Board of Education — May 12, 2026

Okay, we don't have the gavel. Mhm. Do we have the gavel? We have the gavel. Yeah, the gavel is right there. Call to order the regular meeting of the governing board of education is called to order by myself, Dr. Joseph Krompacky at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at the district office conference center. Approval of the agenda. Are

there any requests for changes to the agenda? And I'm going to make the first motion that we move action items and swap them with information items. Do I have a second? It's a categorical change. >> [clears throat] >> I would second that. I think it would be great to move business to the front and get that done.

Okay. May I ask a question? Sure. Purpose? Uh save time just in case we don't get to some of the action items information. We have two people presenting. So, um any If it's brief discussion, we can discuss it. Otherwise, let's just take a vote. >> it. But public comment is in the middle between Same. Okay. Okay. Just go slow

with me tonight. Thanks. Okay. So, that we have a motion and a second to swap >> I don't think that's a good idea because then public comments are in the middle. And I feel like the public should be allowed to hear information item Most of them will leave by the time that we get there. What is information item number 12? I

can't see it. It's a demand to cure and correct, and I think the public should be here when we do that. I don't care. Okay, Lonnie, would you mind calling roll? We have a motion a second. This is to shift action to where information is and to put information where action is. Categorical shift. One more clarifying question. So, we would flip action up,

and then are we going to go to information, then public comment, and obviously taking public comment with each information item on the agenda? >> No, it would be action under M, then general public comments, then information or reports. M and O would be swapped. >> Nicole? Public comments would be right where they're at. Thanks. Lonnie, don't hear the cure and correct.

Uh Lonnie, would you mind >> so important to you? Save time in case we don't get to certain items. >> no, not I understand what you're saying. >> Oh. I'm under Why is that so important to you? It's only a cure and correct. Because of the law. It's not a very rational response, Dr. Anderson. But go ahead, doctor.

Lonnie, would you mind calling roll? Wiersma? Yes. Komoroske uh Anderson? No. Barham? Yes. Schwartz? I'm sorry, I don't have enough time to think about this and vote on it, so I'm not going to vote at all. Komoroske? Yeah, that's uh that's not really appropriate, Mr. Schwartz. Uh you want me to repeat that item for you right now?

>> me. I don't appreciate you commenting on whether or not my comment is appropriate. I don't appreciate your being deprecating to me. >> Do you think that all of this can just do what you did for every vote, Steve? No. You're an elected official. What what's the reason for you not voting? That you didn't have time? I can

let you take time right now before your vote. It's fine. I'll just change my vote to yes. >> yourself? And if so, do you give a reason? Am I whose vote? Yes. Motion Motion adopted 3 to 1 1 We don't know why. That's correct. Okay, so action item is shifted and it is now at the front of the meeting.

Any other changes to the agenda? Yes, I have two. >> [clears throat] >> I'd like to pull consent item number 29. For discussion or pulling it off the agenda? >> Pulling it for discussion. Okay, we got Mr. Schwartz pulling 29. I would like item Is that on the consent? Yes. Okay. We have 29. I would like to pull item 27

for discussion. What item is What is that, doctor? >> Canvas by in instructor. Okay. Can I pull Yeah, Mr. Marum, 37, please. >> 37 Is that for discussion? Not really. I mean, I I want to make a statement. It's going to go very quickly. Okay. And any other changes to consent? Okay, so these are just pulled for

discussion. Um any other changes to the agenda? >> Yes, I have another change. Mr. Schwartz Um by law 9322 agenda meeting materials states to promote a balanced agenda individual >> reading a speech because we don't have time for that? You can make a brief change to the agenda. This isn't speech time, Mr. Schwartz. You have three items

on the agenda and we're only allowed two each. That is in accordance with the bylaw that the majority of the board voted in. Excuse me, that's not what the agenda meeting says. That's not what 93.22 says. We have a new bylaw that that I'm reading it. Let him talk. permits a school board member to agendize two items. Yes, but you have three.

You do. Here. There's one that's attached my name to the law. >> and I noted them on the paper. There's one that's attached to the Let me see here. the attorney Give me a second. Uh I can remove myself from the attorney one. That would be good. We can We can remove the attorney altogether. Why would we do that? Well, cuz my

name's on it. Just remove your name. I'm not sure I can legally do it. That's >> So, that's uh Dr. uh Bolez >> [clears throat] >> So, Mr. Barham, I'm just curious. You're just asking him to remove his name from the >> asking him to follow the same rules as everyone else. Well, I didn't I didn't agendize it, Steve. Listen.

Listen. We're not asking you to remove anything. Yeah, but I didn't agendize it, just to be clear. All right. So, here Here's the point. Let's We have a bylaw. Let's be careful in the future. Excuse me. Don't even go there. I'm talking to him. Let's be care- Excuse me. Excuse me. Dr. Kaminski, let's I'll Let's be careful

in the future. >> [clears throat] >> We are We're allowed two items, okay? And that's what the bylaw says. >> That's right. Two items that you agendize. I didn't agendize any of these three. My name's attached to it, but some- somebody else agendized it. My name's secondary. So, you >> let's just let's just review it in the

future and just make sure Point taken. Okay. Point taken. That's it. Dr. Anderson. >> taken. Thank you. Are there any other changes? Cuz I have some. I'm happy to remove the attorney one altogether. >> have to. >> Let's do it. Let's Actually, I move to remove it. I I move to remove it. And um on that technicality, um do I

have a second? Second. Wow. >> Seconded by Dr. Anderson. Sure. Can I I want to make a statement if you don't mind? And it's a very simple one. Nobody is being accusatory here. We're just pointing something out. Okay? For you to remove such an important item just because we're pointing something out because we already said, "Let's just

be careful in the future as to what we agenda-wise." There's no reason to remove an important item like that because we've had some some issues with it and we need to flush that out. And I don't think that's a good It's It's not a good reason to remove it. Point taken. Lenay, would you mind calling roll? Sure. Wiersma?

Can I ask a clarifying question first? >> Sure. Uh Dr. Wallace, do you want to weigh in at all on this? I will I will concur with um Dr. Kamraski. First of all, info and reports was actually on the uh was a future agenda item. As you can see, the district collaboration and survey was added to Dr. just that one piece with

Dr. Kamraski's name. He didn't choose to agenda-wise. That was chose That was agenda-wise by um Ms. Davis and Mrs. and Mr. Evans for those particular pieces. He just He worked on the survey with them on that particular piece. Um on the other items, um we did actually for the info and reports, we did work together on that one. So, it's up to the board

you determine. I know there's a motion on the floor. And Dr. Kamroski, you're advocating to remove it. With the technicality. Why? >> else that has three Why, doctor? Because someone else has three items on the >> So, here's my Here's my question. >> been raising raising my hand. >> Dr. Anderson, sorry. So, I just want to point out that I think

Mr. Barham also has three items on the agenda because there is an item that's agendaized and it is um the uh the one with AALRR is actually in Mr. Barham's handwriting, but it's signed by Steve. So, there's another one that Mr. Barham's handwriting is on. So, we could We can either allow people to work together, which I think is okay,

I think we should say if we work with another person, that's okay, or we remove both items. This is nonsense. And you don't know what my handwriting looks like. You're ridiculous. Well, then let's vote on this and move on so we can approve the agenda. >> everything on the agenda. >> we can we can we can definitely postpone this to the

next meeting and bring it right back on information reports. Okay, so we're going to take the the vote. Wiersma? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Barham? >> No. Schwartz? No. Kamroski? Yes. Motion adopted three to two. It'll be postponed to the next meeting. Well, we'll hear it. Okay, so any other changes? Yeah, you're not allowed to talk. He talks. Uh excuse me. Yeah. Okay, so Um

my name >> What number, Dr. Anderson? Um I have it three. The first one is the Action item number nine. Isn't it that amendment to the board bylaw No, no, that's a different one. Um Excuse me. I'll get it. Oh, it's information reports item 11. First reading of revisions to board bylaw 9424 attorney. Okay, so that's pushed to the next

meeting. Any other changes to the agenda? Okay. Do we have >> raised. Dr. Anderson. Okay, the first one is the student digital citizenship because this Um I think the board needs to discuss this in closed session to make sure it doesn't put the district in legal jeopardy. Um So I think we're going to I think that there's potential future litigation.

And um we need to first discuss this as a board with an attorney, make sure that we're not putting the district at risk for a lawsuit, which I have been told we likely might, or at least individual board members might be sued over it. So, can we at least talk to an attorney first? And make sure that we're not I I it

>> Make your motion, doctor. Number eight. Make your motion. To remove number eight. Do you want to Is your motion to definitely postpone to the next meeting? >> To the next meeting in closed session. And then we can bring it back in open session. >> We don't know about closed session. We can talk to legal about that. Yeah, we

need to talk to legal before we agendize this. >> But your motion is to postpone to next meeting. It's up in the air whether it goes to open or closed. Do we have a second? >> Just cuz they want to hang you down. No, that is not true. Okay, do we have a second? >> Close your mic.

All right, we don't have a second. Motion not adopted. That'll remain on the agenda. Okay, next one would be information number nine. I believe that nothing was submitted. So, board members and the public have nothing to comment on. I also believe this might be an attempt to encourage the public to sue board members or possibly a board member threatening to

sue other board members, but we wouldn't know because nothing was agendized. And I think the public deserves transparency. So, if you put a sentence on there but nothing agendized, then how can the public come and speak to it? I second this. Dr. Velez and myself, we conferred with legal. It's legal advice to push this definitely to the next

meeting in May or may not go into close, but it looks like it's a high probability. Is that the legislative versus qualified immunity? >> Yes, that's one of the two. >> up as a private citizen if you do this. And do whatever you want. We have a motion and a second. >> Could I have a question before

>> won't be able to speak as a private citizen if it's removed to the agenda. You will not. You'll be able to do that under public comments. Yes, Mr. Schwartz. >> public comments. That's where I will go. >> Uh when was this discussed with legal? Today. Uh did we get a summary of what the discussion was? >> No.

Why not? You want to dial the attorney right now? >> No. Okay. >> No. I just want to know if we're going to follow the rules or not follow the rules. We do. But sometimes the rules don't allow attorneys to get on the phone precisely when you want them on the phone. So, we work on their schedule

as well. And Dr. Velez can take the rest of the discussion over, but that was talked about today. >> please? >> Okay. So, I got a call from someone here on the dais about Mr. Dedrick's concern over this item. And I explained to the person who called me what my intention was. And and and and then the item after that was

done, the item was obviously placed on the agenda because my explanation was adequate. And you are making a lot of assumptions, Dr. Anderson. Okay. And and and and >> Okay. You're making a lot of assumptions here. I hear you, Dr. I hear you, Mr. Barham and Dr. Anderson, [clears throat] but we can discuss the merits of this if

we get votes for the next meeting. We have a motion and a second. >> letting you know I'm going up in public comments. >> The motion is to definitely postpone to the next meeting. It may or may not go into close, but it's going to be uh a motion to postpone definitely to the next meeting. Lenay, would you mind

calling roll? We're smart. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Barham. No. Schwartz. No. And can we just get back to dealing with students and achievement, please? Come on. Stop wasting time. Yes, motion adopted three to two. This will be seen at the next meeting, Dr. Anderson. I I have one more, and that is item number 10 that was signed by Mr. Schwartz. Um I have

requested, and I don't know if Mr. Schwartz will do this, but there are several attorneys that we work with from this law firm, including um this What is our special ed attorney, Mr. Clark, correct? And even um I know you've worked with a man named Todd Robbins in the back. I think that we should give this firm a chance to

talk to board members and find out what their concerns are. Also, Mr. Schwartz, you just said that we need to get back to the business of the board and students, and this I feel like does not relate to board and students, so would you be willing to at least talk to the firm before we agendize this? No.

No? Well, then I still move that we remove this. Okay, so the motion is to postpone definitely for the next meeting. Um and and I will say this may or may not go into close, but there's a probably it's probably a higher probability that it will cuz it might end up in potential litigation. So, um if there's

no other comments, Lenay, would you mind calling roll? I have one clarifying question. >> Wiersma. Uh so, we're talking about number 10 under information reports. >> Information >> Governance breakdown, minority board member rights, and legal compliance concerns. I have a clarifying question. The motion is to postpone definitely to the next meeting. >> Okay. Okay. And we'll confer with legal

counsel on where that it gets agendized cuz it may or may not end end up in potential litigation. Ms. Wiersma, did you have a clarifying question? Or do you want >> that that is it. Is there just a motion on the floor? Motion was and it was a second it was seconded by me. The motion was made by Dr. Anderson. Lenay, would

you mind calling roll? Sure. Wiersma? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Barham? No. Schwartz? No. >> Komoroske? Yes. Motion adopted three to two. Any other changes to the agenda? Then I'll take a motion and a second to approve the agenda as is. Moved. Moved by Ms. Wiersma. Seconded. Seconded by Dr. Anderson. Lenay, would you mind calling roll? Wiersma? Yes. Anderson?

Yes. Barham? >> No. Schwartz? No. Komoroske? Yes. Motion adopted three to two. We have a live meeting. Announcement of closed session items in accordance with the government code section 54957.7, the board will now meet in closed session for consideration of items listed in section E. Do we have any public comments in closed session? No. Okay. Then I will until I get my gavel

we're going into closed session. Thank you.

I'm going to hand over recognitions to the superintendent, Dr. BZ. Dr. Blesz, well, good evening everyone. and I'm so excited to be here for um this really eventful night. So um I first would like to ask Melissa Chai to please come up, our very first student school board member. So glad you're here. All right. We are here tonight to recognize, celebrate,

and thanks thank Melissa Chai for serving on our inaugural school to for being our first inaugural school board member. All of us who had the privilege to watch you and get to know you all feel a little bit like proud parents today. And I know your parents are here. Like new parents, we didn't exactly know what we were doing when

you first got started. But we wanted to give you a voice, support you, and help create the conditions to help you succeed. As it turns out, we had nothing to worry about. From the moment you began this journey, you elevated not only the role of the student board member, but the work of the entire board. Here is a woefully

incomplete list of the qualities that you brought to us every single day and every communication we have had. Intelligence, passion, joy, flexibility, and above all, grace. As exemplary leaders do, you leave this organization better than you found it. For that, we are deeply grateful. And returning to the analogy of being new parents, we apologize for the moments when we didn't get

when we didn't know you we didn't know better and we'd admit we we had many moments when we watched you with enormous pride as you consistently exceeded our expectations. our next student board member and every student board member who follows will benefit from what TVUSD has learned from you over this USD and Tmacula cheering you on as you begin your next chapter at Harvard

University. We have no doubt that you will leave a lasting impact there as well. And finally, as any good parent would, we'd like to remind you that the last at the last board meeting, you told us you would return to your hometown one day. So, please do. We can't wait. Thank you, Melissa. Oh my gosh. Thank you. My parents. Yes.

Exactly. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Well, and let's continue on a little bit. Dr. BZ, sorry to interrupt. You think that I think the whole board and staff should take a picture with Mrs. Chai, right? Absolutely. Let's do that first. That's important. There we go. I love it. Excellent. I love it. Great suggestion. Okay. So, just cheer clap.

This is a video. If you want to just like cheer her on, it's going to go on the social media. Excellent. Let me take I want to say congrat Rocket. Thank you. Thanks Jody. Thanks Dr. BZ and group. Thank you. Okay. And speaking of new student board members, we have exciting news to share with everyone. Earlier this month, we had 1,518 TVUSD

high school students cast their votes for our next student board member. This enormous voter turnout demonstrates the value of this role and aligns with our continuous goal of elevating students. We are proud and excited to announce that one candidate receives 61.7% of the student votes and will serve as the student board member for the 2627 school year.

Please help us to congratulate and welcome Nathan Barry from Chapperel High School. Of course, as our next student board member, Nathan is joined this evening by his parents, David and Stephanie, and his little brother, Jacob. Where are you? Oh. Oh, Jacob's not here. Okay. All right. We know Nathan will be a champion for student voice and create his

own legacy. Congratulations, Nate. We officially will transition from Melissa to Nathan on July 1, and I have no doubt that they will spend time planning and collaborating during this transition period. Thank you all and congratulations. Thank you. I'm excited, too. Thank you. Awesome. All right. Thank you, Dr. says, "Thank you, Melissa, and welcome, Nate. We are glad to have you to be

part of the team." All right. Uh, our next recognition is for a program that many of us are familiar with, especially of those of us who were principles, uh, because it's one of our favorite PTA programs every year. Uh, I'm going to bring up the our council PTA president, Stephanie McColie, and council PTA vice president, Veronica Rivera,

to recognize our district reflections winners. Hello. Tonight, we are especially proud to recognize the students whose reflections, entries have advanced to the state level. This is an incredible achievement and a true testament to your creativity, talent, and hard work. Through your art, music, photography, dance, and writing, you shared your voices in meaningful and inspiring ways. Moving on to the state level

is not only an honor but also recognition that your creativity stood out among many outstanding entries. On behalf of the Tmacula Valley Council of PTAs, congratulations to each of you and your families. We are so proud of your accomplishments and excited to see your talents continue to shine. Keep creating, keep dreaming, and keep sharing your voice with the world. We would like to

recognize the following students from Great Oak High School. Chattton Singh for photography. from Leavia Elementary. Hayden Chapel for literature from Rancho Elementary. Eliia Carile with dance from Paloma Elementary. Steven Bowman for music composition. And from Great Oak High School, Parker Larson for music composition and Emory Kunan for literature who are unable to be here tonight. Yeah, we can deliver.

Oh, you're here. Oh, we didn't hear back from you. Come on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Emory Kunan. Yeah. Right. Just get everybody up there. Come on. Moms and dads. Do you want me to take I'm sure I was about to say I bet we can give it to Dr. So nervous. All these people. Go ahead. We'll take a picture.

You did good. Congratulations. That's pretty cool that you advanced. What do you think? That's a fair answer, buddy. He's an artist. Are you breath? Yay! It's okay. Okay, thank you everyone. That concludes our recognitions. Thank you to those who were there for that. We will begin our regular session at 6:00 p.m. Do we have Okay, I'm going to start us

up in one minute. One minute. Thank you. Does mine work? Okay, this is a call the meeting to order after close session. Good evening and welcome to the regular open session meeting at Tmacula Valley Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at 6:01 p.m. The board has been in close session since 4 p.m. In attendance

this evening, our governing board, myself, Dr. Joseph Kamski, Dr. Melinda Anderson, Mrs. Jennifer Worma, Mr. Steve Schwarz, Mr. Emil Barum, Miss Melissa Chai, student school board member, secretary of the board, Dr. Kimberly, and the executive team. And now it's my honor to welcome uh um from Chaperel High School the um NHOTC. Um you're looking sharp out there. Can't wait. And they're going

to do a full color guard presentation with the pledge of allegiance. Welcome. Please remove your hats. Thank you. Right. Left, right. Good evening. I'm Cadet Commander Scallarun. And my name is Cadet Lieutenant Commander Gabby Capilly. and we'll be leading you through the pledge of allegiance. Please rise, remove your hats, and place 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, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. And we got something for you. They mean business. Please Okay, I have A board president comment. As board president, I'm proud to recognize and celebrate

our exceptional TVSD health services team during National Nurses Week. Shout out to all the nurses. The dedication, professionalism, and compassion our school nurse, nurses, and health staff demonstrate every day have tremendous impact on health, safety, and well-being of students across our district. from attending more than 464 IEP meetings. Wow, it's a lot. A lot of work. And developing over

2,000 emergency health care plans to train more than 1,200 staff members and caring for over a thousand students daily. Their work reaches every corner of TVSD. Our health services team continues to set a high standard of excellence through student screenings, campus safety training, staff support, and daily care provided to students across the district. Their unwavering commitment helps

ensure that every TVUSD campus remains a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for learning. On behalf of the board of education, I extend my sincere appreciation and gratitude for this outstanding team for their dedication to serving our students, families, and schools. Thanks again. Before we do a readout of close session, I do want to let the um audience know that we have

reversed in uh action items to information and vice versa information to action items. So just one second here for the people listening online specifically that means we have taken M information reports and pushed it to O and pushed action items from O to M. Okay. So, it'll be action items taken in close session must be reported to the public once close session ends.

