Santa Paula Unified approves safety plans, curriculum purchases, contracts and endorses CSBA candidate

The Santa Paula Unified School District board approved a series of routine but consequential operational items during its regular meeting, including comprehensive school safety plans, K–5 English language arts and ELD instructional-material purchases, a performing-arts sound-system contract funded by Proposition 28 site allocations, renewal of legal-services arrangements, acceptance of the quarterly Williams report and several donations to student programs.

During the meeting the board also voted to support Trustee Tommy Frutos in the CSBA delegate-assembly runoff election after a motion and preferential vote; Frutos abstained from the board vote because he was the nominee. Trustees approved the Lozano Smith legal-services renewal (staff said rates did not increase and that combined usage with the prior firm was about 65% through Lozano Smith).

Other approvals included adoption of a job description for a grant-funded reading and literacy specialist (three-year grant), acceptance of donations totaling several hundred dollars for Young Writers and Isbell Band programs, and approval of the consent calendar. The board thanked staff and law-enforcement partners for reviewing the comprehensive school safety plans before voting to adopt them.