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good evening. The community Welcome to our regular board meeting of April 27th 2021 we're going to call this meeting to order at 5:40 to 5:42 item number one roll call is Patrice stanzione Rivera Christina Flora present dr. Alejandro Alvarez I'm here semicolon Alaska thank you this is Ross I don't know whether to approve agenda of regular board meeting of April to 72021 can I get a motion Miss Rivera thank you I got a second second Roku item number to open I don't want any vegetable Legion we Stan is your right hand over your heart ready you can I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I don't know what to do them for representative report. Hello I'm going to sell cement it now in 1 instant representatives and I'll be updating you guys on our school starting with Siri give me a second okay starting with Don Julian we're happy to show that approximately 114 students are attending school in person we're welcoming another twenty seventh graders this week everything is going smoothly and we are thankful for all the support receipt to make our schools safe and healthy learning environment Raw Edgewood Academy hope this message finds all that's a community college healthy while and save we are excited to now have all grade levels able to return to hybrid learning yesterday we welcomed our 7th and 8th graders to campus and it was wonderful to see them all back in their questions learning with their classmates and teachers teachers I students have began training with capturing kids heart at kids hearts and love and are living we are excited to take what we have learned and too deep in the ways we capture the hearts of our Earth fourth and fifth grade students have had their second Mariachi class and are loving it thank you to the board for bringing this opportunity to our students wish you all the best of committing continued Health Wellness 4 seconds Elementary Sunkist Elementary would like to thank you to think our parents is that for working hard to follow off our house and say the protocols in person learning is going very we have approximately 55% of our student body 227 students attending for 2 days per week in the hybrid schedule our teachers have done a marvelous job of adapting to the hybrid schedule continue to preserve to meet the needs for all our tigers not forgotten wig we are in week 3 of hybrid learning and things are going very smoothly we are Overjoyed to have our students back and hope to see me in the coming weeks the Department of Public Health visited us on Monday and they were very pleased with all our all the measures we have put in place to ensure student and safety safety we are happy to report we achieved a hundred a hundred percent participation with our third and sixth graders in ELP AC testing was done remotely and made it a little more. fickle and challenging than previous years but thanks to the to the termination of our test examiners and support staff and support staff for making sure all yellow in those grades got tested thank you to miss but it is mr. Figueroa Miss oscetta and mrs. Figueroa where are gearing up to start testing to can second grade and our goal is 100% participation as well as we enter teacher or appreciation next week when we would like to say how much we appreciate and value our teachers and certificated staff is different all they have done this year back to distinctive hybrid learning and working with students and parents since you're learning continued it was not in his exact and our Saturday certificated staff deserve our appreciation and thanks not only next week but the weeks of the year last week's Rebecca High School Bassett has been promoting senior events promoting senior shirts football cheer and Ben senior nights we have a drive-through we had a drive-through awards ceremony students receive Awards we had an attendance Challenge from March 29th to April 1st and April 12th to 16th continuing continuing on our Wellness Wednesdays Fridays and promoting Self Care Health Awareness Wellness Etc is the applications have gone out and we are ready to continue on our Legacy 93 11th Street 9 through 11th grade yearbook photos were taking April 21st through 23rd we're thankful to all their staff and everything they have done for us and continuing to support us thank you thank you Miss Bustamante removing tonsil item number 3 public comments for later to call session items this is the appropriate point in the agenda or those present to speak regarding any closed nighttime of your dental only topic-specific to the actual clothes as an item will be heard at this time topics which not addressed quotation items will be heard during Open Session comment you will have to do we have a anyone who signed up for Stephen, we have no one have no one that being said I would go to item number for closed-session will be going to call session at 5:50 you already could you please pull up you're done. thank you okay we are reconvening I don't know one report adoption technical session report out of quotation and call session on a motion bar remember to approve and fuel members supposed the governing board took action to approve the settlement agreement in the matter of oah case number 202-103-0985 the board Arthur write the superintendent to execute the agreement Ellen wants to item number 6 that presentation and information I don't know one superintendent doctor play keyboard president number is on the board of community I just want to begin with thinking I wanted to begin with thanking everyone who's worked hard and preparing our classes for students to return are 7th and 8th graders returned on Monday and are hybrid schedule and I've been visiting side to just great to see the students in the smile faces to be back talking to the principles and some staff how much they've grown over a year that since they have been on campus and so I just want to take thank you for everyone that's worked hard to make this happen thank you. David if I don't need to update you superintendent task force we've met five times will be meeting again this week and hopefully extending that to one more meeting next