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a crisis is at first 18. because it could be a minor thing but you don't know that until you go to the to where the problem is you know I I wouldn't call them first aid he might come First Responders so we have protocols and procedures if there's an incident or their accident in the building uh calls made and then we all all administrators also have walkie-talkies and we communicate immediately through the phone through walkie-talkies and so we do have procedures and protocols if something happens in the shop might the first call may go out to the nurse and then the nurse gets may also uh our security often is involved and they and they reach out to what other other assistance is needed once is to determine what the situation is sometimes it's an ambulance that's called right away uh you know um even at times um it could be anybody that has CPR experience if they're in the area if we needed that but people are trained in CPR all of our athletic team is is trained in CPR but its First Responders and it's prestigious protocols that everybody is taught the first day of school we go through all our procedures and protocols at the beginning of the year so everybody remembers they also have a document in their classroom that identifies what the protocols and procedures are depending on the on the emergency what needs to happen so but it's not for I wouldn't call it a first aid team I would I would call it our our uh first responder protocols and and procedures that we utilize so there are people that have the background experience in first aid in CPR Beyond even the nurses background and we do can we do collect that information so we have a list of who is CPR certified so we we collect that and um I know that um um the athletic director Mr Nelson and I were talking about even this year expanding it because he always has coaching training but even having some time during professional development opening it up for any other staff member that would want to get trained but we do have that listing I would like to see that protocol if you can bring it sure I I mean hopefully we'll maybe have a major incident but when we do we want to make sure that we have the right group of people to make sure that that student or that person in emergency is taken care of immediately before um help arrives you know the actual professional helper rights thank you Mr Cirillo in along those lines in in Bright Light of the recent shootings um yeah I know that a lot of there's a lot of talks about amping up um the emergency protocol and and for um for um active Shooters to make sure that students and staff are are more aware and becomes almost like second nature so um for that it's called um yeah let's plan um that way we're making sure that we we communicate with the town and have a couple of incidents make sure that also that they're being that if our system goes off that their that the communication is going from the school to to bless you um to the um property departments within the city um because I know we have an officer here but if the officers and the other side of thing I will make sure that the alarm system is working students know if they need to be evacuated where they evacuated to or they need to um secure in place what the process is as well for the teachers and the staff and I know that wasn't a news party yesterday or even this morning of how we should be um do a little bit more frequently yep I think we had a motion on the table right if I'm correct in a second it that can I know they can concession yeah the concussion yeah all those in favor anyone opposed okay thank you very much uh personal considerations resignations I see none leave of absence retirement so Mr Victor Martinez social studies teacher effective 6 30 24 Mr Tim Cusack guidance counselor effective 2-9 of 24 appointments uh Ms uh Mariani uh and cancion career tradition Specialists the evening program effective uh March 20th 23 and Ms Courtney Moran gator in an assessment The Specialist effective 320 of 23.

okay we'll do 5 30 a third we should have our new member all sworn in uh by then okay at this time to chill except excuse me the North Andover not the end of us you're being elected today being elected today unopposed uh all those in favor of German anyone uh not you're not invited the boring thank you

okay all right so the calendar passes alignments okay we're gonna add um consideration right so um Mr case provided us with the uh the letter right this is the letter so the letter uh on um House Bill 5003 um I'd like to either all sign it or if there's some uh controversy to it then uh then the board would approve it just was the case and I would sign it so I need I need a unanimous on this so um okay so you're moving okay well let's just take a a struggle Ryan are you in favor of 503 okay Erica okay okay Joe sure okay so I think I I think I know Russell would be innocent uh and uh Kim so then I would ask you then to approve people all sign uh the letters provided by the superintendent can I have a motion in that regard Joe uh on her first and Felicia on a second any further conversation on it so whoever's here tonight can sign in whoever not Claudia will just have him come stop down to your office and sign him so no further discussion all those in favor aye opposed okay so um is this the letter so we can start right here what do you have do you have extras yeah which one can we start with the one chair Daniels house okay please don't leave without signing it okay and then um as far as the cuts go do we have a motion okay can I have a motion that we are going to prove the 165 000 Cuts as presented by our finance committee and approved by our finance committee kind of motion on that thank you Peggy thank you Cindy okay first of the second uh any further discussion on the cuts okay hearing none all those in favor aye Ryan you with me post okay 7-0 okay thank you very much okay anything else for tonight okay any board comments we miss anything tonight anybody have anything to say just quickly assure the policy committee met before this meeting uh and we agreed to meet again for just a half hour on Tuesday April 4th at 7 30.

the following of postings ladies and gentlemen that need to be voted on John why don't we do three at a time please my voice basketball head coach annual position your microphone jungle I'm sorry sorry uh boys basketball head coach annual position golf head coach annual position Auto Collision instructor for seven local 1707 school year contract 2023 replacement position um those are three yep those are the three second discussion well follows in favor and you want to pause continue please biotechnology instructor uh per never filled per 1707 school year 23 24 replacement position I.T hardware and operation systems instructor for 17 I mean local 1707 contract school year 22-23 replacement position Auto Collision instructor due to a waiver replacement position have a motion please discussion all those in favor can improve anyone opposed robotics please robotics automation instructor due to a waiver replacement position biotechnology instructor due to a waiver replacement position engineering instructor due to waiver replacement and replacement position motion please second discussion and all those in favor anyone oppose and wrap it up John environmental science instructor do the waiver replacement position LTS physical education instructor Grade 9 through 10 tentative dates may end of May to the end of the school year replacement position freshman assessment test practice and support staff Personnel for freshman assessment testing May 6 2023 7 A.M to 12 p.m 30 test practice six registration staff two parent liaison what custodian one school nurse and one dog I mean that's it 250 dollars type in the annual position have a motion please discussion all those in favor if you want to pose future agenda items exactly oh yeah we did it okay sure we can move that to a future yeah we can move that please I would appreciate it yeah right yeah with the three the three issues achieved uh executive session will be a need for one John no no we didn't get anything coming well for the business ladies and gentlemen the chair will accept the motion to oh no I'm sorry there is one for the business uh the April the April first meeting um next Monday third um it'll be the third April 3rd first business first business day in April is when we have to meet uh what do you want to do with Morning Noon night do the night meeting yes Mrs uh I am unavailable during the day I am available from four o'clock on okay we want to do uh 5 30 6 o'clock or so it's usually very uh usually very short it's only you know selecting the positions we'll do 5 30.

um we will be sending out or I will be sending out a swift reach uh as a reminder to our parents and our students who are eligible to vote uh just a reminder to come out and support our budget but that'll be April 25th Tuesday I'd like to just remind any parents that might be watching tonight that we are currently registering new Pre-K students for September and kindergarten students for September let me just revise that our kindergarten registrations for new students is going on this week so if there is anyone that would like to register a kindergarten student for September they can contact School Number Four our Pre-K registration for September we have dates scheduled the end of April and all that information regarding dates and medical information that will be required is posted to our website so that's for parents who have Pre-K students and new kindergarten registrations to the district I want to thank all of our staff and principals School nurses that were involved in Wellness week that we celebrated last week across the district from March 20th to the 24th pomptonian took part in uh some preparing some nutritious meals for our students and snacks and I know our nurses our guidance counselors uh arrange some activities for our students to celebrate that week so again I want to thank everyone that was involved with that I also want to thank Mrs Pinto who's our director of special services she ran a special education parent advisory group meeting on March 22nd it was a virtual meeting this is the second one of the year she's trying to get as many parents involved as possible at these meetings and hopefully the goal is that by September of the new school year she'll have her first in-person meeting but there will be another one coming up later on this spring that's special education parent advisories group so thank Mrs Pinto for arranging that I want to congratulate Elise casano she's our supervisor of guidance at the high school Elise was a named County County County councilor of the Year this year I know I had posted some information about that on our Instagram and I know Dr Maya also notified staff and spoke a little bit about Elise uh at one of the High School faculty meetings so congratulations to Elise for um that award this school year I also want to make mention that in your phone tonight uh Cliffside Park High School is going to hold its first entrepreneur Forum at the high school it's Wednesday April 19th uh in the high school gym at 6 PM they have arranged for a number of speakers to speak to our students and parents from many different professions across the Spectrum so there's a flyer uh in your packet tonight that will just remind you of that date and obviously and also through social media Facebook Instagram we will be publicizing it when it gets a little bit closer but that's Wednesday April 19th and I want to thank Mrs Cassano and the entire guidance department for all the work they've been doing uh to arrange for this event at the high school okay uh I have one last thing any any questions anything that I spoke about from the board okay I just want to take this opportunity tonight this is Jim Shelley's last meeting with us tonight uh Jim decided not to uh to run but I just want to take on a personal note the opportunity to thank Jim for his many years of dedication as a board member um and even prior to that his many many years of dedication to the Cliffside Park School District I know he served as a board trustee from 2014 to 23.

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Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you Mr Roman Gino I'd like to read it quickly notify May the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to go out of advance notice oven to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of this act the Cliffside Board of Ed has course notice of this meeting to be published by having the daytime and plays thereof posted in the offices of the borough Clerk or the library for a Rec Department the office of the Board of Ed and the offices of school numbers 3456 and the high school January 4th 2023 and notices before to reporters of the record January 4th 2023 this is an official meeting I'd like to take the role if I may Mr Roman Gina Mrs Abreu Mr capano yeah Fredo Mr Garcia here Christina Drew Dr pantaliana Mr Russo here Mr Shelley here miss terabakia president I love you board members and Mr yanizi okay just a couple of items um I'd like to inform the board and the public about uh before we look at the consent agenda uh just a reminder once again all of our schools are have either completed or are still in the process of the re-registration that we started last year right now they are currently re-registering students in grades two five and nine so once we complete those three grades which will hopefully be completed by May in September we'll start with three additional uh grades and continue that process uh just a reminder that our budget vote is has been changed to April 25th that's Tuesday April 25th the polls are open from 2 2 8 2 to 8.

I hope I have those dates right close enough if it is so I know on on behalf of the board we're very thankful Jim for everything that you've done the last few years as a board member and even more so the many years as an educator in the high school and in our district so on behalf of the board I would like to present you with uh board trustee 2014 2023 and grateful appreciation for your dedication and many years of service to the Cliffside Park school system thank you very much thank you if I could just add that uh this this position is a team position and obviously everybody who's on the board when I first came and and present we work as a team and it's really been an enjoyable experience in that sense that uh everybody works toward the good of of the students of this District um but I realized oh a few months ago that I've been going to school since I've been five years old and uh I'm 73 now and uh the only person who I think out does me here is Mr Roman Gino uh and uh we've gone through a lot together Mr Roman Gino and I uh both as Educators when we were simply that I don't I shouldn't even say simply that when we were that and and as board members uh I'd like to thank Mr Roman Gino for inviting me to perhaps be part of the board back in the day I am thanking you for that uh what I'm not thanking you for is what whatever year it was around 1980 that was the last century that if you remember that uh that was uh Mr Roman Gino had been the moderator of the student council and he had a fantastic group of people on that student council leading the council chasing and Wiggins I'll never forget their name and I'm sure you don't either they just they ran that thing as well as any organization I've ever seen run they were seniors and I inherited that from him because he said how about you uh take over the student council moderator I was non-tenured so you don't say no and uh so I took it over the next year and I found out all the things that chasing and weekend had done the students wanted to continue to do only there was no chasing and Wiggins to do that so uh I I did that on on a more somber side uh I've I've gone through two pretty major historic things in this District or my time here 9 11 the horror of 9 11 and and the recent horror of covid uh two two terrible kinds of things that I hope are District never has to encounter anything like that ever again but again I think you guys as a board and hopefully me as a member have been able to uh to deal with whatever problems we've had to come up and we've done a lot of things we've gotten seniors allowed to eat outside now I thought that was a pretty big thing uh and uh and a number of other things but uh thank you very much for all all the support that you've given me and I hope I've given you all these years [Applause] before I look at the consent agenda any committee reports message out last week Renovations a lot of good things came out of the meeting it's going to just enhance and complete the actual phase one of the gym upgrades that have been completed and this should put the icing on the cake as the the project is going out of bid now and it's ready for final touches we'll talk detail on signage Etc uh colors and all of that but it's not my end I know we are out to dig for some other projects that were over allocated correct uh yes Mr capano April 19th we have open bids for the masonry and brick project at six school and six School the rtu project also they'll be going up a bit on April 19th I was at number three School of uh last week for 10 days my God toward his class and uh I have to say and I always emphasize this and I sound like a broken record but our buildings are Immaculate shape spotless you gotta understand these 3 200 kids going in and out of these buildings on a daily basis and that starts with the you know our superintendent to our ba to all the administrators and staff and those great custodians that we have pretty much that concludes my report thank you Mr Banner anyone else okay if not I'd like to take a moment to just go through the consent agenda before we vote on it page two um and part of Page Three as we always do we are approving reimbursement for staff members who have taken professional development classes either virtually or outside the district and as per contract we are reimbursing them for travel and for any fees associated with registrations uh page three at the bottom we are just transferring some monies from uh grants into all local funds to pay for teacher salaries so as you know each year we are funded by the federal government for um title money uh and also uh Ida Monday money and we use that often to pay for programs and also uh teacher salary so we're just making some uh bookkeeping adjustments Pages uh four and mostly of five are just changes that we have in teacher aids uh either teacher aides that have resigned to move on to other positions or new teacher aides that we are approving and for the most part those teacher aides are are aides that are part of our special education program uh bottom of page five uh we have a couple of uh requests for maternity leave uh fourth resolution from the bottom Christina Carbone who's a speech therapist with us has requested a a continuation of her maternity leave from March 8th through June 30th uh with the return date in September uh Janelle dabal who's a social worker with us we'll be taking a maternity leave from August through November 6th which would be her return date Michelle Maldonado kindergarten teacher at school number five will be leaving September 1st well will not be returning September 1st uh she'll be taking a maternity through December and return in January 2024 and yet Daniela Vino who's a middle school special ed teacher also extended her maternity leave through June so they will be for the most part returning in September I just received this today on page six and uh Gia added it to the agenda that was mailed to you Ed Jones uh has submitted his retirement Ed Jones has been with us for about 20 years uh 20 to 25 years and he all during that time he's been in our industrial laws teacher in the wood shop and he's retiring effective June 30th 2023 so we wish Ed uh the best of luck page seven are HIV uh cases that are being invested or were investigated by our HIV teams in each of our buildings so if we get a bullying request as per state guidelines parents fill out the form the team that we've assembled in each building go through a thorough investigation and then the determination is made as to whether or not it's bullying or it could be a code of conduct which is a disciplinary action this is confidential and that's why they're listed as such that's just to indicate that we did do the investigations and page eight second one down we're approving the custodial calendar for the 2023-24 school year I believe you have a copy of that calendar in your folder and as by contract they're entitled to 16 days a year so that's why there are 16 days listed on the print ad that you have buildings and ground requests from PTA and other events that are going on in the school run by the PTA or run by our staff missed our friend or anything on finance a couple of quick items you know we're engaging in the end of the year process for 22.23 we're getting back to the board in regards to what we believe our Surplus may look like and how we're going to allocate that Mr capano we brought up the two bids that are going to be happening on April 19th six School two six school projects rtu and the brick and masonry project you brought up the vote on the budget on the 9th 25th of April and we'll be engaging in a series of capital projects which I will present a an overview to the board in May for the summer of 2023.

Miss Olson here Mr Guthrie here Mr Rodriguez here Dr solterrell yes sir Dr Chabot uh Miss Valenzuela here oh president Connor pork said for Miss Smith okay the next item we can skip because we don't need to appoint an acting clerk they have a motion to adopt the agenda oh second in Mr kirsner says aye Mr Hopkins aye Mr Guthrie aye Ms Rodriguez aye Ms Olson hi okay will you please stand and join me in the pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty justice for all right see you then first item of business and personal item is the certified employment for the 22 23-24 school year of teacher yes sir Mr President and our members of the board first it's good to see everybody Mr Griffey Miss Rodriguez um has been interviewed for the position of classroom teacher for the 2023-2024 Academic Year reference checks are in progress and a certified contract will be issue once satisfaction required did a great job she was going to be a tremendous asset to uh to our staff I recommend the approval of the employment and this is a classroom teacher for the 2324 active uh I'll make commission I'll second Mr Hopkins hi Mr Cruz which is aye Ms Olson aye Mr Guthrie aye Ms Rodriguez aye approved by zero okay next item is certified employment for the 2324 school year of teacher Gloria Faye Gordillo has been interviewed for the position of classroom teacher for the 2023-2020 practice year reference checks are in progress and a certified contract and we should once satisfactory references are required she um was a great candidate for the high school science chemistry position so she did a great job and I recommend the approval of the employment of Miss gordio as a classroom teacher for the 23-24 Academic Year okay may I have a motion on that um Mr Hopkins aye Mr Guthrie aye Mr Rodriguez aye Ms Olson aye approved better sir uh next item is the approval of contract revision for Dale Quinnell yes Mr President um Administration is requesting an amendment on 324 certified contract for CTE teacher Dale Cornell Mr Cornell will be a 0.5 ft or 50 or 50 teacher next year this increase of time during the day will change his salary amount based off of how many hours we will be teaching plus a prep period And before I get my recommendation I was going to ask Dr Chabot oh what a great job Mr Cornell is going in as an Electronics CTE class yeah he's been a promise just a standing asset to our school and the students that stick it out and stay in the class for more than a couple weeks start to get the whole process that he's going through the beginning of his electronic boards and building up so we want to start an Electronics 2 class with kids that went through this year and then the following year had hopefully have two of those and maybe a like three and uh everybody's come through our school Vision we've taken them through that area and taking them through that class and we were so impressed um I mean just if you haven't had a chance to go in there and show you show you what you know all the exciting things that are going on there but um it's just great that those kids are going to come out ready to go for careers right and Mr President member support America I believe uh Arizona pictures and I believe congratulations he also saw his class so yeah students did like some videos right teacher conferences they did videos where they shared with their parents how they were playing together a circuit board they were explained it in English or Spanish I recommend the approval of the revised 2015 or certified conference okay may I have a motion I'll make it I'll check in it now say it again what does he make now um I believe he's uh 0.25 it's not a very big increase in a thousand dollars if you scroll down to what is going to be it just gives what the revised it doesn't give what the current one is vibe I'd say you're probably making right around 16 right now at 30 percent uh because he did half a year if you only give them from you already choose okay when we got half contract so it would be half whatever okay Mr Cruiser just aye Mr President aye Ms Olson aye approved by zero okay next item is the classified resignation of Grants management Cindy Daniels Mr President member to the board of Mississippi Daniels grants manager for Apple schools has resigned from her position effective immediately we did speak on the phone a little while back she really uh what she said was ausd needs to be more self-sufficient in your staff needs to oversee the ground so she was she was complimentary in her tone and stating that she really feels that grants management or the oversight should come from one of our staff some of our staff members here to really build their leadership capacity so I really I mean I I really like that tone as far as what she said we should have staff here full time when we're seeing the grass and with that comes the compensation so um that being said uh I recommend the approval the resignation of Cindy Daniels as grants manager for awful schools okay do you have a motion I make a motion to approve the resignation I'll second it Mr kurzner says I miss Olson aye Mr Guthrie Miss Rodriguez aye Mr Hopkins aye it is approved oh yeah next item is the stipend approval for Grants management Babu Casey and mercy Erin Cohen Mr President members of the board that being said Mr Casey and Miss Mercy arancon have volunteered to overtake the grants management duties for our whole schools for the remainder of the 22-23 school year Mr Casey and Miss Adam Gunn will divide this stipend of 2600 to complete the work that being said I can't think of two better staff members to take over this incredibly important responsibility and they will continue to experience professional growth and this is for our staff here on our campus that are here full-time so um I recommend the approval of the additional duties of Grants management manager for Mr Casey and Miss arankon for the remainder of the 2223 school year um we have to do a motion and a second first I'll make the motion approved I'll second it and now we can have comments thank you well I think probably two of the better on this responsibility as well as receive the compensation that comes along with it I worry about the number of hats that they both wear because you know Mr Casey's job as data analyst okay that's first and foremost uh Miss Aaron Khan is um an instructional coach and I feel like as an instructional coach we really need to support the number of new teachers that we have here right now and so I don't want that to Fall by the wayside when they're taking care of their own classes or having to do all these other duties that they have along with their main focus their primary job so just kind of I would want Administration to kind of really keep an eye on that and they're not getting burnt out and our teachers are still getting the support they need sure so that's just kind of my two cents on that okay so this is just the remainder of this year is there any Grant processes they're in the middle of right now they would have to pick up or are there any grants coming up they're going to need to put in or between now and June 30th data there are some that they have to uh take care of this year which is why we have to act specifically um our Title One title two and title three graph so that's why we had a uh make sure we had someone as soon as possible and my concerns are the same as hers on that sure it's a lot that they're doing it's a lot and I feel like our primary jobs need to have the first priority over anything else so what is the job description for this just to to uh oversee our grants and Grant process uh that's an example for Title One title two graphs uh making sure that that the compliance requirements are being met and just working with the administration also to make sure that that plans are turned in and that we're meeting the requirements for the different plans the different school plans and District class so how many hours she's 14 a week that they would be involved in in these activities well that's that's a good good question it just kind of depends how how it's going as far as how they're managing their time how much time they feel they can allocate to do this to do it to where they're still focusing on other primary responsibilities but also making sure this has to get done this is over the next month one to two months that they have different requirements to be made so they have time to balance that out to space that out to where they're not trying to get everything done in the next week this is for the next one to two months to get these are Grant requirements right you either want to have any background on this well actually I believe they both have some good experience I know that yeah I know for uh yeah right we all we all actually do something with grants yeah I have two or three that I do almost every time that I have questions Mr Casey cancer is important because you need the data so he he really knows how to do it he just wasn't doing the finishing it off but he was giving me information he could send the information and like Dr Joseph she has her own two or three that she works on and if hours per week is really difficult because the grants that I even do maybe every other month there's something you do to monitor adjust make sure that the deadline is going to be met in about a couple months where there's not a lot that you do and there's a deadline coming up make sure you know tease across and all that how many classes are each one of them teaching this year how many classes each are they each one each and then miss aircon is also taking her personal classes as well correct so I mean she has a very full plate so I mean okay so I mean just kind of like like I said first priority I think is instructional coach and making sure teachers receive the support they need because eventually I mean that's that's what our kids need support and if she doesn't have the time to do that we're making you know I don't know a decision that we're gonna have to kind of take a look at later and I don't want that to um and Cindy Daniels how much was she making so grants first commentary paying her she was I believe 97.50 9750 for for Brands and then there's also there was an amount for Esther 3 I believe that so this is coming from the balance of what was left in the 9700 so are they going to have any duties next year too well we'll see I'll be honest I just want us to focus on finishing out this fiscal year and we'll see how we can allocate this funding for next year it is 9750 so um I I am in agreement with the point of we don't want them to be overwhelmed at the same time I really stand firm in my belief that as much of this of these additional ancillary funding to go to the staff that is here in awful full-time because they've showed me my first year that they're here their heart is here and they're going above and beyond so I really believe that if there's any kind of additional ancillary funding available for staff if they're able to do it um that they should be the Priority First I love both of these people I you know I think the world of both of them and I've always been very impressed by both of them so I'm sure they're they're able to do the job right I just I just want to make sure that we know what we're asking them to do how many hours we're asking them put in is it worth their time to for what they're getting paid you know ten thousand dollars this is also going to make it much more efficient because I'm imagining up until now Mr KC was having to speak with Ms Daniels and give her all the information and she's all the way up in Chino Valley it was probably a lot of back and forth but to keep it in-house just makes that happen a lot quicker and since they're here they're able to speak more of the immediate needs of the campus and the staff in those grants because they're experiencing it all whereas I'm not sure if Miss Daniels has ever been on our campus yes uh he also has a lot he's being very humble he has a lot of experience too with grass it's very knowledgeable as well so I know he's also been a good resource to help him out and he'll continue to do that the next the next few months we'll we'll get it we'll be good okay all right yes any more discussion okay Mr Hopkins aye Ms Rodriguez okay next item is the approval of the 2023-24 academic calendar which is before you on your desk Mr President members of the board um the 2324 office post educational calendar has been proposed and reviewed this calendar meets the minimum instructional days 180 including all state and federal holidays and I recommend the approval the attached 2324 office schools educational health okay and then I have a motion I'll make a motion to approve I'll second it yes Mr kirsner's I miss Olson aye Mr Hopkins aye Ms Rodriguez aye Mr Guthrie it is proved 5-0 okay next item is the possible new agenda items for the next meeting does anybody have anything they would like to add to the agenda for the next thing we talked about this before and it really because it's such a touchy subject where you've never actually met on it but I'd like to talk about disciplinary actions against athletes you know this last week of first baseman softball team was quite I don't want to get into it but but she's no longer on the baseball common softball team right and uh I just I just we talked about this for three years about having this conversation and I just would like to have a conversation on the discipline of athletes okay yeah I think we could add that to the MonDay study session agenda [Music] didn't mention that one because I think it was already on the agenda from last meeting sounds good hey can you ask for the April okay then next item is asking for a motion to adjourn with the most children I will second the motion to return all right it's Olson hi Mr Rodriguez 5 48.

um we will be sending out or I will be sending out a swift reach uh as a reminder to our parents and our students who are eligible to vote uh just a reminder to come out and support our budget but that'll be April 25th Tuesday I'd like to just remind any parents that might be watching tonight that we are currently registering new Pre-K students for September and kindergarten students for September let me just revise that our kindergarten registrations for new students is going on this week so if there is anyone that would like to register a kindergarten student for September they can contact School Number Four our Pre-K registration for September we have dates scheduled the end of April and all that information regarding dates and medical information that will be required is posted to our website so that's for parents who have Pre-K students and new kindergarten registrations to the district I want to thank all of our staff and principals School nurses that were involved in Wellness week that we celebrated last week across the district from March 20th to the 24th pomptonian took part in uh some preparing some nutritious meals for our students and snacks and I know our nurses our guidance counselors uh arrange some activities for our students to celebrate that week so again I want to thank everyone that was involved with that I also want to thank Mrs Pinto who's our director of special services she ran a special education parent advisory group meeting on March 22nd it was a virtual meeting this is the second one of the year she's trying to get as many parents involved as possible at these meetings and hopefully the goal is that by September of the new school year she'll have her first in-person meeting but there will be another one coming up later on this spring that's special education parent advisories group so thank Mrs Pinto for arranging that I want to congratulate Elise casano she's our supervisor of guidance at the high school Elise was a named County County County councilor of the Year this year I know I had posted some information about that on our Instagram and I know Dr Maya also notified staff and spoke a little bit about Elise uh at one of the High School faculty meetings so congratulations to Elise for um that award this school year I also want to make mention that in your phone tonight uh Cliffside Park High School is going to hold its first entrepreneur Forum at the high school it's Wednesday April 19th uh in the high school gym at 6 PM they have arranged for a number of speakers to speak to our students and parents from many different professions across the Spectrum so there's a flyer uh in your packet tonight that will just remind you of that date and obviously and also through social media Facebook Instagram we will be publicizing it when it gets a little bit closer but that's Wednesday April 19th and I want to thank Mrs Cassano and the entire guidance department for all the work they've been doing uh to arrange for this event at the high school okay uh I have one last thing any any questions anything that I spoke about from the board okay I just want to take this opportunity tonight this is Jim Shelley's last meeting with us tonight uh Jim decided not to uh to run but I just want to take on a personal note the opportunity to thank Jim for his many years of dedication as a board member um and even prior to that his many many years of dedication to the Cliffside Park School District I know he served as a board trustee from 2014 to 23.

that's pretty much it okay any questions on the consent agenda a motion to accept Okay that was Mr capano and Mr terabakia thank you I'd like to take a vote if I may Mr capano yes Mr Garcia Mr Drew yes Mr Russo yes Mr Shelley yes Mr bakchia yes okay so movement okay just I'm sorry just before we close I just want to talk about Mr Shelley a little bit Mr Charlie thank you for everything you have done for the school district especially for me I've done a lot for me I called you when you were leaving uh I am a high school graduate from Cliffside Park 1996. you know my mentors up there and I still talk to him every day well not every day but I still speak to them and all that so there's a lot of students that you have touched and helped in the community so I think it goes a long way you and I sat down and I told you I became a board member you know you were pretty shocked by you know what happened to me but uh I just want to thank you for everything you have done if you have helped a lot of students your own children your own grandkids you know it goes a long way so I just want to thank you for everything you have done for the community thank you very much I called you when I found out you know I was very touched and I've been I'm kind of being genuine about this you have done a lot so thank you thank you a lot I've seen a lot of people come and go you know some people that went Joe has been here was a sad moment but at least you're going on your own thank you I wanna I wanna just uh second out all their points uh Jim your extremely qualified person you know as a former student and now currently on on this board position I want to thank you for what you've done over the years including before I was even involved with the district I've seen that events I've uh I've seen you get involved meticulously you know I wish you the best in your retirement and I want you to know we all appreciate you with the utmost sincerity thank you thank you Mr Shelley simply a gentleman you deserve your retirement thank you how many years here no like if I'm like your teacher to announcement well I started in 78 at the high school I was started in 75 at Epiphany when uh Tony Fredo was my eighth grade class wow so whatever that number is Lou you're the you're the mathematician I missed you just by a few months I graduated in June of 78.

