Templeton School Board Votes Yes on Summer School

Trustees add $20,000 to the One Time Funding for Music/Art/ Drama budget

BY CHRISTIANNA MARKS

TEMPLETON — The Templeton Unified School District (TUSD) Board of Trustees met for its regularly scheduled meeting on ursday, March 9, at 6:15 p.m. It followed their closed session, which started at 5:30 p.m.

During public comment, a handful of parents addressed the trustees about how bad bullying, both racial and not, is in the school district before asking them to do something about it.

Trustee Jennifer Grinager pulled item 5, Approval of Revisions to Board Policy/ Administrative Regulation 0430 - Comprehensive Local Plan for Special Education and Board Policy/Administrative Regulation 0460 - Local Control and Accountability Plan, from the Consent Agenda. Once her questions about student committee members being added to the LCAP Committee were answered, the Consent Agenda passed unanimously.

Assistant Superintendent Ian Trejo addressed to board on the district’s 2023 summer school plans.

“We are planning or hoping, with your approval, to conduct a summer school at the end of this school year. To date, we have some information,” Trejo stated.

He shared the logistics of the proposed summer school, which include:

1. Dr. Gene Miller as program principal

2. Templeton Middle School, Templeton Elementary School, and the Main O ce at TMS as the locations

3. Exact dates to be decided

4. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (including lunch) as the time for classes e trustee board approved the Adoption of Resolution #R23-11- Release of Temporary Certi cated Employees, which released eight temporary teachers from their positions in the school district. ey also approved the Adoption of Resolution #R23-12 –

He continued that it would be invite first and request second and that there would likely be one classroom per grade from kindergarten thru eighth grade and credit recovery for high school. is was an action item, and it passed unanimously.

Resolution of Non-re-election of Probationary Certi cated Employees, where one teacher on probation will not be asked to join the district full-time.

Superintendent Aaron Asplund then gave both the 2022-23 2nd Interim Budget Report, as well as the Continued Planning/Approval of Potential Uses for Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant; Art, Music & Instructional Materials Block Grant, and Unallocated Unrestricted General Fund Revenues, which a ects school funding for future years. e trustees voted to extend the meeting until 10:45 p.m., which passed unanimously due to needing more time to nish going over agendized items in the middle of the item.

Before passing the Continued Planning/Approval of Potential Uses for Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant; Art, Music & Instructional Materials Block Grant, and Unallocated Unrestricted General Fund Revenues, the trustees added $20,000 to the One Time Funding for Music/ Art/Drama budget. e motion passed unanimously. e next regularly scheduled TUSD meeting will take place on ursday, March 23, at 6:15 p.m.

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Atascadero High School Theater Presents ‘Matilda

Show opens March 24 and runs through April 1 the Musical Jr.’ STAFF REPORT e show will open on March 24 at 7 p.m., with shows on March 25, March 31, and April 1 at 7 p.m., and shows on March 25 and April 1 at 2 p.m. e Atascadero High School eater is located at 1 High School Hill Road in Atascadero. Ticket prices are $10 for guests and free for students with their ASB card.

ATASCADERO — e Atascadero High School eater Department is proud to present its spring production, “Matilda the Musical Jr.” Come join the whimsical fun and watch as the beloved character Matilda navigates her way through a terrible school run by a horrible headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.

“Matilda the Musical Jr.” is based on the Roald Dahl novel, “Matilda,” and centers around a 5-yearold girl with a wild imagination and a love of learning. When Matilda discovers she has supernatural powers, she uses them to help her friends, escape an unloving family, and defy an evil headmistress.

“Matilda the Musical” opened in the West End in 2011 and transferred to Broadway in 2013. Tickets for the show can be found here bpt. me/5631200