month after the mayries on this task force is Jenna a an amazing job their dedication and hard work I must two men always started with about a Jefferson of 3.6 million which through the efforts of the superintendent their recommendations and insult that we have been able to reduce that down to about 1.2 million deficit in the third year with ongoing savings you had one time savings and we've had ongoing savings so I wanted to report that out to the board and also to the Bassett Community all of this while maintaining essential services and reopening the school it's been a difficult year and everybody has worked hard to make sure that our schools get open and that we stabilize our position as a I wanted to give you an update because I've been several rounds of one time money and of course one time money goes in helps us tremendously to buy one time items when time expenditures and we put that money to good use extensive plans through the ed services department conjunction with business services and your superintendent and it's been impressive I'm going back to 1920 where we first at the first rounds of one-time money sp117 was just over $57,000 and that helped us with PPE in the initial close down and then we had the cares act money Esther where we got just over $1000000 we get a million $45,000 we thought that was a tremendous amount of money then we got learning loss mitigation money and that was four million seven hundred thousand dollars just a big boost to help us with all of the things that we needed to get kids and staff back in school all of the different supplies and everything that we needed now we are in 2021 av86 has come along and we will be reporting out to you May 25th with an extensive plan of how to spend these dollars these are 4.4 m $10 more one-time funds to help us as we move forward in the next year some of these funds then exhaust in August of 2022 then the federal government is pushing in more Federal money for our district the American Recovery monies of Esther 2 and after 3 we have eliminari numbers on that 4.1 million + 9.2 million together if you didn't have a calculator I'm going to tell you that that's 23.6 million dollars of one-time funding over the course of these two fiscal year that will go out some of these funds will go all the way out to 20 24 to help us mitigate the Cove in and the opening of schools so I just wanted to give you a couple of updates and I hope that helps you sleep had lots of fun about the one-time money lots of questions about how we are solving our Cisco deficits in that third year so we're making a lot of progress and I want to thank you all for all of your help work thank you Matthew you gone to item number three presentation of Clifton Larson Allen yes thank you so as a reminder every school year the school school districts have to go through an audit of the financial statements once the books are closed who's the third party which is an outside company comes in and does the audit of our financials to verify its accuracy they do a random sampling of different areas and their findings normally would see this presentation in December or January but due to the pandemic it's pushed everything back the audit has been completed it will be posted on the website or it's actually on the gym itself that we do have a representative here to provide a report presentation to the board on the audit I'll turn it over to them hello good evening this is Tina Henton should I I don't know if I can I turn on my camera I don't know if I have a yeah okay let's see I don't use zoom very much I don't believe you care because you're still as a guess and Kane Brown if you want to go there you go what you know okay let me unmute there and all that looks much more familiar okay let me turn on my camera then there you go all right great thank you so much okay alright so tonight I am here normally you would see me in person but and maybe next year but thank you very much for allowing me a few minutes to go over the results of this year all that I just have a very brief presentation and adjust a kind of cover some of the highlights and of course as always once I'm done if you have any questions I'm happy to answer those. So let's see do penguin events the slide okay so first I always like to give an overview of really what the purpose of of the audit is and are got it really for Franny auditor the purpose is really to issue an opinion on the fairness of the financial statements that's our first and foremost Duty as we come in to do your audit we are looking at various items throughout I am making a determination on the fairness of the presentation of the of the amounts in the audit report so that's our first first priority and as you can tell in the next box there there's really more going on than just your financial audit we are also required not only am in Ed code requires that you do a financial audit but as you're well aware we also spend a great deal of time looking at various items. are dictated by the state controller's office for your state compliance those are all various grants that you receive from the state as well as your attendance and that of course because you get Federal money we also spend time low Apple's federal grants and rendering an opinion on those as well so we really it's much more than just the numbers are unaudited actuals were looking at many other items as well next slide please so they all that really is kind of summarizes what we do for the audit and first and foremost it's a risk-based approach so we are looking at your District as a whole we are increase throughout the organization doing some preliminary analytic procedures and that helps us determine which what procedures we need to do where we need to spend our time and make sure that we have addressed any areas that maybe need a little extra attention as part of that process we're going to look at your internal controls and and let's say so here I am. I could do this presentation without at least talking a little bit about the pandemic and our response so I as your Etha and her staff were well away are most of the audit was conducted virtually because of the shutdown so