I hope I have those dates right close enough if it is so I know on on behalf of the board we're very thankful Jim for everything that you've done the last few years as a board member and even more so the many years as an educator in the high school and in our district so on behalf of the board I would like to present you with uh board trustee 2014 2023 and grateful appreciation for your dedication and many years of service to the Cliffside Park school system thank you very much thank you if I could just add that uh this this position is a team position and obviously everybody who's on the board when I first came and and present we work as a team and it's really been an enjoyable experience in that sense that uh everybody works toward the good of of the students of this District um but I realized oh a few months ago that I've been going to school since I've been five years old and uh I'm 73 now and uh the only person who I think out does me here is Mr Roman Gino uh and uh we've gone through a lot together Mr Roman Gino and I uh both as Educators when we were simply that I don't I shouldn't even say simply that when we were that and and as board members uh I'd like to thank Mr Roman Gino for inviting me to perhaps be part of the board back in the day I am thanking you for that uh what I'm not thanking you for is what whatever year it was around 1980 that was the last century that if you remember that uh that was uh Mr Roman Gino had been the moderator of the student council and he had a fantastic group of people on that student council leading the council chasing and Wiggins I'll never forget their name and I'm sure you don't either they just they ran that thing as well as any organization I've ever seen run they were seniors and I inherited that from him because he said how about you uh take over the student council moderator I was non-tenured so you don't say no and uh so I took it over the next year and I found out all the things that chasing and weekend had done the students wanted to continue to do only there was no chasing and Wiggins to do that so uh I I did that on on a more somber side uh I've I've gone through two pretty major historic things in this District or my time here 9 11 the horror of 9 11 and and the recent horror of covid uh two two terrible kinds of things that I hope are District never has to encounter anything like that ever again but again I think you guys as a board and hopefully me as a member have been able to uh to deal with whatever problems we've had to come up and we've done a lot of things we've gotten seniors allowed to eat outside now I thought that was a pretty big thing uh and uh and a number of other things but uh thank you very much for all all the support that you've given me and I hope I've given you all these years [Applause] before I look at the consent agenda any committee reports message out last week Renovations a lot of good things came out of the meeting it's going to just enhance and complete the actual phase one of the gym upgrades that have been completed and this should put the icing on the cake as the the project is going out of bid now and it's ready for final touches we'll talk detail on signage Etc uh colors and all of that but it's not my end I know we are out to dig for some other projects that were over allocated correct uh yes Mr capano April 19th we have open bids for the masonry and brick project at six school and six School the rtu project also they'll be going up a bit on April 19th I was at number three School of uh last week for 10 days my God toward his class and uh I have to say and I always emphasize this and I sound like a broken record but our buildings are Immaculate shape spotless you gotta understand these 3 200 kids going in and out of these buildings on a daily basis and that starts with the you know our superintendent to our ba to all the administrators and staff and those great custodians that we have pretty much that concludes my report thank you Mr Banner anyone else okay if not I'd like to take a moment to just go through the consent agenda before we vote on it page two um and part of Page Three as we always do we are approving reimbursement for staff members who have taken professional development classes either virtually or outside the district and as per contract we are reimbursing them for travel and for any fees associated with registrations uh page three at the bottom we are just transferring some monies from uh grants into all local funds to pay for teacher salaries so as you know each year we are funded by the federal government for um title money uh and also uh Ida Monday money and we use that often to pay for programs and also uh teacher salary so we're just making some uh bookkeeping adjustments Pages uh four and mostly of five are just changes that we have in teacher aids uh either teacher aides that have resigned to move on to other positions or new teacher aides that we are approving and for the most part those teacher aides are are aides that are part of our special education program uh bottom of page five uh we have a couple of uh requests for maternity leave uh fourth resolution from the bottom Christina Carbone who's a speech therapist with us has requested a a continuation of her maternity leave from March 8th through June 30th uh with the return date in September uh Janelle dabal who's a social worker with us we'll be taking a maternity leave from August through November 6th which would be her return date Michelle Maldonado kindergarten teacher at school number five will be leaving September 1st well will not be returning September 1st uh she'll be taking a maternity through December and return in January 2024 and yet Daniela Vino who's a middle school special ed teacher also extended her maternity leave through June so they will be for the most part returning in September I just received this today on page six and uh Gia added it to the agenda that was mailed to you Ed Jones uh has submitted his retirement Ed Jones has been with us for about 20 years uh 20 to 25 years and he all during that time he's been in our industrial laws teacher in the wood shop and he's retiring effective June 30th 2023 so we wish Ed uh the best of luck page seven are HIV uh cases that are being invested or were investigated by our HIV teams in each of our buildings so if we get a bullying request as per state guidelines parents fill out the form the team that we've assembled in each building go through a thorough investigation and then the determination is made as to whether or not it's bullying or it could be a code of conduct which is a disciplinary action this is confidential and that's why they're listed as such that's just to indicate that we did do the investigations and page eight second one down we're approving the custodial calendar for the 2023-24 school year I believe you have a copy of that calendar in your folder and as by contract they're entitled to 16 days a year so that's why there are 16 days listed on the print ad that you have buildings and ground requests from PTA and other events that are going on in the school run by the PTA or run by our staff missed our friend or anything on finance a couple of quick items you know we're engaging in the end of the year process for 22.23 we're getting back to the board in regards to what we believe our Surplus may look like and how we're going to allocate that Mr capano we brought up the two bids that are going to be happening on April 19th six School two six school projects rtu and the brick and masonry project you brought up the vote on the budget on the 9th 25th of April and we'll be engaging in a series of capital projects which I will present a an overview to the board in May for the summer of 2023.

oh I can't yeah so on that note I'll make a motion to close thank you second okay very good thank you thank you can

that's pretty much it okay any questions on the consent agenda a motion to accept Okay that was Mr capano and Mr terabakia thank you I'd like to take a vote if I may Mr capano yes Mr Garcia Mr Drew yes Mr Russo yes Mr Shelley yes Mr bakchia yes okay so movement okay just I'm sorry just before we close I just want to talk about Mr Shelley a little bit Mr Charlie thank you for everything you have done for the school district especially for me I've done a lot for me I called you when you were leaving uh I am a high school graduate from Cliffside Park 1996. you know my mentors up there and I still talk to him every day well not every day but I still speak to them and all that so there's a lot of students that you have touched and helped in the community so I think it goes a long way you and I sat down and I told you I became a board member you know you were pretty shocked by you know what happened to me but uh I just want to thank you for everything you have done if you have helped a lot of students your own children your own grandkids you know it goes a long way so I just want to thank you for everything you have done for the community thank you very much I called you when I found out you know I was very touched and I've been I'm kind of being genuine about this you have done a lot so thank you thank you a lot I've seen a lot of people come and go you know some people that went Joe has been here was a sad moment but at least you're going on your own thank you I wanna I wanna just uh second out all their points uh Jim your extremely qualified person you know as a former student and now currently on on this board position I want to thank you for what you've done over the years including before I was even involved with the district I've seen that events I've uh I've seen you get involved meticulously you know I wish you the best in your retirement and I want you to know we all appreciate you with the utmost sincerity thank you thank you Mr Shelley simply a gentleman you deserve your retirement thank you how many years here no like if I'm like your teacher to announcement well I started in 78 at the high school I was started in 75 at Epiphany when uh Tony Fredo was my eighth grade class wow so whatever that number is Lou you're the you're the mathematician I missed you just by a few months I graduated in June of 78.

the national Lifeline is three digits 988 so we also want to have people familiar with that number and then the text line is 741-741 and of course anytime we're talking about a medical emergency or overdose then we're just dialing 9-1-1 so those are some of the important 24-hour supports that we want to make sure people are aware of and that we're sharing that information and that those numbers are helpful for people who are in a crisis and they're helpful for people who are supporting someone that's in a crisis so that Crisis Line you call that if you're personally having something going on or if you are aware of someone else that is and you're not sure how to best support call that number and they're going to walk you through that those are the resources in the room and sometimes I've taught presentations of this sort and felt like our County well just our community not the county but our community that we had all this great information to share but not a lot of good resources after the meeting was over we have incredible resources it feels so good to present this important information and be able to say here's what to look for and here's what to do we have things we can do we have great resources in our community we just need to push them out there and so I hope that after you learn this information tonight you will be motivated to heighten your awareness your noticing skills and share the information that you've learned and I'm excited that we have some great presenters to work with us tonight like all of you our formal training is really important but the things that have probably taught us the most come from our personal experiences that's been the truth for me and I know that's true also for the people that will be presenting this evening so I'm going to introduce our next presenter Vicki Solomon is the executive director for the Nexus Coalition for drug prevention which is located in Taylor Arizona and do we have a little location right here too yep right back behind the school she was born and raised in the White Mountains where she intends to continue to build healthy communities and resiliency in youth both passion both passions for her the community and the young people Vicki has 13 years of experience in prevention education Community collaboration and Federal Grant Management as well as 28 years as a financial analyst her leadership skills are focused on achieving the coalition's goals of reducing substance misuse among Youth and establishing and strengthening collaboration among Community organizations her guidance has expanded the coalition's work in school-based prevention education the use of trauma-informed care practices and delivering numerous trainings to address substance use disorders including opioid reversal naloxone training that was a lot so important she is an expert in our community on this stuff she's going to cover and so I welcome Vicki to come up and she's going to give us some important information on those topics thank you very very much isn't Becky awesome she is one of my favorites thank you very very much so I have some awesome information to share with you today the reason why I think it's awesome is because you guys are parents or you are teachers that work with youth and you need to know this information when I was a parent raising four kiddos I did not know that we had something like a Nexus Coalition and so I didn't have the resources raising my kiddos and I wish that I would have known about resources in our communities like Becky has just talked about so what we're going to talk about today is current drug trends um and I want you to to read that it says talk and listen to your youth I always say taught to youth taught to youth talk to youth because we need to have a dialogue with them but we also need to listen to our youth and we need to get ready for what they're finally going to be brave enough to talk to us about so you have to prepare yourself to receive that information let's go ahead and go to the next slide this is my awesome staff I I always say I have the Dream Team and I really honestly do and I appreciate them very very much we have grants that covers Show Low Pinetop Lakeside and we're getting into snowflake Taylor and then we Branch out a little bit in our White River and also in our Winslow and Holbrook areas and I appreciate them we've got Julie Cheyenne Stacy Becky and Destiny and the two reasons why Nexus Coalition exists are these two things right here to reduce substance Youth and and establish and strengthen collaborations that is our that's what we do and I love it okay we'll go to the next slide how we do that we work with 12 different sectors in the community and I always like to say if you are not collaborating or partnering with us then please come to us because there's something that we can do for you and that you maybe could do for us to help the community all right and then what do we do um we have a side that we we have youth drug prevention life skills these are the different things that we um that we Implement into the schools and also in our faith-based organizations we work a lot with them in power to be empowered Bop and life skills avoid vaping those are our evidence-based curriculums that we use and utilize and you would think that a drug prevention would just teach about drugs but that's not true okay we teach life skills because we need to find out why are the youth turning to drugs and alcohol kind of get down to some of those more root problems and we try to build that self-esteem and confidence and guide them in a direction that they can live a more positive life and and these evidence-based programs help us do that and then my staff does a wonderful job with a diversion program just got a phone call as I was coming into this meeting a second grader was vaping second grader so we're setting up some appointments we're going to educate the kiddo we're going to educate the parents and we've got to start shifting a different direction if they're starting in second grade we're in trouble okay freshman University where we get to meet with all the freshmen in the whole entire school and we work with our our partners and we educate them on six different topics like once a week for six weeks fabulous program keep a clear mind killer Among Us fentanyl medicine safety and stress and coping skills do we have stress in the world today after we turn 19 this dress just go away now we're adults we don't have stress no we have we have stress our entire lives and the earlier that we learn our coping mechanisms then the better off we're going to be now is my stress the way that I deal with it going to be the same that Jason deals with his stress no everybody has their own coping mechanisms and the earlier that we can teach that kid how to find their own coping mechanism the better off they're going to be and the better choices they can make all right and then over here on our parents oh that's okay over on our parents we have a lot of information for you guys as well we like to train you and if you have any questions on anything if we don't know the answer we will find it for you all right we'll go to the next slide gateway drugs you may have heard that term and if you haven't what it is is it's just something that kids start with and then they end up leading into bigger and more harsher things okay and so when we look at alcohol marijuana and E-cigarettes if we look at just one of them alone it may not be that bad if they do a little bit but it really is okay and these right here lead to other things these stats right here come from our Arizona Youth survey and it is done every other year um and it's in the school it takes one school hour to complete and this is our Navajo County numbers 8th 10th and 12th grade take it and this is the first year that alcohol was not number one we've got our marijuana and E-cigarettes that actually outdid our alcohol numbers and I just want you to take a glance at those devastating numbers and these are the youth telling us that they are these are lifetime users of 8th 10th and 12th graders okay so so think about that as we're going to talk about our our fentanyl discussion today we'll go to the next slide so unfortunately I have old data on this because I'm not allowed to get new data yet it's three years behind us and so this is from 2020 Navajo County I was working directly within medical investigator and they would let me know how many cases they ended up with and they had 148 cases and out of that 57 were natural we can't do a whole lot about natural but the rest of them are preventable deaths we've got 23 overdoses which out of the 23 there was 14 fentanyl from opioid two math three various and then we had 23 suicides 17 motor vehicle 10 accident nine homicide and nine alcohol now since 2020 do you think the numbers have increased or decreased they have probably increased substantially okay and so keep that in mind this is why we do what we do okay we'll go to the next slide so now we're going to talk about fentanyl okay it is killing Our Youth and killing our young adults and this has never happened before um it took us a long time to figure out what to do about it we work with Arizona Haida we work with the DEA and we get great training from them and what we learn from them we bring it back to our communities and what we're learning right now is that fentanyl is on the rice and it's not getting better it's getting worse okay we'll go to the next slide Navajo County Sheriff report I love pulling their information offline I have a big stack of these do you think we have drugs in Navajo County yeah we do okay so here's some of the drug busts we have uh 1.4 million dollar drug bust there was 72 000 fentanyl pills confiscated on one drug bust we have 1.2 million dollar drug bust with 48 000 fentanyl pills we have a 120 fentanyl Peels and the age on this one surprised me they were 26 years old and coming through on the I-40 um we do have a prob a problem with drugs but we are so thankful for our law enforcement all law enforcement because they're out there working their tail ends off to try to help our communities be safe what is going on right now in Mexico the cartels are literally mixing these things in a bucket and so they put a little bit of this a little bit of that they dump fentanyl in it mix it up put it in a pill press and they're shooting out pills by the thousands okay and so in one peel that's on the street we don't know how much fentanyl is inside of that pill and that's why you're going to see you know one pill will kill because it has and it does the amount of fentanyl in one pill because of how it's mixed is killing people and and it's happening right here in our community the amount of fentanyl is not regulated they're oxycodone the m30s were really popular and on the next slide we're going to see what they look like they used to be little blue pills and oh before we get to the blue pills right here this is how much fentanyl is going to that it takes to kill somebody it's like seven or eight little grains of salt that's how much can kill a person okay so if it's being mixed in a bucket and then pill pressed we literally don't know how much fentanyl is in one pill okay next slide here we go so see the blue pills one of them is fake and one of them is real like through our Pharmacy okay and the drug dealers decided that they want to try to make it mimic what we have in our Pharmacy so people will take it right so that's what the fake pills look like right now on the streets our DEA and Haida tell us that out of 10 pills on the street 6 out of ten are going to be laced with a deadly dose of Fentanyl and it's gone up about maybe five months ago it was only four out of ten pills we're going to have the deadly dose of fentanyl so six out of ten pills okay we'll go to the next slide then if this doesn't make you angry I don't know what will so we caught on to the blue peels they were doing drug busts and showing all kinds of blue peels blue peels blue peels so we started you know there's about 28 different coalitions in the state of Arizona so we part started putting out information about the blue peels lots of organizations start talking about the blue peels within the drug cartel decided to change the colors to these rainbow colors now do you think that they change the colors to entice the adults or who are they targeting they're targeting our youth it makes me angry to think about that so now we have to watch out because this is what it looks like now okay go the next slide so what are opioids we do have some safe fentanyl I don't want anybody going to the hospital with their arm cut off and then they hear that they're going to have Fentanyl and they refuse it okay no hospital grade fentanyl that is in your hospitals and it's it's being monitored that is not going to hurt you okay that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about the street fentanyl okay opioid or oxycodone Oxycontin Vicodin so if anybody has had any surgeries you'll probably have this in your cupboard okay then we have heroin which is a lot of times people will get on heroin it's an opioid and it's very addictive okay we'll go to the next slide so after I've thrown up all over you and you feel all this horrible mess on you what are some things that you can do when I go to a training and I'm sitting there I'm a doer I'm like okay tell me what I can do to fix this problem I want to fix problems and so here's some very simple easy things that you can walk away today and be able to do you can learn about naloxone and teach others naloxone is an opioid reversal and I'll tell you about it by the way today on the news or maybe yesterday on the news I just got information today and sent it out the naloxone is available over the counter that's never happened before either so that's a pretty cool thing I don't know how much we're going to be charged for it but that that's something good so the next thing is we can clean out our medicine cabinets and dispose of unused and expired medicines what how is that going to help what do you think that's going to do just in case absolutely so if we have medicine in our cabinet especially if it's expired or unused we need to get rid of it we have kids that are coming through our homes maybe we have a TB a TV repair guy that comes and he has an addiction you he opens your counter or he goes in your bathroom and opens your mirror and he's getting some of your drugs all of a sudden you're a drug dealer and you didn't even know it and you didn't mean to be one so we wanted the drugs that we need to keep we need to keep locked up and make sure that they're um not easily as accessible and the rest of it we need to get rid of okay and then we need to once we learn something we need to share that information with other people okay all right we'll go to the next slide now we're going to do a quick training on naloxone and it's so simple and easy that you're going to walk away and I hope that you're going to feel comfortable being able to use it if you ever need to use it okay this next slide is going to be a short video just a couple of minutes long and it's going to tell what happens with the opioid in your body and what the naloxone actually does to to be that opioid reversal so we'll go ahead and do that video real quick naloxone saves lives no time to sit idly by more and more people are dying of overdose from the likes of heroin Fentanyl and prescription pain medications like oxycodone and hydrocodone these are all examples of opioids opioids or drugs derived from the Opium hobby plant were made in the lab they can treat pain cough and diarrhea but opioids can also be addictive and even deadly but the number of opioid overdose deaths has escalated more than 400 percent since the turn of the century with tens of thousands of lives now being lost every year but many deaths can be prevented with a life-saving treatment naloxone when given right away naloxone can work in minutes to reverse an overdose naloxone is safe has few side effects and some forms can be administered by friends and family when is naloxone used you can save a life first recognize signs of Overdose pale clammy face blue fingernails or lips vomiting or gurgling sounds inability to speak or be awakened slow breathing or heartbeat if you see these symptoms call 9-1-1 immediately and consider the use of naloxone if available how is naloxone given home preparations include a nasal spray given to someone while they lie on their back or device that automatically injects medicine into the thigh sometimes more than one dose is needed the person's breathing also needs to be monitored if the person stops breathing consider rescue breaths and CPR if you are trained until First Responders arrive how does naloxone work the naloxone is an opioid antagonist which means that it blocks opioid receptors from being activated it is so strongly attracted to The receptors that it knocks other opioids off when opioids are sitting on their receptors they change the activity of the cell opioid receptors are found on nerve cells all around the body and in the brain opioids produce feelings of comfort and sleepiness in the brain stem opioids relax breathing and reduce cough and in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves opioid slow down pain signals and the gastrointestinal tract opioids are constipating these opioid actions can be helpful but the body actually produces its own opioids called endorphins which help calm the body in times of stress endorphins help produce the runner's high that helps marathon runners get through grueling races but opioid drugs like prescription pain medications or heroin have much stronger opioid effects and they're more dangerous over time frequent opioid use makes the body dependent on the drugs when the opioids are taken away but the body reacts with withdrawal symptoms such as headache racing heart soaking sweats vomiting diarrhea and Tremors for many the symptoms feel unbearable [Music] with continued use opioid receptors also become less responsive and the body develops tolerance to the drugs more drugs are needed to produce the same effects which makes overdose more likely overdose is dangerous especially for its effect in the brain stem relaxing breathing breathing can be relaxed so much that it stops leading to death naloxone knocks opioids off The receptors all around the body in the brain stem naloxone can restore the drive to breathe and save a life but even if naloxone is successful opioids are still floating around so Expert Medical Care should be sought as soon as possible naloxone works for 30 to 90 minutes before the opioids return to their receptors naloxone May promote withdrawal because it knocks opioids off The receptors so quickly but otherwise naloxone is safe and unlikely to produce side effects naloxone saves lives from 1996 to 2014 at least 26 500 opioid overdoses in the United States were reversed by lay persons naloxone saves lives okay so that is how opioids work in your system and something I want you to remember is just because somebody's administered naloxone does not mean that they're that they're taken care of and they can go home because they can re-overdose again without taking any more medication because it those those opioids stay inside of your body okay so please remember that so what are some signs and symptoms of an overdose I loved it when my teachers put the answers on the board because I could never remember things so right here we have limp body pale face vomiting blue nails cannot be awakened deep snorting or gurgling pinpoint pupils can't speak slow heartbeat slow breathing so these are some signs that you're looking for whenever it comes to an opioid overdose for me if I suspect somebody who may have overdosed I am getting ready to administer naloxone and it doesn't matter if this person is two years old three months old 12 years old or 110 years old it doesn't matter if this person has cancer diabetes whatever it does not matter this right here is not going to hurt them okay I want to make sure that you get that it doesn't when I first heard that I'm like that that's that doesn't make sense it's weird but it absolutely will not hurt somebody now if the reason why this person has deceased is not an opioid let's say it was alcohol or Methamphetamine without fentanyl in it okay if it was a clean you know without fentanyl then this right here is not going to bring them back to life okay but if it was an opioid and you administer there's a very good chance that that person could be brought back to life okay so we're going to go the next slide we're going to learn how to do this we're going to call 9-1-1 any time make sure you get some some help coming to help you you do not want to be there by yourself without responsibility on your shoulders check for responsiveness perform that sternum rub if they do not come awake with that sternum rub start opening your box get ready to use that you're going to check to see if they're breathing look listen and feel and then you're going to administer naloxone so all you're going to do inside one box there is two doses the hardest part is getting it out of the box okay so it comes in a little package like this okay and on the back you pull the strip down and you take it out and now it kind of looks like flowingase if anybody's had allergies and used Flonase it just is a nasal pump like this you're going to get this and you're going to stick it up their nose and you're going to push your thumb inject all of the spray inside their nose and then after you're finished with that you're going to turn them on their recovery side and there's a picture on the next page to show you in the recovery position and then you're going to step back once you've administered it you're going to step back and my trainer who is very experienced in the field for several years said Vicki do you know why I'm telling you to step back and I said no he says first of all if this person as soon as this naloxone hits their system if it's somebody who's had a pretty strong addiction for a long time it's going to put them in immediate withdrawals and they're going they might be mad they might be angry they might start kicking hitting fighting or they might be throwing up and so you you don't you want to make sure that they don't choke to death on their own vomit and and you got to protect yourself so I'm going to administer it I'm going to put them on their side I'm going to step back I'm going to wait about a minute and if they do not come back if they haven't come back to life they're not talking not breathing I'm getting the second one out I'm opening it I'm getting the second one and now I'm going to go down and I'm going to administer the second one doesn't matter if it's in the same nostril different nostril just put it up their nose and push eject just push this button in and it goes inside I'm going to turn them back on their side and I'm going to step back I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that they come back to life and by that time you probably have your EMS coming and then you let them know hey I had I had administered two of these four milligram naloxone and they will take over and do that for you okay is that pretty simple we could you could do that right I could I can teach my nine-year-old to do this anybody can do this the next part that I want to that I want to educate you on is you notice that I have two boxes up here one of them is called cluxoto like a clock and an auto clocks Auto and this is an eight milligram dose which is actually double the dose of the four milligram so Narcan is four milligram Clarks Auto is eight milligram and both Narcan and claxato is naloxone okay so whenever you hear someone say naloxone it could be Narcan four milligram or clexotto eight milligram and the only difference is if we think about our law enforcement I've had a gentleman on the police department in Winslow that said he administered five Narcan to bring a kiddo back to life he could have done just a couple of these and probably brought that kid back to life and then also our police officers have so much stuff I should have you guys come up and model for me they have so much stuff that they're carrying if I ask them would you rather carry two of the or four of these or two of these which would be easier for you right so I'm trying to make sure that we get Clarks Auto in the hands of our law enforcement so that they can have that readily available but that is the only difference is the milligram okay and again this is not going to hurt anybody and it will only help if it's an opioid overdose okay all right let's go to the next slide and there's one more thing I just wanted to touch on and then I'm done so there's this thing called the Good Samaritan law and it does two different things that I love one of them youth were overdosing at a very rapid rate and we found out the reason why when I say we it's not me it's just people that I appreciate they found out that youth were overdosing and dying because other youth were afraid to call to get help I seen Mary right here I knew something was wrong but I didn't want to get in trouble because I've been drinking and partying or whatever the case might be I'm under age so I'm just going to leave because I don't want to get in trouble so what the Good Samaritan law says is if you call for help to save a life then you're not going to get in trouble that day okay you're not going to get in trouble for calling for help so we watch the youth utilize that and they started calling whenever their friends had overdoses or thought that they did and they were saving lives with that the second thing that this does is if I administer this to John and John I punctured something in his nose made his nosebleed or something but he came back to life John can't come and sue me for helping him administer this that's what our Good Samaritan law does is it protects us so that I don't have to be well I'm not going to help because I don't want to no you go help because you can help save a life and nothing's going to happen to you for it okay and last slide so what can I do know the current drug Trends learn about trauma relationships resiliency building learn about naloxone which you just did clean out your medicine cabinets share with others and then I love that Becky brought up that 24-hour crisis line same thing if we start utilizing this number in Navajo County we're going to get more resources to help us now this first little bit whenever we ask for help it might take a little bit longer for that crisis mobile team to get there but they're going to start working faster they're going to hire more people they're going to look for the spots who call in and they need help it's going to be growing with us as we're utilizing this service this has been around forever and we have never used it you look at Maricopa County and they use it all the time guess where the funds are going Maricopa County okay so we in Navajo County if you want funds and you want help and we want our people taken care of then let's start using this behavioral health line with a crisis mobile team it's not going to be perfect in the beginning because they're working on The Kinks but if you call and you don't get the services that you want then let me know or I'll tell you how to do it and and we're going to tell the crisis team what the problem was and they're going to fix the problems for us so I love that they're doing that and I'm excited about it this is going to go on all of our material from now on is there any questions do you think you could administer naloxone if you needed to is it pretty easy I hope you never have to but if you do have to I hope that you won't be afraid to yes good question so you're going to administer naloxone and not perform CPR if you listened in that it said if you are a trained professional that knows how to administer CPR go ahead and do it but if you're not which I'm not I'm not I'm going to administer naloxone I'm going to step back and I'm going to wait I'm going to wait for the professionals to come in and take care of this person but if you are if you are a professional and you feel like it's okay to do that safe for you to do that then absolutely good question yes what to do so if if someone's there and you're not quite sure what's going on if they're breathing then I would just let if if you're breathing then your body's going to take over and you're going to be okay but still call for help but if you're not breathing and you think it's an opioid overdose administer naloxone immediately right then I would administer naloxone to be safe because I remember right now if I administered this to Mary it wouldn't hurt her but it wouldn't help or it wouldn't do anything so if if there's a chance that I think that naloxone might help this person I'm administering it does that make sense awesome okay thank you sorry Miss Becky that's okay and we will have some questions at the end so if you think of a question between now and the end there will still be time all right our next presenter I really appreciate Jason so much sometimes when tragedy strikes we think it happens to you know we and we shouldn't do this but we think it happens to certain type of people to certain types of families Jason's Story throws all that out and many of the stories in our community do the same and so I really appreciate him coming I'm going to put my glasses on and tell you a little bit about Jason Jason Mulder is the founder of several companies under the parent company called true companies his passion is to leave a significant Mark In This World by helping as many people as possible get to the root of their most challenging health problems and achieve their highest quality of life Jason earned a doctorate of Chiropractic degree he has hosted a radio show for five years and wrote the true Health diet um this along with numerous other academic and professional accomplishments Jason Mulder serves in multiple organizations as well he is the president of the Nexus Coalition a non-profit organization that fights the War on Drugs this organization hits close to home for Jason and his wife they tragically lost their son Jaden in 2020.