Today's close session began at 4M. The board of education took the following action in close session. Dr. Anderson. Okay. Dr. Kamaraskki, could I just um mention something to you and the audience? Um I noticed um that some small gavvels have been passed out and I'm going to ask the audience to please not disrupt the meeting and cause the room to be cleared. Um, so if that's

just my request as a board member, I would like to get through the whole meeting without having um the room cleared. That means speakers have to go home. So I think if we could just be respectful of each other. Um, that's it. And then I'm going to start with the readouts now. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Okay. Okay. It was moved by

member Schwarz and seconded by member Anderson to approve the release of certificated temporary contract employees ID number 299366 321-626 365952 345262 365 654 324192 352956 368377 365978 328-588 366-993 266528 effective at the conclusion of the 202526 school year. The motion was approved 5 to 0. It was moved by member Schwarz and seconded by member Anderson to ratify and approve the settlement

approved with a vote of 50. It was moved by member Anderson and seconded by member Wearsma to ratify and approve the resignation agreement for classified employee 256586 May 4th 2026. The motion was approved with a vote of 50. It was moved by member Anderson and seconded by member Kamaroski to approve providing certificated administrative employees 1 191083 and 340212 with

written notice that they shall be released from their administrative positions at the conclusion of the current school year June 30th 2026 and reassigned to teaching positions for the 2026 27 school year. The motion was approved with a vote of 50. It was moved by member Anderson and seconded by member Wearsma to deny the claim for damages for HW, SW, and LW dated April 15,

2026. The motion was approved with a vote of 50. It was moved by member Anderson and seconded by member Kamroski to approve the claim for damages for KS dated April 19th, 2026. The motion was approved with a vote of 50. It was moved by Anderson and seconded by Wears member Wearsma to approve the OA decision for case number 20251020.

The motion was approved. 50-0. It was moved by member Anderson and seconded by member Schwarz to approve deny the request to cure and correct. The motion to approve was adopted with a vote of 41. Wears yes. Anderson yes. Barham no. Schwarz yes. Comoski yes. That's it. Thank you Dr. Anderson. Now we're on to uh item L, recognitions, recognitions, announcements,

school related organizations. Miss Melissa Chai, for the last time, you now have the honors of presenting the student spotlights. Floor is yours. Thank you, Dr. Kamroski. Good evening, everyone. As your student board member, I have the honor of introducing tonight's student spotlight. Each month, we have the opportunity to highlight our amazing students from our schools who remind us why we do

what we do. And just a friendly reminder, our spotlight speeches are limited to three minutes. First up, we have Shappearal High School. It should be on. Good evening, Superintendent Veles, board members and cabinet members. My name is Genevie Hua, Chapper's ASB president and I'm Kayen Twist, Chapro ASB secretary and treasurer. Thank you for having us today. During

teacher appreciation week, our students from plus, ROC, athletics, ASB, and more came together to organize events to show our love to our amazing teachers and staff who make our school a positive place to pursue education. We also hosted our quarterly prestigious Puma lunchon where teachers get a chance to nominate students who go above and beyond representing Puma Pride in and outside

of the classroom. We would like to shout out Urban Cafe for donating food and to teachers for recognizing students around our campus who make us Puma proud. We also collaborated with our unified sports club to host our annual Puma spirit games where we invite special needs students from our feeder schools to come for a fun-filled day with

our student athletes. This past week, we had our annual football showcase where college coaches were checking out our team, which ranked number four for division 2 of the southern section with multiple of our players receiving D1 offers from multiple different teams. We also got to announce our 2026 to 2027 student council, and we can't wait for you guys to meet some of them in

the fall. Our peer leaders also celebrated their hard work over this past year with their annual banquet, enjoying food, having a water balloon fight, and handing out stoalls. We would also like to recognize our seniors for receiving 138 awards totaling over $83,000 last night at Dollars for Scholars. Our seniors are getting ready for graduation with some exciting events like prom, senior awards night,

senior rally, senior sunset, and our annual grad bash trip to Universal Studios. To get everyone excited for our prom this weekend, we have our prom spirit week happening right now. And today was toes out Tuesday. We would also like to recognize our very own student board member, Melissa Chai, for being an extraordinary member this past year on our board. Thank you.

We also want to give our final shout out to our amazing school resource officer, Deputy Bowers, and our friends at the Sheriff's Riverside Department for keeping our school and community a safe place to learn and focus on our education. Please enjoy this short Please enjoy this short video highlighting some of our events from this past month. Thank you for your

continuous support over this past year and don't forget to have a pumatastic evening. We got to started right back to where we started. Do you remember that day when you first paid my way? Thank you, Chapperel. Next up, we have Great Oak. Hello everyone. Thank you for having us back. This is Cadence and I'm Abby. Our students have

been crushing it on AP and IB tests. Students have been leaving the exam rooms confident and proud. Last you're all good. Last week, GOHS Dance did their annual showcase. Our dancers on campus put on an incredible show. There were so many styles and so many students who went to perform and it was truly incredible. Prom this year was a hit. The Richard Nixon

Presidential Library was a great venue. Our students had a blast. The silent disco was definitely a fan favorite. Everyone had so much fun. This year we sold 1,200 tickets, which is really amazing. Peer leaders hosted their Because Nice Matters carnival. Students from surrounding elementary and middle schools came to Great Oak and went to play games and attend a

kindness pep rally. The Great Oak blood drive had 105 participants. We really save lives, Wolfpack. The GOHS variety show proved a great opportunity for students to be able to showcase their talents. It was a night to remember. I'm excited to introduce you all to Noah Gaba. He will take he will take over my position next year with

Cadence and Amina. I'm so grateful for the last two years and the opportunities this position has provided me and can't wait to see all the great things that they will do together. Grado hosted a track and field unified games. It was a stellar day with surrounding high schools and even some middle schools. That's it for us. Have a great summer and we'll see you

in August. Don't forget to hash the one. I had a dream so big and loud. I jump so high I touch the clouds. Woah. I stretch my hands out through the sky. We dance with monsters through the night. Woah. Oh, I'm never going to look back. I'm never going to give it up. No, please don't wake me now.

This is going to be the best day of my life. Thank you, Great Oak. Now, let's welcome up TV. Good evening. This would be our 15th and final student spotlight. I'm Kenzie. And I'm Megan. It's so surreal that the year is ending and this will be our last time speaking in front of all of you. Next week is our annual recognition rally

and it's a Teen Beach movie. Our recognition rally is an awesome opportunity to honor all the accomplishments of the Golden Bears from throughout the year. Tonight we've got a little teaser for the year in review. You don't mind if we brag for a moment, do you? It really has been an amazing year. Our dance program has had an has had an excellent year at Rivals.

They finished second and took crowd favorite. All three levels of our choir received superior ratings in competition. Shout out to Ruby Anderson who was selected to participate in all state festival. Also, the golden singers in the advanced choir received a gold gold rating at the forum festival placing third overall. They performed for the last time this Thursday at

their spring concert. We honored our prom royalty several weeks ago. It was so exciting to see Ella Vulmer and Eliza Combmes crowned at the dance. They're both a part of our dance program and such amazing, bubbly people. Just recently, we finished up our lunchtime inter mural tournament of capture the flag. We had eight teams competing and it's a little surprising

how much running capture the flag requires. A bunch of our baseball and basketball players were a part of it and they were looking winded. The championship went to team Ian and like all the schools, we celebrated our staff last week during staff appreciation week. The highlight was our mascot, Gordon, walking around campus and giving out hugs to our amazing teachers and

staff. Well-deserved kindness. Just recently, a number of our video media arts students earned awards in the Digifest Film Festival. These were the same from the film festival hosted at TV. If you have a chance to see Beyond Reality, Aaron's Metverse Mission, you should take it. The students earned a standout award for their awesome film. It had special effects, great acting, and

very creative story. and some first place award recipients for uh photography and animation with Millie the Cat, a short film included a variety of animation styles from all the students involved. TV had a truly standout year in athletics. We had four CIF championships, six league championships, including boys and girls soccer and beach volleyball, and some impressive state tournament

runs. Our boys water polo team won state. Stunt cheer earned a back-to-back league championship and then won CIF, placing third in the state. And then our boys wrestling team won their 38th straight league championship and won both the dual and individual CIF tournament. Our baseball team won league with an undefeated se season going 15 and0. That's the first time that's happened

since 2000. Coach Merrill, the varsity coach, was part of that group 26 years ago. We are so grateful to have been able to represent our school for the past two years. It's been a fantastic school year. And for our final farewell, go Bears. And Dr. has an important message for you. Oh, do we have rancher? Oh, we just have the video. Okay,

good. I didn't see them. Okay. For having us here today for our final ASB spotlight of the year. My name is Zilani and I'm Sophia. We are student leaders from Rancho Vista High School. Since mid-March, our campus has been full of engaging activities and opportunities for student student connection. In March, we hosted our annual schoolwide egg hunt

where students exchange their eggs for prizes or Minga points which they can spend at our Minga store. In April, we held a week-long find a carrot hunt where students searched campus for carrot fidgets created by our manufacturing and design Class clues were posted on Minga and students could either keep their fidget or trade it in for Minga points. Also in April, we

celebrated our third quarter credit counters with a pizza lunch recognizing students who earned all their credits. We would like to give a big thank you to our nutrition services for providing the food. Prom spirit week was a huge success with our time flies theme. Each day highlighted a different decade, including the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. It was exciting to see both students and

staff participate. We would also like to give a a huge thank you to TBHS, ASB, and Mr. B for including us in their prom. It was truly a night to remember for everyone who attended. In May, we celebrated our principal, Mr. Schlottman for Principal's Day and all that he does for our school community. Last week, we hosted one of

our most beloved events of the year, our Rancho Vista High School Culture Festival on May 6th. Staff, students, and our incredible district supporters from accountability and assessments and student watch culture. These events continue to build community, celebrate diversity, and create meaningful experience for our students. That concludes our final update of the year. Thank you for your time and continued support.

I just want to take a moment and thank our students. You guys have represented your school sites this year with such pride, authenticity, leadership, and so many different ways. You've brought truly the spirit that happens at each of these high schools to this boardroom and really reminds us of the work that we do. So, um, for those of you who are moving on,

congratulations in your next step. I know we will see some of you next year, but truly from the bottom of the heart, bottom of my heart and from the school board, thank you again for bringing bringing life to this room every year. Thank you Dr. VeZ. Thank you the students. Okay. Now we introduced uh school related organizations TVA uh Edgar Diaz.

Good evening board staff. Happy May towards the end of the year. We are getting back to the time where we get to celebrate people and the students that have done the work for years and years. This is the the last class that I have graduating from TVUSD that I taught and then my memory as a teacher poof disappears from as a student. It's

it was great to see a lot of them at the awards for scholarships yesterday. Was that yesterday? It was yesterday. Yeah. So, but that was a great event to be able to see that for people. TVA was able to contribute about 16 scholarships with plus three that are meant for education. It was great to be able to see the parents there and

students. And then the amount of work that the teachers are going to be doing, what the educator be doing to celebrate our students and parents at the close of this year involved with graduations, with promotion, with being able to celebrate the quality of work that our students have been able to do and complete with the task for the year is

just something that we truly enjoy. Uh that's one big part of the year where we actually get to see what the growth that's happened. As a teacher, you really don't get to see a lot of that. Uh I know many of the high graduating seniors are going to be coming by and touring our sites. That's another great uh tradition that TVSD has continued

to make sure that we who have invested a lot in our students actually get to see them before they go off into the world. And so that's been another great tradition that as educators we've been able to to look at and enjoy. Uh as far as TVA is concerned, we're busy organizing to elect site leaders for every single site to make sure

that we're ready to go uh the year gets started. We're also out at every single site this May. So that's 27 sites in 3 weeks as we are looking to uh gather ideas about what would go in our successor agreement because this current contract ends in June of uh 2027. So those ideas we brought to you and Sunshine in the fall. Uh in

the meantime, we've also on Friday settled on the conceptual agreement for compensation for this current year 25 26 and something that we're hoping the teams can close out on Friday. Uh we are also bargaining for 26 27 which is next year um moving forward. So those are all the different components that we still have opening with the um

with bargaining and with our with our association. Uh I do want to say that during our site visits there's been a lot of concern as far as how we're supporting our students towards the end of the year or the beginning of the year I should say. Uh we've had the conversations with board members, those who are willing to meet and with

um staff. How are we going to support students who are coming into the school year to make sure that they're as successful as they can be? Uh and how are we going to be able to plan to make sure those are implemented well? Those are the biggest concerns we have for people as they are thinking about opening their classrooms and how they're

going to be supporting the students to start the year. And those have been great discussions. Uh also I want to compliment the special ed committee that's been jointed by us by by contract. They had their second meeting and they identified priorities on what they're going to do to address safety moving on to this next year. Thank you.

Next up, Kevin Py from CSCA. So, good evening board, Dr. Les community. Um, as you know, I'm not Kevin. My name is Keith Brennan. I've been a employee of Tmacula School District for 20 years since 2006. I'm the currently the vice president of CSEA uh 538. Thank you for giving us time to speak. U as I knew in this role at CSEA, I continue

to learn the inner workings of the union and uh responsibilities that come with representing our members. Um during my time as vice president, I hope to strengthen our chapter, ensure fair and equitable representation for our employees and departments and all classifications. While I'm here this evening, I'd like to recognize that next week, May 17th through May 23rd, is

classified school employee week. Classified employees play a vital role in the overall success of the district, help ensure safe, supportive, and effective learning environments. During this week, we don't only recognize classified employees at TVUSD, but throughout the state. The many volunteers throughout CSEA have fought for many years for simple rights like workplace safety, summer pay equity, retirement provisions,

work hour protections, paid time off, wages and benefits, professional development and career opportunities, and school funding. The list goes on and on. These accomplishments are a testament to what we stand for. knowing that students thrive or classified work which is the CS thank classified employees who help make this district a great place for students staff and the

community. Their dedication, professionalism, and commitment are deeply appreciated. Finally, we look forward to continued discussions at the negotiations table as we continue to negotiate for the safety and wages of our classified workers here at TVUSD. We are hopeful that we can conclude the current contract so we may move forward with our next contract negotiations. Thank you. Thank you, Keith. Next up, Stephanie

McCulla. Sorry, Stephanie McCully from PTA. Good evening. My name is Stephanie McCully and I'm the president at Tmacula Valley Council of PTAs. We are a governing board that oversees all of the PTAs located in TBUSD. We offer training, support, encouragement, and advocacy for PTAs in TBUSD. There are 23 PTAs across the school district, and it is my privilege every month to share

their accomplishments with you. PTAs in Tmacula Valley do monumental work. They plan assemblies, book fairs, penny wars events, trunk retreats, carnivals, and even slime the teacher days. If a school is hosting a family event, chances are the PTA had a hand in it. I've talked to you many times about the impact that active and engaged PTAs have on a community. Parent involvement

is paramount to student success. Tonight, I want to share with you some numbers and really focus on the return of investment, our ROI, and the value that PTA brings to this community. PTAs within TVUSD raise approximately $800,000 every single year for our schools. Every single penny of that money goes back to the kids, including $14,000 worth of scholarships

just last night. If you were to calculate volunteer hours contributed, this number would well exceed $1 million worth of money and time for our children. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the many, many PTA volunteers within TVUSD who take these contributions and turn them into the magic that defines PTA. Without our volunteers, PTA couldn't have the tremendous impact that we do. Thank you.

Thank you. Now we're on to action items O. Um, resolction items M because we swapped them. Resolution number 20252636 declaring Tmacula Valley Unified School District's membership in the statewide educational wrap-up program sue. I call for a motion, a second to approve resolution number 20252636, the district's membership in the statewide educational wrap-up program suup or sellup. I'm not even to use the

cost effective construction specific insurance to protect the financial uh interests of the district and the board. Do I have a motion in a second? Moved. Moved by Dr. Anderson. I'll second it. Any discussion? Otherwise, we'll have Len call roll. Len, would you mind calling roll? Sure. Where's Anderson? Yes. Barham, yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamaroski, yes. Student vote, yes. Motion adopted 50. Thank you, Len. Action

item two, resolution number 202526/37 of the Tmacula Valley Unified School District declaring volunteers to be deemed as employees for purposes of workers compensation pursuant to labor code section 3364.5. I call for a motion, a second to adopt the resolution 2025-26/37 of the Tmacula Van Unified School District declaring volunteers to be deemed as employees for purposes of workers

compensation pursuant to labor code section 3364.5. Do I have a motion and a second moved by Mr. Schwarz? Second. Second by Mrs. Wearsma. Any discussion, would you mind calling roll? Sure. Where's Yes. Anderson? Yes. Barham? Yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamaroski, yes. Student vote, yes. Thank you, Len. Motion adopted 50-0. Uh, action item three, resolution number 202526/39, ratifying facilities

master plan declaring exemption under SB 937 and authorizing issuance of notice to county/ities with respect to same. I call for a motion, a second to adopt this resolution number 202526/39. And do I have a motion and a second? Moved by Mr. Schwarz. Second. Seconded by Dr. Anderson. If there's no discussion, I'll have Len call a roll. I see two mics lit up. Three

mics. Okay. Len, would you mind calling roll? Wema. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Four. Resolution number 202526/40 regarding elimination discontinuation, reduction, and layoff of particular kinds of services certificated for the 2026 27 school year. I call for a motion, a second to adopt resolution number 2025-26/40, final resolution terminating services of certificated employees as a result of reduction or discontinuation of

particular kinds of services for 202627 school year. Do I have a motion in a second? Moved. Moved by Dr. Anderson. Second. Seconded by Mrs. Wearsma. Any discussion? Len, would you mind calling role? Wema. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Barham. Yes. Schwarz. Yes. Kamaroski. Yes. Student vote. Yes. Thank you, Len. Motion adopted 50. Item five, resolution number 2025/26 uh41 regarding elimination,

discontinuation, reduction, and layoff of certain classified employees for the 2026 27 school year. I call for a motion, a second to adopt resolution number 202526/41. Final resolution regarding elimination, discontinuation, reduction, and layoff of certain classified employees for the 2026-27 school year. Do I have a motion in a second? Moved. Moved by Dr. Anderson. I'll second it. Any discussion? Len, would you

mind calling role? Wema? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Barham? Yes. Schwarz? No. Kamroski. Yes. Student vote. Yes. Motion adopted 4-1. Thank you. Len six, resolution number 202526/43 of the board of education of Tmacula Valley Unified School District self-certifying increase federal micrase threshold. I call for a motion and a second to adopt resolution number 202425/43 certifying a higher federal microurchase level of