we were utilizing video conferencing screen sharing anything we could to try to continue to get the audit done and that audit evidence I did want to talk a little bit about the cares act funding especially since mistele brought that up about the various items that were granted through the cares act funding that did come in what I would do want to point out is that you will not see it in this audit report that were talking about so this audit report is as of June 30th 2020 and the funds were not approach hated by the state until 2021 which means in your next audit so your June 30 2021 audit is when we will see all of that cares act funding come through and actually be recognized so while it did come are we did have many conversations with management about it but we did not that's not actually in the numbers in your report yet because it's just not it just wasn't appropriated as far as the different things that we because of the pandemic in the shutdown we did spend some time making sure that even while your operations were were remote that your internal controls were still operating because you know when when you're not physically there and things maybe aren't getting signed and and things aren't proceeding through a process as normal we did spend a little extra time to make sure that authorizations were still happening and that thing you know things were still getting approved and still getting the appropriate sign off as your policies dictate so let's go ahead to go to the next requirement or the neck and then I was part of that you also got as part of the audit you also got a your governance communication this is basically our communication back to you ask board to let you know but what the the findings were from the audit so here we just wanted to summarize that we did Issue an unmodified opinion on the financials which is the highest and best opinion that we can render it does mean that the amounts that you see in financial statements are fairly presented and that the district has complied with all the appropriate accounting guidelines and included all the appropriate disclosure there were no significant changes this year as far as new accounting standards or anything like that so that was one nice thing in the middle of this craziness of the pandemic so everything was pretty much the same and I we always to let you know about any estimates that are in financial statements because in reality every financial statement that you see really has some form of estimate within it the ones that are the biggest estimates that are likable to the district are really have to do with the liabilities that are related to stars and purse and your other post-employment benefits because those are all Actuarial estimates and we do use those are we evolve wait both the actuary skill the data that the actuary use that census data and their assumptions we found them to be reasonable so we use the we used their estimate of a liability within your financial state we also would be required to report to you if we had any difficulties or disagreements with management even if they were resolved and I'm happy to report that none of those existed and summary of fight we did have three audit adjustments that were related to the accrual of lcff and property taxes and then there was also a post-closing entry that that was discovered by santha that we rolled through for her related to workers comp we did have two findings this year one was the finding related to the lcff and property tax accruals that's in there as in your report as finding 2020 - 01 and then the second finding is the state compliance finding that is related to classroom teacher salaries and that's in there is finding 2020 - 02 there was one prior-year finding that was that was related to closing procedures that we reported out as implemented and saw that one that one was cleared up next find our next us like please just really quick highlights of the financial statements I just put these in just so you can have a visual of what the final financial statements look like the really the biggest change here this is the statement of net position the really the the biggest changes related to your your assets and that was primarily driven by an increase in your accounts receivable because this year that June payment of the lcff was deferred and so it's city is a receivable and so that really is that the big increase it's there but when all you can see your total net position really was very similar to Prior year at -39.6 million next light and then August the statement of activities and here we can just see a generally a decrease both in expenses as obviously the district is going through many expense cutting but they're do what you're cutting expenses but also because of the shutdown those last three months of the year there was just less operation so you were spending less also that translated into to not all of the federal and state grants being spent and so there was a little more being rolled over carried over into the next year so that was you can see a decrease both in revenues and expenses but overall you had an increase in net income of just a are under $300,000 and next line and then this is just a nice picture of your your fund balance overtime this is actually a pictorial version of the report that is on page 65 of the audit reports your financial Trends in analysis where we show you the two prior years we show you the current year which this report is 20/20 and then what the estimate is of the budget and this gives you a pictorial representation of how the fund balance has grown over time that blue piece is the reserve and the whole Tire bar is the the total fund balance and the district has budgeted for well at least at budget adoption it was you were budgeted for 11% Reserve in 2021 a Time that has been revised several times now that we are you know well past 1st and 2nd interim so next slide and then for federal and state on a program it's as I mentioned previously we do we have to do audit procedures for both your federal and state grants so your federal program Federal programs do you have we have an unmodified opinion on compliance we