so Danae thank you very very much and Madam president that concludes my superintendent update thank you Dr Dean we will move to the governing board update well I did attend the Festival of the Arts I'm sure everybody did um and Janae thank you I mean just for showcasing the amazing and talented students that are here in this District um it was it was phenomenal it was a great experience and the weather was perfect so uh thank you so much for doing all you do yesterday you did a great job absolutely fantastic I also attended um I actually got to watch band Orchestra dance and choir we have great talent in this District wonderful the kids were outstanding so thank you for everything that you have done to put this together thank you I also attended um Freedom traditionals mom and son bowling night and of course I did not win my son beat me but we had a great time we played laser tag we bowled ate some pizza and went home and went to sleep so thank you freedom foreign Festival of the Arts and just want to thank you as well Danae um every year it just gets better and better and I know we've talked a lot about the the talent that was showcased there but I mean everything every little detail was just so perfect I mean the increased presence of officers the parking the signage everything is better every single year so thank you for all you do I'm going to apologize in advance that my update is going to be a little bit longer than normal I am sorry I um in February I was at a conference during that board meeting and then this last board meeting my daughter had something at her school that I I wanted to support her on so I was there but I will try to move quickly but I wanted to definitely um thank some schools and just some experiences that I attended and just wanted to touch on but starting with so February 23rd through the 25th I attended the Innovative School Summit and I'm just very thankful to attend some of the very meaningful conference sessions that bring value and relevancy to our district I won't go through all of them but I mean some of them just give you an idea there's a breakout session on a school regarding how to bring your campus from an F to a c academically in the midst of a pandemic another one which was great in regard to is parent University it's calls on leaders to bridge the gap between home and school and actively engaging parents seeing parents as our biggest stakeholder also so wedding conditions for positive School culture and just engaging your communities and how we as Leaders can do that at risk students increasing graduation rates so it was very very informative I felt very fortunate to be able to attend and just want to thank the district for providing that opportunity for professional development March 3rd I received multiple invitations to reach various schools during the read Across America week unfortunately due to my work schedule I was only able to attend one and that was at our amazing El Mirage Elementary School which we got to feel their fantastic energy earlier this evening and that was on March 3rd have the pleasure of reading the two amazing first grade classes my favorite part is always the questions at the end because you never know what you're going to be asked and it's just makes the day all the more special so thank you to El Mirage Elementary Administration for the invitation as well as to the teachers and students who welcomed me into their classroom it was really a wonderful morning March 9th I was able to go along with the Dysart hero prize Patrol that's what I like to call it when we it's always great seeing the surprises on the faces of our well-deserved recipients and look forward to celebrating you all next month at our annual Dysart Heroes awards ceremony so that was great to attend that and congratulations to all of our hero all of our hero winners um March 9th also so later that afternoon I had the opportunity to conduct classroom observations with District administration to observe our math curriculum in action so I want to thank Marley Park Administration and the wonderful staff there for being so welcoming it was impactful to be able to witness our curriculum what it looks like in action with so many engaged students that was just fascinating to see um and then on March 25th attended the Fine Arts Festival and huge thanks as we've all said to Danae um and our amazing Fine Arts teachers and staff as well as the other amazing members of our desert team that put countless hours into planning such a successful event I always say it's more than just a school function it's like a community staple it's just amazing and thank you so much for all the hard work you put into it it really does show and it was just an enjoyable day and yes the weather was amazing and then I just wanted to end again um because of a family commitment I missed the March 9th meeting but as always I watched it online later that night and I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of our athletes and coaches that were honored that evening but I would be remiss if I did not take a moment to share a few comments regarding the head coach for Valley Vista High School girls basketball coach Rachel matakis who was not present when the team was honored by our district with assistant coach Brooke Hankins as many know coach matakis has been with our district for the past 17 years she has a 2022 inductee of the Arizona High School coaches Hall of Fame with over 30 years total coaching experience that resulted in at least 31 student athletes receiving athletic scholarships not to mention the six state championship titles that she and her team have brought to Dysart under her leadership aside from her Stellar coaching ability Rachel matakis continues to make an impact in the classroom academically but she has also taught some valuable life lessons to her students and athletes as well she teaches our students about the value of integrity and respect which are most often taught through how she modeled those character traits herself one of those lessons about was being about resiliency and how to navigate through adversity while maintaining integrity and professionalism and what it means to model something called unconditional positive regard and I won't go into a psychology session or lesson regarding what that is people can look it up if you're so inclined but a simple definition of unconditional positive regard speaks to the attitude of complete acceptance whether for yourself or someone else when you have unconditional positive regard for someone nothing they can do nothing they can do could give anyone a reason to stop seeing them as inherently human and inherently likable it does not mean you have to accept every decision and action that that person makes but it's about accepting and respecting them as a human being with the assumption that they are doing the very best they can it's about Not Just Praise honor and respect when you're on top but showing respect to others always because that's how you treat people who are all human and will all have their day when they face adversity and need to continue to feel valued and respected and honored that is just one of the many values coach matakis has instilled in her athletes and will make those girls better humans than many adults that walk among us today so while I am deeply saddened that Rachel matakis won't be the head coach of Valley Vista High School basketball next year she leaves behind a legacy that will forever live on the court as well as throughout the halls of Valley Vista High School coach matakis is truly one of the most selfless people I know always living by the words it's all about the kids which I suspect is a driving force behind most if not all of her decisions while I apologize for not being present to share these words during our last meeting when the team was recognized by the governing board I would like to formally express my words of sincere gratitude and appreciation to coach Rachel matakis for all she has contributed to this district and her athletes as head coach of Valley Vista girls basketball and wish her nothing but the best as she continues to be one of our most valued teacher leaders who will no doubt continue to enrich the lives of our Dysart students each and every day and that concludes my update thank you very much I also attended the Arts Festival and I can tell you that there is so much hard work so much planning so much into planning any one performance much less an entire day of multiple performances and I've witnessed Miss Marinelli taking personal days when she was still in the classroom to set up for events like this she'd be like um I took the day off I'll be setting it up and not only does that speak to her work ethic and how much she cares about our district it also speaks to her leadership now that she is in a leadership role that all of the teachers are on board to support her willingly and enthusiastically and have their kids turn out such wonderful performances so as our district continues to be very supportive of the Arts I feel like this Festival is like this with Miss marinelli's hard work just reinforce our commitment to Arts education and Excellence so thank you and that's my update next we will move on to item E1 I will move to approved consent agenda items as presented second motion made by Crystal Chaffin seconded by Don Densmore thank you give us Justice I don't want to spoil it with emotion Joe did you Swatch computers with her yeah I think that this is what people are concerned about with AI yes well normally it's Joe's computer that is always on the front this happened before too it has happened before I'm just giving Jen a hard time oh no it's just her yeah who's your hazing just give us a second talk about yourself if we can get you to vote again that would be fantastic success all right motion carries now we're good next we will move on to thank you very much thank you for your help next we will move on to G1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of governing board cabinet and our community this evening we begin with our information items with information on Title 1 review and supports at the request of one of our governing board members and Dr assai will introduce this item Dr assai good evening Madam president members of the board it is my pleasure to introduce our director Amy hartchen who will present Untitled supports good evening oh there we go good evening Madam president governing board and cabinet um this evening I'll be sharing with you information about intervention programs we've used in our Title 1 schools this year as well as how we are measuring Effectiveness and information about the Department's next steps for the rest of this year and moving into next year um when we look at the list of interventions we've used this year um know that when we're making decisions and considering um programs to be implemented in our title schools there is a Essa based list of evidence-based programs that we select from that we have to show from the grants um they either have to have strong promising or moderate success rates that have been done by outside research so when we select programs we have to select things that we can show have re have previously had success um so that kind of drives some of the decision making when we make those um decisions so the first one um although is not new to Dysart this year we have added some additional components that have really helped improve the effectiveness of the program and that is achieved 3000 literacy we use that in grades 3 through 12 at our Title 1 schools and we are also piloting it in our fourth grades um non-title schools had the option that if they wanted to participate in the pilot this year they could do that we do have some schools choosing to do that um Achieve3000 literacy is an intervention program that has both a direct instruction meaning teacher-led component as well as an individual student practice component um it is a program that adjusts based on students reading levels so at the very beginning of the year students take a level set and it determines their Lexile level and then when they are doing um the teacher may use what they call the anchor text which is the on-grade level piece and they'll use that when they're doing their direct instruction and then when the students get in and read the article it is based on their Lexile level um and then students do what they call an activity at the end and um monthly as long as students have four activities it will adjust up their Lexile if they've been successful on those activities so the idea is that it's incrementally continuing to increase that student's like so and as their level reading levels are improving we measure Effectiveness with this by those beginning of the year measures and then our monthly meetings with the pro project manager and that is the new piece that we have with this program this year we have a full-time dedicated person from um Achieve3000 who is out on our campuses every day so she goes in and at the start of the year she trains teachers on how to use it correctly um sometimes historically we may have had it be more of a plug-and-play where the teachers just said to achieve today versus doing those good pre-reading strategies and things with the students she goes in and does data meetings she does whisper coaching she leads a lesson and then the next hour the teacher does the lesson themselves so it's been really nice because we have one dedicated person who goes out um and is actually supporting her schools on a daily basis um and then like I said she comes and meets with um Dana Noble and I each month and we go through the data and we watch um where we're seeing successes and where we maybe need to dedicate her time next to the following month um so we are recommending the continuation of this program and we're going to show you an example of data from our first semester to kind of demonstrate why this is such a successful program so it's sorry I apologize the um far ones a little hard to read but what that left one at 49l and the L stands for Lexile means is that was the expected growth of the students in our district and how many lexiles a kid a student would grow in the year really depends on grade levels the younger kids May grow more because it's all brand new versus a high school student who may not grow as much because their levels are they they have the foundational reading piece and we're just trying to increase comprehension links so lexiles tend to grow a little bit higher in the lower rights the left is just our District's expected growth I'm going to draw your attention to the one that has a 134 L on it that is students who are doing at least one activity a week which is the expected amount so that they meet that four in a month and they're getting at least 75 on that activity on the first try so if they're doing one a week and they're getting that 75 percent our District's average growth is 134 luck sell for students who are meeting those two criteria so it's almost triple the expected growth of the students when they from what their preset level set scores were at the beginning of the year so um you can see it actually the next one is two activities and 75 so it starts to dip a little and we call that achieve fatigue because if you're doing two a week and that kind of gets to be a lot of doing the exact same thing every day so really we stress do one a week and have the kids be really familiar with their they've done good reading strategies and so that when they take that test the first time they get 75 so um you can see actually as a district 89 of our students are earning 75 the first time so achieve math they also have a math program we don't love as much as we enjoy their um their literacy program so it is a tier two online resource students take a diagnostic test at the beginning of the year and then it creates a program of study for students we do receive monthly data from that during our data meeting however we are not recommending continuation and we have not asked for that to be part of our quote for next year because we're not seeing it implemented and it's not having the positive impacts on math achievement that we would like and it's largely because it's being used as an independent practice during tier two so the teacher might be in small group and kids are working independently so they're not getting that feedback from a teacher or direct instruction and it's because it's created an independent program for every single kid so it's hard to group them based on what they need from that computer program so we are not recommending the continuation with this one then there is corrective reading and read to achieve it actually has a program before that called reading Mastery and then corrective reading is fourth through 12th grade and then the corrective reading focuses on decoding and then read to achieve is 5th through 12th grade and that focuses on reading comprehension um so it is done during tier three instruction time um it is very small group very intensive um very scripted based on the decoding skills students take a pre-test it determines what decoding skills they still need for the ones that are in corrective reading and then the read to achieve is similar what comprehension skills do they need to work on um and then teachers use Mastery assessments every 10 lessons to monitor progress and then move students forward if they've made growth or they may repeat a lesson if they um need to go back and do it again so they have a Continuum so they have like level a level B level C Level DNS students move through they continue to move across that Continuum and we are measuring um success and Effectiveness with this one by using benchmark scores we have not been able to do that um to the level we would like yet this year we didn't get materials until mid first semester so the the teachers get a training at the start of school we got mid first semesters when we got all the materials so then we did a second training in January so they really implemented with follow-up in January so um we will continue to measure using benchmarks next year and um do follow-up and continued implementation effectiveness and then in that same company's um programs they have connecting math concepts and this was being piloted this year at El Mirage and um it is a K-5 math Intervention Program it is being used during tier three time and it builds on Concepts and basic skills by showing how they're linked together and so then those skills spiral back around similar to Saxon Math you keep reseeing the skills and so you continue to get to practice your deficit skills while building understanding about how one math concept connects to another um so they will then apply multiple Concepts and skills within each lesson um we measured the implementation of this one at El Mirage using their Benchmark data and the students who received um implementation of this program exceeded the district's average growth for Benchmark um one to three so we were pleased with that and um I sent the recommendation to Dr aside for us to move this one from a pilot to District adoption um for next year for our title schools the next one is corrective math um and that is a pilot at Ashton Ranch um it is in the same Suite as the connecting math concepts and it is for grades three through High School however this one um unlike connecting math concepts where it's spiraling and having kids um make those connected Concepts this one does seven key skills that are just direct instruction type piece um we did not see the same growth at um Ashen Ranch for those students they actually showed less average less than average District growth from Benchmark one to Benchmark three um and because we didn't like the way that this one was done by skills and not doing that spiraled approach we are not recommending the for this one for approval for continuation next year another program we have that supports our Title One students is Kinder experience and this allows our Kinder students in Title One to transition to full day Kinder so they come in um a week before school starts sometimes two weeks depending on when we're doing PD for our staff as a district um it's four days three hours a day and lets them just start learning the routines and procedures of school um how to transition the introduction to math and English or math and reading um and it has led by our Title One kindergarten teachers so this just helps students who maybe didn't have the opportunity to go to preschool we're coming out of covet lots of kids didn't maybe have structured activities with other peers so they learn those cooperation skills and those types of things that gives them that introduction so that those first couple days that kindergarten are a little bit easier and then parental involvement um as part of Title One all Title 1 schools are required to have a parent engagement goal or action steps related to a goal and so 90 of our Title One schools increased the number of academic related family engagement activities this year compared to last year um some examples include family literacy and reading nights um if you saw Twitter uh surprise that a science night just the other night they had um the Arizona Science Center out doing activities with the families and the kids um they do stem nights um other nights such as navigating the parent portal how to use schoology with your students so some of those academic programs that our kids are using in school that are on their Chromebooks that when they get home parents have that opportunity to support um and then of course at our high schools um title the course selection so having the parent support person at Dysart high school has them come in and they'll sit down with the parents and help them navigate that course selection guide and all of those pieces um phosphonites and then our 21st century schools which is the 21st century activity Grant um they actually do activities where parents can engage with them at home so maybe I can't come to a parent night but they'll send something home and the parents can then do and replicate that activity with their student at home and then they're still getting those learning opportunities without necessarily um not being able to attend an event at the school and then we're going to transition to next steps so one of the next steps for next year you can see um the data there is 71 of our District's English language Learners are in our Title One schools and so with that recently the board approved the El instructional specialist position which will allow us to further our supports for these students um so they will specifically focus on the targeted instructional time for our El students and then they'll also be providing support to teachers in designing lessons that best meet the needs of English language Learners and measuring the effectiveness will be our Zello results increasing the number of students who move proficiency levels on azella which is that English language learner proficiency exam or the overall number of students who score proficient and then next steps is Kinder intervention as the board knows we've added a Kinder position for next year and so this will focus on early intervention we replaced the data specialist positions with that Kinder interventionist and this will allow for the reduced class sizes during small group instruction and a dedicated person to work with Kinder interventions um the Kinder teams will be able to meet um and really build those foundational skills in literacy and math and then that measure of Effectiveness will be our Dibbles data and reducing the number of intensive students leaving kindergarten compared to previous years so that we can say we have less kids in that strategic and intensive category than we have previously and then overall next steps we will continue with our in-depth analysis of our title programs and their effectiveness we will have intentional collaboration between the curriculum instruction Department research and achievement and the new director of federal projects creating an embedded approach to support our Title 1 school so we have some Focus schools this year next year we will be intentionally focusing on our lowest performing Title One school so we're going to reduce the number that we're focusing on and really spend time focusing on those the lower performing ones um building a title one principle PLC to build capacity and impact student learning so they've really appreciated this spring as Dr Longoria was working with them on their IEPs and their needs assessments we gave them opportunities just for work time so they could come together and collaborate and compare ideas and do those types of things and they've really appreciated that time um they get personalized support from the federal project Specialists so we have two who specifically go and walk during tier three instruction and give feedback and walk during El instruction and give feedback and then measuring Effectiveness we'll be using the department data to do um measure whether or not our implemented programs are working through the review of that data and then reflection of our processes in the department so we've been working a lot on creating really well-defined processes so that things are very clear and that we have strong collaboration among our different academic Services departments and with that I will stand for questions thank you very much do we have questions I do yeah um for the Intervention Program the achieve math since you're not going to recommend it going forward do you guys have something else in place um so I excel is a math program that's actually in line with our um I am math program and that schools have the option to buy that um with their Capital funds to support um it's used as a tier three intervention or I'm sorry tier two intervention that they can use to go along with it and it actually is in alignment with our math curriculum and also with the um the corrective math are they going to utilize that same procedure since you're not going to correct yes they can also use IXL okay thank you the was it the corrective map that you said um or was it the connecting math no it was connecting math sorry connecting map that you said they were going to roll out to the title one schools we're going to make a recommendation for the board to Move It from a pilot to an opportunity yes and then we have um placed it in our one of our budgets for next year as a purchase um so with that said I mean with the with the thought um in a sense are we thinking like this is going to be a pilot for all of our Title One schools in a sense or are we hesitant to roll it out district-wide maybe due to cost or so yes so it is not cheap and so we have the advantage when it is in those title grants it can only be used at Title One schools so when we when we purchased it with um those federal funds designated for low income it is only eligible at those schools okay but purchasing outside of those funds would be pretty costly correct okay yes thank you I think it was my only question but I I just wanted to thank you though for your presentation and this is a lot of really good information and I just appreciate you not providing a lot of anecdotal evidence I I am just very appreciative of your approach thank you yes thank you thank you for the presentation thank you for taking the time to outline very specific programming and interventions um I really think this is probably the first time that I've asked for a presentation or an update regarding our title schools that I've heard something other than walk to read march to math tiered intervention RTI all the same vanilla things so I appreciate you taking the time to actually give us specific information speak to those interventions and programmings um can you tell us though like what at what frequency are you monitoring the outcomes as far as just making sure they're still effective and um obviously I know you had mentioned like you're doing that obviously because you you've weeded some of them out but how often are you going in there just to always monitor for Effectiveness so the ones that um like I said the to achieve we have monthly meetings with them um the connecting math concepts corrective reading reading read to achieve and corrective math we're all brand new this year so our data and information we have is just what from what we've implemented this year so um we'll continue to monitor those we largely use Benchmark data um tier three interventionists have actual data sheets that they have to keep and those are shared with Federal projects and it's a list that includes the daily attendance of the students they're um it's state test scores from the year before their benchmark scores and then all those ones where I mentioned they have those Mastery tests along the way the scores on that and they keep records almost like a running record of what level that student's working at so that they can continue to monitor the progress of those students but that's you mentioned the Benchmark testing is kind of like so just every time we're doing The Benchmark testing that's when we're evaluating the effectiveness of these newer programs or how often actually so we're doing Walks Like the federal project Specialists will go in and watch and make sure we're actually getting Fidelity of implementation um but then in terms of actual raw data our Benchmark is our best one to see large-scale programic data and then we said that we have the individual teachers ones for their programs that they're doing with the kids in class those little assessments the kids take every in the corrective reading it's every 10 and I think in the math it's every eight and for the ones I know obviously were we don't have any information in regard to the newer programs that we're using but for some of the ones that we've been using for a while why do you think despite all these other interventions and these intents interventions I guess that we're implementing for our title schools why do you feel like there's still a lag between our title versus non-title how can we bridge that Gap so that is a complex there's multiple pieces that go along with that um so I think part of it has to do with um Fidelity to programs we know when we are doing programs with Fidelity um they are much better implemented so we talked about having that dedicated person for read um Achieve 3000 this year makes the difference because we can constantly monitor Fidelity um I think now is a unique we're in a totally different age in terms of teaching openings and all of those types of things that just continues to add to the challenges that go to hiring and Staffing and those types of things so you have openings in places that make it more difficult um and the variable for me as a former Title One principal is always time it just sometimes takes longer for students to catch up and close those gaps um and you've heard me say before by the time I got him out of my school when they left me I was pretty close to all of our district schools and how my students were performing but it takes time and time is a variable when you're in third grade you have third grade and we measure you against all the other third graders and maybe by fourth or fifth grade I'm doing better but it's a variable that we constantly measure kids and expect them all to be at the exact same place at the same time and they're not cogs on a wheel they are all going to have their own individual learning paces and we continue to measure them against a set time well in regard to Fidelity to programs to me that is a huge just accountability piece like no excuse for that if the expectation is to implement the program it needs to be done for the Fidelity and if it's not that's that's a concern that needs to be addressed um hiring and staffing issues that's in all schools like all of our schools have vacancies um and the time as far as I understand every student learns at their own pace but my frustration this isn't to you but my frustration in general sometimes is the approach of you know things aren't going to change overnight and I understand that but I've been hearing that forever and so I appreciate the fact that it's going to take time especially I can tell you put a lot or your team put a lot of work into finding the right programs we're going to be getting in there making sure that these kids are getting what they need but we have we we always have to make sure we're not too complacent with the fact that every year it might take us to get a program up and running that's like this kid is still moving through our system and they're just hoping we get it together for them you know what I mean and so I just want to make sure that the Fidelity piece again no excuses it's an accountability thing because these kids uh you know and I also want to say too I appreciate the fact that you didn't once mention socioeconomic status um and that conference that I went to one of the one of the quotes that stuck with me is this the keynote had said when students come from higher socionemic socioeconomic status it makes our jobs easier when children come from lower economic status it makes our jobs more important so it's not that it's an excuse ever and you know I can appreciate the fact that yes I know that clearly if you have two parents in the home that dedicate you know homework time for two hours after they both work their jobs whatever it's going to help that child more than the child that comes home to no electricity both parents out or maybe single fam I get that that there's they face different challenges that impact learning but when they're in our system and we have I know we have like the best of the best teachers in this District I just I know it I've seen it and nobody can convince me otherwise to where once we have them and if we spend money on these programs and things there's no especially for a Fidelity issue there's no reason why why we can't while we have them here giving them what they need and finding out what how each individual child learns differently and whatever that child needs meeting them where they're at and getting them there you know what I mean so um I'd like to have more uh like more regular updates on our title schools just so we can see especially with these newer programs how they're doing because if they're not working let's find something else let's not sit with programs that we use because we always use them but they're not moving certain kids I would add to the conversation first I want to just state that the presentation this evening given by Miss hartchen is reflective of our commitment to a thorough analysis of our title programs and and really the piece that we continue to talk about is stripping away things that are impeding us from teaching and and having students learn and this presentation this evening is reflective of that direction and where we're headed the Fidelity conversation is critically important and has been a focus for us this year which has allowed us to get to these decisions that we've made because we've expected Fidelity in our principals are doing a very good job of holding a line and it is showing us where programs are effective and where they're not and then we're able to make better decisions in terms of where we allocate our resources so those are very very important components I also want to I would be remiss if I didn't state that you know Miss hartchen has been assisting with uh the the federal projects programs this school year and she has a team that works with her it's a small team but they're very Mighty and they are doing tremendous work in our schools through program evaluation and working with our teachers to really assure that our Focus remains in One Direction and that we don't Veer off from that because everything that you stated is a hundred percent accurate every student in this District deserves the best opportunity for education to move forward in their lives and that is the is the charge that we have in the charge that we take and the charge that will continue to be the focus of this school district thank you so much for the work you put in the present PAD as far as I'm concerned with title updates so I really appreciate you've done thank you thank you so much I especially like sorry sorry I apologize that's okay you know I just all right I'm gonna go take a coffee break I'll be back no I really appreciate the Kinder experience because anybody who's been anywhere near a Kinder classroom I'm it's like the first two months of school these kids just don't know how to be at school they don't know and it's not because they're not competent it's not because they're teachers are about it just takes time for them to understand Walking In A Line This is How we walk so I really appreciate that Kinder experience I really appreciate our Kinder teachers being willing to do that and our Kinder interventionist is I think that's also going to help that timepiece because when we can get them at the kindergarten level and we can get them going where they need to be we can get them that great start and that Foundation because they come from all different areas they come from all different levels some have preschool some don't some can write their name some can't some kids come to us they don't know their colors so having that Kinder interventionist is going to help so much and I think that will help with the timepiece as long as it's used properly with fidelity as it should be so I just want to say that I I appreciate those two elements in particular and it will also help with smaller class sizes so thank you thank you for your presentation sorry for walking I apologize that's okay all right next we will move on to G2 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community I would like to begin this item this I I want to let the board know that this item has been scheduled to be part of this agenda for a number of weeks however I want to to start just by indicating that our prayers are with those in the community of Nashville and at Covenant School and and the difficulty and incredible tragedy that they um experience this week that being said the board and our community is consistently reminded that safety is our top priority in the school district and so with that I'll turn this over to Dr crota to introduce this presentation thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board tonight we have Jason Yeager here to give us a safety update on the state of safety and also Craig musie is with him and they'll be sharing some safety updates to things that are going on in the district so Mr Yeager it's all yours thank you sir Madam president board cabinet Community that's Dr Dean stated so um approximately three or four weeks ago when this presentation was requested there's three or four specific questions that we're looking to answer certainly we do want to acknowledge the fact that some incidents have occurred which may have changed the amount of questions or the types of questions that would occur after this and I'm fully prepared to answer those if necessary but I will get into our slides to get through the information that you did request and we'll go from there um I'm happy to say that there's a lot of things that we've accomplished over these last several months and you'll notice that on the first few slides I'm not going to read everything verbatim at uh just to respect your time but I do want to hit a few things certainly the most important things the training that we conducted at the beginning of the year setting the tone making sure that all the students staff teachers everybody involved knew what the expectations of Dysart were how they could manage to be safe throughout the uh the school year and then continue to build on that as we went along we didn't have specific training not only for those members but for the board members themselves and I know that we've uh I'm not I'm sorry not board members cabinet members themselves and um I think that's done a lot towards making sure that our culture remains steady throughout that process again skipping through some of the things you can see that there's a lot of safety checks that myself and Craig have conducted on campuses throughout the year those numbers have actually increased I had four or five more just this week since this presentation was put together risk management audits at every single site continual safety drills at every single site indigenous sporadic checks throughout the uh the weeks the months as well our cert teams have seen a lot of improvement over this last few months as well we have some more surprises for them leading into next year on some expectations that we're going to continue to build on but those will really strengthen the quick responses that can occur before the rest of us need to get involved by making sure that those teams have all the resources they need and are continually practicing and modern the types of situations that they specifically have on their campuses again some more operators as you can see just a lot of things that we've done we have started to uh Institute some scenario-based exercises we do have some much larger scale in the works that hopefully will happen sometime before the next school year and then we'll continue to always present those smaller ones at every opportunity we have a couple other things up there again a lot of great things that we have already gotten completed several other things that we are working on so that means they're in different phases of completion but hopefully you've been around to some of our sites and noticed some of the new window coverings I think they look fantastic I think they do a lot to help alleviate some of that stress and pressure as teachers and staff are getting into a particular lockdown mode that's one less thing they have to worry about that's one more area where they can feel safe in their particular classrooms and spaces and again I think they look great as well so I definitely uh kind of increased multiple areas myself and Craig both completed some training this year for me it was a refresher and we're also both actively in our Advanced course as well but you see up there it says subtag crime prevention through environmental design basically what that allows us to do is to look at the different aspects of our campuses from you know parking lots to Windows to lighting to everything to make sure if there's anything that we can do to enhance our security not just by purchasing new things but by making changes and upgrades to our existing features and also to help us if we ever do have the opportunity to build a new school there's just just a wealth of knowledge that comes from that training and I encourage you to look at some of the stuff that's available online but it really helps us get a a new look at our existing buildings and things that we can continue to do we did have a purchase of a new video video management software which is really going to help the functioning of our camera systems that it's already in place and I was just working with some vendors again today and you can see on that next bullet point there that there's a we should have several hundred cameras uh showing up before the end of the fiscal year and then we will continue to install those as we go forward there are some a lot of Replacements that need to occur as well and we'll kind of monitor that and how that plan goes forward but some very good results in the amount of cameras that we're able to get from the existing funding for that um again a few more things here we we've had a lot of success with our sros as you know we have applied for several grants to hopefully increase the footprint of the sros I won't get too much into that because we're still waiting if here if we've received those grants but certainly we have some positive outlook on that but we've enhanced what we are we currently have we have increased the amount of time that we meet with them amount of training we've been able to increase that also with the existence of the citizens patrols City of Surprise actually kind of did that on their own and brought it to us ask us if we supported and said absolutely you know the more law enforcement type-minded individuals we have available to be on and around our campuses the better and you should start to see them a lot more around our campuses as well you can see we also mentioned security guard so you know we've had a hard time uh hiring security guards so if you want to put the word out I definitely need some more but we've seen some some progress in that as well providing them with a consistent ongoing training and an opportunity to meet with them on a regular basis as well to make sure that that they're meeting our standards these are a few things that we're either working on or we're just not quite there yet for a variety of reasons but certainly we'll be continuing to work for over the next couple years and again you can see that you know a lot of the stuff is just trying to look at our systems that are maybe older need to be placed if there's new technology out there that can replace anything that we have and again getting standardization I was on a campus this morning that was built in 1988 and they had some fantastic features but obviously you know some things have changed but honestly there's a few things that they have that I wish some of the newer builds were built that way but they were built differently for different cost purposes and so forth but getting some standardization is definitely key we'll continue to work on some of these other things here again you can look at it on your your versions but some things that we you know may or may not need assistance with one of my uh biggest things that I'm trying to do is regardless of funding finding ways that we can continue to make our campuses safer we can't rely on the fact that funding may just find its way to us but there are a lot of grants that we're continuing to to look into and then obviously as we get funding we allocate that to where it's best suited we are making some changes to um some of our safe reports and threat assessments you'll see some some training going forward I think is is successful as those programs have been over the last year or two there are some uh some some tweaks we can make to make those a little bit more effective and streamline those processes so you'll see those and then he like I said uh talked about zip Ted you know one of the things in that crime prevention thing is a lot about uh landscape simple things like Truman trees so you can actually have a functioning camera or a window that can be seen out of there's a lot of things like that that I think that that course really brought to light that are going to be easy fixes for us that are really going to increase our safety throughout the district um one of the questions that was asked was you know how are lockdowns working celebrations any eating challenges and so forth and uh member Pritchett I know that you were out with a couple and you experienced some of those firsthand and um I'm happy to say that over the course of the year we've really seen staff and students and everybody for that matter really uh take them seriously understand kind of how we're getting to one of the things that we always trust about right there these aren't a check box we want you to have purpose behind them we want you to spend some time you know before and after talking about what was effective was it what wasn't why do we do this not just go do it because we told you to and a lot of Staff engaging in thinking through how those different things work on our campuses again going back to the fact that we have campuses that span a large time frame of when they're built sometimes the responses are different per campus and so as much as we like to have a consistent uh response there's just certain things that have to be done differently because your campus doesn't function that way and so a lot of positives coming off the got a lot of good conversations and some some thoughtfulness coming from the administrators out there whether Craig and I visited or not and so that's good to see that that has continued to Trend in the right direction um and then again just giving them options not every solution fits nicely in a box and we want to make sure that as things continue to happen throughout the world that we always have a solution to whatever those things might be I know that you had a special interest in Surprise Audits and we'll continue to do those as we can but we also are just trying to be cognizant of minimizing the interruptions to learn and so what we've found is that we'll get to on the next couple slides here is that there's multiple phases that I instruct people on on on their lockdowns and there's the the first couple phases is what we really want the students to focus on and then the administrative portion of that in some of the later phases maybe don't need to be done that day but they can do them at a cert meeting later that day or on the next day they certainly need to be done because we want to make sure that all of them understand how those processes work but it allows us to get them back to learning and you know separate those functions so they can be done effectively and here they are so again when I when I teach this or I talk about this I try to get everybody to understand that when when we come and we we observe you in any type of drill whether it's an evacuation or in this case a lockdown um there's you need to do things in order the first thing is to get everybody somewhere safe as quickly as possible wherever that may be uh and then we need to talk through with students how does that look if you're on a basketball court or a playground or if you're just in a classroom certainly when we do a lockdown in the classroom it's easy you go up you do you want no coverage a lot make sure the doors are locked which they should already be and everybody gets to where they need to get but those transition periods are where we want to spend most of our time after they get to that safe place you'll understand if you're familiar with the Run height fight or the Alice model the new Alice model talks about having that communication piece if you are aware of where that threat is on your campus we need that information passed to Administration and or law enforcement so that way we can get to the threat that much easier it's a little bit different from what people are used to but you want to make sure that people are comfortable with what that looks like and how that's done and then there's those phases here the three four and five those are the ones that while it's nice to practice um you know it could take hours sometimes to really get through a accountability reunification and so forth and in other instances days and that's not realistic to put on our staff to get them to try to figure out how that looks in five minutes when really in real life that they would have a much longer time to do that and so that's why I try to separate those sometimes if possible when we're out on sites um let me just go up through so again we talked about a little bit of getting the the students involved kind of talking them through that it's really important that we give all students the opportunity afterwards to kind of decompress especially with fire alarms going off and just the fact of the reality of what actually could be happening even though these are drills it brings up emotions and we need to make sure that students feel comfortable to let those emotions out before they get back to learning and expect them to get back to learning but then it also gives us that opportunity to talk them through again why did we do that you know you may get different instructions at home or news or Twitter or whatever it is that tell you that maybe that's not the right thing to do but this is why we do what we do and this is why we know it's effective and you know obviously we're willing to take a feedback as well but I think that debriefing thing that we've seen in a couple instances throughout the year is really paid dividends the other question that was asked is what is our health score and well that's a kind of a difficult question to ask I wanted to kind of paint the picture in a few different areas on what that means to us um you'll see there obviously wherever you pay attention to the most is where you're going to get the most results there and and that's true with everything not just safety and it's just like driving a car off the lot as soon as you drive it off it starts to depreciate anytime we buy a brand new shiny system this the very next day that you have it it starts to work less and less and less as you go along and so whether it's an object that you buy a system that you pay for or some type of training program you know there's there's a diminished capacity to that as time goes on so we need to make sure that we continually training our people every year keeping them engaged excited about it keeping them understanding why we do this give them a reason to want to do it every year and then again if it's some type of system always a maintenance program that goes with that plan of what do we do in five years when you know those cameras are no longer you know a valid option so things like that we got to continue to think about and plan for and those are things that we're doing on a regular basis the other thing is is that no matter how hard we try if we get everybody on board and everybody's doing the right thing if one person goes in to work and just spaces it and leave the door wide open you know that leaves things open so that's what's difficult is we may have been an A-Plus yesterday but tomorrow we're a d-minus because somebody didn't do something that was really simple and they just forgot and so um you need to look at when you look at the health of our our safety is do we have the things in place that if everybody followed them would we be in a safe place and the answer to that question is yes if they follow the procedures they have that we have if they follow the the instructions that we're giving them in the in the advice then we have a safe District we certainly need to continue to remind them and to Always Be watchful to make sure that we pick up the slack for anybody who forgets to do those things but our ongoing audits are always going to expose those things our processes allow us to fix those on a quick basis the safe reports where we can get that information you know as timely as possible all those things help us continue to do a good job in those areas again respect irrespective of budget Cycles and so one of the things I just mentioned is that we um you know we do the audits we have that robust audit that I believe we mentioned a couple um uh meetings ago the Tactical site surveys uh we do have a completed uh version of that that will be accessible to you here in the near future because we do want your input as well but you're really going to see A to Z on everything involved with our campuses being looked at again every single door every hinge every window everything's going to be addressed in those in those surveys and again we're going to have team members from you know from maintenance from law enforcement from admin members from other Schools they're going to be able to put eyes on that in a way that it's never been looked at before and I think that's going to give us a better sense of individually campus my campus what the grade would be and it give us the opportunity to to turn those grades around or whatever we need to do almost immediately after those things are conducted that being said one of the ways that we look at how safe we are is there's there's a lot of different you can go online right now and there's a ton of different places that say if you do these checklists you're safe one of the ones that I look at is through Pass it's a partnership Alliance for safer schools it's a collaboration of of vendors and professionals throughout the country to put this checklist together and they've got a district-wide themes they've got you know cyber they've got you know policies procedures they've got they've got all over the things and they've got diff uh four different tiers and they if you can check off those tiers you know they consider you uh in that realm so I'm happy to say that you know our district uh has met all 40 of their tier one um suggestions or recommendations and and many of the uh tier two and three and even some of the fours you're probably automatically asking yourself well you know isn't for the best why wouldn't we have all four and I I'm going to tell you that as you look through that if if you want that provided we can do that you'll notice here on that third bullet point that some of the things on Thor's Iris scanners and fingerprints and honestly I just don't think that's realistic and I don't think that's something that we necessarily would be a good use of our our time and resources but that's why we don't need to be a four certainly do we need to do everything to get us is absolutely safe as possible sure but I mean I I know Fortune 500 companies that don't have Iris scanners you know and they've got all kinds of things so um don't don't be misled when I say that you know we've got all all 40 of the the tier ones I think that is a very good Benchmark for our district and I'm happy to say that we had all those um before we got to the end of this year and we'll continue to look at those uh checklists and and others we'll match them we'll take the good from what's good and you know obviously we'll leave behind what doesn't make sense uh we're always going to look at these in a manner that we're most responsibly using our funds but not compromising at all when it comes to what can we be doing otherwise for safety and uh I'll leave that there for now and see if you guys have any questions thank you very much for this presentation thank you very much Mr UCM Mr Yeager thank you to our admin for continued focus on safety and for um with Fidelity I guess it's our buzzword for the night implementing these and our staff our principals because like you said all it takes is one all it takes is one teacher not following the protocols to put a lot of students at risk and I appreciate the focus on the safety and continued practice because especially during transitions because transitions like you said they're scary you know having a drill during a transition because kids don't know what to do because ideally the doors are locked right where do they go how do they get inside the building if there's a lockdown drill and I think these are excellent things to practice and I think these are excellent things for our students to understand so thank you yes ma'am and one more thing I also appreciate your discussion on the why telling our students this is why we do this we're not just doing this because we're little robots and this is this is why this is why we're this is how it's safe this is why we're doing so thank you for that as well for all the work that you put into this and it I look forward to going to schools again because it's truly amazing and reassuring to just watch the process in place you know um well question really quick the cameras that we have um who monitors those so it's a combination um if there's an SRO on site they will monitor them sometimes our what's the the name for the plant manager thank you I apologize uh plant managers have access I also have a plan in place that um as we start to install more that we're going to put viewing stations in the front office as well because being able to walk by and see those on a regular basis is going to really give us that opportunity and one of the things too is that the way our schools were built although we're very secure on the front we don't have a big view to people coming in as well and so by having that somewhere in the front office that'll allow that front office to have to see people before they even get into the building and so a combination ma'am there's I mean I have them on my phone and my tablet I'm looking at them all the time no matter where I'm at but um depending on where you are there's different people looking out of them and I'm going to enhance that as well and I don't I was thinking of this as you're doing your presentation and I really don't know I I don't know really that there's anything you guys can be doing unless it's just more of a culture shift in regard to getting students to take things seriously I know when we were at one of the schools you know a student finished shooting his basket and he's like is this real and it was just kind of like you know and I understand that if they do them enough they're going to think okay these all can't be real but a way to almost reinforce somehow almost like and I know we're not really saying PBIS anymore but PBIS ish type strategies where it's like you kids know like they they're seen like dropping what they're doing and going it's like here's a praise or here's a ticker here's a something and hey you know what when Mr musee and Mr Yeager if they leave our campus and we have you know they have a goal or something if we have less than x y z um topics for feedback then there's some sort of reward at the end of the month or I don't know something to get them really excited and embracing the importance of these things and not being complacent because what we learned about Monday is that that individual had thoughts of going to another location but it was considered too secure so we want to make sure all of our schools are determined like we're not going to mess with Dysart because they're Rock Solid you know I know we can't be a hundred percent sadly all the time but I know that's something like I said that's really out of your guys's control it has to be a culture shift to make sure that our students that one second that you finished you know the do you waste shooting that basket or turning to your buddy to say is this a real is this real or not second's matter in situations like that so something to kind of um to kind of think about as far as moving forward too to see just to improve our process possibly and then the only other thing I was going to say or ask um I know after one of the lockdowns I want both of them that I observed you guys were great at giving feedback to the principal and staff and I I think I remember you telling me that you provide that information like a kind of a in a email or whatever like a list of of suggestions or what you observed and that they're ideally supposed to go back to their safety teams or their school teams and process okay these are the things that were identified as where we need to focus is there Fidelity in that in them going back to their teams how are we knowing is there an accountability piece built in so you guys know yeah they're taking I don't want your information to be filed in an email folder or put on a shelf I want that I want you to know that yeah they're taking our feedback and we know they're processing it with staff and here's how we know that yeah so when I first started that feedback process that Wellness still is at this point it was on paper and so I'm building a situation where next year I'm going to be doing that electronically but over the summer I'm going to upload all of those sheets from every campus that I've done all year long and have those in a in a place where people can go through them they can look at everybody it's like and look at everybody's wins and and struggles uh based on that and then yes uh your question about are they taking it back to the cert teams uh I can't distinctly be able to tell you yes or no that that is occurring everywhere right now but I'm creating a scenario where every 13 meeting they're required to post their their their notes and their um basically what they talked about and that should include that as well and I'll audit that and monitor that if if those items aren't being discussed that'll be visible now because they're going to be required to post those well and I would also ask that you guys if you if you see routinely like you know okay the last last time we went to the school you know our feedback was hey not all your doors were locked or whatever um and then you go back to the school again and it's the same issue that you report that to District administration because that's not anything we want to give time to and wait and Coach them through and make sure it gets better like if it's the same for lack of a word citation or piece of feedback that they were cited on for not following through then we need to know that because certain things I mean there's they shouldn't happen at all at this point we're all very familiar with lockdown processes there shouldn't really be a lot of repeat issues happening time after time that's why I put them on paper so we can memorialize that and have that available so that yeah next year obviously I'll have the opportunity to go back and say all right last year you had five of these this is what you know exactly like you're saying so yes ma'am and those pieces do get back to us okay and they come to us and then they're followed up with with the principles from our end and do you then maybe if there's a school that has some struggles maybe you go back sooner than scheduled just to make sure that they're rather than just waiting for their next rotation of lockdown yeah I will certainly um that's when we'll go out and we'll just do those surprise walks it may not be a surprise drill again but we'll go and check hey you know is that door actually locked today yes absolutely those get done thank you so much for all that you do I appreciate you both as this cabinet I would add okay I'm so grateful for this presentation just how how well you guys are managing our safety here in Dysart um I was happy to see that we're making progress hopefully with these grants for the sros for our schools that don't have them um I think we've talked about this before but I'm sure that you're in talks with both the cities of El Mirage and surprise if we are provided or awarded the grant funds for these positions for the sros how much lead time do we need to give the cities because obviously they need to backfill with new recruits through and they need to put them through the academy I'm assuming unless they're getting transferred in somewhere so what does that process look like right so um prior to even being able to submit for the grant we had to get a certification from the cities that indicated that they were willing to do it after God and so they're well aware of our intentions they're supportive of our intentions and they have plans in place to either transfer people over or hire them as you stated um you know certainly things change and we'll we'll work with those if they do but they're they're well aware they're looking forward to it as well and it I believe that even they've got names identified if it does happen so I think we're in a good place there cute and those grants close on April 15th I should tell you so coming soon couple weeks we should start hearing some information looking forward to it um and then with the sros that we have now in our high schools and in our middle schools do they do any ad hoc um just testing you know are they checking doors to see if they're locked and are they reporting that data back to you so I know they all have their own kind of systems on how they do it everybody's a little bit different but sure I I visit them on a regular basis as well and and yes they'll be like hey you know I do my walk with my principal and we check out and they kind of tell me what what they do and again everybody's got their own kind of order in which they do it as long as they're doing something uh usually that's that is fine at this point for me I try not to dictate too much because they have a certain um Cadence that they're required to do things as well but no I do I do question them I ask them and they're very it doesn't take me asking usually I get there in like uh over at Summer on uh Bob he's like hey just so you know we had an issue with his door and we had we had this and I had this student that we had this problem with and they're usually really quick to do that without uh any need there but as mentioned earlier in the presentation we are setting up to time where we're going to meet with them on a monthly basis as a whole so they can share across from campus to campus too what challenges and how they're doing things and maybe create some best practices so a long answer to a short question is yes um can you speak to that a little bit is that just more the presence or are we actually utilizing them for different things right so since they have limitations to what they can and can't get involved in they are mostly just presents and so again it was their idea they said hey we're out anyways uh do you guys have any issues with us driving through your parking lots multiple times of the day and to that answer is absolutely not we have no problems with that presence matters I appreciate it exactly and so what they're expected to do is if they see something um they'll alert the SRO or active duty and make sure that those things get handled but yeah it's mostly for just those extra eyes and just to see the cars in the parking lot again um like you said I think it speaks volumes to what they're doing to commit to us thank you and I know that you mentioned I'm sorry I'm kind of monopolizing with the SRO thing but you mentioned a little bit with the sros how they kind of do their own thing and they have their own patterns maybe um in at the festival of the Arts we happen to to run into officer Wendy and she was telling us about this amazing character program that she's really developed on her campus I'm just wondering if they ever get together share best practices because it just seems like such an amazing thing that she's doing um I don't know if you're familiar with it so I don't want to put you on the spot but if you're not familiar please reach out to her because I I think you'll be impressed yeah she is definitely one of our best ones she did great things when she was at Shadow she's translating those to the middle school she did share with me that that program that she started and again I know they meet as well separate from the meetings that that we have with them um but no I think we'll have a greater collaboration moving into next year as I continue to mold that together you know it was baby steps this year getting them all there and moving the same direction but we'll definitely have some opportunities going forward okay thank you very much thank you for the presentation I just have one question the security guards is there a number on how many we need I'll defer to HR on that but also I'm not sure which positions are funded on I I do know that we have two or three vacancies I can say that with confidence but that is one of those positions where we sometimes see some turnover we do have some very solid teams at most of our campuses but we do have a couple of vacancies that keep eluding us at other places um so I guess that's as far as I'll answer unfortunately I don't have the specifics but I know we could use a couple okay and are they weapon certified no they're not they're not okay thank you yes ma'am all right thank you very much I appreciate your time all right next we'll move to item H2 I have my ways I guess it's on the agenda so we can't skip it Madam president I believe you have to stick to the agenda oh my computer is messing up oh no we'll move a year-long recess we will move to item H1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community I would like to preface any remarks I make by just indicating that I will not be at the next board meeting on April 13th that's been planned for more than a year and not in any way related to this item for the last 18 years it has been my honor to serve the Dysart School District in a number of positions I was hired in 2005 to open school number 12 in the Dysart school district and um stayed there for two years and then opened School 18.