$50,000. Do I have a motion and a second? Moved. Move by Dr. Anderson. Well, maybe this motion dies. Yeah. Is there any clarifying questions for Does anybody have any questions about the item? So right now uh there are there um when you purchase something with federal dollars there's a higher level of requirements um for when you spend federal dollars and when there's something

called a micro purchase. And so a micr purchase right now is defined as anything that's $10,000 and we're trying to increase that to $50,000. So we are able to an organization our size we spend $10,000 all the time. And so if we could increase that micro purchase threshold to $50,000 that will help our purchasing department in processing for

things like child nutrition and title one funds. it it's just a separate criteria that defines microurchases. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Lash. Seconded by Mr. Barm. Any other discussion? If not, I'll have Len call role. Uh, one clarifying question. So, uh, any explanation with the jump from 10 to 50. That's what the law allows for. Got it. So, it's up to $50,000 you can redefine a micr

purchase. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. Miss Lash Len, would you mind calling role? Wearsma, yes. Anderson, yes. Barham, yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamoski, yes. Student vote, yes. Motion adopted 5-0. Thank you, Len. Seven, revised administrative job description program specialist. I call for a motion, a second to approve the revised certification administrative job description program specialist,

and the 2026-27 certificated administrative salary schedule. Do I have a motion in a second? Moved. Moved by Mr. Schwarz. Second. Seconded by Mrs. Wisma. Any discussion? Len, would you mind calling role, please? Yes. Anderson, yes. Barham, yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamaroski, yes. Student vote, yes. Motion adopted 5-0. Thank you, Len. And we have eight comments on action item eight,

association spotlights. And what's the board think as far as timing? Just eight. Yeah. Hear them all. Three minutes. I'm up for hearing them all at three. Board consensus. We'll hear them all. Welcome up. First up is Ashley, followed by Lesie. Good evening, board members and staff. I'm here tonight to ask you to reconsider removing the certificated, classified, and PTA spotlights

from board meetings. I understand the desire to shorten meetings and respect everyone's time, but these three spotlights total only 9 minutes, and I believe those nine minutes are incredibly valuable to our district community. As the PTA president of a TVUSD elementary school, I love that the work being done across our schools is showcased each month. These spotlights give

visibility to the people who are pouring their time, energy, and heart into supporting students every single day. The certificated and classified spotlights recognize staff members who often work tirelessly behind the scenes. The PTA spotlight highlights the partnership between families, volunteers, and schools. A partnership that directly benefits all students and strengthens our campuses. These moments are more than

announcements. They build connection, pride, and community. They help families see the positive things happening throughout the district, and they remind volunteers and staff that their efforts are noticed and appreciated. Board meetings are not only about completing business efficiently. They are also one of the most visible opportunities to celebrate the people who make this district special. I would encourage the

board to consider whether saving nine minutes is worth losing a meaningful opportunity to recognize and connect with the community you serve. Thank you for your time and consideration. Next up is Lesie. Lesie followed by Sarah. 40 years ago, I was elected president of the PTA at Rancho Elementary School and went on to serve as president at every level, including

the 23rd district county PTA. I'm appalled and I've sat through 719 schoolboard meetings. I'm appalled that you're using the excuse of your need to shorten your meetings by eliminating not only the PTA highlights but the teachers and classified employees as well. Nine minutes. Three of you spend a lot more time than that dragging these meetings out and I feel qualified to judge

that have attending 719. You need to do better. You heard from the TmAcula Valley Council PTA president this evening $800,000 that they have donated and we are in a budget crisis and you don't think they deserve three minutes to highlight the work that they do. I continue to be members of Tony Tobin, Veil Ranch Middle School, and Great Oak High

School PTSA. That's a commitment. I am asking you to make the same commitment. Don't Don't do this. Do better. Sarah followed by Cindy. Hi, good evening board members. Um, the previous speakers have already emphasized the importance of these spotlights and why the recognition matters. I want to talk about this from another perspective. Can you consider what effective governance looks like for this district

and the community that it serves? Meetings should reflect the people who make our schools successful every day. And that is in those spotlights. Our teachers, staff, students, volunteers, and parents. That's what we're missing out on. organization highlights and the recognitions help keep us connected to the community and keep the positive work going across TVUSD, which is I think why most of us are here. So,

removing these spotlights may save 9 minutes, but it also removes opportunities to recognize the very people that are showing up for our students. Um, there's only five of you. There's tens of thousands of us. Um, let us be heard and recognized. the parents and staff that take the time to attend or watch these meetings online, they care deeply about our schools. I mean,

we really could think of other fun things to do on a Tuesday. Um, we want to feel represented and heard and we want to feel valued by those of you that serve us. Silencing these spotlights causes division and that frankly needs to stop in this district on this board majority. I hope that you as the board will reconsider

this agenda item. Continue making space for the people and programs that bring our community together as that's what we need. Keep the focus on students, parents, staff, teachers. You will probably discuss this tonight longer than the nine minutes it takes. I know it took longer than nine minutes to get the agenda approved tonight. So, let's let's leave the speakers in.

Cindy, followed by Carolyn. Good evening. I'd like to highlight the absurdity of eliminating nine minutes of staff and community spotlights in the name of efficiency. Let's take a quick trip down memory lane. This board has sat through lawyers billing by the hour, defending themselves for jobs, debating words and punctuation on policies that ended up unchanged. Dr. Kamaroski reading classic

books out loud to imply they're inappropriate. Explaining what a mellow is repeatedly. Many of Jen's closing comments that stretch past 20 minutes. Jen playing gospel music during her closing comments. countless minutes across several meetings just to decide how long public comments should be and where they should be. Outsiders being allowed three minutes to create content for their social media. Insane theatrical speeches,

we're probably going to hear one tonight, from people across the country. And speeches about every boogeyman story that was out there having nothing to do with student achievement made by people that Jen and Joe have summoned from outside of our community. But sure, nine minutes of updates from teachers, classified staff, and parents, that's the problem. Taking away the voices of TVEA,

CSEA, and PTA is not efficiency. It's the wrong solution to a problem that this board has created. Carolyn followed by Jenny. I am disappointed that you're removing nine minutes of important information from the agenda by eliminating the organization spotlights. I doubt you're doing this out of your expressed interest in improved time management. If that was the case, we would have seen a lot better time

in agenda management in the past three years of meetings. These spotlights were extremely informative to me when I was a young community member and attended board meetings to learn about the schools my children might one day attend. When I had children, I valued hearing about PTA activities that I could become involved with as the parents of three TVUSD students. And finally,

when my late husband and I both en joined TVSD as new employees, we very much valued the certificated and classified spotlights to learn more about what was happening across the sites in our districts. And all of this was before the internet, before live streaming, when we had to actually come and sit and listen to all the information here in this boardroom. And now it's

even more valuable, as the previous speaker said, because the reach of this information is greater with the recorded meetings. You're taking away an avenue of communication for employees and parents of this district, most likely for political or punitive reasons. I see no other reason why you would let your students share their spotlights, but not your parents and not your employees.

Jenny, followed by Lindsay. All right. All right. So, you do not want to hear from employees or parents you are supposed to serve. We've been here before. If you want to shorten meetings, how about you all stop bickering and get back to the business of supporting the school district, its students, families, and employees? How about you stop threatening to sue each other?

How about you cut your board comments, which never have anything to do with academics, athletics, or extracurriculars? How about we stop allowing people from Oceanside, Glendel, and Florida and stick to TVUSD stakeholders as speakers? How about two of you keep your online comments to yourselves instead of insulting and sexualizing students, causing an uproar in the community, which then

brings parents and students and those affected to come out and teach you how to care and respect for our students. There are a myriad of ways, in fact, there are many, even a multitude of manners, to shorten this meeting without censoring the voices of those you are supposed to serve. We, their certificated and classified employees, along with parents, are actually the ones serving

students day in and day out. Do not silence us, Lindsay. Lindsay followed by Edgar. Good evening. So, let's just call this what it is. This has nothing to do with reducing the length of board meetings by 9 minutes. The real issue seems pretty obvious. Certain trustees do not like hearing from the TVA president or association representatives. So instead of

openly disagreeing with them, they want to eliminate the spotlight entirely. That is not leadership. That is avoidance. These association spotlights are one of the few structured and transparent opportunities for teachers, classified staff, and PTA representatives to communicate directly with the board and the public about what is actually happening on our campuses. I was so delighted this evening to hear that we raised $800,000

that I would never have been aware of had I not heard from that PTA president that just spoke I lost my place. Um anyways it's fine. They they provide insight into staff morale, student needs, campus successes and real challenges facing the district. Those voices matter. At a time when this board constantly talks about transparency, collaboration, and engagement,

removing stakeholder voices because meetings run long sends the exact opposite message. And respectfully, if meetings are too long, maybe the conversation should be about agenda management, repetitive trustee commentary, or political grandstanding, not silencing employees and parent groups over threeinut updates. Three minutes from teachers, classified staff, and PTA representatives is not the problem. Pretending it is honestly insults the intelligence

of the public. And I will use your words, Dr. Koski. I liked when you asked Melissa Choy to go ahead and you said, you know, let's go ahead and celebrate these spotlights. I give you the honor. I wish you would have said the same about these individuals that spoke tonight. It is an honor and we should hear from them. Thank you.

class speaker at your Hey, here again um I think the last time the spotlight was removed was when TVA again had gone through a lot of organizing to work for compensation. Not a coincidence that it happens again that we went from in October, November that teachers were educators were asked to take pay cuts, increase class sizes, increase workload

to now a 2% increase moving forward. Now that we're being asked or you're considering removing the spotlight and we're moving into elections in November, is it because you want to continue to keep that lid covered on anything that we need to raise awareness within the community of what we want and need to accomplish for our students to have fully funded classrooms, to make sure our

students are supported, to make sure there's safe environments on there. issues with how do we repair our facilities that are falling apart, like pieces of a uh a a classroom wall that fell out with a big nail today that I was at, but yet I wasn't here at a Wednesday workshop when you're talking about a bond and thinking about not

doing the repairs that we need to keep our staff and students safe. If that's the reason why you're shutting it down, just shut it down. I mean, we'll be speaking at most of the agenda items. I mean, you'll just give me more stuff to prepare. That's that's okay. But for the most part, I love coming up here and giving positive things.

It's not my fault that this board continues to shoot itself in the foot and create negative press that we now have to talk about because otherwise we don't get a chance to talk to three of you. The two of you that we do get to speak to and share our ideas with and share what are the ways that we can improve together.

I applaud you. For us to move forward, there needs to be clear conversations. And obviously, you don't like to have them on our own or talking to our our leaders. So you won't be hearing them here if you decide to not have them available. And if that's your direction, that is your direction. But then again, that is how you run the district.

Dr. Anderson. Okay. Um I created this policy last year. It was um my original spotlight policy because I do believe that recognition matters and I still do. PTA, TVEA, CSEA, staff, parents, volunteers, and community partners all deserve to be recognized. But I believe that we should be willing to improve the format when there is a better way to reach our community. Board meetings

are full and public engagement with meeting is li meetings is limited. Um, right now I've been watching the public engagement and while all these speakers were speaking, we went between 125 viewers to 161 viewers that actually listened to the speakers. Tonight is a really high night. Usually we're below 100. I watch every meeting to see how many people are are listening and there's

they're usually around 90 to 100. Um, a spotlight during a meeting may only reach a small audience, while an online spotlight could reach thousands of families. I'm hope potentially up to 27,000 families through like our Friday spotlight or Friday flyer. So, this isn't about limit eliminating or disrespecting any group. It's actually about making recognition more visible. Um, because like I said, we're at 151 right now

versus 27,000. More accessible and more meaningful while keep Please be respectful to while keeping board meetings focused excuse me while keeping the board meetings focused on business that requires board action. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Anderson. I'll just say the TVSD board meetings are for the purpose of the board to conduct business in the public. Thank you PTA for all that you do. But I'm

going to hold firm that these are special interest groups. You have the ability to communicate in all 29 school s all 29 school sites weekly, monthly, and you will. Thank you, PTA. But I'm going to hold firm on the way I'm going to vote, Mr. Schwarz. I I have I just I want to ask a question. So was that Excuse me.

So, was that Dr. Anderson's presentation that she just did? I don't know. Yeah. Well, president, you should know. All right. So, that's yours. All right. So, you went over two minutes just to let you know. Uh, we are deliberation. Go ahead. But it was Mr. Schwarz first. Yes. Um, anybody know what the word ludicrous means? Because you've just heard it,

guys. You've just heard it. We just spent 24 minutes debating whether we should subtract. Edgar, my friend and colleague, fellow teacher, represents 1500 teachers. Edgar, is that the number? 145. 1455. CSA represents Miss Lash. Can I ask Miss Lash a question? Miss Lash, how many CSA employees? about 500 more 500 CSA employees, 28 PTAs, and we're gonna stifle those,

but some lunatic from Florida can come here and talk for three minutes. Some other wacko from Chino can come and talk for three minutes. some other loser from San Bernardino can come and talk for three minutes, but we're going to silence the people who represent the parents and the employees of this district. That's the definition of ludicrous.

Any other speakers? Mr. I want to address this proposal directly because the stated rationale efficiency does not match what is actually happening happening. We meet once or twice a month to conduct the public's business. We just received a raise in our stipent and we're told that removing these spotlights of our most important stakeholders, teachers, classified staff, and parents will help shorten meetings. But

even if every one of these groups speaks, which is not typical, we're talking about roughly nine minutes. Nine minutes is not what's keeping us here. What is concerning is the pattern. We have seen this before. We have already limited deliberation. We have restricted agenda setting so that trustees are capped at just two agenda items. And now we're considering incidents. When

you limit what can be brought forward, limit how long it can be discussed and then start removing stakeholder voices, you're not solving a time problem. You are narrowing participation through dictatorial means. This is a breakdown in governance and that matters because this board does not exist for convenience. It exists to do the public's work fully and openly even when it

takes time. If efficiency is truly the goal, then we should be willing to examine the items and practices that actually consume hours of meeting time. But focusing on a few minutes of stakeholder engagement does not solve that problem. It just removes the voices and whether intended or not, it re it raises serious questions about priorities. What are we choosing to protect and what are we

willing to cut? It's about deciding who gets heard. You three do not value our stakeholders. visible. There's definitely a lot more context here than than is being offered. Not every district has spotlights, but I will say I was surprised to see this on the agenda tonight. I will also say that we do value all of our stakeholders and at times

we have seen Mr. Diaz up here five and six times during a meeting. So, at the end of the day, there's always opportunity to be heard. And we could talk a little bit about at times the bully pulpit and what's gone on in the last three and a half years, but in the interest of time, I'm not

going to go there. Here's what I'd like to offer, and it's actually consistency with what I talked about a couple of years ago, and that was a quarterly spotlight. If you look back at the history of this discussion, that's what I advocated for several years ago. Why don't we take it to four times a year? And I'm going to stick by that tonight.

I don't know if my colleagues are open to that, but I think that could be a great way to go. It worked before. Melissa, yes. Thank you. I would encourage the board to carefully consider the value that these spotlights provide before removing them. Hearing directly from certificated staff, classified staff, and parent teacher associations is an important part of understanding the perspectives

of the communities our decisions impact the most directly. These groups are key stakeholders in our district and their voices contribute meaningful insight and connection between the board and the broader school community. I also think it's important to note that the board does make space for student representatives from our high schools to provide updates and perspectives during meetings. If we recognize the value of hearing

from students, I believe the same principle should apply to teacher staff and parent organizations as well. After all, this is a board of education. While I understand the desire to improve meeting efficiency, I do not believe eliminating a few minutes of stakeholder input at the beginning of meetings is the most effective solution. These brief updates provide transparency, engagement,

and community connection that are well worth the time. If meeting length is a concern, I believe there are other procedural or operational ways to improve efficiency without reducing opportunities for constituent voices to be heard. That's all. May I ask one more question of clarification? Okay, Dr. Anderson, you want to speak again? Are you Did you get consensus for a second round?

Oh, yeah. We don't do second round one. We We presented and we we presented and we can do a or sorry, we're on our first round. You've spoken, but we presented. Yeah. You So, Dr. Anderson, this would be my comment, right? Yes, it would be. No, I'm good. We're still locked in at 151. And I do think we can make this more

um these spotlights more efficient than four times a year. I'm willing to go I'm willing to go with Jen four times a year. Um sure. I I I it I mean I was hoping for 27,000 views, but if you guys want four times a year, I'll do that. Can you clarify what that means, the 27,000? Because I wasn't clear. We have that's

about the amount of stu students that we have when we send out our Friday flyers and our emails. That's about the reach we get through our online um Friday spotlights or something. That's been the number that's been thrown out to me. So, it's fine like um you guys. All right. The board can decide. I support what the board

decides. I'll propose a motion um to have them four times a year. Do I have a second? I will second that. Second by Mrs. Wearsma. Len, would you mind calling role Wearsma? Yes. Anderson, don't we get to discuss your amended motion? We get to discuss your amended motion. We just did. No, we didn't. You had You had a

first round. You amended the motion. Let's Let's Let's do this. We get to discuss it. Does the audience want to stay in the room? That's your first objective warning. That gentleman in the back with that little hammer. Brian, just to let you know, that's your second warning. Will you uh Will you please have him removed for objectively disturbing the

Thank you. We're going We're done. We're gonna if the audience can't uh calm down, we're just going to go into recess. All right. We get to decide for clarity sake. Uh we can say we can say that for the motion to continue four times a year. What are you proposing? the next meeting starting the one times four or from now you know three time Mr.

Barham whose time are you on mine thanks you're the clock is not running I don't understand what you're doing it's fine take take a minute off Len it's fine and Mr. Mr. Bar, don't interrupt anymore. Thank you. You don't have Get your meeting back on track. You don't have the floor. Get your meeting on track. I'm going

to put us into recess. We're into recess. Can we have a recess? If you can't If you can't act like a professional, we'll go into recess. Meeting on track. You're not on track. No. Okay, I'm going to call the meeting back to order in one minute. One minute. I'm ready. All right. Are we go? Are we we moving on?

I'll come back and put us in order. Okay, I'm going to call the meeting back to order. Where are we? April 22. We still talking. So to clarify the motion, we can have the spotlights after the 1st of July, the next regular board meeting, and then we can do a cycle four times a year. So, however that works out. Do we have a second?

