Board of Education — October 22, 2024

I'd like to call this meeting in order at 6.09. Thank you for coming tonight. Let's get started with the Pledge of Allegiance. Everybody please 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.

Is there a motion to approve the agenda with flexibility?

Second.

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

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, in attendance today, we have Jim, Patty, Michelle, Melissa, and I'm here. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the October 8th, 2024 Board of Education regular meeting?

So moved.

Second.

Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. So I'm going to read out out of closed session in regard to the public employee, no, yeah. In regard to the public employee appointment part of the agenda, I'd like to report the following. During closed session, the board unanimously took action to accept the superintendent's recommendation to appoint Emily Elgin to the position of principal, Kimberly Elementary School effective November 1st, 2024 at step four of the management team salary schedule. Emily. Welcome, congratulations Emily. Can you, yes, come up and say a few words and then introduce your family.

good evening to all of you um it is just truly humbling to stand before you tonight and accept this position as principal at kimberly elementary school i'm just so optimistic about the journey ahead and serving kimberly with its rich history commitment to excellence and dedicated partnerships is just truly exciting to me so my sincerest gratitude to all of you this evening with me tonight i have my my husband daniel our two daughters that attend Citrus Valley. Our oldest is a senior and our youngest is a freshman. So that's Olivia and Ava. And then my dad drove up from San Diego to be here this evening. So thank you all very, very much. I am so eager to begin to get to know all the children and their families and the community that bring the Kimberly campus to life every day. So thank you. I'm so excited.

Congratulations and welcome aboard. Okay, so during the, hold on, let me see. Consuelo, is Consuelo here tonight?

We just wanted to know if you were here.

Yeah, we just wanted to know. So during the closed session, the board took action to unanimously accept the superintendent's recommendation to appoint Consuelo Posada to the position of assistant to the superintendent effective date to be determined at step five of the management team tomorrow. We're starting tomorrow.

All right.

So Consuelo, go ahead and say a few words and then introduce your family to us.

Well, thank you so much. Again, I'm really excited. I don't know what to say now after our new principal. She did so good. But, yes, I'm really excited for the opportunity. Here with me is my family, my mom, my dad, and my sister Denise, my brother Martin, and then my coworkers from Desert Sands are here, Syda, Lita, and Angie, and my new coworker from here, Yadi. So I'm really excited. I'm all in. But, yeah, tomorrow?

Okay.

Thank you.

Congratulations. Do they come as a package, all those people from Desert Sands now?

Congratulations and welcome aboard. Okay, so during closed session of the October 8th That was the, I'm good, okay. During the closed session of the October 8th, 2024 board meeting, the board took action to accept Yadira Lopez as administrative secretary for the compliance office. Unfortunately, Yadira was not able to make it here to the meeting, so we would like to take a moment to meet her tonight. Is Yadira in the house? By the way, my wife's name is also Yadira.

She has a beautiful name.

Thank you.

Thank you everybody, I'm very excited. My family couldn't make it today, but they are watching live, so that's amazing. They're very happy for me and excited to, I'm super excited to start working with the Redlands community and everybody that works for the district. Thank you very much for the opportunity.

Welcome aboard. Thank you for being here tonight. Congratulations. Okay, moving on to 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. And you know what, I don't have any cards, so I'm just going to go ahead and skip this. You don't have any cards? I don't have any cards. So I'll just go ahead and skip this whole entire thing. All right. Okay, so going on to- Yes, thank you. And you told me don't forget to. All right. Where is that? Okay, so before we get started with public participation, we would like to acknowledge a letter received from the City of Loma Linda's Mayor, Phillip Dupper, which will be reflected in the published minutes. There you go. Now I'll skip everything else. Okay, so we're going on to public hearing. This is the time and the place for the public hearing in this Board of Education's proceedings for the Redlands Unified School District dedication of easement. Before I formally open the hearing, is there any interested person who wishes to file a written protest that will not be presented by the author of the protest at the hearing. If so, the protest must be filed with the clerk of the board now. Okay. So notice of public hearing regarding the Redlands Unified School District dedicating an easement overall real property to Southern California Edison for the purpose of providing electrical power to vehicle charging stations. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. We will now move on to the public hearing for the community facilities district number 2024-1. The hearing are to inquire into the establishment of the community facilities district, the extent of the community facilities district, the furnishings of specified types of public facilities. The future annexation of territory to the community facilities district and the proposal to incur bonded indebtedness in the community facilities district. So notice of hearing regarding establishment of community facility district 2024-1 and providing for the annexation. There are two of territory proposed for the annexation in the future. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? Okay, the hearing is now closed. Notice of public hearing regarded bonded indebtedness for the community facilities district 2024-1. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? The hearing is now closed. Do any of you have any questions regarding the Community Facilities District Board? No? Okay. All right, we don't have a student trustee report. But we have a report.