yeah so we don't like to go over 55 because the little guys we can fit three to the front yeah you're not getting three sixth graders you know sitting comfortably and safely in the rear you mentioned there's a like a petition in terms of the safety issue that's somewhere on the website that's the accommodation petition whether you're available so when I click on those it asks for a request so I just do I request that then to open that it's a Google doc the Google Doc opens and it says you cannot access us request for Access no use print itself could you try to open it yesterday so they're all being updated that's why they're being updated right now okay perfect so yeah so the accommodation yeah we'll fill that out and then just just instructions yeah yeah and you know if you're looking at that at the start of the school year I would include those photos no it was a light winter yeah too so yeah oops no I mean like I said and Luther was great we you know we called a couple times just to touch base and be like hey is there a kids and then we were able to figure out who's not coming who is coming and we got on the bus and um like I said it's just it would be easier if we just knew we were going to be on the bus because certainly there's greater Peace of Mind than having a guarantee yeah um and you know this Luther said I mean we're evaluating stops again on some of the your neighbors they're now that crosswalks have been added and things have been updated um and then you know when do we usually have a sense of when bus routes are squared away early August mid-august week of August if we it all depends on registrations right yeah so and our biggest problem is the high school so we do we do know the elementary schools earlier but not much earlier yeah it does yeah like there's a lot of new development a lot of houses on your boss in the end of June last year early July at 43 kids yeah why August we went to 62.

that's fine pardon me okay all right we went over just a little bit different yes thank you and the next part of the um of the interviews at the board is going to be asking a total four or five now there's five questions but uh trustee Florida Shelton is not here I think that that question should be asked just the honor yeah how you guys can foreign they gave not a clear um answer to my question but help me answer my question so I can ask that's okay okay of course Shelton's question yes yes so I don't know if that's gonna happen with the other two firm troops recipes so it has to be the exact same right so should I just trade I'm wondering because it has to be for the same for each firm so I guess what we're discussing is should I just trade my question for hers or repeat my question and you decide if that's so um board right vice president aware lower if you know so you'll you'll have to read the question verbatim as is on the sheet for the for all of the problems right so do you want me to read it in addition to or instead of my she can read two questions okay in addition okay okay sure correct okay okay so okay so with that I will start off with um my question then um okay so uh given the complexities in local zoning and permitting could you please tell the board about how your firm has helped clients navigate the zoning and permitting process to ensure a timely start to the commencement of the Project's Construction well we would start by certainly engaging with you and then hopefully interfacing with the local jurisdiction to understand how the property might be rezoned to accommodate the housing use so understanding clearly what those different Zone districts are and then making sure that we work together to select the right Zone district and then work within the constraints of that dis of that zoning criteria to begin to develop some of the concepts and so the idea is that we would ultimately find the right Zoning for a particular site and then follow that zoning criteria to achieve your goals Rick anything to add I'm just going to mention that part of the housing crisis in California there are a number of state laws that allow us to use incentives and way overs to zoning regulations as well that helps the viability of development and we'll study a number of those Alternatives in our initial yield our feasibility we'll call it feasibility of each site so that we can achieve a density we can achieve the kind of community you're looking for and those those state laws really help they really help us they're a great tool for for us as designers to achieve the goals that many of our clients are looking for with regard to housing yeah so the zoning District of course establishes things like density like height like setbacks like open space and again we want to find without what your goals are and then get a Zone District that's consistent with with what you're trying to get to as Rick mentioned there's a lot of legislation in the state that allows to achieve increases in density and to get streamlined reviews and those sorts of things we work with those kinds of tools all the time thank you Christy Chavez your question there are always pros and cons when dealing with issues what has been the most consistent issue in dealing with districts while working on a project the pros and cons and how the issues were handled resolved and executed well there's been a lot of lessons learned that we've picked up on and one of them is you know understanding the demographic understanding um if in fact the funding sources that are being used are um appropriate for the income levels so there's certain criteria that need to be met income levels that need to be met to be able to live in a a truly low-income housing tax credit type project so that's been one of the challenges that we've faced you probably have some other examples um yes I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with um Los Angeles Unified School District and uh Kalima salahudin with Jefferson who recently completed a housing project these are folks who've been through the process um we've put together a workshop together for cash conference recently and so in speaking with them through the experiences that they've been through with their district and with claima as a board member specifically kind of sharing you know the community engagement and transparency in terms of of consensus building bringing people along you know having really clear messaging um you know just kind of being unified as as a district and the decisions and and again having that clear transparency that was that was something that was really important to them um as as Otis was sharing you know LAUSD they've done four projects I think they were the first district to have gone through this process so um you know they learned a lot about um kind of the level of you know uh level of Housing and I think their first project um some some of the Educators actually you know couldn't afford or were beyond the actual housing limits but it did serve other District staff so it was you know obviously beneficial but um some of those Lessons Learned we certainly could impart and actually at the last page of the presentation that we're delivering there's a QR code that has a lot of their Lessons Learned um uh bullet pointed um so hopefully that would be helpful as well I hope that answered your question yes thank you hi Kirk Quintero uh have you been the subject of an investigation related and your project uh I'm sorry could you repeat the question have you been the subject of an investigation related to your project to any of your projects it's obviously major purposes no no and I'm going to ask two questions is that yes uh what is the average timeline to complete complete a visibility report Yeah in our proposal we did outline some of those steps um again it is we didn't have the benefit of working with the district to start off so we made some assumptions right so generally if we have a site that say that we have identified as a potential site that we'd like to look at um it in terms of creating the studies the review time with the district back and forth president interim presentations to the our final feasibility study we can do that reasonably reasonably fast I believe we put in our uh schedule approximately two to three to four weeks I think is what we we talked about doing for a single site right if if it's multiple sites and a lot more involved kinds of studies then it's a little different but in general it will be um it's something we can do reasonably fast the example I showed you on the screen was about a three to four week design process back and forth with the client several times until we honed in on exactly what they were looking for and then once that was completed we refined it got all the metrics all the statistics the unit mix the unit type the size of the the units and we were able to um present that with all the the data that helped them uh create their performa so generally um that's a kind of a rule of thumb in terms of um a single site if it gets beyond that it's a little more complicated but uh generally the process is the same I think then you know whether or not uh and how we engage with the larger Community um could add some time the presentations to the community could add a little bit of time to that but it's a a week here and a week there sort of a thing so it can happen very quickly thank you NLS the next question based on your organization's experience what are the key roles and responsibilities for the district and for the consultant in achieving a transparent process that gains buy-in um okay so say that one more time please based on your organization's experience what are the key roles and responsibilities for the district and for the consultant in achieving a transparent process that gains buy-in yeah I think the uh the thing to do is to make sure that we are being wide open with Community engagement and I think the roles of the district are really about informed decision making and trying to put forth as succinctly as possible what you're trying to accomplish what your goals are for specific housing do you have of all your sites do you have ideas about specific sites that you'd like to investigate um there's really a a period of us engaging and getting to understand what your vision is for this exercise what your goals are and I think that then then it's informed decision making where we put options in front of you and in front of the community at large Mary talked about you know having digital forums and and in-person forums where we can really talk openly about what the goals are of of the community and the district and and then we put forth options and we're looking for you to evaluate will help you uh explain what those are and and then you evaluate uh what the benefits are of of each of these and we sort of hone in on an option and get to the finish line that way things to add um I guess just in addition you know we're gonna we're gonna start by listening uh that's kind of our first step is um you know one couple of questions that we are thinking internally are there sites that you have in mind initially we know there there's a certain number of sites but um hopefully if we're selected to work with you um you know we'll start on day one to really understand um any work that's come forth or any any preferences that the district has again we start with listening and then going through the analytics with you and really studying as Rick and I know to Shared uh going through the benefits of each site the pros and cons of each site what options are there are to really find the community um that's going to really Thrive for your district and help you shape it thank you very much thank you Dr Cruz the interview um if you can wait in the waiting room um we'll bring the next thank you thank you thank you for your time thank you and um yes thank you that was you that little gem I think whatever I left you also over there you that other presentation thank you there we go um [Music] I'm just copying foreign [Music] thank you very much are we giving presenting from there or here um okay over just to confirm so it's 10 minutes of presentation and 20 minutes or 10 minutes so one minute per five questions or two minutes five questions okay okay trying to work through those details are you ready Christine yeah okay can you um put the timer on the screen on the um on the TV or prison yeah how many have to stand up that's fine in advance no worries there we are tell me to go yeah okay ready tomorrow uh good evening I Am Bruce Dorfman with education housing Partners uh joining me is Marlon just Vargas uh also with the HP um I wanted to give a quick overview of Thompson Dorfman Partners which is the parent company um we are a development firm that has its roots in Northern California for the past 40 years uh building multi-family housing both on a rental and for sale basis uh during that period of time we've built uh over 75 projects and 17 000 units of housing primarily in coastal California but we've also developed as far uh East as Sacramento or Roseville and as far north as Santa Rosa our Focus has always been on developing high-end Boutique oriented luxury communities and we in the past have managed the operations for tremelker residential one of the larger National firms as well as the Irvine Company we actually brought them off the Irvine Ranch and into North San Jose um and Silicon Valley back in uh the mid to late 90s um during that period of time we had a relationship with Santa Clara Unified School District we were building a lot of projects in their school district and as you know the school fees can be pretty considerable so they welcomed us with open arms whenever we came to uh meet with them and in the early 90s and if we want to flip the screen um we founded sorry in the early 90s or late 90s excuse me um we had the opportunity to work with them on the development of Costa Del Maestro based on that we created a non-profit called education housing partners and education housing Partners works with public school districts or other public agencies to help create Workforce housing to recruit and retain employees we focus on bringing the same expertise to our Workforce housing projects as we do to our market rate deals and that's really what the difference is we're not a consulting firm we're really a developer and so we want to give you the benefit of our development expertise as you look uh to create Workforce housing the rents in these projects have been set at levels that are typically about a third and less than market rate and that is created by the unique aspects that school districts have number one they own their land for the most part and we take access or Surplus sites in order to build Workforce housing they're not paying property taxes and there's some other benefits that school districts have that make operations of these projects more efficient these projects have uh you know been of particular interest recently particularly as districts have looked to increase the diversity of their Workforce by afford providing affordable housing we find that recent graduates who particularly bypoc graduates uh generally are in Greater need of affordable housing and this has helped school districts create a greater diversity in their Workforce next slide um our team is composed of myself um and Joanna Julian who runs our education housing program she cannot be here tonight and uh Marlon just Vargas and here's a little background although it's also in our uh written uh presentation I wanted to go through real quickly uh Casi Del Maestro um and the history there because I think it's uh pretty talent and there's obviously a good track record with it um this was the first project that a public school district built in order to create Workforce housing and what was unique about it if you remember and maybe I noticing a few of you are perhaps Too Young in the mid 90s there was class size reduction the state had a significant budget surplus and so uh for any District that was willing to reduce the class sizes for K through five to under 20 students the state was going to cover 90 percent of the cost Santa Clara unified like other districts went on hiring spree all across the country they brought these teachers into Northern California they offered them 40 to 45 000 starting salaries these teachers uh particularly when they were coming from the Upper Midwest um I thought you know how great is this is more money than my parents ever made and I'm getting to come out to California little did they realize at the same time the com boom was occurring and rents over a five-year period uh had doubled on an after-tax basis uh these teachers couldn't cover the rent so they started moving into substandard living conditions further away from their jobs leaving the districts all together to go to other areas with lower cost of living or um leaving the professional together the dot-coms were obviously very aggressively hiring college graduates so Santa Clara unified uh was impacted by this over that same five-year period their attrition rate increased 300 percent so as they looked at their the cause of this they realized they had two distinct cohorts one was what they referred to as lifers teachers that had been with the district for 15 or more years and the common theme there was they all owned a home in or around the school district then they had these young districts that these young teachers that they had just hired um had been with the district for under five years and that's where all the attrition was occurring from they had a very Innovative superintendent Paul perrotti perhaps some of you know them and Paul came up with this idea of building a Workforce housing community on some Surplus land that was on a Middle School site so he basically went out and retained us basically with the idea of building 40 units on uh two acres of property we had a six million dollar budget and that project Casa del Maestro was completed in 2002.

all right Welcome to our important parent meeting appreciate those of you that were able to make it um my name is Becky montoy I'm the counselor at the junior high and I'm also a licensed professional counselor and we are excited to present some very important information we it's hard to get good attendance there's lots of competing events any night of any day so we appreciate that the tech department is going to be recording this meeting and we will be able to push it out to parents and staff that are interested in this information but weren't able to attend tonight I've got some information on the board well a couple of things first very important things if you need a restroom they're just right in this little entryway that you came in we have both of our restrooms there typically when I give a presentation it's during the school day and it's on my campus and so then I also have to explain to the people in the room what we do in the event of evacuation or in the event of a lockdown and we won't have to worry about a lockdown we're not doing a regular school day but in evacuation we would just head out those doors but it's always surprising to adults that we have to review lockdown procedures anytime they're in the building and that is the reality that your young people are dealing with and that we are as well and so just wanted to throw that in as a reminder of some of the emotional stressors that young people have that you may or may not have had when you were attending school some of the information we will present this evening may actually trigger a strong emotional response in you at the back of the room and I'll introduce Miss Lauren marks she can give a little wave she is back there and if you're feeling especially um responding strongly to something that we present this evening you are welcome to go back and visit with her she also has some really important resources that Blue Ridge offers um there is a sign-in sheet back there I put one up here but the one you need is back there there's a sign up sheet if you are interested in taking a free Suicide Prevention class or a free mental health first aid class or you are interested in getting free counseling for your child then please make sure to put your name and information and we can hook you up with all of those free services on that table there's also a worksheet that that's called it's always okay to tag in a trusted adult that's a phrase in a conversation we want to be having with young people on a regular basis tagging in a trusted adult in that worksheet just kind of explains what that process would be we also have a little resource resource card and we have a bigger sheet with additional resources in the community lots of good information back there at the Blue Ridge table and then we also have the Nexus Coalition and they have a table at the back I don't know where Becky or destiny I see Destiny and Becky anyone else that's with Nexus if you want to give a wave their table is at the back as well and they have information on Free trauma classes that are being offered twice a month they offer free parent education classes some specifically targeted on the material we'll be covering tonight as well as other types of parenting classes and they offer free naloxone training and when they have it available when you receive that free naloxone training you can actually receive free naloxone with that training we appreciate all that Nexus does for us they also um come into the school and offer incredibly powerful life-changing educational resources to our young people and then I think care first or care Arizona complete are you guys here you're here great thank you and we appreciate that they have been helping us make connections with resources in our community as well which is why we're going to be able to get you plugged into free counseling for your child if you're interested in learning how to do that I've got some hotlines up on the screen and all that information would be in the handouts but if you um right here this first 24-hour support hotline this is the Arizona crisis line and we are really encouraging people to start using this crisis line it's the 844-534-4673 that number has the potential of having a mobile crisis team respond to the situation and the more that we use that number from our County the more we show the need we have in our County for mental health supports in the state so we really are encouraging people to write that number down share it that's for mental health crises you that number is available 24 7.

Jason also serves in his church and is a global Ambassador for the we World initiative to solve The World's water incoming electric crisis Jason has lived in Snowflake for the last eight years and he fills his greatest successes lie within his family he has been married to his beautiful wife for more than 20 years and together they have six children Jason is an outdoor Enthusiast and continues to exhibit grit and persistence as he makes a positive impact on everyone around him so thank you for coming Jason and we welcome you to share Jaden's story thank you um Becky uh what Becky didn't tell you is that she knew me when I was a snotty-nosed kid I was leasing a room from her mom just up the road in Wagon Wheel back before I got married that was 24 years ago so I've had some time up here in the White Mountains absolutely love it and plan to spend the rest of my life here just because I didn't pay a lot of attention when they told me who I was speaking to or at least I didn't remember I had in my mind I was speaking to a bunch of teenagers so or parents with their kids so uh if uh if I start talking to you like you're 17 that way but secondly if I could just get an idea of who's in the audience how many of your work at the school as Administration or teachers and how many here are parents that are coming to learn more okay I don't know why it hurt when I saw those parents raise their hands if I see the mom hi Joyce I think it hurt because I know that you're here probably because you're afraid because you want to know more so you can protect your kids but our story definitely does break the mold and I think what I want to share tonight is that nobody's exempt from this after Jaden passed away I've spoken at a few things and I still haven't figured out how to keep it together as long as I act like it's somebody else's story I do good but as as soon as I connect with the story it uh it's tough but uh as I've spoken in advance I've I've had mothers come up to me and thank me as they were able to begin the process of quitting their opioid addiction of several years and these are mothers that you would never in your life pick out as people that were addicted to opioids they have kids and a husband and it seem like have a perfectly functional family on the outside and and yet they're struggling with these addictions so I think just to give you a little bit of a back story I was raised in a home where drugs were quite prevalent I'm literally a crack baby I in in all it's it's sense uh my mom raised four of us boys we all had different dads we were homeless multiple times growing up lived most of our lives in tents and trailers and uh got to experience a lot of of that side of the world as I grew up I I had opportunities I call them opportunities but I had opportunities to spoon feed my mom's friends because they had overdosed on drugs too many times and had strokes and weren't able to feed themselves and so as I got to be a teenager of course I was dumb like most teenagers and wanted to start experimenting with things and I went down that path for a little while but as I did I fortunately had some compare and contrast in my life enough to know that that wasn't the path I wanted for myself so when I was about 17 I made some really dumb choices and uh that for me was my turning point because I realized that I was I was at that moment making a choice of whether I was going to go down this pathway or the other path and uh in short I I made the choice to straighten my life up and moved away from home at 17 and started paying for my own living as a personal decision because I knew I didn't want that in my life and so if that gives you any context as to how hard I've worked my whole life to make sure that those a kid's life or even my patient's life as I've expanded medical clinics throughout Arizona and now expanding Beyond my focus is to help patients get off opioids and to help them avoid the need of them and and and Drugs in general the more we can help patients not be dependent on those the better quality life people tend to live and so that's been my my motto for 15 years plus and uh so that kind of leads us up to I'll fast forward now to now I've got a a 13 14 year old Jaden uh Jaden was an absolutely phenomenal human being he obviously was good looking like his dad okay now his I should have brought a picture of the family so you can see his mom she's gorgeous um but uh good looking kid very athletic uh extremely talented and uh just somebody that everybody loved except for a couple of his teachers outside of that we were actually just told today one of his teachers let us know how much they loved him and uh he liked to push boundaries he liked to push buttons that was his thing and he hated the word anybody can anybody guess what word he hated no he hated the word no that was not an acceptable word in his life and I think that would have gone to turn into something absolutely phenomenal I know it would have because we got to see a little glimpse of that before he passed uh it would have turned into something powerful because he didn't accept the word no and he was the guy that got what he wanted when he set his mind to it but uh just as Vicki had shared and if anybody wants to know I'm probably the example here of what not to do and Vicki has the most beautiful perfect kid so if you want to learn what to do we can get her back up here after I'm done so she can give you some good counsel um but uh Jaden was a boundary Pusher 14 15 years old love to have fun uh he was driving way before he should have been sorry officers back there and his grandma and everybody in town knew him as the drift King we got a call one night he was 16 at this point he did have a driver's license but he was doing donuts around the Maverick gas stations three times before he decided he was had burned off enough tires and so he just liked to have fun uh push boundaries and live life and uh and I I didn't discourage some of that because I I think it's a it was a fun thing for him and I enjoyed that when I was young um but uh as he got to be 16 he uh he had a really good group of friends and uh he started to turn away from those friends and started to hang out with other friends and I don't know exactly what that path looked like but I can imagine very closely what it did because I've seen it plenty in my life growing up my best friend at the time when I chose One path he chose the other path and now he's been in jail three times he's in jail right now he's been in prison for the last five years um and uh and so I've seen the pattern enough that I'm sure he just started hanging out with these kids and it was cool and fun and they accepted them in different ways than his other friends did and and one of them offered him Vape at about 16 16 and a half uh offered him vape and uh told him it didn't have nicotine in it and you know it was just kind of a fun thing and uh what's unfortunate and this is something I know from my medical background is that one in three people have the genetic pattern that will allow you to become addicted more easily than other people and uh he definitely has that genetics my my runs in my family I'll take the blame on that one um but he definitely has a genetic pattern and when he took that verse Vape that nicotine hit his brain in a way that it it was pretty exciting and pretty exhilarating probably as fun as drifting around the gas station and uh so then after that that continued and and we tried helping him quit that for quite some time and then that and just because I don't have a lot of time tonight I don't want to take your whole evening that led over the course of time to marijuana as we talk about gateway drugs that led to marijuana and as most of us in here know the older crowd at least that marijuana isn't what it was when we were growing up none of these drugs or what they were when we were growing up and uh and then that led to experimenting with different allergy pills and other things and and he was he was fairly open with us by that time he was very closed off to us at first when he was first starting it but over time he opened up um as we let him know we weren't upset we just wanted to help him uh and uh anyway over the course of time he started to get into getting into it more and more and with that came a lot of anger and aggression at home because he knew he was trying to live two lives and I don't think any of us can do that successfully for a very long and so I just let him know I mean as his mom let him know that hey Jaden if you're going to make adult choices then you need to make adult choices and so you need to choose you're choosing to either continue this lifestyle or you need you need to move out and you need to pay for your own bills and take care of your own things and uh and in that course he chose to move out like probably most teenagers would at that point not all but some and he moved out moved in with a friend and continued on for a while and then moved in with another friend down in the Phoenix area over on the in on the West Valley and his friend's older brother was addicted to opioids and uh so and again I'm trying to keep the story short here but the short version of the story is he was introduced to opioids and he tried them and he was on them for about a total of six weeks about six to seven weeks I was all he was on him and he called me and he said Dad I hate my life he said dad I hate my life and I want to quit I want to come home and I want to I'm ready to change and having been in healthcare for long enough and helping people get off addictions of sugar which probably most of us are addicted to in here I've learned what kind of questions to ask to see if people are really committed and ready to do something and so I asked him a few questions and I I knew in that moment he wasn't 100 committed so I let him know Jaden I love you I know you're not 100 ready call me when you are we'll be down there to pick you up in a heartbeat and so two weeks later he called me on my birthday and he was completely broken at that time could hardly talk and he said Dad I can't even go two hours without a hit yeah it has it's destroying me I hate everything about my life I'm ready to be done and then I ask those same questions without him knowing what the answers were supposed to be and he answered him in a way that I knew he was willing to do whatever whatever it took to get off those drugs and so uh I said you want me to come get you or do you wanna you got a ride home and so he got a ride home uh from his friend and uh when he got home he had already been off for about four or five hours and so he was all of those things that you saw on there all of them uh he was having them uh there was vomiting Blue Lips blue fingernails pale pale face almost looked like he was dead in that moment and so I called up a good friend of mine Dr John Rosa he's the surrogate to the White House on the opioid crisis and because you know I can talk somebody else through it but talk to myself through it I had no clue what I was doing and so I said hey if I cold turkey him is my son going to die and he says no you can't die from cold turkey and he's just gonna have a really miserable time and so I took him in the bedroom we put a bedwetting sheet on the bed fortunately I have enough kids if I didn't tell you this I got a total of six kids so um I got enough kids we had Bedwood bed wedding sheets we put four three or four quilts on top of him had a couple Underneath Him and when it talks about sweating over the course of three days he swept more than I I believe any human could the the blankets were completely drenched and uh anyway he cleaned up uh there's a lot more to that story we use some IBM fusions to you know as much as we could help him detox but after about two weeks we had Jaden back and we had the real Jaden back like it was a Jade and I hadn't seen in a couple of years his eyes were glowing he was full of energy he was full of life and uh he was ready to take on his new life and so because of just I'll just call him special blessings a lot of things happened in that in in a six-week period of time that just happened to happen that way we got family pictures for the first time in a few years we went on a family trip to California I got to take him on some business trips with me out to Florida and right wide white ride wave Runners anyway we had a good time and I got to see his energy just picking up and see his momentum and he started to create a plan for his life and he set a date to implement that plan when he was going to start his job when he was going to ask his girlfriend that had been his girl for about three or four years but he promised himself he wasn't going to ask her until he was done with the drugs uh and he created a plan and so he one day decided he was going to go to Phoenix with me to my office and see his girlfriend because she was working for me at the time and uh so they hung out most of the day and uh for about one hour period of time at lunch uh he was by himself because she had some other uh things to do and he texted his buddy and his buddy came over and hooked him up with a couple of uphill I don't know if it was one I don't I don't know I know it wasn't much and uh and anyway we we drove home that night and uh that night he took his his last his last hit um that was still is tough but I tell the all the details all those details of the story I do see some youth here because I want you to understand the the path that these kids take he was he was a hundred percent committed to be done has anybody in here tried quitting sugar or tried quitting drinking a Coke or Pepsi or whatever it is and what do you typically do the day before you're ready to be done you overdose right you you'd take as much as you can because you know you're not going to get any for three days until you go give in to it again right or whatever it is I'm trying to lighten the mood here but uh the the reality is is and as you try to get as much as you can and that's what I believe he was doing that night because the next day that night before we left the valley he asked his girl to be his girlfriend and that next morning was the day he was starting his new job in his new life so the moral of the story here is that nobody's exempt that kid had as much love and support take in mind we weren't perfect parents by any means if I look back there's a million things I would have been more patient with and more kind and more loving but we sure as heck gave it all at all all the way through and uh I think the thing to remember is that that nobody's exempt and if I was to give you any advice uh you know this naloxone is one of those things that I don't know how many of you had heard of that have you heard of this before tonight how many of you have heard of naloxone okay so most everybody has that's that's good I hadn't even heard of it and I'm a physician and own medical practices it was not even I had heard of it but I didn't wasn't really aware when I found him that morning and it's one of those things I still wondered if I had had enough of that would things be different I just don't know I'll never know but uh but I think uh in watching Jayden's story and uh looking back on it what could we have changed what could we have done better what could we have done different and I think there's probably nothing as parents that we could have done different because there's only an extent to which kids will listen to their moms and dads but I think uh as a community we have an opportunity to strongly influence those around us I think as parents if I was to change anything I would have been more vocal about the struggles that he was having with people that I knew he respected and trusted whether that was his old friends the good gang the gang that he hung out with that were the you know even the kids that that were doing the drugs with them were good kids I know them all they're they're good kids just stuck in some bad patterns um but the kids that were making better choices I wish I would have reached out to them more and just told them hey if you have if you have it in your heart to continue to put up with him not being nice to you continued to just reach out to him continue to reach out to him let him know that you're there um as parents and uncles and aunts and and friends sometimes we are the greatest influence to our friends kids or our students sometimes you are the greatest influence and so taking opportunities to reach out have discussions help plant seeds so that these kids can know where to draw their own boundaries because the reality is we're not going to change some of the choices that they make but if we can give them these types of information and let them hear stories let them hear your stories let them hear that you care about them and that you're concerned it can help them potentially draw boundaries because if kids are going to be trying drugs they may just try them you may not have any say in that but maybe you can help them draw a boundary I know I did personally because I saw the patterns from my mom's friends I knew where I drew my line I knew where things got too ugly and that I did not want to go down that path and I'm grateful for that knowledge that I had and I wish I could have painted a better picture for my son or who knows you know there's all the what-ifs right but anyway I hope in some way that the story has has helped or is a story that you can use with your children most kids that are in the age of 18 to 22 in the Show Low White Mountain Area no Jaden they that kid got around and just about every kid knew him so um I guess we'll just leave it open for questions okay that's that's thank you that was a really good point um so something I had shared in a previous uh talk but uh Vicki asked me to share with you that it really I want to emphasize that it was not that last pill that killed him and this is so important emphasize to the kids it was not that last pill that killed him it was the first one because that was where it just literally grabbed hold of his brain and he could not let that go and even though he had six seven beautiful weeks I knew he still had internal struggles I knew he still had internal cravings and those may have stayed with him and probably would have stayed with him for the rest of his life at some degree and so it's that first pill if you can help the kids never get that first pill and I guess that's the more specifics to where to draw the lines is if you're going to goof around with some of the lighter stuff then that's that's I still encourage not to but kids are going to make their choices but if you can help them draw that line to recognize they have no clue if they're that 33 percent that's going to be addicted after one pill after one pill that addiction can set him for 33 percent of people whether it is distributed at the hospital or at home or on the streets so anyway with that I'll I'll is anything else I missed there okay uh Becky if you want to pass it back to you for questions yes I'm going to do a little wrap up and then if you guys have questions for any of us we'll go ahead and address those as well appreciate the information that Vicki shared and what a vulnerable thing for Jason to share Jaden's story and that it just means a lot I think as parents those are the stories that really open our eyes to the potential and the reality of what's going on um see if I can make this clicker work I don't think my clicker is going to work all right thank you so how does this impact our community we had an interesting little homework the last couple days the administration at the Junior High in high school we brainstormed and we were able to name 18 people in the last 10 years that have died from suicide or overdose students that were either in school or who had recently graduated from school and I'm going to have you just click through the next 10 slides go ahead and just give a and just keep going but give a little pause and go ahead and go to the next one thank you um so when I was putting this together I just put out a little PSA about what we were doing and I didn't do that until last night and those were the 10 parents that reached out to me and said yes please include my child's picture in this presentation and of those 10 slides five of them are overdose and five of them are suicide and those 10 slides represent a much smaller frame of time probably in the last five years we've seen those outcomes so we've been offering all kinds of supports especially for about the last six years we keep wanting to inform and educate and get people involved and as you're here tonight and you want to know what can we do as parents how can we help um so Vicki talked about gateway drugs and I just want to address what I call Gateway behaviors in Gateway behaviors may include vaping they may include experimenting they may include behaviors with social media or increased risk taking Gateway behaviors are when our young people become experts at lying and hiding and choosing things that are they're keeping from us that's what a Gateway behavior is and often the reason that they are practicing these behaviors or practicing their lying skills is because they're certain they know how we will respond if they talk to us about it young people tend to feel safe talking to their parents about the things they perceive their parents can handle or things they perceive are part of their parents plan for them but they often aren't comfortable talking to us about things that maybe aren't part of what they think our plan is for them I hope that makes sense so what we want to do is consider how we can create a safe space for our young people to talk to us I heard something recently about a dad he wrote a letter to one of his children and it just said I want you to always be able to talk to me about anything but when you have something come up that you don't want to talk to me about you instead of telling me what it is bring this letter to me and hand me the letter and I'll know you've got something on your mind and we will just sit together until you're ready I thought that was a really great idea things like that is strategy one strategy you might consider is the way that you're talking about situations going on in the world if you are critical and harsh and judgmental about people that are battling things regarding addiction or sexual behaviors or things that don't fit into your moral code you might be shutting the door to your young person wanting to talk to you Jason had a great point that sometimes we can create the most inviting environment and our children still might not want to talk to us so we want to make sure that they have other adults in their Arena that they are comfortable talking to I have five kids and my older three I really didn't want anybody helping with it was hands off I got this get out of the way I'm in charge I got this and my younger two I had a very different approach I kind of like threw him out and was like Hey community help me out with these two and I just really embraced the fact that I needed help and I wanted that help and it's meant a lot because the community really is there for us when we ask or we're willing to receive them so that's important too don't feel put off if your young person decides they're comfortable talking to somebody else that's a win that means that they've got good people in their life so up on there I had what The Vaping or excuse me the Gateway behaviors might look like and one of the things under that it says consider checking their spaces this one's tricky because you might find something and if you find something and you're explosive about it then you're probably going to slam that door pretty hard we at the junior high level and at the high school vaping could we could spend all day every day just dealing with vaping that's the extent that it's happening at school it's happening all day every day um so anything we can get help with that and one thing to keep in mind they don't they don't put them in their back if you're checking your Young Person's stuff the girls are putting them in their bras and the boys are putting them in their waistband so we don't check those areas we can check backpacks but we we don't touch a student and if they have things on their person like that we're not going to be discovering those items but as parents I'm you know within whatever bounds you've got set you might be able to help take a look for some of those things so under creating safe spaces I have trade judgment for compassion and be prepared for those difficult conversations we're not experts at having difficult conversations we're not experts at learning things that shock us and surprise us so try to imagine what's the most shocking surprising thing your child could tell you and try to prepare in advance how you're going to respond to that compassionately and without Judgment at least out of the gates because if you can come at it without judgment and with compassion you're opening the door for further conversations and this isn't to say you're going to just disregard and have no rules but it's a process to get there and you got to be willing to create that safe space so you can start that process and then I have provide young people with resources teach them about tagging in trusted adults talk to them about doing that these young people carry so much they hear the things that their friends are talking about they get images sent to them late at night of a friend who's self-injuring and they see blood and wounds on their friends and they don't think that it's okay to tell a trusted adult because they're worried that that's a violation to their friend Vicki hit on the Good Samaritan laws they're worried that their friend will be mad at them for telling on them and and at the risk of their friend dying in the process they'll keep from calling First Responders in hopes of keeping their friend from being mad so we've got to talk to them about these things um go ahead and put the next slide this is just a reminder that if your young person is holding a secret there's often extreme emotional distress wondering what if I told the people in my life this Secret one way we can create a space for young people to share is when they hear us saying and doing kind actions toward marginalized groups and consistently presenting an energy of kindness and compassion toward all humans it lifts that weight for the children living in our home and they then can have confidence that this is a safe place thank you that worksheet is available back with Miss marks Lauren marks so be sure to grab one of those for your young person go ahead into the next one and this is just a reminder of all those resources that are in the room if you are interested in taking a free Suicide Prevention class a free mental health first aid class if you'd like your young person to attend free peer training all of that information is with Lauren marks at the back she's on this side Nexus Coalition has their table of resources they can tell you about the free trauma classes they have available free parent education free naloxone training where you can actually receive the naloxone they have additional resources there as well and those hotline numbers we just want to push those out call the Arizona crisis line when you're experiencing a mental health crisis call the national Lifeline as well that one's super easy to remember it's 988 and then there's a text line and anything medical or overdose related we're calling 9-1-1 that kind of wraps up the presentation looking at those images of the students that we've lost over the last few years we've got to do something I'm tired of going to funerals um I'm actually concerned at how numb I've been the last couple times I've learned that somebody else has died because it's a statement of where it's at we need to change things we need to implement change and that's going to come from the environments we're creating for young people thank you guys for coming do you have any questions for myself if it's directed to me go ahead and if you need one of these experts yes so on graduation night 9th through Saint ninth graders through seniors May 19th okay that's great so that they're hosting an event so that young people on graduation night aren't out there in the party environment they're in a safe place that night if you're interested in helping with that we've got Andrea Woolridge back there yes so the answer to that is the majority of young people in our schools have experienced varying levels of trauma there is a lot of trauma-based circumstances that young people are dealing with as a society as a whole you take just covid and as a society we experienced covid as a trauma it through their game out of whack young people didn't know if the world was ever going to be normal things were taken away from them things they expected to be a certain way weren't that way some of them wish they could go back to covid time because a lot of rules were kind of lifted there was no expectations and in some regard so that's one piece we know that that is elevated but then you take these kids on an individual level and you look at the tragedy and the generational um you know we're looking at multiple generations of individuals who are battling with their relationship with different substances um poverty we're living in an area that's really been impacted by poverty so the answers to that there's specific ones that could apply to each young person and there's general ones that kind of apply to the group as a whole but yes and we want to feel good and using diff you know we we find strategies that on the short term help us feel good to kind of quiet that pain that we have going on and unfortunately long-term potential to end our life you know with those choices did you have one before I got here I had a huge thing with him that I needed to call my husband outside cool cool I know you guys are doing something I appreciate this so much my kids started in the very one I hear at the school he is the most wonderful he loves to play baseball all-time sport when I found out I think I took Ivan took him to the place that we we can find out who was serving this to my game I found out it's a kid that comes to school I know who he is you don't you will have no idea the pain the anger that I have and we all know because we all know who their kid is I have talked to the principals I have talked to the police officers I have talked to everybody and the only thing I need to do is to burn the house it's not his mind feeling yeah you're having a very St and that's you know to have a strong emotional reaction to when we lose a child to some of these which your child is not lost to it but when we start to feel their headed on that path it's a very helpless feeling well I think you you bring up a really great point and that's why we as a school are presenting this information we aren't going to say that this that this doesn't happen at school the access that young people have to marijuana to vaping marijuana Vapes have changed the game I mean it used to be if you were smoking a joint in a bathroom stall we could smell you a mile away and we could there was a lot we could do to troubleshoot that the way that they're packaging and selling you know as a school we do have plans we do have strategies but ultimately there is going to continue to be hiccups and are going to continue to be issues and it does get very tricky of how we hold the people accountable that are bringing it reporting it is so important because that's what gets us down the pathway to hold that person accountable down the road for sure reporting it helps and that can keep us keeping an eye on those situations it's super important and I am really sorry that you're experiencing that's a very tough situation to be experiencing it's a huge frustration we could hire I don't want to throw this back on how schools are funded but honestly we could hire two or three staff on each campus just to handle The Vaping situation but there's just not funding to do it so we are sharing responsibilities based on how schools are funded and until we get schools funded a little more adequately that's going to be a challenge and I'm sorry that's happening let's talk after a little bit more no burning house is down I agree no let's be sure let's be sure to talk after I am not in I'm not tuned into your situation and I want to be so be sure to visit with me after do yeah I you make some very valid concerns and and we you know our heart goes out to you I'll tell you this we have suspended long-term and expelled more students the last 18 months than we did my first seven and a half years so we have a zero tolerance if you are dealing drugs at school first time you're expelled it means you cannot come back now that child's in crisis and that's not a great outcome but that's where we're left because we have we have limited resources but we have sent a strong message we will not tolerate drugs in our school it hasn't eliminated it but it's one strategy that we're implementing to do the very best that we can we have also had at every campus we've increased the number of counselors and student support we know our kids are in crisis I think it's astonishing for most people to learn that 40 percent of our kids that go to school live below poverty 55 percent receive free and reduced lunch they're in a tough situation their families are in touch tough situations but we have loving education here that are willing to help their teachers are solid they're good people they try they have counselors and student support folks please reach out to Becky but I wanted to offer that our board is very supportive of that our Administration is working hard but we know it's not over we know that we must give our best every day and what we're trying to do the best we can thank you and the reason we're having this meeting tonight is because Dr Wright he felt very strong about this a few weeks ago and he just said we need to make this happen and I appreciate the support I do love working for a district that has supported us with every step we've wanted to take what happens is we get we have a tragedy in our community and it raises the volume for a minute of people wanting some resources and some understanding and it quickly dissipates and so we host a meeting and this is great I'm not gonna lie I thought I'd have eight parents here because I posted meetings for the last six years and we don't get we don't fill a room this full we're lucky to like I said get five or six parents that come to anything that we host so this is fabulous um but we've been hosting and trying to share and get this information out for several years now and um there are some things where where we there are going to be hurdles there are going to be challenges and we do want to support do we have any questions for Vicki regarding the information she shared if you she talked about the naloxone if you want to attend a naloxone training be sure you talk to her table and they can give you that information or any questions for Jason how great was it that he was willing to come and share his story I appreciate that means a lot and I know I mean I can't speak for you but I know when the parents were sending me the pictures of their kids to put in the slideshow every single parent that sent me a picture said if our story can make a difference if our story can change the outcome for somebody else and um and that's kind of what you know where they're left right now is with this huge hole in this huge gap but a strong motivation to help other people see that they're you know see what's happening and maybe save what we don't know when we do these classes and something that I really hope however it works in the when life is done and we're all wherever we get to go next I really do hope I get some kind of count on where we did save a life because that's something we just never know we don't know when we're saving lives unfortunately we can't put all the slides up of all the young people that we have made the difference for that are still here that would be something very rewarding to know but instead we have to present the other side of it to help motivate us um Dr Wright do you have any closing words or all right we appreciate you coming be sure to stop by the tables get some information and talk to any if you're an administrator and you want to stand up just so they know who they could talk to if anyone wants to address we got Mr Webb he's the high school principal Megan Penrod is the assistant principal Miss Hoffmeyer the principal at the junior high and Ryan Grace the principal at the elementary and our fearless leader Dr Wright superintendent and at the back we have Lauren marks and she's the counselor at the high school thank you for coming we will have this presentation available on YouTube for parents that weren't able to attend thank you [Applause]