I will second that. All right. Discussion. You want to discuss? Go ahead. Mr. Schwarz, first two minutes. Go ahead. No, you go. Uh, just go back to what I said before. These are the voices of our employees. 28 of 28,000 students represented by the PTA,500 or so teachers, 500 or so classified staff. They are the heart of our district serving

our students. You want to silence their voices? That's on you. I do not agree with that. Sorry, Mr. Barum. This is retaliatory. This is virtue signaling to the voters that they think they have. Hopefully, they lose some. Um, but I would have respected you more if you had just come out and said, "I vehemently dislike Edgar Das." And

because you didn't and you put up this half-assed rationale, I don't respect your language. Act like a professional. Thank you. If I have to clear the room, I'm going to do it for five minutes recess and then the third time the audience, the entire audience is going to clear out. Go ahead, Mr. Barum. Who was that? You want to stand up and let us know

who you were so I can give you your first warning? Thank you. Thank you. That is your first warning for objectively disturbing the board. Thank you. Thank you. Len, would you please call rollersma? Yes. Anderson, yes. Barham, no. Schwarz, no. Kamroski. Yes. Student vote. No. Motion adopted. Three to two. Okay. We're on action item uh nine, amendment to board bylaw 9151. We

have one public comment. Nathan Barry. Good evening everyone. I want to demonstrate my support for the amendments in this bylaw. I believe that the language in the amendment clearly outlines the ability of a student board member to agendaize items, a power that I believe the student board members should have. Now, I do come from a place of a bit biased um

but ultimately I believe this power would further student education and achievement in our district. The amendment would allow the student board member to be truly representative of their constituents and correctly serve the students. California ed code clarifies that the student board member is a recognized member of the board that has genuine participatory rights. Ed code allows student schoolboard members to make

motions that can be acted upon by the governing board except on matters dealing with employer employee relations. Therefore, I believe that the proposed amendment should be adopted to ensure the rights of the student board member in our district. future student board members would be allowed to agendaize items that they feel relate strongly to the student body. Without

this power clearly outlined, it's uncertain and unclear in regards to the rights of the student board members. I strongly advise the board to pass these amendments as the student board member should be able to be a true representative of the student body. Thank you for your time. Any discussion? I need to present. Go ahead. Thank you. So, I brought this forward because

I believe in student representation strongly. The legislature when defining the role of a student board member talks about their power to deliberate their power to vote symbolically. It omitted any power to agendaize which means to me that we have the flexibility to allow that power. There's nothing that says that we cannot do it. And for me, um, a system that

gives a a student board member no pathway to get items on the agenda is weak governance. We are here for the students. And I even spoke with Dr. VeZ a few weeks ago about, you know, she runs the uh with the with the student uh board members. He runs the superintendent's council which focuses on operational items. But we also talked about the

student board member and maybe a small group of kids taking what goes on in the superintendent's council and transferring that to um policym and um more involvement in governance and we we we shared a lot of uh commonalities there. So bottom line for me is I want this student board member is seated equally with us. They are seated equally.

The legislature points out certain powers, but I want this student board member to be as effective as possible in representing the student body um at large that elected him. Thank you. Any discussion, Dr. Anderson? Yeah, just ED code 35145.5 already says that the student board members have the right to place in an item on the agenda. Um, the superintendent and board president

will continue to decide whether that actually with that item is within the board jurisdiction. So, I don't oppose this because it's already an ed code. It's just additional language, but I do think that we maybe want to hold the student board member to the same standard of the rest of the board, and the only language we would add would be the

two items. Um, that's my only suggestion, but I want Melissa and I want um Nathan to know that you uh ED code supports your right to agendaize items already. Mr. Schwarz or Miss Wherever Mr. Barham, this is the first realm of discussions. I've heard uh people from our audience talk about our student board member as the most productive

member of this board. They're probably right. And I've I've spoken with Melissa myself. I I've spoken with Nathan myself. And I think it's important that we hear not only what they have to say, but if they have something they want on the agenda, that it be put there. Uh sometimes I'll get an email from a student about the restrooms

or the lunch or the shade structures and I will pass it on to the uh to the principal, but there are other issues that they think are important that our that could come through the student board member and get put on the agenda. So, I'm all in favor of giving uh the next student board member, whoever it is, whether it's Nathan

or whoever after him, the power to agendaize items that are not forbidden like employees or dismissals or or f or contracts or things that are close session items, but anything that we discuss in open session, student board members should be able to put those items on the agenda. They're old enough. Some of them are voters, too. So, uh, we need to give them their voice.

Miss Wisma. So, as we welcome our new student board member, I want to share some thoughts on how I think we can best support this role while maintaining the professional boundaries of this deis. First of all, congratulations, Nathan. I actually really appreciated the fact that you mentioned you might have a bias. Um, so honesty is is awesome. And I think we have

to remember that there's a mentorship role here. And for it to be successful, the student needs a single neutral source of guidance. And in my view, that's the superintendent. When the superintendent handles the orientation and the vetting of agenda requests, it ensures the student is learning the actual mechanics of governance, law, budget, and policy rather than being pulled

into the individual political leanings of any one trustee. I think that's important. So to keep the integrity of this office intact, I believe we should agree that no individual trustee should be mentoring or directing the student board member privately. Honestly, in the election process, I had some people asked me where the equity was. There were three student board member wannabes

and one received attention for having that extra mentorship. So I just think we have to be really mindful of that. And there should never be. Ma'am, that's your first subjective warning for disturbing the board. Miss Wor, the bottom line is there should never be an unfair burden on a student to potentially act as a proxy for any adults agenda rather than being

the independent voice for the entire student body they were elected to represent. So I did talk to Dr. Veles about this and moving forward I think we need to commit to a staff first approach. I think she has some great ideas and by letting the superintendent be that primary point of contact for the student, we do ensure the process is fair,

that the mentorship is professional, that meetings do remain focused on district business and I want to hear about what the other students have to say, the academics, the achievements, and I hope that Nathan brings that to the deis and I trust Dr. Valz to be at the helm of it all. We'll take my first round. Um, I second what Dr.

Anderson said. Maximum of two items per meeting. This student already had the power to agenda. So did Miss Melissa Chai. That's already afforded by the ED code. So that's it for my comments. Mr. Bar. Yeah, I don't see that afforded by the ed code, but I'll go along with you. Um, I believe that if the student board member,

and it sounds like we're going to get the votes, I hope the student board member is going to bring issues to us that I don't even think that we're going to be able to conceive of because he is going to be on the campuses. He is going to be talking to the students. Um, so he is going to

be closest to the students which are who we are here for to represent and I look forward to what this this student board member is going to bring us and I think it's going to be some great things that we have never even considered because he's on the campus every day. Um, so with that, I call the

question. If there's no more, Dr. We have to make a motion. I'll make a motion to agendaize this as is with the addition of maximum two items per meeting. Do I have a second? Mr. Schwarz seconded. Len, would you mind calling? You know what, Dr. I think it's in the I think I made I think I made

that in the because it's in accordance with the bylaw, which that bylaw that I cited is two agenda items per meeting. It's already in there. Fine. You can you can make the motion. I'll second it. Yeah. All right. I have one more question, point of clarification. Uh I don't know if Dr. Vez would like to speak to this, but I think the expectation

needs to be that each meeting looks different. I don't think we always have two items. I think it's an honor to figure out what needs to be addressed and bring it forward. Um so I don't know if you would want to contribute just a couple of things to that, but a student board member is honored. it is different from being in our seat and I think

that needs to be recognized but I'd love to know from you how you think you're going to delineate the two. I think one of the most important pieces of the student board member is trying to provide avenues for them to hear student voice across all of our schools and as Mr. Barham and I think Miss Wesma you and I have had the conversation as

well. I'm working right now with Mrs. day is to create some systems and structures that will take place next year so that our incoming student board member has an opportunity to listen to student voices and then his work along with myself as with with Mrs. Deis is about bringing the right items at the right time um in order to and which things

we can tackle as a district and which things we might need a little more time to figure out. So that's the mentorship and guidance that we'll work on providing. But I do think that there needs to be a system and a structure to be able to help um Nate be able to navigate that as he joins this um

board. Thank you, Dr. Velas. Melissa. Yeah. Uh Mr. Nathan Barry pretty much said everything I wanted to say, but also I'm aware that student trustees already have this ability to add agenda items as Dr. Anderson mentioned, but it is important to have it explicitly stated to ensure that our policies align with ed code. I think that this

is a great clarification. I thank Mr. Barham for the suggestion in additional language. Student trustees should have the same opportunities to engage with the agenda as the other trustees and it's good to ensure that all future student board members know exactly what they can do in their role. Of course, this is a new position, so having it written out is incredibly helpful. I kind of

had to come into this role with no guidelines. So, it's good to have it all written out so the person in this position knows exactly what they're allowed to do. Thank you, Melissa. Len, would you mind calling? Can I can I just make one more point of clarity? Excuse me. Melissa, would you mind calling role or sorry, Len, would you mind who who

motioned? It was motioned by It was Mr. Barham and seconded by me. Okay. Wersma, yes. Anderson, yes. Barham, yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamaroski, yes. Student vote, yes. Motion adopted 5-0. Thank you, Len. We have 16 public comments. Give me a second here. 17. Okay. So, we can ask the board. I'm up for 30 minutes total. And we can that's just me and one board member

and then hash out the time per. No. And I said it was three minutes. Three minutes. Okay. There's two board members say three minutes. Um are you wanting to go past the 30 minutes? Absolutely. Let them speak. Let them speak. Let them speak. Mr. Point of Point of I'm going to call Point of Point of Because you want to shut them down.

That's why I'm yelling. Point of order. We're trying to deliberate up here. No, you're not. You're trying to shut them down. We're going to go recess. You got an anger problem. Recess. Recess until the cows come home. Recess. Yeah, this is I'm not dealing with your professionalism. Neither is the board. And keep in mind, we have minor five minute recess. Yeah. Whatever.

All right, I'm going to call us to order. Thank you. And I'm going to hand the mic over to Dr. Veles. Okay, sorry. We're getting the camera ready. Thanks, Len. This is our second um our second recess we've had tonight. And I think at this time I just want to respectfully remind everyone in the room that the work before

us tonight's about kids. That's why we're all here. This is about our students and ensuring we continue to serve them well. We serve them with professionalism. We serve them with dignity. I understand and I can tell there's a lot of strong feelings and a lot of differing perspectives from every single person in this room right now. But I

ask that we all move forward with professionalism, with civility, and respect for one another so that we can continue the work of work work of this district in a productive manner. There is a lot of items on this agenda tonight that need to be approved for the district business to move forward. So I just ask for everybody in this room

their cooperation with that tonight. Thank you, Dr. VeZ. Um, at 3 minutes a piece, it's 51 minutes total. At 2 minutes a piece, it's 34 minutes total. Then at one minute it's 17 minutes total board consensus. We have two with three people. We we we know that I'd like to advocate for 2 minutes for 17 people. That's 34 minutes. Just four

minutes past the half hour mark and everybody's heard. We have 19 now. Okay. That puts us just past the 30. Okay. And anyone that's attended a board meeting knows what I'm going to say. The same thing I say every meeting. Two minutes. I'll say two minutes. We have consensus. We have 19 speakers. Len, first up is Jack Callahan.

All right. So, this is off to a rough start, huh? All right. So, I'm sorry I wasn't at the last board meeting. Um, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Jack Callahan and I am a junior at Chapperel. Um, I'm sure you guys are probably scared by now that I'm going to dig into you guys,

rip into y'all. Um, today I'm actually not going to speak on that for the most part. I'd actually like to thank our district staff instead. Um, it's coming towards the end of the year right now and I feel like it's the appropriate time where we actually address the work that they've put into this district. Uh, I've personally gotten to

work with Dr. Dr. Vez, Dr. McTazznney, Mrs. Deis, uh, Mrs. Lash, and he's not on deis, but Mr. Capiggro as well. They all do a phenomenal job at running this district. And if we're being honest, they cover for y'all quite a lot. Whether it be your arguing, uh, calling students mail strippers or Brown Act violations, there's a lot that happens on this board

that the district office has to cover for, and I think that this board can attest to that. Uh so with that being said, I would like the board and the audience as well to join me in thanking the district office and the district staff for all that they do. Thank you for your time and thank you to the district staff.

Next up is Emil Barham followed by Steve Schwarz. I'm sorry that I have to come up here um and speak as a citizen because the board majority continually censors things that I put on the agenda. Um, I wanted to have a discussion um with regard to what legislative immunity is with regard to a board member and what qualified

immunity is with regard to a board member because I've had a lot of questions recently with regard to those with regard to things that have happened in the last couple of months um and with regard to some of the things that have happened with the water polo boys. So, what is legislative immunity? It's a doctrine that protects elected officials from being sued or held

liable for actions in their legislative capacity. So, I've had questions like if if a board member is lying up on the deis and in their deliberations and in their voting, is that protected speech on the deis? And the answer is yes. If a board member is slandering somebody in their in the deliberative process, in the legislative process,

is that speech protected? And the answer is yes. However, with and it's very hard to defeat legislative immunity if somebody sues a schoolboard member because legislative immunity is absolute. But then there is qualified immunity. Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields government officials from personal liability for damages under civil rights laws unless they violate a person's clearly established constitution

constitutional or statutory rights. So if in the process of their official capacity a your time's up. Thank you Mr. Schwarz. I want to start by apologizing to the audience for my anger. However, if you sat on this board, you're not supposed to address the audience. Please start the time. Thank you. I was apologizing to the audience for my anger, but

if they sat on this board and had to endure what I've endured for the past two years, they would be angry, too. So I am talking about the item I put on the agenda which of course was removed from the agenda. Whenever Emil or I put an item on the agenda it's removed. This is about the um governance breakdown in our board.

As you'll notice a lot of times Emil will try to speak I'll try to speak the board president will silence us but if mi Dr. Anderson wants to speak or Mrs. wearsman wants to speak, they're recognized. If we're speaking and they interrupt us, he doesn't stop them. So, this is about not being equitable. And what I mean by equitable,

we are all elected to represent an area of this district. I'm the trustee for area five. And if I cannot represent the people and the students of my district equally because things that I put on the agenda are taken off or my speech is limited, it limits the ability of the people in my district to be treated fairly. So for example,

this board has passed policies to limit speech. We can only put two items on the agenda. We can only speak for two minutes. You sometimes you can amend a motion and then sometimes you can't. Depends on what Dr. Kamaskki feels like ruling. They've given him the ability to eliminate Robert's rules at his own discretion when he feels like it.

This is not equality. It is not allowing all of us to represent the people of our area. and I appeal to my constituents to speak up for equality. Thank you, Charles. Charles, is it Jose? Jose, sorry if I pronounced that wrong. Followed by Drew Davis. Good evening, board members, superintendent, staff, and community members. My name is Charles Hoselle,

and I'm the father of Theodore and Marta. I understand there's a lot of passionate issues before the board tonight. However, I'm here simply as a father focused on our child's education and future. For the past four years, my family has been involved in an ongoing family law matter regarding custody and educational decisions for our children. Currently, our son participates in a homeschool-based program

through Cababrio Point Academy. During that time, I have consistently advocated for him to be to receive a traditional school setting because I believed I believe he would benefit from the structure, peer inter interaction, consistency, and support that a classroom environment can provide. I want to be respectful because his mother and I both love him very much, and this is

not about attacking anyone or creating conflict. My concern is simply that he is not now eligible for first grade next year. And these are extremely important devel developmental years. Earlier this year, the family court indicated that additional educational determinations may ultimately require a 7:30 evaluation. Unfortunately, these evaluations are extremely expensive and can take many months before recommendations are finalized.

My concern is simple that important developmental and educational years continue passing while adults navigate the legal system and process. As his father, I am respectfully asking whether the district may be willing to help provide an impartial educational assessment or guidance regarding where he currently stands academically and developmentally. He is a wonderful child and as his father I'm simply wanting to make sure

decisions regarding his future are based on objective educational input and what is truly in his best interest. Thank you for your time. Drew Davis followed by Sharon Sardina. Mr. Marta I will have Mr. Mr. Marta is Mart. I will I will have um I will have Dr. Dr. McTazznney, who oversees special education, reached out to you. Thank you very much,

Superintendent. My prayers are with all of you. As someone that's ran twice for public office, all of you, thank you for your time. Thank you. Good evening, board. Thank you for letting me come forward to share this evening. I just want to speak about safety. That's all I want to do. I want to talk about safety for our

students. And sometimes students make mistakes. Sometimes they put out pictures that they wish that they didn't put out. Sometimes we need to have adults work with those teenagers to know, hey, you made a mistake. But what the job of an adult is not to do is to shame them for that and to magnify that. And that is a reality that exists in this moment.

I want you to know there's no reason that I should know about the pictures. There's no reason. But I do. There's other people now throughout the country because of the news that know about this situation because it was taken away from the kids. It was used as a weaponized imagery. And the individuals that will now have to pay for that

are the kids. Sure, they may have had to pay for it anyway. They made a mistake. They really did. But within that, within that becomes a reality to not magnify it. Don't do something that makes them look worse. Teach, care, watch out for them. But don't magnify them and use them as a weapon to attack other people and then in

turn also attack them because of what happened. The reality of this evening and superintendent, thank you. You shared this is about caring for the kids and that's what I want to share within this. Now I've I've seen some heads nodding. I I don't know the complete information. I don't and I have to admit that I don't. But what I

do know is there was a picture. It was taken away. It was used by another person without anyone's consent. And because of that, kids are harmed in a way that they should have never been. Thank you so much for letting me share. Sharon, followed by Karen. That rhymed. Okay, I promised I wouldn't cry. Good evening board members and Dr. VeZ. My name is Sharon Sardina.

I came here tonight prepared with notes and statements, but honestly, I want to speak as a mother, a mother of the boys in that picture. For the last two weeks, I have watched my son carry the weight of comments made by adults, Jen and Dr. Kroski, who should have known better. comments that publicly compared him and his teammates minors to only fans, performers, and

Chip andales. These are kids. Kids who work hard. Kids who represent their school with pride. Kids who are scholar athletes. Kids kids who trusted the adults such as board members around them to protect and support them. But instead, they become the they became the headline on your social media post. What hurts the most is not just the comments themselves, but the complete lack

of compassion afterward. No meaningful apology. Two weeks. No apology yet. No acknowledgement of the damage caused, just silence while our families were left to pick up the pieces. It's been two weeks and we haven't heard an apology. As a mother, I cannot explain the heartbreak of watching your child feel embarrassed, humiliated, and exposed because adults in positions of

leadership chose to make public comments at their expense. My son should be worried about grades, friendships, and his future, not whether humility and public comment made by adults will follow him online, affect opportunities, or become something attached to his names years to come. In today's world, things online do not disappear. Colleges see them. Employers see them. People

share screenshots forever. And I have them. And while some may want to dismiss this, I can assure our family will not dismiss this. We will take the appropriate action that needs to be taken. It has affected real children, real families, real trust. What message are we sending our students when the very adults expected to model professionalism, ethics, and digital citizenship instead publicly

shame them? My son deserved protection. His teammates deserved respect. and our families deserved better from the people entrusted to lead in this community. This is not political for me. This is not this is personal because when you hurt my child, you hurt my family. You are a mother, Jen. You are a father, Dr. K. What would you do if this happened to your

child, Jen, I think you just recently said you are Thank you, Mrs. Sardinia. The mics the mic's off. Mrs. Sardinia, the time's expired. Thank you. Point point of order. Karen Dr. Dr. Kamaraskki could you ask Mr. Barham not to address me during public comments like he's doing right now. Tell him to please stop. We can do this. Please stop. Let's just let the other

speakers. Just before I start, I think it's appalling that you silenced a crying mother. The mic was off. Thank you. It's two minutes for each speaker. Just following protocol. Nobody was silenced. Point of order on that. If the audience want me wants me to put us into five minute rec uh recession the next time I do it. Everybody's cleared.