You just don't have a student.

All right.

So with your permission, I'll read the report. Janaya Thomas was our student trustee from Orangewood and she graduated there you go so um we had bella here last last board meeting and janea was scheduled to be here tonight but she is a graduate of rusd now and um mrs norris at orangewood will be Our principal, Norris, will be helping us select a new student to come and be our student trustee from Orangewood, OK? But I do have a report from Orangewood. So if Janaya had been here, she would have said. Good evening, school board members, Superintendent Cabral, and Executive Cabinet. Orangewood High School is proud to announce the upcoming campus and community events. Fall is off to a great start. Over 90% of our seniors are on track for graduation and preparing for life after Orangewood. Orangewood High School has a new graduation requirement for the class of 2025. All seniors must complete 10 hours of community service. As a Kiwanian, I love to hear that kind of stuff. Seniors are signing up for several on-campus opportunities, including a full-day field trip to the Redlands Family Services facility to help prepare supply boxes for needy families. Additionally, seniors will be volunteering at several RUSD elementary fall festivals. Lastly, the first group of graduates will be announced on Friday, October 31st, Halloween. And that will probably include Jenea. Happy Halloween and happy graduation, Dragons. That completes the OHS report.

Thank you. So now on to board committee reports. Does anyone have anything they would like to report? Go ahead.

Redlands Compact Club, 27 adults and 49 students attended the mixer that we had a few weeks ago. Thank you, Jim, for attending. Compact Club members were able to job shadow in a variety of fields this year. If you are a business person or your job, you'd like to allow kids to job shadow you, you can contact the compact advisor at one of the high schools. RHS had their first career speaker from Cal State San Bernardino, and it was standing room only. They had over 80 kids in the room listening. If you are a Kiwanian, an optimist, or a Rotarian, look for a PowerPoint presentation at your club by compact members. in the near future. Their next officers meeting is the 4th of November and the steering committee will meet on November 7th. I also have rep. Do you want me to go with Red? Okay. At the last meeting of Redlands Educational Partnership, there was discussion about presenting checks to the teachers and principals who were awarded grants and presenting them at the November 12th board meeting. So I wasn't sure if that got relayed and if that's on the books. AAA Academy, their fall camp registration is underway. It's almost full, so if you want your kids to be in there, you need to get the registration done online. The camp is November 25th to the 27th. They also were talking about ways to increase donations. Payroll deductions is a great way. They were going to speak with new hires maybe to explain what REP is because a lot of people are moving into Our community, our school district don't know what the goal of REP is and the mission. Jennifer Moore spoke at the principal's meeting recently to talk about the importance of what REP does and how it affects all our schools. And that is it.

Thank you. Any other board reports? No? Okay. Board comments? Michelle? Yes.

I had a wonderful time at the theater clinic workshop that included RHS, CV, COPE, and Beatty. Students performed monologues and scenes from their different plays. They received professional feedback from some very talented adults involved in theater around San Bernardino and Riverside counties. It was great. Jim was there for a while in the back. And... So I want to thank Joy Baden, Elena Villa, and Mrs. Cook, and Mike Detrow for going above and beyond for all our talented students. I can't wait to see which of these students become our future entertainers, because we have a few in that group. Hopefully next year, Rev, Orangewood, Moore, and Clement can take part in this workshop. And I was brainstorming with them about maybe holding a nighttime performance showcase next you know, showcasing all these monologues and what these amazing kids can do. I also was lucky enough to be at yet another stellar superintendent awards night. We had the pre-awards music and entertainment by Rev and Jason Hill opened the show with the lights and fanfare. He was like a celebrity coming out there. It's really nice to award our staff members also. I like that touch and congratulations to all those who received awards. You are all part of what makes RUSD shine. I'm looking forward to the many fairs, carnivals, and trunk retreats in the next week at our different schools. I hope you all will join us at the State of the District on the 29th. I don't want to take your thunder away, but, you know. And welcome, Emily, as you begin your new position as principal of Kimberley. And welcome, Connie. And I'm looking forward to working with you. You'll get a lot of calls from me, I'm sorry. Right, Carrie Ann? Sorry. Good luck to our girls flag football and volleyball teams that are playing in CIF playoffs this week. And that's all I have.

