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Board approves CalSHAPE plumbing agreement, PARS retirement offering and multiple personnel items
Summary
Trustees adopted a resolution to participate in CalSHAPE plumbing upgrades with MCore Mesa Energy, approved a PARS supplemental retirement offering with modeled savings, acknowledged a clean 2023–24 audit, and voted on several personnel and expulsion matters.
The Apple Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees approved multiple actions during the meeting, including a resolution authorizing participation in a CalSHAPE plumbing-efficiency program, approval of a district-wide supplemental retirement offering, acceptance of the 2023–24 audit, and several personnel and expulsion recommendations.
CalSHAPE resolution and contract: By motion, trustees adopted Resolution 24213 making findings about savings from high-efficiency plumbing fixtures and approved the services agreement with MCore Mesa Energy to implement plumbing and water-efficiency improvements under the California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing and Efficiency (CalSHAPE) program. Staff described CalSHAPE as an energy- and water-efficiency program that also supports improved classroom ventilation.
PARS supplemental retirement plan: The board approved offering the Public Agency Retirement Services (PARS) supplemental retirement program to eligible employee groups after staff reported enrollment numbers (76 employees across groups signed up by the deadline) and modeled multi-year savings scenarios that depend on how many positions the district backfills. Staff explained savings scale with the degree of backfill and cautioned that payments toward retiree annuities must be made from the general fund, not restricted funds such as nutrition services.
Audit report: Trustees formally acknowledged the 2023–24 audit prepared by Nigro & Nigro, which returned an unmodified (clean) opinion. Staff explained a prior, now-resolved finding related to a single emergency closure waiver (J13A) for a school that lost instructional days to a water-line break.
Personnel and student-discipline actions: The board approved certificated and classified personnel actions, leaves and administrative hearing chairperson recommendations on several expulsion matters (including an amended recommendation in one case to place a student in a county program for the remainder of the semester with suspended enforcement of the expulsion). Several consent-agenda items were approved by motion; three items (including the probation-services contract) were pulled for discussion.
Voting: Where recorded, motions passed by voice vote or unanimous consent; the meeting transcript records trustees calling for votes and stating "all in favor" on multiple items. Specific roll-call tallies were not consistently recorded in the publicly available transcript.
Why it matters: The CalSHAPE project and PARS offering have fiscal and operational implications: plumbing upgrades may reduce utility costs over time, and the supplemental retirement program could produce near-term budgetary savings depending on staffing choices. The clean audit signals fiscal compliance for the 2023–24 year.