at this time I'd like to call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you let the record reflect that all board members are present we will go to item B1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community this evening we have a theater performance and we will turn this over to Dr kroto Who will introduce our theater group thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board we are excited tonight to be joined by the William Canyon High School theater troupe under the direction of Mr Steve Walden so we are excited and the floor is yours [Music] there's only a zombies [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] everybody watching me [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you for our upcoming production Anastasia [Applause] thank you all and outstanding job great job great job that was very well done all right we will move on to B2 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community this evening we are absolutely thrilled uh to ask the board to come forward uh to the steps of the Deus so that we can recognize our three newest A-Plus Schools of Excellence and so if you would make your way up there and I'm going to talk for just a couple minutes and we'll have folks come up so we're going to start this evening with Willow Canyon High School Willow Canyon High School received the A-Plus School of Excellence from the Arizona Education Foundation and with Willow Canyon High School becoming an A plus School of Excellence this marks the fact that all four District high schools are a plus Schools of Excellence so congratulations Willow Canyon Way To Go [Applause] all right congrats [Applause] our next recipient of the A-Plus Award with their second go around of being an A plus School the A Plus Award is valid for I believe it's four years is that correct I'm getting some nods so this is the second go around for this school congratulations to a plus School Canyon Ridge come on down [Applause] thank you all right congratulations and our final a plus School recognition this evening they brought just a couple people with them to celebrate we want to say congratulations to El Mirage Elementary School not only for being hold on a second not only for being named in a plus school but they were also recently named a national model School congratulations come on now [Applause] bring them all we got all night congrats congratulations awesome way to go good job guys congratulations congratulations [Music] congratulations congratulations congrats congratulations congratulations congratulations way to go okay no no no um [Music] assistant [Applause] pretty big deal yeah that's wonderful and Madam president that concludes our recognitions this evening thank you Dr Dean congratulations to our schools that's such a an incredible accomplishment great job to every single one of you all right next we will move on to C1 audience with individuals Ms Densmore thank you this is the time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda pursuant to ARS 38431-01 action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record and the first we have is Dion Waddell my name is Dionne Waddell um first I want to thank you guys for giving us this time I'm up here on behalf of my daughter who was on The Willow Canyon varsity cheer team um just wanted a voice concern over the coaching practices of the varsity team we have gone through my wife and I and have gone through other avenues with this concern and it has been looked at as hurt feelings but I assure you it's nothing to that extent just to kind of give you a little history my daughter was made the varsity cheer team last year in her freshman year and she's been a part of cheer and dance throughout her whole life since she was about two years old so it was it was very uh exciting for us to when she didn't make the varsity cheer teams especially when we've seen the hard work and the dedication that she put into it and at the time we did see that we we knew that it was going to be a difficult Journey for her and we were excited on our end as parents for her to have that um higher expectation put honor as far as accountability and what she's expected to do unfortunately throughout the throughout the year we did see a change in her um willingness to want to be part of the team not because of her teammates and not because of all of her coaches but because of the head coach um and and and believe me when I say this my wife and I will we were very uh we've always been supportive she didn't want us to say nothing because she out of fear of not making her position but there's multiple times where there was um I wouldn't verbal abuse and and that's fine coaching if you're going to coach I get that being a part of high school sports that's fine but also my coach was the first one there to be concerned if there was a possible injury be concerned if there was grades weren't met and he was always there the first one to help to get us back to where he needed to be so there's life lessons that we learned in this case it's a I'm all we're asking is for you guys to look in and um check into the practices of injuries of allowing the athletes to return before their injury is completely healed water breaks and and just holding the coach's account accountable for our children as far as teaching them by example many times when they're asked to be at practices early on weekends coach wasn't there on time and you know all we're asking for is just to look into it and talk to the athletes talk to the parents so we can and Madam president Dr Cotto will contact Mr Waddell I will let the board know that there's been a thorough investigation into parent concerns next we have Trent Polk rebeck hello um I'm here under the same premise my daughter too is had a lot of challenges with uh the Willow Canyon varsity cheer coach I know we just heard about we were talking about injuries just a moment ago it can also work both ways on a cheer team like that if there are athletes that if they feel like they disclose an injury that could also mean not be into returning to the competing portion of the team so you have to weigh how serious that injury is going to be whether that's something you really want to risk reporting or not so I mean it just wanted to throw that out there that it can go both ways I know that it has um in addition to that just where instances where there is other authority getting in a student's face until I am and tell him to shut up that when you have a athletic director and even the principal there but neither one of them recall the incident um it's really disappointing is I had to be honest with you I I went to a district school growing up in another state my kids grew up going to Charter Schools and when this opportunity was presented to us to come to Willow Canyon um it was very apprehensive that I allowed my daughter to go there but I knew that she had a gift and I wanted her to be able to pursue her gift and she wasn't going to be able to get as much out of it at the school that she would have been attending to in fact it was really difficult in our house to even make the decision to allow her to go to a district school when I allowed her to go to pursue her abilities and and grow in the sport of cheer I told her that if she has any mess-ups anything being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people doing the wrong thing anything that could get in trouble this brand of baseball I'm going to give you in shoe strikes not even giving you three I can put you back in the school that we were intending you to go to in one day the door was left open her sister still attends the school anyhow I thought it was this my student that I I was going to be more worried about in the end right now I'm not happy with the situation with the leadership of the school thank you and we'll have Dr Crow to follow up with Mr Polk Rebecca as well thank you we will move on to D1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community Dr crota will introduce our student speaker this evening thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board tonight we have Braley Braley Ratliff a junior from Valley Vista High School here to talk to us Braley it's all yours so um recently at Valley we hosted our Mr Monsoon contest and we didn't have that Hive attendance but we made up for it last Saturday our prom with over 800 attendees and then dysar also held their Mr Dysart this past weekend and their promise coming up on April 15th and this coming Saturday Willow Canyon has their prom at the Sheridan Hotel downtown and Shadow Ridge is hosting their prom as well at um Hidden Lake over in Buckeye and um in our dslc meetings we've been finishing up last minute details of our end of the year conference and that's pretty much it thank you very much thank you thank you we will move on to item D2 superintendent update Dr Dean thank you madam president member of the governing board a cabinet in our community this evening just a couple of things to provide in the superintendent update the first is to let the board know that at the last meeting we talked about initiating a web a page on our website where there would be committee information that would be displayed and in a very easy way for people to click a button if they were interested in that that website went live today I want to thank our PR folks for not only designing the page but also getting that up and rolling and that can be found in two places it can be found under the parent link and under the Community Link as well so thank you so very much for that I want to let the board know that State Testing is underway hard to believe because we're still in March but State Testing is underway in some of our schools and over the course of the next Amy three weeks over the course of the next three weeks almost a month our students will be participating in State Testing we are looking forward to them performing quite well and really displaying all the great things that they have learned this year also going to let the board know that uh that uh Dr crota reached out to Arizona Christian University to inquire about expanding a partnership with them and Gathering more of their student teachers and so he contacted the president at Arizona Christian University and heard back yesterday from the dean of the College of Education and we will be signing an agreement with Arizona Christian University to expand our partnership with them with student teachers so we're very excited about that opportunity one District's loss is certainly our gain and finally this evening I want to say a huge thank you to Danae Marinelli who's not supposed to be here she's supposed to be off today but we want to thank Danae Marinelli and it is all Denise planning that makes the dice pets over the Arts go every single year first of all the event was spectacular um and they're I think that's the right word it was tremendous to see all of our students just perform and display their artistic talent what a great day and that day went from 10 till three there were lines to watch kids there were lines watching kids perform watching kids paint people participating to make the banner that you see the community Banner hanging on the wall there were lines at the food trucks there were lines at the vendor booths it was just a tremendous event and Danae has really taken the ball here and run with this we estimated between seven and eight thousand people attended and the police officers that were there said no you're wrong it was very close to ten thousand and so we want to say not only thank you to our kids and just celebrate their Artistic Endeavors but we want to say a huge thank you today because it's all her work and it was a great Dysart Festival of the Arts for 2023.

stayed there for one year and was asked to to move to the district office where I've served as the Director of public relations the assistant superintendent for human resources the assistant superintendent for student services and the last position I've served in is the superintendent hopefully I was hoping that at some point in time I would find something that I was good at um in the course of the time in the district my greatest honor in my career of 32 years has been to serve the Dysart school district and to work hand in hand with all of the folks that I know here some of whom I can't look at in the audience or I won't be able to continue to talk and to work hand in hand with this governing board and as as the board has heard this evening it's been a great Testament to our commitment to the board in our goals this year and our commitment to this community to really set the district on a very straight and narrow path to success I'm happy to report that on March 30th of this year we've met all of our goals and as I stated earlier we look forward to our students and there's State Testing and there are opportunities to display their tremendous amount of knowledge this year we have thoroughly analyzed our title programs as a matter of fact we've analyzed every program in this school district from top to bottom we've remained committed to building or rebuilding a culture that is built upon success and about high expectation and accountability and that was evidence this year in the fact that we have the highest number of teachers returning their contracts that we've ever had in the school district at 94 percent we have the highest number of Administrators returning that we've ever had in this school district we're going to only lose three next year possibly four depending on how this vote goes we have remained committed to our priority of safety that the board heard extensively this evening and working to make sure that our students are as safe as humanly possible and that our parents understand that we take the safety of our kids is our top priority and our most important job every day is to return them to them just the way that they left for the day we have also maintained the importance of financial transparency and understanding that fiscal responsibility is a key pillar of what we believe in as a board and as a team and we fully respect and value the fact that we honor the use of our taxpayer dollars our Arts programs we're on full display on Saturday and the commitment to arts in the citric remains incredibly high and our athletic programs over the course of the last several years have exploded in success resulting in 11 individual state or unified state or national championships just in this past winter athletic season this District 's future is incredibly bright and I am proud to say that with the team and the incredible staff of this entire School District the Dysart school district is set to absolutely take off to become the place to be in the West Valley with that the time for me to leave the Dysart school district has come and it is my There's an opportunity for me to explore passions that I have outside of education and I would like to tell you that I'm going to do that as a hair model but that's not correct I've I have opportunities to explore my passion in the world of Athletics and um and at this point in time it is time for me to take that opportunity I will um put to rest a couple of rumors and a couple rumors that I've heard is that I'm going to become the backup quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals that is not true I've also heard rumors that I'm going to send it sign a 10-day agreement with the Phoenix Suns also not true but I want to thank the governing board and I want to thank this community and I want to let this community know that it has been absolutely my pleasure and my honor to work with this governing board over the course of this last year specifically as superintendent we have worked with an incredibly strong relationship and a very common Focus for what is best for the kids the staff the parents in this entire community and I want to thank each and every one of you for that I look forward to seeing the great successes that will continue in the Dysart School District just from a little bit further away than I have in the past and with that Madam president I would ask that the board accept my resignation this evening effective June 30th 2023 that's important thank you Dr Dean so Athletics huh so you really are going to run a marathon I'm not going to run a marathon but maybe I'll take a couple of running steps every day and just to think of you Miss Jackson that's that's not the reason you resigned right the marathon Clause yes that is correct I can say that in my experience working with Dr Dean has been incredible it's been absolutely wonderful to pick up the phone call pick up the phone and say okay hey ask questions and get truthful accurate answers I appreciate the fact that sometimes when I have questions you you say I have an answer might not be a good one but I have an answer and here here it is I appreciate the transparency and the honesty the integrity holding our students accountable not just with behaviors but with academics um the incredible focus on student learning making sure that all our students are safe while they learn I I know that you and your team that you are so quick to celebrate your team of assistant superintendents work so well together it is a well-oiled machine that runs very well and that speaks to your leadership so with that I don't know I still might vote no just kidding personally I wish you all the best and I appreciate the fact that you're leaving on a positive note for yourself you're you know I always say the best time for me to leave a position is when my when I feel good about it so I feel like you moving on to do what's best for you is what you need to do and I appreciate that I appreciate that you recognize that and I'm sure Mrs Dean will be happy to have you back thank you I'm happy to make the motion but I don't think that I can crickets I have something to say I just want to again congratulate you Dr Dean um it's an amazing opportunity you know the the hair model and all um 18 years serving dicer and many leadership capacities which you mentioned serving these years with Incredible strength steadfast accountability always driving results with Grace in an ever-changing landscape each and every day under your leadership has been a joy and a celebration and today we honor and celebrate you in your exciting new career move and I am looking forward to seeing all the amazing things from you Dr Dean and look forward to collaborating with you in the future as a hair model he gives me his hair that's right he sells it I don't have anything prepared because I figured I wouldn't be able to get through it and I told Dr Dean that I gushed over him when we hired him I'm not going to gush over him leaving um because although I don't like it I want what's best for him and uh he's given a lot to this district and I can't not be happy for what to him is going to be you know like his his dream and and following that um we've worked together for a long time my daughter um it's funny you know this is this is a good thing um she's going to be 23 next month and my little little one who's not little who's five ten gonna be 20.

okay March 30th right March 30th 2023 Ms josinski call the roll sure Mr Griffin here Mr White here Mr Rosenberg Mr chairman you have a corner great I'll stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States good evening everyone um can we just list the guests please Luther Miller Transportation manager great thank you um so uh we always have public comment at the beginning we have a couple minutes tonight would you like to speak before the policy committee yes okay go ahead um do they need a microphone or do you want to sit at the you can sit and roll up okay just so when people are watching the film they can hear it too oh all right single I live at 240 Burge court it's my husband Steve Alexander 240 birdsport yeah so um we're pretty much here today so we have two uh twin boys that go to do a little school um they're second graders and they currently are on a bus um they're on a bus for this school year because we did the I just want to try to get the terminology correct uh the available seat petition um we're here today to discuss we would like them to permanently be um on a bus you know moving forward this bus to not have to do a seat petition every single year um we are exactly according to um Google Maps we are exactly one mile from the school um so we are considered walkers and we're pretty much here to just discuss getting permanently on the bus not being considered Walkers um 2021-22 we did a seed petition um we received the bus for the entire school year 22-23 we did the petition he did not receive a bus until September 19th which is a Monday so first couple weeks of school um we didn't have a bus and we're looking for the stop at sort of Ridge North and sorga Mill it's bus number three right we don't want to have like a so where was this sorghum work sorghum oh the bus stop they currently go to is sorghum Ridge North and sorgha Mill technically the stock market um so what we've been doing throughout the school years is kind of kind of we look at the transportation policy the Board of Ed policy which states that accommodation shall be provided if the route that they have to walk is unsafe so they have to walk down through Mountain so um Carrie has sent a number of pictures um to the board in which school was not closed um and the road was extremely icy Mountain was covered in snow and it just wasn't safe for two seven girls to walk um so that's number one we have those photos I have them on my phone and I have the email I can shoot them over to you guys with the specific dates and times that those were taken I think we got them yes yes December January just um they wouldn't I mean No Man's Land I I think there's no house there I don't know who so front downstairs is it homeowners association yeah some of it is but then once you get on mountains it would be the resident yeah there's no resident there so many months yeah but however it's at 7 24 7 whatever in the morning um you don't really have to shovel by then so they would be walking that hazardous I think it's uh 24 hours yeah yeah yeah we have like a one day so um this was a light winter Carrie and I are both Educators uh so one day we had a cancellation and Cheshire did not so we were able to take pictures of like um and it was not walkable it's not passable um your way to school that day yeah okay yeah so that's that's why we took the pictures yeah no I guess it's kind of unsafe for um younger children to walk no less you know so that's is that sidewalk there now is it the like cement concrete sidewalk because at one point it was the asphalt tart uh it might be um it's concrete now you know what I'm talking about it was asphalt and then in addition so we started looking at some of the other policy information um there are two stops uh one is Beechwood Court which is right across the street from us um new development they're exactly one mile according to Google Maps as well um so question is why do they get a bus and we don't it's according to Google Maps we're exactly a mile away yeah so I'm just I don't read anything into this but I'm just trying to be clear on this you're okay so you're on burrage right so you're saying from your street address yes to do is similar is the equivalent of at least the first house on Beechwood I don't know what the um GPS is because technically to be honest with you the furthest house on bird court is 1.1 mile for the South yeah it's 270 it's a tannenbaum's house it's 1.1 mile okay I mean I don't know how it works you know like the other thing the other thing I'm thinking about um I don't know how it applies in this situation but I do recall a very specific Court decided Court ruling probably 15 or 20 years ago where somebody ran for office in Greenwich and they paid property taxes in Stanford and the ruling literally came down to where somebody's head hit the pillow in the house this is this is what it came down to so I'm just thinking I mean if we're talking about where your head hits the pillow it's probably farther up a little bit past the mile I was just we're just looking to basically just not have to continue so there's there's two separate pieces here in order to not petition living inside of the walking Zone from the perspective of the policy committee they don't say all right well this street yes the street no petition not petition whatever the policy would change if the policy committee wanted to make a change to reduce the walking distance um let's say 0.75 or 0.5 the the blind State Statute is I think it's a mile and a half right yeah so for the kindergarteners yeah the state the state recommends and I have the info the state recommends mild for kindergarten uh to three I believe it is and then four to six a mile and a half and then from um uh seven to twelve is two times with Travis who were well under but the um so if the policy committee chose to reduce the walking distance obviously that would address this specific issue and maybe others around town what I'm wondering about though is the state law what are the what's point to point and by the way these are recommendations sure sure the state does not you know one of the few things they haven't mandated yet and so the the state gives guidance on this sure and I think it was issued in 2012 or something or 2002 maybe it was a long time ago and it's just a recommendation the uh board has the authority to establish walking versus bussing distances is has been you know indicated our K walking distance is a half mile beyond that it's a mile and that's to the nearest stop or the school um yeah you asked about the point to point so the point to point is the edge of the residential property to with to 100 feet to the nearest entrance of the school so it's actually so from the bottom of your driveway just in a situation it's a hundred it's one mile and a hundred feet it's one mile in in that one mile is based on the edge of the driveway to within a hundred feet of the closest entrance way to the school yeah so it's a mile and one 100 feet no no 100 feet less than a month right it's my it's so it's within 100 feet of the nearest thing it's it's where you guys right so from the nearest entrance started from the school when you say entrance you're not talking to driveway so I was noticed on a driveway so you're talking the doors I'm talking the door correct okay correct that's how it's that's typically how it's it's calculated so I'm just curious is that that's how it's defined in state does it does it say that the edge of the property is the way it's defined um it it no it says it I believe it says the nearest border of the residential property which could be the drive week through the driveway even though it may be a little closer or a little yeah a little closer by you know because of the the actual border of the property but we do the edge of the driveway to a hundred feet and from the way or from the from the nearest entrance way so so if we're talking so we said we're talking two different things so so unsafe walking conditions if you're uh inside that walking Zone the process we use to determine uh whether or not it's a safe walking condition is the parallel files from a petition to us that says this is not and so you know when people are inside that uh that guidance and there's a unsafe walking condition they file it gets reviewed so if there's not things like crosswalks you know we're not making you cross Route 10 even though it's you know within the walking distance or something like that you could live right across the street from Highland having you know stuff like that that gets reviewed by the police department okay um they make recommendations to us about the safety of that path and then the decision gets made as to whether or not a bus is assigned if the bus is not assigned and the parent petitions that it would be an accommodations hearing where you would go meet with a an attorney who comes in and hears the you know whether or not it was appropriate decision um the the policy into this is that you know these guys on the on the board and then obviously the Fuller board would make a decision about reducing the walking distance you know determine if they want to change that threshold for any grade level you know that's like I said that's not statutorily bound it's uh it's you know up to local control to make that decision if I could just kind of address one thing because I'm sure the school building committee yeah there you go so I know the request is to you know not have to file that available secret Edition but the issue that we have with that is we're not sure what the bus routes or if there will be an available seat year to year I know it's inconvenient you know what I can tell you is you know we'll prioritize yours just file it early it's not even available because here's the thing we don't know what enrollment is until so that's my other question for you then there are children on barcledge right so they also have to petition then there's some children on the other end of sorghum they also so what's the process for that who get who gets chosen well I don't know that you've ever had a situation where we didn't have it available I know Luther was able to bring in a larger bus actually yeah we had enough room in the afternoon but not in the morning and I guess like our our question is so beachwood's of newer Road and they're the same but they are on the bus so I guess I don't want to get them kicked off or whatever I don't really care at this point I'm just like that's interesting right so one of the things that goes on is not only is the distance taken into the consideration age of the student we're out there walking as it relates to this to the to the Rogue um that side of the road has no sidewalks up until this year there was no crosswalk so if you notice down at the other end there's a crosswalk yeah I see those kids every day now that there's a crosswalk there there is now a debate that those kids yeah probably Walkers right now where do we go with it we're in that discussion so you can go down Mountain Road we have a very schizophrenic sidewalk pattern on Mount Road we have sidewalks and some of those kids are Walkers right because there is no sidewalk there is no side yeah now that being said sidewalks do not determine a walking area a walking area can be the grass the edge of the road but we make determinations based on the geography of the neighborhood the traffic and make determinations that you know yes could they walk sure do we want them to whereas on your side of the road you have a sidewalk the whole way right yeah it's like I know like Cliff Edge Circle has the stuff okay so again you're now talking about crossing right absolutely yeah so those are guys I said we're not here to be like oh we want other kids off the bus at all we just want we don't want to have to do a seat position everyone here and that chance that we don't get that we don't that we don't get it that we don't get on the bus and then we have to make other accommodations yeah but I don't believe the sidewalk makes it all the way from Cliff Edge to the new crosswalk the Sidewalk Ends that's part of the problem on Mountain Road is we have sidewalks then they end so they can't get to that crosswalk without getting into the street that's part of the and I understand where you would find that doesn't sound right because you're less than a mile but we have we make those judgment calls I believe me I would love to have everybody want that's a mile out would it would you know it we would with the challenges we have with bus drivers just having enough yeah no I know it's I gave you a bus driver back yeah I just stopped thankfully because I got on the bus well because you were giving me a special eyebuster yeah so I mean we do try and be reasonable and act responsibly I understand your request I mean the only thing I could say is you know we'll take a look at your request year after year and then we'll judge it failure Lutheran figures it out he's really really good no we just don't want to go the other route because our other route is the other busing for our child so yeah um effectively is more for the district and although I can't guarantee it we have 15 new 77 passenger buses that's right which is what we needed to accommodate you folks yeah that's that those Auburn Place 71 passengers and by the way just because it says 77 right so what is the magic number there it's basically 50 to us two to a c now we can fit three to a c we prefer not to do that and on the bus that we have now for you folks in the morning I believe there's 62 in the afternoon there's 58.

yeah I remember that because of the late the late registrations late registrations hurt us yeah there's a lot of houses judging how many buses we need in and it does change every year right every year generally we we don't always keep the same stops and that that tends to upset people but if there's just less students you know trying to build this establish fruits so kids aren't waiting as long yeah but I'm not saying we're changing yours but you know it's just a question of you know we wrap it based on what's there that's a very established neighborhood yes it's an established neighborhood we typically have the the reasonably large amount of kids yeah well I mean we're all do a little basically yeah but but even as a age out of there oh yeah that's that's so we have had it's a talent we've had actually a box come in a few years ago that came in off of um Higgins Higgins and came up and looped around it what's the lower Bellamy yeah look around Bellamy and that looked out there just to take that girl yeah that was when I first started maybe eight or nine years yeah that would make sense because those kids are in high school high school in college that would be like the whole season because there were so many kids up there yeah yeah so we just wanted to touch base because the email is just the pain yeah it's like just yeah you know so now we know what to do with the photos and where to go from there um when the C position comes out which I feel like so we asked for them by June June 15th okay July 23rd but what we do with them is we kind of put a check mark next to the names and they sit there until we get a um start getting an idea of the count of eligible students okay then we kind of start filtering them in and we do do them first come first serve okay so you get it in it goes on top okay which we have some already how do we have them it doesn't even have the data on it they're doing the same thing that you guys are doing no no you there's the there's an event the available seat you can get to oh you know why because they're redoing so the available seat now has blank space you can put in your own dates and except that's that's what it is that we're updating the other foreign um so this was obviously um for discussion you can review the policy and if we want to add it if there's anything you want to tweak I don't even Luther has seen some things that he's thought about so we'll review it again before the next meeting and you guys can take a look at it and if you want to add it you know I'll touch base with you about the agenda um I I think I would reading if we wanted to I mean I think I would uh because just because you know they're talking about you know if you've made a petition I know there have been several parents this year that have have had extensive petitions and to do it year over year because it sounded like some of the parents that have come back to us are current available seat right so you know we can't guarantee that you have an available seat and so we know next year's place it is these are people by policy who don't live you know in the busing area they live in the walking area right and so they ask if there's an available seat we you know if we decide I guess we could decide once you're granted an available seat you have it for the life of your entire time in the elementary school you know students move in and stuff that you know that's adding adding seats that's adding people to the bus which may ultimately impact costs right because you'd have to add pretty much in other routes and also to cover the kids and to be fair you know has been said we're almost able to meet every single available seat petition it takes a lot of doing but we try and jump through those hoops and make it happen so in the past we haven't added additional routes to make it happen is my point I I think we denied three this year now they were only denied in the AM to start we were able to accommodate the afternoon and ultimately with the bigger bus we were able to accommodate amn team I believe there were two other uh families that we had that then I completely one was in Doolittle one was Norton and that was it we're either at the one mile Mark they were over okay so here's my question for you if it's okay Adam yeah could you would this be difficult to look at the total potential impact of not changing the distance but just tweaking our rule for the point of measurement to what distance yeah like if you're changing the rule you're changing the distance why would you like to change the distance all right so let me try to think this through like to the driver I mean ultimately uh if we if it's easier for us frankly to tell you if we made it three quarters of a mile across the border it's expensive no I don't know I don't know it's gonna cost money if so it's hard to say at this stage of the game so let's just take next year it probably wouldn't have that much of an impact what is our elementary school population grows it could have a major impact but we just don't know sure no I get it we just don't know but every year is is a is a crap shooting until we know where every student until every student's registered and we know where they live and and let's tell in the future there is my point is you can't do that I mean one of the things that is prevented us from having to add bus routes is the god population we're able to shift Don buses to other second tier Local Schools such as Doolittle and Chapman because they're on the same schedule correct but as our as we know our population especially at the Doolittle Highland and Chapman locations are growing and as the kids that we have now shift into dot we won't have that luxury we will be adding buses so if you do begin to reduce the walking distances that could impact even more buses but we just don't know but those buses will be electric so yeah the serious question on a related note how many more buses can you put into the Depot right now no electric vehicles how many more buses can you put in there we really have no room so we have to expand the depot we it's so I've got an acre for right yeah oh yeah we got a lot so we have the space okay so you're good on that I've been here 12 years and it was discussed 10 years before I got here and there it's the room that it's the the land that runs from it runs uh east of the the bus depot there's a wooded area it almost doubles the size of the property okay um so that's going to be a capital Improvement at some point this year next year or something yeah okay okay can we get a secret for that I just remember remember 180 000.

