Remarks by Roberto J. Alonso
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“Thank you so much, Borna Colucci. And, you know, just on the summer school side, I was made aware and asking during spring and during the winter break we did open up some schools and there was very little if not minimal if not maybe no attendance at them so if we open up summer school in some schools let's make sure students are attending and that there's a plan if students don't show up that staff can go back home and we don't have to pay teachers because there were schools in my area that had very minimal students and a time that we're now trying to find cost savings to pay staffers just to…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay, good morning and welcome to the Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee meeting for Wednesday, May 6th, 2026. I'm now going to call this meeting to order. Can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Board Member Danny Espino.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“All right, next order of business is to move our E items to the floor. Can I get a motion?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you so much. I now have Board Chair Rojas.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay, follow up on that. I know that we're looking at ways to reduce the number of substitute teachers that we're requesting through our services to try to cut down on costs, but that also then creates additional stress on the schools, right? When somebody calls out sick or when somebody's there, what are we doing to make sure that we're deploying quick enough and that classes are not left empty while we're waiting for somebody from the central office to be deployed there? Because we know that Kelly Service has done an incredible job with their app, and it was something that worked smoothly,…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“I appreciate we're being proactive, and obviously we're following up with principals and the regions. Is everybody feeling okay with the process? I mean, obviously it's a change, nobody likes change, but are we being able to fulfill the needs of the schools based on your department's sort of view into what's happening?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Is there a way that, being that we're such a great partner, that we can work with Kelly Services to have the same app that's being used currently that everybody was used to to kind of help us just with strategy for this short term? Because, I mean, we want to continue being good partners. And I'm just thinking for a quicker deployment, if we had several staff members that were on call and were ready to get those requests from the online system, just to alleviate and help get things resolved quickly, especially in the last couple weeks of school.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, I think it's important not just for the schools but also for the staff that's being deployed all over the county to go fill those vacancies that we have a process in place that is done in a timely fashion, similar to the way that we do our standards, current fulfillment of substitute teachers in those classrooms. So if we can follow up and then maybe provide the board with an update on that, Because it's important. I mean, our parents expect somebody to be inside the classrooms, and we expect that, right? And we don't want to put principals in those positions. So thank you.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you. And just a follow-up, you know, and the information is going to be provided to the board. If we can get some statistics as to how many, you know, substitute teachers we're filling, how many staff members from central office are being deployed out, what departments are being impacted, Just general information, I think it'll be good for the board to have, just so that we kind of have an understanding and an eye into exactly where it's at. So when questions do arise in the community and we're asked what's happening, we can easily answer them. Thank you. Any further questions from the…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Any questions or comments from the board members?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“As a follow-up to that one, Is there no way to obtain a waiver from the state in any way as we are consolidating these sites? Because the goal of consolidating these sites and bringing our service together is to save money. And if we're still having to spend money on maintaining these properties on systems that are not needed, because you need an active certified fire system if there's people in the building. If there's not going to be anybody in the building, is that something we can look at and see if there's any waivers? you know, and having a basic system versus a full-out system in the…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Any questions or comments? No. On this one, this does fall within my district. just want to make sure that where I know there's been conversations between the superintendent and the city, and we always want to work with our municipal partners. So if we can just make sure that they're updated by our staff, um, last time we had a presentation, the city, um, it wasn't our fault. We had kind of left it on the developer or the proposers to communicate with the city. And I guess that hadn't occurred. So I think the district needs to be a little bit more proactive and I'm happy to join them in…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other questions on 142? That was 144.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Any other questions or comments? You both make great points, and thank you, Board Member Espino, for bringing that up. I hear it all the time. And I know that our food and nutrition team has been working as hard as they can with the restrictions that have been put in place on them from the federal government going down to the state on how we can do things. If it were to me, I would sign a contract with Badia and Goya and Magic and just distribute Sazon Completa to every single school and we could fix the problem very quickly. But Angie has told me that that's not possible because of our…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Okay. And just a follow-up. I know that in our current world of feeding so many students, right, we cook at volume sometimes and have certain limitations. With the changes that we might be seeing next year of now not every child gets a lunch and we're gonna be a little bit more focused on those students that really need it, is that gonna give us an opportunity to maybe become a little bit more focused on the scratch kitchen and being able to not have to cook at such a large volume? And because I know our staff is restricted, right? They have to cook at a high volume. So you look at things…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026
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“Thank you. Board Member Colucci, you're recognized.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · May 6, 2026