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CUSD BOT Meeting November 8, 2017 - CONSENT CALENDAR BUSINESS & SUPPORT SERVICES Agenda Items #3 - #12
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| November 8, 2017 CUSD Board of Trustees Meeting: Consent Calendar |
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Agenda Items #3 - #12 Business & Support Services Division
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered by the Board to be routine and will be enacted by the Board in one motion in the form listed below. There will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the Board votes on the motion unless members of the Board, staff, or the public request specific items to be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Calendar. The Superintendent and the staff recommend approval of all Consent Calendar items.
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PUBLIC COMMENT is now limited to 5 minutes per speaker total no matter how many Items an individual speaker wishes to comment on.
If I would have been present at this meeting, I would have pulled and made Public Comment on the following Items: Agenda Item #3, #4, #5, #6, #8 and #12 for the reasons explained below. I would have had a total of 5 minutes to speak on all 6 Items (less than 50 seconds per Item)
CUSD GIFTED THE RANCH $13 MILLION DOLLARS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR as such, it is very important for taxpayers to watch what business is done on the Consent Calendar. Land Purchases are "UNIQUE"; and therefore should not be done on the Consent Calendar, which are suppose to be items that are routine in nature.
Board Meeting Agenda page 14
Board Audio at 1:05:49
| BLUE CARD Rhonda Whalen (CSEA President- Classified Staff aka Support Staff (Not teachers) Temporary Additional Assignments. CUSD has a systems problem. Payments for additional assignments are not being paid in a timely manner. Ed Code says CUSD has 5 days to correct errors. Mileage reimbursement has taken over 7 weeks. We have 70 IA and IE vacancies. Not being paid on time shows CUSD does not value employees. |
It should be noted that Contracts with employees are not finalized. The District is at an impasse with Teachers and teachers have threatened to strike.
For Bargaining Updates CUSD: http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1498723055047
For Bargaining Up-dates CUEA (Teachers): http://www.cuea.org/negotiations/1617_negotiations.php
Board Audio at 1:10:23
No Items were pulled or discussed by Trustees.
Motion by Trustee Holloway to pass all Consent Items without discussion
Second by Trustee Bullockus
All Items passed on the Consent Calendar by a vote of 6-0-1 (Trustee Reardon absent) without any discussion
By passing these Items on Consent- Trustees are stating that these are routine business Items that require no discussion or action on the part of Trustees.
BUSINESS AND SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION
Clark Hampton, Deputy Superintendent Business and Support Services
Phone: 234-9211
Susan Baeza, Executive Secretary
DEPARTMENTS:
Fiscal Services: Philippa Geiger, Assistant Superintendent
Food and Nutrition: Kristin Hilleman, Director
Phone (949) 234-501
Purchasing/Print Services/Warehouse: Lynh N. Rust, Executive Director
Phone (949) 234-9436
Technology Information Services: Jeremy Davis, Chief Technology Officer
Phone 234-9474
Transportation: Caros Chicas, Director
Phone 234-9920
Facilities Planning, Construction, Maintenance & Operations: John Forney, Chief Facilities Officer
Phone 234-9543
Agenda Item #3 DONATION OF FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT page 14
Total Donations $536,629.67
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on Consent without Discussion
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED There is no "EQUITY" when a school district relies on fundraising and donations to pay for CORE educational programs. One time money should never be used for "ongoing" expenses. Fundraising for Music: $12,000 Ambuehl $18,000 Arroyo Vista |
$24,000 Canyon Vista
$24,000 Don Juan Avila
$24,000 Ladera Ranch
$24,000 Las Flores
$24,000 Marblehead
$24,000 Oak Grove
$18,000 Phillip Reily
$18,000 San Juan
$18,000 Vista Del Mar
$23,200 Wagon Wheel
TOTAL $221,200
THIS DOES NOT SMELL LIKE CUSD FUNDS MUSIC FOR ALL K-3 STUDENTS
EQUITY?
Fundraising for Art:
$5,159.67Arroyo Vista
$4,589.19 Ladera Ranch
EQUITY?
Homework Clubs:
Is it OK for Cities to use City Tax payer dollars for homework clubs for some but not all of the CUSD schools in their district?
EQUITY?