thank you um thank you registered that's only foreign thank you next week Alexa Thirsty Thursday um [Music] so it is now 6 30 p.m I mean calling to order the special board meeting at the alamois Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees uh so uh this meeting is called to order at 6 30 PM uh with that I will start with the roll calls so Maribel would you please call the roll today is a special board meeting of March 30th 2023 at 6 30 p.m members of the board in attendance president Min Pham president vice president Corina aloeira president Kirk Andres Quintero president member Linda Chavez president Shelton uh she is absent doing for an emergency members of administration superintendent Dr Bauer present okay so having called parole I'll go ahead and do uh big land acknowledgment uh border Prestige of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and Facilities sit on the traditional lands of the muegma Ohlone people and the Board of Trustees further acknowledges with respect in reverence the molecular alone people tribe of the San Francisco Bay area for their stewardship of these lands so with that I ask that you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance too much of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay thank you very much uh you know before we okay so uh so with that we will move on to uh part two superintendent board business uh item 2.01 interviews a potential firms for feasibility study and selection of desired firms uh superintendent Bauer yeah oh okay yes so with that I will open this item to public comment uh at this time there are any members of the public wishing to comment okay see no further uh desire for public I mean no further call for public comment I'll move to presentation of the item Dr Bauer uh board president I'd like to ask uh assistant superintendent of business to explain to the Board review of the process and also for our audience in YouTube thank you and good evening brother president members of the board and civil Center Dr power and guest um tonight we invited three firms um to attend this interview and in no particular order the firms are dcg ehp and HED um with that I'd like to explain the process that the board will be taking um first we'll place all the firm's name into that little poll over there and randomly pulled the firm's name to determine the order in which they will be interviewed once the order is determined The Firm will the funds to be in first will remain in the boardroom and the rest of the firms we will be placed in a waiting room um until the turn comes up each firms will be allotted a total of 20 minutes for the whole interview um a portion of it 10 minutes of it will be uh for the firms to present to the board and then the last 10 minutes is for the board to ask a total of five questions each one will have two minutes to answer each question and each board member will ask the same question uh to each of the firms once each firms are this uh um interviewed the board will submit its score on a scale of one to five uh one being the least desirable and five being the most desirable um once all the firms are interviewed um the Administration staff will tally up the score and present the total scores um on the screen uh so that everyone can see in terms of who received the high scores um in the event that there's a tie hopefully not um the board will consider the following options to break the tie the board will either rescore the finalists that are tied or re-interviewed the tide finalists um with that up open up to any questions that you might have okay this is the first oh d yeah oh okay will be PhD and then lastly thank you um bgd was the first one so ACD May remain um thank you okay thank you um thank you and just a reminder you have 10 minutes for the presentation and then 10 minutes for the questions afterwards so you may begin um what present yes so uh the HEB has the floor members of the board it's ticking okay I gotta go members of the board superintendent thank you so much for having us for this interview to interview for this opportunity it's very important work work that we take very seriously HED is an architectural planning and engineering firm we practice in multiple sectors so we practice in K-12 and we practice in housing our team reflects the expertise of those two sectors so we have a team that is people Advance the slide there we go sorry um so we uh we bring expertise in both of those sectors the K-12 sector and the housing sector I'm Otis O'Dell I am the lead uh housing housing lead for the HED for the firm and uh solely work on housing projects we also have with us Mary ruppenthal who is a leader in our pre-k-12 sector uh Rick Castillo is here who's also a leader in our housing sector Rob fillery couldn't be here tonight uh because of health issues um also on our team is Aaron patica and Christopher coats they are Architects and designers that work in our housing sector we also have a partner who is in the development business so Bridge housing is a partner they have done this type of work they are a non-profit affordable housing developer they have completed projects where they have put housing on School District property in the past they have one in progress right now you'll be hearing from them in just a minute uh and uh then we have Catherine defe with KD Consulting as a cost estimating consultant so we think that this is more than a real estate transaction there's an emotional component to really studying housing and what we want to do is drill down with you with your constituents and really understand what the goals are understand what's important and put forth options and planning options and design options for Housing Solutions and we think that's how this should be led I think that a lot of of your constituents may not be completely familiar with some of the details of a development pro forma and what we want to make sure is that we lead with design and we lead with planning Concepts that really reflect the goals and aspirations of the district and the constituents and then in that way we're sure that when the development performer gets developed it's responding to the right criteria so it is a financial Endeavor it is an operational Endeavor We Believe first and foremost it's a human endeavor and that we really need to connect with the people that are going to live in the housing that gets put forth and and I think that's a really important mission for this exercise we recognize that your district is rich in history and diversity and HED also shares those same values were founded in 1908 and we are really proud of our just label which has has been awarded to us that we've earned I should say that demonstrates our commitment to diversity and and social equity and then in terms of our expertise on the housing and planning side we have over 10 000 units of housing that we have designed and built we have over one billion dollars of affordable housing work across the country most of it here in California and you can see the examples on the screen are really thoughtful site plans and thoughtful design solutions that really address livability and really address the context of where they are so those are kind of our approaches I'm going to turn it over to Mary and let her talk more about the K-12 piece thank you Alice and thank you all this is a very important opportunity for us and we commend you and your district for um for addressing this imperative of housing in the educational environments in addition to the housing experience that Otis mentioned HDD is dedicated to and has deep expertise with educational facilities and we understand uh that schools are centers of your community and when your Educators cannot afford to live in your communities that's something that needs to be addressed so when we look at planning educational environments and the environments that support communities Health Wellness inclusion safety these are all things that are important to us to help communities thrive and again commending your project goals as a district we're going to work with you if we're so fortunate to be selected to partner with you we're really going to collaborate with you to uncover the highest and best use of district-owned land to shape a collaborative engagement process that really allows your community to understand uh and and be part of the process to have their voices heard and have that transparency um together we'll work with you to establish a critical path to success developing the planning options that Otis shared and maximizing your financial feasibility with the ultimate goal of delivering education through community and so the engagement process um again uh we're going to Foster open communication through stakeholder engagement something we do with all of our educational projects and with housing projects and we'll work with you to understand what the best way to deliver that is we envision um probably a hybrid of digital and in person hybrid digital allows for voices to be heard through online surveys ensuring inclusivity and also you know how to deliver that transparent process and then building consensus is always the goal of you know as Oda said sharing options understanding pros and cons and really developing the priorities that align with your District's goals and your vision to establish community that really does Thrive and supports your educational Workforce housing and that'll hand it off to Rick thank you Mary board members thank you again uh I'd like to just say thank you for inviting us to this presentation but um some of the things that we are um looking to to work with you on is what are some of the goals in in um in terms of assessing the viability of the district property for this important uh Workforce housing um feasibility and so some of the things we'll look at are the the different sites uh we'll analyze and work through the different um aspects of each site with regard to um with regard to uh topography context uh how it fits into the community is it viable for a particular housing project and a certain building typology and as Otis had mentioned earlier we think it starts with design right in terms of what works for the community and works for the district to meet the objectives that they're looking to to achieve here slide here positions and breakouts in Virginia yesterday if we use there it is confidence it's like cheese it is best for an audience and just be I know we have about 30 seconds maybe maybe a little bit less than that but just a quick case study this this is a what we believe you're looking for in your feasibility we we didn't um this exact exercise on a project in Carlsbad California looking at repositioning an existing site for a transit district and so you'll see we did side analysis site visit to look at contexts and adjacencies and the the site features things that we see um the conditions of the site context and then what we'll do is we'll create various Alternatives diagrams as you see on the screen here to test certain building types densities types of units types of buildings that can serve the the workforce that you're you're looking to serve here and then you'll see that it'll turn into a a diagram such as this that starts to go through circulation land use where some of the components of the the housing will uh be located on the site and then lastly you'll have a viable site plan with all the metrics all the data that you can assess and see if it's meeting your goals with regard to the the types of units the types of Housing and the um the number of units especially that serving the community here so I think we're done here so I'll stop this questions I'm going to let the time go until you get to 20.

um the project five years after uh the project was up and operating they did an analysis and they determined that teachers that had lived at this community were three times as likely to stay with the school district than teachers who of the same tenure that didn't live there so this had a number of impacts number one there was less turnover in the classroom number two um the recruiting and training costs decreased they figured that they saved four turnovers every year by through this project through those 40 units and um their estimate was that it saved them 60 to 75 000 per turnover and so the general fund benefited to the tune of uh quarter million to 300 000 a year um and ultimately they were also at the time where their test scores were improving so this program was so successful that they proceeded to increase the project by another 30 units and that project was completed in 2009 so now they have 70 units there's roughly 100 teachers plus or minus that will live there in any uh point in time there's obviously some roommate situations moving forward we've been retained more recently by the state of California and we're working with the Marin County Office of Education to build a 135 units of Workforce housing in Marin County we were retained for a surplus site that state controls that's part of San Quentin and the objective there is to create a again a Workforce housing community that will offer lower rents but high quality housing and attract more bypoc Educators as well as help District employees current District employees they're commuting across the county or across a bridge to get to Marin which has similar to Santa Clara County a very high cost of living moving forward project phases we're going to talk more about this but here's the project phases going from feasibility to entitlements permitting construction operations I give that as the big overview and we're going to talk more about feasibility specifically but the first thing is to meet with the district understand uh your objectives are you operating this strictly to offer the lowest rents possible to your employees or are you seeking to um generate uh cash flow the most important things for districts typically is that these be Revenue neutral at uh the worst and revenue positive if possible there are three prongs to um the stool or three likes to the school that we evaluate in our feasibility process one is political zoning the second is the physical due diligence and the third gets into the economics and the architectural design once we complete the feasibility report you will have a cookbook that will allow you to um you know whether you retain us or someone else to actually build a project and realize uh the community that is outlined in the feasibility report and with that I think my time is up thank you so I will start off with the first question uh given the complexities in local zoning and permitting uh could you please tell the board about how your firm has helped client districts navigate the zoning and permitting process to ensure a timely start to the commencement of the Project's construction sure um actually it's a more complicated question than just entitlement uh in titlemen and Zoning is one element of it the second element is SQL and frankly with the passage of ab2295 which I'm sure you're familiar with which basically provides the right to build housing on your sites I think the entitlement issue goes away however sequa is um and yeah I'm sure you're familiar with the SQL process SQL is the issue that I think needs to be addressed and that seems to be uh for opponents of a project um uh the easier leg to attack but relative to um the entitlement process as a whole and working with the community we do a lot of Outreach uh so that we're trying to bring a community together early on in the process I mentioned about the political uh analysis we meet with the city to understand what their process is going to be and then finally as we're going through uh the feasibility process we will outline what's involved with permitting what elements you need to prepare and um you'll have a very detailed uh you know cookbook as I say for actually uh going through that process but we historically have taken the lead on that for the school districts and you know in keeping School Board apprised or School District staff apprised we you know they will run that process and again having done this for 75 different projects on a market rate basis it really is uh somewhat second nature to us thank you so much Christy Chavez there are always pros and cons when dealing with issues what has been the most consistent issue in dealing with districts while working on a project the pros and cons and how the issues were handled result and executed sure um I think I understand the question of what are the biggest issues that school districts have I think the single biggest issue is financing and to the extent that they don't have financing then the project seemed to get back burner to the extent that a school district has issued a Geo Bond that's a lot of commitment and that issue or that hurdle is resolved the second thing is um as you know I mean there's always something that comes up at a school board uh or for a school district I mean if it's not a pandemic it's a budget crisis it's not a budget crisis it's something else and what we try and encourage the school districts do is to create a champion somebody that acts as our go-between and with staff they're typically on staff to see this project through we'll carry the majority of the water to get a project done but we you know school districts once again when there's a bigger issue and we fully understand that building housing isn't necessarily a core mandate for the school district but at the same time um it we can move forward with that project with that process uh provided we get the approvals that we need periodically from the school board so I think that the main thing is communication and working closely thank you uh have you been the subject of Investigation related to any of your projects Department uh no we have not do I get an extra two minutes of my presentation that's right okay vice president what is the average timeline to complete a feasibility report um and again it's outlined in our presentation our feasibility reports and we've uh worked now with two dozen different districts it will take 90 to 120 days for a specific site we can do multiple feasibility studies uh simultaneously uh but that's about the time frame uh for getting it and again they're very detailed uh our feasibility studies they will have everything uh from uh an outline of you know all zoning and title related matters to um designs uh budgets uh pre-development budgets that relate both to the construction as well as the soft costs uh and the timing of uh when those dollars will be spent um so again I think that um with our feasibility report you'll be very close to uh having the material you need for an application uh to the city and City these generally are the groups that approve these we don't work with DSA uh or haven't in the past and you'll also be able to process SQL so that you're getting either an exemption if you're an infill site or a mitigated negdac um and again there's a lot of technical reports that are also part of these feasibility studies but again between 90 and 120 days that would all be completed thank you I'm going to be reading the next question okay on behalf of my uh peer that's not here based on your organization's experience what are the key roles and responsibilities for the district and for the consultant in achieving a transparent process that gains buy-in um do you want me to read it again yeah based on your organization's experience what are the key roles and responsibilities for the district and for the consultant in achieving a transparent process that gains by me okay so um we work at the behest of the school district however the school district wants uh to work with us whatever reporting they want uh if they want us to attend uh regular board meetings to present um uh we're more than happy to do that typically uh actually every school district has been a little bit different on how they've uh wanted to work with us some school districts have been more hands off um some have been uh have assigned someone to uh again I'll say a champion that's been part of our team meetings and um you know reports back uh up the chain um we prepare regular minutes for each one of our design meetings we circulate those there's a lot of communication that we Avail ourselves up um trying to um I I think that's pretty much the key elements I would say that major decisions and we set this up also up front relative to milestones we would come back and make a presentation to the board and those are very formal events and um we have again a lot of detailed information we're always available for uh questions thank you all right thank you so much for your time thank you thank you that concludes the interview if you can wait in the weight room and we'll call you when we're ready foreign thank you who all right call me right thank you as a reminder you have 10 minutes for the presentation and then another 10 minutes for the um questions um and just remind there's a display of the time to remind you uh to get your child track thank you wonderful thank you so you may start whenever you're ready well thank you we're happy to be here please to be able to present to you our company dcg strategies this is going we're going into our 19th year um we specialize in education entities this is what we do our entire firm is built a service public school districts we're a proud public benefit Corporation means that we have a Social and environmental mission in relation to this work one thing that we're extremely we're proud of is we're California School Board Association csba's exclusive real estate partner for Workforce housing in particular a few years ago casba did an extensive research on different Consultants because they felt that they wanted their members to have access to information and services from their perspective that would protected the district's best interest their process and said dcg will you partner with us to be our Statewide partner to provide resources education and consulting services to school districts in partnership with us so we're very proud of that because why that's important is because in in the space of Workforce housing there are a lot of different entities summer Builders some say we'll do the feasibility and we'll build others are are just studying sites as a for-profit mission but no one's really looking out for the best interest of the school district so that's what we do our entire focus is what is in the best interest of the school district so we don't build because there needs to be a check to what's what is a feasible site what are the appropriate numbers what is the appropriate governance and all those other things that a school district needs to know before it starts spending money on construction so um we've been around we have over three billion dollars in um assets that we've helped manage and I'll hand it over to Lauren to introduce ourselves all right so we'll go to page three of the packet um good evening everyone my name is Lauren Jennings and my official title is chief operations officer of dcg strategies um and so I just um I'll actually pass the microphone over to our team to introduce himself and then we'll head on through the rest of the presentation sure okay thanks thanks for having us appreciate the opportunity to be here my name is Carl moribito I'm the vice president of development services for dcg and I have an extensive background in residential development both um all sorts of densities and product types um in in building homes and and condos and multi-family units throughout California over my 30-year career um on the on the development side of the business but happy to now be associated with this group and open districts do what they need to do for their housing needs and school school property needs thank you now you go next hi I'm Megan McIver and my title is Vice President of real estate strategy at dcg my background is from a very large commercial real estate organization called jll where I was a vice president for many years working with typically International Capital coming into the United States and helping them to to Really navigate those markets understand the subtleties and then look at properties on a portfolio basis so that's really where my expertise lies in complex real estate finance and really trying to take a holistic view of many properties at the same time and understanding their strengths and weaknesses and really helping clients work through all of the details and all of the subtleties that they need to consider in knowing how to move forward whether that's investing or developing yeah well good well thank you but we really wanted to make sure that we introduced our team and highlighted um our internal expertise because we really feel that that is what sets us apart from um other entities uh we are all in service of you as a school district we always say that our role as we obviously do not make any decisions that's what your job is for um but we also say that we also um do not provide a full-on recommendations we can if you'd like us to but our role really is to provide reliable real estate and development data for you as a school board so that you in turn can make a fully informed decision and so we have the best of real estate the best of brokerage the best of Consulting and the best development in-house and we all work as a team to be able to make sure that we provide you with that reliable data and so we'll go to the next page page four yeah and following on from what Lauren just said um this slide is a snapshot of the services that we offer um this is really a suite of services and this is what we offer to school district clients every day um you can see that we offer employee housing feasibility studies development Consulting and asset management consulting so again we're taking a look at all of the assets that you have and looking at it from your perspective and just making seeing how they all fit um together as as a whole so we also you know have a great amount of experience and stakeholder engagement as well which is of course an important part in getting anything done in a school district so again we can offer all of this in-house so thank you next page page five just shows you high level just some of our sample clients we work with public school districts throughout the state of California and so we are extremely experienced specifically obviously in the Bay Area which is where we're located but we also do work with Southern California School Districts as well and then so going on to page six the six this is really where we wanted to focus um so our team we do have experience providing um really exactly what you're looking for in terms of the feasibility study analysis I would say the most recent we're working with a handful of five or six school districts currently right now on the exact same scope that you're asking for specifically which I'll call out which is on the page six here San Rafael City Schools our team recently worked with the school district where we analyzed five of their underutilized sites that they have and we determined that one of those sites um I always have to be careful what's public what's not public but we have determined that one of those sites um is preliminary preliminarily feasibility for employee housing and so our team has been engaged to complete a further analysis and determining um to the extent of what is feasible um and so this is just a sample of the employee housing and feasibility studies that we have done another recent school district is Berlin Game School District we present it to their board and study session our findings in September of 2022 and it was at literally the exact same scope that you guys are asking for so our team was completely experienced and able to provide that the the page seven is really where I want to focus on this is what we deem in terms of a process flow of how do you get to employee housing right I do feel like employee housing is at the top of a lot of districts Minds rightfully so and so it's one thing to say we want to build employee housing but it's another thing of how do we get there what's our road map and we typically say that a a successful feasibility study should really help you as a school district answer three questions the first question is is it physically possible to be able to develop in within my District boundaries that could be either on a school district property that you already own so if you have any sites that would allow for the development of employee housing that could also be perhaps there's not a site that you own but perhaps there's a site that's located it within the district boundaries that's already developed and that you would might want to acquire we're working with another school district right now where they have to determine hey we don't have any property that we already own but we're open to acquiring some sites and so it's really determining is there a site within our district boundaries where we can see um development potential the second question is really assessing market demand is there demand in this case the market is your employees and and District staff and so that and the way that we do that is be an employee survey so you might have already have one but really being able to assess what is the demand what type of units so to speak would your employees be interested in and then really being able to get a gauge of what salary levels are obviously you know the salary levels of your employees but um really basing it off of the household income levels and then the last and final question that a successful survey excuse me analysis should really help you answer is the financial analysis portion I will say this is the part where um uh I but the most difficult if you have property is how do we pay for it one how much does is it going to cost to build we also we help you answer that and then the second part is okay well now that we know how much it's going to cost to build how do we fund it right what are what are the different avenues for uh for funding and we are aware obviously that the school district has passed a bond but there's um you know districts are using a variety of different opportunities to be able to fund the construction of development and then obviously once you answer those three questions and you do decide as a board that you would like to move forward with development of employee housing it's obviously doing the the deeper formal due diligence and then moving into construction and development and so our team is able to manage the entire process from beginning to end for you all Atlantis do you want to do final words I think I just want to re-emphasize where we provide the most value to districts as we operate as an extension of the District staff so we are here to protect the district's best interests as your owner representative so that as you are going forward and due diligence is being conducted Financial feasibility is being conducted you don't have to worry about is there some bigger play for us because we want the construction budget which is really where we want to make our money so maybe we will not short change but the data that's done in feasibility there could be some conflict so for us it's always the board is always able to know that whatever data is put before you is the the bare facts and there are no other um incentives for us to find findings that may benefit us a little bit more okay thank you so much so with that I'll start the first question uh given the complexities and local zoning and permitting could you please tell the board about how your firm has helped client districts navigate the zoning and permitting process to ensure a timely start to the commencement of the Project's Construction it's a great question so um I spent eight years as a planning commissioner so I'm very intimate with the entitlement process zoning and everything else but really it's part of the feasibility and so one thing that we do early and up front and before you get into permitting is making sure that if there is a site that is actually feasible for development that the land uses can be supported if the if the current land use doesn't match what you want to do in the future then our job becomes is there a path forward so that's Community stakeholders that's policy makers and it's really getting an understanding of is there a pathway for supportive land use or not and then bringing that answer back to you because sometimes land use just isn't compatible even if the district wants to build so knowing those things up front saves a lot of time and energy Carl did you want to add anything to zoning or land use I've done a lot of that throughout my career that really is the focus of what I'm doing here um and understanding that feasibility from that standpoint I think you know community outreach is a huge aspect of that I've actually developed a number of school sites kind of from the other side of the table and so I know how important that is in working with the community and ultimately getting you know the um support that we need for for these type of projects foreign there are always pros and cons when dealing with issues what has been the most consistent issue in dealing with districts while working on a project the pros and cons and how the issues were handled resolved and executed that's a very good question you know honestly and it's different for each district because different districts have different levels of trust with the community different type of neighborhoods so for us I would say was consistent is the district fighting the tension between spending resources unless just say Workforce housing and others that are internal stakeholders for instance or even Community stakeholders that want to see the district's resources be spent for different priorities so what we find across the board is making sure that there is a very supportive narrative from the day you start discussing like a Workforce housing project until you get to execution and so we find and we often will craft that message because it becomes a function of why are you doing it in the first place and then what is the appropriate messaging that needs to carry across every aspect of this project and we start there when we find District's not able to communicate frequently and in a manner that translates to what your ultimate outcomes are then we see a lot of tension because people are competing for different priorities and so for us it's always centering on what is that why getting out early and often setting up very very good stakeholder engagement there are a lot of different tools that we use and then anchoring the entire process to the outcomes that you want Montero uh have you been the subject of an investigation related to any of your projects to reverse no we um by volume we're the number one agency in the state that provides these services for Public School District we are a reputation business and so with entities like csba as our exclusive partner um we just really just always are there to support the district so it's not about what's in the business of our firm it's really about helping the districts meet their outcomes and then further we really make sure that we understand from from a District's perspective what are the different pressures of different stakeholders and so we are just all about making sure that we're accomplishing the district's goal so we've never been involved in anything that would be considered controversial um any type of litigation or anything like that we're just here to take care of you as a public benefit company we take that very seriously so it's not a for us we're not jumping into school districts Workforce housing space because it's a it's a a function where we can make money this is a service for us okay vice president Herrera loera thank you I have the last two questions what is the average timeline to complete a feasibility study yeah well I would say it really depends on how many sites are included so I can give you an example so uh as I said the most recent school district that we just finished is Burlingame School District um the school district identified in their request for proposal they had three sites that they wanted our team to study and so the way that we suggest is um you know I from your RFP it looked like it said all of the sites are potential options and opportunities and so we always say breaking breaking the feasibility analysis into two phases and essentially we say breaking it into two different phases um initially up front because we only want you to spend resources and time on feasible options and so we always say first we have to figure out if there's a there there and what that basically means is you know we don't want a complete deep dive feasibility analysis on sites that you know we can do a high level review and say that's not you know it's not feasible based off of the zoning based off of um you know just contextual influences or environmental issues potentially things like that and so the first phase we typically say um it's approximately 90 days um and that is again it really varies on the number of sites obviously one site is going to have a completely different timeline than if we're looking at five sites so to speak um and then the second phase is really where we do a deeper dive after we determine okay of the amount that if if you give us five sites of the five sites so to speak just pulling that out of thin air you know two of them are potentially feasible so we want to do a deeper analysis into those two it really depends on the specific site so for one school district there was some environmental issues where we had there was potential Wetlands on the property and so we had to dive deeper into that to make sure that is the entire property land developable so that has a different time period than you know something that doesn't have environmental issues but overall I would say budget approximately two to three months and it could go up or down from there thank you and the next question based on your organization's experience what are the key roles and responsibilities for the district and for the consultant in achieving a transparent process that gains buy-in I'll start we all may have something to chime in but I think it really starts with the board having alignment on what you're trying to accomplish I think that sets up a very transparent and in a process that should work kind of smoothly if the board is aligned and communicates that we also believe inviting stakeholders into the into the conversation once you start getting some initial data having a few study sessions because the public really wants to learn and we're conducting study sessions all the time and we really we were on with the district yesterday just preparing for study sessions next week and so I think for us it's a lot of communication to the public a lot of Education to the public them seeing the board is unifying behind a particular why and then preparing the board for things that we believe may come up as let's call it tension areas of tension and understanding how to navigate those areas of tension which is part of the general narrative so for us it's just it is a partnership with us so we're here to serve and so having very clear guidelines up front having very clear desired outcomes up front really helps us craft a particular plan did you want anything okay but I'll just say you know we've Endeavor to be an extension of staff and so that's kind of how we like to operate so we're not here to just to to just rush through an assignment we're here to really get you to your outcomes and so that really starts and ends with the board and the board's alignment and making sure that we're talking frequently and then transparent I'm just being redundant but I just want to emphasize it because that's where we see things break down okay well thank you so much for uh taking the time to interview go back to the waiting rooms we're going to tell your schools and invite you back to show you this course yeah can we have a discussion the benefit of each other I'd like to do this I mean this is an open yes um yes yes but I I'm very very glad that we got some good firms that seem to have a significant amount of experience um I see the HP um Johnson German company with local experience and so I'm I like that however I'm looking at the in terms of the the compensation and it looks pretty wild like the top of this you know 195 at the highest um we have one the first one at 116 but you know a bunch of stuff is to be determined and then dcg that comes in at the two phases they have a higher professional fees and so it kind of difficult to make a clear assessment so um were you able to look at that at the at the at the freeze the the pre-structure that they set up and do like a uh try to do a comparison yes um I did review The Proposal um and again um I mean it's really difficult to cost out the total feasibility part of it um yeah and especially since we didn't give them the like eight years two sides or here's three sites right right that makes it a little bit more difficult and probably that's going to be you know done through the contract negotiation once it's going to be selected um gotcha all right um and so we would potentially if you would have because uh this is my concern that uh some folks here are looking like it's a better deal but stuff might not be much might not be included um and so that's that's right that's my concern is there like a cap or something because like let's say that uh this one's at 116 but at the end winds up like being half a million bucks and that's not something that should be we should be coming back with correct it's not going to be that wild of a swinging yeah I mean again that can be still like the contract negotiator negotiation in terms of putting uh a not to exceed limit um and again that all depends kind of you know on the number of sites that were um considering gotcha all right well yeah for me I'm come the ehp it has a local advantage that they've done that working so I'm comfortable with that however I find that they've also done some local work um they happen to have a fellow from uh they used to be a vice president Northern California lion homes so they do have the Builder perspective and the expertise there that's a massive firm that was bought up by Taylor Morrison and so I think they got a good team the fact that they're connected to csb also gives them that credibility as well so that's my perspective um I'm torn between those and chamber okay trustee Chavez um I looked at BHP and um and all of them and the one who seems to be the strongest one is ehp and they've done this before so um I I'm gonna go with ehp vice president I'm in agreement I think um the fact that they've done so many uh different projects and um you know they they talk about them they outline them they're up they're running um shows their their experience um so I'm in agreement I think yeah yes and they did ask you know what do you want do you want to just like kind of break even or do you want to make this um a money maker as well so I like that they have those two perspectives in mind because we you know you can always offer it to the teachers um at a break even right now but later on you do want to make some profit because that's gonna go back into your general fund thank you oh I'd say you know to to tarot's point you know I like the fact that you know at least ehp may never to flesh out you know as specific as a timeline as possible as to this feasibility setting so I hope that that you know that in a sense gives us a sort of a uh a sense of where where the cost of this feasibility study is and I think at the end of the day uh given ehp's extensive experience you know they it could it could you know uh it looks to be a very good for them so with that is there any further comment by members of the board yes Montero yeah well I just I I find the concern that there's such a wild swing between the low and the high and so I just want to reiterate that um I am that is a concern and I I'd hope that we get that under control during the negotiations to really tighten that up and make sure that we don't wind up in the highest amounts um because what we're being quoted by dcg is seems a heck of a lot more reasonable um and if in fact these are the actual rates and we'd have a big difference between the two firms I also do respect and appreciate the fact that dcg has told districts no and um it really demonstrates that they're not out here just to tell the district what they want but that they seem to be challenged districts what they need to hear which is sometimes it doesn't pencil out for you and they've actually told West contra cost accounting that it just wasn't going to work after it's like I do appreciate that but yeah if we can get that stuff that Delta they're under control I'd be more comfortable um at this point like I said um the the fact that they've done that Santa Clara one makes me like yeah I want to lean forward and however the the big difference in the price is just concerned okay seeing no further comments by members of the board I guess at this time that uh if members of the board have not submitted their votes uh please do so [Music] foreign thank you yeah why don't you write it down and then they can sing with it for you and you have an environment does that work s you want the numbers thank you awesome a person foreign for the memory if you're okay with that you use the core person you know YouTube because they use the time I found because there are still practical problems yes that's what they were okay oh so you can tell the audience and for the sake of time wow okay that's fine for the sake of time while we are uh awaiting uh uh a resolution of technical problems uh with the tallying of the votes uh uh I will move through item 3.01 approving the consent calendar so approving the memorandums of understanding uh is that okay with the board yes the Board needs to approve the environment okay okay so I'll for the sake of it so I moved to to consider item 3.01 at this time while we're awaiting the resolution yeah go ahead so I'm amazing second one second by vice president Gerardo era I think he has to make the motion Chief circuits can the president he just made the motion it doesn't matter oh so we have them now there's a motion there's a second so um move to a vote I'll call you as I see you trustee Chavez hi uh vice president Herrera aye Quintero aye and myself building I the amendment is approved so with that will uh one second Maribel are you listening to what is happening in the meeting yesterday awesome very good okay so we'll go ahead and move to item 3.01 approved memorandums of understanding uh superintendent malware yeah this is a very uh uh an agreement so that we can accept the offer of an invitation to have a mariachi group coming and playing for our students next week motion to accept second okay motion motion by Percy Chavez second my vice president Herrera Ferrero era I'll open to public comment seeing no public comment I'll move to a vote Christy Chavez hi I'm vice president Herrera Louisa hi uh Quintero all right and myself voting I the the item passes four to zero what trusty Flores Shelton absent foreign will consider the transportation plan I believe Colbert had a minor presentation for you but if you go to your uh materials the plan is there for you so with that are they ready yeah they're ready um okay okay good okay so now we at this time we'll return to IM 2.01 as regularly scheduled thank you and uh welcome back again and thank you for your patience um if you can draw your attention to the screen we're going to help you build the scores um Brad can you put the score on the screen please as you can see H is h-e-hpmec the score 70h 78 dcg 74 and HED 45.