had no findings related to your federal federal funds and I we tested head start this year and then your state program audit you can see all of those programs that we had the tests listed out on page 757 79 of your report there's quite a few there was we had no findings except for the classroom teacher salaries and that is all the other programs were fine and I think that might be it or just let next slide there's just always let my districts know that we do have upcoming standards that are changing this this year is Gatsby statement number 84 and it is addressing how you will be reporting your Associated student body funds so those Student Activity fund that will be changing this year we will work with Santa to help make sure that. Gets implemented and then the year after you will see statement number 87 involving leases and that's going to be a really big change that will become also so I know I'm taking quite a bit of time so I will wrap up if you have any questions I'm happy to answer those any questions from the boar okay thank you mr. I wanted to express our gratitude me something and one of the rest of the board thank you very much like you have any questions so we do appreciate the door thank you very much and is always I want to thank everybody there Santa is just tremendous and I certainly did The Lion Share work on this and I truly truly appreciate her thank you attention we do to we do too so we're going to move on to item number seven written communication and we do have written communication and talkin about miss vanjie it is letter from Lako practically say you nothing compared with the district's positive certification so again I would already communication praise goes to his Legend UPenn her team misdeal when are you a stalker what's your with this right now but thank you I appreciate it for the poor thank you item number 8 public comments the Board of Education welcome input from the air from the public in order to District business in Mortal reminder for the privacy and safety of speakers and to help stop respond more directly before policies required at public presentations billboard comply with getting procedures including give me address only items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board when addressing the board speakers are requested to State their name address the board from Napoleon not here to the applicable timer 3 minutes total timer Republican put on either agenda or non-exempt items with limited to 20 minutes complaints follow the district complaint procedure before discussion with the four first we have bath at each location BPA that unibrow Hospital coming from PTA I believe that written statement read who has access to a written statement okay give me a few seconds will come back to you in a few minutes do we have any weapons to get there yes we have Mister Joe Korea hey can you guys hear me gray okay my name is Joseph Carrillo CST president today to speak on behalf of the members who are being considered for reduction or lay off most of these positions are instructional aides and we have one time fun specifically to find instructional aide I hope that through these funds the district can provide oportun please for these folks also the athletic trainer position is vital to Serious injury mitigation and supporting our student-athletes with any injury recovery needed I believe as we get closer to going back to normal our sporting activities also be back in full swing I believe the district will have a difficult time feeling this position without benefits or full-time given the minimum qualification are pretty high next episode in that's not on the agenda but nevertheless will be let go come June 30th is the information systems analyst position this position is vital to the efforts of the district and moving our student information system into maturity last year the board decided to postpone this layoff and approve it for the 20 22 Square however the situation has not changed our students system is still in its infancy and the need for support with all my registration and educational apps is only growing in fact California chart for cradle to Career data system which I will require school districts to submit even more data to Cal pad which is the primary database for K through 12 if the position is eliminated it will cause a bottleneck in our district with only one single person to service the numerous tickets and state deadlines already in place the maturity of our system system and our ability to support project becomes hamstrung God forbid something happens to this person or they want to take a vacation and now the district will need to reach out for contractors from edge of plantar sis vendor which is not cheap support for sis and data stop the decision to cut this area was at the time but most are approach it was not the most strategic it is a mistake I challenge anyone to have the discussion with me and in the end still be convinced that this is a good decision for Bassett when there are so many negatives I implore you to bring a resolution to next month's board me is positions for the sake of Bassett Leslie on a more positive note I would like to say that CSEA week is coming up next month and we are happy to hear that the superintendent is on board with combining efforts with us and the PC the really honor our CSEA members and Frontline Heroes we're thinking of a drive-through studying for goodies to celebrate so we're definitely looking forward to that thank you board for your time and consideration have a good evening thank you mr. Carrillo Miss Daisy only just to address your question I did look through my emails right now and I only talk communication she sent to us but nothing stating that she would not she texted that to me I asked her if it needed to be red because I didn't understand and she did say that that would be great if it could be read by a neutral party so I don't know if that's requester whatever you might want to seek clarification from her. are any members Metro hot do we have a purse we have missile television and how much time passed that you have from sauce hoping it's okay thank you can you guys hear me okay