Fundraising for Core Educational Programs
Some schools have no art - music- science or PE because they do not fundraise for it. Is it OK for a school to decide not to have core educational programs ... but to fund a "Calming Sensory room" instead?
EQUITY?
Instructional Aids
If some schools are rich enough to buy instructional aids then their class sizes are smaller than other classes - is that "EQUITABLE"?
EQUITY?
Fundraising for WASC Accreditation
If Dana Hills PTSA had not paid $3,000 for WASC accreditation would that mean that Dana Hills would no longer be an accredited school?
WHAT?
Fundraising for Teacher Professional Development
CUSD gets millions of dollars in grant funds that can only be spent on Professional Development... should parents really be "fundraising" for Professional development for teachers on top of the grant money?
WHAT?
Any donation over $1,000 should be specified.
COMMON SENSE?
Agenda Item #4 PURCHASE ORDERS, COMMERCIAL WARRANTS AND PREVIOUSLY BOARD-APPROVED BIDS AND CONTRACTS: page 19
Purchase Orders: $24,833,358.95
Warrants: $18,990,405.42
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on Consent without Discussion
SPENDING BY FUND
01 General Fund: $115,209,253.40
12 Child Development Fund: $13,108.00
13 Cafeteria Fund: $29,357.17
14 Deferred Maintenance: $341,028.45
25 Capital Facilities: $98,675.03
40 Special Reserve Fund: $41,844.59
69 Health: 25.00
Fund 89 CFD 90-2: $2,844,395
Fund 92 CFD 92-1: $5,182,067.07
Fund 93 CFD 2004- Bond: $35,120.33
Fund 95 CFD 98-1A: $2,825.00
Fund 98 CFD 98-2: $1,035,658.95
TOTAL: $24,833,358.95
SPENDING BY SUB-FUND
SUBFUND 0101: $10,948,443.86
SUBFUND 0909: $75,473.33
SUBFUND 1212: $26,623.67
SUBFUND 1313: $224,417.77
SUBFUND 1414: $284,272.70
SUBFUND 2123: $8,090.00
SUBFUND 2525: $2,640,480.33
SUBFUND 4040: $234,942.19
SUBFUND 6768: $316,593.32
SUBFUND 6796: $4,147,837.39
SUBFUND 6770: $83,230.86
TOTAL: $18,990,405.42
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL STRATEGIES $250,000.00 |
$165,000.00 General Fund
$85,000.00 Mello-Roos
see: Brown Act Violation
A- Z Bus Sales $206,557.96
CUSD has cut its bus routes from 62 to 18 since 2007-08?
Winner Chevrolet $47,954.73
Referrenced as Furniture & Equipment
OCDE $97,894.00
Transfer 2 Charters in Lieu of Taxes?
CASBO $1,940.00
CEPTA $1,515,00
Coalition for Adequate School Housing $1,049.00
Payments to organizations that all have political PACS that advocate PAY-TO-PLAY and against Taxpayer/student interests.
KOCE-TV Foundation $60,596.55
Why is CUSD donating to Foundations?
Scheider Electric $3,409,326.00
Solar Project Prop 39 Funds- CUSD should have used their Prop 39 money to replace HVAC systems. A HEALTH and SAFETY ISSUE.
Agenda Item #5 INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, FIELD SERVICE AND MASTER CONTRACT AGREEMENTS: page 125
16 new agreements totaling $1,071,367.93
7 Amendments $44,564
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on Consent without Discussion
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED |
RED FLAG RH Dana
$38,167.93 RH Dana Flooring Moisture Testing
RH Dana Facilities are in very poor condition needing $5,157,900 in EMERGENCY REPAIRS - see Nov 1, 2017 Facilities Condition Assessment RH Dana Is there a mold issue?
A Williams Complaint has been filed on behalf of the students at RH Dana
Marblehead Elementary School - Halftime Happenings
EQUITY?
$5,900.00 City of San Clemente Provide recreation leaders for Halftime Happenings Program at Marblehead Elementary School - shouldn't this be coming from "Gift Funds" not the "General Fund"?
Pali Institute
EQUITY?
$501,000 Pali Institute Outdoor Education - shouldn't this be coming from "Gift Funds" not the "General Fund"?