the national Lifeline is three digits 988 so we also want to have people familiar with that number and then the text line is 741-741 and of course anytime we're talking about a medical emergency or overdose then we're just dialing 9-1-1 so those are some of the important 24-hour supports that we want to make sure people are aware of and that we're sharing that information and that those numbers are helpful for people who are in a crisis and they're helpful for people who are supporting someone that's in a crisis so that Crisis Line you call that if you're personally having something going on or if you are aware of someone else that is and you're not sure how to best support call that number and they're going to walk you through that those are the resources in the room and sometimes I've taught presentations of this sort and felt like our County well just our community not the county but our community that we had all this great information to share but not a lot of good resources after the meeting was over we have incredible resources it feels so good to present this important information and be able to say here's what to look for and here's what to do we have things we can do we have great resources in our community we just need to push them out there and so I hope that after you learn this information tonight you will be motivated to heighten your awareness your noticing skills and share the information that you've learned and I'm excited that we have some great presenters to work with us tonight like all of you our formal training is really important but the things that have probably taught us the most come from our personal experiences that's been the truth for me and I know that's true also for the people that will be presenting this evening so I'm going to introduce our next presenter Vicki Solomon is the executive director for the Nexus Coalition for drug prevention which is located in Taylor Arizona and do we have a little location right here too yep right back behind the school she was born and raised in the White Mountains where she intends to continue to build healthy communities and resiliency in youth both passion both passions for her the community and the young people Vicki has 13 years of experience in prevention education Community collaboration and Federal Grant Management as well as 28 years as a financial analyst her leadership skills are focused on achieving the coalition's goals of reducing substance misuse among Youth and establishing and strengthening collaboration among Community organizations her guidance has expanded the coalition's work in school-based prevention education the use of trauma-informed care practices and delivering numerous trainings to address substance use disorders including opioid reversal naloxone training that was a lot so important she is an expert in our community on this stuff she's going to cover and so I welcome Vicki to come up and she's going to give us some important information on those topics thank you very very much isn't Becky awesome she is one of my favorites thank you very very much so I have some awesome information to share with you today the reason why I think it's awesome is because you guys are parents or you are teachers that work with youth and you need to know this information when I was a parent raising four kiddos I did not know that we had something like a Nexus Coalition and so I didn't have the resources raising my kiddos and I wish that I would have known about resources in our communities like Becky has just talked about so what we're going to talk about today is current drug trends um and I want you to to read that it says talk and listen to your youth I always say taught to youth taught to youth talk to youth because we need to have a dialogue with them but we also need to listen to our youth and we need to get ready for what they're finally going to be brave enough to talk to us about so you have to prepare yourself to receive that information let's go ahead and go to the next slide this is my awesome staff I I always say I have the Dream Team and I really honestly do and I appreciate them very very much we have grants that covers Show Low Pinetop Lakeside and we're getting into snowflake Taylor and then we Branch out a little bit in our White River and also in our Winslow and Holbrook areas and I appreciate them we've got Julie Cheyenne Stacy Becky and Destiny and the two reasons why Nexus Coalition exists are these two things right here to reduce substance Youth and and establish and strengthen collaborations that is our that's what we do and I love it okay we'll go to the next slide how we do that we work with 12 different sectors in the community and I always like to say if you are not collaborating or partnering with us then please come to us because there's something that we can do for you and that you maybe could do for us to help the community all right and then what do we do um we have a side that we we have youth drug prevention life skills these are the different things that we um that we Implement into the schools and also in our faith-based organizations we work a lot with them in power to be empowered Bop and life skills avoid vaping those are our evidence-based curriculums that we use and utilize and you would think that a drug prevention would just teach about drugs but that's not true okay we teach life skills because we need to find out why are the youth turning to drugs and alcohol kind of get down to some of those more root problems and we try to build that self-esteem and confidence and guide them in a direction that they can live a more positive life and and these evidence-based programs help us do that and then my staff does a wonderful job with a diversion program just got a phone call as I was coming into this meeting a second grader was vaping second grader so we're setting up some appointments we're going to educate the kiddo we're going to educate the parents and we've got to start shifting a different direction if they're starting in second grade we're in trouble okay freshman University where we get to meet with all the freshmen in the whole entire school and we work with our our partners and we educate them on six different topics like once a week for six weeks fabulous program keep a clear mind killer Among Us fentanyl medicine safety and stress and coping skills do we have stress in the world today after we turn 19 this dress just go away now we're adults we don't have stress no we have we have stress our entire lives and the earlier that we learn our coping mechanisms then the better off we're going to be now is my stress the way that I deal with it going to be the same that Jason deals with his stress no everybody has their own coping mechanisms and the earlier that we can teach that kid how to find their own coping mechanism the better off they're going to be and the better choices they can make all right and then over here on our parents oh that's okay over on our parents we have a lot of information for you guys as well we like to train you and if you have any questions on anything if we don't know the answer we will find it for you all right we'll go to the next slide gateway drugs you may have heard that term and if you haven't what it is is it's just something that kids start with and then they end up leading into bigger and more harsher things okay and so when we look at alcohol marijuana and E-cigarettes if we look at just one of them alone it may not be that bad if they do a little bit but it really is okay and these right here lead to other things these stats right here come from our Arizona Youth survey and it is done every other year um and it's in the school it takes one school hour to complete and this is our Navajo County numbers 8th 10th and 12th grade take it and this is the first year that alcohol was not number one we've got our marijuana and E-cigarettes that actually outdid our alcohol numbers and I just want you to take a glance at those devastating numbers and these are the youth telling us that they are these are lifetime users of 8th 10th and 12th graders okay so so think about that as we're going to talk about our our fentanyl discussion today we'll go to the next slide so unfortunately I have old data on this because I'm not allowed to get new data yet it's three years behind us and so this is from 2020 Navajo County I was working directly within medical investigator and they would let me know how many cases they ended up with and they had 148 cases and out of that 57 were natural we can't do a whole lot about natural but the rest of them are preventable deaths we've got 23 overdoses which out of the 23 there was 14 fentanyl from opioid two math three various and then we had 23 suicides 17 motor vehicle 10 accident nine homicide and nine alcohol now since 2020 do you think the numbers have increased or decreased they have probably increased substantially okay and so keep that in mind this is why we do what we do okay we'll go to the next slide so now we're going to talk about fentanyl okay it is killing Our Youth and killing our young adults and this has never happened before um it took us a long time to figure out what to do about it we work with Arizona Haida we work with the DEA and we get great training from them and what we learn from them we bring it back to our communities and what we're learning right now is that fentanyl is on the rice and it's not getting better it's getting worse okay we'll go to the next slide Navajo County Sheriff report I love pulling their information offline I have a big stack of these do you think we have drugs in Navajo County yeah we do okay so here's some of the drug busts we have uh 1.4 million dollar drug bust there was 72 000 fentanyl pills confiscated on one drug bust we have 1.2 million dollar drug bust with 48 000 fentanyl pills we have a 120 fentanyl Peels and the age on this one surprised me they were 26 years old and coming through on the I-40 um we do have a prob a problem with drugs but we are so thankful for our law enforcement all law enforcement because they're out there working their tail ends off to try to help our communities be safe what is going on right now in Mexico the cartels are literally mixing these things in a bucket and so they put a little bit of this a little bit of that they dump fentanyl in it mix it up put it in a pill press and they're shooting out pills by the thousands okay and so in one peel that's on the street we don't know how much fentanyl is inside of that pill and that's why you're going to see you know one pill will kill because it has and it does the amount of fentanyl in one pill because of how it's mixed is killing people and and it's happening right here in our community the amount of fentanyl is not regulated they're oxycodone the m30s were really popular and on the next slide we're going to see what they look like they used to be little blue pills and oh before we get to the blue pills right here this is how much fentanyl is going to that it takes to kill somebody it's like seven or eight little grains of salt that's how much can kill a person okay so if it's being mixed in a bucket and then pill pressed we literally don't know how much fentanyl is in one pill okay next slide here we go so see the blue pills one of them is fake and one of them is real like through our Pharmacy okay and the drug dealers decided that they want to try to make it mimic what we have in our Pharmacy so people will take it right so that's what the fake pills look like right now on the streets our DEA and Haida tell us that out of 10 pills on the street 6 out of ten are going to be laced with a deadly dose of Fentanyl and it's gone up about maybe five months ago it was only four out of ten pills we're going to have the deadly dose of fentanyl so six out of ten pills okay we'll go to the next slide then if this doesn't make you angry I don't know what will so we caught on to the blue peels they were doing drug busts and showing all kinds of blue peels blue peels blue peels so we started you know there's about 28 different coalitions in the state of Arizona so we part started putting out information about the blue peels lots of organizations start talking about the blue peels within the drug cartel decided to change the colors to these rainbow colors now do you think that they change the colors to entice the adults or who are they targeting they're targeting our youth it makes me angry to think about that so now we have to watch out because this is what it looks like now okay go the next slide so what are opioids we do have some safe fentanyl I don't want anybody going to the hospital with their arm cut off and then they hear that they're going to have Fentanyl and they refuse it okay no hospital grade fentanyl that is in your hospitals and it's it's being monitored that is not going to hurt you okay that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about the street fentanyl okay opioid or oxycodone Oxycontin Vicodin so if anybody has had any surgeries you'll probably have this in your cupboard okay then we have heroin which is a lot of times people will get on heroin it's an opioid and it's very addictive okay we'll go to the next slide so after I've thrown up all over you and you feel all this horrible mess on you what are some things that you can do when I go to a training and I'm sitting there I'm a doer I'm like okay tell me what I can do to fix this problem I want to fix problems and so here's some very simple easy things that you can walk away today and be able to do you can learn about naloxone and teach others naloxone is an opioid reversal and I'll tell you about it by the way today on the news or maybe yesterday on the news I just got information today and sent it out the naloxone is available over the counter that's never happened before either so that's a pretty cool thing I don't know how much we're going to be charged for it but that that's something good so the next thing is we can clean out our medicine cabinets and dispose of unused and expired medicines what how is that going to help what do you think that's going to do just in case absolutely so if we have medicine in our cabinet especially if it's expired or unused we need to get rid of it we have kids that are coming through our homes maybe we have a TB a TV repair guy that comes and he has an addiction you he opens your counter or he goes in your bathroom and opens your mirror and he's getting some of your drugs all of a sudden you're a drug dealer and you didn't even know it and you didn't mean to be one so we wanted the drugs that we need to keep we need to keep locked up and make sure that they're um not easily as accessible and the rest of it we need to get rid of okay and then we need to once we learn something we need to share that information with other people okay all right we'll go to the next slide now we're going to do a quick training on naloxone and it's so simple and easy that you're going to walk away and I hope that you're going to feel comfortable being able to use it if you ever need to use it okay this next slide is going to be a short video just a couple of minutes long and it's going to tell what happens with the opioid in your body and what the naloxone actually does to to be that opioid reversal so we'll go ahead and do that video real quick naloxone saves lives no time to sit idly by more and more people are dying of overdose from the likes of heroin Fentanyl and prescription pain medications like oxycodone and hydrocodone these are all examples of opioids opioids or drugs derived from the Opium hobby plant were made in the lab they can treat pain cough and diarrhea but opioids can also be addictive and even deadly but the number of opioid overdose deaths has escalated more than 400 percent since the turn of the century with tens of thousands of lives now being lost every year but many deaths can be prevented with a life-saving treatment naloxone when given right away naloxone can work in minutes to reverse an overdose naloxone is safe has few side effects and some forms can be administered by friends and family when is naloxone used you can save a life first recognize signs of Overdose pale clammy face blue fingernails or lips vomiting or gurgling sounds inability to speak or be awakened slow breathing or heartbeat if you see these symptoms call 9-1-1 immediately and consider the use of naloxone if available how is naloxone given home preparations include a nasal spray given to someone while they lie on their back or device that automatically injects medicine into the thigh sometimes more than one dose is needed the person's breathing also needs to be monitored if the person stops breathing consider rescue breaths and CPR if you are trained until First Responders arrive how does naloxone work the naloxone is an opioid antagonist which means that it blocks opioid receptors from being activated it is so strongly attracted to The receptors that it knocks other opioids off when opioids are sitting on their receptors they change the activity of the cell opioid receptors are found on nerve cells all around the body and in the brain opioids produce feelings of comfort and sleepiness in the brain stem opioids relax breathing and reduce cough and in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves opioid slow down pain signals and the gastrointestinal tract opioids are constipating these opioid actions can be helpful but the body actually produces its own opioids called endorphins which help calm the body in times of stress endorphins help produce the runner's high that helps marathon runners get through grueling races but opioid drugs like prescription pain medications or heroin have much stronger opioid effects and they're more dangerous over time frequent opioid use makes the body dependent on the drugs when the opioids are taken away but the body reacts with withdrawal symptoms such as headache racing heart soaking sweats vomiting diarrhea and Tremors for many the symptoms feel unbearable [Music] with continued use opioid receptors also become less responsive and the body develops tolerance to the drugs more drugs are needed to produce the same effects which makes overdose more likely overdose is dangerous especially for its effect in the brain stem relaxing breathing breathing can be relaxed so much that it stops leading to death naloxone knocks opioids off The receptors all around the body in the brain stem naloxone can restore the drive to breathe and save a life but even if naloxone is successful opioids are still floating around so Expert Medical Care should be sought as soon as possible naloxone works for 30 to 90 minutes before the opioids return to their receptors naloxone May promote withdrawal because it knocks opioids off The receptors so quickly but otherwise naloxone is safe and unlikely to produce side effects naloxone saves lives from 1996 to 2014 at least 26 500 opioid overdoses in the United States were reversed by lay persons naloxone saves lives okay so that is how opioids work in your system and something I want you to remember is just because somebody's administered naloxone does not mean that they're that they're taken care of and they can go home because they can re-overdose again without taking any more medication because it those those opioids stay inside of your body okay so please remember that so what are some signs and symptoms of an overdose I loved it when my teachers put the answers on the board because I could never remember things so right here we have limp body pale face vomiting blue nails cannot be awakened deep snorting or gurgling pinpoint pupils can't speak slow heartbeat slow breathing so these are some signs that you're looking for whenever it comes to an opioid overdose for me if I suspect somebody who may have overdosed I am getting ready to administer naloxone and it doesn't matter if this person is two years old three months old 12 years old or 110 years old it doesn't matter if this person has cancer diabetes whatever it does not matter this right here is not going to hurt them okay I want to make sure that you get that it doesn't when I first heard that I'm like that that's that doesn't make sense it's weird but it absolutely will not hurt somebody now if the reason why this person has deceased is not an opioid let's say it was alcohol or Methamphetamine without fentanyl in it okay if it was a clean you know without fentanyl then this right here is not going to bring them back to life okay but if it was an opioid and you administer there's a very good chance that that person could be brought back to life okay so we're going to go the next slide we're going to learn how to do this we're going to call 9-1-1 any time make sure you get some some help coming to help you you do not want to be there by yourself without responsibility on your shoulders check for responsiveness perform that sternum rub if they do not come awake with that sternum rub start opening your box get ready to use that you're going to check to see if they're breathing look listen and feel and then you're going to administer naloxone so all you're going to do inside one box there is two doses the hardest part is getting it out of the box okay so it comes in a little package like this okay and on the back you pull the strip down and you take it out and now it kind of looks like flowingase if anybody's had allergies and used Flonase it just is a nasal pump like this you're going to get this and you're going to stick it up their nose and you're going to push your thumb inject all of the spray inside their nose and then after you're finished with that you're going to turn them on their recovery side and there's a picture on the next page to show you in the recovery position and then you're going to step back once you've administered it you're going to step back and my trainer who is very experienced in the field for several years said Vicki do you know why I'm telling you to step back and I said no he says first of all if this person as soon as this naloxone hits their system if it's somebody who's had a pretty strong addiction for a long time it's going to put them in immediate withdrawals and they're going they might be mad they might be angry they might start kicking hitting fighting or they might be throwing up and so you you don't you want to make sure that they don't choke to death on their own vomit and and you got to protect yourself so I'm going to administer it I'm going to put them on their side I'm going to step back I'm going to wait about a minute and if they do not come back if they haven't come back to life they're not talking not breathing I'm getting the second one out I'm opening it I'm getting the second one and now I'm going to go down and I'm going to administer the second one doesn't matter if it's in the same nostril different nostril just put it up their nose and push eject just push this button in and it goes inside I'm going to turn them back on their side and I'm going to step back I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that they come back to life and by that time you probably have your EMS coming and then you let them know hey I had I had administered two of these four milligram naloxone and they will take over and do that for you okay is that pretty simple we could you could do that right I could I can teach my nine-year-old to do this anybody can do this the next part that I want to that I want to educate you on is you notice that I have two boxes up here one of them is called cluxoto like a clock and an auto clocks Auto and this is an eight milligram dose which is actually double the dose of the four milligram so Narcan is four milligram Clarks Auto is eight milligram and both Narcan and claxato is naloxone okay so whenever you hear someone say naloxone it could be Narcan four milligram or clexotto eight milligram and the only difference is if we think about our law enforcement I've had a gentleman on the police department in Winslow that said he administered five Narcan to bring a kiddo back to life he could have done just a couple of these and probably brought that kid back to life and then also our police officers have so much stuff I should have you guys come up and model for me they have so much stuff that they're carrying if I ask them would you rather carry two of the or four of these or two of these which would be easier for you right so I'm trying to make sure that we get Clarks Auto in the hands of our law enforcement so that they can have that readily available but that is the only difference is the milligram okay and again this is not going to hurt anybody and it will only help if it's an opioid overdose okay all right let's go to the next slide and there's one more thing I just wanted to touch on and then I'm done so there's this thing called the Good Samaritan law and it does two different things that I love one of them youth were overdosing at a very rapid rate and we found out the reason why when I say we it's not me it's just people that I appreciate they found out that youth were overdosing and dying because other youth were afraid to call to get help I seen Mary right here I knew something was wrong but I didn't want to get in trouble because I've been drinking and partying or whatever the case might be I'm under age so I'm just going to leave because I don't want to get in trouble so what the Good Samaritan law says is if you call for help to save a life then you're not going to get in trouble that day okay you're not going to get in trouble for calling for help so we watch the youth utilize that and they started calling whenever their friends had overdoses or thought that they did and they were saving lives with that the second thing that this does is if I administer this to John and John I punctured something in his nose made his nosebleed or something but he came back to life John can't come and sue me for helping him administer this that's what our Good Samaritan law does is it protects us so that I don't have to be well I'm not going to help because I don't want to no you go help because you can help save a life and nothing's going to happen to you for it okay and last slide so what can I do know the current drug Trends learn about trauma relationships resiliency building learn about naloxone which you just did clean out your medicine cabinets share with others and then I love that Becky brought up that 24-hour crisis line same thing if we start utilizing this number in Navajo County we're going to get more resources to help us now this first little bit whenever we ask for help it might take a little bit longer for that crisis mobile team to get there but they're going to start working faster they're going to hire more people they're going to look for the spots who call in and they need help it's going to be growing with us as we're utilizing this service this has been around forever and we have never used it you look at Maricopa County and they use it all the time guess where the funds are going Maricopa County okay so we in Navajo County if you want funds and you want help and we want our people taken care of then let's start using this behavioral health line with a crisis mobile team it's not going to be perfect in the beginning because they're working on The Kinks but if you call and you don't get the services that you want then let me know or I'll tell you how to do it and and we're going to tell the crisis team what the problem was and they're going to fix the problems for us so I love that they're doing that and I'm excited about it this is going to go on all of our material from now on is there any questions do you think you could administer naloxone if you needed to is it pretty easy I hope you never have to but if you do have to I hope that you won't be afraid to yes good question so you're going to administer naloxone and not perform CPR if you listened in that it said if you are a trained professional that knows how to administer CPR go ahead and do it but if you're not which I'm not I'm not I'm going to administer naloxone I'm going to step back and I'm going to wait I'm going to wait for the professionals to come in and take care of this person but if you are if you are a professional and you feel like it's okay to do that safe for you to do that then absolutely good question yes what to do so if if someone's there and you're not quite sure what's going on if they're breathing then I would just let if if you're breathing then your body's going to take over and you're going to be okay but still call for help but if you're not breathing and you think it's an opioid overdose administer naloxone immediately right then I would administer naloxone to be safe because I remember right now if I administered this to Mary it wouldn't hurt her but it wouldn't help or it wouldn't do anything so if if there's a chance that I think that naloxone might help this person I'm administering it does that make sense awesome okay thank you sorry Miss Becky that's okay and we will have some questions at the end so if you think of a question between now and the end there will still be time all right our next presenter I really appreciate Jason so much sometimes when tragedy strikes we think it happens to you know we and we shouldn't do this but we think it happens to certain type of people to certain types of families Jason's Story throws all that out and many of the stories in our community do the same and so I really appreciate him coming I'm going to put my glasses on and tell you a little bit about Jason Jason Mulder is the founder of several companies under the parent company called true companies his passion is to leave a significant Mark In This World by helping as many people as possible get to the root of their most challenging health problems and achieve their highest quality of life Jason earned a doctorate of Chiropractic degree he has hosted a radio show for five years and wrote the true Health diet um this along with numerous other academic and professional accomplishments Jason Mulder serves in multiple organizations as well he is the president of the Nexus Coalition a non-profit organization that fights the War on Drugs this organization hits close to home for Jason and his wife they tragically lost their son Jaden in 2020.