All right, thank you. Melissa?

I have nothing this week.

Okay, Jim?

Well, I got out there the last couple of weeks for some exciting things. I went and saw the Fall Choral Festival at Redlands High School. And as always, it was an amazing performance by those kids. They had the four choruses.

Were you in the cheap seats there, too? Because I was there and I didn't see you.

You know what? I did have the good seats. I heard you were there, but you were in the good seats again. I like to sit where acoustically the sound envelops me, yes, and that's towards the back. But Mr. Diaz, always on point there at RHS with those choirs, so really amazing. And a pretty good crowd, including you. It's nice that you were able to make it. Went to the ADK new teacher welcome, and it's probably my last one as an official board member, but each year since I've been a board member because of my background, at school sites working with young kids, I give the new teachers a bag of what's called oops, but it's vomit dust. But it helps the instruction to continue when there is something that happens in a classroom because I told them it makes it smell like warm chocolate chip cookies, which is much better than the alternative. And then I gave them a towel to clean themselves up afterwards because normally a kid will come up, a little one, and say, Teacher, I don't feel well. And it doesn't go where you would like it to go. So the towel was for them. But it was fun, and it's great to see those new teachers and talk with them and share with them. They're happy and proud to be part of Redlands Unified School District, and it's just good to see all of them. And this year, one of our very own teachers, Mrs. Wynn, she's a teacher at Kimberly. The ADK people presented her book. She's an author. She wrote a children's book. And her book was selected to give to all the elementary schools, which was very cool, yes. I'll tell you a little side note that one of my neighbor kids, who's a Moore student, has a fear of the pool drain. She's had it since she was a little tiny girl. And Even now, as a middle school student, she swims down the pool and avoids the drain as she swims down the pool. It's stuck in her head. Well, this story is about a little girl who's afraid of the pool drain. So it's probably a first-grade book. I bought the book for her, and Mrs. Wynn signed it. And when I presented it to her and she recognized, she said, oh, Mrs. Wim was my kindergarten teacher. And I thought, oh, my gosh, what a small world, you know. So the connection made, it became twice as important to her. So pretty awesome.

So is she dream free now?

Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Well, she's a water polo player, so you'd think a water polo player wouldn't have those kind of fears. I mean, they get gouged and beat and pinched and kicked. But the pool drain is still a monster. I don't know. We'll continue to work. Maybe that will lay her fears down. Wow, I lost my train of thought, which is getting more common these days. Yes. But I think that's it for now. I had a couple other things I was going to say, but I took too much time talking about Mrs. Wynn's book.

Okay, thank you. Just want to welcome Yadira Consuelo and to Emily. Welcome to our USD family. It's good to have you. Just a couple things. I attended an event called Cal Matters at the Riverside Museum. And basically, it's just about talking ballots on the election for statewide and everything. So it's just an informational event. I attended a lot of football games recently, the RHS-CV game, and the Revu-Kaipa game, and the RHS-Cajon game. Yeah, so that was okay. Attended those games. And then, but you know, teams keep going out there and keep dedicating yourself to the sport. It's just been an off year. So we will get back on and thank you to all the players who give their time and talent to come out there and play in a group sport. I attended partial of the superintendent's awards because I had another event that started at 5.30 that evening. And I just want to say the Rev Jazz group was just amazing. They knocked it out of the park. They're so talented and great. And then, you know, just when you thought the bowl was over, we actually have one more event. We are holding a Christmas Under the Stars on December 6th on Friday night at the Brethren's Bowl, and of course it's free. And it's with modern gentlemen who are absolutely amazing, so that'll be a great one. And then just on a personal note, just encourage everyone to make sure that you vote and exercise your right as a citizen. Thank you.

Go ahead, Jim.

I do want to mention the resource fair at RHS last night. It was pretty well attended, and there were a lot of great resources in our community that were represented there. And our superintendent was there as well, giving away great prizes and things. So it was a great event. Thank you.