Aroyo Vista ES $21,571.00
Carl Hankey ES $9,825.50
Concordia ES $16,530.00
Don Juan Avila $26,975.00
John S Malcom ES $19,308.75
Oso Grande ES $36,960.00
Tijeras Creek ES $12,865.00
Truman Benedict ES $22,995.50
Vista Del Mar ES $43,600.00
Wagon Wheel ES $18,986.25
School Services of California
$100,000.00 School Services of California, Inc. Provide services related to District collective bargaining negotiations. We spend a lot of money on negotiations- to no end.
Illuminiate Education
Illuminate Education is a student data collection and assessment platform. This Item amended the $224,000 contract by $11,000 to $235,000 without an explanation as to what the increase was for.
Eric Hall & Associates
Increase contract from $25,000 to $40,000
Consultant Hired to provide administrative support of vendor contracts, the competitive bidding process including negotiations, analysis, recommendation and preparation of District bids, leases and contracts with Venors
Public Economics Inc.
Amend Fee Schedule
Consultant hired to help CUSD with special servicesL
New Markets Tax Credits Typically the NMTC's are sold to for-profit investors and the sales proceeds create a subsidy that can be used by a non-profit entity to write down the cost of its facility acquisition or facility financing.
Redevelopment Consulting services may include obtaining additional revenues from:
New redevelopment project areas established or amended pursuant to AB 1290 and SB 211
Existing redevelopment project areas which pre-date AB 1290, including"2 Percent" payments per the Santa Ana decision
Enforcing RDA compliance with existing redevelopment agreements
Housing subsidies for qualified District employees
Other Services:
School Facilities Needs analyses/Fee Justification Studies
Development and Reimbursement Agreements
Strategic Funding Plans
Financial Advisory Services
Asset Management
Gayle Paride
Extend contract term through June 30, 2018
Communications Strategist and Independent Contractor- CUSD- another MARKETING CONSULTANT
MELLO ROOS
AGENDA ITEM #6 RESOLUTION NO. 1718-22, APPROVING THE ANNUAL AND FIVE-YEAR REPORTABLE FEES REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017, IN COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE § 66001 AND § 66006: page 300
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on Consent without discussion
Statutory School fees aka "Developer Fees"
Beginning Balance $7,423,407.47
Reportable Fees Collected and Interest Earned $2,689,844.21
Expenses: $6,748,614.91
Bergeson Elementary School $ 346,913.34
OCASA $95,426.70
Ladera Ranch Elementary School $88,288.28
Ladera Ranch Middle School $195,035.65
Aliso Niguel High School $179,544.51
San Clemente High School (New Building) $1,851,275.31
San Juan Hills High School (New Building) $3,240,444.03
Tesoro High School $255,515.96
District Wide $532,171.13
Ending Balance $3,364,636.77
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED
This item was passed on Consent without discussion- there was no roll call vote. Superintendent Vital signed a Statement that she: "Certified that the above and foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the said Board at the meeting on the 8th day of November, 2017, by a roll call vote." at page 304 Should a Resolution passed with a Roll Call Vote be a Consent Item or a Discussion/Action Item? |
STUDENT DATA MANAGEMENT
AGENDA ITEM #7 PROPOSAL FOR SERVICES FOR QSS/OASIS VERSION L MIGRATION SUPPORT-HARRIS SCHOOL SOLUTIONS: page 318
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on the Consent Calendar without discussion.
The District previously used QSS (Quintessential School Systems) as the Business Services and Human Resource Services software solution for over ten years. That data still remains on the District HP3000 servers in the QSS system and database.
The District needs to convert all QSS data to a new database on a virtual server to ensure access to all historical business and human resources data. The District will be placing all archive data in a new structured query language (SQL) database on a virtual server. The District will then work with Harris School Solutions to install the most updated version of QSS onto that virtual server for future access to the data.
Cost: $25,446.50 + estimated $7,800 if the work can be completed within 3 months. If not an additional cost of $25,446.50 will be necessary. Funded by the General Fund.
FOOD SERVICES
AGENDA ITEM #8 OLIVER EQUIPMENT LEASE – OLIVER PACKAGING AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY: page 321
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on the Consent Calendar without discussion.