good evening everybody this time I'm going to talk a little bit slower because every time I speak people get the wrong message or stay I said things I didn't say but before that I have a item in the past I given shirts to the board members and even weeks to some community members do this evening I'm going to do something for the community I'm going to make a sound the first person is it correct and emails that superintendent I will win the item I'm doing this in hopes that this might help some of the teachers are still lost or confused about their job and responsibility find sound healthful okay so whoever gets it kid that's one hopefully we'll get a winner soon and then I'm going to also do statements or questions or something the proper makes you go and it's up to the community now instead of saying they can guess what I'm trying to what the message is number one mr. Barajas there is no I in team that's a good one why have unions all they do is Dubai if a parent gives permission to the abuser to abuse their child what recourse does the law have number for if the superintendent lives leaves and no one else applies for the position and for example I'm the only one that applies would I get that job number 5 if the board members are so righteous and doing this for free then why do they receive health insurance for them and their families maybe they should refuse to do that and I'm not talkin your regular HMO number 6 if the board members disrespect the position they hold why are they confused when a passionate parent disrespect them number 7 are the board members selected to represent the teachers or students that's a good one if your children do not attend back to UNIF School District or actually never hash did you really have something to stay and support member is my children cannot attend and Bassett Unified School District neither can abusive teacher number 10 the biggest dinner is not the one that commits the abuse of the one watching it and saying and doing nothing number 11 rapper ages is not just for slaves 12 if what is happening here is not racism and what is it to all the board members decide there could be a very enjoyable relaxing summer or a stressful one number 14 if an employee portal case at work while getting paid does that change their job title the CDC states that three speed is safe why are we still implementing safety rule 16 how long does it take Lako to do a financial audit number 17 play posters child abuse Uber or around them are they trying to do mandated reporting number 18 bars churches restaurant strip bars Amusement star school stores warehouses trains planes and taco trucks are open why are we still zoom in our board meetings again thank you community for the support thank you some stuff for all the hate because that keeps me in Focus that we still have a lot of work to do we will speak next meeting thank you thank you Matt Sullivan usual hot. Kenzie has her Adam relis are you coming down tomorrow okay thank you Donna Morales hi can you hear me good evening to all board members and community and staff my name is Ana Morales and I wanted to speak tonight about a few things one it was about the last what was at the hearing for the PC position I know you guys are going to have a hearing after this there's rumors out in the community that are being sad from some other about I in Los Santos speaking on how we felt about that position and the person that was being selected that Mr Solano brought his Power Team to speak and you know I have news for whoever is saying that we do have a mind of her own don't underestimate our community we have very smart people and we can think for ourselves we were never to come and speak we speak because we hear was going on especially in the meetings and another concern that I have is the meetings that we have been listening 2 most of them on the comments being made by you know by people it's not about the children it's always about put down complaints about some board members some community I want it I want to hear me personally and the community speaking to a lot of community and parents we want to hear amor when people come and speak like my cell I want to hear what we can do at the team to to help the children of this community get an excellent education how can we make the kid for not make them welcome our kids and their parents to stay in our schools that would be one of the things that I would like to hear from people calling in and always you know it's always put-downs when I was going to stop fighting and focus on the education of our children help out you know dr. Alvarez and even the Ford Focus more on the education of our children are we forgetting why we're all here I think we are our priority should be number one the students of Bassett the students of Bassett community that is my I already and that is my love for the children of this community and I do want to say something to the Board of Education I know it was that already but that was in the in my mind you all have to remember the Wii Community elected you to sit there and I thank you for sitting there it has to be hard sometimes but the focus should be number one our students number two I think you should get the community and yes you should be concerned about the staff and teachers but our priority and number one I should be the kiss of this community and that's what I wanted to say that is my passion that was my love and I want to see this children stay here and do not have to be to stay next door Baldwin Park Hacienda La Puente West Covina I want to children to stay here and Bassett because this are our schools this is our community I can get an excellent education we should all put our minds together and work together and stop the put-downs please I'm asking you and thank you for your time thank you mrs. what are they mrs. Rojas do we have anyone else Republic Ramen no that was thank you board member common item number 949, we will begin with Mis Flores okay so good evening Bassett Community I hope everyone is doing well we're having several great things happening here at Bassett first and foremost our kiddos are slowly transitioning back to school this