So my daughter's a student at Citrus Valley High School and she's in the band and she sends me a text message on Friday. Dad, they can't find anybody to emcee the Citrus Valley High School band competition. You need to be the emcee, you need to talk. And I was just like, no, no, they'll find somebody, don't worry. Dad, dad, you have to do it, you have to do it. So I was the MC at Citrus Valley High School from 4 o'clock to 9 o'clock. It was a lot of fun because I got to see all of the bands and seeing how hard the band students work. And within four minutes, how they have to get on the fills and set up and perform. And then they got to get out within two minutes. It's just amazing to see how much work and how dedicated those students are. And I was more than happy to emcee and I butchered some people's names, but I apologized at the end and they applauded for me. I was trying to be as funny as Jim is, but it was a great time, I had a great time there. Juan.

Yes, thank you. I have a couple of items actually that I want to give updates on and that's training because we are all aware of the mandates that we are following this school year from the Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights. And I'm happy to report that we have met all of our deadlines. More specifically, every single manager, which is over 100, classified and certificated at every level, has been trained. And we're talking about four and a half hour training that everybody had to participate in, and we did over three different time periods. Anybody who missed it went through makeups, same amount of time spent on every, each one was an hour and a half. Really, really good training done by the Department of Justice attorneys. Some of you actually attended several of those, and so we appreciate your participation. We also have training for all staff that is getting approved. All of our teachers and all of our classified staff will participate in training. Our target date right now is November 1st for the first part of that. And then we have a professional development day in January where we hope to implement the second part of that. And so we're happy to report that we are up to speed with all of our deadlines. One of the most important components of the mandates is student training. And I want to remind the community and the board that every single student will participate in sexual harassment prevention training, age appropriate training that is being developed by our department. It is groundbreaking training that does not exist in the way that we need it to, so we decided to develop it. Dr. Wilson's office has done a tremendous job in getting this done. The target date for it to be completed is the end of this month, where we will then share it with three specific school sites. JMB, Beatty, and Rev will be the students that we start with. It will be made available first to parents and to the staff so that they see it before we actually implement it with students. You will get to see it as a board also prior to its implementation. But we're excited to be able to have that completed with the target date of either December or the beginning of January where we'll have all students participate in that. And the way that we want to implement it is to have our administrators actually go into classrooms and provide those lessons for all of our students at every level. What will also happen in December is a survey. We are going to survey all of our students and staff to ensure that they can tell us that they know how to report any incident that is going on, that they know what Sprigio is, and that they know where to go to on campus with any adult that they can go to to report anything that needs to get reported. And so that will also go out in December. And so we are on track. And I'm excited to just make sure everybody knows that we are doing everything that we need to be doing. On a different note, we have a couple of items on the dais. Red Rubin Week is coming up. And so we have all of the activities in this little packet in front of you for you to be able to participate in. Our schools always do a really good job of that. I did go to the resource fair yesterday, and it was really, really good. A lot of community partners, a lot of our parents, a lot of our staff. It was a lot of fun. The FACE team, just a shout out to the FACE team. I know Director Ballengette is back there, I think. I think I see her. There she is. Nice work. Her whole team did a really good job with that. Yes, the state of the district. This is open to everybody. I think we have 300 plus seats in the Redlands High School Theater that we're going to hold this event in. So far we have, it's the Grace Mullen, thank you. I think over 150 RSVPs, 155? which is tremendous. We have our parents coming, staff, everybody in the audience is welcome to join us. What are you gonna get? You're gonna get to see some of our students perform, but you're also gonna hear all the great things that are going on in our district and be able to participate by collaborating with us and meeting everybody and talking with us. So please come out October 29th. And then Friday, Mecha of RHS is having an event, Cultural Night, Starting at 4.30, everybody's invited. It's open to everybody. So I was just going to shout out to them. And then I have to say it because it's happening right now. Flag football playoffs is going on right now. Citrus Valley already won. So shout out to Citrus Valley. Girls flag football. And I believe Rev is playing right now. So if you want to leave to go watch Rev, I will not be insulted. I'm totally okay with that because there's a lot of things going on in our schools. Oh, no, not the board. Everybody but the board. And then lastly, I just want to say I did miss last board meeting, and I have been out, and I really appreciate everybody's support. Jason, thank you so much for holding it down up here at the dais, and I just want to say thank you to everybody for your support during this time. It means a lot to me and my family. Thank you.

All righty, moving on to business service consent items. Is there a motion to approve items A, consent items B through Q?

I'll move. Second.

