RUSD Board of Education — July 12, 2022

Meeting Summary

A short July meeting clears a policy package that writes school-site immunizations into Board Policy 5141.31, and the evening's only public speaker came to challenge exactly that

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A note on names. No adopted minutes for this meeting are on file, and adopted minutes are the only record that reliably ties a name to what was said. This page therefore describes every statement and position without naming the person who made it, and it reports no vote splits. Where it refers to the June 14, 2022 meeting, it is reading that meeting's minutes, which are printed in full inside this meeting's own agenda packet.

The board opened, took the Pledge of Allegiance and called the roll 12; all five seats had answered present by the time the roll closed, and the first act of the meeting was a motion to approve the previous meeting's minutes 3, which carried 4. Those minutes — the record of the June 14, 2022 meeting — are reprinted in full at pages 18 to 41 of this meeting's agenda packet 5, which is why a June 14 fact on this page can be cited to a document a reader can open.

It was a July agenda — heavy on annual paperwork, thin on turnout. But two items were corrected out loud before the board acted on them, and the one member of the public who spoke went straight at the only item on the consent calendar with real policy content in it.

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💉 One speaker, and the policy behind the comment

Exactly one member of the public addressed the board all evening, in the community-input period near the end of the agenda 67.

The comment opened warmly: thanks for what the speaker described as heightened awareness and collaboration with the Redlands Police Department after the school shooting in Texas, a noticed increase in security presence at graduation and end-of-school events, and praise for the district's social emotional learning curriculum after reviewing it at the district office 6.

Then the challenge. The speaker read out a sentence from a policy the board had approved at the June 14 meeting. The district's policy manual gives that sentence as: "The Superintendent or designee may arrange for an authorized health care provider to administer immunizations at school to any student whose parent/guardian has consented in writing." 8. The argument was that with district vaccine compliance already high after SB 277 and 278, there is no population of unvaccinated, high-risk students without other access to care that would justify such an authorization, so the only plausible purpose is vaccinating students during school hours. The comment tied that to SB 866, characterized as lowering the age of vaccination consent to 15, called the authorization a breach of trust with families on a sensitive medical issue, and said the district's policy direction was "in lockstep" with the state's community schools initiative and its model of offering health care during the school day 6.

The sequence the speaker described is checkable inside this one packet. BP/AR 5141.31 was approved on first reading at the June 14 meeting, as that meeting's minutes record 9. It returned on this night's Educational Services consent block as a second reading, alongside AR 5113 (absences and excuses), BP/AR 5113.1 (chronic absence and truancy), BP/AR 5141.21 (administering medication) and BP/AR 5117 (interdistrict attendance) 10. The block was moved whole, with no item pulled 11, and approved 12. The district's policy manual corroborates that from outside the meeting: BP 5141.31 now carries a last-revised date of 07/12/2022, this meeting's own date 8, and so does AR 5113 — the one document on that list the agenda put up as a regulation without its board policy 1310.

And the packet shows what actually changed, which a clean copy of the policy would not. On packet page 311, the paragraph authorizing school-site immunizations is set entirely in the italic type this district's redlines use for inserted text, so it was added in this revision rather than inherited from the earlier text 14. It arrives with a second new sentence the comment did not mention: at the beginning of the school year, parents and guardians are to be notified of their right to consent to an immunization being administered to their child at school 8. In the accompanying regulation one line went the other way: "Immunizations shall not be given without parental consent. (Education Code 49403)" is struck through on packet page 310 15. Both the deleted line and the inserted paragraph rest on the same statute. A flat prohibition came out of the Administrative Regulation; a narrower authorization conditioned on written consent, plus an annual notice duty, went into the Board Policy.

No questions were asked about the block. The one comment from the table during that item was about a different part of it — the 2022-23 School Plans for Student Achievement, welcomed as the first time in a long while that the goals at every school site appeared to line up, whether on academic achievement, support systems or students' emotional health 16.

On community schools, the district had already gone the other way. Earlier in the evening the board was told the district would not seek California community school grant funding at this time — not out of indifference, but because its LCAP-funded supports were judged sufficient already: coordinated systems of support, academic case carriers, family and community engagement liaisons, and mental health interns handling intake before referral to an outside provider. The position was framed as data-driven and revisitable if the data later showed a need 17. The public comment welcomed that decision while arguing that district policy was mirroring the state initiative anyway 6.

No one at the table took the comment up. The card was referred onward under the agenda's own rule that complaints on policy matters go to the superintendent 7, and the meeting moved straight into board comments 18.