is so exciting and I'm very excited and very hopeful that we can send you on a positive track with this pandemic and that we can transition to a full return to campus in the following 21 please no the district leadership will ensure that we continue safety precautions to ensure the safety of our kiddos and well as our District staff I'd also like to add congratulations to miss Marcell receiving end of the year set a district 22 to receive the 2021 excellence in education this award was for her extraordinary work and nurturing our children made this award was received from Senator Susan Rubio's office congratulations again the star sale we are so very proud of you I had the opportunity to attend the final football game of the season as you all know I'm very passionate about sports specially used for the field was so decorated and looks absolutely spirit and it was so great thank you for the parents that came together for the team they were parents of spent the afternoon decorating the shield parents packing like snack meals for the students after I'm sorry for the players we have the band in Cher performing it was such an exciting atmosphere on the game oh my gosh the game The Last 51 seconds of the game were so exciting outcome was not what we had helped far but I applaud the players for giving it their all just do the same for a grave season thank you to coach coffee us for doing a great job with the team about two weeks ago I received an email where someone stated it's amazing what we can accomplish when we work together this is so true and as we heard earlier from a Community member just a bit ago we need to work together for the benefit of our students there there are things that we need to focus our energies on academics stability our facilities on building our community engagement I seen the power of the parents and it's so great let's harness that and let's work with that and it does seem at times but however it does what time so we can get caught up and get your booty and it takes away from our purpose here which is the students please know that I'm in binomial is discounting the concerns of the community but rather than going back and forth each other let's sit down and discuss these concerns when I asked that we work together this does not mean that we're always going to agree or we have to vote in the same way Ruth Bader Ginsburg said we can we can disagree without being disagreeable overtime of her great ideas from staff and Community talking in from Sports Community I've heard from teachers and a video put up on our website can some people can look at a video easier than they can you know read a memo so that's great but let's come to the table and share these ideas so we can make it work for improving the quality of are education here at Bassett and what we can offer our students as they save begin with the end in mind if we all work for the same goal we can accomplish great things for the students there is one thing I would to address and something that has been going around about board members in other people's pockets or something like that I would like to stay the no board member is in anyone's pocket for myself I was elected by the Community to represent our students it is the students that have my voice on there I am available to the community on stuff and I do listen to the concerns of our community and stuff we can't fix what we don't know is wrong so we do need to open our ears to listen Okay but also know that I will escalate the concerns that I do hear through proper channels the community and staff have my ear but the students have my voice so it start again please let's move forward together let's start focusing on what's important to students and having a plan to move forward our students right now and hybrid mode or hoping they'll come back in the world with hope we are hoping and praying to come back full in the fall let's plan for great fall thank you so much sausage appreciate your time thank you Miss Lori stanzione good evening Bassett you know I'm sitting here and I'm listening to people speak and it brings me great joy to think that were on the same wavelength do these notes on Saturday after the event at the mini-mall that really troubles me and gave me gave me pause as to what can we do as Leaders as a community and bouncer so I wrote The Following chosen by the public school board consider the needs of the students in a vision policy and goals for structure that will support student achievement and the district but most of all school boards supposed to serve as advocates for the students it just Public Schools school boards ensure accountability and all of this is according to the California school boards Association not my words that being said at our last board meeting we signed to I need my winter enabling is upgrade get it all the stuff we cannot move forward as a society as a community or as a district if this does not stop of light we seeing up weaning off and deadly violence in our community blocks for homes never is education more important than now at the last meeting instead of the wisdom of Nelson Mandela on the importance of it education as a tool for Change and ever so timely Edward James Olmos education is the vaccine for violence how important is that violence is born in Vallejo and yes as elected officials we can be called names and belittle but any board member play the staff for another Community member it's not acceptable by any standard while individuals can call us names or wishes ill will it is our responsibility to rise above that to take the high road as they stay I congratulate all the students for their continued Cortez patience. Should we know it now it's not easy I think all stakeholders for supporting the children that being the families the teachers the support staff I also think all of you have spoken out and reached out to be heard horoscope for the trees and we must all speak for the children please remember in that speaking that there may be young people in the audience remember the behaviors that we model are the behaviors that they will learn and they believed to be acceptable I'll take the high road since 2014 