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I now reconvene the regular meeting of board of education at 6:00 pm with Cervantes, Cruz, Naw, Smith, and Shaw present. Before we begin, please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded.

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Reagan, the board met in close session from 4:40 p.m. to 5:41 p.m. regarding conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, one possible case. Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, six cases. Student readmission matters, student discipline matters, public employee appointments,

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high school principal and elementary principal, public employee discipline dismissal release and public employee performance evaluation superintendent. The board took the following action. Appointed Jonathan Cervantes as principal of Chino High School effective

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July 1st, 2026 with a vote of by a vote uh with Cruz N Shaw Smith voting yes and Cervantes abstained and appointed Kit Madkin as principal of Marshall Elementary School effective July 1st, 2026 with a vote of with

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Cervantes, Cruz, Nas, Shaw, and Smith voting yes. No further action was taken which requires public disclosure. >> Thank you, Reagan. And just to correct the record, it's not a 50 vote. It was four to four votes yes and one abstension. >> Correct. >> Okay, perfect.

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>> Okay, on to the pledge of allegiance. Mr. Smith, would you please lead us? Thank you. We are now on to one of our special annual recognition celebrating scholarships and the incredible community support that helps create amazing opportunities for our students.

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Tonight we are pleased to be pleased to welcome Tim Adams from Adams Photography. For many years, Tim and his team have supported CBUSD graduating seniors through the Julie Goldman Memorial hit, the Greens, for scholarship golf tournament, helping

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raise significant scholarship funds to assist students as they pursue their postsecary goals and future careers. Their continued generosity and commitment has have made a lasting impact on countless students and families throughout the our district and

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we're truly grateful for their ongoing support. Thank you so very much. Tim, we understand you have a check to present. Awesome. Board members, would you please join me? So, we tried something different this

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year. We went to Top Golf. I thought we had a good time. Um, the feedback that we got, it sounds like we want to go out and play golf on a golf course. So, uh, we're putting all those pieces in motion to go play golf next year. And um we're

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I was looking up the numbers for so this was the 17th year. We're going to go 18. Is that what we're doing? Um we're we're so close to $450,000 that we raised. Um I'm looking at that $500,000 mark in a couple years. So if you guys will keep

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having us, we'll keep doing this. We have such a good time. Um I'm proud to be part of this community. I'm proud to give back to where my kids went to school, where my family grew up. So if you guys will do it, I'm in. And so we'll keep doing it. So thank you so much. >> Of course.

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That's [snorts] once again. Can we give him a round of applause? Thank you Tim and Adam's Photography for the continuous generosity and dedication to our students. It really means a lot to us. God bless you. >> We're now up to comments from our

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employee representatives. Do we have anybody from ACT? Anybody from CSCA? Anybody from CH? Okay, we're now on to public comments. Reagan, how many requests speak?

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There's one. >> Awesome. Board bylaw 9323 meeting conduct establishes public comment guidelines and the following process applies. Speakers will be called in the order you registered on the electronic request to speak device. Names are displayed on monitors. Please watch your

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name to appear and line up on the designated numbers one through two. Well, we don't even have to say that. Once the recording secretary announces the first name, request to speak will no longer be accepted. Additionally, Government Code 54957.9 authorizes removal of an individual or group when a

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meeting is willfully interrupted and the order cannot be restored. Further, Penal Code 403 states that in part, every person who without authority of law with willfully disturbs or breaks up any lawful assembly or meeting not unlawful in its character is guilty of a

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misdemeanor. Mr. Cruz. >> Okay. Speakers, you have up to three minutes to address the board. You cannot donate your time, one person at the mic at a time. If you read on behalf of an absent person, that will be considered your time. Begin comments when the clock starts. The clock begins when the

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secretary announces your name. Please refer to board policy 1312.1 for the procedure regarding complaints against the employee. And last, speakers may not approach the dasis anytime the board is in session. Please give any materials you wish distributed to the board to the

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recording secretary [clears throat] >> Paul Griffin >> to uh continue our conversation. Um so last time we were here Mr. Naw you said that you are doing and the board is doing

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everything they can what is in the best interest of the students. So I appreciate the sentiment and also those kind words that you you gave but what defines what is in the best

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interest of the students changes from person to person. This is why we have elections and why we hope to have a diversity of perspectives and thoughts in any section of government. The key thing I was looking at though

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was is this board doing what's in the best interest of the students that attend Chino Unified or are we interested in undermining the faith that our parents have in our

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school system and move those students over to the private school that Calvary Chapel Chino Hills is beginning to build. And that's what I need some asurances on is are we connecting with the parents and letting them know that

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they can trust our teachers, that they can trust our curriculum, or are we sending lies and telling the public that we can't trust the public schools so that private schools can benefit from

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it? That's what I need to know. And until that's resolved, uh, my fear is that not just here, but nationwide, as Miss Shaw has said, there is a cabal she calls in Sacramento,

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two wrongs don't make a right. If we make a cabal that's on the right side of the political aisle, is I am a Republican. What I don't like about what my party's doing is that we have shut down any kind

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of meaningful back and forth, any kind of give and take, any kind of disagreement. If President Trump says it, well, he's untouchable. We can't disagree with him for fear of political or monetary retaliation.