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📝 Two items corrected out loud before the vote

• A fiscal year that did not match its own resolution. The agenda printed item XIII.b — Resolution No. 2, 2022-23 for Community Facilities District No. 2006-1 — as establishing the annual special tax for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 19. The error was raised from the table before the consent calendar was reached: the resolution itself was written correctly, the agenda item was not 20. The corrected wording, with fiscal year 2022-23, was read into the record 21, and the resolution was adopted in that corrected form 22.
• An expulsion longer, and different in kind, from what the agenda advertised. The agenda described item XV.a as a stipulated expulsion for student 2021-2022-032, running through the remainder of the second semester of 2021-22, on an Education Code 48900(a) referral 23. It was corrected from the table to a panel expulsion recommendation running through the end of the first semester of 2022-23 — "So it was not a stipulated expulsion. It was a panel recommendation, and it takes us through the end of the first semester of the year" 24 — and approved as corrected 25. That is a materially longer term, and a different procedural route, than the published agenda put before the public. The June 14 minutes show the previous meeting's expulsion item, for a different student, was a stipulated expulsion of the shorter kind 26, which is the form the July agenda's wording had described.

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💰 Five resolutions and the annual July paperwork

Business services moved in two pieces. The consent block, items XII.b through XII.ac, was moved whole 27, drew no discussion 28 and was approved 29. The five action items were then taken one at a time, each read out and disposed of before the next was called.

Because each turn that disposes of one resolution also reads out the next, the pair of anchors below is the honest way to follow them: the first lands where the resolution is read, the second where it is disposed of.

• Resolution No. 1, 2022-23, Community Facilities District 2001-1: read 29, adopted 30.
• Resolution No. 2, 2022-23, Community Facilities District 2006-1, in the corrected form described above: read 30, adopted 22.
• Resolution No. 3, 2022-23, Community Facilities District 2016-1: read 22, adopted 31.
• Resolution No. 4, 2022-23, Community Facilities District 2021-1: read 31, adopted 32.
• Resolution No. 5, 2022-2023, continuing the board's authority to hold virtual meetings under AB 361: read 32, adopted 33.

All four tax resolutions set the annual special tax for fiscal year 2022-23. The packet describes the exercise as a fixture: the resolution that establishes the tax rate goes before the board every year and is then submitted to the county 19. AB 361, the packet explains, requires the board to re-make its findings within 30 days of the first virtual meeting after October 1 and every 30 days thereafter 10. The treadmill is visible inside this packet: four weeks earlier the same authority was renewed as Resolution No. 45 of 2021-2022 34, and by this meeting the numbering had restarted for the new fiscal year, with the AB 361 renewal arriving as No. 5 behind the four tax resolutions.

Human resources consent, items XVI.b through XVI.at, was moved as a block 35 and approved 36; it carried the revised management team salary schedule for 2022-23, effective July 1 7. The business consent slate included a payment transmittal of $4,814,458.05 and an agreement with the College Board to give the PSAT to 8th-11th graders and the SAT to 11th and 12th graders during the school day, at a cost not to exceed $192,734.00 — paid from LCAP funds and therefore free to students, the packet's stated reason being that in-school administration raises participation and removes financial and transportation barriers 1937.

Two public hearings opened and closed with nobody wishing to speak: on RESPA's initial proposal to the board for the 2022-23 negotiations 38 and on the board's initial proposal to RTA 39, both disposed of in a single stretch 4. A third proposal — the district's own initial proposal to RESPA — was reported as presented that evening, with its public hearing set for the August 9, 2022 meeting 40. Most standing committees were dark for the summer or had not yet met 4139.

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🛡️ Safety: a farewell, a front office, a crossing guard

The evening's one recognition honored a departing sheriff's deputy, leaving the district at the end of the month 42. The career summary read into the record put the school resource officer assignment at Redlands East Valley in 2020, after county probation from July 2002, twelve and a half years there covering juvenile hall and adult probation, then the sheriff's academy, the corrections bureau, a patrol assignment from February 2018 and the field training officer program, alongside a role as a crisis negotiator 43. The school resource officer program itself was described as an answer to community input gathered through ThoughtExchange, in which student safety came back as one of the priorities the community asked the district to focus on, and as being about building relationships and heading problems off early as much as about an armed presence on campus 42.

Two other safety items came out of the district's report 17:

• Secure front offices. Every elementary front office is being converted to controlled entry, with visitors buzzed in rather than walking through, as part of a single-point-of-entry approach.
• The Mentone crossing guard. The June 14 minutes record a parent asking the board to put crossing guards at Mentone Elementary before the 2022-23 school year began — one of several crossing-guard requests made that night, another concerning Highland Grove Elementary 44. The answer four weeks later was procedural rather than negative: the district cannot place a crossing guard on a public street without express city or county authority, so staff had brought in the California Highway Patrol and the county road department for a formal traffic and needs assessment, with a commitment that a CHP officer would speak to Mentone parents once school started.

