side. They kind of paused on the visitor side until those bleachers do come in. But parking lot adjustments have been done, so you'll start to see that $6 million tick away when we pay the bills. And then offset for future deficits, 28 million. This is the amount we've set aside. Remember when COVID, we hired a lot of staff during COVID, which kind of created a higher bar of staff that we had to pay for. At the end of last year, we did a few things like offered a earlier incentive for our employees. When the ESSER money goes away, there's a big cliff. And so what that future offset is supposed to create, kind of like stairs down that cliff. So that's what that offset for future deficits is designed for. So a total of $40 million, $953,000 is sitting in the committed items. That's it. I hope that was fast enough.

Thank you. Yes, it was. Any questions? All righty, thank you. Great job, Jason. Next presentation, arts and music program update. Jean.

Hi, good evening. I'm Jean Joy, the director of elementary education. Good evening, President Vara, members of the board, Superintendent Cabral, the covenant, and our community. I am thrilled to be here to talk about the arts and education here in Redlands Unified School District. Tonight, I'm not speaking as director of elementary education, but really just a strong advocate for arts and education in general. I think Redlands already has a very robust and award-winning program here for our arts offerings for students, but tonight I get to talk about the addition of Proposition 28, which is coined now as Arts and Music in Schools, and talk about how we're using those funds to expand our already fantastic programs. And as our student trustee mentioned, this week is National Arts and Education Week, so it's just appropriate that tonight is the night for our presentation. Just as a reminder, in November of 2022, the voters in the state of California voted overwhelmingly to implement Proposition 28, which is 1% of Proposition 98, which is our guaranteed funding for public education. And that funding announcement was to begin the 23-24 school year, but we received our allocation notification in November of 2023. We didn't actually receive dollars yet, but just what our allocation was going to be for our district and our schools. At that same time, we were requesting information and input from various sources, so we did We did do a thought exchange survey for our community, staff, even students, to find out how they wanted to see arts and music expanded in our district. And we got some very overwhelmingly responses for the various levels in our school district. For example, in elementary, it was very clear that our community and students and staff really wanted to see choir at every school site. And in our secondary offerings, they I had asked for more dance photography as well as more visual arts in our schools. And so from that information, we started doing some planning at our individual school sites and our schools also did some additional surveying of our students to see if they had a choice of an elective, what more would they want to see. So we used all of that information and each school comprised a plan and that planning kind of happened over the spring of 2024. We actually started receiving the funds in February of 2024, and our plans have been finalized and school site council approved in the spring. So now we are in the 24-25 school year, we're ready to start implementing our plans. As a reminder, our funds are controlled at the site level. It's not a district allocation. Each site receives their own allocation to do with what their site and school site council feels is best for the students on each site. And it has to be above our already phenomenal arts and music education here in Redlands Unified. So this has just been a great opportunity to expand upon that. One of the really important requirements is 80% of the funding that each school receives must be spent on personnel, meaning a full-time teacher or two or classified or additional hourly support. But 80% of the funding needs to be spent on personnel. 19% can be spent on materials, resources, supplies, field trips, assemblies, all related to the arts and education. And of course, 1% we always use for indirect costs. We have three years to spend each year's allocation. And Proposition 28 is ongoing funding, as the voters in California voted that in. So it's not a one-time grant. So we have three years to spend every year's allocation. So last year, We didn't spend anything. We started receiving money in February, but we have all of this year and next year to spend last year's allocation. And that's what we're doing right now. And ultimately, the goal of Prop 28 is to have access for arts and education for all students. And we believe that our initial planning and implementation is doing that. So here's how our schools have decided to spend their money. For our high schools, Citrus Valley has been able to hire two teachers, one for dance and one for photography, and offering five sections of each at their school site. At REV, again, dance and photography has been added to two full-time teachers. At Redlands High School, they are moving into the direction of offering piano, one, two, and college prep for students. And for Orange Wood High School, photography and Expanding some of the club opportunities after school. So that's our high school offerings. At middle school, Beaty's added a dance teacher and five sections of dance for all sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Clement has added visual arts as well as more, and Cope has added photography. And at the elementary level, the 16 elementary schools, because they didn't receive enough funding to hire one full-time teacher at every site, they have pooled their funding together, which is allowable. And from that, we've been able to hire 14 teachers to provide choir, theater, art, and various types of music at all of our 16 sites, depending on which grade level the offerings are being provided. And we feel like this has been really a great opportunity for all of our students to engage in some kind of visual or performing art. And as you may or may not know, research shows those that have interaction with arts and music grow dendrites and neurons at a faster rate than those who don't. So we feel like we're not only giving students the opportunity to really show off their talents, but also to grow those neurons in our brains. So we are very grateful for the funding that we have received and will continue to receive. And we just plan on implementing and refining our plans as the years go on. Here's some pictures of our absolutely wonderful teams at all the levels. And again, just quoting the National Art Association, just art education is just a rich array of many different offerings for our students. And it really is an essential part of our education system. And we are so proud to be able to offer such a wide experience for our students here in Redlands Unified. Thank you. If you have questions, I can try to answer for you.