Are you done? Thank you. You You may continue. My name is Karen Pausnansky. I'm a parent, a law enforcement family, a public school teacher, and a community member in trustee area 3. I love this community and I care deeply about the future of our schools. I'm speaking tonight about leadership, professionalism, and respect for students, teachers, and families in this district. At

the last board meeting, my trustee stated that she respects teachers. But respect is not something we simply say from the deis. It's a respect is a series of decisions, a set of actions. It's demonstrated through our judgment and the example we choose to set for this community. In the past three and a half years, I have not seen decisions

by my trustee that show respect. Two weeks ago, this community watched my trustee publicly compare students to an only fans crew directly connecting children to a pornographic platform. These students in our schools were minors. As a parent and an educator, I found that deeply disappointing and profoundly inappropriate. Regardless of political beliefs, trustees should never sexualize students, humiliate students,

or use children as political talking points. Our students deserve dignity and they deserve adults in leadership positions who always exercise professionalism and judgment. As a teacher, I work with students every single day and I know how deeply words from adults can impact them. I also know that trust is damaged when leadership models behavior that would never be acceptable

from students or staff inside our classrooms. Our community is watching. The culture created at the top of this district matters. Leadership is not measured by slogans or statements made from the deis. Leadership is measured by conduct and accountability and by whether the people entrusted to lead our schools are actually strengthening the community they they were elected to serve.

Your role, your role as trustee is to serve students with dignity, professionalism, and sound judgment. Anything less fails this community. Thank you, Dave Barry. Good evening. I am here to speak in support of the families of the Tmacula Valley High water polo team who were targeted by Dr. Dr. Kroski and Miss Wema two weeks ago comparing their students

to strippers and to a pornographic website. What makes this incident especially disturbing for me is that I was in the district office filing a complaint about the targeting and bullying my family endured at the hands of these two trustees the very day before the water polo incident occurred. I am also still waiting on an apology. But at this point, apologies don't

matter because this is a pattern of behavior. Publicly shaming and sexualizing students, the very students you are supposed to protect. And it is just that it's not just the students being harmed. Parents are being ignored while Kimroski and Wesma rush to shame and exploit children online before even speaking to families or understanding the facts. Parents have cons

constitutional rights concerning the care, upbringing, and protection of their children. And these two trustees continue to trample over these rights in pursuit of political outrage and public spectacle. What is also sickening is that the original video they were posting these comments on, it's still up. Jen is still on the post as a collaborator. Joe's disgusting comments, they they're still there. They could have asked

for that video to be deleted and they haven't. So, where's the accountability? If publicly shaming students is not disqualifying behavior for a schoolboard trustee, then what is? If your first reaction to what you see as a student issue is to sexualize and shame students online rather than go through proper district channels, which you could have, then you've completely

lost sight of your responsibility as a school board trustee. Joe and Jen, you have repeatedly shown awful judgment and cannot be trusted to protect students. The two of you should resign. Shame on you. Sarah Bell, followed by Cindy Hurley. Hello again, board members. Um, I was highly disappointed by the the flip-flopping of the agenda um and the items removed as it's put out to the

community advance so we know what we can talk about. Um, I wanted to talk about legislative immunity and qualified immunity because I think these terms can easily be misunderstood uh when they're presented without context and a discussion tonight would have been helpful and provided clarification. The concept of immunity for elected officials has limitations, exceptions, and specific applications. As said earlier,

legislative immunity and qualified immunity are not the same thing, but neither should be interpreted as a blanket protection for your own accountability. These terms are not simple declarations that public officials can say or do anything without consequence. Courts routinely examine whether conduct was truly legislative in nature, whether actions were directed at a specific individual or a marginalized group. Also,

they consider if constitution or civil rights were violated. If a reasonable person can conclude that their action would harm a student, courts pay attention. I would encourage board members not to rely solely on legal advice centered on minimizing liability exposure. Exercise your own judgment as a parent and community member. Carefully consider the impact your actions may actually have on students,

families, staff, and public trust. As elected officials overseeing a public school district, you serve not only as policy makers, but as examples to the very students. Learn how to handle your disagreements, conflict, criticize, criticism, and positions, and use your positions of authority to set a positive example for students. Students, no. Thank you, Cindy Hurley. Okay, I'm out of

context. I have a grade book and an apple. Jen, I'm a teacher. Okay, those boys did not make a mistake. Excuse me. Those boys were athletes clock. Okay, thank you. I mean, yeah, those boys were athletes and CIF issued, you know, he and Miss Wema saw it and they called it a strip tease. This alone is athletes as enforcing

the dress code. He is throwing children under the bus to protect himself. Mrs. Wearsma said she had is acceptable for a school board member. what made parents and colleagues about values and protecting children. And when they are the ones who fail these children publicly on social media in comments that had to be deleted, their instinct was not to reflect. It was to spin, to deflect,

and to let the students absorb the fallout of their own recklessness. Enough. Dr. Karaskki and Mrs. Wisma, you have made clear that you are not here for our students, our parents, or our teachers. The only honorable and moral course of action left for either of you is to resign. Up next is Danny Molina, followed by followed by Lindsay.

So, let's clarify some things. I have as I have some concerns about the student athlete photo situation. First of all, I do not support any sort of disciplinary action on the young student athletes in the photo. I think they were purposely being silly and they knew they were pushing the limits of appropriate conduct which is why two of them did not pull their pants down to

their ankles. It's my understanding that this happened while they were supporting the TVUSD baseball team. So TVUSD has a female student on the baseball team. Was she there when that happened? Cuz if so, I would have an issue with that. I would also have an issue I would also have an issue if I was there with my children and

this conduct occurred in my vicinity. There were several points of failures that occurred through this whole situation. adults allowed young boys to drop their pants to their ankles during a baseball game for a photo opportunity. I can't even believe anybody would pretend like this is appropriate ever. Then an adult in our community decided to share that photo on social media uh for

a sports page online for public consumption. This is a failure of the adults present. I heard that the parents of those boys were upset because Jen shared their photo. So I ask parents, when Jeff PAC delivered this story to the New York Post, making it a full national story for his own agenda, do you share that same outrage with

him? Lastly, but not least, do you notice how the New York Post did not share the original photo of the boys? Notice how they ensured to cover the boy's waist area for their story. Even the New York Post found the original photo too explicit to put out publicly. But a parent in our district didn't see it like that. And suddenly we have

all this energy for Jen and Joseph for poking fun at how ridiculous it is. So people will come up here, continue with their selective frustration over this. However, I expect those on the day to provide some clarity and stick to the facts. This situation violated our current AR almost to a te. I would like you to disclose that with

the community. The blatant violation resulted in something, right? Was that why the district was it the district's direction to pull the original post down? And I think it's important for everyone watching at home to know the adult truly responsible for putting this photo up. Thank you. Up followed by Lindsay followed by Melanie. Please keep it down in the audience. Be

respectful. Thank you. Good evening. Today I observed something which was pretty um sad for me. I had u uh there was a female presenter here for uh who was wearing shorts who was constantly adjusting their shorts because I read some of the comments your supporters put on that post discussing female body parts and so on and that behavior was started by you two. There

is no getting around that. You had a problem. The photo was inappropriate. You thought it was inappropriate. There was a very simple phone call to Dr. Vaz would have sorted that out. There was absolutely I did not know what Chip and was. I have been enlightened by Dr. Kamroski on what it is. I did not know what necrophilia is. His

public comments in another show enlightened me on that. It is a it is a pattern. Sometimes it is it was deal with the de devil algebra problem blown out of proportion started by you Dr. Kamroski from a book that you approved. Then it was the pith and the pendulum that everybody's trying to like get the devil into the books. Now there's

Satan in speedos. I have absolutely no idea what how your brain works. Those kids are my nephew's age. Teenage boys are stupid. I don't know if you forgot like when you know when you were growing up. How many silly Thank god there were no phones. If there were phones, I'm sure we'd have plenty of material right now. It's on YouTube.

And you're just smiling over there, Jen. Like only fans. Really? Students of your school. It doesn't matter what they were doing. Wow. Seriously, you're sitting there and smiling. I am absolutely disappointed and disgusted with you. Sorry. Lindsay, Melanie, Diane, Lindsay, followed by Melanie, followed by Diane. Good evening. The disagreement is not about whether our schools need improvements. We saw

a presentation, we need over a million dollars in improvements. The disagreement is about ballot language, but it makes absolutely no sense to create a divisive 3-2 fight over wording when this measure ultimately needs at least four of you just to make it on the ballot in the first place because this vote is not about approving a bond. It's not about raising taxes. It's about

whether you are willing to let the voters decide. That's it. So, when I hear concerns about the language, it honestly feels more like a stall tactic than a real obstacle. Option number one is standard legally compliant bond language with independent audits, oversight, and protections preventing those funds from going towards salaries or operating expenses. Meanwhile, the needs are real. We have aging portables,

failing HVAC systems, outdated classrooms, roofing, plumbing, electrical upgrades, ADA compliances, safety improvements, and even traffic issues. These are not talking points. These are real conditions affecting our students and staff every single day. And let's just talk about the cost. It was broken down. So for many of you homeowners out here in the audience, we're talking about roughly $8.33 cents

for the median average a month on your assessed home value. So if we just ignore infrastructure, that doesn't save us money. It just guarantees us higher costs later. And if trustees truly value community input, then you should all be listening to your advisory committee, the very group you all created to help guide this process, which overwhelmingly supported

option one that was proposed that night. This decision should not belong to five people in a day. It belongs to the community. Put it on the ballot and let the voters decide. Thank you. Melanie, followed by Diane, followed by Edgar. Hey there. I'm not here for what other people are here for and I'm so sorry for that situation. I don't live in town. I didn't

even know. I'm a teacher at TMS and I'm here to offer a veteran teachers perspective on the compensation package on the table right now. Um, I think I shouldn't have to remind anyone here that by all the quality measures of education in California, our district's at the top, but our compensation package currently has remained at the bottom for a

little while. Um, the success of our school district by those measures increases property values, but what's happening is young teachers, new teachers can't afford to live here. That's a problem. And I want to tell any new teachers in here or vet teachers who talk to new teachers, this whole thing is not normal. Like this is not normal. The students in this

room, this is not normal. 30 years of teaching, I was at one district that was not normal in this way. And that's because the board hired a con man who swindled the district out of all its money. like that deserve this level of ludicrous. Anyway, um what's not normal is like the hostility toward everyone who works here. Not normal. Um not normal

discussions of legislative immunity is not normal. Um, and this pattern now of offering like a bonus instead of a step increase or trying to combine a step increase with a bonus. That's not normal. That's sending the message that teachers are an afterthought. So, well, staff are an afterthought. I as a target audience of that will make that will be my salary the

rest of my life when I retire this year. But younger teachers, talk to the vet teachers. Thank you. Diane Cox, followed by Edgar Diaz, followed by Allison. Good evening. Tonight, I simply just want to acknowledge and congratulate TVUSD's first student trustee, Melissa Chai. Being the first is never easy. The first person through the door often has to carry

the weight of expectations while also creating a blueprint for those who follow. It takes courage, preparation, maturity, and heart. Melissa was selected to represent nearly 27,000 students across this district. And that's not a small uh responsibility. She earned that opportunity through academic excellence, leadership, recommendations from others who believe in her character, and a willingness to step forward and serve. For years, we adults have

made decisions about students without them. Having a student voice directly at the table reminds us that students should be part of the conversation that matters. Whether every opinion is agreed with or not, the willingness to listen to young people is a sign of healthy educational community. SKU schools are not just buildings for students to receive instruction. They are

training grounds for citizenship, leadership, and civic engagement. And to the adult board members, I challenge you to recognize student voices not as decoration, but as value. Because in a time when public discourse too often rewards interruptions, division, and performance over professionalism, it is both refreshing and telling that one of the clearest examples of composure, preparation, and respectful leadership has come from a

student. You know, the anxiety I feel just sitting in the audience reminds me of why I retired early. You are losing some amazing educators because they do not feel supported, seen, or heard by this board. I hope Thank you, Edgar. Followed by Allison. Edgar, followed by Allison. Good evening. I don't know how many times I've been up here, but I know you guys have a count

already. Uh, how many times you don't want me to be up here. Uh, one, I I did miss the reorder of the agenda, so I didn't have a chance to speak on behalf of the people who are being let go based on the reduction in force that you put in force today. That that group is a vital component of

the SEAL team that supports students at schools and there was no mention of what is going to be lost at sites or the positions that and the due hardship that's going to be placed on employees. Um, I'm also up here to talk to recognize Melissa as well. She's been able to come out to many of our TVA position events to be able

to support students, bring a voice to students, and also bring that action here to the board. And being able for her to highlight the efforts that students are having at the high school level to bring culture, to be able to bring a voice to their experience has been awesome to experience and I'm glad I was able to witness that. Uh also just from

the examples that I have here at the board, I I want to highlight the the the culture that happens here is really pushing out into our sites. We have sites that have big problems with morale, problems with interacting with administrators because I believe that the energy that comes from fear is really going to certain sites and administrators who

are using that energy to bully people, intimidate teachers to try to make things happen because they want it to happen. I believe it is true. I believe that it's open and unfortunately you guys don't get to listen to any of that because you don't want to have conversations. that culture sites is what makes students successful and what makes teachers proud of the work that

they do. And anytime that anything allows that to happen is a problem here with this district. I guess that's my time so I'll be done for now. Alison. Allison. So, I feel like I'm repeating a lot, but as a former water polo player and swim player, what I saw was so freaking gross. So, The students made a post saying,

"Our fans are better than yours." I want to know why, Jennifer, a sitting school board member, why your mind immediately went to only fans, our fans, only fans. So, you know about it. Wonder if you know the music. Why was that an association you chose to publicly make about minors? That comparison did not come from the students. It

came from an adult who's an elected official. And Joseph, why are teenage boys being compared to strippers? Doesn't make any sense. These are students at school events, not adult entertainers. The sexualized language in this conversation did not originate from students. It originated from the adults who claim they are here to protect kids. And that has been what you guys have

always claimed the whole time on this board. Public officials do not get to hide behind personal pages. When publicly discussing district students and influencing community behavior, your title follows you and your words matter. So, Jen, I'm really curious. Is your page, is it private or is it public? I mean, private or is it a like a official TVUSD page? Because if it's private,

that's kind of close to child exploitation. But if it's TVUSD, then just talk about the school board. Stop posting about our kids because you did it to my child and you didn't remove her picture. This district deserves leaders focused on academics, student achievement, safety, and professionalism. Not adults creating sexually charged commentary about students online for outrage and attention.

And I got two seconds. Blame your boys. Not All right. Now, we're on from uh on to information and reports. And I'd like to welcome up Mr. Evans, and he's going to be speaking on education. Excuse me. We'll bring you up, but I just want to read this out. Thank you. I have to. Thank you. Okay. What's your name? Miss McDow

in the back. Can you can you clarify what her public comment is? She'll help you with that real quick. And while that's happening, so we're on information reports, one educational technology and instruction update presentation. Mr. Evans will be presenting. If we in fact have a public comment, we'll hear it. Do we have one comment or two comments? Okay,

we have one comment, please. We have one comment, Mr. Evans. Yeah, sorry. this man. I apologize for the confusion. I've uh it's been a while and I'm out of practice of speaking um to you all. Um just to clarify, I'm Lisa Man. I'm a 13-year um district no Tmacula uh uh citizen and 12year district parent. And it's amazing that after years of

calling others groomers and attacking people publicly, we don't even have to slander you, you exposed your own warped thinking all by yourselves. What kind of adult immediately equates teenage boys with pornography? Excuse me, ma'am. You have to stay on track to the educational technology and instruction update. I need my time. Okay, got it. Reset time. I was not informed

that this was a public. I thought it was on this actual fine. We'll reset your time. We'll reset it. It's fine. Dr. Kamroski, I'm talking about you. We'll reset it. Yeah. And water polo. And I'm talking about Miss Wearsma and water polo. So, I'll go back just to what kind of adult immediately equates teenage boys with pornography

and says it so casually to thousands of people? Most normal adults would never even think that, let alone post it publicly from a somewhat schoolboard account. It's still not clear what's going on with those accounts, but it's the equivalent of making bomb jokes in an airport. Decent people simply know better. What's equally disturbing is how quickly you rush to shame,

sexualize, and publicly ridicule these boys instead of approaching the situation with p professionalism, discretion, and concern. Even if you genuinely misunderstood the photo, why was your first instinct to mock and body shame student athletes rather than quietly verify the facts first? That's not an innocent mistake. It reflects priorities that are completely backwards. As a water polo parent from another high school,

my son was thankfully not directly involved, but he was deeply offended by what you said about these athletes. Water polo players work incredibly hard. Anyone who's seen a water polo workout knows how physically demanding it is. These are dedicated student athletes who deserve respect, not public humiliation from elected adults. And now we're hearing about dress code changes.

This is manufactured outrage. Once again, our dress code all I've looked it up because I've had reason in my in my life to look up the dress code. It prohibits hate speech, alcohol logos, and inappropriate clothing. Additionally, if you even look at teenagers lately, the fashion is oversized for boys and girls. Grossly oversized. They're not showing anything. This is scand this scandal

mongering has truly scraped the bottom of the barrel. So, I'll just quote the McCarthy trials at end. At long last, have you no sense of decency? Okay. And Len, for the record, we have no comments on this information. Okay. Mr. Evans, feel free. And to the audience online, Mr. Evans is going to report on this item. Give us a presentation.

All right. Thank you very much. Um, thank you Dr. Valz uh board and cabinet for having me up here. I get to talk about a super um exciting topic for me and I know many people in this room um educational technology and where it's moved along over the last uh year or two. It's really gone um hypers speed in what we're talking about. So,

as we start, we'll navigate the next slide. We're going to talk about a few different topics, but we're going to kind of say what we know and what has been talked about in terms of educational technology. We're also going to talk about our focus on instruction and then how it impacts different um our different constituents within the district. So, next slide. Uh, one of the

things we really wanted to hit on and I think that's really important is when we talk about educational technology, it's essential that educational technology used in a structured manner. So structured use of technology um is something that um has to be intentional in the way that we utilize it in the classroom. The other piece I'm going to mention is that we've

talked about and hear things about screen time. Understanding that when you're using technology in the classroom, it's not as simple as a screen or not because of the way that it's utilized um in our district today. Um, another piece is that, um, we've been having PD trainings on some of our educational technology pieces and had tremendous feedback from our teachers that have gone through

our trainings and we're excited about that. As well as I wanted to um, acknowledge that our curriculum uh, that we're adopting often has major uh, edtech pieces that are come along with it. So when we adopt a new uh, textbook, you're going to have uh, different pieces of technology that come along of artificial intelligence. And so we're

utilizing that. I want to make sure that we're doing a really good job with our students to identify the risks and also the benefits and when to use it appropriately because going back to what I said earlier, the structured and intentional usage is really where it's essential and how we're going to have the best impact in classrooms.