The Orange County Health Care Agency Environmental Health Department classifies all District Elementary School kitchens as pre-packaged food facilities. The District requires packaging equipment to ensure food is wrapped appropriately.
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED There is no "One-time lease fee" specified in the agreement as stated in the Contract. If CUSD agrees to buy 250,000 trays from Oliver Equipment Lease the company supplies the equipment for free. Schedule "A" of the Lease agreement states: "As consideration for your use of the Equipment as described herein, You agree to purchase from OPEC the minimum volumes of consumable product ("Consumable Product") specified on the first page of this lease. In the event that You do not anticipate meeting such minimum purchase requirement, you may alternatively pay to OPEC a one-time lease fee in the amount specified on the first page of this lease" There should be a cost associated with this contract. |
AGENDA ITEM #9 CHANGE ORDER NO. 1, BID NO. 1718-07, CROWN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORTABLE CLASSROOMS AND RESTROOM PROJECT page 326
Board Audio: None
This Item was passed on Consent without discussion
This Item is for work being done on the Crown Valley Elementary School Campus:
CHANGE ORDER NO 01:
01 $17,415.53 Soil Testing requires additional fill and compacting
02 $10,946.90 New Asphalt and slurry seal
03 $ 7,700.74 Modifications to ADA Entrance
04 $3,127.68 New Ramp Transitions on three Modular Buildings moved from Capo Valley High School
05 $ 854.85 Repair and replace water lines atpump
06 $2,795.96 Extend Handrails on new modulars
07 $2,025.88 Clean and pressure wash all blacktop
08 $ 4,894.11 Add new fence behind restroom
09 $1, 297.27 Relocate existing storage shed
Total Cost Change Order 01 $51,068.92
Total Cost of Contract with Change Order 01 $319,068.92
Funded by Capital Facilities Fund
AGENDA ITEM #10 ALISO VIEJO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED USE AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT FOR FALL 2017: page 360
Board Audio: None
This Item was past on the Consent Calendar without Discussion
This is a limited use maintenance agreement between the City of Aliso Viejo and CUSD for Foxborough Park Soccer Fields adjacent to Aliso Niguel High School. The agreement terms are November 1, 2017 through December 15, 2017.
The Cost is $450.00 paid for out of Aliso Niguel High School Site Funds
AGENDA ITEM #11 AMENDMENT NO. 2, PARKING SPACE RENTAL AGREEMENT – CAPO BEACH CALVARY: page 379
Board Audio
This Item was past on the Consent Calendar without Discussion
Rental Agreement between Capo BeachCalvary and CUSD for parking space rental on the South Transportation bus yard for $100 per month per space. $1,200 per year.
AGENDA ITEM #12 SECOND READING - BOARD POLICY 3461, DEBT MANAGEMENT POLICY: page 392
Board Audio at 167:40
SB 1029 Re: Annual Debt Transparency Report to be filed with the California Debt and Advisory Commission.
This is a new report that must be filed with the California Debt and Advisory Commission that will make ALL public debt for CUSD transparent.
Trustee Holloway was absent at the October 25, 2017 BOT Meeting.
A motion was approved at the October 25, 2017 CUSD BOT Meeting to bring this Item back on the November 8 2016 Consent Calendar as a SECOND READING.
| A BLUE CARD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED During the November 2016 Elections 187 of 206 school bond measures passed representing almost $50 billion (with a B) in new debt for California Property owners. CUSD's Measure M would have added $889 million dollars in new debt to Orange County Taxpayers who would have had to repay almost $1.8 billion dollars over the next 35 years. Broke school districts all across the state are looking for new revenue streams to keep them above water. The newest for CUSD is $26 million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREB Bonds). The State Controller; deeply troubled by the ever increasing debt piled on to local taxpayers, implemented SB 1029 which makes reporting total debt of each local municipality a requirement. nds to put solar panels on 6 high school parking lots and the District administrative building. See: CUSDWatch Capistrano Unified Direct and Overlapping Bond Debt November 1, 2017. CUSD facilities have $180 million in EMERGENCY Repairs!. Why is CUSD spending $26 million on solar panels when that money could have been used to fix leaking roofs and failing HVAC Systems? |