Questions?

I have one. Are the classes full, like the dance and the photography?

They're able to offer five sections. So we definitely have room in them, but they're not so empty that they're not worthwhile having. So we are definitely building the capacity of those classrooms, and they definitely are full enough to be able to do performances and the things that they want to do. But we're definitely working on getting the word out at all of the different sites. on all the different offerings that are available to students.

Are the dance teachers PE teachers teach dance, or are they actually dancers with masters from, like, dance?

I think there's a little bit of both. It is part of a PE offering, but students can take it as a performing art. And our teachers are certified and credentialed in dance themselves. They have to be certified in that so that they are able to to be able to teach more than just a PE section.

Are they doing tap, ballet, jazz? Do you know what they're doing?

I am not sure the individual sites can determine what form of dance they are able to offer, so I'm not sure at every school. but it sounds like our student trustee might have some information about his school.

REV currently it is all intro to dance classes because the idea is to eventually build and then offer dance two and dance three and it can be a multi-year program but because it's just the first year right now it's all just intro to dance.

Is there a bar in the studio?

I believe so, yes. I've been in there once.

And I do know our school sites that are offering dance are working on their 19% to outfit rooms for those facilities and soundproofing for the various programs that we are offering. Awesome, thank you.

Just so you know, my daughter's taking dance and they are doing a variety of dances. They are. Pops, stomp, and then the classes are pretty filled.

It depends on each school site. So yes, we are very excited to get the word out and have students participate.

Jim. I can validate that as well. At CV, the photography classes are like five periods, and they're all like 35 students per class. And then at RHS and at CV, the piano classes are full too. So that's great. I can't remember how much the allocation was. I was trying to check my notes.

So for the district this year, we received $3.2 million, but again, it was allocated per site, so there's a range depending on the number of students and the unduplicated count category.

A typical high school would get what? $175,000 to $250,000. Okay, so if they can use 20% of that for, they can store up that money, because I'm thinking like, you know, REV or some of these other high schools, they need to build up their infrastructure, you know, like in the theater, right? Ethan, sound systems and all of that, risers for choirs and all the rest. So you said they can store some of that money up and build that materials and resource budget up so they could make some pretty significant additions to their programs, right?

Yeah, three years worth at a time. They have three years to spend this year's money. Well, it's actually last year's money, but three years to spend that. What we're asking them is at least to come up with what is the plan. Is there a possibility to do a phase one, phase two, phase three, so we're not waiting until the end and maybe prices are more at that time. to segregate it into three phases would be a fiscally sound way to support those programs as they're developing the spaces.

Well, if there was a major project that they wanted to do, let's say in their theater, could we help them front the money and then get reimbursed when all of their money accumulates? Is that something that could be done?