The REV athletic stadium got its own line. Demolition was reported at roughly 90% complete, with grading and trenching for the underground infrastructure next, and phase one on schedule apart from a scoreboard delayed by global logistics 17. The project's scope had been filed with the state the previous November: "The proposed new football stadium and track and field facilities and associated improvements would replace the existing football field and track facilities. Plans include bleacher seating for 3,000 people, lighting, a home ticket booth and restroom/concession building, and visitor ticket booth and restroom/concession building." 45. Wildcat Stadium opened at Redlands East Valley on August 22, 2025 46.

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🚻 The district corrects restroom claims circulating locally

A stretch of the district's report was given over to what it called misinformation circulating in the community about school restrooms 17. AB 367, the Menstrual Equity for All Act, was signed in October 2021 and took effect on July 1, 2022, and on the substance the report had it right: a school serving any combination of grades 6 to 12 must stock "an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women's restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men's restroom" 47. One number in the report had been overtaken. It put the obligation at 50% of school restrooms, which was the threshold in the earlier version of the section — a version that became inoperative on June 30, 2022, before this meeting 47. The report added that a name or department and contact information must be posted in each restroom so that shortages can be reported 17. AB 1732, the report said, has been in effect since March 1, 2017 and reaches only single-stall restrooms, which must be converted to all-gender with the appropriate signage. The claim going round locally — that every district restroom was being converted — was described as incorrect, and both the community and board members were asked to help say so 17.

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🎓 Student trustees get a calendar

The agenda carried one discussion item, on student trustees 7. It was handled as a handout rather than a debate. The schedule passed around at the table put student trustee meetings in the boardroom on the first Tuesday of each month, moved to the Thursday of that week where board workshops conflicted, with alternates invited alongside the main trustees; attendance at board meetings would rotate so that each student trustee gets roughly two 4. The one response from the table favored keeping the rotation, on the ground that it had been the practice in the past 48. Nothing was decided: the group would all come on May 23 to be recognized at what would be their last meeting, and members were asked to think it over and come back rather than settle it that night 49. Staff were asked to check the boardroom calendar before any dates went out 4. The students themselves had already been chosen — the June 14 minutes record that the high schools had selected their student trustees and alternates for 2022-23 50.

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🏫 The summer report, and what the board made of it

The district's report doubled as a summer status update 17: a City of Redlands beautification award, to be presented at the July 29 State of the City luncheon, with the credit given to the maintenance and operations crew; three separate RUSD groups presenting at the ISTE international education technology conference, on robotics camps, an artificial intelligence academy and Lego-based learning; capital projects including roof replacements at Moore Middle School, Redlands High School and Arroyo Elementary, bottle-filler stations district-wide, district-wide asphalt crack mitigation, new flooring, interior and exterior paint and new HVAC, and a parking lot for the eAcademy secondary program relocated to REV, waiting on Southern California Edison to move utility boxes; and summer programs spanning high school credit recovery and advancement, two-week middle school ELA and math camps, UCR robotics, coding and artificial intelligence camps, an extended school year serving 40 students at Kimberly, 63 at Citrus Valley High School and 12 adult transition students at Redlands High School, and CSTEM camps at Clement and Cope.

Board comments were short. One trustee reported a $56,700 grant to the nutrition department, a two-day administrative advance, and RUSD night at the Redlands Bowl on July 28 with a staff reception beforehand 51. Another thanked the maintenance crew for the beautification award and reported back from visits to a summer enrichment program at Kingsbury Elementary and to summer school classes at Redlands High School 52. A third returned to the ISTE showing as evidence of six years of change in the district 53. The last comment of the night was about the July 4 fireworks show the district hosted at Moore Middle School, put at between 4,000 and 5,000 people, and the observation that school was under four weeks away 54.

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🔒 Reported out of closed session

The agenda's closed session covered labor negotiations, public employee appointment for certificated and classified management and the superintendent's performance evaluation 55, then discipline/dismissal/release, anticipated litigation, and a threat-to-public-services consultation 38. The open-session Human Resources Action Items section of the agenda listed none 7; four closed-session actions were read out in open session under the closed-session headings instead 36:

• Appointment of a principal at Cram Elementary School, effective July 13, 2022, at year one of the management team salary schedule.
• Appointment of a Coordinator I, Instructional Technology and Assessment, effective date to be determined, at year five of the schedule.
• Ratification of an Assistant to the Superintendent appointment, effective July 1, 2022, at year one of the schedule.
• Ratification of compulsory unpaid leave for certificated employee 2022-23-201 under Education Code 44940, effective June 24, 2022, with legal notices to follow.

Two of the three appointees were in the room and were welcomed; one of them spoke briefly to thank the board and to introduce family members present. The third was away that week 36.