All right. So, with our focus on instruction, um we want to make sure that people understand that it is essential within our team and our uh instructional coaches that we keep the focus on instruction. The focus really should not be on the tool or whatever technology is being utilized. It really has to be founded in solid instruction. So

we're moving through and talking about what that looks like. We want to make sure that that's never lost. We don't train on the tool. We train on the instructional practice and then we utilize whatever educational tool to really drive the purpose of what we want to get. Um, in terms of instruction also wanted to identify that going back to our instructional or structured

intentional integration of use and that technology in a passive form or one that's not controlled by us can be a problem. So we want to make sure that we keep uh technology structured and intentional. All right. And now our student slide. Couple things I wanted to mention was that we have real time monitoring. We utilize Apple Classroom

and GoG Guardian. And this is a way to keep um our students safe and make sure that they are f following the appropriate um instructions by the the teachers as well as we want to make sure and limit access and keep them engaged in the apps and things that are meant to be during that lesson so we don't have um a problem with engagement with

that and also we want to maximize impact that we can do in terms of instruction. Uh another piece I had is that we were talking about is a little bit about magic school. We mentioned this at the beginning of the year and we talked about um what Magic School looks like. One of the pieces I wanted to mention was that we have the ability to

open and close rooms and have full control within the AI usage. Now, Magic School and Snorkel are the only studentf facing AI pieces that we have and we have a a high level of control in terms of what we set that up as. So, that's really important to us. Other tools like um might think of chat, GBT, Grock, all of those things are

currently blocked in our current settings. So I want to make sure that that's um well understood. Um also knowing that just that we have um ways to control AI. So if we have a teacher programs an AI tool, it also allows them to limit the the answers that they give to a student. So if we say, hey, we don't want the answer given, we just want

a page number or we want a topic that's talked about or in reference to the rubric that the teacher uploaded. We don't have to. We actually have control of what input AI gives. So it can be limited by the teacher. All right. And then moving into staff. Um the key with staff is that what things like AI and edtech do for our staff and

our amazing teachers is it provides efficiency, allows for uh increased uh differentiation between our students and opportunity. So we really want to make sure that the right tools are available for our teachers to have the greatest impact with their students because once again it goes back to the instructional piece, not the technology, not the tool. We want the best for our teachers. Give

them the right tools. um to be as effective as they can in the classroom. All right. And this last slide I wanted to reference back to our parents and going through um what we talked about when we first adopted Magic School. And that was the key that we had with board direction that we had those slides at the beginning of the

school year and all our back to school nights that described how Magic School would be utilized in our classrooms. And with that, um I think that it was a great way to inform our community what was happening with our parents. Um, another thing that we're really excited about launching is something that we're going to coin the the uh the phrase,

you know, PEK, which is our parent technology engagement council. And one of the reasons why we want to do this is that we have parents that hear the term like AI and they're not really sure what that looks like in our classroom. So, we're really excited about having the opportunity to uh partner with our parents and show them exactly what that

looks like. I know many board members have had the opportunity to come and observe in the classroom and what that looks like, but we want to really show our parents um just exactly the tools we're using, the controls that we have in place and what that looks like in the classroom. So, we feel like this is an opportunity really to dive in that

with parents. Um and then with that, we've had uh conversations of how do we keep that engagement going? I know we have a a family engagement conference we started this last year which was exciting and we are looking for more opportunities to engage our families and I know that we been talked about before in terms of um what that might

look like in terms of a survey or reaching out to our parents and so if we decide to do something like a survey um my recommendation is that it comes along with an explanation we can't just ask hey parents what do you feel about AI that is a loaded question so ultimately we like to say these are the terms this is how we're utilizing it

describe desribe how it's used in the classroom. Now, give me your input. So, if we're going to get input, I would just encourage that we come along with information because just getting input or a survey without the information, I think that would be um wouldn't get the answers that we'd want, wouldn't provide the feedback that we want. But

ultimately, just want to thank you. That's my last slide, but we're just really excited about all the things that are happening in edtech and I'm excited to answer any questions you might have. And so, I just uh thank you for the opportunity. I'll let you guys uh ask questions. I'll Yeah, me. I mean, I can go first since I'm on this,

but you guys can go. I'll go after you. Okay. All right. So, first of all, Jimmy, I want to say because I listened to you at the beginning of the year in terms of how you were going to roll out Magic School AI and you know, I wanted to talk to you at the end of the year to see through my

oversight responsibilities how things were going. So, I think you have done a great job. I think your department has done a great job. I think ed services has done a great job because you have said what you have done exactly what you said you would do. There are guard rails in place in terms of AI. AI is used for purely instructional

purposes. Um and I've seen it in action in my own site visits which is part of my oversight as well. So I have absolutely no hesitation here that you all are doing exactly what you said you would do which gives me a lot of comfort and um I you know you put forth you did back to school night with

the parents the parents don't seem to have any issues with what you have um brought forward to our kids in the classroom in terms of AI um the students are learning the teachers are excited I mean they are really excited. So I think that you know this is a lesson in trusting our staff, in trusting our teachers and you know moving

forward. Um the only thing that I would like to uh I I saw the survey and I'm not quite sure why we're doing the survey but I'm okay with it. But I would like to have something added to it. I think we need to have something that says, do you use artificial intelligence? Because I think that, you

know, your survey is a good survey, but I think that we need to delineate who's using it and who's not because if somebody's not using it and they're answering it, it's like where are they getting the information? Where are they getting it if they're not using it? So, but other than that, appreciate it. Great job. Absolutely. Thank you. Dr. Villa

is gonna weigh in and then I'll then I'll go in. I'll I'll make my comment after hers. Well, I just wanted to kind of turn it to Mrs. Deis real quick if you wanna if you wanted to add anything to that because I do know that you were working on the survey piece as well. So, if you want

to add any comments about that. Um, yes, I can comment briefly and and thank you Mr. Evans for the presentation and for the intentionality that's gone behind so much of the work that's been put in this year um with our education technology, our platforms, etc. So, we did talk a little bit about a survey at the beginning of the year. I want to

also uh say appreciation to Dr. Kamaroski um for allowing us the time to have those conversations because there's a difference of the beginning of the year versus the end of the year after things have been applied and utilized. Um and so, thank you for your collaboration on that too, Dr. Kroski. Um but we look forward to what's ahead.

Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Jimmy. And just want to give a shout out to Mrs. Deas for inviting me on to this um this walk which it was it was an honor. Um I was with Miss Deis, Mr. Evans, we went to uh Red Hawk Elementary where um Ms. Taylor London, Shandra, Rebecca, they brought me into the fold and I got to see a

deep dive because again I was the skeptic with AI. I am a professor. I see what's happening at the college level and the whole chatbt thing. We we talked about all this, but I got to see Mrs. Go uh Guzman's fourth grade. We will write software, snorkel, Apple classroom, which is really important because it has tremendous oversight

with a teacher to have the ability to see what each and every student's doing real time on their computers. That blew me away. Um there is no use of chatt um anything like that. It's highly um structured u to have the maximum impact, you know, for learning. And I'm an educator and I see this real time. It's blowing me away in group work.

And the amount of free time that a teacher has to collaborate one-on-one with people that need a little bit more help while other students are participating in group work using Snorkel Apple classroom. I got to see um then I went to Great Oak High School with Dr. Amber Lane. It was really exciting. Uh Julie and Mary, they were really um

helpful. Got to see Mr. Sean Henderson's freshman English 10th grade. Uh Ms. Patruchi Patrrui, I don't know if I'm pronouncing English 9th grade uh the canva English language learners the Chinese example blew me away where there's like I think 17 to 19 people learning language in our district students and one student was learning uh having it in Chinese and then in English at the level that

he could learn it was really mind-blowing what what this software is uh being used for Mr. Horton English Yale cluster class Mr. Scott Foster, AP World History, all these classes. Scott, shout out to you for inviting me right back to your classroom for a whole period on the taboo game. Ladies and gentlemen, it was completely insane watching all these students prep, but

um like I said, I was once skeptical. Um I am no longer and I am participating in helping Mr. Evans uh Miss Deis with the survey. It's pretty cool. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Horseman. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Evans. We appreciate the presentation. I also looked through the information and liked the fact that it's active learning versus being passive. I am going to

speak to the flip side a little bit and I know Dr. Vez and I have have had some great conversations. I'm happy that we've got parameters with AI and how Magic School is being utilized. As you know, we had wanted a survey, but now we'll be pursuing that. So, I'm glad to see it. I also took a really close look at the LA USD recent

resolution in looking at the littles, right? So, kindergarten and first grade. I read through what they proposed and it was pretty dramatic. It was pulling back the onetoone access still having a hub where there could be something there and of course the teachers would have that ability but kindergarten and first it's going to be slim to nil and second grade very very moderate

and knowing all of this is in a great place with people like you would still say what can we do to consider for our youngest being much less on any of the technology. I know kindergarten doesn't do much till the end of the year. I would advocate for that for first grade, too. I've talked to a lot of teachers and we really want kids to be

able to hold the pencil and to learn and to write and all of those things. And there's just no way around the data which says you learn differently when you're off a screen or even typing. The writing, the reading a book, the absorbing information, especially for our youngest, makes a huge difference. And I think with CO and going to one to one, it was the greatest

disservice that we did in this country. And now looking forward, I'm hoping we can kind of find that tension point. And I would still advocate for you and Mrs. Dis and Dr. Kamroski to look at that at least for the littles because a lot of parents would appreciate that. Mr. Would you like me to answer some of those questions? Go

ahead. Okay. Okay. I just wanted to say that um ultimately we talk about screen time. I think that we're kind of I think it'd be best if we looked at changing the narrative instead of time on task or time in front of screen. What exactly are we doing for instruction? If it doesn't have an added benefit and the teacher doesn't see it

as a usage in classroom, then we shouldn't use it. Whether that's 5 minutes or 5 hours, I think that ultimately has to be used for the right purpose. And yes, the purposes increase as the age level goes up and how much you have. So that's definitely a given. But I think that if our focus maintains that we move and not

set necessarily a time limit on technology but that we're using it for the right purpose and if we're using it for the right purpose and it's for instructional purposes and it's not passive it's not you know watching you know videos or you know social media a lot of the those type of things are passive consumption we're actually looked at

active engagement so if they're getting feedback on their writing um which oftentimes believe it or not I see more paper pencil writing at the high school than I ever have now because of AI. So what happens is is that ultimately you're spent putting pen to paper. So it's authentic work and then it's being run through things like

snorkel and magic school. So I don't think it's one or the other. I actually think it's both. And then it's a matter of like when Dr. Dr. Kamaroski, we went on our walk is you see that the active engagement with writing oftent times um is is tagged with the technology for for a split second and maybe getting some feedback then

right back to the project itself. So that screen time is kind of fluid. It goes in and out but ultimately I think that we need to kink that focus on your intentional instructional benefit and if it doesn't have benefit then let's go back to the paper and pencil. So I think it's goes back to the intention. Thank you Mr. Schwarz. Yeah, I I visit

a lot of schools and I've seen a lot of what goes on in terms of uh the programs that we're using and how the students and the teachers are using them. And I again go back to um respecting the people who are the professionals in our district and how they make decisions that work for our kids. I know Jimmy personally, we've talked

personally. I've been to Red Hawk. I've been to Great Oak. I've been all over. And I have yet to see teachers use screen time as a way of avoiding instruction. That's not what's going on. I believe all our teachers are dedicated to making sure our kids get the best. And if the program demands that the child be on their iPad for a period or for

part of a period, then that's part of what's going on in instruction. And it's not like your kid goes in his bedroom and is on his computer on social media. I don't think any of that is going on. I don't think any of our teachers would allow it to go on and certainly our principles who were here

help us along the way with these new technologies. We don't know enough about it to really make a decision about what should be done or not. We can only take the advice of those of you who are the experts. And I appreciate Jimmy for what you do. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Dr. Anderson's not here right now. Melissa,

thank you so much for this fantastic presentation, Mr. Evans. Um, as a current high school student, it's really good to see that we're helping students adapt with the times instead of entirely restricting tools or letting kids run wild with the new tech. But I was just wondering since adopting these AI tools, what shifts has the district noticed in student learning and student

achievement and outcomes? um even if right now it's just based on early feedback from teachers and students because we might have not have like official stats. Yeah, a lot of our data is limited. So right now we're hoping to see some of those changes, but it's a great question. I think that what we're seeing a lot more now is that with

our ability to differentiate as a teacher from the teacher facing side of utilizing AI, we see a lot more where if I have a student that may range from a third grade to an eighth grade reading level, we have more personalized learning and our ability to adjust from the staff perspective. That's one piece as well as some tasks that teachers have

done in the past have taken an exorbitant amount of time. Some of those AI tools are helping us decrease that time and which we're spending there. So that's from the staff perspective. From a student perspective, um I may be in a class with 30 students. It is very difficult for me to give them timely feedback in a meaningful way. And I

think one of the pieces that AI really has changed and what I've seen, I'm sure my fellow colleagues here um would acknowledge is that it allows for us to keep students working. oftentimes you would see hands being raised and how long it takes a teacher to get around to give some feedback versus having some uh my content and PDF and my rubrics uploaded

and being able to provide real time feedback allows for a much more efficient classroom. And so I love that term efficient because that's what I see I think from our staff and I think our students is we're much more efficient with the time in the classroom and we're hoping in terms of data I know that we have a tremendous feedback

from our teachers that went through the training. So we know that there's um really high um positive feedback for that. But in terms of some of the data initial I ready scores we actually have a teacher in the room that piloted last year and her she will tell you that her writing scores went off the charts if she's still here. Yep.

Carolyn's still back there. Anyways, that we had some uh initial conversations with those ones. So, yes, we're hoping to see a lot of that. We don't have a lot of the solid data rolling in, but year one, we're hoping to have it pretty soon. So, thank you for the question. Okay, I used my two minutes presentation time. I'm

going to probably use one more minute of just my um comments. Um remind me of the young teacher that um he used I want to say CAD. Uh oh, you're talking about uh Mr. Henderson that used for the structure at Great Oak. Yes. And I want to give a shout out because this blew me away when Dr. Lane told me that those students use

that software to to design a shade structure that she in fact is going to use at Great Oak High School. And I thought that was really cool because it highlights them being future leaders being innovative and saving the district money. So shout out to them, the teacher, Mr. Henderson, Dr. Lane, all cool. Um Jimmy, thank you so

much for your time up here. I look forward to working with you on the questionnaire and all the other Yep. And one more point with that Dr. is that with that also it just shows that AI is not just a tool to be inputed. You can build a bridge with popsicle sticks and and adjust the instructional you know the basically integrity

of the you know of the bridge based on a picture that you put into AI. So there's I mean the the possibilities are endless. Yeah. Dr. Can I ask something about the survey first real quick? No. We're at 20 minutes. We've already used two. It's Dr. Vez and then we're going to move on. It's like you have to respect the majority

of the board and that's it. We're moving on. I just wanted to first say Mr. Evans, thank you. Um, you've done such an incredible job stepping into this role. Um, and I think the presentation tonight, it just shows all the incredible work that you've done. I know you have worked with Dr. Kamaroski on this and I don't want to let uh Mr. Barham's comment that he

made go by because he did have some feedback on that survey and so I want to make sure we follow up on that. We work on that piece. um as I know he's been pretty passionate about AI and technology in the classrooms and stuff. So, we'll circle back on that. But, Mr. Evans, again, thank you. You've made some great

impact in this organization. Thank you. Thanks. Appreciate that. Thank you. And now we're going to bring up the the wonderful Mrs. Amy Ricken for number two, career and technical educ. I know it's late. We had to wake you up back there. You just bust me out on that. Good evening, Dr. Wait, I thought Jimmy had me up

here. Dr. Wlesz, Dr. Kamroski, governing board, and our executive cabinet. I feel like career technical education is a great unifier. We've had amazing support from every person up here, and I'm so thankful in the conclusion of my second year uh supporting CTE to have a phenomenal team. I definitely couldn't do the work of supporting our middle school and high school programs without

the amazing and they came back tonight. Uh oh, they're here. Um our workbased learning facilitator, Jenny Huder, who knows every industry partner we have in the city of Tmacula and beyond. our CTE coordinator, Stephanie Medina, uh Feliza Remmers, who's our support staff and tracks all of our ordering, which is extensive, and Miles Wadell, who is our CTE um accountant,

and we we manage and work with seven grants annually. Um shout out to business services and Mrs. Lash over there. Um it's a lot of work, but it's totally worth it because there's so many amazing things that happen. Where am I at here? What? Okay, here we go. Um, oh no, Jimmy gets first place. Second. Okay. All right. Uh just I'm going to

go over it briefly because I feel like there's um a really high ceiling already around career technical education but on this slide it talks about the three pillars of success really the success criteria anytime we bring on a new pathway it has to have high demand high skill which really factors into our curriculum uh the pre-apprenticeships we align with the

county um the specialized curriculum and training the workbased learning and it has to have high wage And thanks to this governing board, uh, you approved cyber security as an AP cyber security course that we added. We use these three success criteria to evaluate that course and add it. I'm skipping over a video that will start playing. Um,

if you have four and a half minutes, that's a pretty phenomenal video that highlights all the amazing things our students do. So, what I'm going to show you, we have 12 CTE pathways across 10 industry sectors in our district. Um, and so this is an example of just the high points of one uh industry sector with two pathways. And I want you

as we kind of go through the slides pretty quickly um to look for how many articulated credits. So this slide is an example of 6 to 12 articulated credits. Most of that's with MSJC. We have a couple with Palomar. um what the certifications are that we offer and that could be anything from lifetime OSHA 10 to CPR first aid. Um we try to

add as many industry specific certifications for our graduates to walk away with before they leave T TVUSD as we can. Um because those are just gifts for them as they add application resume information. The more certifications they have, the better. Um, it'll also highlight for you the number of courses in each pathway. It'll give you examples around our work-based learning. Um,

our industry partners are amazing and Jenny Huder constantly pours into the relationship with all of the businesses in our community um who take time out of their own busy day to come and uh support our students. And then you can see the potential careers that are kind of offered underneath each of these umbrellas. Um, I included a graphic

around the specity of EMT certification. Um, but really when you look at our medical assisting and patient care pathway, you can see that the potential careers are really wide open. Um, we have students that pursue everything from dentistry to medical assisting um to applying straight into four-year universities and going premed, taking the MCAT. Um, and so we're not

limited right now with this pathway as to anything that we can't access as students in the district. But, um, the exciting part of this is the 6 to 12 articulated credits. And we have this pathway at all three high schools. Um, arts, media, and entertainment. We have Mr. Huff in the building tonight who's one of our teachers uh, for AM. Our

kids create amazing films. Um, and JDS Studios in Tmacula host the Digifest every year. This year, Tmacula Valley's teams won seven awards. Um, it's just incredible the film making that our students um contribute to. I wanted to also shout out that we have uh capstone students in the AM pathway who work directly with Jody Mueller and Mr. Mike

Marble and they create content um using the skills that they've learned from their pathway and work as uh interns with TVUSD which is really exciting. Business and finance is our only pathway that you can access online as well as in person at CHS. Um they use the MBA curriculum which is really exciting uh business and kind of pre- entrepreneurial

curriculum. Uh this summer we have for the first time a partnership with CalState San Marcus. Um we're going to have the small business academy. It's a week-long camp basically um that Cal State San Marcus is supporting for us and we're in the process of selecting the students who are going to be able to participate in that this summer. So,

super exciting. Um this really is the one that I have to brag about for a minute because you need to hear these statistics. Um our information and communication technologies pathway also filters into our cyber patriot um competitors. And this year, of course, the cup stayed in Tmacula again, the Inland Empire Mayor's Cup. But listen to this. So, Great Oak High School placed first, fourth,

and ninth. Tmacula Valley High School's teams placed seventh, eighth, and 15th. And Chapperel's teams placed third, and 12th. Bella Vista Middle School won it last year and finished third this year. We crush cyber security competition. Just want that out there. So yeah, our kids have mad skills and our teaching staff is amazing with the time that they contribute to preparing our

students for these competitions. Um, this is also the pathway that we added that AP cyber security course to. Transportation has 16 articulated credits, which is the most that we have in any of our CTE pathways right now. But Stephanie Medina is working really hard to make sure that we um increase the number of articulated credits. We have two more courses in manufacturing and a few

others. So, all of these articulated credit numbers will go up. If you've ever seen Josh Santine in action, you just know what a special educator he is. This year, they had the second annual car show is another amazing success. Um, but our industry partnerships with the auto mall and the businesses um in Tmacula just provides some incredible opportunities for students.