Well, that's always something I'm – That's a decent question.

That's a budget question. Yeah, that's a decent question.

I would say I would love to do that as my advocacy for the arts and education.

I'm not going to put you on the spot for that. We have limits to the creativity, but there are some things that we can do.

Restrictions, sure, I get that. But I'm sure, I'm hoping anyway that the schools think long term that way too, not just blow it in one year and then next year blow it, because there are some real needs out there I know in some of our theater arts facilities.

Absolutely.

Okay.

There's a balance because yes, we do want to plan but at the same time we're constantly looking at budgets and making sure that this isn't money that is going to go away at any point. Great. Right now it's not predicted to but we want to balance that.

Wonderful. Our kids win. That's the bottom line. Yes. Absolutely.

Any other comments? Questions? Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All righty, onto business services consent items. Jason, do you have any additions or changes?

I do. I wanted just to let the board and the public know that we will have a public hearing date on October 22nd, 2024 for the formation of Community Facilities District 2024-1. Okay, thank you.

Okay, is there a motion to approve items 15A, consent items B through N?

I'll move. Second.

Thank you. Did you get that? OK, all righty. Discussion? Student preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. OK. All right, business services action items. Adopt the final 2023-2024 unaudited actual financial report pursuant to education code 42100 authorized Jason Hale, assistant superintendent of business services, to sign on behalf of the board. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you. Discussion?

Thank you, Keerton. Thank you, staff. Thank you, Jason and your team. Thank you.

student preferential vote aye all those in favor say aye aye opposed chair votes aye and so ordered adopt resolution number 7 2024 2025 a resolution of the board of education of the redlands unified school district of intention to establish a community facilities district proposed to be named redlands unified school district community facilities district number 2024-1 to authorize the levy of special tax therein and to provide for the annexation of territory proposed for annexation in the future. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

Second? You said it already. Discussion? Student preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 9 2024 2025 resolution for adopting the GON limit. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote aye all those in favor say aye Opposed chair votes aye and so ordered adopt resolution number 10 2024 2025 a resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District to incur a uh bonded uh independence of the huh and in-depthness sorry in-depthness of the proposed declaring it necessary for redlands unified school district community facilities uh district number 2024-1 to incur uh bonded in-depthness is there a motion of second thank you discussion student preferential vote aye all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed chair votes aye and so ordered adopt resolution number 11 2024 2025 acknowledgement of due diligence and authorization to commit funds indicating there will be uh there will be projected reserves available in the general fund as of june 30th 2024 is there a motion moved second Thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Approved request for allowance of attendance because of an emergency conditions affidavit form J-13A with the California Department of Education for the school closures on Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 due to the power outage at Franklin Elementary. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

discussion student preferential vote aye all those in favor say aye aye opposed chair votes aye and so ordered educational consent service consent items is there a motion to approve items 17a consent items b through e i'll move Second. Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered.

I was a little late. Sorry. That's okay.

All righty. Education services action items. Adopt resolution number 8 2024 2025 statement in assurance pupil textbooks and instructional material compliance for grades TK through 12. for fiscal year 2024-2025. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. We're now going to go ahead and take the rest of the ed services action items together. Is there a motion to approve items 18B through 18E? I'll move.

Well, Michelle, I'll do second.

OK, thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Is there a motion to approve items 19A, consent items B through AF?

I'll move. I'll second, but I'm going to abstain on number F as in Frank.

Thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote? No, okay. No student preferential vote, sorry. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered.

Can I say something? Yeah. A little bit louder, but I wanted to also thank our managers because I didn't say that earlier. When we talk about who had to come in this week, our managers thank you to our principals who went to every site to check our sites, to our maintenance department managers who also came in, and to all of our directors who helped in the decision making of how to operate the rest of this week. I just want to say thank you.

Okay, we have no human resource action items or any discussion items listed for tonight, so we can go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 6.48. Thank you.