I've called for a focus on the children to show the uniqueness of our commanding I've always said that the children deserve the best because they are I'm at now and I will just say vaccinated if you can stay safe and good night though Craigslist anziani do you know what I do want to think our community members who are short haircuts remember to shared apartment a few minutes ago I was listening I was reflecting on the comment then you know what I am noticing of course of common theme it goes without saying there are kids are the most powerful thing that it is true that no one can really argue against up and yeah we forgot and we get sucked into adult problems and just focus on the adult in the room and it is unfortunate because we forget about to do that. And I. That's back and I think it probably happens with with most of the time Debbie said you know I really appreciate the worth of a set of Shottas when he when he says that the end of all knowledge in service to other because at the end of the day I think that that's really what we're trying to do is it true that sometimes become short of doing the best that we can yeah I think that we do all that to each other as well to reflect not always going to get everything right we're not going to be perfect we can reflect in order for us a course to improve ourselves in the hopes of course of improving opportunities for a kiddos which will hopefully of course also improve the quality of life of our community so if ya did that today play to just lifting in look up what was being shared and with luck because I believe that we all we all need some time to reflect every now and then question ourselves and ask ourselves are we really doing the best that we can't break it up and if we are great that's awesome keep at it if we believe that we could give more I wish I was you how to give a little bit more because at the end of the day it is a noble car the kids it's a future and of course they're the most precious thing we have in this world event thank you to the community members or members who spoke before me I appreciate your kind words thank you yes good evening. The community and staff thanks I would like to thank everybody that was involved in the reopening of our schools and getting our students back to class you know what a great deal and means to the students coming it was a little different we had talked about it being different but it was still a shock to them when they're unable to play with the students they knew they were going to play on the playground bit they still enjoyed being back in class they enjoyed their teachers face to face what they're doing in the rest of your classmates I know it's not a lot but they're they're so I want to thank everybody who made it possible to get them going the teachers are custodians the ministrator anyone that I've missed thank you all we're doing it in a student's back in and I also like to thank the classified employees that have been here through the whole pandemic that have been present in the ones that have been here like the bus drivers taking the 10 pictures of all the people that are coming in the maintenance that is still working on our schools the plumbers and your ground state employees thank you all you kept are schools going you kept them clean and everything working and you took a risk and I'd like to thank you you're you're not unappreciated your very much appreciated it was work that needed to be done and you stepped in thank you I also like to talk about like the gang activity that's going on letra my phone when we go out to the store let's pay attention to our surroundings there is a game we're going on the stairs are trying to work on it and let it control it so please be mindful with especially with the children when they go in with 10 to concentrate on the kids and where they're at and make sure that especially happening around here by Van Wig by Big saver the parking lot in that area please be careful and I like to wish all the mothers a happy Mother's Day I know it's in a week or two I don't know who you have a board meeting I haven't checked but happy Mother's Day to to all the mothers out there so have a good evening thank you thank you mr. And thank set a reminder of Happy Mother's Day not to item number 10 notice of public hearing for personnel Commission I don't want it reads conduct public hearing writing appointment of personal Commission in literature of public government code 357 a regular board meeting regarding the governing of Education Department to the Personnel commission Tuesday April 27th 2021 which is today that he said the Publix near me open at 8:53 okay I left public hearing is open and we will take participants go ahead and use the racial and future and I will well I left miss you but I'll cool as I see them up so I see you first Miss Laura Santos regarding the applicants for the PC Miss Flores told me that she publicly deemed one of them her political husband and I know there's not a big compensation for the position but there is some and I think one thing that needs to be considered is that whether you know there's any Financial benefits slowing that would cause a conflict and in in would be you know Oprah College be appropriate for her to recuse herself from the vote and I don't know the terms of the relationship with the spouses all the spa but it might be a good idea to look at that their spouses also cuz maybe if there is some kind of financial benefit that you know the other spouse's might be the channel okay and that's my comment up next we have missed Apollonia Sullivan good evening again I needed to stay some days and I concur with Miss Santos. When you politically speaking you're holding a position you should be very careful what you say and in the past and in the board meetings and in the lobby political Hospital word was used throughout and the relationship between Armando Barajas mr. Rodriguez and then dies and has not forget dodo bird Mister I will leave a lot to say if one of the persons mr. Rodriguez supposed to be put in this position as you will know my children have been pushed out of the district's so you might say why do I have