so Danae thank you very very much and Madam president that concludes my superintendent update thank you Dr Dean we will move to the governing board update well I did attend the Festival of the Arts I'm sure everybody did um and Janae thank you I mean just for showcasing the amazing and talented students that are here in this District um it was it was phenomenal it was a great experience and the weather was perfect so uh thank you so much for doing all you do yesterday you did a great job absolutely fantastic I also attended um I actually got to watch band Orchestra dance and choir we have great talent in this District wonderful the kids were outstanding so thank you for everything that you have done to put this together thank you I also attended um Freedom traditionals mom and son bowling night and of course I did not win my son beat me but we had a great time we played laser tag we bowled ate some pizza and went home and went to sleep so thank you freedom foreign Festival of the Arts and just want to thank you as well Danae um every year it just gets better and better and I know we've talked a lot about the the talent that was showcased there but I mean everything every little detail was just so perfect I mean the increased presence of officers the parking the signage everything is better every single year so thank you for all you do I'm going to apologize in advance that my update is going to be a little bit longer than normal I am sorry I um in February I was at a conference during that board meeting and then this last board meeting my daughter had something at her school that I I wanted to support her on so I was there but I will try to move quickly but I wanted to definitely um thank some schools and just some experiences that I attended and just wanted to touch on but starting with so February 23rd through the 25th I attended the Innovative School Summit and I'm just very thankful to attend some of the very meaningful conference sessions that bring value and relevancy to our district I won't go through all of them but I mean some of them just give you an idea there's a breakout session on a school regarding how to bring your campus from an F to a c academically in the midst of a pandemic another one which was great in regard to is parent University it's calls on leaders to bridge the gap between home and school and actively engaging parents seeing parents as our biggest stakeholder also so wedding conditions for positive School culture and just engaging your communities and how we as Leaders can do that at risk students increasing graduation rates so it was very very informative I felt very fortunate to be able to attend and just want to thank the district for providing that opportunity for professional development March 3rd I received multiple invitations to reach various schools during the read Across America week unfortunately due to my work schedule I was only able to attend one and that was at our amazing El Mirage Elementary School which we got to feel their fantastic energy earlier this evening and that was on March 3rd have the pleasure of reading the two amazing first grade classes my favorite part is always the questions at the end because you never know what you're going to be asked and it's just makes the day all the more special so thank you to El Mirage Elementary Administration for the invitation as well as to the teachers and students who welcomed me into their classroom it was really a wonderful morning March 9th I was able to go along with the Dysart hero prize Patrol that's what I like to call it when we it's always great seeing the surprises on the faces of our well-deserved recipients and look forward to celebrating you all next month at our annual Dysart Heroes awards ceremony so that was great to attend that and congratulations to all of our hero all of our hero winners um March 9th also so later that afternoon I had the opportunity to conduct classroom observations with District administration to observe our math curriculum in action so I want to thank Marley Park Administration and the wonderful staff there for being so welcoming it was impactful to be able to witness our curriculum what it looks like in action with so many engaged students that was just fascinating to see um and then on March 25th attended the Fine Arts Festival and huge thanks as we've all said to Danae um and our amazing Fine Arts teachers and staff as well as the other amazing members of our desert team that put countless hours into planning such a successful event I always say it's more than just a school function it's like a community staple it's just amazing and thank you so much for all the hard work you put into it it really does show and it was just an enjoyable day and yes the weather was amazing and then I just wanted to end again um because of a family commitment I missed the March 9th meeting but as always I watched it online later that night and I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of our athletes and coaches that were honored that evening but I would be remiss if I did not take a moment to share a few comments regarding the head coach for Valley Vista High School girls basketball coach Rachel matakis who was not present when the team was honored by our district with assistant coach Brooke Hankins as many know coach matakis has been with our district for the past 17 years she has a 2022 inductee of the Arizona High School coaches Hall of Fame with over 30 years total coaching experience that resulted in at least 31 student athletes receiving athletic scholarships not to mention the six state championship titles that she and her team have brought to Dysart under her leadership aside from her Stellar coaching ability Rachel matakis continues to make an impact in the classroom academically but she has also taught some valuable life lessons to her students and athletes as well she teaches our students about the value of integrity and respect which are most often taught through how she modeled those character traits herself one of those lessons about was being about resiliency and how to navigate through adversity while maintaining integrity and professionalism and what it means to model something called unconditional positive regard and I won't go into a psychology session or lesson regarding what that is people can look it up if you're so inclined but a simple definition of unconditional positive regard speaks to the attitude of complete acceptance whether for yourself or someone else when you have unconditional positive regard for someone nothing they can do nothing they can do could give anyone a reason to stop seeing them as inherently human and inherently likable it does not mean you have to accept every decision and action that that person makes but it's about accepting and respecting them as a human being with the assumption that they are doing the very best they can it's about Not Just Praise honor and respect when you're on top but showing respect to others always because that's how you treat people who are all human and will all have their day when they face adversity and need to continue to feel valued and respected and honored that is just one of the many values coach matakis has instilled in her athletes and will make those girls better humans than many adults that walk among us today so while I am deeply saddened that Rachel matakis won't be the head coach of Valley Vista High School basketball next year she leaves behind a legacy that will forever live on the court as well as throughout the halls of Valley Vista High School coach matakis is truly one of the most selfless people I know always living by the words it's all about the kids which I suspect is a driving force behind most if not all of her decisions while I apologize for not being present to share these words during our last meeting when the team was recognized by the governing board I would like to formally express my words of sincere gratitude and appreciation to coach Rachel matakis for all she has contributed to this district and her athletes as head coach of Valley Vista girls basketball and wish her nothing but the best as she continues to be one of our most valued teacher leaders who will no doubt continue to enrich the lives of our Dysart students each and every day and that concludes my update thank you very much I also attended the Arts Festival and I can tell you that there is so much hard work so much planning so much into planning any one performance much less an entire day of multiple performances and I've witnessed Miss Marinelli taking personal days when she was still in the classroom to set up for events like this she'd be like um I took the day off I'll be setting it up and not only does that speak to her work ethic and how much she cares about our district it also speaks to her leadership now that she is in a leadership role that all of the teachers are on board to support her willingly and enthusiastically and have their kids turn out such wonderful performances so as our district continues to be very supportive of the Arts I feel like this Festival is like this with Miss marinelli's hard work just reinforce our commitment to Arts education and Excellence so thank you and that's my update next we will move on to item E1 I will move to approved consent agenda items as presented second motion made by Crystal Chaffin seconded by Don Densmore thank you give us Justice I don't want to spoil it with emotion Joe did you Swatch computers with her yeah I think that this is what people are concerned about with AI yes well normally it's Joe's computer that is always on the front this happened before too it has happened before I'm just giving Jen a hard time oh no it's just her yeah who's your hazing just give us a second talk about yourself if we can get you to vote again that would be fantastic success all right motion carries now we're good next we will move on to thank you very much thank you for your help next we will move on to G1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of governing board cabinet and our community this evening we begin with our information items with information on Title 1 review and supports at the request of one of our governing board members and Dr assai will introduce this item Dr assai good evening Madam president members of the board it is my pleasure to introduce our director Amy hartchen who will present Untitled supports good evening oh there we go good evening Madam president governing board and cabinet um this evening I'll be sharing with you information about intervention programs we've used in our Title 1 schools this year as well as how we are measuring Effectiveness and information about the Department's next steps for the rest of this year and moving into next year um when we look at the list of interventions we've used this year um know that when we're making decisions and considering um programs to be implemented in our title schools there is a Essa based list of evidence-based programs that we select from that we have to show from the grants um they either have to have strong promising or moderate success rates that have been done by outside research so when we select programs we have to select things that we can show have re have previously had success um so that kind of drives some of the decision making when we make those um decisions so the first one um although is not new to Dysart this year we have added some additional components that have really helped improve the effectiveness of the program and that is achieved 3000 literacy we use that in grades 3 through 12 at our Title 1 schools and we are also piloting it in our fourth grades um non-title schools had the option that if they wanted to participate in the pilot this year they could do that we do have some schools choosing to do that um Achieve3000 literacy is an intervention program that has both a direct instruction meaning teacher-led component as well as an individual student practice component um it is a program that adjusts based on students reading levels so at the very beginning of the year students take a level set and it determines their Lexile level and then when they are doing um the teacher may use what they call the anchor text which is the on-grade level piece and they'll use that when they're doing their direct instruction and then when the students get in and read the article it is based on their Lexile level um and then students do what they call an activity at the end and um monthly as long as students have four activities it will adjust up their Lexile if they've been successful on those activities so the idea is that it's incrementally continuing to increase that student's like so and as their level reading levels are improving we measure Effectiveness with this by those beginning of the year measures and then our monthly meetings with the pro project manager and that is the new piece that we have with this program this year we have a full-time dedicated person from um Achieve3000 who is out on our campuses every day so she goes in and at the start of the year she trains teachers on how to use it correctly um sometimes historically we may have had it be more of a plug-and-play where the teachers just said to achieve today versus doing those good pre-reading strategies and things with the students she goes in and does data meetings she does whisper coaching she leads a lesson and then the next hour the teacher does the lesson themselves so it's been really nice because we have one dedicated person who goes out um and is actually supporting her schools on a daily basis um and then like I said she comes and meets with um Dana Noble and I each month and we go through the data and we watch um where we're seeing successes and where we maybe need to dedicate her time next to the following month um so we are recommending the continuation of this program and we're going to show you an example of data from our first semester to kind of demonstrate why this is such a successful program so it's sorry I apologize the um far ones a little hard to read but what that left one at 49l and the L stands for Lexile means is that was the expected growth of the students in our district and how many lexiles a kid a student would grow in the year really depends on grade levels the younger kids May grow more because it's all brand new versus a high school student who may not grow as much because their levels are they they have the foundational reading piece and we're just trying to increase comprehension links so lexiles tend to grow a little bit higher in the lower rights the left is just our District's expected growth I'm going to draw your attention to the one that has a 134 L on it that is students who are doing at least one activity a week which is the expected amount so that they meet that four in a month and they're getting at least 75 on that activity on the first try so if they're doing one a week and they're getting that 75 percent our District's average growth is 134 luck sell for students who are meeting those two criteria so it's almost triple the expected growth of the students when they from what their preset level set scores were at the beginning of the year so um you can see it actually the next one is two activities and 75 so it starts to dip a little and we call that achieve fatigue because if you're doing two a week and that kind of gets to be a lot of doing the exact same thing every day so really we stress do one a week and have the kids be really familiar with their they've done good reading strategies and so that when they take that test the first time they get 75 so um you can see actually as a district 89 of our students are earning 75 the first time so achieve math they also have a math program we don't love as much as we enjoy their um their literacy program so it is a tier two online resource students take a diagnostic test at the beginning of the year and then it creates a program of study for students we do receive monthly data from that during our data meeting however we are not recommending continuation and we have not asked for that to be part of our quote for next year because we're not seeing it implemented and it's not having the positive impacts on math achievement that we would like and it's largely because it's being used as an independent practice during tier two so the teacher might be in small group and kids are working independently so they're not getting that feedback from a teacher or direct instruction and it's because it's created an independent program for every single kid so it's hard to group them based on what they need from that computer program so we are not recommending the continuation with this one then there is corrective reading and read to achieve it actually has a program before that called reading Mastery and then corrective reading is fourth through 12th grade and then the corrective reading focuses on decoding and then read to achieve is 5th through 12th grade and that focuses on reading comprehension um so it is done during tier three instruction time um it is very small group very intensive um very scripted based on the decoding skills students take a pre-test it determines what decoding skills they still need for the ones that are in corrective reading and then the read to achieve is similar what comprehension skills do they need to work on um and then teachers use Mastery assessments every 10 lessons to monitor progress and then move students forward if they've made growth or they may repeat a lesson if they um need to go back and do it again so they have a Continuum so they have like level a level B level C Level DNS students move through they continue to move across that Continuum and we are measuring um success and Effectiveness with this one by using benchmark scores we have not been able to do that um to the level we would like yet this year we didn't get materials until mid first semester so the the teachers get a training at the start of school we got mid first semesters when we got all the materials so then we did a second training in January so they really implemented with follow-up in January so um we will continue to measure using benchmarks next year and um do follow-up and continued implementation effectiveness and then in that same company's um programs they have connecting math concepts and this was being piloted this year at El Mirage and um it is a K-5 math Intervention Program it is being used during tier three time and it builds on Concepts and basic skills by showing how they're linked together and so then those skills spiral back around similar to Saxon Math you keep reseeing the skills and so you continue to get to practice your deficit skills while building understanding about how one math concept connects to another um so they will then apply multiple Concepts and skills within each lesson um we measured the implementation of this one at El Mirage using their Benchmark data and the students who received um implementation of this program exceeded the district's average growth for Benchmark um one to three so we were pleased with that and um I sent the recommendation to Dr aside for us to move this one from a pilot to District adoption um for next year for our title schools the next one is corrective math um and that is a pilot at Ashton Ranch um it is in the same Suite as the connecting math concepts and it is for grades three through High School however this one um unlike connecting math concepts where it's spiraling and having kids um make those connected Concepts this one does seven key skills that are just direct instruction type piece um we did not see the same growth at um Ashen Ranch for those students they actually showed less average less than average District growth from Benchmark one to Benchmark three um and because we didn't like the way that this one was done by skills and not doing that spiraled approach we are not recommending the for this one for approval for continuation next year another program we have that supports our Title One students is Kinder experience and this allows our Kinder students in Title One to transition to full day Kinder so they come in um a week before school starts sometimes two weeks depending on when we're doing PD for our staff as a district um it's four days three hours a day and lets them just start learning the routines and procedures of school um how to transition the introduction to math and English or math and reading um and it has led by our Title One kindergarten teachers so this just helps students who maybe didn't have the opportunity to go to preschool we're coming out of covet lots of kids didn't maybe have structured activities with other peers so they learn those cooperation skills and those types of things that gives them that introduction so that those first couple days that kindergarten are a little bit easier and then parental involvement um as part of Title One all Title 1 schools are required to have a parent engagement goal or action steps related to a goal and so 90 of our Title One schools increased the number of academic related family engagement activities this year compared to last year um some examples include family literacy and reading nights um if you saw Twitter uh surprise that a science night just the other night they had um the Arizona Science Center out doing activities with the families and the kids um they do stem nights um other nights such as navigating the parent portal how to use schoology with your students so some of those academic programs that our kids are using in school that are on their Chromebooks that when they get home parents have that opportunity to support um and then of course at our high schools um title the course selection so having the parent support person at Dysart high school has them come in and they'll sit down with the parents and help them navigate that course selection guide and all of those pieces um phosphonites and then our 21st century schools which is the 21st century activity Grant um they actually do activities where parents can engage with them at home so maybe I can't come to a parent night but they'll send something home and the parents can then do and replicate that activity with their student at home and then they're still getting those learning opportunities without necessarily um not being able to attend an event at the school and then we're going to transition to next steps so one of the next steps for next year you can see um the data there is 71 of our District's English language Learners are in our Title One schools and so with that recently the board approved the El instructional specialist position which will allow us to further our supports for these students um so they will specifically focus on the targeted instructional time for our El students and then they'll also be providing support to teachers in designing lessons that best meet the needs of English language Learners and measuring the effectiveness will be our Zello results increasing the number of students who move proficiency levels on azella which is that English language learner proficiency exam or the overall number of students who score proficient and then next steps is Kinder intervention as the board knows we've added a Kinder position for next year and so this will focus on early intervention we replaced the data specialist positions with that Kinder interventionist and this will allow for the reduced class sizes during small group instruction and a dedicated person to work with Kinder interventions um the Kinder teams will be able to meet um and really build those foundational skills in literacy and math and then that measure of Effectiveness will be our Dibbles data and reducing the number of intensive students leaving kindergarten compared to previous years so that we can say we have less kids in that strategic and intensive category than we have previously and then overall next steps we will continue with our in-depth analysis of our title programs and their effectiveness we will have intentional collaboration between the curriculum instruction Department research and achievement and the new director of federal projects creating an embedded approach to support our Title 1 school so we have some Focus schools this year next year we will be intentionally focusing on our lowest performing Title One school so we're going to reduce the number that we're focusing on and really spend time focusing on those the lower performing ones um building a title one principle PLC to build capacity and impact student learning so they've really appreciated this spring as Dr Longoria was working with them on their IEPs and their needs assessments we gave them opportunities just for work time so they could come together and collaborate and compare ideas and do those types of things and they've really appreciated that time um they get personalized support from the federal project Specialists so we have two who specifically go and walk during tier three instruction and give feedback and walk during El instruction and give feedback and then measuring Effectiveness we'll be using the department data to do um measure whether or not our implemented programs are working through the review of that data and then reflection of our processes in the department so we've been working a lot on creating really well-defined processes so that things are very clear and that we have strong collaboration among our different academic Services departments and with that I will stand for questions thank you very much do we have questions I do yeah um for the Intervention Program the achieve math since you're not going to recommend it going forward do you guys have something else in place um so I excel is a math program that's actually in line with our um I am math program and that schools have the option to buy that um with their Capital funds to support um it's used as a tier three intervention or I'm sorry tier two intervention that they can use to go along with it and it actually is in alignment with our math curriculum and also with the um the corrective math are they going to utilize that same procedure since you're not going to correct yes they can also use IXL okay thank you the was it the corrective map that you said um or was it the connecting math no it was connecting math sorry connecting map that you said they were going to roll out to the title one schools we're going to make a recommendation for the board to Move It from a pilot to an opportunity yes and then we have um placed it in our one of our budgets for next year as a purchase um so with that said I mean with the with the thought um in a sense are we thinking like this is going to be a pilot for all of our Title One schools in a sense or are we hesitant to roll it out district-wide maybe due to cost or so yes so it is not cheap and so we have the advantage when it is in those title grants it can only be used at Title One schools so when we when we purchased it with um those federal funds designated for low income it is only eligible at those schools okay but purchasing outside of those funds would be pretty costly correct okay yes thank you I think it was my only question but I I just wanted to thank you though for your presentation and this is a lot of really good information and I just appreciate you not providing a lot of anecdotal evidence I I am just very appreciative of your approach thank you yes thank you thank you for the presentation thank you for taking the time to outline very specific programming and interventions um I really think this is probably the first time that I've asked for a presentation or an update regarding our title schools that I've heard something other than walk to read march to math tiered intervention RTI all the same vanilla things so I appreciate you taking the time to actually give us specific information speak to those interventions and programmings um can you tell us though like what at what frequency are you monitoring the outcomes as far as just making sure they're still effective and um obviously I know you had mentioned like you're doing that obviously because you you've weeded some of them out but how often are you going in there just to always monitor for Effectiveness so the ones that um like I said the to achieve we have monthly meetings with them um the connecting math concepts corrective reading reading read to achieve and corrective math we're all brand new this year so our data and information we have is just what from what we've implemented this year so um we'll continue to monitor those we largely use Benchmark data um tier three interventionists have actual data sheets that they have to keep and those are shared with Federal projects and it's a list that includes the daily attendance of the students they're um it's state test scores from the year before their benchmark scores and then all those ones where I mentioned they have those Mastery tests along the way the scores on that and they keep records almost like a running record of what level that student's working at so that they can continue to monitor the progress of those students but that's you mentioned the Benchmark testing is kind of like so just every time we're doing The Benchmark testing that's when we're evaluating the effectiveness of these newer programs or how often actually so we're doing Walks Like the federal project Specialists will go in and watch and make sure we're actually getting Fidelity of implementation um but then in terms of actual raw data our Benchmark is our best one to see large-scale programic data and then we said that we have the individual teachers ones for their programs that they're doing with the kids in class those little assessments the kids take every in the corrective reading it's every 10 and I think in the math it's every eight and for the ones I know obviously were we don't have any information in regard to the newer programs that we're using but for some of the ones that we've been using for a while why do you think despite all these other interventions and these intents interventions I guess that we're implementing for our title schools why do you feel like there's still a lag between our title versus non-title how can we bridge that Gap so that is a complex there's multiple pieces that go along with that um so I think part of it has to do with um Fidelity to programs we know when we are doing programs with Fidelity um they are much better implemented so we talked about having that dedicated person for read um Achieve 3000 this year makes the difference because we can constantly monitor Fidelity um I think now is a unique we're in a totally different age in terms of teaching openings and all of those types of things that just continues to add to the challenges that go to hiring and Staffing and those types of things so you have openings in places that make it more difficult um and the variable for me as a former Title One principal is always time it just sometimes takes longer for students to catch up and close those gaps um and you've heard me say before by the time I got him out of my school when they left me I was pretty close to all of our district schools and how my students were performing but it takes time and time is a variable when you're in third grade you have third grade and we measure you against all the other third graders and maybe by fourth or fifth grade I'm doing better but it's a variable that we constantly measure kids and expect them all to be at the exact same place at the same time and they're not cogs on a wheel they are all going to have their own individual learning paces and we continue to measure them against a set time well in regard to Fidelity to programs to me that is a huge just accountability piece like no excuse for that if the expectation is to implement the program it needs to be done for the Fidelity and if it's not that's that's a concern that needs to be addressed um hiring and staffing issues that's in all schools like all of our schools have vacancies um and the time as far as I understand every student learns at their own pace but my frustration this isn't to you but my frustration in general sometimes is the approach of you know things aren't going to change overnight and I understand that but I've been hearing that forever and so I appreciate the fact that it's going to take time especially I can tell you put a lot or your team put a lot of work into finding the right programs we're going to be getting in there making sure that these kids are getting what they need but we have we we always have to make sure we're not too complacent with the fact that every year it might take us to get a program up and running that's like this kid is still moving through our system and they're just hoping we get it together for them you know what I mean and so I just want to make sure that the Fidelity piece again no excuses it's an accountability thing because these kids uh you know and I also want to say too I appreciate the fact that you didn't once mention socioeconomic status um and that conference that I went to one of the one of the quotes that stuck with me is this the keynote had said when students come from higher socionemic socioeconomic status it makes our jobs easier when children come from lower economic status it makes our jobs more important so it's not that it's an excuse ever and you know I can appreciate the fact that yes I know that clearly if you have two parents in the home that dedicate you know homework time for two hours after they both work their jobs whatever it's going to help that child more than the child that comes home to no electricity both parents out or maybe single fam I get that that there's they face different challenges that impact learning but when they're in our system and we have I know we have like the best of the best teachers in this District I just I know it I've seen it and nobody can convince me otherwise to where once we have them and if we spend money on these programs and things there's no especially for a Fidelity issue there's no reason why why we can't while we have them here giving them what they need and finding out what how each individual child learns differently and whatever that child needs meeting them where they're at and getting them there you know what I mean so um I'd like to have more uh like more regular updates on our title schools just so we can see especially with these newer programs how they're doing because if they're not working let's find something else let's not sit with programs that we use because we always use them but they're not moving certain kids I would add to the conversation first I want to just state that the presentation this evening given by Miss hartchen is reflective of our commitment to a thorough analysis of our title programs and and really the piece that we continue to talk about is stripping away things that are impeding us from teaching and and having students learn and this presentation this evening is reflective of that direction and where we're headed the Fidelity conversation is critically important and has been a focus for us this year which has allowed us to get to these decisions that we've made because we've expected Fidelity in our principals are doing a very good job of holding a line and it is showing us where programs are effective and where they're not and then we're able to make better decisions in terms of where we allocate our resources so those are very very important components I also want to I would be remiss if I didn't state that you know Miss hartchen has been assisting with uh the the federal projects programs this school year and she has a team that works with her it's a small team but they're very Mighty and they are doing tremendous work in our schools through program evaluation and working with our teachers to really assure that our Focus remains in One Direction and that we don't Veer off from that because everything that you stated is a hundred percent accurate every student in this District deserves the best opportunity for education to move forward in their lives and that is the is the charge that we have in the charge that we take and the charge that will continue to be the focus of this school district thank you so much for the work you put in the present PAD as far as I'm concerned with title updates so I really appreciate you've done thank you thank you so much I especially like sorry sorry I apologize that's okay you know I just all right I'm gonna go take a coffee break I'll be back no I really appreciate the Kinder experience because anybody who's been anywhere near a Kinder classroom I'm it's like the first two months of school these kids just don't know how to be at school they don't know and it's not because they're not competent it's not because they're teachers are about it just takes time for them to understand Walking In A Line This is How we walk so I really appreciate that Kinder experience I really appreciate our Kinder teachers being willing to do that and our Kinder interventionist is I think that's also going to help that timepiece because when we can get them at the kindergarten level and we can get them going where they need to be we can get them that great start and that Foundation because they come from all different areas they come from all different levels some have preschool some don't some can write their name some can't some kids come to us they don't know their colors so having that Kinder interventionist is going to help so much and I think that will help with the timepiece as long as it's used properly with fidelity as it should be so I just want to say that I I appreciate those two elements in particular and it will also help with smaller class sizes so thank you thank you for your presentation sorry for walking I apologize that's okay all right next we will move on to G2 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community I would like to begin this item this I I want to let the board know that this item has been scheduled to be part of this agenda for a number of weeks however I want to to start just by indicating that our prayers are with those in the community of Nashville and at Covenant School and and the difficulty and incredible tragedy that they um experience this week that being said the board and our community is consistently reminded that safety is our top priority in the school district and so with that I'll turn this over to Dr crota to introduce this presentation thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board tonight we have Jason Yeager here to give us a safety update on the state of safety and also Craig musie is with him and they'll be sharing some safety updates to things that are going on in the district so Mr Yeager it's all yours thank you sir Madam president board cabinet Community that's Dr Dean stated so um approximately three or four weeks ago when this presentation was requested there's three or four specific questions that we're looking to answer certainly we do want to acknowledge the fact that some incidents have occurred which may have changed the amount of questions or the types of questions that would occur after this and I'm fully prepared to answer those if necessary but I will get into our slides to get through the information that you did request and we'll go from there um I'm happy to say that there's a lot of things that we've accomplished over these last several months and you'll notice that on the first few slides I'm not going to read everything verbatim at uh just to respect your time but I do want to hit a few things certainly the most important things the training that we conducted at the beginning of the year setting the tone making sure that all the students staff teachers everybody involved knew what the expectations of Dysart were how they could manage to be safe throughout the uh the school year and then continue to build on that as we went along we didn't have specific training not only for those members but for the board members themselves and I know that we've uh I'm not I'm sorry not board members cabinet members themselves and um I think that's done a lot towards making sure that our culture remains steady throughout that process again skipping through some of the things you can see that there's a lot of safety checks that myself and Craig have conducted on campuses throughout the year those numbers have actually increased I had four or five more just this week since this presentation was put together risk management audits at every single site continual safety drills at every single site indigenous sporadic checks throughout the uh the weeks the months as well our cert teams have seen a lot of improvement over this last few months as well we have some more surprises for them leading into next year on some expectations that we're going to continue to build on but those will really strengthen the quick responses that can occur before the rest of us need to get involved by making sure that those teams have all the resources they need and are continually practicing and modern the types of situations that they specifically have on their campuses again some more operators as you can see just a lot of things that we've done we have started to uh Institute some scenario-based exercises we do have some much larger scale in the works that hopefully will happen sometime before the next school year and then we'll continue to always present those smaller ones at every opportunity we have a couple other things up there again a lot of great things that we have already gotten completed several other things that we are working on so that means they're in different phases of completion but hopefully you've been around to some of our sites and noticed some of the new window coverings I think they look fantastic I think they do a lot to help alleviate some of that stress and pressure as teachers and staff are getting into a particular lockdown mode that's one less thing they have to worry about that's one more area where they can feel safe in their particular classrooms and spaces and again I think they look great as well so I definitely uh kind of increased multiple areas myself and Craig both completed some training this year for me it was a refresher and we're also both actively in our Advanced course as well but you see up there it says subtag crime prevention through environmental design basically what that allows us to do is to look at the different aspects of our campuses from you know parking lots to Windows to lighting to everything to make sure if there's anything that we can do to enhance our security not just by purchasing new things but by making changes and upgrades to our existing features and also to help us if we ever do have the opportunity to build a new school there's just just a wealth of knowledge that comes from that training and I encourage you to look at some of the stuff that's available online but it really helps us get a a new look at our existing buildings and things that we can continue to do we did have a purchase of a new video video management software which is really going to help the functioning of our camera systems that it's already in place and I was just working with some vendors again today and you can see on that next bullet point there that there's a we should have several hundred cameras uh showing up before the end of the fiscal year and then we will continue to install those as we go forward there are some a lot of Replacements that need to occur as well and we'll kind of monitor that and how that plan goes forward but some very good results in the amount of cameras that we're able to get from the existing funding for that um again a few more things here we we've had a lot of success with our sros as you know we have applied for several grants to hopefully increase the footprint of the sros I won't get too much into that because we're still waiting if here if we've received those grants but certainly we have some positive outlook on that but we've enhanced what we are we currently have we have increased the amount of time that we meet with them amount of training we've been able to increase that also with the existence of the citizens patrols City of Surprise actually kind of did that on their own and brought it to us ask us if we supported and said absolutely you know the more law enforcement type-minded individuals we have available to be on and around our campuses the better and you should start to see them a lot more around our campuses as well you can see we also mentioned security guard so you know we've had a hard time uh hiring security guards so if you want to put the word out I definitely need some more but we've seen some some progress in that as well providing them with a consistent ongoing training and an opportunity to meet with them on a regular basis as well to make sure that that they're meeting our standards these are a few things that we're either working on or we're just not quite there yet for a variety of reasons but certainly we'll be continuing to work for over the next couple years and again you can see that you know a lot of the stuff is just trying to look at our systems that are maybe older need to be placed if there's new technology out there that can replace anything that we have and again getting standardization I was on a campus this morning that was built in 1988 and they had some fantastic features but obviously you know some things have changed but honestly there's a few things that they have that I wish some of the newer builds were built that way but they were built differently for different cost purposes and so forth but getting some standardization is definitely key we'll continue to work on some of these other things here again you can look at it on your your versions but some things that we you know may or may not need assistance with one of my uh biggest things that I'm trying to do is regardless of funding finding ways that we can continue to make our campuses safer we can't rely on the fact that funding may just find its way to us but there are a lot of grants that we're continuing to to look into and then obviously as we get funding we allocate that to where it's best suited we are making some changes to um some of our safe reports and threat assessments you'll see some some training going forward I think is is successful as those programs have been over the last year or two there are some uh some some tweaks we can make to make those a little bit more effective and streamline those processes so you'll see those and then he like I said uh talked about zip Ted you know one of the things in that crime prevention thing is a lot about uh landscape simple things like Truman trees so you can actually have a functioning camera or a window that can be seen out of there's a lot of things like that that I think that that course really brought to light that are going to be easy fixes for us that are really going to increase our safety throughout the district um one of the questions that was asked was you know how are lockdowns working celebrations any eating challenges and so forth and uh member Pritchett I know that you were out with a couple and you experienced some of those firsthand and um I'm happy to say that over the course of the year we've really seen staff and students and everybody for that matter really uh take them seriously understand kind of how we're getting to one of the things that we always trust about right there these aren't a check box we want you to have purpose behind them we want you to spend some time you know before and after talking about what was effective was it what wasn't why do we do this not just go do it because we told you to and a lot of Staff engaging in thinking through how those different things work on our campuses again going back to the fact that we have campuses that span a large time frame of when they're built sometimes the responses are different per campus and so as much as we like to have a consistent uh response there's just certain things that have to be done differently because your campus doesn't function that way and so a lot of positives coming off the got a lot of good conversations and some some thoughtfulness coming from the administrators out there whether Craig and I visited or not and so that's good to see that that has continued to Trend in the right direction um and then again just giving them options not every solution fits nicely in a box and we want to make sure that as things continue to happen throughout the world that we always have a solution to whatever those things might be I know that you had a special interest in Surprise Audits and we'll continue to do those as we can but we also are just trying to be cognizant of minimizing the interruptions to learn and so what we've found is that we'll get to on the next couple slides here is that there's multiple phases that I instruct people on on on their lockdowns and there's the the first couple phases is what we really want the students to focus on and then the administrative portion of that in some of the later phases maybe don't need to be done that day but they can do them at a cert meeting later that day or on the next day they certainly need to be done because we want to make sure that all of them understand how those processes work but it allows us to get them back to learning and you know separate those functions so they can be done effectively and here they are so again when I when I teach this or I talk about this I try to get everybody to understand that when when we come and we we observe you in any type of drill whether it's an evacuation or in this case a lockdown um there's you need to do things in order the first thing is to get everybody somewhere safe as quickly as possible wherever that may be uh and then we need to talk through with students how does that look if you're on a basketball court or a playground or if you're just in a classroom certainly when we do a lockdown in the classroom it's easy you go up you do you want no coverage a lot make sure the doors are locked which they should already be and everybody gets to where they need to get but those transition periods are where we want to spend most of our time after they get to that safe place you'll understand if you're familiar with the Run height fight or the Alice model the new Alice model talks about having that communication piece if you are aware of where that threat is on your campus we need that information passed to Administration and or law enforcement so that way we can get to the threat that much easier it's a little bit different from what people are used to but you want to make sure that people are comfortable with what that looks like and how that's done and then there's those phases here the three four and five those are the ones that while it's nice to practice um you know it could take hours sometimes to really get through a accountability reunification and so forth and in other instances days and that's not realistic to put on our staff to get them to try to figure out how that looks in five minutes when really in real life that they would have a much longer time to do that and so that's why I try to separate those sometimes if possible when we're out on sites um let me just go up through so again we talked about a little bit of getting the the students involved kind of talking them through that it's really important that we give all students the opportunity afterwards to kind of decompress especially with fire alarms going off and just the fact of the reality of what actually could be happening even though these are drills it brings up emotions and we need to make sure that students feel comfortable to let those emotions out before they get back to learning and expect them to get back to learning but then it also gives us that opportunity to talk them through again why did we do that you know you may get different instructions at home or news or Twitter or whatever it is that tell you that maybe that's not the right thing to do but this is why we do what we do and this is why we know it's effective and you know obviously we're willing to take a feedback as well but I think that debriefing thing that we've seen in a couple instances throughout the year is really paid dividends the other question that was asked is what is our health score and well that's a kind of a difficult question to ask I wanted to kind of paint the picture in a few different areas on what that means to us um you'll see there obviously wherever you pay attention to the most is where you're going to get the most results there and and that's true with everything not just safety and it's just like driving a car off the lot as soon as you drive it off it starts to depreciate anytime we buy a brand new shiny system this the very next day that you have it it starts to work less and less and less as you go along and so whether it's an object that you buy a system that you pay for or some type of training program you know there's there's a diminished capacity to that as time goes on so we need to make sure that we continually training our people every year keeping them engaged excited about it keeping them understanding why we do this give them a reason to want to do it every year and then again if it's some type of system always a maintenance program that goes with that plan of what do we do in five years when you know those cameras are no longer you know a valid option so things like that we got to continue to think about and plan for and those are things that we're doing on a regular basis the other thing is is that no matter how hard we try if we get everybody on board and everybody's doing the right thing if one person goes in to work and just spaces it and leave the door wide open you know that leaves things open so that's what's difficult is we may have been an A-Plus yesterday but tomorrow we're a d-minus because somebody didn't do something that was really simple and they just forgot and so um you need to look at when you look at the health of our our safety is do we have the things in place that if everybody followed them would we be in a safe place and the answer to that question is yes if they follow the procedures they have that we have if they follow the the instructions that we're giving them in the in the advice then we have a safe District we certainly need to continue to remind them and to Always Be watchful to make sure that we pick up the slack for anybody who forgets to do those things but our ongoing audits are always going to expose those things our processes allow us to fix those on a quick basis the safe reports where we can get that information you know as timely as possible all those things help us continue to do a good job in those areas again respect irrespective of budget Cycles and so one of the things I just mentioned is that we um you know we do the audits we have that robust audit that I believe we mentioned a couple um uh meetings ago the Tactical site surveys uh we do have a completed uh version of that that will be accessible to you here in the near future because we do want your input as well but you're really going to see A to Z on everything involved with our campuses being looked at again every single door every hinge every window everything's going to be addressed in those in those surveys and again we're going to have team members from you know from maintenance from law enforcement from admin members from other Schools they're going to be able to put eyes on that in a way that it's never been looked at before and I think that's going to give us a better sense of individually campus my campus what the grade would be and it give us the opportunity to to turn those grades around or whatever we need to do almost immediately after those things are conducted that being said one of the ways that we look at how safe we are is there's there's a lot of different you can go online right now and there's a ton of different places that say if you do these checklists you're safe one of the ones that I look at is through Pass it's a partnership Alliance for safer schools it's a collaboration of of vendors and professionals throughout the country to put this checklist together and they've got a district-wide themes they've got you know cyber they've got you know policies procedures they've got they've got all over the things and they've got diff uh four different tiers and they if you can check off those tiers you know they consider you uh in that realm so I'm happy to say that you know our district uh has met all 40 of their tier one um suggestions or recommendations and and many of the uh tier two and three and even some of the fours you're probably automatically asking yourself well you know isn't for the best why wouldn't we have all four and I I'm going to tell you that as you look through that if if you want that provided we can do that you'll notice here on that third bullet point that some of the things on Thor's Iris scanners and fingerprints and honestly I just don't think that's realistic and I don't think that's something that we necessarily would be a good use of our our time and resources but that's why we don't need to be a four certainly do we need to do everything to get us is absolutely safe as possible sure but I mean I I know Fortune 500 companies that don't have Iris scanners you know and they've got all kinds of things so um don't don't be misled when I say that you know we've got all all 40 of the the tier ones I think that is a very good Benchmark for our district and I'm happy to say that we had all those um before we got to the end of this year and we'll continue to look at those uh checklists and and others we'll match them we'll take the good from what's good and you know obviously we'll leave behind what doesn't make sense uh we're always going to look at these in a manner that we're most responsibly using our funds but not compromising at all when it comes to what can we be doing otherwise for safety and uh I'll leave that there for now and see if you guys have any questions thank you very much for this presentation thank you very much Mr UCM Mr Yeager thank you to our admin for continued focus on safety and for um with Fidelity I guess it's our buzzword for the night implementing these and our staff our principals because like you said all it takes is one all it takes is one teacher not following the protocols to put a lot of students at risk and I appreciate the focus on the safety and continued practice because especially during transitions because transitions like you said they're scary you know having a drill during a transition because kids don't know what to do because ideally the doors are locked right where do they go how do they get inside the building if there's a lockdown drill and I think these are excellent things to practice and I think these are excellent things for our students to understand so thank you yes ma'am and one more thing I also appreciate your discussion on the why telling our students this is why we do this we're not just doing this because we're little robots and this is this is why this is why we're this is how it's safe this is why we're doing so thank you for that as well for all the work that you put into this and it I look forward to going to schools again because it's truly amazing and reassuring to just watch the process in place you know um well question really quick the cameras that we have um who monitors those so it's a combination um if there's an SRO on site they will monitor them sometimes our what's the the name for the plant manager thank you I apologize uh plant managers have access I also have a plan in place that um as we start to install more that we're going to put viewing stations in the front office as well because being able to walk by and see those on a regular basis is going to really give us that opportunity and one of the things too is that the way our schools were built although we're very secure on the front we don't have a big view to people coming in as well and so by having that somewhere in the front office that'll allow that front office to have to see people before they even get into the building and so a combination ma'am there's I mean I have them on my phone and my tablet I'm looking at them all the time no matter where I'm at but um depending on where you are there's different people looking out of them and I'm going to enhance that as well and I don't I was thinking of this as you're doing your presentation and I really don't know I I don't know really that there's anything you guys can be doing unless it's just more of a culture shift in regard to getting students to take things seriously I know when we were at one of the schools you know a student finished shooting his basket and he's like is this real and it was just kind of like you know and I understand that if they do them enough they're going to think okay these all can't be real but a way to almost reinforce somehow almost like and I know we're not really saying PBIS anymore but PBIS ish type strategies where it's like you kids know like they they're seen like dropping what they're doing and going it's like here's a praise or here's a ticker here's a something and hey you know what when Mr musee and Mr Yeager if they leave our campus and we have you know they have a goal or something if we have less than x y z um topics for feedback then there's some sort of reward at the end of the month or I don't know something to get them really excited and embracing the importance of these things and not being complacent because what we learned about Monday is that that individual had thoughts of going to another location but it was considered too secure so we want to make sure all of our schools are determined like we're not going to mess with Dysart because they're Rock Solid you know I know we can't be a hundred percent sadly all the time but I know that's something like I said that's really out of your guys's control it has to be a culture shift to make sure that our students that one second that you finished you know the do you waste shooting that basket or turning to your buddy to say is this a real is this real or not second's matter in situations like that so something to kind of um to kind of think about as far as moving forward too to see just to improve our process possibly and then the only other thing I was going to say or ask um I know after one of the lockdowns I want both of them that I observed you guys were great at giving feedback to the principal and staff and I I think I remember you telling me that you provide that information like a kind of a in a email or whatever like a list of of suggestions or what you observed and that they're ideally supposed to go back to their safety teams or their school teams and process okay these are the things that were identified as where we need to focus is there Fidelity in that in them going back to their teams how are we knowing is there an accountability piece built in so you guys know yeah they're taking I don't want your information to be filed in an email folder or put on a shelf I want that I want you to know that yeah they're taking our feedback and we know they're processing it with staff and here's how we know that yeah so when I first started that feedback process that Wellness still is at this point it was on paper and so I'm building a situation where next year I'm going to be doing that electronically but over the summer I'm going to upload all of those sheets from every campus that I've done all year long and have those in a in a place where people can go through them they can look at everybody it's like and look at everybody's wins and and struggles uh based on that and then yes uh your question about are they taking it back to the cert teams uh I can't distinctly be able to tell you yes or no that that is occurring everywhere right now but I'm creating a scenario where every 13 meeting they're required to post their their their notes and their um basically what they talked about and that should include that as well and I'll audit that and monitor that if if those items aren't being discussed that'll be visible now because they're going to be required to post those well and I would also ask that you guys if you if you see routinely like you know okay the last last time we went to the school you know our feedback was hey not all your doors were locked or whatever um and then you go back to the school again and it's the same issue that you report that to District administration because that's not anything we want to give time to and wait and Coach them through and make sure it gets better like if it's the same for lack of a word citation or piece of feedback that they were cited on for not following through then we need to know that because certain things I mean there's they shouldn't happen at all at this point we're all very familiar with lockdown processes there shouldn't really be a lot of repeat issues happening time after time that's why I put them on paper so we can memorialize that and have that available so that yeah next year obviously I'll have the opportunity to go back and say all right last year you had five of these this is what you know exactly like you're saying so yes ma'am and those pieces do get back to us okay and they come to us and then they're followed up with with the principles from our end and do you then maybe if there's a school that has some struggles maybe you go back sooner than scheduled just to make sure that they're rather than just waiting for their next rotation of lockdown yeah I will certainly um that's when we'll go out and we'll just do those surprise walks it may not be a surprise drill again but we'll go and check hey you know is that door actually locked today yes absolutely those get done thank you so much for all that you do I appreciate you both as this cabinet I would add okay I'm so grateful for this presentation just how how well you guys are managing our safety here in Dysart um I was happy to see that we're making progress hopefully with these grants for the sros for our schools that don't have them um I think we've talked about this before but I'm sure that you're in talks with both the cities of El Mirage and surprise if we are provided or awarded the grant funds for these positions for the sros how much lead time do we need to give the cities because obviously they need to backfill with new recruits through and they need to put them through the academy I'm assuming unless they're getting transferred in somewhere so what does that process look like right so um prior to even being able to submit for the grant we had to get a certification from the cities that indicated that they were willing to do it after God and so they're well aware of our intentions they're supportive of our intentions and they have plans in place to either transfer people over or hire them as you stated um you know certainly things change and we'll we'll work with those if they do but they're they're well aware they're looking forward to it as well and it I believe that even they've got names identified if it does happen so I think we're in a good place there cute and those grants close on April 15th I should tell you so coming soon couple weeks we should start hearing some information looking forward to it um and then with the sros that we have now in our high schools and in our middle schools do they do any ad hoc um just testing you know are they checking doors to see if they're locked and are they reporting that data back to you so I know they all have their own kind of systems on how they do it everybody's a little bit different but sure I I visit them on a regular basis as well and and yes they'll be like hey you know I do my walk with my principal and we check out and they kind of tell me what what they do and again everybody's got their own kind of order in which they do it as long as they're doing something uh usually that's that is fine at this point for me I try not to dictate too much because they have a certain um Cadence that they're required to do things as well but no I do I do question them I ask them and they're very it doesn't take me asking usually I get there in like uh over at Summer on uh Bob he's like hey just so you know we had an issue with his door and we had we had this and I had this student that we had this problem with and they're usually really quick to do that without uh any need there but as mentioned earlier in the presentation we are setting up to time where we're going to meet with them on a monthly basis as a whole so they can share across from campus to campus too what challenges and how they're doing things and maybe create some best practices so a long answer to a short question is yes um can you speak to that a little bit is that just more the presence or are we actually utilizing them for different things right so since they have limitations to what they can and can't get involved in they are mostly just presents and so again it was their idea they said hey we're out anyways uh do you guys have any issues with us driving through your parking lots multiple times of the day and to that answer is absolutely not we have no problems with that presence matters I appreciate it exactly and so what they're expected to do is if they see something um they'll alert the SRO or active duty and make sure that those things get handled but yeah it's mostly for just those extra eyes and just to see the cars in the parking lot again um like you said I think it speaks volumes to what they're doing to commit to us thank you and I know that you mentioned I'm sorry I'm kind of monopolizing with the SRO thing but you mentioned a little bit with the sros how they kind of do their own thing and they have their own patterns maybe um in at the festival of the Arts we happen to to run into officer Wendy and she was telling us about this amazing character program that she's really developed on her campus I'm just wondering if they ever get together share best practices because it just seems like such an amazing thing that she's doing um I don't know if you're familiar with it so I don't want to put you on the spot but if you're not familiar please reach out to her because I I think you'll be impressed yeah she is definitely one of our best ones she did great things when she was at Shadow she's translating those to the middle school she did share with me that that program that she started and again I know they meet as well separate from the meetings that that we have with them um but no I think we'll have a greater collaboration moving into next year as I continue to mold that together you know it was baby steps this year getting them all there and moving the same direction but we'll definitely have some opportunities going forward okay thank you very much thank you for the presentation I just have one question the security guards is there a number on how many we need I'll defer to HR on that but also I'm not sure which positions are funded on I I do know that we have two or three vacancies I can say that with confidence but that is one of those positions where we sometimes see some turnover we do have some very solid teams at most of our campuses but we do have a couple of vacancies that keep eluding us at other places um so I guess that's as far as I'll answer unfortunately I don't have the specifics but I know we could use a couple okay and are they weapon certified no they're not they're not okay thank you yes ma'am all right thank you very much I appreciate your time all right next we'll move to item H2 I have my ways I guess it's on the agenda so we can't skip it Madam president I believe you have to stick to the agenda oh my computer is messing up oh no we'll move a year-long recess we will move to item H1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community I would like to preface any remarks I make by just indicating that I will not be at the next board meeting on April 13th that's been planned for more than a year and not in any way related to this item for the last 18 years it has been my honor to serve the Dysart School District in a number of positions I was hired in 2005 to open school number 12 in the Dysart school district and um stayed there for two years and then opened School 18.

they've both been in Dr Dean's schools was Madeline okay but she knows you and they both know I mean they both come to know Mr Dean through Dr Dean sorry um sing and read which was one of the many wonderful things that Mr gosh Dr Dean has brought to the school district and I always call him Mr night I said we'll stipulate on Dr Mr Dean because he's always been the Principal to me and I can I can't even think I've ever really called you Jim it's just always Mr Dean um we can't we still sing alligator 23 and 20 we sing alligator and that was you and your um all that you've given the relationships you've built the academic and accountability pieces in such a short time that you made such a priority for the students of this District the staff you came in at a time that was probably the hardest um one of the most challenging hardest challenges that this district has had to endure in you because of you and how you navigated that we came out better than we could have ever anticipated and I think this is probably one of the best places this district has ever been in um thanks for having the bike especially during that moment and up until now and I just wish you all the best I hate to see you leave I appreciated working with you I know this isn't the end I know we'll see you in your other opportunity and have opportunity to have our paths cross and I know you'll still keep a close hand and dice art because I I do believe that this was at one time something that you just where you always thought you'd end up probably and um just want to thank you for all that you've done all you've contributed and I despite the fact that when you first told me you were leaving it was shock and I remember nodding and thinking okay okay and then you woke up the next morning to I've gone through all the five stages of grief and loss and I haven't been made it to acceptance and I need to talk to you again and we and you being patient with me as I went through a range of emotion with your leaving and it's just because you're so good if you weren't and you didn't bring value it wouldn't hurt as bad but again thank you so much for your dedication and your hard work and you definitely made an impact on this district and for that we'll be most grateful oh mine's not as emotional but that was emotional it got us all going but um I'm just sorry to see you leave like everybody else um I don't know you as well as or everybody else either but um just thank you for your service um thank you for your patience with me and good luck in your new adventure it's going to be a fun one um shall we start taking a collection for a gold-plated hairbrush yeah there you go I will move to accept the submitted resignation of the superintendent effective June 30th 2023.