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

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, business service action items. Adopt resolution number 15, 2024-2025, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District of formation of the Redlands Unified School District Community Facilities District number 2024-1, authorizing the levy of special tax within the community facilities district. Establishing proportions limit for the community facilities district and providing for the annexation of territory proposed for annexation in the future. Is there a motion?

To adopt. Okay.

Thank you. Discussion? Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 16, 2024-2025, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District deeming it necessary for the Redlands Unified School District Community Facilities District number 2024-1 to incur bonded indebtedness. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 17, 2024-2025, resolution of the Board of Education of the Reliance Unified School District calling special election for the Reliance Unified School District Community Facilities District number 2024-1, authorizing the levy of special taxes within the district and approving the boundaries tax rate formula as well as appointing an election official and establishing the form of the ballot measure to be submitted to the qualified electors of the community facilities district in accordance to the Melrose Community Facilities Act of 1982. Is there a motion? Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. At this time, I ask the Clerk of the Board to open the ballots and announce the results of the election.

Thank you, Mr. President. All right, this first one is from Meritage Homes of California, Incorporated. Let's see here. It's a yes. Yeah, doesn't say how many are yeses. 15, okay. All right, the number of votes to be voted pursuant to this ballot is 15. So that's 15 yeses. Here, I'll let you hold the yeses, okay? Only 98 to go, here we go.

Those of you who want to go, you're excused. Yeah.

This one is from Patience. This one is from TriPoint Homes, IESD Incorporated. And there's 15 ballots, yes. This next one is K-L-L-B-U-Y-2-L-L-C. Is it by? No. Yes. I don't know. Never heard of them, but we'll see what they do here. What's that thing Johnny Carson does? No, it isn't interesting. Oh, my gosh.

No, he didn't mean that.

Who said that? Google it, okay? All right. 38 ballots for yes. Looks like it. This one is Birdsong LLC, Matisse II LLC, VS Unlimited LLC. I'm going to use extra glue on this one.

A roll or something.

How frustrated are you right now? Okay, patience is a virtue. Ten votes. Ten ballots, rather. Yes. So that completes the envelopes. All right, let's see. Seventy-eight. 78, 78, yes.

So while he's signing, the results of the election being unanimously in favor of the incurring of bonded indebtedness, the levy of the special taxes, and the establishment of the proportions limit, we may now proceed with the final action for the community facilities district. Adopt resolution number 18, 2024-2025, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District declaring results of the special election and directing the recording of notice of special tax lien. Is there a motion?

Move. Second.

Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye, and so ordered. First reading of ordinance number 1, 2024-1, an ordinance of the Redlands Unified School District levying special taxes within the Redlands Unified School District. Is there a motion?

So moved.

Second.

Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 19, 2024-2025 of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District authorizing the execution and delivery of the mitigation agreements in connection with the Redlands Unified School District Community Facilities District number 2024-1. Is there a motion? Move. Second. Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 2024-2025, resolution of the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District dedicating an easement over real property to Southern California Edison for the purpose of providing electrical power to vehicle charging stations. Is there a motion?

So moved. Second. No, I retract my second. Jim.

Okay, a discussion. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. On to educational service consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 15A, consent items B through G?

I'll move.

Second. Thank you. Discussion?

It's great to see these things happening for our students, these trips.

Places to go.

Fantastic.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Education consent action items, service action items 16A through 16B together. Is there a motion to approve item 16A and 16B?

So moved.

Second that. Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, approved 2024 comprehensive safe school plans CSSP for the following school sites. Arroyo Verde Elementary, Bryn Mawr Elementary, Crafton Elementary, Cram Elementary, Franklin Elementary, Highland Grove Elementary, Judson and Brown Elementary, Kimberly Elementary, Kingsbury Elementary, Lagonia Elementary, Mariposa Elementary, McKinley Elementary, Menton Elementary. Mission Elementary, Smiley Elementary, Victoria Elementary, Beatty Middle School, Clement Middle School, Cope Middle School, Moore Middle School, Citrus Valley High School, Redlands East Valley High School, Redlands High School, Orangewood High School, and E Academy. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

Second.

Thank you. Discussion? Yes, I have a question.

Go ahead. All these plans, are they available at the district and at each school site if parents want to come look?

Yes, and it should also be online.

And online also? Okay, because remember last year we had parents wanting to know. Okay, thanks.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Is there a motion to approve items 17A, consent items B through AA?

So moved, second.

Thank you, discussion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. We have no human resource action items or any discussion items listed tonight. So we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting and it is 6.48. Thank you.