to have an opinion I do have an opinion because that would probably regress the district and not progress the district so is that a residence that would affect my property taxes and my quality of life Miss Jennifer that is if I'm not mistaken that holds the position right now has failed it for a few years and I hear a lot but one thing I can tell you a position has been held at the upmost respect at the utmost professionalism by keeping a whatever is going on within that brome and not spread among the community and hopefully Miss Santos and a lot of the community would agree with me that to do anything different would bring negative light by replacing a respectful holding up a station with a very controversial member of the community would not be in the best interest of this three board members whether they're in the pockets of the teachers or not I think the community will decipher that shortly and that's my thoughts for the evening on that thank you Delavan what anyone else like to speak when outgoing one why if that's the case then that concludes our public hearing can I get them listen to close a public hearing thank you. 858 thank you very much we going to have the number 11 discussion action item number 100 point blank as a border then if the Personnel commission or she'll discuss that move to appoint qualified candidate or the possession or show them both and announced their intention of pointy at the same meeting can I get a motion from anyone to appoint any of the candidates I moved to app Jennifer Bettis to the TC FCC commissioner as she is in that position already and has been qualified in is held it for a while and experience thank you but I have a motion for Miss Perez can I get a second nutrient Dragon me I'm just wanting to be here all night I already made my motion it didn't nobody to check and did so let's move on I'll be here all night we already know what's going to happen so let's just a motion to appoint Mr Amadeo Rodriguez to the position call Yolanda Pepin okay I just want to make a comment know that this is not a conflict of interest I know it's fission involves and there is no conflict of interest here furthermore as we stated earlier you know let's work together on this discounted it comes to us knowing the Merit system works for the Social Security Administration what's the Merit system and that is something that could be really utilized in the PC commission K again if anybody has questions regarding that I'm available to listen but right now I give my motion in favor okay so can I get emotional too first of the month you've already had the 2nd you haven't discussed in now called to the home where you're going to vote to approve or not approve the Rope I know I'm sorry the audio was very quiet what is the list of oat weather today a motion to approve the financial audit and the bond performance audit for Proposition 39 Rosa Flores why did Russian oh for the motion okay bye the number 3 approve the final financial report Miss Laura's NFL Network bye open carry or phone number for Board of Education and Care with the proposed person of the Mason budget there's nothing really sketchy mr. Barajas thank you I apologize I apologize for the superintendent recommends the Board of Education and career with the proposed Personnel commission budget Personnel commission budget report annually by the Personnel commission the budget was submitted to the Sprint Center by the Personnel director on April 21st 2021 to April 20th 2021 the Personnel commission held at the required public hearing and adopt 2021-2022 fiscal year budget the Personnel commission will submit its budgets to the county superintendent of schools for approval at the same time both of you to be admitted to the bath Unified School District Board of Education. and concurrence following action taken at the board meeting the bath Unified School District superintendent will file a notice of intent with the county of the County Office of Education indicating concurrent neutrality or objects the proposed 2021-2022 Personnel commission budget that was a lot can I get a motion for that's the only move I like to amend the most weight second in a second all right that's a good question I would like to amend the motion and move that we table this to the next board meeting the reason for that is that I've looked at the budget and I have questions and don't have time to meet. I did not have time to meet with this Howard however also immediately looking at I see the district units a lot of the units in the district or having to reduce funds so we can get to a fiscal stability and I haven't seen the PC budget and the ratios of staff to salaries is I just want to get some answers on those stuff to salaries and things like that so I'd like to ask table this to the next meeting I would go along like that there's a motion to table item number for Loris and I want seconds are you okay thank you yes but we didn't hear what mr. Garrison I said no cuz I should have been asked in advance okay Smith Antonio I'm okay with it as long as it doesn't affect any Financial activity I'm okay Robert Smith affect anything that's financially necessary at this point not at this point would actually have until the end of May to submit it to Lake o getting the questions answered and share your everybody please all supported motion Curry's 3 1 I don't know number 7 consent calendar all medicine under consent calendar are considered by the board to be items that will be enacted by the boy and one motion there will be no discussion of these items prior to the on the board votes on a motion unless members before stop or public request specific items to be discussed and oil removed from the content calendar and I got a motion to approve it a second Monroe santioni motion carries or thank you very much I don't know berate the German for next regular board meeting May 11th 2021 and then item number to I trim in a regular board meeting of April 27th 21 can I get a motion to add row row call McLaren hi we're meeting at the church at 9:10 p.m. thank you Beth did have a great night be safe everybody

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