Lee Darling, our director of transportation, is also um brainstorming ways that we can get our auto transportation students over to the bus yard. Um they've already had a couple field trips, but he thinks there's even an opportunity for them to work on some of um the the automobiles in our district. So, that would be kind of cool as a new

opportunity for them. Manufacturing and product development. You've probably seen in the bottom right hand corner all of the amazing things our kids create um with laser cutters and printers and mills and all the things. Um so this is a pathway that we're adding additional courses and credit to. So that's going to be exciting. They have the OSHA 10 lifetime certification in that pathway.

Engineering and architecture. Um TVHS's CTE uh expo highlight this year was TVHS got to be um one of the highlighted programs at the Department of the State of Education CTE Expo. So that was really exciting because they had a booth. Everyone from around the county got to see them in action with robots um that they had coded and

built. So that's super exciting. Um, everyone has probably tasted some of the culinary arts from our hospitality, tourism, recreation, our amazing facility over at TmAcula Valley High School. Everything from Battle of the Burgers, uh, to last night they hosted um, and prepared all the appetizers for the TmAcula Dollars for Scholars event. So, that kitchen's in business all the time

and our students just do amazing uh, creations over there. education and child development. Um, this one's at Great Oak High School in RVHS. And these, uh, the upper right hand corner picture is the one of the 19 students who we onboarded with TVUSD this year as paid employees to work at bases. Sorry, Dr. Kamaraski. I think there's

some noise that's bothering people over here. So, if they could be quiet over there, Tim on the right side. Yeah. Okay. just in case audience please keep it down if you're out there talking. Okay. Um but essentially this pathway has done a phenomenal job at building our bench. Everything from instructional aids to our future teachers, our counselors. Um and we're really excited

about theou that's in place for our students who are in the capstone program to work with our basis students. And I want to finish with a couple data points. um CTE and the curriculum and the opportunities our students have really speaks for itself. When you look at how our CTE completers compare to the county, the state, and even within TVUSD on these performance

indicators, um they're doing phenomenal. And so I think part of that has to do with access to the curriculum, work-based learning experiences, but also this is one of the few academic programs where we typically have one teacher, one pathway, and they're teaching multiple years with these students. And so they just build deeper relationships with them and have an opportunity

to really see students in action and grow and mature. And when they're writing letters of recommendation, they really, really know the students that they've worked with in these pathways. Um, and just to recognize the fact that we also have CTE in our middle school programs and our middle and high school students participate in over 80,000 hours of work-based learning annually.

Um, and we think that number is already going to be higher going into our 25 26 year data. Um, so we're excited about that. But a 100% of our students participate in work-based learning. It's hands-on and I think that's why the students are so passionate about it. And then in closing, uh, save the date because our CTE completer ceremony

is on May 28th. This year it's at Chapperel High School. We're giving Tmacula Valley a break. And, uh, Mr. Scott Kerry and his event production team is going to put on our CTE completer ceremony. So, we're really excited about that. And any questions? Thank you so much, Amy, and the board. Just have one. Go ahead. She miked up first.

So we'll get Miss Worman then. Mr. Barum, Amy, thank you so much for your work. I know we've had quite a few conversations and we all understand where the trades are and how valuable it is to have access to that. And then all of the mentorship and all of the different places that we've discussed from electrical to HVAC. Um,

I love the fact that my son went through the kinesiology medical pathway and as a student at Great Oak, he absolutely loved his teacher. He learned so much and then from there, of course, went on to get the EMT certification and now he's in paramedic school studying and he definitely credits his education at Great Oak. and you and I have discussed about what

other districts have and I love the fact that you brought my attention to the fact that students can pursue that here at TVUSD just like they can in Myrietta Valley. So hats off to you and Jenny and the entire team because I really believe in what you're doing. I think there's a lot of concerned parents that are looking at the job

market. And speaking of AI, we can talk about all the wonderfulness of it, but it's actually taking out jobs, too. So, there's this tension that we're trying to figure out as trustees. Obviously, we want to learn the technology, but those hands-on skills are so important. And I really think TVUSD has done incredible things with helping kids get the credits, right? And then

having a plethora of opportunities. So, I think it is unifying. You totally hit it on the head. I think every board member here would agree that we're so excited to see so much work being done in this area. So, thank you to the team. Truly, I'm excited to see where things go in the next two to three years, maybe more electrical. Um, we're

working on that. Great. I knew that. So, thank you again. Really appreciate the presentation. Thank you, Mr. Bar. Um, coming from as a middle school teacher and as a former high school teacher, um, I know what kinds of CTE programs where I came from, what they have, and there's there's no comparison uh, in terms of what we offer and where I came

from. I mean, it's not even close. They're not even in the game. I mean, what you folks have done is just head and shoulders above anything that I've ever seen in this area. And um you know also you know I come from the private sector as well and what you're offering here is is really great for our kids. So thank you for all the work you

do. I do have one question. Are we starting to do some work with I mean I see what's going on in the middle schools when I do my site visits and at the high schools. What are we doing K through five? That's a good question. I I'm just curious. Okay. I'm I'm the secondary director. No, it's not true.

I mean, I am, but I'm also K through 12. Uh we are doing some exciting things. For example, I was just at Rancho Elementary uh and we were doing some classroom learning walks and part of what they had just celebrated the night before was a STEM night. Uh we've had STEM nights and STEM uh guest speakers on our campuses, but the

best thing that you will ever see is if you go to an elementary and it's our high school or our middle school students and they're rolling out the robots, they're doing coding, basic coding, um and really just exposing our students to everything uh that's in our career exploration wheel. Um, and kudos to this board for also approving that

advanced uh, career exploration middle school course because that extends our ceiling of what our students are going to be able to work with with additional new modules this year in curriculum. Um, but yeah, our elementary students are seeing it. Can we do more of it? Absolutely. But I think it's the same as college and career readiness month that we're going to take on next

year instead of that college and career readiness component just being focused on high school and PSAT and high school kids. The best natural ambassadors we have are our own students. Yeah. So, for sure. Great job. Thank you, Mr. Schwarz. Great job. Thank you. Thanks. I want to say great job. We are lucky to have you at the helm of CTE.

Miss Ricken, thank you so much. Thank you. Well, I'm going to give props to Tim Denon who started the work and I stepped in behind him with a great team. So, Melissa, do you have any uh Sorry, Dr. Anderson first. Do you have any comments, Dr. Anderson? Thank you. Thanks, Melissa. Nothing other than great job. And I was also

a I'm a CT completer. I did the compsite pathway at Shapraal and it was really great. And I would just like to add that that sort of like pathway as you mentioned the connection with teachers. It's also the connection with like the students in the pathway. I became really close with the students in my class because we were all going

through the same classes in years in a row with the same teacher. And I think that um you know it's just a great opportunity for TVs students. So thank you. Yeah, thanks for talking about that family element. That's awesome. And Miss Ricken, I just want to thank you. I can't believe it's been two years you've been in this role. Um,

I remember when we kind of first started talking about it. Um, your eyes got really big, but you've done such an exceptional job. You and Stephanie Medina and Jenny Huder, you guys have made, you're a small team, but you're mighty powerful. So, thank thank you for the presentation and thank you for what you do for kids every single day. Thanks, kids.

Okay, we the next three items three, four, and five are written reports, so it's basically questions only. Um the third uh item that we're on is DACEL update. Dr. Kamaroski. Yes, Dr. Anderson. Um I would just like to to ask if we could go to consent items because um Dr. said that there's a lot that needs to be approved for the My thought

was is yes, but let's get through the written reports and then close to 9:30, let's get more consensus because that's what I was waiting for. I really want to get through these three written. I don't think it'll take long and then let's go right where you're at because after these three, could I ask the board if he consent? I'm gonna I'm

gonna get us there at about 9:30. Thanks. Okay, Dr. Anderson. Oh, is there so this DACA report and EL update um I'm just curious if the board has any questions on that. I actually would really like to thank our wonderful Crystal Felra um for putting this so much together along with our ED services team. But if there's no questions,

we can go ahead and move to the next item. Mr. Barnes, mic's lit up. No, I mean I don't want to play games here, Melinda. Okay, that's what I feel. and we're going to get through this agenda. That's what we're going to do. Can you focus on the item, Mr. Barm? I'm not sure what's All right. All right. Dr. Bz.

So, if we don't have any questions on the DACA e update, um the strategic plan update. Again, thank you to all of our ed services directors for putting this together. Um and Mrs. Deis. And is there any questions? Uh I have no questions. Okay, now we're on to five. Transportation update, written report, Dr. Blaz. Yeah, in our transportation report, we've seen some

amazing things happen in transportation and more amazing things to come. But I'd like to thank um Mr. Lee Darling and um Joe Garcia for putting this together, putting this present presentation together for us tonight. And there's no questions from the board. Okay. Nope. Now we're on item six, Jewish American History Month. Mr. Schwarz, uh before I start, I'm going to ask if you will

let me read my whole report. It's about four or five minutes. Otherwise, I'm not going to. You got two minutes to present and two minutes uh comments. If you can get it into four, you can get it all at once. And I think that that's sufficient. Okay. Anybody else commenting? Can we I just felt like we pulled a lot of consent

items and I'm going to ask again if we can no do consent no to make this because I'm afraid we're going to run over 9:30. Who cares? No. All right, Mr. Barum, it's getting a little unprofessional here. We can we can as a board we're approaching 9:30. Let me read this. At approximately 9:30, the governing board will determine which of the

remaining agenda items can be considered and acted upon before 10 p.m. and may continue all other items on which additional time is required until a future meeting. All meetings are scheduled to end at 10 p.m. We can take board consensus right now. Consent is easy to do. We Dr. Anderson, you want to do consent first and then return to hear? I I

would like to do consent so that we get the board business done and then we can see what else I second that. Do we have a third? Let's do it. I'll agree to that. All right. We're going to do consensus first. We'll come right back to number six on information reports. Mr. Schwarz, if you want to do a four-m minute speech, two

minutes back to back. Yeah, I mean that's fine. So, think about that. We'll come back to six. All right. So, now we're on. Let me go back. We have one public comment on consent. Uh do we know what item? Apologize. I'm trying to I'm trying to get Oh, okay. What is 34? Mobile Abrams. Yeah, we'll just call up the public comment first. Oh,

that's the guy. That's the guy. That's the guy. Make sure the mic's on, Mark. Test it. Yes. Yeah, we got you. And excuse me. Let's find out what item he's speaking on first. So, radios. Item number 34. Okay, you have the floor. Okay. My company, Mobile Relay Associates, was one of the biders on the radio project and the staff elected to

uh choose another vendor. Um I wanted to point out certain things that were not in our opinion handled correctly and therefore no decision should be made on it tonight. Uh first of all they didn't hire a consultant to inform them as to uh the different uh technical things that had to be considered and it's a very technical type of uh system very complicated and

uh people that made the decision were people that were not well informed on the subject and a lot of input was given by the current vendor and it appears as though they just followed that whether that was the right decision or not but the system directly affects the health safety and of students and personnel and the efficiency which the the

uh district can operate and also exposure to uh liability and litigation. So having a radio system that works efficiently really helps out the school and one that doesn't work well uh can be a real problem for the school. So the problem with what was selected was that there are certain requirements from the Federal Communication Commission that were completely

ignored. The message handling ability of the system is not where it really needs to be. Uh it's uh the best analogy I can give you is trying to run an Indy500 race on a track full of potholes. The cars can't go at 180 m an hour or whatever the speed they're supposed to go at. They're going to have to drive at 40 or 50 m hour. And basically

the uh system that was chosen has these pitfalls. So, uh, because they weren't really considered, uh, the procurement process was rushed and, uh, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. We had a few items that were requested to be pulled. Um, wave mine. Wave yours. I will wave mine on canvas. I think Mr. Schwarz, you had one as well. Yes, I'll wave mine. All right,

mine also. Thank you. We got them all waved. So, uh, let me just read this. Consent calendar. All matters listed on the consent calendar considered routine and will be enacted by one vote. There is no discussion of consent calendar items unless members of the governing board or staff request that specific items be removed to consent calendar for separate action. I call for a motion,

a second to approve by consent items 1 through 42 that were not pulled for separate action or tabled. Do I have a motion? in a second. Moved by Mr. Barum. I wanted to make one comment about the cons. Oh, now you want to make a comment. Okay. Can have discussion. Okay. Do we have a second? Then we can go to

second. We have a second by Mr. Schwarz. All right. We can get two minutes each and comment on all this, I guess. Go ahead. I have no comments. I just wanted to point out that um Great Oak High School and TVHS um all the schools have been in the CIF playoffs in one aspect or another. We've had the TBHS baseball team. Sorry, what item are

you commenting on? Eight field trips. Oh, okay. So, just being a parent of a child that was also in CIFF playoffs, I wanted to know if anyone has time to look at where Great Oak and Tmacula Valley High School. I didn't see Shap on here. Um, but it's an exciting time of year and I really am proud of our sports teams. Um, and a lot of them

are still continuing with their playoffs. So, that's all I wanted to comment on. Thank you. Any others? Otherwise, we'll take it to vote. I had one question and maybe the item that the gentleman just spoke on was originally pulled and I noted that people waved that. Um was was that one of them and then second question is there a way to ask any question about that

item or have somebody clarify any information on it? Would that be proper? I'll wait for Dr. Viz to come back into the room. Okay. That's correct. That was not one of the ones that was pulled. I pulled one about school. Yeah, you pulled. Yeah, I pulled COC. I pulled Canvas. Yeah. So, let's let's take take it to vote, Dr. One second, Mr. Bar,

did you want a question, Dr. or No, I think she's here. M Wman has a question for you regarding I think L answered it but the gentleman that just spoke on an item. I wondered if there was any clarification and if that item was pulled and if we should speak to it but if it wasn't pulled then it wasn't. You can still ask

questions. I don't understand. It doesn't matter if it was pulled you can pull it now. We have a motion in a second. You can discuss it right now before we go. Okay. I was just interested Dr. in getting any clarifying information that might come from you or uh from Mrs. Lash on this particular item number. Can someone tell me the number?

34. 34. Mrs. Lash, at this time are you able to address that? We are recommending approval. it. We set the criteria for evaluation of vendors in advance and it the district led this process through three different directors over three different departments that used a rubric for evaluation and we um followed the appropriate process um to award this contract. So we were

recommending approval. Okay. Thank you. And I personally talked with Brian and he, you know, he wanted this company selected out of the multiple options. So, I'm I'm with him on that. Len, would you mind calling RO? Oh, on on all the items one through Yeah, we had a motion to second items 1 through 42. Okay. I just want to clarify. It was

Barham that moved it. I sorry to catch that. Okay. Followed by Schwarz. Okay. Where's Anderson? Yes. Barham, yes. Schwarz, yes. Kamaroski, yes. Student vote. Yes. Motion adopted. 50. Thank you, Len. Now we go back to information reports. We're on item number six. I'm fine with Steve unless he decides again that No, I'd like to read it. What's that?

Thank you. You would like to read it, you said? I I would like Steve to read it. Yeah. I want him to have his two minutes back to back as a presenter and whatever so he can Okay. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. Well, uh, ever since the, uh, city council, uh, decided to disband the Ready Commission, they no longer do any kind of Pride, uh, declarations,

it's not only Jewish American history month, it's also API Heritage Month. But the city council decided that we don't really have to do it. So, um, I had my wife, uh, sit and do some research, and this is what she wrote. I often wondered why Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated in May. I found out that May was chosen because

it commemorates the 350th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in North America with the arrival of Jewish refugees in New Amsterdam, which is now known as New York City. While people who identify as Jewish make up only 2.4% of the total population, they have contributed significantly to the greatness of our country. It's my pleasure to acknowledge some of them today. If you asked

if I asked you to name something quintessentially quintessentially American, what would you say? Maybe it's a superhero like Spider-Man, Iron Man, or The Incredible Hulk. Each of these superheroes was created by Stan Lee, a Jewish kid of Romanian immigrants who lived in the Bronx and who, by the way, went to my high school. Next, did you know that the very first pair of blue jeans ever

worn by Americans was invented by Levi Strauss, a German Jewish immigrant? As we are all familiar with the famous words of the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free." These words were written by Emma Lazarus, a sphartic Jewish poet. These words were inspired to support Jewish refugees fleeing persecution of Russia and

aiming to offer a vision of America. From the very beginning of our striving for independence, Jewish Americans were patriots. During the Revolutionary War, a man named him Solomon was the one who gave the money to support the fight for freedom from England. As the country grew, so did the contributions. In the 1950s, parents worried about their children catching polio, spending

their childhood in iron lungs. The scientist who invented the polio vaccine that saved millions of children's lives was Jois Jonas Sulk. Those very same children and their kids and grandkids watched Star Trek and played out the Vulcan salute, never knowing that it was created by Leonard Nemoy based on a traditional Jewish blessing. The Jewish community has also been powerful voice

for fairness in legal and social issues. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent much of her life making sure the law protected everyone. Jewish Americans provided crucial support to Martin Luther King Jr. through financial backing, legal expertise, lobbying, and active participation in marches rooted in a shared struggle for human rights. In science and tech, Jewish Americans have been behind the scenes

of things we use every single day, pioneering the technology that led to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. They've won over 130 Nobel prizes in the US, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Let's not forget the one of the most famous Jewish scientists ever, Albert Einstein. What you may also not know is that the class the many of the classic patriotic and holiday songs

that are sung throughout the years were written by Jewish songwriters. Famous tunes such as God Bless America, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer were written by Jewish immigrants who celebrated their American identity through music. Whether it's through the books of Judy Bloom, the movies of Steven

Spielberg, or the everyday work of teachers and doctors, this is a month to remember that America is a giant tapestry. It is strong and colorful because of the many different threads. All right. Any other uh discussion? Um I just wanted to Dr. Anderson. Yeah, I just wanted to thank Steve for his presentation. I think people need to recognize that this is a national

tradition to recognize Jewish history month. The White House recognizes it whether there's a Democrat or Republican in the House. It's been a tradition to recognize Jewish um history month. Um and I wanted to point out, Mr. Schwarz that you missed an important scientific person that's also Jewish. And I named my second son after him. It's Jew. It's uh Jonas Sulk who was the father of

um the polio vaccine. Polio vaccine. Yeah, there you go. Um, so I think it's important that especially now when anti-semitism is on the rise and remains a serious concern that we do recognize um, Jewish American Heritage Month. Um, I think it's also a statement that our schools and our community value dignity, historical understanding, religious freedom, and respect for all people. And

I think we need to understand this is American history and it does deserve to be acknowledged. Thanks, Dr. Anderson. Uh, Mr. Baram or Mrs. Worsma, I would agree that it's good to sit back and listen to heritage to tradition. There's a lot of controversy as we know everywhere, locally, statewide, nationally, globally. And I do think it's really important that we take the time to

consider just the things that you shared with us. So, I do thank you for bringing that forward. Um, there's a lot we could say about Israel and the United States and all the things that people argue about and how important it is to just come back to a place of recognizing. We do better when we value one another. We do better when we choose to

love our neighbor, when we choose to forgive, when we choose to move forward. And I just appreciate what you had to add tonight on the agenda. So, thank you, Mr. No, I just want to say that this is the second time I've heard this. Okay. Because I was over Mr. Schwarz's house when he read this to me and uh he and his wife got very emotional.