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And this is what I want to make sure that this board is above that, that we will push back on those ideas. push back on this notion that someone our leader cannot be questioned. So with both of those I'm hoping we can see a better understanding of what we mean by what

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are we're doing for the best for our students here. Okay. Do I wait for that? >> Thank you. Okay, thank you. Um, we're now on to changes and deletions. >> There are no changes or deletions.

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>> Thank you so much. We're now on to action items. 2A1, public hearing regarding the 2026 2027 budget. Recommends the board of education conduct a bud public hearing. >> Right. >> Yeah. Act. We're now on action items 2A1, public hearing regarding the 2026

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2027 budget. Recommends the board of education conduct a public hearing regarding the 2026 2027 budget. I now open the public hearing at 6:10 p.m. Are there any speakers? >> Yes. One. >> Thank you. >> Paul Griffin.

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>> We're going to look at our budget. I'm hoping that the budget can include a podium for this room. I'm pretty sure it's not that inexpensive to ask for. I know we've asked for it many times before, but there are many occasions

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what we've seen where there's certain situations where people need immediate accommodation that a podium would be able to provide instantaneously. There are podiums all over this state, all over this country in the same forums.

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And the fear that Miss Shaw said that someone might come in here and hide a rifle behind the podium. Miss Shaw, you have to know. There's no

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way anyone hides that because your security, I mean, unless you have no faith in the security at all to check for weapons at the door. I mean, if anything, you want a metal detector, maybe put that in there. And I understand your fear of of people having death threats and things like that. That

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should never happen. I condemn anyone who gives a death threat to you or anyone else up here. That's not how we resolve things. But to say that someone might hide something here. If you've sat out here,

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all we can see are that that your heads. What are you hiding back there? If you fear that we might be hiding something, then we should also have that same fear here. So if you wanted to put in money to make this all transparent so that

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we're not fearing something in the same way you would fear us, that might be one way to resolve this, but I think that would be far more expensive and also just completely ridiculous. So, if you could find somewhere in the budget,

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perhaps maybe abiding by uh contract law so that you don't run into lawsuits that would cost the district money. That would easily be enough to get a podium in here. a podium that has the time so that I'm not having

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to look here or look up there or look over there like everyone else has come up to here to do so that we know how much time we have left. Like the podium we had at the old building, we had the lights green, yellow, red. It gives the

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speakers a chance to be calm and be able to convey their thoughts more easily. And this is what this board should be doing is listening to the public because you are servants doing the people's bidding. You can't do that if you constantly make the people feel too

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afraid to come up and speak. This is what this is for. Let's have a podium. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Griffin. Any more comments? >> Thank you. I now close the public hearing at 6:13 p.m. The next item is 2B1 public hearing regarding the local

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control accountability plan. recommend the board of education conduct a public hearing regarding the local control and accountability panel. I now open the public hearing at 6:13 p.m. Are there any speakers? >> There are none. >> Thank you very much. I now close the hearing at 6:14 p.m. That concludes

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action items. We're now moving on to consent. Board members, if you have any items to pull, please indicate so on your monitors. For the consent items, may I have a motion, please? Thank you, Mr. Naw. And a second. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Board members, please register your

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vote. Perfect. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. I don't know why I did that. Sorry, guys. We're now on to information items. Are there any comments or questions?

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Seeing that there's nothing on the monitor, we're now on to communications. Mr. Smith. Not a lot going on. So everyone and uh enjoy your summer time. >> Thank you, Mr. Smith. Mr. No, push your button

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and it's on. >> Um I'd like to thank u Mr. Darkin. Uh this is his last meeting tonight. Uh as a uh employee for our school district, he

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has been our principal and uh lastly uh he's been our director at HR. He has given almost all his public life working with our children in our school's district.

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So I really like to thank him and I wish him all the good uh restful exciting vacation times uh in his retirement years but I also ask him to

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come back and please substitute with us whenever he gets bored. So, let's let's give him a uh uh let's give him a big hand for all these years of service at Chino Valley Unified School District.

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Thank you, Mr. Darkin. Thank you. Thank you. You've been a great man for us and also for our children. You have been a true father to all of our children in our school district. Thank you.