I mean, the tears were dropping on the floor. So, I know how important this is to him, and I appreciate you bringing it forward. I learned a ton uh from what you have brought forward in terms of Jewish history. I had no idea some of these things and some of these men uh and women were Jewish and white Christmas. And White

Christmas. Yes. But I mean it was a very emotional moment at Mr. Schwarz's house. I mean enough both of them. Okay. All right. That's it. Just wanted to give a shout out to all the Jewish Americans out in our community and the United States and abroad. Um thank you. Um, that's all I have to say on this. And now we are on to three items

more. We have dress code number seven. We have eight student digital citizenship, athletics, communications, and code of conduct/eththics. And one more. We have 12 demands to cure and correct cease and assist letter. That is the most important out of the three. We must get to it because of close session, I believe. But I'm willing to see if the board wants to continue

on with with all the items or push any of these outside of number 12 to the next meeting. It's that check-in time right now at about 9:30. So, we have to have board consensus. Finish it up. Let's finish it. We have to finish. So, I don't know how anyone else feels, but I would advocate for taking that last item and taking care of it

and bundling the other two and pushing it off so we have some additional time. Oh, of course, Dr. Anderson, I'm okay with that, too. People have waited. I'm okay with that as well. So, we'll get on to number 12 first. Demand secure and correct cease and assist letter. Dr. Vez, do we have anything to report out from closed on

this? reported it out already reported it out two public comments but we have two public comments we'll take those on demand secure and correct Sarah Bell and then Lindsay this is on information reports item 12 demand secure and correct cease and desist letter yeah but the audience is just saying that they came and waited for those other agenda items and

submitted public comments. So, I just wanted to mention that. Oh, that's my time. Okay. Um, well, the agenda item 12, cure and correct, raises concerns for me about consistency, fairness, and the selective prioritization of issues by the board majority. Um, this board has shown a greater urgency regarding a complaint brought by an outofstate individual that I would argue is not

a constituent. uh when similar concerns have been raised by local parents and community members. In tonight's materials, we're talking about social media blocking and First Amendment access. Yet, when these similar concerns involving local parents and community members, I'm aware of at least one TBUSD parent who raised similar concerns after being blocked by another current trustee and no meaningful action was followed. So, what is

what are you saying to the parents? what are you saying um to your community? This inconsistency matters. If a trustee's social media accounts are being treated as official spaces connected to public office, then those standards should apply equally to every trustee. If they're personal accounts, then that standard should also be applied consistently to every trustee. The public should not be left with shifting standards

depending on the trustee involved or the dynamics s surrounding the complaint. As board president, you have a substantial influence over both the agenda and the tone of these meetings. With that responsibility should come consistency, fairness, restraint, and transparency. The public notices when similar situations are treated differently depending on who is involved. And we deserve governance that is applied with

principles applied equally to everyone. Thank you, Lindsay. Okay. I I can't believe we're even turning a schoolboard agenda into a stage for political drama and online obsession instead of focusing on the actual needs of our TVUSD students and families. This district has issues that it's facing right now. Academics, student behavior, overcrowding, staffing concerns, intervention programs that don't even exist,

and restoring trust with our parents. Yet somehow, we are dedicating public agenda time to internet activism and social media warfare fueled in part by an individual, Chelsea Bole, who does not live in Tmacula, does not vote in this district, and does not even live here in California. This is absurd. At some point, this board needs to stop rewarding people

whose entire involvement in TVUSD seems centered around escalating conflict, creating outrage, targeting certain trustees nonstop online, and keeping political chaos alive 24/7. The situation surrounding trustee Emil Barhe has already spiraled into major public harassment, backlash, and even death threats. Instead of lowering that temperature, this very agenda item legitimizes and amplifies the toxicity. And frankly, it makes this

board look unserious. TVUSD should not be governed by outside political activists and social media personalities obsessed with creating drama from thousands of miles away while our local families who have been sitting here for hours can't even speak and are asking for leadership and solutions. This board was elected to govern our schools, not referee internet feuds. Shame on everyone who

thought that this deserved agenda time while real district priorities continue to be pushed aside like our in information items tonight. And these parents are sitting here waiting to speak on those that you agendaized. So you need to run better efficient meetings so we can hear all of those information items that you specifically agendaized and they have been waiting

for hours to speak. So let them speak. Absolutely. So, so I just uh this is a point of this is a point of clarity and I'll say this one more time. At approximately 9:30, which it's 9:34, the governing board will determine which of the remaining items can be considered and act upon before 10 p.m. and may continue all

other items on which additional time is required until a future meeting. All meetings are scheduled to end at 10 p.m. We have every right to do this in accordance with the Brown Act and that's what a majority of the board decided. And just for the record here, Dr. Anderson, you don't have to read out or you think you already did. Um, there's confusion. I

think they misheard me. Can I read it so that they because I think they I think the public is confused. Sure. Okay. So it it was moved by Anderson and seconded by Schwarz to deny the request for cure and correct and then we denied the cure and correct and it the vote was 4 to one and I don't understand this but it was wearsme

yes she denied the cure and correct yes we denied the cure and correct Barham approved the pure cure and correct he wanted to cure and correct strategically Yes, I did. Okay. Just he wanted to cure and correct himself. Schwarz was Yes, he denied it. And Kamaroski denied it. So, I just want everyone to be clear that there is no

cure and correct. Yeah, you messed up. Mr. Barm, you don't have the floor. Stop interrupting. No, I I read it out. I just think people didn't hear maybe the vote confused them that you voted to cure and correct yourself. I don't know. I just wanted to clarify with everyone. Okay. All right. So to be clear, dress code item number seven and

item number eight, student digital citizenship, athletic communications, and code of conduct ethics. So here's what we're doing next meeting. We have five comments on dress code item seven that will be prioritized that those five people, we know who you are, you will speak first. And then on the item eight, we have three people, we know who you are, you'll speak first. You're

prioritized next meeting. So now we are moving on to negotiations update Q. Mr. Arce, thank you Dr. Kowski. We have a negotiation session with CSEA this coming Thursday and we'll meet with TVA on Friday. We anticipate the comp compensation agreement coming before the board at the June 9th board meeting. And that's my labor negotiations update for now. Thank

you. Thank you. And on number eight, um I was just informed by Len that there's nine total. So five on dress code, nine on number eight. Five on dress code, four on number eight. Got it. Nine total. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Now we are moving on. Thank you Mr. Arce to board comments. Any board member want to go first.

Please keep it down in the audience so the board members can uh speak. Thank you. Would you like to go first? Dr. Anderson, would you like to go first? Okay, no comments. Miss Worma, go in any order. I had the awesome opportunity to attend the Crystal Apple Awards presented by the high school students of the Church of Latter-day Saints

honoring a variety of our distinguished and Will you stop the time? You know, audience, you're being loud out there. There's a lot of commotion. Can you please be silent? Thank you so much. Can't hear. Thank you. Can I start over? Yeah, we can grant her time back. Literally, there's audience members talking over there. Because we made arrangements to

be here. That's your first objective warning. Please stop disturbing the board from conducting business. Thank you, Mrs. Wisma. I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Crystal Apple Awards presented by the high school students of the Church of Latter-day Saints honoring a variety of our distinguished and hardworking teachers as we kicked off teacher and staff appreciation week. I want to thank

the church. It's always an honor to hear from the hearts of our young people and why they appreciate their favorite teachers so much. For those of you who were here a little later for additional items, I want you to know that we will come back with these, we're looking forward to hearing you and I think that additional work will be done

in the meantime because we value the input and I did hear all of you tonight. There will be time to talk about TVUSD's current board policy, what official student handbooks say, what CIF guidelines recommend, and all of this is going to be a layered approach in looking at the entire situation and the controversy. I want to say I am a mom first. I've raised some amazing

boys. They all played athletics here in TVUSD. Who was that in the audience? Please stand up there. Christine Mossa, that's your first warning for objectively disturbing the board meeting. Was also that pause. And what was that? The one in the one in the glass is the pause lady. Last name. I said it. Okay, that's fine. We corrected. Okay, Mrs. Wma.

Does he get a warning? Please stop talking and let this board member speak. If you keep on talking, you're on a second warning. You're out of here. I'm not going to Okay, this is clarity. Everybody, we're almost done. We can do this. Miss Worma. So, I've raised some amazing kids and I actually went to them over the weekend and talked to them

and got their perspective and uh it was great. I am definitely in a place where I'm looking forward to reaching out to the community and with the water polo president of the board who was here here this evening. I tried to reach her six different ways. I DM'd her twice. I added her in a post. I added her in Mr. Sola's post. I

reached out through a mutual friend and I also reached out to her place of business that's on Instagram just to leave a message and let her know I want to connect with you as a mom, hearttoheart. Unfortunately, we didn't have that opportunity and it got driven to the press. And I think there was a gentleman tonight, I forget his name,

but he mentioned there's probably additional context that I don't know. And there is, and we're going to have that discussion because I think it's important as a community that we do look at what's on the books and what happened. And we can be bitter or we can get better. And I look forward to doing that. I do love the district. I thank

you those of you who came to share your heart. But initially we were concerned because constituents reached out to us and what they saw circulating on social media. And at the end of the day, we love our teams and our amazing boys. We also represent the district at large. Many perspectives. And when you look at the representation,

the optics, the captions, all of the things need to be discussed. And I think we can do it. So, I'm looking forward to that and I hope you'll come back in June if you have something to speak into. Thank you, Mr. Schwarz. Yes. Uh, first, uh, I want to apologize not for what I said, but for the anger I expressed in what I had to say

uh, before. However, uh, that does not change what I felt and what I was trying to say. Uh, I don't know if you guys remember, but a couple of months ago, I tried to put a policy on the agenda about speaking order, about who we prioritize, students, parents, community members, and then outsiders. And that was of course rejected because why

should we prioritize students and parents when we could have Chelsea Bole from Florida or whatever that lady, what's her name from Chino? Rose. Rosie from Chino. Oh, from Oceanside. However, let me let me get back to what I wanted to talk about. Um, despite the protestations, there are board members here who do not value your input. They might say it, but obviously they

didn't listen to what people were saying. Because if they listened, not only was there a message, there was a direction in what people said. And many people said the same thing. I want to thank Melissa for bringing sanity to our board and for being so um special to all of us and listening to what she had to say and sharing the perspective

of the kids because that's why we're here. and I want to wish her good luck at Harvard. She's going to love it there. My son went there. It's a great town. You're going to have a great time. Uh I want to mention TVHS Stunt. They were number one in CIF in the southern section and number three in the

state. And thank you to the wonderful parent who reminded me about that. I want to talk about Nathan because I've known Nathan for a while. Uh those of you who don't know him going to get to know him when he comes to board meetings. He's the lacrosse captain. He has a 4.8 GPA. He started the Green Hope movement in his school

to raise money for nonprofits. He started the bridge initiative club. He is the senior class president. Uh he's going to study political science and he hopes to attend Georgetown. He's also the National Honor Society Secretary. He is a kind and caring, intelligent young man. He's going to follow Melissa and the tradition she started and he's going to be a great member

to our board. To those of you who are here, um, again, I'm going to repeat, we're here for kids and we're here for parents. And I'm sorry that those of you who wanted to speak did not get to speak, but uh if you want to reach out to me, you can email me and I'll be happy to hear what you have to say and bring

it back to the next board meeting. Thank you, Mr. Barum. Governing decisions should be based on what? the law, public interest, and credible evidence about what works. I want to talk about those water to water polo of voice. At baseline, what the students did is expressive conduct. I'm going back to the law. I can look at all kinds of

things online, but I'm going back to the law. What those boys uh did is expressive conduct, team spirit, and celebration. What is the governing standard? It's a Supreme Court case called Tinker versus De Moines Independent Community School District. And what was the ruling in that case? that schools can regulate student expression only if it causes a material and substantial disruption. Was there

disruption? I say no. Or was it just discomfort or embarrassment or controversy or moral judgments regarding good character, professionalism or appearance of impropriy? I've had enough. You We cannot govern based on those types of things. It's inconsistent. It produces selective enforcement and it is built on a foundation of sand and when the waves come, the governance structure deteriorates. You three are cowards.

Dr. Kamroski, the commu, this is when all the stuff was going on with me for the last two months. The community holds me accountable. Well, they're here to hold you accountable. And what did you do? You sent them home. You sent them home. So, you are a hypocrite and this governance structure is deteriorating little by little and we need to fix it.

And I say the only way that we're going to get it fixed is to unelect these two and possibly recall that one over there. Okay? Because they are they are contributing to the deterioration of this district and playing games. That's what they do. They agendaize things. We prepare. The community prepares. And what happens? What they don't want to face because they're cowards, the

three of them. They say, "Well, we're gonna remove that. We're not going to go till 10 o'clock. We've gone till 12 o'clock when Ros's here or Chelsea's here." It is just hypocrisy after it's hypocrite after hypocrite. It's time to unelect these people. Okay? And that is my protected speech because they are not contributing to the success or educational outcomes of TVUSD. All right. Done.

Okay. Uh, shout out to the Crystal Apple Awards. I definitely enjoy that yearly. Um, wanted to give a special thanks to Brett Larson, the North Stake President, Andrew Dixon, the South Stake President. Um, Ann and Dr. Alan Pulsifer, very graceful, all four of them. Shout out to all the students in their choir. It's one of my favorite parts. The leadership that they

incorporate there is awesome. The students reach out to their teachers and they select who they believe embodies Christlike character attributes and then they members Mr. Schwarz and Mr. Barm. They made a video basically talking about they're not allowed to email uh board members directing it at me. I just wanted to stop the misinformation. I had a one-way communication

sent out to all five board members and I'll just release it to the public now. In summary, um board members have always been able to email students. We suggest emailing from your district uh email, not your personal email. And uh best practices is when you uh reply to a student, maybe CC the teacher, the principal. I always CC

the um superintendent, Dr. Vez, even though that's not necessary. So to stop the misinformation, we are indeed allowed to respond to students. Please stop spreading false information into the public. It actually deteriorates trust that the public has with the board. And it starts with you two doing this as well. And then last and and very importantly, this is just my statement

regarding the TVHS water polo incident. A few men a few young men from TVHS water polo team were supporting their fellow baseball team and posed in a picture on a parent sponsored page associated with TVHS. I thought it was inappropriate and that their attire didn't align with the district's dread code and administrative regulation, which it in fact doesn't. As a result, the site

admin spoke with the students, removed the post, and reminded them of our current dress code. That said, in showing their team spirit to other students. I'm sure these are amazing kids and that they did not intend to cause any harm with their post. In the end, I would encourage them to dress for success as they will be our future leaders

when they leave TVUSD. Thank you. Dr. Karaskki, I didn't make Before you go to Melissa, can I make a clarifying since I If you got a point of clarity, it's fine. Um, you can use my time for 36 seconds. You can keep on. Yes. Actually, we did pass a policy that says board members cannot send private one-way communication to students. Um, and we

held the board members to the same anti-grooming behavior, anti- like they cannot have private one-way communication with students via text, email. Yeah, that's that's in a that's in a bylaw. I'm just talking. I just wanted I just and it says email too no private emails they have to include someone and it's under the Keenan training that that does constitute grooming behavior. So okay

that was written so that the Melissa there you go. Last night I attended the annual Tmacula dollars for scholars award ceremony. I'm so proud of all of our seniors. Thank you to the dollars for scholars team for investing in the future of the class of 2026. I'd also like to congratulate my fellow Puma, Nathan Barry, as being elected as my successor. Growing up

in this district has been an incredibly special experience, and spending my senior year serving on this board has made it even more meaningful. From Barnett Elementary to Day Middle, then at SHAP, I was given every opportunity to grow into the person I am today. Every teacher, mentor, classmate, and friend helped shape me, and I cannot express how grateful I am for

that. I truly believe I received an outstanding education here while being encouraged to pursue my passions and ambitions. As a student, I rarely had complaints about my experience in this district. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the governance of this board. In a district filled with passionate educators, talented students, and supportive families, our governing board should reflect those same qualities. Instead,

month after month, I return to this seat and watch hours of pettiness, personal attacks, accusations, dysfunction, and unprofessional behavior. I am the student representative on a board of education. That should not be a difficult position to hold. Yet, constantly people tell me how impressive it is that I can sit through these meetings with a straight face, that I can leave meetings after

midnight and then wake up the next morning to take AP exams or go back to class like everything is normal. There's no reason schoolboard meetings should end regularly at midnight. There is no reason clips from these meetings should circulate online because they are seen as chaotic or embarrassing. And there is especially no reason that when people search for TVUSD news,

they find headlines like meeting ends over safety concerns. Trustees face fallout for comparing teen athletes to strippers or employees plead for classroom safety at governing board meeting. I have friends here in the audience tonight supporting me because this is my final meeting and some of them had never attended a board meeting before. During our recess today, they asked me, "This is what you deal with every

month." And that question alone should be deeply concerning to this board. Students in this district are embarrassed by the conduct they see from the adults elected to represent them. I could spend much longer detailing the failures, controversies, and frustrations that have defined these meetings over the past year. But I won't because over the past 10 months, more respect, and professionalism than it has

consistently shown during my term. But despite everything, I want to end on a positive note. Serving in this role has taught me so much. It has introduced me to incredible students, educators, community members, and opportunities that I would have never experienced otherwise. When I haven't been supported on the deis, I've been supported by my community. And for that,

I will always be grateful. And if anyone wants to see where I go after I graduate, you can follow my public account on Instagram. Thank you and have a great evening. Superintendent comments. Dr. Vez. Well, I'm going to take a little bit of a different path um with closing comments tonight. Um and I know some of you have already talked about these things,

but I do want to acknowledge what an incredible spring season for athletics has been across all of our high schools. We continue to see our students achieve at the highest levels with several teams still competing in CIF playoffs this week at TVHS. The stunt team made history as division 1 CIF champions, becoming the first TVUSD TVUSD team to

earn this honor and went on to finish third in the state after an incredible 29 to28 semifinal match. The TVHS baseball also captured the Southwestern League title with a perfect 15-0 league record and is currently ranked seventh in division 1, while the boys volleyball advanced to the CIF Division 6 finals. At Chapperel High School, the stunt team advanced to the second round of CIF

playoffs. Over at Great Oak High School, both the girls and the boys swim earned Southwestern League championships for the first time since 2025 and are competing in CIF prelims this week. Beach volleyball in its inaugural season advanced to the second round of the CIF playoffs. Boys tennis captured the Southwestern League championship and girls lacrosse is competing in CIF semifinals

today. In addition, both baseball and softball continue their CIF playoffs run, their CIF playoff runs this week. We are so incredibly proud of all of our student athletes, coaches, staff, and families for representing TVOSD with such excellence, sportsmanship, and pride. So, thank you to all of those people um truly for all of your work in creating the best student

athletes we have in this county. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Veles. and future agenda items. T we have nutrition update presentation we have safety and security update written report we have budget adoption we have LCAP actions and services and this is a point of order and clarity that I didn't have at the time but I want to make this

very clear unless uh basically no discussion will be made regarding personnel issues in open session but also um pursuant to education code 7054 the public comment process shall not be used to show support or opposition for any ballot measure or candidate for political office, including candidates for district's board of education. So, I'd remind Mr. Barham, you are violating

California Education Code 7054 by talking about speech and I think that you should not do that. Again, professionalism. Keep it professional and you have the point of order before. That is my protected speech violating California ED code. And then we will go to announcement of the next meeting. The next regular open session business meeting of the governing board of education is

scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. The meeting is adjourned on Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at 9:57.