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>> No. and um Dr. Well, no, we have Mr. Cruz button on. >> Okay, thank you. Well, Sonia Shaw did amazing. Our president

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with over one million votes leading the plaque. You know, it's exciting to have our school board president Shaw bringing a strong platform for our women's rights, supporting good teachers, real accountability and education, safety,

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and getting back to the basics, reading, writing, and math. Good job. Well done. Um, this one this one here is is to my heart. Okay. And this one goes to um Dr.

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Anfield. You know, President Trump recently signed an executive order that realigned federal vaccine recommendations. Is now limits routine government recommended recommended childhood vaccines to fewer than 10 core diseases with greater flexibility for

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parents and doctors. RFK quoted, "A fully compliant child in California must receive between 69 or 92 vaccines." That's all all the states. I'm not too sure what California is doses to attend school and not one of

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them has been safety tested. So that is really wonderful what RFK has done. Importantly, without the federal recommendation, these shots will no longer carry liability protection. And and in California, we have one out

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of 20 of our children that are on the autistic spectrum. And there is well doumented overlap between autism and transgender in our in our youth. And so, you know, what I ask is, you know, parents parents have a choice, you know,

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having their kids to go to our school district and knowing that these these um vaccines have never been tested, then maybe we should consider that parents have choice whether they want to vaccinate their kids and and allow them if that's feasible, you know, possible

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for our school district. So that that's one thing that that Dr. Enfield we we maybe we could reflect on that to see what we can do just [clears throat] just something to share knowing the fact none of these vaccines have never been tested and then

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you know you know something >> well there are some state requirements but we can look into it Mr. Na Mr. Cruz >> thank you [snorts] that's that's it for me thanks >> thank you Mr. Cruz Mr. Mr. Montes, >> thank you. Um, everybody, uh, hope

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you're enjoying your summer and it's late tonight, but uh, Mr. Griffin, you came, you could have been home doing something else or enjoying, uh, the evening. So, I appreciate your comments. Thank you for being here. And again, Mr. Durk, I want to echo a little bit on uh, what Mr. Nas said. You

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have uh, had a fabulous, fantastic, honoring career here in our district. dedicated yourself as a teacher, an assistant, a principal, and a director. And HR is not easy. So, it's uh much appreciated. We're going to miss you. We

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thank you for the dedication and also the uh succession plan you have to make sure that the hard work and dedication that you have done and continue to do will continue to make sure that it's happening in our district. So, we appreciate you. We thank you. And enjoy

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your retirement. It's a blast. you you may end up doing something else, but it's still nice to be uh moving on to other things. We're going to miss you and we appreciate you, sir. And also with regarding our uh we're looking at our 250 year celebration.

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June is a big kickoff especially coming up. Consider uh look at what the city of Chino has on their website. I'll mention a couple things. The main one is our the fourth of July spectacular. They're having on the 26th as a Friday and from I believe 4 to 10:00 p.m. and then on

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Saturday the 27th from 1 to 10. Get out there, get your families out there. It's a wonderful time way to connect and uh see people you haven't seen in a while. So, thank you guys and uh have a good night. >> Thank you, Mr. Svantes, Dr. Anfield.

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>> And I I will jump into and and thank Mr. Durkin for all his years of service in Chino Valley Unified School District. He's done a phenomenal job here. I know at every school site that he was at, the staff there, all of them uh completely respected him and uh enjoyed having him

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help lead them and he's done a phenomenal job like in our district. Also, um a little bit about Mr. Durkens. Um he actually was a uh I think assistant principal at the high school where my son attended and my nephew. So,

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um he did a phenomenal job over there, too. So, when he applied to come to our district, it was a no-brainer. Like, we're going to we're going to definitely hire and and steal somebody else's talent. And he's been a phenomenal talent here in our district. And again, Mr. Durkin, thank you for your years of

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service. And I wish you the best in retirement. >> Those are all my comments. >> Thank you. And I'll just ditto. Thank you, Mr. Durkin. I remember the first time I met you is when I was doing site visits, and your socks were my favorite. Don't ever stop wearing those, please. >> [laughter]

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>> They make everybody smile in a good way. Um, I like your style, but I also like your work ethics and thank you for keeping us in check here in Chino Valley. We appreciate your hard work and dedication. Um, and other than that, I just really want to tell people to enjoy the memories um, in summer and a parent

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had reported to me that um, unfortunately we lost um, a retired teacher, but Mrs. Farankus, I'm hoping I'm saying her name right, she was at Rolling Ridge. So, my heart goes out to her family and our community for that loss. And we just wish them all the prayers in the world and the comfort

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that they need, but we also want to thank her because I've heard she, you know, made a really big huge impact in a lot of children's lives here in the CVUSD um family. So, with that, we'll just close in honor of her at 6:22 p.m. I now adjourn the regular board of

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meeting at 6:22 p.m.